were returned as aforefaid, fhall be, and is hereby discharged of and from the faid deficiency, or fum of feven thoufand fix hundred and fifty feven pounds and ten thillings, which did happen or arife as a lofs thereon, upon the drawing of the faid lottery, and fhall not be any further or longer charged therewith.

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X. And whereas the faid lottery-tickets fo intitled as aforesaid, being applicable to any part of the fupplies granted in the last feffions of parliament, have been accordingly applied towards making good the deficiencies of the general fund for the years ending at Michaelmas one thousand feven hundred and twenty four, and Michaelmas one thoufand feven hundred and twenty five, and the fame now remains in the exchequer as cafh, on the head of the finking fund: and whereas, in pursuance of feveral acts of parliament, feveral standing orders at the exchequer are or may be made out for certain debentures, made out by authority of parliament, for the jufferers at Nevis and Saint Christophers, for payment of several principal fums of money, amounting together to the fum of one hundred and forty one thousand and ninety three pounds fifteen fhillings and one peny farthing, attended with annuities, after the rate of three pounds per centum per annum, deemable by parliament, and charged on the faid general fund: and whereas all or many of the proprietors of the said standing orders are or may be defirous to exchange their faid flanding orders, for an equal Dare or intereft in the faid joint-stock of three pounds per centum annuities, transferrable at the bank of England, in cafe they were enabled fo to do, by means whereof the faid one hundred and three thoufand two hundred and feventy two pounds and ten fillings, part of the fame annuities, may be difpofed of without any further lofs or difThe Lottery- count: be it therefore enacted by the authority aforefaid, That the commiffioners of his Majefty's treasury or any three or more be exchanged of them now being, or the lord high treasurer, or any three or more of the commiffioners of the treasury for the time being, fhall or may caufe all the faid lottery-tickets, fo as aforefaid remaining in the exchequer, to be entred for fuch certificates as the faid lottery act has for that purpose directed, in the name or names of fuch one or more of the teller or tellers of his Majesty's exchequer, as they fhall think fit; and that from and after fuch entry or making out fuch certificates, the fhare or intereft which the faid lottery tickets are intitled to in the faid joint ftock of three pounds per centum annuities, shall be vested and remain in fuch teller or tellers as cash in the exchequer, and upon truft in the first place, to pay, apply or dispose of the annuity due, or to grow due thereon, to and for part of the fund, commonly called the Aggregate Fund, when, and as the fame fhall become due and payable, and fubject thereto, upon truft to affign and transfer the whole, or any part of the principal fum, to which the faid lottery tickets are entitled, in the faid joint stock of three pounds per centum annuities, to fuch perfon or perfons, as being proprietors of the faid laft mentioned ftanding orders, fhall voluntarily deliver up to be cancelled the like or equal principal fum or fums, in any of the faid laft

tickets may

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mentioned debenture-orders, and fubject thereto, upon truft to affign and transfer the refidue of the faid principal fum in the faid joint-stock of three pounds per centum annuities, which fhall not be affigned or transferred to the proprietors of the said debenture-orders, to fuch uses, and for fuch purposes, as shall be hereafter directed by the authority of parliament, of and concerning the fame, and to and for none other use, intent or purpose whatsoever.

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XI. And to the end and intent that the faid last mentioned The method standing orders may be regularly difcharged, according to the of difcharging courfe of the exchequer, be it further enacted by the authority these standing aforefaid, That the commiffioners of his Majefty's treasury, or any three or more of them, now or for the time being, or the lord high treasurer for the time being, fhall and are hereby impowered to direct the auditor of his Majesty's exchequer, at any time before the twenty fourth day of June The time enwhich fhall be in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hun- larged by dred and twenty feven, to receive and take in from of the 1 Geo. 2. ftat. any 2. C. 8. 1. 25. proprietors of the fame orders any number of the faid orders, containing therein any principal fum or fums of money, not exceeding in the whole the principal fum of one hundred and three thousand two hundred and feventy two pounds ten fhillings; and the faid auditor fhall thereupon receive in all such orders, as fhall be brought to him for that purpose, until the faid fum of one hundred and three thousand two hundred and seventy two pounds ten fhillings, fhall be compleated, and shall enter in a book or books, to be kept by him for that purpose, a particular account of the orders fo brought to him, and of the proprietors of the fame, in the order and courfe of time in which they fhall be fo brought, without giving any undue preference to any one of them before the other of them, fo as the proprietor or proprietors of fuch orders, or fome other perfon or perfons duly authorized by them for that purpose, do, by proper words in writing, to be written in fuch book or books refpectively, fignify their defire and request, that fuch standing order or orders be paid off, and discharged out of the faid joint ftock of three pounds per centum annuities as aforefaid; and the faid auditor fhall thereupon direct the faid teller or tellers to pay the fame principal fums mentioned in fuch orders, out of the faid share or intereft in the faid joint stock of three pounds per centum annuities, fo vested in him or them as aforefaid; and the clerk of the pells fhall afterward record fuch directions, and afterwards fuch teller or tellers fhall transfer or caufe to be transferred in due manner and form so much of the faid joint stock of three pounds per centum annuities, as fhall be contained in fuch directions, to the refpective perfon or perfons entitled to the fame, upon his, her or their figning or giving, upon fuch order or orders refpectively, proper difcharges or acquittances for the fame; and thereupon fuch orders fo paid off and discharged, fhall be cancelled and preferved in the exchequer, in the fame manner, as other cancelled orders are preferved there.

