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 5 So C. 6' ■15, Anno duodecimo Georgii Regis. A. D. 1725, merits of Dragoons, and eight Regiments of Foot lately difbanded in Ireland, except to fuch as were lately taken off the iiftablifhment of Half- pay in Great Britain. it Geo. 1. c. S. ' XXXV. And whereas by an Act of Parliament made in the eleventh Year of his Majefty's Reign, foT v continuing the Duties on Malt, Mum, Cyder and Perry, to raife Money for the Service of the Year one ' thoufand ieven hundred and twenty-five, and for other Purpofes therein expreffed, feveral Supplies which ' had been granted to his Majefty, as is therein mentioned, were appropriated to feveral Ufes and Purpofes ' therein exprefTed, among which any Sum or Sums of Money, not exceeding feventy-feven thoufand ' Pounds upon Account of Half-pay, for the Year one thoufand ieven hundred and twenty-five, was ap- 1 propriated to be paid to the reduced Officers of his Majefty's Land-Forces and Marines, fubject never- ' thelefs to fuch Rules to be obferved in the Application of the faid Half-pay, as in and by the aforefaid ' Act were prescribed in that Behalf:' Now it is' hereby provided, enacted and declared, by the Authority aforefaid, That fo much of the faid Sum of feventy-feven thoufand Pounds, as is or lliall be more than fuf- frcierit to fatisfy the faid reduced Officers, according to the faid Rules by the faid Act prefcribed to be ob- Overplusof ferved in the Application thereof, or any Part of fuch Overplus, fhall or may be difpofed to fuch Officers Half-pay, how who are maimed or loft their Limbs in the late Wars, or to fuch others by Reafon of their long Service, to be applied. or otherwife, his Majefty fhall judge to be proper Objects of Charity, or to the Widows or Children of" fuch Officers, according to fuch Warrant or Warrants under his Majefty's Royal Sign Manual as fhall be figned in that Behalf; any Thing in this Act or the faid former Act to the contrary notwithftanding. CAP. XIII. An Act for repairing and widening the Roads from the City of Ghucefter to the City of Hereford. P R. The Tolls are to have Continuance from the 24th of June ijz6, for 21 Years. [Continued by zo Geo. 2. c. 31.] CAP. XIV. An Act for repairing feveral Roads therein mentioned, leading into the City of Wor- cefter. P R. HERE AS the feveral Highways, Streets or Roads leading from the feveral Gates and the Bridge of the City of Worcejler, to Cudley Heath., in the Parifh of Warndon, in the County of WorceJler y being one Mile and an Half, or thereabouts, and to a Bridge called Stoneboiv-Bridge in the faid County, being four Miles, or thereabouts, and from a Place called The Yewtree in the Parifh of Spetchly, to Upton Snodfbury, in the faid County, being two Miles, or thereabouts, and from the faid City of ' Tvorcejler to a Place called Aylejborough Far?n in the faid County, being fix Miles, or thereabouts, and to a Place called ' Seavern Stoak, in the faid County, being four Miles, or thereabouts, and to a Place called The Rid Green, ' in the Parifh of Hanley Caftle in the faid County, being four Miles, or thereabouts, and to a Place called 6 The Link, in the Parifh of Great Malvern, in the faid County, being four Miles, or thereabouts, and to a ' Place called The High Ladder Stile, in the Parifh of Leigh in the faid County, being five Miles, or there- ' abouts, and to a Place called Hereford/hire Lake, in the" Parifh of Knightwick in the faid County, being fix ' Miles, or thereabouts, and to a Place called Hombridge, in the Parifh of Marily in the faid County, being ' fix Miles, or thereabouts, and to a Place called The Hundred Houfe, in the Parifh of Great Whitley in the ' faid County, being fix Miles, or thereabouts, and to a Place called The Mitre Oak, in the Parifh of Hartle- ' bury in the faid County, being fix Miles, or thereabouts, by Reafon of the Soil thereof, and the heavy f Carriages paffing through the fame, are become fo ruinous, &c." The Toll took Place the ill of June 1726, and is to continue for 21 Years. [Continued by 10 Geo. 2. c S-] CAP. XV. An Act for repairing the Walls, Gates and other publick Works in the City of Norwich, and feveral Bridges in and near the faid City, and for amending the Roads therein men- tioned. P R. 4 VV with thick Stone Walls, wherein are twelve large Gates, and there are alfo fix large Bridges ' over the River running through the faid City, called Hellejden, Coflany, Black Fryers, Eyebright, White ' Fryers and Bijhopgate Bridges, and likewife divers publick Waftes, Stathes and Wharfs, in the faid City; the faid Walls, Gates, Bridges, Waftes, Stathes and Wharfs are now become very rui- And whereas nous, tsV, After 1 May 1726, all Matters of Veflels paffing up the River higher than Thorp-Hall, to pay Toll. For every Chaldron of Coals 4^. For every Laft of Wheat, Rye, Barley, Malt or other Grain 4.d. For every Weigh of Salt ^d. For three Hogfheads of Sugar, Tobacco, MolafTes, or Hogfheads packed with other dry Goods 4.d. For three Puncheons of Liquor 4<r/. For four Hogfheads or two Pipes of Wine,. Spirits or other Liquors 4^. For eight Barrels of Sope, Raifrns, Oil, Pitch, Tar or packed with other dry Goods 4 d. For every whole Butt or two Half-Butts of Currans d. For two Pipes of Smyrna Rai- fins 4 d. For twenty-four Bags of Nails d. For fixty Bars of Iron /{.d. For fifty Pieces of Iron called 3 " Short
 * !• %7 HERE AS the City of Norwich is an antient City, and the greateft Part thereof encompafTed