a 50 C. 4. Anno fexto Georgti Regis. A. D. it in. ' Funds for thefc capital Stocks, (to be increafed purfuant to this Act) be continued at the refpective Rates ' herein after mentioned, till the Feaft of the Nativity of Saint John Baptiji which {hall be in the Year of '• our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and twenty-feven inclufively; and that from and after the fame '• Feaft-day their then Annuity or yearly Fund for their whole capital and increafed capital Stocks may be ' actually reduced to four Pounds per Centum -per Annum, and be likewife from thenceforth redeemable by 4 Parliament; and in Confideration thereof, and of fuch other Benefits and Advantages as are hereafcer in ' and by this Act provided and exprcffed, the faid Governor and Company are willing to make fuch Pay- ' ments into the Receipt of Exchequer as are herein after fpecified, for the Ufe of the Publick, to be applied ' for paying off the publick Debts and Incumbrances incurred before Chrijhnas one thoufand feven hundred ' and fixteen.' Now we your Majefty's molt dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament affembled, being defirous to have the faid publick Debts and Incumbrances leffened as fart as conveniently may be, with regard to Juftice and the publick Faith, and that as well fuch publick Duties Revenues and Incomes as' are already fettled for anfwering the prefent Annuity or yearly Fund of the faid Governor and Company, as alio fuch other publick Duties, Revenues and Incomes as are fpecified in this Act, may be fettled in fuch Manner, that the prefent Annuities or 3'early Funds for the prefent Capital of the faid Governor and Company, and the Annuities or yearly Funds which fnall become due and payable for their Capital to be increafed, purfuant to this Act, may be continued at the refpective Rates herein after mentioned, til! the faid Feaft of the Nativity of Saint John Baptijl which fhall be in the Year of our Incomes as are herein after mentioned ; and do humbly befeech }rour Majefty, That it may be enacted- and be it enacted by the King's molt Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the The Duties of fame, That fuch or the like particular Rates and Duties of Excife upon Beer, Ale, Cyder and other Excife and on Liquors, as by the laid Act of the eighth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne were granted for the Term of granted! 8, Ann. thirty-two Years, which commenced from the Feaft of the Annunciation of the bleffed Virgin Mary one c 7 . thoufand feven hundred and ten ; and fuch new Rates or Duties upon Pepper, Raifins, Nutmegs, Cinna- mon, Cloves, Mace and Snuff, as by the fame Act were granted for the Term of thirty-two Years, which commenced from the fixth Day of February one thoufand feven hundred and nine, fhall feverally, by virtue of this Act, have Continuance after the refpective Determinations of the feveral Terms of thirty-two Years laft-mentioned, and be paid and payable to his Majefty, his Heirs and Succefibrs forever: And that the Andthej5,oool. above-m.mtioned yearly Fund or Sum of thirty-five thoufand Pounds per Annum, which by the faid Letters P^rAnnt granted Patents f h e r faid late Majefty Queen Anne, grounded -upon the faid Act of Parliament in that Behalf, was
- eW7 Letters*" H^de payable at the Exchequer during the Term of thirty-two Years, which commenced from Michaelmas
Patents,, made one thoufand feven hundred and thirteen, out of Revenues in the fame Letters Patents exprefTe ! , fhall, after perpetual. the Determination of the Term of thirty-two Years kft-mentioned, have Continuance, and the faid Reve- The Duty on nues fhall be charged therewith for ever : And that fuch or the like additional or new Duties and Rates for Soap, Paper, &c. a nd upon all Soap, and for and upon all Paper, Pafte-boards, Mill-boards and Scale-boards, and for and ]j Ann. Stat. 2. U p 0n Ger t a j n chequered and itriped Linens, and upon certain Linens printed, painted, ftained or dyed "' 9* after the Manufacture, or in the Thread or Yarn before the Manufacture, in any foreign Parts, and for and upon Silks, Callicoes, Linens and Stuffs printed, ftained, painted or dyed in Great Britain, and for and upon all Starch, and for and upon Coals fhipped to be exported, and for and upon feveral Matters and Things which fhould be engrofied or written on ftampt Vellum, Parchment and Paper, which in or by the faid two Acts, the one of the twelfth Year of her faid late Majefty's Reign, and the other of the firft 1 Geo. 1. Stat. Year of his now Majefty's Reign, or by one of thofe Acts, were granted and laid for a Term or feveral 2. c 2.. Terms of thirty-two Years, which commenced from the fecond Day of Auguft one thoufand feven hundred and fourteen (except as in the fame Acts or either of them is excepted) fhall- feverally, by virtue of this Act, have Continuance after the Determination of the Term and Terms of thirty-two Years laft men- And the Duties tioned, and be paid and payable to his Majefty, his Heirs and Succefibrs for ever : And that fuch and the ©n Coals, &c. jj^g p art i clI l ar Rates and Impofitions, which in and by one of the faid Acts of the fifth Year of his prefent jLd£ p?rpetual Majefty's Reign were granted or impofed for and upon all Sorts of Coals and Culm which fhould be im- ported and brought into the Port of the City of London or the River of Thames within the Liberty of the faid City upon the fame River, from and after the twenty-feventh Day of September- one thoufand feven. hundred and twenty-five, and before the Feaft of the Annunciation of the bleffed Virgin Mary which fhalL be in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and fifty-one, fhall by virtue of this Act be con- tinued and be paid and payable to his Majefty, his Heirs and Succefibrs for ever, for and upon all Sorts of Coals and Culm which fhall be imported and brought at any Time or Times after the twenty-fourth Day of March which fhall be in the Year of our .Lord one thoufand feven hundred and fifty. Thefe Duties II. And it is hereby enacted, That the feveral Rates, Duties, Revenues and Impofitions by this Act how to be raifed, made perpetual, as aforefaid, as well before, as when and- as the fame refpectivcly fhall take Effect by virtue- 01 this Act, fhall be raifed and levied by fuch Rules, Means and Methods,, and under fuch Penalties and Forfeitures, and with fuch Diftributions of the fame Penalties and Forfeitures, and fubject to fuch Power Cif Mitigation, and with fuch refpective Drawbacks, Allowances and Repayments, and with fuch Excep- tions, and in fuch Manner and form, as the like Rates, Duties, Revenues or Impofitions, granted or 2- continued
