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discharging, and indemnifying, all perfons whatsoever, who have any way afted, or been concerned in, the charging, collecting, paying, or receiving, the faid refpective duties of eight pounds and four pounds per ton impofed upon wines by the faid recited act, or who shall be concerned or act in the charging, collecting, paying, or receiving, the Jame for the future, and for the fupporting and establishing the fund by the faid act of parliament intended to be created, for the fecuring fuch annuities as fhould be purchased pursuant to the faid act of parliament; and for the explanation of the faid act; may it therewfore pleafe your Majefty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted and declared by the King's moft excellent majesty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords fpiritual and temporal, and commons, in this prefent parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, That the faid additional duties of The additieight pounds for every ton of French wine, and four pounds for gl. per ton every ton of all other wines, imported into this kingdom, given on French and granted by the faid recited act of parliament, made and wines, and paffed in the third year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, 41. per ton from and after the thirty first day of March, one thousand seven wines, granthundred and fixty three, were by the faid act intended, and fhall ed by the rebe, and ought to be paid, and payable to his Majefty, his cited act of heirs, and fucceffors, for the ufes and purposes in the faid act 3, Geo. 3. deexpreffed, without any discount or deduction inwards; and all intended to perfons whatfoever who have been concerned, or who have be paid withacted in the charging, collecting, paying, or receiving, the faid out any dif refpective duties of eight pounds and four pounds impofed on count inwines by the faid recited act as aforefaid, are and fhall refpectively, by virtue of this act, be acquitted and discharged, and indemnified in refpect thereof.

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wards, &c.

the allowance

II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, So much of That fo much of the faid recited act of the third year of his the faid act, prefent Majesty's reign, as relates to the allowance of twelve as relates to pounds per centum for leakage, out of the faid duties of eight of 121. per pounds and four pounds per ton, by the faid act impofed on cent. in rewines imported directly from the place of their growth, fhall (pect of be, and is hereby repealed, and annulled, and made void, to leakage, reall intents and purposes whatfoever.

pealed.

III. And whereas by a claufe in an act of parliament made in the Claufe in act laft feffion of this prefent parliament, and in the fifth year of his pre- of 5 Geo. 3. fent Majesty's reign, intituled, An act for altering the stamp duties upon admiffions into corporations or companies, and for further fecuring and improving the ftamp duties in Great Britain, reciting, That by an act of parliament made in the tenth year of the reign of her late majesty Queen Anne, for laying feveral duties upon foap, and for other purposes therein mentioned, a ftamp duty of two fhillings and three pence, among other duties, is laid on every fkin or piece of vellum or parchment, or sheet or piece of paper, upon which hould be ingroffed or written any furrender of, or admittance to, any copybold land or tenement, within thofe parts of Great Britain called England, Wales, and the town of Berwick upon Tweed, or any grant or leafe by copy of court roll, or any other copy of the court roll

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of any honor or manor within the fame parts of Great Britain, or any of them (other than and except the original furrender to the use of a will, and the court roll, or book, wherein the proceedings of the court are entered or inrolled) and reciting, That great frauds had been committed in the faid duty, by stewards and others receiving the fame, together with their own fees, without ever making out or delivering the faid copies; and, for preventing the fame for the future, it was and is declared and enacted, That from and after the fifth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and fixty five, if any steward or other officer of any copyhold court should demand, take, or receive, from any perfon whatsoever, any fee or fees for any fuch furrender, admittance, grant, or leafe, or any other copy of any court roll, without at the fame time demanding and receiving the stamp duty due thereon, and delivering fuch furrender, or admittance, grant, or leafe, or copy, to the perfon intitled thereto; then, and in every fuch cafe, every fuch steward or other officer fhall, for every fuch offence, forfeit and pay the fum of ten pounds: and whereas the faid clause bath been found to be attended with great inconvenience, in regard to the time of delivering the copies of every furrender, admittance, grant, or leafe, which is impoffible to be done at the court in which fuch bufinefs is tranfacted; for remedy whereof, be it declared and enacted by the authority aforefaid, That the intention of the faid clause, and the time meant thereby for delivering the copy of fuch furrender, admittance, grant, or leafe, was, as foon as the fame could be properly prepared and made out after the refor delivering ceiving the fee or fees and stamp duty thereon, and not at the copies of time, or immediately upon, receiving the fame.

Intention of

the recited

act, with respect to the

time meant

court rolls.

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IV. And, for the preventing any doubts in regard thereto for the Officer of the future, be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That ble to forfeit, from and after the feventh day of June, one thousand feven if the copies hundred and fixty fix, every fuch steward or other officer of any be delivered fuch copyhold court fhall be obliged to deliver the copy of fuch within a year. furrender, admittance, grant, or leafe, to the perfon intitled

Further time

allowed to perfons who

thereto, or to fome perfon authorized by him or her to receive the fame; and if no perfon fhall be fo authorized, then to the bailiff of the manor, for the use of such person, within one year from the holding fuch respective court; and fhall not incur the faid forfeiture or penalty inflicted by the faid claufe for not delivering the fame, till after the expiration of one year from the day of holding fuch court; any thing in the faid first recited act to the contrary in any wife notwithstanding.

