and commonable lands, within the manor, parish, and liberties of Weftbury, in the county of Buckingham.

62. An act for dividing and inclofing the common fields, common meadows, and common pastures, in the parish of Nether Broughton, in the county of Leicester.

63. An act for dividing and inclofing a moor, or common, called Staindrop Moor, within the township of Staindrop, in the county of Durham.

64. An act for dividing and inclofing the open and common fields, in the parish of Great Wigfton, in the county of Leicester. 65. An act for dividing and inclosing the open and common fields, common pastures, common meadows, common grounds, and wafte grounds, in the parish of Hufbands Bosworth, otherwife Borefworth, in the county of Leicester.

66. An act for dividing and inclofing the common or wafte grounds within the manor of Wombwell, in the county of York. 67. An act for dividing and inclofing the open and common field, common meadows, common paftures, common grounds, and commonable lands, lying within the township, hamlets, and liberties of Warkworth, in the county of Northampton.

68. An act for vefting divers manors, lands, and hereditaments, in the counties of Bedford, Dorfet, and Lancaster, com-· prized in the marriage fettlement of John earl of Ashburnham, in him the faid earl, in fee fimple, discharged of the uses and trufts of that settlement, and for fubftituting and fettling other lands and hereditaments, in the dominion of Wales, in lieu thereof, and to the like uses.

69. An act to impower the guardians of George earl of Egremont, an infant, to enfranchise certain customary lands and hereditaments, in the county of Cumberland, part of the settled eftates of the earl; and alfo to impower the guardians of the faid earl, and his infant brothers, to make leafes of part of the faid eeftate, in the county of Cumberland, and to make leafes and copyhold grants of the feveral estates limited and devised to them respectively by Charles earl of Egremont their late father, deceased, and for other the purposes therein mentioned.

70. An act for vefting lands and hereditaments in Great Britain and Ireland, part of the estate of Fames earl of Barymore, in trustees, for raifing money towards paying and discharging the debts and incumbrances affecting his real estates.

71. An act for fettling the eftate of Henrietta Rofa Peregrina Tronfend, wife of James Townsend, efquire, according to certain articles of agreement executed before her intermarriage with the faid James Townsend, but subject to the charges and incumbrances en affecting the fame.

72. An act for enlarging the charitable ufes, extending the objects, and regulating the application of the rents and profits of the eftates given by Sir William Harpur knight, and dame Alice his wife, for the benefit of the poor, and other objects of charity, of the town of Bedford.

73. An act to enable the warden and fellows of the college of Chrift, in Manchester, in the county palatine of Lancaster, for

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the time being, to grant leases of the glebe lands belonging to the faid college.

74. An act to impower the honourable George Lane Parker, to fhut up a road or way now used over certain inclosed lands, in the parish of Gamblingay, in the county of Cambridge, and for extinguishing all right to a certain toll which he now is intitled to in two lanes, near the faid road or way, and for obliging him to keep the faid lanes in repair.

75. An act for enlarging the time given to trustees therein named, to execute certain trusts vested in them, in and by an act of parliament made in the fixteenth year of the reign of his late Majefty, intituled, An act for vefting the remainder in fee of feveral lands in Ireland, the eftate of Arthur Plunkett efquire, in truftes, in order to fell fuch lands to proteftant purchafers; and alfo by another act of parliament made in the thirty fecond year of the reign of his faid late Majefty, intituled, An act for giving further time to trustees therein named, to execute certain trufts vefted in them, in and by the faid act of parliament made in the faid fixteenth year of the reign of his faid late Majefty.

76. An act for divefting out of the crown, the reversion in fee, of certain lands in Ireland, late the eftate of Matthew Dowdall, a papift, deceased, expectant upon the death of his three grandfons, without iffue male; and for vefting the fame in Anthony Ladeveze, of the city of Dublin efquire, a proteftant and his heirs.

77. An act for divefting out of the crown, and to vest in Gerald Fitzgerald, of Rathorne, in the county of Meath, in the kingdom of Ireland, efquire, and his heirs, the reverfion in fee of and in several lands in Ireland.

78. An act to enable the mayor and aldermen of the town of Saffron Walden, in the county of Effex, the guardians or trustees of King Edward the Sixth's alms-houfes there, and other the feoffees thereof, to convey part of the lands, revenues, and poffeffions, of the faid alms-houses, to Sir John Griffin Griffin, and his heirs, in exchange for other lands of greater value, to be conveyed to, and held by, them, to the uses, and upon the trufts therein mentioned; and for vefting part of the lands of Thomas Fuller, an infant, in Saffron Walden aforefaid, in the faid Sir John Griffin Griffin, and his heirs, in exchange for other lands of greater value, to be conveyed to the faid infant, and his heirs; and for other purposes therein mentioned.

79. An act for vefting certain meffuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, in the town and county of Northampton, devised by the will of Edward Bayly, deceafed, in trustees, to be fold, and for laying out the money, arifing by fuch fale, in the purchase of other lands, to be fettled to the like uses.

