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 198 C. 11. Anno quinto Georgii Regis. A. D. 1718 Aaz2&23Car. ' XIX. And whereas an Act made in the twenty- fecond Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second | 2. c. 26. to have ' intituled, An Act to prevent the planting of Tobacco in England, and regulating the Plantation-trade, was bi Continuance du- ' f eV eral fubfequent Acts contin. ed, and by an Act made in the eleventh Year of the Reign of King Wil , '"^he^&of e ' l' am the Third, was to have Continuance for the Space of feveri Years from the tv enty-Jiinth Day 6 Tonnage and ' Sup ttmber one thoufand feven hundred, and from thence to the End of the then^next Seffion of Parlia- PoundJge. ' ment, which Act has been by Experience found beneficial to the Trade of this Kingdom and the Domi- 11&12W.3. ' nions and Plantations thereto belonging : But fome Doubt hath arifen, whether the fame hath had Con- c - *3- c tinuahce by the Acts for continuing the Acts of Tonnage and Poundage;' For obviating which Doubt, Be it hereby declared and enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That the faid Act of the twenty- fecond Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, and every Claufe therein contained, hath and mall have 12 Car> 2 - c - 4- Continuance for and during fuch Time as the Act of Tonnage and Poundage, made in the twelfth Year of the Reign of the faid King Charles the Second, is continued, and no longer. Concerning To- bacco fee farther 6 Geo. J, c. 21. 9 Ceo. 1. c. 21. 12 Geo. I. c. 2S. 21 Geo. 2. c. 2. 24 Geo. 2. c. 41. 26 Geo. 2. c. 13. ' XX. And whereas the Governor and Company of Merchants of Great Britain trading to the South- 6 Seas and other Parts cf America and for encouraging the Fifhery did provide and (hip on board their an- ' nual Ship, The Royal George, John Davifon Commander, for the Spanijh Wejl-Indies, a valuable Cargo ' of Goods purfuant to the AJJierito Treaty and the late Convention between their Britannick and Catho- 1 lick Majeities; which Ship could not proceed on her intended Voyage by reafon of the King of Spain's ' fufpending her Departure and not granting the neceffary Difpatches : And whereas the faid Governor ' and Company (in order to make the faid Cargo afibrtable) were obliged to import and buy feveral Goods ' from foreign Parts, the Cuftoms and Duties payable thereon at Importation being paid; which foreign ' Goods were entred and fhipped out at the Cuftom-houfe on board their faid Ship in Time, by which ' they are entitled to a Drawback, payable out of his Majefty's Cuftoms, on the Exportation of the faid 1 Goods; but the faid Ship being hindred from proceeding on her intended Voyage as aforefaid, and it '• being abfolutely neceffary, for the Prefcrvation of the faid Ship and Cargo, that all the Goods now on South-Sea Com-' board fhould be relanded :' Be it enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That it fhall and may be lawful pany may reland to and for the faid Governor and Company of Merchants of Great Britain trading to the South-Seas and and put into other Parts of America, and for encouraging the Fifhery, to reland or caufe to be relanded, in the Pre- fore'iR ^Good's C fence of the proper Officer or Officers of the Cuftoms, the faid foreign Goods fo fhipped as aforefaid; in the Royal and fuch Goods fo relanded are to be put into a proper Warehoufe or Warehoufes (to be provided by and George, at the Charge of the faid Company) and there kept under the King's and the Company's Locks, the Company or their Servants or Agents having free Accefs to the faid Warehoufe or Warehoufes at all rea- and on re(Mp- fonable Times; and the faid Officers are hereby directed to give their Attendance at fuch Times, when ping entitled to required; and for fecuring to the faid Governor and Company the Benefit of the Drawback on the faid a0rawba>.k. foreign Goods, notwithftanding their relanding the fame, the proper Officers of his Majefty's Cuftoms are hereby directed and impowered (on the faid Governor and Company's refhipping and exporting the faid foreign Goods on the fame or any other Ship or Ships) to make out a Debenture or Debentures for al- lowing and paying to the faid Governor and Company the fame Drawback tTey would have been entitled unto, in cafe their faid Ship, The Royal George, had proceeded on her faid intended Voyage and the faid foreign Goods had not been relanded; any Law, Cuftom or Ufage to the contrary in any wife notwith- ftanding. Recital «f ' XXI. And whereas by an Act of Parliament made in the tenth Year of the Reign of his la'.e Majefty 10& 11W..3. * King William the Third, intituled, An Ail to prevent the Exportation of IVool out of Kingdoms of Ireland x Day of June in the Year of our Lord one thoufand fix hundred ninety-nine, fhould directly or indirectly ' export, tranfport, fhip off, carry or convey, or caufe or procure to be exported, tranfported, fhipped ' oft", carried or conveyed out of or from the faid King lorn of Inland into any foreign Realm, States or ' land or the Dominion of TVales, any the Wool, Wool-fells, Shortlings, Mortlings, Wool-flocks, Wor- ' fted, bay or woollen Yarn, Cloth, Serge, Bays, Kcrfeys, Says, Frizes, Druggets, Cloth-ferges, Shal- ' loons, or any o.her Drapery Stuffs or woollen Manufactures whatsoever, made up or mixt with Wool ' or Wool-flocks, or fhould directly or indirectly load or caufe to be loaden upon any Horfe, Cart or other ' Carriage, or load or lay on board or caufe to be laden or laid on board in any Ship or Veiled in any ' fame to be exported, tranfported, fhipped oft, canied or conveyed out of the faid Kingdom of Ireland or ' whatfoever fhould fo export, tranfport, fhip off, carry or convey the fame out of the faid Kingdom of ' Ireland into any Ports or Places (except as aforefaid) upon pain of forfeiting the faid Wool and other ' Matten aforefaid lb exported, tranfported, (hipped oft" or carried, conveyed or Joaden contrary to tha ' true Intent and Meaning of that Act, and under other the Penalties therein mentioned : And whereas 4 it is further enacted by the faid Act, That it fhould and might be lawful to and for any Perfon or Per- 4 fons.to feize, take, fycure' and convey to his Majefty's next Warehoufe all fuch Wool and other the Mat- ' ters aforefaid, as he or they fhould happen to fee, find, know or difcover to be laid on board in ai.y 1 Ship, 5 10.
 * and England into foreign Parts, and for the Encouragem nt of the JVaollen Manufactures in the Kingdom of
 * England, It was enacted, That no Perfon or Perfons whatfoever, from and after the four and twentieth
 * Dominions, or into any Parts or Places whatfoever, other than the Parts within the Kingdom of Eng~
 * Place or Part within or belonging to the faid Kingdom of Ireland, any fuch Wool or other the Matters
 * aforefaid, to the Intent or Purpoic to exportj tranfport, fhip off, carry or convey the fame, or caufe the
 * out of" any Port or Place belonging to the fame, or with Intent or Purpofe that any Perfon or Perfons