Laws then in force, are exempted from the Duties thereby grant ed, fhall be extended to all fuch Currans as after the five and twentieth Day of March One thoufand feven hundred and fix, fhall be imported in Ships belonging to any of the Subjects of the Republick of Venice, fo that they alfo fhall be exempted from Payment of the Subfidy granted by that Act; any Thing therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding. [This Section ex¬

plained, 8 Ann. c. 13. § 21.]

"Duties on Coal, Culm, &c. continued from 14 May 1708 to 30 "September 1710. § 4. Claufes, &c. in former Act, 9 & 10 W. 3. "c. 13. revived for levying the Duties on this Act. § 5. 5 & 6 "W. & M. c. 7. Excife on Beer, Ale, &c. to be paid from 17 "May 1713, during 95 Years. § 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 " and 15 (a). Duties on Beer, Ale, &c. to be levied as under "5&6 W. & M. c. 7.-16. For Payment of Annuities, the "Monies arifing by this Act, and by 5&6 W. & M. c. 7. after "Payment of Annuities, &c. to be paid into the Exchequer "Weekly. 17. And entered apart. § 18. Officers to be ap"pointed for raifing the Duties. Penalties on Neglect according "to9&10 W. 3. c. 44. 19. The Monies arifing by this Act, "to be the general Fund, &c. and not to be diverted, under Pe"nalty. 20. Sum to be raised. How applied. Any Perfons may ad vance Monies amounting to 2,855,7611. 165. 2d. for purchafing Annuities for ninety nine Years, from the 25th of "March 1706, at fifteen Years and an Half Purchase. Not to "exceed 184,2421. 148. pèr Annum, payable quarterly. $21. (b). "Contributors' Names to be entered, &c. and alfo the Sums "paid. 22. The Annuities charged upon, and to be paid pre"ferably out of the Duties and other Monies by this Act raised "and appointed to be paid. § 23. Overplus-monies, if any, difpofeable by Parliament. 24. Contributors to have fure Ef "tates in the Annuites purchafed by them free from Taxes. "25. And to have Tallies, &c. and Orders for Payment. No "Lord Treafurer, &c. to revoke the fame. § 26. 61. per Cent. "allowed for prompt Payment, to 1 May 1706. § 27 Annu "ities affignable, and Entry to be made, &c. Affidavits to be "filed. In Default of Devife, Intereft to go to Executors, &c. "28. Guardians may apply in purchase for Infants, &c. 150l. "and be for fo much discharged. § 29. Exchequer Officers to "take no Fee, on Penalty, &c. Plaintiff in Action for the fame "to have full Cofts. In cafe of Collufion, any other Contributor may bring an Action. § 30. No Purchafe unlefs one fourth "be paid by 1 May 1706. § 31. One fourth advanced before "I May 1706, and the reft not paid as limited, forfeited. § 32. "Salaries to Officers, Clerks, &c. out of the faid weekly Pay"ments into Exchequer. § 33. 8s. a Gallon on Brandy, &c. "brought from Guernsey, Jersey, Sark or Alderney. § 34. (c) "Merchants' Bonds for Customs, payable before the fixth of "February 1705, and remain yet unfatisfied; in cafe principal "Money be paid by 1 June 1706, fuch Bonds to be delivered up. If not paid, to be in Force. Lord Treasurer, &c. may remit Intereft, &c. § 35.

σε

66

66

(a) [Thefe Duties made perpetual, 1 G. 1. Stat. 2. c. 12. § 8. and Part of the aggregate Fund. Made to cease as to Excife Duties,

27 G. 3.

Bonds for Companies Duties, not to be dif charged.

27 G. 3. c. 13. § 35. 43 G. 3. c. 69. § 1. and as to Custom Du ties, 27 G. 3. c. 13. 1. 43 G. 3. c. 68. § 1. 49 G. 3. c.98. 1.] (b) [By 6 G. 1. c.4. 1. The South Sea Company may take in thefe Annuities.] (c) [Made to ceaje, 27 G. 3.

c. 13. 935 43 G. 3. c. 69. §1.]

