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 A. D. 171 5. Anno primo Georgii Regis. Stat. 2. C. 40 — 43- 79 ♦ tj r« nf listen Perfons : and did divers Acts which could not be juftified by the ftrict Forms of Law • tf pSiament" aal^ I the Perfons by whom they were tranfaded ought to be indemnified t Be it therefore enacted, &c» ,, ,„ r 1 A o.:„„ c «r r for anv Thin"- done in order to fupprefs the Rebellion in 1716. fhall be dif- « chigd f" And if Commenced S SI Perfon fued may pl£5 the General Hue, &c. Double Colts. "EXP." C A P. XL. An Act for the free Importation of Cochineal, during the Time therein limited. EXP. CAP. XLI. An Act for giving Liberty to Perfons who have ferved their Apprcnticcfhips to any Part of the Woollen Manufacture InColcheJler, to work at their faid Trades, and at the making Bays within the faid Town. PR. « Perfons having ferved Apprentice/hips in CohheJier, in any Branch of the Woollen Manufacture may «' follow the Trade of Baytnaking in the faid Town. Saving to the Governors of the Dutch Bay-Hall «' there, their Rights, &c. Perfons having ufed the Trade for feven Years may continue to ufe it. CAP. XLII. An Act for the Attainder of George Earl of Marifchal, William Earl of Seaforth, James Earl of Southrfque, Seel Geo. z. <* James Earl of Panmuir, and others of High Treafon, unlefs they flia.ll render themfelves to Juftice by a 22. Day certain therein mentioned. P R. CAP. XLIII. An Aft to continue Duties for encouraging the Coinage of Money ; and to charge the Duties on Senna as a Medicinal Drug ; and for the appropriating feveral Supplies granted to his Majefty. C ■"•• "1/TA^ '' P lea f" e your moft Excellent Majefty ; Whereas great Benefit and Advantage did accrue to ■ J.VA England by one Act of Parliament paffed in the eighteenth Year of the Reign of his Majefty iS Car. 2. c. 5. ' Year of the Reign of his Majefty King James the Second, and were continued by an Act made in ' by an Act made in the feventh Year of the Reign of her late Majefty Queen Anne, of Bleffed Memory, 1 Jac. 2. c. 7. ' until the End of the firft SefTion of Parliament then next following, and no longer; fo that unlefs the c ; 2 ^' ' faid Acts be revived and continued, the Encouragement given thereby will ceafe, and this Kingdom be '%, * 3 ' deprived for the future of fo great a Good as it hath for many ears laft paft enjoyed : Now we your 7 Ann.c, 24, ' Majefty's moft dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament affembled, do it enacted by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spi- continued for 7 ritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the Years » fame, That fuch and the like Rates, Duties and Impofitions, as by the faid Act of Parliament of the eighteenth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second were granted, and by the faid fubfequent Acts, sc were continued, for and upon the Importation of Wines, Vinegar, Cyder, Beer, Brandy, and Strong- ' 2 ' °' ' 5 * Waters imported, during the refpective Terms therein mentioned, fhall be further continued, and be paid and payable to his Majefty, his Heirs and Succeffors, for and upon all Wines, Vinegar, Cyder, Beer, Brandy, and Strong-waters, which fhall be imported or brought into Great Britain within or during the Continued from Space of feven Years, to commence from the firft Day of March one thoufand feven hundred and fifteen, M.irch 1730. and until the End of the firft Seffion of Parliament then next following, and no longer; and that all the lor feven Ye i ts » faid former Acts, and all other Acts of Parliament concerning Coinage, and every of them, and every J I4, Gt0 d 'f Claufe, Article, and Sentence in them or any of them contained., now being in Force, /hall be and are by c ' virtue
 * 7Z were necerVa v and fo much for the Service of the Publick, that they ought to be mft.fied by Act
 * ' For nine Months after March 31, 17 16. Cochineal may be imported in any Veflcl and from any Port."
 * King Charles the Second, intituled, An Ail for encouraging of Coinage, and continued by another Act 15 Car. 2. c. 8.
 * made in the twenty-fifth Year of the Reign of his faid Majefty King Charles, intituled, An Ac! for con-
 * tinning a former Ail concerning Coinage ; both which faid Acts were revived by an Act made in the firft
 * the fourth Year of King William and Queen Mary, of Bleffed Memory, and were further continued by
 * an Act made in the twelfth Year of the Reign of the faid late King William, and were further continued
 * ■ to be in Force for feven Years from the firft Day of March one thoufand feven hundred and eight, and 4&5 W. &M.
 * give and grant unto your Majefty the Rates, Duties, and Impofitions herein after mentioned, for and
 * during the Term and Time herein after expreffed, and do humbly pray that it may be enacted ;' And be Coinage Duties