1800: 41 George 3 (G.B.) c.30: An Act for explaining and amending an act passed in the last session of parliament, intituled An act for erecting a lazaret on Chetney Hill, in the county of Kent, and for reducing into one act the laws relating to quarantine; and for making further provisions therein, as far as regards the payment of the tonnage duty in the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man.
[31st December 1800.]
‘To remove all Doubts whether Ships or Vessels arriving in the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man, which shall have to perform Quarantine, shall be liable to the same Tonnage Duty as by an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled,
[39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 80.]
An Act for erecting a Lazaret on Chetney Hill in the County of Kent, and for reducing into one Act the Laws relating to Quarantine, and for making further Provision therein, are imposed upon Ships and Vessels so arriving in this Kingdom; 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,
[From January 5 1801 there shall be levied under the recited Act the same Duties of Customs on Vessels arriving in Guernsey, Jersey, &c. as on Vessels arriving in this Kingdom.]
That, from and after the fifth Day of January one thousand eight hundred and one, there shall be raised, levied, collected, and paid to his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, the several and respective Duties of Customs per Ton Burthen, which are in the said Act imposed on Ships and Vessels so arriving in this Kingdom, upon all Ships and Vessels which shall so arrive in the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man, in like Manner in every Respect whatsoever, as if the said Islands had been mentioned in Customs on the said Act for that Purpose; and such Tonnage Duties may be reduced, and may again be raised and Vessels arriving increased, and shall be collected, paid, recovered, accounted for, and applied, in the same Manner as the Tonnage Duties imposed by the said Act: Provided always, That the Owner of every such Ship or Vessel may demand and receive the just and reasonable Contribution on the Goods imported therein, in the Manner prescribed by the said Act.