Importation of Prize Goods Act 1711
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
(10 Ann.) C A P. XXII. (30)
'W H E R E A S by an Actof Parliament made the ninth Year of her present Majesty's Reign, intituled,An Act for the Encouragement of the Trade to America, it is among other Things enacted, That all Prize Goods and Commodities which, after the first Day of June one thousand seven hundred and eleven, shall be imported into any of the Ports of Great Britain , shall be subject and liable to the Payment of the same Duties as those Goods and Commodities would have paid in case they had not been Prize: And whereas before the making the said Act, Prize Goods, being of the Growth and Produce of Foreign Plantations not belonging to her Majesty or her Subjects, were subject upon their Importation into Great Britain , to pay only such Duties and Customs as were payable on the seventeenth Day of May in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and three, for the like Goods of the Produce of her Majesty's Plantations imported by English Shipping: And whereas several considerable Quantities of Prize Cocoa, Sugars, Indigo, and other Prize Goods, of the Growth and Produce of such Foreign Plantations, have been already imported into this Kingdom, and are now in several Warehouses under the Queen's Locks, and other Quantities of the like Goods are on Board divers Ships or Vessels, now imported, and more are daily expressed, and if the same should pay the Duties they were to pay in case they had not been Prize, the same will not be worth Freight, Custom, and Charges; which will be not only a great Loss and Detriment to the Importers thereof, but also a great Prejudice to the Tradeof this Kingdom:' For Remedy whereof, Be it 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, That all Cocoa, Sugars, Indigo, and other Goods, taken and condemned as Prize Goods, of the Growth and Produce of such Foreign Plantations, which are already imported into this Kingdom ofGreat Britain , or shall at any Time hereafter, before the twenty-ninth Day of May one thousand seven hundred and twelve, be imported into the said Kingdom, or which now are in any Warehouses under the Queen's Locks, or on Board any Ship or Ships, Vessel or Vessels, now imported, having Certificates to prove the same Prize Goods, shall...
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