The juftices

commiffioners

convene every

any of them, or any parts thereof made before the union, as do relate to or concern the powers of the privy council of Scotland. II. And be it enacted by the authority aforefaid, That the of peace and juftices of peace and commiffioners of fupply for the time being, of fupply fhall in the feveral fhires and stewartries in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, fhall meet and convene at the respective head bo3d of May, to roughs of the said shires or stewartries upon the third Tuesday of chufe clerks, May next to come, and thenceforward upon every such third furveyors, &c. Tuesday of May from year to year, with power to them, or any five of them, to adjourn themselves from time to time, and to chuse clerks, surveyors and overfeers and all other officers neceffary for puting the laws in execution in relation to the highways, bridges and ferries in that part of the united kingdom; and if any clerk, furveyor or overfeer, who fhall be appointed or chosen by the justices of the peace and commiffioners of fupply, or any five of them as aforefaid, fhall refuse to accept of or take upon them any of the offices aforefaid, every fuch perfon or persons so refufing shall be subject and liable to the penalty of five pounds fterling respectively.

And every

clerk, &c. fo chosen, and refusing to accept of the office, fhall forfeit 51. fterling.

The faid juftices, &c. hall call the

tenants, cot

tars, &c. to work three days before

III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That the faid juftices, commiflioners, or the officers or overfeers to be appointed by them, thall be and they are hereby authorized and required to call and convene the tenants, cottars and other labouring men within their respective bounds as aforefaid, to work three days before the laft day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and nineteen, not being in feed-time, and likewife to work three days after harvest; and so yearly and every year, until the said highways, after harveft, bridges and ferries are fufficiently repaired, on fuch days, and highways, &c. at fuch places, as the faid commiffioners or their officers aforeare repaired. faid shall from time to time appoint.

the last of June, and three days

yearly, till the

Tenant, &c. failing to work, fhall pay 18 d. for every days failure, unless he fend one

to work for

him.

Penalty to be raised by diftrefs.

IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every tenant cottar or labouring man, who fhall fail, neglect or refuse to come to work at the refpective times and places to be appointed as aforefaid, (due notice being given at the respective parish-churches where any fuch person or persons have their refidence, upon the Lord's day immediately preceding) shall be subject and liable to pay eighteen pence respectively for every fuch days failure, unless such person or perfons fend a fufficient inan or men to work for him, her or them; which penalty or penalties fhall be raised and levied by a warrant under the hands of any two or more of the faid justices of peace or commiffioners of fupply, upon a certificate under the hand of the overfeer, or other proper officer, that fuch person or perfons was or were absent; which justices or commiffioners aforefaid are hereby authorized and impowered to caufe their officers to diftrefs and poynd the readiest goods of any person or persons fo abfent, for the penalty or penalties aforefaid, rendring the overplus (if any be) to the owner, the neceffary charges of fuch difirefs being deducted.

V, And

account of

V. And be it enacted by the authority aforefaid, That the Surveyors, &c. to furvey efurveyors and overfeers of the highways aforefaid fhall, every very fix fix months after their acceptance of their office, from time to months the time, or fooner if required thereto, by warrant under the hands highways, &c. of any two or more of the juftices of the peace, furvey all the and give an highways, bridges and ferries within the parish, town or pre- their condicinct where they are furveyors, and give a particular and true tion, &c. to account in writing of the state and condition of all fuch high- the juftices, ways, bridges and ferries, and more especially of fuch defects or &c. nufances made, or encroachments committed upon the faid highways or any part thereof, as also what repairs or amendments the faid highways do want, to the juftices of the peace and commiffioners of fupply at their firft meeting thereafter; that the faid juftices of the peace and commiffioners of fupply may have full information of the state and condition of all the Neglecting, faid highways, bridges and ferries within their respective shires liable to the fame penalties and stewartries, to the end that the feveral laws made on that as for refusing behalf may be duly executed; and all furveyors and overseers to execute the neglecting to give fuch account as aforefaid, or to profecute fuch office. as offend against this act, fhall fuffer the fame penalties as if they refused to execute the offices aforefaid.

up a report of

VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, The juftices, That the juftices of the peace, and commiffioners of fupply, &c. fhall draw in their respective fhires and stewartries aforefaid, fhall and are the state of hereby authorized and required to draw up a report of the state the highways, and condition of the highways, bridges and ferries, within their &c. and derespective bounds yearly, containing an account of the number liver it to the of men and horfes that have been imployed in the repairing and lords of the jufticiary at amending such highways, bridges and ferries, as aforefaid, with- their circuits, in the respective bounds, for the year preceding; which report to be recordthe said juftices and commiffioners aforefaid fhall, and they are ed in their hereby authorized and required to deliver to the lords of his journals. Majesty's jufticiary at their circuits, to be recorded in their journals (beginning with the first circuit, which shall be in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and twenty, and fo forth yearly) by the hands of the clerks of the commiflioners of peace, or by the clerk of the supply of their respective bounds.

VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, Penalties, how That the penalties in this act (other than such as fhall be in- to be levied curred by the tenants, cottars, and other labouring men, by and applied. reason of their failing to work on the refpective days to be appointed, as aforefaid) fhall be raised and levied by sentence of the justices of the peace, and commiffioners of fupply, or any five of them; and the expences of the profecution fhall be carried on and defrayed by the respective fhires and stewartries aforesaid, at the suit of fuch of the furveyors or overfeers as the faid juftices and commiffioners fhall from time to time appoint; and fuch penalties being fo levied, shall be and are hereby appointed to be applied for repairing and amending such highways, bridges or ferries, in the refpective fhires or stewartries

where

Profecution

within one

where fuch penalties fhall be incurred, as the juftices of the peace, or the commiffioners of supply shall appoint, and in default of fuch appointment, for repairing and amending fuch highways, bridges or ferries, as the lords of jufticiary in their circuits fhall direct.

VIII. Provided always, That no perfon or perfons fhall be punished for any offence againft this act, unless fuch offender year after the be prosecuted for the fame within one year after the said offence shall be committed.

offence.

9 & 10 W. 3.

C. 19.

Made perpetual

13 Geo. 2. c. 30.

CAP. XXXI.

An alt for enlarging the time granted by an act of the ninth
and tenth years of King William, for cleanfing and mak-
ing navigable the chanel from the Hythe at Colchester to
Wivenhoe; and for making the faid act more effectual.

W
HEREAS an act passed in the ninth and tenth years of the
reign of his late majesty King William the Third intituled,
An act for cleanfing and making navigable the chanel from the
Hythe at Colchester to Wivenhoe, which act was made to continue
from the first day of May one thousand fix hundred ninety and eight,
for and during the space of one and twenty years, during which term
certain duties are by the faid act laid upon fuch goods, wares and mer-
chandizes for the purposes aforesaid, as in the said act are mentioned,
upon the credit of which act the commissioners therein appointed, have
pursuant to the authority thereby given, borrowed monies for the
more speedy and effectual compleating the said work; but the faid duties
falling fhort, there hath not been fufficient raised thereby either to per-
fect the faid work, or to pay the whole money borrowed for that pur-
pofe; but the fum of one thousand and two hundred pounds, or there-
abouts, doth now remain due to the executor of William Hewer, late
of Clapham in the county of Surrey, efq; upon fecurity of the pre-
miffes; which cannot be repaid, nor the faid chanel be effectually re-
paired and amended, according to the intent of the faid act, unless a
further provifion be made by parliament, and the faid act be made more
effectual: may it therefore please your most excellent Majefty,
That it may be enacted, &c.

The recited act continued from May 1, 1719. till May 1, 1740. The du-
ties granted by this act fhall be one moiety of the duties granted by the
former act, and fhall be charged on all fuch goods, &c. and raised in such
manner as by the faid former act. The duties hereby granted, to be a
fecurity for repayment of the money due to the executor of William Herwer,
efq; in case of death, &c. of the commiffioners, the furvivors to no-
minate others. The mayor, &c. of Colchester may engage the profits for
any term not exceeding 21 years, for fecuring the repayment of any fum
of money towards carrying on the faid work. Where ballaft fhall be taken
and how much fhall be paid for it. Ballaft may be taken of other per-
fons, paying 2 d. per tun to the collector of the chanel-duties. Mafters,
&c. taking ballaft otherwise, shall forfeit rol. The mayor &c. of Colchef-
ter may make and use a track-path from Wivenhoe to the Hythe on one fide
of the river, and from Fingrinboe to the Hythe on the other fide, first agree-
ing with the proprietors of the land; and if the proprietors refufe or are
disabled to agree, the commiffioners may iffue their warrant to the sheriff

of

i

of Essex, to impanel a jury to assess damages and recompence to be given to the owners, &c. And the commiffioners fhall give judgment for the fums so affeffed. Goods landed or loaded at any wharf below Wivenhoe, fubject to the duties. No commiffioner fhall have any place of profit arifing by the faid duties; nor farm any Key, &c. Thirteen commiffioners to be at each meeting. This act shall not extend to corn, &c. All the monies fhall be applied to the uses hereby directed. Commiffioners to bear their own charges.

