Page:Ruffhead - The Statutes at Large - vol 7.djvu/263

This page needs to be proofread.

A. D. 1750. Anno vicefimo tertio Ge org 11 II. C. 2—6. 219 portional Part of the faid Annuities iLall ceafe and determine, and be underftood to be redeemed ; any thing in this or any former A(5l or A£ls of Parliament to the contrary in any wife notvvithftanding. C A P. II. An Act for granting an Aid to his Majefty by a Land Tax to be raifed in Gi-eai Britain, for the Service of the Year one thoufand feven hundred and fifty. EXP. At 3 s. in the Pound, CAP. III. An A£l: for continuing and granting to his Majefty certain Duties upon Malt, Mum, Cyder and Perry, for the Service of the Year one thoufand feven hundred and fifty. EXP. CAP. IV. An AQ. for punifhing Mutiny and Defertion ; and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quar- ters. EXP.. CAP. V. An Act for enlarging the Term and Powers granted by an Aft pafied in the fifth Year of the Reign of his prefent Majefty, for repairing and amending the Roads leading from the Town of Manchejier in the County of Lancafter, through the Town of JJhion under Line, and Parilh of Motiraju Longcndak, and from thence to Salters Brook in the County Palatine of Chefter, P R. The Adt 5 Geo. 2. c. 10. continued for 21 Years. CAP. VI. An A61 for repairing, improving and maintaining the Haven and Piers of Great Yarmouth ; and for depchening, and malting more navigable the feveral Rivers emptying themfelves into the- faid Haven ; and alfo for preferving Ships, wintering therein, from Accidents by Fire. PR. ' X7HEREAS by an A£t made In the twentieth Year of his prefent Majefty 's Reign, Intituled, ^^oGco, s c 40 ' W -/i^ to revive, continue, and amend an Act made in the timth Tear of the Reign of his late Ma~ "" ' * jejly King Georoe the Firft, intituled, (An Act for clearing, depthening, repairing, extending, main- ' taining and improving the Haven and Piers of Great. Yarmouth ; and for depthening and making more na- ' vigable the feveral Rivers emptying themfelves at the faid Town ; and alfo for preferving Ships, wintering ' in the faid Haven, from Accidents by Fire) the feveral Duties, granted by the faid A£t made in the ninth ' Year of. his faid late Majefty's Reign, for the Purpofes therein mentioned, were revived and made payable, ' from the twenty-fourth Day of ^aw one thoufand feven hundred and forty-feven, for and during the ' Term of two Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Seflion of Parliament : And whereas ' the faid Duties, revived and made payable as aforefaid, have not been fufficlent for the effedtual Reparation ' and Improvement of the faid Haven and Piers, which (notwithftanding very great Slims of Money have ' already been expended in and about the fam.e) have of late been, and ftill continue in fo bad a Condition, ' that the fame will, unlefs fome further and more efFedtual Provifion be made by Parliament for the Preler- ' vation thereof, in a fhort Time fall Into irrepai able Decay, and the Harbour, fo beneficial to the Trade ' and Navigation of this Kingdom, become inaccCiTible : Therefore for preferving to the Inhabitants of the ' faid Borough, and of the adjacent Counties, the Benefit of the faid Haven and Piers ; and to the End ' that the faid Haven, which is of fo great Importance to the Trade of thefe Kingdoms in general, may ' be cleared and depthened, and the faid Piers repaired, extended, altered, improved and maintained ; and ' that the Jettee on the North Side of the faid Haven may be repaired and preferved, and Timber, and

  • other R4aierials for thofe Purpofes, provided from time to time, as Occafion fhall require ; and that the

' Channel of that Part of the River Tare called Braidon, leading from Great Yarmouth to the City of Nor- «. ' ivich, and fo much of the River Wenfon, commonly called Yare, as lies between the New Mills in Nor- ' wich and Hardly Crofs in Hardly, in the County of Norfolk, and alfo the River JVaveney, and alfo the Ri- ' ver Bure, commonly called the North River (which faid Rivers empty themfelves into the faid Haven)

  • may be depthened and made more navigable for Boats and Keels ufually pafling upon the fame, and that

' the Bridge and pufalick Keys belonging to the faid Town, may be repaired j' May it pleafe your Majefty that it may be enacted, (sfe. " From the 25th of Afa7-ch 1750, the Duties payable by the faid AiSt fliall ceafe; and there fliall be paid for " 21 Years, and to the End of the next Seflion, by every Mafterof a Ship, which fliall unlade within the Ha- " vcn, or in Yarmouth Road, from the South Part of Scratby, to the North Part of Corion, for every Chal- " dron of Coals, Laft of Wheat, or other Grain, and Weigh of Salt, and for every Ton of other Goods " (Fifli excepted) viz. for 7 Years, is. 6d. and for the Remainder of the 2[ Years, isfe. lod. or fuch " greater Sum, as the Commiflioners fnall order, not exceeding 12 d. Colleiftors to pay over the Monies '* to the Chamberlain. Salary allowed them of 6 c/ in the Pound. Corporation to be anfvverable for all " Monies recc'ived ; and impowered to call the Colleftors and Chamberlains to Account ; and to levy the " fame by Diftrcfb and Sale; and where no Diftrefs can be had, to commit the Party, Twelve Commif- F f 2 " fioners