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 508 C. 26. Anno dccimo fexto Georgii II. A. D. 1743. bitter fecur'tng her Majejlys Duties to arije in the Office for Stamp Duties, by Licences for Marriages and otherwise; and for Relief of Perjons who have not claimed their Lottery Tickets in due Time, or have lofl Exchequer Bills, or 12 Ann. ft. 1. Lottery Tickets; and for borrowing Money upon Stock, Part of the Capital of the South Sea Company, for the Ufe c - '4- of the Publick; and in one other Act made in the twelfth Year of the Reign of her faid late Majesty, intituled, 1 Geo. 1. c. 57. A n j£i f or explaining the Acts for liccnfing Hackriey Chairs ; and alfo in an Act made in the firft Year of the CoSflioners Rei S n or " nis late Majefty King George the Firit, intituled, An Ac! for the better regulating Hackney Coaches, of Hackney Carts, Drays, Carrs and Waggons, -within the Cities of London and Weftminfter, and the Weekly Bills of Mor- Coaches, tality ; and for preventing^ Mi [chiefs occafioned by the Drivers riding uponfuch Carts, Drays, Carrs andWag- fons, relating to the Jurifdidtion, Powers and Authorities of the Commiifioners for licenfmg and regulating lackney Coaches and Chairs, and of Juftices of the Peace, and to the Rules, Penalties and Forfeitures, continued till Orders and Directions therein mentioned ; which faid feveral Claufes were to have Continuance from the 14 June 17 o, f evera j Times f the Commencement thereof, for the refpedYive Terms therein mentioned, fhall be and Farther continued are hereby further continued from the Expiration thereof, until the twenty-fourth Day of June one thou- lyiyGn.z.c.zs. fand feven hundred and fixty, and from thence to the End of the then next Seffion of Parliament. ' V. And whereas great Numbers of News Papers, Pamphlets, and other Papers, fubject and liable ' to the Stamp Duties, and which are not duly ftampt according to Law, are daily fold, hawked, carried ' tion, to the great Lofs of the fair Trader, and the Prejudice of his Majefty's Revenue ; and as feveral ' Doubts and Difficulties have arifen, relating to the Execution of the Laws formerly made, and now in ' Being, for preventing of fuch Practices, and puniihing the Offenders:' Wherefore for remedying and „ . preventing fuch Abufes and Offences for the future, and rendering the Laws more effectual in that Be- take up°Hawkers half; It it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That in cafe any Perfon or Perfons fhall, from and of unftampt after the firft Day of May one thoufand feven hundred and forty-three, fell, hawk, carry about, utter or News Papers; expofe to Sale any News Paper, or any Book, Pamphlet or Paper, deemed or conftrued to be a News and any Juftice p a p e r, within the Intention and Meaning of any of the Acts of Parliament, relating to the Stamp Duties them^'the now * n F° rce ' not being ftampt or marked, as in the faid Acts are directed or appointed, it fhall aud Houfe of Cor- ma y be lawful for any Juftice of the Peace to commit every fuch Offender, being thereof convicted be- reflion for fore him by their own Confeffion, or by the Oath of one or more credible Witnefs or WitnefTes, to the three Months. Houfe of Correction, for any Time not exceeding three Months ; and it fhall and may be lawful for any ARewardof2os. Perfon to feize, apprehend and carry before a Juftice of the Peace of the County, City, Riding, Divi- for every Hawker fton or Place where fuch Offence fhall be committed, any fuch Perfon fo offending as afore-mentioned j convifted. aru j ever y Perfon fo feizing or apprehending fuch Offender, and carrying him or her before fuch Juftice DuZs'fef fa'rtbt °^ ^ e P eace as aforefaid, fhall upon Conviction of every fuch Offender, and producing a Certificate of ao G«. 2." 'e. iz f ucn Conviction, under the Hand of fuch Juftice (which Certificate fuch Juftice is hereby required to Gfis. ^oGeo. 2. give, without Fee or Reward to be taken for the fame) be intitled to the Reward of twenty Shillings, c. 19. 32G«.a. to be paid by the Receiver General of his Majefty's Stamp Duties. c. 35. ' VI. And whereas by an Act made in the feventh and eighth Years of the Reign of King William 7 ^'"s 3 ' ° 3 s' ' l ^ e Third, for encouraging the Linen Manufacture of Ireland, and bringing Flax and Hemp into, and . .- . . c t jj e [^ai^g f g a ;j Cloth in this Kingdom, it is amongft other Things enacted, That it fhall be lawful ' to import into England directly from Ireland, all Sorts of Hemp or Flax, and all the Production there- c of, as Thread, Yarn, and Linen of the Growth and Manufacture of Ireland, free from all Manner of ' Cuftoms, Duties, and Impositions, the Matter or other chief Officer of the Veffel importing the fame, ' bringing with him or them a Certificate or Certificates from the chief Officer or Officers of the Port or ' Ports in Ireland, where fuch Goods fhall be put on Board, expreffing amongft other Things the Name ' or Names, Place or Places of Abode of fuch Perfon or Perfons, that fhall have fworn the Goods therein ' mentioned, to be bona fide of the Growth and Manufacture of the Kingdom of Ireland, without Fraud ' or Covin: And whereas the Manufactures of Thread, Yarn and Linen are greatly increafed, and there ' is not a fufficient Growth of Hemp and Flax in Ireland to make the fame, fo that the obliging Perfons ' to fwear, that fuch Manufactures are made of the Growth of the faid Kingdom" of Ireland will prevent 1 the Importation thereof into England, and be a great Difcouragement io the faid Manufactures ;' There- fore be it enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That in cafe the Certificate directed by the faid recited Act of the feventh and eighth Years of the Reign of King William the Third, to be brought by the Mafter or chief Officer of any Ship or Veffel importing from Ireland any of the Manufactures made there of Hemp or Flax into England, fhall exprefs the Name or Names, Place or Places of Abode of the Perfon or Perfons who fhall have bona fide fworn the fame to be of the Manufacture oi Ireland, without Fraud or Covin, and the other Directions in the faid recited Act of the feventh and eighth Years of the Reign of AH Manufz*- King William the Third (excepting the Exporter or other Perfon fwearing fuch Goods were of the Hem ™r%°x in Growth of Ireland) fhall be purfued ; it fhall and may be lawful, from and after the twenty-fourth Day Ireland° r to be °^ J ur,e one thoufand feven hundred and forty-three, to import directly from Ireland into England any imported Duty- Manufactures made of Hemp or Flax in Ireland (as may now by Law be imported into England) free free. from all Manner of Cuftoms, Duties and Impofitions ; any Thing in the faid recited Act of the feventh and eighth Years of the Reign of King William the Third contained to the contrary thereof in any wife notwithftanding. Salt loft at Sea, VII. And whereas in the Month of Augujl one thoufand feven hundred and forty-one, at Liverpool tett * f ° r " ^ e C° unt y of Lancafter, there was fhipped on Board the Mary Anne Sloop, Andrew Creigh, Mafter, by Bryan Blundcll of Liverpool aforefaid, Merchant, two thoufand five hundred Bufhels of White Salt to be carried to Limerick in Inland, for the Duty whereof Bond was given by the faid Bryan Blundcll; and the faid
 * about, uttered, and expofed to Sale by divers obfeure Perfons, who have no known or fettled Habita-