L. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That Form prefcribed for the several entries which the commiffioners of the land tax are making enby this act required to make, of the names and defcriptions of tries purfuant all volunteers, and alfo of all impreffed men, together with the to this act. other particulars herein-before directed, be made according to CA P. LIV. An act for granting to his Majefty a certain fum of money out of the finking fund; and for applying certain monies therein mentioned for the fervice of the year one thousand feven hundred and feventy-eight; and for further appropriating the fupplies granted in this fefsion of parliament; and for carrying to the aggregate fund a fum of money which hath arifen by the two fevenths excife. Preamble. 2.296,2091. 1 s. 8d. 2 q. granted out of the finking fund, for the service of the current year; to be iffued by the treafury accordingly. Treafury impowered to raise the faid fum, or any part thereof, by loans or exchequer bills, on the credit of the finking fund: All perfons who hall lend any money upon the credit of this act to have a tally of loan, with orders for repayment of the money, with intereft. Orders to be registered in course. No undue preference to be given in payment. No fee to be taken, on forfeiture of treble damages, with full costs. Penalty of undue preference in point of registery or payment. Auditor, &c. neglecting his duty, liable for damages, &c. to be recovered at Westminster. No undue preference in the registering, where orders are brought the fame day; nor if fubfequent orders are paid before others not brought in course, fo as money be referved for the preceding orders. Power of affignment, and method of transferring of orders. If it fhall be judged more adviseabie, the treasury may raise the faid fum by exchequer bills instead of Joans; and the bills in fuch cafe to be made in the manner prescribed by the land tax act of this fellion. All advantages and penalties in the land tax act of this fethon, relating to loans or exchequer bills thereby authorised to be made forth, extended to this act. The faid exchequer bills, interest, and charges, are to be paid out of the finking fund. Bank authorised to lend to his Majefty the fum of 2,296,2091. is. 8d. halfpenny: notwithBanding an act of 5 & 6 Gul. & Mariæ. The fum of 703,790l. 18 s. 3 d. halfpenny, furplus of the finking fund: and 4,976 1. I s. 1 d. half. penny, remaining in the exchequer on April 5, 1778; and 46,825 1. remaining of the deductions of 6 d. in the pound upon all falaries, &c. from the crown; and 37,921 1. 3 s. 10d. favings from the pay of his Majefty's national troops; and 27,6901. favings from the pay of fundry regiments; and fuch monies as fhall be paid into the exchequer between April 5. 1778, and April 5, 1779, of the produce of the duties on Gum Senega and Gum Arabic; fhall be applied towards making good the fupply. The monies arifing by the land tax, malt tax, lottery act, loans, (1,500,000l.) further. loans, (500,000l.) vote of credit, and 703.790l. 18s. 3 d. halfpenny, remaining in the exchequer on April 5, 1778, of the furpluffes of the finking fund; and 4.9761. 17s. 1d. halfpenny, remaining in the exchequer on April 5, 1778; and 46,8251. remaining of the deductions of 6d. in the pound upon all falaries, &c. and 37,921. 38. 10d. favings out of the pay or the national troops; and 27,690. favings out of the pay of fundry regiments of foot; and fuch monies as fhall be paid into the exchequer between April 5, 1778, and April 5, 1779, of the produce of the duties on Gum Senega and Gum Arabic; and 2,296,2091. s. 8d. halipenny, by this act granted, out of the excelles, &c. compofing the finking fund; together with the money arifing from the fale of French prizes taken before the declaration of war; and alfo fuch fums of money as his Majefty fhall direct to be applied to the public service, which shall arise out of the fale of the ceded islands in the Welt Indies: fhall be applied to the ufes following: 3.097,8951. 16s. towards naval fervices; 1,000,000l. towards paying off and difcharging the debt of the navy: 4000l. to the royal hofpital for feanen at Greenwich, &c. 382,8161. 2 §. 8 d. for the charges of the office of ordnance; 300,4831. 135. 10d. for the charges of the office of ordnance not provided for in 1277: 4,833.6661. 158. 11 d. halfpenny, towards maintaining the land forces, of which 634 2401. 38. 11 d. for defraying the charges of 20.057 effective men, &c. and 3213 invalids for guards, &c, in Great Britain, &c. 960 8431. 18s. old. for forces and garritons in Africa, &c. 52,9231. 15. 6 d. to make good the difference of pay between the Bri s. I tifh tish and Irish establishment of troops ferving in America: 11,4731. 188, 6d. halfpenny, for general and general staff officers in Great Britain: 56,0741. 19s. 4 d- halfpenny, for five Hanoverian battalions at Gibraltar and Minorca, and for provifions for three of the faid battalions at Gibraltar, for the year 1778: 367,203 1. 9s. 10 d. for 13,472 troops of Heffe Caffel, &c. 35,4411. 19s. 9 d. halfpenny, for two regiments of Hanau, &c. 1,6451. 17s. 1 d. to make good a deficiency of a vote of laft feffion : 17,370 l. 8 s. 2 d. 39. for a regiment of Waldeck, &c. 93,947 l. 15s. 8d. for 4,300 Brunfwickers, &c. 34,007 1. 2 s. 11 d. for 1,241 troops of Brandebourgh Anfpach: 47,160l. 13 s. 3d. for provifions for foreign troops ferving in America: 27,3791. 