tioned, for payment of the debts of Charles William late earl of Suffolk and Bindon, deceased. 21. An act for making more effectual a deed of appointment executed by Frederick Tylney, efq; late deceased, with refpect to twenty thousand pounds, and for fettling the fame for the purposes herein mentioned. 22. An act for vefting the real estates of William Scourfield the elder, efq; Katharine his wife, William Scourfield the younger, efq; and Anne his wife, in the counties of Pembrooke and Brecon, in trustees, to certain uses therein mentioned, 23. An act for relief of Hyacinthus Richard Nugent. 24. An act for discharging an incumbrance on the lands of Donoghmore, part of the bishoprick of Cloyne in Ireland. 25. An act for vefting part of the glebe lands belonging to the rectory of Overstone in the county of Northampton, in Henry Stratford efq; and his heirs, to enable the making of inclofures, and for other purposes herein mentioned. 26. An act for confirming the inclosure and divifion of the common fields, and common grounds within the manors and parishes of Overton, Longville and Botolph's Bridge, in the county of Huntingdon. 27. An act for fale of part of the estate of Francis Sheldon efq; a lunatick, for discharging the debts and incumbrances affecting the fame. 28. An act for vesting an undivided fifth part of a lease-hold estate in Crondall, in the county of Southampton, in trustees, to be fold, and with the money arifing by the fale thereof, to purchase one or more estate or eftates in poffeffion, to be fettled to the fame uses. 29. An act to enable James Fox efq; and others, to make leases of the estate in the county of Surrey, devised to him by Frances late vifçountefs Lanesborough; and for fale of Bridge House farm, part of the faid eftate, and invefting the money in the purchase of other lands in the fame county, to be settled to the like ufes, and for other purposes herein mentioned. 30. An act for fale of part of the estate of John Nicholls efq; deceafed, in the county of Cornwall, for payment of his debts and legacies, and for other purposes therein mentioned. 31. An act for naturalizing James Delerme, THE STATUTES at Large, &. Anno Regni GEORGII I. Regis Magne T the parliament begun and holden at Weftminster the ninth day of October, Anno Domini one thousand feven hundred and twenty two, in the ninth year of the reign of our fovereign Lord George, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, defender of the faith, &c. being the first feffion of this prefent parliament. CAP. I. An act to impower his Majefty to fecure and detain fuch perfons as his EXP. An act for granting an aid to CAP. II. his Majefty by a land-tax to be raised in Great-Britain, for the fervice of the year one thousand seven hundred and twenty three. EX P. 2s. in the pound. CAP. III. An act for continuing the duties on malt, müm, cyder and perry, to raise money by way of a lottery, for the service of the year one thousand feven hundred and twenty three. ND whereas by an act of parliament, made in the Recital of part. XXXV. twelfth year of the reign of her late majesty Queen of 12 Ann. A að Anne, for granting to her Majesty duties upon malt, mum, cyder stat. 1. c. 2. and f. perry, and for other purposes therein contained, feveral provi- ! 14. concern. fions were made for allowance for damages fuftained by the proprietors left or damaging malt, &c. of malt, funk or cast away in any vefil or lighter, on transportations ed, &c. from one part of this kingdom to another, or burnt or damaged by fire; which provifions have not proved sufficient to answer the intentions of the faid act; be it therefore further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That from and after the twenty fifth day of March one thousand seven hundred and twenty three, and after Further relief the duties by the faid recited act impofed on malt, and hereby for proprietors continued, are paid by the maliter or maker of mait, if any of malt, &c. quantity of malt fhall unfortunately happen to be deftroyed or loft, burnt or damaged by fire, or thall perith, or thall be damaged by the damaged, in transportation VOL. XV. B cafting from one part of the kingdom to another, &c. Perfons fuftaining lofs, &c. to leave notice with collector, &c. fix days at leaft before quarter-feftions, &c. cafting away of, or by any inevitable accident happening to any barge or veffel, in which the faid malt shall be transporting or transported from any part of this kingdom to another, or put on board for that purpose, it fhall and may be lawful to and for the refpective proprietors of fuch malt to make proof thereof on oath of one or more credible witneffes, of the refpective malfters, makers or owners thereof, having paid the faid duty, either before the justices of the peace of the county, riding or divifion where fuch malt was loaded or put on board, or made or kept at the time of fuch lofs or damage happening, or next adjoining to the place where fuch accident fhall happen, at their quarter feffions, or before the commiflioners of the duty of excife for the time being, or the major part of them, who are hereby feverally and refpectively impowered, in cafes where proof fhall be made that fuch malt was intirely loft, or totally deftroyed, and