shall be to the use of his Majefty, his heirs and fucceffors, and the other moiety to fuch officer or officers of the cuftoms as fhall seize and prosecute fuch wine.

VII. Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted by the Exception in authority aforesaid, That any French wines may be imported in favour of wines importbottles, or that any wines may be imported in fmaller cafks than ed for private is herein-before limited, without fraud or concealment, for pri- use. vate use, and not by way of merchandize; any thing in this act, or any other law, cuftom, or ufage, to the contrary notwithstanding.

An act for repealing fo much of an act, made in the thirteenth year of his prefent Majesty's reign, intituled, An act to explain, amend, and reduce into one act of parliament, the general laws now in being for regulating the turnpike roads in that part of Great Britain called England, and for other purposes; as is to fubject carriages, having the fellies of the wheels thereof of lefs breadth or gauge than fix inches, to the payment of double tolls; ; and for vacating contracts for leafing tolls.

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HEREAS by an act, made in the thirteenth year of his Preamble. present Majesty's reign, intituled, An act to explain, amend, The general and reduce into one act of parliament, the general laws now in turnpike act being for regulating the turnpike roads in that part of Great 13 Geo. 3. Britain called England, and for other purposes; it was enacted, recited. That, from and after the twenty-ninth day of September, one thoufand feven hundred and feventy-fix, a double toll fhould be paid for the passage through turnpike gates of all carriages having the fellies of the wheels thereof of lefs breadth or gauge than fix inches from fide to fide; and for the horses, or beasts of draught, drawing the fame and whereas, by an act passed in the fixteenth year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, the faid double toll was fufpended until the twenty-ninth day of September, one thousand seven hundred and feventy-eight : and whereas great inconveniences will arife if the faid provifion be fuffered to take place; may it therefore please your Majefty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's moft 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 fo much of the said act, made in the thirteenth year of his prefent Majefty's reign, as en- So much of acted, That the trustees appointed by virtue, or under the au- the recited act thority, of any act of parliament made for repairing or amending repealed as orturnpike roads, or fuch perfon or perfons as they thould autho- toll to be paid rife, fhould and might, and were thereby required to demand for all carriaand take, for every waggon, wain, cart, or carriage, having the ges whofe fellies of the wheels thereof of lefs breadth or gauge than fix wheels are of inches from fide to fide, at the least, at the bottom or fole thereof, and for the horses, or beafts of draught, drawing the fame, from and after the twenty-ninth day of September, one thoufand feven hundred and feventy-fix, double the tolls or duties which

were

ders a double

lefs breadth than fixinches.

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Trustees may

fees of tolls

from their contracts at Michaelmas

Anno decimo octavo GEORGII III. c. 29. [1778. were or should be payable for the same respectively, by any act or acts of parliament made for amending or repairing turnpike roads, before any fuch waggon, wain, cart, or carriage refpectively, shall be permitted to pass through any turnpike gate or gates, bar or bars, where tolls fhould be payable by virtue of any fuch acts; and which, by an act made in the fixteenth year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, was fufpended until the twenty-ninth day of September, one thousand feven hundred and seventy-eight; thali be, and the fame is hereby declared to be repealed.

II. Provided always, and be it further enacted by the authorelease all lef- rity aforefaid, That it thall and may be lawful for fuch trustees, and they are hereby required, to release all leffees of tolls, within their respective jurifdictions, from their respective contracts at Michaelmas next; provided forty days notice fhall have been given in writing, by any fuch leffee or leffees, to the treasurer or clerk of any fuch trustees respectively.

next.

Preamble.

act 22 Geo. 2 ;

CA P. XXIX.

An act for impowering the commiffioners and governors of the royal hofpital for feamen at Greenwich, in the county of Kent, to exchange certain messuages, lands, tenements, tithes, and hereditaments, belonging to them in the parishes of Alnwick, Embleton, and Warkworth, in the county of Northumberland, for other lands belonging to the most noble Hugh Duke of Northumberland, in fome one or more of the open common fields at Corbridge, in the faid county; and to impower the faid commiffioners and governors to grant leafes, in manner therein mentioned.

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HEREAS by an act of parliament, made and paffed in the twenty-fecond year of the reign of his late majesty King George Recital of an the Second, intituled, An act for vefting the feveral eftates of James late Earl of Derwentwater and Charles Ratcliffe, deceased, comprized in feveral fettlements therein mentioned, in trustees for an absolute estate of inheritance for the benefit of the royal hofpital at Greenwich; and for raifing certain fums of money out of part of the faid estates for the relief of the children of the said Charles Ratcliffe; feveral baronies, manors, meuages, lands, tenements, tithes, and hereditaments (having been the estate of the faid. James late earl of Derwentwater and Charles Ratcliffe, and having become forfeited to his Majefty by virtue of the feveral attainders of the faid James earl of Derwentwater and Charles Ratcliffe,) were by the faid att divefied out of the crown, and vefted in trustees for the use and benefit of the faid royal hofpital: and whereas, by virtue of his charter, dated Majefty's royal charter, bearing date the fixth day of December, one Dec. 6, 1775; thousand feven hundred and feventy-five, under the great feal of Great Britain, certain perfons therein named were incorporated by the name of the commiffioners and governors of the royal hofpital for seaact 16 Geo.3; men at Greenwich, in the county of Kent: and whereas by an act of parliament, paffed in the fixteenth year of the reign of his present Majefty, intituled, An act for vefting certain cftates, now held in