10 s. 8 d. for defraying the charge of artillery for foreign troops for 1778: 286,632 1. 14s. 6d. for augmentations of his Majefty's forces, from their commencements, &c. 90,9391. 15 s. to the reduced officers of the land forces and marines: 7121. 5d. to the two troops of horie guards reduced, &c. 2381. for penfions to officers widows, &c. 105,4311. 15s. 5 d. to the out-penfioners of Chelsea Hofpital: 18,8951. 5s. 2 d. for augmentations of the forces: 80,319l. 14 s. 1 d. for augmentations of the forces, from March 25, to Dec. 24, 1778: 402,622 1. 9 s. for the embodied militia from March 26, to Dec. 24, 1778: 37,5591. 78. 6 d. for militia cloathing for 1778: 45,6081. zs. for three regiments to be raised in North Britain, from April 25, to Dec. 24, 1778: 18,0711. 12 s. for infantry, &c. of Anhalt Zerbit: 1,406,923]. 1 s. 4d. I q. towards extraordinary expences of the land forces, &c. not provided for: 1 500,000 l. for dif charging exchequer bills of laft feffion: 1,000,000l. for paying off the exchequer bills of laft feffion: 19,100l. to make good to his Majesty the like fum iffued in purfuance of the addreffes of the house of commons: 3,2001. for the civil eftablishment of the island of St. John: 2,8661. for the civil establishment of Georgia: 4,701 1. 10s. 5d. for fupporting the civil establishment of Nova Scotia: 4,950l. for the civil eftablishment of Eaft Florida: 4,900l. for the civil eftablishment of Welt Florida: 2,3721. for defraying expences attending furveys in North America: 13,000l. for maintaining the British forts, &c. on the coaft of Africa: 5,550 1. tor fupporting the civil eftablishment of Senegambia: 105,2271. 8s. 3 d. for the expences of recoining the deficient gold coin: 6,9981. 12 s. 5 d. on account of new roads, &c. in the highlands of Scotland: 56,6801. 2s. 6d. for the relief of American civil officers, &c. 6.400l. to Mr. Moore, for his trouble in compiling a general index to the journals: 3,000l. to the Rev. Mr. Forster, for his trouble in compiling a general index to the journals: 3,000l. to the Rev. Dr. Flexman, for ditto; 500l. to Mr. Cunningham, for ditto: 9,0751. 3 s. 11 d. to make good to his Majefty the like fum flued to Duncan Campbell, for the expence of confining, &c. convicts on the Thames 43,621l. 10s. 9 d. halfpenny, to the finking fund, to make good the deficiency on July 5, 1777, &c. and 38,493 1. 2s. 7 d. halfpenny, to make good the deficiency of grants for the lervice of the year 1777. The faid aids to be applied only to the ufes before mentioned. Rules to be observed in the application of the half-pay. By act 17 Geo. 3. a fum not exceeding 93,6161. 8 s. 4 d. was appropriated to be paid to reduced officers. Overplus monies, above fatisfying faid officers, to be difpofed of to officers who were maimed, &c. in the late wars, or to officers widows and children, as his Majefty fhall direct. 31,1541. 17s. 8d. 1q. remaining in the exchequer of the two fevenths excile, to be carried to the aggre gate fund. CA P. LV. An act to permit the exportation of certain goods, directly from Ireland, into any British plantation in America, or any British settlement on the coast of Africa; and for further encouraging the fisheries and navigation of Ireland. ! HEREAS by an act, made in the fifteenth year of the Preamble. W reign of King Charles the Second, intituled, An act for the Act 15 Car. 20 encouragement of trade, it is amongst other things, enacted, That, recited. K 4 from 1778, ail goods, the produce or manufacture from and after the twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand fix hundred and fixty four, no commodity of the growth, production, or manufacture of Europe, shall be imported into any land, island, plantątion, colony, territory, or place, to his Majefty belonging, or which shall hereafter belong unto, or be in the poffeffion of, his Majesty, his heirs and fucceffors, in Afia, Africa, or America, (Tangier only excepted), but what shall be bona fide, and without fraud, laden and shipped in England, Wales, or the town of Berwick upon Tweed: and whereas it is thought proper to allow the exportation of goods, (except as berein-after excepted) directly from the kingdom of Ireland, to the British plantations in America, or into any of the fettlements After June 24, belonging to Great Britain on the coast of Africa: be it therefore enacted by the King's most excellent majefty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords fpiritual and temporal, and commons, in this prefent parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, That, from and after the twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand feven hundred and seventy-eight, it (hall and may be lawful to export from the kingdom of Ireland, directly manufactures, into any of the British plantations in America, or the West Indies, or into any of the fettlements belonging to Great Britain on the coaft of Africa, in fhips or veffels which may lawfully trade to and from those places, any goods, wares, and merchandize, being the produce or manufacture of Ireland, (wool and woollen. manufacture in all its branches mixed or unmixed, cotton manufactures of all forts mixed or unmixed, hats, glafs, hops, gunpowder, and coals, only excepted); and all goods and commodities of the growth, produce, or manufacture of Great Britain, which have been or may be legally imported from thence into the faid kingdom of Ireland, (woollen manufactures in all manufactures its branches, and glass excepted); and all foreign certificate goods, which have been or may be legally imported from Great Britain into Ireland; any law, cuftom, or ufage, to the contrary notwithstanding. of Ireland, and cotton hats, glass, hops, gunpowder, and coals), may be exported from thence directly to America, or the coast of Africa: and all British goods, fexcept woollen and glass); and allo all foreign certificate goods. ing goods as certificate to the collector, erc of the culloms at II. Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted by the Mafter of the authority aforefaid, That the mafter, or perfon having the charge veffel export of every fhip or veffel exporting any fuch goods from Ireland to above menti- the faid plantations or fettlements, thall, upon his arrival there, oned, to pro- produce to the collector or other principal officers of the cuduce a proper ftoms, or other publick officer at the port or place where he fhall arrive, a certificate, under the hands and feal of office of the collector and comptroller of the customs of the port in Ireland where he took in his lading, that oath had been made before them, by the exporter of fuch goods (which oath they are hereby authorized to adminifter), that the goods mentioned in fuch certificate are bona fide of the produce or manufacture of Ireland; or that the fame are of the growth, produce, or manufacture of Great Britain, which had been legally imported from thence into Ireland; or that they are foreign certificate goods, and deliver an which had been legally imported from Great Britain into Ireland, invoice of the (as the cafe may be); and (hall alfo deliver an invoice of the paruculars of particulars of his lading to fuch officers, in the manner directed his lading. the port of his arrival; by by an act of parliament, made in the third and fourth years of the reign of Queen Anne, intituled, An act to permit the exportation of Irish linen cloth to the plantations, and to prohibit the importation of Scotch linen into Ireland; and thall in all other refpects, not altered by this act, comply with the regulations prefcribed by the said recited act, or any other law now in force in this kingdom, respecting thips trading to the faid plantations or fettlements; otherwife fuch fhips, and the goods laden on board thereon, fhall be fubject and liable to the fame penalties and forfeitures as if this act had not been made. III. Provided always, and be it enacted, That nothing herein Provifo relate contained fhall extend to permit the exportation from the faid ing to foreign kingdom of Ireland to any of the places aforefaid of any foreign linens. linens, whether the fame be white or brown, or checked, or painted, ftained, or dyed, in the faid kingdom of Ireland. bar-iron, or IV. Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted by the This act not authority aforefaid, That nothing herein-before contained fhall to extend to extend, or be construed to extend, to any bar-iron, to iron flit, iron wares, rolled, plated, or tinned, nor to any fort of manufactured iron till certain wares, until a duty of two pounds ten hillings per ton, on fuch duties are bar-iron, and also a duty of three pounds three fhillings and ele- laid thereon ven pence Irish, per ton, on fuch flit, rolled, plated, or tinned by the Irif iron, and manufactured iron wares, exported from Ireland to parliament. the British colonies or plantations in America, or to any of the fettlements belonging to Great Britain on the coaft of Africa, fhall be impofed by fome act or acts of parliament to be made in the kingdom of Ireland; and that then, and in fuch cafe, it fhall and may be lawful, from and after the commencement of, and during the continuance of, fuch refpective duties, but no longer, to export any fuch iron or iron wares from the fajd kingdom of Ireland directly to any British colony or plantation in America, or to any fettlement belonging to Great Britain on the coaft of Africa, in any thip or veffel that may lawfully trade thither, fubject to the regulations herein-before mentioned; any thing in this act, or in any other act, to the contrary notwithstanding. If any bounty halibegranted in Ireland on tion of fuch the exportairon or iron V. Provided nevertheless, and it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That if any bounty or premium fhall be granted or allowed in Ireland, on the exportation of fuch iron or iron wares from thence to the faid British colonies or plantations, or to any fettlement belonging to Great Britain on the coaft of Africa; then, and in fuch cafe, the liberty herein-before given wares, then to export fuch iron and iron wares thither directly from Ireland, the liberty fhall, during the continuance of fuch bounty or premium, cease this act to and determine; and fuch iron and iron wares hall, in all re- cease, etc. fpects, be fubject to the like reftrictions and regulations, penalties and forfeitures, as fuch goods were and would be liable to if this act had not been made. granted by VI. Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted by No cotton the authority aforefaid, That no cotton manufactures of manufactures kind, whether mixed or unmixed, thall be permitted to be ex- from Ireland to be exported any ported to America, |