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Agents may make oath as allowed by laws, to enable corporation or companies to obtain drawbacks or allowances upon export,
proprietors of lands in colonies or plantations, and other persons, may export goods as herein.
agents empowered to act.
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XXVII. Provided nevertheless, That nothing in this act shall extend, or be construed to extend, to hinder or prevent the agent of any corporation or company trading by a joint stock, from making oath in the manner now by law allowed to entitle such corporation or company to obtain any drawback or allowance upon the exportation of goods from this kingdom, nor to hinder or prevent any proprietor or proprietors of lands in any of his Majesty’s colonies or plantations, nor any person or persons whatever, from exporting from any place other than that at which he or they reside, if such person or persons shall reside at a greater distance than twenty miles from such place, any goods or commodities whatever, nor any person or persons whatever from exporting from any place other than that at which he or they reside, any goods whatsoever of Irish manufacture, being the property of such person or persons, by and in the name of an agent, and such agent is hereby authorized to do and perform every act and thing to entitle the real proprietor or proprietors of the goods to all and every bounty, drawback, or allowance due by law upon the exportation of such goods, and to recover the same in as full and ample manner as if the real proprietor or proprietors was or were to act therein: provided, that such agent shall testify upon oath on the back of the debenture, over and above what is already by law required to be testified upon oath, before the collector or other chief officer of the revenue, who is and are hereby respectively authorized to administer the same, the name or names of the real proprietor or proprietors of the goods, and his or their known place of abode, and shall if required by the said collector or other chief officer, give good and sufficient reason for his knowledge of the place to which the goods are intended to be exported.
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