Prize Act 1778
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1778 c. 15 |
| Year | 1778 |
(18 Geo. 3) C A P. XV.
'WHEREAS several Ships and Vessels, with their Cargoes, have been taken, and condemned as Prize, in pursuance of, and under the Authority of an Act made in the sixteenth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty (intituled, New Hampshire, Massachusets Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pensylvania,the Three Lower Counties on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, during the Continuance of the present Rebellion within the said Colonies respectively; for repealing an Act, made in the fourteenth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty , ‘to discontinue the landing and discharging, lading or shipping, of Goods, Wares, and Merchandise, at the Town, and within the Harbour of Boston , in the Province of Massachusets Bay ;’and also two Acts, made in the last Session of Parliament, of restraining the Trade and Commerce of the Colonies in the said Acts respectively mentioned; and to enable any Person or Persons, appointed and authorised by his Majesty to grant Pardons, to issue Proclamations, in the Cases and for the Purposes therein mentioned): And whereas Part of the Cargoes of such Ships and Vessels, which is now secured in the Warehouses at several Ports in this Kingdom, not being Goods of the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of any British American Colony or Plantation, or of any other Place or Country under the Dominion of his Majesty, are subject, by the Laws now in Force, to the Paymentof high Duties upon being imported into and used in this Kingdom; which Duties, in some Instances, being equal to the Value of the Goods, will not only be a Discouragement to the Captors and Importers thereof, but will put them under the Necessary to send such Goods, for the future, directly to foreign Markets, to the Loss of his Majesty's Revenue, and the Prejudice of the Trade of this Kingdom:' For Remedy whereof, may it please your Majesty that it may be enacted; and 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, That any Goods, not being the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture, of anyBritish American Colony or Plantation, or any other Place or Country under the Dominion of his Majesty, that have been, or any Goods or Merchandises whatsoever which shall hereafter be taken during the Continuance of the said recited Act, and which have been or shall be brought into Great Britain by any of his Majesty's Ships of War, or by any private or other...
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