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lue of five-pence per yard, and under the value of fix-pence per yard, the fum of one penny; and of the value of fixpence per yard, and not exceeding the value of eighteenpence per yard, the fum of one penny halfpenny; which, from and after the twenty-fourth day of June, in the year one thousand seven hundred and fifty-fix, and within the term of fifteen years, to commence from the faid twenty-fourth day of June, or at any time thereafter before the end of the then next feffion of parliament, fhall be exported out of Great Britain, to Africa, America, Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar, the island of Minorca, or the East Indies: and it was thereby further enacted, That, from and after the faid twenty-fourth day of June, no fubfidy, cuftom, rate, duty, or other impofition whatfoever, fhould be demanded, collected, received, or taken, upon any raw or brown linen yarn, made of flax, and known by the names of Dutch yarn, and French yarn, and of fpruce or Mufcovia yarn, or any other foreign raw or brown linen yarns, made of flax, which fhall be imported into this kingdom; but that all fuch linen yarns fhall and may be imported duty-free for the space of fifteen years, from the faid twenty-fourth day of June, or at any time thereafter before the end of the then next session of parliament, any former law, ftatute, or act or acts of parlia2nd 10 Geo. 3. ment, to the contrary notwithstanding: and whereas by another at, made in the tenth year of the reign of his prefent Majefty (inticap. 38. tuled, An act for continuing the bounties on British and Irish linens exported; for further difcontinuing the duties on the importation of foreign raw linen yarns made of flax; and for granting a bounty on the exportation of British chequed and triped linens, and upon British and Irish diapers, huckabacks, fheeting, and other linen, of above a certain breadth); the faid first recited act of the twenty-ninth year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, was thereby continued until the twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand feven hundred and feventyeight, and from thence to the end of the then next feffion of parliament and it was thereby further enacted, That there fhall be given and paid, without any fee, reward, or deduction, whatfoever, a bounty for every yard of British chequed or friped linen, of the breadth of twenty-five inches, or more, and not exceeding one fhilling and fixpence, and not under feven-pence, in value per yard, the fum of one halfpenny; which, from and after the twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand feven hundred and seventy-one, and within the term of seven years, to commence from the faid twenty-fourth, day of June laftmentioned, and from thence to continue to the end of the then next feffion of parliament immediately following the expiration of the faid additional term of seven years, fhall be exported out of Great Britain to Africa, America, Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar, the island of Minorca, or the East Indies, in the fame manner and under the like provifions, conditions, and limitations, as the hereinbefore recited bounties were allowed by the said act of the twentyninth year of his late Majefty, and continued under the said

act

act of the tenth year of his prefent Majefty: and by the faid laft recited act, it was further enacted, That for and upon every fquare yard of diapers, huckabacks, shecting, and others fpecies of linen, upwards of one yard English in breadth, though of no finer or better fabrick or quality than linen of an ordinary breadth, (which are intituled to the bounty by the faid first recited act), being of the manufacture of Great Britain or Ireland, and not exceeding one thilling and fixpence the fquare yard in value, a bounty of one penny halfpenny upon every such square yard, and fo in proportion for any quantity exceeding a square yard, fhall be allowed upon the exportation thereof, respectively, for fuch time, and in fuch manner, and. under and fubject to the like conditions, reftrictions, and limitations, as are prefcribed by the faid firft recited act of the twenty-ninth year of his late Majesty's reign, and continued by the faid act of the tenth year of his prelent Majefty; and whereas the manufacture of linen would continue to be improved, and the exportation thereof to foreign parts be preferved and increafed, if the bounties granted by the faid recited acts of the twenty-ninth year of the reign of his late Majefty, and tenth year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, were continued, and the duties on the importation of foreign raw linen yarn, made of flax, taken off for a further term of years: May it therefore please your Majefty that it may be enacted; And be it enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords fpiritual and temporal, and commons, in this prefent parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, That the faid two acts, made in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of his late Majefty, and in the cited acts furtenth year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, thall be, and the ther continued fame are hereby further continued, under all the claufes, con- for 8 years. ditions, and limitations, contained in the faid two recited acts, until the twenty-fourth day of June, one thoufand feven hundred and eighty-fix, and from thence to the end of the then next feffion of parliament.

