1780 Europa Act

Anno Vicesimo
Georgii III. Regis

CAP LVIII

An act for granting further time for allowing 
the Drawback on the exportation of coffee 
imported by the East India Company, in the 
ship Europa in the year One thousand seven 
hundred and seventy-five.

Whereas great part of coffee 
imported by United Company 
of Merchants of England trading to 
the East Indies, in the Ship Europa 
in the Year One thousand seven 
hundred and seventy-five, which re-
mained unsold on the sixth Day 
of May One thousand seven hundred and eighty, and 
other Parts of such coffee which hath been sold by 
the said United Company yet remains uncleared in 
their Warehouses belonging to the buyers thereof, 
and which, by a reason of the interruption given to Trade,
by the Rebellion and Disturbances subsisting in several 
of the British Colonies in North America, the Proprietors 
of such Coffee may not be able to export within the Term 
of Three Years from the importation thereof, being 
the Time limited by Law to entitle them to receive the
Drawback of the duties thereon; and it is reasonable 
and necessary that some further Time should be granted 
for the exportation of such Coffee; may it therefore 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 if the said coffee, imported 
by the said Ship Europa, in the year One thousand 
seven hundred and seventy-five, and now remaining un-
cleared in the said Company’s Warehouses shall be ex-
ported to any Parts beyond the Seas at any Time 
within Seven Years, to be computed from the impor-
tation thereof, there shall be drawn back and allowed for 
the same, to the Exporter or Exporters thereof, such and 
the same Drawbacks or Allowances, and under such 
Rules,  Regulations, Securities, Penalties, and Forfei-
tures, as such exporter or Exporters would have been
entitled to in case such Coffee have been exported within
the Term of Three Years from the Importation thereof; 
any Law, Custom, or Usage, to the contrary notwith-
standing