Counties in Wales: Which said several and respective Sums of Money shall be, and are hereby charged upon the Surplusses of the several Stamp-duties aforesaid, and shall be paid thereout, in every Year, at such Time or Times, and in such Manner, as the Salaries of the said Justices now are or have been used to be paid.
2. Provided always, and be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That if the Surplusses of the said Duties shall prove insufficient, in any Year, to make good and answer the Sums herein-before appointed to be paid and applied yearly, in further Augmentation of the Salaries of the said Justices; then, and in every such Year, a rateable Abatement or Deduction, in Proportion to such Deficiency, shall be made out of the several annual Sums hereby directed and appointed to be paid for that Year to such Justices respectively; and if any Surplus shall remain, in any Year, of the Produce of the said Duties, after Payment of the Monies hereby charged thereon, the same shall be reserved for the Disposition of Parliament, in the same Manner as it was directed to be reserved before the making of this Act.
"Whereas, to the intolerable Vexation and Charge of his Majesty's Subjects in the Dominion of Wales, it hath been the Practice to commence trifling and frivolous Suits in the Courts at Westminster, upon Causes of Action arising within the said Dominion of Wales: In order that the same may be tried in the nearest adjoining English County to that Part of the Dominion of Wales in which the Cause of Action has arisen, to discourage the like Practices for the future"; may it please your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That, from and after the first Day
