oath be made

be (hipped, to be carried from any port or place within the faid &c. except to counties of Newcastle, Kent, and Suffex on Delaware, or either of Great Britain them, to any other land, port, or place whatsoever, except to the or Ireland, till kingdoms of Great Britain or Ireland, or to fame of the Britif that fuch islands in the West Indies, until the owner or exporter of fuch goods are the goods fhall have made oath, or being one of the people called product,&c. of the faid counQuakers, thall have affirmed, before the collector or other proper ties, officer of the customs at the port or place where the fame fhall be shipped, (which oath or affirmation fuch collector or other officer is hereby anthorized to adminifter,) that fuch goods are really and bona fide of the growth, product, or manufacture of

one or other of the said counties; of which fact, the collector and a certifi or other proper officer of the cuftoms fhall and is hereby requir- cate granted; ed to give a certificate, under his hand, to the mafter of the ship or vessel on board which fuch goods are laden, for the fecurity

of her navigation; and in failure of producing fuch certificate, on failure, the fuch fhip or veffel, and the goods thereon laden, fhall be forfeit hip and ed, and hall and may be feized and profecuted as herein-after di- forfeited. rected.

goods to be

itored in the

proclamation;

VIII. And whereas it is the intent and meaning of this act, that the feveral prohibitions and restraints herein-before enacted should be difcontinued and ceafe, fo foon as the trade and commerce of his Majefy's fubjects may be carried on without interruption within the faid colonies; be it therefore enacted by the authority aforefaid, That Whenever it whenever it shall be made appear, to the fatisfaction of his Ma-hall appear to the governor jefty's governor or commander in chief, and the majority of the of New Jerfey, council of the colonies of New Jersey, Penfylvania, Maryland, &c. that peace Virginia, and South Carolina, that peace and obedience to the laws is fo far rethall be fo far reftored within the faid colonies, or either of them, faid colonies, that the trade and commerce of his Majefty's fubjects may be that trade may carried on without interruption within the fame, and that goods, be carried on, wares, and merchandise, have been freely imported into the faid he is to notify colonies, or either of them, from Great Britain, and expofed to the fame by fale, without any let, hindrance, or moleftation, from or by reafon of any unlawful combinations to prevent or obstruct the faine; and that goods, wares, and merchandise, have in like manner been exported from the faid colonies, or either of them respectively, to Great Britain, for and during the term of one calendar month preceding; that then, and in fuch case, it shall and may be lawful for the governor or commander in chief, with the advice of the council of fuch colonies refpectively, by proclama tion, under the feal of fuch respective colony, to notify the fame to the feveral officers of the customs, and all others; and after fuch proclamation, this act, with refpect to fuch colony, within which fuch proclamation or proclamations have been iffued as aforesaid, fhall be difcontinued and cease, (except as herein-after provided;) and all officers of his Majefty's customs, and all other and all officers of the customs,

perfons having charge of the execution of this act, having re- &c are requir ceived due notice of fuch proclamation, are hereby directed and ed to pay due required to yield and pay obedience to fuch proclamation, and to obedience proceed in the discharge of their refpective duties, in admitting thereto.

to

not to dif

to entry, clearing, and discharging, all ships and veffels, and all goods, wares, and merchandifes, into and out of fuch respective colony, in like manner as if this act had never been made; any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

IX. Provided nevertheless, and it is hereby further enacted Proclamation and declared by the authority aforefaid, That fuch proclamation or proclamations (hall not extend, or be conftrued to extend, to difcharge or fufpend any proceedings upon any feizure which shall have been made, or any profecution which shall have been made before commenced for any penalty or forfeiture inflicted by this act beiffuing thereof. fore the iffuing of fuch proclamation or proclamations.

charge proceedings upon any leizure

falle certifi

cates, or coun

the fame to

X. And it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforePerfons giving faid, That if any perfon or perfons fhall give or grant any false certificate, cocket, or clearance, for any of the purposes required terfeiting, &c. or directed by this act, fuch perfon or perfons fhall forfeit the sum of five hundred pounds, and be rendered incapable of fervforfeit gool.ing his Majefty, his heirs and fucceffors, in any office whatsoever; and if any perfon or perfons fhall counterfeit, erase, alter, or falfify any certificate, cocket, or clearance, required or directed by this act, or shall knowingly or willingly make use of any falfe certificate, cocket, or clearance, or of any certificate, cocket, or clearance, so counterfeited, erased, altered, or falfified, fuch perfon or perfons fhall, for every fuch offence, forfeit the fum of five hundred pounds; and fuch certificate, cocket, or clearance, fhall be invalid and of no effect.

plied.

