Customs Act 1783
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1783 c. 11 |
(23 Geo. 3) C A P. XI.
'W H E R E A S by an Act, made in the twenty-fourth Year of the Reign of his Late Majesty KingGeorge the Second, intituled, ;it is, amongst other Things enacted, That no Tobacco or Tobacco Stalks exceeding twenty-four Pounds Weight, nor any Snuff exceeding ten Pounds Weight, shall be in any Form or Manner whatsoever removed, carried, or conveyed by Land, from any Port or Place of Importation inGreat Britain , to any other Port or Place within this Kingdom, without a Certificate being first had and obtained from the Collector and Comptroller, or other chief Officers at the Port or Place where the Tobacco was imported, that the Duties thereof were paid or secured in the Manner directed by the said Act: And whereas great Quantities of Tobacco are clandestinely run on Shore at several of the Out Ports of this Kingdom, and such Tobacco, and great Quantities of Tobacco Stalks, and Snuff manufactured from Tobacco, so clandestinely run on Shore, are afterwards removed from such Out Ports, to other Ports and Places in the Country and from thence conveyed into London , and Parts adjacent thereto, without the Certificates directed by the said recited Act, under a Pretence that such Tobacco, Tobacco Stalks, and Snuff, are not removing from the Port or Place of Importation, whereby the good Purposes intended by the said Act have been and may be defeated, to the great Prejudice of the public Revenue and the fair Trader:' 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, from and after the twenty-fifth Day of ,one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, no Tobacco, or Tobacco Stalks, exceeding twenty-four Pounds Weight, nor any Snuff exceeding ten Pounds Weight, which shall have been removed or carried by Land from the Port or Place of Importation inGreat Britain , to any other Port or Place within this Kingdom, shall be afterwards removed or carried to any other Port, Town, or Place whatsoever in Great Britain , without a Certificate being first had and obtained from the Collector and Comptroller, or the chief Officer of the Customs at the Port or Place from which such Goods are intended to be so removed; but it there is not any Officer of the Customs residing at such Place, from the then Officer of Excise for the Division with whom the former Certificate was entered, that it appears to them, by the Entries of the Certificate or Certificates in their Books upon their former Removal, that the Duties for such Tobacco or Snuff, or that the Duties for the Tobacco from which such Tobacco Stalks or Snuff were respectively stripped or manufactured, as the Case may be, were paid or secured at the Port or Place of Importation; and also by what Carriage such Goods, and every Part thereof, came, and were before removed as aforesaid, and the Time when; and also that the Person or Persons who shall apply to him or them for such Certificate had made Oath to the Truth thereof: And before any such Certificate shall be granted, the Proprietor of such Tobacco, Tobacco Stalks, or Snuff, or the Factor or Agent applying for the same, shall describe and insert on the Back of such Certificate, in a fair and legible Manner, the Names of each particular Package in which such Goods are contained, together with the particular Marks...
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