Commiffioners and offi

cers to be appointed, liable to the act 9 and 10 W.

3. C. 44.

fwering, and paying the faid ftamp-duties hereby charged, according to the true intent and meaning of this act, as fully, to all intents and purposes, as if the fame powers, provifions, articles, claufes and things, and every of them, had feverally and respectively been particularly enacted in this act, with relation to the ftamp-duties hereby charged, and as if the ftamp-duties hereby charged had been charged by the faid act of the ninth year of his faid late Majefty's reign.

XXIX. And to the end all the faid additional, or new duties upon fope and paper, and upon certain, linens, filks, callicoes and ftuffs, and upon ftarch and exported coals, and upon ftampt vellum, parchment and paper, before granted by this act, may be certainly and duly raised, and the fame (except the neceffary charges of executing this act) may be justly and duly brought into the receipt of the Exchequer, according to the true meaning hereof; it is hereby enacted by the authority aforefaid, That from time to time, during the continuance of this act, there fhall be appointed fuch and fo many commiffioners and officers, as fhall be proper and neceffary for the managing, raifing, collecting and paying the fame duties, and for keeping and rendring the accounts of the fame; and that the commiffioners and officers concerned therein, fhall perform their feveral duties in relation to the premiffes, as to them refpectively thall appertain, under fuch and the like penalties, forfeitures and difabilities, for any offence or neglect therein, or for detaining, diverting, or misfapplying any part of the monies arifing by the fame duties, or any of them, as are prefcribed, and to be inflicted by virtue of an act of parliament made and paffed in the ninth year of the reign of his late majefty King William the Third, intituled, An act for raifing a fum not exceeding two millions, upon a fund for payment of annuities after the rate of eight pounds per centum per annum, and for fettling the trade to the East Indies, for the like offence or neglect relating to the duties thereby granted or referred unto, or for detaining, diverting, or mifapplying any part of the monies which were granted or appropriated by the act laft mentioned........ 5 and 6 W. & XXX. And whereas a proclamation was iffued by their late majefries King William and Queen Mary, in pursuance of an act of parliament made in the fifth year of their reign, intituled, An act for granting to their Majesties feveral duties upon vellum, parchment, and paper, for four years, towards carrying on the war against France, for publishing the types, devices, marks, or Stamps provided in pursuance of the fame act, which act has been fince continued by feveral fubfequent acts of parliament, and the fame types, devices, marks, or ftamps have been used for the ftamping or marking of vellum, parchment and paper, in purfuance of the faid fubfequent acts of parliament, which were provided and used in purJuance of the faid first act, and published by the faid proclamation ; but no proclamation was iffued in purfuance of the faid fubfequent afts, or any of them; whereupon fome doubts have arifen whether the faid types, devices, marks, or flamps, ought not to have been

M. c. 21.

2

again

again publifhed by proclamation after the paffing the faid alts for continuing the Jaid duties upon vellum, parchment and paper, as the types, devices, marks or flamps provided for the duties fo continued: for removing whereof, be it enacted and declared by the authority aforefaid, That the types, devices, marks, or ftamps, pro- Proclamation vided in pursuance of the faid first mentioned act, thall be in pursuance deemed, taken, and made ufe of, as the types, devices, marks, & M. c. 21. to of 5 & 6 W. or ftamps provided in pursuance of the faid acts for continuing be deemed a the faid duties, and every or any of them, until other types, fufficient pub devices, marks, or ftamps, fhall be provided and publifhed by lication of the proclamation, in pursuance of the fame acts, or of one of them; feveral itamps. and that the faid publifhing of the faid types, devices, marks, or ftamps, by the faid proclamation, in pursuance of the faid first mentioned act for granting the faid duties, fhall be deemed and taken to be a fufficient publishing thereof, as well for and in refpect of the duties granted by that act, as for and in respect of the duties on vellum, parchment, and paper, which have been fincé granted or continued by any other act or acts of parliament relating thereto; any thing in the said acts, or any of them, to the contrary hereof in any wife notwithstanding.

prentices.

XXXI. And whereas feveral perfons, who have, fince the commence- Claufe to in ment of the rates or duties upon monies given, paid, or contracted for demnify ma with clerks and apprentices, taken clerks and apprentices, and received fters and ap and contracted for fums of money, with or in respect of the taking of fuch clerks and apprentices, have, through neglect or inadvertency, omitted to pay the feveral rates and duties payable in that behalf, or to caufe to be inferted the fums of money fo given, paid, or contracted for, with or in refpect of the taking of fuch clerks and apprentices, in the contracts or indentures relating thereto, and to have fuch contracts or indentures flamped within the time for that purpofe refpectively limited by the act of parliament in that cafe made; whereby the faid 8 Ann. c. gi mafters and mifireffes have incurred one or more penalty or penalties, and fuch clerks and apprentices will, according to that act, be difabled to follow or exercife the intended trades, profeffions, or imployments, unless fome further provifion be made; be it therefore further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That upon payment of the faid refpective rates and duties, which have been fo omitted or neglected to be paid, as aforefaid, on or before the first day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fourteen, to fuch perfon or persons to whom the fame ought to be paid, according to the fame former act, and tendring to be ftamped fuch indentures or contracts fo omitted to be ftamped, on or before the faid firft day of March in the faid year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and fourteen, the fame indentures or contracts fhall be flamped, and fhall be good and available in law and equity, and the clerks or apprentices therein named fhall be capable of following and exercising the refpective intended trades, profeffions, or imployments, as fully as if the duties, fo omitted to be paid, had been duly paid, and the indentures or contracts ftamped within the refpective times in the fame act for thofe refpective purpofes limited, any thing

