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of the said Committee of Justices or Visitors, or their clerk; or if any party entitled unto, or to convey such part or parts, portion or portions of the said moors, commons or waste lands, shall not be known or shall be absent from England, or shall refuse, neglect or be unable to convey and assure the same, freed and discharged from all commonable and other rights; then, upon payment of such money into the Bank of England, as in the hereinbefore-mentioned Act directed, to the credit of the parties interested in such part or parts, portion or portions of the said moors, commons or waste lands; or in case such 10 money shall have been agreed or awarded to be paid for the purchase of any such part or parts, portion or portions of the said moors, commons or waste lands, or such compensation as aforesaid, which any corporation, trustee or person under disability is hereby or by the hereinbefore-mentioned Act capacitated to convey, upon payment of 15 such money into the Bank of England as in the hereinbefore-mentioned Act directed, then and in every such case it shall be lawful for the said Committee of Justices or Visitors, or their clerk, and all persons acting under their or his authority and direction, immediately to enter upon such part or parts, portion or portions of the said moors, commons 20 or waste lands, and thereupon such part or parts, portion or portions of the said moors, commons or waste lands, and the fee-simple and inheritance thereof in possession, together with the yearly profits thereof, and all the estate, right, title, use, trust and interest, and all commonable and other rights of all parties therein and thereupon, shall 25 thenceforth be vested in the Clerk of the Peace for the time being, and his successors in office of the county in which such part or parts, portion or portions of the said moors, commons or waste lands shall be situated, as in the hereinbefore-mentioned Act mentioned.

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tion Clause,

And be it Enacted, That where in this Act the word "Corporation" is Interpreta30 used, the same shall be understood to mean any body politic, corporate or collegiate, civil or ecclesiastical, aggregate or sole; and that the word "Overseers" shall include persons filling the like office; and that the word "Oath" shall include affirmation in case of Quakers, or other declaration or solemnity lawfully substituted for an oath in the 35 case of other persons exempted by law from the necessity of taking an oath; and that the word "Sheriff" shall include Under-sheriff or other legal competent deputy of the county where the lands or any part thereof required for the purposes of this and the aforesaid Act. shall be situate, and that the rules for the interpretation of the hereinbefore-mentioned Act shall be applicable to this Act.

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And be it Enacted, That all the powers, authorities, provisions, clauses, matters and things contained in the herein before-mentioned Act shall extend and be construed to extend to this Act (unless hereby altered or otherwise expressly provided for); and that this Act shall be taken and construed together with the aforesaid Act.

12.

Extending recited Act

powers of

to present

A

BILL

To remove Restraints

upon the Exportation of Machinery.

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Preamble:

When third and years of his 3 4

HEREAS by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament held in the third and fourth years of his late Majesty King WILLIAM the Fourth, intituled, "An Act for the general Regulation of the Customs," and by the Table therein contained, denominated "A Table of Prohibitions and Restrictions Outwards," the Tools, Utensils, Machinery and Articles described in the said Table, and in the Schedule hereto annexed, were, amongst other things, absolutely prohibited to be exported from the United Kingdom:

And whereas it is expedient that the said prohibition of the Exporta10 tion of the said Tools, Utensils, Machinery and Articles should be repealed;

BE it therefore Enacted, by The QUEEN'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 15 by the Authority of the same, THAT so much of the said Act and Table as prohibits the Exportation from the United Kingdom of the Tools, Utensils, Machinery and Articles described in the Schedule hereunto annexed, shall be and the same is hereby repealed.

3 & 4 Will. 4,

c. 52.

1.

So much of

3 & 4 Will. 4, as prohibits Exports of

the Machinery in Schedule to Bill, repealed.

2.

And be it Enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by Act may be ary Act to be passed in this present Session of Parliament.

amended this Session.

418.

SCHEDULE.

SCHEDULE.

TOOLS and UTENSILS; viz.:

Any Machine, Engine, Tool, Press, Paper, Utensil or Instrument, used in, or proper for, the preparing, working, pressing or finishing of the Woollen, Cotton, Linen or Silk Manufactures of this Kingdom, or any other Goods wherein Wool, Cotton, Linen or Silk is used, or any part of such Machines, Engines, Tools, Presses, Paper, Utensils or Instruments, or any model or plan thereof, or any part thereof, except Wool Cards or Stock Cards, not worth above Four Shillings per pair, and Spinners' Cards, not worth above One Shilling and Sixpence per pair, used in the Woollen Manufactures.

Blocks, Plates, Engines, Tools or Utensils, commonly used in, or proper for, the preparing, working up or finishing of the Calico, Cotton, Muslin or Linen-printing Manufactures, or any part of such Blocks, Plates, Engines, Tools or Utensils.

Rollers, either plain, grooved, or of any other form or denomination, of cast-iron, wrought-iron or steel, for the rolling of iron or any sort of metals, and Frames, Beds, Pillars, Screws, Pinions, and each and every Implement, Tool or Utensil thereunto belonging; Rollers, Slitters, Frames, Beds, Pillars and Screws for Slitting Mills; Presses of all sorts in iron and steel, or other metals, which are used with a screw, exceeding one inch and a half in diameter, or any parts of these several articles, or any model of the before-mentioned Utensils, or any part thereof; all sorts of Utensils, Engines or Machines, used in the casting or boring of Cannon, or any sort of Artillery, or any parts thereof, or any models of Tools, Utensils, Engines or Machines used in such casting or boring, or any parts thereof; Hand Stamps, Dog-head Stamps, Pulley Stamps, Hammers and Anvils for Stamps; Presses of all sorts, called Cutting-out Presses, Beds or Punches to be used therewith, either in parts or pieces, or fitted together; Scouring or Shading Engines; Presses for Horn Buttons; Dies for Horn Buttons; Rolled Metal, with silver thereon; parts of Buttons not fitted up into Buttons, or in an unfinished state; Engines for chasing; Stocks for casting Buckles, Buttons and Rings; Die-sinking Tools of all sorts; Engines for making Buttonshanks; Laps of all sorts; Tools for pinching of Glass; Engines for covering of Whips; Bars of Metal, covered with gold or silver, and Burnishing Stones, commonly called Blood Stones, either in the rough state or finished for use; Wire Moulds for making Paper; Wheels, of Metal, Stone or Wood, for cutting, roughing, smoothing, polishing or engraving Glass; Purcellas, Pincers, Shears and Pipes used in blowing Glass; Potters' Wheels and Lathes, for plain, round and engine turning; Tools used by Saddlers, Harness-makers and Bridle-makers, viz. Candle-strainers, Side-strainers, Point-strainers, Creasing-irons, Screw-creasers, Wheel-irons, Seat-irons, Prickingirons, Bolstering-irons, Clams and Head Knives.

Frames for making Wearing Apparel.