fice or employment under his Majefty, his heirs and fuc ceffors. XIII. And whereas an act was made in the twelfth year of the late 12 Ann. ftat.2. Queen, intituled, An act for the preferving all fuch fhips and goods c. 18. thereof, which shall happen to be forced on fhore or ftranded upon the coafts of this kingdom, or any other of her Majesty's dominions; wherein is recited (among other things) That many hips of trade, after all their dangers at fea efcaped, have unfortunately near home run on fhore or been stranded on the coafts thereof, and been barbarcufly plundered by his Majesty's fubjects, and their cargoes imbezilled; and when any part has been faved, it has been fwallowed up by the exorbitant demands for falvage, to the great lofs of his Majefty's revenue and damage of his Majefty's trading fubjects; and therefore it is by the faid act (among other things) enacted, That such ships, veffels or goods fo to be faved, as therein is mentioned, fhall remain in the cuftody of the officer of the customs or his deputy for the purposes of the faid act; and if fuch goods fhall not be legally claimed by the rightful owner within the time therein limited, that then publick fale fhall be made thereof (and if perishable goods, forthwith to be fold) and after all charges deducted, the refidue of the monies arifing by fuch fale, with a fair and just account of the whole, fhall be tranfmitted to his Majesty's exchequer, there to remain for the benefit of the owner; which act was made perpetual by another act of the fourth year of his 4 Geo.1. c.12. Majefty's reign made in that behalf: and whereas from the want of exprefs words whereby to subject stranded goods fo faved to the payment of customs and other duties, a doubt has arisen, whether fuch goods are liable to pay the fame, to the great loss of his Majesty's revenue and contrary to the true intent and meaning of the faid acts; be it therefore enacted and declared by the authority aforefaid, That all goods, wares and merchandizes, which from and af- Goods faved ter the five and twentieth day of March one thousand seven hun- out of any fti anded fhip, dred and nineteen shall be falved out of any ship or veffel that after falvage shall happen to be forced on fhore or ftranded upon the coafts and charges of this kingdom (not being wrecked goods, or Fetsham, Flot- paid, liable to fham or Lagan) fhall, after charges of falvage and other charges customs, &c, paid as aforefaid, be fubject and liable to the payments of the like cuftoms and other duties, with fuch drawbacks upon exportation, and the like allowances and abatements, as fuch goods, wares or merchandizes would, by any law or laws now in force, be liable unto and entitled to have, in cafe the fame were regularly imported; any thing in the aforesaid acts or any other act to the contrary notwithstanding. I Seff. I. c. 320 XIV. And whereas in the preamble of the act made in the first 1 W. & M. year of King William and Queen Mary, for the better preventing the exportation of wool and encouraging the woollen manufactures of this kingdom, wool, wool-fells, mortlings, fhortlings, yarn made of wool, wool-flocks, fuller's-earth, fulling-clay and tobacco-pipe-clay, are enumerated; but in the enacting part thereof, which relates to the carrying wool coaftwife, wool only is mentioned, and the other enumerated goods left out, whereby frequent opportunities are given for the exportation of them, contrary to the true intent and meaning of the faid act: it is therefore hereby enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from Provifions for and after the five and twentieth day of March one thousand sepreventing the ven hundred and nineteen the like provifion made for preventexportation of wool, to ex- ing the exportation of wool in and by the act before-mentioned, tend to wool- is hereby directed and appointed to extend to wool-fells, mortfells, mortlings, fhortlings, yarn made of wool, wool-flocks, fullers-earth, fulling-clay and tobacco-pipe-clay aforefaid, carried coastwife; any thing in the said act or in any other act to the contrary notwithstanding. lings, &c. I &c. unmark XV. And whereas great quantities of filks, callicoes, linens or fluffs, printed, painted, stained or died, in Great Britain, are expojed to fale without having a mark or stamp to denote the payment of the duties: and whereas fuch as have been so marked or stamped are frequently shipped off in order to be exported into parts beyond the feas, whereby the perfon or perfons exporting the faid goods are entitled to a great drawback; and it hath been found by experience, that great quantities of fuch goods, after they have been shipped for exportation, have been privately relanded in this realm; and the remedies already provided by law have not been fufficient to obviate a practice fo prejudicial to his Majefty and all fair and honeft traders in fuch goods: be it enacted by the authority aforefaid, That from and after the After May first day of May one thoufand feven hundred and nineteen, dur1719, painted ing the continuance of the faid duties, in cafe any filks, callifilks, callicoes, coes, linens or ftuffs, printed, painted, ftained or died, in ed, forfeited, Great Britain, fhall be found in any place whatfoever, on land or water, without being marked or fealed with a stamp or feal, denoting, That the duties have been duly paid or charged (except on board fuch fhips or veffels on which fuch goods have been shipped for exportation) the fame fhall be forfeited, and fhall and may be seized by any officer of the cuftoms or excife; and the perfon or perfons in whofe cuftody or poffeffion the goods fo feized fhall be found, fhall for every fuch offence forfeit the fum of fifty pounds; one moiety of which forfeitures and penalties fhall be to his Majefty, his heirs and fucceffors, and the other moiety to him or them that shall seize, inform or fue for the fame in his Majefty's courts of record at Westminster, or in the court of exchequer in Scotland, wherein no protection or wager of law shall be allowed: provided always, That the goods fo recovered shall not be delivered out of the custom-house warehouse, until the same shall be marked or sealed with a proper mark or stamp, to be provided by the commiffioners of the cuftoms for that purpose: and they are hereby directed and authorized to provide the fame, and to cause the said goods to be ftamped therewith accordingly; any law to the contrary notwithstanding. Penalty on -poffeffor. 