CORN. When British American Corn, warehoused before 13 May 1822, may be taken out for Home Consumption. Duties on warehoused British taken out for Home Con sumption. Schedule marked (A.) annexed to this Act: Provided always, that nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to charge any Duty upon any such Foreign Corn, Meal, or Flour, being in Warehouse on the Thirteenth Day of May One thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, which shall be taken out of Warehouse for Home Consumption, after Foreign Corn shall be admissible for Home Consumption under the Provisions of the said recited Act of the Fifty-fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty. Sect. 10. AND be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act, any Corn, Meal, or Flour, of the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of any British Colony or Plantation in North America, that may have been in Warehouse on the Thirteenth Day of May One thousand eight hundred and twentytwo, and may continue in Warehouse at the passing of this Act, may respectively be taken out of Warehouse for Home Consumption whenever the Average Prices of British Corn, made up and published in the Manner and at the Time or Times now by Law required for regulating the Importation of Foreign Corn, Meal, or Flour for Home Consumption, shall be as follows; (that is to say), whenever the Price of Wheat shall be at or above the Price of Fifty-nine Shillings per Quarter; whenever the Price of Rye, Pease, and Beans shall be at or above Thirtynine Shillings per Quarter; whenever the Price of Barley, Bear, or Bigg shall be at or above Thirty Shillings per Quarter; whenever the Price of Oats shall be at or above Twenty Shillings per Quarter; any thing in the above-recited Act or in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding. Sect. 11. PROVIDED always, and be it further enacted, That no such Corn, Meal, or Flour, of the Growth, Produce, or American Corn Manufacture of any British Colony or Plantation in North America, now in Warehouse, shall be taken out of Warehouse under the Provisions aforesaid, unless there be previously levied and paid, upon the said Corn, Meal, or Flour, the several Duties specified and set forth in the Schedule marked (B.) annexed to this Act: Provided always, that nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to charge any Duty upon any such Corn, Meal, or Flour, the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of any British Colony or Plantation in North America, oeing in Warehouse on the Thirteenth Day of May One thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, which shall be taken out of Warehouse for Home Consumption after such Corn, Meal, or Flour shall be admissible for Home Consumption under the Provisions of the above-recited Act of the Fifty-fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty. Repeal of so far as relates to Guernsey, &c. Sect. 12. AND whereas by an Act passed in the First and Second Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act to repeal certain Acts passed in the Thirty-first, Thirty-third, Forty-fourth, and Forty-fifth Years of His late Majesty King George the Third, for regulating the Importation and Exportation of Corn, Grain, Meal, and Flour into and from Great Britain, and to make further Provisions in lieu thereof; it was enacted, that whenever the Ports of the United Kingdom shall be shut against the Importation of Foreign Corn, Meal, or Flour for Home Consumption, the Ports of the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, and Sark, shall be in like Manner shut against the Importation of such Foreign Corn, Meal, or Flour for Home Consumption; and that whenever any such Foreign Corn, Meal, or Flour shall be permitted to be imported into the Ports of the United Kingdom for Home Consumption, Foreign Corn, Meal, or Flour may in like Manner be imported into the Ports of the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, and Sark: And whereas it is expedient that so much of the said Act as relates to the said Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, and Sark should be repealed; be it therefore enacted, That so much of the said Act as relates to the said Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, and Sark, be and is hereby repealed. Sect. 13. PROVIDED always, and be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act, whenever the Ports of the United Kingdom shall be shut against the Importation of Foreign Corn, Meal, or Flour for Home Consumption, the said Ports shall be also shut against the Importation of Corn, Meal, or Flour the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of the said Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, and Sark, CORN. When Ports shall be shut against Corn from Guernsey, &c. Barley, Indian Corn or Maize, Bear or Bigg, Duty upon Oatmeal to be as follows: High Duty, per Boll, when Oats are under 22s. 6d. per Quarter 4s. 10d. Additional, for First Three Months 2s. 2d. First Low Duty, when Oats are at or above 22s. 6d. per Quarter, but under 24s. Do. 2s. 2d. Additional, for First Three Months 2s. 2d. Second Low Duty, when Oats are at or above 24s. per Quar6d. ter Malt made of Oats, prohibited. CORN. Prohibitions on the Importation of Wheat, the Produce of the British Possessions in North America, and the Duties pay able under and also under 3 G. 4. c. 60. &c. suspended for a limited Time. Instead of former Duties there shall be paid on the Im portation 5s. per Quarter. Regulations to be observed on the Importation of such Wheat. 6° GEO. IV. Cap. 64. An Act to alter for One Year, and until the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Duty on Wheat, the Produce of the British Possessions in North America. [22d June 1825.] WHEREAS it is expedient to permit, for a Time to be limited, the Importation of Wheat the Produce of and imported from the British Possessions in North America, on the Payment of a certain Duty; be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That for One Year from and after the passing of this Act, and further until the End of the then next Session of Parliament, all Prohibitions and Restrictions upon the Importation of Wheat the Produce of and imported from the British Possessions in North America, and all Duties payable on the Importation of such Wheat under an Act passed in the Fifty-fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, intituled An Act to amend the Laws now in force for regulating the Importation of Corn; and also an Act passed in the Third Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Importation of Corn; or any other Act or Acts in force immediately before the passing of this Act, shall be and are hereby suspended; and that for One Year from and after the passing of this Act, and further until the End of the then next Session of Parliament, any Wheat, the Produce of and imported from the British Possessions in North America, shall and may be imported into the United Kingdom, whatever the Average Prices of British Wheat may be; any thing in the said Acts or any of them to the contrary notwithstanding; and that from and after the passing of this Act, in lieu and instead of all former Duties payable on such Wheat, there shall be levied and paid, during the Period aforesaid, upon the Importation of any such Wheat, the Sum of Five Shillings for every Quarter thereof. Sect. 2. AND be it further enacted, That no Wheat shall be shipped from any Port in the British Possessions in North America, until the Owner or Proprietor thereof shall have made Oath before the Collector or Comptroller of the Port of Shipment, that such Wheat was the Produce of some British Possession in North America, naming the same; and that before any Wheat shall be entered in the United Kingdom as being the Produce of the British Possessions in North America, the Master of the Ship importing the same shall produce a Copy of the Deposition made, signed by the Collector or Comptroller before whom it was made, at the Port of Shipment, and make Oath before the Collector or Comptroller of the Port of Im |