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 328 C. 1--5. A. D. !739- Anno duodecimo G E O R G 1 1 II. 1 Tint* prima die Febr. Ar.r.o Regni, &c* duodecimo ; con- iiv.uat. ufque ad ct in fovis, xv'J m diem Novemb. Anno Regni, &V. xiii '. In Recordo, l'reamble, re- citing the for- mer Afls for the Encourage- ment of Coin- age. iS Car, z. c. j. Coinage Dutie; continued for 7 VearSi Continued by 2 r Geo. z. c. 11, - hid farther £y 1 GVe, 3. r. 16. ' A T the Parliament begun and holden at Weftminfler, 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- <■ ii reign Lord GEORGE the Second, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ire- ' land, King, Defender of the Faith, csV. And from thence continued by feveral Prorogations to the ' a firft Day of February 1738, being the fifth 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 thirty- EXP. nine. 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-nine. E X P. 2 s. in the Pound. CAP. IV. An Act to enable the Inhabitants of the Parifh of Saint Nicholas in the City of TVorcefler, to raife Money for difcharging the Debts they have contracted in rebuilding their Parifh Church. P R. CAP. V. An Act: to continue the Duties for Encouragement of the Coinage of Money. May it pleafe Tour moft Excellent Majefty, H E R E A S great Benefit and Advantage did accrue to England by one Act of Parliament paiTed in the eighteenth Year of the Reign of his Majefty King Charles the Second, intituled^ An Aft for encouraging of Coinage, and continued by another Act made in the twenty-fifth Year or the Reign of his laid Majefty King Charles, intituled, An Aft for continuing 'a former Ae7 con,. Coinage ; both which faid Acts were revived by an Act made in the fifft Year of the Reign of his Ma- jefty King James the Second, and were continued by an Act made in the fourth Year of the Xe'gn of King William and Queen Mary of glorious Memory, and were further continued by an flfet made in the twelfth Year of the Reign of the faid late King William, and were further continued by an Act made in the feventh Year of the Reign of her late. Majefty Queen Anne of bleffed Memory, and then extended to Scotland, and were further continued by an Act made in the firft Year oi the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Firft of glorious Memory, to be in Force for feven Years, from the firft Day of March one thoufand feven hundred and fifteen, and until the End of the firft Seffion of Parliament then next following ; and were further continued by another Art made in the ninth Year of- his faid late Majefty's Reign for feven Years, from the firft Day of Mi • one thoufand feven hundred and twenty-three, and until the End of the firft Selfion of Parliament then next following ; and were further continued by another Act made in the fourth Year of the Reign of his prefent Majefty for feven Years, from the firft Day of March one thoufand feven hun- dred and thirty, and until the End of the firft Selfion of Parliament then next following ; (o that unlefs the faid Act be continued, the Encouragement given thereby will ceafe, and this Kingdom^ be deprived for the future of fo great a Good as it hath for many Years laft paft enjoyed ;' Now ,ve your Majefty's moft dutiful and loyal Subjects the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament affembled, do give and grant unto your Majefty the Rates, Duties and Impofitions heroin after- mentioned, for and during the Term and Time herein after exprelTcd, and do humbly pray, that it may be enacted ; and be it enacted by the King's molt Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Conlent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by t 'e Authority of the fame, That fuch and the like Rates, Duties and Impofitions as by the faid Act of the eighteenth Year of King Charles the Second were granted, and by the faid fubfec.uent Acts were continued, for and upon the Importation of Wines, Vinegar, Cyder and Beer during the refpec- tive Terms and Times therein mentioned, (hall be further continued, and be paid and payable to his Majefty,