islands and the surrounding islands and places, shall be permitted No. 17. to enter the ports of this colony, and again to depart therefrom, Act 4 Vic. free and exempt from all tonnage dues and fees whatsoever. c. 24. for same. Provisos. to deliver in to II. That all vessels employed in importing coal for the use of steam vessels aforesaid, shall be free and exempt from all tonnage Also vessels and other fees: Provided always, That such vessels import no other importing Coal cargo whatever, and that, they take no cargo of any description whatever from the island; And provided further, That proof be given, to the satisfaction of the Receiver-General and the officers of the Customs, that the coals so imported are solely for the use of such steam vessels, and that they are deposited in a depôt, to be appropriated exclusively for that purpose. III. That on the arrival of any such steam-boat or vessel, the Commanders same shall come to anchor in such place as may be appointed by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, and that the commander of the said steam-boat or vessel, or the next chief officer, shall de- Treasury a liver to the collector or other principal officer of Her Majesty's regular bill of Customs, at the port of entry, as also to the Receiver-General, or entry for all receiver of colonial duties, at such port, a manifest of all goods, goods on board. wares, and merchandise, on board of the said steam-boat or vessel, specifying the marks and numbers, the nature and contents of the package, as far as he is able to ascertain the same, together with the names of the shippers and the party to whom consigned; and that no goods be landed from the said steam-boats or vessels but by an order from the collector or other principal officer of Her Majesty's Customs, as aforesaid, and under such regulations as shall be established by the collector or principal officer of Her Majesty's Customs at the Port of Nassau, subject to the approval of the President for the time being. No. 18.-4 Vic. ch. 32. An Act for granting certain privileges to W No. 18. Act 4 Vic. c. 32. The Royal Yacht Squadron exempted from tonnage fees. HEREAS application has been made by the members of the Royal Yacht Squadron, that the vessels belonging to that squadron should be received in the several ports within this colony, on the same terms as such vessels are received in the various ports in England; And whereas, it is fair that certain privileges should be extended to such vessels; May it, &c., That from and after the passing of this Act, all vessels belonging to the Royal Yacht Squadron, not having cargoes on board, shall be permitted to enter the several ports within this colony, and again to depart therefrom, free and exempt from all tonnage duties, light money, or other harbour or port dues whatsoever, save and except such pilotage fees as shall be actually earned by any pilot within these islands, for services rendered to any such vessel, and without being required to enter or clear out at any Custom House within the same: Provided Proviso. always, That to entitle a vessel to the privileges of this Act, the master or commander of such vessel must produce to the principal officer of the Customs, at the port at which such vessel shall arrive, the Admiralty warrant, authorizing such vessel to wear the St. George's ensign. No. 19. Act 11 Vic. c. 2. Duties of Customs under Imperial Act repealed. No. 20. Act 11 Vic. c. 6. PREAMBLE. Reciting part of Act of Parliament. No. 19.-11 Vic. ch. 2. An Act to Repeal within the Bahama Islands certain Duties of Customs levied under the authority of an Act of the Imperial Parliament, for regulating the Trade of the British Possessions Abroad. (22nd March, 1848.) HEREAS an Act was passed in the session of the Imperial Parliament, holden in the ninth and tenth years of your Majesty's reign, entitled, "An Act to enable the Legislatures of certain British Possessions to Reduce or Repeal certain Duties of Customs," whereby power was and is given to the Legislatures of your Majesty's British possessions, in America and the Island of Mauritius, to pass and enact, subject to your Majesty's royal approval and confirmation, any Act or Ordinance, Acts or Ordinances, reducing or repealing all or any of the duties of customs imposed in and by an Act passed in the session of the Imperial Parliament, holden in the eighth and ninth years of your Majesty's reign, entitled, "An Act to regulate the Trade of the British Possessions Abroad;" And whereas it is expedient that such duties of customs should cease to be collected within these your Majesty's Bahama Islands; We, &c., That from and after the expiration of thirty days from the day on which your Majesty's royal assent to this Act shall be proclaimed in this colony, all and singular the duties of customs imposed in and by the before-recited Act of the eighth and ninth years of your Majesty's reign, upon the importation into this and your Majesty's other British Possessions in America, of the several articles in the said Act mentioned and specified, shall cease to be collected within these islands, and such duties of customs shall, as far as they relate or refer to these your Majesty's Bahama Islands, be, and they are hereby repealed.