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400 C. i3« Anno odlavo Ann^ Reginae, A. D. 1709, CAP. XIII. An A£t for continuing feveral Impofitions, additional Impofitions, and Duties upon Goods imported to raife Money by Way of Loan, for the Service of tlie Year one tiioufand fe- ven hundred and ten ; and for taking of the Overfea Duty on Coals exported in Brittjh Bottoms ; and for better preventing Frauds in Drawbacks upon Certificate Goods ; and for afcertaining the Duties of Corans imported in Venetian Ships ; and to give further Time to Foreign Merchants for Exportation of certain Foreign Goods imported ; and to limit a Time for Profecutions upon certain Bonds given by Merchants ; and for continuing certain Fees of the Officers of the Cufloms ; and to prevent Imbezilments by fuch Officers ; and for appro- priating the Monies granted to her Majefty ; and for replacing Monies paid or to be paid for making good any Deficiencies on the Annuity A6ts ; and for Encouragement to raife Naval Stores in her Majefly's Plantations ; and to give further Time for regiftring De- bentures, as is therein mentioned. FortheAppIi- "^ J" O S T grac'ous Sovereign; We your Majefty's moft dutiful and loyal Subjefts, the Commons cation of the iVl. of Great Britain, in Parliament aflembled, for the better enabling your Majefty to defray the Duties ariCng by Qhjj,.gg Qf(.]^jg prefent War, and to finiih the fame as fuccefsfully as the the faid War hath hitherto Annae'c Tif (through the Divine Goodnefs) been carried on, and for other your Majefty's m.oft neceffary and impor- ^. 6, ' ' ' tant Occafions, have cheerfully and unanimoufly given and granted, and do by this Aft give and grant to your Majefty the feveral and refpeflive Subfidies, Impofitions and Duties herein after particularly de- fcribed, for and during the Terms herein after exprefled ; and do moft humbly befeech your Majefty Impofitione on that it may be enadted ; and be it enafted by the Queens moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Ad- Wines and Vine vice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affem- gar, runher con- bled, and by Authority of the fame, That the feveral Impofitions and Duties upon Wines and Vinegar, ""o"^ made^er- ?,"^^^^^^ ^Y ^n hdi made in the firft Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King James the Second, intituled, petual by Q ^^ Aii for granting to his Majejly an Impofition upon all Wines and Vinegar imported between the tzventy-fourih Anns, c.2i.§.i. Day of June one thoufand fix hundred eighty-five and the four and twentieth Day «/'June one thoufandftx hun- j Jac. z. c. 3. dred ninety-three, which faid AtS by feveral fubfequent A£ts of Parliament fuice made, was continud, and is to continue until rhe firft Day of yfz^^?^ one thoufand feven hundred and fixteen, fhall by virtue of this hSi be further continued, and be payable to her Majefty, her Heirs and Succeflbrs, for and upon all Wines, and Vinegar, which ihall be imported into Great Britain from the laft Day oijuly one thoufand feven hundred and fixteen to the firft Day of Auguft one thoufand faven hundred and tv/enty, and no I Jac, z. c. 3. longer; and that the faid A£t fo made in the firft Year of the Reign of the faid late King James the Se- cond, and all Povrers, Provifions, Penalties, Articles and Claufes therein contained, for or concerning the faid Impofitions on Wines and Vinegar, fhall continue and be in full Force and Effe£l until the faid firft Day oi Augujl one thoufand feven hundred and twenty, and fhall be applied praftifed, and exe- cuted, for raifing, levying, collefting, anfwering, and paying the faid Duties upon Wines and Vinegar hereby continued, and all Arrears thereof, according to the Tenor and Intent of this prefent Act, as fully to all Intents and Purpofes, as if all and every the Claufes, Matters and Things in the faid A£l of the firft Year of the Reign of the faid King James the Second contained, had been again in this Ail repeated and particularly enafted. Impofitions on ^- ^"^^ ^^ further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That the Rates, Duties, and Impofitjons upon Tobacco, further all Sorts of Tobacco, granted by an Aifl made in the firft Year of the Reign of the faid late King James continued to i the Second, intituled. An AB for granting to his Adajcjiy an Impofition upon all Tobacco and Sugar imported Aug. 1710. between the twenty fourth Day o^ June orie thoufand fix hundred eighty-five and the tiuenty-fourfh Day of June ' "'r* Vr "^'toal ""^ thoufandftx hundred ninety-three, which faid A&, as for and concerning the faid Duties and Impofitions by^Q Anns c. upon Tobacco only, by feveral fubfequent Afts of Parliament fince made, was continued, and is to con- ai. §. I, 2/3. tinue until the firft Day o'i Augvfi one thoufand feven hundred and fixteen, ftiall by virtue of this A£l ba further continued and paid to her Majefty, her Hsirs and Succeffors, for and upon all 'I'obacco to be imported into Great Britain from the faid laft Day of July one thoufand feven hundred and fixteen to the firft Day oi Augiifi one thoufand feven hundred and twenty, and no longer. , Duties on To- III. Provided alvvfays, and be it enafled and declared by the Authority aforefaid. That the faid Duty bacco to be levi- upon Tobacco, which fhall be imported within the Times by this A£l limited, and all Arrears thereof, ^'a^w ^^ ^ ^ flial! be fecured, collefted, raifed, levied, anfwered and paid to her Majefty, in fuch Method, and with . 3. c, 10. £1^]^ Difcount and Allowances, and according to fuch Rules and Diredlions, and under fuch Penalties, . . as are mentioned, referred to, or prefcribed (as to the Duties or Impofitions on Tobacco) in and by the A(Sl made in the Parliament holden in the feventh Year of the Reign of King William the Third, (of glorious Memory) intituled, An Atl for continuing feveral Duties granted by former Acls upin TVins, Vinegar, and Tobacco, and Eaft India Goods, and other Merchandizes imported, for carrying on the fVar againft France, and not otherwife. Old Import, &c. jy-_ f^^^ ^,g j^ further enafted by the Authority aforefaid. That the feveral additional and other Rates, ^fg Auk'""' Inipofitions, Duties and Charges upon the feveral Sorts of Goods and Merchandizes granted by an Ait 1720. 1 w. & made in the fecond Year of the Reign of King William the Third and Qtieen Mary, intituled. An Aif M. ff. 2. r. 4. I for made perpetual by 9 Ann^, c. 21, ^, i.