V. And, for relief of all persons who have omitted to infert and write, in words at length, in indentures or other writings which contain the covenants, articles, contra&s, or agreements, relating to the Service of any clerk, apprentice, or fervant, the full fum or fums of money, or any part thereof, received, or in any wife directly or indireally given, paid, or agreed, or contracted for, with, or in relation to, every fuch clerk, apprentice, or fervant, as aforefaid; be it therefore enacted by the authority aforefaid, That upon payment of the rates and duties upon the monies, or fuch part of the monies fo omitted to be inferted and written, in words at

length,

length, in fuch indentures or other writings as aforefaid, on or have omitted before the twenty ninth day of September, one thousand seven to infert in hundred and fixty fix, to fuch perfon or perfons to whom the indentures, or fame ought to be paid, of which timely notice is to be given in the full fum other writings, the London Gazette; the fame indentures or other writings fhall agreed to be be good and available in law or equity, and may be given in paid with evidence in any court whatsoever; and the clerks, apprentices, clerks, apor fervants therein named, fhall be capable of following and prentices, and exercising their refpective intended trade or employment, in the and to pay fame manner as they could have done in cafe the full fum or the duties, fums received or agreed for, as aforefaid, had been inserted ; and the perfons who have incurred any penalties by the omiffion aforesaid, shall be acquitted and discharged of and from the faid penalties; any thing in any former act of parliament to the contrary notwithstanding.

other fervants,

VI. And whereas by an act passed in the fifth year of the reign Claufe in 2 of his prefent Majefty, intituled, An act for granting to his Ma- acts of 5 Geo, jefty certain duties on the exportation of coals; and of feveral 3. Eaft India goods; and upon policies of affurance for retaining, upon the exportation of white callicoes and muflins, a further part of the duties paid on the importation thereof; and for obviating a doubt with respect to stamp duties imposed upon deeds by two former acts; it is amongst other things enacted, That upon the entry of any wrought filks, bengals, and fluffs mixed with filk or herba of the manufacture of Perfia, China, or Eaft India, or calli cpes painted, dyed, printed, or stained there, for exportation to Africa; the bond which is now by law required to be given for the due exportation of fuch goods, fhall be with further condition, that the fame hall be there landed accordingly, and not in any other part or place beyond the feas; and that the bonds fo as aforefaid entered into, fhall not be delivered up or discharged until proof is made in the manner directed by the faid recited act; which proof is required to be made within eighteen months from the date of fuch bonds: and whereas by A&t 5 Geo. 3. another act paffed in the fifth year of the reign of his present Majefty, intituled, An act for more effectually fupplying the export trade of this kingdom to Africa, with fuch coarfe printed callicoes, and other goods of the product or manufacture of the East Indies, or other places beyond the Cape of Good Hope, as are prohibited to be worn and used in Great Britain; for encouraging the importation of bugles into this kingdom; for the better fupply of the export trade thereof; and for difcontinuing the bounty payable in Great Britain, and all bounties and allowances in Ireland, upon the exportation of corn, grain, malt, meal, and flour, from thence to the Isle of Man; it is (amongst other things) enacted, That if any bugles, which shall be warehoufed in pursuance of that act, fhall be delivered for exportation to foreign parts, the fame fhall be fubject to the like fecurity, regulations, and reftrictions, as East India goods prohibited to be worn or used in Great Britain are now by law liable to: and whereas it is alledged, that the time limited by the firft recited act of parliament, for making the proof thereby required within eighteen months, for fuch of the

afore

tioned goods

to another, in

order to be

thence to Africa.

