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 360 C. 3, 4. Anno o£tavo Georgii Regis. A. D. 1721. ' the' Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and twenty-one, fhall ereft, fet up, continue or keep, ES ' or fliall caufe or procure to be erefted, fet up, continued or kept, any Office or Place under the Deno- Perfons who af- t^e'Yi tern Dec. 1721, fhall ereft Offices ' , for Sale, &c. by niination or bales or Houies, Lanas, Advowlons, Frefentations to .Livings, rlate, Jewels, Ships way of Lottery,' Goois or other Things, for the Improvement of fmall Sums of" Money; or fhall fell or expofe to Sale &c. (hall forfeit an y Houfes, Lands, Advowfons, Prefentations to Livings, Plate, jewels, Ships, Goods or other Things 50C >he Crown ^ ^ wa ^ oi L° tter y> or by Lots, Tickets, Numbers or Figures; or fhall make, print, advertife or another to ih'e publifli, or caufe to be made, printed, advertifed or publifhed, Propofals or Schemes for advancing fmall informer, and Sums of Money by fevcral Perfons, amounting in the Whqle to large Sums, to be divided among them the other to the by the Chances of the Prizes in fome publick Lottery or Lotteries, ettablifhed or allowed by Aft of Par- Poor where, &c. Jiament; or fhall deliver out, or caufe or procure to be delivered out, Tickets to the Perfons advancing fuch Sums to entitle them to a Share of the Money fo advanced according to fuch Propofals or Schemes; or fliall make, print or publifh, or caufe to be made, printed or publioied, any Propofal or Scheme of the like Kind or Nature, under any Denomination, Name or Title whatsoever; and fhall be thereof convifted upon. the Oath or Oaths of one or more credible: WJtnefs or WitnelTes, by two or more Juftices of the Peace of the County, Divifion or Liberty where fuch Offence fhall be committed, or the Offender fliall be found (which Oath fuch juftices of the Peace are hereby impowered and required to adminifter) the Perfon fo convifted fliall for every fuch Offence, over and above any former Penalties inflicted by any former Aft or Afts of Parliament made againft any private or unlawful Lotteries, forfeit the Sum of five hundred Pounds, one third Part thereof to his Majefty, his Heirs and Succeffors, one other third Part thereof 10 the Informer, and the remaining third Part thereof to the Poor of the Parifh where fuch Of- fence fliall be committed; the fame to be levied by Diftrefs and Sale of the Offender's Goods, by War- rant under the Hands and Seals of fuch Juftices before whom fuch Offender fliall be convifted as afore- faid; and fliall alfo for every fuch Offence by fuch Juftices be committed to the County-Gaol, there to remain without Bail or Mainprize for the Space of one whole Year, and from thence till the faid Sum of five hundred Pounds, fo forfeited as aforefaid,. fliall be fully paid and fatisfied : Provided neverthelefs, that any Perfon who fhall think himfelf or herfelf aggrieved by the Judgment or Determination of two or Perfons aggrieved raore f ucn Juftices, in any the Cafes aforefaid, fliall have Liberty to appeal to the next Quarter-Seffions may appeal to t0 ^ c j^ij j or t ^ e c ount y 5 Q; t y or p] ace w here fuch Judgment or Determination fliall be made or given; gaiter - ions. ^^ ^^ ^ J uf jg me nt to be given by the Juftices at the faid next Quarter-Seffions fhall be final. XXXVII. And be it further enafted by the Authority aforefaid, That all and every Perfon and Per- fons who, after the Time aforefaid, fhall be Adventurer or Adventurers in, or fliall pay any Money or Perfons cant"- other Confideration, or any ways contribute unto, or upon the Account of any fuch Sales, Lotteries, &c! n to forfeit ' Propofals' or Schemes aforefaid, fliall forfeit for every fuch Offence double the Sum paid or contributed, double the Sum to be recovered with Colts of Suit by Aftion of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information in any of his Ma- contributed, one jefty's Courts of Record at JVeftminJier, wherein no Effbiri, Proteftion, Wager of Law, nor anymore Moiety to the tna n one Imparlance fliall be allowed; one Moiety thereof to his Majefty, his Heirs and Succeffors, the Crown the other Qther Moiety thereof to the Perfon or Perfons who fliall inform or fue for the fame. to the Informer. ' See farther 9 Geo. 1. c. 19. 6 Geo. 2. c. 35. 12 Geo. 2. c. 28. 13 Geo. 2. c. 19. 29 Geo. 2. c. 7. " Claufe for Relief of Perfons who have omitted to infert the Monies given with Clerks and Apprentices. " Claufe for giving further Time to the Accountant General of the Bank to return attefted Duplicates " of Annuities into the Exchequer. CAP. III. An Aft for punifhing Mutiny and Defertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quar- ters. EXP. CAP. IV. An Act for taking off the Duty upon all Salt ufed in the curing of Red Herrings, and laying a proportionable Duty upon all Red Herrings confumed at home only; and for afcertaining the Cuftoms and Exciie payable for the Sugar-Houfes in Scotland; and for making an Al- lowance for Salt loft in any Harbour or River of this Realm; and for the better fecuring the Duties on Salt delivered in Scotland. Geo 1. c is ' I- "llf 7 HERE AS by an Aft of Parliament made in the fifth Year of his prefent Majefty's Reign, in- s W. & 'm'.c. 7! ' W tituled. An Ail for recovering the Credit of the Britifh Fijhery in foreign Parts; and for better ltg%W. 3.C. 31.' fecuring the Duties on Salt, it is enafted, That all Curers of Fifli fliall be allowed to import foreign r,£?ioW.3 <r.6. ' Salt, or take from any Salt-works or Salt-pits any fuch Quantity of Britifh Salt, where the fame is ^44. iocs' 11' allowed by Law, for curing of Fifh for Exportation, as they fliall think proper, for curing Fifh for ikn' li'iVzi ' f° re 'g n Markets, without paying any Duty to his Majefty for the fame, except the Cuftoms payable i-Sf 3 Ann. ii^. ' upon the Importation thereof; in confequence whereof all Red Herrings (pent within this Realm are or 4/u, c. 11. ' fnould be cured with Salt that has paid the Duties; but in regard the fame are cured promifcuoufly, it 5 Ann. c. 29. ' is difficult to diftinguifh them from fuch as are intended to be exported, whereby his Majefty may be 6 Ann. c. iz. « defrauded in his Revenue without a proper Remedy for preventing the fame :' Be it therefore enafted IzAmi. »lz.rUj ^ y the King's moil: Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and 5<7<». i.e. Vs.". Temporal, and Commons, in this pxefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That 6 Ceo. t. c. Hi at