giftrates, fhall be thereupon convicted of fuch Offence, it shall and may be lawful for the faid Lords of Jufticiary, at Edinburgh, or in their Circuits, to fet a Fine on fuch offending Justice or Justices of the Peace, or Magiftrate or Magiftrates, not exceeding one hundred Pounds Sterling.

N° V.

N° V.

CLAUSES of an Act, quarto
Georgii II. Regis, entituled,

An ACT for further encouraging the Manu-
facture of British Sail Cloth, &c.

1. WHEREAS the Wealth and Pro- Preamble. fperity of this Kingdom does

very much depend upon the Prefervation and Improvement of its Manufactures, c. therefore may it 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 from and after the Twenty- Undreft Flax to be importfourth Day of June, One thoufand feven ed without hundred and thirty-one, it fhall and may Duty, on Enbe lawful for any Perfon or Perfons whatfoever, to import into this Kingdom any Quantity of rough or undrest Flax, without paying any Subfidy, Custom, Impofition, or other Duty whatfoever, for the fame, fo as a due Entry be first made thereof in the Custom-house belonging to the Port into which the fame fhall be im

ported,

try, &c.

Flax liable to

the Duties, on

48 Anno Regni quarto Georgii II. Regis.

ported, in fuch Manner and Form, and expreffing the Quantities of fuch rough or undrest Flax, as were used and practifed before the making of this Act, and fo as the fame be landed in the Presence of the proper Officer appointed for that Purpose, and the Importation thereof be according to the Rules prefcribed and enjoined by an Act of Parliament paffed in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, entituled, [An act for the encouraging and increafing of Shipping and Navigation.]

2. PROVIDED nevertheless, and be it Non-compli- further enacted, That, on Failure of the ance with the Conditions or Directions herein last men

A&t.

tioned being performed, or any of them, in Manner aforefaid, all fuch rough or undrest Flax fhall be liable to the refpective Duties charged thereon, as the fame might or would have been liable to, if this Act had never been made; any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.j

N° VI.

No VI.

CLAUSES of an Act decimo quinto et fexto Georgii II. Regis, entituled,

An ACT for granting to his Majefty an additional Duty on foreign Cambricks, imported into Great Britain; and for allowing thereout a BOUNTY upon certain Species of British and Irish LINENS exported.

1.HEREAS the Manufactures of Preamble. Linens, made in the Kingdoms

of Great Britain and Ireland, are greatly improved and increased, whereby the Price of Linens, as well of foreign as home Fabrick, hath been confiderably reduced; and whereas the further Extenfion of the faid Manufactures of Linens will be a great advantage to the faid Kingdoms; therefore, &c.

tish and Irifla

§ 2. AND be it further enacted by the Reward for Authority aforefaid, That, out of the faid exporting Briadditional Duty on foreign Cambricks, Linens. there fhall be given and paid, without any Fee, Reward, or Deduction whatsoever, a Bounty of One Penny, for every Yard of British and Irish Linens made of Hemp or G Flax,

Provifo.

50 Anno Regni decimo quinto et fexto, &c.

Flax, of the Value of Six Pence per Yard,
and not exceeding the Value of Twelve
Pence per Yard, and of One Halfpenny
for every Yard of fuch British and Irish
Linens under the Value of Six Pence per
Yard, which from and after the Twenty-
fifth Day of March, One thousand feven
hundred and forty-three, and within the
Term of Seven Years, to commence from
the faid Twenty-fifth Day of March, or
at any
Time thereafter, before the End of
the then next Seffion of Parliament, fhall
be exported out of Great Britain, to Africa,
America, or Portugal, or which fhall be
exported to Spain, from and after the Time
that it fhall be lawful to export such Li-
nens to that Kingdom.

§7. PROVIDED always, That nothing in this Act contained fhall extend, or be construed to extend to give any Bounty on any Linens that are ftripped or chequered, or made into Buckrums or Tilletings.

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