general yearly fund as at the end of any quarter of a year, as aforefaid, fhall remain in the receipt of the Exchequer, over and above all the monies then due or payable, to discharge the faid several annuities and other payments by this act directed to be fatisfied out of the fame, and all arrears thereof (if any fuck be) fhall likewife, from time to time, attend the difpofition of parliament, and be applied according to act or acts of parlia ment, and not otherwife.

XXXVII. And be it enacted and declared by the authority aforefaid, That all the monies to arife, from time to time, as well of or for the faid excess or furplus by virtue of the said act made for redeeming the funds of the governor and company of the bank of England, and of or for the faid excess or furplus by virtue of the faid act made for redeeming the funds of the faid Overplus mo- governor and company of merchants of Great Britain trading to nies to be em- the South-Seas, and other parts of America, and for encouraging ployed for the the fishery, as alfo of and for the faid excefs or furplus of the difcharging, faid duties and revenues, by this act appropriated, as aforefaid, debts, incur- and the faid overplus monies of the faid general yearly fund by red before 25 this act eftablifhed or intended to be established, as aforefaid, Dec. 1716, as fhall be appropriated, referved and employed, to and for the pointed by fu- discharging the principal and intereft of fuch national debts and

fuch national

fhall be ap

ture acts.

incumbrances as were incurred before the five and twentieth See 6 Geo. 1. day of December one thousand seven hundred and fixteen, and c. 4. are declared to be national debts, and are provided for by act of parliament, in such manner and form as fhall be directed or appointed by any future act or acts of parliament to be discharged therewith or out of the fame, and to and for none other use, intent or purpose whatsoever.

XXXVIII. And whereas by the act of tonnage and poundage made. in the twelfth year of the reign of his late majesty King Charles the Second, and the book of rates thereto annexed, and by other acts of parliament fince made and now in force, feveral duties are payable to bis Majefty, his heirs and fucceffors, for and upon linfeed imported and it having been found by experience that thofe duties are a difcou ragement to the importation thereof, and that should they be difconti12 Car. 2. c. 4. nued and taken off, the fame would tend to the fervice of the woollen and other manufactures, and to the improvement of tillage in this kingdom: be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That from and after the first day of August one thousand seven hundred and feventeen, it fhall and may be lawful to and for any person or persons to import linfeed into this kingdom, without paying to his Majefty, his heirs and fucceffors, any custom, fubfidy or other duties for the fame; any thing in the faid act of tonnage and poundage, or any other act or acts of parlia ment to the contrary in any wife notwithstanding.

Linfeed may be imported duty-free.

XXXIX. And whereas in and by the act of tonnage and poundage, and the faid book of rates, which att has been by feveral fubfequent acts of parliament continued, and is now in force, a duty of fix pence is payable upon the exportation of every piece of linen cloth of British manufa facture made of hemp or flax, fine or courfe, not exceeding forty

ells

ells (except British-made fail-cloth, which by law is permitted to be exported duty-free :) and whereas the faid duty is a difcouragement to the faid manufacture which employs many thousands of the poor of this kingdom; be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the faid first day of Auguft one thousand feven hundred and feventeen, it fhall and may be lawful to and for any perfon or perfons to export out of this kingdom, to parts beyond the feas, all forts of linen cloth of the manufacture of this kingdom, which shall be made of hemp or flax, = whether fine or coarfe, free of all duties payable to his Majefty, his heirs or fucceffors; any thing in the faid act of tonnage and poundage, or any other act, or any thing to the contrary there=of in any wife notwithstanding.

12 Car. 2. c. 4.

free.

. XL. Provided always, and be it hereby further enacted, That British linen all drawbacks, allowances and abatements granted or enacted may be exto be made by any act or acts of parliament now in force, upon ported duty, or out of any duties upon any goods or merchandizes imported or exported, shall be and continue, and are hereby continued, until the duties on which fuch allowances, drawbacks or abatements are granted or enacted to be made, fhall refpectively cease and determine,

continue till

duty ceases.

Claufe for ap

liament.

