1 England, or into the ports of Wales, or into the port of Berwick Wales, and upon Tweed, any wheat, wheat flour, rye, rye meal, barley, barley Berwick upon meal, oats, and oatmeal, pease and beans, and the fame fhall and Tweed, on may be respectively delivered to the proprietor or proprietors the low duthereof, on payment of the duties commonly called The Low ties. Duties, and none other; any law or ftatute to the contrary in anywife notwithstanding. payment of ties, and may be fo X. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That as often Wheat, &c. as any wheat, or wheat flour, rye, pease, beans, barley, beer, imported on bigg, or oats, fhall be imported, on payment of the duties com- the low dumonly called The Low Duties, into any of the ports where the which might fame, if imported at a time when the higher duties were payable, have been might by law have been lodged and secured under the joint locks warehoused of the King, and the importer or proprietor, fuch corn, grain, under the or flour, fhall, if the fame fhall be required by the importer or higher duties, proprietor thereof, be landed from on board the fhip or veffel in warehoused, the presence of the proper officer or officers, and after a due ac- &c. count thereof taken by the proper officer of the customs fhall be immediately lodged and secured, under the joint locks of the King, and the importer or proprietor of fuch corn, grain, or flour, in fuch warehouse or warehouses as fhall be for that purpose provided, at the fole expence of the said importer or proprietor, with the approbation and under the care and infpection of the commiffioners of the customs, or any three or more of them, or the collector and comptroller of the cuftoms for the port where fuch corn, grain, or flour, fhall be imported, there to be kept, and not delivered or taken out of fuch warehouse or warehouses, but in the fame manner, and under the fame conditions, fecurities, regulations, rules, reftrictions, and penalties, as are provided in the faid act paffed in the thirteenth year of his present Majesty's reign, refpecting corn, grain, or flour, lodged and fecured under the joint locks of the King, and the importer or proprietor. customs and XI. Provided alfo, and be it further enacted, That if any Wheat, &c. wheat, or wheat-flour, rye, peafe, beans, barley, beer, bigg, or which has oats, shall have been hitherto imported on payment of the duties been legally commonly called The Low Duties, and fhall have been landed warehoufed imported, and from on board the fhip or veffel in which the fame was imported under the in the prefence of the proper officers of the customs, and fhall locks of the have been by fuch officer or officers immediately lodged and officer of the fecured in a warehouse or warehouses, under the joint locks of the importer, him or them, and of the importer or proprietor, fuch wheat, may be dewheat-flour, rye, pease, beans, barley, beer, bigg, or oats, fhall livered under be confidered as having been warehoused under the joint locks of the regulathe King, and the importer or proprietor, according to the directions of 13 tions of the faid act paffed in the thirteenth year of his prefent Majefty, and may be delivered and taken out of such warehouse or warehouses, in the fame manner, and under the fame conditions, fecurities, regulations, reftrictions, and penalties, as are provided in the faid laft mentioned act. XII. And be it enacted by the authority aforefaid, That this act Geo. 3. c. 43. A&t to con tinue in force act shall continue in force until the twenty-ninth day of September one thousand seven hundred and ninety; and may be altered, till Sept. 29, varied, or repealed by any act or acts to be made in this prefent feffion of parliament. 1790, and may be altered, 1 CA P. II. An act for granting an aid to his Majefty by a land tax, to be raised in Great Britain, for the fervice of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety.-48. in the pound in England, to raise 1,989,6731. 78. 10d. 19. in Scotland, 47,954l. Is. 2d.-Total 2,037,6271. 95. od. 1q. CA P. III. An act for continuing and granting to his Majefty certain duties upon malt, mum, cyder, and perry, for the fervice of the year one thousand feven hundred and ninety.-i Geo. 3. c. 3. continued till June 24, 1791. CA P. IV. An act for taking off the duties upon unwrought tin exported to any of the countries beyond the Cape of Good Hope. From March 1, 1790, no duty of customs to be payable on unwrought tin exported to any place beyond the Cape of Good Hope, provided bond be given for landing it beyond the Cape. Such bonds fhall be discharged on a certificate from the fupercargo of the East India company, if landed in China; or from the governor, or two of the council, if landed in the company's fettlements; or from two principal merchants, if beyond the Cape of Good Hope where the company have no fettlement; which certificate to be produced to the collector or comptroller of the customs in England in thirty months. CA P. V. An act for continuing the term of fo much of an act, made in the twentythird year of the reign of his present Majefty, (chap. 18.) as relates to the rendering the payment of creditors more equal and expeditious in that part of Great Britain called Scotland.