The two re

allowed on the

as on those the

II. And whereas, by a claufe in the faid act of the twenty-ninth The fame year of his late Majefty, and also by the act of the tenth year of the bounty to be reign of his prefent Majefly, it is provided and enacted, That no exportation of linen of the manufacture of Ireland, to be exported from Great Irish linens the Britain, fhall be intituled to the bounty, unless fuch linen fhall be, at property of the time of fuch exportation, the property of a perfon or perfons re- perfons refidfiding in Great Britain, or in fome of his Majefty's colonies or plan- ing in Ireland, tations in America: and whereas it is reafonable that the like benefit property of and advantage should be allowed to the merchants of Ireland, as is perfons refidby the faid act allowed to perfons refiding in the American colonies ing in Ameri. and plantations; be it therefore further enacted, That during the continuance of this act, all linen of the manufacture of Ireland, to be exported from Great Britain, being at the time of exportation the property of a person or persons refiding in Ireland, fhall be intituled to the faid bounty upon the like terms with linens the property of perfons refiding in the American colonies

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Preamble.

colonies and plantations: any thing in the faid acts, or either of them, to the contrary in any wife notwithstanding.

An act to permit, during the prefent hoftilities with France, certain goods enumerated in the act of navigation to be imported in British built hips fold to foreigners, and for releasing ships and goods which have been feized in pursuance of the faid act.

W

HEREAS by an act of parliament, made in the twelfth year of the reign of King Charles the Second, (intituled, Recital of the An act for encouraging and encreafing of shipping and naviganavigation tion), it is, among other things, enacted, that no goods or commoact 12 Car. 2. dities of the growth, production, or manufacture of Muscovy, or of any the countries, dominions, or territories, to the great duke or emperor of Muscovy or Ruffia belonging; as alfo, that no forts of mafts, timber, or board, no foreign falt, pitch, tar, rofin, hemp, or flax, raifins, figs, prunes, olive oils, no fort of corn or grain, fugar, pot-ashes, wines, vinegar, or fpirits called aqua vitæ, or brandy wine, shall be imported into England, Ireland, Wales, ogo town of Berwick upon Tweed, in any ship or ships, veel or veffels, whatsoever, but in fuch as do truly and without fraud belong to the people thereof, or fome of them, as the true owners and proprietors thereof, and whereof the mafter, and three-fourths of the mariners at least, are English; and that no currants nor commodities of the growth, product, or manufacture, of any of the countries, iflands, dominions, or territories, to the Ottoman or Turkish empire belonging, shall be imported into any of the forementioned places, in any ship or veffel but which is of English-built and navigated as aforefaid, and in no other, except only fuch foreign ships and vessels as are of the built of that country or place of which the faid goods are the growth, production, or manufacture, respectively, or of fuch port where the faid goods can only be, or most usually are, firft fhipped for transportation, and whereof the mafier, and threefourths of the mariners at least, are of the faid country or place, under the penalty and forfeiture of ship and goods: and whereas the felling of British-built ships to foreigners is a beneficial branch of trade, and ought therefore to be encouraged, and it is highly reasonable that British ships fo fold to, or being the property of, foreigners, fhould enjoy the fame privilege in thefe kingdoms as if they were of the built of the respective countries or places from whence fuch hips do come; be it therefore enacted by the King's most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords fpiritual and temporal, and commons, in this prefent parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, That, from and after the fifth day of April, one thousand feven hundred and feventy-nine, and during the present hoftilities with France, but importation no longer, the said recited act of the twelfth year of the reign of certain enu- of King Charles the Second thall not extend, or be construed merated goods to extend, to hinder or prevent any perfon or persons whatin veffels the foever from importing into the kingdom of Great Britain or

The faid a&t

not to extend (during the prefent hofti

lities with France) to prevent the

property of

Ireland,

are British or

Ireland, any of the faid goods or merchandizes hereinbefore foreigners, mentioned and expreffed, in fhipping built in Great Britain, provided they Ireland, or the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, or Man, or in any Irish built, &c. of the lands, iflands, dominions, and territories, to his Majesty, in Africa, Afia, or America, or in his poffeffion, fo as the mafter, and three-fourths of the mariners at least, belonging to, and navigating any fuch fhips or veffel, arè British, or of the fame country or place of which the faid goods are the growth, production, and manufacture, refpectively, and not otherwife.