80. An act to diffolve the marriage of John Weller efquire, with Charlotte Wilfon, his now wife, and to enable him to marry again and for other purpofes therein mentioned.

81. An act for naturalizing Peter Pohlmann, and David Godin. 82. An act for naturalizing Henry Kock.

83. An act for naturalizing Alexander Jofeph Peittier.

An alt 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 fixty four.

Moft Gracious Sovereign,

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WE your Majefty's moft dutiful and loyal fubjects, the commons Preamble,

of Great Britain, in parliament affembled, towards raising the neceffary Supplies to defray your Majefty's public expences, have freely and voluntarily refolved to give and grant unto your Majefty, the rates, duties, and impofitions herein after mentioned; and do 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 confent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this prefent parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, That within and throughout that part of Great Britain called England, Wales, and town of Berwick upon Tweed, &c. &c.

Malt

Malt act of 1 Geo. iii. further continued to 24th June 1765. I in Scotland to pay 3d. per bufhel. Mum 10 s. per barrel. Cyder and per ry made for fale, 4s. per hogfhead. How thefe duties are to be raised. 20,000l. to be raised in Scotland. Surplus to be added to the fisheries, &c. This act to relate to the fame day and time, as the act 1 Gro. iii. did. Malt brought from Scotland by fea, to be entered at the port of landing: brought by land, to be entered at Berwick or Carlisle.

-Cyder for diftilling not chargeable. Diftiller to give notice to the officer when he diftils cyder.- Allowances for exportation of malt. IW. and M. On certificate of malt being exported, and fecurity, allowance to be paid. Penalty on relanding, over and above the penalty of the bond, all the malt and treble the value forfeited. Malt teeping for

exportation to be kept feparate till measured. Maifters to give notice to officers, &c. -Penalty on opening the locks, &c. after malt is meafured, &c. Malfters, on 24th June 1764, to clear out of their ware houses all malt within fifteen months. And fo all future malfters.Claufes in act 12 Anne and 6 Geo. i. 5 s. per bushel penalty on all corn steeping or steeped for malt, which fhall be found in the cistern or couch, fo hard and compact as it could not be, unless the fame had been forced together to prevent the rifing. 1ool. penalty on fraudulently conveying from the cistern any feeping of corn, and mixing the fame with other corn charged with duty in the couch; or fraudulently conveying the fame away, fo that no gauge of fuch corn can be taken in the couch. Penalties how to be recovered.- -Buyers of cyder or perry for their private ufe not to be charged.Perfons felling less than 20 gallons, to be deemed retailers,· Clause of loan at 41. per cent. Tallies of

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loan to be struck, &c. Orders registered and paid in courfe. No fee for
registering, &c. Penalty for undue preference. No undue preference,
where tallies are dated or brought the fame day; nor if fubfequent orders
be paid before fuch as were not demanded in courfe. Orders affign-
Commiffioners of the treafury impowered to prepare any
number of Exchequer bills of one common fum, or different fums, in
the principal monies.Bills to bear intereft at 41. per cent. per annum.
Thefe bills to be numbered arithmetically. Treasury to direct the course
of payment for loans or Exchequer bills, and to appoint cheques &c.-
The bills to be placed as cafh in the Exchequer, and to be iffued there-
out in common with other monies, and to be current in the reve
nue. Receivers to exchange bills for ready money. Tallies to
be levied for bills lent into the Exchequer.. -Intereft to continue till
payment.
Intereft to cease whilft the bills are in the hands of re-
ceivers, &c.-
-Bills paid to receivers, &c. to be figned and dated. In-
terest to be allowed to the faid days.— -The bills may be reissued, both
for principal and intereft.. Receivers to keep a book.
filled up by indorsements, or defaced, to be exchanged.
exceeding goool. each to be made forth at the Exchequer.-
Exchequer bills, felony. How the monies arising by this act shall be
applied. Treasury on 29 Sept. 1765, to take an account of all monies
railed and discharged.- -Unsatisfied monies to be paid out of the next
aid, or out of the finking fund.- -Commiffioners to appoint perfons to
pay off principal fums, which fhall from time to time be in course of pay.
ment upon Exchequer bills.Money, as brought in, to be paid to the
paymasters.- -Bills to be registered in course.- -When intereft to
ceafe. Paymasters liable to the controul of the treasury.Treasury
to fettle falaries of clerks, &c. and to contract with persons to circulate
bills, &c.. Contractors not difabled from being members of parlia
ment: may lower or raise the interest with consent of the treasury.-
Contractors how to be paid. No fee to be taken. No intereft for
lefs than one penny. Charges to be paid out of the finking fund: to be
replaced out of the firft fupplies. Clause of relief for bills loft or
deftroyed. - Bills difcharged to be cancelled.- Sinking fund ap.
propriated to difcharge national debts incurred before 25 Dec. 1716.-
Deficiency of malt tax 2 Geo. iii. how to be fupplied. - Arrears of
former duties to be applied in aid of the fupplies granted for the year
3764.

