but that all fuch acts shall be and are hereby declared and enacted to be as good and effectual, as if all and every such perfon and perfons had taken the faid oath, and subscribed the said declaration, according to the direction of the faid act.

So much of

II. And be it alfo further enacted by the authority aforefaid, the recited act That fo much of the faid ftatute as requires the taking of the as requires faid oath, and fubfcribing the faid declaration, fhall be and is the taking hereby repealed; and that neither the faid oath or declaration the faid oath, fhall be required for the future. &c. repealed.

&c. who have

neverthelefs

III. And whereas by the faid recited at made in the thirteenth 13 Car.a. ftat. year of King Charles the Second, it is enacted, That no perfon or 2. c.1. perfons fhall be placed, elected, or chofen, in or to any of the offices or places relating to or concerning the government of any city, corporation, borough, cinque-port and their members, and other port-towns, or any other offices in the faid recited act mentioned or expreffed, that fhall not have, within one year next before fuch election or choice, taken the facrament of the Lord's fupper, according to the rites of the church of England, and that in default thereof every fuch placing, election and choice, fhall be void; be it further enacted by the au- Members of thority aforesaid, That all and every the now member and mem- corporations, bers of any corporation within this kingdom, and all and every omitted to perfon and perfons now in actual poffeffion of any office, that take the facrawere required by the faid above recited act to take the facrament ment, as enof the Lord's fupper according to the rites of the church of joined by the England within one year next before his election or choice into faid act, shall fuch office, fhall be and are hereby confirmed in their feveral continue in and refpective offices and places, notwithstanding their omiffion offices, and be to take the facrament of the Lord's fupper as aforefaid, and freed from all shall be indemnified, freed and discharged, of and from all in- incapacities, capacities, difabilities, forfeitures and penalties arifing from fuch from fuch &c. arifing omiffion; and that none of their acts, nor the acts not yet omiffion. avoided, of any who have been members of any corporation, or in actual poffeflion of fuch offices, fhall be queftioned or avoided for or by reafon of fuch omiffion; but that all fuch actsfhall be and are hereby declared and enacted to be as good and effectual as if all and every fuch person and perfons had taken the facrament of the Lord's fupper in manner as aforefaid; nor. fhall any person or perfons, who shall be hereafter placed, elected or chofen, in or to any the offices aforefaid, be removed by the corporation, or otherwife profecuted for or by reafon of fuch omiffion; nor fhall any incapacity, disability, forfeiture or penalty, be incurred by reason of the fame, unless such person be fo removed, or fuch profecution be commenced, within fix months after such person's being placed or elected into his refpective office, as aforefaid, and that in cafe of a prosecution the fame be carried on without wilful delay.

VOL. XIV.

CAP.

12 Ann.stat.2. c. 8.

The recited

act shall be

continued as long as the duties on to bacco conti

nue.

CAP. VII.

An act for continuing an act made in the twelfth year of the reign of her late majesty Queen Anne, intituled, An act for encouraging the tobacco trade.

HEREAS an act was made in the twelfth year of the reign

encouraging the tobacco trade, to continue for the space of five years, to commence from the first day of June one thousand feven hundred and fourteen, and from thence to the end of the then next Jeffion of parliament, which act is near expiring: and whereas the Jaid act hath been found to be very beneficial to the faid trade, and of good ufe for the purposes thereby defigned: 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 the faid recited act made in the twelfth year of her faid late Majefty's reign concerning tobacco, and all and every the rules, directions, powers, penalties, discounts, allowances, claufes, matters and things therein contained, fhall by virtue of this act be continued, and be in full force, during fuch time as the respective duties on tobacco fhall respectively continue; any law, ftatute, matter or thing to the contrary notwithstanding.

CA P. VIII.

An act for the more effectual relief of fuch wives and chil dren, as are left by their husbands and parents, upon the charge of the parish.

HEREAS divers persons run or go away from their plates of abode into other counties or places, and fometimes out of the kingdom, fome men leaving their wives, a child or children, and Some mothers run or go away, leaving a child or children, upon the charge of the parifb or place where fuch child or children was or were börn, or laft legally fettled, although fuch perfons have fome eftates, which should eafe the parish of their charge, in whole or in part: may it please your Majefty therefore that it may be enacted, Churchwar- and be it enacted by the King's moft excellent majefty, by dens, &c. may and with the advice and confent of the lords spiritual and temby warrant poral and commons, in this prefent parliament affembled, and ces, feize the by the authority of the fame, That it fhall and may be lawful goods, &c. of for the churchwardens or overfeers of the poor of fuch parish husbands and or place where any fuch wife, or child or children fhall be fo parents, who left, upon application to, and by warrant or order from any two juftices of the peace, to take and feize fo much of the goods and children upon chattels, and receive fo much of the annual rents and profits of the parish. the lands and tenements of fuch husband, father or mother, as fuch two juftices of the peace, as aforefaid, fhall order or direct, for or towards the discharge of the parish or place where

