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 A. D. 1736. Anno nono Georgii II. C. 24. 221 « the Alterations aforefaid in the faid Duties, the Funds charged with the Payments aforcfaid may prove 4 his Majefty's Houfhold and Family :' To the end therefore that neither his Majefty, nor -any other Perfon or Perfons, Bodies Politick, or Corporate, who is or areintitlcd to any Part, Snare, or lntereft in the Money arifing by the faid Duties, may be Lofers, or receive any Prejudice by the Alterations aforefaid; Be it enacled by the Authority aforefaid, That from and after the faid twenty-ninth Day of September one thoufand feven hundred and thirty-fix, there fhall be paid to his Majefty, during his na- 70)0 ooi. per tural Life (which God long preferve) out of the Monies of the faid General or Aggregate Fund, the Ann. to benaid Sum of feventy thoufand Pounds per Annum, being the aforefaid Medium of what has annually been ap- out'ofYhef y < plied of the Duties aforefaid towards the Service of his Majefty's Houfhold and Family and other F un d, his Expences and Occafions, from his happy Acceflion to the Throne to Midfummer laft paft. XIX. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That when and as often as any Defi- Deficiencies ciency fhall happen upon any other the Funds, for which the faid Duties were applicable, it fhall pfj^, 10 p " and may be lawful to and for the Commiflioners of his Majefty's Treafury now being, or the High Treafurer, or the Commiflioners of his Majefty's Treafury for the time being, to make good and fupply the faid Deficiency from time to time out of the faid General or Aggregate Fund. XX. And for the more eafy Difcovery of Perfons, who fhall keep a Common Ale-houfe or Tippling- Juftices may houfe without Licence, or who fhall prefume to fell any Spirituous Liquors, or any Ale, Beer, Cyder, officerfw Sots Perry, or other Liquors by Retale, without fuch Licence or Licences as are by Law required for vending an Account on the fame ; Be it enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That it fhall and may lawful to and for every Juftice Oath touching or Juftices of the Peace to fummon or call before him or them any Excife Officer or Gauger within their s^rftuousU- refpective Divifions, and to examine the faid Officer or Gauger upon Oath touching the Entry of any quors, &c Spirituous Liquors, Ale, Beer, Cyder, or Perry, made by any Perfon fufpected to fell the fame without made by Per- Licence, and every Perfon making fuch Entry, fhall be deemed a Seller of fuch Liquors fo entred to all l^"^"^ Intents and Purpofes, as if the fame had been proved before fuch Juftice or Juftices by the Oath of two without ll Witneffes. «nce. XXI. And be it further enacled by the Authority aforefaid, That from and after the twenty-ninth p er fons who Day of September one thoufand feven hundred and thirty-fix, any Perfon or Perfons, who have followed have exercifed andexercifed the Art or Bufinefs of Diftillation for feven Years laft paft, or have ferved, or on the i?Ye ar " S or on twenty-fifth Day of March one thoufand hundred and thirty-fix, were ferving any Apprenticefhip to l s March 1736, the fame, fhall and may have full Liberty and Authority to exercife and follow any other Trade, wereAppren- Art, Bufinefs, or Manufacture in any City, Town, or Place, within that Part of Great Britain call- foiio' w & an y may ed England; any Law, Charter, Grant, Cuftom, or Ufage, to the contrary notwithftanding. Trade in any XXII. Provided neverthelefs, That nothing in this Act contained fhall extend to charge with any of Cit y, &c - the Duties directed to be paid, levied or received, as aforefaid, any Spirits made or diftilled from Malt, TMs^'cf'not'to and retailed and confumed within that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, which Spirits are commonly extend to Aqua called or known by the Name of Jqua Vita in that Part of the Kingdom, or to fubject the Makers, Vitse retailed Sellers or Retailers thereof within that Part of the Kingdom to take fuch Licences as are herein before f"s c C o°t"and! ed directed. Concerning SpU fee farther, 10 Geo. a. e. 17. 11 Geo. a. c'26. 15 Geo. 2. c. 25. 16 Geo. 2. c 8. J7 Geo. 2. c. 17. 19 Geo, a. c, la. SO Geo, 2. r.39. ".'<?« 2 "Tlo, V> Geo, 2. c, 13. 27 Geo, a. c, 11. 31 Geo, 2, c, 36. 32 Geo, 2. c, ±<j. 33 Geo. a. c, 9 & a8. CAP. XXIV. An Act for exhibiting a Bill in this prefent Parliament for naturalizing her Royal Highnefs the Princefs of Wales. c TT7HEREAS the King's moil Excellent Majefty (whom God long preferve) hath been graci- Preamble. ' fecuring of the Proteftant lntereft, to marry his eldeft Son his Royal Highnefs the Prince of Wales, ' which render him worthy of his great Anceftors, to a Princefs of the higheft perfonal Merit, and of ' cellent Princefs, by rendring her capable of enjoying all our Rights and Privileges : And whereas by an. ' Ad paffed in the tirft Year of his late Majefty King George, it was enacted, That no Perfon fhould cuufe in the I be naturalized, unlefs in the Bill exhibited for that Purpofe there be a Claufe, or particular Words in- a& i Geo. r. therefore your Majefty's moft dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Com- mons of Great Britain, in Parliament afiembled, do moft humbly befeech your Majefty, that it may be enacted - s and be it enacted by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of
 * deficient : And whereas by a Medium of eight Years, computed from the Time of his Majefty's hap-
 * py Acceflion to the Throne to Midfummer laft pad, the Sum of feventy thoufand Pounds is taken to be
 * the Medium of the annual Produce of what has been applied of the Duties aforefaid to the Service of
 * W oufly pleafed, to the great Joy and Satisfaction of his People, and for the ftrengthening and
 * who by following the Example of his Royal Father, is pofTeffed of Virtues and Accomplishments,
 * the Ancient and Illuftrious Houfe of Saxe Gotha, a Family remarkable for their exalted Virtues, and for
 * their fteady Adherence to the Proteftant Religion : And whereas we are defirous upon this Occafion to
 * exprefs our juft Senfe of his Majefty's great Goodnefs to us, and our Efteem and Affection for this Ex-
 * ferted, to declare, that fuch Perfon fhall not thereby be enabled to be of the Privy Council, or a Mem- £*• concerning
 * ber of either Houfe of Parliament, or to take any Office or Place of Truft, either Civil or Military, ^te ' '
 * or to have any Grant of Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, from the Crown, to himfelf, or any
 * Perfon in Truft for him ; and that no Bill of Naturalization fhould from thenceforth be received in ei-
 * ther Houfe of Parliament, unlefs fuch Claufe or Words be firft inferted or contained therein ;? We