CAP. II.

An act for granting an aid to bis Niajefty by a land tax to be raised in Great Britain, for the fervice of the year one thousand feven hundred and fixty four.

Moft Gracious Sovereign,

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E your Majefty's most dutiful and loyal fubjects, the commons of Great Britain, in parliament. affembled, taking into our Serious confideration fuch expences as are abfolutely neceffary for fupporting your Majesty's government, and being refolved to supply the fame, have for that end and purpofe cheerfully and voluntary given and granted, and do by this act give and grant unto your Majefty, the feveral and refpective rates and affeffments hereafter mentioned; and we do most humbly beseech your Majefly that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's mott excellent majefty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords fpiritual and temporal, 2,037,8541. 19. and 11d. and commons, in this prefent parliament affembled, and by the to be raifed in authority of the fame, That the fum of two millions thirty Great Britain seven thousand eight hundred fifty four pounds, nineteen fhillings,

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fhillings, and eleven pence, fhall be raised, levied, and paid unto his Majefty, within the kingdom of Great Britain, by fuch proportions, and in fuch manner and form, as hereafter in this act are expreffed.

And it is hereby declared and enacted by the authority aforefaid, That, &c. &c.

1,989, 900l. 18 s. and 9 d. to be raised in England in one year from 25th March 1764. Perfonal eftates (except defperate debts, ftock on land, houfehold goods, and loans to his Majefty) to pay 4 s. in the pound. —-— Employments of profit (except military officers of the army or navy) to pay 4s. per pound. - Pensions and annuities out of the Exchequer, &c. to pay, &c. Lands, tenements, mines, &c. to be charged with equality and indifference, &c. - Lands, &c. fubject to rent-charges, annuities, &c. -Commiffioners of the land tax for the year 1763, to put this act in exe cution.Commiffioners to meet on or before the 30th of April, 1764, as by the act 4 W. and M. and may fubdivide themselves, &c.-A lift of the commiffioners to act in each divifion, to be given to the receivers.general.-Commiffioners, to fummon fit perfons to be affeffors, who are to appear before them in eight days; and then to give them a charge. Perfons absenting, or refufing to ferve, forfeit, not exceeding 51. nor less than 40s. Affeffors to be two at least, and sufficient inhabitants. Affelments to be brought in at a day and place prefixed. The full fum, charged to be affeffed.- A certificate of the affeffment to be brought in with the collectors names. Affeffors, &c. neglecting their duty to be fined not above 401.. Affeffors to deliver one copy of the affeffments to the commiffioners.Duplicates thereof to be figned, &c. and one delivered to the collectors, &c. with warrant for collecting.. Commiffion ers required to give collectors notice at what time and place the appeal of any person who thall think himself aggrieved by being over-rated, may be heard and determined. - A duplicate in parchment to be delivered, together with the names of the affeffors and collectors, to the receiver general; and one to the remembrancer's office, by 8th August 1764, or twenty days after (all appeals first determined) Remembrancer to give receipts gratis on penalty of 101. The rates to be levied on the parties, or premiffes; and to be paid to the receivers-general, &c.-The money collected to be paid to the receiver-general, or deputies; and they to give commiffioners notice. Collectors not obliged to travel above ten miles. Removal or death of receiver-general to be notified to the commiffioners.- ·497,4751. 4s. and 8d. 1. q. for the first quarterly payment, to be paid to the receivers by 24th June 1764. the second payment by 29th September 1764. the third payment by 25th December 1764. the laft payment by the 25th March 1765.. Receiver-general within a month after receiving the full fum charged, to give the commiffioners a receipt which shall be a full discharge for payment. Receivers-general within twenty days to pay the monies into the Exchequer; and to be allowed 2 d. in the pound. Collectors to have 3 d. in the pound. Commiffioners clerks to have three half pence in the pound. Collectors may levy by distress, in case of refusal of payment. Diftrefs to be kept four days at the owner's charge; then appraised and fold, and the over-plus returned, &c. Commiffioners to determine differences about distress. For want of distress offender may be committed (except a peer or peerefs of Great Britain) Tenants to pay the tax, and deduct fo much out of the rents. Tenants discharged for what they fo pay. Commiffioners to fettle differences between landlord and tenant. Commiffioners to caufe all deficiencies to be reaffeffed, and made good. - Affeffor refufing to ferve, to forfeit not exceeding 40 l. fine; not to be difcharged but by commiffioners who impofed it; and levied by diftrefs or imprisonment, and paid into the Exchequer, and inferted in the duplicates. · Collectors detaining the money, to be imprisoned, their eftates feized and fold, &c. Commiffioners to examine whether the fums affeffed be duly coi, lected, &c.—— In cafe of controverfies in affeffing commiffioners, the.

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