from two jufti

leave their

wives and

to be confirm

fuch wife, child or children are left, for the bringing up and providing for fuch wife, child or children; which warrant or Such warrant order being confirmed at the next quarter feffions, it shall be ed at quarterlawful for the juftices of fuch quarter feffions to make an order feffions; who for the churchwardens or overfeers for the poor of such parish may make an or place, to difpofe of fuch goods and chattels by fale, or other-order for fale, wife, or fo much of them, for the purposes aforefaid, as the court shall think fit, and to receive the rents and profits, or fo much of them as fhall be ordered by the feffions, as aforefaid, of his or her lands and tenements, for the purposes aforefaid.

&c.

be account

II. And be it enacted by the authority aforefaid, That the Churchwarchurchwardens and overseers aforefaid fhall be accountable to dens, &c. to the juftices at the quarter feffions for all fuch money as they, or able to juftices any of them, fhall receive by virtue of this act.

CAP. IX.

An alt for continuing certain duties upon coals and culm, and for eftablishing certain funds to raise money, as well to proceed in the building of new churches, as alfo to compleat the fupply granted to his Majefty; and to referve the overplus monies of the faid duties for the difpofition of parliament; and for more effectual fuppreffing private

lotteries.

in feffions,

and I Geo. 1.

M OST gracious Sovereign, Whereas by an act of parliament 9 Ann. c. 22. made and passed in the ninth year of her late Majefty's reign, 10 Ann. c. II. intituled, An act for granting to her Majefty feveral duties upon at. 2. c. 3 coals, for building fifty new churches in and about the cities of See 1 Geo. 2. London and Westminster, and fuburbs thereof, and other purposes ftat.2.c.8. f. 3. therein mentioned, it was enacted, That for all forts of coals and culm, Provifions are which from and after the fourteenth day of May one thousand feven made for the bundred and fixteen, and before the nine and twentieth day of Septem- from this act by furplus arifing ber one thousand feven hundred and twenty four, fhould be imported 5 Geo. 1. c.19. and brought into the port of the city of London, or the river of L. 42, & Thames within the liberty of the faid city, upon the fame river, 13 Geo.I. c.21. there fhould be paid to her Majefty her heirs and fucceffors by way of impofition thereupon (over and befides all other impofitions and duties) according to the rates therein after mentioned, that is to fay, from and after the faid fourteenth day of May one thousand feven bundred and fixteen, and before the nine and twentieth day of September one thousand seven hundred and fixteen, for all fuch forts of coals and culm as 'are ufually fold by the chalder, for every chalder thereof, containing thirty fix bufbels Winchefter meafure, the fum of two fbillings; and for fuch fort of coals as are fold by the tun, for every tun thereof, containing twenty hundred weight, the fum of two fbillings; and from and after the eight and twentieth day of September one thousand feven hundred and fixteen, and before the eight and twentieth day of September one thousand feven hundred and twenty four, there should be paid for every fuch faid chalder of coals and culm and tun of coals, the fum of three fhillings; and that all the monies which should be raised by virtue of that act (the necefary