XXXVI. Provided always, That this Act, or any Thing therein contained, fhall not extend to difcharge the Intereft upon any Bond or Bonds, entred into for the Duties of any Goods or Merchandizes imported by any Corporation or Company of Merchants trading by any Charter upon a joint Stock; any Thing herein to the contrary notwithstanding.

[For the Appropriation of the Surplus Monies of this A8 fee 6 Ann. c. 5. § 1, 2. 1 G. 1. Stat. 2. c. 12. § 7.]

CA P. VII.

An Act for making the Town of New Rofs, in the County of Wexford in the Kingdom of Ireland, a Port for the exporting Wool from Ireland into this Kingdom.

WH THEREAS by an Act paffed in this Kingdom in the tenth and eleventh Years of the Reign of His late Majefty King William the Third, intituled, An Act to prevent the Exportation of Wool out of the Kingdoms of Ireland and England into foreign Parts, and for the Encouragement of the Woollen Manufactures in the Kingdom of England, it is, amongit other Things, enacted, That all the Wool and the Manufactures thereof, in the faid Act particularly fpecified, as fhould, from Time to Time be exported from the faid Kingdom of Ireland into the Ports of this Kingdom or Dominion of Wales, fhould be shipped off, and entred at the Ports of Dublin, Waterford, Youghall, Kingfale, Cork and Drogheda in the faid Kingdom of Ireland, and at or from no other Port or Place within the faid Kingdom, under great Penalties to every Offender against the faid Act: and whereas the Town of New Rofs, in the County of Wexford, in the faid Kingdom of Ireland, is in the fame Harbour with the Port of the City of • Waterford, and before the paffing of the faid Act hath always had Liberty to export the faid Commodities directly into this Kingdom; but the faid Town not being particularly named in the faid Act, fome Doubt hath arifen whether the faid • Commodities may be exported thence: therefore to prevent all Doubt for the future concerning the fame, be it enacted by the Queen's Moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in Parliament aflembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That at all Times from and after the four and twentieth Day of June One thousand feven hundred and fix, it fhall and may be lawful to and for all and every Perfon and Perfons whomfoever, to fhip off, enter and export, from the Town of New Rofs, all the faid Commodities in the faid recited Act particularly mentioned, and to import the fame into any of the Ports of Biddeford, Barnstable, Minhead, Bridgwater, Bristol, Milford Haven, Chester and Leverboole, in the fame Manner as if the faid Town of Rofs had been particularly named for Exportation of the faid Commodities in

the

the faid former Act; any Law or Statute to the contrary thereof in any wife notwithstanding.

CA P. VIII.

An Act for the better Security of Her Majefty's Person and Government, and of the Succeffion to the Crown of England in the Proteftant Line.

OR the better Security of our Moft Gracious Sovereign's

Crown of England in the Proteftant Line, as it is now by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm fettled, limited and appointed; Be it enacted by the Queen's Moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and of the Commons, in this prefent Parliament Declaring by affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That if any Writing, &c. Perfon or Perfons from and after the five and twentieth Day That the Queen of March, that fhall be in the Year of our Lord One thoufand is not lawful feven hundred and fix, fhall maliciously, advisedly and directly, Queen, or that the pretended by Writing or Printing, declare, maintain and affirm, That our Prince of Wales Sovereign Lady the Queen that now is, is not the lawful or hath any Right rightful Queen of thefe Realms, or that the pretended Prince to the Crown, of Wales, who now styles himself King of England, by the Name &c. of James the Third, hath any Right or Title to the Crown of thefe Realms, or that any other Perfon or Perfons hath or have any Right or Title to the fame, otherwise than according to an Act of Parliament made in the firft Year of the Reign of Their W. & M. late Majesties King William and Queen Mary, of ever bleffed Self. 2. c. 2. and glorious Memory, intituled, An Ad declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject, and fettling the Succeffion of the Crown; 12 & 13 W. 3. and one other Act made in the twelfth Year of the Reign of c. 2. His faid late Majefty King William the Third, intituled, An A& for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better fecuring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject; or that the Kings or Queens of England, with and by the Authority of the Parliament of England, are not able to make Laws and Statutes of fufficient Force and Validity to limit and bind the Crown of this Realm, and the Defcent, Limitation, Inheritance and Government thereof, every fuch Perfon or Perfons fhall be guilty of High Treafon, High Treafon. and being thereof convicted and attainted, according to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm, fhall be deemed and adjudged Traytors, and fhall fuffer Pains of Death, and all Loffes and Forfeitures, as in Cafe of High Treason.

