6 & 7 W, 3. c. 18. or enlarge the faid Statutes, or any of them, and to make new Statutes and Ordinances for the faid Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, and for refuming or fettling the local Vifitation of them or any of them, in fuch Manner, from Time to Time, as to Her Majefty fhall feem meet. [Here the Roll is indorfed, fixth Part 6 Ann. and contains the As next following, and Cap. 22. and alfo Cap. 24 to 37. inclufive. Title of Roll, as laft ftated, repeated.] An Act for the better Amendment of that Way which leads from Cherill through Calne to Studley Bridge, in the County of Wilts." An A&t for repairing the Highways from Old Stratford, in the County of Northampton, to Dunchurch, in the County of Warwick. CA P. XXII. ▲n Act for continuing feveral Duties therein mentioned, upon Coffee, Chocolate, Spices, Pictures and Muflins, and additional Duties upon feveral of the faid Commodities, and certain Duties upon Callicoes, China Wares and Drugs; and for continuing the Duties called the Two Third Subfidies of 'Tunnage and Poundage; for preserving the public Credit; and for afcertaining the Duties of Coals exported for foreign Parts; and for fecuring the Credit of the Bank of England; and for paffing several Accounts of Taxes raised in the County of Monmouth ; and for promoting the Confumption of fuch Tobacco as fhall have paid Her Majesty's Duties. 66 66 34 Anu. c. 4. recited. Duties on Coffee, &c. continued "from 23 June 1710, for four Years longer [See 12 13 W.3. c. 11. 10. Note.] Subject to the fame Penalties, Drawbacks, &c. as by former Acts. § 1. [See 7 G. 1. Stat. 1. c. 21. § 11.] "Former Powers of 3 & 4 Ann. c. 4. revived. § 2. Said Duties appropriated for fecuring the Monies unfatisfied for Loans upon 34 Ann. c. 4 and not diverted to any other Ufe. § 3. The "two third Subfidics of Tonnage and Poundage continued "from 7 March 1708, for 3 Years. [Made perpetual, 7 Ann. c. 7. $22. Made to cenje, 27 G. 3. c. 13. §1. 43 G. 3. "c. 68 § 1. 49 G. 3. c. 98. § 1.] (Except Tobacco and fuch "Currants as fhall be imported in English built Shipping, navigated "according to the Laws now in Force, and Sugar from the English "Plantations, and fuch Goods and other Merchandizes, as by the "two Acts lait mentioned, or either of them, are exempted from Payment of the Subfidies thereby granted.) § 4. [See as to Cur"rants imported in l'ere ian Ships, 8 Ann. c. 13. § 21. Duties "fhall be raifed and accounted for, as by 3 & 4 Ann. c. 4. Former Powers revived $5. Duties appropriated for fecuring the "Monies unfatisfied upon the Subfidy Act, 3 & 4 Ann. c. 5. and not diverted to any other Ufe. § 6. [See 27 G 3. c. 13. " $52,53] When Debt fall be paid off, Monies to be difpofed for public Service. § 7. 66 And whereas by an Act made in the fixth Year of the Reign of His faid late Majefty King William the Third, intituled, An A8 for granting to His Majelly certain Duties upon Glajs Wares, 9 • Stone Stone and Earthen Bottles, Goals and Culm, for carrying on the War against France, it is recited, That the Impofition upon • Coals exported to foreign Parts was fo great, that it was almoft 4 a Prohibition, to the great Diminution of His Majefty's Customs, and leffening the English Navigation on the Exportation of Coals beyond the Seas: For Remedy whereof it was thereby enacted, That all Coals exported beyond the Seas in foreign Bottoms fhould, during the Continuance of that Act, only pay ten Shillings the Chaldron, and Englif Bottoms only three Shillings the Chaldron, which Part of the faid Act was to determine on or about the twenty ninth Day of September One thousand feven hundred; and by another Act made in the eleventh Year of the 11 & 12 W.3. fame King's Reign, for continuing feveral Laws therein men- c. 13. tioned, it was enacted, That all Coals exported beyond the Seas in foreign Bottoms, fhould from and after the faid twenty ninth Day of September One thoufand feven hundred, for and during the Space of feven Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Seffions of Parliament, only pay ten Shillings the • Chaldron, and in English Bottoms only three Shillings the Chaldron; which feveral Acts, in relation to Coals exported, have been found very beneficial and ufeful to the Public, and fully to have answered the good Ends and Intent thereof;' Be it therefore enacted, &c. Coals exported in foreign Bottoms to pay until 1715, only 10s. "per Chaldron, in Britif Bottoms only 3s. per Chaldron. § 8. [Repealed as to British Bottoms, 8 dnn. c. 13. § 15. As to foreign Bottoms, 9 dan. c. 6. §7. but fee additional Duties on Coals exported in foreign and British Bottoms, 12 Ann. Stat. 2 c. 9. § 9. which are made perpetual, 6 G. 1. c. 4. § I. Made to ceafe, 27 G. 3. c. 13. §1. 43 G. 3. c. 68. § 1. 