commiffioners, as aforefaid, fhall be obliged, for doing thereof, vel farther to travel further than the cities of London, Westminster, and Edin- than London or Edinburgh. burgh, or any of them. V. Provided also, That if the said commiffioners, in the ex- Difficulties in ecution of this act, fhall meet with difficulties in points of law, point of law to the fame shall be specially stated in their report for determination be ftated by in parliament. the commiffioners. VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That any two of the faid commiffioners, before they enter upon the Commiffionexecution of this act, fhall take an oath before the lord high ers to be chancellor of Great Britain, or master of the rolls, (which oath fworn: they, or either of them, are hereby respectively authorized and required to adminifter to them;) the tenor whereof shall be as followeth : A. B. do fwear, That, according to the best of my skill and know- The oath. ledge, I shall faithfully, impartially and truly demean myself, in taking, examining and ftating the debts due and growing due to Scotland, by way of equivalent, according to the agreements in the treaty of union, and in all matters and things, brought, or to be brought be fore me, in execution of an act, intituled, An act for taking and ftating the debts due and growing due to Scotland, by way of equivalent in the terms of the union, and for relief of the creditors. of the publick in Scotland, and the commiffioners of the equivalent. And every other of the faid commiffioners to be appointed by his Majefty, pursuant to this act, before he enters upon the execution of the said act, fhall likewise take the fame oath before the faid commiffioners, who are hereby authorized and required to administer the fame to them, after having taken the faid oath themselves, as aforefaid. VII. And for the relief of the creditors of the publick in Scotland, and of the commissioners of the equivalent, until the accounts herein after mentioned are taken and flated, according to the true meaning of this act be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That the lords commiffioners of the treasury, or lord high treasurer The treasury for the time being, fhall and may, on or before the firft day of may iffue November one thousand seven hundred and fifteen, iffue their or 15,822 1. 8 s. 7 d. 39. to the his order or orders for the payment of a fum not exceeding fif- commiffioners teen thousand eight hundred twenty-two pounds eight fhillings of equivalent and seven pence three farthings, to the commiflioners of equiva- in Scotland. lent in Scotland for the time being, or any person or persons to be appointed by them, or any two of them, out of any monies arisen or to arise by the said revenues of cuftoms and excife of Scotland, or either of them; which fum of fifteen thousand eight hundred twenty-two pounds eight fhillings and feven pence for payment three farthings, fhall be applied by the faid commiffioners of of one year's equivalent, and they are hereby directed and required to apply intereft, the fame, for payment of one year's intereft, viz. from the twenty-third of June one thousand seven hundred and fourteen, VOL, XIII, T to stated due to the creditors of the publick in Scotland, by 12 Ann. ftat. 2. c. 13. to the twenty-fourth of June one thousand seven hundred and fifteen, of the capital fum of two hundred thirty thousand three hundred and eight pounds nine fhillings and ten pence, and five fixth parts of one peny, ftated due to the faid creditors of the publick in Scotland on the twenty-fourth of June one thousand feven hundred and fourteen, by an act of the twelfth year of her late Majesty's reign, intituled, An act to discharge and acquit the commiffioners of equivalent for the fum of three hundred eighty-one thousand five hundred and nine pounds fifteen fillings and ten pence half-peny, by them duly issued out of the fum of three hundred ninetyAnd for pay eight thousand eighty-five pounds and ten fillings, which they received; and for the payment of the falaries of the faid commiffioners of equivalent, and of the fees and falaries of their fervants, and neceffary charges, from the faid twenty-third day of June one thousand seven hundred and fourteen, to the twenty-fourth The faid fum day of June one thousand feven hundred and fifteen ; which sum to be brought fo to be advanced and paid to the said commiffioners of the equi ment of the commiffioners falaries : into account. zo Ann. c. 13. The act 10 Ann. c. 13. repealed. valent for the purposes aforefaid, fhall be brought into the accounts to be taken and stated by the faid commissioners to be appointed by this act, and chargeable upon any monies which now are or hereafter fhall be found due to Scotland, VIII. Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforefaid, That none of the commiffioners to be appointed purfuant to this act, fhall incur any penalties, forfeiture, incapacity or disability whatsoever, for putting this act in execution. Vide 3 Geo.I. c.14. & 5 Geo. 1. c.20. CAP. XXVIII. An alt for repealing an act, intituled, An act for repealing part of an act paffed in the parliament of Scotland, intituled, Act for difcharging the Yule vacance. WHE HEREAS by an act passed in the tenth year of her late majefty Queen Anne, of blessed memory, intituled, An act for repealing part of an act paffed in the parliament of Scotland, intituled, An for discharging the Yule vacance; it was enacted and declared, That the Christmas vacation of the feffion or college of justice, and all other inferior courts of justice in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, fhall yearly, in all time coming, continue and endure from the twentieth day of December to the tenth of January, both inclufive: and whereas alfo the faid vacation has been by experience, found to be a great interruption to the course of business and administration of justice, and greatly prejudicial to the fubjects of that part of Great Britain: be it therefore enacted by the King's moft excellent majesty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords fpiritual and temporal and commons, in this present parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, That the aforefaid act paffed in the tenth year of her late majesty Queen Anne, fhall be and is hereby repealed and made void. CAP. CAP. XXIX. An act for allowing a time for two hundred and thirteen families of protestant Palatines, now fettled in Ireland, to take the oaths, in order to intitle them to all the benefits intended them by the act of the seventh year of her late Majefty's reign, for naturalizing foreign proteftants. EXP. Anno Regni GEORGII I. Regis Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, primo. rolls to the AT T the parliament begun and bolden at Westminster, Note; The the feventeenth day of March, Anno Domini one ftile of the thousand feven hundred and fourteen, in the first year of the following acts reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE, by the Grace of is the fame as God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, defender in page 137, of the faith, &c. being the first session of this present parlia- alteration. ment; and from thence continued by feveral adjournments to the ninth day of January one thousand feven hundred and fifteen, in the fecond year of his Majesty's reign. CAP. XXX. An act for continuing the act of this present feffion, intituled, An a&t to impower his Majefty to fecure and detain fuch perfons as his Majefty fhall fufpect are confpiring against his perfon and government. E XP. CA P. XXXI. An act for granting an aid to his Majefty by a land-tax in Great-Britain, for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and fixteen. EXP. 4s. in the pound, E X P. CAP. XXXII. An act to attaint John earl of Mar, William Murray, Efq; commonly called marquess of Tullibardine, James earl of Linlithgow, and James Drummond, Efq; commonly called lord Drummond, of high treason. CAP. XXXIII. An act for the more eafy and speedy trial of fuch persons as have levied or shall levy war against his Majefty. WH HEREAS a horrid and unnatural rebellion and war has been openly and traiterously raised and levied against his Majesty within this realm, and is ftill continued, with defign to depofe and murder his most facred Majefty, and to fet a popish pretender, bred up and inftructed in Romish fuperftition and arbitrary principles, on the throne of these realms: and whereas great numbers of fuch as have joined in the faid rebellion, have been, by his Majesty's vigilance and care, lately feized, and for fafer custody neceffarily distributed into feveral prifons in different counties: and whereas many of the chief of the faid rebels have been, in order to lay open and difcover the foundations and caufes of the faid rebellion and treafons, with much trouble and expence to the crown, brought up to London, and parts adjacent, without any in order to be examined: and forafmuch as bills of indictment, as the law now flands, are to be found in the counties where the faid treafons are committed: but as it will be very inconvenient to the publick justice of the nation, that the judges should remain fo long in the faid counties as will be neceffary for the trying of the faid offenders, fo it will be very burthenfome and grievous to the freeholders of the fame counties to attend so many trials as may be neceffary to be had for the fafety of the publick: to the end therefore that the faid offenders may not conceive any hope of impunity from the distance of the feveral counties. where the