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 2l6 One hundred feventy five Coaches by Turns to Drive upon the Lords Pay- Cap. 7. Five pound Pe- nalty for any other to Dr»ve. , Printed Lift of the Sunday Coaches. Account annual before the Au- ditors. Grant of the King void, and 500 I. Penalty , upon Grantee, APPENDIX. By-Laws, Rules and Orders were particularly inccrted in this prefent Act j But no perform fhall be twice puni/hed for the fame Offence. ' XVIII. And whereas by one Act of Parliament made in the Nine and twentieth year of the Reiga ' of King Charles the Second, Entituled, An Ail for the better Obfervation of the Lords Day, commonly ' called Sunday, The (landing to Hire and Driving of Hackney-Coaches on the? Lords Day are restrained ; ' And whereas the faid reftraint is many times found to be Inconvenient, as well in order to the Obferva- ' tion of the Day, as otherwise,' Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforefaid, That it fhall and may be lawful to and for the faid Commiffioners to appoint (without any Fee or Reward for the fame) One hundred feventy five and no more of the faid Hackney- Coaches to Ply, Stand and Drive on the Lords Day within the weekly Bills of Mortality only, fo as the whole number of (even hundred may be imployed fucceflively. XIX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That if at any time after the faid Four and twentieth Day pf June, any Hackney-Coach fhall Ply, Stand or Drive upon the Lords Day, other than fuch as (ball be appointed, as aforefaid, and for the Days only for which they (hall be refpectively appointed, as aforefaid, or any where elfe within the Weekly Bills of Mortality, the Owner of fuch Coach (hall forfeit the fum of Five Pounds, to be recovered by fuch perfon as fhall fue for the fame by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information, wherein no Protection, Priviledge or Wager of Law, or more than one Imparlance (hall be allowed. ' And for the more effectual difcovery of fuch Coaches ' as (hall offend herein,' Be it enacted by the authority aforefaid, That the faid Commiffioners (hall direct to be printed and made publick, one Lift or Account of all the particular Numbers of fuch Hack- ney- Coaches as (hall be appointed for every Lords Day fucceflively throughout the year. XX. And it is hereby further enacted, That an Account ,of the profits and duties-ariflng by virtue of this Act, (hall every year, during the continuance thereof, be made up before the Auditors of the Impreft ; And if any perfon or perfons, Bodies Politick or Corporate, (ha]l at any time hereafter procure or accept from their Majeures, their Heirs or Succeffors, any Penfion, Gift or Grant for Years or Life, or any other Eftate, or any Sum or Sums of Money out of the Revenue arifing by virtue of this Act, That then every fuch Grant (hall be void, and the perfon or perfons procuring or accepting the fame, ihall forfeit the fum of Five hundred pounds, the one Moiety of which forfeiture (hall be to the ufe of the Poor of the Parifh where the faid Offender (hall inhabit, and the other Moiety to him that (hall fue for the fame, by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information, in any of their Majefties Courts .of Record. Anno Regni Gulie.lmi & Marine, Regis cjf Regime Anglice, Scotia, Francice, & Hibernics, Sexto. At the Parliament begun at Weftminfier the Twentieth day of March, Anno Dom. 1689. In the Second year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord and Lady, William and Mary, by the Grace of God, of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, King and Queen, Defenders of the Faith, &c. And from thence Continued by feveral Prorogations and Adjournments to the Twelfth day of November, 1 6y. being the Sixth Seffion of this prefent Parliament. Preamble. Duties given upon Burials tor 5 Years, C A P. VL An Act for Granting to his Majefty certain Rates and Duties upon Marriages, Births, and Burials and upon Batchelors and Widowers, for the Term of Five Years, for carrying on the War againft France with Vigour. E your Majefties moft Dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Commons in Parliament Affembled, from a deep fenfe of the many great occafions, which engage your Majefty in many extraor- dinary Expences for the neceflary Defence of your Realms, and the Profecution of a War ' againft France with Vigour, have cheerfully and unarumoufly given and granted unto your Majefty, as ' an Additional Supply and Aid, the Rates, Duties, Impofitions and fums of Money herein after ' mentioned ; and we moft humbly befeech your Majefty that it may be enacted,' II. And 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 Affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That from and after the Firft day of May, in the year of our Lord, One thoufand fix hundred ninety and five, for and during the term of Five years, to commence and be ac- counted from the faid Firft day of May, and no longer, there (hall be railed, and levied and paid to his Majefty, his Heirs and Succeffors (over and above all other Duties whatfoever) for and upon the Burial of all perfons, who (hall be Buried within the faid Term of Five years, at any place within the Kingdom of England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berivick upon Tweed, the feveral and refpec- tive Duties and Sums of Money herein after mentioned (that is to fay j) III. For, 8