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 A. D. 1738. Anno undecimo Georgii II. C. 29,. 30. 317 Cloth or Cloths made in the Weft Riding of the County of York, and fo milled in the faid Counties of Directions for Lancajler, Cbejler or Derby, mall, before they are dried and tentered, be brought to the neareft Mill- SJ°w Tk-J" Man and Cloth Searcher in the faid Weft Riding of the faid County of York to be by this Act appointed, ofVork, and 2 and be by them meafured, at.d have their Lengths and Breadths damped and affixed thereto, and (hall milled in adja- be in every other refpect conformable to the fame Regulations and Payments as fuch Cloths are, which ctnt < -' oum ' es - are both made and milled in the faid Weji Riding ; and in Default thereof the Makers or Venders of fuch Cloths as aforefaid (hall be liable to the fame Penalties and Forfeitures as thofe are, who both make and mill Cloths in the faid Weft Riding of the County of York. Xv Provided always, and be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That if any Action or Anions to be Suit after the Commencement of this Act (hall be brought, commenced, fued or profecuted againft any 'JJ' d '" Com ' Perfon or Perfons, by this Act authorized to put the fame or any Part thereof in Execution, in every or ' fuch Cafe the Action ihall be laid in the faid County of York, and not elfewhere ; and every fuch Perfcn or Perfons fo fued or profecuted may to fuch Action or Suit plead the General Iffue, and give this Act General Iffue, and the fpecial Matter in Evidence at any Trial to be had thereupon, and that the fame was done in purfuance and by the Authority of this Act ; and if it (hall appear fo to be done, or that fuch Action or Actions (hall be brought in any other County, that then the Jury (hall find for the Defendant or De- fendants ; and that upon fuch Verdict, or if the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs (hall be nonfuited, or difcontinue his Action after the Defendant or Defendants (hall have appeared, or if upon Demurrer Judgment (hall be given againft the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, the Defendant or Defendants (hall and may recover Treble Treble Cofts. Colts, for which he and they (hall have the like Remedy, as in Cafes wherein Cofts are by Law given to Defendants : And that this Act (hall be taken and allowed as a Publick Act, in all Courts within this Pubiick A3. Kingdom; and all Judges, Juftices and other Perfons, are hereby required to take Notice thereof as Set farther fuch, without fpecially pleading the fame. i^Gto.%. c. ig. CAP. XXIX. An Act for repairing the Road from Shoreditcb Church through Hackney, to Stanford Hill, and crofs Cambridge Heath, over Bethnal Green, to the Turnpike at Mile End, in the" County of Middle- Sex. PR. Certain Tolls are granted from i June 1738, for 21 Years. CAP. XXX. An A£fc for explaining and amending an Aft of the eighth Year of his prefent Majefty's Reign, intituled, An Atl for the Application of the Rents and Profits of the EJiates forfeited by the Attainder of James late Earl of Derwentwater, and Charles Radcliffe. ' Charles Radcliffe was alfo attainted of high Treafon in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hun- ' dred and fixteen : And whereas by virtue of an Act of Parliament in the firfr. Year of the Reign of 1 Geo. 1. c. 50. ' bis late Majefty King George the Firft, intituled, An Aft for appointing Cemmiff.oners to enquire of ' Year of his faid late Majefty's Reign, intituled, An Aft to continue the Duties for Encouragement of the ' Certificates and Debentures for Arrears due to five Regimen's, to be fatisfied by Annuities therein mentioned ; ' and for difcharging the Duties of Rock Salt loft on the Rivers Weaver and Mercy ; and for limiting the ' appropriating the Supplies granted to his Majefty in that SeJJion of Parliament ; and to reftify Mifnomcrs 4 and OmiJ/ions of Commiffioners for the Land Tax, in the Year one thoufand feven hundred and twenty-three ; 4 liam Smith Ef quire, and alfo of the Annuity oj'two hundred Pounds, during the Life of Charles Radcliffe, fame; and of other Acts of Parliament, made and paffed in the Reign of his faid late Maje y, the s, fames and afterwards in his prefent Majefty, for the Ufe of the Publick : And whereas by an Act made in the ' Profits of the EJiates forfeited by the Attainders of James late Earl <?/" Derwentwater, and Charles Radcliffe ; ' ** " 9 ' ' Iffues and Profits thereof, are appropriated for the Ufe and Benefit of the Royal Hofpital for Seamen ' at Greenwich, according to the Directions of the faid Act, fubject to fuch Incumbrances as are con- ' tained in the faid Act: And whereas the faid PremiiTes being by the faid laft mentioned Act vefed_ as ' of Law never dies, it may create a Doubt, whether the Tenants of the faid Eftates ought to do fuch ' ' Acts
 * TT7HEREAS fames late Earl of Derwentwater was in the Year of our Lord one thoufand [even Preamble, re-
 * W hundred and fifteen attainted of high Treafon, and executed for the fame : And whereas citing the'Acls '
 * the EJiates of certain Traitors and Popijh Recufants, and of EJiates given to fuperftitious Ufes, in order to
 * raife Money out of them feverally for the TJfe of the Publick.; and of one other 'Act made in the ninth 9 Geo. 1. c. 19,
 * Coinage of Monies ; and for Relief of William late Lord Widdrington ; and to prevent foreign Lotteries
 * being carried on -in this Kingdom; and fr afcertaini gthe Duties on bound Books imported; and for iffuing
 * Times of Continuance of Commiffioners for forfeited EJiates in England and Scotland rtfpeftively ; and for
 * and of one other Act made in the fifth Year of his prefent Majefty's Reign, intituled, An Aft for . Ge0i2- c-2
 * making void the feveral Contracts for the Sale of the EJlate of James late Earl of (Derwentwater, to Wil-
 * and the Arrears thereof, to Matthew White Efquire, and the feveral Conveyances made in purfuance of the
 * eighth Year of his prefent Majefty's Reign, intituled, An Aft for the Application of the Rents afl d% GeQii c 2.
 * the faid' Prern'fles are continued vefted in his prefent Majefty, his Heirs and Succeffors ; and the Rents,
 * aforefaid in his Majefty, his Heirs and Succeffors, in his politick Capacity, which in Conftderation