&c.

II. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, Declaring by That if any Perfon or Perfons fhall from and after the faid five preaching, &c. and twentieth Day of March, malicioufly and directly, by the Queen not lawful Queen, preaching, teaching or advifed fpeaking, declare, maintain and affirm, That our Sovereign Lady the Queen that now is, is not the lawful or rightful Queen of thefe Realms, or that the pretended Prince of Wales, who now ftyles himfelf King of England, by the Name of James the Third, hath any Right or Title to the Crown of thefe Realms, or that any other Perfon or Perfons hath or have any Right or Title to the fame, otherwife than according to an Act of Parliament made in the first Year of the Reign of Their 1 W. & M. faid late Majefties King William and Queen Mary, intituled, An Seff. 2. 6. 2.

AB

A& declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subjea, and fettling the Succeffion of the Crown; and one other Act made in the 12 & 13 W. 3. twelfth Year of the Reign of His faid late Majefty King William

C. 2.

Pramunire.

16 R. 2. c. 5. Provifo.

Profecution.

Parliament not

diffolved by the Queen's Death,

the Third, intituled, An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better fecuring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject; or that the Kings or Queens of England, with and by the Authority of the Parliament of England, are not able to make Laws and Statutes of fufficient Force and Validity to limit and bind the Crown of this Realm, and the Defcent, Limitation, Inheritance and Government thereof, every fuch Perion or Perfons, being thereof lawfully convicted, fhall incur the Danger and Penalty of Pramunire, mentioned in the Statute of Pramunire, made in the fixteenth Year of the Reign of King Richard the Second.

III. Provided always, and be it enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That no Perfon fhall be profecuted by virtue of this Act for any Words spoken, unless the Information of fuch Words be given upon Oath to one or more Juftice or Juftices of the Peace, within three Days after fuch Words fpoken, and the Profecution of fuch Offence be within Three Months after such Information; and that no Perfon fhall be convicted by virtue of this Act, for any fuch Words fpoken, but by the Oaths of two credible Witneffes.

IV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That this prefent Parliament or any other Parliament which fhall hereafter be fummoned and called by Her Majefty Queen Anne, Her Heirs or Succeffors, fhall not be determined or diffolved by the Death or Demife of Her faid Majefty, Her Heirs or Succeffors, but fuch Parliament fhall and is hereby enacted to continue, and is hereby impowered and required, if fitting at the Time of fuch Demife, immediately to proceed to act, notwithstanding fuch Death or Demife, for and during the Time of fix Months and no longer, unless the fame fhall be fooner prorogued or diffolved by fuch Perfon to whom the Crown of this Realm of England shall come, remain and be according to the Acts for limiting and fettling the Succeffion above mentioned: And if the faid Parliament fhall be fo prorogued, then it fhall meet and fit on and upon the Day but to continue unto which it fhall be prorogued, and continue for the Refidue of the faid Time of fix Months, unlefs fooner prorogued or diffolved, as aforefaid.

for fix Months after, &c.

