Annuities.

I. STat. 9 & 10 W. 3. cap. 5. For discharging the Sum of 255663 l. 5 s. 8 d. remaining unpaid upon the several Annuities, which between 17 May 1696. and 17 May 1697. became due, and ought to have been paid out of 5 seventh parts of the late Duties of Tunnage, and 2 seventh parts of the same Duties; as also out of certain Duties charged upon Salt; Any Persons, having any Estate for one life in any Annuity purchased at the rate of 100 l. for every 14 l. per Ann. upon the several Acts mentioned in the Act of 6 & 7 W. 3. Intituled, An Act for Enabling such Persons as have Estates for Life in Annuities, payable by several former Acts there­in mentioned, to purchase and obtain further and more cer­tain [Page 2]Interests in such Annuities, and in default thereof for admitting other Persons to purchase and obtain the same, for Raising Money for carrying on the War against France, or any of them, may before 25 Mar. 1698. pay into the Exchequer for every such Annuity of 14 l. per Ann. com­puted at 4 years, 56 l. more, for converting such single Life into a certain Term, for the residue then to come of the 96 years from 25 Jan. 1695. or for the residue of the said Term of 96 years after the said Estate for Life.

II. If any Person intituled to such present Annuity, shall not before the said 25 Mar. 1698. change such Estate for Life into a Term certain, or for a future Inte­rest, as aforesaid, then any other person, after the said 25 Mar. and before 10 Apr. 1698. may purchase an Inte­rest for the then residue of the said Term of 96 years, as aforesaid, subject to the present Estate for Life, for the like Sum of 56 pounds; and the persons paying the said Consideration, shall immediately be intituled to such An­nuity chargeable upon the respective Fund in the former Act mention'd.

III. Persons intituled to any Arrears incurred between 17 May 1696, and 17 May 1697. upon the said Annui­ties, charged upon the Tunnage or Salt Duties, and here­by intended to be provided for, who shall upon their Or­ders, Talleys, or Lottery Tickets, for such Arrears, dis­charge the King in the Exchequer, of so much as the purchasing such further Interest or Term shall amount to, shall thereupon be intituled, to such Annuities so to be purchased, as if the Consideration was actually paid in Money.

IV. The Directions and Powers in the said former Act, for Levying Talleys, making Orders, Assignments, or applying the Moneys arising by the said Funds, are hereby revived, in respect of such Annuities as shall be purchased upon this Act.

V. All the Moneys which shall come into the Exche­quer for the said Contributions, shall be applyed to the payment of the Arrears of the several Annuities, charged upon the 5 sevenths and 2 sevenths of the Tunnage, and upon the Duties on Salt, incurred out of those Funds, from 17 May 1696 to 17 May 1697, and a proportio­nable part applyed to the making good each of those Funds, and not diverted to any other use: And the Of­ficer offending therein, shall forfeit his Office, and dou­ble the value of the Money so diverted.

VI. After 1 Mar. 1697. No Officer appointed to pay the Annuities out of the Duties of Excise, upon the Act made 4 & 5. W. & M. Intituled, An Act for granting to their [Page 3]Majesties certain Rates and Duties of Excise upon Beer, Ale and other Liquors, for securing certain Recompences and Advantages in the said Act mentioned, to such persons as shall voluntarily advance the Sum of Ten hundred thousand Pounds towards carrying on the War against France, and upon divers other subsequent Acts, without Survivor­ship, shall pay off any Quarterly Payment of the said An­nuities till the precedent Quarter be fully paid, or the Money ready in the Office for payment thereof, where­of publick notice to be given, and hung up in the said Office: And every Officer offending herein, shall for­feit his Office, and 50 pounds for every such Offence to the person who shall sue for the same.

VII. Stat. 9 & 10 W. 3. Cap. 24. All persons having or not having any Estate for one Life in an Annuity, pur­chased at the rate of 100 l. for 14 l. per Ann. upon the several Acts mentioned in the Act of 6 & 7 W. 3. Inti­tuled, An Act for Enabling such Persons as have Estates for Life in Annuities, payable by several former Acts there­in mentioned, to purchase and obtain further and more cer­tain Interests in such Annuities, and in default thereof, for admitting other Persons to purchase and obtain the same, for Raising Money for carrying on the War against France, may at any time before 1 Dec. 1698. paying into the Exche­quer 56 pounds for every such Annuity of 14 l. per Ann. convert the said Estate for Life into a certain Term, for the Residue of 96 years then to come from 25 Jan. 1695, or have an interest in such Annuity for the said Term, to take effect after the said Estate for Life, charged with and subject to the present Estate for Life, and in the same proportion for higher or larger Annuities: And the persons so paying the said Consideration Money, shall immediately be intituled to such Annuities, charged up­on the respective Fund in the said former Act mentioned, as if the said Consideration Money had been advanced within the times limited by the said former Act.

VIII. All the Clauses in the said former Act for Levy­ing of Talleys, making Orders or Assignments, or apply­ing the Moneys arising by the said Funds, or for any other matter relating to the said Annuities so to be purchased, are revived by this Act, and shall be duly observed in respect of such Annuities as shall be purchased upon this Act, as fully as if they were here particularly repeated.

IX. All Moneys which shall come into the Exchequer upon the said Contributions for Annuities so to be pur­chased, shall be applyed to the Payment of the Off-Reckonings of the Army for the year 1697. And out of [Page 4]the same the persons who clothed the Army for the said Year, shall be paid what is due to them for such Clothing, chargeable upon the said Off-Reckonings.

Arbitration.

I. Stat. 9 & 10 W. 3. cap. 15. After 11 May, 1698. All Merchants and Traders, and others, desiring to end any Controversie, Suit or Quarrel (for which there is no o­ther Remedy but by personal Action or Suit in Equity) by Arbitration, may agree, That their submission of the Suit to the Award or Umpirage of any person or persons, should be made a Rule of any of his Majesties Courts of Record, which the Parties shall choose, and may insert such their Agreement in their Submission, or the Condi­tion of the Bond or Promise: And upon producing an Affidavit of such inserting, and upon Reading and Filing such Affidavit in the Court so chose, the same may be en­tred of Record in such Court; and a Rule of Court shall thereupon be made, That the Parties shall submit to and finally be concluded by such Arbitration or Umpirage: And in case of disobedience thereto, the Party neglect­ing or refusing, shall be subject to all the Penalties of Contemning a Rule of Court, and Process shall issue ac­cordingly, which shall not be stopt or delayed, unless it appear on Oath that the Arbitrators or Umpire misbe­haved themselves, and that such Award was corruptly or unduly procured; In which case such Arbitration or Um­pirage shall be void and set aside by any Court of Law or Equity, so as such corruption or undue Practice be complain'd of in the Court where the Rule is made for such Arbitration, before the last day of the next Term after such Arbitration made and published to the Parties.

Blackwell-Hall.

I. STat. 8 & 9 W. 3. cap. 9. Enacted, That after the 1st of May, 1697. the Governours of Blackwell-hall and their Deputies, shall strictly observe and keep the following Times and Rules, viz. The publick Mar­ket of Blackwell-hall shall be held every Thursday, Fri­day and Saturday, from eight of the Clock in the Fore­noon, till twelve, and from two of the Clock in the Af­ternoon, till five; the said hours of beginning and end­ing the said Market shall be known by ringing the Mar­ket Bell in the said Hall; the same to be continued Week­ly [Page 5]through the whole Year, except days of Humiliation or Thanksgiving; and the Keepers of the said Hall shall not admit any buying or selling of any Woollen Cloth at the said Hall upon any other days or hours than as afore­said, upon the penalty of 100 l.

II. The said Governours, &c. shall appoint to the Countrey Clothiers the most convenient Room in the said Hall for the sale of their Cloth, and Warehouse Room for Lodging and safe keeping the same, paying the Ancient Duties of the said Hall and no more.

III. No Factor or any Person whatsoever, other than the Owner of the Cloth, shall sell or expose to sale out of the said Market of Blackwell-hall, any Cloth directed to be brought to the said Market or any Factor there, upon penalty of 5 l. for every Cloth so sold.

IV. The Hall-keepers, Clerks and Master-Porters of the said Hall shall take care that the Rules and Orders appointed by this Act be put in Execution, and shall di­ligently and faithfully keep their weekly Registers of all Clothes bought and sold there; in which Books they shall truly enter the names and habitation of the Owners, Buyers and Sellers, and times of Sale, and Factor or o­ther person buying or selling of every Cloth, to which said Books it shall be lawful for the Clothiers, their A­gents or Servants, at all convenient times, to have re­course, without Fee.

V. Any Hall-keeper, Clerk, or Master-Porter neglect­ing his Duty herein, shall for every Offence forfeit 10 l. Every person after the said first of May, buying any Cloth of any person (except of the Owner) otherwise than for ready Money, the person selling shall within twelve days after the sale and delivery of the same, take or demand of the Buyer a Note, testifying under the Buy­ers hand the Cloth sold, and the Sum of Money sold for, payable to the Owner, and shall deliver such Note on demand to the Owner, or any person authorized by him to receive the same, on pain to forfeit to the Owner of the Cloth sold, double the Value thereof, for every ne­glect of so doing. And if any such Buyer upon trust shall refuse or neglect to give such Note, upon request, at any time next after eight days after sale and delivery, he shall forfeit for every such Offence 20 s. for every Cloth so sold, to the Owner; and every piece of Cloth not returned within eight days after delivery of the same, shall be deemed to be passed and approved of by the Buyer as a Merchantable Cloth, and all Contracts and Agreements for allowing a longer time for the passing of any Cloth, shall be Void.

[Page 6] VI. All forfeitures and penalties imposed by this Act, may be sued for by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, &c. in any of his Majesties Courts of Record, in which no Essoin, &c. and but one Imparlance shall be allowed; and if not otherwise herein before disposed of, one Moiety to the King, the other to the Informer.

VII. Provided, if the Owner of the Cloth neglect to sue for any of the penalties by the space of six Months, then any other person may sue for the same, and one Moiety shall be to the King, the other to the In­former.

VIII. Every known or reputed Factor for selling Cloth in the said Market of Blackwell-hall, shall before the 24th of June, 1697. if requested, by any Clothier, give and deliver a true Account in Writing of the Effects of such Clothier, which now are, or before the first of May, 1697. shall be in the hands of such Factor, and the particular Clothes of such Clothier sold by such Factor, and the sums of Money due to such Clothier by a­ny Contract of such Factor, and of the names and a­bodes of such persons from whom such sums are due; and if any such Factor shall refuse or neglect so to do, he shall forfeit to the person to whom he ought to give such Account, 10 l. to be recovered, as aforesaid.

Bridgwater.

I. Stat. 9 & 10 W. 3. cap. 12. For inlarging, repair­ing and preserving the Bridge and Key of the Borough of Bridgwater in Com. Somerset, it is Enacted, That for fourteen years after the first of May, 1698. Every Master or Person, having the Command of any Ship or Vessel Unlading on the said Key, or into any Barge, Boat, Hoy or Lighter, to pass through the said Bridge, shall pay at the Unlading thereof, as follows, viz.

II. For every Weigh of Coals, (according to the measure used there) Last of Wheat, Rye, Barley, Malt and other Grain, and for every Weigh of Salt, and e­very Tun of any other Goods or Merchandizes what­soever (and so proportionably for a greater or lesser Quantity Imported and Unladen in the said Port) such sum, not exceeding twelve pence (Inclusive of all Key­age, Wharfage, Pontage and Cranage, heretofore pay­able) as the Mayor, Aldermen, Burgesses and Com­monalty of the said Borough, and their Successors, in Common Council assembled, shall from time to time or­der or appoint.

[Page 7] III. The said Mayor, Aldermen, Burgestes and Com­monalty so assembled, as aforesaid, during the said fourteen Years, may choose such persons to be Collectors of the Money, so to be appointed to be paid, as they shall think fit; which Collectors shall pay the same to the Re­ceiver of the Profits of the said Borough, to the use of the said Mayor, Aldermen, Burgesses and Commonalty, for the purpose aforesaid, and no other use whatsoever.

IV. There shall be Eight or any Five of them Commis­sioners to take the Accounts of the Receipts and Dis­bursements of the Moneys so Collected, during the said Term; Four of which shall be yearly nominated by the Mayor, Aldermen, Burgesses and Commonalty in Com­mon Council assembled, and the other Four by the Justices of the Peace for the said County of Somerset, at the re­spective Quarter Sessions of the Peace; which Commis­sioners, or any five of them, may from time to time Re­quire the Collectors, who shall receive the Moneys in pur­suance of this Act, to render them a true Account of the Moneys which shall rest due upon such Account, which they shall order to be laid out for the Uses aforesaid, as there shall be cause: And the Mayor of the said Borough is to Administer an Oath to the Collectors, and persons imployed, for the faithful Executing their Offices, in and about the Premisses.

V. The said Collectors shall be allowed for their pains in Executing the said Office, out of the Money by them received, so much as the said Mayor, &c. in Common Council assembled shall think fit, not exceeding one Shil­ling in the Pound.

VI. The said Collectors may at seasonable times Enter into any Ship or Vessel, within the said Port of Bridg­water, to see what Goods shall be in the same Unlading: And in case the sums of Money appointed to be paid, as aforesaid, shall not be paid by the Master or other per­son having the Command of any Ship or Vessel Unlading, as aforesaid, then the said Collectors may, by Warrant from the Mayor or Aldermen of the said Borough, or one of them, Distrain such Ship or Vessel, and all Tackle, Ap­parel and Furniture thereunto belonging, and keep the same till they be satisfied and paid the sums Imposed by this Act; which if not paid within Ten days next after such Distress, then the said Collectors may sell the said Distress, and therewith satisfie themselves for the Duty so unpaid, and also for keeping such Distress, rendring the Overplus.

VII. The said Mayor, &c. in Common Council assem­bled, may by Indenture under their Common Seal, [Page 8]Convey the Duties Granted by this Act, or heretofore payable, as a security for any sums of Money by them to be borrowed for the ends and purposes of this Act, to any persons that have advanced or shall advance any Moneys upon such security: All which Money to be borrowed shall be imployed towards the Inlarging, Preserving and Repairing the said Bridge or Key of Bridgwater aforesaid.

VIII. The Keys or Wharfs now standing on each side of the River, below the Bridge of Bridgwater aforesaid, or that shall be Inlarged or Repaired (not exceeding in length on each side of the said River 150 Yards) are and shall be taken for lawful Keys or Wharss for the Landing or Laying on Shore any sort of Goods and Merchandi­zes whatsoever.

IX. From and after the Expiration of the Years here­by Granted, the ancient Duties of Keyage, Pontage and Cranage shall be demanded and paid, as heretofore.

Brokers.

I. Stat. 8 & 9. W. 3. cap. 32. For Restraining the III practice of Brokers and Stock-jobbers, It is Enacted, That after 1 May. 1697. No person whatsoever shall use or exercise the Office or Imployment of a Broker, or deal as such in London, Westminster, or Southwark, or the Limits of the Weekly Bills of Mortality, in making or concluding Bargains between Merchant and Mer­chant, or others, concerning Wares and Merchandizes, or Moneys to be taken up by Exchange, or concerning any Talleys or Orders, Bills of Credit or Tickets pay­able at the Exchequer, or any publick Office, or con­cerning any of the Bank-Bills or Notes, or Stock of the Bank, or Stock of any Company or Society, that is or shall be Incorporated, until such person shall be admit­ted and licensed by the Lord Mayor and Court of Alder­men of London.

II. Upon admittance of any such Broker, he shall take an Oath to the effect following, viz. That he will truly and faithfully execute and perform the Office and Imployment of a Broker between party and party, in all things appertaining to the Duty of the said Office and Imployment, without Fraud or Collusion, to the best of his skill or knowledge, and accord­ing to the Tenour and Purport of the Act Intituled, An Act to Restrain the Number and Ill practice, &c.

III. And every such person within Three Months after such Admittance, shall in the Court of Chancery or Kings-Bench, or Quarter Sessions, take the Oaths appointed in [Page 9]the Act, 1 W. & M. cap. 8. and Subscribe the Associa­tion appointed by the Act made, 7 W. 3. cap. 27. And every such person shall at his Admittance, give Bond to the Lord Mayor, Citizens, and Commonalty of London, in the Penalty of 500 l. with Condition, That if he do and shall well and truly Ʋse, Execute and Perform the Of­fice and Imployment of a Broker between Party and Party, without Fraud, Covin, or any Corrupt or Crafty Devices, according to the Purport, true Intent and Meaning of the Statute in that case lately made and provided, then the Obli­gation to be void.

IV. The Number of such Brokers shall not at one time exceed 100. and the Fees, upon Admittance into the said Imployment, shall not exceed 40 s.

V. The Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen shall cause the Names of such Brokers as shall be Admitted by Virtue of this Act, and their places of habitation, to be publickly affixt on the Royal Exchange, in Guildhall, and in such other publick places in London, as they shall think fit.

VI. If any person shall act as a Broker, after the time aforesaid, not being admitted according to this Act, he shall forfeit 500 l. over and above such other Forfeitures as he shall any ways incur by virtue of this Act; and if any person, after the time aforesaid, shall knowingly Im­ploy any person to deal for him as a Broker or Stock-job­ber, not being admitted and sworn, as aforesaid, such person shall forfeit the sum of 50 l. and if any person, after the time aforesaid, not being a sworn Broker ac­cording to this Act, shall act and deal as a Broker in Dis­counting Talleys or Bills, or in Stock-jobbing, in selling Bank-stock, or any other Securities upon any Fund grant­ed by Parliament, such person shall Forfeit 500 l. and stand in the Pillory in some publick place in London, three several Days, for the space of one Hour in the Morning.

VII. After the time aforesaid, every sworn Broker shall keep a Book or Register, in which he shall enter all Contracts and Bargains that he shall make between any persons within three days after the Contract, with the parties Names, and for omitting so to do, he shall for­feit 50 l.

VIII. If any such Broker after the time aforesaid, shall directly or indirectly, take above 10 s. per Cent. for Brokage, he shall for every such Offence forfeit 10 l.

IX. Every sworn Broker, after his Admittance, as aforesaid, shall carry about him a Silver Medal, having the Kings Arms on one side, and the Arms of the City [Page 10]of London, with his own Name on the other side, which he shall produce at the concluding of every Bar­gain, to the Parties concern'd, upon pain to forfeit 40 s. for every Omission.

X. If any such Broker, after the time aforesaid, shall deal for himself in the Exchange or Remittance of Mo­neys, or Buy any Talleys, Orders, Bills, or Shares in any Joint-stock for his own use, or buy Goods or Mer­chandizes to sell again, or make any profit in buying or selling any Goods, more than the Brokage allowed by this Act, he shall forfeit the sum of 200 l. and be for e­ver incapable to act as a Broker.

XI. Every Policy, Contract, Bargain, or Agreement, which is to be performed after the 1st day of May, 1697. upon which any Pramium is, or shall be given or paid, for Liberty to deliver; receive, accept, or refuse any share in any Joint-stock, Talleys, Orders, Exchequer Bills, or Bank Bills, other than such Policies and Con­tracts as are to be performed within three days from the time of making the same, shall be utterly null and void, and every such Praemium shall be paid back.

XII. If any Praemium shall be given contrary to the in­tent and meaning of this Act, with the privity of a sworn Broker, or if any person shall Act or Trade as a Broker, not being Admitted according to this Act, and the same shall come to the knowledge of a sworn Bro­ker, in every such Case such sworn Broker shall forth­with discover the same, and in case he shall not so do, the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen shall displace such sworn Broker, who shall for ever be incapable to use or exercise the Trade of a Broker.

XIII. All penalties and forfeitures given by this Act shall be recovered by Action of Debt, &c. in any of the Kings Courts of Record at Westminster, in which no Essoin, &c. one Moiety to the King, the other to him that shall sue for the same.

XIV. This Act to continue from the 1st of May, 1697. for the space of three years, and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament.

XV. No person buying or selling of Cattle, Corn, or any other Provision, or Coal, shall be esteemed a Broker within this Act.

XVI. No Broker Admitted by this Act, shall, after the time aforesaid, till the end of next Session of Parlia­ment, act or deal, or drive any Bargain to buy or sell Talleys or other Securities upon Parliamentary Funds, unless Licensed so to do by the Lords of the Treasury or three of them, under the penalty of 500 l.

[Page 11] I. Stat. 8 & 9 W. 3. cap. 29. For Repair of the Peers of Bridlington alias▪ Burlington, in the East-Riding of Yorkshire, It is Enacted, That after 1 May 1697, and until 1 May 1704, there shall be paid for the re­pairing and amending the said Peer, one farthing for every Chalder of Coals that shall be loaden on Board any Ship, or other Vessel, at or in the Port of Newcastle upon Tyne, or at Sunderland, Blythe, Suton Sluce, Culler Coats, or any place reputed a Member of the Port of Newcastle. Which said Duties during the term afore­said, shall be answered and paid unto Arthur Lord Vis­count Irwin, Sir Griffith Boynton, Sir Charles Hotham, Sir William Strickland, Sir William St. Quintin, Baronets; Sir Michael Wharton, Sir Matthew Peirson, Sir William Hustler, Sir Richard Osbaldeston, Knights; Ralph Whar­ton, John Buck, Robert Monckton, Hugh Bethell, Robert Byerly, Charles Osborn, Esquires; and to the Wardens of Trinity-House at Hull for the time being, the Survi­vors and Survivor of them, and the Executors and Ad­ministrators of such Survivor, or to their Deputy or De­puties thereunto appointed by some Writing under their or the major part of their Hands and Seals, by the Ma­ster of the Vessel whereupon such Coals shall be loaden: The said Duties to be paid at such place or places as shall be appointed, in or near the place of Loading.

II. No Officer of the Customs within the Ports, Harbours, Creeks or places aforesaid, shall during the time afore­said, take any Entries, or give any Cocket or other Dis­charge for any Ship, or other Vessel so loaden with Coals, as aforesaid, till the Duties hereby granted shall be paid to the respective Deputies appointed to receive the same, as aforesaid; and that the Master of such Ship or Vessel do produce an Acquittance testifying the Receipt there­of: And every Officer of the Customs making default in any of the Premisses, shall forfeit the Sum of 50 l. to the said A. Lord Viscount J. Sir G. B. &c. to be re­covered, with Costs, in any of the Kings Courts of Re­cord by Action of Debt, &c. wherein no Essoin, &c. shall be allow'd.

III. Any person or persons, by Warrant under the Hands and Seals of the said A. Lord Viscount J. Sir G. B. &c. or the major part of them, may go on Board any Ship or other Vessel loaden with Coals at any the foresaid places, to inspect and take an account of the lading of such Coals.

IV. All such Sums of Money which shall be raised by the Duties aforesaid, and recovered for any Forfeitures in this Act appointed (other than what shall be laid out, or [Page 12]allow'd for Collecting the said Duty, not exceeding 6 d. in the pound,) shall be by the said A. Lord Viscount J. Sir G. B, &c. applyed to the rebuilding, repairing, and amending the said Port or Peer of Bridlington alias Burlington; and there shall be provided and kept by the said persons, their Deputy or Deputies, one or more Books, in which all Receipts and Payments by virtue of this Act, shall be entred, expressing the time when, and persons from and to whom the same were made. And once yearly the Justices of the Peace for the East-Riding of the County of York, at their Quarter-Sessions, may order the said Books to be brought before them to inspect the same, and upon any mis-imployment of the said Duties, to make such Orders for the better management of the same, according to the intent of this Act, as they shall think most fit. Which Orders shall be observed by all persons concerned, upon such Penalties, not exceeding 100 l. as they shall set, to be levyed upon the Goods of the Offenders, by Warrant from the said Justices.

V. The said A. Lord Viscount J. Sir G. B, &c. or the greatest number of them that shall be then living, may by Indenture under their Hands and Seals, convey and as­sure the Duties granted by this Act or any part thereof, as a Security for Money to be borrowed for the ends and purposes of this Act.

VI. If any person shall be sued for any thing done by vir­tue of this Act, he may plead the General Issue, and give the special Matter in Evidence, and upon Nonsuit or Ver­dict for the Defendant, he shall recover double Costs.

VII. After 1 May 1697, the said A. Lord Viscount J. Sir G B &c. or any three or more of them, may from time to time survey and inspect the sufficient Building and Re­pairs of the Peer aforesaid, with all Walls, Jetteys, Slu­ces, Sockers, and Locks thereof, and certifie the State and Condition of the same in Writing, to the said Justi­ces at their Quarter Sessions, who are hereby impowered to charge the Lands formerly granted by K. James I. 20 Sept. in the 21st. year of his Reign, to John Earl of Hol­dernesse, his Heirs and Assigns, with such equal assesment as they shall judge sufficient and necessary for repair of the same, and in default of Payment of the said asses­ment, the Defaulter to be distrained by Warrant of three of such Justices, and after four days the Goods to be ap­praised by two or more Inhabitants, and to be sold, and the overplus above the Assesment and Charges of Di­stress, to be immediately restored to the Owner.

Churches.

I. STat. 8 & 9 W. 3. cap. 14. For Compleating the Building and Adorning the Cathedral of St. Paul, London, and for Repairing the Cathedral of St Peter, Westminster, It is Enacted, That for all Coals and Culm Imported into the Port of London, from the 29th of September, 1700. until the 29th of September, 1716. there shall be paid for every Chalder of Coals or Culm, One Shilling, and for every Tun of such as are sold by Weight, One Shilling; which said Imposition of One Shilling shall be Levied, and Paid in such manner and form, and under such penalties, as are exprest and di­rected by the Act 1 Jac. 2. (cap. 15) The Articles, Rules and Clauses of which Act (except otherwise hereafter provided) shall be of such force and effect, as if the same were particularly set down and Enacted by this Act.

II. All Moneys Levied by this Act shall be disposed as herein after mentioned: And the Archbishop of Gan­terbury, the Bishop of London, and Lord Mayor of London, for the time being, or any two of them, shall have such Powers and Authorities (unless otherwise herein after directed) as they had by the said former Act.

III. One Sixth part of all Moneys which shall be rai­sed by virtue of this Act shall be appropriated and dis­posed to the Repairing of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter in Westminster, and the said Archbishop of Can­terbury, Bishop of London, and Lord Mayor of London for the time being, or any two of them, shall, during the Continuance of this Act, pay or cause to be paid to the Chancellour of the Exchequer, the Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench, and the Dean of the said Church, for the time being, Commissioners hereby ap­pointed for Repairing the said Church, the said Sixth part of such Moneys, by Quarterly Payments, the first Payment to be made on the Thirtieth of Decem­ber, 1700. Which said Money shall be laid out and ex­pended in Repairing the said Collegiate Church. And the like Books of Accounts (to be inspected by any person gratis) shall be kept by the Commissioners, and the like Abstract of such Books of Accounts shall be year­ly transmitted into the Exchequer, in such manner as is directed to the said Archbishop, Bishop, and Lord Mayor in the aforesaid Act.

[Page 14] IV. The said Archbishop, Bishop, and Lord Mayor, may deduct yearly out of the sums to be by them paid, as aforesaid, one Sixth part to their Deputies and Offi­cers, for their Collecting the Duties hereby continued, and Inspecting the Coal-Meters.

V. The said Commissioners, or any Two of them, may, by Indenture under their hands and seals, engage the Profits arising out of the sums hereby Granted, to­wards the Repairing of the said Collegiate Church, as a Security for Money by them to be borrowed for the intent and purpose aforesaid, which Money is to be im­ployed accordingly.

VI. A sum not exceeding Three thousand Pounds, part of the Duty hereby Granted, shall in Four Years be paid to­wards the Building the Parish-Church of St. Thomas in Southwark, according to such Directions as the President, Treasurer and Governours of the Hospital there, with allowance of the foresaid Archbishop, Bishop and Lord Mayor, or any two of them, shall approve and allow.

VII. After the 29th of September, 1697. the Stipend or Allowance of the Surveyor General of the Building of the said Cathedral of St. Paul, shall be paid one Moiety yearly, and the other Moiety in one intire sum within Six Months after the finishing the said Cathedral, and not before.

Coin.

I. STat. 8 W. 3. cap. 1. The Act past in the First Sessions of this present Parliament, Intituled, An Act for taking off the Obligation and Encouragement for Coining Guineas for a certain time therein mentioned, and all things therein contained (except what relates to the Recompences by the said Act appointed to be applied to the Silver Mints, and what concerns the African Com­pany) shall be Repealed and utterly made Void; and all persons may freely Import into this Kingdom Guineas and Half-Guineas, as they might before the making the said Act.

II. The Master and other Officers of the Mint in the Tower of London, shall on or before the Tenth day of November, 1696. prepare and set apart one or more Mill or Mills, with other Conveniencies to be imployed for the Coinage of Gold, which shall be brought thither by any persons, Natives or Foreigners, to be Received in, Coined, and Delivered out, in such manner, as by the Sta­tute [Page 15]made 18 Car. 2. is directed; so that the Course in Coinage of Gold and Silver be kept in distinct Accounts, and not interfere; and such Coining and Delivering out of Gold in a distinct Course, although there be Silver remaining there Uncoined, shall not be interpreted any undue Preference, any thing in the said Statute of 18 Car. 2. notwithstanding.

III. Stat. 8 W. 3. cap. 2. All Hammered Silver Mo­ney, Clipped or Unclipped, as shall be brought to any of his Majesties Mints between the Fourth of November, 1696. and the First of July, 1697. shall be received there at the Rate of 5 s. 4 d. per Ounce Troy.

IV. All his Majesties Receivers, or other Officers con­cerned in the Receipt or Collection of his Majesties Aids, Taxes, or other Revenues, or of any Loans, shall and are hereby required to receive in payment all such Ham­mered Silver Coin, as shall be Tendred for any Aids, Taxes, or other Revenues, or upon Loans, at any time after the Fourteenth of November, 1696. until the First of February next following, as to Loans and all Ar­rears of Aids, Taxes or Revenues, due before the said First of February, and until the First of June then next following, as to all future Aids, Taxes and other Re­venues, at the Rate of 5 s. 8 d. per Ounce. And the Tender, Payment or Loan, of every Ounce of such Hammered Silver Coin, shall be as good for the sum of 5 s. 8 d. as if the said sum of 5 s. 8 d. had been Tendred, Paid, or Lent in Lawful Current Coin.

V. After the First of December, 1696. no Hammered Silver Coin of this Kingdom shall be Current in any Pay­ment, except such as before mentioned, otherwise than by Weight only, after the Rate of 5 s. 2 d. per Ounce of Sterling Silver.

VI. All such Hammered Money, consisting only of Pieces having both the Rings, or the greatest part of the Letters, or Six Pences of Sterling Silver not Clipt within the innermost Ring, as have been before the Eighteenth Day of November, 1696. actually received by any Commissioner, Receiver General, or other Re­ceiver, or Collector, by Tale for any Publick Tax or Re­venue whatsoever, shall and may be paid by them by Tale, and not by Weight, within the times hereafter following, viz. Every particular Receiver or Collector shall have time to make his Payments to the Head Col­lector, till the Eighteenth of December, 1696. making Oath before such Head Collector, That the Hammered Money then Brought or Tendred, was actually and [Page 16] bona fide received by him before the Eighteenth day of November, 1696. upon the respective Tax or Re­venue upon which he offers to pay the same, and that he hath not made any Profit thereby, other than what is allowed by Act of Parliament: Which Oath shall be taken in Writing, and brought with the Money it re­lates to, into the Receipt of the Exchequer. And the respective Receiver General or Head Collectors of any the said Taxes or Revenues shall have time till the Tenth day of January, 1696. for paying such Hammer­ed Moneys, as aforesaid, into the Receipt of the Ex­chequer, who are to make Oath before the Auditor of the Receipt or Clerk of the Pells, That the Money so by them Tendred or Brought was actually and bona fide re­ceived by them by Tale before the said Eighteenth day of December, 1696 on Account of such Tax or Revenue, or was brought to them by such particular Receivers within the time limited, and that they have not made any Profit thereby, other than what is allowed by Act of Parliament. All which said Oaths or Affidavits in Writing, shall be filed by the Clerk of the Fells.

VII. Which said Hammered Money so brought into the Exchequer, and all such like other Hammered Mo­neys actually being and remaining in the Receipt of the Exchequer on the Eighteenth day of November, 1696. having been bona fide received there by the respective Tellers (who are to make Oath, as aforesaid) for any Tax or other Revenue, shall from time to time be melted down and cast into Ingots, and delivered into his Maje­sties Mint, to be there reduced to Sterling, and Coined by the Mill and Press into the Lawful Coins of this Realm. And all the New Money proceeding from such Ingots (ex­cept necessary Charges) shall be brought back into the Ex­chequer, and there placed to the respective Accounts of the said particular Revenues, Taxes, Loans, &c. to which the said Hammered Moneys respectively did be­long, and shall be issued, paid out and disposed in like manner as ought to be, in case the said Hammered Money were not Recoined, under the same Penalties and Forfeitures as would have been incurred in case the same were not Recoined.

VIII. All Money that shall be brought in, on the Account of Taxes, Revenues or Loans, at 5 s. 8 d. per Ounce, shall be by the respective Officers, Receivers or Collectors, carried to the next Adjacent Mint to be Recoined; and the said Taxes, &c. shall not be brought into the Exchequer till Recoined.

[Page 17] IX. The Collectors and Receivers of the Moneys for making Navigable the Rivers Wye and Lugg in the Coun­ty of Hereford, shall and may, till the First of June, 1697. receive Hammered Money, Clipt or Unclipt, at 5 s. 8 d. per Ounce, and pay it in at that Rate to the Receiver General, who shall, according to the Directi­on of the Trustees, either pay the same forthwith to the persons who have Lent Moneys for the Purposes abovesaid, or send the same to the next Mint to be Coined, and after it shall be received from the Mint; then pay the same.

X. Stat. 8 & 9. W. 3 cap. 8. Any Persons, Natives or Foreigners, who by themselves or others shall bring any sort of Wrought Plate between 1 Jan. 1696. and 4 Nov. 1697. to any of his Majesties Mints, or to such Persons as shall be Authorized to Receive the same, shall be then and there paid for such Plate at 5 s. 4 d. per oz. And all such Plate, having the Goldsmiths Hall Mark and Work­mans Mark, shall be Received as Sterling Silver: But where it hath not the said Marks, the Quantity of Ster­ling Silver contained therein, shall, at the Election of the Party, be adjusted upon Oath by the proper Officers of the Mint, or such other Person as shall be Authorized to Receive the same, or else shall be forthwith Melted, and Essayed, and Allowed for accordingly.

XI. Which said Officers of the Mint, and other per­sons Authorized to Receive the said Plate, shall first take an Oath faithfully and impartially to declare the Quan­tity of Sterling Silver contained in any Wrought Plate so brought in.

XII. And the Plate so brought in shall be Entred in Books, with the Weight and Value thereof, and shall be forthwith Coin'd, and not delay'd by the Coining of o­ther Silver: And the New Moneys proceeding from the same, with such other Moneys as shall be appropriated for this Service, shall be apply'd to pay for the Plate so brought in.

XIII. The Moneys Imprested for this Service, and the New Money proceeding from the said Plate, shall go to pay the Allowance of 5 s. 4 d. per oz. to the Bringers in of the said Plate at the time of bringing in the same.

XIV. The Officers where such Plate is brought in, or where Hammer'd Money is to be Recoin'd, shall once in 14 days publish in Writing, how much Wrought Plate or Hammer'd Money has been brought in and Recoin'd, or remains not Coin'd, under a Penalty of 20 l.

XV. Provided, That all such Plate, having the said Marks, [Page 18]shall be receiv'd as Sterling Silver, without deduction for Soader, unless in any hollow part of the said Plate.

XVI. The Commissioners of the Treasury may Issue and Apply 50000 l. towards payment of the said Allow­ance of 5 s. 4 d. per oz. to be reckned part of the sum of 125000 l. for Coining of Hammer'd Money and Plate.

XVII. After 25 Mar. 1697. no silver Vessel, Plate or Manufacture of silver shall be Wrought or Made less in Fineness than 11 oz. Ten Peny Weight of Fine Silver in every Pound Troy, nor sold or exchanged, if made af­ter the said 25 March (unless it be silver wire or small Things not capable of receiving a Mark) until the same hath been Marked with the two first Letters of the sir­name of the Worker, and with the Marks of the Gold­smiths Company, which instead of the Leopards Head and the Lyon, shall be a Lyons Head erased, and the Figure of a Woman, commonly called a Britannia, and with the Wardens Mark denoting the Year, under the penalty of Forfeiture.

XVIII. If the Wardens or Masters of the Goldsmiths Company Mark any Plate made after 25 Mar. contrary to this Act, or wherein there is any Falshood or Deceit, they shall forfeit the value thereof.

XIX. Any person possessed of Plate, and Assessed to the Aid (lately) Granted to his Majesty, as well by a Land Tax as by several Subsidies and other Duties payable for One Year, may, before 1 Jun. 1697 pay all or any such Monthly payments in wrought Plate at 5 s. 4 d. per oz. without deduction for Soader (unless in any hollow part thereof) which the Collectors are Required to Re­ceive accordingly.

XX. All Hammer'd Moneys made Current at 5 s. 2 d. per oz. and paid into the Exchequer at that Rate; And all Plate receiv'd by virtue of this Act at 5 s. 4 d. per oz. shall be Melted down and Coin'd into Mill Money, and applied and placed to the Accounts of the par­ticular Revenues to which the same did belong, and shall be disposed accordingly, so far as it will extend, without being diverted to any other Use than such as the same is appropriated unto by Parliament.

XXI. Stat. 8 & 9. W. 3. cap. 26. For preventing the Counterfeiting the Coin, It is Enacted, That after 15 May 1697. no Smith, Ingraver, Founder, or other person whatsoever (except such as are Imploy'd in his Majesties Mints, for the use of the said Mints only, or persons Lawfully Authorized by the Lords of the Trea­sury) shall knowingly make or mend any Punchion, [Page 19]Counter-punchion, Matrix, Stamp, Dye, Pattern, or Mold of Steel, Iron, Silver, or other Metal, or of Spaud, or Fine Founders Earth, or Sand, or other Ma­terials whatsoever, by which shall be Made or Impressed the Figure, Stamp, or similitude of both or either side of any Gold or Silver Coin, Current within this Kingdom, or make or mend any Edger, Instrument or Engine contri­ved for making of Money round the Edges with Letters, Grainings, or other Marks resembling those on the Edg­es of Money Coin'd in the Kings Mint, nor any Press for Coinage, or Cutting Engine for cutting round Blanks, nor knowingly buy, sell or hide, or without Lawful Au­thority or Excuse, have in his House, or Possession, any such Tool or Instrument before mention'd: And any person whatsoever (except as before) who shall offend in any the matters aforesaid, every such Offender, his Aiders and Abetters shall be guilty of High Treason.

XXII. If any person after the said 15 May, shall without Lawful Authority, wittingly Convey out of any of the Kings Mints, any of the said or other Instru­ments used about Coining of Money there, or any use­ful part of such Instruments, such persons so Offending, their Aiders and Abetters, shall be guilty of High Trea­son.

XXIII. If any person (other than such as are Im­ploy'd in the Kings Mints, or who have Authority from the Lords of the Treasury) shall after the said time, mark on the Edges any the Current Coin of this King­dom, or any Diminisht Coin of this Kingdom, or any Counterfeit Coin resembling the Coin of this Kingdom, with Letters, Grainings, or other Marks, like those on the Edges of Money Coin'd at the Kings Mint, every such Offence shall be High Treason, and the Offenders shall suffer accordingly.

XXIV. If any person after the said time shall Colour, Guild, or Case over with Gold or Silver, or any Wash or Materials producing the Colour of Gold or Silver, any Coin resembling the current Coin of this Kingdom, or any Round Blanks of base Metal, or of course Gold or Silver; of the size of Mill'd Money, or Guild over silver Blanks to be Coin'd into pieces resembling the current Gold Coin of this Kingdom, every such person, his Aider and Abetter, shall be guilty of High Treason.

XXV. If any Punchion, Dye, &c. used or designed for Coining or Counterfeiting of Gold or Silver Money, shall at any time after the said 15 May, be hid, conceal'd, or found in the House or Possession of any person, not imploy'd in some of the Kings Mints, or ha­ving [Page 20]the same by some Lawful Authority, any person may seize the same, and carry them forthwith to some Justice of Peace, to be produced in Evidence against the person who shall or may be prosecuted for such Offence, and after such producing in Evidence, the same shall be totally defaced and destroyed, by Order of Court, or in the presence of the same or some other Justice of Peace.

XXVI. And if after the said 15 May, any coun­terfeit or diminisht Money shall be produced in Evidence or otherwise, that immediately after such producing the said Money shall be cut in pieces in open Court, or in the presence of some Justice of Peace, and then deliver'd to the Rightful Owner.

XXVII. If any person, after the said time, shall Blanch Copper for sale, or mix Blancht Copper with Silver, or knowingly buy or sell, or offer to sell such, or buy or sell any Malleable Composition or Mixture of Metals or Minerals, which shall be heavier than Silver, and look and wear like Standard Gold, but be manifestly worse than Standard, or shall receive, pay, or put off any counterfeit Mill'd Money, or Mill'd Money unlawfully diminisht, and not cut in pieces, at a lower Rate than the same by its denomination shall import, every such per­son shall be guilty of Felony, and suffer Death as in case of Felony.

XXVIII. This Act shall not extend to make any Cor­ruption of Blood, or loss of Dower. And all persons, who after the said 15th of May, shall be accused of any Treason or Felony by this Act, shall be tried in such manner as is used against Offenders for Counterfeiting the Kings Money.

XXIX. All and every the Crimes mention'd in an Act made 6 & 7 W. 3. Intituled, An Act to prevent Counterfeit­ing and Clipping the Coin of this Kingdom, may be heard and determined upon Indictment or Presentment, either in the Court of Kings Bench, or before, the Justices of Assize.

XXX. This Act to continue and be in force till the end of the next Session of Parliament and no longer; and no prosecution shall be made upon this Act, unless commenced within Three Months after the Offence committed.

XXXI. Stat. 9. W. 3. cap. 2. After 10 Jan. 1697, no Hammered Silver Coin of this Kingdom, shall be esteem­ed the lawful Coin of this Realm, nor be current in any payment at any Rate or Value by Weight or otherwise; [Page 21]nor shall the Tender of any such Hammer'd Silver Mo­ney after the said 10 Jan. be deemed a good Tender in Law, nor the Refusal thereof in any payment, be adjudg­ed a Refusal of the lawful Coins of this Kingdom

XXXII. Provided that any persons may carry into any of the Mints in the Tower of London, or in the Cities of Bristol, Exeter, Chester, Norwich and York, before 1 Mar. 1697. any Old Hammer'd Money to be Recoin­ed; And the Master or Worker of every such Mint, or his Deputy, is to receive the same, and cause it to be melted down, and Recoin'd into the lawful Coins of this Kingdom, and pay back the same so Recoin'd by 25 Mar. 1698. to the several Importers.

XXXIII. The Commissioners of the Treasury, or any three of them, may cause new Exchequer Bills to be made forth, and deliver'd to such persons as shall demand them, in lieu of such Bills as shall be brought in filled up with Indorsements; which Old Bills shall be cancelled and kept apart from all other Bills whatsoever: And such New Bills shall have the like Currency; and the same punishment shall be inflicted for Forging or Coun­terfeiting the same; and they shall be subject to the same Rules, Methods and Continuance as the Old Bills were; and shall bear the same Numbers, Dates, Principal Sums and Rate of Interest per diem, as were born on the Old Bills brought in so to be cancelled: And as to the Inte­rest that shall have incurred on the said Old Bills, to their being brought in, it shall be so computed as to abate what did accrue, whilst they lay in any of the Receivers or Col­lectors Hands, or in the Exchequer, and shall be written on the said New Bills.

XXXIV. Stat. 9 & 10. W. 3. cap. 21. Any person to whom any piece or pieces of Silver Money shall be ten­dred, being diminisht, otherwise than by Wearing, or by the Stamp, Impression, Colour or Weight, suspected to be Counterfeit, may cut, break, or deface such Piece or Pieces: And thereupon appearing Counterfeit, the Tenderer shall bear the Loss; but being of due Weight, and appearing Lawful Money, the person who cut it shall take it for what it was Coined for.

XXXV. If any Dispute arise, whether the Piece so cut be Counterfeit, it shall be determined by the Mayor, Bailiffs, or Chief Officer of the Place where Tendred, if a City or Town Corporate, or if not, then by the next Justice of Peace of the County.

XXXVI. The Tellers of the Exchequer, their Deputies and Clerks, and the Receivers General of his Majesties [Page 22]Revenue, shall cut, break or deface every piece of Coun­terfeit or unlawfully diminisht Silver Money, Tendred them in Payment for his Majesties Use: And the said Tellers and Receivers General, their Deputies and Clerks, shall weigh all Silver Money by them Received, and the same or any piece thereof, appearing by the Weight, or otherwise, to be Counterfeit or Unlawfully Diminisht, shall not be received by or from them in the Exchequer.

XXXVII. The Act made the last Session of this present Parliament, Intituled, An Act for the better Preventing the Counterfeiting the Current Coin of this Kingdom, and every Article thereof, shall be in Force till 25 March, 1701. and thence to the end of the next Session of Par­liament.

XXXVIII. Stat. 9 & 10 W. 3. cap. 33. No persons shall after 24 June 1698, and before 24 June 1699. Coin, or make, or cause to be coin'd or made, any Farthings or Half-pence, or tokens to go for Farthings or Half-pence, of Copper, or any other Metal whatsoever, on pain of forfeiting Five Pounds for every Averdupoize Pound Weight of such Farthings and Half-pence so Coined; one Moiety to the King, the other to such persons as will sue for the same.

XXXIX. The Contractors for making or coining of Copper Farthings and Half-pence, shall not by virtue of any Agreement made with his Majesty and the late Queen, for giving in Exchange to his Majesties Subjects weekly, Farthings and Halfpence made of Copper, for Farthings and Half pence made of Tin, be obliged to perform such Exchange for so many weeks only as are between the said 24 June, 1698. and the said 24 June, 1699.

Creditors.

I. Stat. 8 & 9 W. 3. cap 18. Two thirds or more in Num­ber and Value of all real Creditors, their Executors, Ad­ministrators, Guardians and Trustees, and other Persons Authorized by them, may make such Compositions, as they think fit, with their Debtors, who being unable to pay the whole, are withdrawn or absconded, or are Prisoners for Debt before 17 Nov. 1696.

II. Which Composition being for the Equal Benefit of all the Creditors, and Subscribed and Sealed by the said Two thirds, without any fraudulent Agreement, shall be Binding.

[Page 23] III. And all persons Subscribing and Sealing such Com­position, shall within Twenty days after being required thereunto in writing, before two Witnesses, by any of the Creditors, make Oath in writing before a Master in Chancery, Ordinary or Extraordinary, on what account their Debts became due; and that they neither have nor are to receive any greater advantage than the said Composition: Which Oath shall be made, and filed in Chancery, at the charges of the requirer within twen­ty days; and the persons forswearing themselves shall suffer as for Perjury.

IV. Persons refusing to make such Oath, or claiming a greater Debt than due, or receiving or agreeing to re­ceive a greater advantage than the said Composition, their Subscription shall be void, they shall forfeit 100 l. and treble the Value fraudulently claimed, received or agreed to be received, with full Costs of Suit to the Cre­ditors suing for the same; and the Money so recovered, over and above the Charges, shall go to the Creditors Contributing thereto.

V. Where any Debtor compounded with shall be kept in Prison contrary to such Composition, the Lord Keeper, Master of the Rolls, or any of the Judges, may, in pre­sence of the Creditor, or absence, if lawfully Summon'd, discharge such Debtor out of Prison, upon producing such Composition and Schedule of Debts, upon Oath, and swearing the cause of Imprisonment to be only for such Debts, and the Creditor shall pay the Charges of such detaining: and the Keeper of the Goal is to Attend with and Discharge such Prisoner, under penalty of 5 l. a day.

VI. Persons Sued for any thing done in prosecution of this Act, the Plaintiff being Nonsuit or Cast, shall pay treble Costs.

VII. Provided this Act shall not make void any Securi­ties by Mortgage, Pawn, Judgment, Statute or Recog­nizance or otherwise, whereby the Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, Goods and Chattels of such Debtors may be charged, so as the same affect not the person of the Debtor Compounded with.

VIII. And provided that Agreements already made between Debtors and Creditors shall be of Force, sub­ject to the Benefits of this Act for enforcing such Agree­ments.

IX. Stat. 9 & 10 W. 3. cap. 29. After 24 June, 1698. The Act made in the second Session of this present Par­liament, held 8 & 9 W. 3. Intituled, An Act for Re­lief [Page 24]of Creditors by making Compositions with their Debtors, in case Two thirds in Number and Value do Agree, and e­very Clause, Matter and Thing therein contained, shall be Repealed, Determined and of no Force.

X. This Act shall not make void any Agreement or Composition made bona fide before the said 24 June, nor any Order for the Discharge of any Debtor out of Custody, made in pursuance of such Composition, by virtue of the abovesaid Act, or within the saving or benefit thereof, before the said 24 June. But every such Composition whereupon any such Order of Discharge is made, shall be good and effectual, and every such Order of Dis­charge is hereby Confirmed: and every such Composition whereupon no such Order of Discharge shall be made, shall be of the same force as if this Act had not been made: Nor shall it Pardon or Discharge any person, who before the said 24 June, shall Incur any Penalty, by committing any Offence against the said Act.

XI. No Persons Discharged by virtue of the said Act, before the said 24 June, shall be deemed to be Dischar­ged thereby, who to procure any Agreement or Release from their Creditors, have before one of the Judges, or one of the Masters in Chancery, corruptly made any false Oath, to the Defrauding their Creditors, but every such Agreement and Release obtain'd upon a false Oath, by any person, being thereof Convicted upon any Indict­ment or, Infomation shall be void.

Customs.

I. Stat. 8 & 9 W. 3. cap. 12. The several Additio­nal, and other Rates, Impositions, Duties and Charges upon Goods and Merchandizes Imported and Exported, Mentioned and Granted by an Act made the 4 & 5 W. & M. Intituled, An Act for Granting to Their Maje­sties certain Additional Impositions upon several Goods and Merchandizes, for the Prosecuting the present War a­gainst France, shall be continued from the First of March, 1696. and be Levied and Paid till the Seven­teenth day of May, 1697. And the foresaid Act, and all Articles and Clauses therein contained, shall con­tinue and be of force till the said Sevententh of May, 1697.

II. Stat. 8 & 9. W. 3. cap. 24. Over and above all Sub­sidies of Tunnage and Poundage, and other Duties al­ready payable for Wines, Goods and Merchandizes, there shall be paid for all Wines imported into this Kingdom [Page 25]from 1 May, 1697. to 1 Feb. 1699. one other Subsidy called Tunnage, viz.

III. For every Tun of French Wine brought into the Port of London as Merchandize by Natural Born Sub­jects 4 l. 10 s. and by Aliens 6 l. And every Tun of Wine brought into any other Port of this Kingdom, by Natural Born Subjects 3 l. and by Aliens 4 l. 10 s.

IV. Every Butt, or Pipe of Sweet Wines of the Growth of the Levant, Spain, or Portugal, or elsewhere, brought into the Port of London by Natural Born Subjects 45 s. and by Aliens 3 l. And every Butt or Pipe brought into any other Port by Natural Born Subjects 30 s. and by Strangers 25 s.

V. Every Awm of Rhenish Wine, or of the Growth of Germany imported by Natural Born Subjects 20 s. and by Aliens 25 s.

VI. And Wines Landed in the Out Ports and afterwards brought to London by Certificate, shall pay so much more as they paid short of the London Duty.

VII. Which several Rates for Wines are the same as in the Book of Rates, referred to by the Act, Ann. 12. Car. 2. ch. 4.

VIII. All manner of Goods and Merchandizes im­ported from the said 1 May, 1697. to 1 Febr. 1699. shall pay one further Subsidy of Poundage of 12 d. per l. of the Value thereof, according to the said Book of Rates.

IX. And if any such Goods are not particularly Rated in the said Book, the Duty shall be Levyed according to the Value affirmed upon the Oath of the Merchant.

X. Except all Wines before limited, to pay Subsidy of Tunnage, all Fish English taken, and imported in English Bottoms, all Fresh Fish and Bestial imported, and all other Goods mentioned to be Custom-free in the said Book of Rates, and such Goods as are commonly used in Dying.

XI. Provided, That all Drugs imported from the Place of their Growth in English Built Ships, shall be rated to this Act but One Third Part charged in the said Book of Rates.

XII. All Spicery (except Pepper) imported from the place of its Growth in English Built Shipping, shall be ra­ted to this Act but one Third Part charged in the said Book of Rates.

XIII. Linen imported shall not pay the Additional Duty of one Moiety charged in the said Book of Rates.

XIV. All Foreign Wrought Silk exported within one Year from the Importation, shall have Two Thirds of the Rate hereby charged, repaid at the Custom-house.

[Page 26] XV. Wrought Silks imported, shall not be charged with the Additional Duty of One Moiety mentioned in the said Book of Rates: Nor is Tobacco of the English Plantation to be charged with the Additional Duty of One peny per Pound over and above the Subsidy in the said Book of Rates: Nor are the Wines of France, Ger­many, Portugal or Madera, to be charged with the Addi­tional Duty of 3 l. per Tun, or any other Wines with 4 l. per Tun, mentioned in the said former Acts or Book of Rates.

XVI. For all Tobacco of the English Plantations, ex­ported within a Year from its importation, the Subsidy of 1 d. per l. hereby granted, shall be repaid at the Custom-house.

XVII. Out of the Duties by this Act granted, there shall be the like Allowances as are prescribed in the for­mer Act or Book of Rates.

XVIII. The Duties hereby granted, shall be Levied by the Officers of the Customs, under direction of the Com­missioners of the Customs, and paid into the Exchequer, for the Uses in this Act mentioned. And the Rules and Directions of the former Act of Tunnage and Poundage and Book of Rates, shall be observed for Levying the Duty by this Act granted.

XIX. The Additional Duty on French Goods and Mer­chandizes, granted the last Session, (ch. 24) shall not extend to such as shall be bona side seized, or taken and condem­ned as Prize; except such seizing be by Connivance or Collusion.

XX. The whole Duty charged by this Act on Sugars of the English Plantations in America, shall be paid back upon Exportation.

XXI. There shall be repaid at the Custom-house, with­in one month after demand, 3 s. for every Hundred VVeight of Sugar refined in England, and exported; Oath being made that it was produced from Brown and Muscavado Sugar charged by this Act, imported from the English Plantations in America, and for which the Duty was paid upon importation.

XXII. For the Duty hereby granted on Tobacco of the English Plantations in America, the Importer shall have Three Months time to pay the same, with a Dis­count of 10 l. per Cent. per Ann. for Prompt Payment.

XXIII. Ginger of the English Plantations in the West Indies, valued in the Book of Rates at 16 d. per l. shall pay for the said former Subsidy 12 d. per Hundred VVeight, and for this present Subsidy 12 d. also per Hundred VVeight, and no more.

[Page 27] XXIV. After 1 May, 1697. no cut Whale-bone (other than in Fins only) shall be imported, under the Penalty of Forfeiting the same, and double the Value.

XXV. Provided, That the Goods and Merchandizes charged by this Act (except Foreign Wrought Silk, To­bacco, Sugars and Refined Sugars,) Exported by any Merchant English within a year, or by a Stranger with­in nine months after Importation, for which the Duty hereby granted hath been paid Inward, the whole Subsi­dy hereby granted and paid for such Goods, Wines or Merchandizes, shall be repaid within one month after Demand: But that there be no Drawback for such Wrought Silks, Tobacco and Sugars, unless exported within the time limited for other Goods, and all other Requisites performed; and then not only the Two Thirds, but the remaining One Third of the Subsidy hereby granted, is to be repaid.

XXVI. Provided, That his Majesties Naval Stores bought before 25 Mar. 1697. shall not be charged with the Duty hereby granted.

XXVII. And whereas by an Act of this present Parlia­ment, for granting a Supply of 3 s. in the Pound by a Land Tax, &c. It is thereby Enacted, That all Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments whatsoever, be charged for One Year, with 3 s. in the Pound of the true Yearly Value, to be paid by twelve equal monthly Payments, the first Payment to be made 25 Febr. 1696. And that every Papist or reputed Papist of the Age of Sixteen Years, who had not taken the Oaths required, Ann. 1 W. & M. should pay double, unless such Papist did take the same within ten days after the first Meeting of the Com­missioners. And that every person of the Age of Sixteen Years, who, not having taken the Oaths, did not upon Summons take the same, should also pay double: And that every Gentleman, or so reputed, who ought to have paid double to the Quarterly Poll, Ann. 3. W. & M. and did not voluntarily take the same before the Commissi­oners, within ten days after their first Meeting, should likewise pay double: And that the Commissioners should, upon information or suspicion Summon every suspected person to take the said Oaths; but that Quakers making and subscribing the Declaration of Fidelity appointed, Ann. 1 W. & M. should not be liable to pay double.

XXVIII. For a further supply it is now Enacted, That all Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments whatsoever, charged by the other Act with 3 s. in the pound, shall now be charged for one Year, from 25 Jan. 1696. with the further Sum of 1 s. in the pound, viz. 4 s. per pound in the whole.

[Page 28] XXIX. And all persons who by the other Act ought to pay double, or 6 s. per pound, shall pay 2 s. in the pound over and above the said 6 s.

XXX. The Commissioners appointed for the 3 s. in the pound, shall be Commissioners for this present Act of 1 s. per pound, and the said double Rates, with all the Powers and Authorities of the said other Act. And the Assessors and Collectors of the 3 s. shall be the Assessors and Collectors of the 1 s. and the said double Rates.

XXXI. For the avoiding repeated Assessments, the Assessors and Collectors shall charge, collect, and levy One third part of the Duty of the 3 s. and double rates, for and in satisfaction of the said rate of 1 s. and the double rates, by Kalendary Months, the first payment for three months to be on 25 Apr. 1697. or within 14 days after, and afterwards each Kalendary Month successively, in such manner as they are required by the said other Act of 3 s. per l. and shall pay the same to the Head Collectors ac­cordingly, to be answered by the Receivers General in­to the Excheqner, according to the directions of the said other Act. And all persons concerned or imployed by virtue of this Act, shall be subject to the Penalties, and have the Benefits of the said other Act. And all Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, subject by Distress or o­therwise, to the rates of 3 s. per l. shall in like manner be subject to the rates of 1 s. per pound.

XXXII. And whereas by the said other Act of 3 s. in the pound, &c. the Commissioners of the Treasury may issue Exchequer Bills, not exceeding the Sum of 1500000 l. for the use of the War; and by the Act for making good the deficiencies of Funds, &c. the said Bills are to be Current to the Receivers, or Collectors of any Tax or Supply granted this Session for the War, or otherwise, and also at the Exchequer, with 5 d. per Day Interest for each Hundred Pounds: It is further Enacted, That the Commissioners of the Treasury may issue Exchequer Bills, not exceeding 1200000 l. over and above the said 1500000 l. so as there be not at any one time above 2000000 l. standing out in such Bills; which Bills to have like Currency and Interest as the said Bills for 1500000 l.

XXXIII. The persons contracting with the Treasury, to advance Money for Circulating the said Bills for 1500000 l. shall be discharged of their Contracts, as soon as the Sums by them agreed to be advanced, shall be cal­led for and paid, or so soon as Bills for 1500000 l. issued by the former or this present Act shall be Cancelled, or that the Funds for the War for this present Year, shall [Page 29]have produced sufficient to take up, and Cancel the same.

XXXIV. The Commissioners of the Treasury may in like manner agree for the Advancing any further Sums for Exchanging such Bills of the said 1200000 l. as may be refused, at the Rate of 10 l. per Cent. per Ann.

XXXV. The Bills issued for the said 1500000 l. and 1200000 l. which shall not be Cancelled by the Produce of those Funds by the 25th of March, 1698. shall be taken up and Cancelled by the Arrears of those Funds, or by the Moneys Granted next Session of Parliament. And the persons advancing Moneys for Exchanging such Bills of the 1200000 l. as shall be refused, shall be discharged of their Contracts as soon as the Sums Con­tracted for shall be paid by them, and if the same be not called for by the 25th of March, 1698. they shall thenceforth be absolutely discharged of their Con­tracts.

XXXVI. Till it shall be published by Proclamation that the Treasury hath made Provision that the said Bills may be Exchanged for ready Money, such Bills for the 1200000 l. shall be Current only in the Sup­plies Granted for the War this present Year 1697. (ex­cept the 3 s. in the Pound.)

XXXVII. It shall be Felony, without benefit of Clergy, to Forge or Counterfeit any of the said Bills, or De­mand Money thereon, knowing the same to be Coun­terfeited.

XXXVIII. Out of the Moneys arising by this Act, by Bills of Credit or otherwise, 672197 l. is Appropriated for the Navy, and for the Sea-Service in the Office of the Ordnance, the Ordinary of the Navy, the Payment of Marine-Officers, and Charge of Registring Seamen, to compleat the Sum of 2372197 l. for those Services; and the remainder for the Land Forces, Ordnance, Ammu­nition and Incidents of War.

XXXIX. The Rules and Directions in the Act Ann. 1 W. & M. for Granting an Aid of 2 s. per. Pound, touching the Payment thereof, and Management in the Exchequer, with the Penalties in case of Diversion, shall be revived and applied to the Sums hereby Ap­propriated.

XL. Stat. 8 & 9 W. 3. cap. 34. For lessening the Duty on Tin and Pewter Exported, It is Enacted. That after the 10th of May, 1697, there shall be paid on any Entry of Tin to be Exported for every Hundred Weight, con­taining 112 Pounds, of Tin unwrought, 3 s. and for [Page 30]every hundred Weight of wrought Tin, commonly cal­led Pewter, 2 s. and so proportionably, and no more.

XLI. After the said 10th of May, till 1 Aug. 1706. the Subsidy to be received for all Drugs Imported directly from the place of their Growth in English Built Ships, shall be according to the full Value of the respective Spe­cies enumerated in the Book of Rates, and for all Drugs otherwise Imported, treble such Value.

XLII. Nothing in this Act shall extend to the laying a further Duty on any sort of Drugs used in Dying.

XLIII. Stat. 9 & 10 W. 3 cap 23. Over and above all Sub­sidies of Tunnage and Poundage, and all Additional Du­ties and Impositions already payable for any Wines, Goods or Merchandizes Imported, there shall be paid to his Majesty, one other Subsidy called Tunnage, for all Wines which after the last of January, 1699. during his Majesties Life, shall be Imported into this Kingdom, viz.

XLIV. Of every Tun of French Wine that shall come into the Port of London by way of Merchandize, by his Majesties Natural born Subjects, 4 l. 10 s. and by Strangers and Aliens, 6 l. Every Tun of like Wine brought into any other Port of this Kingdom, by way of Merchandize, by his Majesties Natural born Subjects, 3 l. and by Aliens 4 l. 10 s.

XLV. Every Butt or Pipe of Muscadells, Malmseys, Cutes, Tents, Alicants, Bastards, Sacks, Canaries, Malaga's, Madera's and other Sweet Wines of the Growth of the Levant, Spain or Portugal, brought into the Port of London by his Majesties Natural born Sub­jects, 45 s. and by Strangers or Aliens 3 l. And every Butt or Pipe of the like Wine brought into any other Port of this Kingdom, by way of Merchandize, by his Majesties Natural born Subjects, 30 s. and by Strangers 45 s.

XLVI. Every Awm of Rhenish Wine, or of the Growth of Germany brought into this Realm, by his Majesties Natural born Subjects, 20 s. and by Strangers and Ali­ens 25 s. And such Wines landed in any the Out Ports and afterwards brought to London by Certificate, shall pay so much more Subsidy by this Act, as they paid short of the Duty due in the Port of London: Which several Rates for Wines are the same as in the Book of Rates, signed by Sir Harbottle Grimstone Baronet, for­merly Speaker of the House of Commons, and referred to by the Act 12 Car. 2. Intituled, A Subsidy Granted [Page 31]to the King of Tunnage and Poundage, and other Sums of Money payable upon Merchandizes Exported and Imported. And one further Subsidy, called Poundage, viz. Of all manner of Goods and Merchandizes by whomsoever brought into this Realm after the said last of January, 1699. during his Majesties Life, by way of Merchan­dize, Twelve Pence in the Pound of the Value of the same Goods and Merchandizes in the said Book of Rates. And if any Goods so Imported shall not be particularly Rated in the said Book of Rates, the Sub­sidy by this Act Granted shall be Levied according to the Value of such Goods upon Oath of the Merchant. Except out of this Subsidy all Wines before limited to pay Tunnage, and all Fish English taken, and brought by English Bottoms into this Realm, and all Fresh Fish and Bestial, and all other Goods and Merchandizes which in the said Book of Rates are Custom Free, and all Goods and Merchandizes commonly used in Dy­ing.

XLVII. All Drugs Chargeable by this Act, Imported directly from the place of their Growth in English Built Shipping, shall pay only one third part of what is Charged thereupon in the said Book of Rates: And all Spicery, except Pepper, Imported directly from the place of its Growth in English Built Shipping, shall pay by this Act but one third part of what is Charged in the said Book of Rates. And this Act shall not Charge Linen Imported with the Additional Duty of one Moiety of the Rate mentioned in the said Book of Rates. And all Foreign Wrought Silks Exported within one Year from the Importation, shall have two thirds of the Rate hereby Charged Repaid at the Cu­stome-house: And this Act shall not Charge Wrought Silks Imported with the Additional Duty of one Moiety mentioned in the said Book of Rates; Or To­bacco of the English Plantation with the Additional Du­ty of One Peny per Pound over and above the Subsidy in the said Book of Rates; Or the Wines of France, Germany, Portugal or Madera, with the Additional Duty of 3 l. per Tun, or any other Wines with the Additional Duty of 4 l. per Tun mentioned in the said former Acts or Book of Rates: And that for all Tobacco of the Eng­lish Plantations Exported within one Year after its Im­portation, the further Subsidy of one Peny per Pound, hereby Granted, shall be Repaid at the Custom­house.

XLVIII. Out of the several Subsidies of Tunnage and Poundage by this Act Granted, there shall be the [Page 32]like Allowances and Abatements as are prescribed by the said former Act or Book of Rates, or the Rules thereunto annexed.

XLIX. The said Subsidies of Tunnage and Pound­age, hereby Granted, shall be Collected by the Officers of the Customs, under the Management of the Commis­sioners of the Customs, and shall be paid into the Ex­chequer, for the Purposes in this Act mentioned (the Charge of Management only excepted) and all the Clauses in the said former Act of Tunnage and Poundage, or in the Book of Rates, or the Rules there­unto annexed, or in any other Laws in Force, touch­ing the said Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage, shall be put in Execution for Answering the Subsidy of Tun­nage and Poundage, by this Act Granted, as if par­ticularly repeated in this Act.

L. The whole further Subsidy laid by this Act upon all Sugars Imported from the English Plantations in America shall be paid back at the Exportation there­of.

LI. For every hundred Weight of Brown and Mus­cavado Sugars Refined in England Exported out of this Kingdom, after the said last of January, 1699. during the Continuance of this Act, there shall be repaid at the Custom-house, to the Exporter, within a Month after Demand, 3 s. Oath being made by the Refiner, that the said Sugar was produced from Brown and Muscavado Sugar, Charged by this Act, and, as he be­lieves, Imported from his Majesties Plantations in A­merica, and the Duty paid at Importation, and duly Exported, the Searcher also Certifying the Shipping, and all other Requisites performed.

LII. For the further Subsidy hereby Granted upon Tobacco of the English Plantations in America, the Merchant, giving Security, shall have Three Months from the Importation to pay the same; with a Discount after 10 per Cent. per Ann. for Prompt Payment, if sooner paid.

LIII. Ginger of the English Plantations in the West In­dies, Valued by the Book of Rates at 16 d. per Pound, shall pay for the said former Subsidy 1 s. for every hundred Weight, and for the Subsidy by this Act 1 s. for every hundred Weight, and no more.

LIV. If any persons import or bring into this Kingdom any Cut Whalebone, other than in Fins only, they shall Forfeit the Goods, and double the Value of the Cut Whalebone, so Imported, one moiety to the King, the other to them that shall Seize or Sue for the same.

[Page 33] LV. Where any the Foreign Goods, Wines or Mer­chandizes, by this Act Charged with the Subsidy of Tunnage or Poundage (Except Foreign Wrought Silk, Tobacco, Sugars and Refined Sugars, touching which other Provisions are hereby made) shall be again Ex­ported by any Merchant English, within a Twelve Month, or by Strangers, within Nine Kalendary Months after Importation, and that Proof be made by Certificate from the proper Officer of the Entry and Payment of the Subsidy hereby Granted, with the Oath of the Mer­chant Importing and Exporting the same, affirming the truth thereof, and all other Requisites performed, touching Repayment of the Half Subsidy by the former Act; the whole Subsidy actually paid upon this Act, shall be repaid within one Month after Demand, or the Security vacated, as to so much as shall be so Ex­ported: And as to Foreign Wrought Silks, Tobacco, Sugars and Refined Sugars, no Drawback upon this Act shall be made, unless Re-exported within the times hereby limited for other Goods, and that like Proof be made, and other Requisites performed for the said Silks, &c. as for other Goods Re-exported: But upon such Exportation of Foreign Wrought Silks, and Proof made, and other Requisites performed, not only the two thirds of the Subsidies by this Act. Directed to be Repaid for such Silks, but also the remaining one third of the same Subsidy shall be intirely repaid at the Custom house.

LVI. It being intended that the yearly Sum of 700000 l. be Supplied to his Majesty for his Houshold and Family, and other his necessary Expenses and Occasions out of the Hereditary Excise, Granted Ann. 12. Car. 2. and out of the Temporary Excise payable during his Ma­jesties Life, by an Act of 2 W. & M. after the Talleys Charged upon the Weekly Sum of 6000 l. issuing out of the said several Duties of Excise, pursuant to the Act of 7 W. 3. and still unsatisfied (with the Interest thereof) shall be fully paid; and out of the Revenue of the Post-Office, after all the Talleys Charged on the Weekly Sum of 600 l. issuing out of that Revenue, pur­suant to the said Act of 7 W. 3. and still remaining un­satisfied, and the Interest thereof shall be fully paid; And out of the small Branches of his Majesties Revenue, viz. The First Fruits, Alienation Fines, Post Fines, Wine Licences, Sheriffs Proffers, Seizures of Uncustomed and Prohibited Goods, The Revenue of the Dutchy of Cornwall, or any other Revenue in Lands in England or Wales, or Fines of Leases for the same, and the [Page 34]Duty of Four and a half per Cent. in Specie in Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands in America; and out of the Moneys arising by this Act, after the Commencement of the same; It is Enacted, That if the said Great and Small Branches and Revenues shall produce clear more than the yearly Sum of 700000 l. after 25 Dec. 1699. the Overplus shall not be Disposed of but by Parlia­ment; And all Dispositions of such Overplus, without Authority of Parliament, shall be Void, and the per­sons to whom such Dispositions shall be made, shall be incapable to Enjoy the same.

LVII. Stat. 9 & 10 W. 3. cap. 30. All Lustrings and Alamodes Imported into this Kingdom, which by the Act of Tunnage and Poundage made, Ann. 12 Car. 2. were valued in the Book of Rates at 40 s. the Pound Weight, containing 16 Ounces, shall, after 24 June, 1698. be valued at Four Pounds for every Pound Weight, containing 16 Ounces, as aforesaid: And the several Subsidies, Additional and other Duties and Im­positions payable thereupon, by virtue of several Acts of Parliament, since that time made, during the Con­tinuance of the same respectively, shall be Collected, Paid and Answered upon the said Lustrings and Ala­modes, according to the said Valuation of Four Pounds for every Pound Weight, as if the same had been Originally Inserted in the said Book of Rates, and had been particularly referred to (instead of the said Rate of 40 s.) in the several Acts beforementioned; And that according to the same Rules and Methods, and with such or the like Allowances, and under such Penalties, as are by the said Acts, or any of them prescribed, for the respective Duties on the same Com­modities.

Exchequer.

I. STat. 8. & 9. W. 3. cap. 28. For better observation of the Course anciently used in the Exchequer, It is Enacted, That after 20 April 1697. when any Money shall be brought into the Receipt of the Exchequer, the respective Teller, into whose Office it shall be brought, if the Officers belonging to the Talley Court be then attend­ing, or as soon as they shall attend for the Levying a Tal­ley, shall without delay receive the said Money, Weigh­ing the same in intire Sums or otherwise, and making [Page 35]due entry thereof, shall throw down a Bill or Bills writ­ten upon Parchment and Sign'd, into the Talley Court, whereby a Taller may be duly Levied (according to the nature of the Payment;) And that such Teller, his Clerk or Substitute, shall not for such Money give a Note importing a Depositum, or other private Note or Securi­ty, to prevent the due charging thereof in the Exche­quer, as aforesaid, upon pain that such Teller, who shall offend against this Act, by neglecting to receive and du­ly charge himself with such Money, or giving any pri­vate Note, as aforesaid, shall forfeit his Office, and be disabled to serve the King in any Office, and Forfeit dou­ble damages to the King, or party damnified, and full costs of Suit; and every Clerk and substitute of such Tellers, who shall offend against this Act, by giving any private Note, shall for every such offence forfeit double the sum for which such Note was given, one moiety to the King, the other to the Informer, and also be re­moved from the said Receipt.

II. After the said 20th of April, No Teller shall charge himself by Bill with the receipt of any Moneys in the Exchequer, but when the Officers of the Talley Court are there present, nor shall any Teller or his substitute throw down into the said Court any Bill, purporting the receiving of any Money, unless such Teller or his Clerks have actually receiv'd the same, except in such cases where Talleys are or shall be Levied by special Warrant of the Lords of the Treasury, or Treasurer of the Ex­chequer, or where the person for whom any Talley shall be Levied, shall at the same time, or on the same day, give a Discharge according to the course of the Exchequer, upon some Order or Debenture for the Mo­ney for which such Bill shall be thrown down, upon pain of incurring the like forfeiture of Office and Disability, as before mention'd, and forfeiting double the sum so unduly charged, one moiety to the King, the other to the Informer, and for Clerks and Substitutes the like penalty, as aforesaid.

III. No Teller, his Clerk or Substitute, after the Bills thrown down into the Talley Court, shall lend, pay, or by any way whatsoever, depart with such Money out of his Office, without an Order for the same, made forth by the Auditor, and Recorded by the Clerk of the Pells, and taking a Receipt to discharge the King ac­cording to ancient course, under the like forfeitures and penalties as for unduly charging any Money before actually received.

[Page 36] IV. After the said 20 April, the Chamberlains or De­puty Chamberlains, and such other Officers, Clerks and Deputies as belong to the Talley Court, shall daily, ex­cept Sundays and Holidays, constantly attend, at least from eight of the Clock to one, between Lady-day and Michaelmas, and from nine to one between Michaelmas and Lady-day yearly, unless they be sick, or have leave from the Commissioners of the Treasury, or Treasurer, or Under-Treasurer of the Exchequer, in which case the Room shall be sufficiently supplied as hath been accu­stomed, upon pain to answer and make to the King or party that shall suffer by reason of such Absence, double Damages and full Costs.

V. And the Auditor of the Receipt, Writer of Talleys, Clerk of the Pells, the four Tellers, and other Officers of the Receipt, shall by themselves, or their respe­ctives Deputies (in such cases where they may act by De­puty) give due and constant attendance in their respe­ctive places, under the like penalties of double the Da­mages and full Costs, as aforesaid.

VI. The first Clerk in the Offices of the Auditor of the Receipt, the Clerk of the Pells, and of the four Tellers, shall be sworn for the due, just, and faithful performance of all matters to be performed by them in the said Offices respectively.

VII. None of the Moneys which are or shall be in the Receipt of the Exchequer, shall be thence paid or issu­ed but in pursuance of some sufficient Grant under the Great Seal, or by Virtue of some sufficient Authority under the Privy Seal, or pursuant to some Act of Par­liament.

VIII. A Table or Tables shall be made and set up at the Door of the Auditor of the Receipt, shewing how far the Officers there have proceeded in the repayment of Loans upon the credit of Taxes or Revenues, and how far the Moneys paid in by the respective Receivers thereof do extend, from time to time, to discharge Principal and Interest upon the said Taxes, &c. re­spectively.

IX. The Auditor of the Receipt shall from time to time (for his Lawful Fees) duly enter all Letters Pa­tents, and Privy Seals, for issuing the Kings Treasure, and shall draw the Orders for issuing thereof, as requi­red by the Lords of the Treasury, or Treasurer of the Exchequer, and shall keep Entries thereof, and Weekly take the Tellers Accounts, and make Certificate to the Treasury of all Receipts, Issues, and Remains of the Kings Money there, and make out the Imprest Certifi­cates, [Page 37]and transmit the Ordinary Imprest Rolls half-yearly to the Remembrancer, and shall half-yearly, at Easter and Michaelmas, transmit to the Treasury the Declaration of the Receipts, Issues, and Remains at the Exchequer, in such manner as hath been anciently ac­customed. And the Clerk of the Pells shall from time to time (for his Lawful Fees) duly Enroll all Letters Pa­tents, and Privy Seals, for issuing the Kings Treasure, and fairly enter all Receipts and Issues at the said Exche­quer, and take the Tellers Weekly Accounts, and cer­tifie to the Treasury Weekly the Receipts, Issues and Remains of the Kings Money there, and carefully ex­amine the Imprest Certificates and Imprest Rolls, and transmit to the Treasury, half-yearly, Declarations of the Receipts, Issues and Remains within the half year, and shall in all matters appertaining to his Office care­fully observe the ancient course and method; And the said Officers, their Deputies and Clerks, shall be an­swerable for their Demeaners in their respective Duties, as well to the King, as to any person who may suffer by any neglect or failure therein.

X. All Penalties and Forfeitures by this Act shall be re­covered by Action of Debt, or of the Case, Bill, Suit, or Information, in any of the Kings Courts of Record, wherein no Essoign, &c. shall be allowed.

XI. This Act not to lessen or diminish the Lawful Power, Order, Rule or Government which the Com­missioners of the Treasury, or Treasurer for the time being have, and ought to have in their places and trusts respectively.

XII. This Act not to alter or change any Method of receipts or payments by Bills of Credit in the Exchequer allowed by Parliament.

XIII. All the Money in the said Receipt shall be kept in Chests under three different Locks and three Keys, the Tellers to keep one, the Clerk of the Pells one, and the other shall be kept by the eldest of the two Deputy Chamberlains; and no Orders shall be paid the same day they are sent up from the Auditors Office to the Clerk of the Pells (except for the Navy, Ordnance, Forces, or for Moneys registred) And the Clerk of the Pells, and Deputy Chamberlains shall every morning, except Sundays and Holidays, cause the respective Chests to be opened in their presence, and so much Mo­ney to be taken out, and left with the Tellers, as will satisfy the Orders so directed and ready to be satisfied, and the rest to be safe Lockt up again; and every day see all the Money which was received that day (ex­cept [Page 38]what shall be paid away) to be first weighed in the Bags, a Ticket of the Content put into each Bag, and so secured in the said Chests; And in case Moneys in the said Chests be directed to be issued for the Navy, Ord­nance, &c. so that the payments must not be deferred, the Clerk of the Pells and Deputy Chamberlains shall go up forthwith to the Tellers Offices, and see the Chests opened for that Money, and the Publick Service di­spatcht, and the Chests secured again in manner afore­said; and when the Clerk of the Pells cannot attend, his eldest Clerk shall keep his Keys of the said Chests; if the Deputy Chamberlain cannot attend, his Keys shall be kept by his Fellow; and no Money shall be taken out of the said Chests but in presence of the respective Tellers, the Clerk of the Pells, and Deputy Chamberlain, or in case of Sickness, or Absence with Leave, of their Clerks, as aforemention'd.

XIV. After the said 20th of April, the Auditor of the Receipt, or his chief Clerk, shall at least once in 28 days, visit every Tellers Cash, and by numbering the Bags, opening some of them, and (if he thinks fit) by weighing or telling the Money, see that the Tellers have in real Money the remains wherewith he charges them, and that at least once in three Months he examine the Tellers Vouchers for the payments which he allows them in his Weekly Certificates.

Excise.

I. Stat. 8. W. 3. cap. 3. All the Talleys of pro, or o­ther Talleys, which have been Levied, and are charged upon the Hereditary or Temporary Excise, or upon the weekly Sums of 6000 l. payable thereout, shall be du­ly paid in course, according to their respective Dates, and not otherwise, without preference, unless where Money is reserved for payment of the preceding Tal­leys, and the Interest of the said Talleys shall be paid e­very three Months out of the said weekly Sums of 6000 l. a Week; and all Talleys of pro, or other Talleys which have been Levied, and are Charged upon the Revenue of the Post-Office, or upon the weekly Sum of 600 l. appropriated thereout, shall be in like manner duly paid in Course, according to their respective Dates, without preference, as aforesaid, and the Interest of the last mentioned Talleys shall be likewise paid every Three Months out of the said weekly Sums of 600 l. a Week, under the same Penalties or Forfeitures, as by the afore­mentioned Act are prescribed.

[Page 39] II. Stat. 8 & 9. W. 3. cap. 19. After the Tenth of April, 1697. the Clause relating to Party Guiles, in the Act made the last Sessions of this Parliament (7 & 8 W. 3. cap. 30. Abr. Excise, n. 106.) shall be Repealed to all Intents and Purposes.

III. Every Common Brewer shall, after the said Tenth of April, declare to the Gauger how much Strong Beer or Ale he intends to make of a Guile, and how much Small (if he intends any) before any part of such Guile is cleansed or removed; and upon refusal of such Discovery, the Gauger shall return the whole Guile to be Strong, and the Brewer shall beside Forfeit for every Barrel of Ale or Beer, contained in such Guile, 20 s. And in case after such Declaration, any Increase be made of the Strong Beer or Ale, or any part thereof laid off, the said Brewer shall Forfeit for every Barrel so Increased or laid off, 5 l. and the Servant assisting therein shall Forfeit for every Barrel 20 s. and in De­fault of Payment, shall suffer Three Months Imprison­ment. In case the Increase be made by adding Beer or Ale left of a former Brewing, the Brewer shall Incur all the said Penalties, unless it be proved by Oath, that it was done in the sight and view of the Gauger.

IV. If it shall appear to the Gaugers, that the Quality of Strong Beer or Ale remaining of a former Guile, and added to a Guile of New Drink, hath been alter'd since it was Brewed, he shall Return all such Beer and Ale, so added to a Guile of new Drink, as if the same were then originally Brewed, and the Brewer shall pay the Duties accordingly.

V. No Common Brewer shall after the 28th day of April, 1697. have or keep any Pipe or Stop-cock under Ground, or other private Conveyance, by which any Beer, Ale, or Worts, may be conveyed from one Tun, Brewing Vessel, or Place, to another, on pain to For­feit for every such Offence the Sum of 100 l.

VI. From and after the said 28th of April, any Gau­ger or Officer of Excise, may in the day time, and in the presence of a Constable, or other Lawful Officer of the Peace, and request first made, break up the Ground in any Common Brew-house, or the Ground adjoyning, or any Wall, to search for such private Pipe or Convey­ance; and if any such be found, to follow the same, and to examine and try whether such Pipe can convey any Beer, Ale, &c. into any other place; but if no such pri­vate Conveyance shall be found, such Gauger shall make good the Ground, or other Place so broken, or make [Page 38] [...] [Page 39] [...] [Page 40]satisfaction for the same. The person opposing any Gau­ger in such search, shall Forfeit 50 l.

VII. It shall be Lawful nevertheless for any Common Brewer to keep any Pipes, Stop-cocks, or other Convey­ances above Ground, in open View, for the use of his Trade.

VIII. Every Common Brewer, who, after the fore­said 10th of April, shall, without first giving notice to the next Office of Excise, set up or alter any Tun, Batch, Float, Cooler or Copper, or have or keep any private or conceal'd Tun, Batch, &c. other than such as are o­penly known to be commonly used in his Brewhouse, he shall Forfeit for every such Vessel 200 l.

IX. If any Common Brewer or Maker of Cyder shall, after the said 10th of April, deliver to any Distiller or Vinegar Maker, any Wash, Tilts, Ale, Beer, Vinegar Beer or Cyder, without first giving notice to the Gauger of that Division, of what Quantity he intends to de­liver, and when, and to whom, he shall Forfeit for e­very Barrel so delivered 20 s.

X. No Common Distiller shall after the said 10th of April, set up, alter or enlarge any Tun, Cask, &c. or have or keep any private or conceal'd Tun, Cask, Cop­per, Still or other Vessel, or any private or conceal'd Warehouse, Cellar, &c. without first giving notice thereof, as aforesaid, upon pain to Forfeit 20 l. And every Person, in whose Occupation any House shall be where such things shall be discover'd, shall Forfeit 50 l.

XI. After the said 10th of April, every Person ma­king or keeping any Wash, Cyder, or other Materials fit for Distillation, and having in his Possession any Still or Stills, containing Twenty Gallons or upwards, Proof being made thereof by Oath before some Justice of Peace, shall be deemed a Common Distiller for Sale, and subject to the Duties of Excise.

XII. All Fines, Penalties, and Forfeitures, by this Act imposed, shall be Sued for and Recovered by such Ways and Means as used by the Laws of Excise, or by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, &c. in the Courts of Re­cord at Westminster, whereof one Moiety to the King, the other to the Informer.

XIII. Any Persons who have already set up, or here­after shall set up any Works or Offices for Making or Distilling for Sale, any Low Wines or Spirits, from Drink brewed from Malted Corn or Cyder, giving notice to the Commissioners of Excise, within Ten days after the Entring such Office or Work, may follow such [Page 41]Work, and may Refine the Spirits of their own making, paying the Duties, and being subject to the Fines and Pe­nalties as other Distillers are.

XIV. Stat. 8 & 9. W. 3. cap. 22. There shall be paid to his Majesty for all Malt (made of any Grain whatso­ever) which any Malster, or maker of Malt for Sale, Sel­ler or Retailer of Malt, Brewer, Distiller, Inn keeper, Victualler or Vinegar-maker in this Kingdom, or any other, for their use, shall be possessed of 20 April, 1697. Six Pence per Bushel by such persons respectively. And for every Bushel of Malt made within this Kingdom of any Grain whatsoever, from 20 April, 1697. to 20 Ju­ly, 1699. by any person whatsoever (for Sale or not for Sale) the Sum of Six Pence, by the Makers thereof re­spectively. And for every Barrel of Mum made or sold in England, from 20 April, 1697. to 20 July, 1699. Ten Shillings (over and above the present Duties) by the Ma­ker or Seller respectively. And for every Barrel of Sweets made from Foreign or English Materials, from 20 April, 1697. to 20 July, 1699. (over and above the present Duties) Twelve Shillings, by the Maker thereof. And for all Cyder and Perry made for sale, from the said 20 April, 1697. to 20 July, 1699. (over and above the present Duties on Cyder and Perry sold by retail) 4 s. per Hogshead, by the first Buyer or Retailer.

XV. And every person who shall buy any Cyder or Perry, or Fruit to make into Cyder or Perry, and shall sell any of the said Cyder or Perry, so bought or made, by the Hogshead, or any greater or lesser Measure, shall be deem'd a Retailer, and chargeable with the said Duties.

XVI. All which Duties shall be under the Management of the Commissioners of Excise; and all the Inferiour Officers in the Excise, shall be the Officers for the said Duties, under the direction of the said Commissioners, who may dismiss or alter them, and make such others, as to them shall seem meet.

XVII. And all such Malsters, &c. having on 20 April, 1697. any quantity of Malt whatsoever, shall before 10 May, 1697. enter the same particularly at the next Of­fice of Excise, under Penalty of 50 l. and to Forfeit the Malt not Entred: and within six days after, shall ei­ther pay down the Duties for the same, to the proper Of­ficer, or give Security to pay the said Duties within six months, with an allowance of 10 l. per Cent. per ann. for the said six months, if paid within the said six days.

XVIII. And the said Officers are Authorized to take an Account of all such Malt as any Malsters, &c. shall be so [Page 42]possess'd of 20 April, 1697. and to that end are to be permitted, at their request, to enter in the day-time, into the Dwelling-House, &c. of any such Malster, &c. under the Penalty of 10 l.

XIX. And such Officers are further to be permitted at their request, to enter in the day-time, into the House, Malt house, or other place of any person whatsoever, who after the said 20 April, 1697. till 20 July, 1699. shall make any Malt (for sale or not for sale) to Gauge the Vessels used for the Steeping of Barley, or other Grain for making of Malt, and to take an account of the Quantity of Barley and other Grain, steeping or steep­ed therein, and report the same to the Commissioners, leaving a Copy of such Report with the Malster, or ma­ker of Malt, for a Charge.

XX. And no such maker of Malt for Sale or private Use, shall refuse Entrance to such Officer, for the pur­poses aforesaid, under Penalty of 5 l.

XXI. After the said 20 April, 1697. Every maker of Malt, for sale or not for sale, shall every month make an Entry at the said Excise-Office of all the Malt so made, under Penalty of 10 l. and shall within three months after pay the Duties for the same respectively.

XXII. And upon neglecting or refusing to make such Payment, to Forfeit, for every such Offence, double the Duty. And after such default, shall not sell, deliver, or carry out any Malt until the said Duty be clear'd, on pain to Forfeit double the value of such Malt.

XXIII. The Bushel in this Act is meant to be the Win­chester Bushel, and the Barley or Grain in steeping or steeped, shall be returned as so many Bushels of Malt, according to such Bushel.

XXIV. After 20 April, 1697. No maker of Malt shall alter his Vessel for steeping of Barley or Grain for Malt, without first giving Notice thereof to the next Office of Excise, nor keep any private Vessel for that purpose, un­der penalty of 50 l.

XXV. After 20 Aril, 1697. no Sweet-maker shall set up any Vessel for making of Sweets, without first giving Notice thereof at the next Office of Excise, on pain of Forfeiting 50 l.

XXVI. The Directions and Rules Established by the Act, An. 12. Car. 2. for setling the Revenue of Excise, or by any other Law now in force, relating to that Revenue (not otherwise provided for by this Act) shall be put in Execution, for Levying the said Duties on Malt, Mum, Sweets, Cyder and Perry, hereby granted.

[Page 43] XXVII. All Penalties and Forfeitures in this Act, shall be recover'd, as any Forfeiture or Penalty may be by the Laws of Excise, or by Action of Debt, &c. at Westminster.

XXVIII. The Commissioners of Excise, or such per­sons as they shall appoint, or else the Collector or Super­visor of the District, may compound with any person for the said Duties on Malt, not made for sale, at the rate of 5 s. per Ann. for every Head in the Family, and take Security for paying the same Quarterly, and then their Malt-houses and other places, shall not be liable to the said Duty, or to the Survey of the Officer of Excise.

XXIX. But if such person, after Composition, sell or deliver out any Malt to others, or sell any Beer, Ale, or other Liquors made of Malt, then to Forfeit 50 l. and lose the benefit of such Composition.

XXX. Out of every 20 Bushels of Malt, so charg'd by the Gauger, there shall be an allowance of Four Bushels, in Consideration of the difference between Corn wet and swollen, and the same converted into dry Malt.

XXXI. Any person may export Malt, for which the Du­ty hath been paid, to any Foreign Parts, except Scotland, giving Security not to Reland the same in this Kingdom; but if the same should nevertheless be Relanded, then (besides the Penalty of the Bond) the Malt, or the Value thereof, to be Forfeited.

XXXII. The Exporter of any Malt shall produce a Cer­tificate from the proper Officer, That the Duty thereof hath been paid or secured to be paid, which must be proved upon Oath, and that it is the same Malt men­tion'd in the Certificate; whereupon the said Duty of 6 d. per Bushel is to be repaid to the Exporter, by the Collect­or or Commissioners.

XXXIII. Provided, That all Malt sold before 20 April, 1697. and not delivered to the Buyer, or Contracted so to be, the Buyer shall pay the Seller 6 d. per Bushel up­on delivery, or the Contract to be void.

XXXIV. Rent payable in Malt, or in Money to be ascer­tained by the price of Malt, the Tenant to deduct so much as amounts to 2 s. for every Quarter of Malt, which is to be allowed accordingly.

XXXV. After 20 April, 1697. no Malt to be imported into this Kingdom from beyond the Seas, on pain of For­feiting such Malt, or the value thereof.

XXXVI. Out of the Money arising by Loans or Bills up­on the Aid of 3 s. per l. and other Duties, 1200000 l. shall be appropriated to the Navy and Ordnance, &c. And the Remainder arising by that Act, other than the [Page 44]Loans upon the Act 7. W. 3. for Purchasing Annuities, and 23006 l. 17 s. 8 d.. ½. lent on the Exchequer in gene­ral, both transferred to the said Act, shall be appropriated to the Land Forces, &c.

XXXVII. Out of the Moneys arising by this Act, the first 200000 l. shall be appropriated for the Expences of his Majesties Houshold, and other his necessary Occasions, and one Moiety of the remainder to the same Service, and the other Moiety to the Navy and Army equally, till the said Sum of 515000 l. be fully paid; and the Sur­plus to the Navy and Land Forces equally.

XXXVIII. The Rules in the Act, An. 1. W. & M. for an Aid of 2 s. per l. shall be applied to the distribution and application of the Sums hereby appropriated.

XXXIX. The Moneys arising by the Duties on Malt, shall be appropriated to the payment of the Moneys due upon Bills and Tickets hereafter mention'd; And if by 20 April, 1698. the Produce thereof brought into the Ex­chequer in Specie, be not 800000 l. the Deficiency to be made good out of the first Aid, granted after the said 20 April, 1698. And if the said Duties on Malt brought into the Exchequer by 29 Sept. 1699. with the Provisio­nal Supply of the foremention'd Deficiency, be not 1515000 l. the Deficiency to be made good out of the first Aid granted after 29 Sept. 1699.

XL. For advancing the Sum of 1400000 l. Any person, Native or Foreigner, paying by 24 June 1697. to the Receivers thereto appointed, 10 l. or several 10 pounds upon this Act, shall for every 10 l. have a Lot. Which Receivers are to take New Mill'd Money, or Hammer'd Silver Money, or Standard Plate, at 6 s per Oz.

XLI. The Managers or Directors to be appointed by his Majesty for that purpose, shall prepare Books divi­ded into four Columes; in each of which, shall be Print­ed 140000 Tickets, the Third Colume mentioning that such Ticket Intitles the Bearer to Ten Pounds, with a Far­thing a day Interest, from 24 June 1697. or to a better chance, which Tickets to be Sign'd by the Receivers, and deliver'd to the Adventurers upon payment of the seve­ral 10 l. as aforesaid. And the Money and Plate so re­ceiv'd, to be answer'd into the Exchequer by the said Receivers, who shall by 10 July 1697. re-deliver the Books to the Managers, with an account of the Money and Plate so receiv'd, and paid into the Exchequer. And the Tickets of the Third Colume not disposed of shall be delivered into the Exchequer for the use of the War, and of his Majesties Houshold, and other Uses in this Act, and thence be issued for the said Uses, as if they were [Page 45]Cash or Moneys, and the Owners be esteem'd Adven­turers accordingly.

XLII. The Tickets in the second Colume are to be Rol­led up and Fastned, being cut off Indentwise, and put in a Box Markt A, to be secured by the Managers, who are to prepare another Book distinguisht into Two Co­lumes, in each of which are to be Printed 5000 Tickets, whereof 3500 in the outermost Columes to be Fortunate, and Written upon in Figures and Words at length, viz. Upon one of them 1000 l. Upon two of them 500 l. each, Upon three of them 400 l. Upon four of them 300 l. Upon six of them 200 l. Upon Fifty one of them 100 l. Upon One hundred and three of them 50 l. Upon One hundred and thirty of them 30 l. Upon Four hundred of them 20 l. Up­on Two thousand eight hundred of them 10 l. Which with 150 l. to the First drawn Ticket, and 100 l. to the Last drawn Ticket, amounts to 56000 l.

XLIII. The said 5000 Tickets in the outermost Columes to be Rolled up and Fastned, being cut off Indentwise, and put in a Box Markt B. to be secured also by the Ma­nagers, till the time of Drawing; And no Money or Plate to be receiv'd from any Adventurer, after the said 24 June, 1697. And the whole business of preparing the said Tickets fit for Drawing, shall be performed by 2 Aug. 1697.

XLIV. On 10 Aug. 1697. The Managers shall cause the Boxes to be brought to the Guild-hall, London, and being opened, and the Tickets well mixt, to be Drawn by two indifferent Persons, a Number and a Ticket; which Lot, if it be a Blank, shall be Filed with the Number drawn with it; but if it be a Fortunate Ticket, then to be En­tred with the Number coming up with it, and the Entry Sign'd by one of the Managers, and then put on another File; And so the Drawing to continue till the 3500 Fortunate Tickets, and one more for the last, be compleat­ly Drawn, and no longer.

XLV. And afterwards the Number'd and Fortunate Tic­kets drawn against the same, shall remain in a Box lockt up by the Managers, to be examined and adjusted, if oc­casion requires. And the Managers are to Print and Pub­lish the Fortunate Tickets, and the Numbers drawn a­gainst them.

