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A. D. 1756. Anno vicelimo iioiioGeorgii II. C. 13. 657 thereof lawfully convicted, flial! be adjudged a Felon, and (hall fuffer Death as in Cafes of Felony, without Benefit of Clergy. XXII. And be it further enafted by the Authority aforefaid, That neither his Majefly's Commiffion-Mo Licences to ers of Excife in England or Scotland refpe(5liveiy, nor any of the Colledors or Supeivifors of Excife, or he nruedbutto any other Officers by the faid Commiffioners refpecTtively appointed to deliver Licences to the Retail- c'lnff^'ncenceac ers of any Spirituous Liquors or Strong Waters, fhall grant or deliver any fuch Lxence to any Perfon cordini^fo'^ who fhall not produce a Licence granted to him or her in due Form of Lav/ by Juftices of the Peace,-9^'ir.; c zj. to fell Ale, Beer, or other excifeable Liquors, and ftamped as by the faid Adl made in the ninth Year of the Reign of Qiieen Anne and by this Ait is directed. XXIII. Provided neverthelefs, and be it enadted by the Authority aforefaid, That if any Perfon fo On Death or licenfed to fell Ale, Beer, or other excifeable Liquors, fhall die or remove from the Ale-houfe or ether }?,n"°^^,',°f.|^^- Place wherein fuch Ale, Beer, or other Liquors, ihall, by virtue of fuch Licence, be fold, it fliall and licenfed Houfls, may be lawful for the Executors, Adminiftrators and Affigns, of fuch Perfon fo dying or removing, 'J^^'r Affigns, who (hall be pofleffed of fuch Houfeor Place, or the Occupier thereof, to fell Ale, Beer, or other Li- ^u'; J|^^y°""^ quors therein, during the Refidue of the Term for which fuch Licence fliall have been granted to the the Refidue of Perfon fo dying or removing, without any Certificate from any Juftice of the Peace, or any new Li- '•'«= ^'^^'^^ cence to be had or obtained in that Behalf; any Thing in the faid A6t made in the twenty-fixth Year of the Reign of his prefent Majefly, or any other Law to the contrary thereof in any wile notwithflanding. XXIV". Provided always, and be it enacfled. That in cafe any Ale-houfe or Vi6lualling-houfe, in N'ew Licences that Part of G;vi7f Britain called England, fliall become empty or unoccupied after the general Day ap- [^^j^ ^.S^"f<^<' pointed for licenfing (the Occupier whereof was duly licenfed the Year preceding) it fliall be lawful for cupred and""-"'^' any tvvo of his Majefty's Jufiices of the Peace, at a Petty Seflions to grant a Licence to any new Te- cenfed tlie pre- nant or Occupier, to open fuch Houle as an Ale-houfe or Victualling-houfe, and to fell Ale there, till ""^'"S Year, the next general licenfing Day, fo as the faid Licence be fl:amped as herein direded ; fuch new Tenant Tenant obtain- or Occupier obtaining fu^h Certificate, as is directed and prefcribed in and by an Acft of Parliament. ing» Certificate made in the twenty-fixth Year of his Majefty's Reign, intituled, An Aui for regulating the Manner of li- =>sprefcribed by ce-tifing Jle-houjcs, in that Part s_/' Great Britain i-a/M England ; and for the more eafy conviiiing Perfom ^°-*-'=-3i- felling Ale and other Liquors luithout Licence. - XXV". Provided alfo, and be it enaded by the Authority aforefaid. That nothing in this Adt, or in Aflnottoex- any former Law relating to ftampt Vellum, Parchment or Paper, contained, fliall extend, or be conftrued l^anted b"^c"'^" to extend, to charge with any Duty, fuch Vellum, Parchment or Paper, on which any Licence to bemiffioneis*^of°™' granted by the faid Commilfioners of Excite refpeclively, or by their Ofiicers, to retail difi:illed Liquors Excife. or ftrong Waters, fliall be ingrofied, written or printed. XXVI. And be it further enafted by the Authority aforefaid. That every Perfon who fliall ^^^^"""^'I'ns retail Ale, Beer, or other Liquors, in any Prifon, or Houfe of Correction, or Workhoul'e to be prffons to take appointed for the Reception ot poor Peri'ons, fliall be deemed a keeper of a Common Ale-houfe out Licences. or Tippling - houfe, and fliall be fubjecT: to the Penalties inflided by Law on the Keepers of Common Ale - houfes and Tippling -houfes, unlefs he or flie fliall obtain from the Juftices of the Peace, according to due Courle of Law, a Licence to retail fuch Beer, Ale, or other excife- . able Liquors. XXVII. And be it further enaded by the Authority aforefaid, That towards making good to the Sink- This Duty to ing Fund, th.e Intereft of two millions charged thereon by an Ad of this Seffion of Parliament, the faid tifeslnking""* Duty hereby granted fliall be carried to and made Part of the faid P'und. Fund. XXVIir. And be it further enaded by the Authority aforel'aid, That if any Adion fiiall at any Time pg|.Cg^j^u^j be brought againft any Perfon for any Matter or Thing which he or the (hall do, or caufe to be thi^ Aa, may done, by virtue or in Execution of this Ad, in every luch Cafe, the Defendant or Defendants in P'^ad theCeoe- every fuch Action may plead the General KTue, and give this Ac1 and the Special Matter in Evi-'^ " vidence, on any Trial or Trials to be hereafter had in fuch Adion ; and that if the Plaintiif or Plain-, tiiFs in any fuch Adion fliall difcontinue fuch Adion, or become nonfuit, or if Judgment ihall be ^^^^ _^^^^^ given againft fuch Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, in fuch Adion, the Defendant or Defendants in every (uch t«ctiis:C:4tN. Adion fliall recover his, her, or their treble Cofts of Suit. CAP. Xllf. An A£b for granting to his Majefty an additional Duty on Cards and Dice. Mofi Gracious Sovereign, • ' W /"HEREAS by an Ad made in the ninth Year of the Reign of Qtieen Akne, intiruJed, Aff Aif 9 Aiin. c ^3^ ' W fr licenfing and regulating Hackney Coaches and Glairs., and for charging certain nnu Dunes on, ' Stanipt Felluni, Parchment and Paper, and on Cards and Dice, cind on the Exportation ot Rock Salt for vt-, ' land ; and for fecwing thereby, and by a -weekly Payment out of the Pof -Office, and by jcveral putici-'o^l ' Hides and Skins, a yearly Fund of one hundred eighty-fx ihoufind fs hundred ^ andfti-eniy Poiin is, for thirty-^ ' two Years, to be applied to the Satisfifiion of fuch Orders as are therein mentio:ied, to the Contributors '.fimy. ' Sum not exceeding tiuo Millions, to be raited for carrying on the IVar, and_ other her Majefy's Occaponsi. ' it was enaded. That from and after the eleventh Day of June one thoufand feven hundi^ed and eleven,, ' during the Term of thirty-two Years from thence next enfuing, theie fliould be raited, co^leded, levied ' and paid, unto and for the Ufe of her Majefty, her Heirs and SucceiTors, for all Pbvinj Cards and Vol. VII. 4 P ■ ' Diee,