XII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid,

That

Intereft on thefe orders

due at 25 Dec. 1726. to be paid out of the general fund,

That all the intereft or annuity on the faid orders to be difcharged and cancelled as aforefaid, which hath become due at or before the twenty fifth day of December one thousand seven hundred and twenty fix, fhall be paid and discharged out of the monies arisen or to arife at the exchequer, for the feveral duties and revenues compofing the fund commonly called the General Fund; and the several perfons to whom any part or parts of the faid joint stock of three pounds per centum annuities shall be transferred, in difcharge of the fame ftanding orders, fhall be entitled to the annuity which shall grow due thereon, from or after the said twenty fifth day of December one thousand seven hundred and twenty fix: provided always, that nothing herein contained shall in any wife alter or prejudice fuch of the said laft mentioned standing orders, as shall not be defired to be difcharged in manner aforefaid, or the fecurity for the fame, or the method or course of payment of the annuity or intereft due or to grow due thereon, but they and every of them shall remain, continue and be in the fame condition to all intents and purposes, as if this act had not been made; any thing herein before contained to the contrary thereof in any wife notwithstanding.

CAP. IV.

An act for cleanfing, deepening and widening a creek, called Beverly beck, running into the river Hull, and for repairing the ftaiths near the faid beck, and for amending the roads leading from the faid river to the town of Beverly in the east-riding of the county of York, and for cleanfing the ftreets of the said town.

Corporation of Beverley to cleanse, &c. Beverley beck. Duties to be paid for vessels paffing up or down the beck or Hull river within the precincts of Beverley, viz. For every chaldron of coals Winchefter measure 4 d. For every quarter of oats, barley or malt, 2 q. For every quarter of wheat, rye, mesledine or any other grain, 3 q. For every ton of falt, 4 d. For three hogfheads of fugar, tobacco, moloffes or hogfheads packed with other goods 4 d. For three puncheons of liquor 4 d. For four hogfheads of wine, fpirits or other liquor 4 d. For eight barrels of fope, raifins, oil, pitch, tar or packed with other dry goods 4 d. For every butt of currans or two half-butts 4 d. For two pipes of Smyrna raifins 4 d. For fixteen bags of nails 4 d. For every ton of iron or lead 4 d. For thirty two firkins of butter 4 d. For twenty hundred of cheese 5 d. For every ton of timber or stone 4 d. For every thousand of bricks 4 d. and of tiles 6 d. For twenty fingle deal boards 1 d. and double boards 2 d. For two bags of hops 4 d. For every quarter of oatmeal 1 d. For every pair of millftones 2 s. For fixty bunches of laths 6 d. For every hundred of faggots 1 d. For every hundred of pails, barrel or hogshead staves 1 d. For every hundred of handspikes 1 d. For twenty poles 1 d. For every dozen of cinders or charcoal id. For every hide 1q. For twenty fheep-skins 2 q. For every thoufand of turfs 2 q. For every quarter of bark 2 q. For every pack of wool or other goods 1 d. For twelve dozen of bottles 2 d. For every cafe or cheft of glafs 2 d. For every thousand of firkin staves 4 d. For every dozen of coarfe earthen ware rq. For every dozen of fhovels 2 q. For four bushels of roots or fruit 2 q. For every dozen of calve◄ fkins Id. For every hundred of thatch 4 d. For every chaldron of lime or ton of fand 2 d. For every bundle of hoops 2 q. For every dozen of chairs 1 d. For every small rundlet of liquor not exceeding ten gallons 1 q. For every small cask, box, trufs or parcel, not exceeding one hundred weight 1q. Corporation to appoint collectors. Corporation to audit the

