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A. D. 1706. Anno qiiinto Ann^e Reginae. C. lo— -14. 235 c A p. X. An A£i for repairing the Highway between Hockliffe and JFoborne in the County of Bedford. E x p. C A P. XL An A61 for continuing the Afls formerly made for repairing of the Highways in the County of Hertford. 15 Car. 2. c. i. For Repair of the Highways in the County of Hertford. Moiety of the Toll taken at IVades Mill, con- '^ ^ '7 Car. tinued for 15 Years. If Highways be before fufficiently repaired, Toll to ceafe. Power of Officers, ^'^■'^ ^j^j l^c. in the former Afts continued. [Repealed as to the ConntY oi Hertford, by 6 Geo. 2, c, 24.] P R. c. 9. 6 Geo. I, c. 20, CAP. XIL An A£t for the enlarging the PafTage leading to New Palace Yard through the Gatehoufc, TFeJiminJier. p r, EXP. CAP. xm. An A£l for continuing the Duties upon Houfes to fecure a yearly Fund for circulating Exchequer Bills? j Anna, flat, 1. whereby a Sum not exceeding fifteen hundred thoufand Pounds is intended to be raifed for carrying on c. 13. the War and other her Majeft-y's Occafions. Duties on Houfes granted by 7 & 8 W. 3. c. 18. &c, con- 9 & '°W. 3. tinued for ever. Subjeil to Redemption. Former Powers revived. Farther Provifions relating hereto, j'^nn^ flat. r. 7 Annse, c. 7. Duties after laft Jidy 1710, appropriated for a yearly Fund for circulating Exchequer c. j^. ' • Bills. Exchequer Bills to be made forth for any Sum not exceeding 1,500,000/. Bills fb iffued to he See ^Ar.n, c. 17, taken for Taxes, (Jc. Bank to have 4/. 105. per Cent, for circulating Exchequer Bills, in Proportion /"S. iS, as the fame fliall be ilTued, iffc. Lord Treafurer, &c. on the four quarterly Feaft Days of the Year-, from the firft iflliing of the Bills until Michaelmas, 17 10. to compute the Sum due to Bank on every fuch Feaft Day, (Jc. and make out new Bills, &c. Officers, isfc. to be appointed for managing and levying the Duties. Account of Monies to be kept in Auditor's Office. Allowance to be paid at the Exchequer weekly. Penalty on Officer mifapplying Monies, &c. Surplus of Duties, &'c. difpofable to publick Ufe. Bank to exchange Exchequer Bills for ready Money, with Intereft due, and remain a Corporation until Bills be cancelled. Bank refufing to pay Bill, Perfon demanding may bring his Adlion. No Intereft to run after Bill is paid into Exchequer, i^c. Intereft Bills paid to Colle£tor of Taxes, ^c. to be figned, and Day of the Month wrote when paid, &c. On one Year's Notice, and Payment of the Principal and Intereft, Bills to be cancelled, and the Fund to ceafe, iffc. Forging or counterfeiting Bill, &c. Felony. Bank to have one Part of the Checques of all fuch Bills. Gover- nor, isfc. may call in any Sums neceflary for circulating Bills. Member negledling to pay his Share, Dividend to be ftopt. Fund not liable to foreign Attachment. Exempt from Taxes, and to be deemed , a perfonal Eftate, and go to Executors. Until Bills be cancelled no other Exchequer Bills to be iffued. Not to hinder Redemption of original Fund of 100,000/. per Annum granted to Bank. Lot- tery Tickets, Exchequer Bills, &c. burnt or loft before 6 February 1706. Officers, £tfc. on Certificate and Affidavit, &c. to make forth new ones. [Repealed, and other Duties granted, by 20 Geo. 2. c. 3. j CAP. XIV. An Aft for the better Prefervation of the Game. ' %. 1 H E R E A S feveral Laws have been already enafted for the better Prefervatlon of the Game, 13 J!. 4, ft, j; ' VV ^""i y Experience been found not fufficient to prevent deftroying the Game, by reafon of the c. 13. ji h. f. ' Multitude of Higlars and other Chapmen, which give great Encouragement to idle loofe Perfons to '^' ' ?• '9 ^- 7-

  • negleift their lawful Employnents, to follow and deftroy the fame ;' For Remedy whereof, and the J'" 'J,.'^' ^*

more effe(ftual Prefervation of the Game, be it enadled by the Queen's moft Excellent Majefty, by and c' 3,1. , eI. with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parlia- c, 10! ijac'.u pient aftembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That all and every of the Laws now in being for the '• 27. la ^ tetter Prefervation of the Game, flrall continue, remain, and be in the fame Force, not hereby repealed ^3£'"'-2. <■. 25. or altered. l^^^^'^^,,

M. c. 23. All

Laws for Prefervation of the Game to continue in Force, &c. II. And be it further ena(fted by the Authority aforefald, That if any Higlar, Chapman, Carrier, Inn- Higlar, Carrier, deeper. Victualler, or Alehoufe-keeper, (hall from and after the firft Day of May one thoufand feven &c. not to have hundred and feven, have in his or their Cuftody or Poffeffion any Hare, Pheafant, Partridge, Moor, '" *>'« Cuftody Heath-game^ or Groufe, or Ihall buy, fell, or offer to fell any Hare, Pheafant, Partridge, Moor, Heath- fl"*' ""'^' f}^- game, or Groufe, every fuch Higlar, Chapman, Inn-keeper, Vidlualler, Alehoufe-keeper, or Carrier ^f^'of^uyo^^'

(unlels fuch Game in the Hands of fuch Carrier be fent up by Perfon or Perfons qualified to kill the fdl' Hare, &c.

Game) fnall upon every fucli Offence be carried before fome Juftice of the Peace for the County, Riding, on Penalty of 5 1, City, or Town Corporate, or Liberties where the faid Offence is committed ; and upon View, or upon the Oath of one or more credible Witneffes, ftiall be convided of the fame, fliall forfeit for every Hare, Pheafant, Partridge, Moor, Heath-game, or Groufe, the Sum of five Pounds, one Half to the Informer, and the other Half to the Poor of the Parifh where the ©ffence was committed; the fame to be levied by to be levied by Diftrefs and Sale of the OlFender's Goods, by Warrant under the Hand and Seal of the Juftice or Juftices Diftrefs, &c. P h 2 of