for the year one thousand seven hundred and twenty; and any fum and fums of money not exceeding ninety nine thoufand feven hundred fixty eight pounds two fhillings and one penny halfpenny, for defraying feveral extraordinary expences for the feryice of his Majefty's land-forces for the year one thousand feven hundred and nineteen not provided for by parliament; and any fum or fums not exceeding ninety nine thousand pounds, upon account of half-pay for the year one thousand seven hundred and twenty, to be paid to the reduced officers of his Majefty's land-forces and marines: fubject nevertheless to such rules to be observed in the application of the faid half-pay, as are herein after prescribed in that behalf; and that the faid aids or fupplies provided as aforefaid fhall not be iffued or applied to any use, intent or purpose whatfoever, other than the ufes and purposes before-mentioned.

XLVII. Provided always, That fuch fums as by or in pur- For the com, fuance of any other act or acts of parliament are or fhall be due miffioners of or payable to any commiffioners for taking, examining, stating army acand determining the debts due to the army, for their falaries, counts. or for their clerks, or other incident charges, fhall or may be paid out of the aids or fupplies aforefaid, or any of them; any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

XLVIII. And as to the said sum of ninety nine thousand Rules to be pounds by this act appropriated on account of half-pay as observed in aforefaid, it is hereby enacted and declared by the authority the applica tion of the aforefaid, That the rules herein after prescribed fhall be duly half-pay. obferved in the application thereof; that is to fay,

That no perfon fhall have or receive any part of the fame, who was a minor, under the age of fixteen years, at the time when the regiment, troop or company in which he served was reduced.

That no person fhall have or receive any part of the same, except such persons who did actual service in some regiment, troop or company.

That no perfon having any other place or employment of profit, civil or military, under his Majefty, fhall have or receive any part of the faid half-pay.

That no chaplain of any garrifon or regiment, who has any ecclefiaftical benefice, or other preferment in Great Britain or Ireland, fhall have or receive any part of the faid half-pay.

That no person fhall have or receive any part of the fame, who hath refigned his commiffion, and has had no commission fince.

That no part of the fame fhall be allowed to any perfons by virtue of any warrant or appointment, except to such persons who would have been otherwife entitled to the fame as reduced officers.

And that no part of the fame fhall be allowed to any of the officers of the five regiments of dragoons, and eight regiments of foot, lately disbanded in Ireland, except to fuch as were lately taken off the establishment of half-pay in Great Britain.

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XLIX. And

5 Geo. 1. c. 19.

Overplus of last year's half-pay, for the compaf

fionate lift.

vent counter

feiting receipts and warrants of

the officers of

the South-Sea company.

XLIX. And whereas by an act of parliament made in the fifth year of his Majesty's reign, intituled, An act for redeeming the fund appropriated for payment of the lottery-tickets which were made forth for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and ten, by a voluntary subscription of the proprietors into the capital stock of the South-Sca company; and for raifing a fum of money to pay off fuch debts and incumbrances as are therein mentioned; and for appropriating the fupplies granted in this feffion of parliament; and to limit times for profecutions upon bonds for exporting cards and dice, feveral fupplies which had been granted to his Majefty, as is therein mentioned, were appropriated to several ufes and purposes therein expressed; amongst which any fum or fums not exceeding the fum of one hundred and ten thousand pounds, upon account of half-pay for the year one thousand Seven hundred and nineteen, was appropriated to be paid to the reduced officers of his Majefty's land-forces and marines, fubject nevertheless to fuch rules to be obferved in the application of the faid halfpay, as in and by the aforesaid act were prescribed in that behalf; and the deficiencies of the faid fupplies are made good, or enacted to be made good by grants in this feffion of parliament: now it is hereby provided, enacted and declared by the authority aforefaid, That fo much of the faid fur of one hundred and ten thousand pounds, as is or fhall be more than fufficient to fatisfy the faid reduced officers, according to the faid rules by the aforefaid act prefcribed to be observed in the application thereof, or any part of fuch overplus, fhall or may be difpofed to fuch officers who were maimed or loft their limbs in the late wars, or to fuch others, as by reason of their long service, or otherwise, his Majesty hall judge to be proper objects of charity, or to the widows or children of fuch officers, according to fuch warrant or warrants under his Majesty's royal fign manual, as fhall be figned in that behalf; any thing in this or the faid former act to the contrary notwithstanding.

