fix fhillings the barrel (exclufive of the duties of excife), and not every barrel exceeding eleven fhillings (exclufive of fuch duty), commonly above fix thilof table beer, called Table Beer, brewed by the common brewer, or by any other lings, and unperfon or persons who doth or fhall fell or tap out beer or ale, der eleven publickly or privately, within the cities of London and Westminster, shillings, 4d. or within the limits of the weekly bills of mortality: the bills of And the fum of four-pence farthing for every barrel of beer or and without ale above fix fhillings the barrel (exclufive of the duties of excise), mortality, 4d. and not exceeding eleven fhillings (exclufive of fuch duty), com- 1q. monly called Table Beer, brewed by the common brewer, or by any other perfon or perfons who doth or fhall fell or tap out beer or ale, publickly or privately, in England, Wales, or the town of Berwick upon Tweed, not within the faid cities of London or Weftminster, nor within the weekly bills of mortality; under, subject, and according to the rules, regulations, reftrictions, and provifions contained and provided in and by an act made in the twentyfecond year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, concerning beer or ale, commonly called Table Beer, and returned by the gauger; and after that rate for any greater or lefs quantity: The fum of five-pence upon every barrel of beer or ale above To every such fix fhillings the barrel (exclufive of the duties of excife) brewed brewer, in by the common brewer, or by any other perfon or perfons who every barrel of Scotland, on doth or fhall fell or tap out beer or ale, publickly or privately, beer above fix. within that part of Great Britain called Scotland, and returned by fhillings, 5d.; the gauger; and so in proportion for any greater or less quantity: The fum of three-pence upon every barrel of two-penny ale, rel of twomentioned and defcribed in the feventh article of the treaty of penny ale, union, brewed within that part of Great Britain called Scotland, defcribed in and returned by the gauger; and fo in proportion for any greater article 7 of the union, or lefs quantity: 3d.; and on every And the fum of one-penny halfpenny upon every barrel of fix fhillings beer or ale, or under, brewed by the common brewer, or barrel of 6s. any other person or perfons who doth or shall fell or tap out beer beer, or unor ale, publickly or privately, within that part of Great Britain der, id. 2q. called Scotland, and returned by the gauger; and fo in proportion for any greater or lefs quantity. Allowances to Which faid feveral and respective allowances for the faid beer or be paid at the ale, so brewed as aforefaid, fhall be paid at the end of every four end of four months refpectively, after the duties fhall have been paid for the the duties fame, and not fooner. months after have been mentioned. VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That paid, if any common brewer, or other perfon or perfons who brew beer upon certifi or ale, and fell or tap out the fame publickly or privately, fhall, cate as herein by himself or themselves, or his or their agent or agents, at any time after the end of four months after he or they shall have paid the duties for any beer or ale by him or them brewed after the faid fifth day of January one thousand seven hundred and ninetyone, produce to, and leave with the collector of excife of the county, fhire, ftewartry, or place, where the beer or ale for which the allowances are by this act directed to be made was brewed, and The powers of 12 Car. 2. c. 24, &c. to extend to this act. Duties to be paid into the exchequer, and kept fe parate from. other monies. and where the duties were paid for the fame, a certificate or certificates from the officer who received the faid duties, that the duties charged or chargeable upon the faid beer or ale have been actually paid, and that the fame beer or ale was brewed fince the faid fifth day of January one thousand seven hundred and ninetyone, (which certificate the faid officer is hereby required to give gratis), then, and in every fuch cafe, the faid collector fhall, out of the monies arifing from the duties by this act impofed upon malt, forthwith pay to the perfon producing the faid certificate, for every barrel of beer or ale mentioned within the respective allowances by this act in such case directed to be made; and in case the faid collector fhall not have fufficient money in his hands, arifing by the duty by this act impofed upon malt, to pay the fame, then the respective commiffioners for the faid duty are hereby required to pay the faid allowances out of the faid duty upon malt arifing by this act; and if at any time it shall happen, that the faid refpective commiffioners fhall not have in their hands monies arifing by the faid duty fufficient to pay the faid allowances, then, and in every such case, the said refpective commiffioners fhall pay the faid allowances out of any monies then in their hands. VIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That all and every the powers, authorities, directions, rules, methods, penalties, and forfeitures, claufes, matters, and things, which, in and by an act made in the twelfth year of the reign of King Charles the Second, intituled, An act for taking away the court of wards, and liveries, and tenures in capite, and by knight's fervice, and purveyance; and for fettling a revenue upon his Majefty in lieu thereof; or by any other law now in force relating to his Majefty's revenue of excife upon beer, ale, or other liquors, are provided, fettled, or eftablished, for fecuring, enforcing, managing, raifing, levying, collecting, paying, mitigating, or