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frauds relating to the customs; relating to fuch foreign goods, wares, and merchandizes, as fhall be taken in at sea out of any Thip or veffel, in order to be landed or put into any other ship or veffel, or boat; and alfo relating to goods not reported, and found after clearing fhips; and whereby further remedies are provided against relanding goods prohibited to be worn in this kingdom, and foreign goods thipped out for parts beyond the feas; and also relating to the opening or altering the package of goods on board fhips outward bound; and also relating to hovering ships or veffels of the burthen of fifty tons, or under; and alfo concerning the bales or package in which coffee fhall be exported; and alfo relating to rum imported in cafks or vessels not containing twenty gallons at the leaft; and also relating to certificate goods entered in order to be exported to Ireland; which were to have continuance for the term of three years from the several times of the commencement thereof, and from thence to the end of the then next feffion of parliament refpec- were continutively; and which by several subsequent acts paffed in the ninth ed by feveral year of his faid Majefty's reign, and in the fecond, eighth, fif- fubfequent teenth, and fixteenth, twentieth, twenty feventh, and thirty third acts, years of the reign of his late majefty King George the Second, were further continued, from the expiration thereof, until the twenty ninth day of September, one thousand seven hundred and fixty feven, and from thence to the end of the then next session

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of parliament; fhall be, and the fame is hereby further conti- further connued, from the expiration thereof, to the twenty ninth day of tinued to 29 September, one thoufand feven hundred and feventy four, and Sept. 1774. from thence to the end of the then next feffion of parliament. FII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That A&t 8 Geo. 1. an act made in the eighth year of the reign of his majesty King to prevent the George the First, intituled, An act to prevent the clandeftine running running of of goods, and the danger of infection thereby; and to prevent ships goods, and breaking their quarentine; and to fubject copper ore, of the production the danger of of the British plantations, to fuch regulations as other enumerated infection commodities of the like production are Jubject; which was to be in thereby, &c. force for two years, from the twenty fifth day of March, one thoufand feven hundred and twenty two, and from thence to the end of the then next feffion of parliament; and which, by which was feveral fubfequent acts (except the claufes obliging all fhips and continued by veffels to perform quarentine) was to have further continuance feveral fubfeto the first day of June, one thousand seven hundred and forty quent acts, feven, and from thence to the end of the then next feffion of parliament; and which, by an act made in the twentieth year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, was intended to be further continued to the first day of June, one thousand seven hundred and fifty four, but, by mistake, the year one thousand seven hundred and forty seven, was inferted therein, instead of the faid year one thousand seven hundred and fifty four; and which, by feveral subsequent acts made in the twenty first, twenty feventh, and thirty third years of the reign. of his faid late Majefty, was further continued, from the expira

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tinued to 29 Sept. 1774.

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carry rice

from Carolina

fterre, &c.

tion thereof, until the twenty ninth day of September, one thousand seven hundred and fixty feven, and from thence to the end of the then next feffion of parliament; fhall be, and the fame is hereby further continued, from the expiration thereof, to the faid twenty ninth day of September, one thousand seven hundred and feventy four, and from thence to the end of the then next feflion of parliament.

III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, for granting That an act made in the third year of the reign of his late Maliberty to jefty, intituled, An act for granting liberty to carry rice from bis Majelly's province of Carolina in America, directly to any part of directly to any Europe fouthward of Cape Finisterre, in fhips built in and belonging part of Europe to Great Britain, and navigated according to law, which was to be fouthward of in force for five years, from the twenty ninth day of September, Cape Finione thousand seven hundred and thirty, and from thence to the end of the then next feffion of parliament; and also an act made and act 8 Geo. in the eighth year of the reign of his faid late Majefty, to con2. for extend-, tinue the faid act from the expiration thereof, until the twenty ing that lininth day of September, one thoufand feven hundred and forty berty to Geortwo, and from thence to the end of the then next feffion of parliament, and to extend that liberty to his Majefty's province of Georgia in America; which faid acts, by feveral fubsequent acts made in the fifteenth and fixteenth, twentieth, twenty feventh, and thirty third years of his faid late Majefty's reign, were further continued from the expiration thereof, until the twenty ninth feveral fubfe. day of September, one thoufand feven hundred and fixty feven, and from thence to the end of the then next feffion of parliament; further con- fhall be, and the fame is hereby further continued from the extinued to 29 piration thereof, to the faid twenty ninth day of September, one Sept. 1774. thousand seven hundred and feventy four, and from thence to the end of the then next feffion of parliament.