-Continued till May 15, 1792. CA P. VI. An act for punishing mutiny and defertion; and for the better payment of the army and their quarters. Number of forces 17,448, including 1,620 invalids. CA P. VII. An act for the regulation of his Majefty's marine forces while on fhore. CA P. VIII. An act to amend two acts, made in the twenty-eighth year of the reign of his prefent Majefty; the one intituled, An act for regulating the trade between the fubjects of his Majefty's colonies and plantations in North America, and in the West India islands, and the countries belonging to the united states of America; and between his Majefty's said subjects and the foreign islands in the West Indies; and the other intituled, An act to allow the importation of rum, or other spirits, from his Majesty's colonies or plantations in the West Indies, into the province of Quebec, without payment of duty, under certain conditions and reftrictions. 28 Geo. 3. c. 6. recited. In cafe of emergency, the governor of Quebec, with the confent of the council, may authorise the importation by fea or coastwife of neat cattle, &c. from the united states, by British fubjects, in British built fhips, &c. 28 Geo. 3. c. 39. recited. Lumber, &c. exported under the recited act (except white oak ftaves) to be of the produce of Quebec. Goods forfeited may be seized by officers of customs, or com manders manders of the King's ships, or any officer specially authorised by them; to be recovered and applied to the customs, either in this kingdom, or in North America, or the West Indies, as the cafe may happen. Commencement of act May 1, 1790. CA P. IX. An act for defraying the charge of pay and cloathing of the militia, in that part of Great Britain called England, for one year, beginning the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand seven hundred and ninety.. Continued annually. CA P. X. An act for the better fupport of the dignity of the Speaker of the house of commons; and for difabling the fpeaker of the house of commons for the time being from holding any office or place of profit, during pleafure, under the crown. Moft gracious Sovereign. WE your Majefty's most dutiful and loyal fubjects, the com- Preamble. deliver to the mons of Great Britain, in parliament affembled, being defirous of making provifion for enabling the speaker of the house of commons for the time being more effectually to fupport the dignity of the faid office, and the expence neceffarily attending the fame; and having refolved that, for that purpose, the lords commiffioners of the treafury fhould be authorised to direct, from time to time, a fum to be iffued at the exchequer, which, together with the fees and allowances of five pounds per day, now payable on account of the faid office, may amount to the clear yearly fum of fix thousand pounds, do therefore most humbly befeech your Majefty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's most excellent majefty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords fpiritual and temporal, and commons, in this prefent parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, That the secretary of the speaker of the house of commons The speaker's for the time being, or fuch other officer or perfon as the speaker secretary to shall appoint, fhall, as foon as conveniently may be after the ex- treafury, at piration of the quarter ending on the fifth day of April one thou- the times fand seven hundred and ninety, deliver to the lord high treasurer, herein menor commiffioners of the treafury for the time being, an account, count of the figned by the speaker of the house of commons, of the fees which fees received, fhall have been received on account of the speaker of the house and fums due of commons, between the twenty-fifth day of December one thou- or received of fand feven hundred and eighty-nine, and the twenty-fifth day of the allowance to the speaker March one thousand seven hundred and ninety; and alfo an ac- out of the count of such sum as shall have been received, or which fhall be civil lift. due and payable at the receipt of his Majefty's exchequer, out of his Majefty's civil lift revenues, on the allowance of five pounds per day usually made to the speaker of the house of commons for the time being, for the fame period; and that the secretary of the speaker of the house of commons for the time being, or fuch other officer or perfon as the fpeaker fhall appoint, fhall alfo, seven days at leaft before the expiration of the quarters ending tioned, an ac If the fees, and the fum received or due to the be carried to the account of the next on the fifth day of July, the tenth day of October one thousand feven hundred and ninety, and the fifth day of January one thoufand seven hundred and ninety-one, deliver a like account of the fees which fhall have been received on account of the speaker of the house of commons, and of the fum which fhall have been received, or which fhall be due and payable on the allowance of five pounds per day, as aforefaid, between the twenty-fifth day of March and the twenty-fourth day of June, between the twentyfourth day of June and the twenty-ninth day of September, and between the twenty-ninth day of September and the twenty-fifth day of December one thousand feven hundred and ninety refpectively, and fo in like manner in every fucceeding quarter. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That if at any time the amount of the fums received under the head of fees, and of the fum which fhall have been received, or shall be fpeaker from due and payable at the receipt of his Majesty's exchequer, on the the civil lift, allowance of five pounds per day, within any of the faid periods, within any of for which the accounts hereby directed to be delivered in are rethe periods before-men- quired to be computed, fhall exceed the clear fum of one thoutioned, fhall fand five hundred pounds, fuch excess shall be carried to the acexceed 1,500l. count to be delivered in previous to the next enfuing quarter, as the excefs to fo much money received by the fpeaker of the houfe of commons, to be added to the several receipts under the head of fees, or fums received or due and payable at the exchequer as aforefaid, within quarter, &c. the period of the faid next ensuing account; and if at any time the amount of the fums received under the head of fees, and which shall have been received, or fhall be due and payable at the receipt of his Majesty's exchequer, on the allowance of five pounds per day, within any of the faid periods, for which the accounts hereby directed to be delivered in are required to be computed, together with such excess as fhall be brought forward, in the manner herein directed, from any preceding account, fhall exceed the clear fum of one thousand five hundred pounds, fuch last-mentioned excess fhall also in like manner be carried forward to the account to be delivered in previous to the next enfuing quarter. If the fees lift, for the quarter ending April 5, 1790, fhall be lefs than 1,5col. the III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That and allowance if, at the expiration of the quarter ending on the fifth day of from the civil April one thousand seven hundred and ninety, the whole amount of the fums which fhall have been received by the speaker of the house of commons on account of fees, together with the fum which fhall have been received, or which fhall be due and payable on the allowance of five pounds per day as aforefaid, between deficiency to the twenty-fifth day of December one thoufand feven hundred and be made good eighty-nine, and the twenty-fifth day of March one thoufand from the fup- seven hundred and ninety, fhall be less than the clear sum of one plies for 1790; thousand five hundred pounds, it fhall and may be lawful for the lord high treasurer, or the commiffioners of the treasury for the time being, or any three or more of them, and they are hereby authorised, impowered, and required, by warrant under their hands, to direct the auditor of the receipt of the exchequer for the the time being to make forth and pass debentures for paying to the speaker of the house of commons for the time being, or to his order, out of any of the aids or fupplies which shall have been granted for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety, fuch fum and fums of money as fhall, together with the fums received by the fpeaker of the house of commons, or which shall be due and payable to him on account of the period for which the said account is directed to be computed, make up the clear sum of one thousand five hundred pounds. folidated fund. IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That and thereafter if at any future time the whole amount of the fums received by from the conthe speaker of the house of commons, or which fhall have been brought to his account, in the manner herein-before directed, within any of the faid periods for which the accounts hereby directed to be delivered in are required to be computed, fhall be less than the clear fum of one thousand five hundred pounds, it shall and may be lawful for the lord high treasurer, and the commiffioners of the treasury for the time being, or any three or more of them, and they are hereby authorised, impowered, and required, by warrant under their hands, to direct the auditor of the receipt of the exchequer for the time being to make forth and pass debentures for paying to the speaker of the house of commons for the time being, or to his order, out of the duties and revenues which compose the fund, commonly called The Confolidated Fund, such fum and fums of money as fhall, together with the fums which shall have been received by the speaker of the house of commons, or which fhall be due and payable to him, or which fhall have been brought to his account, within any of the faid periods as aforefaid, make up the clear fum of one thousand five hundred pounds. vious appro of the confo to have pre V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That After prefuch payments shall be made out of the said confolidated fund, after paying, or referving fufficient to pay, all fuch fum and priations out fums of money as have been directed by any former act or acts lidated fund, of parliament to be paid out of the fame, but with preference to the payments all other payments which fhall or may hereafter be charged upon, under this act or payable out of fuch fund; and fuch warrant and debenture, ference, &c. to be made forth and paffed thereon, fhall be a fufficient authority to the several and respective officers of the receipt of the exchequer for the time being, for the payment of such sum and fums of money to the speaker of the house of commons for the time being; and that the receipt of the speaker of the house of commons for the time being fhall be a fufficient discharge for the fame. to be free from VI. And be it further enacted, That the feveral fum and fums Payments out of money directed by this act to be iffued to the speaker of the of the confohouse of commons, for the purpose of completing the clear fum lidated fund of one thousand five hundred pounds, fhall be free and clear from all taxes. all taxes, impofitions, and other publick charges whatever; and that the speaker of the house of commons for the time being fhall be free and clear of all taxes, impofitions, and publick charges, in |