his Majesty's

trust

>

truft for the benefit of the royal hofpital for feamen at Greenwich,
in the commiffioners and governors of the faid hospital, incor-
porated by his Majefty's letters patent, after reciting feveral let-
ters patent, and the act of parliament of the twenty-second year of the
reign of his late Majefty, herein-before recited, it was enacted, That
all and every the barony, manor, meffuages, lands, tenements, tithes,
and hereditaments, and light-house duties, with their feveral rights,
members, and appurtenances, thentofore given, granted, devifed, fet-
tled upon, or vested in, or conveyed, or limited, or demifed, or affigned
to, any person or perfons whomsoever, in truft for, or for the ufe or
benefit of, the faid hofpital, or given, granted, or devised, to the faid
hofpital, by any gift, grant, letters patent, will, letters of administra-
tion, act of parliament, indentures, deed poll, or other deed in writing,
or otherwife howsoever, and the reverfion and reverfions, remainder
and remainders, rents, illues, and profits thereof, should, from and
after the first day of May, one thousand seven hundred and feventy-
fix, be divefted out of all and every fuch perfon and perfons, his, her,
and their heirs, executors, and adminiftrators, and the fame fhould be,
and should be deemed to be, and they were accordingly from thenceforth
fettled upon and vested in the faid corporation, being the commiffioners
and governors of the royal hofpital for feamen at Greenwich, in the
county of Kent, their fucceffors and affigns, to the ufe of the faid com-
miffioners and governors of the faid royal hofpital, their fucceffors and
afsigns, for ever, freed and abfolutely discharged of and from all juch
right, title, intereft, claim, and demand, as any person or perfons
whatfoever had, or might or could have, in or to the jaid barony, ma-
nors, meffuages, lands, tenements, tithes, and hereditaments, and
light-boufe duties, or in or to any part or parcel thereof, upon any ac-
count however, fave as therein mentioned: and whereas the feveral
meffuages, lands, tenements, tithes, and hereditaments, herein-after
particularly mentioned, being part of the faid eftate fo vefted in the
faid commiffioners and governors, and fituate in the parishes of Aln-
wick, Embleton, and Warkworth, in the county of Northumber-
land, are inconveniently fituated with respect to the other eftates of
and belonging to the faid royal hofpital; but the fituation thereof is
very commodious to the eftates of his grace the duke of Northumber-
land: and whereas his grace the duke of Northumberland is owner
of certain lands in the open common fields fituate and being at Cor-
bridge, in the faid county of Northumberland, which lie very
commodious to the eftates of and belonging to the jaid hofpital: and
whereas the faid duke of Northumberland, being defirous to exchange
a part of his faid lands lying in the faid open common fields at Cor-
bridge aforefaid, for the faid mefuages, lands, tenements, tithes, and
bereditaments, belonging to the faid commiffioners and governors, in
the faid parishes of Alnwick, Embleton, and Warkworth, a treaty
hath been thereupon had, when it appeared manifeftly for the benefit,
advantage, and convenience of the jaid royal hofpital that fuch exchange
Should take place and be completed: and whereas by an act of parlia-
ment, made and passed in the eighth year of the reign of his late Ma- A&t 8 Geo. 2.
jefty, intituled, An act for the application of the rents and profits
of the eftates forfeited by the attainders of James earl of Der-

