held of the faid duchy in fee-farm, for the abfolute fale of all timber trees and other trees growing, or hereafter to grow or arife, in or upon fuch lands refpectively, at and for fuch prices. or confiderations as shall be agreed upon and mentioned in and by fuch contracts respectively; and thereupon to grant, fell, and release, under the feal of the faid duchy, in the name of his faid Majesty, his heirs and fucceffors, unto the faid feveral and respective owners of fuch fee-farm lands, and their heirs for ever, all and fingular the said timber trees and other trees, which in and by such fee-farm grants are or were excepted and reserved to the crown; and that such contracts, grants, fales, and releafes, shall be valid and effectual unto such respective owners of the said fee-farm lands, for granting, selling, and releasing, unto them and their heirs for ever, all fuch timber trees and other trees, any law or ufage, or any thing contained in fuch grants of lands in fee-farm, to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.

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XV. And be it further enacted, That it fhall and may be Chancellor lawful to and for the faid chancellor and council, by their order and council to be made in court of revenue, to authorise and direct the fur- may authorise the surveyors veyors of the woods for the fouth and north parts refpectively of woods to of the faid duchy for the time being, to treat with, and to enter agree with into any contract or agreement on the part of his Majefty, his leffees relatheirs and fucceffors, to and with fuch leffee or leffees, for fecur- ing to the ing unto fuch leffee or leffees, and his, her, and their executors, ber trees, &c. adminiftrators, and affigns, fuch a fair and reasonable allowance or proportion of all monies which fhall, at any time during the term and interest of such leffee or leffees under their respective leafes, arife by fale of timber trees, or other trees, or wood, within the lands fo to be held and occupied by him, her, or them, as shall be settled and agreed upon between the faid furveyors respectively, and the faid leffee or leffees or any of them; and alfo for allowing unto fuch leffee or leffees, at the end and expiration of their respective leafes, a like fair and reasonable allowance and proportion in money for all timber and other trees which shall be then left ftanding and growing in and upon their respective farms, according to the value of fuch timber and other trees respectively; which agreements, being confirmed by order of the faid chancellor and council, fhall be valid and effectual to all intents and purposes whatsoever.

CA P. XLVI.

An act for building a new gaol and house of correction for the county of
Pembroke.

CA P. XLVII.

An act to indemnify fuch perfons as have omitted to qualify themselves. for offices and employments; and to indemnify juftices of the peace, or others, who have omitted to regifter or deliver in their qualifications within the time limited by law, and for giving further time for those purposes; and to indemnify members and officers, in cities, corporations, and borough towns, whose admissions have been omitted to be

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12 Car. 2.

ftamped according to law, or, having been ftamped, have been loft or mislaid; and for allowing them time to provide admiffions duly stamped ; and to give further time to fuch perfons as have omitted to make and file affidavits of the execution of indentures of clerks to attornies and folicitors.

Preamble. Perfons who have omitted to qualify themselves agreeable to act 1 Geo. 1. A&t 13 Car. 2. Act 25 Car. 2. Act 30 Car 2. Act 8 Geo. 1. Act 9 Geo. z. Act 18 Geo. 2. and act 6 Geo. 3. before the paffing of this act; and who fhall, on or before Dec. 25, 1779, qualify themselves, shall be indemnified against forfeitures. Not to indemnify any person for any penalty incurred by neglecting to qualify himself. Perfons producing appointments and admiffions before Dec. 25, 1779, fhall be confirmed, and qualified to act as clerk, officer, or member of corporations, &c. may enjoy all offices into which they have been elected; and fhall be indemnified from all penalties and damages incurred by reafon of omiffions. Not to extend to restore perfons to any office avoided by judgment. Perfons who shall caufe affidavits to be filed before Michaelmas term, 1779, arë indemnified and difcharged from penalties. Perfons profècuted and hereby meant to be indemnified, may plead the general iffue.

CA P. XLVIII.

An act to explain fo much of an act, made in the twelfth year of the reign of King Charles the Second, intituled, An act for the encouraging and encreafing of fhipping and navigation, as rélates to the importation into this kingdom, and other his Majesty's dominions, of goods and commodities of the growth or production of Africa, Afia, or America, which are manufactured in foreign parts; for preventing masters of ships removing their veffels out of the fream, except to the lawful quays, in the port of London, before the goods are discharged, or their vessels are cleared by the proper officers inwards or outwards; and for allowing the officers of the customs and excife to make use of lights on board ships in the haven, dock, or bafon, at the port of Kingston upon Hull.