L. An whereas the corporation of the governor and company of Claufe to pre- merchants of Great Britain trading to the South-Seas and other parts of America, and for encouraging the fifbery, may issue out receipts under the hand or hands of one or more of their officers, from time to time, upon or for subscriptions to be by the faid company taken for increafing their capital flock, pursuant to an act of this prefent feffion of parliament in that behalf; and may also iffue out warrants under the hand or hands of one or more of their officers for the dividend from time to time to be made to the proprietors of the flock in the faid company it is hereby enacted by the authority aforefaid, That if any perfon or perfons fhall forge, counterfeit or alter any such receipt or receipts, warrant or warrants, or any indorsement or writing, indorfements or writings thereupon or therein, or fhall tender any fuch forged, counterfeited or altered receipt or receipts, warrant or warrants, or any fuch receipt or receipts, warrant or warrants, with fuch counterfeit indorfement or writing thereon or therein, knowing the fame to be so forged, counterfeited or altered, to the faid company, or any of their officers, or shall offer to alienate or difpofe of the fame,

know

knowing the fame to be forged, counterfeited or altered, and with intent to defraud the faid company, or any other perfon or perfons, bodies politick or corporate, then and in such case every fuch perfon or perfons, fo offending (being thereof lawfully convicted) fhall be adjudged a felon, and fhall fuffer death, as in cafes of felony, without benefit of clergy.

c. 18. con

1719.

LI. And whereas by an act paffed last feffion of parliament in Claufe for extituled, An act for the recovery of the credit of the British fishery plaining the in foreign parts, and for better fecuring the duties upon falt, act 5 Geo. 1. liberty is given to his Majesty's fubjects to import foreign falt for the cerning foufe of the fishery duty-free after Midfummer-day one thousand feven reign falt celhundred and nineteen; and it being at the fame time intended by the lared and Said act, That all fuch foreign falt as was imported, weighed, cellared locked up beand locked up in the prefence of an officer for the duties upon falt, and fore 24 June under the joint cuftody of fuch officer and the importer thereof, before the faid twenty-fourth day of June one thousand feven hundred and nineteen, should have the benefit of being turned over as flock in hand, and be made use of in the fishery duty-free; but for want of fufficient words to express clearly and plainly the intention of the faid act, in relation to fuch foreign falt so imported as aforesaid before the faid twenty fourth day of June one thousand feven hundred and nineteen, the proprietors of the faid falt have, to their great loss and detriment, not been able to make use of the said salt in the last fishery, nor will, for the time to come, be enabled to make any ufe at all of it, unless the faid act be better explained: for remedy whereof, and to fupply the defect in the faid act, be it, and it is hereby enacted by the authority aforefaid, That all fuch foreign falt fo imported, cellared and locked up as aforefaid before the faid twenty fourth of June one thousand feven hundred and nineteen, fhall, at the defire of the proprietor or proprietors thereof, or his or their agent or agents, be turned over as stock in hand for the use of the fishery duty-free; fubject nevertheless to the fame conditions and reftrictions as all other foreign falt intended for the ufe of the fishery, and have the fame benefit and advantage as all other foreign falt intended for the ufe of the fishery, and imported after the said twenty fourth day of June one thousand seven hundred and nineteen; any thing in this act, or any other, to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.

LII. And for the relief of any person or perfons, who through ne- Claufe for glect or inadvertency have omitted to pay the jeveral rates and duties giving a fur upon monies given, paid or contracted for with apprentices, and to the time for have the indentures or contracts fampt within the times for those pur- on apprenpaying duties pofes refpectively limited by the acts of parliament in that cafe made: tices indenbe it enacted by the authority aforefaid, That upon payment of tures. the feveral rates and duties fo omitted or neglected to be paid as aforefaid, on or before the twenty ninth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and twenty, to fuch person or perfons to whom the fame ought to be paid, and tendring to be ftampt fuch indentures or contracts fo omitted to be stampt at the fame time, or at any time on or before the twenty-fifth day of December one thoufand feven hun

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dred and twenty, the fame indentures or contracts shall be good and available in law or equity, and may be given in evidence in any court whatsoever; and the apprentices therein named shall be capable of following and exercifing the respective intended trades or employments, as fully as if the rates and duties fo omitted had been duly paid within the refpective times in the faid acts of parliament limited; and the perfons who have incurred any penalty by the omiffions aforefaid, are hereby acquitted and discharged of and from the said penalties; any thing in the faid acts contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

LIII. And whereas Thomas Vernon, efq; did in the month of Claufe for re- May one thousand feven hundred and fixteen import into the port of mas Vernon, London, on board the ship Lambert from Alexandria, four bales of efq; in rela-' fenna, containing three thousand four hundred and eight pounds weight, tion to Senna and did then duly enter the fame at the custom-house, and paid and imported in difcharged the customs and duties then due and payable by law for the May 1716. fame, and actually fold the faid fenna on board the said ship before entry made thereof as aforefaid, and the fame was accordingly delivered to the buyers: be it therefore enacted by the authority aforefaid, That the said fenna fhall not be chargeable with the duties 1 Geo. 1.ftat. charged on fenna as a medicinal drug by the act made in the first year of his Majefty's reign, intituled, An act to continue duties for encouraging the coinage of money; and to charge the duties on fenna as a medicinal drug, and for the appropriating several supplies granted to his Majesty.

