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 34° C. 20-21. Anno duodecimo Georgii II.. A. D. J 739 before the twenty-ninth Day of September one thoufand feven hundred and thirty-nine (of which timel Notice is to be given in the London Gazette) the fame Indentures or other Writings (hall be?ood am available in Law or Equity, and may be given in Evidence in any Court whatsoever; and the Clerk Apprentice or Servant therein named (hall be capable of following and exercifing their refpective intend ed Trades or Employments, as fully as if the faid Rates and Duties fo omitted had been duly paid and the full Sum or Sums received or agreed for as aforefaid had been inferted; and the Perfons whc have incurred any Penalties by the Omiffions aforefaid, (hall be acquitted and difcharged of and frorr the faid Penalties; any thing in this or the faid former Acts to the contrary in any wife not- withftanding. CAP. XX. An Act for enlarging the Term and Powers granted by two Acts of Parliament, one made in the fixer Year of the Reign of her late Majefty Queen Anne, and the other in the feventh Year of the Reigr of his late Majefty King George the Firft, for repairing and enlarging the Highways between tht Top of Kingfdown-hill, and the City of Bath; and for amending feveral other Highways leading to the faid City; and for cleanfing, paving, and enlightning the Streets, and regulating the Chairmen .there; and for keeping a regular Nightly Watch within the faid City and Liberties thereof. P R. The two firft mentioned Ads are further continued for 21 Years, &c. CAP. XXI. An A6t for taking off the Duties upon Woollen and Bay Yarn imported from Ireland to England, and for the more effectual preventing the Exportation of Wooll from Great Britain, and of Wooll, and Wooll manufactured, from Ireland to Foreign Parts. Moft Gracious Sovereign, HEREAS in the Book of Rates annexed to the Act of Tonnage and Poundage, made in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, a particular Rate of three Pounds, fix Shillings and eight Pence, for every hundred Weight, containing one hundred and twelve Pounds, was fixed upon Woollen or Bay Yarn imported; according to which Rate a Subfidy of twelve Pence in the Pound was thereby payable to his Majefty : And whereas according to the faid Rate a farther Subfidy of Poundage of twelve Pence in the Pound on Woollen or Bay Yarn was granted to your Majefty for your Life (which God long preferve) by an Aft made in the firft Year of your Reign : Preamble. For former Laws c Concerning Wool, , refer to 25 Ed. 1. c. 7. 34 Ed. 1.7?. 4. c. 3. 18 Ed. i.Jl.z. c. 3. 31 Ed. V ft. 1. r. 2. 34 Ed. 3.r. I9. ' And whereas by an Act made in the fecond Year of her late Majefty Queen Anne, another Subncly Tlfe 3 " c ' "' ' was g rante d on the Importation of Woollen or Bay Yarn in Proportion to the faid Rate, commonly ■23 J7. 8. V.!7. ' called, The one third Subfidy; and by an Act paiTed in the third Year of her faid late Majefty, another z& 3 p. & m. ' Subfidy was granted on the Importation of Woollen or Bay Yarn, commonly called, The Two Thirds %?ki c u ' Subfidy; ail which Arts, which granted the faid feveral Subfidies commonly called, The Old Subfidy, 7 Ja'c. i. c.'j. ' One Third Subfidy, and Two Thirds Subfidy (except the Act for the faid further Subfidy, which is granted 32 Cor. 2. c . 32. ' to your Majefty during your Life) are by feveral fubfequent Acts of Parliament continued for ever, f?ig&ffq'' 2 ' ' f u bJ e £t to Redemption by Parliament : And whereas the taking off the Duties upon Woollen or Bay ■lW.&m'.ji.z. ' Yarn imported from Ireland, may be a Means to prevent the exporting Wooll and Woollen Ma- r - J 2 - ' nufactures -from Ireland, to Foreign Parts, and may be of Ufe to the Manufadtures of Great Bri- VL 3 ' e ' ' tain :' We your Majefty's moft dutiful and loyal Subjects the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament 9 Sf lo^f. 3. aflembled, do moft humbly befeech your Majefty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the ''•4°; King's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Tern? f°io.'" ' 3 ' poralj and Commons, in this prefent Parliament afiembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That •j Geo. 1. r. 21. from and after the firft Day of May in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and forty, 4 Ceo. 1. 1. 11. t j le faid feveral Subfidies payable to your Majefty, your Heirs and Succeflors, by any Law now in 12 ci. 1 w. 1 34. Force, upon Woollen or Bay Yarn imported from Ireland after that Time (hall ceafe and determine, 13 Geo. 1. c. 23. and be no longer payable. 5 G »- -■ <■■ 2i. II. And to the End that his facred Majefty, nor any of the publick Creditors, or other Perfcn or Per* Woollen or fons, Bcdies Politick or Corporate, who are intitled to any Psrt, Share or Intereft in the Monies- arifmg Bay Yarn from by the faid Duties on Bay Yam and Woollen Yarn 'imported into this Kingdom from the Kingdom of Ireland, as aforefaid, may fuffer by the ceafing and determining thereof; Be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That it (hall and may be lawful to and for the Commiflioners of his Majefty's Trea- fury now being, or the High Treafurer or any Three or more of the Commiflioners of the Treafury tor the time being, and they are hereby enjoined and required, on or before the twenty-fifth Day of De- off. Tre afury to make an Ac- count of the tiie iait 7 Years, cember in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and thirtv-nine, to caufe an Account to ' be made up and ftated of the Monies which (hall have arifen by the faid Duties on Bay Yarn and Wool- the Medium ^ en Yam for feven Years laft paft. whcrtoi to be III. And it is hereby further enacted, That the Medium of the Monies which have arifen by the faid charged annual- Duties within the faid feven Years, (hall be .a certain annual Sum to be charged on the Fund called the gregate Fuifd. Aggregate Fund; and being fo charged, (hall from time to time be ifliied, paid, diftributed and applied to make good to his Majefty, during his natural Life (which God long preferve) and to the feveral pub- lick Creditors, or other Perlon or Perfons, Bodies Politick or Corporate, having Intereft or Security in the Monies aniing by the faid Duties on Bay Yarn and Woollen Yarn, the like Parts, Shares or Pro- portions-