Parliament to meet immediately after the

V. And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That if there be a Parliament in Being at the Time of the Death of Her Majefty, Her Heirs or Succeffors, but the fame happens Queen's Death. to be feparated by Adjournment or Prorogation, fuch Parliament fhall immediately after fuch Demise, meet, convene and fit, and fhall act notwithstanding fuch Death or Demife, for and during the Time of fix Months, and no longer, unless the fame shall be fooner prorogued or diffolved, as aforefaid.

In cafe of no Parliament, laft preceding to

meet.

VI. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That in cafe there is no Parliament in Being at the Time of fuch Demife, that has met and fat, then the latt preceding Parliament shall immediately convene and fit at Westminster, and be a Parliament to continue, as aforefaid, to all Intents and Purposes, as if the faid Parliament had never been diffolved; but subject to be

prorogued

prorogued and diffolved, as aforefaid.

[This Claufe the fame

as 6 Ann. c. 7. § 6. which is repealed 37 G. 3. c. 127. 2.]

VII. Provided always, and it is hereby declared, That nothing Act not to in this A&t contained, fhall extend or be conftrued to extend to abridge the Queen's Power alter or abridge the Power of the Queen, Her Heirs or Succeffors, to prorogue, &c. to prorogue or diffolve Parliaments, nor to repeal or make void Parliaments, &c. one Act of Parliament made in the fixth and seventh Years of 6 & 7 W. 3. c. 2. the Reign of His late Majefty King William the Third, intituled, An Ad for the frequent meeting and calling of Parliaments; But that the faid Act fhall continue in Force in every Thing that is not contrary to or inconfiftent with the Direction of this A&.

VIII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That the Privy Council of Her Majefty, Her Heirs or Succeffors, Privy Council fhall not be determined or diffolved by the Death or Demife of not diffolved by Her Majefty, Her Heirs or Succeffors; but fuch Privy Council Queen's Death, fhall continue and act as fuch, by the Space of fix Months next after fuch Demife, unless fooner determined by the next Succeffor, to whom the imperial Crown of this Realm is limited and appointed to go, remain or defcend; nor fhall the Office or Place nor Great Offiof Lord Chancellor, or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Eng- cers, land, or of Lord High Treafurer of England, Lord Prefident of the Council, Lord Privy Seal, Lord High Admiral of England, or of any of the Great Officers of the Queen or King's Houfhold

for the Time being; nor fhall any Office, Place or Imployment, nor Officers civil or military, within the Kingdoms of England or Ireland, civil or military Dominion of Wales, Town of Berwick upon Tweed, Ifles of Jerfey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark, or any of Her Majefty's Plantations, become void, by reafon of the Demife or Death of Her prefent Majefty, Her Heirs or Succeffors, Queens or Kings of this Realm; but the faid Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, the Lord High Treafurer of England, the Lord Prefident of the Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the Lord High Admiral of England, the Great Officers of the Houfhold, and every other Perfon and Perfons in any of the Offices, Places and Imployments aforefaid, fhall continue in their refpective Offices, Places and Imployments, for the Space of fix Months next after fuch Death or Demise, unless fooner removed and difcharged by the next in Succeffion, as aforefaid.

IX. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, Great Seal, &c. That the Great Seal of England, the Privy Seal, Privy Signet, to be used. and all other publick Seals in being, at the Time of the Demise of Her Majefty, Her Heirs or Succeffors, fhall continue and be made use of, as the refpective Seals of the Succeffor, until fuch Succeffor fhall give Order to the contrary.

Upon Queen's
Death, Privy

Council to caufe
the next Protef-
tant Succeffor to

X. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That whenfoever Her Majefty (whom God long preferve) fhall happen to demife and depart this Life, without Iflue of Her Body, the Privy Council in being at the Time of fuch Demife of Her Majefty, fhall, with all convenient Speed, caufe the next be proclaimed, Proteftant Succeffor, entitled to the Crown of England by virtue of the Acts before mentioned, to be openly and folemnly proclaimed in England and Ireland, in fuch Manner and Form as the preceding Kings and Queens of England refpectively have been ufually proclaimed after the Demife of their refpective Predeceffors; and that all and every Member and Members of the faid