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HEREAS by an act, made in the twelfth year of the reign of King Charles the Second, intituled, An act for Recital of the the encouraging and encreafing of fhipping and navigation; it navigation act was, amongst other things, enacted, That no goods or commodities of the growth, production, or manufacture, of Africa, Afia, or America, shall be imported or brought into England, Ireland, Wales, the islands of Guernsey or Jersey, or town of Berwick upon Tweed, from any other place or places, country or countries, but only from those of the faid growth, production, or manufacture, or from thofe ports where the faid goods and commodities can only, or are or ufually have been first shipped for transportation, and from none other places or countries, under the penalty of the forfeiture of all fuch of the aforefaid goods as shall be imported from any other place or country, contrary to the true intent and meaning of the faid act, as also of the ship in which they were imported, with all her guns, furniture, ammunition, tackle, and apparel: and whereas doubts have arifen whether fuch goods, if carried from the place or country of the growth or production into any foreign parts of Europe, and manufactured there, may not be imported from thence into this kingdom, and other of his Majefty's dominions in the faid act mentioned: and

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whereas the importation of fuch goods and commodities fo manufactured would be very prejudicial to the trade and navigation of Great Britain, and would tend to the ruin of feveral artificers and labourers, whofe families are fupported by the manufacturing fuch goods and commodities in this kingdom: 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 thoufand Explanation feven hundred and feventy-nine, the faid in part recited act, of of part of the the twelfth year of the reign of King Charles the Second, fhall not extend, or be construed to extend, to permit any goods or commodities whatfoever, of the growth or production of Africa, Afia, or America, which fhall be in any degree manufactured in foreign parts, to be imported or brought into the kingdom of Great Britain, Ireland, or the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, or Man, except and unless the fame fhall be fo manufactured in the country or place of which the faid goods and commodities are the growth and production, or in the place where fuch goods and commodities can only or are first shipped for tranfportation, and from no other place or country whatsoever, under the penalties and forfeitures in the faid act mentioned; any cuftom or ufage to the contrary notwithstanding.

II. Provided nevertheless, That this act fhall not reftrain or Certain goods prohibit the importation of oil of cloves, oil of cinnamon, oil of the importatimace, and oil of nutmegs, or of any goods or commodities on whereof is not prohibited which are permitted to be imported into this kingdom, under by this act. particular circumftances and restrictions, by any subsequent act or acts of parliament which are now in force.

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III. And whereas ships and veffels ariving at the port of London Penalty on from Holland and Flanders, and other foreign parts, and also ships masters of and veffels outward bound from the faid port to foreign parts, are hips remov frequently removed from the lawful quays, or out of the fiream, to ing their ve!lie at anchor clofe to the back-doors of the houfes of the maflers of tream, exfuch veffels, or at the publick houfes frequented by fuch mafters on the cept to the fide of the river Thames, before they are difcharged and cleared by lawful quays, the proper officers of the customs, whereby cambricks, lace, India filks, in the port of ? London, beand other prohibited goods, are very often run from on board fuch fore the goods vessels, to the detriment of the revenue and fair trader; for remedy are difcharg whereof for the future, be it enacted by the authority aforefaid, ed, &c. That from and after the first day of June, one thousand seven hundred and feventy nine, if any fhip or veffel, coming or arriving from foreign parts, within the limits of the port of London, thall be removed out of the ftream, except to the lawful quays, before all the goods are discharged out of fuch ship or veffel; or if any fhip or veffel, outward-bound from the faid port of London to any foreign parts, having any goods or merchandize on board thereon, fhall, during her continuance in the faid port, be so removed out of the stream, except to the lawful quays, unlefs upon any accident or emergent occafion, immediately to be made known to the commiffioners or principal officers of his VOL. XXXII. Majefty's

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Majesty's customs, and their confent for those respective purposes obtained; the mafter, purfer, or other perfon taking charge of every fuch fhip or veffel, thall forfeit and lofe the fum of one hundred pounds for each and every fuch refpective offence; one moiety whereof fhall be to the ufe of his Majefty, his heirs and fucceffors, and the other moiety to fuch officer or officers of the customs as fhall inform, profecute, or fue for the fame, in any of his Majefty's courts of record at IVeftminster.

