i.D. 1740. Anno decimo tertio Georgii II. C. 21-23. 399 CAP. XXI.
Act for further and more effectually preventing the wilful and malicious DeftrucYion of
Collieries and Coal Works. w HERE A S of late divers evil-difpofed Pcrfons poffeffed of or interefted in Collieries, have by PreamMe. r<- fecret and fubtil Devices wilfully and malicioufly attempted to drown adjacent Collieries and ci ' in S the Aa !i ft/fponc rf ^Atttcr enm/TOPrl nr nMlrnrVfrl fnr fli-Jt- Pnri-x-ifp Aa(lr,i,aA nr A*,n*-.~aA »U„ r !„ IoCe0.2. C. JS. an ny r/erlon or Perfons (ball wilfully and malicioufly let on Fire, or caufe to be fet on Fire, any Mine, Pit or Del ph. of Coal, or Cannel Coal, every Perfon fo offending, being thereof lawfully convicted, (hall be ad- ' judged guilty of Felony, and (hall fuffer Death as in Cafes of Felony, without Benefit of Clergy : And ' whereas it is reafonable that an adequate Puniihmcnt (bould likewile be inflicted on Perfons who (hall ' wilfully and malicioufly deftroy or damage Collieries by Means of Water as is aforefaid ;' Be it enacted by the King's moil 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 fame, Perfons drowtt-r That if any Perfon r from and after the twelfth Day of June one thoufand feven hundred and '£5,f c:l1 ei *h forty, (hall unlawfully, wilfully and malicioufly divert, or caufe to be diverted, Water from any River, Dan ' ■',"• i" Brook, Watercourfe, Channel or Land P'lood, or convey, or caufe to be conveyed, Water into any •'--- : jX - ■ Coal Work, Mine, Pit or Del ph. of Coal, or into any fubterraneous Cavities or Paffasres, or make, or caufe to be made, any fubterraneous Cavities or Paffages, With Defign thereby to deftVoy or damage any Coal Work, Mine, Pit or Delph of Coal belonging to any other Perfon or Perfons, or f'hali for Bh ii Purpofe unlawfully, wilfully and malicioufly deftroy or obftrucf any Sough or Sewer (which has been a Sough or Sewer in. common for fifty Years) made for draining any Coal Work, Mine, Pit or Delph of Coal, or (hall attempt or continue any fuch mifchievous Practice, or (hall aid or aflilt therein in Manner aforefaid; every fuch Perfon (hall, for every fuch Offence, forfeit and pay to the Party or Parties aggriev- ed treble Damages, and full Cods of Suit, to be fued for and recovered by Action, of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information, in any of his Majefty's Courts of Record at TVcjhninjier. II. Provided always, That nothing in this Act contained (hall prevent or reftrain, or be conftrued ^■■•-cot f:,-."-> to prevent or reftrain, any Perfon or Perfons, being the Owner or Owners of any Sough, Drain or? JjJdJ. owfi "* Sewer, from deftroying, obftructing or diverting, ufing or difpoiing of any fuch Sough, Drain or Sewer, Concerting Coatv in fuch Manner as he, Ihe or they respectively may now lawfully do. fa farther 14 Ceo. 2. c. 4ij. 17 Geo. 2. c. 35. 19 Geo. z. c. 35. 22 Gti. 2. c . 37. 23 Geo, 2. c. 26.. 30 Geo. 2. f. 19. 31 Geo. s, c, 15. 32 Geo. 2. c. 27. 33 Cm. 2. c . 15, CAP. XXII. An Act for enlarging the Term and Powers granted and given by an Act paffed in the tenth Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Firft, intituled, An Ail for repairing the Road leading from Dunchurch in the County of Warwick, to the Bottom of Meriden Hill in the fame County; and for making the faid Act more effectual. P R. The Act is continued for zi Years, and to the End of the next Seflion of Parliament. C A P. XXIII. An Act for granting to his Majefty the Sum of one million our. of the Sinking. Fund*. for the Service of the Year one thoufand feven hundred and forty •, and for enabling his- Majefty to raife the further Sum of two hundred thoufand Pounds out of the growing. Produce of the faid Fund •, and for granting to his Majefty the Sum of twenty-one thoufand Pounds one Shilling and eight Pence Halfpenny, remaining in the Receipt of his Majefty's Exchequer, arifen by Sale of Lands in the I (land of Saint Chrifia- pbcr's -, and for the further appropriating the Supplies granted ■. in . this Seflion of Par- liament. Moft Gracious Sovereign-, WE your Majefty's moft dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of Great Britain- in Parlia- Preamble ment affembled, being deiirous not only to raife Inch Suppl es as are necefiary to enable your Majefty to carry on the prelim War with bucceis, but affo to ufe fuch Ways and Means therein, as that your Majefty may have the better and more fpeedy Effect of the (aid Supplies, have refol- - ved to give and grant unto your Majefty the Sum, of one million, out of the Surpluffcs, Exceifc and Overplus.. Monies, commonly called The Siniifig Fund, towards the Supply granted to your Ma- jefty for the Service of the Year one thoufand feven- hundred and forty ; and alio to enable your Ma- jefty to iffue and apply the further Sum of two hundred thousand Pounds out of the growing Produce of the faid Sinking Fund, for the Service of the faid Year one thoufand (even, hundred and forty ;. and to that End and Purpofe do moft humbly befeech your Majefty that it may bo enacted, and be