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fum of 1,876,400l.

with intereft at 41. per cent.

See 1 Geo. I. itat. 1. c. 2. fect. 2.

therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding; fo as the true and full fum or fums of money, and all other things given or contracted for, to or for the benefit of the masters or mistreffes, with or in respect of the taking fuch clerks or apprentices, be truly written or indorfed in words at length, on fuch indentures or contracts, wherein the fame have been omitted to be inferted, according to the fame act, and the mafters and miftreffes truly paying the faid omitted duties, on or before the faid first day of March one thousand seven hundred and fourteen, are hereby indemnified and difcharged off and from all penalties by them incurred by the faid recited acts, for which no profecution hath been commenced before the four and twentieth day of June one thoufand feven hundred and fourteen.

105,000l. to be, XXXII. And be it enacted by the authority aforefaid, That the yearlyfund yearly and every year, during the term of two and thirty years, for clearing off reckoning the first year to begin from the nine and twentieth the principal day of September one thousand feven hundred and fourteen, the full fum of one hundred and five thousand pounds, by or out of the monies to arife by the faid additional or new duties upon fope and paper, and upon certain linens, filks, callicoes, and stuffs, and upon starch, and exported coals, and upon stampt vellum, parchment and paper, by this act granted, and to be brought into the receipt of the Exchequer, as aforefaid, in case the fame thall extend thereunto, fhall be computed and reckoned to be a yearly fund; and in cafe all the monies arifing into the Exchequer, for the faid duties, rates and fums of money fo granted, fhall not amount to the fum of one hundred and five thousand pounds per annum, then the monies fo arifing, fo far as the fame fhall extend, fhall be part of the yearly fund towards the anfwering and paying off all and every the principal fums herein after mentioned, amounting in the whole to the fum of one million eight hundred feventy fix thousand four hundred pounds principal money, together with intereft for the fame after the rate of four pounds per centum per annum, as hereDeficiencies to in after is mentioned; and in cafe the faid duties, rates, and be made good fums of money by this act granted, fhall at any time or times out of the first appear to be fo deficient or low in the produce of the fame, as granted in that within any one year, to be reckoned, as aforefaid, the said parliament. monies arifing into the Exchequer, for or upon account of the fame duties, fhall not amount to as much as one hundred and five thousand pounds, that then, and fo often, and in every fuch cafe, fo much as fhall be wanting to make up the faid fund or fum of one hundred and five thousand pounds for every or any fuch year, fhall be fupplied and made good, from time to time, out of the first aid or fupply to be granted in parliament, next after fuch deficiencies shall appear, and shall from time to time be transferred thereunto, as foon as the fame shall Or out of any be granted; and in cafe no fuch aid or supply shall be granted, public money then by and out of any publick money, which fhall be in the unappropria faid receipt of Exchequer, not appropriated to any particular ted. ufe or ufes by act of parliament; and the lord high treasurer, or

aid to be

commiffioners

commiffioners of the treafury, for the time being, are hereby ftrictly enjoined and required to make up fuch deficiency accordingly, out of fuch unappropriated publick money, without any. further or other warrant or authority for the fame.

redeemed. See

XXXIII. And be it further enacted by the authority afore- Any perfons faid, That it fhall and may be lawful for any perfon or perfons, may be connatives or foreigners, bodies politick or corporate, to contri- tributors, bute for or towards advancing the fum of one million four hun- This lottery is dred thousand pounds, by paying, at or before the respective Geo. 1. c. 4. days and times by this act limited in that behalf, to any re- 10 Geo. 1. c.5. ceiver or receivers, to be appointed for that purpofe, as is herein 2 Geo. 2. c. 3. after mentioned, the fum of ten pounds, or divers entire fums of ten pounds, upon this act; and that for the raifing of the faid fum of one million four hundred thousand pounds, any perfon, who will become contributor or adventurer, fhall and may advance the fum of ten pounds, for which fum fo advanced, he, the, or they fhall be entitled to receive by virtue of this act fuch principal money, and the intereft thereof, to be paid, as herein after is mentioned, by and out of the faid yearly fund; and that every contributor or adventurer may advance as many entire fums of ten pounds as he, she, or they fhall think fit, and for every fuch fum of ten pounds fo advanced, he, the, or they, is or are to be interested in one lot or fhare of and in the faid yearly fund by virtue of this act; and the fame entire fums of ten pounds each, are hereby appointed to be paid unto fuch receiver or receivers, at or before the respective days and times, and in the respective proportions herein after mentioned; that is to fay, one fourth part thereof Times of payon or before the tenth day of August in the year of our Lord one ment. thoufand feven hundred and fourteen; one fourth part thereof on or before the tenth day of September in the faid year of our Lord one thousand feven hundred and fourteen; one other fourth part thereof on or before the eleventh day of October one thoufand feven hundred and fourteen, and the remaining fourth part thereof on or before the tenth day of November one thoufand feven hundred and fourteen.