IV. And whereas by an act of parliament, made in the fourteenth year of the reign of his prefent Majefly, intituled, An act for making and establishing publick quays or wharfs at Kingston upon Hull, for the better fecuring his Majesty's revenues of cuftoms, and for the benefit of commerce in the port of Kingston upon Hull; for making a bafon or dock, with refervoirs, fluices, roads, and other works, for the accommodation of veffels ufing the faid port; and for appropriating certain lands belonging to his Majesty, and for applying certain fums of money out of his Majefty's customs at the faid port, for thofe purposes; and for establishing other neceffary regulations within the town and port of Kingston upon Hull; it is, amongst other things, enacted, That no perfon whatsoever shall have or keep, or caufe to be bad or kept, any fire, candle, or lamp, lighted (except in the manner in the faid act for that purpole mentione.i) on board any foip or vessel within the haven, dock, or bafon, by the said act directed to be made, in the faid port of Kingston upon Hull, (the vessels employed as ferryboats only excepted), at any time or times whatsoever, between the twenty-ninth day of September and the twenty-fifth day of March, in every year, after the hour of feven in the evening, and before the hour of feven in the morning; nor at any time or times. whatfoever, between the twenty-fifth day of March and the twentyninth day of September, in every year, after the hour of eight in the evening, or before the hour of five in the morning, upon pain of forfeiting, for every offence, the fum of three pounds: and whereas, in order to prevent the clandefline running of cuftomable and prohibited goods from on board ships or vessels in the night, it is abfolutely necessary that the tidejmen, and other officers of his Majesty's customs and excife, ftationed on board, and appointed to guard fuch veffels for the fecurity of the publick revenues, fhould have liberty to use lights, properly fecured, during their stay on board, as occafion may require ; be it therefore enacted by the authority aforefaid, That the faid ot to extend recited act, or any part thereof, fhall not extend, or be conto restrain any strued to extend, to refirain or prohibit any officer or officers officer of the of his Majesty's customs or excife from ufing lighted candles on board any thip or veffel in the faid haven, dock, or bason, in fuch lanthorns, guarded or properly fecured against accidents.of fire, as the collector of his Majesty's customs, and the collector or other principal officer of excife, and the governor or chairman of the dock company at the port of Kingston upon Hull, hall at any time think proper to direct and approve of for that purpose; nor fhall any fuch officer or officers be liable to any penalty or forfeiture for having or keeping, or caufing to be had

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or kept, fuch lights, in lanthorns fecured as aforefaid, on board fuch thip or veffel; any thing in the faid recited act to the contrary notwithstanding.

C A P. XLIX.

An all to prevent abuses in the payment of wages to perfons employed in the bone and thread lace manufactory.

HEREAS the practice of paying perfons employed in the Preamble. making of bone and thread lace, in the whole or in part, with goods inftead of money, is a great injury to the lace-makers, and tends to the difcouragement of the lace manufacture: and whereas it would tend to encourage the manufacture of bone and thread lace, if the perfons employed therein were in future to be paid in money only, and if Some provifion was made for the more eafy and speedy recovery of fuch money; 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 present parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, That from and After June 24. after the twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand seven hun- 1779, all per. dred and feventy-nine, all lace merchants and dealers in lace, employ any and all other perfons who fhall employ any perfon or perfons lace manufacin the making of bone or thread lace, or who thall buy any turers, or fhall bone or thread lace of the maker or makers thereof, fhall and purchase lace are hereby required to pay fuch perfon or perfons for their la- of them, fhall bour, and for all the lace fo bought of them, in money only, money, and and not with goods, or by way of truck, or in any other man- not with ner whatfoever, either in the whole or in part, any ufage or goods; custom to the contrary hereof notwithstanding.

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II. And be it further enacted and declared, That if any lace on penalty of merchant or dealer in lace, or other perfon, fhall, after the faid 10 twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand feven hundred and feventy-nine, pay any perfon or perfons employed in making bone or thread lace, in the whole or in part, for their labour, or for the purchase of any bone or thread lace, with goods, or by way of truck, or in any other manner than with money only, every fuch lace merchant, dealer in lace, or other perfon, fo offending, thall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay the fum

of ten pounds, to be levied and recovered by diftrefs and fale of to be levied the goods and chattels of the offender, by warrant, under the by distress. hand and feal of any one juftice of the peace, within the county, city, or place, where fuch offence fhall be committed; rendering the overplus, if any, to the owner or owners of fuch goods and chattels, after deducting the reafonable charges of fuch warrant, distress and fale; and fuch forfeitures, when recovered, On failure of fhall be paid to the party or parties aggrieved; and for want of diftrefs, offufficient diftrefs, fuch juftice fhall, and is hereby authorised and fender to be required to commit the offender to the common gaol, prifon, or committed. houfe of correction, there to remain, without bail or mainprize, for the space of fix calender months, unlefs fuch penalty, and

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