faid treafons are committed, or from any power or interest they may have therein, and that juftice may more fpeedily and fecurely be adminiftred against the said offenders, and proper examples made, in fuch feafonable time as may be a means to fupprefs the remains of the faid rebellion, and preferve the peace and tranquillity of thefe kingdoms: be it enacted, &c. All perfons in cuftody for high treafon before Jan. 23, 1716, may be tried in fuch thire as his Majefty fhall direct. And no challenge for the hire fhall be allowed. Peers fhall be tried by their peers. The place of indictment or trial not to be altered, unless the perfons indicted have been in actual rebellion. EX P. CAP. XXXIV. An act for preventing mutiny and delertion, and for the better payment of the army and their quarters. EXP. CAP. XXXV. An act to appoint a commiffioner for taking, examining and stating the debts due to the army, in the room of Thomas Smith, Efq; deceased; and for continuing the former act until the tenth day of March one thousand seven hundred and fixteen. EXP. CAP. XXXVI. An act for charging and continuing the duties on malt, mum, For prevent- XIV. ing frauds in the duties up- things, on fope. fect. 18. er imported into the fame: it is enacted, That if any makers of fope 10 Ann. c.19 fball fraudulently hide or conceal, or caufe to be hid or concealed, any Jope chargeable by the said act, or any the materials for making the fame, to the intent to deceive her Majesty of the just duties by the faid act granted, that then, and in every fuch cafe, the party so offending Shall forfeit for every fuch offence the fum of twenty pounds: and whereas by one other act made in the twelfth year of the reign of her faid late Majefty, amongst other things, for laying additional duties on 12 Ann. ftat.2. Sope, farther duties are granted upon fope; and by the faid last men- c. 9. tioned act it is amongst other things enacted, That all the powers, authorities, rules, directions, penalties and forfeitures, claufes, matters and things whatsoever, contained in the faid act of the tenth year of her faid Majefty's reign, for raising, receiving, levying, recovering, fecuring and paying the faid duties on fope, as are by the said last mentioned act charged with new or additional duties thereupon, should be continued, practised and put in execution, for raising, receiving, levying, recovering, fecuring and paying the fame new or additional duties by the faid laft mentioned at granted, and all arrearages thereof, as fully and effectually, to all intents and purposes, as if they were particularly and at large repeated in the body of the faid laft mentioned act; except in fuch cafes only where any alteration therein is fpecially made by the faid laft mentioned act, as by the said several acts more at large may appear: and whereas the penalties by the before-mentioned acts provided, to prevent the hiding and concealing of sope, have by experience been found ineffectual, and not fufficient to prevent or restrain the fraudulent hiding and concealing thereof, in regard the duties of one boiling of fope fo hid and concealed, may and often do amount to fifty pounds or more, whereby fome ill-difpofed perfons have been encouraged and induced to hide and conceal feveral great quantities of fope, to the great diminution of the revenues arifing by the duties laid upon fope, and to the great difcouragement of other fair traders and makers of fope, who duly pay the full duties upon fope, according to the true intent and meaning of the faid feveral recited acts: for remedy whereof, be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That After 16 April if at any time after the fixteenth day of April in the year of our 1716. concealLord one thousand feven hundred and fixteen, any maker of ing fope, &c. fope fhall fraudulently hide and conceal, or caufe to be hid or and the fope. forfeits 500 1. concealed, any fope chargeable by the said several recited acts, or any the materials for making the fame, to the intent to deceive his Majesty of the just duties by the faid acts granted, that then and in every such case the party or parties offending,. fhall forfeit the fum of five hundred pounds for every fuch offence, and also all the fope fo hid and concealed. &c. XV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, Penalty how That the penalties for hiding and concealing of fope, and ma- to be fued for, terials for making of fope, by this act impofed, fhall and may be fued for, recovered, levied and mitigated by fuch ways and means and methods, as any penalty or forfeiture impofed by any of the laws of excife may be fued for, recovered, levied and mitigated; and that one moiety of such penalties and forfeitures hall be for the ufe of his Majefty, his heirs and fucceffors, and the T3 |