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- committed: But as it will be very inconvenient to the publick Juftice of the Nation, that the .Judges
c {houldVemain fo long in the faid Counties as will be neceffary for trying of the faid Offenders, fo it will ' be very burthenfome and grievous to the Freeholders of the fame Counties to attend fo many Trials as ' may be neceffary to be had for the Safety of the Puhliclc : To the End therefore that the faid Offenders 6 may not conceive any Hope of Impunity from the Diftance of the feveral Counties where the faid Trea- ' fons are committed, or from any Power or Intercft they may have therein, and that Juftice may more ' fpeedily and fecurcl'y be adminiftred againft the faid Offenders, and proper Examples made, in fuch fca- ' fonable Time as may be a Means to fupprefs the Remains of the faid Rebellion, and preferve the Peace « and Tranquillity of thefe Kingdoms :' Be it enafled, fife. " All Perfons in Cuftody for High Treafon before Jan. 23, 1716, may be tried in fuch Shire as his Ma- " ieftv fhall direct. And no Challenge for the Shire fhall be allowed. Peers fhall be tried by their Peers. " The Place of Indictment or Trial not to be altered, unlefs the Perfons indicted have been in actual -Rebellion. EXP." car ^^ An Act for preventing Mutiny and Defertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters. EXP. CAP. XXXV. ftating the Debts due to the Army, in t ■cb An Act to appoint a Commiffioner for taking, examining and ftating the Debts due to the Army, in the Room of Thomas Smith, Efq; deceafed ; and for continuing the former Act until the tenth Day of March one thoufand feven hundred and fixteen. EXP. CAP. XXXVI. An Act for charging and continuing the Duties on Malt, Mum, Cyder and Perry, for the Service of the Year one thoufand feven hundred and fixteen; and for compelling feveral Receivers to finifh and clear their Accounts ; and for making Duplicates of Exchequer- Bills, Lottery-Tickets and Orders, loft, burnt or deftroyed ; and for enlarging the Time for adjufting Claims to certain Benefit-Tickets; and for allowing the Charge of executing the Lottery-Act, for the Service of the Year one thoufand feven hundred and ten ; and for recovering Monies of feveral Land-Taxes, refting in the Hands of Collectors or Conftables at St. Albans; and for preventing Frauds in the Duties upon Sope ; and for limiting a Time for Perfons who have certain Annuities for Life or Lives, to demand the Payments thereupon at the Exchequer ; and for preventing Frauds in the Duties relating to printed and painted Paper, Callicoes, and other Things therein mentioned. XIV. AND whereas by an Act made in the tenth Year of the Reign of our late Sovereign Lady Queen For preventing X%. Anne, amongft other Things, for laying feveral Duties upon all Sope made in Great Britain, or Frauds ln the imported into the fame ; It is enafted, That if any Makers of Sope fhall fraudulently hide or conceal, or ^ S c 19? caufe to be hid or concealed, any Sope chargeable by the faid Act, or any the Materials for making thefta. "%. fame, to the Intent to deceive her Majefty of the juft Duties by the faid Act granted, that then, and in every fuch Cafe, the Party fo offending fhall forfeit for every fuch Offence the Sum of twenty Pounds : And whereas by one other Act made in the twelfth Year of the Reign of her faid late Majefty, amongft ia Ann. Stat. a. other Things, for laying additional Duties on Sope, farther Duties are granted upon Sope; and by the faid c - 9- laft mentioned Act it is amongft other Things enacted, That all the Powers, Authorities, Rules, Direc- tions, Penalties and Forfeitures, Claufes, Matters and Things whatfoever, contained in the faid Act of the tenth Year of her faid Majefty's Reign, for raifing, receiving, levying, recovering, fecuring and paying the faid Duties on Sope, as are by the faid laft mentioned Act charged with new or additional Duties thereupon, fhould be continued, practifed and put in Execution, for raifing, receiving, levying, recovering, fecuring and paying the fame new or additional Duties by the faid laft mentioned Act granted, and all Arrearages thereof, as fully and effectually, to all Intents and Purpofes, as if they were particu- larly and at large repeated in the Body of the faid laft mentioned Act ; except in fuch Cafes only where any Alteration therein is fpecially made by the faid laft mentioned Act, as by the faid feveral Acts more at large may appear : And whereas the Penalties by the before-mentioned Acts provided, to prevent the Hiding and Concealing of Sope, have by Experience been found ineffectual, and not fufneient to prevent or reftrain the fraudulent Hiding and Concealing thereof, in regard the Duties of one Boiling of Sope fo hid and concealed, may and often do amount to fifty Pounds or more, whereby fome ill-difpofed Perfons have been encouraged and induced to hide and conceal feveral great Quantities of Sope, to the treat Diminution of the Revenues arillng by the Duties laid upon Sope, and to the great Difcouragement of other fair Traders and Makers of Sope, who duly pay the full Duties upon Sope, according to the true
- Intent and Meaning of the faid feveral recited Acts :' For Remedy whereof, Be it further enacted by
the Authority aforefaid, That if at any Time after the fixteenth Day of J/rilia the Year of our Lord L 2 onsi
