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 A. D. 1736. Anno nono Georgii II. C. 32. 229 « Parliament of Scotland, in the third Year of the Reign of her late Majefty Queen Anne, continued 3 AnnaB > ''« for the further Term of fixteen Years, and by an Act of the firft Year of his late Majefty King °" u « thoufand feven hundred and thirty-eight: And whereas the yearly Produce of the faid Impofition fo ' mull end in the utter Deftruction of the Government of the City, unlefs fome Remedy is found : ' And whereas the Village of Gorbells, which is divided from Glafgow only by the River Clyde, holds- ' few of the faid City, and has its Support alone from the Trade thereof, enjoying almoft every Pri- 1 vilege equal with the City, and reaping the Fruit of the Expence laid out by them in making and ' repairing Roads and Bridges, at the fame Time that the City is at a confiderable Expence in paving ' the Streets of the faid Village, though the faid Village is not at prcfent contributary to that Expence: ' And whereas the City of Glafgow purchafed the Village of Port Glafgow for the Accommodation of ' their Trade, and have at great Expence built, and are at a continual neceflary Expence in maintaining ' and enlarging a very commodious Harbour there, which occafions that Refort and Commerce, by ' which they obtain confiderable Profit and Advantage : And whereas the Extenfion of the Impofition c or Duty of two Pennies Scots, or one fixth Part of a Penny Sterling^ upon Ale and Beer, over the faid ' Villages of Gorbells and Port Glafgow, which reap the Benefit of the Commerce as well as the Ex- The Duties are further continued for 25 Years from 1 Nov. 1738. CAP. XXXII. An Act for continuing, for the Purpofes therein mentioned, the additional Duties upon ftamped Vellum, Parchment and Paper, laid by an Act paffed in the twelfth Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Firft. « T HE R E A S by an Act of Parliament made and paffed in the twelfth Year of the Reign of his J^J^Ac?" ' VV late Majefty King George the Firft, intituled, An Ait for the Relief of the. Suitors of the High i a Geo,i»c^s. 4 Court of Chancery, after reciting (amongft other Things) that Fleetwood Dormer, and John Barrett, ' Efquires, then Mafters of the fame Court, had been deficient in anfwering the Money and Effects ' fand Pounds given by his Majefty on the Addrefs of the Houfe of Commons towards the Relief of r ; r n Deficiency ' the faid Suitors, amounted (according to the then Computation) to the Sum of fifty-one thjufand en four Matters- ' Claims on the Offices of four of the faid deficient Mafters remaining, and which (if allowed) would ' greatly increafe the faid Deficiency ; it was, for Relief of the faid Suitors, and the making' a Provi- The Dutvof ' Writs and other Law Proceedings therein mentioned fhould be raifed, levied and paid for the Term plying it. ' of fixteen Years, from the fecond Day of Auguft one thoufand feven hundred and twenty-fix,, to be ' under the Direction and Management of the Commiflioners of the Stamp Duties ; and that the Mo- ' ney thereby to-be raifed and collected fnould be paid into the Bank of England, and the faid Court of 4 Chancery was thereby impowered to borrow any Sum of Money upon the Fund thereby granted, not ' exceeding in the whole the Sum of fixty thoufand Pounds ; and it was thereby enacted, That all 4 the Money then depofited, or thereafter to be depofited, in the Bank, on account of the Suitors of ' the faid Court of Chancery, or by Order of the faid Court, and all the Monies arifing by the Rares. ' and Duties given by the laid Act, or borrowed thereon, and paid into the Bank, fhoukl be accounted ' and taken to be one common and general Cafli, and (hould be promifcuoufly iffued and iffaable, when ' Demands of any of the Suitors of the faid Cou.-t ; and the faid Court of Chancery were by the laid ' the Suitors upon the Officers of the faid Fleet-wood Dormer, John Barrett, Richard Godfrey, and Ed- 4 ward Conway, in a fummary Way, and caufe to be done therein what (hould be equitable and j.uft : ' And whereas upon the final fettling and determining the Claims and Demands of the Suitors of the Total' Sura o* ' faid Court of Chancery upon the Offices of the faid four Mafters it appeared, that the total Deficiency tlte a ^uS|? n< * ' of the faid four Mafters amounted to one hundred and three thoufand fix hundred and thirty-five u?eCia'im'"o£ ' Pounds fix Shillings and two Pence, and there hath refulted and been produced from the faki thirty Suitor*.. 4 thoufand Pounds fo given by his Majefty, and the Intereft attending the fame, the Sum of thirty-nine 4 thoufand eight hundred and thirty-four Pounds fixteen Shillings and feven Pence, confiding of twenty ' thoufand five hundred and thirty-four Pounds fixtf.n Shillings and feven Pence, Cafh in the Bank, ' and nineteen thoufand three hundred Pounds, Land-Tax Orders depofited alfo in the Bank, and ' there hath bsen raifed and collected, by and out of the Duties directed to be levied by the faid former ' Act, from the fecond Day of Aiigujl one thoufand feven hundred and twenty-fix, to the third Day ' of March one thoufand fevenhundied and thirty-rive, the Sum of thirty-eight thoufand nine huh- 4 * ored;
 * George the Firft, was continued till the firft Day of November, which ihall be in the Year one
 * granted, when added to the City's annual Revenue, falls fhort of the neceflary annual Expence, fo
 * that the City mull be obliged to leave the neceflary Works undone, which will very much check, the
 * growing Induftry and Commerce thereof, to contract Debts for anfwering thofe Expences, which
 * pence of the faid City, will enlarge the Produce of the faid Duty granted to the City, and enable them
 * to carry on the Government, and defray the neceflary Expence thereof, &e."
 * Efquires, both deceafed, formerly Mafters of the faid Court, and Richard Godfrey, and Edward Conway,
 * ordered by the Court into their Hands, and which Deficiency, after deducting what fhould be made
 * and produced out of the Eftates and Effects of the faid deficient Mafters, and the Sum of thirty thou- c'^^f^ S, ,
 * eight hundred and fifty-one Pounds nineteen Shillings and eleven Pence Farthing, befides feveral other Account.
 * lion for Payment of their juft Debts and Demands, enacted, That a Duty of fix Pence on certain *_£ ° f " r fu r ' t _ Sr
 * and as the Court of Chancery fhould direct, for the anfwering, paying and clearing the Debts and
 * Act authorized and impowered, with all convenient Speed, to determine the Claims and Demands of