XLVI. And incase of Dispute, the Property of the said Fortunate Tickets is to be determin'd by the majority of the Managers.

XLVII. And it shall be Felony, to Counterfeit any such Ticket, or knowingly bring the same to the Managers to defraud his Majesty.

[Page 46] XLVIII. The said Managers are also to provide a Parch­ment Book, to Enter the Numbers of the Tickets belong­ing to the 3500 Extraordinary Benefits, with the first and last Drawn Tickets, to be Sign'd by the Managers, and Transmitted into the Exchequer by 10 Sept. 1697. And the Prizes or Benefits shall be paid accordingly, as the Fund comes into the Exchequer, in course, without In­terest: And the Contributors not having Prizes, shall receive Ten Pounds for every such Contribution, out of the said Fund, with a Farthing per diem Interest from 24 June, 1697. till paid off. And every person having a Prize not above 20 l. shall have 10 l. over and above, with Interest, as aforesaid; All payable to the Bearers.

XLIX. And the Managers, just before the Drawing, shall prepare 140 Tickets, as the Indices to the 140000 Tickets, to be Rolled up and Drawn, for adjusting the Course of Payment of each Thousand of the said 140000. And shall be Writ down in a Book, and Transmitted in­to the Exchequer: And the Duties arising on Malt suffi­cient to pay the first Thousand Tickets, as Entred in the last mention'd Book, shall be applied thereunto, and so on till the whole be satisfied.

L. An Account is to be Published the First Munday in every Month, and set up at the Exchequer, what Thou­sand Tickets are to be paid that Month: And after the Money is ready to be paid, the Interest to cease, and the Money not called for to be reserved.

LI. Every Manager to take an Oath faithfully to exe­cute his Trust, &c.

LII. Out of the residue of the Fund, after paying the Fortunate and other Lots, the Managers, Clerks, Offi­cers, &c. may be rewarded as his Majesty shall direct.

LIII. The Adventurers paying in their Money before 24 June, 1697. shall be allowed Interest to that time, af­ter the rate of 14 per Cent. per Ann.

LIV. And the Receivers to have an Allowance not exceeding 2 d. per l.

LV. All Receipts and Issues of the said 1400000 l. to be perform'd by the Officers without Fee or Reward; And the Moneys lent, or payable by this Act, not to be Taxed.

LVI. There shall be a distinct Office at the Exche­quer, for paying the Benefits by this Act appointed, till all be satisfied; And the Officers thereto appointed to give Security for paying the same accordingly.

LVII. The Moneys so brought into the Exchequer upon the said Fund, shall be, without any further War­rant, paid over to such Officers, by way of Imprest, for [Page 47]the uses aforesaid; Which Officers to be subject to the In­spection and Comptrol of the Treasury, and to such Rules as shall be prescribed them, conduceable to the ends and purposes of this Act.

LVIII. Any Persons may lend his Majesty 200000 l. at 8 per Cent. Interest, not Taxable, to be repaid in Course, with the Interest, every three months, till repaid out of the Contributions for the said Tickets: And if such Contributions before 24 June, 1697. be not suffi­cient to pay the said Loans with Interest, such Loans shall be satisfied out of the Duties on Malt brought in, in spe­cie; And so many Tickets not deliver'd out as are equal to such Principal Money unsatisfied, to be Cancelled, and the rest Drawn, and proportion'd accordingly. Which Money so Lent to His Majesty, to be part of the Sum ap­propriated to his Majesties Houshold, and other his necessary Occasions.

LIX. Every Round Bushell 8 Inches and ½ wide through­out, and 8 Inches deep, shall be esteem'd a Winchester Bushel.

LX. The 1400 l. in Hammer'd Money paid into the Cu­stom-house of Exon by Daniel Ivry and Henry Arthur Merchants, before 4 May last, shall be receiv'd by Tale by the Collector there, and be carried to the Mint to be Coin'd into Mill'd Money.

Hawkers and Pedlars,

Vide Taxes, Stat. 8 & 9. W. 3. cap. 25.

Hay Market.

I. STat. 8 & 9. W. 3. cap. 17. After 25 March, 1697. Every Cart Load of Hay that shall stand to be Sold in the Street, called the Hay-Market, in the Parishes of St. Martins in the Fields and St. James's, within the Liberties of Westminster, shall Pay 3 d. and every Cart Load of Straw 1 d. in ease of the Parishio­ners of the said Parishes, for and towards the Paving and Amending the said Street.

II. Every Cart Load that Pays, and is not Sold, shall not Pay the next Market Day for standing.

III. Upon refusal of Payment, the Offenders Goods may be Distrain'd, by Warrant of any Justice of Peace of Middlesex or Westminster, and Sold within Three Days after Distress, returning the Overplus.

IV. The said Street shall be Construed to extend in Length from the Old Toll Post at the upper end of the [Page 48]Hay-Market, to the Phaenix Inn at the lower end, and in Breadth from Kennel to Kennel, which shall be e­steemed the Bounds of the said Market.

V. A Hand-Bell shall be Rung by the Toll-gatherer about the Market, Twice a Day on every Market Day, viz, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday weekly, at One Hours Distance, to give Notice of the time of ending the Market, according to the Stat. 2 W. & M cap. 8. In default of such Ringing, Persons Selling Hay or Straw, shall the next immediate Market Day, Stand and Sell Toll-free.

VI. All Forfeitures given by the foresaid Act, shall be Demanded in the said Market, by the Bell-Ringer, on the same Day on which they are incurr'd, and Com­plaint shall be made of the Offence to some Justice of the Quorum in Westminster, before the next succeeding Market Day, or else no person shall be liable to such For­feitures.

VII. The Collectors of the said Toll, shall yearly, at every Easter Sessions, give to the Justices of Peace of the said County and City, a particular Account, upon Oath, of their Receipts and Disbursements, and the Overplus to go to the County of Middlesex.

High-ways.

I. Stat. 8 & 9 W. 3. cap. 15. The Justices of Peace at their next Sessions for the County of Surrey, shall Appoint Surveyors of the High-ways for the year ensuing, pursuant to the Statute 3 & 4 W. & M. cap. 12. who shall meet and Survey the Lanes leading from Wood­hatch Borough to Sidlow Mill, and Salmons Cross in the Parish of Ryegate, and the Lanes called Horsehill, and Bonehurst, and Petteridge in the Parish of Horley, in the County of Surrey, and make their Certificates thereof to the Justices, who thereupon shall make such Orders in and about the same, as to them shall seem good.

II. The Surveyors shall require such Carts and Per­sons as are liable to work in the High-ways, to work in the respective Places, paying according to the usual Rate of the Country.

III. Where there is not sufficient Gravel, Chalk, Sand, or Stones to be found in the proper Parish, the Survey­ors, or whom they shall Appoint, may Dig, Take and Carry away the said Materials, By direction of the Ju­stices, out of the Waste or Common of any Neighbou­ring Parish, paying a reasonable Satisfaction for the same, and filling up the Ground, if directed or desired.

[Page 49] IV. The Justices at their special Sessions shall Appoint one or more Receiver or Receivers of Toll, viz. Of e­very Horse 1 d. Coach 6 d. Calash or Chariot 6 d. Waggon or Cart 6 d. Score of Sheep or Lambs 1 d. and so proportionably; Score of Calves 2 d. Score of Hogs 2 d. and so proportionably for a greater or lesser Num­ber, not being under Five; Score of Oxen or Neat Cat­tel 6 d. and so proportionably; that shall pass through the said Way after the passing of this Act. The Place for Collecting the said Tolls to be at such convenient Place upon the High-way, in or near the said Lanes as the Ju­stices of Peace at their special Sessions shall appoint.

V. The Receivers or Collectors of the said Toll shall give a monthly Account upon Oath, to one or more of the next Justices, to be Return'd to and Examin'd by the Justices at the next special Sessions. The Horse, Cart, &c. of any Person refusing to pay the said Toll, may be Distrain'd and Detain'd, till the Toll and Dama­ges of Distress be satisfied.

VI. The Surveyors shall at the next special Sessions, Ac­count to the Justices in Writing under their Hands, for all Moneys Receiv'd of the Collectors, and Disburse­ments in or about the said High-ways, Paying the Over­plus to the Surveyors for the year ensuing. And the Ju­stices shall make Allowances to them for their Care and Pains, as to them shall seem good.

VII. If the Collectors of the Toll shall not upon re­quest duly pay the same to the Surveyors, or in case the Surveyors shall not make such Account and Payments as the Justices shall Order, the Justices, upon due Proof, may Imprison the Offenders.

VIII. The Surveyors, or the more part of them, by Order of the Justices at their Special Sessions, may en­gage the Profits arising by the said Toll, by Indenture under their Hands and Seals, for any Term not ex­ceeding Fifteen years, to any Persons who shall Lend any present Sum of Money at 6 per Cent. Which Mo­ney so Advanced shall be Distributed by the Iustices at their Special Sessions, for the Purposes aforesaid.

IX. Such as neglect or refuse (having no Lawful ex­cuse) to take upon him the Office of Surveyor, being thereunto chosen, shall be Fined by the Justices, not exceeding 5 l. to be Levied by Distress and Sale of Goods, and in such case, or in case of Death, some o­ther Person to be chosen Surveyor.

X. All Fines and Forfeitures, Incurr'd by virtue of this Act, shall be paid to the Surveyors for the time be­ing, for and towards the Repairing the said Lanes.

[Page 50] XI. Actions brought against any Person, for any thing done in pursuance of this Act, shall be laid in the said County of Surrey, and not elsewhere; the Defen­dant may Plead the General Issue, and give the Special Matter in Evidence, &c. and in case the Cause goes for the Defendant, he shall have double Costs.

XII. Persons passing the Place where Toll is taken, and returning the same day, shall not Pay Toll twice, nor shall Persons pay who pass with Carriages from any next adjoyning Parish, going to Market, or in Matters of Husbandry, nor Soldiers upon their March, nor Per­sons Riding Post.

XIII. Persons Chargeable by Law towards Repairing of the said High-ways shall still remain so.

XIV. This Act shall be of force no longer than for Twenty years; and if the said Lanes shall be sooner amended, and so adjudged by the Justices at their Quar­ter Sessions, then after payment of the Money Borrow­ed, the aforesaid Toll shall cease.

XV. The Justices of Surrey, and also the Justices of Sussex shall yearly at the Epiphany Quarter Sessions, if they think fit, appoint Three Persons of each County, to view the said Lanes, and examine the Surveyors Ac­counts; and in case they find any misapplication of the Moneys Levied by this Act, to certifie the same to the Judges at the next Assizes for the County of Surrey, who are to hear and finally determine the same.

XVI. Stat. 8 & 9 W. 3. cap. 16. For enlarging Com­mon High-ways, It is Enacted, that the Justices of Peace of any County, City, &c. or the major Part of them (Five at least) at their Quarter Sessions, may en­large or widen any High-ways in their respective Coun­ties, &c. So that the Ground to be taken into the said High-ways do not exceed Eight Yards in Breadth, and that they do not pull down any House, nor take away any Ground from Garden, Orchard, Court or Yard.

XVII. For Satisfaction of the Owners, the said Justi­ces shall Impannel a Jury, and Administer an Oath to them, that they will Assess such Damages, and Recom­pence to the Owners or others Interested in the Ground (not exceeding 25 Years Purchase) as they shall think reasonable, &c. And upon payment of the said Money so Awarded, or leaving it in the Hands of the Clerk of the Peace of the County, for the Use of the Owner, the Interest of the said Owner shall be divested out of him, and the said Ground shall be esteemed a Publick High-way to all Intents whatsoever.

[Page 51] XVIII. And the said Justices shall order Assessments to be made and Levied upon all such persons that ought to Repair the said High-way; and the Money thereby Rai­sed shall be Imploy'd towards Purchasing the Land, to enlarge the said High-ways, and making Ditches and Fences. The said Assessments to be Levied by the O­verseers of the High-ways, by Distress and Sale of Goods, if not paid within Ten Days after Demand.

XIX. No such Assessment shall, in one Year, exceed the Rate of 6 d. in the Pound for Lands, nor 6 d. in the Pound for personal Estates.

XX. The said Justices, at the Request of any Person for enlarging High-ways, shall, at their Quarter Sessions, Issue out their Precepts to the Owners of Ground to be Laid to the said High ways, to Appear and shew Cause why the said High-ways should not be enlarged.

XXI. After an Order or Decree is made for the Lay­ing out of Ground for enlarging High-ways, the Owner hath Liberty, in Eight Months after, to Cut down any Wood or Timber growing upon the said Ground; or upon neglect, the Justices shall Sell it, and deliver to the Owner the Value.

XXII. Persons Agrieved by Order of the Justices, may Appeal to the Judges of Assize at the next Assize only, who may Affirm or Reverse the same; and if they see cause to affirm, to Award Costs against the Appellant.

XXIII. Where any Common High-way shall be enclosed, after a Writ of Ad quod Damnum Issued and Executed, any person Injured or Agrieved by such Inclosure, may Complain to the Justices at the Quarter Sessions next after such Inquisition, who may hear and finally determine the same, &c. But if no such Appeal be made, then the said Inquisition and Return, Recorded by the Clerk of the Peace, to be for ever Binding.

XXIV. Justices of Peace at their respective special Sessions, to be held by Virtue of the Stat. 3 & 4 W. & M. (cap. 12.) in such Cases as they shall think necessary, shall direct their Precepts to the Surveyors of the High-ways, where Two or more Cross High-ways meet, requiring them to erect, where such Ways joyn, a Stone or Post with an Inscription, directing to the next Market Town, to which each of the said Cross Ways lead. And in case the Surveyor or Surveyors neglect or refuse so to do, for the space of Three Months, every such Offender shall Forfeit 10 s. to be Levied by Warrant of one Justice, direct­ed to the Constable, requiring him to Distrain and Sell the Goods of such Offender, and Imploy the Money to the said Purpose.

[Page 52] XXV. Stat. 9 & 10 W. 3. cap. 18. The Justices of Peace at the Quarter Sessions for the County of Glou­cester (or any Five of them) next after 1 May, 1698. may then and every Year nominate and appoint Surveyors of the ruinous High-way and Road from the Town of Birdlipp, and the Top of Crickley-Hill in the County of Gloucester, to the City of Gloucester, for the Year ensuing, out of the Inhabitants of the adjacent Pa­rishes, who, within one Week after Notice given them of their Election, are to meet in their several Divisi­ons to Survey the same, and consider the best Method for Repair thereof, and Certifie the same to the Justi­ces at the next Quarter Sessions, who thereupon shall make such Orders about the same, as to them shall seem good, which shall be observed by the said Sur­veyors, and all others concerned in putting this Act in Execution.

XXVI. The said Surveyors may appoint such Carts and Persons within the said adjacent Parishes, to come and Work in the said respective Places as they shall think needful, for which the Surveyors shall pay the usual Rate of the Countrey, in case they shall be re­quired to Work beyond the times limited by the Statutes.

XXVII. Where there is not sufficient Gravel, Sand or Stones, in any Parish or Hamlet where the said ruinous places lye, to Repair the same, the said Sur­veyors, and such as they shall appoint, may dig and carry away any Gravel, Sand, or Stones, out of the Waste or Common of any Neighbouring Parish or Ham­let, without paying for the same, and in Default there­of, may dig the same in any persons Grounds (not being an House, Garden, Orchard, Yard or Meadow, or Avenue to an House) making only such reason­able satisfaction to the Owner or Occupier of such Ground, as the Damage sustained thereby.

XXVIII. The said Justices at the Quarter Sessions may appoint Receivers or Collectors of the Toll to be paid (towards the said Work) viz. For every Horse, One Peny. Every Stage Coach or Hackney Coach, One Shilling. Every other Coach, Calash or Chariot, One Shilling. Every Wagon, Six Pence. Every Cart, Six Pence. Every Score of Hogs or Pigs, Three Pence, and so proportionably for a greater or lesser Quantity not under Five. Every Score of Oxen or Neat Cattle, Eight Pence, and so proportionably for every greater or lesser Number: To be paid from the passing [Page 53]of the Act by all persons who shall Travel with Horse, Coach, Cart or Wagon, or shall lead or drive any Oxen or other Cattle beforementioned, in and through the High-way aforesaid, to the said Collectors or Re­ceivers, at some convenient place on the said High­way, between the Top of Birdlipp and City of Glou­cester, where a Turn-pike or Gate may be set up, as the Justices shall appoint.

XXIX. Every Receiver or Collector, shall, if Re­quired, give in a weekly Account, upon Oath, to one or more of the Justices, to be returned to the Justices at the Quarter Sessions, to Examine and make such Order therein, as to them shall seem meet.

XXX. Any person refusing or neglecting to pay the said Toll on Demand, the Collector or Receiver may Distrain and Detain such Horse, Cart, Coach, Calash, Chariot, Wagon, Oxen, Hogs and other Cattle till the Toll be paid, with Damages in making the Distress: Which Money so received shall be paid to the Surveyors, towards mending the said Ruinous Places in the said High-ways, and not elsewhere.

XXXI. The said Surveyors at the Quarter Sessions next after the end of their Year shall give an Account to the Justices of their Receipts and Disbursments, that the Overplus of the Money (if any) may be paid to the succeeding Surveyors, towards amending the said High-ways, or Repaying the Money Lent before hand: And such Allowances shall be made by the Justices, to the Surveyors and others, assisting in the said amend­ing, or advancing Moneys thereto, as to them shall seem meet.

XXXII. If the Collector or Receiver shall not duly pay the Surveyors, or if the Surveyors shall not make the payments Ordered by the Justices, then the Justices at the Quarter Sessions shall enquire thereinto upon Oath, and Commit the persons Convicted thereof to Goal, till they have made a true Account and Payment.

XXXIII. The said Surveyors for the time being, by Order of the Justices, or any Five of them, may In­gage the Profits arising by the said Toll, and by a Le­vy upon the respective Parishes, pursuant to the Act made 3 & 4 W. & M. for the better Repairing and A­mending the High-ways, and for Settling the Rates of Carriage of Goods, or by any other Act, for the Mo­neys by them borrowed for that purpose, and may, under their Hands and Seals, Transfer the said Profits for any Term, not exceeding Fifteen Years, to such as will, upon that Security, Advance the Money so Lent, [Page 54]with Interest: And the Justices shall Distribute the said Money to any persons, giving Security to Repair and Amend the said High way, in the proportions afore­said.

XXXIV. Any person, without Lawful excuse, neg­lecting or refusing to take upon him the Office of Surveyor, being thereunto chosen, or to do his Duty therein, may be Fined by the Justices, not ex­ceeding 5 l. And in such case, or in case of Death, some other person shall be appointed Surveyor by the Justices, or two of them: Which Fines and Forfeitures shall be paid to the Surveyors, towards Repairing the said High-ways.

XXXV. If a Suit be Commenced for any thing done in pursuance of this Act, the Action shall be laid in the County of Gloucester only, and the Defendant may Plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence, and if the Action be laid elsewhere, or the Plaintiff be Non Suit, or Discontinue his Action, or have Judgment against him upon De­murrer, the Defendant shall have Double Costs and Charges.

XXXVI. No person passing where the Toll is taken, and returning the same day, shall pay a second time; and persons passing through the said place from any adjoyning Parish, may carry Stones, Lime, Gravel, Dung, Mould or Compost, and Carts with Hay not sold, or going to Market, or Corn in the Straw at Hay time or Harvest, Ploughs, Harrows and other Implements of Husbandry, and Stock of Cattle belong­ing to the Lands of the respective Parishes, shall pass the said place without paying; as also all Soldiers on their March, and the Carts, Wagons and Coaches attending them, and all persons riding Post.

XXXVII. All persons Chargeable by Law, towards Repairing the said High-ways, shall still remain so.

XXXVIII. This Act shall not be in Force longer than Twenty Years from 24 Jun. 1698. And if before the Expiration of the said Term, the said High-ways shall be sufficiently amended, and so adjudged by the Justi­ces at their Quarter Sessions, then upon repayment of the Moneys borrowed, the said Toll shall cease.

XXXIX. No Turnpike shall be Erected, nor Toll De­manded, till Security given to the Justices at the Quarter Sessions, that the said High-way shall, within Five Years, be sufficiently Repaired.

XL. The persons so giving Security shall have full power to Levy, for Twenty Years after 24 Jun. 1698. [Page 55]Six Pence in the Pound, with the Arrears thereof, on all the Parishes adjoyning to the said High-way, to­wards the Repairing thereof; and shall cause to be done by the Parishioners, within the said Parishes, all that is required by the forementioned Act of 3 & 4 W. & M. for the better Repairing the High­ways, or by any other Act: And if the Toll Granted by this Act, with the Sum Charged on the said Parishes, be not sufficient to Repair the said High-way, with­in the time limited, the persons so giving Security shall Levy and Collect Two Pence in the Pound on the Hundred and Hundreds in which the said High-way, or any part thereof, doth lye; to be Levied by Di­stress and Sale of Goods, if not paid within Ten days after Demand: And if the persons so giving Security shall not do what is required of them by this Act, they shall forfeit 100 l. per Ann. to such person as shall sue for the same.

XLI. The persons so having given Security, in case the said High-way shall not be sufficiently Repaired, or Certified so to be by the Justices of the Peace for Herefordshire, or Ten of them, by the time limited in their Security, shall, over and above the Sums they shall be bound for, Forfeit 500 l. One moiety to the Repairing the said High-way, the other to such person as shall Sue for the same.

XLII. The Toll shall not be Demanded, by virtue of this Act, unless the Security given to the Justices of Peace of Gloucestershire, at the Quarter Sessions, shall be approved of by Five Justices of Peace for Here­fordshire, under their Hands and Seals.

Imprisonment.

I. STat. 9 W. 3 cap. 4. Enacted, That Counter, John Bernardi, Robert Cassells, Robert Meldrum, James Chambers and Robert Blackburne, being in New­gate for a Traiterous Conspiracy to Assassinate his Ma­jesty, together with such other persons as shall hereaf­ter render themselves, or be apprehended, and against whom Oath shall be made of their being concerned in the said Conspiracy, shall be Detained and Kept in Custody, without Bail or Mainprize till 1 Jan. 1698. and to the end of the next Session of Parliament, unless they shall be sooner Bailed or Discharged by Six of the Privy Council.

Iuries.

I. Stat. 8 & 9 W. 3. cap. 10. It shall be lawful at any time before the 1st of Nov. 1697. for all Sheriffs or Co­roners of Counties where Lists have not been Return­ed, pursuant to the Act made the first Sessions of this present Parliament, Intituled, An Act for the Ease of Jurors, and better Regulating of Juries, to make Returns of Jurors in all Cases, as they might have done before the making of the said Act. And from and after the Feast of S. Michael, 1697. all Justices of the Peace are Required and Commanded, at their Sessions of the Peace next before the Feast of S. Michael yearly, to Issue forth Precepts to the respective Constables within their respective Counties or Divisions, requiring them to make such Return of Persons to Serve upon Juries, as by the said Act is directed.

Iudicial Proceedings.

I. Stat. 9 & 10 W. 3. cap. 16. The High Court of Chancery, Court of Exchequer at Westminster, or Court of Great Sessions in the respective Counties in Wales, where the Cause or Causes Originally arose, may issue forth Execution or Executions, and other Processes, up­on every Judgment or Decree given or made in the Court held before the President and Council of the Mar­ches of Wales, before 1 June, 1689. as if such Judg­ment or Decree had been given or made in either of the said Courts of the Exchequer or Grand Ses­sions.

II Provided, That the said Courts have power to Review, Rehear, Reverse or Affirm the said Judgments and Decrees.

Iustices of Peace.

I. Stat. 8 & 9 W. 3. cap. 33. The Act made 5 & 6 W. & M. Intituled, An Act to Prevent Delays of Proceedings at the Quarter Sessions of the Peace, shall be and is continued and made Perpetual.

II. After the 21st of April, 1697. the Party prosecu­ting any Certiorari to remove an Indictment from the Quarter Sessions, may find two sufficient Manucaptors to enter into a Recognizance before any one of the Justices of the Kings Bench, in the same Sum, and un­der the same Condition as are required by the former [Page 57]Act, whereof mention shall be made on the Back of the Writ, under the Hand of the Justice who took the same, which shall be as Effectual to stay Proceed­ings, as if taken before a Justice of Peace in the Pro­per County, and it shall be added to the Condition of the Recognizance that the Party Suing out the Certiorari shall appear from day to day in the Court of Kings Bench, and not depart till discharged by the said Court.

Malt.

I. STat. 9 & 10. W. 3. cap. 22. Whereas there hath been some doubt whether the Act made 39 Eliz. Intituled, An Act to restrain the Excessive making of Malt, be now in Force, yet nevertheless several Justices of Peace at their Quarter Sessions, have made Orders to Restrain Malsters from Buying of Barley for Malting, and from Exercising the Imploy of Malting for a year, to the lessening his Majesties Revenue by the Duty of 6 d. per Bushel laid on Malt, and a Discouragement to Mal­sters: Enacted, That the said Act of A. 39 Eliz. be Re­pealed, and all Orders made by Justices of Peace, for Restraining Malsters from making of Malt, since the said Duty of 6 d. per Bushel was laid on Malt, are here­by Vacated.

Militia.

I. Stat. 8 & 9. W. 3. cap. 35. If at any time before 25 Apr. 1698. It shall be found by his Majesty to be neces­sary for the Defence of this Kingdom, to draw out the Militia Soldiers into actual Service, and the same shall be signified to the respective Lieutenants, Deputy Lieute­nants, &c. It shall be Lawful for the said Lieutenants, &c. notwithstanding that one or more Months Pay before that time advanced, be not reimbursed, to raise and draw out the said Soldiers into actual Service, and to cause the persons charged, to provide each their Soldier with Pay in hand, not exceeding one months Pay.

II. Stat. 9 & 10. W. 3. cap. 31. If at any time before 24 June, 1699. It shall be found necessary by his Maje­sty for the defence and safety of this Kingdom, to draw out into actual Service, the Soldiers mentioned and ap­pointed [Page 60]in and by the Act made Anno 13 & 14 Car. 2. In­tituled, An Act for Ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom, and the same shall be declared and signified by his Majesty to the respective Lieutenants, or Deputy-Lieutenants, and the Warden of the Cinque­ports, &c. It shall be lawful for the said Lieutenants, or their Deputies, or any three or more of them, and the Warden of the Cinque ports, or his Lieutenant, in pursuance of such Orders from his Majesty, notwithstand­ing that one or more months Pay before that time advan­ced be not reimbursed, to raise and draw out the said Soldiers into actual Service, charged with Pay in hand, not exceeding one months Pay.

III. Papists or reputed Papists, and persons refusing to take the Oaths mentioned in the Act 1 W. & M. Inti­tuled, An Act for abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Al­legiance, and appointing other Oaths, chargeable in respect of their Estates to the finding a Horse, Horseman and Arms, or a Foot Soldier and Arms, the Lieutenants or Deputy-Lieutenants of the County, or Division where such Estates do lye, or three or more of them, may ap­point such person as they shall think meet, to furnish one or more Horsemen, or Foot-Soldiers and Arms for the said Estates, and may charge the said Estates with 8 l for a Horse, Horseman and Arms, and 30 s. for every Foot-Soldier and Arms: And if the persons so chargeable, neglect or refuse to pay the same on demand, the said Lieutenants, or Deputy-Lieutenants, may levy the same by Distress and Sale of Goods of such Papists, &c. or up­on their Tenants; and the Arrears for the like Services already performed, to be determined by three or more Deputy-Lieutenants, rendring the Overplus, the charge in levying thereof being first deducted: And the Te­nants so distrain'd on, may deduct the same out of their Rents.

IV. Where two or more persons are charged to find any Horse, or Foot-Soldier and Arms, three or more Deputy-Lieutenants of the County or Division, may direct who shall find the Horse and Arms, or Foot-Soldier and Arms, and who shall be the Contributors; and settle the Payments by every Contributor, if not ascertained by the Parties: And such Contributor or his Tenant, not paying his proportion upon demand, three or more of the Deputy-Lieutenants of the County or Division, may levy the same by Distress and Sale of Goods of the person so neglecting or refusing to pay, rendring the Overplus, the charge in levying being first deducted: And the Te­nant [Page 61]may deduct the Sum so charged out of the Rent, payable to his Landlord.

Partitions.

I. STat. 8 & 9 W. 3. cap. 31. From and after the first day of May, 1697, after Process of Pone or Attachment return'd upon a Writ of Partition, and Affi­davit made of due notice given of the said Writ of Par­tition, to the Tenant or Tenants to the Action, and a Co­py thereof left with the Occupier, or in the Tenants absence to the Wife, Son or Daughter (of the Age of 21) of the Tenant in Possession, of the Manors, Lands, &c. whereof the Partition is to be, (unless the Tenant in Pos­session be Demandant in the Action) at least 40 days be­fore the return of the Pone or Attachment, if there be no Appearance entred in 15 days after the return, in the Court where such Writs are returnable, then the Demandant having entred his Declaration, the Court may proceed to examine the Demandants Right and Part, and according as they shall find the same to be, they shall for so much give Judgment by Default, and a­ward a Writ to make Partition; which Writ being exe­cuted after 8 days notice to the Occupier, and return'd, and thereupon final Judgment entred, the same shall be good, and conclude all persons whatsoever, although all persons concerned are not named in the Proceedings, nor the Title of the Tenants truly set forth.

II. Provided, that if any person concerned, against whose Right such Judgment by default is given, shall within one year after, (or in case of Infancy, Coverture, Non Sanae Memoriae, or absence Beyond-Seas, within one year after such Inability removed) move the Court where such Judgment is entred, and shew good matter in Bar of such Partition; then the Court may suspend or set a­side such Judgment, and admit the Tenant to appear and [Page 63]plead, and the Cause shall proceed, as if no such Judg­ment had been given; and if the Court shall adjudge for the first Demandant, then the first Judgment shall stand confirm'd, and the person so appealing shall pay Costs; or if within such time, the persons concerned shall shew to the Court an inequality in the Partition, the Court may award a new Partition to be made, in presence of all Parties concerned (if they will appear,) which se­cond Partition return'd and filed, shall be good and firm against all persons (except as before) for ever.

III. No Plea in Abatement shall be admitted in any Suit for Partition, nor shall the same abate by reason of the Death of any Tenant.

IV. When the High Sheriff cannot conveniently be pre­sent at the Execution of any Judgment in Partition, the Under-Sheriff in presence of two Justices of Peace of the County, may proceed to the Execution of the same, by Inquisition in due Form of Law, and the High Sheriff shall make the same Return as if he were personally pre­sent: After Partition made, return'd, and filed, the Un­der-Tenants shall continue in their Tenancies, as before they were divided and set out to the respective Land­lords, under the same Rents and Covenants, &c. so also where any Demandant is Tenant in actual Pos­session to the Tenant to the Action for his part and pro­portion, or any part thereof.

V. The respective Sheriffs, Under-Sheriffs and Depu­ties, and Justices of Peace (in case of Disability in the High-Sheriff) shall give due attendance to the Execu­ting of such Writ of Possession, or every of them to pay the Demandant Costs and Damages not exceeding Five pounds; for Which the Demandant may bring his Action in any of the Kings Courts at Westminster, wherein no Essoin, &c. In case the Demandant shall not pay the Sheriffs, &c. such Fees as they demand, the Court shall award what each person shall receive.

VI. This Act to continue for seven years, and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament.

Poor.

I. Stat. 8 & 9 W. 3. cap. 30. If any person who af­ter the First Day of May, 1697. shall come to any Parish or other Place to Inhabit, shall at the same time deliver to any of the Church Wardens or Overseers of the Poor of the Place where he comes, a Certificate under the Hands and Seals of the Church-wardens or Overseers of the Poor of any other Parish or Place, Attested by Two or [Page 64]more Witnesses, thereby owning the Person mentioned in the Certificate to be an Inhabitant legally Settled in that Parish or Place, such Certificate having been Al­lowed and Subscribed by Two Justices of Peace of the County, City or Borough from whence it comes, shall oblige the said Parish or Place, to receive and provide for the person mentioned in the Certificate with his Fa­mily, as Inhabitants, whenever the party shall happen to become Chargeable to the place to which such Cer­tificate was given; and then, and not before, it shall be Lawful for such Person, and his Children (though Born in that Parish) not having otherwise Acquired a Legal Settlement, to be removed to the place from whence such Certificate was brought.

II. After 1 September, 1697. every such person as shall receive Relief of any Parish or Place, and the Wife and Children cohabiting in the same House (except such Child as shall be permitted to live at home to attend some helpless Parent) shall, upon the Right Shoulder of their upper Garment, in a visible manner, wear a large Roman P, with the first Letter of the Name of the Parish or Place where the said person Inhabits, cut in Red or Blue Cloath, as the Church­wardens or Overseers shall appoint. The Poor per­son neglecting or refusing to wear such Badge or Mark, may be punish'd by any Justice of Peace of the County, either by ordering his or her Relief on the Collection to be abridged or withdrawn, or by Committing the party to the House of Correction, not exceeding 21 Days; and if any Church-warden or Overseer of the Poor, after the said 1 Septemb. shall relieve any such Poor person, not wearing such Badge, he being Convicted by one Witness before a Justice of Peace, shall Forfeit for every such Offence 20 s. to be Levied by Distress and Sale of Goods, one Moiety to the use of the Informer, the other to the Poor of the Parish.

III. Justices of Peace at their Quarter Sessions, upon any Appeal concerning the Settlement of any Poor person, or upon Proof of notice given of an Appeal (though the Appeal was not afterwards Prosecuted) shall Award to the party for whom such Appeal shall be Determined, or to whom such notice had been given, such Costs and Charges as the said Justices shall think reasonable; and if the person order'd to pay such Costs shall live out of the Jurisdiction, any Justice of the Peace where such person shall Inhabit, may and shall, upon request, and a true Copy of the Order for pay­ment produced and proved upon Oath, cause the [Page 65]Money mentioned in that Order to be Levied by Di­stress; and in case no Goods can be found, to Commit the person to Prison for Twenty Days.

IV. No unmarried person, not having Child or Chil­dren, lawfully hired into any Parish or Town for one year, shall be deemed to have a good Settlement in such Parish, unless he shall continue in the same Service du­ring one whole year.

V. Where any poor Children shall be Appointed to be bound Apprentices, pursuant to the Act of 43 Eliz. (cap. 2.) the Persons to whom they are appointed to be Bound, shall receive and provide for them according to the Indenture; and upon refusal so to do, upon Oath thereof made by a Churchwarden or Overseer, before Two Justices, he or she, so Offending, shall Forfeit 10 l. to be Levied by Distress and Sale of Goods, to be Applied to the use of the Poor of the Parish where such Offence was Committed. Saving to such persons their Appeal to the next Quarter Sessions for that County, whose Order therein shall be final.

VI. After the 1 of May, 1697 the Appeal against any Order for the Removal of any Boor person, shall be had at the Quarter Sessions of the County or Divisi­on, wherein the Parish or Place from whence such Person shall be removed, doth lie, and not elsewhere.

VII. Nothing in this Act to extend to make void any promise already made, to receive and take back any persons, in case they should become poor or want Re­lief.

VIII. Nor be construed to hinder the Justices of Peace, within the Liberty of St. Albans, from Hear­ing and Determining Appeals in their Quarter Sessions, as they might have done before the making this Act.

IX. Stat. 9 & 10 W. 3. cap. 11. For Explaining the Act made the last preceding Session, Intituled, An Act for supplying some Defects in the Laws for the Relief of the Poor of this Kingdom, whereby it was Enacted, That such per­sons as after 1 May, 1697. shall come into any Parish or Place to Inhabit or Reside, should at the same time deli­ver to the Church-wardens or Overseers of the Poor there a Certificate, as by the Act directed, It is Declared, That no persons, who shall come into any Parish by any such Certificate, shall be adjudged by any Act whatsoever, to have procured a legal Settlement in such Parish, unless such persons shall bona fide take a Lease of a Tenement of 10 l. per Annum, or shall legally be placed in and exe­cute some Annual Office in such Parish.

Prisons and pretended Privileged Places.

I. Stat. 8 & 9 W. 3. cap. 27. After 1 May, 1697. All Prisoners in the Kings Bench or Fleet, on Contempt, Mesne Process or Execution, shall be actually detain'd within the said Prisons, or the Rules of the same, till discharged by Law.

II. If after 1 May, 1697. the Keeper of any Prison suffer any Prisoner Committed on Mesne Process or Ex­ecution, to be out of the Rules, except on a Habeas Corpus or Rule of Court, it shall be deem'd an Escape.

III. After 1 May, every person obtaining Judg­ment in an Action of Escape against the Marshal or Warden of the said Prisons of the Kings Bench and Fleet, shall have not only the Remedies already allowed by Law, but (if such Judgment was obtain'd without fraud upon a real Debt) the profits of the said Marshal or Warden, or some fit part thereof, shall be Sequestred towards Satisfaction of the said Debt, with Costs and Da­mages.

IV. And after the said 1 May, such Marshal or War­den Suing forth a Writ of Error, for delay only, shall put in special Ball, or no Execution shall be stayed.

V. If the Keeper of any Prison take Money to connive at any Escape, he shall Forfeit 500 l. and his Office.

VI. This Act shall not make void the Securities given by Prisoners for their Lodgings without the said Pri­sons of the Kings Bench and Fleet, being within the Rules of the same.

VII. After the said 1 May, No Retaking shall be given in Evidence in an Action of Escape, unless specially Pleaded, and Oath made by the Keeper of the Prison, That such Escape was without his Consent; But if such Affidavit prove false, such Keeper shall Forfeit 500 l.

VIII. If after 1 May, any Prisoner in Execution E­scape, the Creditor may retake such Prisoner by any New Capias, or may Sue forth any other kind of Execution.

IX. Every Keeper's refusing, after one days notice, to shew the Prisoner in Execution to the Creditor or his Attorney, shall be judged an Escape.

X. Persons desiring to Charge any Person with an Acti­on or Execution, shall, at their request, have a Note in Writing from the Keeper of the Prison, whether such person be a Prisoner or not, under Forfeiture of 50 l. And such Note shall be sufficient Evidence.

XI. All Conveyances and Mortgages of the Inheri­tance of the said Prisons of Kings Bench and Fleet, and their Appurtenances, and all Leases thereof, and [Page 67]the Titles of the Marshal and Warden, or other Pro­prietor thereunto, and all Trusts and Declarations of Trust touching the same, shall be Inrolled before the 24 of June, 1697. viz. That of the Kings Bench in the Kings Bench Court, and that of the Fleet in the Com­mon Pleas, and also all such Conveyances, &c. for the future, within six Months after executing the same, or else to be void.

XII. After the said 1 May, the Offices of Marshal of the Kings Bench Prison and Warden of the Fleet, shall be Executed by the Persons to whom the Inheri­tance of those Prisons, &c. belongs, or their sufficient Deputies, for whom the persons having such Inheritan­ces, shall be answerable, and the said Inheritances and Profits shall be subject to make satisfaction upon Escapes and the Misdemeanors of such Deputies.

XIII. After the said 1 May, any Person having Cause of Action against the Warden of the Fleet, may File a Bill in the Common Pleas or Exchequer, and a Rule being given to Plead thereto within Eight Days, Judg­ment shall be Sign'd against the said Warden, if he Plead not within Three Days after such Rule is out.

XIV. After the said 1 May, Any person having Cause of Action against any Prisoner in the Fleet, entring a Declaration, and delivering a Copy thereof to such Pri­soner, in any personal Action, or to the Turn-key or Porter of the Fleet, after a Rule to Plead, to be out at Eight Days, and Oath made before a Judge of the De­livery of such Declaration, may Sign Judgment against such Prisoner or Defendant.

XV. After the said 1 May, No Prisoners shall pay Chamber Rent in the Kings Bench or Fleet Prisons, lon­ger than while they are actually in possession of such Chambers, and not above 2 s. 6 d. per Week; and if the Keeper of any Prison take more, to Forfeit 20 l.

XVI. After the said 1 May, All persons having Mo­neys owing from any person in any pretended Privileg'd Place, as White Fryars, Savoy, Salisbury Court, Ram-Alley, Mitre Court, Fullers Rents, Baldwyns Gardens, Mountague Close, or the Minories, Mint, Clink or Deadmans Place, may, upon a Legal Process taken out, Require the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, the Head Bayliff of the Dutchy Liberty, or the High She­riff of Surrey, or Bayliff of Southwark, or their De­puties or Officers, to take the Posse Comitatus and Arrest such person, or Seize their Goods upon Execution or Extent; And such Sheriffs or Officers neglecting or re­fusing, to Forfeit to the Plaintiff 100 l. And every [Page 68]person Opposing or Resisting such Officers shall Forfeit 50 l. and be sent to Goal till the next Assizes, &c. and suffer such Imprisonment, and be set in the Pillory, as the Court shall think fit.

XVII. And if any Rescous be made of any such Pri­soner, the persons aiding therein, shall respectively For­feit to the Plaintiff 500 l.

XVIII. Which Forfeiture with Costs of Suit, not be­ing paid within One Month after Judgment for the Recovery thereof, the person so refusing or neglecting, shall be Transported to some of the Plantations for Se­ven years; and returning again within the Seven years, to be guilty of Felony without Benefit of Clergy.

XIX. And the persons inhabiting within any such pre­tended Privileg'd Places, harbouring any person who shall have made such Rescous, shall be Transported, as aforesaid, unless they pay the Plaintiff the whole Debt and Costs within One Month after Conviction.

XX. The Penalties in this Act to go one half to his Majesty, and the other half to the Prosecutor.

XXI. This Act shall be taken to be a general Law, and not necessary to be set forth in Pleading. Any person Sued for putting it in Execution, may Plead the general Issue, and give the Act in Evidence; and if upon a Ver­dict, Discontinuance or Demurrer, Judgment pass for the Defendant, he shall have double Costs.

XXII. Saving to Martha Johnson Widow, and her Children, their Claim to the Houses and Shops belong­ing to the Fleet. And this Act not to lessen the Securi­ty for Money out of the Mashalship of the Kings Bench Prison, made by William Lenthall Esq to Sir John Cutler, Bar^t. decased, or to his Executor Edmund Boulter Esq

XXIII. And saving to Anthony Smith Mariner, his Heirs, &c. their Claim to the Office of Warden of the Fleet, or to the Prison or Houses and Shops thereto be­longing, after a Mortgage made thereof by Thomas Bromhall unto Henry Norwood Esq with a Proviso for Thomas Norwood Surviving Executor of Henry Nor­wood, touching a Mortgage of the said Office of War­den for 2153 l. And for John Clements Gent. for a like Mortgage for 2299 l.

XXIV. All Deputations, &c. made heretofore by William Lenthall Esq of the said Office of Marshal of the Marshalsea of the Kings Bench Prison, are declared void, and all succeeding Marshals shall be appointed by the said William Lenthall, with the Consent of Ed­mund Boulter Esq till the Debt owing to the said Ed­mund Boulter, as Executor to the said Sir John Cutler, be satisfied.

Religion.

I. STat. 9 & 10 W. 3. cap. 32. For Suppressing Blas­phemy and Profaneness, It is Enacted, That such persons as having been Educated in, or having made Profession of the Christian Religion within this Realm, and shall by Writing, Printing, Teaching, or Ad­vised Speaking, deny any one of the Persons in the Holy Trinity to be GOD, or shall assert or main­tain there are more Gods than One, or shall deny the Christian Religion to be True, or the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be of Divine Au­thority, and be thereof lawfully Convicted, shall for the First Offence be incapable to have or enjoy any Offices or Imployments Ecclesiastical, Civil or Military, or any part in them, or profit by them; and the Of­fices, Places and Imployments enjoyed by such persons at their Conviction shall be Void: And being a second time Convicted of any the aforesaid Crimes, shall be Disabled to Sue, Prosecute, Plead or Use any Action or Information in Law or Equity, or be Guardian of any Child, or Executor or Administrator of any person, or capable of any Legacy or Deed of Gift, or to bear any Office Civil or Military or Benefice Ec­clesiastical for ever, within this Realm, and shall suffer Three Years Imprisonment, from the time of such Conviction, without Bail or Mainprize.

II. No person shall be Prosecuted by Virtue of this Act for Words spoken, unless the Information be gi­ven upon Oath before some Justice of Peace within Four days, and the Prosecution be within Three Months after such Information.

III. Persons Convicted of any of the said Crimes, shall for the First Offence (upon Renouncing such Er­roneous Opinions in the Court where Convicted, with­in Four Months after Conviction) be Discharged from all Penalties and Disabilities incurred by such Convi­ction.

Rivets.

I. Stat. 9 & 10 W. 3. cap. 19. For cleansing and making Navigable the Chanel from Hithe at Colchester, to Wivenhoe, It is Enacted, That for 21 Years from 1 May, 1698. All Merchants or Owners of Goods, Wares and Merchandizes, that shall be brought into the River and Chanel, commonly called Colne, and [Page 70]shall be Landed at, or Shipped from Wivenhoe or the New Hithe in Colchester, or between either of the said places, shall pay to the Collectors to be chosen, to­wards the cleansing and making Navigable the said River and Chanel, the Duties hereafter expressed, viz. For every Bay, Say or Perpetuane, One Half peny per piece; For every Tun of Timber, six pence; For every Tun of Chalk for Lime, three pence; For every Tun of Paving Stone, six pence; For every Tun of all other kind of Stones or of Tobacco-pipe Clay, Ashes or Pan Tyles, and for every Chalder of Fullers Earth, or Chalder of Sea Coal, twelve pence; For every Tun of Oyl, three shillings; For every Tun of Wines or Brandy, five shillings; And for every Tun of all other Goods, Wares and Merchandizes, two shillings, and so proportionably for a greater or lesser Quantity of the foresaid Goods, to be paid before the said Goods, &c. shall be Landed and Delivered out, by the Merchant or Owner, to the Uses aforesaid.

II. All which Money shall be paid to the Collectors upon Demand, to be by them paid over to such per­son as shall be appointed the General Receiver by the Mayor, Aldermen, Assistants and Common Councel of the Borough of Colchester, for the Uses aforesaid.

III. In case of Failure of payment of the said Du­ties, the Collectors, so soon as such Goods, &c. shall be Landed or Delivered out, or Laden into any Ship or Vessel, may Distrain so much of the said Goods as may answer the said Duties, with Costs and Charges of Di­straining, and keep the same till the said Duties be sa­tisfied, and if not paid within Ten days, then to sell the same.

IV. The said Mayor and Aldermen, or their Assignees, may by the 25th of Decemb. 1698. Design and Lay out where such Chanel or River shall be made, en­larged, opened and continued between Wivenhoe and the New Hithe, and what points or parcels of Land are fit to be Cut and Laid out for making or enlar­ging such Chanel, as to them, their Deputies and Work­men, with the allowance of the Commissioners here­after mentioned, or any Five of them, shall seem meet, so as such Land, so to be laid out, exceed not One hundred Foot in breadth in any place.

V. It shall be lawful for the said Mayor and Common­alty, their Assignees and Workmen, to Cut and Dig the Land so laid out, and make new or larger all the pas­sages for Water through such Land, being the Ground or Soil of any person whatsoever, between Wivenhoe [Page 71]aforesaid and the New Hithe, and to remove all Gra­vel, Beds of Ouze, or any other Impediment to the Navigation, and lay the Earth, Soil and Stuff thence digged on any side of the Bank of such Chanel, and have free passage for Cutting, Cleansing or Amending the same, and to do all other necessary Matters for car­rying on the said Undertaking.

VI. But not to make any new Cut through any Land belonging to Anthony Earl of Kent, other than one piece called Gravel-Pit-Land, the Cut through the same not exceeding 40 Perches or Poles in length; and other than two other pieces called Forelands, belonging to the said Earl, the Cut through the same not exceeding 45 Perches in length, in either of them; Nor shall the Cut be made on the Land-side of the Wall or Bank there, nor so near as to prejudice such Wall or Bank: Nor to make any Cut through any Land belonging to Nicholas Corsellis Esq other than one piece called The Reede Point, the Cut through the same not exceeding 45 Perches or Poles in length. And in case any Wall, Sluce or Bank for the defence or benefit of the Lands of the said Earl of Kent or Nicholas Corsellis, or any other person or persons be damnified in Cutting or Cleansing the said Chanel, the said Mayor and Common­alty shall make good the same. And that no part of the Ground or Soil so dug shall be thrown on the Land­side of any persons Ground, without the Licence of the respective Owners thereof, but only upon the Walls or Banks, or the Border of the said Chanel, or some place between the Walls and Chanel; And for such points of Land as shall be severed from the main Land, by making a new Cut, the like satisfaction shall be made as to the Owners of such Land through which such Chanel shall be made or enlarged. And upon payment of the Money agreed on for the said Points, so sever­ed, the said Points or Parcels of Land shall be, toge­ther with the New Chanel, vested in the said Mayor and Commonalty and their Successors for ever.

