liable to all and every the conditions, regulations, rules, restrictions, seizures, and forfeitures to which goods, wares, or merchandize in general, and also all and every the special conditions, rules, regulations, restrictions, seizures, sales, and forfeitures respectively to which the like goods, wares, or merchandize were subject or liable by any Act or Acts of Parliament in force in Great Britain or Ireland respectively, on and immediately before the passing of this Act, respecting the Revenue of Customs, except where any alteration is expressly made by the said recited Act or this Act; and all pains, penalties, fines, and forfeitures of whatever nature or kind the same may be, as well pains of death as others, for any offence whatever committed against or in breach of any Act or Acts of Parliament in force in Great Britain or Ireland respectively, on and immediately before the passing of this Act, made for securing the Revenue of Customs or for the regulation or improvement thereof, and the several clauses, powers, provisions, and directions contained in any such Act or Acts shall, unless where expressly altered by the said recited Act or this Act, and are hereby directed and declared to extend to and shall be respectively applied, practised, and put into execution, for and in respect of the several Duties of Customs granted by the said recited Act, in as full and ample manner, to all intents and purposes whatever, as if all and every the said acts, clauses, provisions, powers, directions, fines, pains, penalties, or forfeitures were particularly repeated and re-enacted in the body of this Act, and made part thereof.

II. And be it further enacted, that every Act of Parliament in force in Great Britain or Ireland respectively, on and immediately before the passing of this Act, by which any rules, regulations, conditions, or restrictions were made, established, or directed for the ascertaining the value of any goods, wares, or merchandize, or for the remitting or allowing of any deduction of any Duties on account of damage, or for the better securing the Revenue of Customs, or for the regular importation into Great Britain or Ireland respectively, of any goods, wares, or merchandize whatever, except where any alteration is expressly made by the said recited Act or this Act, and all provisions, clauses, matters, and things relating thereto, shall and are hereby declared to be and remain in full force and effect, and shall be applied to the subject of this Act, and for carrying the same into execution, as fully and effectually as if they had been repeated and re-enacted in this present Act.

ACT of the British Parliament, "to relieve certain Foreign Vessels resorting to the Port of London, in respect of Pilotage; and to regulate the mode of payment of Pilotage on Foreign Vessels in the said Port."

[55 Geo. 3, Cap. 87.]

[14th June, 1815.]

WHEREAS by an Act made and passed in the 52nd year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled "Au Act for the more effectual regulation of Pilots, and of the Pilotage of Ships and Vessels on the Coast of England,"* certain rates of Pilotage, in the Schedules to the said Act mentioned, are made payable for and in respect of Ships and Vessels of all descriptions according to their draught of water: And whereas it is expedient that further provisions should be made for relief of such Foreign Vessels as come to the Port of London with Fish, Corn or other provisions; 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 from and after the passing of this Act it shall be lawful for the Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond, and they are hereby authorized and empowered from time to time to make all such regulations in relation to the piloting of Ships not having a British Register, bringing Fish, Corn or other provisions into the Port of London, for the ease and relief of such Ships and Vessels, in respect of the rates or amount of Pilotage now payable or demandable for such Ships and Vessels, or for the exemption of such Ships or Vessels from any such rates, or amount, or from any rules or regulations as to the Pilotage of such Ships or Vessels, under the provisions of the said Act or of any other Act of Parliament relating to Pilotage, or under any rules, restrictions, or regulations made in pursuance of any such Act or Acts of Parliament, to be piloted by Pilots licensed by the said Corporation, as the said Corporation of Trinity House shall from time to time deem just, proper, and expedient, in relation to such Ships and Vessels respectively; any thing in the said Act or Acts, or in any rules or regulations made under or in pursuance thereof contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

II. And in order to prevent impositions and disputes respecting the charges for and the payment of the Pilotage of Foreign Ships and Vessels trading to and from the Port of London, be it further enacted, that from and after the passing of this Act the Master or Commander or other Person having the charge of every Ship or Vessel, not having a British Register, required by Law to be piloted by a Pilot licensed * Cap. 39.

by the said Corporation, which shall enter into or sail from the said Port of London, or the Consignees of or Agents for such Ships and Vessels respectively, shall pay or cause to be paid at the Trinity House in London, to such Person or Persons as shall from time to time be in that behalf appointed by the said Corporation of Trinity House, all such sums of money as are or shall be or become due and payable for the Pilotage of every such Ship or Vessel; and the Person or Persons so to be appointed by the said Corporation shall (on the production of a Certificate in writing under the hand of the Master or other Person or Persons having the charge of every such Ship or Vessel, or of the Consignee of or Agent for such Ship or Vessel, or in case of any refusal, to grant such Certificate upon proof to the satisfaction of the said Corporation, that such Pilotage Service was duly performed) pay over to the Pilot duly licensed, who shall have had charge of every such Ship or Vessel, all such sum or sums of money as shall be due and payable to such Pilot, for, or in respect of such Pilotage Service so by him performed; any thing in the said Act or Acts, or any Law or usage to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.

