the said articles shall be free from such duty, as fully and effectually as if such articles had been inserted and enumerated in the said table at the time of passing the said Act:

And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, and the Right Honourable Lord Stanley, are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.

C. C. GREVILLE.

BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL, granting to the Vessels of Hayti the privilege of Trading with British Possessions.August 23, 1843.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 23rd day of August, 1843.

PRESENT,

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the session of Parliament held in the 3rd and 4th years of the reign of His late Majesty King William ïV [cap. 59], intituled "An Act to regulate the Trade of the British Possessions abroad," after reciting that, by the law of navigation, foreign ships are permitted to import into any of the British possessions abroad, from the countries to which they belong, goods, the produce of those countries, and to export goods from such possessions, to be carried to any foreign country whatever; and that it is expedient that such permission should be subject to certain conditions, it is enacted, that the privileges thereby granted to foreign ships shall be limited to the ships of those countries which, having colonial possessions, shall grant the like privileges of trading with those possessions to British ships, or which, not having colonial possessions, shall place the commerce and navigation of this country, and of its possessions abroad, upon the footing of the most favoured nation, unless His Majesty, by his Order in Council, shall in any case deem it expedient to grant the whole or any part of such privileges to the ships of any foreign country, although the conditions aforesaid shall not, in all respects, be fulfilled by such foreign country:

And whereas Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, doth deem it expedient to grant the aforesaid privileges of trading with the British possessions abroad to the ships of the Republic of Hayti:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty doth, by the advice aforesaid, and in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority in her respectively vested by the said recited Act, order, declare, and grant, that,

from the date hereof, and, in the mean time, until Her Majesty in Council shall be pleased to revoke or determine this Order by any other Order in Council, it shall be lawful for vessels to import, from the territories of the Republic of Hayti, into any of the British possessions abroad, goods, the produce of the said territories of the Republic of Hayti, and to export goods from such possessions to be carried into any foreign country whatever :

Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the vessels of the Republic of Hayti from trading with any of the British possessions in Europe, to such extent and in such manner as they lawfully may under the laws of navigation now in force.

Provided further that nothing hereinbefore contained shall extend or apply to the possessions of the East India Company:

Provided always, that the privileges hereby granted shall be confined to vessels of the Republic of Hayti, built, owned, and navigated as required by the British laws of navigation for the time being in force:

And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, and the Right Honourable Lord Stanley, one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.

C. C. GREVILLE.

BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL, suspending with respect to Ireland, the operation of the Convention and Regulations between Great Britain and France, concerning the Fisheries on the British and French Coasts.-August 23, 1843.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 23rd day of August, 1843. PRÉSENT,

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Lords of the Committee of Her Majesty's Privy Council appointed for Trade and Foreign Plantations have, in pursuance of an Act, passed in the session of Parliament held in the 2nd and 3rd years of the reign of Her present Majesty [cap. 96], intituled "An Act to carry into effect a Convention between Her Majesty and the King of the French, concerning the Fisheries in the Seas between the British Islands and France," duly prepared and laid before Her Majesty in Council a rule, bearing date the 22nd day of August, 1843, in the words and figures following, that is to say:

"We, the Lords of the Committee of Her Majesty's Privy Council, appointed for the consideration of matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations, humbly lay before your Majesty in Council the following rule for suspending the operation of the therein-mentioned Act and Articles of Fishery Regulation, with respect to the fisheries on the coast of Ireland (that is to say):

"Whereas by an Act, passed in the session of Parliament held in the 2nd and 3rd years of the reign of Her present Majesty [cap. 96], intituled 'An Act to carry into effect a Convention between Her Majesty and the King of the French, concerning the Fisheries in the Seas between the British Islands and France,' it is, amongst other things, enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Lords of the said Committee, by a rule or rules to be made by them, from time to time, and approved of by Her Majesty, with the advice of Her Privy Council, to suspend the operation of the said Articles and of this Act, or such part of them as to them shall seem fit, with respect to the fisheries on the coast of Ireland, or on any part thereof, so long as such fisheries shall be carried on exclusively by the subjects of Her Majesty, and also, with the like approval, to make such bye-laws as to them shall seem fit, for enforcing the said Articles and this Act, on the said coast of Ireland, or on any part thereof, as soon as the same shall be frequented for the purpose of fishery by French fishermen :

"We, therefore, in pursuance of the powers of the said Act, do hereby make the following rule, subject to the approbation of Her Majesty (namely), that the said Act and Articles of Regulation shall be suspended, with respect to the fisheries on the whole of the coasts of Ireland, so long as such fisheries shall be carried on exclusively by the subjects of Her Majesty."