3 & 4 Ann. C. 10. XVI. And whereas in and by an act made in the third and fourth years of her late Majefty's reign, intituled, An act for encouraging the importation of naval ftores from her Majesty's plantations in America, it was amongst other things declared and enacted, That every person or persons who should import or cause to be imported tar or pitch into this kingdom, directly from any of his Majesty's plantations in America, within the time therein mentioned, he or they fo importing the fame should have and enjoy a reward or premium of four pounds for every ton containing eight (a) barrels, and each barrel gauging (a) Eighty in thirty one gallons and one half of good and merchantable tar; and the the record. like reward or premium for every ton of good and merchantable pitch, each ton containing twenty grofs hundreds (nett pitch) to be brought in eight barrels ; and by another act made in the twelfth year of the reign of her faid late Majefty, intituled, An act for continuing an 12 Ann. stat.1. act made in the third and fourth years of the reign of her prefent c. 9. Majefty, intituled, An act for encouraging the importation of naval ftores from her Majesty's plantations in America; and for the encouraging the importation of naval ftores from that part of Great Britain called Scotland to that part of Great Britain called England, the firft-mentioned act, and every part thereof, is continued from the time of the expiration of the fame for and during the term of eleven years, and from thence to the end of the next feffion of parliament: and it is thereby enacted, That the like rewards or premiums fhall be allowed on the importation of good and merchantable tar and pitch from North-Britain into any part of South-Britain, in fuch manner as is therein mentioned: and whereas complaints have been made by the commiffioners or principal officers of his Majesty's navy, that tar brought from the faid plantations is frequently mixed with drofs or water, and that dirt or drofs is often found in the pitch, whereby the fame are unfit for the fervice of his Majesty's navy: be it therefore declared and enacted by the authority aforefaid, That from and after the twenty ninth day of September one thousand seven hundred and After 29 Sept. nineteen no certificate (hall be made out in order to allow the 1719, no certipremium or reward for any such pitch, until the fame be freed ficate to be from dirt or drofs, or for any fuch tar that is not fitting to be pitch or tar ufed for making cordage, and that shall not be freed from drofs till freed from and water, and unless such pitch and tar be clean, good, mer- drofs, &c. chantable and well-conditioned. made out for XVII. And whereas by the faid last-mentioned acts the perfon or perfons importing fuch pitch and tar are entitled to the faid premium or reward, upon a certificate from the officers of the customs where fuch pitch and tar is imported: and whereas the faid officers have not fufficient authority by the faid acts to examine the faid pitch and tar fo ftrictly as they ought to do, to enable them in judgment to certify whether the fame is good and merchantable: be it therefore enacted by the authority aforefaid, That it fhall and may be lawful for the officers of the cuftoms, before they make any fuch certifi- Officers of the cate, to examine the faid pitch by opening the heads of the bar- customs, berels wherein it is imported, fawing of the ftaves in the middle fore they and breaking the barrel, or fo many of them as they find fuffi- tificate, to excient to make a proof, or by fuch other means as they fhall amine the think proper, to find out and difcover whether the faid pitch is pitch and tar. good and merchantable, not mixed with dirt or drofs; and alfo For the contiit fhall and may be lawful to and for the faid officers to examine and the follownuance of this and search the faid tar, to find out and difcover whether the ing jection, fame is clean, good, merchantable, well conditioned and clear fee 2 Geo. of drofs or water, and fit for making cordage. 2. c. 35.fect. 10. XVIII, And make fuch cer No fee for ex XVIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, amining, &c. That no fee, gratuity or reward fhall be demanded, taken or received by any officers of the customs for the examining, viewing or delivering fuch pitch, tar or other naval ftores, with respect to the premium or reward allowed by the acts afore-mentioned, or for the making or figning a certificate in order to Penalty on of the receiving fuch premium or reward, under the penalty of the ficer. lofs of his office; and fuch officer fhall be alfo incapable of ferving his Majefty, his heirs and fucceffors, and fhall forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds to fuch person or perfons as will inform and fue for the fame, by action of debt or of the cafe, bill, fuit or information in any of his Majefty's courts of record at Westminster, wherein no effoin, protection, wager of law or more than one imparlance shall be granted or allowed. A&t 22 & 23 C. 13. XIX. And whereas an act made in the twenty-fecond year of the reign of King Charles the Second, intituled, An act to prevent the planting