How penalties XI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That and forfeitures the feveral forfeitures and penalties inflicted by this act shall and may be profecuted and ap may be profecuted, fued for, and recovered, and be divided, paid, and applied, in like manner as other penalties and forfeitures, inflicted by any act or acts of parliament relating to the trade or revenues of the British colonies or plantations in America, are directed to be profecuted, fued for, or recovered, divided, paid, and applied, by two feveral acts of parliament, the one paffed in the fourth year of his prefent Majefty, intituled, An alt for granting certain duties in the British colonies and plantations in America; for continuing, amending, and making perpetual an act, paffed in the fixth year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, intituled, An act for the better fecuring and encouraging the trade of his Majefty's fugar colonies in America; for applying the product of fuch duties, and of the duties to arife by virtue of the faid act, towards defraying the expences of defending, protecting, and fecuring, the faid colonies and plantations; for explaining an act made in the twenty-fifth year of the reign of King Charles the Second intituled, An act for the encouragement of the Greenland and Eastland trades, and for the better fecuring the plantation trade; and for altering and difallowing several drawbacks on exports from this kingdom, and more effectually preventing the clandeftine conveyance of goods to and from the faid colonies and plantations, and improving and fecuring the trade between the fame and Great Britain; and the other, paffed in the eighth year of his prefent Majefty's reign, intituled, An act for the more eafy and effectual recovery of the pe

nalties

malties and forfeitures inflicted by the acts of parliament relating to the trade or revenues of the British colonies and plantations in

America.

XII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Perfons fued That if any action or fuit fhall be commenced against any per- for any thing -done in purfon or perfons, for any thing done in purfuance of this act of fuance of this parliament, the defendant or defendants in fuch action or fuit act, may plead may plead the general iffue, and give the faid act, and the fpe- the general cial matter, in evidence, at any trial to be had thereupon; and iffue, that the fame was done in pursuance of and by the authority of this act; and if it fhall appear fo to have been done, the jury hall find for the defendant or defendants; and if the plaintiff fhall. be nonfuited, or difcontinue his action, after the defendant or defendants fhall have appeared, or if judgement shall be given upon any verdict or demurrer against the plaintiff, the defendant or defendants fhall recover treble cofts, and have the like reme- and recover dy for the fame, as defendants have in other cafes by law,

CA P. XIX.

An act to enable the commiffioners for executing the office of treasurer of his Majesty's exchequer, or the lord high treasurer for the time being, to compound with the reprefentatives of Hugh Barlow, Herbert Lloyd, and William Skyrne, a debt due to his Majelly from William Williams, deceased.

CA P. XX.

An act to amend and render more effectual two acts, pafled in the fixth and tenth years of the reign of his present Majesty, for making a navigable cut or canal from the river Trent, at or near Wilden Ferry, in the County of Derby, to the river Mersey, at or near Runcorn Gap.

CA P. XXI.

An act for the better relief and employment of the poor within the parish of Saint Mary le Bone, in the county of Middlefex; and for building a workhouse in the said parish.

CA P. XXII.

An act for vefting part of the garden of the fociety of Lincoln's Inn, in the county of Middlefex, in the accountant general of the court of chancery, and his fucceffors, for ever, for the purpose of erecting thereon offices for the accountant general, and for the register of the faid court.

WHER

treble costs.

recited.

WHEREAS by an act, paffed in the fourteenth year of the Preamble. reign of his prefent Majefly, (intituled, An act for rebuild- Act 14 Geo. 3` ing the office of the fix clerks of the King's court of chancery, and for erecting offices for the register and accountant general of the faid court, for the better preferving the records, decrees, or ders, and books of account, kept in fuch offices,) it is, amongst ether things enacted, That out of the funds therein particularly mentioned, after paying and defraying the charges and expences attending the paffing and obtaining the faid act, a fum of ten thousand pounds be applied, as the lord high chancellor of Great Britain, or lord keeper,

