242 C. 32. Anno quinto Georgii Regis. A. D. 171 8, " -panel a Jury to afTefs Damages and Recompence to be given to the Owners, £3V. And the Commir- '" fioners fhall give Judgment for the Sums fo affeffed. Goods landed or loaded at any Wharf below Wi- " venhoe, fubject to the Duties. No Commiffioner {hall have any Place of Profit arifing by the faid Du- " ties ; nor farm any Key, &.c. Thirteen Commiflioners to be at each Meeting. This Act fhall not ex- " tended to Corn, &c. All the Monies fhall be applied to the Ufes hereby directed. Commiflioners to " bear their own Charges." PR. CAP. XXXII. An A 61 for Relief of fuch Sufferers of the Iflands of Nevis and 67. Chrijlophers, as have fettled in either of thofe Iflands, and made doe Proof of fuch Settlement before the twenty-fifth Day of December one thoufand feven hundred and twelve.
- TT/HEREAS by an Act made in the ninth Year of the Reign of her lateMajefty Queen Anne, For
c W the licenhng and regulating Hackney Coaches and Chairs, and for other Purpofes therein men". ' tioned, a Sum of one hundred three thoufand and three Pounds eleven Shillings and four Pence, is an- ' pointed to be diftributed to and amongft fuch Proprietors and Inhabitants of -the Iflands «f Nevis and
- -SuGhriftophers-, who fuftained Lofies by the late Invafion of the French there-; which Sum -was given for
' making good the Encouragement given to the faid Sufferers to refettle their Plantations in the faid ' Iflands, to prevent the great Damage which the Crown might otherwife fuftain by the total Lofs thereof ; '* which Lofies of the faid Sufferers were to be examined into, and Debentures made out for the fame, by
- the Commiflioners forthe Affairs of Trade, and Plantations, on or before the twenty-fifth Day ofDe-
"* cember one thoufand feven hundred and_ eleven, in fuch manner as in the faid Act is directed ; and fome " c Doubts and Difficulties arifing concerning the Diflxibution of the faid Bounty, another Act patted in 10 Ann, c. 34. * the tenth Year of her faid late Majefty's Reign, for explaining feveral Claufes in the faid former Act for ' the Relief of the faid Sufferers : And whereas farther Doubts and Difficulties have arifen upon the faid ' Acts, to the Prejudice of feveral of the faid Sufferers, in refpect of their not having resettled in the very ' fame Ifland or Plantation wherein they -reflectively fuftained their Loffes ; and it is but juft and reafon-
- able that all fuch of the faid Sufferers who did, on or before the -faid twenty-fifth Day of December -one
'" thoufand feven hundred and eleven, by themfelves, their Agents or Reprefentatives, fettle or refettle '* on either of the faid Iflands, fhould have a proportional Share of the faid Bounty :' Be it therefore en- ►g Ann. <c, fee. 48.
- adted, csV.
The Proprietors of Plantations and Inhabitants of the faid Iflands, who have been Sufferers and refettled there before Dec. 25, 1711, fhall be intitled to a proportionable Share of the Bounty appointed by the it " recited Acts." EXP See farther 8 Geo. i. c. 20. /. 43. 13 Geo. 1. c . 3. /. 10. Anno Regni GEORGII Regis Magna? Britannia?, Francia? & Hibernian, fexto. S AT the Parliament begun and holden at Weftminjter the feventeenth Day of March, Anno Domini ' f one thoufand feven hundred and fourteen, in the firft Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord
- JLjL GEORGE, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, 'France and Ireland, King, Defender of
■' t-he-Faith, Wf. and from thence continued by feveral -Prorogations to the twenty-third Day of Novem- ' ber one thoufand feven hundred and nineteen, being the fifth Seflion of this prefent Parliament.' C A P. I. "An Act for granting an Aid to his Majefty by a Land-tax to be raifed in Great Britain, for the Service of the Year one thoufand feven hundred and twenty, 3 s. in the Pound EXP. "■%* J 'S-*