2. C. 43.

CAP. XII.

An act for preventing of frauds and abuses in the allowances on damaged wines, and for lengthening the time for the drawbacks on the exportation of wines.

12 Car. 2. c. 4. Weed in the twelfth year of the reign of his late majesty King

HEREAS by the tenth rule annexed to an act of parliament

passed

Charles the Second, intituled, A fubfidy granted to the King of tonnage and poundage, and other fums of money payable upon merchandize exported and imported, which has been continued by Jeveral fubfequent acts, and is now in force, it is provided, That if any wines fhall prove corrupt and unmerchantable, and fit for nothing but to diffil into hot waters, or to make vinegar, then every owner of fuch wines fhall be abated in the fubfidy according to fuch his damages in thofe wines, by the difcretion of the collectors of the customs and one of the principal officers: and whereas feveral other fubfidies, impofitions and duties have been fince laid, and are now payable to his Majesty on the importation of wines into this kingdom by feveral acts of parliament now in force; which feveral acts have reference to the faid act of tonnage and poundage, and to the faid rule in making allowances for the damages out of the respective duties on wines imported (except the duty payable on wines for the encouraging of coinage, by 18 Car. 2. c. 5. an act paffed in the eighteenth year of the reign of his faid late majefly King Charles the Second:) and whereas frequent difputes do arife between the officers of the customs and the merchants, in the making and adjusting the allowances which damaged wines may de

Jerve,

After May 2,

Serve, the fame depending for the most part on the taste thereof: for the preventing the like difputes for the future, be it enacted by the king's most excellent Majefty, 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 from and after the second day of May in the year 1720, the of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and twenty, the faid tenth rule antenth rule annexed to the faid act of tonnage and poundage be, nexed to the and the fame is hereby repealed, made void, and fhall no longer act of tonnage and poundage be put in practice; any thing in the faid act of tonnage and fhall be repealpoundage, or in any other act or acts, in any wife to the con- ed.

trary notwithstanding.

Allowances to

be made to

on wine imported in

II. And whereas it may be reasonable to make the merchants importers of wine a compenfation for the allowances they would have received out of the feveral duties of their damaged wines by virtue of the faid tenth rule, whereby the revenue may be collected with greater certainty, and not fo liable to abufe: be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That from and after the said second day of May one thousand feven hundred and twenty, there fhall be merchants, made, as well to the merchant at importation, as alfo to the &c, out of the prizage-mafter or proprietor of the duties of prizage, out of all grofs duties the several grofs duties now laid upon wines in casks (except the coinage-duty before-mentioned) over and above the prefent a casks. abatements and discounts, the several allowances hereafter-mentioned; that is to fay, Out of the feveral grofs duties (except c. 18. fect. 19. By 8 Geo. 1. the coinage) now laid upon Rhenish wine, or wine of the growth this claufe is of Germany, or wines which pay duty as fuch, an allowance refrained. after the rate of two pounds per centum; upon French wines, or wines of the growth of France, or of any of the French King's do- Which fhall minions, an allowance after the rate of fix pounds per centum; be deducted and upon Spanish, Portugal, and all other wines (except Rhenifh on the debenor French) an allowance after the rate of ten pounds per centum: ture if the the said several allowances after the rate of two per centum, per centum, and ten per centum, to be deducted on the debenture, ed. in case the wines be again exported; any law or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.

fix

wines are again export

III. Provided always, and be it further enacted by the autho- Damaged or rity aforefaid, That in cafe any merchant or other perfon, fhall unmerchantable wines find his wine or any part thereof fo damaged, corrupt or unmay be ftavmerchantable, that he thall refufe to pay or fecure the duties for ed, and the the fame, he shall have liberty, immediately after the landing duty repaid, the wines, to ftave, fpill, or otherwife deftroy fuch wines in the &c. presence of two or more of the officers of the cuftoms, to be appointed by the collector, and one of the principal officers of the port, who fhall take an exact account of the quantity of 12 G. x. wine which the merchant or other perfon fhall fo ftave, fpill or The comphionotherwise destroy, to the end the duty of fuch wine may be re- ers may feil dapaid, without any delay or charge to the merchant, by certifi- maged wines, cate, or that the quantity of wine fo ftaved, fpilt or otherwife deftroyed, be deducted from the foot of the account of the merchant refufing to pay or fecure the duty of fuch wine, as afore

c. 28. p. 20.