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lectors accounts. Mafter, &c. to deliver in writing an account of goods: &c. to collectors, and pay what due for the lading. Corporation to fix cranes, &c. Offices to be erected on the Old waite. Corporation may affign over the duty for money to be borrowed. Not to take away any of the old duties payable to the corporation. Corporation may turn the waters fome other way, during the cleanfing the beck, making fatisfaction to the owners. Penalty for throwing rubbish into the beck 20 s. Corporation may remove fhelves, and deepen the river. Quarter-feffions may appoint perfons to clean the streets. 6 d. per pound to be laid on the inhabitants, &c.

CAP. V.

An alt for importing falt from Europe into the province of
Penfilvania in America.

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HEREAS the river Delawar, bay and coast of the province of Penfilvania in America, and the feas adjoining are very commodiously fituated for carrying on the fishing trade, and they abound with great quantities of fhad, Sturgeon, bafs and feveral other kinds of fish, which may be catched and cured, and made fit for foreign markets, whereby the trade of Great Britain and the inhabitants of the faid province would reap confiderable benefit, which would enable the faid inhabitants to purchase more of the British manufactures for their use, than at prefent they are able, by reafon of the little trade and produce the faid province affords, were it permitted for his Ma- 15 Car. 2. c. 7. jesty's fubjects to import falt from Europe into the faid province for f. 7. the curing of their fish withal, in the like manner as is practifed in New England and Newfoundland, by virtue of an act of parliament made in the fifteenth year of the reign of King Charles the Second, for that purpose: and whereas formerly the northern parts of America were comprehended under the general name of New England, but fince have been divided into feveral provinces and colonies, and bear other diftinct names, which occafions a doubt whether falt can be imported into them, without the further aid of parliament, by which a very confiderable and beneficial fishery might be carried on there, to the great benefit of your Majefty's fubjects in general, may it therefore please your moft excellent Majefty, that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the King's most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords fpiritual and temporal and commons, in this present parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, That from and after the twenty fourth After 24 June day of June one thousand seven hundred and twenty feven, it 1727. Salt may fhall and may be lawful to and for any of his Majefty's fubjects be imported from Europe to carry and import falt from any part of Europe, into the pro- to Penfilvania, vince of Pensilvania in America, in British fhips and veffels, in British manned and navigated according to the act of parliament made hips. in the twelfth year of the reign of King Charles the Second, in- 12 Car.2.c.18. tituled, An act for the encouraging and increafing of Shipping and navigation; any law, ftatute, ufage or cuftom to the contrary in any wife notwithstanding.

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3 Geo. I. c. 3. a private act.

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An act for making more effectual an all paffed in the third year of his Majesty's reign, intituled, An act for the fervation and improvement of the river Wear, and port and haven of Sunderland, in the county of Durham.

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HEREAS by an act paffed in the third year of his present Majefty's reign, intituled, An act for preservation and improvement of the river Wear, and port and haven of Sunderland, in the county Durham, divers perfons in the faid act named were made, conflituted and appointed commiffioners for putting the faid act into execution, for the purposes in the faid act mentioned; aud whereas the faid commiffioners in execution of the powers by the faid act given to them have at a very great expence begun to erect a pier at the mouth of the faid river, on the fouth fide thereof, and have carried the fame two hundred and feventy Seven yards or thereabouts, towards the fea; and it is found necessary for the effectual defending the mouth of the faid river, from the fands and other impediments, which top and binder the entrance into the fame, not only to carry on the pier already begun on the fouth fide of the faid river, much further towards the fea than it is yet carried, but also to erect another pier or piers, key or keys, wharf or wharfs, and other works for the betterprefervation and improvement of the faid port and haven; and whereas for the carrying on the faid undertaking jo far as it hath been already carried on, the commiffioners in the faid act named have been obliged to borrow and take up at intereft, from several persons, feveral confiderable fums of money, amounting in the whole to the fum of three thousand five hundred pounds or thereabouts, and it will be neceflary for them to borrow and take up at intereft, further fums of money for the more effectual carrying on, compleating and finishing the faid un dertaking, which they are not by the Jaid recited act impowered to do; may it therefore please your most excellent Majefty, That it may be enacted, &c.

Commiffioners may affign over the duties, 3 Geo. 1. for monies borrowed or to be borrowed, for improvement of the river Wear. Commiffioners may erect more piers, &c. for prefervation of the Haven. Commissioners may contract with owners, &c. for lands, &c.