Tickets to be delivered for a lottery, &c. The monies appropriated by this act to be applied to pay off the principal and intereft. No undue preference if fubfequent orders be paid before others who did not demand their monies. Deficiency of one year to be made good out of the next. Surplus difpofable by parliament. Notice to be hung up in the office when orders become due. 81. per cent. per ann. allowed for the first payment, and 61. for the remainder, till 29 Sept. 1714. Receivers may take in money before they receive their books. Contributor advancing one fourth part, and failing in the reft, to forfeit the first fourth part, &c. Treasurer to appoint a paymafter, &c. Aflignments of orders to be regiftred. Her Majesty to reward the managers out of monies arifing by the duties. Benefits of 1000l. may be divided into orders not less than sool. After intereft and principal paid off, the refidue difpofable by parliament. Guardians may contribute for infants, &c. EXP.

LXIV. And whereas, by an act paled the ninth year of her 9 Ann. c. 11. Majefty's reign, certain duties are laid en tanned leather; and by 10 Ann. c.26.

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another act passed the tenth year of her Majefty's reign, further duties are laid thereon, and by the faid acts only two thirds of the refpective duties are to be drawn back or allowed upon the exportation of boots, shoes, gloves, or other manufactures, which by experience is found to be a difcouragement to the manufacturers imployed therein; for remedy whereof, be it declared and enacted by the authoTanned lea- rity aforefaid, That from and after the fecond day of Auguft one thousand feven hundred and fourteen, there fhall, in lieu of the faid two thirds of the faid duties, be paid and allowed to the exporter or exporters, for all tanned leather, which shall be manufactured and actually made into goods or wares, by him or them exported, on a proper debenture to be made for that purpose, and fecurity given for the fame, as by the faid acts are prescribed, the fum of one penny half-penny for every pound weight thereof, and fo in proportion for every greater or jeffer quantity; which drawback of one penny half-penny per pound fhall be paid out of the respective duties granted by the faid acts of the ninth and of the tenth years of her Majefty's reign; any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

per lb. on exportation.

9 Ann, c. 11.

Sheep-fkins two thirds of the duty.

to draw back

9 Ann. c. 11.

LXV. And whereas by an act of parliament paffed in the ninth year of her Majefly's reign, intituled, An act for laying certain duties upon hides and fkins, tanned, tawed, or dreffed, and upon vellum and parchment, for the term of thirty-two years, for profecuting the war, and other her Majefty's most neceffary occafions, it is enacted, That upon the shipping of any hides or calve-fkins for exportation into foreign parts, and giving fecurity ta the customer or collector of the customs of the port from whence fuch exportation fhall be made, That fuch hides and calve-fkins shall not be relanded or brought on fhore, in any port or part of Great Britain, the customer or collector shall give the exporter a certificate or debenture in writing, of the kinds and quantities of fuch hides and calvefkins; and that upon producing fuch certificate, the collector at the port where fuch hides or calves-fhins fhall be exported, shall repay to the perfon producing fuch certificate, two thirds of the duties, which were before charged for fuch hides or calve-fkins fo exported, as aforefaid: and whereas fome doubts have arifen upon the conftruction of the faid act, whether the fame fhall extend to allow a drawback of the faid duties, for any other fort of skins, tanned, tawed or dreffed, than hides and calve-fkins; therefore to explain the faid act, be it enacted by the authority aforefaid, That all fheep-fkins and lamb-fkins, tanned, tawed or dreffed, which are chargeable with any duties by the faid act paffed in the ninth year of her Majefty's reign, fhall, upon exportation thereof, have a drawback or allowance of two thirds of the duties, payable by virtue of the faid act, fubject to fuch rules, as by the faid act are prescribed on the exportation of any hides or calve-skins; any thing in the faid act contained to the contrary in any wife notwithstanding.

TO Ann. c.17. LXVI. And whereas by an act of parliament made in the tenth Claufe for diftribution of year of her prefent Majefty's reign, intituled, An act for the better 4000l. due to collecting and recovering the duties granted for the fupport of

the