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 ioo C. 4. Anno tertio Georgii Regis. A. D. 17 16. 1 Geo.;, ft. 2. e appropriated, majiy have incurred the Penalty of paying ten Pounds per Centum per Annum Intereft, by c 36. §.4. 1 yii-jjtfe of the Act for laying Duties^on Malt, and other Things, for the Service of the Year one thou- ' fand feven hundred and fixteen, without any Regard had to fuch Allowances, whereby" divers Receivers ' are rendered incapable of paffing their Accounts ;' For Redrefs whereof, Be it further enacted by the Treafury to Authority aforefaid, That the Lords Commiffioners of the Treafury, or any three or more of them now "nces to llecei ^ ei. n ^ oi t ' le ^ orc ' ^'S' 1 Treafurer, or any three or more of the Commiffioners of the Treafury, for the vers for extraor- Time being, are hereby impowered to caufe fuch Sums o( Money, as he or they, upon due Confideration dinary Charges, of f ucri Reports made or to be made by the proper Officers for that Purpofe, fhall judge to be juft anct rea- fonable, to be paid or allowed, from Time to Time, to fuch Perfons as have been, are or fhall be Recei- vers, their Sureties, Executors, Adminiftrators, or Affigns refpectively, out of the Arrears remaining in without char- their refpective Hands, without charging any of them with Intereft, after the Rate of ten Pounds per Cen- girig.them with turn, for fo much as fuch Allowances fhall amount unto ; and the feveral Auditors are hereby required to ioi. per Cent. a l] ow the fame, on paffing their refpective Accounts, upon fuch Warrant or Warrants as fhall be figned by any three or more of the Lords Commiffioners of his Majefty's Treafury, or the Lord High Treafurer for the Time being, and to fuch as ' jy. ^nd whereas fome Receivers of fuch Taxes and Duties, as aforefaid, their Executors, Admi- cleared the?/ ' n iterator's-,. or_ Sureties, to avoid the extreme Rigour of the Law, and the (aid Penalty inflicted by the Accounts. ' fe'd laft mentioned Act, have, with great Difficulties, raifed Monies and cleared their Accounts, though 1 the juft Allowances for their extraordinary Charges have not been made to them :' Be it therefore en- acted, That fo much as the laid Commiffioners of the Treafury, or any three or more of them, or the Lord High Treafurer for the Time being, fhall judge reafonable upon fuch Report or Reports, as afore- faid, to be allowed to fuch Receivers as have already cleared their Accounts, fhall and may be paid to them Vefpectively out of any Arrears of any Land-tax or Land-taxes which are or may be recovered and brought into the Exchequer, and (hall there remain after all Loans regiftered thereupon, and,, the Intereft thereof, fhall be fatisfied or transferred for Satisfaction ; any other Law or Statute to the contrary notwithftanding. ' V. And whereas the Inhabitants of the Iflands of Jerfey, Guernfey, Sark, and Alderney, have always ' been permitted and allowed to import into England, any Goods, Wares, and Merchandizes of the ' Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of thofe refpective Ifles, upon Certificates from the refpective Go- ■ ' vernors, Lieutenant or Deputy Governors^ or Commanders in Chief, for the Time being, and Oaths 'Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of the faid Iflands, or either of them, without paying any Cuftoms, c 'Subsidies, or Duties for or in refpect thereof: And whereas fome Doubt hath of late arifen, whether ac- Coods of the c cording to fome late Laws now in Force, the fame maybe continued ':' Now for removing the laid Doubt, Produce of Jer- anf | encouraging the faid Inhabitants to continue that fteady and firm Loyalty and Fidelity to the Crow not" f £y ' ^ c jn b t e Great Britain, which they have formerly and conftantly fhewn to the Crown of England, and for their bet- free. ' " y ter Support ; Be it declared and enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That the faid Inhabitants fhall and By 5 Geo. i. may (with and under fuch Certificates and Oaths, as aforefaid) import into any lawful Port of Great Bri- c jS. fee. ir. tain, any Goods, Wares, and Merchandizes of the Growth, Produce, and Manufacture of the faid Salt imported Iflands, or either of them, without paying any Cuftoms, Subfidies or Duties, for or in refpect thereof (ex- i'.Unds (hall "P' ^ uc ' 1 Excife or other Duty as is now, or fhall hereafter, for the Time being, be due and payable for pay as other the like Goods of the Growth, Produce and Manufacture of Great Britain) ; any Law or Statute to the Foreign Salr. contrary in any wife notwithftanding. Bonds and Secu- ' VI. And whereas upon the aforefaid Doubt, whether the Goods, Wares, and Merchandizes of the s-itiesdifcharged; * ; Growth, Produce, and Manufacture of the faid Iflands might ftill be imported into Great Britain Cu- ' ftom-free, feveral Bonds with Securities have been lately taken for anlwering the Duties demanded for ' the fame, unlefs difcharged from the faid Duties by Act of Parliament,' the faid Bonds are hereby decla- red null and void, and the faid Securities difcharged from all Profecutions for the fame. Bat/Foreign VII. Provided always, and it is hereby declared and enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That nothing '°°n -f c ' t0 in trus Act contained, fhall exempt, or be conftrued to exempt, any Goods or Commodities of the ' Grow-to, Product, or Manufacture of any Foreign Nation or Country,- which may lawfully be imported into the faid Iflands, or fuch foreign Goods or Commodities as fhall or may be in Part or fully manu- factured in the laid Iflands by the People thereof, from Payment of fuch Cuftoms, Duties, or other Impo- iitibns on the Importation of the. fame, from any of the" faid Iflands into Great Britain, as 'are or fhall be due and- payable for Goods and Commodities of the like Kinds imported into Great Britain, from- fuch .fo- reign Nation or Country of which. the faid Goods are of the Growth, Product, or Manufacture ; any Law," Cuftom, or U-fagc to -the contrary not withftanding. Sheep 'ikiiis and ' Xilf. And whereas fome Doub;s have arifen upon certain Claufes in the two Acts of the ninth and Larab- (k ns to * tenth Years of Queen nmk'e, for the .'laying certain Duties upon Hides and Skins, whether Sheep-fkins pay only five < and Lamb-fkins, being firft dipped and fteeped in the Tanners "Wooze made of the Bark of Trees or Pound" 8 ^ Pel ' Shomack, and afterwards tawed and drefled in Allom and Salt, or Meal, ftipuld be charged with the, ^ &3: jj ;!0 'aSfD[lt5il5f iix- Farthings, rorfrV.e Farthings for every Pound-weight thereof :' It is hereby enacted and de- 10 A&h^.^oV^^tff - uat 4MufifiesgH&ihsEaii3 dKanaS-fkirib tawed and drefled, ' or' made into Leather, or which fhall ^^iis^^roUiligueafteirhe taA^eri^nijdidrtJls-dj'.ar^hiade into Leather, in Allom and Salt, or Meal, fhall be rated- and lia- '1 ^Ji d j ^^Jbief q pay five-r-j'.Fthings- only fbr.ev'dry: Pound -. weight Avei?rlupoize, andfo proportionably for every great- gfe£ er of ilefler: Qttaniky, ' although fuch Sheeptfkins:and Lambfkins fo tawed and dreffed, or made into Lea- ther, in : AliqrrjiEKLsSalt, or Meal, may have -been or fhall be dipped or fteeped in the Tanners Wooze made
 * before the Magistrates of the faid Iflands of Jerfey and Gxernfey reflectively, that the fame were of the