Regulation of Manifests Act 1787
REGULATION OF MANIFESTS ACT 1787 | ||
CHAP. XXVIII. | ||
An Act for regulating the Production of Manifests, and for more effectually preventing fraudulent Practices in obtaining Bounties and Drawbacks, and in the clandestine re-landing of Goods | ||
Preamble. | ||
After time mentioned herein, no goods shall be imported from beyond the seas in any vessel belonging in the where, or in part, to subjects, unless there be a manifest on board. | ||
what the manifest is to contain. | ||
WHEREAS the better regulating the production of manifests, would be advantageous to commerce, and the preventing the clandestine importation and exportation of prohibited goods, and the re-landing of goods shipped for exportation, on bounty or drawback, would be beneficial to the fair trader; 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 times herein after mentioned, no goods or commodities shall be imported or brought into this kingdom, from any port or place beyond the seas, in any ship or vessel whatever, belonging in the whole or in part to his Majesty’s subjects, unless the master or other person having or taking the charge or command of every such ship or vessel respectively importing such goods, shall have on board a manifest or manifests, or content or contents in writing, signed by such master, or other person, containing the name or names of the several and respective ports or places, where the goods in such manifest or manifests, or content or contents mentioned, shall have been respectively laden or taken on board such ship or vessel, the name and built of such ship or vessel, and the true admeasurement or tonnage thereof, according to the register of the same, together with the name and surname of the master, or other person having or taking the charge or command of such ship or vessel, and the port or place to which such ship or vessel truly belongs, and a just, true, correct, and particular account of all the cargo, and of all packages of goods so laden or taken on board, with the several and respective marks thereon, and of the particulars of the cargo, which shall be strewed loose, and of the following particulars, in words at length, that is so say, the several and respective numbers of the packages, with a particular description thereof, whether leaguer, pipe, butt, puncheon, hogshead, barrel, or other cask or package, describing such other case or package by its usual or ordinary name, or whether case, bale, pack, truss, chest, box, bundle, or other package, or by such other name or description as the same is usually called or known. |