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 250 C. 39. Anno nono Georgii II. A. D. 1736. CAP. XXXIX. 7Geo, 1. c. 18. An Act for making more effectual two Acts of Parliament, one of the tenth Year of the Reign of her late Majefty Queen Anne, and the other of the feventh Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Firft, for repairing the Road from Highgate Gate-houfe in the County of Middlefex, to Barnet Block-houfe in the County of Hertford; and the Road from the Bear Inn in Hadley, to the An* gel in Enfield Cbace ; and for amending Cane-wood Lane, leading from Highgate to Hampjlead in the faid- County of Middlefex. The Tolls are further continued for 2 1 Years. Tent' prima die Febr. anno Reg- 711, &c. decimo ; Continuat. vfque adetin Jovis cSa<vutn diem Decembris, an- wo, &c. undeci- mo. Anno decimo GEORGII II. ' * T the Parliament begun and holden at Weftminjler, the fourteenth Day of January, Anno Dom. ' L one thoufand feven hundred and thirty-four, in the eighth Year of the Reign of our Sove- ' i* reign Lord G EORG E the Second, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Fra?tce and Ire- ' land, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. And from thence continued by feveral Prorogations to the ' firft Day of February 1736% being the Third Seffion of this prefent Parliament. CAP. I. An Act for continuing the Duties upon Malt, Mum, Cyder and Perry in that Part of Great Britain called England; and for granting to his Majefty certain Duties upon Malt, Mum, Cyder and Perry in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, for the Service of the Year one thoufand feven hundred and thirtv- feven. EXP. CAP. II. An Act for punifhing Mutiny and Defertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters. EXP. CAP. III. An Act for granting an Aid to his Majefty by a Land Tax, to be raifed in Great Britain, for the Service of the Year one thoufand feven hundred and thirty-feven. EXP. 2 s. in the Pound. CAP. IV. An Aft for continuing an Act paffed in the fifth Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Firft, intituled, An A3 for laying a Duty of Two Pennies Scots or One Sixth Part of a Penny Sterling, upon every Pint of Ale or Beer that fhall be vended or fold within the Town of Dunbar, for improving and preferving the Harbour, and repairing the Town Houfe, and build- ing a School, and other publick Buildings there, and for fupplying the faid Town with Frejh Water. P R. Preamble, re- citing the Aft •{Geo. 1, c. 16, HEREAS by an Act paffed in the fifth Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Firft, intituled, An Ail for laying a Duty of Ttuo Pennies Scots, or One Sixth Part of a Penny Sterling, upon every Pint of Ale or Beer that fhall be vended or fold within the Town of Dunbar, for im- proving and preferving the Harbour, and repairing the Town Houfe, and building a School, and other publick Buildings there, and for fupplying the faid Town with Frejh Water; it was enacted, That from and after the firft Day of June one thoufand feven hundred and nineteen, for the Term of nineteen Years, and to the End of the then next Seffion of Parliament, there fhould be laid an Impofition or a Duty of Two Penny Scots or One Sixth Part of a Penny Sterling, over and above the Duty of Excife paid or payable to his then Majefty, his Heirs and Succeflbrs, upon every Scots Pints of Ale and Beer that fhould be for Sale, cither brewed, brought in, vended, tapt, or fold within the faid Town, and Pri- vileges thereof; and that the faid Impofition or Duty ihould be paid and made payable by the Brew- ers, Vintners, Sellers, and Tapfters, of the faid Ale and Beer, for and during the Term aforefaid, to the Magistrates and Town Council, and their Succeflbrs in Office for the time being, and their Af- figns or Collectors, for the Ufes and Purpofes mentioned in the faid Act : And whereas the faid Im- pofition or Duty has been of very great Ufe to the faid Town, by enabling them to carry on many and conftderable publick. Works, for which the annual Revenue of the faid Town was not fufficient : And whereas the Money arifing from the Impofition or Duty fo laid and granted by the faid Ait, was intende.l to be laid out to defray the Expen'ce of digging up Part of the Rock at the Bottom of the Harbour, and in carrying out the great Pier to the Rock called The Beacon Rock, and in cutting the Slope of the liland down to a Perpendicular, in order to make and render the Entry into the faid Harbour more fafe and fecure, and in fupplying the Town with Frelh Water; but neither of the faid Works are yet fo much as begun, and the Revenue of the faid Town, and alfo the faid Duty granted by the 8 ' faid
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