of tobacco in England, and regulating the plantationtrade, was by feveral fubfequent acts continued, and by an act made in the eleventh year of the reign of King William the Third, was to have continuance for the space of seven years from the twenty ninth day of September one thousand feven hundred, and from thence to the end of the then next feffion of parliament, which act has been by experience found beneficial to the trade of this kingdom and the dominions and plantations thereto belonging: but some doubt hath arifen, whether the fame bath had continuance by the acts for continuing the acts of tonnage and poundage: for obviating which doubt, be it hereby declared and enacted by the authority aforefaid, That the faid act of the twenty fecond year of the reign of King Charles the Second, and every clause therein contained, hath and shall have continuance for and during such time as the act of tonnage and 32 Car.2.c.4. poundage, made in the twelfth year of the reign of the faid King Charles the Second, is continued and no longer. XX. And whereas the governor and company of merchants of Great Britain trading to the South-Seas and other parts of America and for encouraging the fishery did provide and ship on board their annual Ship, The Royal George, John Davifon, commander, for the Spanith Weft-Indies, a valuable cargo of goods pursuant to the affiento treaty and the late convention between their Britannick and Catholick Majefties; which ship could not proceed on her intended voyage by reaSon of the King of Spain's fufpending her departure and not granting the neceffary dispatches: and whereas the faid governor and company (in order to make the faid cargo affortable) were obliged to import and buy feveral goods from foreign parts, the customs and duties payable thereon at importation being paid; which foreign goods were entred and shipped out at the custom-house on board their said ship in time, by which they are entitled to a drawback payable out of his Majefty's customs, on the exportation of the faid goods; but the faid fhip being hindred from proceeding on her intended voyage as aforefaid, and it being abfolutely necessary, for the prefervation of the faid ship and cargo, that all the goods now on board should be relanded: be it enacted by the authority aforefaid, That it fhall and may be law 2 ful into warehou ful to and for the faid governor and company of merchants of Great Britain trading to the South-Seas and other parts of Ameri- South-fea ca, and for encouraging the fifhery, to reland or cause to be re- company may landed, in the prefence of the proper officer or officers of the cu- reland and put ftoms, the faid foreign goods fo thipped as aforefaid; and fuch fes the foreign goods fo relanded are to be put into a proper warehouse or ware- goods in the houfes (to be provided by and at the charge of the faid compa- Royal George, ny) and there kept under the King's and the company's locks, the company or their fervants or agents having free access to the faid warehoufe or warehoufes at all reasonable times; and the faid officers are hereby directed to give their attendance at fuch times, when required; and for fecuring to the faid gover- and on reshipnor and company the benefit of the drawback on the faid foreign ping entitled goods, notwithstanding their relanding the fame, the proper of- to a drawback ficers of his Majefty's customs are hereby directed and impowered (on the faid governor and company's refhipping and exporting the faid foreign goods on the fame or any other fhip or Thips) to make out a debenture or debentures for allowing and paying to the faid governor and company the fame drawback they would have been entitled unto, in cafe their faid fhip, The Royal George, had proceeded on her faid intended voyage and the faid foreign goods had not been relanded; any law, cuftom or ufage to the contrary in any wife notwithstanding. XXI, And whereas by an act of parliament made in the tenth year Recital of of the reign of his late majesty King William the Third, intituled, 10 & 11 W. 39 An act to prevent the exportation of wool out of the kingdoms c. 10. of Ireland and England into foreign parts, and for the encouragement of the woollen manufactures in the kingdom of England, it was enacted, That no person or persons whatsoever, from and after the four and twentieth day of June in the year of our Lord one thoufand fix hundred ninety nine, should directly or indirectly export, tranfport, fhip off, carry or convey, or caufe or procure to be exported, tranfported, fhipped off, carried or conveyed out of or from the Said kingdom of Ireland into any foreign realm, ftates or dominions, or into any parts or places whatsoever, other than the parts within the kingdom of England or the dominion of Wales, any the wool, wool-fells, fhortlings, mortlings, wool-flocks, worsted, bay or woollen yarn, cloth, ferge, bays, kerfeys, fays, frizes, druggets, clothferges, fhalloons, or any other drapery stuffs or woollen manufactures whatfocver, made up or mixt with wool or wool-flocks, or should directly or indirectly load or caufe to be loaden upon any horse, cart or other carriage, or load or lay on board or cause to be laden or laid on board in any ship or vessel in any place or part within or belonging to the faid kingdom of Ireland, any fuch wool or other the matters aforefaid, to the intent or purpose to export, transport, ship off, carry or convey the fame, or cause the fame to be exported, tranfported, Shipped off, carried or conveyed out of the faid kingdom of Ireland, or out of any port or place belonging to the fame, or with intent or purpose that any person or perfons what foever Jhould fo export, tranfport, fhip off, carry or convey the fame out of the said kingdom of Ireland into any ports or places (except as aforefaid) upon pain of for |