A.D. 1703. Anno fecundo & tertio Ann^e Regmae. ' C. 9. 149
- very inconvenient to Trade;' Be it therefore enafted by the Authority aforefaid. That all Englijh Mer- '8 MonhjaK
chants fhall, from the faid eighth Day of March ^ have eighteen Months Time from the Entry inwards of[°T^ from Eai' all Tobacco, Sugar, Ginger, Pepper, Bugles rf//« Beads, Call and Bar Iron, all Dying Wood, Dying ^J^^o""Toba«o Wares, and all Drugs, to export the Came; And mail have the like Benefit and Drawback by fuch Ex- &c. ' portation, as if the fame had been exported within twelve Months, according to the fecond Rule in the 'Thefe i? Book of Rates; the faid Rule or any other Law or Cufl:om now in Force relating thereunto notwith- '^"""'^"'"S'-l {landing: Provided Certificates be taken forth, and Oath made, and all other Requifites performed ac-'"^ J ^"'^i'^ wording to the Laws now in being. _ _ _ ^™^, XIV . And be it further enacted. That in all Cafes where the Oath of Merchants, importing and ex- Proviib." porting, is by Law required to obtain any Dravi'brack or Allowance upon the Exportation of any foreign See SAnn?, Goods, the making of fuch Oath by the Agent or Kufband of any Corporation, or Company tradin? by '^^ '3' ^' ^^' a joint Stock, affirming the Truth of the Officers Certificate of the Entry and due Payment of the Du- Oath of the ties of fuch foreign Goods by. any fuch Comiiany or Corporation; and the making of fuch Oath by the Agent or Huf- known Servant of any Merchant ufually imployed in the m.aking his Entries, and paying his Cuftoms, '^^■"•iof^oyCon!- for any Goods of a Merchant fo to be exported, fhrJl be of the like Eftea as if the faid Oaths were made P^|J['^*^°'Sef- by any particular Merchant or Merchants themfelves. ^ _ _ , chant"' icrfuf- XV. And for afcertainin^ the Values of any unrated Goods imported before the faid eighth Day of ficient. Aiarch one thoufand feven hundred and three, from the EaJ} Indies and China, or any other Parts within Unrated Gooas the Limits aforefaid, by the two Companies impowered to. trade thither, or either of them; it is hereby how to be afces- further ena£led. That the Oath of two Direfiors or Members of the Committee of the faid Companies fhall be "med. admitted to affirm the Value of fuch Goods fo already imported, according to which the Duties ad valorem for the fame are to be paid; any former A<fl or AtSts of Parliament or Ufage to the contrary notwithftanding. XVL And be it further enafted by the Authority aforefaid. That all the Monies arifmg by the additi- Monies arifinj onal Subfidy of Tunnage and Poundage hereby granted, and by the faid additional Duty, after the Rate on the faia Du- «f fifteen Pounds per Tun upon all French Vv'ines to be condemned as lawful Prize as aforefaid, (except ."^"^^' " ^pa'^- the neceflary Charges of raifing and anfvi'ering the faid Subfidy and additional Duty refpedively) fhall '"[°^' e xc s- from Time to Time be brought and paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer; and that it fliall and may be Loan of lawful to and for any Perfon and Perfons, Natives or Foreigners, Bodies Politick or Corporate, to lend 300,000!. there* to her Majefly at the faid Receipt, upon Credit of the faid Subfidy of Tunnage and Poundage, and the "f 0% iaid additional Dtity on French Wines condemned as Prize, any Sum or Sums of Money, not exceeding in the whole the Sum of three hundred thoufand Pounds; and upon another hSc of this prefent Seffion of Parliament, intituled. An ASl for granting an Aid to her Majejiy by contimi'ing the Duties upon Malt, 7l/z;w, and 650,000!. Cyder, and Perry, fir one Year, any Sum or Sums of Money, not exceeding in the whole fix hundred and "P°" 'f '^^l' fifty thoufand Pounds, including all Loans made thereupon; and that all Perfons who fhall have lent upon ^a a& jAnnaej the faid Credits, or either of them, fhall have Interefl ior the Forbearance