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 582 C. 13* Anno fexto & feptlmo GuLiELMi in. A. D. 1695. Execution fliall ilamp the faid Price, fo fet, upon every Skin or Piece of Vellum or Parchment, or Sheet o"^ 6 rer Cen'. al- Piece of Paper fo by them to be fold ; and that the faid Commifiioners fliall like^yife allow and pay to every lowed for ready Pgrfo^ that fii ill bring Vcllum, Parchment, or Paper to be ftamped (the Duty whereof fhall amount to the Money. Sum of Ten Pounds or upwards) after the Rate of fix Pounds in the Hundred Pounds per Annum for three Months, upon prefent Payment of the faid Duty upon the faid Vellum, Parchment, and Paper fo by them bought; and that any Peribiis that fiiall' buy of the faid Commiffioners, or their Agents, Vellum, Parch- ment, or Paper, the Duty whereof amounts to the like Sum of ten Pounds, or upwards, {hall have the fame Allowance of fix Pounds in the Hundred Pounds. Another Way of « X. And whereas great Inconveniencies and Difcouragements to Trade and Navigation are found by ad- mcafurin,; Ships t j^pafuriiig of Ships and Veilels. according to the Aft made in the fifth and fixth Years of the Reign of poimeTby s'&e ' King WiLLiAM and Qiieen MaRY, intituled, An Jii for granting to their Majejiies feveral Rates and Du- W, Sc M. c, 20, ' tiL's upon "Tunnagc of Ships and Vejfds,- and upon Beer, Ale, and other Liquors, for Jecurtng certain Recompences ' and Advantages, 171 the faid ASt mentioned, to fuch Perjons as Jhall voluntarily advance the Sum of fifteen hundred ' thoufand Pounds, towards the carrying on the TF'ar againjl France;' Be it enafted. That from. and after the firft Day of June in the Year of our Lord one thoufand fix hundred ninety-five, all Ships and Veflels fhall be meafured, in order to the paying the Duty impofed by the faid Adt, by taking the Length of the Keel of every Ship or Veflel fo much as fhe treads on the Ground, and the Breadth to be taken within Board r by the Midfliip Beam from Plank to Plank, and half that Breadth fliall be accounted for the Depth of every Ship or Veffel; then multiply the Length by the Breadth, and the'Produ(?t thereof by the Depth, and di-i vide the whole by ninety-four, and the Quotient fhall give the true Contents of the Tunnage which fuch Ship fhall pay for ; any thing in the faid recited AQ. to the contrary notwithftanding. EXP. XI. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid. That from and after the faid firft Day of June there fhall not be raifed, levied, collected, or paid, for the Ufe of his Majefty, His Heirs or Succeffbrs, for the Tunnage of any Ship or Veffel, within the Time of the faid A£l: mentioned, trading coaftwife, any other or greater Sum or Rate than for fo many Tuns of Goods as are or fhall be aftually laden on Board fuch Ship or Veffel; any thing in the faid Aft contained to the contrary thereof in any wife notwith- Seef^r>U,- itanding. ■ c. 42. a^aiiifl Frauds In Siajvp Duties. 4 S' 5 y^hn. c. iz. cxtend'wg Stamp Diitiei to Appearances in AB-.ons ivitbjut Bail. 12 yhn, fiat, l. c, «. exempting Cufiotr. Might E/laies, &°i-., ^Geo.i.e. 19. concerning Curds f and Dice. 6 Geo. J. c. 21. Penalty for taking off StaiTtp on Cards. A,:d ^ec fat tier additional Duties, 11 Gso. I. f. 8. la Cfo. I. c. 33. 9 (J«. 2. IT. 32. 16 Gt-o. 2. c. a6. 29 Gfo. s. c. 12 £?i3. 30 Gi's. 2. c. 19. (J;/ii32G«. 2. c. 35. CAP. XIII. An Aft for raifing the Militia of this Kingdom for the Year one thoufand fix hundred ninety- five ; and for repealing the Statute of the fecond and third Years of King Edward the Sixchj intituled. An Act againjl Jloooting of liail-floot. T3 &i4C,u.2. ' "^XZHEREAS by an Acl of Parliament, made in the thirteenth and fourteenth Years of the Reign|! c. 3. ' VV of His late Majefty King Charles the Second, intituled. An ASifor ordering the Forces in theje-' ' vcral Counties of this Kingdom, it was (amongft other Things) enadfed. That in cafe of Invafions, Inlur-j  ' reftions, or Rebellions, whereby Occafion Ibould be to draw out the Soldiers mentioned and appointed in M ' and. by the faid Act into a£lual Service, thePcrfons charged by the faid A61: with Horfes, Horicmen, and; j ' Arms, fliould provide each their Soldier refpec'cively with Pay in Hand, not exceeding- one Month's Pay, ''; ' as fhould be in that Behalf directed by the rcfpeftive Lieutenants of the feveral Counties, and in their :' ' Abfence, or otherwife by their Direftion, by tlieir Deputies, or any two or more of them: For Repay- •! ' ment of which faid R4onies, and for Satisfiiction of the Officers for their Pay, during, fuch Time, not , ' exceeding one Month, as aforefaid, as they fhould be with their Soldiers in fuch aiElual Ser'ice, it was ', ' thereby declared, that Provifion fliould be made for the fame by His faid Majefty, His Heirs and Succeffors, 'i ' out of His or Their publick Treafury or Revenue: Nevcrthelefs it was thereby further provided and en- t ' a6ted, That in cafe a Month's Pay fhould be provided and adanccd, as aforefaid, that no Perfon who. ' fhould have advanced his Proportion thereof, fhould be charged v.'ith any other like Month's Payment, i ' until he or theyfliould have been reimburfed the faid Month's Pay, and fo from time to time, the faid i ' Month's Pay by him or them laft before provided and advanced, as aforefaid : And whereas upon the In- i ' vafion of the Coafts of this Kingdom by the French in was found neceffary, for the publick Defence and ' Safety, to draw out the faid Soldiers into aflual Service, and to charge the faid Perfons to provide each ' their Soldier refpeftively v/ith Pay in Hand, although tlie Month's Pay, by feveral of them before that Burn,P'.i—jy>.'- Time provided and advanced, v/as not, nor could be, reimburfed: And whereas the like Occafion may ' poffibly happen during the prefentWar :' j Power given to I[. Be it therefore enad'ted by the King's moft- Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confenf "^.hft^'i'"^ °*^ '•'>2 Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this prefent Parliam.ent affembled, and by tht the Month's'"^ Autliority of the fame, l^hat if at any Time before the five and twentieth ]3ay of April, which fliall be in Vay formerly the Year of our Lord one thoufand fix hundred ninety and fix, it fliall be found by his Majefty to be ne- < advanced be not ceffary for the Defence and Safety of, this Kingdom, to draw out the faid Soldiers into aftual Service, anc '^P^"*'. the lame fhail be declared or fignified to the refpe£live Lieutenants or Deputy Lieutenants, and the Lore ^ "ll-in'^'' ^'^•if'^sn of the Cinque-poits, I'wo ancient Towns, and their Members, or in his Abfence his Lieutenan' hereto',"'io% II f"" Lieutenants, in Purfuance of fuch Orders from His Majefty, notv>'ithftanding that one or more Month'.' i-Kl'.c.M. Pay, before that I'inie advanced, be not reimburfed, to raife and draw out the faid Soldiers into adlua I Ann. flat, 2. Servjcc, and to caufe the Perfons charged as aforefaid to provide each their Soldier with Fay in Hand, hoi f.2j. iCci.i. exceedinj