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IV. And be it further enacted, That fo much of an act made in the twelfth year of the reign of his late Majefty, intituled, An for prohibit act for prohibiting the importation of books reprinted abroad, and first ing the importation of compofed, or written and printed in Great Britain; and for repealing books reprint fo much of an act made in the eighth year of the reign of her late maed abroad, jesty Queen Anne, as impowers the limiting the prices of books; and firft com- which act was to continue in force from the twenty ninth day pofed and printed in of September, one thousand seven hundred and thirty nine, for Great Britain, the fpace of feven years, and from thence to the end of the then next feffion of parliament; and which, fo far as relates to the continued by prohibiting the importation of books reprinted abroad, and firit feveral fubfe. compofed or written and printed in Great Britain, by feveral fubquent acts, fequent acts made in the twentieth, twenty feventh, and thirty third years of his faid late Majefty's reign, was further continued from the expiration thereof, until the twenty ninth day of September, one thousand feven hundred and fixty feven, and from thence to the end of the then next feffion of parliament; fhall be, and the fame is hereby further continued from the expiration thereof, to the faid twenty ninth day of September, one thoufand seven hundred and feventy four, and from thence to the end of the then next feffion of parliament.

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CAP. XXXVI.

And act to continue fo much of an act made in the thirty third year of the reign of his late Majefty, as relates to the free importation of cochineal and indico; and for allowing the bounties granted by any acts of parliament now in being upon the exportation of corn and malt declared or made for exportation, and barley fteeped and entered at the excife office to be made into malt for exportation, before a limited time.

which was

HEREAS the law herein after mentioned is near expir- Preamble. ing; may it therefore please your Majefly, that it may be enacted; and 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 an act made in The act for the feventh year of the reign of his late majefty King George the free im the Second, intituled, An act for the revival of an act made in portation of the thirteenth year of the reign of his late majesty King George the cochineal, First, intituled, An act for the free importation of cochineal dur- continued by ing the time therein limited; and alfo for the free importation of in- feveral subsedico; which was to continue in force from the twenty fourth day quent acts, of June one thousand seven hundred and thirty four, for the term of feven years, and from thence to the end of the then next feffion of parliament; and which, by feveral fubfequent acts paffed in the fourteenth, twentieth, twenty feventh, and thirty third years of his faid late Majefty's reign, was further continued, from the expiration thereof, until the twenty ninth day of September, one thousand seven hundred and fixty seven, and from thence to the end of the then next feffion of parliament; fhall be, further contiand the fame is hereby, further continued, from the expiration nued to 29 thereof, to the twenty ninth day of September, one thoufand fe- Sept. 1774. ven hundred and feventy four, and from thence to the end of the then next feffion of parliament.

II. And whereas by an act of parliament made in the prefent feffion of Recital of parliament, intituled, An act to prohibit for a limited time the ex- claufes in the portation of corn, grain, meal, malt, flour, bread, bifcuit, and act of this ftarch, and alfo the extraction of low wines and fpirits from wheat feffion, for and wheat flour, it was enacted, That no person or perfons should, di- the exportaprohibiting rectly or indirectly, export, transport, carry, or convey, or caufe or tion of corn. procure to be exported, tranfported, carried, or conveyed, out of or from Great Britain or Ireland, or load or lay on board, or caufe or procure to be laden or laid on board, in any ship or other veffel, or boat, in order to be exported, or carried out of the faid kingdom of Great Britain or Ireland (except to fuch places, and for fuch purpofes, as in the faid act are mentioned) any fort of corn, meal, malt, flour, bread, bifcuit, or ftarch, under the penalties therein mentioned; in which act is a provifoe, That any thing therein contained fhould not extend to any malt declared or made for exportation, and barley freeped and entered at the excife office to be made into malt for exportation

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exportation, on or before the fifteenth day of November, one thefand feven hundred and fixty fix, which should be exported, provid the requifites therein mentioned were complied with by the propriets or proprietors thereof; and also another provifoe, That no corn grain, meal, malt, flour, bread, biscuit or starch, which should te exported by virtue of the faid act, fhould be intitled to any of the bounties or drawbacks which are allowed and made payable on the exportation of fuch commodities, or any of them: And whereas diver perfons within this kingdom did buy confiderable quantities of barley, and made the fame into malt for exportation, or steeped and enter the fame at the excife office to be made into malt for exportation, on or before the faid fifteenth day of November, one thousand fen hundred and fixty fix; and fuch barley was bought of the grower thereof at an advanced price, on a dependance that the bounty wall be paid on the exportation thereof; and the greatest part of the fad malt hath, fince the faid fifteenth day of November, been aftucky exported, and the reft ftill remains under the locks of the excife; be it therefore further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That the bounty or bounties granted on the exportation of malt by any act or acts of parliament now in being, fhall be allowed and paid to each and every exporter and exporters of all malt declared or made for exportation, and barley steeped and entered at the excife office to be made into malt for exportation, on or before the faid fifteenth day of November, one thoufand feven hundred and fixty fix, which, fince that time, hath been, or fhall be, exported; in the fame manner as if the faid act made in the prefent feflion of parliament had never been made; any portation, on thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding. or before 5 Nov. 1766, and which fince that time hath been, or shall be, exported.

