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 A. D. 1736. Anno nono Georgii H. C. 37. 247 reditaments, or of any Eftate or Intereft therein, or of any Charge or Incumbrance affecting or to affecTi any Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, or of any Stock, Money, Goods, Chatties or other Perfonal Eftate or Securities for Money to be laid out or difpofed of in the Purchafe of any Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, or of any Eftate or Intereft therein, or of any Charge or Incumbrance affecting or to affect the fame, to or in Fruft for any charitable Ufes whatfoever, which (hall at any Time from and af- ter the faid twenty-fourth Day of June one thoufand feven hundred and thirty-fix, be made in any other Manner or Form than by this Act is directed and appointed, fhall be abfolutely, and to all Intents and Purpofes, null and void. IV. Provided always, That this Act fliall not extend, or be conftrued to extend, to make void the Pifpo'fitions of any Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, or of any Perfonal Eftate to be laid out in the Purchafe of any Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, which fliall be made in any other Manner or But not to Tre- Form than by this Act is directed, to or in Truft for either of the two Univerfities within that Part of i^ Hi « p? *■ Great Britain called England, or any of the Colleges or Houfes of Learning within either of the faid Uni- th " 'coupes oT verfities, or to or in Truft for the Colleges of Eton, Winchejier, or TVeJlminfter, or any or either of Eton, wi'nche- them for the better Support and Maintenance of the Scholars only upon the Foundations of the faid ftcr.orWeft- Colleges of Eton, JVincheJler, and Wejlminjler. m ' n,ter " V. Provided neverthelefs, and be it enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That no fuch College or Houfe N° c olle r E e '° d of Learning, which doth or fliall hold or enjoy fo many Advowfons of Ecclefiaftical Benefices as are vcw^nTthan" or (hall be equal in Number to one Moiety of the Fellows or Peffons ufually ftiled or reputed as Fellows, (hall be equal to- or where there are or ftiall be no Fellows or Pcrfo:is ufually fti!ed or reputed as Fellows, to one » Moiety pftfceis iiifiwi quiring receiving, taking, holding or enjoying any other Advowfons of Ecclefiaftical Benefices by any Means whatfoever ; the Advowfons of fuch Ecclefiaftical Benefices as are annexed to, or given for the Benefit or better Support of the Headships of any of the faid Colleges or Houfes of Learning, not bein" computed in the Number of Advowfons hereby limited. VI. Provided always, That nothing in this Ad contained fliall extend or be conftrued to extend to T '» s 4 fl T B .? t fo the Difpofition, Grant or Settlement of any Eftate real or perfonal, lying or being within that Part of ?*l e c " J° nd> aws Great Britain called Seothvid. CAP. XXXVII. . An Act for further Encouraging and Regulating the Manufacture of Briti/h Sail Cloth, and for the more effectual fecuring the Duties now payable on foreign Sail Cloth imported into this Kingdom. ' T7HEREAS the making of Sail Cloth in Great Britain hath been found of great Ufe and. Be- Preamble-. ' VV nefit to this Nation, by having given a comfortable Support and Maintenance to many of i^FormerPrvoift ' Majefty's Subjects employed in the manufacturing thereof; and there is Reafon to believe, that if ™jg"?i. ^24. ' the Duties payable on foreign made Sail Cloth imported into this Kingdom were more effectually fe- jSitK^. cio». ' cured and enforced, and a further Encouragement given to the making of Sail Cloth therein, this Ma- ^ 39' „ 1 nufacture would be greatly improved, and many more of his Majefty's Subjects comfortably fupported 'f^f ' ** 1 and maintained by the fame ;' Therefore may it pleafe your Majefty that it may be enacted, and be it ^fo.j. c. 17. enacted by the King's molt Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiri- tual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That from and after the twenty-fourth Day of June in the Year of our Lord one thoufand After 14 J une feven hundred and thirty-fix, all foreign made Sail Cloth or Canvas ufually entered as Hollands Duck, r "' 6 > all de F saij or Vitry Canvas, which (hall be fit and proper to be made ufe of for the making of Sails for navigating c/otti imported Ships and Veftels, and which fliall be imported into Great Britain by way of Merchandize, and for .-^Merchandize, which any Duties have been granted, or are made payable, or which ought to be paid to his Majefty, t°ePort'oiiand- fhall be ftamped at the Time of landing thereof at or in the Port or Place where the fame ihall be im-. m g. ported or landed, as hereafter mentioned. II. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That the Commiffioners of the Cuftoms incc-mmiffioners Great Britain fhall, on or before the faid twenty-fourth Day of June one thoufand feven hundred and of t!,e puftoms. thirty-fix, provide or caufe to be provided fuch or fo many Stamps, with which all the faid imported sumps? -6 foreign made Sail Cloth or Canvas, upon or after the Duty paid, fhall be ftamped ; and fhall for that Purpofe caufe fuch refpective Stamps to be diftributed to the refpective proper Officers of the Cuftoms of all and every the Port and Ports where fuch foreign made Sail Cloth or Canvas fliall be imported or landed; which faid Officers are hereby enjoined and required to rtamp every fuch Piece and Parcel of foreign made Sail Cloth or Canvas, which faid Stamp (hall exprefs or denote the Place or Country from, whence the faid foreign made Cloth or Canvas was imported ; ?.nd the faid Commiffioners inproviding the faid Stamps for the Purpofes aforefa'd fhall take care that they be fo contrived, that the imprefiion thereof may be durable, and fo as the fame may be the leaft liable to be forged or counterfeited ; and
 * that the faid Stamps lhall or may be altered or renewed from lime to time as his Majefty, his Heirs or

Succeflbrs fhall think fit ; and if any Perfon or Perfons whatfoever fh'ali at any time or times from and 50I. Penalty tf» afier the faid twenty-fourth Day of June, one thoufand feven hundred and thirty-fix, counterfeit or c. ou " te,,e,tm S forge any Stamp which lhall be provided or made in purfuance of this Act for the Purpofes aforefaid, or tle lara ~ 7 fhall counterfeit or refemble the Imprefiion of the fame upon any of the faid foreign made Sail Cloth or Canvas chargeable with any Duty by virtue of any Act or Acts of Parliament made on that Behalf, thereby