400 Other trustees to fell ftock. Commiffioners to raise money the rates. Annuities to be granted according to fome general rules or Monies how to be applied. Trustees to rebuild the church, and ewer if neceffary. One juftice to hear and determine offences against a. Perfons fummoned as witneffes not attending liable to a penalty Form of conviction. Appeal. Proceedings not to be quashed want of form, nor removeable by Certiorari. Limitation of actions, days notice. General iffue. Treble cofts. Publick act. CA P. XXI. at for better fupplying the city of Norwich, and the parts adjacent, with water. poration impowered to make proper works for fupplying the city, and adjacent, with water from the river Wenfon; making fatisfaction for ages. If parties difagree, damages to be fettled by a jury. Verdic , &c. to be binding. Penalty on interrupting or damaging the is, lol.; and on annoying the water, within 600 yards above the new , penalty of 40s. Inhabitants impowered to fet pipes from their , to communicate with those belonging to the corporation. Ground, are broke up for laying or repairing pipes, to be made good as foon as ybe. Recovery of penalties, by diftrels and fale, and commitment for months. Appeal, to the general quarter feffions, in 4 months. Limiof actions to fix months. General iffue. Treble cofts. No leafe the prefent water-works to be affected. Publick act. CA P. XXII. at for the better relief and employment of the poor, within the hundreds of Colneis and Carlford, in the county of Suffolk. Geo. 2. c. 79, for better relief and employment of the poor in the hunreds of Colneis and Carlford, in the county of Suffolk; 4 Geo. 3. c. 58, amend the fame, &c. Houfe of industry erected at Nacton. 4,2001. rowed on the credit of the affeffments; yet due to the treafurer 850!. mer acts repealed. What perfons are to be guardians of the poor, if ad of lands of 30l. per ann. and named in the commiffion of the peace the county, refiding within 5 miles of either of the faid hundreds, and tors and vicars in the faid hundreds, and occupiers of land rated at per ann. to the poor, incorporated by name of guardians, &c. Woto act by proxy. Corporation not to hold lands, &c. for more than years, except for the purposes of the act. House of industry, &c. ed in the guardians. Meeting of the guardians for appointing directors acting guardians, at Ipfwich. Quarterly meetings of directors and guardians. Qualification of directors. Guardians and directors to er in their qualifications at their firft meeting. Divition of the ditors and acting guardians into quarterly and other committees. QuarFor weekly meetings may be altered. Committees may be appointed very month. Penalty on directors and guardians for non-attendance For appointing officers. Choice of treasurer and clerk. Security be taken from the treasurer. Officers to account. Power to purchase tertain quantity of common and private land, not above 50 acres of com, and 100 acres of private land. Purchase money for the common to be ded between the lord or lady of the manor and the commoners. If agreement for the common, the value to be afcertained by a jury. payment of purchase money lands to be vefted in the corporation. ration may exchange lands. Prefent house may be enlarged, and buildings erected. Land, &c. to be free from parochial rates, and eto no higher publick taxes than were charged at the time of paffing Power to get materials for building, &c. Punishment of perfons ing the buildings, &c. as in cafes of felony. Materials to be fupfor employing the poor. Children may be placed out for one year, prenticed by the directors and acting guardians. No boy to contiapprentice after the age of 21, or girl after 18. Not to be affigned it an C 2 without without consent of directors, &c. Children already bound to contin the remainder of their apprenticeships. Juftices may grant redress to cl dren mifufed. Poor may be hired out to harveft or other work. Jufti to fettle differences. Directors, &c. may contract for the employmen the poor. Application of the produce of the labour of the poor. ] wards to be given to the induftrious poor. Poor perfons may be dismi to their parents or friends. Poor persons capable of maintaining themsel to be discharged. Illegitimate children not to gain a settlement by be born in the house, nor by being apprentices to the governor. For empl ing poor perfons willing to work. Idle and diforderly perfons may profecuted and punished. Directors and acting guardians may appreh idle perfons. Former bye-laws to continue in force, and new ones n be made. Eftates given for the poor may be let. Application of legac &c. given