pened that the faid livings have not yet had the benefit defigned them by the faid acts; be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That it fhall and may be lawful for the bishops of the faid dioceses, at any time before the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand seven hundred and fixteen, to certify into the court of Exchequer the livings following, or fuch of them, as shall appear to the respective bishops to be under the value of fifty pounds per annum, (viz.) in the diocese of York, the rectory of Saint Michael apud Pontem de Ouze in the city of York, the vicarage of Skipwith, the vicarage of Kilham, the vicarage of NorthLeverton, the vicarage of Norwell Overhall: in the diocese of Bangor, the vicarage of Lanunda, the vicarage of Llanfair Ifgaer, the vicarage of Llanor, the vicarage of Nevin, the vicarage of Abererch, the vicarage of Conway, the vicarage of Dwygyfylche: in the diocese of Carlisle, the rectory of Kirkbride, the rectory of Dufton, the vicarage of Edenhall: in the diocese of Chichester, the vicarage of Sela, the rectory of Beata Maria in Weftout Lewes, the rectory of Chalton, the rectory of Winchelfey, the vicarage of Bernehill in the diocefe of Saint Davids, the vicarage of Merchir alias Mathre, the vicarage of Saint Winnock alias Saint Twinnells: in the diocese of Litchfield and Coventry, the vicarage of Hartington, the vicarage of Saint Mary's in Litchfield, the fouth mediety of Darleigh, the vicarage of Glossop: in the diocese of Lincoln, the rectory of Bellew alias Hellow, the vicarage of Elham, the rectory of Normamby, the rectory of Snarford, the vicarage of Buckingham, the rectory of Okeney, the vicarage of Mentmore, the vicarage of Miffenden Magna, the vicarage of Swanburn: in the diocese of Norwich, the vicarage of South-Walfam, the rectory of Framlinghams, the vicarage of Burnham-Overy, the vicarage of Scarning, the vicarage of Netons, the vicarage of Melton Parva, the rectory of Repham Medietas & altera Medietas, the vicarage of Thurston, the vicarage of Colkirke, the rectory of Catfields, the vicarage of Henly, the rectory of Newborn, the rectory of Culpho, the rectory of Dunwich Johannis, the rectory of Pakefields, the rectory of Melford Longa, the vicarage of Finborow Parva, the rectory of Willingham alias Ellough, the rectory of Bromefwell in Wilford: in the diocefe of Oxford, the vicarage of Stanton-Harcourt: in the diocese of Peterborough, the vicarage of Cranley in the diocese of Winchefter, the vicarage of Shalford, and the vicarage of Ellingham: and the faid livings fo cerfit of the acts tified, shall have the benefit of the two fore-mentioned acts of of 5 An. c.24. parliament, as effectually, to all intents and purposes, as if and 6 An.c.27. they had been duly certified within the time limited by the faid and they fhall have the bene acts. XIX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the courts and committees of the faid governors of the bounty of Queen Anne for the augmentation of the maintenance of the poor clergy, fhall have power and authority, and are The goverhereby authorized and impowered, from time to time, to adnors impow. minister an oath to fuch perfon and perfons as fhall at any time nilter oaths. give them information, or be examined of or concerning any ered to admi matter matter or thing relating to the execution of this or the faid former acts of parliament, or any way concerning the trust in them repofed. XX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, AugmentaThat all the augmentations, certificates, agreements, and ex- tions, &c. to be entred, and changes hereafter to be made, by virtue of or in pursuance of the entries to this act, fhall be carefully examined and entred in a book to be be taken as provided and kept by the governors for that purpose, the said records; and entries being approved at a court of the faid governors, and at- attefted copies thereof shall tested by the governors then prefent, fhall be taken to be as re- be good evicords, and the true copies thereof, or of the said entries, being dence in law. proved by one or more credible witneffes, fhall be deemed, taken, and adjudged to be good and fufficient evidence in law, touching the matters contained therein, or relating thereto. XXI. And to the end that churches and chapels may at all times Lands, &c. al be capable of receiving augmentations for the maintenance of the mini- lotted to any fters thereof; be it enacted by the authority aforefaid, That if church, &c. by deed under the governors of the bounty of Queen Anne for the augmenta- the governor's tion of the maintenance of the poor clergy, fhall by any deed feal, fhall go or instrument in writing under their commom feal, allot or ap- in fucceffion, ply to any church or chapel, any lands, tithes, or heredita- &c. ments, arifing from the faid bounty of her faid late Majesty, or from private contribution or benefaction, or from all or any the ways aforefaid, and fhall declare, That the fame shall be for ever annexed to fuch church or chapel, then fuch lands, tithes, and hereditaments, fhall from thenceforth be held and enjoyed, and go in fucceffion with such church and chapel for ever; and fuch augmentation fo made fhall be good and effectual, to all intents and purposes whatsoever, whether fuch