Preamble, reciting A&t 7 Geo. III. N° XXV: Anno decimo GEORGII III. Regis. Chap. 40. An ACT for appropriating a Fund established by an Act made in the Seventh Year of the Reign of his present Majefty, intituled, An Act for granting to his Majesty additional Duties on certain foreign Linens imported into this Kingdom, and for establishing a Fund for the encouraging of the raifing and dreffing of Hemp and Flax. $1. WHEREAS, by an Act paffed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act for granting to his Majefty additional Duties on certain foreign Linens imported into this Kingdom, and for eftablishing a Fund for the encouraging of the raising and dressing of Hemp and Flax, it is enacted, That a Sum not exceeding Fifteen thousand Pounds per annum, arifing from the Duties by the faid Act granted, fhall be kept apart in the empowered Diftribution the Receipt of his Majesty's Exchequer, as a Fund for the Encouragement of raifing and dreffing Hemp and Flax in this Kingdom, in fuch Way and Manner as Parliament fhould thereafter direct; And whereas fuch Directions is now become requifite for answering the falutary Purposes of the faid Act: May it therefore please your Majefty, that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the King's 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 it fhall and His Majefty may be lawful to and for his Majesty, his to direct the Heirs and Succeffors, from Time to Time, of L. 8000 per and at all Times hereafter, by his or annum, &c. their Royal Sign Manual for that Purpose, ging the raiand counterfigned by the Commiflion-fing and dreffing of Hemp ers of his Majefty's Treafury, now or for and Flax, the Time being, or any Three or more of them, or the High Treafurer for the Time being, to direct, order, limit, and appoint the Distribution and Payment of the Sum of Eight thoufand Pounds per annum, from the Commencement of the faid Act of the Seventh of his prefent Majesty, and annually afterwards, or of Eight Fifteenth Parts of the Sum and Sums of Money which have already grown due and been kept apart, and shall hereafter grow due and be kept apart, for the Hh 2 Encou for encourag purluant to the Directions Encouragement of raifing and dreffing Hemp and Flax in this Kingdom, pursuof Act 7 Geo, ant to the Directions of the faid Act of the Seventh of his prefent Majefty, and every Matter and Thing neceffary for the Appropriation thereof, according to the true Intent and Meaning of the faid herein before recited Act, in fuch Ways and Manner, and in and by fuch Shares, Proportions, and Divifions, and under fuch Conditions, Restrictions, and Limitations, as to his Majefty, his Heirs and Succeffors, fhall from Time to Time, as aforefaid, appear to be moft ufeful and effectual for the Encouragement of the raifing and dreffing Hemp and Flax within that Part of Great Britain called England. A&13 Geo. I. §2. AND whereas, pursuant to Powers gived by an Act paffed in the Thirteenth Year of his Majesty King George the Firft, intituled, An Act for encouraging and promoting Fisheries and other Manufactures and Improvements in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, his Majesty has already, by Letters Patent under the Great Seal appointed by the Treaty of Union to be kept in Scotland in place of the Great Seal thereof, appointed, named, and authorifed, certain Perfons to be Trustees and Commiffioners for managing and directing the Application of the feveral Funds rants for pay, Funds and Sums of Money in the faid Act provided and appropriated for the Improvement and Encouragement of Fisheries and Manufactures in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland: And whereas it will be of great publick Benefit, that fo much of the faid Fund fet apart for the Encouragement of the raising and dreffing of Hemp and Flax, as fhall be allotted for that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, fhould likewise be put under the Management and Direction of the faid Trustees and Commiffioners, and other Persons after mentioned; Be it therefore further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That the Com- Treafury to miffioners of his Majefty's Treafury now be- iffue Waring, and the High Treafurer of Great Bri- ing L. 7000 tain, and the Commiffioners of the Trea-annually, &c. fury of his Majefty, his Heirs and Succeffors for the Time being, fhall, and they are hereby empowered and required to iffue their Warrants and Orders to the proper' Perfons, for making Payment of Seven thousand Pounds per annum from the Commencement of the faid Act of the Seventh of his prefent Majefty, and annually afterwards, or of Seven Fifteenth Parts of the Sum and Sums of Money which have already grown due, and been kept apart, in the Receipt of his Majefty's Exchequer, for the Encouragement of raifing and dreffing Hemp and Flax in this |