566 C. 19. Anno vicefiimo feptimo Georgii II. A. D. 1754 ' thoufand kven hundred and fifty-one, a Ship called the Hopetoun, for the Whale Fifhery in the Grern- ThcTrssliry nwy pay the Bounties to A IcxanderBrown aridGtorige Stec!, /or their Vc(!lls iiirt in tUeGreen- ia/iil Seas, lartd Seai, in the manner prefcribed and appointed by the faid Acts, and which faid Ship was adtually employed in the faid Fi(hery,_but was unavoidably loft in the faid Seas ;' Be it therefore enacted bv the cafe the faid Ship had returned to this Kingdom ; any Thing in the faid tv.'o f-veral A(Ss contained to the contrary notwithflanding. ' Vl'll. And whereas feveral Sums of Money, amounting in the Whole to the Sum of one thoufand three ' hundred and fifty-eight Pounds eleven Shillings and ten h'encc, are due to John Steven/on and Company, ' and Robert Donald d^ndi Company, for Boimii-s upon Brit/JiJ made Sail Cloth exported from that I^art of ' Great Britain called Scotland, on or before the firA Day oi' Jure one thoufand feven hundred and fifty ;
- v/hich Sums of Money cannot, by reafon of tlie Infufficiency of the Fund eftablifhed for the Payment of
' the faid Bounties, before the faid firil Day oi June one thoufand feven hundred and fifty, be paid and ' difcharged, u,.lefs ibme more eflciStual Provifion be made for that Purpofe;' Be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforefaid. That the feveral and refpeftive Sums of Money due to Robert Donald and Com- pany, and to J^ohn Stevenjon and Company, for Bounties upon Briiijh made Sail Cioth exported on or 1,358 !. IIS. 10 d. to be paid and Comiiany, before the firft Day of June one thoufand feven hundred and fifty, amounting in the Whoic to the Sum of ajid to John Ste- . - . . . . . , ^ .- . . ^ venfon and Corr- pjiiv, out of the Old'Subfidy in Scotland, appJi- c:li)e to Inci- dents. one thoufand three hundred and fifty-eight Pounds eleven SliiUings and ten Pence, fhall be, and the fame are hereby charged upon, and fhall be paid out of fuch Parts of the Old Subfidy collefted in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, as are applicable to the Payment of Incidents. CAP. XIX. An A(5b for difcharging the Corporation of t!ie Governor, Bailiffs, and Commonaltv, of the Company of Conlervators of the Great Level of the Fens, commonly cMed Bedford Level, from a Debt due to the Duke of Bedford, and Earl of Lincoln; and for enabling the Pro- prietors of Lands in the North Level, Part of the faid Great Level, to raife Money to dif- charge the Proporrion of the faid North Level in the Debts of the faid Corporation -, and for aliertaining and appropriating the Taxes to be laid on the faid North Level; and for the more effeftual draining and prcferving the faid North Level, and divers Lands adjoining thereto in the Manor of Crowlaiid. P R. 15 Car. I. c. 17 £o Car. 2. c. 8. Law of" Seweis in 6 Car. i. H E R E A. S by an AQ. of Parliament made and paffed in the fifteenth Year of the Reign of his late Aiajefty King Charles the Second, intituled, Jn A£i for JcttUng the draining cf the Great Level of the Fens called Bedford Level, reciting. That Francis Earl of Bedford, according to a Law of Sewers made at King's Lynn in the fixth Yearof^the Reign of his late R'lajefty K. gCharles the Firfi:, had under- taken thedrainingof the f.;id Great Level therein mentioned to be fituate within the Counties of A^sr/Z'^m/- ton, Norfolk, Suffolk, Lincoln, Cambridge and Huntingdon, and the Ille of Ely, and therein particul.riy bounded and defcribed ; and that he was to have for his Recompence ninety-five thouiand Acres of the Ground within the faid Level, with convenient Highways and Paffages to the fame, and the new River, Cuts and Drains, to be made by the faid Earl and his Alligns, and the Banks of the fame, and the Fore- lands in the Iilfide of the faid Banks, not to exceed fixty Foot in Breadth ; and that IVtlUam Earl of Bed- ford, Son and Heir of the faid Earl Francis, with divers of his Adventurers and Participants, had pro- ', ceeded in the compleating and finifhing the faid Works ; but that the fame could not be preferred with- out conitant Caie, great Charge, and' orderly Government ; it was therefore (amongll other Things) enafted. That the faid William Earl of Bedford, and the Adventurers and Participants of the faid Earl Francis, and Earl William, or either of them, their Heirs and Ailigns, in fuch manner as therein after is contained, fliould be a Body Politick and Corporate in Deed and Name, and have Succeflion for ever, bjr the Name of The Governor, Bailiffs, and Commonalty, of the Company of CcnJerniators of tlx: Great Level of the Fens, with Power to lay and levy Taxes upon the faid ninety-five thouliMid Acres only, for Sup- l^ort, Maintenance an.d Prcfcrvation of the faid Great Level,"^ and do all other Things in order to the Support, Maintenance and Prefervation of the fiiid Cireat Level and Woiks made, and to he nade, iit fuch manner as therein is mejitioned ; and taking Notice, that by the faid Law of Sew rs twelve thou-' l^^nd Acres, Parcel of the faid ninety-five thoufand Acres, were deligned and intended to liis faid late Majcfty Kiiig Charles the Firft, and' had been fet forth and allotted bV Bound.^ in Severalty, and that his faid late Majefty had granted two thoufand Acres, Part thereof, to Jerome E..rl o'i Portland, his Heirs and Affigns ; and that the fiid Earl had fold about one thoufand fie hundred Acres, Part of the faid two thou- fand Aci'cs, to ieveral Ptrlons-, and had coiu'cyed the remaining five hundred Acres to Benjamin Wi/ion Elqiiii-e, on feveral Trults ; it was thereby further enacted, that the laid two thoufand Acres, or fucli other Lands of equal Value, as fliould be let forth in F-xchange of the fame, fliould be and were thereby vefted, iettl.d,_and efrablinied in the laid feveral Perkins, their Heirs and Alligns refpe£tivelv, to whom the laid Earl oi Portland had conveyed the fame, to be held of the King's Majelly, his Heirs and Suc- ceilbrs, of the Manor of EaJlGreetitvich, by Fealty only, in free and common Socage, fubjecS ncvcrthe- Icis with the Relidue of tlu faid ninety-five thou/lnid Acres, in equal Proportion to all Taxes and Charges ' iK'cellary