49 G. 3. c. 98. § 1.] IX. And whereas by an Act of Parliament made in the eighth 8 & 9 W. 2. Year of the Reign of His faid late Majefty King William of c. 20. § 28. glorious Memory, intituled, An Ad for making good the Defi ciencies of feveral Funds therein mentioned, and for enlarging the Capital Stock of the Bank of England, and for raising the publick Credit, it is, amongst other Things, enacted, That during the Continuance of the Corporation of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, no other Bank or any other Corporation, Society, Fellowship, Company or Conftitution in the Nature of a Bank, fhall be erected or established, permitted, fuffered, countenanced or allowed by Act of Parliament within the Kingdom, as in and by the faid Act more at large may appear; nevertheless fince the paffing of the faid Act fome Corporations by colour of the Charters to them granted, and other great Numbers of Perfons, by pretence of Deeds or Covenants united together, have prefumed to borrow great Sums of Money, and therewith, contrary to the Intent of the faid Act, do deal as a Bank, to the appareat Danger of the established Credit of the Kingdom :' Now for preventing of fach Practice in Time to come, and the Mifchiefs thence to arife, Be it enacted by the Authority afore faid, That from and after the twenty ninth Day of September in the Regulation for Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eight, during Companies, &c. the Continuance of the Governor and Company of the Bank of united in PortEngland, it fhall not be lawful for any Body Politick or Corporate up Money ou whatsoever, erected or to be erected, other than the faid Governor their Bills. and nership taking European empt from Duties. Regulation as to Tobacco of the British Plantations manufactured in Great Britain. Penalty. and Company of the Bank of England, or for other Persons what foever united or to be united in Covenants or Partnership, exceeding the Number of fix Perfons, in that Part of Great Britain called England, to borrow, owe or take up any Sum or Sums of Money on their Bills or Notes, payable at Demand or at any lefs Time than fix Months from the borrowing thereof. [See 7 Ann. c. 7. § 61.] X. Provided always and it is hereby enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That all European Linens, Sifters Threads and Tapes or Incle, Linfeed and Flax, fhall be exempted from the Payment of the Duties imposed by this Act (called the two third Subfidies as aforefaid) during the faid Term of three Years by this Act granted of and in the fame as aforefaid; any Thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding. [As to the Duties on the above Articles, fee 49 G. 3. c. 98. Sch..A. the refpective Titles.] "Auditor in making up Receiver's Accounts for County of "Monmouth, for the fix preceding Years, to charge him with the "Deficiency in feveral Aids herein mentioned. fi. XII. And for promoting the Confumption of Tobacco of the Growth of Her Majefty's Plantations in America, the Increase of Her Majefty's Revenue, and for the better Encouragement of the faid Britib Plantations, Be it enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That from and after the twenty ninth Day of September in the Year of our Lord One thoufand feven hundred and eight, it fhall not be lawful for any Commander of any of Her Majefty's Ships of War or Purfer thereof, to fell, deliver or cause to be fold or delivered to any of Her Majefty's Seamen or Marines on board of fuch Ship, any Tobacco of the Growth of Europe, nor any Tobacco mixed with Tobacco of the faid Growth. XIII. And for the better Employment of the Poor of this Kingdom, Be it likewife enacted, That all Tobacco to be ufed or confumed on board any of Her Majefty's Ships of War in any Part of Europe, from and after the faid twenty ninth Day of September, fhall be fuch as is of the Growth of the said Britis Plantations which hath paid Her Majefty the full Duties and been manufactured in Great Britain; upon Pain that every fuch Commander or Purfer who fha!! knowingly and wilfully offend herein, fhall forfeit their refpective Places and Employments, and three Shillings for every Pound Weight of Tobacco, and fo in Proportion for every greater or leffer Quantity fo fold and delivered; one Moiety thereof to the Queen's Majefty and the other Moiety to the Informer who fhall fue for the fame by Action or Information in any of Her Majefty's Courts of Record at Weftminfler, wherein no Effoin, Protection or Wager of Law fhall be allowed, and no more than one Imparlance. [This AB is Number 14 on the Roll, indorfed, Seventh Part 6 Aur.] CA P. XXIII. An Act to make further Provifion for electing and fummoning fixteen Peers of Scotland to fit in the House of Peers in the Parliament of Great Britain; and for trying 2 Peers Peers for Offences committed in Scotland; and for the further regulating of Voters in Elections of Members to ferve in Parliament. WH HEREAS by the two and twentieth Article of the 5 & 6 Ann. c. 8. Treaty of Union for uniting the two Kingdoms of Art. 22. England and Scotland, ratified and confirmed by the refpective Parliaments of cach Kingdom, it was, amongst other Things, provided that when Her Majefty, Her Heirs or Succeffors, fhould declare Their Pleasure for holding the first or any fubfequent Parliament of Great Britain, until the Parliament of • Great Britain fhould make further Provifion therein, Writs fhould iffue under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, directed to the Privy Council of Scotland, commanding them to caufe fixteen Peers, who were to fit in the Houfe of Lords, to be fummoned to Parliament, in fach Manner as by an Act of the then prefent Seffion of Parliament of Scotland was or fhould be fettled; in which Seffion of the Parliament in Scotland an Act was accordingly paffed for that Purpofe, intituled, An Ad fettling the Manner of electing the Scotch A&. fixteen Peers and forty five Members to