for the poor. Affeffments to be made and allowed by two tices, or at the quarter feffious, for defraying the expences of the poor the current quarter, and the intereft of money borrowed, or to be borrow Amount of the affeffments limited; not more than double former aff ments, and not to be reduced till two third parts of the whole fum b rowed be paid. Parish officers not reftrained from making rates for ot purposes. Rates to be a fecurity for the money borrowed. Directors i powered to borrow money. Rates may be affigned over and mortgag Securities may be transferred. Application of the money to be raised, pay cofts and expences; and then the 850l. due to the treasurer, and at for repairing, &c. the houfe of industry, and purchafing lands, employ the poor, and paying intereft of money borrowed. Directing the mo borrowed on fecurities fhall be difcharged; 7 directors to determi Churchwardens and overfeers, and other parish officers, to affift the rectors, &c. in the execution of this act. Directors and acting guardi may grant certificates with the perfons removed. Penalty on overse &c. fuffering perfons to refide without certificates, or not informing rectors of fingle women fufpected to be with child, 40s. Bonds of inde nity against bastards to be delivered to the directors and acting guardia and in future made to them. Juftice may direct relief to be given paupers. A governor, matron, furgeon, clergyman, and fchoolmat to be appointed; and also special conftables within faid hundreds. ] nishment of governor and other officers for misbehaviour, to be discharį from office, and forfeit 10l. and pay treble the value of the goods, mifapplied, and for non-payment may be committed to the house of corr tion, not lefs than I calendar month, nor more than 12. Punishment the poor misbehaving, or guilty of vice or immorality, by abatement diet, diftinction of drefs, and folitary confinement, or being set in t ftocks, by order of the governor, or by guardians at weekly meetin Punishment for difpoling of their apparel. For ift offence, to be co mitted to the house of correction 21 days; ad offence, to be dealt with a convicted of petit larceny. Punishment of perfons receiving ftolen goo and cloaths, to forfeit not more than rol. nor lefs than 20s.; a moiety the informer. And on conveying fpirituous liquors into the house, fi ject to 24 Geo. 2. c. 40, for conveying fpirituous liquors to gaols. J tices may proceed on the complaint of directors and acting guardia Directors and guardians may act as juftices. Accounts to be fettled a allowed. Directing what shall conftitute a meeting of directors and act guardians; 9 directors and acting guardians (whereof 6 to be director Chairman to have the cafting vote. Penalty for neglect of holding qu terly meetings, 51. each, to be levied by diftrefs and fale, by order quarter feflions. General meetings of the guardians may be held for a pointing new directors and acting guardians. Application of penalt given by any acts of parliament for the benefit of the poor. Penalties a forfeitures, how to be recovered and applied; by distress and fale, or com mitment for 2 months, or till paid with expences. Appeal allowed. Pr ceedings not to be quafhed for want of form. Limitation of action General iffue. Treble cofts. Commencement of the act, and declari it to be publick. to continue, for a limited time, an act made in the twentyath year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An act enable the lord high treasurer, or commiffioners of the treary for the time being, to let to farm the duties, granted by act made in the twenty-fifth year of his prefent Majefty's in, on horfes let to hire for travelling poft, and by time, to perfons as fhould be willing to contract for the fame. [/HEREAS by an act, made and passed in the twenty-feventh Preamble. year of his prefent Majefty's reign, intituled, An act to enable 27Geo.3.c.26, ord high treafurer, or commiffioners of the treafury for the recited. being, to let to farm the duties, granted by an act made in twenty-fifth year of his prefent Majefty's reign, on horfes let hire for travelling poft, and by time, to fuch perfons as fhould ing to contract for the fame; the lord high treasurer, or ners of the treafury, or any three or more of them for the time were empowered, either by themselves, or by his Majefty's com ers for managing the duties on ftamped vellum, parchment, and , thereunto duly authorised, to let to farm the feveral therein reirates and duties, to fuch perfons as fhould be willing to farm the for any term not exceeding three years, at a rent not than grafs amount which the same should