recovering, adjudging, or afcertaining the duties or penalties thereby granted, and for preventing, detecting, and punishing frauds relating thereto, (other than in fuch cafes for which other penalties or provifions are prefcribed by this act), fhall be exercised, practifed, applied, used, and put in execution, in and for the managing, raifing, levying, collecting, mitigating, adjudging, afcertaining, recovering, and paying the feveral duties hereby granted, as fully and effectually, to all intents and purposes, as if all and every the faid powers, authorities, rules, directions, methods, penalties, forfeitures, claufes, matters and things, were particularly repeated and again enacted in the body of this prefent act. IX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all monies arifing by the faid rates and duties, (the neceffary charges of raising and accounting for the fame excepted), fhall, from time to time, be paid into the receipt of his Majefty's exchequer, diftinctly and apart from all other branches of the publick revenues; and that there fhall be provided and kept in the office of the auditor of the faid receipt of exchequer, a book or books, in which all the monies arifing from the faid rates and duties, and paid into the faid receipt as aforefaid, fhall be entered, feparate separate and apart from all other monies paid and payable to his Majefty, his heirs and fucceffors, upon any account whatever; and the faid money, fo paid into the faid receipt, fhall be fubject and liable to the ufes and purposes herein-after mentioned. 1792, to be X. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That Duties paid. all the monies arifing or to arise by the said several rates and du- into the exties hereby impofed, which fhall be paid into the faid receipt at chequer on or before April 5, any time or times on or before the fifth day of April one thousand feven hundred and ninety-two, fhall be carried to and made part carried to the of the fund called The Confolidated Fund; and that from and after confolidated the faid fifth day of April one thousand seven hundred and ninety- fund; and afterwards the two, all the monies arifing or to arife by the faid rates and duties, duties to be and paid into the faid receipt after the faid fifth day of April one applied in paythousand feven hundred and ninety-two, fhall, together with fuch ment of other rates and duties as fhall be granted by any act or acts of 800,000l. to be raised by this prefent feffion of parliament for this purpose, be a fund for the exchequer payment and discharge of the prinicipal fum of eight hundred bills. thousand pounds, part of the fum of one million eight hundred and thirty-three thousand pounds, to be raised by loans or exchequer bills, in pursuance of any act of this feffion of parliament, together with fuch intereft as fhall by the faid act be directed to be paid or made payable for the faid principal fum of eight hundred thoufand pounds, and fhall be iffued, applied, and difpofed towards the paying off and difcharging the faid principal fum of eight hundred thousand pounds, and intereft to become due thereon as aforefaid, and to no other ufe, intent, or purpose whatsoever. XI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That, On payment upon payment of the faid principal fum of eight hundred thoufand of the faid pounds, and all intereft to become due thereon, or referving, at 800,000l. and intereft, the the faid receipt of exchequer, fo much money out of the faid fund duties hereby to be established as aforefaid, as fhall be fufficient to fatisfy and granted to discharge the faid principal fum of eight hundred thousand pounds, ceafe. and all intereft as aforefaid, and publication thereof in the manner to be directed by the faid act of this feffion of parliament, the faid rates and duties hereby imposed shall from thenceforth cease and determine, and be no longer paid or payable; and all the rules and regulations of this act fhall alfo from thenceforth ceafe and determine, except as to the recovery of any arrears of the faid rates or duties which may at that time have accrued or grown due, or to any fine, penalty, or forfeiture which may have been then incurred. CA P. III. An act to give further time to John Macbride efquire, and his fureties, for entering in their recognizances, in respect of his petition presented to the house of commons, complaining of an undue election and return for the borough of Plymouth, in the county of Devon. GAP. Preamble. CA P. IV. An all to continue and amend fo much of two acts, made in the laft feffion of parliament, as relates to the importation and exportation of corn and grain, and to the authorifing his Majefty to permit the exportation of corn, grain, meal, or flour, and to prohibit the impor tation thereof on the low duties. WH HEREAS an act was paffed in the last feffion of parliament, (intituled, An act for indemnifying all perfons who have been concerned in advifing or carrying into execution certain orders of council, refpecting the importation and exportation of corn and grain, and alfo certain orders iffued by the governor general of his Majesty's colonies in America; and for preventing fuits in confequence of the fame; and for making further provifions relative thereto;) which act was to continue in force until the twenty-ninth day of September one thousand feven hundred and ninety: and whereas by another act, passed in the fame feffion, (inand 30 Geo. 3. tituled, An act to continue, for a limited time, certain provifions c. 42. recited. contained in an act made in this prefent feffion of parliament, in tituled, An act for indemnifying all perfons who have been concerned in advifing or carrying into