1 Robert Caffells, fhall be detained and kept in cuftody, without bail or mainprize, during his Majefty's pleasure. CAP. V. An act for making further provifions to enable perfons pofSeffed of offices at the demife of his late Majefty to qualify themselves for the enjoyment of fuch offices, and for altering and explaining the acts of parliament therein mentioned in relation to qualifying perfons for continuing in offices, and to the continuance of the Jheriffs of the county of Cornwall and county palatine of Chester, and several other officers therein mentioned, after the demise of his late Majefty, his heirs and fucceffors; and for continuing fuch laws as would expire at the end of this feffion of parlia ment. WHEREAS by an act of parliament made in the fixth year of the reign of her late majesty Queen Anne, intituled, An act 6 Ann. c. 7. for the fecurity of her Majefty's perfon and government, and of the fucceffion to the crown of Great Britain in the protestant line, it was amongst other things enacted, That no office, place or imployment, civil or military, within the kingdoms of Great Britain or Ireland, dominion of Wales, town of Berwick upon Tweed, ifles of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sarke, or any of her faid late Majefty's plantations, fhould become void by reafon of the demife or death of her faid late Majefty, her heirs or fucceffors; but every perfon in any of the offices, places and imployments aforesaid should continue in their respective offices, places and imployments for the Space of fix months next after fuch death or demife, unless fooner removed and difcharged by the next in fucceffion, as in the faid act is expreffed; and that all officers and perfons in any offices, places or imployments, civil or military, who were or fhould be by the faid act continued as aforefaid, jhould take the oaths therein mentioned, and do all other acts requifite by the laws and ftatutes of this realm to qualify themselves to be and continue in fuch their respective places, offices and imployments, within fuch time and in fuch manner, and under fuch pains, penalties and dijabilities, as they should or ought to do, had they been newly elected, appointed, conftituted and put into fuch offices, places or imployments in the ufual and ordinary way, as by the faid recited act (relation being thereunto had) may appear : and whereas divers perfons having offices, places or imployments in the kingdom of Ireland are now refiding in Great Britain, and by reaJon of their attendance in parliament, or other occafions, cannot at prefent go into Ireland to qualify themselves in that behalf as the law directs: be it therefore enacted, &c. EXP. Perfons in offices in Ireland, refiding in England may qualify themselves here before 28 Nov. 1727. II. And whereas by the general words of the faid recited act, and 4 Ann. c. 8. of one other act made in the fourth year of the reign of her faid late Gg 2 majesty The acts re lating to qua lifying perfons to con altered and explained. majesty Queen Anne, intituled, An act for the better fecurity o her Majefty's perfon and government, and of the fucceffion to the crown of England in the protestant line, all officers thereby reSpectively continued are obliged to take the ufual oaths of their reSpective offices in fuch manner as if they had been newly appointed; from whence many difficulties and inconveniencies have arisen: be it enacted by the authority aforefaid, That fo much only of the faid acts as requires any perfon to take the ufual oath of his office, place or imployment, in refpect of his being continued. tinue in offices therein for the space of fix months, by virtue of the faid acts, or either of them, fhall be and is hereby repealed; and that no person or perfons who, at the time of the demife of his faid late Majefty, was or were poffeffed of any office, place or imployment, and were continued therein by force of the faid acts, or either of them, shall incur or fuffer any pains, penalties or difabilities whatfoever for or in refpect of his or their having acted in fuch office, place or imployment without taking the usual oath thereof fince the demife of his faid late Majesty; and that all acts done or to be done by fuch perfon or perfons, or by authority derived from him or them, are and fhall be of the fame force and effect, to all intents and purposes, as they would have been, if such person or perfons had taken the usual oath of his or their office, place or imployment fince the demise of his faid late Majesty. Acts that at the end of this feffion, continued to Perfons having offices at the demife of his late Majefty to qualify themfelves before 28 Nov. 1727. Provifo for perfons beyond fea. Perfons poffeffed of offices in Ireland now