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 A. D. 1763. Anno quarto Ge org 1 1 III. C 11. 143 fhall be given on fuch Petitions where any Debt is due to the Crown, ether than by the Recogni- Debts due to (he Crown; zances fo prayed to be difeharged ; nor in any Cafes of defrauding his Majefty's Revenue by contra- Ca ' e! ° t J i ' rauds b y con - ■ band Trade, or affaulting his Majefty's Officers of the Cuftoms or Excife injthe Execution of their r™Kofficere of"the~ Duty, or any Perfon or Merlons lawfully affifting them therein. Revenue excepted". CAP. XI. An Ad: for continuing certain Laws therein mentioned relating to Britijh Sail Cloth, and to che Duties payable on Foreign Sail Cloth, and to the Allowance upon the Exporta- tion of BritiJIo made Gunpowder, and for giving further Encouragement for the Im- portation of Naval Stores from the Britijh Colonies in America. 1 XT /HERE AS the Laws herein after-mentioned are found to be very ufeful and beneficial, • W and are near expiring ;' May it therefore pleafe your Majefty, that it may be enacted ; and Be it enacted by the King's moll Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual arid Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Au- thority of the fame, That an Aft made in the ninth Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King A3: 9 Geo. 2. c. 37. G serge the Second, intituled, An Aii for further encouraging and regulating the ManufaEiure of Britifh relating to Britiih Sail Sail Cloth, and for the ?nore effeSiual Jecuring the Duties now payable on Foreign S.al Cloth imported into cl ° th > & c - this Kingdom, which was to continue in force from the twenty-fourth Day of June one thoufand feven hundred and thirty-fix, for the Term of five Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Seffion of Parliament ; and which by feveral fubfequent Acts made in the thirteenth, twenty-fourth, and thirty-firft Years .of his faid Majefty's Reign, was further continued until the twenty-ninth Day of September one thoufand feven hundred and fixty-four, and from thence to the End of the then next Seffion of Parliament ; fhall be and the fame is hereby further continued from the Expiration further continued to zg thereof until the twenty-ninth Day of September one thoufand feven hundred and feventy-one, and Sept. 1771. from thence to the End of the then next Seflion of Parliament. II. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That an Act made in the fourth Year of Aft 4 Geo. 2. c. zq. ti- the. Reign of his late Majefty King George the Second, intituled. An Ad for granting an Allowance upon lating to the Allowance the Exportation of Britiih made Gunpowder, which was to continue in force for five Years from the p P ??i he Ex F ortation ° f twenty-fourth Day of June one thoufand feven hundred and thirty-one, and from thence to the End "^. made Guu " of the then next Seffion of Parliament; and which, by feveral fubfequent Ads made in the tenth, ' fixteenth, twenty-fourth, and thirty-firft Years of his laid Majefty's Reign, was further continued until the twenty-ninth Day of September one thoufand feven hundred and lixty-four, and from thence to the End of the then next Seffion of Parliament ; fhall be and the fame is hereby further continued further continued to 29 from the Expiration thereof until the twenty-ninth Day of September one thoufand feven hun- Se P r - ^i 1 - dred and feventy-one, and from thence to the End of the then next Seffion of Parliament. III. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That fo much of an Act made in the So much of Aft 8 Geo. eighth Year of the Reign of King George theFirft, intituled, An Ac! for giving further Encouragement '■ c - 12 - as T ehtes to for the Importation of Naval Stores, and for other Purpojes therein mentioned, as relates to the Importa- ^. e l m P°f ta t' on ° f tion of Wood and Timber, and of the Goods commonly called Lumber, therein particularly enume- Lumber ulmthehn- rated, from any of his Majefty's Britijh Plantations or Colonies in America, free from all Cuftoms tifli Plantations in Ame. and Impositions whatfoever ; which was to be in force for twenty-one Years, from the twenty-fourth r ica, Day of June one thoufand feven hundred and twenty-two; and which, by feveral fubfequent Acts made in the fixteenth, twenty-fourth, and thirty-firft Years of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Second, was further continued uritil the twenty-ninth Day of September one thoufand feven hundred and fixty-four, and from thence to the End of the then next Seffion of Parliament ; fhall be and the fame is hereby further continued from the Expiration thereof until the twenty-ninth further continued to 25 Day of September one thoufand feven hundred and feventy-one, and from thence to the End of the Sept. 1771. then next Seffion of Parliament. CAP,