III. And, in order the better to facilitate the ascertaining and settling the amount of the Pilotage outward of Foreign Ships and Vessels in the Port of London under the authority of this Act, he it further enacted, that the rates or amount of Pilotage outward to be payable and paid in respect of all such Ships and Vessels shall from time to time be calculated and made out according to the scale or amount of the Tonnage of every such Ship and Vessel, upon or according to which such Ships and Vessels shall be rated in the said Port of London, to the payment of the light and Port Dues of such Ships and Vessels respectively, or according to the draft of water thereof, as the said Corporation of Trinity House shall in their discretion think most proper; any thing in the said Acts or any of them to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.

IV. And be it further enacted, that the Person or Persons to be appointed by the said Corporation of Trinity House to receive the Pilotage in respect of Foreign Ships and Vessels under the authority of this Act shall, upon his or their receiving such Pilotage, give to the Person paying the same a Certificate in writing thereof under his or their hand or hands; and that no Foreign Ship or Vessel shall be cleared at the Office of His Majesty's Customs in the said Port of London on her outward-bound voyage, without the production of such Certificate as aforesaid,

ACT of the British Parliament, "to carry into effect a Convention made between His Majesty and the King of The Netherlands and the Emperor of all the Russias.”

[55 Geo. 3, Cap. 115.]

[28th June, 1815.]

WHEREAS by a Convention signed at London on the 19th day of May, 1815, between His Majesty on the one part, and the King of The Netherlands, and the Emperor of all the Russias, respectively on the other, the following Articles, among others, were agreed upon; that is to say, His Majesty the King of The Netherlands thereby engaged to take upon himself a part of the capital, and a rears of interest, to the 1st of January 1816, of the Russian Loan made in Holland through the intervention of the House of Hope and Company, in Amsterdam, to the amount of 25,000,000 of Florins Dutch currency; the annual interest of which sum, together with an annual payment for the liquidation of the same as thereinafter specified, should be borne by and become a charge upon the Kingdom of The Netherlands; and His Majesty engaged on his part to recommend to his Parliament to enable him to take upon himself an equal capital of the said Russian Loan, videlicet, 25,000,000 of Florins Dutch currency; the annual interest of which sum, together with an annual payment for the liquidation of the same as thereinafter specified, should be borne by and become a charge upon the Government of His Majesty; and the future charge to which His said Belgic Majesty and His Majesty should be respectively liable in equal shares on account of the said Debt, was to consist of an annual interest of 5 per centum on the said Capitals, each of 25,000,000, together with a Sinking Fund of 1 per centum for the extinction of the same, the said Sinking Fund being subject however to be increased on the demand of the Russian Government, to any annual sum not exceeding 3 per centum, the same to be payable till the Capital of the said Debt should be fully discharged, when the aforesaid charge for interest and Sinking Fund should wholly cease to be borne by His said Belgic Majesty and His Majesty respectively; and His said Belgic Majesty and His Majesty respectively bound themselves, on or before the usual day or days in each year on which the interest on the said Debt should be due and payable, to deposit with the Agent of the Russian Government in Holland, their respective proportions of the said interest and Sinking Fund, as above specified provided always, that previosuly to the advance of each successive instalment so to be paid, the said Agent shall be authorized to furnish a Certificate to each of the said 2 High Contracting Parties, declaring that the preceding instalment had been duly applied in discharge of the interest, and in reduction of the Principal of the said Debt, together with the corresponding payments on account of the Russian Government, on that part of the Debt which

should remain a charge on the said Government; and it was further agreed, that the Russian Government should continue as heretofore to be security to the Creditors for the whole of the said Loan, and should be charged with the administration of the same; the Governments of the King of The Netherlands, and of His Britannic Majesty, remaining liable and bound to the Government of His Imperial Majesty, and for the punctual discharge as above of their respective proportions of the said charge; and it was thereby understood and agreed between the High Contracting Parties, that the said payments on the part of the King of The Netherlands, and of His Majesty as aforesaid, should cease and determine, should the possession and Sovereignty (which God forbid) of the Belgic Provinces at any time pass or be severed from the Dominions of His Majesty the King of The Netherlands, previous to the complete liquidation of the same; and it was also understood and agreed between the High Contracting Parties, that the payments on the part of the King of The Netherlands, and of His Majesty as aforesaid, should not be interrupted in the event (which God forbid) of a war breaking out between any of the 3 High Contracting Parties; the Government of His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias being actually bound to its Creditors by a similar agreement; and whereas the Commons of the United Kingdom have resolved that provision be made for enabling His Majesty to defray the expenses which may be incurred in the execution of the said Convention: May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it 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 the Lord High Treasurer or the Commissioners of the Treasury of Great Britain, or any 3 or more of them, for the time being respectively, shall be and he and they is and are hereby empowered from time to time, out of the Consolidated Fund of Great Britain, to cause to be issued such sums of money as shall be required for the payment of the interest on such part of the Capital of the said Russian Loan as is agreed to be borne by His Majesty as aforesaid, and also for the payment of a Sinking Fund of £1 per centum, or not exceeding £3 per centum, as the case may be, on the said part of the said Capital, for the extinction of the same, as and when the same may from time to time respectively become payable, and so long as the same should be payable conformably to the tenor of His Majesty's engagements, as specified in the said Conventions respectively, and also such sums as may be required to pay and satisfy all the expenses attending the execution of this Act.

II. And be it further enacted, that the said Lord High Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being, shall cause to