church or chapel, for which fuch augmentation is intended, be then full or vacant of an incumbent or minifter; provided fuch deed or in- such deed bestrument be enrolled in the high court of chancery within fix ing inrolled in months after the day of the date thereof. Vide 3 Geo. I. cap.10. CAP. XI. An act to restrain all waggoners, carriers, and others, for drawing any carriage with more than five horses in length. fix months. HEREAS in and by one act of parliament made in the fixth 6 Ann. c. 29. year of her late Majesty, intituled, An act to repeal a clause in an act of the seventh year of the reign of his late Majefty (for amending and repairing the highways) which enjoins waggoners and others to draw with a pole between the wheel-horfes, or with double shafts, and to oblige them to draw only with fix horses, or other beafts, except up hills, it is among other things enacted, That from and after the four and twentieth day of June one thousand seven hundred and eight, no travelling waggon, wain, cart or carriage, wherein any burthens, goods or wares fhould be carried or drawn, other than fuch carts and carriages as were or should be imployed in or about husbandry or manuring of land, and in carrying of hay, hay, ftraw, corn, coal, chalk, timber for shipping, materials for building, ftores of all forts, or fuch ammunition or artillery as should be for the service of her Majesty, her heirs or successors, should at any one time travel, be drawn, or go in any common or publick highway or road, with above fix horfes, oxen, or beasts, upon and under the pains and penalties, and fubject to the provifo therein mentioned: and whereas the exceffive weights or loads laid upon waggons or other carriages drawn by fix horses, as aforefaid, are found by experience to be So heavy and burthenfome, that the roads are thereby rendred almost impaffable: for remedy whereof, be it enacted by the King's most excellent majefty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords spiritual and temporal and commons, in this prefent parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, That from After Sept. 30, and after the thirtieth day of September one thousand seven hun1715. no wag- dred and fifteen, no travelling waggon, wain, cart or carriage, gon, &c. fhall wherein any burthens, goods and wares fhall be carried and above five hor. drawn (other than and except as in the recited act is excepted) fes, &c. in shall at any one time be drawn or go in any common or publength, under lick highway or road with above five horses, oxen, or beasts in the penalties length, upon the like pains, penalties and forfeitures, and fubject to the provifoes in the faid recited act mentioned, or in an act made in the ninth year of her faid late Majesty's reign, to render more effectual the faid recited act of the fixth year of her said Majesty's reign; the faid recited statute, or any clause therein contained, or any other statute to the contrary in any wife notwithstanding. be drawn with in the acts 6 Ann. c. 29. and 9 Ann. C. 18. II. Provided, and it is enacted by the authority aforefaid, The exception in the faid acts That the faid exception in the said acts, or either of them conshall not ex- tained, or in any other acts whatsoever, fhall not extend or be tend to thresh- construed to extend to the excepting the carriage of threshed corn and coal. Altered and made more effectual by 5 Geo. 1. c. 12. 16 Geo. 2. c. 29. 18 Geo. 2. c. 33. 24 Geo. 2. c. 43. ed corn or coal. CAP. CAP. XII. An act for enlarging the fund of the governor and company of the bank of England, relating to Exchequer bills; and for fettling an additional revenue of one hundred and twenty thousand pounds per annum upon his Majesty during his life, for the fervice of the civil government; and for establishing a certain fund of fifty four thousand fix hundred pounds per annum, in order to raise a fum not exceeding nine hundred and ten thousand pounds for the fervice of the publick, by fale of annuities, after the rate of fix pounds per centum per annum, redeemable by parliament; and for fatisfying an arrear for work and materials at Blenheim, incurred whilft that building was carried on at the expence of her late majesty Queen Anne, of blessed memory; and for other purposes therein mentioned. OST gracious Sovereign, Whereas in purfuance of an act of par liament made in the feventh year of the reign of her late majesty 7 Ann. c. 7. Queen Anne (of blessed memory) for enlarging the capital stock of the bank of England, feveral bills, commonly called Exchequer bills, were made forth, amounting in principal money to two millions and five hundred thousand pounds, for her Majesty's fupply; and in pursuance of another act made in the faid feventh year of her faid late Majesty's reign (amongst 7 Ann. c. 8. other things) for circulating a further fum in Exchequer bills; and of certain claufes contained in an act of the eighth year of her reign in that 8 Ann. c. 13. behalf, there were issued for her Majesty's fupply more Juch bills, amounting to the further fum of four hundred thousand pounds in princi pal money; and pursuant to another act made in the twelfth year of her 12 Ann. ftat. 1. faid late Majefty's reign, (amongst other things) for circulating a fur- c. 11. ther fum in Exchequer bills, there