C 2

ellary charges of raising, managing and accounting for the fame excepted) fhould be brought into the receipt of the exchequer, and fhould be appropriated and difpofed for the building of fifty new churches of one, and other proper materials, with towers or Steeples to each of them, and for purchafing fcites of churches and church-yards, and burying-places, in or near the cities of London and Westminster, or the fuburbs thereof; and for making fuch chapels churches as were already built, and capable thereof, parish churches; and for purchafing houfes for the habitations of the minifters of the faid churches; and for applying the fum of four thousand pounds per annum out of the faid duties and impofitions towards the repairing and finishing the collegiate church of Saint Peter, Weftminster, and the chapels of the fame; and alfo for applying the fum of fix thousand pounds per annum out of the faid duties and impofitions arifing by that act, towards the finishing Greenwich Hofpital, and the chapel thereunto belonging; and to and for none other ufe, intent or purpose whatfoever: and it was thereby declared and enacted, That there should be erected and built of stone, and other materials, fifty churches, with towers or fleeples to each of them, whereof one should be erected in the parish of Eaft-Greenwich in JoAnn. c. 11. the county of Kent. And whereas in the tenth year of her jaid late Majefty's reign, another act was made and paffed in parliament for enlarging the time given to the commiffioners appointed by her Majefty, pursuant to the faid former act for granting the faid duties for building the faid new churches, and other purposes therein mentioned, and for giving to the faid commiffioners further powers for better effecting the fame, and for appointing monies for rebuilding the parish church of St. Mary Woolnoth in the faid city of London. And whereas 1 Geo. 1. ftat. by an act of parliament made and passed in the first year of your Majefty's reign, intituled, An act for making provifion for the minifters of the fifty new churches which are to be built in and about the cities of London and Westminster, and fuburbs thereof, and for rebuilding and finishing the parish church of St. Mary Woolnoth in the faid city of London, it was enacted, That for all forts of coals and culm, which from and after the twenty Seventh day of September one thousand seven hundred and twenty four, and before the twenty eighth day of September one thoufand Jeven hundred and twenty five, fhall be imported and brought into the port of the city of London, or the river of Thames, within the liberty of the faid city upon the fame river, there fhould be paid to his Majesty, his, heirs and fucceffors, by way of impofition thereupon (over and befides all other impofitions and duties, according to the rates therein after mentioned, that is to fay) for all fuch forts of coals and culm as are ufually fold by the chalder, for every chalder thereof, containing thirty fix bufhels Winchester meafure, the fum of three fillings; and for fuch fort of coals as are fold by the tun, for every tun thereof, containing twenty hundred weight, the fum of three fillings; and that all the monies which should be raised by virtue of that act (the neceffary charges of raifing, managing, and accounting for the Jame, excepted) bould be brought into the receipt of exchequer, and Thould be appropriated for and towards the providing due maintenances for the minifters to attend the service of God in the faid new churches;

2. C. 23.

and

and should for that purpose be issued, applied and difpofed, in fuch manner as fhould thereafter be directed by parliament: and it was thereby enacted, That the faid parish church of St. Mary Woolnoth, and the tower thereof, fhould be rebuilt and finished out of the duties granted by the faid recited act of the ninth year of her faid late Ma- 9 Ann. c. 22, jefty's reign; and that the monies to be imployed for that purpose, fhould be replaced and made good out of and by the monies applicable

by virtue of the faid act of the tenth year of her faid late Majesty's 10 Ann. c. 11, reign, to the rebuilding and finishing the faid church, and the tower thereof, as by the faid feveral acts, relation being thereunto respective ly bad, may more fully appear: and whereas out of the faid duties of coals and culm, or out of monies lent upon credit of the fame, feveral confiderable fums, amounting in the whole to one hundred fixty one thousand one hundred feventy and five pounds fixteen fillings and Seven pence, have been already raised and iffued for the buildings, repairs, and other purposes prefcribed in or by the faid recited acts, and the building of fome of the new churches thereby appointed to be built, hath been begun, and feveral repairs which were thereby directed, have been entred upon, and fome fcites, cemeteries, buryingplaces, and minifters houfes have been purchased or contracted for, and other charges have been borne, and payments made pursuant to the orders of the feveral commiffioners, who from time to time have been intruffed in and for the execution of the powers in the faid feveral acts contained; but the charge of the faid buildings and repairs already begun or performed, hath been fo exceffive, that over and above the application of the faid monies already iffued, a great debt is now owing to workmen and others for the fame; and it evidently appears, That in cafe the expence of the faid buildings and repairs bould proceed and be carried on at or near the fame exceffive rates, the whole produce of the faid duties, during the faid time or times to come therein by the faid former acts (though fuch produce far exceeds the original eftimates made for building the faid new churches and repairs) will be very deficient for thofe purposes, and may probably at the end of the faid prefent terms leave a great debt for work and materials unprovided for: and whereas it is computed or estimated, That the faid duties laid by the faid former acts on coals and culm to be imported, as aforefaid, between Lady-day one thousand seven hundred and nineteen, and the faid twenty eighth day of September one thousand feven hundred and twenty five, may amount in the whole to the fum of three hundred and fixty thousand pounds; and in cafe the prefent terms in the faid duties be enlarged, fo as to make up thirty two years, from Lady-day one thoufand feven hundred and nineteen, the faid fum of three hundred and fixty thousand pounds may be raised for the purpofes before mentioned, as in this act is afterwards provided, upon a particular yearly fund or fecurity in that behalf; and that the fum of five hundred twenty eight thoufand three hundred and twenty pounds one filling and nine pence may be raised by establishing another particular yearly fund, and by fuch other ways and means as are hereafter in this all provided, for making good the fupply granted to his Majefty in this feffion of parliament in the manner herein after mentioned; and that the furpluffes which shall or may, from time to time, arife by the faid duties on coals and culm, over and above so much as shall