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Show 206 ACTS RELATING Partll'. fiance, therefore, and this alone, the tax was intended to operate as a prohibition, The aél; was worded very {new Mil/y. Oftwo conflruflions the colonifls very Seé‘r.IX. TO THE Commas. 207 may obferve, that the officers to whom thefe duties are to be paid, are called " the officers for collefiiiig and managing " his majefty's rewritten" They have the fame powers of vifiting, fearching, and naturally embraced that which was molt favourableto themfelves. They confidered entering warehoufes, wharfs, &e. as the the payment of thefe duties, as a difcharge oilicers of the cutloms in England. from giving the fecurities not to go to any foreign market. About this time it lhould feem the colo- nies had patTed fome laws to defeat or This claufe is therefore explained by another ail made in the year 1696 *. It is there repeated, that thcfe duties are to be paid on goods tranfported from one co- counteraé‘t fome other law made here in England relating to the colonies; and therefore the 1.2% aét declares, " that all "laws, bye-laws, ufages or cufi'oms, at lazy to another. And it is farther provi d- " t/ziy time, or which bem'qfi‘er {hall be in ed, that notwithftanding the payment of " practice in any of the {aid plantations, fuch duty, the fame feeurity is to be given, " which are in any wife rip/rgflmzt to the 6‘ vQ/bre-mentfmrd laws, or any of them, " to far as they do relate to the {aid plan~ that the goods are to be exported onl y to fume part of his majef'ty's dominions. This explanation of the former Aft affords a corroborating proof, that the duties ' " tations, or any of them, or which are impofed by that at} were intended to with " any wife repugnant to this pray/(372! aé't. " or to any tor/lee law lit/rafter to be made a revenue. " in this kingdom, And as a Hill farther proof we f0 far as {itch laws " thall ref/:3: :9 and miner/:27: the {aid plan- ate Sec 7 .8; 3 Wi ll, III. c. 22. 6 may ‘v' rationsa |