II. Provided always, That all fuch goods and merchandizes Goods imfo imported into Great Britain or Ireland, in fhips belonging ported in fuch to, and the property of, foreigners, although British-built, hips liable to shall be liable to aliens and all other duties, in the fame manner as if fuch ships were foreign-built.

aliens duties.

which have al

shall receive

III. And whereas feveral fhips or vessels British-built, which are Owners of all the property of foreigners, and navigated with foreign mariners, have fuch ships arrived in this kingdom fince the prefent hoftilities with France, laden ready arrived with fome of the goods and merchandizes mentioned and expreffed in fince the prethe before-recited act of the twefth year of the reign of King Charles fent hoftilities the Second, and the owners of fuch goods are prevented from enter- with France, ing the fame, and fome have been feized, with the vessels importing the benefit of - fuch goods, on account of their being liable to the penalties and for- this act. feitures inflicted by the ". : and whereas it is reasonable that the owners of fu: or veffels and goods should receive the benefit intended by this act; be it therefore enacted by the authority aforeland, That it fhall and may be lawful for the owners of fuch goods fo imported, to enter and pay the aliens and other duties due and payable for the faid goods, without incurring any penalties or forfeitures what foever, for or by reason of the said recited act; and that the faid goods fo entered, or to be entered, and the faid fhips or veffels in which they were imported, fhall be released and difcharged from any feizure or forfeiture on account of fuch importation, any thing in the faid recited act, or any act, to the contrary notwithstanding.

CA P. XXIX.

An act for allowing corn, grain, and flour, imported into the port of Cowes, in the isle of White, to be landed without payment of the duties, under the like reftrictions as corn, grain, and flour, are allowed to be landed at the feveral ports mentioned in an act, made in the thirteenth year of his present Majesty's reign, intituled, An act to regulate the importation and exportation of corn.

WH

corn act
13 Geo, 3.

HEREAS by an act, made in the thirteenth year of the Preamble. reign of his prefent Majesty, intituled, An act to regulate the importation and exportation of corn; it is enacted, That in Recital of the cafe any wheat or wheat-flour, rye, pease, beans, barley, beer, bigg, or oats, shall be imported into any or either of the ports in the faid act particularly mentioned, at any time when the duties not repealed by the faid act shall be due and payable for fuch fpecies of corn, grain, or flour respectively, the fame, upon due entry thereof, may be forth

Wheat, wheat-flour, &c. may be

with landed from on board the ship or vessel, in which fuch fpecies of corn, grain, or flour, fhall be fo imported, in the prefence of the proper officer or officers of the customs, without payment of the faid duties, under certain reftrictions and regulations in the faid act mentioned and prefcribed: and whereas it is expedient that corn, grain, and flour, imported into the port of Cowes, at any time when the duties not repealed by the said act shall be due and payable for such fpecies of corn, grain, or flour, respectively, fhould, in like manner, be landed without payment of the faid duties: may it therefore please your Majefty that it may be enacted and be it enacted by the King's most excellent majefty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, That in cafe any wheat or wheat flour, rye, pease, beans, barley, beer, imported at bigg, or oats, fhall be imported into the faid port of Cowes, at free, fubject any time when the duties not repealed by the faid act shall be to the regula- due and payable for fuch fpecies of corn and grain, or flour, tions contain- refpectively, the fame, upon due entry thereof, may be forthwith landed from on board the fhip or veffel in which fuch fpecies of corn, grain, or flour, fhall be fo imported, in the presence of the proper officer or officers of the customs, without payment of the faid duties; and fuch corn, grain, and flour, fhall be subject and liable to be warehoused, and to be delivered in the fame manner, and under and fubject to the like fecurities, conditions, regulations, and restrictions, as corn, grain, and flour, imported into any or either of the feveral ports mentioned in the faid act are fubject and liable to, as fully and effectually, to all intents and purposes, as if the faid port of Cowes had been included in the said act; any law, custom, or usage, to the contrary thereof in any-wife notwithstanding.

Cowes duty

ed in the above-recited

act.

CA P. XXX.

An act for the better relief and employment of the poor of the feveral parishes within the hundred of Cosford (except the parish of Hadleigh), and alfo of the parish of Politead, within the hundred of Babergh, in the county of Suffolk.

An act for building a new affize or town hall and market houfe, within the city or borough of Wells, in the county of Somerfet; and for regulating the markets within the said city or borough.

CA P. XXXII.

An act for continuing and amending two acts, made in the twenty-fixth year of his late Majefty, and the fourth year of his prefent Majefty, for repairing the road from Piper's Inn to Glastonbury, and several other roads therein mentioned, in the county of Somerlet; and for repairing the road from Piper's Inn aforefaid to Athelney-bridge; and alto for paving, cleaning, and lighting the city or borough of Wells, in the faid county, and for removing and preventing incroachments, nuifances, and annoyances therein.

CAP.