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 A. D.I 710. Anno nono Ann^ Reginas, C. 6. 423 CAP. VI. An Aft for reviving, continuing, and appropriating certain Duties upon feveral Commodities to be exported ; and certain Duties upon Coals to be water-born and carried Coaftwife j and for granting further Duties upon Candles, for thirty-two Years ; to raife fifteen hundred thoufand Pounds, by Way of a Lottery, for the Service of the Year one thoufand feverj hundred and and eleven ; and for fupprefiing fuch unlawful Lotteries, and fuch Infurance Offices, as are therein mentioned, MA Y it pleafe your mofl: Excellent Majefty ; We your Majefty's moft dutiful and loyal Subjects the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament aflembled, being defirous, by the moft fpeedy, eafy, and effectual Ways and Means, to raife the neceffary Supplies for profecuting the preient War (in which your Majefty hath been for feveral Years engaged) againft the French King, and for enabling your Ma- For the AppK- jefty, at the End thereof, to eftablifh a good and lafting Peace, have for that End and Purpofe given and ""°" °^ ^^J^ granted, and do by this prefent Aft give and grant unto your Rdajefty, the feveral Cufloms, Subfidies, fj."^^ "l^^jj^^JC^C^g. and other Duties, for and upon fuch feveral Goods, Merchandizes, and Commodities to be exported, or „ Anns, c, a'j. which ftiall be fhip.ped to be exported from or out of Great Britain, as are herein after expreffed ; and §. %^ I'uch Duties upon Coals, Culm and Cynders, wich are or fhall be water-born and carried from any Port or Place oi Great Britain to any other Port or Place of the fame ; and fuch further Duties upon Candles made in Great Britain, or imported into the fame, as are hereafter in this Aft more particularly mentioned j and we do moft humbly befeech your Majefty, that it may be enafted ; And be it enafted by. the Queen's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, in Form followmg : Whereas by an Aft of Parliament made and palled in the twelfth Year of the Reign of his late Majefty izCar. 2. c, 4;r KingCHARLES the Second (of blefled Memory) commonly called '27'S' yf(3 of Tonnage and Poundag,; (amongft other Things therein contained) a certain Subfidy of Poundage for and upon all Manner of Goods and Merchandizes to be carried out of the Realm oi England, or any the Dominions to the fame belonging, that is to fay, twelve Pence of the Value of every twenty Shillings, of the fame Goods and Merchandizes, ac- cording to the feveral and particular Rates and Values thereof, as they were particularly and refpeftively ra- ted and valued in the Book therein mentioned and referred unto, and other Duties, were granted to his faid late Majefty, during his Life, except as therein is excepted : And whereas after granting the faid Subfidy, as aforefaid, feveral other Afts of Parliament have been made, whereby the faid Subfidy of Poundage, or feme Part or Parts of the faid Subfidy of Poundage, for and upon feveral of the faid Goods, Merchan- dizes, and Commodities, exported or to be exported as aforefaid, were (together with feveral Cuftoms or Duties upon Goods and Merchandizes imported) granted for feveral Terms fucceffively, the laft of which Terms was granted by an Aft of the firft Year of her Majefty's Reign, intituled, Jn A£i for making good x Ann's, ftar. 1, Deficiences, and preferving the puhlick Credit, and continued until the firft Day oi Auguft in the Year of our e. 13, Lord one thoufand feven hundred and ten ; and the faid Subfidy of Poundage, as to feveral Goods, Mer- chendizes, and Commodities exported, which were originally charged therewith by the faid Aft of the twelfth- Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, hath been, by feveral Afts of Parliantent, fince ^ car. 2. c 4, taken away, leffened, or altered : Now it is hereby enafted by the Authority aforefaid, That fo much s^^^^,!^ pf of the faid Subfidy of Poundage, and other Duties (firft granted by the faid Aft of the twelfth Year of Po-jndLe, &c. the Reign of King Charles the Second as aforefaid) on feveral Goods and Merchandizes exported, as Outwards, re- did remain or had Continuance until the firft Day of Aiigufl in this prefent Year of our Lord one thou- ■^"^ ^^^ oonti- fand feven hundred and ten, or which by Force or virtue of the faid Aft of the firft Year of her Majefty's ? 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Reign, For making good Deficiencies, and the Aft of the fifth Year of her Majefty's Reign, For the Union 11^^ m-'de'^per- cf the'two Kingdoms a/'England and Scotland, or by any other Aft or Afts of Parliament relating there- petuai by 5 Geo, unto, were payable or exiftent on the laft Day oifuly in the faid Year of our Lord one thoufand feven 1. c. 7. §, 1. hundred and ten, for any Goods or Merchandizes exported, ftiall, by Force and virtue of this Aft' be 5 Anns, c. s, revived, and be further continued, and be paid and payable to her Majefty, her Heirs and SuccelTors, for ^'^^ ^ ?'°' *' and upon the like Goods and Merchandizes refpeftively to be exported from Great Britain, from and af- * 5- 3' /" ter the eighth Day oi March in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and ten, at any Time or Times, within or during the Term of thirty-two Years from thence next enfuing (other than and ex- cept fuch Duties as were formerly granted to be paid upon the Exportation of Sea Goals for Parts beyond the Seas, inftead whereof other Duties are im.pofed by this prefent Aft.) II. And be it further enafted by the Authority aforefaid. That the faid Subfidy of Poundage, and other H«w thefe Da- Duties upon Goods and Merchandizes exported, hereby revived and continued, during all the Term of t'" "lall be Years therein granted as aforefaid, and all Arrearages of the fame, fhall and may, from time to time, be raif- ™- ed, received, levied, and recovered, by fuch Ways and Means, and under fuch Penalties and Forfeitures, and ' with fuch Allowances for Goods loft or taken at Sea, and fuch other Allowances, and in fuch Manner aod Form, as the like Subfidy of Poundage and other Duties, which continued until the faid firft Day of Augufl one thoufand feven hundred and ten, were or might be raifed, received, levied, or recovered by any Law or Statute which was in Force on the faid laft Day of fuly one thoufand feven hundred and ten ; and that fo much of the faid Aft of the twelfth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, and of the 12 Car. a, c.4. Order of the Commons in Parliament aflembled, bearing Date the feventeenth Day of May one thoufand fu hundred and fixty-twOj. for fettling of Officers Fees, and all fuch Ciaufes, Penalties, Forfeitures, Matter^s