that the duties thereof were paid, to grant a certificate thereof, and of the amount of the duty of such malt so lost or destroyed; upon producing of which certificate to the officer appointed to collect the said duty, he shall be obliged to repay or allow to the faid proprietor or proprietors of the faid malt, out of the duties arifing by malt, fo much money as the fum certified to have been paid for the duty of the malt so lost or destroyed fhall amount unto; and in cafes where the malt shall not be totally loft or destroyed, but damaged only, they the faid juftices and commiffioners, in fuch cafes, are hereby respectively impowered, upon proof of fuch damage and of payment of the duties, to determine and fettle the quantum of fuch damage, and to give a certificate under their respective hands and feals of the fum allowed for and in respect of such damage; which allowance, where the malt is fo damaged only, shall bear the fame proportion to the whole duty of the malt fo damaged, as the said damage fhall appear to bear to the value of the faid malt before it was fo damaged; which certificate being produced to the officer appointed to collect the faid duty, he shall be obliged to repay or allow to the said proprietor or proprietors of the faid malt fo damaged, out of the duties arifing by malt, fo much money as the fum certified as aforefaid, thall amount unto. XXXVI. Provided always, That the person or perfons who fhall have fuftained fuch lofs or damage, or their agent or agents, fhall give or leave notice thereof in writing with the collector of the excife of the divifion or collection next adjoining to the quarter feffions of the juftices of the peace, to which fuch person or persons intend to apply for fuch allowance or certificate, or to the folicitor of and for the excife, of fuch lofs and damage, and intentions to apply to such justices or commiffioners, for an allowance in refpect thereof, fix days at least and apply for before the beginning of fuch quarter-feffions, or application to relief within a fuch commiffioners; and fhall apply for fuch relief in the premonth after miffes, within one month after lofs or damage happening. lofs, &c. XXXVII. Pro justices, not to XXXVII. Provided alfo, That after any of the faid juftices Loffes, &c. afor commiffioners shall have once examined and ascertained fuch certained by lofs or damage, the same shall never after be examined into by be examined any other of the faid juftices or commiffioners. Monies due on unfatisfied certificates of malt act 7 Geo, 1. ftat. 1. c. 20. to be made good, &c. EXP. CAP. IV. -An act for punishing mutiny and defertion, and for the better payment of the army and their quarters. EXP. CAP. V. An act for redeeming certain annuities, now payable by the cashier of the bank of England, at the rate of five pounds per centum per annum. by any other, MAY it please your most excellent Majesty, Whereas in and by 1 Geo. 1. ftat. an act of parliament, made and paffed in the first year of your 2. c. 21. Majefly's reign, intituled, An act for raifing nine hundred and ten thousand pounds for publick fervices, by fale of annuities, after the rate of five pounds per centum per annum, redeemable by parliament, and to authorize a treaty concerning private rights claimed by the proprietors of the fugar-houfes in Scotland, a certain yearly fum of forty five thousand five hundred pounds was eftablished to be a diftinct and feparate yearly fund, for anfwering and paying certain annuities, after the rate of five pounds per centum per annum, which were then to be purchafed upon the fame act, until the redemption thereof by parliament; and the faid yearly fund was thereby directed to be iffued at the exchequer, to the first and chief cafbier of the governor and company of the bank of England for the time being, by way of impreft, and upon account, for payment of the faid annuities, which were to be purchased upon that act; and it was thereby enacted, That the monies which should be contributed on the Same act, for or towards the fum of nine hundred and ten thousand pounds therein mentioned, should be deemed to be a capital or joint ftock, on which fuch annuities fhould be attending; and the fame joint Stock, and the proportional annuities attending the fame, were thereby made transferrable and devifeable in the manner thereby prescribed; and in the faid act is contained a provifo, That, at any time upon one year's notice, and repayment by parliament of the faid sum of nine hundred and ten thousand pounds, or so much thereof as shall be advanced upon the faid act, unto the respective contributors of the fame, or to fuch perfon or perfons as by, from or under them, should then be entitled to the faid annuities, after the rate of five pounds per centum per annum, in respect of the money fo advanced, according ta Such interefts as they respectively should then have in the fame annuities; and alfo upon full payment and fatisfaction of all arrears of the faid annuities, after the rate of five pounds per centum per annum, (if any fuch fhould be then due) then, and not till then, the faid annuities, after the rate of five pounds per centum per annum, created by that act, fhould ceafe and determine. And whereas the contri B 2 butions |