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 Sheriff not pay" Reward* A. D. 1742. Anno decimo quinto Georgii If. C. 29. 465 and profecuted by the Pc-iTons claiming the faid Reward, and thereby directing in what Shares and Pro- portions the faid Reward fhall be paid and divivided to and amongft fuch Profecutor or Profccutors ; which Certificate the faid Judge or Jufticcs are hereby required to give without Delay or Fee ; and if the g, en:!lt / oa xi " faid Sheriff or Sheriffs fhall not pay the faid Reward accordingly, within the Time aforefaid, he or they ;'%'[,' jhall forfeit to fuch Profecutor and Profccutors feverally, double the Sum which by the faid Certificare fhall be directed to be feverally paid to them, to be recovered by him, her or them, or his, her or their Executors or Adminiftrators,_in any of his A-Iajefty's Courts of Record at IFejlminfter, by Action of Debt, Bill or Information, with treble Cods of Suit, expended or paid in recovering the fame ; and fuch She iff or Sheriffs fhall be allowed, or may deduct fuch Rewards, upon his or their accounting with f^^fhpv.. his Majefty, without any Fee to be paid in refpect thereof; and if he or they (hall not on pairing fuch ,jj enta in'hio Xc- Account have Money fufficient in his or their Hands to anfwer what fhall have been paid for fuch Re- counts, &c. wards, then the fame fhall be repaid by the Lord Treaiurer or CommifTioners of the Treafury for the Time being, out of the Revenues of the Crown, on Certificate for that Purpofe, from the Clerk of the Pipe. I VIII. And be it hereby further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That whoever being out of Prifon, jLontofPrifo fhall after the faid twenty-ninth Day of September.*, commit any of the Offences aforefaid, and fhall af- i m ° peac i, two ' terwards difcover two or more Perfons, who fhall after the Time aforefaid have committed any of the others, they (lull faid Offences, fo as fuch two or more Perfons fhall be thereof convicted, fuch Difcoverer fhall have, and bepardw.ed. is hereby intitled to his Majeffy's moft gracious Pardon for fuch his or her Offences. IX. And be it hereby further enacted. That if any Perfon fhall be convicted of uttering or tendering £[*""" ° r p ™*. any falfe or counterfeit Money as aforefaid, and fhall afterwards be guilty of the like Offence, in any o™^ 5 ;' ^°" other County or City, the Clerk of the Affize, or the Clerk of the Peace for the County or City where t her County, fuch Conviction was fo had, fhall at the Requeft of the Profecutor, or any other on his Majefty's Behalf, offemes againft certify the fame by a Tranfcript in few Words, containing the Effect and Tenor of fuch Conviction -, MsAaareex- for which Certificate two Shillings and Sixpence, and no more, fhall be paid ; and fuch Certificate be- "P"f°"' "J ! he ing produced in Court, fhall be fufficient Proof of fuch former Conviction. foGa. " °i.. ' X. And whereas by an Act made in the feventh Year of the Reign of her late Majefty Queen Ann ' a ' ' * " ' courage the bringing foreign Coins, and Britifh or foreign Plate to be coined, and for making Frovifion for the ' Mints in Scotland, and for the profecuting Offences concerning the Coin in England, there is a limited Sum ? profecuting Offenders againft the Laws relating to the Coin ; which Sum for feveral Years laft pair, has ' proved greatly deficient, infomuch that there appears to have been expended for the canying on of thofe ' above the Sum of four hundred Pounds per Annum allowed for that Service ; and as the Law now flands, ' the faid Sum of feven hundred and two Pounds three Shillings and feven Pence, cannot be brought to ' Account;' Be it therefore further enacted, That the Lord High Treafurer, or the Lords CommifTioners Arrears of of the Treafury for the Time being, fhall and may, out of the Money arifing by the Coinage Duty, charges of Pre order and allow fuch further Sums of Money as the Expences of the faid Profecutions have in fuch laft ^f ut,0 ° t0 ba Years amounted to, over and above the faid four hundred Pounds a Year ; and alfo fhall and may, at all p u ° we * E '_ Times hereafter, order and allow out of the Money arifing by the faid Coinage Duty fuch Sums of Mo- ^11 fettled, ney, for defraying the future Expences of the faid Profecutions, as he or they fhall fee fit, provided the See 27 Geo, 2. (aid Expences do not, in any one Year, exceed the Sum of fix hundred Pounds. c. 11. CAP. XXIX. An Act for granting to his Majefty an additional Duty on foreign Cambricks imported into Great Britain, and for allowing thereout a Bounty upon certain Species of Britiflo and Irijb Linens exported. For former Prv Ions concerning J H E R E A S the Manufactures of Linens made in the Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, are Fo . r VV greatly improved and increased, whereby the Price of Linens, as well of foreign as home Fa- i{"„ en I brick, hath been confiderably reduced : And whereas the further Extenfion of the faid Manufactures of 2 s #. 3, c . 4. c Linens will be a great Advantage to the faid Kingdoms ;' Therefore we your Majefty's moft dutiful 1 El. c. 12. and loyal Subjects, the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament affembled, do give and grant to your 7&' s; '*''■3•< : •39• I Ann. St. 2. c. Si .. 19 6» of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament aiiemblcd, and by the 21. 12 Ami. Authority of the fame, That from and after the firft Day of Augujl one thoufand feven hundred and St. 2. c. 9, 19 forty-two, over and above all Subftdies, Duties, Impofitions, and Payments already due and payable to ~ z £- '^■' , his Majefty, for fuch foreign Cambricks, which fhall be imported into Great Britain, there' fhall be fj * y ^ m ' " raifed, collected, levied, and paid unto his Majefty, his Heirs and Succeffors, a further Duty of one ls . ci . addi- Shilling and five Pence on every Half Piece of fuch foreign Cambrick, containing fix Ells and an Half; tional Duty on and two Shillings and ten Pence upon every whole Piece of fuch foreign Cambrick, containing thirteen e yy Half Piece Ells, during the Term of feven Years ; and from thence to the End of the then next Seffion of Parlia- ^ickflna *™~ fnent, and no longer ; the fame to be raifed, collected, levied and recovered, in fuch Maimer and Form, Iod- ' for everj .' Vol. VI. O O O and Whole Piece,-
 * Anne, intituled, An Act for the continuing the former Aft, for the Encouragement of Coinage, and to en- &.
 * of four hundred Pounds a Year, directed to be allowed out of the Coinage Duty for the Expences of
 * Profecutions, the Sum of feven hundred and two Pounds three Shillings and (even Pence, over and