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 A. D. 1733: Anno fexto Georgii II. C. b 3 7. 113 flfeiundred and feventeen, in order to pafs, alter or change any Manors, Lands, Tenements or Herc- ' ditaments, or any Interefl therein or Rent or Profit thereout, from any Perfon profeffing the Popilh 4 have been, in cafe the faid Deeds and Wills had been inrolled within the Times limited in the faid ' Claufes in the faid former Acts for the Inrolment thereof; provided the fame Deeds and Wills (hould be ' his Majefty's Proteftant Subjects, fince the twenty-ninth Day of September one thoufand feven hundred ' and feventeen, have purchaled Lands and taken Leafes upon Fines paid, where fome fmall Rents have < been referved, from Papilts or Perfons profeffing the Popilh Religion, and have omitted or neglected to ' inrol their Purchafe Deeds and Leafes within the Times limited by the faid Claufes in the faid Acts ' direcled for the Inrolment thereof, and are in Danger of being defeated of their faid Purchafes and EsY. " Deeds and Wills made by Papifts fince 29 Sept. 1717, and not duly inrolled, fhall be good, if inrolled " by 29 Sept. 1733. Deeds or Wills, of whofe Deficiency in Inrolment Advantage was taken by 1 Feb. " 1732, excepted. No Purchafe made for valuable Confideration by any Proteftant fhall be avoided for " want of Inrolment: So as no Judgement, &c. hath been obtained." See 9 Geo. 2. c. 26. Concerning Papijh, fee farther 11 Geo. 2. c. 17. 33 Geo. 2. c. 13. C A P. VI. An A£t for obviating a Doubt which may arife upon an Act made in the fourth Year of his prefent Majefty's Reign, intituled, An ASl that all Proceedings in the Courts of Jujiice within that Part of Great Britain called England, and in the Court of Exchequer in Scot- land, fhall be in the Englifh Language, fo far as the fame doth or may relate to the Court of the Receipt of his Majefty's Exchequer, or to any Members or Branches thereof. , TT 7 HE RE AS by an Act made in the fourth Year of his Majefty's Reign, intituled, An Acl_ that 4 Geo. ». c. zi. W all Proceedings in the Courts of Jujiice within that Part of Great Britain called England, and in the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, fhall be in the Englifh Language, it is amongft other Things enacted, ' That from and after the twenty-fifth Day of March one thoufand feven hundred and thirty-three, all ' Indictments, Informations, Inquilitions, Prefentinents, Verdicts, Prohibitions, Certificates, and all ' of Courts Leet, Courts Baron and Cuftomary Courts, and all Copies thereof, and all Proceedings ' of Exchequer in Scotland, and which concern the Law and Adminiftration of Juftice, (hall be in the 4 EngliJJ) Tongue and Language only, and not in Latin or French, or any other Tongue or Language ' at length and not abbreviated : And w r hereas a Doubt may arife, whether the Proceedings in the Court ' or any general Words therein contained;' For obviating the faid Doubts, Be it declared and enacted TheAcft^G^o.a., by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and pVoceedingsTn Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That i, aw to be in the faid Act, or any Thing therein contained, fhall not extend, or be conftrued, deemed or taken to Englifli. 1 not to >» -extend to the faid Court of the Receipt of his Majefty's Exchequer, or to any Proceedings therein, or to ^ ^^ L C °" any Members or Branches thereof. the Exchequer. II. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That the faid Court of Receipt and the The Bllfme r s f feveral Members thereof, and their Under Officers, Deputies and Clerks, fhall carry on the Bufinefs to the faid court to them feverally and reflectively belonging and appertaining, according to the ufua] Courfe and amient Me- be carried on thod and Practice, and in like Manner as if the faid Act had never been made ; any Tiling therein to the ?nrienUWe°hocK contrary thereof in any wife notwithstanding. CAP. VII. An Act for the free Importation and Exportation of Diamonds, Pearls, Rubies, Emerald* and all other Jewels and precious Stones. ' Wf H E R E A S this Kingdom is now become a great Mart for Diamonds and other precious Stone's ' V V and Jewels, from whence molt foreign Countries are fupplied, 2nd great Numbers of rough ' Diamonds are fent from abroad to be cut and polifhed here, which is a <?reat Advantage to "this Nation, Vol. VI, Q_ k 'w3
 * Religion, though not then inrolled, fhould be as good and effectual in the Law, as the fame would
 * inrolled on or before twenty-ninth Day of September one thoufand feven hundred and thirty-one, in
 * fuch Manner as by the faid Claufe in the faid nrft-mentioned Act is direcled : And whereas feveral of
 * Leafes : And whereas feveral Infants and others, claiming under the laft Wills and Teftaments of Pa-
 * pifts or Perfons profeffing the Popilh Religion, may be defeated of their faid Lands fo devifed to
 * them, through the Neglect or Omiifion of the Executors or Truftees of fuch Wills, to inrol the fame
 * in due Time, according to the Direction of the faid Claufes in the faid Acts : ' Be it therefore enacted,
 * Writs, Procefs and Returns thereof, and Proceedings thereon, and all Pleadings, Rules, Orders,
 * Patents, Charters, Pardons, Commiffions, Records, Judgments, Statutes, Recognizances, Bonds,
 * Rolls, Entries, Fines and Recoveries, and all Proceedings relating thereunto, and all Proceedings
 * whatfoever in any Courts of Juftice within that Part of Great Britain called England, and in the Court
 * whatfoever, and fhall be written in fuch a common legible Hand and Character as the Acts of Par-
 * liament are ufually ingroffed in, and the Lines and Words of the fame to be written at leaft as
 * clofe as the faid Acts ufually are, and not in any Hand commonly called Court Hand, and in Words
 * of the Receipt of his Majefty's Exchequer are or may be comprehended or included within the faid Act,