appear to have produced within ar ending on the first day of August one thousand seven hundred eighty-fix, under certain rules, directions, regulations, and reens, expreffed in the faid act: and whereas the faid commiffioners naging the duties on ftamped vellum, parchment, and paper, duly authorised by the lords commiffioners of his Majesty's treair that purpose, did, pursuant thereto, let to farm, Separately in ts, the refpective rates and duties arifing within each diftrict, the respective terms of three years, in the manner directed by the al, which terms will expire on or before the first day of February fand feven hundred and ninety-one: and whereas it appears to pedient that the provifions and powers of the faid act should be rued for a limited time; may it therefore please your Majesty it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's most exent majefty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords ual and temporal, and commons, in this prefent parliament bled, and by the authority of the fame, That it fhall and may From Aug. 1, awful, from and after the first day of August one thousand 1790, the en hundred and ninety, to and for the lord high treasurer, or treasury may commiffioners of the treafury, or any three or more of them let to farm the time being, and they are hereby impowered, from time to granted by the as it fhall and may be neceffary, either by themselves, or by recited act, Majefty's commiffioners for managing the duties on ftamped m, parchment, and paper, thereunto authorised for that pur- C 3 the duties Powers of recited act, not hereby altered, to contiue in force. district, to fuch perfon or persons as fhall be willing to farm th fame, fo as the faid rates and duties refpectively fhall, from tin to time, be put up at a rent not less than the gross amount whic the fame produced within the year ending on the first day of A guft one thousand feven hundred and eighty-feven, under and ful ject to the feveral rules, regulations, and restrictions, prefcribed the faid act. II. Provided always, and be it enacted, That no fuch contra or agreement, for letting to farm the rates and duties aforefai fhall be made to continue for a longer time than until the first d of February one thoufand feven hundred and ninety-four. III. And be it further enacted, That all the powers, provifio articles, claufes, penalties, and forfeitures, and all other direction matters, and things prefcribed or appointed by the faid recited a not altered by or repugnant to this act, fhall be in full force a effect, as fully, to all intents and purposes, as if the fame, and eve of them, had severally been re-enacted in this act. CA P. XXIV. An act for enabling his Majefty to raise the fum of one million, for the u and purposes therein mentioned. His Majefty by fign manual may authorise the treasury to direct loans be received, and exchequer bills to be made out for 1,000,000l. agreea to the rules of the malt act. Claufes of the malt act to extend to this a except those charging the loans on the malt tax, and limiting the rate interest. Loans, &c. to be charged upon the firft fupplies of next feffi or the next confolidated fund. Monies iffued out of the confolidated fu to be replaced out of the firft fupplies. Bank of England may adva money upon the credit of this act. CA P. XXV. An act for paving and otherwife improving the town of Honiton in t county of Devon. Commiffioners. Qualification of commiffioners, lands 30l. per ann. heir to 6ol. per ann. or to have a perfonal estate of 800l. Oath. Co miffioners to pay to treasurer five guineas each before acting. Meeti of the commiflioners. Commiffioners to defray their own expences. F commiffioners to be a quorum. Notices of meetings, &c. fhall be giv Annual inceting for fettling accounts. A chairman to be appointed, w fhall have the cafting vote. All proceedings of commiffioners to be meetings, &c. Appointment of new commiffioners. Commiffioners appoint officers. Officers to account. Penalty on refufal, imprisonme Such parts of the Axminster and Honiton roads as leads from one hund yards eaft of the entrance into Shipley Lane, and along Axminster road the workhoufe through Warwick Lane, and along New Street to the m ket crofs in the High Street to the brow of Bramble Hill, and to Star Cr Lane, and also from the head of Shipley Lane down to the east end of town, and from Potter's Kiln turnpike gates to the market crofs in 11 Street, and alfo from the corner in Warwick Lane in New Street to Bro Hill Bridge, and from thence to Honiton church, and from the mar crofs in High Street along Northcote Lane to Cowley Barn, and alto