VII. Provided, That if the said Mayor and Com­monalty shall not repair and make good the Premisses so damnified, they shall answer double Damages, be­sides Costs of Suit to the Owner or Proprietor of such Lands or Premisses, to be recovered by Action of Tres­pass, or upon the Case.

VIII. Provided, That the said Mayor and Common­alty shall make satisfaction to the Owners of such Land, or such as may sustain any Damage thereby, and pro­portion the satisfaction in respect thereof, and what [Page 72]Share any Tenant or other person shall have for the same. And in case any person refuse to Agree, or through Disability by Nonage or otherwise cannot, the said Commissioners shall issue their Warrants to the Sheriff of Essex, for Impanelling and Returning a Jury or Juries, who being Sworn, shall enquire of and assess such Damages as they shall judge fit: And the said Commis­sioners shall give Judgment for such sums so assessed by the Juries, and by Examination upon Oath, &c. shall hear and determine all Controversies touching the Premisses.

IX. Which said Judgments pronounced by the Com­missioners (Notice in Writing being first given of their Meeting to every Party concerned, or left for them) shall be Binding: And being in Writing, under the Hands and Seals of such Commissioners, shall be kept among the Records of the Sessions of Peace for Colche­ster, for all persons to resort to without Fee or Re­ward; and shall be taken as Evidence in any Court of Record.

X. Upon payment of the Mony so agreed on, or decreed, or tender thereof, or refusing to receive the same so tendred, then upon payment thereof to such persons as the Commissioners shall appoint, for the use of the persons interested therein (and not before) the said Mayor and Commonalty, their Workmen, Agents and Servants may Dig and Cut any such Land, as aforesaid, or do any such further Act for making the said Cha­nel and River Navigable. And the said Mayor and Commonalty, Commissioners and Persons Authorized by them, shall be Indempnified against the Heirs, Execu­tors, Administrators and Assigns of such Owners, as if such Land had been sold or conveyed from them to the said Mayor and Commonalty, and their Suc­cessors.

XI. The said Mayor, Aldermen, &c. may from time to time, during the said 21 Years, nominate and choose Collectors of the Money payable, as aforesaid, who shall pay the same to the Receiver General, for the Use of the said Mayor and Commonalty, for the pur­poses aforesaid, and no other.

XII. The Mayor of Colchester for the time being, and the Justices of Peace for the East Division of Essex for the time being, shall be Commissioners for the purposes aforesaid, and take the Accounts of the Receipts and Disbursements of the Money Collected and Levyed during the said Term, and shall and may call before them such Collectors or Receivers, and all [Page 73]other persons Intrusted with the Collection or manage­ment thereof, who shall give an Account thereof in Writing upon Oath; And the said Commissioners may Order the Moneys remaining upon such Account to be laid out for the purposes aforesaid: And if any such Collectors, Receivers or others, refuse to give such Account, or pay the Moneys then due, as the said Commissioners shall direct, they or any five of them may commit such persons to the Common Goal of the said Town, till they shall give such Account, and pay the Mo­ney due thereupon.

XIII. Every such Collector and Receiver shall, be­fore the Execution of such Office, take an Oath for the true Executing the same before the said Mayor.

XIV. After 1 May, 1698. no Goods, Wares or Mer­chandizes (except Wood or Timber) shall be laden or unladen at any Key or Wharf in the said River or Chanel, but only at Wivenhoe and the New Hithe a­foresaid, on pain of Forfeiting to the said Mayor, &c. 5 l. for the uses aforesaid: But not to prohibit the la­ding or unlading of any Goods at or from the late e­rected Wharf of Giles Sayer in the Parish of St. Giles in Colchester.

XV. Provided, That all Goods, &c. unloaden out of any Ship or Vessel at Wivenhoe, and not brought to Colchester, or within the Liberties thereof, or Laden at Wivenhoe, and not first Carried from or through Col­chester, or the Liberties thereof, shall not be liable to the said Duties, Oath being made thereof, if required, before such Collector, or any Custom-house Officer.

XVI. The said Mayor and Commonalty, by Inden­ture under their Common Seal, with consent of the Commissioners, may engage the Profits arising, as afore­said, for any Term not exceeding 21 Years, to any persons that will, upon such Security, advance Money for Carrying on the said Work, for securing the Re­payment thereof, with Interest, not exceeding 6 per Cent.

XVII. Provided, That if before the end of 21 Years sufficient Moneys shall be raised for the purposes afore­said, and so adjudged by the Commissioners, that then after Repayment of the Money so borrowed, with In­terest, the said Duties shall cease.

XVIII. Provided, That upon Dispute touching the Weight and Quantity of the Goods liable to the said Du­ties, the Collector may weigh the same, and if they prove more than the Collector did insist upon, the Owner shall bear the charges of weighing.

[Page 74] XIX. If any persons be proseeuted for Acting, in pursuance of this Act, they may plead the General Is­sue, and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evi­dence: And if the Prosecutor be Nonsuit, or Discon­tinue, or a Verdict, or Judgment pass against him, the Defendant shall recover Costs.

XX. Provided, That if a New Cut be made through the said Earl of Kents Land, called Gravel-Pit-Land, it shall be at the Election of the said Earl to have the Value of the Land so severed, or to keep the same. And if the said Earl shall within Twelve Months after such severance signifie his Election to keep the same, the Right thereof shall be Vested in the said Earl, and the said Mayor and Commonalty, &c. shall make a Wall and Bank cross the present Old Chanel at both ends thereof; which said Old Chanel shall also be Vested in the said Earl.

XXI. Provided, That this Act take not away any Persons Right of Fishing in the said River.

Salt.

I. Stat. 9 & 10 W. 3. cap. 6. After 25 Mar. 1698. No Badger, Retailer or other person, making or dealing in Salt, or buying Salt to sell again, shall sell or dispose of any Salt in England or Wales, and Town of Berwick, otherwise than by Weight, after the Rate of 56 Pound Weight to the Bushel, and not by mea­sure or any other manner, upon Forfeiture of Five Pounds to the Informer who shall prosecute for the same.

II. The Forfeitures and Offences against this Act shall be determined by any two or more Justices of Peace residing near the place where such Offence was com­mitted: But persons agrieved may appeal to the Justi­ces at the next General Quarter Sessions, whose Judg­ment therein shall be final.

III. All Justices of Peace, upon complaint of Offen­ces contrary to this Act, are to Summon the Party ac­cused, and upon proof of the Matter of Fact, by Oath of two or more Witnesses, or Confession of the Party, to give Judgment, and issue out Warrants for Levying such Forfeitures, on the Goods and Chattels of the Of­fender, to be sold, if not redeemed in six days, ren­dring the Overplus; and for want of Distress to Im­prison the Offender till satisfaction be made.

[Page 75] IV. When any Salt shall be Entred to be put on Board any Boat, Ship or Vessel, or carried by Land, and the Duty paid or secured, together with all Moneys then or before due and payable by Bond or otherwise, on Ac­count of Salt delivered, the proper Officer shall upon due Notice, by himself or Deputy, in the Day time, be­tween Sun-rising and Sun-setting, attend the Weighing out such Salt, without loss of time to the persons that shall Ship off or carry the same, upon Forfeiture of 40 s. to be recovered as other Penalties in this Act are directed.

Seamen.

I. Stat. 8 & 9. W. 3. cap. 23. All such persons who by virtue of the Act made the last Session of this Parlia­ment, For the Increase and Incouragement of Seamen, (7 & 8. W. 3. cap. 21.) are Intituled to the Provisions and Advantages in the Hospital in the said Act mentioned, and out of the Revenues thereof, shall from time to time be placed in the said Hospital, upon Certificates to be produced as by the said Act is directed, in succession as the person registred shall be in Course and Order of time upon the Registry Book, and the Widows and Children of the persons longest registred, before others.

II. Every Seaman or Mariner who have Liberty, and shall be willing to register themselves, as by the said Act directed, after the 10th of April next, bringing such Certificate as the said Act directs, under the hand of any one Justice of Peace of the County where he lives, may and shall be registred, and himself, Wife, Widow and Children be Intituled to all Advantages gi­ven by the said Act, as if the Certificate were under the hands of two Justices according to the said Act. The Justice or Justices giving such Certificate are required diligently to enquire into the truth of the same, and if occasion be to examine the party upon Oath, and if any fraud or deceit appears, to certify the Admiralty thereof.

III. Any persons already registred, or who shall here­after be registred, and who then were, or shall after be raised to the degree of a Masters Mate in any of the Kings Ships, their Wives, Widows and Children, are declared and enabled to enjoy all and every the Benefits and Advantages given to any other person so registred, by the said recited Act.

IV. After the said 10th of April, all Seamen above the Age of 50 years, and who shall appear by the Books of the Navy Office to have served on Board any of the Kings [Page 76]Ships for seven years last past without wilful Disserting, shall upon producing Certificates, as aforesaid, under the hands of one or more Justices of Peace, be regi­stred, and have and enjoy the several Privileges in the said Act mentioned.

V. Provided that after the 10th day of April, 1699. No Seaman above the Age of 50 years shall be admitted to register himself, without giving such Reasons for his omitting to do it during the time of such Service on Board, as shall be approved by the Admiralty or Navy, or by the persons appointed for keeping the said Regi­ster.

VI. It shall be Lawful for the Commissioners appoint­ed for Registring Seamen, by Warrant under their Hands and Seals, to cause all Masters and Commanders of Ships, not in his Majesties Service, to appear before them, and discover upon Oath the Number, Rates, Salaries, Wa­ges and Times of Service, of all and every persons or person serving in such Ships or Vessels, and which by the foresaid Act are obliged to pay 6 d. per mensem out of their Salaries and Wages. And if any such Master or Commander shall, upon Summons, refuse to appear, or to give a full discovery of the matter aforesaid, upon Oath, every such Offender shall forfeit the Sum of 10 l. to the uses mentioned in the said Act, to be recovered by Action of Debt, &c. in any of the Kings Courts at West­minster, with full Costs; Provided such Masters be no Quakers.

VII. Every Master being a Quaker may be examined before the said Commissioners, three or more of them, by their solemn Affirmation and Declaration instead of their Oath, as is directed by the Act, 7 & 8. w. 3. (cap. 34.) and such Quakers refusing to appear or An­swer, as aforesaid, shall be liable to the said penalties and forfeitures before mention'd for refusing to Answer upon Oath.

VIII. Whatever person or persons so registred, as aforesaid, shall after the 10th of April next, directly or indirectly lend, or dispose of his or their Certificate of being registred according to the foresaid Statute, to any Waterman, Seaman, Fisherman, Lighterman, Keel­man, Bargeman, or Sea-faring Man, whereby to keep such persons from being Impressed into his Majesties Ser­vice, such Offenders shall be struck out of the Regi­ster, and lose the benefit of the foresaid Act, and be Compell'd to Serve in his Majesties Ser­vice Six Months without any pay. And every person borrowing, or taking for themselves or other persons [Page 77]such Certificates, or using the same for the purposes a­foresaid, shall suffer the like penalties, and to the same uses, as are provided by the said Act, against such as vouch falsly persons to be Landmen who are Seamen, or shall be compelled to serve the King at Sea for six Months without any Pay or Wages.

IX. Such Certificates, as aforesaid, under the Hand and Seal of any one Mayor, Deputy Mayor, Bayliff or Deputy Bayliff within the Jurisdiction of the Cinque­Ports, shall be sufficient, where no Justice of Peace shall be residing within three Miles of any Cinque-Port or Town, or Member thereof, on the Coast of Kent and Sussex.

Ships and Shipping.

I. Stat. 9 & 10. W. 3. cap. 36. Enacted, That 2000 Acres, part of the Wast Lands of the New Forest in the County of Southampton, shall be inclosed and kept in se­veralty, for the Growth and Preservation of Timber for supply of his Majesties Navy Royal. The King, his Heirs and Successors may Inclose and Improve within and out of the Wast Lands of the said New Forest (the whole Containing by Estimation 85454 Acres) the quantity of 2000 Acres Statute measure, to be set out by his Maje­sties Commission directed to six or more persons, where­of two to be Justices of the Peace for Hampshire (not being Officers of the said Forest) out of such part of the said Forest, as shall be found by three or more of the Commissioners most convenient to be Inclosed, and most apt to produce Wood and Timber, and may be best spared from the Commoners and High-ways; whereof One thousand shall be forthwith Admeasured, Set out, Inclosed, Butted and Bounded, and the Quantities, Buts and Boundaries returned into the Exchequer, to remain on Record; and the remaining One thousand Acres, immediately after the first Session of Parliament which shall be held after the year 1699. shall in like manner be Admeasured, Inclosed, and the Boundaries returned into the Exchequer. There may also be Inclosed 200 Acres more of the Wast in the said Forest yearly for 20 years, after the several Inclosures of the said 2000 Acres shall be compleated. The said Inclosures to re­main in severalty in the actual possession of the Crown for ever, clear from all manner of Right, Title or Pre­tence, and shall be kept a Nursery for Wood and Timber only.

[Page 78] II. Any Six of the said Commissioners with one of the Purveyors of the Navy, shall set out so many decayed Trees (not being Ship Timber) as shall be necessary to make the said Inclosure.

III. When the Commissioners of the Treasury, the Lord Treasurer, or Chancellor of the Exchequer, shall be satisfied, that the Woods and Trees growing on the said 2000 Acres, or any part thereof, are out of danger of Brousing of Deer, Cattle, or other prejudice, and shall thereupon lay the same open, then the King, his Heirs and Successors, may inclose out of the said Forest, in lieu of so much so laid open, the like quantity out of any other part of the said Wastes, to be set out by like Commission and Admeasurement, as aforesaid, free of all Herbage, Pannage, or other Rights, while inclosed, to be a Nursery, for Timber, as aforesaid, instead of so much as shall be laid open. And when any Wood or Timber is to be felled in any part of the said Forest, two or more of the Verderers, and four or more of the Regarders of the said Forest, shall have notice thereof, and shall not be felled till first viewed, and allowed to be felled by a Commissioner, or Officer of the Navy: Nor shall any Coppice Woods be cut, till the Surveyor of the Woods, or such Officer or Purveyor of the Navy, shall have mark­ed with a Broad-Arrow and Crown such Trees as are fit to be reserved for Timber, and shall certifie to the Lord Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury, the Names of the places and number of Trees so viewed and allowed to be felled, and so marked, to be preserved for the use of the Navy. And if any persons shall fell any such Wood or Trees before view and Allowance, or cut down any of the said marked Trees without good Warrant, they shall forfeit for every Tree so felled 50 l. one Moiety to the King, the other to them that will sue for the same.

IV. The said Inclosures shall not be plowed, or sowed with Corn, or fed with Cattle, or kept for Underwood, but in such manner as shall be fit for raising Timber for the Navy.

V. If any Forester, Keeper or Under-Keeper, or other Officer or person, or any by their direction, shall Top, Lop or Browse any Oak or Beech-tree in the said Fo­rest, such Officer for every such Offence, shall forfeit 10 l. and be incapable of any such Office: Nor shall any Collier, Keeper or Under-Keeper, make or suffer any Coal-Fires, for making Charcoal within the said Forest (as being contrary to Law) except in the Wast Ground of the said Forest particularly appointed, and not with­in [Page 79]1000 Paces of any Inclosure to be made by this Act: Nor shall such Coal-Fires be fenced with Bushes, but with Heath or Furze only; but every Collier making such Coal-Fires, and every Officer permitting them, shall forfeit for every Offence 100 l. And the said Under-Keeper or Foresters shall also forfeit 20 l. for every neg­lect in not making the Drifts of the said Forest as directed by the Statute 32 H. 8.

VI. All persons who shall break down any of the said Inclosures, for raising Nurseries of Wood and Timber (which Inclosures are to be kept up 20 years at least from their making) or shall burn Heath or Fern, or destroy any of the Covert, or steal any of the Wood, shall at the next Attachment or Swain-mote Court be pre­sented; And upon proof thereof made, two or more of the Verderers shall Fine such persons for every such Offence not exceeding 5 l. and send the Par­ty to Goal for three Months, or till payment of the Fine to the High or Under-Steward of the said Forest; one Moiety to the Informer, the other to be accounted for as his Majesty shall think fit.

VII. All Persons punished by this Act, shall not be pu­nished by any other Law, for the same Offence.

VIII. This Act shall not alter the Forest Laws, except as before mentioned.

IX. All persons having any Right of Common of Pa­sture or Pannage, or any Privileges within the said Fo­rest, shall enjoy their Right of Pannage between 14 Sept. and 11 Nov. after Michaelmas, 1716. and not before, on forfeiture of any Hogg, Pigg, or Swine, that after Mi­chaelmas next, and before the time aforesaid, shall be found in the Wastes of the said Forest: And their Com­mon of Pasture is continued to them in the said Wast Ground of the Forest, when not Inclosed, except in the Fence month, viz. 15 days before and after Midsummer, and in the Winter Heyning, viz. from 11 Nov. to 23 Apr. subject to the Forest Laws, as they might have enjoy­ed the same before the making of this Act: Saving al­so to the adjacent Inhabitants their ancient right of Fuel, provided they do not sell or dispose of any part thereof, nor take the same in other manner than they ought, nor by reason of any Claim not allowed according to the Forest Laws before 27 Eliz.

X. If any persons take any Grant of the said Inclosures or Wastes, or any Woods or Trees growing thereon, every such Grant shall be void, and the persons incapa­ble to hold the same, and shall forfeit treble the Va­lue of such Grant, to them which shall first sue for the [Page 80]same, and shall also be incapable of holding any Office or Imployment whatsoever.

XI. When any Sale of Wood shall be within the Fo­rest, publick notice thereof shall be given by the proper Officers in the adjacent Market Towns, three weeks at least before such Sale; and the proper Officers shall be­fore the Sale, give notice to two or more of the Verde­rers of the Valuation made; and the person who shall offer most Money over and above the Valuation, making his Proposal in Writing, and giving Security for pay­ment of the Money, shall be the Purchaser.

XII. No Officer shall take any Fee or Gratuity for Fel­ling Trees to be cut down for the Inclosures, or upon Sale of the residue of such Trees, or of the Lops, Tops, or Roots of the said Trees.

XIII. Any Officer offending in cutting down and dispo­sing of Trees contrary to this Act, shall forfeit his Of­fice.

XIV. Stat. 9 & 10 W. 3. cap. 37. The Sum of 570000 l. having been appropriated for the Building, and for the Guns, Rigging and Furnishing of 27 Ships of War, out of one third part of the Moneys arising by an Act made, 2 W. & M. Intituled, An Act for Granting to their Maje­sties several Additional Duties of Excise upon Beer, Ale, and other Liquors for Four years, from the time that an Act for doubling the Duty of Excise upon Beer, Ale, and other Liquors, during the space of One Year doth expire, and by a preceding Act therein mentioned; which Additional Duties were by several Clauses in an Act, 3 & 4 W. & M. Intituled, An Act for Raising Money by a Poll, payable Quarterly for one year, for the carrying on a Vigorous War against France, continued till 17 May, 1697. for the Uses directed by the former Act: And the said 27 Ships having been built and furnished (except one Third Rate now building at Chatham) and the Moneys appropriated being sufficient with an Overplus; so much of the said Overplus as shall remain in the hands of the Treasurers of the Navy, shall be applyed to the use of his Majesties Navy, and so much as shall remain in the hands of the Treasurer, or Paymaster of the Office of the Ordnance, shall be applied to the Service of that Office relating to the Navy, and the said Treasurers shall be accountable for the same accordingly. And all such Stores bought for the said Ships, as shall be more than necessary for that purpose, shall be applied to the Service of his Maje­sties Navy and Ordnance, and the proper Officers shall be accountable for the same.

[Page 81] I. Stat. 8 & 9 w. 3. cap. 13. The Act made 4 & 5 W. & M. Intituled, An Act for Punishing Officers and Soldiers, who shall Mutiny or Desert their Majesties Ser­vice, and for Punishing False Musters, and for Payment of Quarters, shall continue in Force from 10 Apr. 1697. to 10 Apr. 1698. and no longer.

II. And the Act made in the Fifth and Sixth years of King William and Queen Mary, Intituled, An Act for continuing the Act for punishing Officers and Soldiers, who shall Mutiny or Desert their Majesties Service, and for pu­nishing False Musters, and for payment of Quarters, for one Year longer, shall continue in Force from the said 10 April, 1697. to 10 Apr. 1698. and no longer.

III. And the Act made in the Sixth and Seventh Years of the Reign of his present Majesty King William, In­tituled, An Act for continuing two former Acts for punish­ing Officers and Soldiers, who shall Mutiny or Desert his Majesties Service, and for punishing false Musters, and for payment of Quarters, for one Year longer; And also an Act made in the 7th and 8th Years of his said Majesties Reign, Intituled, An Act for continuing several former Acts for punishing Officers and Soldiers who shall Mutiny or Desert his Majesties Service, and for punishing False Musters, and for payment of Quarters, for one Year longer, shall continue in force from 10 Apr. 1697. to 10 Apr 1698. and no longer.

IV. Every Officer Commanding in Chief, shall with­in twenty four hours after his coming into Quarters, make publication by Sound of Trumpet or Beat of Drum, in the Market-place, or other Publick place, how much shall be allowed every Soldier to be trusted above his Allowance for Diet, Hay and Straw; and how that no Shop-keeper shall trust any private Soldier for Goods, without leave in Writing from the Officer commanding in Chief, on pain of Forfeiting the Sum so intrusted. And the Officer commanding in Chief, omitting to make such Publicati­ons, to be liable to pay the Debts so contracted.

V. One or more Justices of the Peace, shall upon Com­plaint, regulate the Quartering and Billetting of Soldiers.

VI. From 10 Apr. 1697 No Innholder, Victualler or other Person, shall be obliged to provide Meat or other Victuals for any Soldiers, legally Quarter'd on them (except in their March only) if they shall give or ten­der to each Horseman 6 d per diem for his subsistance in Meat only, and to every Dragoon and Foot Soldier 4 d. per diem for the same, besides Candle and the Use of his Fire for dressing his Meat.

VII. Provided that each Innholder, Victualler or o­ther [Page 82]person, shall furnish for every Soldier lawfully Quarter'd on them, Lodging, Small Beer and Candle, with the use of Fire to dress his Meat by, and Hay and Straw for their Horses after the rates following, viz. for Small Beer, Fire, Candle, and Hay, and Straw, for a Light Horseman and his Horse 6 d. per diem, and the like for a Dragoon at 5 d. per diem.

VIII. The Officers and Soldiers of the Marine Regi­ments (being in his Majesties Service in the Army) shall be subject to all the Powers and Punishments men­tioned in this Act.

IX. Stat. 9 & 10 W. 3. cap. 20. Enacted, That Francis Colenbine and Ventris Colenbine, Sons of Col. Ventris Co­lenbine and Barbara his Wife, Robert Wroth, Son of Lieut. Col. Wroth, and Knightley his Wife, John Gysbert Far­well an Infant, Son of Lieut. Col. John Farwell, and Elizabeth his Wife, Thomas Ʋthwat, Son of Richard Ʋthwat, and Martha his Wife, and all other persons who since 13 Febr. 1688. or at any time since the begin­ning of the late War with France, and before 25 Mar. 1698. were Born out of his Majesties Dominions, and whose Fathers or Mothers were Natural Born Subjects of this Realm, and were then actually in the Service of his Majesty, or of his Majesty and the late Queen, are declared to be Natural Born Subjects of this Kingdom, as if they had been Born in England.

X. And that they shall be able to challenge and enjoy any Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, and all other Privileges of Natural Born Subjects, and to make their Resort or Pedigree, as Heir to their Ancestors, Lineal or Collateral; And to have and enjoy Lands, Tene­ments and Hereditaments, by Purchase or Gift, and to prosecute all manner of Actions and things, as freely as if they had been Born in England.

XI. Provided that no person expresly named in this Act, shall have benefit thereby, if in 5 years after the Age of 14 Years, they neglect to Receive the Sacrament, and take the Oaths appointed, Ann. 1. W. & M. in some of the Courts of Record at Westminster.

XII. Provided also, That no person intended to be Naturalized by general Words, shall have Benefit there­by, if in 5 years after the Age of 14 years, they neglect to Receive the Sacrament, and take the Oaths aforesaid, and make proof of their being Born out of the Realm, within the times before-mentioned, and that their Fa­ther or Mother was a Natural Born Subject, and actual­ly in the Kings, or King and Queens Service at their Birth.

[Page 83] XIII. Any person expresly named in this Act, may du­ring the said 5 years, after the Age of 14 Years, make proof upon Oath, in any the Courts of Record at Westmin­ster, that such Person did Receive the Sacrament and take the said Oaths: And any persons intended to be Naturalized by the general Words, may likewise during the said 5 years, after the Age of 14 years, make like proof in such Court, as well of their Receiving the Sa­crament, and taking the Oaths, as of their being Born within the times limited, of a Father or Mother that was a Natural Born Subject, and then in the Kings Service: All which Proofs being made to the satisfaction of the said Court, shall be there Recorded, and a Certificate thereof given, under the Seal of the said Court; upon shewing whereof, every such person shall have the full Benefit of this Law.

Squibs.

I. Stat. 9 & 10. W. 3. cap. 7. After 25 Mar. 1698. No persons of what Age, Sex, Degree or Quality soever, shall Make, Sell or Utter, or expose to Sale any Squibs, Rockets, Serpents or other Fireworks, or any Cases, Molds or other Implements for the making of such Fire­works, or permit any such Fireworks to be thrown or fired, out of or in their Houses or Lodgings, or any part or place thereto adjoyning, into any publick Street, High-way, Road or Passage; nor throw or fire, or be aiding in the throwing or firing of any such Fireworks, in or into any publick Street, House, Shop, River, High­way, Road or Passage, but every such Offence shall be adjudged a Common Nusance.

II. After the said 25 Mar. Any person, as aforesaid, who shall make, give, sell or utter, or expose to sale any Squibs, Rockets, Serpents or other Fireworks, or any Cases, Molds or other Implements for making thereof, and be convicted thereof before one or more Justices of the Peace of the County or Division, or chief Magistrate of the place where such offence shall be committed, by Confession of the Party, or Oath of two Witnesses, shall for every such offence forfeit 5 l. And any persons what­soever who, after the said 25 Mar. shall permit or suf­fer any such Fireworks to be thrown or fired from, out of, or in their Houses, Shops, Dwellings, Lodgings or Habitations, or any part or place thereto belonging, in­to any publick Street, High-way, Road or Passage, or any other House or Place whatsoever, and shall be con­victed thereof, as aforesaid, shall for every such offence [Page 84]forfeit 20 s. the said several forfeitures to be Levied by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the Of­fender, by Warrant of the said Justices or Chief Magi­strate; one half to the use of the Poor of the Parish, and the other to the Prosecutor.

III. After the said 25 Mar. Any persons, as aforesaid, who shall throw or fire, or assist in the throwing or firing, any such Fireworks, in or into any publick Street, House, Shop, River, High-way, Road or Passage, and be there­of convicted, as aforesaid, shall for every such offence forfeit 20 s. to the uses aforesaid, and pay the same im­mediately to the said Justices of chief Magistrate, or be sent to the House of Correction, there to be kept to hard Labour for any time, not exceeding one Month, unless such Offender sooner pay such Forfeiture.

IV The Master, Lieutenant or Commissioners of the Ordnance, or any other persons by them Authorized, may give Orders for the making any sorts of Fireworks, to be used and fired according to the Orders and Dire­ctions of the said Master, Lieutenant or Commissioners of the Ordnance, or other persons by them Authorized for that purpose.

V. The Artillery Company of the City of London, or any other Artillery Company or Society of persons, Law­fully met together for the use and exercise of Arms, the Trained Bands and Militia of the Kingdom, may make and use any sorts of Fireworks, in the Exercise of Arms and Warlike Exploits only, as they might Lawfully have done before the making of this Act.

VI. Persons sued for putting this Act in Execution, may plead the general Issue, and give the special matter in Evidence; And if the Plaintiff be Nonsuit, or Dis­continue, or a Verdict pass, or Judgment be given for the Defendant, such Defendant shall have his full treble Costs.

Stores of War.

I. Stat. 9 & 10 W. 3. cap. 41. For preventing the Imbezlement of his Majesties Stores of War, &c. It is Enacted, That, after 24 June, 1698. none but the Con­tractors with the Principal Officers or Commissioners of the Navy, Ordnance or Victualling Office for his Maje­sties use, shall make any Stores of War or Naval Stores, with the Marks usually used to his Majesties said Stores, viz. Cordage of three Inches and upwards, with a white Thread laid the contrary way; smaller Cordage from three Inches downwards, with a Twine in lieu of a White Thread laid the contrary way; Canvis wrought or [Page 85]unwrought with a blue streak in the middle; or any other Stores with the Broad Arrow, by Stamp, Brand or o­therwise, upon pain that every such person not being a Contractor, as aforesaid, or Imployed by such Con­tractor, shall for every such Offence forfeit such Goods, and 200 l. with Costs of Suit, one moiety to the King, the other to the Informer, to be Recovered in any the Courts of Record at Westminster.

II. Persons in whose Custody such Stores so Marked shall be found, not Imployed, as aforesaid, or who shall conceal such stores so marked, and be convicted thereof, shall forfeit such Goods, and 200 l. with Costs of Suit, one moiety to his Majesty, and the other to the Informer, and suffer Imprisonment till payment thereof, unless such person upon his Tryal, produce a Certificate under the hand of three or more of the Commissioners of the Navy, Ordnance or Victuallers, particularizing the Goods in question, and the reason of such Goods com­ing into such persons hands.

III. Whereas divers persons have personated Seamen who have served on Board his Majesties Ships, and there­by fraudulently received Moneys at the Pay Office, or elsewhere, and have Forged Letters of Attorney or Bills of Sale, Assignment or Last Wills, and have personated the Wives, Relations or Creditors of such Seamen, and taken Letters of Administration to them, or Forged Let­ters of Attorney, Bills of Sale, or other Authorities, in the Names of their Executors or Administrators, for re­ceipt of the Wages due to such Seamen; It is Enacted, That the Persons, their Aiders or Abettors, that shall be convicted of the said Crimes and Offences committed after 24 Jun. 1698. shall, besides all other penalties, for­feit 200 l. with costs of Suit, one moiety to the King, the other to the Informer, to be recovered, as aforesaid, and suffer Imprisonment till payment thereof.

IV. The said principal Officers or Commissioners may sell and dispose of any the said Stores, so marked, as they might have done before the making of this Act, and the Buyers may quietly keep and enjoy the same, upon producing a Certificate, under the Hand and Seal of three or more of the said Principal Officers or Commissi­oners, that they bought such Goods from them, or from some person who bought them from the said Officers or Commissioners, before such Stores were found in their Custody: Which Certificate shall express the quantities of such Stores, and when and where bought of the said Commissioners. Which Commissioners are to give such Certificates within 30 days after the sale and delivery of such Stores so sold.

[Page 86] V. Persons sued for discovering or seizing any such Stores so marked, may plead the general Issue, and give this Act and the special matter in Evidence; And if the Defendants prove the Stores were so Marked, and the Plaintiffs do not prove they were so Imployed, or had such Certificate before such discovery and seizure, and shewed it to the Defendants before such Suit commenced, the Defendants shall be acquitted, unless upon sight of such Certificate they did not deliver back to the Plain­tiffs such Stores so seized, in good Condition; And upon such acquitting, or that the Plaintiffs discontinue, or be Nonsuit, the Defendants shall recover Treble Costs.

VI. After the said 24 Jun. No Seamans Will contain'd in the same Instrument, with a Warrant or Letter of At­torney, shall be good in Law.

VII. No Ecclesiastical Court, or any person shall take more than 1 s. for the Seal, Writing or Suing forth any Administration granted to the Wife or Children of any Seaman dying in pay of his Majesties Navy, unless such Seamans Goods and Chattels amount to 20 l. The persons offending to forfeit to the Party grieved 10 l.

VIII. The principal Officers and Commissioners of the Navy, or any chief Commander of any his Majesties Ships at Sea, may Lend any of his Majesties Stores to any Merchant Ship or Vessel in Distress or otherwise, in case such Goods be restored with all possible Conveniency; and provided the persons Borrowing the same have such Certificate, as aforesaid, which the Lenders are here­by required to give.

Suits.

I. Stat. 8 & 9 W. 3. cap. 11. After 25 of March, 1697. where several persons shall be made Defendants to any Action of Trespass, Assault, false Imprisonment, or Ejectione Firmae, and any one or more shall upon Tryal be Acquitted by Verdict, every person so Acquitted shall Re­cover his Costs of Suit, unless the Judge shall immedi­ately after the Tryal in open Court, certifie upon the Record, that there was a reasonable Cause for making such person or persons a Defendant or Defendants to such Action.

II. After the said 25 of March, if any person shall Commence in any Court of Record, any Action or Suit, wherein upon Demurrer, Judgment shall be given against the Plaintiff or Defendant; or if at any time af­ter Judgment given for the Defendant, the Plaintiff shall Sue a Writ of Error, and the said Judgment shall [Page 87]be affirmed, or the said Writ discontinued, or the Plaintiff Nonsuit therein, the Defendant shall have Judgment to Recover his Costs against such Plaintiff, and Execution by Capias ad satisfaciendum, Fieri facias, or Elegit.

III. After the said 25 of March, in all Actions of Waste and Debt upon the Statute for not setting forth of Tithes, where the Damage found by the Jury shall not exceed Twenty Nobles, and in all Suits upon Writs of Scire facias, and upon Prohibitions, the Plaintiff ob­taining Judgment, or Award of Execution after Plea Pleaded, or Demurrer joyn'd therein, shall likewise Re­cover his Costs of Suit; and if the Plaintiff become Nonsuit, or Discontinue, or a Verdict pass against him, the Defendant shall have Costs, and Execution for the same.

IV. In all Actions of Trespass Commenced after the said 25 of March, in any Court of Record at Westmin­ster, where it shall appear at the Tryal, and be certi­fied by the Judge on the back of the Record, that the Trespass was wilful and malicious, the Plaintiff shall Recover not only his Damages, but his full Costs of Suit.

V. Provided nothing herein contain'd, shall alter the Laws in being as to Executors and Administrators, in such Cases where they are not at present liable to pay Costs of Suit.

VI. In all Actions commenced in any Court of Record after the said 25 of March, if the Plaintiff dye after an Interlocutory Judgment, and before a final Judgment, the said Action shall not abate, if the said Action might be originally prosecuted by his Executors or Admini­strators; and if the Defendant die after such Interlocu­tory Judgment, and before Final Judgment, the Action shall not abate, if such Action might be originally Pro­secuted against his Executors or Administrators; and the Executors, or Administrators of such Plaintiff after such Interlocutory Judgment, may have a Scire facias against the Defendant, if Living, or if Dead, against his Execu­tors or Administrators, to shew cause why Damages should not be Assest and Recovered against him or them; and if he or they do not appear at the Return, and shew sufficient Cause to Arrest the Final Judgment, or being Returned Warned, or upon Two Writs of Scire facias, it being Return'd that the Defendant had no­thing whereby to be Summon'd, or could not be found, a Writ of Enquiry of Damages shall be Awarded, which being Executed and Return'd, Judgment final shall be given for the said Plaintiff, his Executors or Admini­strators.

[Page 88] VII. If there be Two or more Plaintiffs or Defendants, and one dye, if the cause of Action survive to the surviving Plaintiff, or against the surviving Defendant, the Writ or Action shall not abate, but such Death being suggested upon the Record, the Action shall proceed.

VIII. In all Actions after the said 25 day of March, Prosecuted in any of the Kings Courts of Record, up­on any Bond or Penal Sum for Non-performance of Co­venants, the Plaintiff may Assign as many Breaches as he shall think fit, and the Jury at the Tryal shall and may Assess Damages for such of the said Breaches so Assigned as the Plaintiff at the Tryal shall prove Broken, and the like Judgment shall be Entred on such Verdict as hath been usually done in such Actions. And if Judg­ment be given for the Plaintiff, upon Demurrer, Con­fession, or Nihil dicit, the Plaintiff upon the Roll may suggest as many Breaches as he shall think fit, upon which shall Issue a Writ to Summon a Jury to Appear at the Assizes of that respective County, to inquire of the truth of every one of those Breaches, and to As­sess Damages accordingly, and the Justices of Assize shall make a Return thereof to the Court from whence the same Issued. In case the Defendant after such Judg­ment Entred, and before Execution Executed, shall pay into Court such Damages so Assessed, and Costs of Suit, a stay of Execution shall be Entred upon Record. Or if by reason of Execution Executed, the Plaintiff or his Executors or Administrators shall be fully paid all such Damages, together with his Costs and reasonable Charges, the Body, Lands and Goods of the Defendant shall be forthwith discharg'd, and the Satisfaction enter'd upon Record: Yet shall such Iudgment stand and be as a further Security to Answer to the Plaintiff, his Exe­cutors, &c. such Damages as shall or may be sustain'd for further Breach of any Covenant, in the same Deed or Writing contain'd, upon which the Plaintiff, &c. may have a Scire facias upon the said Judgment against the Defendant, his Heir, Terre-Tenants, Executors or Administrators, suggesting other Breaches, and to Sum­mon them to shew Cause why Execution shall not be Awarded upon the said Judgment, upon which there shall be the like Proceedings, as aforesaid, and upon pay­ment of Damages and Costs, Proceedings to be again stay'd, and so toties quoties, and the Defendant dis­charg'd out of Execution.

Taxes.

I. STat. 8 W. 3. cap. 6. All persons of what estate, de­gree, age, sex or condition soever, within the Kingdom of England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed, not receiving Alms, shall pay unto his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, within the space of One Year from 25 Jan. 1696. the sum of 4 s. 4 d. by Monthly payments of 4 d. per Month, reckoning 28 days to each Month, the first payment to be 22 Feb. 1696.

II. Over and above which Duty of 4 d. per Month, all Servants and Journeymen (except Day-Labourers) having 4 l. per ann. Wages, or upwards, and not ex­ceeding 8 l. per ann. shall pay for the same 13 d. per l. for One Year, by like Monthly payments of 1 d. per l. And for more than 8 l. per annum Wages, and not ex­ceeding 16 l. per ann. the sum of 2 s. 2 d. per l. by like Monthly payment of 2 d. per l. And for more than 16 l. per ann Wages, the sum of 4 s. 4 d. per l. by like Monthly payments of 4 d. per l.

III. All persons having or claiming any Pension, An­nuity, Stipend, or other yearly payment out of the Ex­chequer, or any Branch of his Majesties Revenue (ex­cept Rents issuing out of Lands, Tenements, or Heredi­taments, or charged upon the same, and such Annui­ties as are or shall be exempted by Act of Parliament) shall pay for the same 4 s. 4 d. per l. for One Year, by like Monthly payments of 4 d. per l.

IV. All persons that have or are to have, receive or enjoy any Salary, Fee or Wages, or any Perquisites, Al­lowances, Poundage, Gratuities, Rewards, Emolu­ments, Income or Profits whatsoever, arising by any Commissions, Offices or Imployments, Ecclesiastical, Civil or Military, under his Majesty, his Heirs or Suc­cessors, or under the Queen Dowager, the Prince or Princess of Denmark, or under Lords of Manors, or any other persons, and all their Clerks, Deputies, As­sistants and Substitutes (except Military Officers in Muster in the Army, Navy or Ordnance) shall pay for the same 4 s. 4 d. per l. for One Year, by like Month­ly payments of 4 d. per l.

V. All Sergeants at Law, Barristers, Attorneys, Sol­licitors, Publick Notaries, Scriveners, Chancellors, Commissaries, Officials, Registers, Advocates, Proctors, Apparitors, or practising as such; Brokers to Merchants, Factors, and other persons acting by Commission from [Page 90]Merchants: All Practicers in Physick and Chirurgery, Apothecaries, and all other Professions, (not charged by the last foregoing Clause) shall pay 4 s. 4 d. for One Year, for every 20 s arising by their Practices or Professions, by like Monthly payments of 4 d. per l.

VI. All persons having any Estate in Ready Money or in Debts at Interest, within or without the Realm, or owing upon Mortgages, Judgments, Statutes, Recog­nizances, Bonds, Bills, Notes, or other Securities for Money at Interest (except Loans and Debts from his Majesty, and Arrears of Rent) shall pay 25 s. for One Year, for every such 100 l. by Twelve Monthly pay­ments of 2 s. 1 d. for every 100 l. and so proportion­ably for a greater or lesser Sum, a Farthing per l. each Month; the first payment to be 25 Febr. 1696. And thenceforth the 25th day of each Kalendary Month, de­ducting only such Debts as are really and bona fide owing from such person or persons at Interest.

VII. All persons using or exercising any Trade, Myste­ry, Occupation or business of Merchandising, Shopkeep­ing, or other Buying or Selling by wholesale or Re­tail, shall pay 50 s. for One Year for every 100 l. value in Goods, Wares, Merchandizes, Commodities, Manu­factures or Vendible Stock, and proportionably for a greater or lesser Value, by Twelve like Kalendary Monthly payments of a Halfpeny for every Pound value, or 4 s. 2 d. for every 100 l. value.

VIII. All persons having in their Tenure, Possession or Occupation, any Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, whereupon there shall be any Horses, Mares, Geld­ings, Colts, Bulls, Oxen, Cows, Calves, Sheep, Lambs, Swine, or other Cattle great or small, or other Quick Stock, whether the same belong to such persons re­spectively, or to others, shall pay for one Year, after the Rate of 12 s. for every 100 l. of the true value thereof, by Twelve like Kalendary Monthly payments of 12 d. for every 100 l. and so proportionably for a greater or lesser value.

IX. A Proviso, That the Wives and Children under the Age of Sixteen Years of such persons who are chargeable only with the first mentioned Duty of 4 d. per Month, shall be Exempted from the said 4 d. per Month.

X. All Manors, Messuages, Lands, Tenements, Quar­ries, Mines, Iron-Works, Salt-Works, and Allom-Works, Parks, Chaces, Warrens, Woods, Under-Woods, Cop­pices, Fishings, Tythes and Tolls, Annuities, Rents­charge, [Page 91]and yearly Profits whatsoever, shall be charged for one Year, with the Sum of 3 s. for every 20 s. of the true and full yearly value, without respect to the present Rents reserved, or to any other Rates or Taxes thereupon, or making any Abatement for Re­parations, or any other Charges; and shall be paid by Twelve equal Monthly payments, the first payment to be made on the said 25 Febr. 1696. and so on the 25th day of every subsequent Kalendary Month.

XI. The Owners of any of the said Lands, Tene­ments and Hereditaments, which are liable to any Rent-charges, Annuities, Fee-farm Rents, Rents-Service, or other Rents, may deduct 3 s. in the Pound thereout, and be allowed it by the persons Intituled to the said Rents.

XII. His Majesty may appoint Commissioners under the Great Seal of England, for the more effectual Ex­ecution of this Act, who shall Meet together at the usual places, upon or before 20 Feb. 1696. and may then Subdivide themselves so as there be Three or more to each Hundred or other Division: And shall then give an Account in Writing to the Receiver General of the Commissioners appointed for each Division: And the said Commissioners shall Issue their Precepts to such as they think fit to be Presenters or Assessors, to appear before them within Five days; and then to read the Rates, and Charge them with the Execution of the Act: And the persons to whom any Precepts are directed, absenting without Excuse, or refusing to Serve, shall Forfeit a Sum not exceeding 5 l. nor less than 40 s.

XIII. The Commissioners shall appoint Two at the least of the most sufficient Inhabitants of each Parish, &c. to be Assessors, who by a day prefixed shall bring in Cer­tificates of the Names of the persons within their Divi­sion, containing in several Columes, The Tax payable by persons Chargeable with the 4 d. per Month: The value of the Wages to be Rated: The Pensions, Stipends or other yearly payments: The Nature and Value of Offi­ces, Imployments and Professions: The Ready Money and Debts at Interest: The Stock in Trade: The Stock upon Land, and the Monthly Rates of the Premisses respectively.

XIV. And the Assessors are Injoyned to Inform them­selves of the full yearly Value of all Lands, Tene­ments and Hereditaments whatsoever, above the Re­served Rent, and to Assess the same at the Rate of 3 s. for every 20 s. of the full yearly Value; and [Page 92]to Describe the Lands, &c. in their Books, so as may best Ascertain the Rates intended by the Act to be Imposed.

XV. The Assessors shall be the Collectors of the Mo­neys payable by this Act, and the Parish, &c. to be answerable for their paying it to the Head Collectors: And if any Assessor refuse to Serve, or make Default, (without a Lawful Excuse) he shall Forfeit a Sum not exceeding 20 l. nor less than 10 l.

XVI. Every Assessor shall before the Execution of the said Imployment take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, and an Oath for the faithful Execution of his Duty as an Assessor; And shall make the Assess­ments, and return the Certificates thereof to the Com­missioners by the Fifth Day of March, 1696. who may then Examine the same, or within Twenty days after; And if the Commissioners suspect any of the Lands, &c. to be under Charged, they may examine the Owners thereof, who for neglecting to appear (without Law­ful Excuse) shall Forfeit double the Sum Chargeable thereupon.

XVII. The Commissioners shall Inform themselves up­on Oath of any Omissions or Under Assessments, and set such Rates as shall be according to the Meaning of the Act; And deliver back Duplicates of the Assess­ments to Collect by, and to the Receivers General and their Head Collectors; And return Extracts of the said Assessments into the Exchequer, on or before the Tenth of March, 1696. or within Forty days after. And the Kings Remembrancer is, within Three Months after the Duplicates of the last payment return'd, to trans­mit Copies to the Auditor of the Receipt.

XVIII. The Assessments shall be Collected Monthly, or within Fourteen days after they become due; and Collectors are to pay what they receive to the Head Collectors, within Fourteen days after the times prefixt for Demanding the same.

XIX. The Commissioners may appoint other Collectors in the Rooms of such as dye, are sick, fail or are over­burdened.

XX. The Head Collectors shall hasten the Subcollectors, and in case of neglect or failure shall Distrain upon the Subcollectors; And the Head Collector shall make pay­ment to the Receiver General within Seven days after the time for payment by the Subcollectors: And the Receiver General is to hasten the Head Collectors, and to pay what he receives from the Head Collector into the Exchequer, within Seven days after the times prefixt [Page 93]for payment by the Head Collector; And all persons concerned in the Execution of this Act are to use Dili­gence.

XXI. The Head Collectors Receipt shall be a Dis­charge to the Subcollector; Which Subcollector is to have 4 d. in the Pound for what he Receives, and not forced to Travel above Ten Miles.

XXII. The Head Collector is to be appointed by the Receiver General, who is to be answerable for the Money so Collected or Received, and whose Acquittance shall be a Discharge to the Head Collector; Which Receiver General is to have 2 d. in the Pound for what he shall pay into the Exchequer; And the Com­missioners Clerks to have 3 Half-pence in the Pound for Writing the Warrants, Certificates, Estreats and Duplicates.

XXIII. In case of Non-payment, the Subcollectors to Distrain, and the Distress having been kept Four days at the Owners Charge, then to be Appraised and Sold, and the Overplus returned.

XXIV. It shall be lawful to break open Houses in the day time, and by Warrant from the Commissioners any Chest, &c. Calling to Assistance the Constables, &c. And where no Distress can be found, the person to be Imprisoned till payment

XXV. Parents or Guardians are to pay the Rates Im­posed on Infants, and to be allowed the same on their Accounts, Servants or Journeymen making Default of payment, their Masters and Mistresses are to be Chargeable therewith, and to deduct the same out of their Wages; And Tenants to pay the Rates on the Houses, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments which they hold, and to deduct the same out of the Rents.

XXVI. All persons Taxable for Wages, Ready Money or Debts, are to be Assessed where Resident at the time of Execution of this Act; Annuities, Stipends or yearly payments at the Exchequer, or out of any Branch of the Revenue, to be Assessed where payable; And all other Pensions or yearly payments (not Charged on Land) are to be Assessed where the persons Intituled thereto do Reside

XXVII. And all Offices, Imployments and Professions are to be Rated where they are Exercised: And all persons not being Housholders are to be Taxed at the place where they Reside at the time of Executing the Act.

XXVIII. The Rates on Pensions, Salaries or other Allowances or Profits payable at the Exchequer, or by [Page 94]the Cofferer, or out of any other publick Office, or by any of his Majesties Receivers or Paymasters are (in case of Non-payment) to be stopt out of the same.

XXIX. Stock in Trade and Quick Stock upon Land is to be Rated in such County or Place where it is at the time of the Execution of the Act; And all persons having any such Stock in their Custody for the use of others are to pay for the same, and to be allowed it upon their Accounts, or be satisfied out of the Goods.

XXX. Persons out of the Realm, Taxable by this Act, are to be Assessed in the place of their last Abode in the Realm; And persons Ratable for any Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, are to be Assessed in the places where the Premisses lye, and not elsewhere.

