Commis sioners of Customs to provide Clayed Sugar and Brown Clayed Sugar. Drawbacks on Refined Sugar exported to the Isle of Man. Her Majesty Brown Muscovado, or any other Sugar, not being equal in S. Quality to Yellow Muscovado or Brown Clayed Sugar, d. 11 0. 4 6 II. For facilitating the due Assessment of Duties on White Clayed 5 Sugar, or Sugar rendered by any Process equal to White Clayed, and on Yellow Muscovado, Brown Clayed Sugar, or Sugar rendered by any Process equal in Quality to Yellow Muscovado or Brown Clayed Sugar, with reference to Colour, Grain, and Saccharine Matter, considered separately or collectively, as they affect the general Quality 10 of such Sugars, the Commissioners of Customs shall provide and renew from Time to Time Samples of White Clayed Sugar and of Sugar rendered equal in Quality to White Clayed Sugar, and of Yellow Muscovado, or Brown Clayed Sugar, which shall be deemed to be Standard Samples for the Purpose of comparing therewith Sugars 15 entered for Home Consumption, and no Sugar shall as regards the Payment of Duty be deemed to be White Clayed Sugar or Sugar rendered by any Process equal to White Clayed Sugar, unless equal to the Standard Samples of White Clayed Sugar or of Sugar rendered equal in Quality to White Clayed Sugar, or be deemed to be Yellow 20 Muscovado or Brown Clayed Sugar, or Sugar rendered by any Process equal to Yellow Muscovado or Brown Clayed Sugar, unless equal to the Standard Sample of Yellow Muscovado or Brown Clayed Sugar. S. d. 30 III. In lieu of the Bounties and Drawbacks now payable on the Exportation of Refined Sugar, the following Bounties or Drawbacks 25 shall be allowed, from and after the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, on the Exportation or the Removal to the Isle of Man for Consumption there of the several Descriptions of Refined Sugar herein-after mentioned; (that is to say,) Upon Refined Sugar in Loaf, complete and whole, or Lumps duly refined, having been perfectly clarified and thoroughly dried in the Stove, and being of an uniform Whiteness throughout, or such Sugar pounded, crushed or broken, or Sugar Candy, the Hundredweight Upon Bastard or Refined Sugar broken in Pieces, or being ground or powdered Sugar, or such Sugar pounded or crushed, or broken, for every Hundredweight - 15 0 35 11 0 IV. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty by Order in Council, from Time to Time to alter or vary the Bounties or Drawbacks made payable by this Act, or to substitute others in lieu thereof, 40 or apportion them with reference to the Qualities or Kinds of Drawbacks. Sugar upon which the same shall by such Order or Orders in Council be allowed or made payable. Bounties and Council to be V. Every Order in Council made under the Authority of this Act Orders in shall, as soon as may be after the making thereof by Her Majesty in published in Council, be published in the London Gazette; and a Copy of every the London Order in Council so made shall be laid before both Houses of Gazette, and 5 Parliament within Six Weeks after issuing the same, if Parliament Parliament. be then sitting, and if not, then within Six Weeks after the Commencement of the then next Session of Parliament. laid before A BILL [AS AMENDED IN COMMITTEE] ΤΟ Alter the Duties of Customs on Sugar and Molasses. PROPOSED NEW TITLE: AN ACT to alter the Duties of Customs on Sugar, Molasses, and Spirits. [Note.-The Clauses marked A. to G. were added in Committee.] Most Gracious Sovereign, W E, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Preamble. Ireland, in Parliament assembled, towards raising the 5 Supplies to defray the Expenses of the just and necessary War in which Your Majesty is engaged, have freely and voluntarily resolved to give and grant unto Your Majesty the several additional Duties of Customs herein respectively mentioned; and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it 10 enacted by the Queen'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, as follows: Molasses to I. That from and after the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight Duties on 15 hundred and fifty-four there shall be raised, levied, collected, and Sugar and paid unto Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, in lieu and instead be levied of the Duties payable by Law on Sugar and Molasses, the several after 5th July 1854. Duties of Customs, as follows; viz. 20 Candy, Brown or White, Refined Sugar, or Sugar rendered S. d. 17 4 16 0 Commis sioners of Customs to provide Standard Samples of White Clayed Sugar and Brown Clayed Sugar. Drawbacks on Refined Sugar exported to the Isle of Man. White Clayed Sugar, or Sugar rendered by any Process 11 0 10 4 3 II. For facilitating the due Assessment of Duties on White Clayed Sugar, or Sugar rendered by any Process equal to White Clayed, and on Yellow Muscovado, Brown Clayed Sugar, or Sugar rendered by any Process equal in Quality to Yellow Muscovado or Brown 15 Clayed Sugar, with reference to Colour, Grain, and Saccharine Matter, considered separately or collectively as they affect the general Quality of such Sugars, the Commissioners of Customs shall provide and renew from Time to Time Samples of White Clayed Sugar and of Sugar rendered equal in Quality to White Clayed Sugar, and of Yellow 20 Muscovado or Brown Clayed Sugar, which shall be deemed to be Standard Samples for the Purpose of comparing therewith Sugars entered for Home Consumption, and no Sugar shall as regards the Payment of Duty be deemed to be White Clayed Sugar or Sugar rendered by any Process equal to White Clayed Sugar, unless equal 25 to the Standard Samples of White Clayed Sugar or of Sugar rendered equal in Quality to White Clayed Sugar, or be deemed to be Yellow Muscovado or Brown Clayed Sugar, or Sugar rendered by any Process equal to Yellow Muscovado or Brown Clayed Sugar, unless equal to the Standard Sample of Yellow Muscovado or Brown Clayed Sugar. S. d. 30 III. In lieu of the Bounties and Drawbacks now payable on the Exportation of Refined Sugar, the following Bounties or Drawbacks shall be allowed, from and after the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, on the Exportation or the Removal to the Isle of Man for Consumption there of the several Descriptions of 35 Refined Sugar herein-after mentioned; (that is to say,) Upon Refined Sugar in Loaf, complete and whole, or Lumps duly refined, having been perfectly clarified and thoroughly dried in the Stove, and being of an uniform Whiteness throughout, or such Sugar pounded, crushed, or broken, or Sugar Candy, the Hundredweight Upon Bastard or Refined Sugar broken in Pieces, or being ground or powdered Sugar, or such Sugar pounded or crushed, or broken, for every Hundredweight 40 15 0 11 0 IV. It |