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BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL, relative to the admission of certain Goods into the Cape of Good Hope.—October 2, 1843.

At the Court at Windsor, the 2nd day of October, 1843,

PRESENT,

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL. i..

WHEREAS under and by virtue of an Order of His late Majesty King William IV, in Council, dated the 22nd day of February, 1832,* and of an Act of Parliament passed in the session of Parliament held in the 4th and 5th years of the reign of His said late Majesty [cap. 89],

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intituled "An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Customs," by which Act certain doubts with regard to the continuance of the said Order were removed; the following goods are prohibited to be imported or brought into the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, that is to say: Beef, pork, fresh or salted, except from the United Kingdom.or from some other British possession.

Fish, dried or salted.

Train oil, blubber, fins, or skins, the produce of creatures living in the sea; except from the United Kingdom, or from some other British possessions, or unless taken by British ships fitted out from the United Kingdom, or from some British possession, and brought in from the fishery; and except herrings, from the Isle of Man, taken and cured by the inhabitants thereof.

And such goods, if imported or brought into the said colony of the Cape of Good Hope, contrary to the said prohibitions, are, by the said Order, declared to be forfeited.

And whereas by an Act of Parliament, passed in the session of Parliament held in the 3rd and 4th years of the reign of His late Majesty King William IV [cap. 59], intituled "An Act to regulate the Trade of the British Possessions abroad," it was, amongst other things, enacted, that it should be lawful for His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, by any Order or Orders in Council to be issued from time to time to give such directions and make such regulations touching the trade and commerce to and from any British possessions on or near the continent of Europe, or within the Mediterranean Sea, or in Africa, or within the limits of the East India Company's Charter (excepting the possessions of the said Company), as to His Majesty in Council should appear most expedient and salutary, anything in the said Act to the contrary notwithstanding.

And whereas it is expedient that the prohibitions hereinbefore mentioned should be discontinued, and that the said articles so prohibited as aforesaid should henceforth be permitted to be imported into the said colony of the Cape of Good Hope, either to be warehoused or for consumption, subject, nevertheless, if for consumption, to such duties as the same may, for the time being, be liable to; and that the several articles specified in the table herein contained should be subject, on importation into the said colony of the Cape of Good Hope, when entered for home consumption, to the duties hereinafter set forth, in lieu of the duties (if any) now payable thereon.

Now, therefore, Her Majesty doth, with the advice of Her Privy Council, and in pursuance and exercise of the power so vested in her as aforesaid by the said lastly hereinbefore recited Act of Parliament, erder, and it is hereby ordered:

That so much of the said recited Order in Council, as prohibits the importation and bringing into the said colony of the Cape of Good

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Hope the articles hereinbefore described, and as declares the same to be forfeited if imported or brought contrary to such prohibitions, shall be, and the same is hereby, revoked.

And it is hereby further ordered, that, upon the articles mentioned in the table of duties hereinafter contained, imported into the said colony of the Cape of Good Hope, there shall be levied upon the entry thereof for consumption, the several duties of Customs as the same are respectively set forth in figures in the said table, in lieu of the duties, if any, to which the same articles are liable under or by virtue of any Order in Council now in force in the said colony of the Cape of Good Hope.

And it is hereby further ordered, that the duties set forth in the said table shall be levied, paid, received, and appropriated in like manner as if the same had been imposed and set forth by and in the certain Orders in Council, bearing date respectively the 22nd day of February, 1832, and the 11th day of March, 1842, imposing duties upon the importation of goods into the colony of the Cape of Good Hope.

And it is hereby further ordered, that this Order shall come into operation from the time when the same shall be made known in the said colony by a proclamation of the Governor of the said colony of the Cape of Good Hope.

TABLE OF CUSTOMS' DUTIES.

Meat, salted, or cured, of all sorts, not being the production or manufacture of the United Kingdom, or of any British possession, the cwt.

£ s. d.

.. 0 3 0

Meat, salted or cured, of all sorts, being the production or manufacture of the United Kingdom, or of any British possession, the cwt.

.. 0 1 3

Oil, train and blubber, the produce of fish or creatures living in the sea, of foreign fishing, the tun (Imperial measure) 3 0 0 Oil, spermaceti, of foreign fishing, the tun (Imperial

..12 0 0

measure) 7 10 0 Fish, dried or salted, and fins and skins, the produce of creatures living in the sea, of foreign fishing or taking, for every 1007. of the value thereof And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, and the Right Honourable Lord Stanley, one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, are to give the necessary directions herein.

C. C. GREVILLE.