Trade to America Act 1710
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1710 c. 27 |
| Year | 1710 |
(9 Ann.) C A P. XXVII. (29)
'WH E R E A S by an Act of Parliament made in the sixth Year of her Majesty's Reign, intituled,An Act for the Encouragement of the Trade to America; it is, among other Things, enacted, That the Flag-Officers, Commanders, and other Officers and Seamen of any Ship or Vessel of War in her Majesty's Pay or Service, and the Owner or Owners of any Private Ship of War, authorized and appointed by Commission or Commissions according to the said Act, during the present War, to attack, suprize, seize, and take any Ship, or other Private Ship or Ships of War, or Vessels, Goods, Ammunition, Arms, Stores of War, or Merchandize, belonging to, or possessed by any of her Majesty's Enemies, in any Sea, Creek, Haven, or River in America , (except as therein is excepted) shall have the sole Interest and Property of and in all and every such Ship, Vessel, Goods and Merchandizes, being first adjudged lawful Prize, in any of her Majesty's Courts of Admiralty, and subject to the Customs and Duties payable to her Majesty, as if the same had been first imported to any Part of Great Britain , and from thence exported, for and in respect of all such Goods and Merchandizes, to be divided and disposed of as in the said Act is directed; in pursuance of which Act several Bonds and other Securities have been given for the Payment of such Customs and Duties for Prize Goods and Merchandizes taken in America , and adjudged to be lawful Prize; but by Experience it is found that the subjecting such Prize Goods and Merchandizes taken in America , to such Customs and Duties, as if the same had been imported into any Part of Great Britain , and from thence exported, hath been very prejudicial to her Majesty's Plantations and Colonies, and hath, in a great Measure, prevented the Importation thereof into those Plantations and Colonies;' Be it therefore enacted, &c.
‘After 1June 1711. all Prize Goods, & c. taken in America , shall be liable to Duties. See 10 Ann, c. 22. and 10 Ann. c. 26. ∥. 113.’
'II. And whereas several Bonds and other Securities have been obtained atJamaica , for the Payment of Duties chargeable by virtue of the said Clause in the Act of the sixth Year of her Majesty's Reign, upon Cocoa, Sugars, Indico, Snuff, Tobacco, Piemento, and other Commodities of the Growth of America...
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