3 Geo. I. c. 3.

XLI. And be it enacted by the authority aforefaid, That All draw all the monies lent to his Majefty at the receipt of Exche- backs, &c. to quer, upon credit of a vote or resolution of the house of commons, made and passed on or about the fifth day of March one thousand seven hundred and fixteen, not exceeding fix hundred thousand pounds, for the service of the publick, by fea or land,' which loans, with the intereft thereof, were appointed to be transferred to the register upon the act, intituled, An act for granting an aid to his Majefty by a land-tax in Great Britain, for propriating all the fervice of the year one thousand feven hundred and feventeen, and the monies all other the monies lent and to be lent to his Majefty upon that granted this act, and fo much money (if any fuch be) of the tax thereby feffion of pargranted, as fhall arife and remain after all the loans made or to be made on that act, or thereby transferred, or directed to be transferred thereunto, and the interest thereof, and the charges thereby allowable for raising the said tax, fhall be fatisfied, or monies fufficient fhall be referved to difcharge the fame; and all the monies lent and to be lent to his Majefty upon an act of this feflion of parliament for continuing the duties on malt, mum, cyder, and perry, for the fervice of the year one thou fand feven hundred and feventeen, and fo much of the duties on malt, mum, cyder, and perry thereby granted or continued, as fhall arife and remain (if any fuch be) after all the loans made or to be made on the fame act, or thereby transferred, or directed to be transferred thereunto, and the intereft thereof, 3 Geo. 1. c. 4i and the charges thereby allowable for raifing the fame duties, fhall be fatisfied, or monies fufficient fhall be referved to dif charge the fame, fhall be appropriated and applied, and are hereby appropriated for or towards the feveral ufes, intents and purposes herein expreffed, fubject nevertheless to fuch reftric

the navy.

tions as are herein after prescribed; that is to fay, it is hereby enacted and declared, That out of all or any the aids or supplies provided, as aforefaid, there fhall or may be iffued and applied any fum or fums of money, not exceeding in the whole the fum of nine hundred forty-feven thousand five hundred and fixty pounds five fhillings and three pence, for or towards the naval fervices following; that is to fay, for or towards defraying the charges of the ordinary of his Majesty's navy, and for half-pay to fea-officers; and for or towards victual, wages, wear and tear of the navy, and victualling thereof, performed and to be performed; and for or towards fea-fervice in the office of ordnance performed and to be performed; and for and towards extraordinary works and repairs of his Majefty's navy, and furnishing fuch fea-ftores as are neceffary for the fame, and Ordinary of other fervices of the navy and tranfports, performed and to be performed; and any fum not exceeding feventy-three thousand feventy-feven pounds nine fhillings and three pence, for the charge of the office of ordnance, for or towards land-fervices performed and to be performed; and any fum or fums of money, not exceeding in the whole the fum of one million two hundred seventy-three thousand nine hundred and ten pounds nine fhillings and fix pence, for or towards maintaining his Majefty's land-forces, and other services herein after expressed; that is to fay, for or towards maintaining guards, garrisons, and other his Majefty's land-forces in Great Britain, ferfey, and Office of ord- Guernsey, for the year one thousand seven hundred and feventeen; and for or towards maintaining his Majefty's forces and garrifons in his Majesty's plantations in America, for the year one thousand feven hundred and feventeen; and for or towards maintaining his Majefty's forces and garrifons in Minorca, for Land-forces. the year one thousand feven hundred and feventeen; and for or towards maintaining his Majefty's forces and garrisons in Gibraltar, for the year one thousand feven hundred and seventeen; and for or towards half-pay, for the year one thousand seven hundred and feventeen, upon account, to the officers of the land-forces, and marines difbanded, being his Majefty's natural-born fubjects, or naturalized; and for or towards the pay of invalids, from the twenty-fifth day of December one thoufand feven hundred and fixteen, to the twenty-fifth day of Deçember one thousand seven hundred and feventeen; and for or towards provifions for the garrifon of Gibraltar, for the year one thousand seven hundred and feventeen; and for or towards completing the pay of fix battalions of foot, hired from the bifhop of Munster and duke of Saxe-Gotha, to fupply the place of fuch troops as, during the late rebellion, should be drawn from the garrisons of the States-General of the United Provinces to aflift his Majefty, pursuant to the treaties in that behalf made with the faid princes; and for or towards making up the full pay of the general officers with their aids de camp and majors of brigade, during the time they ferved in North Britain, and upon account of extraordinary forage, provifions, carriages, and

Dance.

