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 630 C. 32. Anno feptimo & o<aavo Gulielmi III. A. D. 1696. " the Money. National Land Bank may difcharge the Fund from Tallies, Bills, isfc. Corporation not " to lend Money at Intcreft, unlefs to the King or His Subjects. If Duties not fufficient to fatisfy the " yearly Payments, Treafury may make the fame good out of the Monies unappropriated. 1+0,000 1. for " making good the Duties of Tunnage. 100,000 1. to be paid weekly to the Governor and Company. " 40,0001. to the Purchafers of Annuities by Quarterly Payments. 1,816,972!. appropriated for the Ser- 7W. 3. c. 2. &. " vice of the Navy, and the Remainder to the Land Forces. The Sums hereby appropriated, to be diftri- «• 'o- " buted according to the A£l: i W, & M. ff. 2. c. i." XCIL And for the preventing of Exa£lions upon Sale of Salt into the Kingdom, and to have the Rate* Lord Mayor and and Prices thereof afcertained ; Be it further enafted and declared by the Aulhority aforefaid, That the Aidtirmen of Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of the City of London fhall and may, and are hereby required, in London, and ^^ Court of Aldermen within the City of London, upon or before the firft Day of May in the Year of c'cn'er"! Seffions our Lord one thoufand fix hundred ninety and fix, to fet, afcertain and publifh, in Writing, certain rea- tofcHdc the Price fonable Rates and Prices upon all Salt to be fold, or expofed to Sale, after the faid firft Day of May, in of Salt. the City of London and PrecincSs thereof, and the Bills_ of Mortality ; and that the refpedrive Juftices of Peace for the refpeftive Counties, Cities, and Places, within the Kingdom of ^Mg-Zflwi, Dominion of //^/«, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed, fhall and may, and are hereby required, upon or before the firft Day of Auguft in the Year of our Lord one thoufand fiix hundred ninety-fix, at the feveral and refpeftive Ge- neral Seffions of the Peace for the faid feveral and refpecSive Counties, Cities, and Places, wherein they are or fhall be Juftices of the Peace, fet, afcertain, and duly publifh in Writing, certain reafonable Rates and Prices upon all Salt to be fold or expofed to Sale, after the faid firft Day of Augujl, within the faid feveral and refpedive Counties, Cities, and PlacesjCXvherein they are or fhall be Juftices of the Peace; and that the Lord Mayor oi London, and the faid Court of Aldermen, in the Court of Aldermen, and that the faid refpeftive Juftices of the Peace, of the feveral and refpedlive Counties, Cities, and Places aforefaid, lis aforefaid, at the feveral and refpedlive General Seffions of the Peace for the faid feveral and refpeciive Counties, Cities, and Places, wherein they are or fhall be Juftices of the Peace, fhall and may, and are hereby required from time to time (if neceflary) at the feveral and refpedive General Seffions of the Peace for the laid feveral and refpedtive Counties, Cities, and Places, from and after the faid firft Day of Augujly by Writing duly made and publiflied, alter and correct the Rates and Prices of all Salt to be fold and ex- pofed to Sale in the faid feveral and refpeftive Places ; which Rates and Prices which fhall be fo fet, afcer- tained, altered, and correfled, are hereby enafted and required to be obferved, accepted, received, and taken by all and every Perfon and Perfons felling or expofing to Sale any Salt within the Kingdom of Eng- Pcnalty for fell. Jand, Dominion of Wales, or Town of Benuici upon Tweed: And if any Perfon or Perfons fhall fell any ing at a higher Salt at any higher Price or Rate, or refufe to fell any Salt at the Prices and Rates aforefaid, fuch Perfoa "■ and Peifons fo offending, fhall for every fuch OiFence forfeit and pay the Sum of five Pounds, to be levied Diftrefs for Non- Out of the Goods and Chattels of fuch Oft'ender or Offenders, by Diftrefs and Sale thereof, by Warrant jpayment. under the Hand and Seal of the Lord Mayor of the City of London, or of any Juftice or Juftices of the Peace for the Place or Places wherein fuch Oftence fhall be committed, or Diftrefs fhall be to be made ;■ and in Default of fufficient Diftrefs for the fame, it fhall and may be lawful by Warrant under Hand and Seal from the Lord Mayor of the City of London, or from any fuch Juftice of the Peace as aforefaid, to imprifon the faid Offender or Offenders, until fuch Offender or Oftenders fliall pay the faid Sum of five Pounds ; one Moiety of which Sum of five Pounds is hereby enafted to be paid to the Ufe of our Sovereign Lord the King-, and the other Moiety thereof to be paid to fuch Perfon or Perfons as fliall inform and profecute for the fame, before the faid Lord Mayor of London, or the faid refpedlive Juftices of the Peace as aforefaid. This A.a not to XCIIL Provided always, and be it enafted by the Authority aforefaid. That nothing in this Aft con- aireajudgmeniE twined fhall be taken or conftrued to the Prejudice of any Judgment given in any of His Majefty's Courts Hal^'^&r'"'*" at Wejiminjler, or any Suit now depending there, in Relation to the melting or refining of Sale. CAP. XXXIL An Aft for the Eafe of Jurors, and better regulating of Juries, 3Geo.2. c. 15. ' TT WHEREAS for Trials of Caufes upon Writs oi N'lfi prius, and other Caufes at AfTizes, th'e ' VV Sheriffs do return a competent Number of Jurors for fuch Services ; but it often happens, that ' many of the Caufes, which are brought down for Trial, do not gq on to be tried at the firft Affizes, but are ' brought down again to be tried at fome other fubfequent Aliizes, Vv^hereby the Jurors returned to try fuch ' Caufes are compelled to attend at feveral Affizes for Trial of one and the fame Caufe, to their very great ' Expence and Trouble ; and forafmuch as by Partiality and Favour of Sheriffs, the Corruption of Of- ' ficers, and many other evil Pra6iices, the Service of Jurors has been found to be very burdenfome and ' grievous :' For Remedy whereof be it ena£led by the King's moft Excellent Maj'.'fty, by and vpith the 13 £(/.!. c. 38. Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this prefent Parliament 21 Ed. -iftat- 1, affembled, and by the Authority of the fame. That if at any Time hereafter any Plaintiff or Demandantj It i'laintifHue j^^ ^ Caufe depending in any of the Courts at Weftminfter, which fhall be at Iffue, fliall fue forth, or tovlhaVen fac, . ■', ci -or "vir •-. c T/ ■ >• ■ i • i -t!f^ •.. r ■"• i /-• ^ t^-,i ■ . &c. in order to bring to any oherift, any Writ or ventre jacias^ upon whicn any VV nt or Jnaoeas Lorpcra, o- Di/tnn^as, Trial, and pro- with a Nift prius, fhall iffue, in order to the Trial of fuch Iffue at the Affizes, and that fuch Plaintiff or ceed not, the Demandant fhall not proceed to the Trial of the laid Ifllie at the faid firft Affizes after the Tejie of every Iflue maybe fy^.^ Writ of Habeas Corpora, or D'lftringas, with a Nift prius, that then and in all fuch Cafes (other than Affize.'^"^ where Views by Jurors fhall be direfted) the Plaintiff or Demandant, whenfoever he fhall think fit to try q tu6