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 A. D. 1734. Anno feptimo Georgii II. C. 4 3 --6. 151 •either Civil or Military, or to have any Grant of Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, from the ' Crown to himfelf, or any other Perfon in Truft for him ; and that no Bill fhould from thence- 'contained therein;' Be it enacted by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the Came, That a Bill for the Naturalization of his Highnefs the Prince of^ r ^f°'"j Orange, without the Claufe or paiticular Words directed by the faid laft recited Act to be inferted, Prince of and without his receiving the Sacrament, or taking the Oaths by the firft recited Act required, fhall and Orange may may be exhibited and brought into this Parliament, and twice read ; the faid recited Acts, or any other withou'c"his d ' Law, Statute, Matter, or Thing whatfoever to the contrary notwithstanding. conforming to ... the faid Afts. CAP. IV. An Aft for naturalizing the moft Serene Prince William Charles Henry Frifo, Prince of Orange and Najfau. « TTTH E R E A S the King's moft Excellent Majefty (whom God long preferve) hath been pleafed, ' Proteftant Interelt in Europe, to give his eldeft Daughter the Princefs Royal, poffeffing the moft ex- ' alted Virtues, and adorned with all poflible Accomplilhments, in Marriage to his moft Serene High- ' nefs William Charles Henry Frifo, Prince of Orange and Najfau, defcended from that illuftrious Houfe, ' to which this Kingdom owes its Prefervation from Popery and Slavery, -effected by their Glorious De- ' liverer King William the Third, to whofe Memory this Nation will always exprefs the utmoft Gra- ' the prefent Royal Family : And whereas a more grateful Proof of the Efteem and Affection of this ' Nation car.not be given to the Heir of that illuftrious Family, and the Inheritor of its Virtues, than ' by an Act of Naturalization to make him capable of enjoying thofe Rights and Liberties, which their ' great Deliverer fo happily refcued and fecured : ' We therefore your Majefty's moft dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in Parliament affembled, do moft humbly befeech your Majefty that it may be enacted ; anJ be it enacted by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this pre- fent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That the faid Prince, his moft Serene The Prince of Highnefs William Charles Henry Frifo, Prince of Orange and Najfau, be, to all Intents and Purpofes b/Ximed a a whatfoever, deemed, taken, and efteemed a natural-born Subject of this Kingdom, as if the faid natural-bom Prince had been born within this Realm j any Law, Statute, Matter, or Thing whatfoever to the subject this contrary notwithftanding. Kingdom. .CAP. V, An Act for enlarging the Term and Powers granted by an Act pafled in the fixth Year of the The Powers Reign of his late Majefty King George the Firft, intituled, An Ail for laying a Duty of two Pennies l r A nted by Aa Scots, or one fixth Part of a Penny Sterling, upon every Pint of Ale or Beer that /hall be vended or fold further com?-*. within the Town of Montrofe, and Privileges thereof, Jar fupplying the faid Town with Frefl) Water ; and nueti for aj for other Purpofes therein mentioned* PR. Years. . cap. vi. :.. .: . An Act ior granting and continuing the Duties upon Salt, and upon Red and White Herrings, for the Geo ' ^ . • further Term of feven Years ; and for licenfing the erecting new Refineries of Rock Salt in the S Counties of Effex and Suffolk. " The Duties on Salt granted by y Geo. z. c. 6. further continued for " 7 Years. Claufe of Loan for one million, at 4/. per Cent." EXP. . " XVII. ' AND whereas by an Act made in the firft Year of the Reign of the late Queen .Anne, ' in any Place or Places whatfoever within the Kingdom of England, Dominion of Wales, or Town of f Berwick upon Tweed, except in fuch Places as are or (hall "be within ten Miles Diftance of the re- ' fpective Pit or Pits from whence fuch Rock Salt (hall be taken, or at any fuch Places as on or be- ' now Houfes or Places in which Rock Salt has been and is refined or made into: White Salt,, at Hey- 1 bridge, Colchejlsr, and Maningtree, iri the County of Effex, at Ipfivich, Woodbridge, Walierjwick, and ' Southwold, in the County of Suffolk, and thofe Places, and the. Country thereabouts, having no .-O'p- 1 happen that the Refiners of Rock Salt at thofe Houfes or Places may not make fufficLent Quantities of ' White Salt to fupply the Country thereabouts, or may hold up what they do make to an exorbitant After z4.Marc'fi, ' Price, knowing no other Perfon whatfoever can, by reafon of the above recited Act, .erect, or fet up " 7 #> the c °™- after the twenty-fifth Day of March one thoufand feyen hundred and thirty-four, it mail and may be may grant Li- lawful to -and for the .Comm;ffioners,and Governors for levying snd managing his Majefty's Duties ^ e "|^ r for ? ne on Salt and Rock Salt for the time being,, or the major Part of them, to permit or licenfe any Per- RociTsait^t fon or Perfons to erect, fet up, or make ufe of any Houfe, Building, or Place proper for the Refining of ■%'*>-«&*> cd- Rock^'"' &c -
 * forth be received in either Houfe of Parliament, unlefs fuch Claufe or Words be firft inferted or
 * VV to the univerfal Joy and Satisfaction of his People, and for the better ftrengthening of the
 * titude for the many Bleflings they enjoy, particularly for the happy Settlement of the Crown upon
 * J~ it is enacted, That no Rock Salt whatfoever. mall be refined or made into White Salt
 * fore the tenth Day of May, one thoufand feven hundred and two, (hall, have been ufed for the refi-
 * ning of Rock Salt, und.r a Penalty therein expreffed : And whereas there has been anciently and are
 * portunity of being fupplied with other Salt than Salt refined or made from Rock Salt, and as it may
 * any hew Refinery ; ' For Remedy whereof, be it enacted by the Authority aforefaid r That' from, and Salt Duties ; "