XXXI. A Proviso, That any person who in respect of several Places of Residence is doubly Charged, shall, up­on Certificate by two or more Commissioners, and Oath thereof before one Justice of Peace where the Certifi­cate is made, be Discharged for so much.

XXXII. All persons who by changing their Residence, or by shifting their Goods or Stock, or altering the Se­curities of Money, or by other Frauds shall escape be­ing fully Taxed, shall, upon proof thereof, be doubly Charged.

XXXIII. All Housholders shall give an Account of their Lodgers and Servants, and their full Wages respectively, under the Penalty of 5 l.

XXXIV. The Officers of the Exchequer and other Publick Officers are to deliver to the Assessors Lists of all Pensions, Fees and Allowances payable by them.

XXXV. All persons having any Moneys at Interest are to deliver to the Assessors (before they return their Certificates) a Note of the Gross Sum of Principal Money owing to them, which the Assessors are to Tax according to the said Notes: But if no Notes be delivered, or that there be sufficient Ground to believe they do not contain all the persons Money at Interest, then the As­sessors are to Tax such persons according to the best of their Judgment.

XXXVI. And all persons intituled to Debts at Interest are to deliver to the Commissioners (before they de­liver their Estreats to the Subcollectors) a Specification or particular in Writing of the said Debts Signed; And also of the persons, or some of them, who borrowed or are liable to the same, or of something engaged for the said Debts, or the nature of the Securities, with the Dates thereof, and the Names of the Wit­nesses thereunto. Whereupon the Commissioners shall [Page 95]deliver back to the Parties, Copies of such Specificati­ons under their Hands and Seals, attested by two or more Witnesses, to justify their being duly Charged; Which Copies shall be allowed as Evidence in all Courts: And upon neglect or refusal to give in such Specifications, to Forfeit (over and above the Duties intended to be Charged) twice as much, to be Sued for at any time before 25 Mar. 1699. Whereof one moiety to the King, the other to the Prosecutor; And the Debts not contained in the said Specifications shall not be Recoverable, nor the Securities for the same Pleadable in any Courts of Law or Equity, before the said 25 Mar. 1699. Unless the said Duty and Penalty be first satisfied, viz. If no Action be Commenced by any Informer, then the Duty and Penalty shall be paid to the King; But if an Action be depending, then the Duty and one moiety of the Penalty shall go to the King, and the other moiety to the Informer.

XXXVII. The Assessors are to Enter and View upon the Places where any Stock upon Land shall be, and to Value and Charge the same according to the Act; And if upon such View the Assessors find any Fraud hath been used to avoid the Taxation, they are to give Notice to the Commissioners, to the end the persons may be dou­bly Taxed: And the persons refusing to permit such View, shall Forfeit 10 l. one moiety to the King, the other to the Prosecutor.

XXXVIII. All Traders shall deliver to the Assessors, within ten days after the Commissioners Issue their Warrant to the Assessors, a Particular in Writing Sign­ed, of the Quantities, Kinds and Value of their Stocks, as the same are then Worth, bona fide, to be sold. And the Assessors are Impowered (where they shall think it necessary for their Information) to Enter in the day time into any Shops, Warehouses, &c. to View and Va­lue the Goods: And the persons refusing such Entrance, shall Forfeit 40 l. one moiety to the King, the other to the Prosecutor: And if the Assessors are satisfied in the truth of the Particulars delivered to them, they are to Assess the same accordingly; But if the particulars are not delivered to them within the time prefixt, or if they suspect the said Particulars to be fraudulent, then they are to Assess such Stock in Trade, according to the best of their judgment.

XXXIX. All which Assessments shall nevertheless be sub­ject to the Examination of the Commissioners, who may allow, abate or increase the same, as they see cause, upon Information or Appeals.

[Page 96] XL. And if any Steward, Bayliff or Tenant of Houses, Lands or Hereditaments do not discover to the Asses­sors, when required, the true Rents payable for the same, he shall Forfeit so much as such Rent bona fide shall amount unto for Two Years.

XLI. Any persons Assessed, finding themselves agrie­ved, may Appeal within the days after the Money de­manded, and any three or more of the Commissioners, who Signed the Rate, shall, within ten days after such Appeal, Examine the person upon Oath, and a­bate or increase the Assessment; and to that end shall meet together for Determining Appeals, and shall Ex­press the time and place in their Warrants to the Col­lectors; and upon Complaints shall Summon the Asses­sors to attend; and such Appeals being once heard are to be final.

XLII. Assessor, Collector, or Receiver wilfully neg­lecting or refusing to do his Duty, may be Fined, not exceeding 30 l. nor under 15 l. for every Of­fence, which Fines shall not be taken off or dischar­ged but by Consent of the majority of the Commis­sioners who Imposed the same; but shall be Levied by Distress or Sale of the Offenders Goods; and in de­fault of Goods, the Offenders shall be Imprisoned till pay­ment of the Fines.

XLIII. The Collectors not paying the Money they Col­lect, according to the direction of the Act, are to be Im­prisoned, and their Estates Seized; Whereupon the Commissioners are to appoint a General Meeting, of which Six days Notice at least is to be given, and then to Sell what shall be so Seized, or any part thereof.

XLIV. At the Expiration of the time for the full pay­ment of all the said Monthly payments, the Commissioners are to examine into the full payment of the Sums Char­ged, and in case of failure, to cause the same to be forthwith Levied and Paid.

XLV. If any Controversie arise concerning the Assessing the Commissioners, the Commissioners concern'd shall withdraw during the Debate, and in default thereof shall be Fined, not exceeding 20 l. And all Questions and Differences are to be determin'd by the Commissioners without Suit in Law.

XLVI. A Proviso against Charging any Colleges or Halls in the Universities, or the Colleges of Windsor, Eaton, Winchester or Westminster, The Corporation of Clergymens Sons, Bromley Colledge, or the Settlement in Trust of Tobias Rustat on Jesus College, or any Alms-Houses or Free-Schools, or any Master, Fellow [Page 97]or Scholar of any College or Free-School, or any Reader, Officer or Minister of the Universities, or the Masters or Ushers of any Schools, or Alms Men of any Hospital or Alms-house for their Stipends; or the Houses or Lands of Christs Hospital, St. Bartholomews, Bridewell, St. Tho­mas and Bethlehem Hospital; or the Poor of any Ho­spital, whose Annual Maintenance doth not exceed 20 l. Provided that the Tenants of such Hospitals, &c. shall be Rated for what the Lands are worth above the Rents reserved.

XLVII. All places are to be Assessed in such County, Division or Place where usually Assessed. Provided that West Barnfield Hundred in Kent may be Assessed in the Lathe of Scray; Northmore Tything in Oxfordfordshire in the Hundred of Bampton; The Tythings of Charlbury, Faller and Finstock in the Hundred of Chadlington; The Town and Parish of Leeds in Yorkshire, in the Hundred of Seyrack.

XLVIII. A Proviso that this Act shall not make void any Contracts between Landlords and Tenants, or any others, touching Taxes.

XLIX. If any Action be Commenced or Prosecuted for any thing done in pursuance of this Act, the Defen­dant may plead the general Issue, and this Act, and the Special Matter in Evidence; and if the Plaintiff be Nonsuit or Verdict pass against him, the Defendant shall recover Treble Costs.

L. The Receivers General shall give the Head Col­lectors Acquittances gratis, and so shall the Head Col­lectors to the Subcollectors.

LI. The Subcollectors shall deliver Schedules to the Head Collectors, of those that make default of Pay­ment, where there is no Distress; which Schedules are to be deliver'd to the Receivers General to be return'd into the Exchequer: And where Land or Houses are un­occupied, and no Distress, nor the person of the Owner to be found within the County, such persons Name is to be Certified into the Exchequer, and Pro­cess thereupon is to issue against the Body, Land and Goods.

LII. In case of Non-payment for Woodlands, and no Distress to be had, so much of the Wood (Timber Trees excepted) may be Felled and Sold as will pay the As­sessment. And in case of Non-payment of Tythes, Tolls, Profits of Markets, Fairs, Fisheries or other An­nual Profits, not Distrainable, so much thereof may be seized and Sold as the Tax amounts unto.

[Page 98] LIII. Receivers General returning any into the Ex­chequer, who have paid their Tax, are to Forfeit treble Damage to the Party agrieved, and to his Majesty dou­ble the Sum unjustly certified.

LIV. The Commissioners are to Assess each other within their Division, and are also to Assess the Asses­sors.

LV. All persons having any share in the New-River, Thames, Hide-Park, Marybone or Hampsted Waters, or any Profits arising thereby, or any Stock in the Office for Insuring of Houses, or in the Convex or other Lights, or in the Kings Printing House, shall pay 3 s. in the Pound, of the full yearly Value: and these Stocks or Shares, and all Companies of Merchants in London, are to be Assessed by Three or more of the Commissio­ners appointed for the City of London, and the Sums to be paid by the respective Governors, Treasurers or Receivers.

LVI. The Commissioners are to require an Account from time to time of the Moneys Receiv'd by the Re­ceivers General, and of the Payments thereof into the Exchequer, and in case of failure, to cause the same to be forthwith Levied.

LVII. No Letters Patents or Privileges shall exempt any from Payment of the Rates in this Act.

LVIII. Provided that no person be compelled to be an Assessor or Collector out of the Limits of the City, Borough or Town Corporate where he lives.

LIX. And provided that the Assessments on Houses where Foreign Ministers shall be resident, shall be paid by the Landlord or Owner.

LX. In all Privileged and extraparochial Places, the Commissioners are to Nominate two persons, in or near the said places, to be Assessors.

LXI. A Proviso that no Commissioner shall be liable to the Penalties in the Act of 25 Car. 2. touching Po­pish Recusants; nor be capable to Act before he hath ta­ken the Oaths in the Act 1 W. & M. For Abrogating the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, and also the Oath hereby appointed; which Oaths any Two of the Com­missioners are to Administer.

LXII. Every Papist or reputed Papist, of the Age of Sixteen Years or upwards, not having taken the Oaths in the said Act of 1 W. & M. is to pay double, unless he or she take the Oaths within Ten Days after the first meeting of the Commissioners.

LXIII. Every person of Sixteen years of Age or up­wards, who shall not have taken the Oaths before the [Page 99]time of the Execution of the Act, and being Summon'd shall refuse to take the Oaths, or neglect to appear be­fore the Commissioners in order thereto, shall pay double.

LXIV. Every Gentleman, or so reputed, or being a­bove that Quality, who by the Act 3 W. & M. for the Quarterly Poll, did or ought to have paid double, and shall not voluntarily take the Oaths before Two or more Commissioners, within Ten days after their first meet­ing, shall pay double.

LXV. And the Commissioners, upon Information or Suspicion, are to Summon the person suspected, to ap­pear and take the Oaths. Quakers, instead of the Oaths, may Make and Subscribe the Declaration of Fidelity 1 W. & M. and so doing shall not be liable to double Rates.

LXVI. Provided that where the Owners of Lands are liable to double Rates, such Owner only shall pay the double Rate, and not the Tenant, notwithstanding any Covenant for payment of Taxes.

LXVII. A Proviso that no person be liable to the Pound Rate, whose Lands, &c. are not of the Yearly Value of 20 s. in the whole.

LXVIII. A Proviso that the Chancery Officers within the Liberty of the Rolls shall be there Assessed.

LXIX. Collectors keeping any Moneys in their Hands, or not paying the same as the Act directs, are to for­feit 10 l. and the Head Collectors for the like offence 40 l.

LXX. If after the Assessment any Persons remove to a Place where they were not Rated, the Commissioners are to Summon such Persons before them, and cause them to be duly Rated, and to pay the same, or such part as shall be unpaid, unless the party produces a Certificate that he hath been Rated and Paid else­where.

LXXI. The Kings Bench Prison, with the Lands, &c. and the Rents and Profits of the Marshal thereof; and the Prison House, Lands, &c. of the Marshalsea Prison, and Offices and Perquisites of the Marshals Court, shall be Assessed in the Parish of St. George in Southwark.

LXXII. Any person acting as a Commissioner, before he hath taken the Oaths, forfeits 500 l. to the King.

LXXIII. The Water-works in Southwark are to be Rated by the Commissioners and Assessors of Surrey; and those in Westminster by the Commissioners and Af­fessors for Westminsler.

[Page 100] LXXIV. Receivers General neglecting or refusing to return Duplicates of the Assessments into the Exchequer by the times prefixt, shall forfeit 50 l. and be incapable of any Trust from his Majesty.

LXXV. All Auditors and Receivers are to allow 3 s. in the Pound out of any Fee Farm or other Chief Rents payable to his Majesty or the Queen Dowager, or any others by Grant or Purchase from the Crown, un­der the Penalty of 10 l.

LXXVI. A Proviso that Rectories, Vicaridges or Cu­racies under 40 l. per Annum, shall not be Taxed, if the Rector, Vicar or Curate resides upon the Place, or per­sonally serves the Cure.

LXXVII. No Tenant of Houses or Lands belonging to Colleges, Halls, Hospitals, Alms-houses or Schools, who by their Contracts are obliged to pay all Taxes, shall be Discharged.

LXXVIII. The Allowance of Three Half-pence in the Pound to the Commissioners Clerks is not to be paid till they have transmitted the Duplicates into the Remem­brancers Office, and have a Certificate thereof.

LXXIX. Members of Parliament are to be Assessed for their Personal Tax of 4 d. per Month, and for their ready Money and Debts where they usually reside in the Intervals of Palriament. Provided that if their usual Residence be not within the Cities of London and West­minster, or 20 Miles of the same, they shall not be Asses­sed for their Money, Debts, Stock in Trade or upon Lands until 20 Days after the rising of the Parliament. And Servants attending the said Members are not to be Assessed for their Wages until the time aforesaid.

LXXX. A Proviso, That upon Oath before the Com­missioners, that any Debts contained in the Specificati­ons required by this Act are desperate, the Commissio­ners are to inform themselves, and to Charge or Dis­charge the same as they see cause; which Discharge is to be noted upon the said Specification and Duplicates thereof.

LXXXI. Persons giving an Account in their Specifi­cations of the Money they owe at Interest, the Commis­sioners, being satisfied therewith, by Oath or otherwise, shall make a proportionable Allowance or Deduction out of the Tax.

LXXXII. Provided, That where Lands, &c. are, and from 29 Sept. 1696. have been in the actual possessi­on of any Person for Debts, to which the same were li­able, such Debts are not to be charged by this Act.

[Page 101] LXXXIII. All or any part of the Monthly payments in this Act, may be paid for the whole year, or any Months thereof, before hand in Hammer'd Silver Money at 5 s. 8 d. per oz. at any time before 1 June, 1697.

LXXXIV. If the Assessors neglect, the Commissio­ners are to take care, That Papists and persons not taking the Oaths be doubly charged.

LXXXV. Persons beyond Sea and Minors having Mo­neys at Interest in this Kingdom, their Trustees or Guardians are to pay the Duties.

LXXXVI. Receivers General are to keep a distinct Account of the 3 s. in the Pound upon Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, &c. And every such Receiver General or his Deputy misapplying any part of the Moneys arising by the said Pound Rate of 3 s. in the Pound, shall For­feit 500 l.

LXXXVII. The Commissioners of the Treasury, or Lord Treasurer are not to direct any Warrant for pay­ment of any Moneys arising by the said Pound Rate of 3 s. otherwise than into the Exchequer; nor to the Officers of the Exchequer for striking any Talleys of Pro or Anticipation upon the same; nor shall any Teller charge himself with any of the said Moneys till he has actually received it.

LXXXVIII. No stay of Process shall be made for any of the Penalties by this Act inflicted.

LXXXIX. Loans on Credit of Contributions for An­nuities pursuant to an Act 7 W. 3. remaining unsatisfied, to be in the first place Transferred to the Register ap­pointed for the Tax of 3 s. in the Pound. And in the next place, all Moneys lent upon Credit of the Exche­quer in general, between 1 July, 1696. and 1 Febr. 1696. which Transferred Orders of Loan shall be Assignable.

XC. Any persons, Natives or Foreigners, may lend his Majesty any Sums not exceeding 1500000 l. (including the Sums Transferred) at the rate of 8 l. per Cent. on Credit of the Tax of 3 s. in the Pound, and the Mo­neys so lent on this Act are not to be Taxed.

XCI. A distinct Register is to be kept in the Exchequer of the produce of the 3 s in the Pound: And the Inte­rest for Moneys lent thereon shall be paid in course e­very three Months, without any undue preference by the Officers of the Exchequer, as they will avoid the Penalties inflicted by the Act.

XCII. Orders of Loan, by Virtue of this Act, being Entred, are made assignable.

XCIII. The Commissioners of the Treasury, or High Treasurer, may issue Bills at the Exchequer, for any [Page 102]Sums not exceeding 1500000 l. for the use of the War; Which Bills shall be Current in all Payments for any Aids or Supplies for the War for the year 1697, ex­cept in the 3 s. in the Pound.

XCIV. And the Receivers and Collectors, out of the Mill'd Money or Gold in their Hands, are to pay such Bills as shall be brought to them, under Penalty of for­feiting double the Sum. Which Receivers, upon Pay­ment of any of the said Bills into the Exchequer, are to have Talleys for their Discharge; And the Bills so paid in to be immediately Cancelled.

XCV. And the Money paid into the Exchequer for any Supplies for the Year, 1697. (Except for the 3 s. Aid) shall be applied to the taking up and cancelling such Bills: But if the Supplies for the Year 1697. (Except for the 3 s. Aid) be Deficient of 1500000 l. Authorized to be Issued in Bills, such Deficiency is to be in the first place made Good out of any Moneys that shall be Raised by any Act of next Session of Parliament.

XCVI. Every Receiver General is to Enter in Books all the Sums he receives, the Names of each Collector, the days when, and Sums paid, how much in Hammer'd, and how much in Mill'd Money or Gold, and all Bills by him paid in pursuance of this Act. Which Books are to lye constantly open at one certain place within his Re­ceipt, to which all persons are to have access. And e­very Receiver neglecting to keep such Book, or to En­ter his Receipts by the space of three days, or refusing any person to inspect the same, shall forfeit 100 l.

XCVII. A Proviso, That 200000 l. out of the first Bills to be issued, or the first Moneys arising by this Act (Except the 3 s. Aid, and Loans thereupon) shall be Appropriated for payment of Soldiers Quarters in England, between 1 Jan. 1694. and 1 Jan. 1696 not o­therwise satisfied before 1 Feb. 1696. if the said Quarters amount to so much. It shall be Felony to Counterfeit the said Exchequer Bills without Benefit of Clergy.

XCVIII. A Proviso, That this Act shall not Charge the 50000 l. per An. Granted in Trust for the Prince and Prin­cess of Denmark, with the Duty of 4 s. 4 d. per Pound.

XCIX. Persons not Charged (over and above the 4 d. per Month) with the Duties on Wages, Pensions, Sala­ries, Offices or Imployments of the yearly Value of 8 l. or for their own Lands or Tenements of the yearly Va­lue of 40 s. or for Money or Stock of the Value of 5 l. shall not be Charged with the 4 d. per Month for their Children, under the Age of Sixteen Years.

[Page 103] C. Also Poor Housekeepers, who by reason of their poverty do not contribute to Church or Poor, shall not be charged by this Act; Nor shall it extend to charge Houses not cover'd or made habitable.

CI. A Proviso, That Hammer'd Money shall be Cur­rent at 5 s. 2 d. per oz. after 1 Feb. 1696. in all pay­ments, except where it is directed to be Received at a greater value.

CII. Stat. 8 & 9. W. 3. cap. 7. During the term of two years, from 1 March, 1696 a Duty of 20 per Cent. of the true value for all Paper, Vellum and Parchment, of what kind soever, made within this Kingdom, shall be paid by the Makers thereof; And for all Paper, Past­board, Vellum and Parchment, either in Rolls, Reams, Quires, Books printed or not printed, or otherwise, Im­ported during the said Term, 25 per Cent. over and a­bove all Customs and Duties already payable for the same.

CIII. Which Duties on Importations shall be paid by the Importers upon making their Entries of the same, or shall be secured to be paid within three Months after such Entry, with a Discount of 10 per Cent. per Ann. for payment in ready Money, with a Clause of forfeiture upon Landing any such Imported Commodities before Entry be made thereof.

CIV. The said Duties on Importations to be Collected by the Officers of the Customs, according to the true value, to be esteemed upon the Oath of the Importer: And the Duties upon the said Commodities made within the Realm shall be ascertained by Commissioners there­unto appointed, their Substitutes or Deputies, under the direction of the Commissioners of the Treasury.

CV. In case of Controversie, the value of such Goods made within the Realm shall be esteemed by Affidavit of the Makers thereof in Writing, with Liberty to his Ma­jesties Officers to take such Goods at the value specified in the said Affidavits, paying down ready Money for the same.

CVI. The makers of the said Manufactures shall before 25 Mar. 1697. give notice in Writing of the place where such Manufactures are usually made or intended to be made, and the Names and places of abode of the ma­kers thereof, under the penalty of 20 l. And shall not make the same but in such common places, whereof they shall first have given Notice; and shall permit the respective Officers of the said Duties, to take notice of the stock of Materials for making the same: And shall [Page 104]within five days after such Commodities are made, so as to be fit for use, and before the removal thereof, make true Entries of the same with his Majesties Officers; and shall then, or within six Months after, pay the said Duties, and thereupon shall have a permission gratis for carrying the same away, with an Allowance of 10 per Cent. per An for prompt payment.

CVII. It shall be Lawful for the said Officers to search and see what quantities of the said Commodities are making, who are not to be refused Entrance, under the penalty of 10 l. And if any persons shall endeavour to Defraud his Majesty of his just Dues for the same, they shall Forfeit 50 l. and the Commodities, concealed, not entred, or unlawfully removed, shall be also for­feited.

CVIII. All Merchants, Stationers, Wholesale-sellers, Retailers, Paper-makers and others having, on 1 Mar. (1696.) any stock of Paper, Parchment, Vellum or Pastboard for sale, shall pay a Duty of 17 l. 10 s. per Cent. of the true value thereof within ten days after the said 1 Mar. 1696.

CIX. The persons aforesaid shall deliver to the proper Officer a Particular in Writing Signed, of the Quanti­ties, Kinds and Values of the said Goods, which Offi­cers are Impowred to take an Account of, and view the said Goods, and shall be permitted so to do under the penalty of 20 l. And if the said Duties be not paid by 11 Mar. 1696. nor secured to be paid within three Months, the said Officers may Levy the same by Distress of the Goods and Chattels of the persons liable thereunto.

CX. Provided that the persons paying the said Duties by 11 Mar. 1696. shall be allowed 10 per Cent per An. for prompt payment; And the valuation of the said Stock shall be esteemed by the Oath of the Owner taken in Writing, with liberty to the Kings Officer to take such Goods at the value specified in the said Affidavit, paying down ready Money for the same.

CXI. Upon neglect to give in such particulars before 5 Mar. 1696. or not giving in the full of the said Stock, or carrying away or concealing any part thereof, before the Duty shall be paid or secured, to forfeit 50 l. and the Goods so not given in, or carried away or concealed, shall be forseited.

CXII. In case of Seizure and Information or Com­plaint thereupon within eight days, two of the next Ju­stices of the Peace are to hear and determin the matter; and upon Appeals the Justices of the next Quarter Sessions are to hear and determin the same finally.

[Page 105] CXIII. All Entries, Accounts and Permissions afore­said are to be made gratis.

CXIV. Provided that upon Exportations beyond the Seas, the Duties so paid or secured, shall be repaid or discharged.

CXV. Any persons may Lend on the Credit of this Act 125000 l. at 8 per Cent. Interest, free from Taxes, to be paid every three Months, till repayment of their Princi­pal, which shall be repaid in course, and the Money not diverted to any other Use; And the Orders for repay­ment of Loans to be Assignable.

CXVI. All Hammer'd Moneys brought into any of the Mints, not being Base or Counterfeit, (such being to be cut in pieces and return'd) shall be Received at 5 s. 4 d. per oz. and duly Entred, and a Receipt thereof given in Writing, and shall be Recoin'd into Mill'd Money; and the Produce thereof, with the help of such Moneys as shall be Raised or Imprested by this Act (Charges de­ducted) shall be paid back to the bringers in of such Hammer'd Moneys.

CXVII. All such Hammer'd Moneys brought in upon Taxes at 5 s. 8 d. per oz. shall in like manner be Recei­ved, Entred, Specified. Essayed and New Coined; and (Charges deducted) deliver'd back to the respective Receivers and Collectors who brought in the same, to be by them paid into the Exchequer, with an Allowance of the Deficiency in Recoining.

CXVIII. The Moneys so brought in at 5 s 4 d. per oz. or for Taxes or Revenues, shall be repay'd in course, and not diverted or misapplied, under the penalty of loss of Place to the Officer so offending, and forfeiting tre­ble Damages to the party grieved.

CXIX. The clear Moneys arising by this Act, shall be applied to the making good the said Allowance of 5 s. 4 d. per oz. for Hammer'd Moneys, and the deficiencies of the said Loans made in Hammer'd Moneys, and the Encouragement for bringing in Wrought Plate to be Coin'd, and the Charge of Recoining, and shall not be diverted to any other Use.

CXX. Provided, That if this Act raise more than 125000 l. clear, then the Overplus shall be brought into the Exchequer, and not disposed of but by Authority of Parliament.

CXXI. After 25 Mar. 1697. no persons shall use any White Linen Rags, for making of Brown or Course Pa­per, but only for Writing or Printing Paper, under the penalty of 5 l.

[Page 106] CXXII. Stat. 8 & 9 W. 3. cap. 20. Enacted, That the Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage, &c. granted anno 12. Car. 2. to the said King for Life, and continued anno 6 W. 3. for Five Years, from 26 Decemb. 1694. be continued to 1 Aug. 1706. And that the Acts made anno 12 & 14 Car. 2. relating to the Customs; and the Act ann. 22. Car. 2. relating to Tillage and Breed of Cattel; and the Acts anno 25 Car. 2. for taking off Aliens Duties, and relating to the Greenland, Eastland and Plantation Trades; and the Act anno 1 Jac. 2. for improvement of Tillage, and all the Clauses therein, or in the Act anno 6 W. 3. relating to the Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage, be of full Force and Effect till the said 1 Aug. 1706.

CXXIII. That the Duties upon Wines and Vinegar, granted 1 Jam. 2. for Eight Years, and since continued by several Acts to 29 Septemb. 1701. be further continued till 1 Aug. 1706.

CXXIV. That the Duties on Tobacco, granted anno 1 Jac. 2. for eight Years, and since continued by several Acts to 29 Septemb. 1701. be further continued till the said 1 Aug. 1706. under the Rules and Directions rela­ting thereunto, in the Act anno 7 & 8 W. 3.

CXXV. That the Additional Impositions upon East-India and other Goods, granted anno 2 W. & M. and since continued by several Acts to 29 Sep. 1701. be fur­ther continued till the said 1 Aug. 1706. under the Di­rections of the said Act, ann. 2 W. & M. not otherwise altered or provided for by any subsequent Acts now in being.

CXXVI. That the Additional Impositions on several Goods and Merchandizes granted ann. 4 & 5 W. & M. for four years, be continued to the said 1 Aug. 1706. un­der the Rules of the said Act, subject to the Exceptions and Provisions in this present Act, viz. That the Additio­nal Duty of 20 s. per Tun for Lapis Calaminaris export­ed, be only 2 s. And that Barr-Iron unwrought, or Slit or Hammered Rod-Iron, imported from Ireland (other than Swedish or Foreign Iron) be discharged of the Im­positions laid on the same by this or the said Act, 4 & 5 W. & M. And that the Alterations made by any other Acts in being, touching the said Impositions, be observed.

CXXVII. That the Duties on Vellum, Parchment and Paper, Granted ann. 5. & 6 W. & M. for four years, from 28 Jun. 1694. be continued till 1 Aug. 1706. under the Rules of the said Act, except where altered by any o­ther Act.

CXXVIII. That the Duties on Marriages, Births and [Page 107]Burials, &c. granted ann. 6 & 7 W. 3. for 5 years, from 1 May, 1695. be continued till the said 1 Aug. 1706. un­der the Rules of the said Act.

CXXIX. And that the Duties on Houses, granted 7 & 8 W. 3. for seven years, from 25 March, 1696. be continued till the said 1 Aug. 1706. under the Rules of the said Act.

CXXX. His Majesty may constitute Surveyors or Inspe­ctors of the said Duties on Marriages, Births and Burials, and upon Houses and Windows, who shall certifie the Neglects or Failures in the Assessments of those Duties to the Commissioners, that so all persons may be duly As­sessed accordingly.

CXXXI. That the Duties on Batchelors and Widowers, who are Servants in Husbandry, be paid by the Master or Mistress, and deducted out of their Wages. That Houses inhabited by two or more Families, be charged as if In­habited by one Family only. That every Edifice in the Inns of Court or Chancery, be charged as an in­tire House, according to their several Tenures or Occu­pations. And that every House left to the care of any Person or Servant, be charged as an Inhabited House.

CXXXII. And for restoring of Credit, &c. Enacted, That the present Stock of the Bank of England be enlar­ged by new Subscriptions of Natives. Foreigners or o­thers: But that before such Enlargement, and before the Twenty fourth of July, 1697. the said Stock shall be computed by seven of the present Members, and se­ven of the new Subscribers, or in Default thereof by the Lord-Keeper, at any time before 24 Aug. 1697. And if the clear Stock amount not to 1200000 l. the old Mem­bers to make it up in Talleys, Orders, Bank Bills or Notes; but if it exceed 1200000 l. then the Surplus to be divided among the said old Members.

CXXXIII. Seven or more of the Commissioners ap­pointed by his Majesty for that purpose, shall take such new Subscriptions before 24 Jun. 1697. in Books to be provided before 2 Apr. 1697. and in such convenient House or Houses in London and Westminster, as they shall provide, and give publick notice of.

CXXXIV. Four Fifths of each particular Subscription, shall be at the time of Subscribing answered by Talleys or Orders upon the first, third or fourth Aids of 4 s. per pound; the Quarterly Poll; three fourths of the Cu­stoms; the Salt Act; two thirds of the Additional Ex­cise; the Additional Impositions; the Parchment Act; the 300000 l. per ann. on Tunnage and Poundage; the Duties on Marriages, Births and Burials, &c. on Wines, Vinegar and Tobacco, &c. on Joint. [Page 108]Stocks, &c. on Low Wines, &c. on the 6000 l. per Week out of the Excise, or the 600 l. per Week out of the Post-Office; and the other fifth part in Bank Bills or Notes.

CXXXV. After 24 Jun. 1697. Interest of Eight per Cent. per Ann. shall be allowed for the Talleys and Or­ders so subscribed, out of the Funds or Provisions grant­ed by this Act.

CXXXVI. The Interest payable to the Bank upon so many Talleys or Orders as the Bank is already possessed of, whereof the principal shall be equal to the said Fifth part subscribed in Bank Bills or Notes, shall be likewise augmented to Eight per Cent. per ann. after the said 24 June.

CXXXVII. And the said new Subscribers shall after the said 24 June, be Members of, and united to the present Bank of England, by the Name of the Governour and Company of the Bank of England, with perpetual Suc­cession, and a Common Seal, &c.

CXXXVIII. Provided, That upon twelve months notice after 1 Aug. 1710. upon repayment by Parliament to the said Bank, the 1200000 l. mentioned in the Act for granting several Rates upon Tunnage, &c. and all Arrears of the 100000 l. per ann. and all the Principal and Inte­rest which shall be due to the said Bank upon Talleys, &c. then the said Bank to cease and determine. But that during the continuance of this Bank, no other Bank shall be crected or permitted by Act of Parliament.

CXXXIX. The Interest due on Talleys and Orders subscribed into the Bank, shall be accepted as so much Principal Money.

CXL. The said Bank may borrow or give security for by Bills (over and above the 1200000 l. to which they were at first limited) any Sum, not exceeding the Sum subscribed, under an Obligation of paying the said Bills in Money upon demand; and in default thereof, the said Bills to be paid at the Exchequer out of the first Mo­ney due unto the Bank, other than the Fund of 100000 l. per ann. But that these Bills shall be distinguisht from the Debts contain'd within the said 1200000 l.

CXLI. The Capital Stock and Fund of the said Bank, shall be exempt from Taxes.

CXLII. After the compleating of the said Subscripti­ons, the Interest of all Talleys and Orders subscribed, together with the said 100000 l. per ann. shall be appli­ed to the use of the Bank, proportionably to each Mem­bers Share therein.

CXLIII. After 25 Mar. 1697 the Stock of the said Bank shall be accounted a Personal and not a Real Estate, [Page 109]and descend accordingly: And no Bank Stock shall be sold without Registring the Contract thereof at the Bank within seven days, and actually transferring it within fourteen days.

CXLIV. No Act of the Bank shall forfeit the Stock thereof, provided they pay their Debts And it shall be Felony to counterfeit the common Seal of the said Bank, or any seal'd Bank Bill, or any Bank Note, or al­ter or erase such Bills or Notes.

CXLV. The Office of the Exchequer shall keep distinct Accounts of all Moneys appropriated or due to the said Bank, either upon the Fund of 100000 l. per Annum, or any other Parliamentary Funds, or for Talleys belong­ing to the said Bank; and shall duly Direct, Record and make Payment thereof, under Penalty of loss of Place, &c.

CXLVI. The Moneys arising by the continuation of the Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage, &c. by Wines, Vi­negar and Tobacco, &c. by the Additional Impositions on Goods and Merchandizes, by Vellum, Parchment and Paper, by Marriages, Births and Burials, &c. and by the Duties on Houses, from the times the said Duties are se­verally continued, as aforesaid, till 1 Aug. 1706. And by the surplus of the said Duties on Wine, Vinegar and To­bacco, &c. over and above the 1500000 l. Credit given thereupon, and the Interest thereof arising by the Act continued till the said 29 Sept. 1701. And also on Houses, (after the repayment of 7382 l. 11 s. 4 d. borrowed thereon, and the Interest thereof; And after that, the Bills Signed at the Mints for 6 d. per oz. upon Plate brought in between 4 May, 1696. and 4 Nov. 1696) arising by the Act granted for seven years from 25 Mar. 1696. And upon Salt, Glass-Wares, &c. (after the re­payment of 1724000 l. borrowed thereon, and the In­terest thereof) arising by the Act Anno 7 & 8 W. 3. shall be the General Fund for making good the particular Funds or Deficiencies in this Act expressed, and shall be appropriated and applied accordingly.

CXLVII And the Moneys arising by the said General Fund, before 28 Jun. 1698. as well for the Duties on Houses (after the said 7382 l. 11 s. 4 d. and the Interest thereof, and the 6 d. per oz. for Silver is satisfied) as for the said Additional Duties on Goods and Merchandizes continued from ult. Febr. 1696. shall be applied towards Interest due to the Bank of England, or others, for Loans upon the First, Third and Fourth 4 s. Aids; the Quarter­ly Poll; three Fourths of the Customs; and two Thirds of the Additional Excise, and upon the Additional Im­positions, [Page 110]ending 1 Mar. 1696. And out of the same Moneys the Bank shall receive so much as will make their part of the Interest 8 l. per Cent. for all their Tal­leys and Orders.

CXLVIII. Provided, That if the said Money fall short, a proportionable part, so far as it will extend, shall be applied to the Interest upon each of those Funds: And if there be an Overplus, the same to go towards the prin­cipal Moneys upon each of those Funds proportionably.

CXLIX. And the Moneys arising by the said General Fund after 28 Jun. 1698. as well by the said Duties on Houses, and Additional Impositions, as at any time or times for the said Duties on Vellum, Parchment and Pa­per, continued from 28 Jun. 1698. to 1 Aug. 1706. And for Tunnage and Poundage, &c. continued from 25 Dec. 1699 to 1 Aug. 1706. And for Marriages, Births and Burials, &c. continued from 1 May, 1700. to 1 Aug. 1706. And for Wines, Vinegar and Tobacco, &c. con­tinued from 28 Sept. 1701. to 1 Aug. 1706. And by the said surplus on Wines, Vinegar and Tobacco, &c. and on Salt, Glass Wares, &c. shall be applied towards Principal and Interest of the said First, Third and Fourth Aids of 4 s. per pound; the Quarterly Poll; the three Fourths of the Customs; the Duties on Salt, &c. the two Thirds of the Additional Excise; the Additional Impo­sitions; the Duties on Vellum, Paper and Parchment; on Marriages, Births and Burials, &c. on Wines, Vine­gar and Tobacco, &c. and the 300000 l. per Annum, out of Tunnage and Poundage, in proportion to the respe­ctive Deficiencies, as computed in this Act.

CL. And by 26 July, 1698. and thenceforth every Twenty eight days, an account shall be made up at the Treasury, of all the Moneys brought in, applicable to the said deficient Funds, which shall be applied proportiona­bly as aforesaid, as well to the Bank of England, as o­ther persons intituled to Principal and Interest thereon: And that out of the said General Fund, the Interest due to the Bank shall be made up 8 l. per Cent.

CLI. Provided, That where any Revenue is already appropriated by Parliament for repayments in course, the same shall be paid accordingly; But that the new Funds in this Act shall be applied as hereby prescribed.

CLII. And in case of Judgment of Forfeiture given a­gainst the said Bank, the yearly Payments out of the Ex­chequer, and all the Estate belonging to the said Bank, shall be vested for three Years in twenty four persons, or Trustees, chosen by the Bank, who shall have full power to receive the Moneys due unto the said Bank, as if no [Page 111]such Judgment had been given, and to pay and discharge the Debts due at the time of such Judgment: After which the surplus shall be divided amongst the several Mem­bers: And then the said yearly payments shall be vested in the particular Members, their Executors, Admini­strators, and Assigns, in proportion to a List thereof to be made up by the said Trustees, and shall be Assignable.

CLIII. The said Bank may imploy a Clerk to take Doc­quets of any Extents, Judgments, &c. in any the Offices of Record at Westminster, paying as for a Search only.

CLIV. No Member of the said bank, shall be adjudged a Bankrupt by reason of his Stock in the said Bank, nor the said Stock be subject to any Foreign Attachment.

CLV. The Moneys received out of the Exchequer for the said Bank, shall once in every four Months be divi­ded among the Members proportionably, for their par­ticular use and behoof only.

CLVI. Provided, That the Debts of the said Bank shall never exceed their Capital Stock, under Penalty of sub­jecting the Overplus of their particular Shares and Di­vidends so received, to satisfie the said Debts.

CLVII. If at the end of one year after 24 Jun. 1697. the said Funds for Interest shall appear insufficient, they shall be made up out of such Aids, &c. as shall be grant­ed the then next Session of Parliament, and so in any succeeding Year.

CLVIII. And if upon 1 Aug. 1706. or within three Months after, the Produce of the several Aids, &c. shall not be sufficient to discharge the Principal and Interest intended to be discharged by this Act, then the same shall be supplied out of such Aids, &c. as shall be granted the then next Session of Parliament.

CLIX. The present Governour, Deputy Governour and Directors of the Bank, shall continue till 24 June, 1697. and till others be chosen, which shall be before 24 July, 1697. And those new Chosen to continue till 25 Mar. 1698. But in that and all future Elections, not above Two Thirds of the Directors of the prece­ding Year to be chosen.

CLX. After 25 Mar. 1697. and till 25 Dec. 1699. there shall be paid for Salt, over and above all other Duties al­ready payable, the Rates following, viz. for every Gal­lon of Salt imported 2 d. And for every Gallon of Salt or Rock Salt made at the Salt-Works, 1 d. to be Col­lected and Answered, pursuant to the Rules and Dire­ctions of the Act, An 5 & 6 W. & M. touching the Duty upon Salt; and the Act, An. 7 & 8 W. 3. for continuing the said Duty. But with an Allowance upon Exportati­on [Page 112]for every Cask of Pilchards or Scads of 50 Gallons, 8 s every Barrel of White Herrings 20 d. of Red Her­rings 16 d. of Salmon 3 s. 4 d. and every hundred of Cod-fish, Ling or Hake 10 s. over and above all former Allowances, with a Drawback of the Duty for all Export­ed Salt.

CLXI. This Duty upon Salt, shall be appropriated (with the said other Duties) to payment of Interest due before 25 Decemb. 1699. to the Bank or others, upon the deficient Funds, and the overplus towards the Prin­cipal.

CLXII. For Five Years, after 10 June 1697. or before the end of the then next Session of Parliament, no per­son shall give or take directly or indirectly, for any Talley or Order above Six per Cent. more than the Interest thereof, under Penalty of treble the value of the Princi­pal, and to suffer as an Extortioner.

CLXIII. And after the said 10 June, 1697. no Orders or Talleys shall be Transferred but by Writing Sign'd and Registred, and Affidavit made (if payable by Order at the Exchequer) before the Auditor of the Exchequer or Clerk of the Pells; or if payable by Talley of Pro at the Excise Office, Post Office, or other Publick Office, then before one or more Commissioners of Excise, or Post­masters General, or other Chief Officers in such Publick Office; that no Allowance whatsoever exceeding the Interest and Six per Cent. as aforesaid, hath been taken or agreed to be taken for such Assignment: Which As­signments and Affidavits shall be Made, Registred, Ad­ministred and Noted gratis.

CLXIV. And every Broker or Sollicitor who shall af­ter the said 10 June take above 2 s. 6 d. for the Brokage of One hundred pounds, shall forfeit Twenty pounds; and contracting for any Praemium contrary to this Act, shall forfeit Five hundred pounds, and suffer as an Ex­tortioner

CLXV. But persons having actually bought Orders of Loan or Talleys before the said 10 June, and shall make Oath thereof, shall not be obliged to take the Oath touching Praemium.

CLXVI. The Bills of Credit authorized to be issued this present Session of Parliament, shall be received and taken, not only by the Receivers or Collectors of Taxes granted, or to be granted for the War this Year 1697. but be Current to the Commissioners, Receivers or Col­lectors of any Tax or Supply granted, or to be granted this present Session, and also at the Exchequer: And that there shall be an Allowance upon the said Bills of 5 d. a [Page 113]day for every hundred pounds till payment thereof; at which time the person so answering the same to his Majesty, shall put to his Name and Day of the Month.

CLXVII. And the said Bills are not to be Cancelled, except by the Tellers of the Exchequer, but as they are issued out, are to be Signed and Dated toties quoties.

CLXVIII. And in case any of the said Bills should be refused, the Commissioners of the Treasury may Con­tract with any persons to advance ready Money for Ex­changing and Circulating the said Bills, upon such Secu­rity as shall be agreed on, and a further Reward, not exceeding Ten per Cent. per Ann. And the Interest Mo­ney shall be paid to such Contractors out of the Supplies granted for the War for Ann. 1697.

CLXIX. Provided, That till the said Bills for 1500000 l. can be exchanged for Ready Money, they shall be cur­rent only for the Taxes granted for the War for Ann. 1697. exclusive of the 3 s. Aid; but afterwards for all Taxes or other Payments to his Majesty.

CLXX. All the present Governours of any English Plantations, shall before 25 March, 1698. (and the future Governours within six months after their Entrance upon their Governments) take the Oath appointed in the Act, An. 7 & 8 W. 3. to do their utmost that the Acts relating to Shipping, Navigation, Trade and the Plan­tations, made An 12 & 15 Car. 2. and 7 & 8 W. 3. be punctually observed.

CLXXI. The Sum of 3280 l. 8 s. 9 d. Received in Hammer'd Money by Ralph Williamson, Receiver Gene­ral of the 4 s. Aid in the Counties of York, Durham and Northumberland, and by him deposited in the Exche­quer, shall be received by the Tellers there, and a Dis­charge passed for the same.

CLXXII. After 1 May, 1697. any Tobacco Pipe Ma­ker, upon Drawing his Tobacco Pipes, finding then un­fit for Sale, may (on Notice to the Officer in that be­half) reburn the same, and then pay the Duty thereon Established by the Act, An. 7 & 8 W. 3.

CLXXIII. Stat. 8 & 9 W. 3 cap. 21. For three years from 20 Apr. 1697. there shall be paid to his Majesty for all Leather Tanned, Tawed, Dressed or Made in this Kingdom, or Imported (over and above all Duties al­ready payable) a Duty of 15 l. per Cent. of the true value of such Leather, made of any Hides, Skins, or pieces of Hides or Skins of any Beasts or Creatures whatsoever; to be answered by the Tanners, Makers, Dressers or Importers.

[Page 114] CLXXIV. The Duties on Foreign Imported Leather, Hides, &c. Manufactured or not, shall be paid by the Importers in ready Money, at the Entry, and before the Landing of the same, under penalty of forfeiting such Leather, &c. or the value thereof.

CLXXV. The said Duty shall be under the Management of the Commissioners of the Customs, and the Moneys arising thereby, shall be paid into the Exchequer distinct from all other Moneys. The value of such Leather or Commodities shall be esteemed upon the Oath of the Mer­chant or Importer, in such manner as in Goods ad va­lorem.

CLXXVI. All chief Magistrates of Cities and Towns, Lords of Liberties, Fairs and Markets, Masters and Wardens of Companies concern'd, and all Tanners, Cur­riers, Shoemakers and other Artificers and persons con­cern'd in the Act, Anno 1 Jac. 1. touching the true and well Tanning, Currying and Working of Leather, and the buying and selling the same, &c. shall duly execute the said Statute under the penalties thereof.

CLXXVII. His Majesty, or the Treasury, may ap­point Commissioners or Surveyors for the said Duties, who may substitute Deputies or Inferior Officers under them.

CLXXVIII. The value of all Imported Leather shall be so much as the same is worth to be sold for in London, without any Allowance for the Duties charged there­upon.

CLXXIX. And the value of all Leather Tanned, Taw­ed, Made or Dressed, shall be what the same is worth to be sold for at the next Market, without respect to the Duty.

CLXXX. All Tanners, Bazil-Tanners, Curriers, Taw­ers, Makers or Dressers of Leather, shall before 20 May, 1697. give Notice in Writing to the proper Officer at the next Market Town, of every Tan-house, Work­house or Place by them used, and the Number of Pits or Fats therein; And from time to time, during the con­tinuance of this Act, shall give like Notice of their re­spective Names and Places of Abode, Yards and Work­houses, used or intended to be used by them, before they make use thereof, under penalty of 50 l.

CLXXXI. And no place is to be made use of for Dry­ing of Leather, or making it fit for Sale, but such as shall have been so notified to the proper Officer to be the usual place for the same.

CLXXXII. And the said Officers are to be permitted to take an Account of the Number and Quality of all [Page 115]Hides, Skins or Pieces, which after 20 Apr. 1697. shall be taken out of the Wooze, Mill or Liquor, to be Dry­ed, &c. And the Tanners, &c. are within three days af­ter the taking out thereof, and before the carrying away of the same from the place of Drying, to make a true Entry thereof with the proper Officer, and shall not car­ry the same away without a Permission in Writing from such Officer, or giving him three days Notice: Which Permission to be gratis, and such Notice not to be sent further than to the next Market.

CLXXXIII. The proper Officers are Impowred at sea­sonable times to enter into any Tan-yard, Work-house, Ware-house, &c. to take Notice of the quantities of Lea­ther taken out of the Woozes, &c. and not to be refused such entrance under penalty of 5 l.

CLXXXIV. If any Tanner, &c. endeavour to defraud his Majesty of any of the said Duty, by using any private Tan-yard, &c. or not making due Entries, or carrying away without such Permission or Notice, or shall fraudu­lently hide or conceal any Leather, &c. he shall forfeit 20 l. and the Leather so concealed, not entred, or unlaw­fully carried away, shall be forfeited also: But no Fee or Reward shall be taken for such Entries, Accounts, Permis­sions or Certificates.

CLXXXV. After 20 Apr. 1697. No Leather, for which the Duty ought to be paid, shall be sold, exchanged, or parted with, but in some open Fair or Market, where the same shall be Entred particularly, and the true value thereof, with the proper Officer, before its Delivery.

CLXXXVI. And the Duty shall thereupon be paid in ready Money to the Collector, who shall deliver back a Copy of such Entry, with an Acquittance for the Moneys so received.

CLXXXVII. Upon controversie touching the value of any such Leather, &c. so sold or agreed for, The said Officer, if he think his Majesty apparently defrauded in the value, so Registred, may take it at the Price for his Majesties Use, paying down ready Money, and 2 s. per l. over.

CLXXXVIII. No Buyer or Contractor for such Lea­ther, shall carry away the same, before it be so Entred and the Duties paid.

CLXXXIX. If any Tanner, &c. shall sell, exchange or part with any Leather, otherwise than according to this Act, or if any Buyer or Contractor shall carry away the same, before the value be Registred, and the Duty satisfied, they shall forfeit 40 l. respectively, and the said Leather shall be also forfeited and seiz'd.