reprefent Scotland in the Parliament of Great Britain; which Act was afterwards confirmed by the Parliament of England, and declared to be as valid as if the fame had been Part of and ingroffed in the faid Articles of Union; by which Act it is, amongst other Things, provided and enacted, That the fixteen Peers, who should have a Right to it in the Houfe of Peers in the Parliament of Great Britain, on the Part of Scotland, by virtue of the faid Treaty, fhould be named by the faid Peers of Scotland, whom they reprefent, their Heirs or Succeffors to their Dignities and Honours, out of their own Number, and that by open Election and Plurality of Voices of the Peers prefent, and of the Proxies for fuch as fhould be abfent, the faid Proxies being Peers, and producing a Mandate in Writing, duly figned before Witneffes, and both the Conftituent and Proxy being qualified according to Law; and that fuch Peers as were abfent, being qualified as aforefaid, might fend to all fuch Meetings a Lift of the Peers whom they judged fitteft, validly figned by the faid abfent Peers, which fhould be reckoned in the fame Manner as if the Parties had been prefent and given in the faid Lift; and in cafe of the Death or legal Incapacity of any of the faid fixteen Peers, that the aforefaid Peers of Scotland fhould nominate another of their own Number in Place of the faid Peer or Peers, in Manner as therein is mentioned; and it was thereby further enacted, That until the Parliament of Great Britain fhould make further Provifion therein, the faid Writs fo to be issued, should contain a Warrant and Com mand, to command the faid Privy Council to iffue out a Proclamation in Her Majefty's Name, requiring the Peers of Scot⚫land for the Time to meet and affemble at fuch Time and Place within Scotland, as Her Majefty and Her Royal Succeffors • should think fit, to make Election of the faid fixteen Peers, and requiring the Lord Clerk Regifter, or two of the Clerks of Seffion, to attend all fuch Meetings and to administer the Oaths as were or fhould be by Law required, and to ask the VOL. IV. Y y Votes, Votes, and having made up the Lift in Prefence of the Meeting, return the Names of the fixteen Peers chofen, certified under the Subfcription of the faid Lord Clerk Regifter, Clerk or Clerks of Seffion attending, to the Clerk of the Privy Council of Scotland, to the End that the Names of the fixteen Peers being fo returned to the Privy Council might be returned to the Court from whence the Writ did iffue, under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, conform to the faid twenty 6 Ann. c. 6. § 1. fecond Article: And whereas by an Act of this prefent Seffion, intituled, An Ad for rendering the Union of the two Kingdoms more intire and compleat, it is declared and enacted, That from and after the firft Day of May One thousand feven hundred and eight, the Privy Council of Scotland fhall ceafe and determine, whereby it is become neceflary that fome further • Provifion fhould be made for the electing and returning the faid fixteen Peers that are to fit in the Houfe of Peers in the Parliament of Great Britain, pursuant to the faid Treaty; Be it therefore 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 affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That at all Times hereafter when Her Majefty, Her Heirs and Succeffors fhall declare Her or Their Pleafure for fummoning and holding any Parliament of Great Britain, that in order to the electing and fummoning the fixteen Peers of Scotland, a Proclamation fhall be iffued under the Great Seal of Great Britain, commanding all the Peers of Scotland to affemble and meet at Edinburgh, or in fuch other Place in Scot land, and at fuch Time as fhall be appointed in the faid Proclamation, to elect, by open Election, the fixteen Peers to fit and vote in the Houfe of Peers in the Parliament of Great Britain, in fuch Manner as by the before recited Act and hereinafter is appointed. Proclamation to be iffued for electing fixteen Peers of Scotland. And published at All the Peers prefent to take the Oaths. Oaths. II. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That every Proclamation iffued for the Purpose aforefaid, fhall be duly published at the Market Crofs at Edinburgh, and in all the County Towns of Scotland, five and twenty Days at the least before the Time thereby appointed for the Meeting of the Peers to proceed to fuch Election. III. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That all the Peers who meet on fuch Proclamation, fhall, before they proceed to the Election, and in Prefence of the Peers affembled for fuch Election, take the refpective Oaths, videlicet: I A. B. do fincerely promife and fwear, That I will be faithful, and bear true Allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Anne. So help me GOD.' And 4. B. do fwear, That I do from my Heart abhor, deteft and abjure, as impious and heretical, that damnable Doctrine ⚫ and Pofition, That Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope, or any Authority of the See of Rome, may be depofed or murdered by their Subjects, or any other whatsoever. I do declare, That no foreign Prince, Perfon, Prelate, State · or Potentate, hath or ought to have any Jurifdiction, Power, Superiority, Pre-eminence or Authority, Ecclefiaftical or Spiritual, within this Realm. So help me GOD.' And |