* No. 20.-11 Vic. ch. 6. An Act for protecting, in the Bahamas, the THEREAS in and by an Act passed in the session of the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland, in the fifth and sixth years of your Majesty's reign, entitled, "An Act to Amend the Law of Copyright," it is, amongst other things, enacted that it shall not be lawful for any person, not being the proprietor of the copyright, or some person authorized by him, to import into any part of the United Kingdom, or into any other part of the British dominions, for sale or hire, any printed book, first composed, or written, or printed, or published, in any part of the said United Kingdom, wherein there shall be a copyright, and reprinted in any country or place whatsoever, out of the British dominions, under the penalties therein mentioned; And whereas by an Act passed in the session of the said Imperial Parliament, holden in the eighth and ninth years of your Majesty's reign, entitled, "An Act to regulate the Trade of the British Possessions Abroad," books wherein the copyright is subsisting, first composed, *Confirmed by Order in Council, dated 1st May, 1849, and proclaimed at Nassau on the 23rd June, 1849. No. 20. Act 11 Vic. c. 6. or written, or printed, in the United Kingdom, and printed or reprinted in any other country, are absolutely prohibited to be imported into the British possessions abroad; And whereas in and by another Act, passed in the session of the said Imperial Parliament holden in the tenth and eleventh years of your Majesty's reign, entitled, "An Act to Amend the Law regulating the Protection, in the Colonies, of works entitled to Copyright in the United Kingdom," it is enacted that in case the Legislature, or proper Legislative authorities in any British possessions shall be disposed to make due provision for securing or protecting the rights of British authors in such possessions, and shall pass an Act or make an Ordinance for that purpose, and shall transmit the same in the proper manner to the Secretary of State, in order that it may be submitted to Her Majesty, and in case Her Majesty shall be of opinion that such Act or Ordinance is sufficient for the purpose of securing to British Authors reasonable protection within such possession, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, if she think fit so to express her royal approval of such Act or Ordinance, and thereupon to issue an order in Council, declaring that so long as the provision of such Act or Ordinance continue in force within such colony, the prohibitions contained in the Acts thereinbefore recited, or any other Acts against the importing, selling, letting out to hire, exposing for sale or hire, or possessing foreign reprints of books first composed, written, printed or published in the United Kingdom, and entitled to copyright therein, shall be suspended, so far as regards such colony; and thereupon such Act or Ordinance shall come into operation, except so far as may be otherwise provided therein, or as may be otherwise directed by such order in Council, anything in the said last-recited Act, or in any other Act to the contrary notwithstanding; And whereas it is expedient to allow the importation into this colony of reprints abroad of the works of British authors, with due regard to the rights of such of the said authors as may have duly registered their copyright therein agreeably to the first herein-recited Act of the said Imperial Par- Enactment. liament; May it, &c., That there shall be levied and paid on the importation into this colony, of the reprint, in any foreign country or place, of any book or dramatic piece, the proprietorship of the copyright of which shall have been duly entered in Stationers' Hall, agreeably to the before-recited Act of Parliament of the fifth and sixth years of your Majesty's reign, and shall also have been duly notified in the manner prescribed in the Proviso to the ninth section of the hereinbefore