fr the east end of the High Street along Clapper Lane, and alfo from the f High Street along Dowell's Lane, fo far as the prefent buildings exter put under the management of the commiffioners; and the trustees difcharg from the management thereof. Power to take down the market crofs,& and purchafe the fhambles, and feveral dwelling houfes and other buildin in the middle of High Street, and lay the fcites thereof into the ftred Rights of the lord of the manor, and to the markets and fairs, faved. P - fons interested in lands, &c. impowered to fell. On payment of purchase money, premises to be conveyed. Purchase money belonging to corporations, &c. to be laid out in purchase of other eftates. Commiflioners to pave, cleanfe, and light the streets, &c. Pavement not to be altered without confent of the commiffioners. Commiffioners to provide lamps, &c. Trafees to contract with perfons for paving and lighting. Contracts to be binding. The fireets to be watched. Penalty on perfons damaging or ructing the works, 20s. for every offence. Rate to be laid upon the inhabitants, not to exceed 6d. in the pound per ann. Recovery of rates. Commiffioners may erect turnpikes, and take tolls Coaches, &c. with 6 hores, 18.-3 or 4 horses, Sd.—2 horses, 6d. -1 horfe, 3d.waggons, &c. with 6 horfes, Is. 6d.—4 or 5 horses, Is-2 or 3 horfes, 6d. 1 horfe, 3d. -every horfe, &c. not drawing id.-neat cattle per fcore, Iod. -calves or hogs, 5d.-fheep or lambs, 2d. 2q. Nothing in the act to empower the truftees of the Lyme road to erect a turnpike between Straitway Head and Fair Mile Inn. Tolls payable but once a day. Exemption from tolls: horks or other cattle, or waggons or carts (except ftage waggons or carts, &c. carrying for hire) paffing on Saturday, or any fair day, at Honiton, or pack borfes or carriages employed in carrying corn, grain, meal, flour, beans, peafe or butcher's meat, or coals, wood, furze or other fuel, to, from or through Honiton, going and returning the fame day, or carriages employed in carrying ftones, gravel, or other materials, to turnpike roads, or of dung, mould, foil or compoft, or lime for manuring land, or conveying hay, ftraw or corn in ftraw, or ploughs or other implements of husbandry; or for horfe or other beaff going to or returning from water or pafture, or for any carriage or horfe carrying perfons to church or place of worship, on Sundays, or attending funerals at Honiton, or clergymen vifiting the fick, or doing parochial duty, or any carriages, &c. conveying vagrants fent by legal paffes, or belonging to officers or foldiers on their march, or on duty, or horfes, &c. conveying their arms or baggage, or those fick, wounded or difabled, or carrying mails of letters under the poftmafter. Tolls may be leffened. Penalty on perfons evading the tolls, to forfeit 405. for every offence. Power to let the tolls. Power to borrow money. Application of the money, to executing the act and defraying expences. Materials, &c. vefted in the commiffioners. Commiffioners to have the direction of the town lakes. Annoyances to be removed. Tenants paying any expences of removing obftructions, may deduct the fame out of their rent. Penalty on caufing obftructions or nuifances in the ftreets, for every offence 10s. No new building to be covered with thatch. Penalties for leaving carriages, timber, &c. in the ftreets, for every offence 10s. Obftructions occafioned by building or repairing any houfes removed on 10 days notice, not fubject to the penalty, but if not fo removed on notice, penalty ss. per day. Actions to be brought in the name of the clerk. Proceedings to be entered. Recovery of penalties, proved before a justice of peace, by diftrefs and fale of goods, or imprisonment three months. Appeal against rates to quarter feffions. Limitation of actions to 31 days notice, and not after 3 months. General iffue. Treble cofts. Publick act. CA P. XXVI. An act to exempt goods and chattels imported from the fettlement of Yucatan in South America, and fold by auction in Great Britain, from the duty impofed on fuch fales; and for allowing a drawback of the duties on goods exported to Yucatan. WHER HEREAS by an act paffed in the twenty-feventh year of the Preamble. reign of his prefent Majefty, (intituled, An act for repealing 27 Geo. 3. the feveral duties of cuftoms and excife, and granting other duties c. 13, recited. in lieu thereof, and for applying the faid duties, together with the other duties compofing the publick revenue; for permitting the importation of certain goods, wares, and merchandife, the produce or manufacture of the European dominions of the French king, C 4 into |