CAP. XXXII.

An act for relief of fuch fufferers of the islands of Nevis and St. Christophers, as have fettled in either of thofe islands, and made due proof of fuch fettlement before the twentyfifth day of December one thousand seven hundred and twelve.

WH HEREAS by an act made in the ninth year of the reign of 9 Ann, c. 23. her late majesty Queen Anne, for the licensing and regulating hackney coaches and chairs, and for other purposes therein mentioned, a fum of one hundred three thousand and three pounds eleven fhillings and four pence, is appointed to be deftributed to and amongst fuch proprietors and inhabitants of the islands of Nevis and St. Chriftophers, who fuftained loffes by the late invafion of the French there; which fum was given for making good the encouragement given to the said fufferers to refettle their plantations in the faid iflands, to prevent the great damage which the crown might otherwife fuftain by the total lofs thereof; which loffes of the said sufferers were to be examined into, and debentures made out for the fame, by the commiffioners for the affairs of trade and plantations, on or before the twenty-fifth day of December one thousand feven hundred and eleven, in fuch manner as in the faid act is directed; and fome doubts and difficulties arifing concerning the diftribution of the faid bounty, another act paffed in the tenth 10 Ann. c. 34. year of her faid late Majefty's reign, for explaining feveral claufes in the faid former act for the relief of the faid fufferers: and whereas farther doubts and difficulties have arifen upon the faid acts, to the prejudice of several of the faid fufferers, in respect of their not having refettled in the very fame island or plantation wherein they respectively fuftained their laffes; and it is but just and reasonable that all fuch of the faid fufferers who did on or before the faid twenty-fifth day of December one thousand feven hundred and eleven, by themselves, their agents or reprefentatives, fettle or refettle on either of the faid iflands, fhould have a proportionable fhare of the faid bounty: be it therefore enacted, &c.

The proprietors of plantations and inhabitants of the faid islands, who have been fufferers, and refettled there before Dec. 25. 1711. fhall be intitled to a proportionable fhare of the bounty appointed by the recited

acts. EXP.

Anno

The feveral publick debts and incumbrances to be redeemed. For farther

provifions concerning the

Anno Regni GEORGII I. Regis Magnæ Bri-
tanniæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, fexto.

AT

T the parliament begun and bolden at Westminster, the feventeenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and fourteen, in the first year of the reign of our fovereign lord GEORGE, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, defender of the faith, &c. And from thence continued by feveral prorogations to the twenty-third day of November one thoufand feven hundred and nineteen; being the fifth feffion of this prefent parliament.

CAP. I.

An act for granting an aid to his Majefty by a land-tax to be raised in
Great-Britain, for the fervice of the year one thousand feven hundred
and twenty. 35. in the pound. EXP.

CA P. II.

An act for continuing the duties on malt, mum, cyder and perry, for the
fervice of the year one thousand feven hundred and twenty; and for
enabling the lords commiffioners of his Majefty's treafury to call in fuch
exchequer-bills as are to be cancelled and difcharged with money ap-
pointed for that purpose. EXP.

CAP. III.

An act for punishing mutiny and defertion, and for the better payment
of the army and their quarters. EXP.

CA P. IV.

An act for enabling the South-Sea company to encrease their
prefent capital stock and fund, by redeeming fuch publick
debts and incumbrances as are therein mentioned; and for
raising money to be applied for leffening feveral of the pub-
lick debts and incumbrances; and for calling in the prefent ex-
chequer-bills remaining uncancelled; and for making forth
new bills in lieu thereof, to be circulated and exchanged
demand at or near the exchequer.
upon

M

OST gracious Sovereign, whereas as well within or during the refpective reigns of feveral of your Majesty's royal predeceffors, as alfo fince your Majesty's happy acceffion to the throne of this realm, divers acts of parliament now in force have been made and matters in this passed, whereby feveral publick duties, revenues and incomes, have act, fee 6 Geo. been granted or continued in perpetuity, or for fome eftate, term or in1. flat. 1. c. 1. tereft now in being; and all or most of the faid publick duties, revenues and incomes, are and fand clogged and incumbred by 7 Geo. 1. ftat. authority of parliament with fundry annuities, yearly funds, debts or payments charged thereupon refpectively, and payable

1. c. 10. 7 Geo.

5, 28.

2. C. I.

8 Geo. 1. C. 20.

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