Bounty to be

allowed on the exportation of all fuch

malt as was declared or made for exportation; and barley fteeped and entered to be

made into malt for ex

Preamble, recites the act of 29 Geo. 2.

CAP. XXXVII.

An act for completing the bridge cross the river Thames,
from Black Friars in the city of London, to the oppofite
fide in the county of Surry, and the avenues thereto o
the London fide; for redeeming the tolls on the fail
bridge, and on London bridge; for rebuilding the ga
of Newgate in the faid city; for repairing the Royal
Exchange within the fame; for embanking part of th
north fide of the faid river, within certain limits;
and
for further continuing, towards thofe purposes, the impo
fition of fixpence per chaldron, or ton, of coals and
culm imported into the port of the faid city, established
by an act of the fifth and fixth years of the reign of King
William and Queen Mary; and alfo for carrying on
the new pavements in the city and liberties of Westmin
fter, and parishes adjacent, and in the town and borough
of Southwark; and for other purposes therein mentioned.
W
HEREAS by an act of parliament paffed in the twenty
ninth year of the reign of his late majesty King George the

Second

tolls thereof

144,000l.

ing 5th July,

Second, intituled, An act for building a bridge cross the river for building bridge at Thames, from Black Friars in the city of London, to the oppo- Black Friars. fite fide in the county of Surry; the mayor, aldermen, and commons, of the faid city, in common council affembled, were impowered to build the faid bridge; and to make, enlarge, or improve fireets, ways, and paffages, on each fide of the faid river, to and from the the faid bridge; and to light and watch the fame when built; and to take certain tolls for the paffage over the fame; and, upon the credit thereof, to raife any fum, not exceeding one hundred and fixty thouJand pounds: And whereas the faid mayor, aldermen, and commons, That the city in common council affembled, have proceeded in the execution of the have borrowfaid act; and, towards the purposes thereof, have borrowed and raif- ed on the ed the fum of one hundred and forty four thousand pounds, befides contributing the fum of fixteen thousand two hundred pounds; which two fums, together with the profits made by the dividends and fale of the public funds, wherein part of the faid monies was invested, and by the fale of old materials, and otherwife, did, upon the fifth day of July, in the year one thousand feven hundred and fixty fix, amount to the fum of one hundred and feventy three thousand and forty pounds, Seven fillings, and fix pence: And whereas upon the faid fifth day of That the baJuly, one thousand feven hundred and fixty fix, there had been laid lance remainout and expended, in the execution of the faid act, the fum of one hun- 1766, was dred and forty thousand five hundred and ninety five pounds, nineteen 33,0891. 125. Shillings, and ten pence halfpenny; fo that there remained, in the 78.2q. chamber of the faid city, a balance of thirty two thousand four bundred and forty four pounds, Seven shillings, and feven pence halfpenny; which balance, by fome receipts then expected, was likely to be raised to the fum of thirty three thousand and eighty nine pounds, twelve Shillings, and feven pence halfpenny: And whereas by estimates of the That the fu neceflary expences which, upon the faid fifth day of July, one thou- ture expences at 58,500l. 0Sand feven hundred and fixty fix, remained to be incurred for the are estimated complete execution of the Jaid act (exclufive of the roads on the Surry ver and above fide) and of the charge of making, widening, enlarging, or improving, the faid baStreet and ways neceflary for a more convenient and ready paffage to the faid intended bridge, from feveral parts of the faid city, there will be wanted for the faid feveral purposes, over above the faid laftmentioned balance, the farther fum of fifty eight thousand five hundred pounds: And whereas it would be of general advantage that the paffage over the faid intended bridge fhould be freed and exempted, as foon as may be, from the payment of the tolls granted by the faid act; in which cafe, it will be neceffary to provide fome other fufficient funds, as well for repayment of the faid one hundred and forty four thousand pounds, with the intereft thereof, and raising the faid fifty eight thousand five hundred pounds, as for defraying the expences of lighting, watching, cleanfing, and repairing the faid bridge when built: And whereas it would tend to remove many inconveniencies if The embankthe ground and foil of the faid river of Thames, between the weft ment of the corner of Powell's Wharf, near Puddle Dock, in the faid city of north fide of London, and the east corner of Robert's Wharf, near Lane, in the county of Middlefex, was inclofed and embanked; the expence of making of which embankment is estimated at the fum of feVOL. XXVII

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