A. D. 1732. Anno quinto Georgii II. C. 22. 89 "Deduction made out of the laft fourth Part for all the Charges of Profecution and Condemnation : Provided always, That if fuch Seizure lhall be made upon the Information of any Perfon or PftPlnformm in- fons, fuch Informer or Informers fhall not only be indemnified from the Pains, Penalties and demnitied, Forfeitures, to which Exporters of the faid prohibited Commodities, their Aiders and Abeturs are liable, but fhall alfo receive one fifth Part of the Produce of fuch Sale or Sales, and the Refidue ! '«j -^"J >*.■ thereof (hall be -divided into four equal Parts, and distributed in fuch Manner as is herein before $$l a 1 directed. IV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That if any Action fhall be commenced General iflue. ■againft any Perfon for what he (hall do in purfuance of this Act, fuch Perfon (hall and may plead the General Iffue, and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence ; and if the Plaintiff (hall become nonfuit, or difcontinue the Action, or if a Verdict (hall pafs againft him, or Judgment be given againft him upon a Demurrer, the Defendant lhall recover treble Cofts. V. And be it further enacted, That no Perfon or Perfons (hall be admitted to claim Property in any Perfom claim- Seizure that (hall be made upon any Claufe in this or anv Act of Parliament for preventing the un-J jn$ Shares in lawful Exportation of Woollen Goods from Ireland, till 'he or they fhall first have given fufficient !"/„";" £ g,V Security by Recognizance entered into before one of the Commiflioners of the Revenue in Ireland^ or r wer the Penal- one of the Barons of the Court of Exchequer in England, to anfwer the Penalties attending the For- ties feiture thereof. ' VI. And whereas by a Claufe in an Act made in the eleventh and twelfth Years of the Reign Claufe in n & " of King William the Third, intituled, An Acl for continuing feveral Laws therein mentioned, and for r i,^j t £ c ' **" ' explaining the Acl, intituled, An Ail to prevent the Exportation of Wool out of the Kingdoms of Ireland ' and England into Foreign Parts, and for the Encouragement of the Woollen Manufactures in the Kingdom
- of England, it is enacted and declared, That neither the laid Act made in the tenth and eleventh
- Years of the Reign of King William the Third, nor any thing therein contained, (hall be con-
' (trued to extend to subject any Perfon or Perfons, or any Ship or Veffel, to any of the Pains, ' Penalties and Forfeitures, in the faid. Act contained, for or touching fuch Woolfells, Shorlings or ' Mortlings, as lhall be neceffary for the Ufe of the Gunner or Boatfwain's Stores, for the Ship or
Veffel only, and as for fo much Cloth, Serge, Bays, Kerfeys, Says, Frizes, Druggets, Cloth Serges,
' Shalloons or other Drapery Stuffs, or other Manufactures, as fhall be for the proper Ufe for Clothes ' only of any Mariner or Paffenger, for his of her Wearing Apparel or Furniture, on Board fuch Ship ' in the Voyage, and fhall not exceed in the whole, for any one Mariner or Paffenger, the Value of
- forty Shillings : And whereas under pretence of the Exemption in the faid Claute contained, great
4 Quantities of Woolfells, Shorlings and Mortlings, and of Cloth, Serge, Bays, Says, Kerfeys, Frizes, ' Druggets, Cloth Serges, Shalloons or other Drapery Stuffs, or other Manufactures, have been ex- ' ported from Ireland into Foreign Parts, ' Be it enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That the faid Claufe fhall from and after the twenty-ninth Day of September one thoufand feven hundred and thirty-two, be and is hereby repealed. VII. Provided always, That this Act or any thing therein contained fhall not extend or be conftrued Not to make to extend to difannul or make void any other Penalties or Forfeitures inflicted by any former Law, upon ^Vf f PenaI " the Exportation of Wool and Woollen Manufactures, or to alter or repeal any Claufe therein con- las onExpor- tained, which is not hereby altered or repealed ; any thing herein contained to the contrary thereof in ration of wool, any wife notwithstanding. Concerning Wool ' fee farther, II Geo. z. c. 21. ij Geo. 2. c. 27. 25 Geo. 2. c. 14. 26 Geo. 2. c. 8 & 11. 29 Geo. 2. c. 33. 30 C.'». 2. e. a. CAP. XXII. An Aft to prevent the Exportation of Hats out of any of his Majesty's Colonies or Plan- tations in America and to reftrain the Number of Apprentices taken by the Hat-makers in the faid Colonies or Plantations, and for the better encouraging the making Hats in Great Britain.
- TT7"HEREAS the Art and Mystery of making Hats in Great Britain hath arrived to g«a&' Former Prm/iji-
- W Perfection, and considerable Quantities of Hats manufactured in this Kingdom have hereto- <"■'< "Kg™^
' fore been exported to his Majefty's Plantations or Colonies in America, who have been wholly fup- f^/is. /.' n . ' plied with Hats from Great Britain ; and whereas great Quantities of Hats have of late Years been 1 jae.'i.' c. 17, ' made, and the faid Manufacture is daily increafing in the Britijh Plantations in America, and is ' from thence exported to foreign Markets, which were heretofore supplied from Great Britain, r.nd ' the Hat-makers in the faid Plantations take many Apprentices for very fmall Terms, to the Dif- ' couragement of the faid Trade, and debafing the faid Manufacture : ' Wherefore for preventing the faid ill Practiebs for the future, and for promoting and encouraging the Trade of making Hats in Great Britain, Be it enacted by the King's molt Excellent Majefty, by and wirh the Advice and Con- fent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That from and after the twenty-ninth Day of September in the Year of our After a Q Sent. and alio that no Hats or Felts, either dyed or undyed, finifhed or iinfinifhed, -lhall be loaden upon any Plaouapns Horfe, Cart or other Carnage, to the Intent or Purpofe to be exported, tranfported, (hipped off. carried Vol. VI. N or
