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316 instead of the like Sums subscribed to the second Resolution passed in the same Year, Ralph Willet to the Sum of three thousand Pounds in Old South-Sea Annuities, Elias Moses Defortis to the Sum of three thousand four hundred and fifty-one Pounds Joint Stock in the New South-Sea Annuities, Hugh Holmes to the Sum of four thousand three hundred Pounds Old South-Sea Annuities, John Saunderson to five hundred Pounds Old South-Sea Annuities, John Armstrong to the Sum of two hundred and twenty-five Pounds Old South-Sea Annuities, John Jolly to the Sum of one thousand Pounds Old South-Sea Annuities, two thousand Pounds New South-Sea Annuities, one thousund Pounds Bank Annuities, of the Year one thousand seven hundred and forty-seven, and one thousand Pounds Lottery Annuities of the Year one thousand seven hundred and forty-seven, in as full and ample manner, as if they had severally and respectively accepted the said Terms on or before the said twenty-eighth Day of February one thousand seven hundred and forty-nine.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Sums that were standing in the Joint Names of Samuel Edwards, deceased, and Hugh Brigges, now Sir Hugh Brigges, Baronet, on the twenty-eighth Day of February one thousand seven hundred and forty-nine, shall be intitled to the Benefit of the vote of the House of Commons, passed the twenty-first Day of March one thousand seven hundred and forty-nine, videlicet, twelve thousand two hundred and ten Pounds two Shillings and one Penny, in New South-sea Annuities, and thirteen thousand four hundred and forth-three Pounds fourteen Shillings and three Pence, in Old South-Sea Annuities, in as full and ample manner, as if they had severally accepted the said Terms on or before the thirtieth Day of May one thousand seven hundred and fifty.

CAP. V.

An Act to indemnify Persons who have omitted to qualify, themselves for Offices and Employments within the Time limited by Law, and for allowing further Time for that Purpose, EXP. [Time given to 28 Nov. 1751.]

CAP. VI.

An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion; and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters. EXP.

CAP. VII. An Act for granting an Aid to his Majesty by a Land Tax, to be raised in Great Britain, for the Service of the Year one thousand seven hundred and fifty-one. EXP.

At 3 s. in the Pound.

CAP. VIII.

An Act for the better carrying on and regulating the Navigation of the Rivers Thames and Isis from the City of London westward, to the Town of Cricklade in the County of Wilts.

HEREAS the Rivers of Thames and Isis have, Time out of Mind, been navigable from the City of London to the Village of Bercott in the County of Oxford; and from the City of Oxford westward, beyond Letchlade in the County of Gloucester: And whereas in and by an Act of Parliament, made and passed in the one and twentieth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King James the First ,intituled,An Act for making the River of Thames navigable for Barges, Boats and Lighters, from the Village of Bercott in the County of Oxford, unto the University and City of Oxford) the said Rivers were made navigable from the said Village of Bercott to the said City of Oxford: And whereas divers Abuses have heretofore been, and still are committed by the Owners of the several Towing-paths, and other Passages on the Banks of the said Rivers, and by the Owners of the Locks, Weirs, Turnpikes, Dams, Flood-gates, and other Engines in and upon or near adjoining to the said Rivers; and also by the several Barge-masters, and their Servants, navigating thereon; by reason whereof and other Exactions, the Price of Water-carriage, on those Rivers, hath of late Years been very much raised, contrary to the Intent and Provision of divers wholesome and good Laws made and passed for the due Regulation of the said Navigation;' Be it therefore enacted by King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same,

That for preventing all Abuses and Exactions, which may or can lessen the Navigation of the said Rivers and render the same less useful to the Publick, all and every Person or Persons who are or shall be assessed and charged, and do and shall pay towards the Aid granted unto his Majesty by an Act of this present Session of Parliament, (intituled, an Act for granting an Aid to his Majesty by a Land Tax, to be raised in Great Britain, for the Service of the Year one thousand seven hundred and fifty-one) or towards any future Aid, by any future Act or Acts of Parliament, for granting an Aid to his Majesty, his Heirs or Successors, by a Land Tax in Great Britain, for and in respect of an Estate in Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments in his or their Possession, or of some Person in Trust for him or sthem, of the yearly Value of one hundred Pounds in any or either, or all of the several Counties of Middlesex, Surry, Berks, Bucks, Oxon, Gloucester and Wilts; and also the Vice-Chancellor, and the Heads of Colleges and Halls in the University of Oxford; and the Mayor or Chief Officer for the Time being of the Corporation and Borough Towns, lying upon the said Rivers, shall be and are hereby constituted