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 iq6 APPENDIX. The contain- XXV. Provided, That this Act (hall continue and be in force for two years, to commence from iinccofthisAft. jjj e Xenth of June, One thoufand fix hundred fixty and two, and no longer. Continued 16 Car. 2. cap. 8. EXP. Anno XVII C A R O L I II. Regis. At the Parliament begun at Weftminjler? the Eighth of May 1661. and by divers Proroga- tions held at Oxford the Ninth of October 1665, Anno 17 Car. 2. CAP. IV. An Act for continuance of a former Act for Regulating the Prefs. BE it enacted by the Kings moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in this prefent Parliament aifembled, That an Act made in the Fourteenth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord the King that now is, intituled, An Ail for preventing Abufes in Printing Seditious, Treafonable, and Unlicenfed Books and Pamphlets, and for Regulating of Printing, and Printing-Preffes, ihall be continued with the Alterations and Additions made in and by this Act, and ihall remain in force until the end of the firft Seffion of the next Par- liament. EXP. Three Printed II. And be it further enacted, That from and after the Six and twentieth day of December, One thou- Copies of every fand fix hundred fixty five, Every Printer within the City of London, or in any other place, except the don k how to be tw0 Univerfities, ihall referve three Printed Copies of the beft and largeft Paper of every Book new difpofed. printed, or reprinted by him with Additions ; and ihall before any publick Vending of the faid Book, bring them to the Matter of the Company of Stationers, and deliver them to him ; One whereof ihall by the faid Matter of the faid Company of Stationers, within ten days after he hath fo received the fame, be delivered to the Keeper of his Majefties Library, and the other two within the faid ten days to be fent to the Vice-Chancellors of the two Univerfities refpectively, for the ufe of the publick Libra- ries of the faid Univerfities. Books Printed HI. And it is further enacted, That the Printers in the faid Univerfities, and every of them re- intheUniver- fpectively, from and after the faid Six and twentieth day of December, ihall deliver one fuch Printed """• Copy, as aforefaid, of every Book fo new Printed, or reprinted in the faid Univerfities, or in either of them, to the Keeper of his Majefties Library, as aforefaid ; as alfo to the Vice-Chancellor of either of the faid Univerfities for the time being, two other fuch Printed Copies for the ufe of the publick Li- braries of the faid Univerfities refpectively. And if any of the Printers aforefaid, or the faid Matter of the Company of Stationers, (hall not obferve the direction of this Act therein, that then he and they fo making default, in not delivering the faid Printed Copies as aforefaid, ihall feverally forfeit befides the value of the faid Printed Copies, the fum of Five pounds for every Copy not fo delivered, as .alfo the value of the faid Printed Copies, not fo delivered: the fame to be recovered by his Ma- jefty, his Heirs and Succeflbrs, and by the Chancellor, Mailers and Scholars of either of the faid Univerfities refpectively, by Arftion of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information in any of his Ma- jefties Courts of Record at Wefiminjler, wherein no Effoign, Protection, or Wager of Law ihall be allowed. - Anno