[Page 116] CXC. In case of Seizing any such Leather, and an In­formation Laid, or Complaint made within Fifteen days, before two of the Justices of the Peace, such Justices may hear and determine the same upon Oath, Reserving an Appeal to the Justices at the next General Quarter Sessions, to hear and determin the same finally.

CXCI. Every Tanner, &c. shall once in three Months Account with the proper Officer, for all the Hides, &c. taken out of the Wooze, &c. according to the Entries thereof, and Discharge the same by Leather sold and paid for, or by Leather remaining not carried out, or by Leather carried to Market by Permission and unsold; Which Account every such Tanner, &c. is to make upon Demand, under penalty of 20 l. subject to the examina­tion of the proper Officer, and the penalties of defraud­ing.

CXCII. Provided that Foreign Raw Hides or Skins (of Negro Dress) shall not pay the Duty till Tanned, Tawed, Dressed or Made into Leather.

CXCIII. All Collarmakers, Glovers, Bridlecutters and others, who Taw or Make Leather in oyl, Allom or Salt, and Cut and Make the same into Wares, are Ac­counted Tawers or Makers of Leather within this Act. But shall not be obliged to carry such Wares to Market, but forthwith to enter such Leather, with the proper Officer, before it be made into Wares, and to make Oath of the value thereof, and pay the Duty for the same.

CXCIV. But if they shall make such Leather into Wares before Entry thereof, and the Duty paid, or Sell any such Leather, and not first make the same into Wares, they shall forfeit for every such Offence 5 l.

CXCV. Every Tanner, Leather Dresser, Currier, Leatherseller, Shoemaker, Coachmaker, Collarmaker, Bridlecutter, Sadler, and other Maker, Dresser, Mer­chant, Dealer or Worker in Leather, shall pay 12 l. 10 s. per Cent. for the Stock of Leather in their Posses­sion, or elsewhere to their Use, the said 20 April, not made into Wares, to be answer'd within Three Months after the said 20 April.

CXCVI. And to that end shall deliver a Particular of the same in Writing Sign'd to the proper Officer; who may enter into any Shops, Warehouses, &c. to take an Account thereof, and view the same; and shall be per­mitted so to do, under penalty of 20 l. And the Officer being satisfied of the quantity and value of such Stock not made into Wares, is to Collect the said Duty accord­ingly, giving Acquittances gratis; But if the said Duty [Page 117]be not paid within three Months, nor in that time Secu­red to be paid within three Months after, then to Levy the same by Distress.

CXCVII. Provided that if such Duty be paid within three Months, an Allowance be made for Prompt Pay­ment, after the Rate of 10 per Cent. per Annum; And upon controversie, such Stock to be valued by the Oath of the Owner, made in Writing before a Justice of Peace, and delivered to the Officer, who (if he thinks the King apparently defrauded) may take the same to his Masesties Use at the value specified, paying down ready Money.

CXCVIII. Every person neglecting to give in such a Particular by the 1 May, 1697. or fraudulently omit­ting or carrying away any of the said Stock, before the Duty be paid or secured, shall forfeit 20 l. and the said Stock not given in, or fraudulently omitted or conceal­ed, or carried away, shall be also forfeited and seized.

CXCIX. Upon Exporting any such Leather, Boots or Shoes, or other made Ware, and Giving Security not to Reland the same in this Kingdom, the Customer or Collector shall give the Exporter a Certificate there­of.

CC. And upon producing such Certificate for any Hides, Backs or Buts of Leather to the Collector who Received the said Duties, and proving upon Oath that such Goods so Exported, are the same for which the said Duties were paid; the Collector or Commissioners for the said Duty on Leather, shall repay the Exporter two thirds of the said Duty.

CCI. And upon a like Certificate for any Boots, Shoes, or other made Ware Exported, and like proof of pay­ment of the Duty for the Leather so converted into Boots, Shoes, &c. the Exporter to be repaid 5 per Cent. ad Valorem, to be affirm'd by the Oath of the Ex­porter.

CCII. But upon Relanding any of the said Goods in England, so Shipped for Exportation, the same and Tre­ble the value thereof shall be forfeited.

CCIII. For Discharging the Sum of 140000 l. for ma­king good the Annuities charged upon the late Duties of Tunnage, and a further Sum of 140000 l. for making good the Annuities charged on the Duties on Salt, any persons, Natives or Foreigners, having an Estate for one Life in an Annuity of 14 l. per Annum, Purchased for 100 l upon the Acts mentioned in the Act for Annui­ties, Anno 6 & 7 W. 3. may before 24 June, 1697. pay Four Years Purchase, or Fifty six Pounds more for [Page 118]changing or converting such single Life, into a certain Term, for the Residue of 96 Years, from 25 Jan. 1695. or for a further Interest in the said 96 Years, after the single Life, and in the same proportion for higher or lar­ger Annuities.

CCIV. And if the persons Intituled to such Annuities for Life, do not before the said 24 June, change the same into a Term certain, or for a future Interest, then any other persons may before 29 Sept. 1697. Purchase the Remaining Term, after the Life in being, at the same rate of Four Years Purchase, or Fifty six Pounds for each 14 l. per Annum.

CCV. Provided, That such persons as are Intituled to any Arrears, between 17 May, 1696. and 17 May, 1697. upon the Annuities charged on the said Duties on Tunnage or Salt, and shall upon their Orders, Talleys or Lottery Tickets for such Arrears, Discharge his Majesty so much as will Purchase such further Interest or Term, as aforesaid, shall thereupon be Intituled to such Annui­ties, so Purchased.

CCVI. And the Directions of the said former Act, for the Establishing any matter relating to such Annuities, shall be Revived and Observed.

CCVII. The Moneys arising by the Purchase of such fur­ther Estates in the said Annuities, shall go to the pay­ment of the Arrears of Annuities, charged on the Five Sevenths and Two Sevenths of the Tunnage Duties, and on the Salt Duties, Incurred between 17 May, 1696. and 17 May, 1697. proportionably.

CCVIII. All the clear Moneys arising by the said Duties on Leather, shall be Appropriated to pay off the Remain­der of 564700 l. yet unpaid, Lent on Credit of the Act, Anno 6 & 7 W. 3. for Granting certain Duties on Glass Wares, Stone and Earthen Bottles, Coals and Culm, and the Interest thereof; and shall be Weekly brought into the Exchequer for that purpose, and not Diverted to any other Use.

CCIX. And so much of the said Sum of 564700 l. and Interest, as the said Duties on Leather for Three Years, shall fall short of, shall be paid to the Lenders thereof, out of any the next Aids which shall be Granted in Par­liament, after the said Three Years; and so much of the 280000 l. as the said Contributions for Annuities shall fall short of, shall be paid unto the respective Pro­prietors out of the First Aids to be Granted in Parlia­ment, after 29 Sept. 1697.

[Page 119] CCX. Stat. 8 & 9 W. 3. cap 25. Enacted, That from the 24th of June, 1697. until the 25th of June, 1698. there shall be paid to his Majesty, his Heirs and Suc­cessors, by every Hawker, Pedlar, Petty Chapman, or other Trading Person going from Town to Town, or to other Mens Houses within England, Wales, or Town of Berwick, carrying to sell or exposing to sale any Goods, Wares or Merchandizes, a Duty of 4 l. and every person so Travelling with a Horse, Ass, or Mule, or other Beast bearing or drawing Burthen, shall pay the Sum of 4 l. during the foresaid time, for every Horse, Ass, or Beast he or she shall Travel with, over and above the first mentioned 4 l.

CCXI. Every Pedlar, Hawker, or other Travelling person so Travelling, as aforesaid, shall, before the 24th of June, 1697. deliver to the Commissioners for Transportation, or to the persons deputed by them, a Note in Writing under his or her Hand, or under the Hand of some person by him or her Authorized, in what manner he or she will Travel, and Trade, whe­ther on foot, or with one or more Horse, Ass, &c. for which the Party shall pay to the said Commissi­oners, or Deputies, one moiety of the Duty by this Act pay­able for the same, and give Security by Bond, with one or more Sureties, to be taken in his Majesties Name, for the payment of the other Moiety, at the end of Six Ka­lendar Months, unless the Party shall choose to pay it down, in which case 2 s. in the Pound shall be allowed for Prompt Payment, and thereupon a Licence shall be Granted to him or her so to Travel or Trade, by two or more of the said Commissioners for Transporta­tion.

CCXII. If any such Hawker, &c. after the 24th of June, 1697. be found Trading, as aforesaid, without, or contrary to such Licence, such person shall, for e­very such Offence, Forfeit 12 l. one moiety to the In­former, the other to the Poor of the Parish where such Offender shall be discovered. And every person so Trading, who, upon demand, shall refuse to shew to any Justice of the Peace, Mayor, Constable or other Of­ficer of the Peace, his or her Licence for so Trading, shall Forfeit 5 l. to the Church-wardens for the Poor of the Parish where such demand shall be made, and for Non-payment, shall suffer as a Common Vagrant, and be committed to the House of Correction.

[Page 120] CCXIII. The said Commissioners, or any two of them, upon the Terms, and Receipt, and Security given, as aforesaid, shall grant a Licence to every Hawker, &c. for him or her self alone, or with one or more Horses, Asses, &c. as the case shall require, for which Licence they shall take 1 s. unless such Hawker, &c. travels with Horse, Ass, &c. and then 2 s. and no more. The said Commissioners shall keep a distinct Account of the Du­ties arising by this Act, and pay the same into the Ex­chequer Weekly on the Wednesday (unless a Holiday) under the penalties which the Officers of the Exchequer herein after mentioned, shall be liable unto. Which Money so paid in shall be applied to the paying the Interest of the 330769 l. 10 s. 7 d. in such manner as by the Act 6 & 7 W. 3. (cap. 7.) is appointed.

CCXIV. Whoever shall Forge or Counterfeit any Licence, or Travel with such, shall Forfeit 50 l. one moiety to the King, the other to the Prosecutor, to be Recovered by Action of Debt, &c. in any of the Kings Courts of Record at Westminster, in which no Essoin, &c. to be allowed, and to be subject besides to the Pains and Penalty of Forgery.

CCXV. Persons sued or troubled for putting this Act in Execution, may plead the General Issue and give the Special Matter in Evidence, and if the Plaintiff shall be Nonsuited, or Judgment be given against him, the Defendant shall have Treble Costs.

CCXVI. Constables or other Officers refusing or neg­lecting upon due Notice, to Aid or Assist in the Execu­tion of this Act, every such Officer, being thereof Con­victed before any Justice of Peace, shall Forfeit 40 s. to be levied by Distress and Sale of Goods, One moiety to the poor of the Parish, the other to the In­former.

CCXVII. Any person may seize and detain any Hawker, &c. till such time as he or she shall produce a Li­cence, if they have any, if not, till they give Notice to the Constable, or some other Parish Officer, who shall carry such Offender before a Justice of Peace, who upon Confession or due Proof of Trading, and no Li­cence produced, shall by Warrant under his Hand and Seal, cause the said Sum of 12 l. to be levied out of the Offenders Goods and Wares, with reasonable Char­ges for taking the Distress.

CCXVIII. This Act shall not extend to prohibit any person from selling Acts of Parliament, Forms of Prayer, Proclamations, Gazettes, Licensed Almanacks, or other Licensed Papers, or Fish, Fruit or Victuals, [Page 121]or hinder the Makers of any Goods or Wares in Eng­land, Wales, or Town of Berwick, their Children, Ser­vants or Agents, from carrying abroad and selling the same in any publick Fair or Market, or elsewhere, nor any Tinker, Cooper, Glasier, Plummer, Harness­menders, or other person Trading in mending house­hold Goods, from going about and Carrying with them proper Materials for mending the same.

CCXIX. There shall be kept in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipts in the Exchequer, one Book, in which all Moneys paid in, by virtue of this Act, shall be entred apart.

CCXX. If any Officer of the Exchequer shall divert or misapply any Moneys given by this Act, he shall Forfeit his Office, be incapable of any place of Trust, and pay the treble value of any Sum so misapplied, to the Party grieved, his Executors, &c. who will sue for the same by Action of Debt, &c. wherein no Es­soin, &c. And all Orders and Warrants for payment of Money, contrary to the intent and meaning of this Act, shall be Void.

CCXXI. Nothing herein contained shall extend to hin­der any Persons from selling any sorts of Goods in any publick Market or Fair, in England, Wales, or Town of Berwick, but that they may do therein as they law­fully might have done before the making of this Act.

CCXXII. On or before the first of August, 1697. the several Owners of the Ships mentioned in the foresaid Act (6 & 7 W. 3. cap 7.) or such persons who have parts and shares in the same, shall deliver in to the Commissioners for Transportation, an Account of what Share, Part, or Interest in each Ship, he or they, under whom they Claim, are possest of, and if the same be not in the first Proprietor, then the person claiming to give an Account, how and by what means he came to the same, and so from time to time upon the Death or Assignment of any person Intituled unto any part or Interest of the Money intended to be raised by this or the foresaid Act, an Account shall be given there­of to the said Commissioners.

CCXXIII. A Register of every persons Claim and In­terest shall be made, and kept in a Book to be pro­vided by the said Commissioners; and for Registring each persons Title a Fee of 1 s. shall be paid to the Clerk, and no more; and no person shall receive any Moneys to be raised by this or the foresaid Act, till he hath delivered in to the said Commissioners, an Ac­count [Page 122]of his Share and Interest, which Register shall at all times be viewed without Fee.

CCXXIV. In case it happen that the Duties Granted upon Coffee, Tea, Chocolate and Spice, by the fore­said Act, with the Duties to be raised by this Act, shall amount to more than sufficient to pay the Interest at 5 per Cent. for the said Principal Sum of 330769 l. 10 s. 7 d. then the Surplus shall remain in the Ex­chequer, and not be disposed of otherwise than by Act of Parliament.

CCXXV. The Commissioners of the Treasury or Lord Treasurer for the time being, may, out of the Money so raised, pay to the said Commissioners, their Clerks or other persons, such Moneys as they shall reasonably deserve for their Service in relation to this or the fore­said Act.

CCXXVI. This Act shall not extend or be construed to give any Power to any Hawker, &c. to sell or expose any Wares or Merchandizes in any City, Town Corporate or Market Town within this Realm, o­therwise than might have been done before the making of this Act.

CCXXVII. Stat. 9 & 10 W. 3. cap. 8. All the Duties which have been, or hereafter shall be paid into the Exchequer, by virtue of the Act made the last Sessions of Parliament, Intituled, An Act for Granting to His Majesty certain Duties upon Malt, Mum, Sweets, Cy­der and Perry, as well towards Carrying on the War a­gainst France, as for the necessary Expences of His Maje­sties Houshold, shall be applied to the Payment of the Loan of 200000 l. Borrowed thereupon, with Interest for the same, or so much as remains due and unpaid thereof, and to the Discharge of certain Bills and Tickets issued thereupon, with Interest in the first Place, in such Course and Order as the said Act directs, and to no other use whatsoever, until the said Loan and the said Bills and Tickets, with Interest, shall be fully paid.

CCXXVIII. The Rules and Directions in an Act made 1 W. & M. Intituled, An Act for a Grant to their Ma­jesties of an Aid of Two Shillings in the Pound for One year, for the speedy Payment of Moneys thereby Grant­ed, into the Exchequer, by the Collectors and Recei­vers thereof, and for the Distribution and Application thereof, and keeping distinct Accounts of the same, and the Penalties, in case of Diversion of any Money thereby Appropriated, are hereby revived, touching the Distri­bution of the Duties hereby Appropriated.

[Page 123] CCXXIX. Stat. 9 & 10 W. 3. cap. 10. Enacted, That the Sum of One Million four hundred eighty four thou­sand and fifteen Pounds One Shilling Eleven Pence three Farthings, be Levied and Paid to his Majesty, within the space of One Year from 2 Febr. 1697. according to the Proportions on the several Cities, Towns and Counties in the Act mention'd.

CCXXX. Towards the raising whereof, all persons having any Estate in ready Money or Debts, Wares, Merchandizes or other Chattels, except such Debts as they do bona fide owe, and desperate Debts owing to them, and except Stock upon Land and Houshold Goods, and Loans to his Majesty, shall pay 3 s. in the Pound of the true yearly value for One year, that is to say, For every Hundred Pounds, the Sum of 18 s. and so for a greater or lesser Sum.

CCXXXI. All persons having any publick Office or Im­ployment of Profit (Military Officers in Muster or Pay in his Majesties Guards, Garisons or Navy excepted) and their Agents, Clerks and Inferiour Ministers, shall pay 3 s. in the Pound for One year, out of the Fees or Profits of their Offices or Imployments.

CCXXXII. All Manors, Messuages, Lands and Tene­ments, and all Quarries, Mines, Iron-works, Salt-works, Allom-works, all Parks, Chaces, Warrens, Woods, Under-woods, Coppices, all Fishings, Tithes, Tolls, Annuities and other yearly Profits and Hereditaments, and all Persons, Bodies Politick and Corporate, Guilds and Fraternities, having any such Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, shall be Charged with as much equality as possible towards the Sums by this Act imposed; which shall be Paid into the Exchequer by Four Quarterly Payments, the first whereof to be upon 2 May, 1698.

CCXXXIII. The Landlords, Owners and Proprietors of such Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, may a­bate out of every Fee-farm Rent or other Annual Rent or Payment, so much as the same shall by a just propor­tion amount unto.

CCXXXIV. For the more effectual putting this Act in execution, the several Persons in the Act named shall be Commissioners; who shall meet together in their se­veral Districts, on or before 20 April, 1698. and after­wards as often as shall be necessary: and shall set down in Writing the Proportions to be paid by every Division for making up the whole Sum; and may subdivide them­selves so as Two or more be appointed for each Division; but not to restrain the Commissioners from Acting in any [Page 124]other part of the County or Place for which they are no­minated Commissioners.

CCXXXV. Which Commissioners at their General Meeting, shall give Lists to the Receiver General, of those who are to act in each Division; which Commissio­ners in their several Divisions shall cause the Proporti­ons to be equally Assessed, and shall direct their Precepts to such Inhabitants, &c. as they shall think convenient to be Presenters and Assessors, requiring them to appear at a place and time not exceeding Ten days, and shall then charge them with the Execution of this Act: And if any persons, to whom such Precept is directed, shall absent themselves, without lawful Excuse, or shall re­fuse to serve, they shall forfeit a Sum not exceeding 5 l.

CCXXXVI. The Commissioners shall appoint Two or more of the most sufficient Inhabitants of each Parish, &c. to be Assessors, and shall prefix them a day and place to bring in their Assessments, who are to Assess the full Sum given them in Charge, and bring in a Certificate thereof, with the Names of Two or more able persons, living within the respective limits, to be Collectors, for whom the Parish or Place shall be answerable.

CCXXXVII. Every Assessor, before he acts, shall take the Oaths appointed 1 W. & M. to be Administred to them by Two or more of the Commissioners, and shall deliver one Copy of their Assessment to the Commissio­ners, who shall Sign and Seal Two Duplicates thereof, one to be delivered to the Collectors, the other (in Parchment) to the Receiver General, containing the full Sum Assessed on each Parish or Place; and shall transmit a like Duplicate to the Kings Remembrancers Office, on or before 24 June, 1698. or within 20 days after, all Appeals being first determined.

CCXXXVIII. The Collectors shall Levy the Rates so Assessed, and shall demand the same of the Parties them­selves, or at the place of their last abode, or upon the premisses charged, and shall pay the same to the Receiver General or his Deputy, at such time and place as the Commissioners shall appoint, so as the whole Sum for each Quarterly Payment be made according to the Act.

CCXXXIX. And the Receiver General is to give No­tice of his Deputies to the Commissioners within Ten days after the first General Meeting, and so within Ten days after the death or removal of any Deputy; and the Re­ceipt of such Receiver General or his Deputies, shall be a Discharge to the Collectors, who shall not be obliged to travel above Ten Miles from their Habitations.

[Page 125] CCXL. The Sum of 371003 l. 15 s. 6 d. for the first Quarterly Payment shall be paid to the Receivers Gene­ral on or before 2 May, 1698. And the like Sum for the second Quarterly Payment on or before 2 Aug. 1698. The like Sum for the third Quarterly Payment, on or be­fore 2 Nov. 1698. And the Sum of 371003 l. 15 s. 5 d. three Farthings for the last Quarterly Payment, on or be­fore 2 Feb. 1698.

CCXLI. Every Receiver General within a Month after he shall have received the full Sum charged on any Divi­sion for each particular Payment, shall give the Commis­sioners a Receipt; which shall be a full Discharge for such particular Payment; Which Receivers General shall within Twenty days after their Receipt, pay the same into the Exchequer, and shall be Allow'd 2 d. in the Pound for what they shall so pay in.

CCXLII. The Collectors shall have 3 d. in the Pound for what they Collect and Pay pursuant to the Act; And the Commissioners Clerks shall be allow'd Three Half­pence in the Pound for Writing the Assessments, Dupli­cates, &c.

CCXLIII. Persons refusing or neglecting to pay, the Collectors are to Levy the Sum Assess'd by Distress; and having kept the same Four Days at the Owners Charge, then to be Appraised and Sold, and the Over­plus return'd. And it shall be Lawful to break open Houses in the day time, and by Warrant from Two Commissioners, any Chest, &c. calling to assistance the Constables, &c. and all Questions concerning Distresses shall be Determin'd by the Commissioners.

CCXLIV. Persons refusing to pay their Assessment by the space of four days after demand, or conveying away their Goods (except a Peer or Peeress) shall be commit­ted to Goal, till Payment be made.

CCXLV. The Tenants are to pay the Tax, and deduct the same out of their Rents; which the Landlords are re­quir'd to allow.

CCXLVI. Tenants paying the Assessments, shall be dis­charg'd for so much; and the Commissioners shall have power to settle Differences between Landlord and Te­nant, or others concerning the Tax.

CCXLVII. Persons over-rated, complaining to the Commissioners within six days after Demand, may be re­lieved within ten days after Demand of the said Asses­ment; and Appeals once determin'd to be final.

CCXLVIII. In case the Proportions set by this Act on any County, &c. shall not be duly answer'd as first laid, the Commissioners are to cause new Assessments to be made.

[Page 126] CCXLIX. Any person neglecting or refusing to do his Duty in the execution of the Act, may be fined as the Commissioners shall think fit, not exceeding 20 l. which Fine shall not be taken off but by consent of the Commissi­oners who Impos'd the same, but shall be paid into the Exchequer, and inserted in the Duplicates.

CCL. Collectors not paying the Money they receive as the Act directs, are to be imprison'd, and their Estates Real and Personal seiz'd and sold for satisfaction.

CCLI. The Commissioners are to examine, whether the Money Assess'd be duly Collected and Returned to the Receivers General, and by them paid into the Exchequer, and in case of failure, to cause the same to be forthwith levied and paid.

CCLII. In case any Controversie arise about the Asses­ments which concerns any Commissioners, the Commis­sioners concern'd are to withdraw during the Debate, and in default, the Commissioners present may set a Fine, not exceeding 20 l.

CCLIII. No Priviledged Place or person, shall be Ex­empt from the Assessment; but they and also all Fee-Farm, and other Rents and Payments issuing out of Land, shall be Taxed and paid by the Tenants, who shall there­upon be kept harmless.

CCLIV. This Act shall not extend to charge any Col­lege or Hall in the Universities, the Colleges of Wind­sor, Eaton, Winton and Westminster; the Corporation of Clergymens Sons, Bromley Colledge, or any Hospital for the Sites thereof, nor any Master, Fellow, Scholar, Reader, Officer or Minister of the Universities, &c. nor Masters or Ushers of Schools for their Stipends, nor the Houses or Lands of Christs Hospital, St. Bartholomews, Bridewell, St. Thomas or Bethlehem Hospital; or Mr. Askes Hospital at Hoxton, or the Charity of Zechariah Jepson at Rippon, or of the said Corporation of Clergy­mens Sons, or Bromley College, nor any other Hospi­tal or Alms house, in respect only of Rents for the imme­diate relief of the Poor therein.

CCLV. Nevertheless the Tenants of Lands or Houses belonging to Hospitals, shall be rated for what such Houses and Lands are worth above the Rents reserved; and the Tenants to Colleges, &c who by their Leases or Contracts are to pay Taxes, shall not be discharged.

CCLVI. All Auditors and Receivers of Rents due to the King or Queen Dowager, shall allow a Rate to be a­bated in proportion to the Tax on the Lands, &c. out of which they are payable.

CCLVII. Persons inhabiting in London, or any other [Page 127]City or Town Corporate, shall be Taxed in the Parish, or ward where they dwell.

CCLVIII. No Clause or Proviso in this Act, shall lessen the Sum appointed to be levied by the Act. Nothing in this Act shall make void any Contracts between Land­lord or Tenant, or others, touching payment of Taxes.

CCLIX. All places shall be Assess'd in such County, Di­vision or Place where usually assess'd. Provided that West-Barnfeild Hundred, shall be Assess'd in the Lath of Scray in Kent, Northmore Tything in the Hundred of Bampton in Oxfordshire, Charthbury, Faller, and Finstock Tythings in the Hundred of Chadlington, the Town and Parish of Leeds in Yorkshire, in the Hundred of Skyrack, and the Forest of Chute, where the same was Assess'd to the first 4 s. Aid.

CCLX. If any Action be brought for any thing done in pursuance of this Act, the Defendant may plead the General Issue, and give this Act, and the special Matter in Evidence, and if the Plaintiff be Nonsuit, &c. the De­fendant shall recover treble Costs.

CCLXI. Where Lands or Houses are unoccupied, and no Distress found, Distress may be made at any time af­ter by the Collectors, Constable, or Tything Man, and unless redeem'd in four days, may be sold, rendring the Overplus to the Owner, and distributed proportionably to the Parties who contributed to the Tax of the said unoccupied Lands.

CCLXII. Where Wood-Lands are Assess'd, and no Distress can be had, the Collectors, &c. by Warrant from the Commissioners, (at seasonable times of the year) may cut down and sell so much Wood (Timber Trees ex­cepted) as will pay the Assessment.

CCLXIII. Where Tythes, Tolls, Profits of Markets, &c. are Taxed, and the same not paid in fifteen days af­ter demand, the Collectors, &c. by Warrant of the Com­missioners, may seize so much of the said Tythes, &c. as will pay the Tax.

CCLXIV. Receivers General returning any Persons in­to the Exchequer who have paid the Tax, shall forfeit treble Damages to the Party grieved, and to his Majesty double the Sum returned.

CCLXV. The Commissioners shall Assess each other for personal Estates, and Offices, so as such personal Estate, and Office be within the limits of the Commissio­ners who Tax the same: And the Commissioners shall also Assess the Assessors.

CCLXVI. No person in any City, Borough, or Town Corporate, shall be compelled to be an Assessor or Col­lector out of the limits thereof.

[Page 128] CCLXVII. The Tax on Houses where Foreign Mini­sters reside, shall be paid by the Owner.

CCLXVIII. In all Extra-Parochial and Privileged pla­ces, the Commissioners shall nominate Two persons in or near the said places to be Assessors, and shall appoint one or more Collectors.

CCLXIX. The Commissioners shall not be liable to the Penalties in an Act 25 Car. 2. touching Popish Recusants.

CCLXX. No Commissioner shall act (unless it be in Administring Oaths) before he take the Oaths, 1 W. & M. (ch. 6.) which any two of them may Administer to any other Commissioner.

CCLXXI. Any Commissioner acting before he hath ta­ken the Oaths, shall forfeit 200 [...]. to the King.

CCLXXII. Offices shall be rated and paid for, where the same are executed.

CCLXXIII. Offices in Chancery within the liberty of the Rolls, shall be there Assessed.

CCLXXIV. Persons for personal Estates, and persons not being Housholders, shall be rated where resident at the execution of the Act; and persons out of the Realm, shall be rated for personal Estate, where last resident within this Realm.

CCLXXV. Any persons having Goods, &c. in any County (other than where he lives) shall be rated in the County where the Goods are; and persons for Lands, Tenements, &c. shall be rated where the said Lands, &c. lye.

CCLXXVI. Any persons in respect of several places of Residence, being doubly Charged for Personal Estate, shall, upon Certificate and Oath thereof, be discharged for so much as is so Certified

CCLXXVII. This Act shall not extend to Personal E­states in Scotland, Ireland, Jersey or Guernsey.

CCLXXVIII. If any person by changing his Residence, or other Fraud, escape being Taxed for Personal Estate, upon proof thereof he shall be Charged Treble.

CCLXXIX. Every Housholder shall, upon demand, give an Account of his Lodgers to the Assessors, under penalty of 5 l.

CCLXXX. Shares in the New-River-Water, Thames, Marybone or Hampsted Waters, Offices of Insurance from Fire, Convex or other Lights, and Stock in the Kings-Printing-House, shall be Taxed 3 s. in the Pound; And the said Shares, and all Companies of Merchants in London, shall be Assessed by the Commissioners for Lon­don, and payed by the Governors, and the respective Treasurers or Receivers.

[Page 129] CCLXXXI. Every Papist of the Age of 16 years or upwards, who shall not have taken the Oaths required An. 1 W. & M. shall pay double Taxes, unless such Papist within 10 days aster the first Meeting of the Commissioners do take the same before two Com­missioners.

CCLXXXII. Every person of the Age of 16 years or upward, refusing to take the said Oaths, or neglecting to appear before the Commissioners, in Order to take the same when Summoned, shall likewise pay double.

CCLXXXIII. Every Gentleman, or so reputed, who by the Act for the Quarterly Poll, 3 W. & M. did or ought to have paid double, and doth not voluntarily appear before the Commissioners, within ten days after the first Meeting, and take the said Oaths, shall likewise pay double.

CCLXXXIV. The Commissioners upon Information or Suspici­on, shall Summon every person Suspected, to Appear and take the said Oaths.

CCLXXXV. But Quakers instead of the Oaths, may make and subscribe the Declaration of Fidelity, 1 W. & M. Where the Assessors neglect to make double Assessments on Papists or others, for not taking the Oaths the Commissioners shall cause it to be done.

CCLXXXVI. Where the Owners of Lands &c. are liable to be double charged, such Owners only shall be so charged, and the Tenants Discharged, notwithstanding any Covenant for Pay­ment of Taxes.

CCLXXXVII. The Kings Bench-Prison, with its Lands, and the Rents and Perquisites of the Marshal thereof; and also the Mar­shalsea-Prison, and Office, and Perquisites of the Marshalsea-Court, shall be Assessed in the Parish of St. George in Seuthwark.

CCLXXXVIII. The Water-works in Southwark shall be As­sessed by the Commissioners and Assessors of Surrey; and the Water works in Westminster, by the Commissioners and Assessors of Westminster.

CCLXXXIX. All persons, concern'd are to use their utmost En­deavours for the due Execution of the Act.

CCXC. No person shall be liable to the pound Rate, whose Lands, &c. are not 20 s. per Annum in the whole.

CCXCI. If any Collector shall keep the Money in his hands, or Pay any part thereof, other than to the Receiver General or his Deputy, he shall Forfeit 20 l. And the Receiver General or his Deputy not Paying the same, as the Act directs, he shall forfeit 500 l.

CCXCII. The Commissioners of the Treasury, &c. shall not divert the Payment of the said Moneys into the Exchequer, nor shall the Officers of the Exchequer strike any Talley of Pro, or Anticipation on the same, or any Teller, charge himself there­with till actually received.

[Page 130] CCXCIII. No noli prosequi or other stay of Prosecution, shall be allowed in any Suit against Offenders herein.

CCXCIV. The Commissioners are impowered to lessen the Assessment, on Proof that the Lands, &c. are charged above 3 s. in the pound, and the Money so abated, shall be Reassessed as they shall judge most equal, either on the whole Hundred or Division, or on such part thereof, as shall appear to be under­charged,

CCXCV. The Receivers General shall be answerable for their Deputies, and shall nominate so many of them, that no Subcol­lector may be forced to Travel above Ten Miles for Payment of the Moneys by him Collected; And in default of such Nomina­tion, to Forfeit 100 l. one Moiety to his Majesty, the other to the Prosecutor.

CCXCVI. In case there be not a sufficient number of Com­missioners, capable of Acting for any City, &c. any of the Commissioners for the County at large, may Act for such City, &c.

CCXCVII. Members of Parliament Abiding in or about Lon­don and Westminster, shall be Assessed for any Tax to be laid on their Persons, or Personal Estates, during this Session, where their Mansion-Houses are, or where they usually Reside in the Intervals of Parliament.

CCXCVIII. The first General Meeting of the Commissioners for the West-Riding of Yorkshire, shall be at Pontefract, for the North-Riding at Thirske, and for the East Riding at Kilham.

CCXCIX. A Register shall be kept by the Auditor of the Ex­chequer, of all the Moneys arising by this Act, and one other Register of all Orders for Moneys payable thereout.

CCC. The Principal Sums lent between 8 Oct. 1697. and 4 Apr. 1698. not exceeding 850000 l. shall be in the first place Transferred and paid in due course out of the Moneys arising by this Act, with Interest at 8 per Gent. Payable every Three Months; and the Orders for the same may be Assignable.

CCCI. And in the next place, so much as on 11 Apr. 1698. shall not be Raised of the 255663 l. 5 s. 8 d. for paying of se­veral Annuities, Incurred between 17 May, 1696. and 17 May, 1697. on the late Duty of Tunnage on Ships, and the Duties on Salt, shall be Transferred and paid out of this Act, without Interest.

CCCII. The Orders for the said Annuities shall be Registred in the name of the Pay-masters thereof, that are or shall be appointed by the Commissioners of the Treasury.

CCCIII. Any Persons, Natives or Foreigners, may lend his Majesty on the Credit of this Act, any Sums, which together with the Transferrences aforesaid, shall not exceed 1400000 l. (of which 250000 l. shall be applied towards Disbanding the Army) with Interest, at 8 per Cent. per An. and the Money so [Page 131]lent on this Act shall not be Taxed, and the Orders upon such Loans shall be Registred, and paid in course.

CCCIV. And the Moneys arising by this Act, shall be applied to the Paying off the said Loans, and not to be diverted to any other use.

CCCV. No Fee shall be taken for Entring any such Orders, or for Searches, on pain of treble Damages, nor any undue Preser­ence, on pain of paying the value of the Debt, with Damages and Costs, and loss of place.

CCCVI. All Orders for Loans on this Act may be Assigned.

CCCVII. The Loans upon this Act, may be made either in Money, or in Exchequer-Bills, which Bills (except so much as shall be sufficient to compleat 250000 l. for the Disbanding of the Army) shall be immediately cancelled.

CCCVIII. If any Loans be made in Money, the Commissioners of the Treasury shall dispose thereof in buying Exchequer Bills, and shall cause the Bills so purchased, to be forthwith Cau­celled.

CCCIX. Stat. 9 & 10 W. 3. cap. 13. That for five years, from 15 May, 1698. there shall be levied and paid to his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, for all Coal and Culm (except Charcoal made of Wood, and Cinders made of Pitcoal) the Duties aster mentioned, over and above what are already payable for the same, viz.

CCCX. For all Coals Imported into this Kingdom from Scot­land, or any part beyond Sea, (usually Sold by Weight) 5 s per Tun, each Tun being 20 Hundred, and each Hundred 112 Pounds Averdupois; and after that Rate for a greater or lesser Quantity; And for the like Imported Coals (usually Sold by measure) the Sum of 7 s. 6 d. per Chalder, each Chalder being 36 Bushels Winchester Measure; and after that Rate for a greater or lesser quantity; to be paid by the Importer.

CCCXI. For all Coals Shipped, or Water-born in order to be Shipped, or laid on Board any Ship or Vessel, to be carried by Sea, and which shall be so carried by Sea from any Port of this King­dom to any other Port thereof, the Sum of 5 s. per Chalder, if usually sold by Measure, and 3 s. 4 d per Tun, if usually sold by Weight, to be paid at the Importation or Landing, by the Owner, Master or other Person, having the charge of the Ship or Vessel, or of the Coals so Imported.

CCCXII For all Culm Water-born in order to be Shipped within this Kingdom, or brought into the same, the Sum of 1 s. per Chalder, to be paid where Imported by the Owner or Master, as aforesaid.

[Page 132] CCCXIII. The Duties upon the said Coals and Culm so Im­ported or Water-born, shall be under the Management of the Commissioners of the Customs, and shall be collected and paid into the Exchequer, distinct from all other Moneys, the necessary charges of Management only excepted.

CCCXIV. The said Duties shall be paid to His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, or to such Collector or Person as His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, or the Commissioners of the Customs, or any four or more of them shall Appoint under their Hands and Seals, before Bulk of the Ship or Vessel shall be broken, or any the Coals or Culm unladen, measured or weighed: And due En­tries shall be made of all such Imported Coals and Culm, at the Custom-house where they are so Imported (if any be there) or else in the Custom-house of the next Port to the place of Impor­tation. And if any such Coals or Culm be unshipped before the said Duties be paid or secured, the said Coals and Culm, and the Ship or Vessel, with all her Guns, Tackle, Furniture and Ammu­nition shall be forfeited, one Moiety to the King, the other to the Seizer, Prosecutor or Informer.

CCCXV. His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, or any four or more of the Commissioners of the Customs, under their Hands and Seals, may Appoint in every Port within this Kingdom Meeters, Weighers or Measurers of the said Coals and Culm; who upon the Unlading of any such Ship or Vessel, shall deliver a Certificate to the Collector of the said Duties, of the Sorts and Quantity of Coals and Culm Measured or Weighed, and Deli­vered from any such Ship or Vessel, under the Penalty of 100 l.

CCCXVI. And in case there was on Board a greater number of Chalders or Tuns of Coals and Culm, than for which the Duty had been answered and paid, There shall be paid for every Chal­der or Tun so concealed, over and above the Duty, the Sum of 10 s. under Penalty of Attaching and Detaining such Ship or Vessel till payment thereof, and of selling the said Ship or Vessel, in case all the said Duties for such concealed Coals and Culm be not paid, with costs and charges for such Attaching or Selling, Rendring the Overplus.

CCCXVII. Provided, That if the Importer shall within six days after the delivery of such Ship or Vessel, and before her departure out of Port, give in his Post Entry, and pay the whole Duty for the Surplusage, the said Penalty shall be Discharged.

CCCXVIII. The Officers for Receiving the said Duties, and for Weighing and Measuring such Coals and Culm, shall in every such Port and Place. Enter down in Books an Account of the Duties so paid or received, and of the Payments and Disburse­ments of the same, and the number of Chalders and Tuns so Imported, Landed and Unladen.

[Page 133] CCCXIX. There shall be allowed to every Master or Owner of any such Ship or Vessel Three months time for payment of the said Duty, giving such Security for the same as the Collector or Chief Officer of the Port or Place shall approve of, with an allowance after the Rate of 10 per Cent. per An. for prompt Pay­ment. And if any of the Coals or Culm for which the Duty shall be once paid or secured, be again Exported to any other place of this Kingdom, there shall be no further Duty paid for the same: And if any of the Coals for which the Duty shall be so once paid or secured, be afterwards carried beyond Sea, an allow­ance out of the Over sea Duties or Repayment shall be made of so much as was before paid for the same Coals and Culm.

CCCXX. Provided, That if any Person be Prosecuted for any thing done in Execution of this Act, he may plead the general Issue, and give this Act in Evidence; And if a Verdict pass for the Defendant, or the Plaintiff be Nonsuit, or forbear Prosecuti­on, the Defendant shall have treble costs.

CCCXXI. Stat. 9 & 10 W. 3. cap. 14. That the Additional and other Duties and Impositions upon the several sorts of Goods and Merchandizes Imported into this Kingdom, and from thence Exported, Expressed and Granted in and by an Act, An. 6 & 7. W. 3. Intituled, An Act for Granting to His Majesty several Additional Duties upon Coffce, Tea, Chocolate and Spices, towards Satisfaction of the Debts due for Transport Service for the Reduction of Ireland, shall be Continued from 1 May, 1698. and be levied and paid to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors till 1 May, 1701. And that the said Act, and all Powers, Articles and Clauses therein contained, shall continue in Force till the said 1 May, 1701, and shall be practised and executed for levying and paying the said Additional and other Duties and Impofitions hereby contioned, for paying interest for the Debt due for the said Transport Service.

CCCXXII. Stat. 9 & 10 W. 3. cap. 25. After 1 Aug. 1698. there shall be paid to his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors for ever, over and above all other Duties, the Sums following, viz. For every Skin or Piece of Velum or Parchment, or Sheet or Piece of Paper, on which there shall be Ingrossed or Writ­ten.

CCCXXIII. Any Grant under the Great Seal or Dutchy of Lancaster, of any Honour, Dignity, Promotion, Franchise, Liberty or Privilege, or Exemplification of the same (Except Commissions of Rebellion in Process) 40 s.

CCCXXIV. Any Pardon (Except the General Circuits and New­gate Pardon) Wairant of Reprieve. Relaxation from Fines, Corpo­ral Punishments or Forfeitures, 40 s.

[Page 134] CCCXXV. Any Grant of Money above 100 l. under the Great or Privy Seal only, any Grant of Office or Imployment above 50 l. per Ann. any Grant of Lands in Fee, or Leases for Years, or other Grant of Prosit under the Great Seal, Exchequer, Dutchy of Lancaster or Privy Seal only, 40 s. each.

CCCXXVI. Any Presentation or Donation, Collation, Dignity or Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Promotion of 10 l. per Annum, or above in the Kings Books, 40 s.

CCCXXVII. Any Dispensation for two Ecclesiastical Dignities or Benefices, or other Dispensation or Faculty, 40 s.

CCCXXVIII. Any admittance of a Fellow of the College of Phy­sicians, or of any Attorney, Clerk, Advocate, Proctor, Notary, or other Officer in any Court, 40 s.

CCCXXIX. But not to extend to any annual Officer in a Corpora­tion or Inferior Court, whose Office is under 10 l. per Annum in the whole.

CCCXXX. Any appeal from the Court of Admiralty, Arches or Prerogative of Canterbury or York, 40 s.

CCCXXXI. Any Exemplification under the Seal of any Court, 5 s.

CCCXXXII. Any Decree or Dismission in Chancery, Exchequer, Dutchy of Lancaster, Palatine of Chester, Durham or other Court of Equity, 6 d.

CCCXXXIII. Any Institution or Licence under the Seal of an Archbishop, Bishop, Chancellor, Ordinary or Eeclesiastical Court, 5 s.

CCCXXXIV. Any Writ of Error, Certiorari or Appeal (except to the Delegates) 5 s.

CCCXXXV. Any Significavit pro Corp' deliberat' 5 s.

CCCXXXVI. Any Sentence, Attachment or Relaxation in the Admi ralty or Cinque Ports, 5 s.

CCCXXXVII. Any Letter of Mart, 5 s.

CCCXXXVIII. Any Probate of a Will or Administration above 20 l. value, 5 s.

CCCXXXIX. Any Recognizance, Statute Staple or Statute Mer­chant, 5 s.

CCCXL. Any Record of Nisi prius or postea, 2 s. 6 d.

CCCXLI. Any Judgment Sigu'd by any Officer of the Courts at Westminster 2 s. 6 d.

CCCXLII. Any Commission out of Ecclesiastical Courts, 2 s. 6 d.

CCCXLIII. Any Warrant. Monition, or Personal Decree in the Courts of Admiralty or Cinque Ports, or Beneficial Warrant or Order, under the Sign Manual (except for the Navy, Army and Ordinance) 2 s. 6 d.

[Page 135] CCCXLIV. Any Special Ball or Appearance, 1 s.

CCCXLV. Any Bill, Answer, Replication, Rejoynder, Inter­rogatories, Depositions, or other Pleadings in Chancery, Exche­quer, Dutchy and Palatine Courts, and other Courts of Equity, 1 s.

CCCXLVI. Any Admission into a Corporation or Company, the Universities, Inns of Court and Chancery, 1 s.

CCCXLVII. Any Affidavit (except for Burying in Woollen, or before the Officers of the Customs, Justices of Peace, or Commissioners for Taxes ex officie) 6 d.

CCCXLVIII. Any Copy of such Affidavit, 6 d.

CCCXLIX. Any Indenture, Lease or Deed, Poll (except for binding poor Parish Children Apprentices) 6 d.

CCCL. Any Original Writ (except where Capias Issues) Sub­paena, Bill of Middlesex, Latitat, Writ of Capias, Quo minus, Ded. potestatem, and other Writs, Processes or Mandates, where the Debt, Damage or Demand is of 40 s. or above (except for levy­ing Fines, suffering Common Recoveries and Habeas Corpus Writs) 6 d.

CCCLI Any Entry of Actions in London, and other Corporations and Courts, of 40 s. or above, 6 d.

CCCLII. Any Common Bail and Appearance 6 d. Which is to be Entred or Filed in eight days after the Process is Returnable, on Penalty of 5 l. to the Plaintiff.

CCCLIII. Any Rule or Order of Court at Westminster, 6 d.

CCCLIV. Any Copy of such Rules or Orders, or other Records or Proceedings, 6 d.

CCCLV. Any Citation, Monition, Libel, Allegation, Deposi­tion, Answer, Sentence, Final Decree or Inventory in Ecclesiastical courts, Admiralty or Cinque-Ports, or Copies thereof, 6 d.

CCCLVI. Any Charter-Party, Policy of Assurance, Passport, Bond, Release, Contract, Obligatory Instrument, Protest, Procu­ration, Letter of Attorney, or other Notarial Act, 6 d.

CCCLVII. Any Declaration, Plea, Replication, Rejoynder, Demurrer, or other Pleadings in Courts of Law, 1 d. and Copies thereof, 1 d.

CCCLVIII. Any Depositions (except the Draughts thereof before they are Ingrossed) Copies of Bills, Answers, Pleas, De­murrers, Replications, Rejoynders, Interrogatories, Depositions or other Proceedings in Courts of Equity, and Copies of Wills, 1 d.

CCCLIX. After 1 Aug. 1698. Every Officer or Clerk in the Courts at Westminster, shall set down the day and year of his Signing any Writ of Arrest upon such Writ, and duly enter the same, on Penalty of 10 l.

[Page 136] CCCLX. This Act shall not extend to Bills of Exchange, Accounts, Bills of Parcel, Bills of Fees, or Bills or Notes (not Sealed, for payment of Money at sight, or demand, or at the end of certain days of payment.

CCCLXI. Nor to the Probate of Wills or Letters of Administra­tion of Common Seamen or Soldiers, dying in the Kings Service, a Certificate thereof being produced, and Oath thereupon made before the proper Judge.

CCCLXII. Nor to any Warrant or Recognizance before a Justice of Peace, or the Surrender of any Copy-hold Estate, or Copies of such Estate, or Court Marshal Proceedings for Trial of a Common Soldier, or proceedings before Commissioners of Sewers, or in the Court of Stanneries.

CCCLXIII. Sea Officers shall pay the same Stamp Duty, as Land Officers pay by this Act only.

CCCLXIV. The Duties by this Act granted shall be liable to such Redemption by Parliament as shall be declared this Ses­sion.

CCCLXV. The King or Commissioners of the Treasury shall appoint Commissioners for managing these Duties, who shall keep their Head Office in London or Westminster, for Stamping of Velum, &c. and Collecting the Duties; and providing proper Marks or Stamps accordingly.

CCCLXVI. For applying the Duties on this and the former Acts as they are severally appropriated, all Velum, Parchment and Paper, where the Duties are doubled, till 1 Aug. 1706. shall after 1 Aug. 1698. be Stampt with two Marks, to denote both the Duties, except such things as by the former Acts still remain liable to the single Duty only, namely every Skin, &c. on which there shall be Ingrossed or Written.

CCCLXVII. Any general Circuit or Newgate Pardon 40 s. only.

CCCLXVIII. Any Register, Entry, Testimonial or Certificate of Degrees, in the Universities or Inns of Court, (Batchelor of Arts excepted) 40 s. only.

CCCLXIX. Any Conveyance, Surrender of Grants or Offices, Release or other Deed Enrolled 5 s. only.

CCCLXX. Any Licence or Certificate for Marriage 5 s. only.

CCCLXXI. Any Writy for Levying Fines or Suffering Recove­ries, or Habeat Corpus, 5 s. only.

CCCLXXII All which till 1 Aug. 1706. shall be Stampt with one mark only according to the former Acts.

CCCLXXIII. All things herein before charged, shall after the last of July 1706. before the Ingrossing or Writing thereof, be brought to the head Office to be Stampt with one Mark.

[Page 137] CCCLXXIV. The Commissioners for the said Duties are impow- and required to Stamp any Quantities of Velum, &c. for any persons paying the Duties: And if any person Ingross or Write any thing as aforesaid, before it be so Stampt, or Stampt with a Lower Duty than is payable by this and the former Acts, he shall forfeit 10 l. and any Clerk, Officer or Person in publick Office, who shall Make, Ingross or Write any Records, Deeds, Instruments or Wri­tings, charged, as aforesaid, without being Stampt, or with a counterfeit Stamp, or Stampt with a lower duty, shall besides the 10 l. forfeit his Office; and if an Attorney, he shall be disabled to Practice; and any other person offending therein, shall forfeit for every such Deed or Writing 10 l. over and above the Duty: And no such Record, &c. shall be pleaded or given in Evidence, till the Duty and Penalty be paid, and then to be Stampt with the proper Marks.

CCCLXXV. Any person who shall Counterfeit any of the said Stamps or Marks, or the impression of the same, or shall vend any Velum, &c. with such Counterfeit Marks, shall be guilty of Felony, without benefit of Clergy, and suffer Death accordingly.

CCCLXXVI. The Commissioners may appoint a person in any Court to take notice of the things Stampt; and the Judges of Courts shall make such Orders for securing the Duties, as the Commis­sioners shall reasonably desire.

CCCLXXVII. Every of the Commissioners and persons imployed under them, for Stamping of Velum, &c. shall take the Oath prescribed for the faithful Execution of their Trust, &c.

CCCLXXVIII. The Commissioners and their Officers shall observe the directions of the Commissioners of the Treasury, and shall take care that the several parts of the Kingdom be sufficiently furnished with Stampt Velum, &c. That all persons at their Election, may buy the same at the usual Rates above the Duty.

CCCLXXIX. Persons admitted to sue or defend in Forma Paupe­ris, shall not be liable to the said Duties.

CCCLXXX. All things whatsoever hereby charged shall be Ingrossed and Written as usually.

CCCLXXXI. Upon altering or renewing the said Stamps, all things Stampt and not Written, may within 60 days after Pro­clamation of such renewing or altering, be sent to the Head Office to be changed, without any further charge, on the penalty of 100 l. But not being so sent, to be void, and subject to the like Penalties, if Ingrossed or Written upon, as if not Stampt.

CCCLXXXII. Provided that the King or Commissioners of the Treasury, may on Stampt Parchment or Paper, order payment of the Salaries and Incident Charges in managing this Duty, out of the said Duties.

[Page 138] CCCLXXXIII. Provided that within 20 days after alteration of the said Stamps, the Proclamation aforesaid; shall be sent to the chief Magistrates of Cities, Boroughs and Market-towns, through­out England, to be published the next market day or Sunday, on penalty of 200 l.

CCCLXXXIV. The Commissioners of the Treasury shall once every year set the prices, that all Stampt Velum, Parchment or Paper shall be sold at, which shall be Stampt upon the same accordingly; and an allowance shall be made for every 10 l. after 6 per Cent. per Ann. for three Months, for Prompt payment, over and above the like allowance on the former Acts.

CCCLXXXV. This Act shall not extend to charge any Letters Patents for Collecting Charitable Briefs, nor shall such Briefs be doubly Stampt.

CCCLXXXVI. Stat. 9 & 10 W. 3. cap. 27. The Act made 8 and 9 W. 3. Intituled, An Act for Licensing Hawkers and Ped­lars for a further provision of Interest for the Transport Debt for Reducing of Ireland, being to continue only to 24 June 1698. It is Enacted, That from the said 24 June 1698. to 24 June 1701. There shall be paid to his Majesty by every Hawker, Pedlar, Petry-Chapman or other trading person going from Town to Town, or to other Mens Houses, and Travelling either on Foot or with Horse, Horses or otherwise, within this Kingdom (except as herein ex­cepted) carrying to Sell, or exposing to Sale any Goods, Wares or Merchandises, a Duty of 4 l. for each year: And that every Person so Travelling with a Horse, Ass or Mule, or other Beast bearing or drawing burthen, shall over and above pay 4 l. for each year.

CCCLXXXVII. Every Pedlar, &c. so Travelling as aforesaid, upon receiving a Licence, shall pay to the Commissioners for Licensing Hawkers, &c. One Moiety of the said Duty, and give Bond for the true payment, of the other Moiety, at the end of 6 Kalen­dar Months, with an allowance of 2 s. in the pound for Prompt payment of the last Moiety.

CCCLXXXVIII. Such Hawker, &c. As after the said 24 Jun. 1698. shall be sound Trading as aforesaid, without or contrary to such Licence, shall for every such offence forfeit 12 l. one Moiety to the Informer, and the other to the poor of the Parish, wherein such offender shall be discovered: And if any persons so Trading, upon demand made by any Justice of Peace, Mayor, Constable or other Officer of the Peace, refuse to shew their Licence they shall forfeit 5 l. to the use of the poor of the Parish where such de­mand shall be made, and for Non-payment shall suffer as a Com­mon Vagrant, and be sent so the House of Correction.

[Page 139] CCCLXXXIX. The said Commissioners upon the Terms afore­said are to grant a Licence to be by them subscribed, to every Hawker, &c. for him or herself, for which there shall be taken only one shilling, unless such Hawker, &c. Travel with a Beast of Burthen, and then there shall be paid for such Licence only 2 s. over and above the Duties aforesaid: The said Commissioners shall keep a distinct account of the Duties granted by this Act, and pay the Money arising thereby into the Exchequer on Wednesday in every Week (unless a Holiday, and then the day after) and upon neglect or refusal, shall incur the penalties, &c. as other the Officers of the Exchequer herein mentioned shall be liable unto, which Money so pay'd in shall be applied to pay Inte­rest for the said Transport Debt, after 5 per Cent. per Ann.

CCCXC. Persons Forging or Counterfeiting such Licences, or Travelling with Forged or Counterfeited Licences, shall forfeit 50 l. one Moiety to the King, the other to the Prosecutor, to be recovered in any the Courts of Record at Westminster, and be subject to the penalties for Forgery.

CCCXCI. Persons sued for putting this Act in Execution, may plead the general Issue, and give the special matter in Evidence; And if the Plaintiffs be Nonsuited, or suffer Judgment on Demurrer, or a Verdict pass for the Defendants, the Defendant shall have treble Costs.

CCCXCII. If any Constable, or other Officer refuse or neglect to be assisting in the Execution of this Act, being thereunto re­quired, such Officer being thereof convicted upon Oath before a Justice of Peace, shall forfeit for every such offence 40 s. to be levied by Distress and Sale of Goods, one Moiety to the Poor of the Parish, the other to the Prosecutor, rendring the overplus.

CCCXCIII. Any persons may seise and detain such Haw­kers, &c. till they produce a Licence, or if Trading without a Licence, till such time as notice be given to the Constable, or some other Parish officer, who are to carry such persons before a Justice of Peace, who upon confession of the party, or due proof upon Oath, that the person had so Traded, and no Licence pro­duced, shall by Warrant under his Hand and Seal levy the said Sum of 12 l. by Distress and Sale of the Offenders Goods or Wares, rendring the overplus, after deduction of the charge for distraining, and out of the said Sale to pay the said penalties and forfeitures.

CCCXCIV. This Act shall not prohibit persons from selling Acts of Parliament, Forms of Prayer, Proclamations, Gazetts licensed Almanacks, or other printed Papers licensed by Authority, or any Fish, Fruits or Victuals; nor hinder the makers of any Goods or Wares within this Kingdom or their Children, Apprentices, Agents or Servants from selling the Goods and Wares of their own mak­ing, in any Mart, Fairs, Markets or elsewhere, nor any Tinkers, [Page 140]Coopers, Glasiers, Plummers, Harness-menders or other persons, trading in mending Kettles, Tubs, Houshold Goods or Harness, from going about, and carrying with them proper materials for mending the same.

CCCXCV. There shall be kept in the Office of the Auditor of the Exchequer a Register of all Moneys paid in by virtue of this Act, distinct from all other Moneys.

CCCXCVI. If any Officer in the Exchequer shall divert any of the Moneys paid in by virtue of this Act, he shall forfeit his Office, be incapable of any place of Trust, and shall pay treble the value of the sums so diverted, to the persons grieved, who will sue for the same in any the Courts of Record at Westminster. And all orders for disposing the Moneys to be raised by this Act, contrary to the meaning thereof shall be void.

CCCXCVII. This Act shall not hinder any persons from selling any sorts of Goods or Merchandizes, in any publick Mart, Market or Fair within this Kingdom.

CCCXCVIII. If the several Duties and Impositions, granted to his Majesty by several Acts of Parliament, towards payment of Interest of the said Transport Debt, together with the Duties to be raised by this Act, shall amount to more than sufficient for payment of interest at 5 per Cent. for the said Transport Debt, according to the several Debentures made, and to be made out; then such surplus shall remain in the Exchequer, and not be disposed of but by Act of Parliament.

CCCXCIX. The Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, or the Lord High Treasurer, out of the Moneys raised by this or the said recited Acts, may pay to the said Commissioners, to be appointed pursuant to this Act, their Clerks and others, such sums as they may reasonably deserve for their service, or may have expended in or about this or the said recited Acts.

CCCC. This Act shall not give power for the Licensing any Hawker, Pedlar or Petty-chapman to sell or expose to sale any Wares or Merchandizes, in any City, Borough, Town Corporate or Market Town within this Realm, otherwise than might have been done before the making of this Act.

CCCCI Stat. 9 & 10 W. 3. cap. 34. After 15 May 1698. The Money coming into the Exchequer for the Duties of Excise, granted by an Act of 5 and 6 W.M. Intituled, An Act for Granting to their Majesties certain Rates and Duties upon Salt, and upon Beer, Ale and other Liquors, for securing certain Recompences and Ad­vantages in the said Act mentioned, to such Persons as shall volun­tarily advance the sum of Ten hundred thousand pounds towards carrying on the War against France, shall in the first place be applied to pay such of the Annuities, lately payable out of the Tunnage Duties, and the tickets for the same, which became due [Page 141]at Lady day 1696, or within 20 days after, and are yet unsatisfied. And in the second place to pay such of the said Annuities as became due at Michaelmas 1697, or within 20 days after, and are yet unsatisfied: And in the third place, to pay such of the said An­nuities as became due 25 Mar. 1698, or within 20 days after, and not otherwise; And the said Arrears being first discharged, or Money reserved for payment thereof, the growing produce shall be applied to pay the said half yearly and yearly Annuities in course; And no Officer shall pay any half yearly, or yearly payments of the said Annuities, till the preceding half year or year be fully paid, or the Money reserved, for which publick notice in Writing shall be hung up in the said Office, under penalty of forfeiting his Office, and for every such offence 100 l. to the persons who shall sue for the same in any the Courts of Record at Westminster, where the Plaintiff upon Recovery shall have treble Costs.

CCCCII. The Tickets, commonly called Benefit Tickets, which became due at Lady day 1698, or within 20 days after, shall be paid as they are numbred, beginning at number one, and ending with number 2500. And the Tickets for 20 s. a piece commonly called blank Tickets, being due at Michaelmas 1698, or within 20 days after, shall also be paid as they are numbred, beginning with number One, and ending with the number 97500. And in the year next following, the Benefit Tickets shall be paid in an Arithmetical Progression descending, beginning with number 2500, and ending with number One; and the Blank Tickets from number 97500 inclusive, to number one inclusive, and so onwards in every subsequent year alter­nately.

CCCCIII. It shall be no undue preference to pay subsequent Tickets, when brought and demanded before such Tickets as were not brought in course, provided there be Money reserved to satisfie such preceding Tickets.

CCCCIV. The additional Duties of Excise granted by the said Act, and which ought to come weekly into the Exchequer, (the Officers Salaries and incident Charges not exceeding 2500 l. per Ann. only excepted) are hereby appropriated during the whole term of 16 years, thereby granted to the payment of the said Annuities and Tickets for the same.

CCCCV. After 15 May 1698. No Officer appointed to pay the Annuities, for one two or three Lives, purchased for the respective Considerations mentioned in the Act of 5 & 6 W. and M. Intituled, An Act for Granting to their Majesties several Rates and Duties upon Tunnage of Ships and Vessels, and upon Beer, Ale and other Liquors, for securing certain Recompences and Advanta­ges in the said Act mentioned, to such persons as shall voluntarily advance the Sum of 1500000 l. towards carrying on the War [Page 142]against France, payable quarterly out of two seventh parts of the several Duties thereby granted, and the Reversions of the said Annuities or some of them, or further interest therein purchased by several subsequent Acts, shall pay off any quarterly payment of the said Annuities, till the preceedent quarter be paid off, or the Money ready in the Office for payment thereof, whereof publick notice in Writing shall be affixed in the said Office, under Penalty of forfeiting his place, and 100 l. for every such offence, to the Persons who shall Sue for the same, to be recovered with costs of Suit as aforesaid.

CCCCVI. Stat. 9 & 10 W. 3. cap. 35. Enacted. That all the Clauses in the Acts of the sixth, seventh and eighth years of his Majesties Reign, in relation to the Duties on Marriages, Births, Burials, Batchelors and Widowers, (not otherwise hereby altered or explained) shall be duly observed under the Penalties in the said Acts.

CCCCVII. The Commissioners for the Aid to his Majesty of 1484015 l. 1 s. 11 d. 3 f. shall be Commissioners for the said Acts for Marriages, Births and Burials, till 24 Jun. 1699. who with the Justices of Peace, or a Quorum of them, appointed by the former Acts, shall have full power to Act in all things relating to the said Duties; and after the 24 Jan. 1699. the Justices as aforesaid, shall be the Commissioners.

CCCCVIII. All persons required by the former Acts to keep a Register, shall with the name of every person Married, Buried, Christened or Born, express the Degree and Quality, according to which the Duty ought to be paid; and upon Burials, the names of the Heirs, Executors, Administrators, Fathers, Mothers, Guar­dians, Churchwardens, Overseers, or others who are to pay for the same, and where they dwell: And in case of Births, the names of the Fathers, Mothers, Guardians or Curators of such Children, and where they live: And in case of Marriages, the Husbands abode, under penalty of 20 l. one moiety to the King, the other to the Informer. And every person who ought to pay the said Duties, shall give the Minister who performs the Office of such Marriage, Burial or Christening, a true relation of the Degree and Quality, according to which the Duty ought to be paid, and where the person lives, who ought to pay the same, to be inserted in the Register, under penalty of 20 l.

CCCCIX. The words Ecclesiastical Persons in this Act, and Persons in Holy Orders in the former Acts, are to compre­hend Bishops, where Marriages, Christenings or Burials are per­formed by them.

CCCCX. Upon any Persons removal, or going away with­out payment of the Duties, any two of the Commissioners certify­ing such default under their Hands and Seals, the like number of [Page 143]Commissioners in any other place where the person shall be sound, shall cause the said Duties to be paid, and upon default may Levy the same by Distress and Sale of Goods.

CCCCXI. All Penalties in this and the former Acts touching the said Duties (except the Penalty of 100 l. for not duly keeping a Register) shall be determined by two or more Justices, or Com­missioners near the place, upon Oath, and levied by distress and sole of Goods, and for want of Distress, the Offender to be Com­mitted to Prison; But the Commissioners may mitigate such Pen­alty, so that it be not less than double the Duty.

CCCCXII. The Commissioners in the respective Divisions shall meet together on or before the first of August 1698. and so once or oftner every three Months, for the Execution of this and the for­mer Acts; and they or any two of them, are to warn the Assessors, Collectors, Surveyors, Inspectors and Receivers General, and if need be any Parsons, Vicars, Curates, Parish-Clerks, and others, concerned in the said Duties, to bring in their Assessments, Accounts and Registers, and upon default, may Fine the Offenders, not exceeding 5 l.

CCCCXIII. And shall Examine the said Assessments, Accounts and Registers, and cause the persons omitted, or not fully charged, to be duly taxed, and thereupon to sign the Assessments, and cause Duplicates of the gross Sums to be Transmitted into the Exche­quer.

CCCCXIV. The Collectors shall render their Accounts upon Oath, and in default thereof may be fined by the Commissioners, not exceeding 20 l.

CCCCXV. Every Collector duly discharging himself, shall (besides the 3 d. in the pound in the former Acts) be allowed 2 d. in the pound for what he shall pay to the Receiver General, and the Commissioners Clerks shall have an Additional allowance of 1 d. in the pound.

CCCCXVI. After 1 Aug. 1698. every person who ought to pay any of the said Duties, shall pay or tender the same to the proper Collector; within twenty days after it shall become due, on pain of paying double the said Duties.

CCCCXVII. The Clause in the former Act An. 6. W. 3. for the Collectors delivering a Copy of the Assessment to the Minister of the place, under penalty of 5 l. and for the Ministers reading the same in the Church, under the like penalty, is hereby Repeal­ed.

CCCCXVIII. The ten days allowed by the said former Act for Appealing, shall be reckoned from the time of the Collectors demand.

[Page 144] CCCCXIX. Stat. 9 & 10 W. 3. cap. 38. Enacted, That every person of what Age, Sex or Condition soever in England and Wales, shall pay to his Majesty, one shilling on 24 Aug. 1698. one shilling 24 Novemb. 1698. one shilling 24 Febr. 1698. and one shilling 24 May 1699. Except such as receive Alms of the Parish, and their Children under the age of 16 years, and all poor House keepers, not contributing to Church or Poor, and their Children under 16 years; and except all Children under 16 years of Day Labourers and Servants in Husbandry; and of such who have 4 Children or more, and are not worth in Lands, Goods and Chattels 50 l.

CCCCXX. Every Gentleman or so Reputed, having an Estate real or personal, or in both of 300 l. or more; and every person above that quality (and not a Peer of this Realm) and all Widows having a Dower or Joynture of 100 l. per Ann. or more, or being worth 1000 l. and all unmarried Women worth 1000 l. shall pay 20 s. quarterly for one year, at the days before mentioned; but no persons not having such Estates, and thereof making Oath, before two or more of the Commissioners, shall be charged with the said quarterly Sum of 20 s.

CCCCXXI. Every Cursitor, Philizer, Attorney, Solicitor, Clerk in Chancery or Exchequer, or other Courts of Law or Equity, or Scrivener, or practising as such, and every Chancellor, Commis­sary, Official, Register, and every Advocate, Proctor, Apparitor and publick Notary, or practising as such, and all other Officers in any Court, and all Merchants, Brokers to Merchants, and Pawn Brokers, shall pay 20 s. quarterly at the days before mentioned; and none of the persons so charged to be further charged as a Gentleman.

CCCCXXII. Every Clergy-man (not being a Lord Spiritual) having by any Benefice, Benefices, Contribution or otherwise, 60 l. per An. or upwards, and every Preacher or Teacher in any Congregation, not in Orders according to the Church of England, having in Gratuities, Contributions, Rewards or Bounties 60 l. per An. or upwards, shall pay 20 s. quarterly at the days before mentioned, and then not to be further charged as a Gentleman; every such Dissenting Preacher or Teacher, having by any Contribution or otherwise, 150 l. per An. or upwards, shall pay double the said Sum of 20 s. quarterly, at the several days before mentioned: And every Clergy man having, in several Benefices or Ecclesiasti­cal Promotions, 150 l. per An. or upwards, shall pay double the Sums charged upon other Clergy-men.

CCCCXXIII. Every Tradesman, Shopkeeper and Vintner worth 300 l. and upwards, shall over and above the foresaid quarterly Sums of 1 s. pay the Sum of 10 s. quarterly, on the days before mentioned.

[Page 145] CCCCXXIV Every person who by reason of his or her Estate, is, or would be chargeable (if such person was no Officer in the Militia) to find a Horse in the Militia, shall for each Horse so chargeable, over and above all other Sums, pay 20 s. quarterly, on the days before mentioned, and so proportionably for contributing towards a Horse or Horses.

CCCCXXV. Every person, not finding or contributing to a Militia Horse, who keeps a Coach, Chariot or Calash, shall over and above all other Sums, pay 20 s. quarterly, on the days before mentioned; except for Stage Coaches and Hackney Coaches.

CCCCXXVI. Every Lord Spiritual or Temporal of this Realm, shall, over and above any Sum chargeable by this Act, pay 10 l. quarterly, on the days before mentioned.

CCCCXXVII. Every Gentleman or so Reputed, or being above that Quality, and under the Degree of a Peer of this Realm, worth 300 l. and being 16 years of age or upwards, and within the Realm, who has not taken the Oaths, and shall not voluntarily take them before two or more of the Commissioners, shall pay double the Sums he ought to be charged with.

CCCCXXVIII. Provided that Quakers making and subscribing the Declaration of Fidelity before any two or more of the Commissi­oners, shall not be charged double.

CCCCXXIX. All the persons named and appointed Commissioners in an Act of this present Session, For Granting to his Majesty the Sum of One Million for hundred eighty four thousand and fifteen Pounds, One Shilling Eleven Pence Three Farthings, for Disban­ding Forces, Paying Seamen, and other Uses therein mentioned, shall be Commissioners for putting in Execution this present Act, in all the Places for which they are appointed Commissioners by the said Act.

CCCCXXX. Which Commissioners in their respective Counties, Divisions and Places, shall meet together, at the most usual place of meeting, on 20 July. 1698. and may divide themselves as they shall see expedient; and shall direct their precepts to such Inhabitants, Officers and Ministers, as they shall think conveni­ent to be Presenters and Assessors, Requiring them to appear before the Commissioners within eight days; and shall then openly declare the Effects of their charge unto them, and how they ought to make their Certificates, and prefix another day for bringing in their Certificates of the Names and Sirnames, Qualities, De­grees, Titles, Estates, Professions, Imployments and Trades, of all Persons within their respective Limits, with the Assessment of the respective Rates hereby imposed, without Favour or Malice, upon forfeiture of a sum not exceeding ten pounds: And shall then return two or more sufficient persons, within the said Limits respectively, to be Collectors; For whose paying to the Recei­vers General, the Moneys they shall be Charged withal, the [Page 146]Parish or Place shall be answerable; which Assessments shall be re­turned to the Commissioners by 12 August, 1698. who shall thereupon Issue their Warrants to the Collectors for levying the same; and the Collectors shall thereupon make their demands within four days after, and pay in the first of the said quarterly payments, on or before 1 September, 1698. The second payment on or before 1 December 1698. The third on or before 1 March, 1698. And the fourth on or before 1 June 1699. And the Receivers are to hasten the Collectors to the said quarterly payments, and in default thereof to levy by Warrant of two or more of the Commissi­oners upon the Collectors, by Distress, the Moneys by them received and not paid in.

CCCCXXXI. A Duplicate of the whole sum charged on each Division or Place, without naming the persons, shall be returned into the Exchequer, before 10 September 1698. (All Appeals being first determined) and so within thirty days after every other quarterly payment; and like Duplicates to be delivered to the Receivers General. And the said quarterly Sums to be paid into the Exche­quer, on or before 20 September, 1698. 20 December, 1698. 20 March. 1698. and 20 June, 1699.

CCCCXXXII. Upon return of the Certificates, the Commissioners may examine the same, and if then, or within twelve days after, they shall know or suspect any persons to be omitted, or not duly charged, they may warn such persons before them, to be examined thereupon, who neglecting to appear, not having a reasonable excuse, shall pay double; and the Commissioners may by any lawful ways or means, inquire into all things chargeable by this Act, and set such Rates as shall be according to the true mean­ing thereof.

CCCCXXXIII. The Receiver General shall have an allowance of 2 d. in the pound for all Moneys paid by him into the Exchequer; and every Collector 3 d. in the pound for what he shall pay to the Receiver General; and the Commissioners Clerks three half­pence in the pound, of what shall be received by virtue of the Warrants and Estreats by them made out.

CCCCXXXIV. Persons refusing or neglecting to pay the sums charged, upon demand, the Collector is to Distrain their Goods and Chattels, and if the Money be not paid within four days after, then such Distress is to be appraised and sold, and the Overplus Restored to the Owners.

CCCCXXXV. Persons refusing or neglecting to pay the Assessment in ten days after demand; where no sufficient Distress can be found, three of the Commissioners may commit such Persons to Gaol till payment be made.

CCCCXXXVI. Persons agrieved and complaining to the Com­missioners within six days after demand, the Commissioners, or three of them (whereof two who signed the Rate) may within eight days [Page 147]after examine the Complainant upon Oath, and thereupon abate or increase the same; and the Commissioners are required to meet together for determining such Complaints and Appeals accor­dingly.

CCCCXXXVII. All Persons shall be rated where Resident with their Families at the Execution of the Act; and Persons not Houshol­ders, nor having a certain place of abode, and all Servants shall be Taxed where Resident at the time; The Tax on Servants to be paid by the Master or Mistress, and Deducted out of their Wages.

CCCCXXXVIII. Persons doubly charged for several Mansion Houses, or Places of Residence, upon Certificate of two of the Commis­sioners of their Personal Residence, and of the Sums charged, and Oath made of such Certificate, before a Justice of Peace, shall (for so much as shall be certified) be discharged in every other place.

CCCCXXXIX. Persons at the time of the assessing being out of the Realm, shall be rated where last abiding in the Realm.

CCCCXL. Persons escaping Taxation by Fraud, or changing their Residence, upon proof thereof before two of the Commissi­oners or Justices of the Peace, shall at any time within twelve Months after be charged double.

CCCCXLI. The Commissioners shall Tax one another, and shall Assess the Assessors.

CCCCXLII. Assessors, Collectors, Receivers, or other persons wilfully neglecting or refusing to perform their Dury, the Com­missioners or two of them, may Fine them not exceeding 20 l.

CCCCXLIII. The Commissioners or two of them, shall call for an Account from the Receivers General, of the Moneys received by them, and paid into the Exchequer; and in case of failure, to cause the same to be forthwith levied.

CCCCXLIV. Upon any Controversie between the Commissioners about the said Rates, the Commissioners concerned are to withdraw, under penalty of a Sum not exceeding 20 l.

CCCCXLV. All differences touching any of the said Rates, and the Collecting thereof, shall be finally determined by three or more Commissioners, without further trouble.

CCCCXLVI. The Receivers General shall give Acquittances to the Collectors gratis; and the Collectors shall deliver to the Recei­vers General, a Schedule in Parchment under their hands and seals, signed by two or more Commissioners, of the names and places of abode of every person making default of payment, to be returned into the Exchequer; from whence Precess shall be Issued against them for the same.

[Page 148] CCCCXLVII. No Letters Patents shall exempt any persons or places from the Charge Granted by this Act.

CCCCXLVIII. All Constables, Headboroughs, Tything-men and other Officers, shall be Aiding in the Execution of this Act, and obey such Precepts, as shall be directed to them by the Com­missioners or any Two of them.

CCCCXLIX. Persons Prosecuted for Acting in pursuance of this Act, may plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the special matter in Evidence, and upon a Nonsuit, Discontinuance or Verdict against the Prosecutor, the Defendant shall recover Treble Costs.

CCCCL. The Parents, Guardians and Tutors of Persons, under the Age of 21 Years, shall upon Default, pay the Duties for such Persons.

CCCCLI. All Moneys payable by this Act, shall be paid by the Collectors, to the Receivers General Appointed by his Majesty, or to their Deputies, whereof notice shall be given to the Commissi­oners within Ten days after their General Meeting, and so within Ten days after the Death or Removal of any Deputy, and their Receipts shall be a Discharge to the Collectors.

CCCCLII. The Collectors shall not be Obliged to travel above Ten Miles for payment of any Sums to the Receivers Ge­neral.

CCCCLIII. Every Receiver General, within one Month after the Receipt of the whole Sum charged on any Hundred or Divi­sion, for each Quarterly payment, shall give the Commissioners of the Division a Receipt for the same, under his Hand and Seal, which shall be a full Discharge to such Hundred or Divi­sion.

CCCCLIV. If any Receiver General Certifie into the Exchequer, any Money in Arrear or Unpaid, after the same hath been Re­ceived, or cause any Person to be unjustly set Insuper, he shall Forfeit to the Person Molested or Damaged thereby, Treble Da­mages, and to the King double the Sum so Unjustly Certified or set Insuper.

CCCCLV. No Commissioner shall be Liable for his Execution of this Act, to the Penalties in the Act Anno 25 Car. 2. For Preven­ting Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants.

CCCCLVI. All Penalties Incurred by this Act, shall be Levied (if not otherwise Prescribed) by Warrant of Two or more of the Commissioners, where the Offence was Committed, by Distress and Sale of Goods.

CCCCLVII. The Commissioners at a General Meeting (All Appeals being first Determined) shall cause Duplicates of the whole Sum Charged on each Division or Place, Written in Parchment, without Naming the persons, and Signed by Three or more of the Commissioners, to be Joyntly Delivered to the Sheriff of the County, to be Transmitted to the Exchequer by 20 September 1698.

[Page 149] CCCCLVIII. No Person shall Act as a Commissioner before he Take the Oaths appointed, 1 W. & M. which any Two Commissi­oners may Administer, under the Penalty of 200 l. Forfeiture to his Majesty:

CCCCLIX. Persons chargeable to the Finding or Contributing to a Militia Horse, shall be Assessed in such places where they ought so to Find or Contribute; And if such Assessment be not Paid within the time Limitted, and no Goods or Chattels of the Parties sufficient to be found, then it shall be Lawful, in case the Tenant of the Lands pay not the Assessment within Ten Days, to Levy the same by Distress and Sale of the Tenants Goods, which shall be allowed the Tenant on payment of his Rent.

CCCCLX. Serjeants Inn in Fleet-street, and Serjeants-Inn in Chancery Lane, the four Inns of Court, and the Inns of Chan­cery, shall be Rated according to the proportion Imposed by this Act.

CCCCLXI. Persons coming to reside in any Division within London or Westminster, or Five Miles thereof, and not there Taxed, shall be Summoned before the Commissioners, and Assessed, unless they produce Certificates of their being Assessed, and having paid the preceding Quarterly payments.

CCCCLXII. Every Housholder shall give the Assessors an Ac­count of the Names and Qualities of their Lodgers under penal­ty of 5 l.

CCCCLXIII. Persons may pay all or any of the Quarterly payments to the Collectors beforehand, for which the Collectors Acquittance shall be a good Discharge.

CCCCLXIV. Members of Parliament shall be Assessed where their usual Residence is in the Intervals of Parliament.

CCCCLXV. Out of the Moneys paid into the Exchequer upon the Act of this present Session for Granting to His Majesty several Duties upon Coals and Culm, 250000 l. shall be Appropriated for payment of Seamen that have or shall serve in the Navy Royal; And out of the first Moneys arising, by this Act, 250000 l. shall be Appropriated for payment of Quarters due from the Land Forces in England since 1 Jan. 1696.

CCCCLXVI. The Rules and Directions in the Act 1 W. & M. For a Grant to Their Majesties of an Aid of Two shillings in the Pound for One Year, for the speedy payment of the Money thereby Granted, and Application thereof, and all other Provisions therein, are hereby Revived, touching the Distribution and Application of the Sums hereby Appropriated.

CCCCLXVII. Any Persons, Natives or Foreigners, Bodies Politick or Corporate, may Advance and Lend upon the Security of this Act, any Sums of Money not exceeding 500000 l. at 7 per Cent. per Ann. Interest for the first 250000 l. and 8 per Cent. per Ann. for the Remaining 250000 l.

[Page 150] CCCCLXVIII. And may also Lend upon the Security of the Moneys arising upon Coals and Culm, after 24 Jun. 1698. any Sum not exceeding 500000 l. at 7 per Cent. per Ann. Interest for the first 100000 l. and 8 per Cent. per Ann. for the remaining 400000 l. And no Money so lent or advanced shall be Asses­sed.

CCCCLXIX. There shall be kept in the Exchequer, in the Auditors Office, Two Books for Registring all Moneys that shall be paid in upon the Quarterly Poll hereby granted, and on Coals and Culm, distinct from all other Money: And all persons len­ding Money thereon shall have a Talley and Order for Repayment with Interest, payable every Three Months; which Orders shall be Registred and paid in Course, without preference of one be­fore another, and without taking any Fee or Reward for such Registers, Entries, Views or Search, under Penalty of double Damages to the Party agrieved, with costs of Suit, and (if it be by the Officer himself) loss of place also; And under Penalty of paying the value of the Debt, Damages and Costs, and loss of place, in case of undue preference.

CCCCLXX. Provided, That it shall be no undue preference, where several Orders are brought to the Auditor the same day, which of those he Enters first; Nor shall it be any undue prefe­rence, if the Auditor Direct, the Clerk of the Pells Record, and the Tellers pay Subsequent Orders, where persons demand not their Money in Course, provided so much Money be reserved as will satisfie precedent Orders, Interest ceasing from the time of such reservation.

CCCCLXXI. All which Orders being Entred, may by Indorse­ment and Entry thereof in the said Register Book, be Assigned and Tranferred toties quoties.

CCCCLXXII. His Majesty may make use of any Sums (not exceeding 600000 l. in the whole) arising by any the Aids or Supplies granted or to be granted this Session of Parliament, and not particularly Appropriated, towards discharging the Talleys of Pro or Assignment, or other Talleys remaining unsatisfied on the Hereditary and Temporary Excise, or on the Weekly Sum of 6000 l. issuing out of the same, or on the Post-Office, and Weekly Sum of 600 l. issuing out of the same, and for other His Majesties necessary Occasions, or for satisfying such Moneys as have been or shall be borrowed to supply the same.

CCCCLXXIII. All Auditors, Reeves, or Receivers, and their Deputies, shall upon the Act of this present Session for granting to His Majesty 1484015 l. 1 s. 11 d. 3 q. For Disbanding Forces, paying Seamen, and other Uses therein mentioned, allow 3 s. for every Pound Rent due for any Fee farm Rent, or other chief Rents due to His Majesty or the Queen Dowager, or to any person or persons Claiming by any Grant or Purchase from or under the [Page 151]Crown, and proportionably for any greater or lesser Sum, to the parties so paying the same, without Fee, upon Penalty of 20 l. And if any such Auditor, or his Deputy, set insuper any Tenant, or other person, or make their Estate liable to Distress or Vexa­tion, for any Money which ought to be allowed after the said Rate of 3 s. in the Pound, or refuse or neglect to allow the same, he shall forfeit 100 l. to the Party grieved, and be incapable of his Office or Place, or any other Office or Place of Trust or Profit under His Majesty or the Queen Dowager.

CCCCLXXIV. Stat. 9 & 10 W. 3. cap. 45. Enacted, That after 1 Aug. 1698. One half of the several Rates and Duties, Charged by several Acts, made in 6 & 7 W. 3. on Glass, and Glass wares, and the whole Duties charged by the said Acts, on Stone and Earthen Bottles, Stone and Earthen Wares, and on Tobacco Pipes shall cease, and be no longer payable.

CCCCLXXV. And that in lieu thereof from 10 July 1698. there shall be paid to his Majesty for 8 years, for all Whale-Fins, and Scotch Linens Imported into England, Wales or Barwick, (over and above all Duties already payable) the further Rates following, viz.

CCCCLXXVI. For all Whale-Fins, caught and Imported in any Ships belonging to the Greenland Company, 3 d. per pound weight. And for all Whale Fins Caught or Imported by Foreigners, or by Ships not belonging to the said Company, 6 d. per pound Weight, to be paid by the Importers.

CCCCLXXVII. For all Linen of the Manufacture of Scotland, called Twill, Imported or Brought in as aforesaid, Ten shillings for every hundred, containing 120 Ells. And for all Scotch Linen, called Ticking, Six shillings 8 d. per hundred containing 120 Ells, to be paid by the Importers.

CCCCLXXVIII. The Importer giving Security at the Custom-House, shall have 12 Months to pay the Duty by 4 equal quar­terly payments; And in case he pays Ready Money, shall be abated after 10 per Cent. per Ann. If the Goods aforementioned, after the Duties paid or secured be again Exported by any English Merchant within 12 Months, or by Strangers in 9 Months, the said Duty to be wholly Repaid, or the Security vacated for what shall be so exported.

CCCCLXXIX. Provided, That this Act shall not make void any payments of Money due to his Majesty for any Glass Wares, Stone or Earthen Wares, or Tobacco Pipes, actually made before the said 1 Aug. And that all matters and things contained in the said two former Acts, for Securing to His Majesty the Duties on Glass Wares, shall be applied for securing the moiety of the said Duty on Glass Wares, (not hereby taken away.)

[Page 152] CCCCLXXX. And for all Glass Wares which shall be Expor­ted before 1 Decemb. 1698. for which the whole Duties have been paid or secured, the same shall be repaid, or the security vacated; And for all Glass Wares exported after the said 1 Decemb. 1698. only one Moiety of the said former Duties shall be drawn back.

CCCCLXXXI. No Makers of Glass or Glass Wares after the said 1 Aug. 1698. shall draw or remove from their Kins or Surrores, any Glass or Glass-Wares, unless the Officer appointed to attend such Glass-house be present, or have Notice of it, on Forfeiture of 10 l. one Moiety to the King, the other to the Prosecu­tor.

CCCCLXXXII. All Bottles and Glass Vessels imported, although filled with Liquor, shall pay one Moiety of the Duties charged thereon by the former Acts.

CCCCLXXXIII. Upon the Importation of any Whale Fins, Scotch Linen or Tickings, as aforesaid, Entry thereof shall be made in the Custom-house where imported; And in case of Land­ing any such Goods before due Entry made, and the Duties secur­ed, or without a Warrant from the Commissioners, or proper Officers of the Customs for Landing the same, such Goods shall be forfeited or the value thereof, and be recovered of the importer or proprietor, one Moiety to the King, the other to the Seiser or Prosecutor.

CCCCLXXXIV. The said Duties payable for Whale Fins and Scotch Linen as aforesaid, shall be managed by the Commissioners of the Customs; And the Receivers General of the Customs shall bring the Produce thereof (necessary charges only excepted) into the Receipt of the Exchequer; And the Officers of the Exchequer shall apply the said Duties, as also the half Duties on Glass Waies for the payment of such Principal and Interest Moneys, whereunto the whole Duties on Glass and Earthen Wares and Tobacco Pipes ought to have been applied in the same Order, and under the like Penalties and Forfeitures as in the said former Acts are prescribed.

Trade.

I. Stat. 8 & 9 W. 3. cap. 36. Enacted, That whoso­ever shall Import any Foreign Alamodes or Lustrings into England, Wales or Town of Berwick, without paying the Customs and Rates due for the same at such Importation, or shall Import any Alamodes or Lustrings prohibited by Law, or undertake or agree to deliver, or shall deliver any such Goods or Merchandize, or shall pay any Money, Praemium, or Reward for Insuring or Conveying any such Goods, or knowingly receive or take the [Page 153]same into his or her House, Custody or Possession, such Person may be prosecuted for the same in any Action, Suit, or Informa­tion; and thereupon a Capias specifying the Sum of the Penalties shall Issue, and the Party obliged to give sufficient Bail to the Officer to appear in Court, and shall at the time of appearance give sufficient Bail to pay the penalties for such Offences, in case of Conviction or yield his Body to Prison.

II. It shall be lawful for any Person to Sue for, and Recover the penalty of 500 l. imposed by the Stat. 4 & 5 W. & M. upon In­suring to Import Prohibited Goods or Goods without paying Custom, (cap. 15 Customs 166.) by Action of Debt, &c. in any of the Kings Courts of Record at Westminster, wherein no Essoign, &c. shall be allowed.

III. All Black Alamodes and Lustrings wheresoever made, which shall be found in the Possession of any Person not Markt and Seal'd by the Custom House, or the Royal Lustring Company, shall be forfeited, and may be seized as forfeited, whether the same hath been bought and sold or not, and the Person in whose Custody they are found shall incur the penalties relating to Alamodes and Lustrings, in an Act made 6 & 7 W. 3. (cap. 18. Trade 84.)

IV. No Alamodes and Lustrings, that after the 10 of April 1697, shall be seized and forfeited by virtue of any Law now in force, shall be used in England, but shall be exported again, and to that end, shall immediately on their Seizure be carried to the Custom-house Ware house in London, and there sold by Inch of Candle, on Condition to be exported, and Security given for Exportation, which Security may be discharged by Certificate from the Port where such Goods shall be Landed, or Oath made that they were lost at Sea.

V. On Exportation of Foreign Lustrings or Alamodes, the Ex­porter shall not be Intituled to Receive, Draw back, or be repaid the Customs or Impositions paid or secured on Importation of the same, or any part thereof.

VI. Every Person that shall Imbezel, Pawn, Sell or Detain any of the Silk delivered to them as Agents, Journeymen, Warpers or Winders, or after it is wrought up, and every Receiver, Buyer and Pawn-taker, of any the said Goods, shall be subject to all the Penalties and Punishments mentioned and provided in an Act made 13 & 14 Car. 2. (chap. 15.) and in another Act made 20 Car. 2. (chap. 6.) both for regulating the Trade of Silk throwing.

VII. All such pieces of Alamodes and Lustrings as some Weavers have now by them unmarkt, and shall appear upon Oath made in Writing before any Justice of Peace, by one or more credible Witnesses, to be Manufactured within this Realm before the 10 of April 1697, shall be brought to the Royal [Page 154]Lustring Companies Ware-house, and the Evidence being there produced, shall be Markt and Sealed gratis by the said Company before the 1 of May 1697, and then be lawful to be Sold, as if manufactured by the said Company.

VIII. The said Weavers shall give an Account weekly to the said Company, to whom they have Sold such Goods so marked and sealed under the penalty of double the value of such Goods, for every Omission, to be recovered as other Penalties inflicted by this Act; and the said Company shall keep a Register of the said Sales.

IX. Stat. 9 & 10 W. 3. cap. 9. All Persons who after 25 March 1698, shall Import or cause to be Imported into England or Wales, or Town of Berwick upon Tweed, or who shall after 24 Decem­ber 1698, Sell, Barter or offer to Sale, or knowingly keep in their Custody for Sale, or for the use of any Importer or Dealer in the Commodities aftermentioned, any Foreign Bone-lace, Loom­lace, Needle-work, Point or Cutwork, shall forfeit 20 s. per Yard for all the said Foreign Bone-lace, &c. so Imported, Sold, Bartered, offered to Sale or kept as aforesaid, together with all the said Goods.

X. The Importation, Selling, Bartering, offering to Sale or Barter, or knowingly keeping for that purpose any Foreign Bone­lace, &c. is hereby declared a Common Nuisance; And the said prohibited Goods or any part thereof may be seized, and the Of­fenders prosecuted by any person whatsoever. Any Persons with a Constable or Tythingman, with a Warrant from a Justice of Peace in the day time may enter into any House, Shop, Cellar, Ware-house or Room, or other place whatsoever, to Search for and Seize any of the prohibited Goods before mentioned, and in case of Resistance, to break open Doors, Chests, Trunks and other Package whatsoever to Seize the Goods prohibited by this Act: And every Justice of Peace is to grant such Warrant, to any credible Persons making Oath, that they have reason to suspect there are such prohibited Goods where they intend to Search.

XI. All Foreign Bone-lace, &c. Seized by virtue of this or any other Act, shall be carried to the next Custom house, not thence to be delivered, unless to be produced at a Trial, or otherwise dis­charged by Law. The Goods so seized and condemned shall be sold publickly by Inch of Candle, whereof publick notice in Writing to be affixed at the Custom-house Door, and other pub­lick place where the Goods are lodged Ten days before the Sale, and shall not be delivered to the Buyers without Security by Bond, in double the value to Export the same within Six Months, and not to Import the same into England, Scotland or Ireland, or His Majesties Dominions in America or elsewhere: Which Ob­ligation, [Page 155]upon Certificate of the proper Officer, and Oath of the Buyer that the said Goods were Exported accordingly, and not Landed or intended to be Landed again in any of His Majesties Dominions, shall be Vacated; But the said Goods not being so Exported, the Persons in whose Custody the said Goods shall be found, shall be again liable to all the Forfeitures in this or any other Act, as if the same had never been seized.

XII. If any Bone-lace, &c. be seized, and carried to any Custom-house as Foreign, which the Seizer shall after believe to be English; He may take off his Seizure, affixing publick notice in Writing at the Custom-house Door and the Guild hall, or other most publick place, of the quantity and kind so seized: And if no other person shall, within Ten days after, undertake to prosecute for the same, it shall be delivered back to the Proprietor, Oath being first made by him or some known Person on his be­half, that the said Goods are (to the best of his knowledge and belief) English made, and Oath made before some Justice of Peace of the place, where and of whom the said Goods were bought, who shall certifie the same at the next General Quarter Sessions; and the Persons wilfully Forswearing themselves therein, shall suffer as for Perjury.

XIII. The Officers of the Customs shall be Aiding in the Execu­tion of this Act, and upon conniving at the Importation, Deli­very or Selling of any such Foreign Bone-lace, &c. shall forfeit 20 pounds, and be ever uncapable of serving his Majesty in any Office.

XIV. The proof that such Bone-lace, &c. so found or seized was made and Manufactured in England, Wales or Berwick, shall be only upon the Importer, Keeper, Seller, Retailer, Barterer, or those in whose Hands or Custody the same shall be found, and not upon the Informer, Seizer or Prosecutor that they were made be­yond Sea.

XV. The Penalties and Forfeitures incurred by this Act may be recovered (over and above any Penalties in any former Act) in any the Courts of Record at Westminster, and the said Penalties (the Prosecutor having been allowed his reasonable Charges) shall be one Moiety to the King, the other to the Person that will Sue for the same.

XVI. Persons sued for any thing done in pursuance of this Act may plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the special matter in Evidence; And if a Verdict pass for the Defendant, or the Plaintiff discontinue, be Nonsuited, or have Judgment against him upon Demurrer, the Defendant shall have treble Costs.

XVII. All Informations against this Act shall be brought within Twelve Months after the discovery of the Offence.

[Page 156] XVIII. Before any Person shall be admitted to Enter a Claim to any such Goods seized, he shall be obliged to give Security by Recognizance before a Baron of the Exchequer in Twenty pounds penalty to pay the Prosecutor full Costs of Suit, in case a Verdict shall pass or Judgment be entred for the Plaintiff, and in default of such Security in due time, the said Goods shall be adjudged forfeited.

XIX. This Act shall not impower any Persons to enter into any House, Shop, Cellar, Ware house, or other Room or Place, or to break open the same, or any Door, Chest, Trunk or other Pack­age not belonging to a Dealer in Lace.

XX. Stat. 9 & 10 W. 3. cap. 17. Enacted, That after 24 June 1698. All Bills of Exchange Drawn in or Dated at and from any place in this Kingdom, of the Sum of 5 l. Sterling or upwards, upon any Person in London, or any other Trading City, Town or Place (in which Bills the value shall be expressed to be received) Drawn Payable at a certain time after the Date thereof, may after Acceptance in Writing, and the expiration of Three days after the same shall be due, be protested by a Notary publick, or in default of such Notary publick, by any other substantial person of the place before Two Witnesses, Refusal or Neglect being first made of due payment; which Protest shall be made under a Copy of the Bill in the form prescribed by the Act, and shall be notified within Fourteen days after to the Party from whom the Bills were received, who (upon producing such Protest) is to Re­pay the said Bills with Interest and Charges from the Protesting: For which Protest there shall not be paid above 6 d And in de­fault of such Protest, or due Notice thereof, the Person so failing shall be liable to all Costs, Damages and Interest thereupon. Provided that if any such Inland Bills be lost or miscarry, within the time limited for payment of the same, the Drawer of the said Bills shall give other Bills of the same tenour, Security being given to indempnifie him in case the said Bills so lost or miscar­ried be found again.

XXI. Stat. 9 & 10 W. 3. cap. 26. After 24 Jun. 1698. The Royal African Company, shall maintain all such Forts and Castles as they now have in their Possession, or shall hereafter Purchase or Erect for the preservation of the Trade to Africa; And shall supply them with Men, Artillery, Ammunition and Provision, and all other necessaries as occasion shall require.

XXII. Any of the Subjects of this Realm, as well as the said Company may after the said 24 June Trade from England, and after 1 Aug. 1698, from any of his Majesties Plantations in Ame­rica, to the Coast of Africa between Cape Mount and the Cape of Good Hope, the said Company and all others answering a [Page 157]Duty of 10 per Cent. ad Valorem, for the Goods and Merchandize Exported thither from England, or from his Majesties Plantations in America, for maintaining the said Castles and Forts, and pre­serving the said Trade.

XXIII. The Master, Owner or Freighter of every Ship intending to Sail or Trade between Cape Mount and the Cape of Good Hope, shall at one of the chief Custom houses in England, or the Plantations from whence such Ship is to Sail, Enter the name of the Master and Ship, and the Burthen thereof so Freighted 15 days before clearing thereof; And the Owner or Exporter shall there also enter upon Oath the quantity, quality and value of the Goods and Merchandize so to be Shipped, and Sign such Entry: And thereupon pay the said Duty to the Collector or chief Officer of the Custom there, who is to demand and receive the same for the use of the said Company: And all such Goods and Merchan­dize Exported from England to the Plantations and thence to Africa, shall be valued at no more than what they cost in Eng­land.