last-mentioned Act, a duty at and after the rate of Twenty pounds per centum on the value of the publisher's wholesale price of such reprint, at the place from whence the same shall have been imported into this colony. Duty of £20 per £100 on value of pub lishers' wholesale price to be levied on the importation of re-published works of pro tected British authors abroad, on importation in the Bahamas. II. That the duty hereby imposed on the said reprinted works Duty here colshall be collected and received by your Majesty's Receiver-General lected. and Treasurer in and for these islands, his lawful deputies or other Colonial Receivers, who shall furnish quarterly, to the President, a schedule containing a return of all duties received by him on the importation of reprints of any such registered book or dramatic piece. III. That it shall be lawful for the proprietor of any such regis- Proportion or tered book or dramatic piece to apply to the President for payment payable to proprietors of of nine-tenths of the amount of duty collected under this Act, copyright. on the importation into this colony of the reprint of any book or dramatic piece liable to duty under this Act, of which such applicant shall be the registered proprietor, or the registered assignee of such proprietor; and it shall be lawful for the President in Council, and he is hereby required, on being satisfied of the correctness of such application, to grant his warrant on the Treasury in favour of such proprietor or assignee, as the case may be, for nine-tenths of the amount of duties that may have been collected under this Act, on the importation of any such reprinted book or dramatic piece. IV. That this Act shall commence and take effect thirty days after Her Majesty's royal approval shall have been publicly notified by the President in this colony. No. 21. Ord. No. 20, 1860. PREAMBLE. Table of Duties. No. 21.-ORDINANCE No. 20 of 1860. An Ordinance for raising a Revenue for the Support of the Govern ment of the Turks and Caicos Islands. (Passed 9th May, 1860. Confirmed 9th May, 1861.) W HEREAS Ordinance No. 2 of 1855 for raising a revenue for the support of the government of the Turks and Caicos Islands, will expire at the end of the next session of the Legislature, after the first day of January, which will be in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and it is necessary that further provision for raising a revenue should be made in lieu thereof; May it therefore please your Majesty that it may be ordained by His Honour William Robert Inglis, Esquire, President of the Council administering the government of the Turks and Caicos Islands, and the Legislative Council of the said islands, under the supervision of the Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief in and over the Island of Jamaica, and it is hereby ordained by the authority of the same. I. That there shall be collected and paid unto your Majesty, your heirs, and successors, for the support of the government of the said Turks and Caicos Islands, certain duties, at and after the rates respectively set forth in the subjoined table, upon all goods, wares, and merchandise imported, or which shall be in any other manner landed or brought into any of the islands within this Presidency, to wit: Alcohol and spirits of wine, per gallon 8. d. 40 Ale, beer, porter, cider, perry, in quart bottles, per dozen.. 0 6 Beans and peas, not split, per bushel Biscuit and bread, per 100 lbs. Brandy, per gallon Bulls, cows, and oxen, each Butter, per 100 lbs. Calves, each .. Candles, tallow, per 100 lbs... Candles, other than tallow, per 100 lbs. 02 10 .. 0 3 1 4 8. d. No. 21. Chocolate, per 100 lbs. 60 Ord. No. 20, Cigars, per 1000 Coffee, per 100 lbs. Cordials, per gallon Cordage and rope (new), per 100 lbs. Corn and other unprepared grain not enumerated, per bushel 0 Fish (pickled), salmon, shad, and mackerel, per barrel 5 0 4 2 2 8 4 Flour, other than wheat, per barrel 1 6 Gin, whisky, and other spirits not herein enumerated, per Hulls and materials of vessels, wrecked, stranded, dere and one penny per gallon for every degree stronger, and for every degree weaker one penny less per gallon. :: 6 0 4 2 0 2 1 6 .. 1 0 0 6 0 4 :: 4 2 0 1 0 3 0 Rice, per 100 lbs. Rum, 24° proof, per gallon Sugar, clayed, and all other not enumerated, per 100 lbs. Tobacco, manufactured, other than cigars, per 100 lbs. and ten per cent. ad valorem. Articles not enumerated in the above scale of duties, except such as are comprised in the table of exemptions set forth in this Ordinance, shall pay a duty of £10 per cent. ad valorem 10 per cent. |