of their refpeftive Loans by them made, or to be made, after the Rate of five Pounds -per Centvm per Annum, to be paid every three 5'- percent. Months from the making of fuch Loans, until Satisfadiion of the principal Sums refpeffively; and that £";."Lgj,j,j j^^^ no Monies, fo lent or to be lent, fhall be rated or aileffed-to any Tax or Affeflment whatfoever; and that to be taxed, every fuch Lender fliall immediately have a Talley of Loan flruck for the Money by him, her, or them Tallies of Loan lent, and an Order of the fame Date for Re-payrr.ent thereof, with fuch Intereft as aforefaid; and *^° •"= '^'■"'^ ^"'^- that all fuch Orders fhall be regiftred in courfe, according to their Dates (to wit) the Orders for '""^ ^'■'^"^ " *■ Loans on the faid Duties on Malt, Mum, Cyder, and Perry, on a Regiiler to be kept for that Act, ^" ^ and the Orders for Loans on the faid Subfidy, and additional Duty, by this Aft granted, on a difiiincl Regifter, for fuch Loans; and all Perfons on the faid refpeftive Regiftcrs fhall be paid in courfe, as their Payment io Orders fliall Hand regiftred; fo as the Perfon, Native or Foreigner, his Executors, Adminiflrrators, or <^"f'^« Affigns, whofe Order fhall be firft: regiftred, fliall be accounted the Perfon to be firft paid out of the Mo- nies to come in by the faid refpe<3;ive Duties whereupon the faid Loans fhall be made refpe£tively; and he or they who fliall have his or their Order or Orders next entred, fliall be taken to be the fecond Perfon to be paid, and fo fucceffively and in courfe; and that the faid Monies to come in by the faid refpeclive Monies llabie ta- Duties, whereupon the faid Loans fliall be made refpedlively, fhall be in the fame Order liable to the Satif- to fatify the feftion of the faid refpe£tive Perfons, their Executors, Adminiftrators, or Affigns fucceffively, without un- Lenders. due Preference of one before another, and nototherwife, and IhaU not be diverted or divertible to, any other NaF« for re- i Ufe, Intent, or Purpofe whatfoever; and that no Fee, Reward, or Gratuity, direftly or indireftly, be demand- ^iilring, 4e. I €dor taken of any her Majefty's SubjecSls, for providing or making of any fuch Books or Regifters, or any En- ' tries. Views, or Search, inorforPayment of Money lent, or the Intereft thereof as aforc.Caid, by any of her Majefty's Officer or Officers, their Clerks or Deputies, on Pain of Payment of Treble Damages to the Party aggrieved, by the Party offending, with full Cofts of Suit; or if the Officer himfelf take or demand any fuch Fee or Reward, then to lofe his Place alfo; and if any undue Preference of one before anotlier fliall. ' be made, either in point of Regiftry or Payment, contraiy to the true Meaning of this A£k, by any fuch ! Officer or Officers, then the Party offending fhall be liable by Action of Debt, or on the Cafe,, to pay the I Value of the Debt, with Damages and CofVs, to the Party grieved, and fhall be forejudged of his Place I or Office: And if fuch I*reference be unduly made by any his Deputy or Clerk, v/ithout Direftions or payments- to j>i
Privity of his Mafter, then fuck Deputy or Clerk only fhall be liable to fuch- A£iion, Debt. Damages, made a«ording
and Cofts, and fhall be for ever after incapable of his Place or Office; and in cafe the Auditor of the Kc- 'o each Perfcr.v , -cetpt fhall not dirett, or the Clerk -of the Pells record, or the Teller malce Payment, according to. each ^'^ Pisces^ I; Perfon's due Place and Order, as afore directed, then he or they flxall be adjudged to forfeit, 'and the re- °'^"'
fpe£tive Deputies and Clerks herein offending to be liable to fuch A6tion, Debt, Damages, and Cofts,
'sin fuch Manner as aforefaid : All which faid Penalties, Forfeitures, Damages, and Cofts, to be incurred by any of the Officers of the Exchequer, or any their Deputies ox Clerks, fliall and may be lecovered by Aftion.