aforefaid goods as fhall be landed in Africa, is too short, and the obliging the mafter, mate, purfer, or other perfon, having charge of the fhip, to make the oath as is therein directed, at the port where fuch fecurity fhall be entered into, may subject the proprietors and exporters of fuch goods to great difficulties and inconvenience, fuch fecurity having been hitherto taken only at the port of London, though the goods are frequently exported from various out-ports of Conditions, this kingdom: for remedy whereof, and to give all fitting enupon which couragement to this branch of business, be it enacted by the any of the authority aforefaid, That from and after the twentieth day of before-menJune, one thousand seven hundred and fixty fix, in every cafe where the owner or proprietor of any of the goods before menmay be removed from tioned fhall defire to remove the fame from one port of Great one port of Britain to any other port within the fame kingdom, in order to Great Britain be from thence exported to Africa, it fhall and may be lawful for the warehouse keeper, or other proper officer of the customs, exported from in whofe cuftody the fame fhall be lodged, to pack up and fecure fuch goods under his or their feal or feals of office; and before the same shall be taken out of the warehouse or warehoufes in which they fhall have been depofited, one bond fhalt be entered into, with fufficient fecurity to his Majefty, his heirs, and fucceffors, in double the value of fuch goods, that the fame, and every part thereof, fhall be well and truly delivered, without alteration, into the cuftody and poffeffion of the collector and comptroller of the customs for the time being at fome other port of this kingdom to be named and expreffed in fuch bond; and to produce a certificate, under the hands and feals of fuch collector and comptroller, that fuch goods have been fo delivered into their cuftody and poffeffion, within three months from the date of each refpective bond, to the commiffioners of the customs, or to the principal officers of the cuftoms, at the port where fuch bond fhall have been given; and fuch goods fhall not be afterwards taken out of the cuftody of fuch collector and comptroller, until one other bond fhall be entered into by the merchant exporter, with fufficient security to his Majesty, his heirs, and fucceffors, in double the value of the faid goods, that the fame, and every part thereof, fhall (the danger of the feas excepted) be well and truly exported to, and landed in, fome part of the coaft of Africa, and not in any other part or place beyond the seas.

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made on oath, of the faid

VII. And it is further enacted, That no bond, which hath be difcharged, been or fhall be entered into for the exportation of any of the till goods before mentioned to Africa, in purfuance of this or the before recited acts of parliament, thall be difcharged or delivered goods being up, until proof is made by the oath of the master, mate, purser, fairly landed, or other perfon, having charge of the fhip or veffel during the or difpofed of voyage in which fuch goods were exported, that the faid goods, in Africa, &c. and every part thereof, were fairly landed or difpofed of in or on fome part of the coaft of Africa; and that no part thereof had been re-landed in any part of Great Britain, or the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man, or any other part

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or place beyond the feas; and by the oath of the merchant ex-
porter (if living) that, to the best of his, her, or their know-
ledge and belief, fuch goods had been difpofed of at the place
or places mentioned in the oath of fuch mafter, mate, purfer,
or other perfon, having the charge of fuch fhip or veffel during
the voyage; which proof fhall be made within three years from Proof to be
the date of each refpective bond, before the collector and comp- made within 3
troller, or other principal officer of the customs at the port for the date of
the time being where fuch laft mentioned bond fhall be entered the bond;
into, who are hereby respectively impowered to adminifter the
fame; and in cafe no fuch certificate fhall be produced, or proof otherwise the
made as aforefaid, within the refpective times before limited, it bond may be
fhall and may be lawful for the respective commiffioners of put in suit.
the customs in Great Britain to cause fuch bonds, or either
of them, to be put in fuit, unless they fhall find fufficient
cause to forbear the fame; any law, cuftom, or usage, to the
contrary in any wife notwithstanding.

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VIII. And whereas by an act paffed in this prefent feffion of Claufe in an =parliament, intituled, An act to prohibit the exportation of corn, act of this grain, malt, meal, flour, bread, biscuit, and ftarch, for a limited feflion. time; it was, amongst other things, enacted, That no person or per=fons whatfoever, at any time or times before the twenty fixth day of Auguft, one thousand seven hundred and fixty fix, should export, or carry out of or from the kingdoms of Great Britain or Ireland, any fort of corn, grain, malt, meal, flour, bread, biscuit, or flarch, under the penalties and forfeitures therein mentioned; but with feveral =provisions and favings in the faid act contained: and whereas the inbabitants of the isle of Man have, for feveral years laft paft, been fupplied with confiderable quantities of corn, meal, and flour, from Great Britain and Ireland, and they are now in great want thereof, no provifion or faving having been made in the faid act for fupplying them therewith; be it therefore enacted by the authority aforefaid, That the faid recited act, or any thing Claufe for pertherein contained, fhall not extend to any wheat, barley, oats, meal, or flour, to be transported out of or from the ports of tain quanti Southampton or Exeter only, unto the faid ifle of Man, for the and other only ufe of the inhabitants of the faid ifland; fo as the ex- grain, &c. to porter, before the lading of fuch wheat, barley, oats, meal, or be exported flour, or laying the fame on board, do become bound, with from Southother fufficient fecurity, in treble the value thereof, which the Exeter, for the customer or comptroller of either of the faid ports refpectively ufe of the inbath hereby power to take in his Majefty's name, and to his habitants of Majefty's ufe, and for which fecurity no fee or reward fhall be the ifle of given or taken, that fuch wheat, barley, oats, meal, or flour, hall be landed in the faid ifle of Man (the dangers of the feas only excepted) for the use of the inhabitants there, and fhall not be landed or fold in any other parts whatsoever; and to return the like certificates of the landing the fame there, as are by the faid act required on the exportation of the faid commodities to the British colonies in America, and within the time for that purpose therein mentioned; and fo as the whole quantity of Whole quanwheat, tity not to ex

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