ar lords commiffioners for the cuftody of the great feal of Great Britain for the time being, fhall, in his or their difcretion, deem neceffary, in erecting proper and convenient offices for the faid register and accountant general of the faid court, feparate and detached from each other; and in purchasing such ground and boufes as fhall be neceffary for thofe purposes; and for preferving the ancient books of entries of decrees and orders of the faid court; and that the ground and houses to be purchased for the purpose of erecting the faid offices for the faid regifter and accountant general be conveyed to and vested in Thomas Anguilh, efquire, accountant general of the faid court, and his fucceffors in the faid office for the time being, for ever, in truft, to and for the purposes in the faid act mentioned, concerning the offices of the faid regifler and accountant general, and for no other ufe or purpose whatfoever and whereas the bonourable fociety of Lincoln's Inn ere. owners of a convenient spot of ground, part of the ancient garden belonging to the faid fociety, which will in all refpects anfwer the purpofes intended by the faid recited act, upon which the faid offices may be erected, fufficiently detached from any other buildings, and the worshipful the maffers of the bench of the faid fociety have agreed to difpofe of fo much ground, part of the faid garden, as fhall be necessary for the purpose of erecting the faid offices, to be applied to that ufe, (to wit,) All that piece or parcel of ground, fituate on the east fide of the garden next Chancery Lane, abutting fouth on a way intended to be made into the faid inn; east, on ground adjoining to Chancery Lane aforefaid, intended to be laid open; north, on ground granted, or agreed to be granted, to the fix clerks, whereon an office is intended to be erected; and weft, on ground alfo belonging to the faid fociety, intended to be laid open: containing in breadth from east to west, at the fouth end, Seventy-Seven feet feven inches of affize, with a break northward of four inches in the centre of the faid fouth end thirty-four feet in length; containing in length, from north to fouth, on the eaft fide, ninety-seven feet ten inches and three quarters of affize, with a break westward of eleven feet fix inches and an half in the faid eaft fide, commencing at the diftance of twenty-one feet nine inches and an half from the South end; and containing in breadth from east to west, at the north end, fifty-four feet fix inches of affize; and in length from north to fouth, on the weft fide, ninety-feven feet ten inches and three quarters of offize, with a break eastward of eleven feet fix inches and an half in the faid weft fide, commencing at the distance of twenty-one feet nine inches and an half from the fouth end, which piece or parcel of ground is fituated on a parallel with the buildings now carrying on in the faid garden, and commences on the north boundary thereof at the dif tance of forty-two feet nine inches fouthward of the centre of the faid buildings; and the faid ground bath been approved by the right honourable the lord high chancellor, as proper for the fcite of the faid buildings; but in as much as the foil and freehold of the faid garden is vested in trustees, upon truft for the faid fociety, and a good title cannot be made to the faid spot of ground without the aid of parlia ment; be it therefore 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 prefent parliament affem

bled,

bled, and by the authority of the fame, That fuch plot or parcel A certain plot of the faid garden, belonging to the said society of Lincoln's Inn of Lincoln's be, and the fame is hereby vested in Thomas Anguifb, efquire, ac- Inn garden vefted in Thocountant general of the faid court of Chancery, to hold to him, and his fucceffors in the faid office for the time being, for ever, Efq; &c. for mas Anguish, in truft, to and for the purposes in the faid recited act of the four- building of teenth year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, and in this act fices for the mentioned, concerning the offices of the faid regifter and ac- accountant general, &c. countant general, and to and for no other use, intent, or purpose whatfoever; and that the faid offices, when erected, be free and the faid offices to be from all taxes, rates, and affeffments whatsoever, save and exfree from cept fuch as the accountant general and register, or either of them, do now pay in respect of their faid offices.

taxes, &c.

II. Provided neverthelefs, That the affeffments to the land Provifo. tax, now paid or payable by the faid offices, or either of them, be continued to be paid within the divifion of the liberty of the rolls, wherein the fame have been hitherto paid.

act are to be

III. And be it further enacted, That the charges and expences How the exattending the paffing and obtaining this act be paid and defray- pences of this ed out of the same funds, and in like manuer, as the charges and expences attending the paffing and obtaining the faid recited act of the fourteenth year of the reign of his prefent Majesty are thereby directed.

CA P. XXIII.

An act for building a workhoufe, and for the better relief and employment of the poor within the parish of Saint James, Clerkenwell, in the county of Middlefex.

CA P. XXIV.

An act for incorporating certain perfons, for the relief of poor widows and children of clergymen within the county of Huntingdon.

CA P. XXV.

An act for taking down the common gaol of the county of Hertford, and for building a new gaol in a more commodious fituation.

An act for appointing commiffioners for putting in execution an act of this feffion of parliament, intituled, An act for granting an aid to his Májeffy by a land tax, to be raised in Great Britain, for the fervice of the year one tbufand feven hundred and jeventy five.

CA P. XXVII.

paid.

An act for admeasuring waggons and other carriages used in loading · coals on board fhips at the feveral parts of this kingdom, in the fame manner as at the ports of Newcastle and Sunderland.

WHEREAS by an act of parliament, made in the firth and fe- Preamble. venth years of the reign of bis late majefly King William the A&6&7 Gul.3. Third, intituled, An act for the better admeasurement of keels and

keel boats in the port of Newcastle, and the members thereunto

belonging; and by another aɛt, made in the eleventh year of the A&t 11 Geo. 2. reign of his late majesty King George the Second, keels, and all other recited.

carriages