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 564 C. 18. Anno vicefimo feptimo Georgii II. A. D. 1754. faiti two Mefluages, and the faid Gardens, Piece of Ground, and Premifles thereto belonging, in and by- certain Letters Patent under the Seal of his Majefty's Court of Exchequer, bearing Date at Wejiminjler the . p ., eleventh Day of .March in the tv/enty-fourth Year ot his prefent Msjefly's Reign, were, among other fZT'is'^ (I'i't'r-'^^^'^'&'-i demifed and granted by his Majefty unto the faid Thoma! Diikt oi Leeds, his Executors, Admi- 'I'r'32 G«, 2T niftrators and Affigns, for and during the Term of thirty-one Years, irom the Dale of making the faid a. 28. Letters Patent. CAP. XVIII. An A(5l to continue feveral Laws for prohibiting the Importation of Books reprinted abroad, and firft compofed or written, and printed in Great Britain; for the free Importation of Cocliineal or Indico, and relating to Rice, Frauds in the Cuftoms, the clandefl:;ne Riinninc of Goods, and to Copper Ore ; and for the better Encouragement of the making of Sail Cloth in Great Britain; and to authorize the Payment of tiie Bounty to Alexander Broun and others, upon a Ship fitted out for the Whale Fifhery, and loft in the Greenla/id Seas; and for the more effecluai Payment of the Bounties upon Britifi made Sail Cloth to Robert Donald and others. HERE AS the feveral Laws herein after-mentioned have by Experience been found ufeful and beneficial, and are near expiring;' May it therefore pleafe your Majcfty, that it may be enafled; and Be it enacted by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confcnt of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Autho- Paitof uGeo, rity of thef.une, That fo much of an ASt made in the twelfth Year of the Reign of his prefent Majefty, -■ '^' l^'^°'i:' intituled, Jn Aif for prohibiting ih-- Importaticn of Booh repririted abroad, and firji cornpofed or ivrittcn, and ""c A^.^fmxheif"'"'^^ ''^ Gi'eat Britain ; and for repealing fo much of cm Act made in the eighth Tear of toe Reign of her late continued to 29 Majcjly ^lucu Anne, as impotvers the limiting the Prices of Books; v^hich Aft was to continue in Force from Sept. 1760. and the. twenty-ninth Day oi September onz thowizni kvtn hundred and thirty-nine, for the Space of feven again hy 33 Ceo. Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Seffion of Parliament; and which by an Act made in 3. c. 16, jjjg twentieth Year of his prefent Majeffy's Reign was further continued, from the Expiration thereof, until the twenty-ninth Day of September one thoiifand feven hundred and fifty-four, and from thence to the End of the then next Seffion of Parliament, as relates to the prohibiting the Importation of Books reprinted abroad, and firfl compofed or written, and printed in Great Britain, ihall be, and the fame is hereby further continued, from the Expiration thereof, until the twenty-ninth Day of Septi?nber one thoufand feven hundred and fixty, and from thence to the End of the then next Seffion of Parliament. 7 Geo. 2. c. 18. n. And be it further enafted by the Authority aforefaid, That an A£i: made in the feventh Year of fuither conti- the Reign of his prefent Majefty, intituled. An A ff for tlje Revival of an J£7 made in the thirteenth Tear of iiued to 39 Sept. f/jg Reign of his late Adajejly King George the Firfl, intituled. An Act ifor the free Importation of Cochineal, V ^%Geo af"" during the Time thereinlimited, and alfo for the free Importation of Indico; which was to continue in c, lb, ' ' Force from the twenty-fourth Day of June one thoufand feven hundred and thirty-four, for the Term of feven Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Seffion of Parliament; and which hy another j4Geo. 2. c, 34, Aft made in the fourteenth Year of the Reign of his prefent Majefty was further continued, from the Expiration thereof, until the firft Day of fune one thoufand feven hundred and forty-feven, and from 2oGeo. 2,c. 47. thence to the End of the then next Seffion of Parliament; and which by another Aft made in the twen- tieth Year of the Reign of his prefent Majefty, was further continued, from the Expiration thereof, until the firft Day of fune one thoufand feven hundred and fifty-four, and from thence to the End of the then next Seffion of Parliament, flrall be, and the fame is hereby further continued, from the Expi- ration thereof, until the twenty-ninth Day of Se]>te7)iber one thoufand feven hundred and fixty, and from thence to the End of the then next Seffion of Parliament. ■y Geo. 2. c' 2S. III. And be it further cnafted by the Authority aforefaid. That an Aft made in the tliird Year of the Kirther comi- Reign of his prefent Majefty, intituled, An Aa for granting Liberty to carry Rice from his Majeflfs Pro- nued to ^9 Sept yi„^^ ff/Carolina in America, direilly to anv Part of Europe Soutlnvard f/Cape Finifterre, in Skips built in. IlkO. ar.d farther t 1 1 ' r-^ t-» • • 7 • -^ ^ i- t y ' y "^ 1 • t^ r ^ r tr iy ■^■^Ge/.z. and belonging to. Great britani, and navigated accordingto Law; wnich was to be inrorce tor five 1 cars .-. ifi. from the twenty-ninth Day of September one thoufand feven hundred and thirty, and from thence to the S Geo. 2. c. 19. End of the then next Seffion of Parliament ; and alfo an Aft made in the eighth Y"ear of the Reign of his prefent Majefty, to continue the laid Aft from the Expiration thereof, until the twenty-ninth Day of September one thoufand feven hundred and forty-two, and from thence to the End of the then next Seffion of Parliament ; and to extend that Liberty to his Majefty's Province of Georgia Amei ica (which faid J5CC0.2. c. 33. Afts were, by an Aft made in the fifteenth and fixteenth Years of the Reign of his prefent Majefty, con- tinued, from the Expiration thereof, until the firft Day of 'June one thoufand feven hundred and forty- feven, and from thence to the End of the then next Seffion of Parliament) and which was by another Aft aoGeo.2.c. 47. made in the twentieth Year of the Reign of his prefent Majefty, further continued from the Expiration thereof, until the firft Day of June one thoufand feven hundred and fifty-four, and from thence to the End of the then next Seffion of Parliament, fliall be, and the fame is hereby further continued, from the Expiration thereof, until the twenty-nintli Day oi' September one thoufand feven hundred and. fixty, and from thence to the End of the then next Seffion of Parliament. CLuifesinsGeo, jy^ j^,.,j j,e it further enafted by the Authority aforefaid. That the fevei-al Claufes in an Aft '•'^•. "• '"' made in the fifth Year of the Reign of his late Maicftv, intituled, Jn All a^ainjl clandejiine Runnhitr continued 10 2ll, 1,-^1 1 ,- / ° ,-r -, l • r r^ ; ; ,■. .f j-> /J 1 • Stiit, ii6c. tiiiJ of uncii/tomcd Goods; und Jor the more etfcilual preventing of brands relating to the Lujtoms, relating to fuch