were issued for her Majesty's fupply more fuch bills, amounting, in principal money, to twelve hundred thou fand pounds; and it was provided by the faid acts refpectively, That all the faid bills fhould bear an intereft after the rate of two pence per centum per diem (saving the said interest upon fuch of the faid bills as fhould at any time or times be in the Exchequer, or in the hands or power of any receiver or collector of any taxes, aids, or revenues payable to ber Majefty, ber heirs or fucceffors, during fuch time and times refpectively as fuch bills fhould be or remain in the Exchequer, or in fuch hands or power, as aforefaid) and that the governor and company of the bank of England fhould have an allowance, after the rate of three pounds per centum per annum, for circulating all the faid bills in the manner by the faid acts respectively prescribed, abating the fame allowance proportionably as the bills fhould be cancelled: and whereas by an act made in the ninth year of her faid late Majesty's reign, for better enabling the faid governor and company, and their fucceffors, to exchange for ready money, upon demand, any of the bills made forth upon the faid feveral afts of the feventh and eighth years of her faid late Majefty's reign, it was enacted, That the full fum of forty five thousand pounds per annum fhould be paid to and for the use of the faid governor and company, and VOL. XIII. · M their 9 Ann. c. 7 i their fucceffors, by the feveral ways and means therein fpecified, for and during fuch time only as in that act was expreffed; and by the faid act made in the twelfth year of her faid late Majefty's reign, for better enabling the faid governor and company, and their fucceffors, to circulate all Exchequer bills made forth and to be made forth on that and the former acts, by exchanging the fame, from time to time, for ready money, upon demand, it was enacted, That the entire yearly fum of eight thousand pounds (over and above the faid yearly fum of forty-five thoufand pounds) fhould be paid to and for the use of the faid governor and company, and their fucceffors, by quarterly payments; and that the faid yearly fum of eight thousand pounds, together with the faid yearly fum of forty five thousand pounds, fhould continue and be paid and payable to the faid governor and company, and their fucceffors, until fuch time as no more than nineteen hundred thousand pounds of all the bills issued and to be issued, in pursuance of that and the faid former acts (taken all together) fhould be standing out uncancelled in the whole and whereas for making good as well the faid intereft, after the rate of two pence per centum per diem, and the faid allowance after the rate of three pounds per centum per annum, upon all the bills iffued and to be iffued, as aforefaid, as alfo the faid yearly fum of eight thousand pounds, until the fubfidies, duties, furplus monies, remains and arrears, compofing the general fund and fecurity by the faid former acts, or fame of them, intended to be established, or fo many of them as fhould be fufficient for those purposes, should have taken effect; it was by the faid feveral acts of the feventh, eighth, and twelfth years of her faid late Majesty's reign, or fome of them, enacted, That the lord treajurer, or three or more of the commiffioners of the treasury for the time being, fhould make out, or caufe to be made out other Exchequer bills, for fo much as should be computed to be due at the respective quarter days therein mentioned (over and above what should have been applied out of the fubfidies, duties and fums of money aforefaid, for the faid intereft, and for fuch allowance of three pounds per centum per annum, and for the faid yearly fum of eight thousand pounds refpectively) and that fuch quarterly bills should bear the like interest of two pence per centum per diem, and the faid governor and company should have the like allowance of three pounds per centum per annuin, for circulating thereof: and whereas in and by the Said first mentioned act of the feventh year of her faid late Majefty's reign, certain duties were granted, continued, or made payable to her Majesty, ber heirs and fucceffors for ever, that is to fay, the duties called the two thirds of a fubfidy of tonnage and poundage therein mentioned, which were to take effect, and did take effect by that act, from the Seventh day of March one thousand feven hundred and eleven, certain duties upon coffee, cocoa-nuts, chocolate, cocoa-pafte, tea, nut-megs, cinnamon, cloves, mace, pictures, and muflins, and certain increafed duties upon coffee, cocoa-nuts, chocolate, cocoa-pafte, tea, nutmegs, cinnamon, cloves, mace, and pictures, and certain further rates or duties upon all white callicoes, porcelan, commonly called China ware, and drugs, all which were to take effect, and did take effect by the aft last mentioned, from the twenty third day of June one thousand feven hundred and fourteen; and one balf of another fubfidy of tonnage and poundage therein mentioned, which was to take effect, and did take effect by the fame alt, from and after the last day of July one thousand feven hundred and four12Ann. stat.1. teen; and by the faid aft of the twelfth year of her faid late Majesty's 7 Ann. c. 7. 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