wentwater

and

The Gover

wentwater and Charles Ratcliffe, it was enacted, That the faid commiffioners and governors should give publick notice in the London Gazette of the time and place when and where the faid eftates were intended to be let, fix months at least before the expiration of the term for which the faid eftates were then or should thereafter be let: and whereas there are many mines and minerals in and under the faid eftates, the value of which would be greatly reduced and diminished, if they were to be let by publick advertisement: and whereas there are alfo lands fo connected with feveral of the faid mines and minerals, that it would be inconvenient to have them in the poffeffion of tenants not occupying such mines and minerals, which may frequently happen, unless the faid commiffioners and governors are impowered to let the faid mines and minerals, and the lands connected therewith, without advertisement; but as the faid mines and minerals, and the lands fo connected therewith, cannot be let without advertising the fame, nor can the faid exchange fo propofed to be made with his grace the duke of Northumberland be carried into execution, without the authority of parliament; may it therefore please your Majesty 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 it shall and may be lawful to and nors of Green for the faid commiffioners and governors of the faid royal hoswich hofpital impowered to pital, and they are hereby authorifed and impowered to exchange exchange cer to and with the faid duke of Northumberland, for and in lieu of certain lands and grounds of and belonging to the faid duke of Northumberland in the open common fields at Corbridge aforefaid, the feveral meffuages, lands, tenements, tithes, and hereditaments, hereafter particularly mentioned; that is to fay, one meffuage or tenement, with the appurtenances, fituate in Alnwick, in the faid county of Northumberland, with a garth or garden to the fame belonging or appertaining, boundering on the eaft upon the King's high street or road, and on the south upon a street called Bailey or Bailiff Gate, on the weft by a meffuage and buildings belonging to Mary Davidson fpinfter, and on the north by lands belonging to the faid Mary Davidfon and the faid duke of Northumberland; two parcels of ground, with the appurtenances called Ratcliffe's Clofes, fituate near the faid town of Alnwick, boundered on the south and east by lands belonging to the faid duke of Northumberland, on the north by lands belonging to Michael Doubleday efquire, and on the weft by the King's high road; a parcel of ground, with the appurtenances, called Barbara's Bank, fituate near the town of Alnwick aforefaid, boundered on the east by wafte ground belonging to the said duke of Northumberland, on the weft and no: th by lands belonging to the faid Michael Doubleday, and on the fouth by the river Alne, or by other the right metes and bounds; one other parcel of ground, with the appurtenances, fituate near the town of Alnwick, being part and parcel of a clofe or parcel of land called the Geofe Clofe, and boundered on all fides by the lands of the faid duke of Northumberland, and which faid meffuage or tenement, garth, gar

tain lands,

tithes, etc. for belonging to

other lands,

the duke of

Northumber

land.

1

den, and feveral parcels of grounds, with the appurtenances, are fituate, lying, and being in the parish of Alnwick, in the faid county of Northumberland, and contain together by eftimation nineteen acres, two roods, and twenty-feven perches, be the fame more or less; the tithes of corn and grain, and the tithes of hay yearly coming, growing, and renewing, within the stead fields of Broxfield, called or known by the name of the Forefields, in the parish of Embleton, in the faid county of Northumberland; and the tithes of hay yearly coming, growing, and renewing, in Le Stank, and the meadow thereunto adjoining, called or known by the name of Ginfield, otherwise Gynfen Meadow, in the parish of Alnwick, in the faid county of Northumberland, (all which faid tithes were formerly belonging to the monaftery of Alnwick aforefaid;) and a meffuage, burgage-house, or tenement, and garth, with the appurtenances, and half an acre of ground, more or lefs, in a field called the Hather Leazes, fituate at Warkworth, in the parish of Warkworth, in the faid county of Northumberland.

etc. to be freed

II. And be it further enacted, That all and every the faid The faid meffuages, lands, tenements, tithes, and hereditaments, fo to lands, tithes, be exchanged with the faid duke of Northumberland as aforefaid, from all truits shall be and enure to, for, upon, and subject to fuch and the and limitatifames uses, estates, trufts, powers, provifoes, declarations, re- ons expressed strictions, and limitations, as are now fubfifting of and concern- in former acts ing the estates of the late duke of Somerset, in the faid parishes relating to the of parliament of Alnwick and Warkworth respectively, freed and difcharged, and faid hofpital. abfolutely acquitted, exempted, and exonerated of, from, and againft, all the ufes, eftates, titles, trufts, powers, provifoes, and limitations, expreffed and declared in any act or acts of parliament heretofore made concerning any eftates vefted in trustees. for the use of the faid hofpital, or in the faid commiffioners and governors of the royal hofpital for feamen at Greenwick, in the county of Kent.

to be velted in

III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That Other lands. all and every the lands and grounds at or in the parish of Cor- to be given in bridge aforefaid, to be exchanged with the faid commiffioners and exchange, and governors of the faid royal hofpital, for and in lieu of the feveral the commishmefluages, lands, tenements, tithes, and hereditaments, in oners and goAlnwick, Embleton, and Warkworth aforefaid, thall be vested in vernors, etc.the corporation being the commiffioners and governors of the royal hofpital for feamen at Greenwich, in the county of Kent, their fucceffors and affigns, to the use of them the said commiffioners and governors of the faid royal hofpital, and their fucceffors and affigns for ever, freed and difcharged, and abfolutely acquitted, exempted, and exonerated, of, from, and against all and every the uses, eftates, titles, trufts, powers, provifoes, and limitations, in and by any will, deed, or fettlement, by which the fame is or are now held or enjoyed, or now or at any time heretofore hath or have been made, created, or declared of and concerning the fame; but nevertheless to, for, upon, and fubject to fuch and the fame trufts, limitations, and ufes, as are by any act or acts of parliament or otherwife limited, expreffed, and de

clared,