reading here, and newly appointed to fuch offices, to qualify themselves in England within three calendar months. Sheriffs of Cornwall and Chester, and feveral other officers continued. His Majesty may appoint sheriffs for Cornwall during the prince's minority. Bishop of Clogher continued vice-chancellor of Dublin. EXP. X. And whereas there are divers laws now in force, which will would expire expire at the end of this feffion of parliament, and probably there may not be fufficient time for a particular examination and due confideration how far any of them may be fit to be further continued; be it the end of the therefore enacted by the authority aforefaid, That all laws now in force, and which would expire at the end of this feffion of parliament, shall be and continue in full force to all intents and purposes unto the end of the next feffion of parliament; any thing contained in any of the faid laws to the contrary thereof any wife notwithstanding. next. in Anno Regni GEORGII II. primo. Stat. 2. AT T the parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the twenty-third day of January, Anno Domini one thousand feven hundred and twenty seven, in the first year of the reign of our fovereign lord George II. by the grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, defender of the faith, &c. being the first feffion of this present parlia ment. CAP. I. An act for continuing the duties upon malt, mum, cyder and perry in that part of Great Britain called England; and for granting to his Majefty certain duties upon malt, mum, cyder and perry in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and twenty eight; and for making good the deficiency of a late malt-act. EXP. CAP. II. An act for punishing mutiny and defertion, and for the better payment of the army and their quarters. EXP. CAP. III. An act for making more effectual an act paffed in the fourth year of the reign of his late majefty King George, intituled, An act for repairing the highways from Maidenhead-Bridge to Sunning-Lane end, next to Twyford, in the road to Reading; and from the faid bridge to Henley Bridge in the county of Berks. This act continued for 21 years longer after expiration of the former act. An act for repairing the road leading from Chatteris-Ferry, which divides the ifle of Ely from the county of Huntingdon, to Hammond's Eau, and from thence to Somerfham Bridge, at Somerfham town's end, in the faid county. The toll took place the 1st of May 1728, to continue for 21 years. Continued by 14 Geo. 2. c. 14. CAP. V. An act for granting an aid to his Majefty by a land-tax to be raised in Great Britain, for the fervice of the year one thousand seven hundred and twenty eight. EXP. 3 s. in the pound. CAP. VI, An act for repairing the road from the Powder-Mills on Hounflow-Heath in the county of Middlesex, to a place called Bafing-Stone, near the town of Bagfhot, in the parish of Windlesham in the county of Surrey. The toll took place from the 1ft day of May 1728. and is to continue 21 years. Continued by 12 Geo. 2. c. 16, САР. Ann. c.22. CAP. VII. An act for enlarging the term granted by an act made in the twelfth year of the reign of her late majesty Queen Anne, for repairing the highways between the Bear-Inn in Reading, and Puntfield in the county of Berks, and for making the faid act more effectual, and for amending other roads in this act mentioned. The act 12 Ann. for repairing Reading and other roads, enlarged for 21 years. Continued by 20 Geo. 2. c. 6. CAP. VIII. An act for granting an aid to his Majefty by fale of annuities to the bank of England at four pounds per centum, redeemable by parliament, and charged upon the duties on coals and culm; and for further applying the produce of the finking fund; and for enlarging the time for exchanging Nevis and Saint Chriftopher's debentures for annuities at three per centum, and for applying the arrears of his late Majefty's civil lift revenues. Most gracious Sovereign, WE HEREAS by an act of parliament made and passed in the ninth year of the reign of her late majesty Queen Anne, intituled, An act for granting to her Majefty feveral duties upon coals, for building fifty new churches in and about the cities of London and Westminster and fuburbs thereof, and other purposes therein mentioned, it was enacted, That for all forts of coals and culm, which from and after the twenty eighth day of September one thousand seven hundred and fixteen, and before the twenty eighth day of September one thousand seven hundred and twenty four, should be imported and brought into the port of the city of London, or the river of Thames, within the liberty of the faid city upon the fame river, there should be paid to her Majesty, ber heirs and fucceffors, by way of impofition thereupon (over and befides all other impofitions and duties) according to the rates herein after mentioned; that is to fay, For all fuch forts of coals and culm as are ufually fold by the chalder, for every chalder thereof, containing thirty fix bushels Winchester meafüre, the fum of three fillings; and for fuch forts of coals as are fold by the ton, for every ton thereof, containing twenty hundred weight, the fum of three fillings; all the produce of which faid impofition on coals and culm was thereby appropriated for the building of fifty new churches, in or near the cities of London and Westminster, or the fuburbs thereof, and other purposes therein mentioned: and whereas by an act of parliament made and paffed in the first year of the reign of your 1Geo 1. ftat.2. Majefty's royal father, King George the First, of glorious memory, the faid impofitions and duties upon coals and culm were further granted to his faid late Majefty, from the twenty seventh day of September one thousand seven hundred and twenty four, to the twenty eighth day of September one thousand feven hundred and twenty five, and the whole produce thereof applied for the making provifion for the minifiers of the faid fifty new churches, and other purposes therein C. 23. mentioned: mentioned: and whereas by an act of parliament of the fifth year of 5 Geo.1.c.9. his faid late Majesty's reign, intituled, An act for continuing certain duties upon coals and culm, and for establishing certain funds to raise money, as well to proceed in the building of new churches, as also to compleat the fupply granted to his Majefty, and to reserve the overplus monies of the faid duties for the difpofition of parliament, and for more effectual fuppreffing private lotteries, the fame impofitions and duties were granted to his Majefty, from the twenty Seventh day of September one thousand Seven hundred and twenty five, to the feast of the annunciation of the blessed Virgin Mary which should be in the year of our Lord one thouSand Seven hundred and fifty one, and were thereby charged with a particular fund of twenty one thousand pounds per annum for thirty two years, from the twenty fifth day of March one thousand feven hundred and nineteen, for the raising from time to time, by loans at the exchequer, on the credit of the faid fund, as the fame should be wanted, the fum of three hundred and fixty thousand pounds, in lieu of the provifions by the former acts for the building the faid churches, and other purposes before-mentioned; and the fame impofitions or duties were by the fame act further charged with another particular fund of thirty thousand five hundred and fifty nine pounds fourteen hillings per annum, for the like term of thirty two years, from the faid twenty fifth day of March one thousand feven hundred and nineteen, for the paying off and discharging the fum of five hundred thoufand pounds, with the intereft at four pounds per centum per annum, for the fortunate tickets in the lottery established by the said late mentioned act: and whereas by a subsequent act of parliament made in the fixth year of his faid late Majefty's reign, for enabling the South- 6 Geo.1. c. 4. Sea company to enlarge the capital stock and fund of the faid company, the faid duties on coals and culm were continued for ever; and thereby the said sum of five hundred thousand pounds for the said lottery, or any part thereof, was (amongst other publick debts therein enumerated). impowered to be taken into the capital ftock of the faid company, and the faid company was to be entitled to an annuity after the rate of four pounds per centum per annum, redeemable by parliament, for fo much thereof as should be so taken into the capital stock, in lieu of the former annuity payable for the fame, and to a proportionable allowance for charges of management, and to be charged upon the faid impofitions and duties: and whereas in pursuance of the faid last mentioned at the fum of four hundred thirty four thousand fix hundred and five pounds principal money, part of the faid fum of five hundred thousand pounds, was taken into the said stock, and by means thereof the faid company became entitled to an annuity or yearly fum of feventeen thousand three hundred eighty four pounds four fhillings, redeemable by parliament, being after the rate of four pounds per centum per annum, in respect of the faid principal sum so taken into their ftock; and the refidue of the faid principal debt or fum of five hundred thousand pounds hath been fince paid off and discharged, by means whereof the former particular fund or annuity of thirty thousand five hundred fifty nine pounds fourteen fillings, for paying off the faid five hundred thousand pounds and interest, was redeemed and discharged : Gg 4 and |