feveral

L

feveral extraordinary expences of the forces in their march from Stirling, and purfait of the rebels into the Highlands, and the neighbouring iflands; and for or towards replacing a fum of ten thousand pounds iffued out of the appropriated revenues of North-Britain, to his grace the duke of Argyle, then general and commander in chief of his Majefty's forces there, by his Majefty's warrant, dated the eighth day of September one thousand feven hundred and fifteen; and for or towards the pay of three independent companies in North Britain, from the twenty-fifth day of December one thousand seven hundred and fixteen to the thirty-first day of March following, with the bounty-money upon their disbanding; and for or towards the pay of one lieutenant, one enfign, five non-commiffioned officers and forty private men, taken to reinforce the caftle of Edinburgh, from the twenty-fifth day of July one thousand seven hundred and fifteen to the fifteenth day of March one thousand feven hundred and fixteen, with the bounty-money upon their disbanding; and for or towards the fubfiftence of the rebel prifoners taken at Preston to the thirty-firft day of December one thousand seven hundred and fixteen, and for or towards their fubfiftence and contingent expences for the year one thoufand feven hundred and feventeen; and for or towards the fubfiftence of the three - hundred fifty-three rebel prifoners, fubfifted by the magistrates of Glasgow to the twenty-fifth day of June one thousand fevert hundred and fixteen; and for or towards half-pay to the officers of the late regiments of foot commanded by brigadier James Douglas and Sir James Wood, late in the fervice of the StatesGeneral, from the twenty-fifth of April one thousand feven Rebel prisonhundred and feventeen to the twenty-fourth of December fol- ers. lowing; and for answering other extraordinary fervices relating to his Majefty's land-forces; and any fum not exceeding two hundred and fifty thousand pounds, for enabling his Majesty to concert fuch measures with foreign princes and ftates, as may prevent any charge or apprehenfions from the defigns of Sweden for the future; and any fum not exceeding five thousand five hundred feventy-nine pounds fifteen fhillings and three pence half-penny, to make good the loffes and damages which his Majefty's fubjects sustained by reason of the tumultuous and rebellious proceedings in feveral counties, which loffes and damages are found by inquifitions taken upon commiffions iffued Treaties with out of his Majefty's Exchequer; and any fum not exceeding foreign prinone hundred fixty-fix thoufand five hundred and two pounds five fhillings and feven pence three farthings, for or towards enabling the treafurer of the navy to make good the payments Loffes by tuwhich in the year ending at Christmas one thoufand feven hun- muits. dred and feventeen, (if any) may be demanded of him, purfuant to any former act or acts of parliament for completing the funds of fix hundred and eight thousand pounds per annum, payable to the South-Sea company; and that the aids or fupplies Funds of the provided as aforefaid, fhall not be iffued or applied to any ufe, fouth-fea intent company.

ces.

Provifo for

intent or purpose whatsoever, other than towards the ufes and purposes afore-mentioned.

XLII. Provided always, and it is hereby enacted and declared, That no appropriation, or other matter or thing in this act contained, shall obftruct or hinder any payment or payments which, by and in pursuance of an act made in the first year of his Majefty's reign, intituled, An act for enlarging_the_capital flock and yearly fund of the South-Sea company; and for fupplying thereby eight hundred twenty-two thousand thirty-two pounds four Shillings and eight pence to publick uses; and for raifing one hundred fixty-nine thousand pounds for the like ufes, by fale of annuities upon divers encouragements therein mentioned; and for appropriating feveral fupplies granted to his Majefly, are or thall be required and the South-Sea authorized to be made by the treasurer or paymaster of the navy Geo. 1. ftat. 2. for the time being, or by any other perfons to be intrufted with the publick monies for the fervice of the navy, out of such publick monies, tallies, orders or parliamentary fecurities in their hands or power refpectively, as are or fhall thereby be charged or chargeable to make good any deficiency or deficiencies to the governor and company of merchants of Great Britain trading to the South-Seas, and other parts of America, and for encouraging the fishery, or to their treasurer for their ufe; any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

company, I

C. 21.

and for the

XLIII. Provided alfo, That fuch fums as by any other act of commiffioners this feffion of parliament fhall be payable to any commiffioners of accounts. for taking, examining and ftating the debts due to the army, for their falaries, or for their clerks or other incident charges, fhall and may be paid out of the aids or fupplies aforefaid, or any of them; any thing herein contained to the contrary not withstanding.

C. II.

CAP. X.

An act for the better collecting and levying the revenue of the tenths of the clergy.

WHEREAS her late moft gracious majesty Queen Anne, in her royal bounty to the poor clergy of the church of England, and pursuant to and by virtue of an act of parliament made in the fe 2 & 3 Ann. cond year of her Maicfly's reign, intituled, An act for making more effectual her Majefty's gracious intentions for the augmentation of the maintenance of the poor clergy, by enabling her Majesty to grant in perpetuity the revenues of the firft-fruits and tenths, and alfo for enabling other perfons to make grants for the fame purpose, did in and by her letters patents under the great feal of England, bearing date the third day of November in the third year of her Majefly's reign, make, nominate, conflitute and appoint the perfons therein named, to be one body politick and corporate, by the name of the governors of the bounty of Queen Anne for the augmentation of the maintenance of the poor clergy, with fuch powers and authorities as are therein mentioned and expreffed; and did in and by the faid letters patents give and grant unto the faid governors of the bounty of

Queen