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 5i8 but fubject to future Taxes. Limitation of Aflionf. General IfTus. Treble Cofts. Publick ASt, C. 32. Anno trlcefimo tertio Ge org 11 II. A. D. 1759. Purpofes, as if fuch Lands had been fold for Nonpayment of Taxes, purfuant to the faid Acts of the ftfteenth and twentieth Years of King Charles the Second. XLI. Provided always, That nothing in this A6t contained fhall extend, or be conftrued to ex- tend, to impower the faid Corporation to difcharge the faid inverted Lands, or any Part thereof, from any Rates or Taxes which the fame fhall, after the Sale thereof as aforefaid, be li;ible to be rated or aflelTed with, by virtue of the faid Ads of the fifteenth and twentieth of King Charles the Second, or by any other A<Sl or A(Sls of Parliament whatfoever relating to the faid Great Level -y but that the faid inverted Lands, after they fhall be fo fold, fhall be liable to be rated and aflefled in the fame Manner as they were before the making of this Adi any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithftanding. XLIL And it is hereby further enabled, That if any A£lion, Suit or Liformation, fhall be com- menced or profecutcd againft any Perfon or Perfons, for any Thing done or to be done in purfuance of this Aft, every fuch A<5lion or Suit fhall be commenced within fix Months next after the Fact committed; and fhall be laid or brought in the Court of Picas of the faid Ifle of Ely y or in the Counties of Cfl7«Z'/7^4v, Suffolk ox Noi'folky and not elfewhere : And the Defendant or Defendnts in fuch Action or Suit fhall and may plead the General Iflue, and, if in Replevin, mayjuftifyand avow, by virtue of this Aft, as Perfons afting by Authority of CommilTioners of Sewers are enabled - to do; and may give this Aft, and the Special Matter in Evidence, without fpecially pleading the fame, otherwife than as aforefaid, at any Trial to be had thereupon ; and that the Faft alledged iri fuch Aftion or Suit to have been done, was done in purfuance, and by the Authority of this Aft : And if the fame fhall appear to have been fo done, or if any fuch Action or Suit fhall be brouglic after the Time before limited for bringing the fame, or fhall be brought in any other County or Place than as aforefaid ; then the Jury fliall find for the Defendant or Defendants, Avowant or Avow- ants ; or if the Plaintift' or Plaintiffs fhall become nonfuit, or forbear Profecution, or difcontinue his, her or their Suit or Suits; or if any Verdift fliall pafs againft him, her or them ; or Judg« ment be given upon a Demurrer or otherwife; then, in any of the faid Cafes, the Defendant or Defendants, Avowant or Avowants, fhall recover Treble Cofts, for which he, fhe or they fhall have like Remedy as where Cofts by Law are awarded. XLIII. And be it further enafted and declared, That this Aft fhall be deemed and allowed a Publick Aft; and all Judges, Juftices and other Perfons, are hereby required to take Notice thereof as fuch, without fpecially pleading the fame. The SCHEDULE to which the annexed Ad refers; Being a Liji of fuch Bordering and other High Lands as are to be. exempted from the Taxes to be cijfejfedy rated or charged in pur- fua?ice of the faid AB. In the firft Diftrid. In Hold Fen in Mindenhall. ON E Ground of Thomas Thompfon, a Minor, North of the Willows. One Ground of John Drage Efquire adjoining. Twenty-five Acres, Part of thirty Acres of Simon tiodfrey, in two Lots. Sixteen Acres, Part of forty-eight Acres of John Drage Efquire, in three Lots, Five Acres, Part of eighteen Acres of William Brown. Eight Acres, Part of fixteen Acres of Sir William Bunbury, Baronet. Eleven Acres, Part of fifteen Acres of John Drage Efquire. One Ground ofThoina? Swale, by Peaver's Loaf'. The Skirts of Coplow Delves, called Coplow Hilis, and the Milking Hill. In