A. D.i 763. Anno quarto Geo rg 11 III. C. 26. 185 Aft or Afts of Parliament, in Proportion to their refpeftive Annuities; or any Share or Shares, or any Part of any Share or Shares, of or in any other transferable Annuities which now are or here- after fhall be eftablifhed by any Aft or Afts of Parliament ; or to receive any fuch Annuity or An- nuities, or any Dividend or Dividends attending fuch Shares, or any of them, or any Part thereof; or fhall forge or counterfeit, or procure to be forged or counterfeited, or knowingly and wilfully aft or Affift in the forging or counterfeiting, any the Name or Names of any the Proprietors of any fuch Share or Shares in Stock, or of any the Perfons intitled to any fuch Annuity or Annuities, Dividend or dividends as aforefaid, in or to any fuch pretended Letter of Attorney, Inftrument or Authority ; or fhall knowingly and fraudulently demand, or endeavour to have any fuch Share or Shares in Stock or Annuities, or any Part thereof, transferred, afligned, fold, or conveyed, or fuch Annuity or Annuities, Dividend or Dividends, or any Part thereof, to be received by virtue of any fuch counterfeit or forged Letter of Attorney, Authority or Inftrument ; or fhall falfely and deceit- fully perfonate any true and real Proprietor of the faid Shares in Stock, Annuities and Dividends, or any of them, or any Part thereof, and thereby transferring, or endeavouring to transfer, the Stock or Annuities, or receiving, or endeavouring to receive, the Money of fuch true and lawful Proprie- tor, as if fuch Offender were the true and lawful Owner thereof; then, and in every or any fuch >s Felony without Bene- Cafe, all and every fuch Perfon and Perfons (being thereof lawfully convifted in due Fdrm t0 "^' of Law) fhall be adjudged guilty of Felony, and fhall fuller as in Cafes of Felony, without Be- nefit of Clergy. XVI. And be it further enafted by the Authority aforefaid, That this Aft fhall be deemed, ad- Publick Aft.- judged and taken to be a Publick Aft, and be judicially taken Notice of by all Judges, Juftices, or other Perfons whatfoever, without fpecially pleading the fame. CAP. XXVI. An A<5t for granting a Bounty upon the Importation of Hemp, and rough and undreffed Flax, from his Majefty's Colonies in America. "IY7HEREA S the Encouragement of the Importation of Hemp, and rough and undreffed Flax, Preamble. « VV from his Majefty's Colonies and Plantations in America, will be a Means of furnifhing this For former Laws relating ' Kingdom with Sail Cloth and Cordage (fo effentially neceffary for the Supply of his Majefty's Royal hereto, refer to 33 H. 8.
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' fent, and will alio tend to make the Supply of the faid Materials cheaper and lefs precarious, and be Am _ sic?V ' Means of employing and enriching his Majefty's Subjefts within the faid Colonies and Planta- z6 Geo. z.' c. 2.6. ' tions :' May it therefore pleafe your moft Excellent Majefty that it may be enafted ; and be it enafted by the King's moft 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, That from and after the twenty-fourth Day of June one thoufand feven hundred and Bounty allowed upon fixty-four, every Perfon or Perfons who fhall, within the Time appointed by this Aft, import or the Importation of caufe to be imported into this Kingdom, direftly from any of his Majefty's Enslilh Colonies or Hemp, and rough and tii , • • r < • • cu- ci • lL 1 r 11 ^ j i i_- it • 71 ' Di u -• undreffed FJax from the .Plantations in America, in any ship or bhips that may lawfully trade to his Majefty s .Plantations, B riti ([, American Plan- manned as by Law as required, any Hemp Water rotted, bright and clean, or any rough and un- tations, dreffed Flax, fhall have and enjoy as a Reward or Premium for fuch Importation, the following Sum; that is to fay, For every Ton of fuch Hemp, or rough or undrefled Flax, Co imported from the twenty-fourth viz. 81. per Ton for all Day of June one thoufand feven hundred and fixty-four to the twenty-fourth Day of June one thou- imported between 24 • fand feven hundred and feventy-one, the Sum of eight Pounds Sterling. June 1764 and 24 June For every Ton of fuch Hemp, or rough or undreiTed Flax, fo imported from the twenty-fourth 61. per Ton for all , Day of June one thoufand feven hundred and feventy-one to the twenty-fourth Day of June one imported between 24 thoufand feven hundred and feventy-eight, the Sum of fix Pounds Sterling. J une '77' 3ai 24 J une '77 s ; And for every Ton of fuch Hemp, or rough or undreffed Flax, imported from the twenty-fourth and4l. per Ton for all Day of June one thoufand feven hundred and feventy-eight to the twenty-fourth Day of June one imported between 24 thoufand feven hundred and eighty-five, the Sum of four Pounds Sterling. J une J 77 8 and 24 June 17S5 » To be paid upon Demand to the Importer of fuch Hemp or Flax, by the Colleftor of the Port where to be paid by the Col- the fame fhall be imported, out of the Cuftoms : And in cafe the Colleftor of the Port, where the leftor at the Port of Im- fame fhall be imported, fhall not have Money fufftcient in his Hands, he is hereby required to cer- P ortatl °n j tify the fame to the Commiflioners of the Cuftoms, who fhall caufe the fame be' paid by the Re- or upon his want of Mo- ceiver General of his Majefty's Cuftoms ; the Bounty of the Hemp and Flax -imported into England, cTneralof the Cuftom^ to be paid by the Receiver General of the Cuftoms in England, and of that imported into Scotland, to be paid by the Receiver General there. II. And to the end a particular Benefit may accrue hereby to his Majefty's Royal Navy, and for The Pre-emption orRe- the better Supply of the fame with Naval Stores, Be it further enafted, That upon the Importation fufal of fuch Hemp or of any fuch Hemp or rough and undreffed Flax from his Majefty's faid Colonies and Plantations, F ' axt ° be tendered to for which a Reward or Premium is hereby granted, the Pre-emption or Refufal of fudi Hemp or ^ KT ° m .™ lonciso Vol. IX. Bb Flax y '
