SPIRITS, continued. hibited Spirits which have been imported since that eight hundred and forty-four, for and in 1844, as to all prorespect of all Spirits of the nature or quality of British Brandy or British Compounds, or other Spirits than plain date and are now in British Spirits as denominated and de- bond. scribed in the laws of Excise and by this Act, the produce or manufacture of any of the said islands, which have been imported at any time subsequent to the above date, and are now in bond or Customs warehouse, in so far that no such Spirits shall be removed or admitted into consumption in any part of the United Kingdom, on payment of any countervailing duty or otherwise, but the same may be exported from the United Kingdom or otherwise, as the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury may in that respect direct.-8 and 9 Vict. c. 65, s. 7. It shall be lawful for the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, when and so long as Treasury may perthey shall see fit, to permit any goods mit produce of Cothe produce of the British Possessions or lonial Fisheries to Fisheries in North America, which shall be imported from have been legally imported into the Guernsey, &c. Islands of Guernsey or Jersey direct from such Possessions, to be imported into the United Kingdom for home use direct from those Islands, under such regulations as the said Commissioners shall direct; anything in the Law of Navigation to the contrary notwithstanding.-8 and 9 Vict. c. 86, s. 44. Oil, Fish, Staves, &c. the Produce of the British Colonies, may be admitted for home con- Oil, Fish, Staves, sumption into the Ports of the United &c., Produce of BriKingdom, through Guernsey or Jersey, tish Colonies. upon proof that the Goods have been imported into those Islands, and exported from thence in British Vessels, and upon the regular certificates that the articles are the produce of the British Colonies.-Treas. Order, 14th September, 1824; 2d March, 1826; and 10th February, 1834. Tea cannot be imported into the above Islands except from the United Kingdom, or from the Tea and Spirits. Cape of Good Hope, and places eastward of the same, to the Straits of Magellan; nor can any Spirits be imported into or exported from the said SPIRITS, continued. Islands, or removed from any one to any other of the same, or coastwise from any one part to any other part of either of the said Islands, in any vessel of less burthen than 60 tons, nor in any cask or other vessel capable of containing liquids of less content than 20 gallons (except when in bottles, and carried in a square-rigged ship as part of the cargo thereof, and except any Spirits being really intended for the consumption of the seamen and passengers during the voyage, and not being more in quantity than is necessary for that purpose), under penalty of forfeiture, with the Ship, &c.-8 and 9 Vict. 93, s. 95. Nothing herein contained shall extend to subject to forfeiture or seizure, any boat not exVessels of Ten Tons ceeding the burthen of TEN TONS, for supplying the Is- having on board at any one time any land of Sark, having foreign Spirits of the quantity of TEN License so to do. gallons or under, such boat having a licence from the proper officer of Customs at either of the Islands of GUERNSEY or JERSEY, for the purpose of being employed in carrying commodities for the supply of Sark; provided, that every such boat having on board at any one time any greater quantity of Spirits than ten gallons, unless such greater quantity of Spirits shall be in casks or packages of the size and content herein-before required, shall be FORFEITED.-Sect. 96. Not to extend to ARTICLES OF FOREIGN MANUFACTURE.— If any articles of Foreign Manufacture, and any packages of such articles, shall be imported into any of the British possessions abroad, bearing the names, brands, or marks of manufacturers resident in the United Kingdom, the same shall be forfeited.-8 and 9 Vict. c. 93, s. 10. MISCELLANEOUS ORDERS, ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED,1 AND BROUGHT UP TO THE 18TH OF SEPTEMBER, 1843; FORMING A SUPPLEMENT TO THE LAWS AND PRACTICAL REGULATIONS! OF THE CUSTOMS. ABSENCE.-Officers in the Landing Departments who may be absent by leave in the month of May, may be absent in November of the following year. March. June, ditto December. August, ditto February. September, ditto January. October, ditto April. B. O. 26th Oct. 1832. See further on this subject in page 23 of Vol. III. 1 But not including the lists of Miscellaneous Orders in p. 295, vol. ii., and p. 259, vol. iii. ABSENCE, continued. absent for any considerable period in the two preceding years, the principals of the Departments do in future state the total number of days on which the party had been absent, and by what cause, in addition to the particulars they are required to report on such applications by the minute above mentioned. Min. Com. Cus. 27th, and G. O. 31st March, 1838. (Insert this Order in page 25 of Vol. III.) ADEN has been declared to be, for the purposes of commerce, a Port of the Presidency of BOMBAY.— G. O., 8th December, 1842. ADMEASUREMENT OF SHIPS WHEN LADEN. The former law as regards the admeasurement of Ships when laden (see page 52, Vol. I., and make memorandum) is REPEALED; and that, for the purpose of ascertaining the Tonnage of all such Ships, whether belonging to the United Kingdom or otherwise, as there shall be occasion to measure while their Cargoes are on board, the following Rule shall be observed both in the United Kingdom and her Majesty's Possessions abroad; that is to say, Measure, first, the length on the upper deck, between the after part of the stem and the fore part of the stern-post; Secondly, the inside breadth on the under side of the upper deck, at the middle point of the length; and, Thirdly, the depth from the under side of the upper deck down the pump-well to the skin; multiply these three dimensions together, and divide the product by One hundred and thirty, and the quotient will be the amount of the Register Tonnages of such Ships ;-if the Vessel have a POOP OR HALF DECK, or a BREAK in the upper deck, measure the inside mean length, breadth, and height of such part thereof as may be included within the bulk-head; multiply these three measurements together, and dividing the product by NINETY-TWO AND FOUR-TENTHS, the quotient will ADMEASUREMENT OF SHIPS, &c. continued. be the number of Tons to be added to the result above found.-6 & 7 Vict. c. 84, s. 22. ADMEASUREMENT (see page 49, Vol. I.).—The following Regulations have been approved by the Lords of the Treasury, for recording the tonnage of ships, both according to the late and to the present method of Admeasurement, in order that a statement of both modes may be prepared annually by the Registrar General of Shipping, for the purpose of ascertaining the respective results of the two rules of Admeasurement : 1st. That in the case of all vessels having been admeasured under the Act 3 and 4 Wm. IV. c. 55, and hereafter requiring to be admeasured under the 5 and 6 Wm. IV. c. 56, both Admeasurements be recorded. 2d. That in the case of all vessels which have al- 3d. That in the case of all newly-built vessels A case having occurred at one of the outports, in which the parties applied to have a ship registered de novo, under the Act of the 3 and 4 Wm. IV. c. 55, and the Collector and Comptroller required that the admeasurement of the vessel, according to the mode prescribed by the subsequent Act of the 5 and 6 Wm. IV. c. 56, should be recorded in the margin of the certificate of registry, those officers having considered the 4th Regulation (above recited) to apply to all cases in which vessels should be hereafter registered, they are apprised that the 4th Regulation of the above Minute is not to be extended to any cases of |