XXIV. The Collector or other Chief Officer in or near the Ports whence such Ships are to be cleared, shall before the clearing thereof administer the Oaths following, whereof the Master shall make Oath, thus,

I A. B do Swear, That the manifest or particular now by me given in and signed, to the best of my knowledge and belief, doth contain, specifie and express all the Goods, Wares and Merchandizes, which are Laden or intended to be Laden, or put on Board the Ship or Vessel called the [...] whereof I A. B. am Ma­ster for this Voyage to Africa.

So help me God.

XXV. Every Owner or Exporter of such Goods, upon Entry thereof shall make this Oath.

I A. B. do Swear, That the Entry by me now made and signed, doth contain and specifie all the particular quantities, quality and true and full value of all the Goods, Wares and Merchandizes therein expressed, to be Shipped on Board the Ship or Vessel called the [...] whereof [...] is Master, for the Voyage She is now to preceed on to Africa.

So Help me God.

XXVI. Upon Exporting any Goods or Merchandize from the Plantations to Africa, that were there Imported from England, the Owner or Exporter shall also Swear, That to the best of his Knowledge and Belief, such Goods and Merchandize so Entred were Imported from England into that Colony or Plantation; and [Page 158]that the true and real value thereof as Cost in England is fully expressed in the said Entry: And the said Master, and one of the Owners or Freighters, before such Ship be cleared, shall give Bond to his Majesty, to the value of such Ship and Lading, that the said Ship (not unavoidably hindred) shall Sail directly to Africa, between the Capes aforesaid, and thence directly return to and unlade in England, or one of the Plantations aforesaid: And the Collector or chief Officer aforesaid is to take such Bond, and keep a distinct Book of all such Entries and Duties payable for the use of the said Company; and to deliver to the said Company, on Demand, a Duplicate of such Entries and Oaths, and Bonds given and Moneys paid; And shall pay to the said Company the Moneys so Received, deducting 5 per Cent for his or their trouble.

XXVII. After 24 June 1698. Any of the Subjects of this Realm as well as the said Company may Trade from England, or any of his Majesties Plantations in America, to the Coast of Africa be­tween Cape Blancho and Cape Mount, paying 10 per Cent. ad Va­lorem, for the Goods and Merchandize so Exported to the said Coast; and paying a further Sum of 10 per Cent ad Valorem (Redwood excepted, which is to pay 5 per Cent only) at the place of Importation, upon all Goods and Merchandize (Negroes excep­ted) Imported into England, or the Plantations from Africa be­tween Cape Blancho and Cape Mount aforesaid: And every Master and Trader Trading from England or the Plantations, between the said Capes, shall make like Entries and Oath, and give like Bonds as is directed for Masters and Traders between Cape Mount and Cape Good Hope; and upon such Entry and Oath shall pay the Duty aforesaid, payable by Traders between Cape Mount and Cape Good Hope: And the Collector or Chief Officer of the Chief Custom-houses in England, or the Plantations from whence such Ship shall be dispatcht, are to take such Entries and Bonds, and give such Oaths, and receive such Duties, and pay the same to the said Company on Demand, for the Uses before directed; and to do every other thing mutatis mutandis as is directed touching Traders between Cape Mount and Cape Good Hope: And that all Goods and Merchandize (Negroes excepted) that shall be Shipped on the Coast of Africa between Cape Blancho and Cape Mount, and shall be Imported into England or the Plantations, shall pay the Duties aforesaid: And the Master or Chief Officer of every such Ship, that shall take on Board any Goods or Merchandize (Negroes excepted) between Cape Blancho and Cape Mount, shall upon ma­king Entry thereof, and before Landing the same, deliver in a Particular of his Cargo, and take the following Oath.

[Page 159] XXVIII. I A. B. de Swear, That the Manifest or Particular now by me given in and signed, to the best of my knowledge and belief doth contain, signifie and express all the Goods, Wares and Mer­chandizes (Negroes excepted) which were Laden or put on Board the said Ship called the [...] during her stay and continuing on the Coast of Africa, between Cape Blancho and Cape Mount, whereof I A. B. am Master.

XXIX. And that the Owner or Importer of all Goods and Mer­chandizes (Negroes excepted) which shall be brought to England or the Plantations, from between Cape Blancho and Cape Mount, shall make Entry thereof at one of the Chief Custom-houses in England, or the Plantations where Imported, with the Collector or Chief Officer of the Cussoms upon Oath, and Sign the same of the quantity, quality and value of such Goods and Merchan­dize, as worth to be sold at ths place of Importation, and pay the Duty for the same as aforesaid: And such Collector or Chief Officer where such Ship shall Arrive is to take the Entries and Mani­fests, give the Oaths and Receive the Duties aforesaid, and pay the same to the said Company on Demand, for the uses afore-directed, and deliver to the said Company a Duplicate of all such Entries and Oaths made and signed as aforesaid.

XXX. The said Collector or Officer may deduct for his or their trouble 5 per Cent. for the Duties arising by this Act, except from the Exports and Imports of the said Royal African Com­pany: And the said Company shall give an Account in Writing of the Moneys by them received and by their Exports and Im­ports for the Duties aforesaid, and how they have laid out the same yearly, within Three months after the end of every year, to the Cursitor, Baron of the Exchequer, who may examine Persons thereupon on Oath. And all such Goods and Merchan­dizes brought from between Cape Blancho and Cape Mount, as shall be Landed before Entry made and Signed, and Oath of the value thereof made, and the Duty paid, shall be forfeited or the value thereof.

XXXI. Every Ship which contrary to this Act shall Sail from England, or the Plantations for the Coast of Africa, without be­ing duly Entred, Oath made and Bonds given, as before directed) shall be forefeited, or the value thereof: And all Goods and Mer­chandize Shipped from England or the Plantations for the Coast of Africa as aforesaid, contrary to this Act, before due Entry made thereof and of the value, and the Duties paid for the same shall be forfeited or the value thereof: And every Ship, and all the Goods and Merchandizes therein belonging to his Majesties Subjects, Sailing from any other part than from England or the Plantations to the Coast of Africa as aforesaid shall be forfeited.

[Page 160] XXXII. One third part of the said Forfeitures shall be to his Ma­jesty, one other third part to the said Company, towards mainte­nance of the said Forts and Castles, and the other third part to the Informer and Prosecutor.

XXXIII. Any Persons whatsoever may Sue for the said Forfeitures in any his Majesties Courts of Record of this Kingdom, or in any of his Majesties Plantations or Colonies in America.

XXXIV. If any Ship Trading to Africa, and the Goods there­in be Cast away or Lest before she arrive at her Port, The Pro­prietors or Exporters shall upon their sending any other Ship to Africa, be allowed so much as was paid to the said Company for the Goods so lost.

XXXV. All the Natural born Subjects of England Trading to Africa and paying the Duties by this Act imposed, shall have the same Protection for their Persons, Ships and Goods, from the said Forts and Castles, and the like freedom for their Trade as the said Company, and their Ships and Goods have: And all Persons Trading to Africa and paying the Duties as aforesaid, may at their own charge settle Factories on any part of Africa within the li­mits aforesaid, without let of the said Company. And all Persons not Members of the said Company, so Trading and paying the said Duties shall with their Ships and Goods be free from all Molestation, Penalties or Impositions from the said Company, by reason of their so Trading.

XXXVI. If any Goods exported for Africa, having paid the Duties on this Act, shall be brought back to England or the Plan­tations, they may be exported again to Africa without paying any Duty, Oath being first made by two Persons, not interested in such Goods, that the Duty was paid upon their first Exportation; A Copy of the Entry of such Goods upon their former Exporta­tion being first preduced and attested upon Oath of two Persons.

XXXVII. All the Duties arising by this Act are hereby appro­priated wholly to the maintenance of the Forts and Castles on the Coasts of Africa in the Possession of the said Royal African Com­pany, and for keeping them well repaired, and providing them with Ammunition and Warlike Stores, and Soldiers to defend them, and paying the Officers and Soldiers, and no other uses whatsoever: And a true account of the said Duties, and laying out the same, shall be kept in a Book for that purpose, which shall lie open at the African-House in London, to be perused by all Persons Trading to Africa; And that an Account be made up yearly at Michaelmas or within 20 days after, and Recorded in the Exchequer.

XXXVIII. No Duty imposed by this Act shall be required in England or the Colenies aforesaid, for any Gold or Silver imported from Africa, but the same may be Landed without Entry or De­claration thereof.

[Page 161] XXXIX. This Act shall not hinder any Persons from Trading to that part of Africa called Barbary, extending Southerly as for as Cape Blancho.

XL. Any of his Majesties Subjects (notwithstanding the Act of 5 & 6. W. & M. that no other Copper than what is made of Eng­lish Ore should be exported) may Export from England all such Copper Bars as have been Imported thither from Foreign Parts, and upon Exportation shall draw back all Duties or Vacate the Securities, saving the half of the old subsidy, as is usual in other Commodities.

XLI. No Governor or Deputy Governor of any his Majesties Colonies or Plantations in America, or the Judges there, or any other for their use, shall after 29 Sept. 1698, be a Factor or Agent for the said Company or others, for the Sale or Disposal of Negroes; but every Person offending herein shall serselt 500 l. to the uses aforesaid, to be recovered in any of the Courts of Record at Westminster.

XLII. This Act shall be in force only 13 years, and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament.

XLIII. Stat. 9 & 10 W. 3. cap. 28. After 24 June 1698. It shall be lawful to Export such Watches, Sword Hilts Wrought-Plare, and other Silver Manufactures made within this Kingdom being of the fineness of Eleven ounces and Ten peny weight to every pound Troy, and so proportionably for a greater or lesser weight, according to the Rules prescribed in the Act made 8 & 9 W. 3. Intituled, An Act for the Incouraging the bringing in of Wrought-Plate to be Coined, as shall be yearly allowed by the Commissioners of the Customs, or any three of them.

XLIV. No Person shall after the said 24 of June Export or send, or Indeavour to Export or send out or this Kingdom, any outward or inward Box, Case or Dyal plate of Gold, Silver, Brass or other Metal for Clock or Watch, without the movement in or with every such Box, Case or Dyal-plate, made up fit for use, with the Clock or Watchmakers name Ingraven thereon: Nor shall any Persons after the said 24 of June [...] to be made up any Clock or Watch without ingraving or putting their own Name and place of Aboad or Freedom, and no other Name or Place, on every Clock or Watch they shall so make up, on the forfeiting every such Empty box, Case and [...], Clock and Watch not made up and Ingraven as aforesaid, and for every such offence 20 l. one Moiety to the King, the other to them that shall Sue for the same, in any of his Majesties Courts of Record.

[Page 162] XLV. Stat. 9 & 10 W. 3. cap. 39. After 24 July 1698, All Silver Wire to be drawn for the making of Gold and Silver Thread, shall hold at the least 11 oz. 16 penny weight of Fine Silver to the pound Troy, and all Silver to be guilt for that use, shall be of the same fineness, and shall not have loss than four peny weight of Fine Gold, laid upon each pound weight of Silver, on forfeiture of five shillngs per Ounce, to be paid by the Refiner or Maker.

XLVI. After the said 24 of July, no Gilt Wire shall be coloured with Verdigrease or Dead-head, or any other forced Co­lour, on forfeiture of 2 s. 6 d. per Ounce. And for all Gold and Silver so prepared and reduced into Plate, there shall be allowed at least six Ounces to cover four Ounces of Silk, the finest of which Silk shall not run above sixteen Yards to the penny weight Troy; And six Ounces to cover three Ounces and a half of Silk, not running above thirty six Yards to the penny weight Troy; And six Ounces to cover three Ounces of Silk, not running above ninety Yards to the penny weight Troy; And for all Gold and Silver Thread made finer, six Ounces of Plate to cover two Ounces and a half of Silk: And shall be Spun close upon well Boiled and Light Dyed Silk only (except Frost-work) on forfeiture of 2 s. 6 d. per Ounce. And every Spinner of Gold and Silver Thread, that shall lay Gold or Silver Plate upon Silk in other proportions, shall for­feit for every Ounce so spun two shillings.

XLVII. After the said 24 of July, Copper, Brass and every other inferior Metal than Silver, shall be Spun upon Thread, Yarn or Incle only, and not upon Silk, on forfeiture of five shil­lings per Ounce.

XLVIII. After the said 24 of July, No Gold or Silver Thread, Lace, Fringe or other Work made thereof, nor any Thread made of Copper, Brass or any Inferior Metal, or Wire or Plate ready wrought, for the covering of Silk or Thread, shall be Imported into this Kingdom, on pain of being forfeited and burnt.

XLIX. Of the several Penalties in this Act, one Moiety shall be to the King, the other to them that shall sue for the same, in any the Courts of Record at Westminster.

L. If any Person be sued for what he shall do in Execution of this Act, he may plead the General Issue, and give the Special Matter in Evidence, and upon a Non-suit, Discontinuance or Ver­dict against the Plaintiff, the Defendant shall have treble Costs.

LI. No Penalty shall be inflicted on any Person exposing to sale any Silver Wire, or Silver or Gold Thread, or Lace or Fringe, on or before 29 Sept. 1699, though not made according to this Act, provided it be proved by Oath before a Justice of Peace of the Place, that such Goods were made on or before 24 July 1698.

LII. Every Prosecution upon this Act shall be commenced within Six months after the Offence committed.

[Page 163] LIII. This Act shall continue for Three years, and thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament.

LIV. Stat. 9 & 10 W. 3. Cap. 42. Whereas by an Act 7 & 8 W. 3. Intituled, An Act for Preventing Frauds, and Regulating Abuses in the Plantation Trade; It is Enacted, That after the 25th of March 1698. No Ship or Vessel shall pass as a Ship of the built of England, Ireland, Wales, Berwick, Guernsey, Jersey, or any His Majesties Plantations in America, so as to Trade to or from the said Plantations, till Registred as enacted by the said Act: And yet several Merchants, Trading to the Plantations, have sent out several Ships and Vessels thither, but through madvertency only, have omitted to Register them; It is Enacted, That all Ships and Vessels of the Built of England, Ireland, Wales, Berwick, Guernsey, Jersey, or any His Majesties Plantations in America, being English Property, shall have Nine months longer from the said 25th of March 1698. for Registring such Ships; which being Registred within the said Nine months, shall have the advantage of the saie Act, as if Registred before the said 25 Mar. 1698.

LV. Stat. 9 & 10 W. 3. Cap. 43. After 1 July 1698. no Foreign Silks, known by the name of Alamodes or Lustrings, shall be Im­ported into this Kingdom, but into the Port of London only; and Notice shall be given to the Commissioners or Chief Managers of the Customs there, of the Quality and Quantity, with the Marks, Numbers and Package of all such Silks intended to be Imported, with the Name of the Importer, and of the Ship and her Burthen, and of the Master and Commander on which they are to be Laden, and the Port where the same are to be taken on Board: And a Li­cence shall be taken under the Hands of the said Commissioners or Chief Managers of the Customs, or any three of them, for the Importing of the same; which Licence is to be granted without Fee or Reward.

LVI. The said Commissioners or Chief Managers of the Customs shall cause to be marked and sealed all such Alamodes and Lu­strings, which shall be Imported after the said 1st of July, accord­ing to this Act; and cause a dissinct Registry thereof to be kept in the Custom-House, to be made without Fee or Reward before the Goods be delivered out of the Custom House Warchouse: And if any of the said Silks shall be Imported into this Realm other where than in the Port of Londen, or Imported without such No­tice and Licence, and the Duties paid for the same, or shall not be so sealed and marked, such Silks or the sull value thereof shall be forfeited: And the Silks which shall be seised and forfeited, by vir­tue of this or any former Act, shall be sold and exported pursuant to the Rules mentioned in an Act of 8 & 9 W. 3 Intituled, An Act for the further Encouragement of the Manufacture of Lustrings and Alamedes within this Realm.

[Page 164] LVII. All Persons who shall Import or bring into this Kingdom any Alamodes or Lustrings contrary to this Act, or knowingly re­ceive the same into their Custody, or sell or offer to sale any such Foreign Silks so fraudulently Imported, and their Aiders, Abettors and Assistants knowing thereof, shall forfeit 500 Pounds.

LVIII. If any Commission or Warrant Officer, or other Person in the Service of His Majesty, and having the Command of any Ship or Vessel, shall Import or Convey or procure or suffer to be Imported, or take on Board any Alamodes or Lustrings, in Order to be Im­ported into this Kingdom, or shall Unship or suffer to be Unshipt into any Boat or Vessel any such Silks, knowing thereof, shall over and above the Forfeitures and Penalties in this or any other Act, be ipso facto rendred uncapable of serving His Majesty by Sea or Land or of receiving any Advantage by virtue of such Service: And if any Seaman, Mariner or other belonging to any Ship or Vessel, shall discover any Alamodes or Lustrings so Imported, or Unshipt in order to be Imported, contrary to this Act, such Persons shall (over and above their part of the Forfeitures by this Act) be discharged from on Board such Ship or Vessel, if they desire the same; and the Captain or Master shall immediately give them a Ticket, Intituling them to their Wages on Board such Ship or Vessel.

LIX. If any Persons shall afterwards Counterfeit or Misapply any of the Seals or Marks now used at the Custom House, for Sealing and Marking Alamodes and Lustrings, according to this or any other Act, or the Seals or Marks of the said Company for Marking and Sealing their Goods; they, their Aiders and Abettors shall for every such Offence forfeit 500 Pounds, and stand in the Pillory two Hours: And all Persons who shall buy or fell, or have in their Possession any Alamodes or Lustrings with a Counterfeit Seal or Mark, or with the Custom-House or Companies Seal or Mark not lawfully affixed thereto, knowing thereof, and not discovering the same, shall forfeit the Goods and 100 Pounds: Any Persons with a Writ of Assistance from the Exchequer, or with a Constable or Officer, and a Justice of Peace's Warrant, may in the day time Enter into any House, Shop. Warehouse or other place, to search for and seize any Alamodes or Lustrings Imported contrary to this or any other Act, or Sealed or Marked as aforesaid; And in case of Resistance to break open Doors, Chests and other Pack­age, to bring thence to his Majesties Ware house any such Silks: And the Justices of Peace are to grant such Warrants to Credible Persons making Oath, they suspect there are such Silks where they intend to Search: And upon Dispute whether such Silks were Manufactured beyond the Seas, or Imported contrary to this Act, the Proof shall lie upon the Importer or Owner, and not upon the Prosecutor.

[Page 165] LX. All Officers of the Customs, or in Corporations or elsewhere shall be assisting in the Execution of this Act; and if any Officer of the Customs shall knowingly connive at the Importation or Disposing of such Alamodes and Lustrings, or if any Persons taking upon them to Seize or Prosecute in pursuance of this or any other Act, shall by Collusion desist or delay Prosecution to Con­demnation of the said Silks, they shall forfeit 500 l. and be inca­pable of any Office or Imployment.

LXI. Such Persons Convicted for any Offence against this or any other Act relating to Alamodes or Lustrings, as shall after­wards offend a second time or oftner, shall so often as they offend forfeit double the sum inflicted by this Act.

LXII. All Persons offending contrary to this or any other Act relating to Alamodes or Lustrings, shall be prosecuted in any Action, Suit or Information, and thereupon a Capias in the first Process, specifying the Penalties sued for may Issue, and sufficient Bail and Security shall be given by Natural born Subjects or De­nizens to answer such Suit, and at the time of Appearance suffi­cient Bail and Security in Court to answer the Penalties in case of Conviction, or to suffer Imprisonment.

LXIII. All the Penalties and Forfeitures imposed hereby, or by any former Law relating to Alamodes or Lustrings, shall be two third parts to his Majesty, and one third to the Prosecutor, the charge of which Suit shall be born by his Majesty, out of his Ma­jesties part of the Forfeitures: Which Penalties and Forfeitures shall be recoverable by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Informa­tion, in any the Courts of Record at Westminster, wherein no Es­soign, &c. shall be allowed, nor more than one Imparlance: All which Informations or Actions may be laid and tried in such places, and with the like proceedings as are used about the Sci­zing, Condemning or Prosecuting any Goods for Non payment of Customs or other Duties, or any Persons offending against the Laws relating to the Customs.

LXIV. No claim shall be entred to any such Silks seized as aforesaid, till Security given by Recognizance before a Judge, to answer the Penalties and Forfeitures with full cosis of Suit, where a Verdict shall pass or Judgment be entred for the Plaintiff: And in default of such Security within the limited time, the Goods to be forfeited, and Judgment entred accordingly.

LXV. This Act and every thing therein contained shall be taken to be a general Law, and not needful to be set forth in Heading, and shall be construed most beneficially for the Prosecutor, and for preventing the mischiefs hereby provided against. And Per­sons sued for any thing done by virtue hereof, may plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the Special matter in Evidence, And upon a Verdict for the Defendants, or if the Plaintiff Dis­continue, be Non-suit or suffer Judgment by Demurrer, the Defen­dants shall have treble Costs.

[Page 166] LXVI. All Actions brought by an Informer against this Act, shall be Commenced within two years after the offence committed.

LXVII. The Royal Lustring Company having been first Ere­cted by the late King James, by Letters Patents bearing date 23 Novemb. 4. Jac. 2. for the Term of 14 years, and afterwards by the Letters Patents of his present Majesty, and the late Queen of Blessed Memory bearing date 15, Octob. 4 W. & M. Incorporated with perpetual Succession for the making and dressing of Alamodes, Renforcez and Lustrings in England; And having brought the said Manufacture to perfection, but by reason of the fraudulent Importation of Alamodes and Lustrings, and in contesting with many difficulties and obstructions, have not enjoyed the benefit intended them by the said Charter. It is Enacted, That the fore­said Company and their Successors shall from henceforth be a Body Politick and Corporate by the Name of the Royal Lustring Company, and Enjoy all the Privileges and Authorities granted them in the said Charter of Incorporation, as fully as if the same were recited in this Act.

LXVIII. The said Royal Lestring Company, and their Successors, shall have the sole exercise and benefit of Making, Dressing and Lustrating of plain Black Alamodes, Renforcez and Lustrings within this Realm for 14 years, from 24 Jun. 1698, and from thence to the end of the next Sessions of Parliament, any thing to the contrary notwithstanding.

LXIX. The said Company having 17 Bails of Fine Italian Thrown Silk in Amsterdam, brought thither over Land before the Conclusion of the Peace, and designed to be Imported and used here in the Manufacture of Alamodes and Lustrings, but could not be Imported within the time limited by Law, It is Enacted, That the said Company may Import into this Kingdom, the said 17 Bails of Silk before 29 Sept. next, paying the legal Duties to his Majesty.

LXX. Stat. 9 & 10 W. 3. cap. 44. Enacted, That there shall be through England and Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed, Levied and paid to his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors for Salt, (over and above all other Duties already payable) these Additional Rates, viz. 5 d. per Gallon for all Salt Imported from 1 July 1698. to 25 December 1699. And from 24 December 1699. for ever 7 d. per Gallon, and so for a greater or lesser Quantity.

LXXI. For all Salt and Rock-Salt Home made, from the said 1 July 1698. to 25 December 1699. 2 d. Half-peny per Gallon, and from 24 December 1699. for ever, 3 d. Half peny per Gallon; subject to the Redemption hereafter mentioned.

LXXII. Which Duties on Foreign Salt shall be paid by the Importer, before landing, and if Landed before due Entry thereof, or before the Duties be paid, or a Warrant for the Landing there­of, [Page 167]then to be Forfeited, and also 10 s. for every Bushel so Landed.

LXXIII. Provided that the Importers of Salt giving Security for payment of these Duties, shall have Six Months time for Payment, with a Discount after 10 l. per Centum per Aunum for prompt Pay­ment.

LXXIV. The said Duties on Salt to be Managed by the Commissi­oners of Excile, who are to Appoint the necessary Officers, and the Penalties and Forfeitures hereby Imposed, to be Sued for and Reco­vered by the same Ways, as Directed by the Act 12 Car. 2. For taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries and Tenures in Capite, and by Knights Service and Purveyance, and Setling a Revenue on His Majesty in lieu thereof, or by any Law now in Force, relating to the Excise.

LXXV. All Makers and Proprietors of Salt and Rock-Salt within the Kingdom, shall make true Entries with the Officers so ap­pointed, and shall have their Warrant, gratis, for Carrying the same away, upon Payment, or Security to pay the Duties within Six Months after such Entry, with a Discount after 10 l. per Cent. per Annum for Ready Money.

LXXVI. The Officers so Appointed may seize all such Salt, as after 1 July, 1698 shall be Conveying away before due Entry made, or Warrant obtain'd for Conveying thereof: And if not Claim'd within Ten Days, then to be absolutely Forseited and Sold, One Moiety of the Preceed thereof to go to the King, the other to the Seizer: And if Claim'd without Proof upon Oath before the next Justice of Peace that the same was duly Entred, and a Warrant for Conveyance obtain'd, it shall likewise be Forfeited: And the Per­sons so Carrying the same away, shall Forfeit to His Majesly double the Value, and also 10 s. per Bushel.

LXXVII. No Retailer or Shopkeeper shall ship any Salt for any Port of this Kingdom, before Oath, or other Proof made, before the Collectors, that the Duty is Paid or Secured.

LXXVIII. Masters of Ships Carrying Salt or Rock-Salt from one Port to another, shall before they have a Warrant for Landing it, Deliver to the Collectors Particulars thereof upon Oath, and that no more hath been Laded since their coming out of Port; and upon Landing any Part thereof at any other Port, shall have a Certifi­cate thereof, or Forfeit double the Value so Landed, and also 10 s. per Bushel.

LXXIX. No Fees shall be taken for Debentures, Tickets, Warrants or Licenses touching the said Duties.

LXXX. Provided that for Fish exported there be allowed over and above all former Allowances) For every Cask of Pilchards er Scads from 1 July, 1698, to 25 December, 1699. 20 s. and after 24 De­cember, 1699. 28 s. For every Barrel of White Herring, from [...] July, 1698. to 25 December, 1699. 4 s. 2 d. And from 24 De­cember, 1699. 5. s. 10 d. For every Barrel of Red Herring, from [Page 168]1 July, 1698. to 25 December, 1699. 3 s. 4 d. and after 24 De­cember, 1699. 4 s. 8 d. For every Barrel of Salmon, from 1 July, 1698. to 25 December, 1699. 8 s. 4 d. and after 24 December, 1699. 11 s. 8 d. For every Hundred of Codfish, Ling or Hake, after 1 July, 1692, and before 25 December, 1699. 25 s. and after 24 December, 1699. 35 s. For every Last of Dried Red Sprats, after 1 July, 1698. 6 s. 8 d.

LXXXI. Which Allowances shall be Paid by the Salt Collector, in the Port from whence such Fish is Exported, within Thirty Days after Demand, upon a Debenture duly verified, and Oath made that the Fish was English taken, and really Exported beyond Sea: And if the Collector have not sufficient Money to pay the same, upon his Certificate the Commissioners of Excise shall be Chargeable therewith out of the first Money in their Hands on the said Salt Duties; And any Officer neglecting or refusing to pay the said Money, or give such Certificate, shall forfeit double the Sum pay­able.

LXXXII. Upon Exporting any Salt, Foreign, or English or Rock-Salt, the Officer where such Salt was Made or Imported, and the Duty Paid or Secured, shall deliver Certificates thereof, gratis, and the Officer at the Place of Exportation, shall thereupon give a Debenture for Repayment of the Duty, by the Officer, where it was before Paid or Secured.

LXXXIII. All Salt Imported or Brought into England, Wales or Berwick, not there Made. shall pay as Foreign Salt, and Scotch Salt brought into England by Land shall be entred at Carlisle or Berwick, under forseiture of double the value, and also 10 s. per Bushel.

LXXXIV. Persons Sued for any thing done in pursuance of this Act, may Plead the General Issue, and give the Act in Evidence, and if the Plaintiff he Cast, Nonsuit or forbear Prosecuting, the Desendant shall have double Costs.

LXXXV. No Writ of Certiorari shall supersede the Orders of the Commissioners of Excise or Justices of Peace touching the Duties on Salt.

LXXXVI. No Salt shall be Delivered from any Salt-works, without Notice given to the Officer, on Pain of Forfeiture, and also 10 s. per Bushel, One half to the Prosecutor, the other to the King.

LXXXVII. If any Exported Salt, after the Duty has been re­paid, be Landed in this Kingdom, before the Duty be again paid, the Offender shall forfeit double the value thereof, and 10 s. per Bushel.

LXXXVIII. Subjects of this Realm, shipping Salt for any part of England in a Ship perishing at Sea, or taken by Enemies, up­on proof thereof before the Justices in Session, of the loss of such Salt, shall be allowed to buy the like quantity without Duty.

[Page 169] LXXXIX. Salt-Rock or Rock-Salt, after Entry and a Warrant, may be removed to convenient Ware-houses, and the Duty need not be paid or secured till sold and delivered.

XC. No Person shall be obliged by any Contract made before 25 Dec. 1698. to deliver any Salt, or Rock Salt, unless the Buyer pay the Duty,

XCI. Salt-Rock or Rock-Salt shall be Entred by Weight only, at 120 pound weight to the Bushel.

XCII. Refiners of Rock-Salt, which had paid the Duty shall have an Abatement (over and above any former Allowances) of 2 s. 4 d. per Bushel.

XCIII. The charge of managing this Duty on Salt, may be paid out of the said Duties.

XCIV. Salt made from Rock-Salt (allowing the Drawback) and all Refined Salt Imported or Made in England, is to be charged with the said Duties.

XCV. All Salt (except Rock Salt) shall be ascertained as to the Duty at 56 pounds weight to the Bushel.

XCVI. All Salt brought from Scotland, and all Imported and Home-made Salt, brought in or landed before due Entry, shall be forfeited, and 10 s. per Bushel.

XCVII. The Collectors of the said Salt Duties, shall provide Scales at every Salt-work; and Persons living near such Salt­works or Salt-pits, shall be Sworn Weighers, and paid for the same by the Collectors.

XCVIII. The Officers shall deliver as many Warrants or Per­mits to Salt Carriers as they desire, gratis, for what they shall Load at one time.

XCIX. All Persons shall sell Salt (except foreign Salt) after 56 pound weight to the Bushel, under Penalty of 5 l. to the Informer.

C. The Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen in London. shall by to July 1698. ascertain the price of Salt within the City of London and Bills of Mortality; And the Justices of Peace in their General Sessions for other Places by 1 Aug. 1698. And so from time to time if necessary; And Persons selling for higher prices, or refusing to sell at the prices settled, shall forfeit 5 l. to be Le­vied by Distress and Sale of Goods, by Warrant from the Lord Mayor aforesaid, or a Justice of Peace of the Place. who in default of a Distress may Imprison the Offender till payment thereof, one Moiety to the King, the other to the Prosecutor.

CI. The Commissioners of Excise, and Commissioners for the Stamp Office respectively, shall keep apart and pay Weekly into the Exchequer the Duties on Salt by this Act granted, and the Additional Duties on Stampt Velum, Parchment and Paper (granted to his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, by an Act of this present Session) and a distinct Register thereof shall be kept in the Exchequer.

[Page 170] CII. The Commissioners for managing the said Duties, not pay­ing the same duly into the Exchequer, or misapplying any part thereof, shall forfeit their Places, and be uncapable of any Place of Trust, and pay double the value so misapplied.

CIII. In the Excise Office and Stamp Office, there shall for ever be Commissioners and Comptrollers for the Execution of this Act; which Comptrollers shall keep distinct Accounts of the said Duties, and in Case of neglect shall lose their Places, be in­capacitated, as aforesaid, and forfeit 100 l.

CIV. Collectors of either of the said Duties, detaining any part thereof, shall be Dismissed, pay Interest at 12 per Cent. and treble Damages; And for misapplying any part thereof, shall be Dismissed and Incapacitated, and shall forfeit double the Sum.

CV. From 29 Sept. 1698. 160000 l. out of the said Additi­onal Duties on Salt and Stampt Paper, shall be the yearly Fund for answering the Annuities of 8 per Cent. to the Subscri­bers of 2000000 l. And if the Duties shall not amount to so much, then to be part of the said Fund, so sar as they will ex­tend; Which said Duties, or so much as will make up the said 160000 l. per Ann. shall be Appropriated towards making good the said yearly Fund; And the Officers of the Exchequer, not duly issuing, or Misapplying the Money contrary to this Act, shall be forejudged from their Offices, incapacitated, and pay double the Sum delayed or misapplied.

CVI. His Majesty may appoint Commissioners for taking Sub­scriptions till 29 Sept. 1698. from any Persons (except the Bank of England) for any Sum not less than 100 l. towards the rai­sing Two Millions, in some convenient House in London or West­minster; which Commissioners are to provide Books for the said Subscriptions, to lie open every day (except Sundays) till 29 Sept. 1698. unless the Two Millions be sooner compleated; And his Majesty may appoint a Cashier, to receive the Money Subscri­bed.

CVII. Any Sums may be Subscribed (not less than 100 l.) to be answered by Ten equal Payments, the First Payment to be made at the time of Subscribing, and each subsequent Payment shall be made at the end of every Two Months (or 60 Days) till the whole be paid; Nevertheless the last Payment shall be liable to make good any Desiciency which may happen (before the time of making the last Payment) in the Produce of the said Duties, although the Kings intended supply be thereby lessened.

CVIII. If the first Payment be not made at the time of Sub­scribing, such Subscription shall be void; And if default be made in any of the subsequent Payments, the first tenth part shall be forfeited, and the Annuity payable for such Subscription shall be reduced according to the Money actually paid, after an abatement of the first tenth part.

[Page 171] CIX. Talleys of Assignment or Anticipation, may be Levied on the Commissioners or Receivers of the Money so subscribed, with an Interest of 8 per Cent. per Ann. payable every Three Months out of such Subscription Moneys.

CX. The sums subscribed are to be written in words at length as well as Figures, and truly Dated, and Attested under the Hands and Seals of Five or more Commissioners; who immedi­ately after 29 Sept. 1698. or sooner if the Two Millions be compleated, shall deliver Duplicates of the Subscriptions into the Exchequer, or at least before 20 Octob. 1698. And the Auditor of the Receipt and Clerk of the Pells shall Register and Record the said Duplicates. that every Person concerned may have free access thereto; and Copies of the Books Enrolled shall be delivered by the said Auditor and Clerk of the Pells to the Commissioners, for the use of the Subscribers, gratis.

CXI. Each Subscriber shall have an Annuity after the Rate of 8 per Cent. per Ann. for the sum subscribed by him, to commence from Michaelmas 1698. and to be paid Quarterly, the First Pay­ment to be made at Christmas 1698. subject nevertheless to Re­demption, and also to Reduction in case of failure in the payments of the Subscription Money.

CXII. Every Person paying down one Tenth part of his subscrip­tion may desaulk after the Rate of 10 per Cent. per Ann. for his whole subscription, from the time of making his First payment, till Michaelmas 1698.

CXIII. The Commissioners or Cashier shall give Receipts to the Subscribers for the Money so received, and shall enter the same and time of payment in a Book, with the names of those that make such payments; A true Account whereof in Parchment shall be delivered to the Auditor of the Receipt, attested by Five or more of the Commissioners before 24 June 1700. And the Com­missioners of the Treasury are to Issue the Sums necessary for incident Charges in Execution of the Commission.

CXIV. The Commissioners may be Subscribers.

CXV. His Majesty may by Letters Patents under the Great Seal, Incorporate the Subscribers, whose Tenth part shall be paid, their Executors, Administrators, Successors or Assigns, with perpetual succession and a Common Seal, and with power to purchase Lands, to Plead and be Impleaded, and do all other things by the Name of their Corporation.

CXVI. The sum total of all the subscriptions, shall be called the principal Stock of the said Corporation; and all Persons shall have a share therein in proportion to their subscription.

CXVII. Subscribers of 500 l. and upwards, having paid their Tenth part, may meet at Guild-Hall London, 10 Octob. 1698. or within 20 days after the subscription is compleated, to Elect 24 Trustees by way of Balleting; but no Elector to have more than [Page 172]one Vote, nor any of the Trustees less than 2000 l. subscribed in their own Right, and being so elected, to be Inserted in the Charter of Incorporation as the First Trustees with Succession.

CXVIII. If the Two Millions be not subscribed by 29 Sept. 1698. the Subscribers shall have only their proportionable part of the said yearly Fund.

CXIX After the Charter is passed, the yearly Sum of 160000 l. or a proportionable part thereof, shall be paid to the general So­ciety, or their Treasurer in Trust for the respective Mem­bers.

CXX If the Two Millions or a Moiety thereof be subscribed by 29 Sept. 1698. then the Subscribers, their Executors, Administra­tors, Successors or Assings, and all Persons Licensed by them in their stead may Trade to the East-Indies, but none to Trade by himself or others in any one year from 29 Sept. 1698. for more than the Amount of his Stock.

CXXI If the Two Millions or a Moiety thereof be subscribed by 29 Sept. 1698. All or any Corporations or Persons Intituled to particular Shares in the Principal Stock, may, if willing and desi­rous, be Incorporated into a Company to Trade with a Joint Stock in proportion to their Interests, by such proper Name as his Ma­jesty shall think fit, with perpetual Succession, a common Seal, &c.

CXXII. And after the Incorporating of any such Company, the proportionalle part of the yearly Fund belonging to the Members thereof, shall be paid to the said Company or their Treasurer, in Trust for the said Members by Weekly Payments.

CXXIII. Every Member of the general Society, not in a Com­pany, shall, before he be permitted to Trade, take an Oath before Two or more of the Trustees, to be faithful to the said General Society, and not to Trade to the Indies for more than this Act allows.

CXXIV. And all Persons Trading by Licence, shall enter their Licences in the Books of the General Society, and take an Oath to the like effect. And no Member of any Company, having Power to Trade thither, during his Continuance in the said Company, shall Trade otherwise than in the Joint Stock thereof. And every Member of such Company shall take an Oath be­fore Two or more of the Trustees for the said Company to be faithful, and not to Trade to the Indies (during his Continuance in the said Company) upon any private Account. And no person shall be Intrusted to Trade upon the Joint Stock, or for a Com­pany, before he hath taken an Oath, to be faithful to such Com­pany, and not to Trade thither, but for the Account of such Company.

CXXV, Provided that Quakers may, instead of an Oath, make a solemn Declaration to the same effect.

[Page 173] CXXVI. All Persons Trading to the East Indies in pursuance of this Act (except in a Company) shall Enter the Goods they Export in a Book, before the Lading thereof, with the Ship and Masters Name, that all Persons concern'd may see whether they Trade for more than is allowed, which Entries shall be upon Oath, or Solemn Affirmation made before Two or more Trustees for the General Society till a Company be Erected, and then be­fore Two or more Directors of such Company.

CXXVII. The General Society and Companies in Joint stock, may be impowred by his Majesties Charters, to make by Laws for the good of the said Trade.

CXXVIII. Persons not making true Entries and Affirmations, shall forfeit the Goods Exported, or designed to be Exported, and the proceed thereof, and double the Value, to be divided as the Charters shall appoint.

CXXIX. No Company or particular Person shall Trade to the East Indies, before Security given to the Commissioners of the Customs, That all the Goods to be Laden by or for them in the Indies, shall be brought to England without Breaking Bulk, the Danger of the Seas, Pirates, &c. excepted; And any Difficulties or Disputes in acceptance of such Security, shall be determined by any of the Barons of the Exchequer.

CXXX. All Goods Imported by the Company or other Traders to the East Indies, shall be sold openly by Inch of Candle, on pain of forseiting the same or the value thereof, one moiety to his Majesty, the other to the Prosecutor.

CXXXI. His Majestics Commission or Charters, shall direct in what manner the shares in the yearly Fund, and in the Stock in Trade, shall be Assigned or Transferred.

CXXXII. The Stocks shall be esteemed in Law personal Estates, and descend accordingly.

CXXXIII. The Annuities Issuing out of the yearly Fund, and the Shares in Trade, shall be exempt from Taxes.

CXXXIV. A Guardian or Trustee for an Infant, may subscribe a moiety of the Money in his Trust.

CXXXV. No Member of any Society or Company, within this Act, shall in respect of his Stock only be Adjudged a Bankrupt, nor the Stock liable to Foreign Attachment.

CXXXVI. The General Society nor any Company Established in pursuance of this Act, shall Borrow or give Security for any Sums on Credit of the Funds by this Act Granted, nor Borrow, Owe or give Security for any other or greater Sums than shall be Imployed in their Trade, (which shall be borrowed only on their Common Seal, and not Repayable in less than six Months) not Discount any Bills of Exchange, or other Bills or Notes, or keep Books or Cash for any Persons whatsoever, other than their own Corporation or Society.

[Page 174] CXXXVII. An Additional Duty of 5 per Cent. shall be laid on all East-India Goods Imported after 29 Sept. 1698. by any persons Trading pursuant to this Act, to be paid over to the General Society, or such Companies as may be Erected, or their respective Treasurers, for maintaining Ambassadors, and Defraying any other extraordinary Expences; the Overplus to be disposed to the benefit of all the Members.

CXXXVIII. And Security shall be given before Landing there­of, for payment of the said Additional Duty of 5 per Cent. as soon as the Goods shall be sold; And Goods Landed before due Entry, and the Duty secured, or without Warrant, shall be for­feited, one Moiety to the King, the other to the Scizer.

CXXXIX. The said Duty of 5 per Cent. to be managed by the Commissioners of the Customs, and paid over as the Act appoints.

CXL. Upon Three years notice, after 29 Sept. 1711. and Re­payment by Parliament of the said Two Millions, or such part thereof as shall be advanced, and all Arrears of the said Annui­ties, then all Duties, Annuities and things granted by this Act to cease and determine.

CXLI. All Wrought Silks imported from the East-Indies or Persia, after 29 Sept. 1698. shall pay an Additional Duty of 1 s. 10 d. per pound Weight Averdupoiz.

CXLII. The Persons who may Trade to the East-Indies, pursu­ant to this Act, shall have the sole Trade thither after 29 Sept. 1698. And any other persons Trading thither, shall forfeit Ship and Goods, and double the value thereof, One 4th part to the Prosecutor, the other three parts to the General Society or Com­pany, they bearing the charge of Prosecution.

CXLIII. If in any One year after 29 Sept. 1699. the Duties by this Act appropriated, be not sufficient to satisfie the payments ap­pointed, such Deficiency shall be made good out of the next Parlia­mentary Aids.

CXLIV. Provided that the present East-India Company, may Trade thither till 29 Sept. 1701. And that Ships not in the Ser­vice of the said Company, which were cleared from England to the East-Indies, before 1 July, 1698. (so as they return into this Kingdom without breaking Bulk in Europe) shall not be liable to Forfeitures.

CXLV. The present East-India Company shall pay their just Debts, and their Estate shall be liable thereunto; and if they make any Dividend after 24 June 1698. before full payment of their Debts, the respective Members shall be liable, so far as their Shares upon such Dividends shall extend to pay, besides double Costs of Suit.

CXLVI Every Society or Company to be Erected in pursuance of this Act, shall take care not to Owe at any one time, more than the value of their Capital Stock undivided; And if by any [Page 175]Dividends their Debts at any time exceed their Capital Stock, the respective Members shall be liable so far as the Shares they Recei­ved upon such Dividends will extend, besides Costs of Suit.

CXLVII. Out of the Moneys contributed on this Act, or arising by any other Act of this Session, not particularly Appropriated, there shall be applyed, To the use of the Mints 29209 l. For the Civil Government 40000 l. over and above the 600000 l. ap­propriated by the present Poll Bill, for paying of Talleys, &c. And also such Sums as may be necessary to satisfie the Praemiums for Circulating Exchequer Bills, and the rest to be disposed for Land and Sea-Service; and the Commissioners of the Treasury are to cause the same to be applied accordingly.

CXLVIII. The Rules and Penalties contained in the Act 2 W. & M. for an Aid of 2 s. in the pound, for the speedy Payment of Money into the Exchequer, and misapplication thereof, are hereby Revived.

CXLIX. After 10 July 1698. The Commissioners of the Treasury (if it consist with his Majesties Service) may direct Bank Bills to be Received in all Payments to the King, until the end of next Ses­sion of Parliament; but not when they are at any Discount.

Treason.

I. Stat: 8 W. 3. cap. 4. For the Treasons and other Causes in the Preamble recited at large, Enacted, That Sir John Fenwick Baronet be Convicted and Attainted of High Treason, and shall suffer the Pains of Death, and incur all Forseitures as a Person Atainted of High Treason.

II. Stat. 8 W. 3. cap. 5. Enacted, That if Sir George Barclay Knight. — Johnson alias Harrison, — Durant alias Durance. Michael Hare, Major George Holmes, Philip Handford alias Brown, Richard Richardson, John Maxwell, — Bryerly, — Plowden, — Hungate, shall not before 25 March 1697. Render themselves to the Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench, or one of the Se­cretaries of State, in order to their Trials for the Tieason where­with they are charged, then such of the said Persons as shall not so render themselves, shall Stand and be Convicted and Attainted of High Treason, and shall suffer the Pains of Death, and all Forfeitures and Penalties as Traytors Convicted of High Trea­son.

III. And — Counter, John Bernardi, Robert Cassells, Robert Meldrum, James Chambers and Robert Blackbourn, and such other Persons who shall hereafter render themselves or shall be appre­hended, against whom there shall be Evidence upon Oath of be­ing concerned in the said Conspiracy of Assassinating his Sacred [Page 176]Majesty, shall be detained in Custody without Bail till the first day of January 1697, unless they shall be sooner Bailed by order of Councel, signed by six Privy Councellors.

IV. Stat. 9 W. 3. cap. 1. Every of His Majesties Subjects, who since 11 Decemb. 1688. have voluntarily gone into France, or any of the French Kings Dominions in Europe, without Licence from his Majesty or the late deceased Queen Mary, or who have during the late War with France born Arms in the Service of the French King by Sea or Land, or who have since 13 Feb. 1688. been in Arms under the Command or in the Service of the late King James in Europe, and shall after 14 Jan. 1697. return into this Kingdom, or any other his Majesties Dominions without Licence under the Privy Seal, shall be Guilty of High Tieason, and suffer and forseit accordingly.

V. Every of his Majesties Subjects, who after 14 Jan. 1697. shall without Licence from his Majesty, within this Realm or with­out, in order to give any Aid or Assistance to the late King James, hold or keep any Intelligence or Correspondence by Letters, Mes­sages or otherwise with the late King James, or with any Person Imployed by Him, knowing such Person to be so Imployed, or shall without Licence from his Majesty, by Bill of Exchange or otherwise remit, or pay any Sums of Money for the Use or Service of the late King James, knowing such Money to be for such Use or Service, shall be Guilty of High Treason, and suffer and forfeit accordingly.

VI. Any of the Offences against this Act committed out of this Realm, may be laid and tried in any County of this Realm.

VII. The Clause in an Act of 3 & 4 W. & M. Intituled, An Act against Corresponding with their Majesties Enemies, whereby it was Enacted, That if any of his Majesties Subjects should after 10 March. 1691. without Licence from their Majesties, voluntarily go or Imbark in any Vessel, with intent to go into France, or any Dominions of the French King, should be Guilty of High Treason, is declared to be intended only during the War with France, and is now of no force.

VIII. Provided, That if any Person, who since 11 Dec. 1688. went into France or any of the French Kings Dominions without Licence, or who had been in Arms under the late King James or the French King, or in either of their Services since 13 Feb. 1688. and hath returned into this Realm without Licence, such Person shall depart this Realm by the first of Febr. 1697. unless before that time such Person obtain his Majesties Licence for staying here. And every such Person not departing this Realm by 1 Febr. 1697. or after such departure, returning into this Realm without his Majesties Licence, shall be Guilty of High Treason, and suffer and forfeit accordingly,

[Page 177] IX. No person shall pay for any such Licence above 10 s. in each Office through which such Licence shall pass, and Persons re­ceiving more shall forfeit 20 l. to the Party grieved.

X. All Persons who after 6 Jan. 1697. shall procure or accept any Charter of Pardon or Grant of any Title of Honour, or other matter or thing in England or Ireland from the late King James, or shall claim any Benefit thereby, or by any Writing purporting any such Pardon or Grant, shall be Guilty of High-Treason, and suffer and forfeit accordingly. And whosoever hath since 11 Decemb. 1688. accepted such Pardon or Grant, shall by the 13 of Febr. 1697. deliver such Pardon or Grant to his Maje­sty in Council, or to one of the Secretaries of State, before two Witnesses, or be Guilty of High Treason, and suffer and forfeit ac­cordingly.

XI. Any Person who having accepted or concealed any such Pardon or Grant, shall discover and deliver up the same by the said 13 Febr. shall not be punished for procuring accepting or concealing thereof, but be wholly Indempnified for the same.

XII. All Persons Indicted for any thing made Treason by this Act, shall have the benefit of the Act 7 W. 3. Intituled, An Act for Regulating of Tryals in cases of Treason and Misprision of Treason.

XIII. All Grants of any Estate forseited by Virtue of this Act shall be utterly void.