execution certain orders of council reSpecting the importation and exportation of corn and grain, and alfo certain orders iffued by the governor general of his Majesty's colonies in America; and for preventing fuits in confequence of the fame; and for making further provifions relative thereto, relating to the importation and exportation of corn and grain; and to authorise his Majefty to permit the exportation of corn, grain, meal, or flour and to prohibit the importation thereof on the low duties); fo much of the first-mentioned act as related to the importation and exportation of corn and grain was continued from the twenty-ninth day of September one thousand feven hundred and ninety, until and upon the twenty-eighth day of February one thousand feven hundred and ninety-one: and whereas it is expedient, that fo much of the faid So much of the firft recited first-mentioned act as relates to the importation and exportation of act as relates corn and grain, and alfo the whole of the faid last-mentioned act, should to the impor- be further continued in force: be it therefore enacted by the King's portation of most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords fpiritual and temporal, and commons, in this prefent parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, That fo much of the said first-mentioned act as relates to the importation and exportation of corn and grain, and alfo the whole of the faid laftforce till June mentioned act, fhall continue and be in force until the tenth day of June one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one. tation and ex corn and grain, and the whole of the laft, to continue in 10, 1791. If the exportation of wheat, &c. from Great II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That if, at any time or times, during the continuance of this act, any fort of wheat, wheat flour, bifcuit, rye, rye-meal, barley, barleyBritain shall be meal, oats, oat-meal, peafe, or beans, fhall be prohibited to be prohibited by exported from Great Britain, by virtue of the faid recited acts, or virtue of the of any authority therein given to his Majefty, his heirs and fuchis Majefty in ceffors, by and with the advice of his or their privy council, it recited acts, fhall fhall and may be lawful, nevertheless, for his Majefty, his heirs council may and fucceffors, and he and they are hereby authorised, by and with permit the exthe advice of his or their privy council, to permit and allow the fuch quanti portation of exportation to any dominion, territory, plantation, colony, ifland, ties to fuch province, factory, place, or fifhery, to his Majefty, his heirs or places belongfucceffors, belonging, of fuch quantities of each and every fuch ing to his Mafort of corn and other articles as aforefaid, as hath at any jefty as have time been allowed been allowed to be exported to fuch or the fame dominion, terri- by any act of tory, plantation, colony, ifland, province, factory, place or fishery parliament, respectively to his Majefty belonging, by any act or acts of parliament heretofore made, and of any quantity or quantities of and of any neeach and every fuch fort of corn and other articles as aforefaid, to ceffary quantity to Newthe island of Newfoundland, and to the British islands in the Weft foundland and Indies, as fhall from time to time be found neceffary and requifite the West Infor the use of the fishery of the faid ifland of Newfoundland, and dies. for the food and sustenance of the inhabitants of the said islands respectively. bounties have III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That Whenever the whenever the exportation of corn, grain, and other articles made exportation thereof, on which bounties have been heretofore payable, fhall be of corn, &c. fo permitted, and that the prices thereof respectively, taken in the on which manner directed by an act paffed in the tenth year of his prefent been payable, Majesty's reign, (intituled, An act for registering the prices at which shall be percorn is fold in the feveral counties of Great Britain, and the quantity mitted, and exported and imported), fhall not, upon an average of the returns the prices fhall not exceed, on made by virtue of the faid act, exceed the prices upon which an average of bounties have been heretofore allowed on each fort refpectively, the returns it fhall be lawful for his Majefty, by and with the advice of his made under privy council, to order that the fame bounties be allowed on each 10 Geo.3.c.39. theprices upon fort refpectively, as would be allowed and payable thereon, if fuch which bouncorn, grain, or other articles, were exported under the authority ties have been of any act or acts of parliament now in force, and fubject to the allowed, his fame regulations, conditions, and reftrictions, and to the fame Majefty in council may penalties and forfeitures, as are enacted and impofed in and by the order the fame faid acts. bounties as would be allowed if the corn, &c. were exported under any act in force. IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That This act may this act may be altered, varied, or repealed, by any act or acts to be altered this be made in this prefent feffion of parliament. CA P. V. An act for granting to his Majesty additional duties on the amount of the duties under the management of the commiffioners for the affairs of taxes therein mentioned. Moft gracious Sovereign, feffion. E, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal fubjects, the com- Preamble mons of Great Britain, in parliament affembled, being de firous of raifing the neceffary fupplies to defray your Majesty's extraordinary expences, have freely and voluntarily refolved to give |