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 104 C. 6, 7. Anno tertio Georgii Regis. A. D. 17 16. ment thereof; and the Commiffioners of Excife in Scotland are hereby authorized and direfted to allow Copies thereof to the faid Magiftrates, or their Affignees, they giving?the fame Deductions and Allowances to the Brewers as are granted to them by the faid Commiffioners of Excife. After July 1, X. Provided neverthelefs, That from and after the flrft Day of July one thoufand feven hundred and 1723, all -Per-, twenty-three, all Perfons living in the adjacent Counties, or elfewhere, who are not comprehended in. ^j/^'^nor fubjeaed by this Aft to the aforefaid Impofition of two Penny Scots on the Scots Pint of Ale and Beer, Beer intViZdin. ma y import.their Ale and Beer to the faid City of Edinburgh, or to any Place within the Privileges of the burgh, paying faid City, they paying the faid Duty for all the Ale and Beer fo imported only, at fuch Time or Times, the Duty. Re- and in fuch Place or Places, as the Brewers living within the faid Town or Privileges thereof areufed and pealed hyp Geo. accuftomed to pay the fame, fubjeft to the Penalties mentioned in the faid Act hereby continued, in cafe of •' ' s ' neglecting or refufing to pay the faid Impofition. • ' XI. And whereas it wiil be for the Eafe of all fuch Perfons as live in the Neighbourhood of and have ' eafed of certain Dues, paid and commonly known by the Name of Petty-port Cuftoms, payable at the After the faid ' Ports of the City of Edinburgh :' Be it further enafted, That from and after the firft Day of July one ift of July Petty thoufand feven hundred and twenty-three, the faid Dues and petty Cuftoms fhall be difcontinued and ceafe, Cuftoms ftaJl during the Continuance of this prefent Act, and no longer : Any Thing in this Aft or any other Act of . Parliament, or any Ufage or Cuftom to the contrary notwithftanding. Sec I Geo. 2. fl. 2, c, 22. which explains and amends this AB, and 25 Geo. 2, c. 9. which enlarges the Term. CAP. VI. Continued by An Act for laying a Duty of two Pennies Scots, or one Sixth Part of a Penny Sterling, upon every Pint of 1.0 Geo. 2. c. 7. Ai e or Beer that fhall be vended or fold within. the Town of Dumfries, and Privileges thereof, for pay- ing the Debts of the faid Town, and for building a Church, and making a Harbour there. P R. " After July 1, 1717. two Penny Scots fhall be laid on every Scots Pint of Ale and Beer, brewed, &c. in " Dumfries. Provoft, &c. of Dumfries appointed Truftrees for the Purpofes in this Aft. Truftees may " convey the Duty as a Security for Money borrowed. Ale and Beer not paying the Duty, fhall be con- " fifcated. Differences to be determined by the King's Gauge. Truftees may farm the Duty." CAP. VII. ' this chapter An Ad for redeeming the Duties and Revenues which were fettled to pay off Principal and £en d p'inted a f_ Intereft on the Orders made forth on four Lottery- Acts paffed in the ninth and tenth Years terCap. viii.' of her late Majefty's Reign ; and for redeeming certain Annuities payable on Orders out of the Hereditary Excife, according to a former Act in that Behalf ; and for eftablifhing a Ge- neral yearly Fund, not only for the future Payment of Annuities at feveral Rates, to be pay- able and transferrable at the Bank, of England, and redeemable by Parliament, but alio to raife Monies for fuch Proprietors of the faid Orders as fhall choofe to be paid their Principal and Arrears of Intereft in ready Money ; and for making good fuch other Deficiencies and Payments as in this Act are mentioned -, and for taking off the Duties on Linfeed imported, and Britijh Linen exported. . c. 6. ' I. "|/jTOST Gracious Sovereign, Whereas by an Act of Parliament made and paffed in the ninth Year rProvi- ' J.VA of the Reign of her late Majefty Queen Anne (of Bleffed Memory) feveral Cuftoms, Subfidies d "f tiled ' or ^ ut ' es were revived, continued and made payable for and upon certain Goods and Merchandifes by this A£tare ' which fhould be exported from Great Britain from and after the eighth Day of March in the Year of our made by ' Lord one thoufand feven hundred and ten, during the Term of thirty-two Years from thence next en- 4 Geo. 1. c. 10. ' fuing (except as therein is excepted) and a Duty of twelve Pence per hundred Weight was thereby im- &*6 c. *' C 3 ' ' P ^ upon the Exportation of Leather, Sheep-fkins and Calve-fkins, tanned, tawed or drefled, which -4. 10 17 & i ' were thereby permitted to be bought and exported during the fame Term : And it was thereby enac- Geo. 'j.'c. 3. J ' ted, That feveral Duties therein mentioned (and none other) fhould be payable for all Coals, which du- - ' ring the faid Term fhould be exported or fhipped to be exported. beyond the Seas ; and that during the ' faid Term there fhould be raifed and paid for and upon all Coals, Culm and Cynders (except as therein '• is excepted) which fhould be fhipped or water-born, and carried from any Port or Place in Great Bri- ' tain, to any other Port or Place within the fame ; and for all Coals (if any fuch be) which fhould be ' imported into Great Britain from any foreign Parts, the refpeftive Duties therein mentioned ; and that ' there fhould be raifed and paid for and upon all Candles, which during the Term of thirty-two Years, to 4 and eleven, fhould be imported or brought into Great Britain, or made within the fame, the further Du- ' ties therein mentioned : And it was thereby alfo enacted and declared, That the feveral Duties impofed ' by the faid Aft, and all the Monies, which during the Term of thirty-two Years, to be reckoned from ' the 9 Ana. Fanhe: lions for the
 * Commerce with Edinburgh, that they fhould, during the Continuance of this Act, be freed from and
 * be reckoned from the twenty-fifth Day of March in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred