A.D. 1711. Anno decimo Ann^ Regin^e. C. 22, 23. 567 CAP. XXII. An A(?t for the Relief of Merchants importing Prize Goods from America. WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament made the ninth Year of her prefsnt Majefty's Reign, g Anns, c. 27* intituled, Jn ASi for ths Encot!rage?nent of the Trade to KmnYic^, it is among other 'I'hings enadt- ed. That all Prize Goods and Commodities which, after the firft Day o^June one thoufand feven hun- dred and eleven, fliall be imported into any of the Ports of Great Britain, {hall be fubjedl: and liable to the Payment of the fame Duties as thofe Goods and Commodities would have paid in cafe they had not been Prize: And vAereas before the making the faid A61:, Prize Goods, being of the Growth and Pro- duce of Foreign Plantations not belonging to her Majeily or herSubjeiSts, wereTubjeet upon their Importa- tion into Great Britain, to pay only fuch Duties and Cuftoms as were payable on the feventecnth Day o( Alay in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and three, for tiie like Goods of the Pro- duce of her Majefty's Plantations imported by Englifi Shipping: A.nd whereas feveral confiderable Quan- tities of Prize Cocoa, Sugars, Indigo, and other Prize Goods, of the Growth and Produce of fuch Fo- reign Plantations, have been already imported into this ICingdom, and are now in feveral Warehoufes un- der the Queen's Locks, and other Qiiantities of the like Goods are on Board divers Ships or Veffels, now imported, and more are daily expected, and if the famefliould pay the Duties they were to pay in cafe they had not been Prize, the fame will not be worth Freight, Cullom, and Charges ; which will be not only a great Lofs and Detriment to the Importers thereof, but alio a great Prejudice to the Trade of this Prize Goods 0? Kingdorh :' For Remedy whereof, be it enafted by the Queen's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the "»^ Growth of .dvice and .Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament ^°ns^brou"hr affembled, and by the Authority of the fame. That all Cocoa, Sugars, Indigo, and other Goods, taken ;),t" Great bh- and condemned as Prize Goods, of the Growth and Produce of fuch Foreign Plantations, which are al- tain before 29 ready imported into this Kingdom oi Great Britain, or {hall at any Time hereafter, before the twenty- May 1711, ftall ninth Day o^ May one thoufand feven hundred and twelve, be imported into the faid Kingdom,' or which pay puly fuch riov/ are in any Warehoufes under the Queen's Locks, or on Board any Ship or Ships, V eflel or VefTels, of'th? Crl vth now imported, having Certificates to prove the fame Prize Goods, fhall be fubjeiSt and liable to pay only of puntations fuch Duties and Cufloms as the fame would have paid if the faid Goods had been of the Growth and Pro- belonging to the duce of the Plantations, Iflands, or CooTne.a r America, hzXongingtoths Crown oi Great Britain. Crown. II. And be it further enafted, That all Prize Goods, being of the Growth and Produce of fuch Foreign "ze Goo.'s of Plantations, which {hall at any Time after thetw-enty-ninth Day oi May one thoufand feven hundred and ^ 'l™"?'^ °^ twelve, be imported into any Part of Great Britain, from any of the Plantations, Iflands, or Colonies in pjantatio^nfin - ^OT^^vVi? aforefaid, upon producing a Certificate under the Hand and Seal of the Collector, Comptroller, ported after 23"" or other Chief Officer at the Port or Place where fuch Goods were imbarked or put on Board in America, May 171a. from are the fame Goods as were condemned in the High Court of Admiralty within fuch Plaiitation, Ifland, or any of the Pian- Colony in America aforefaid, as {hall appear to the faid Collector, Comptroller, or other Chief Officer ';?"°"= '" Am=- there, by Affidavit made by the Ferfon or Perfons exporting fuch Prize Goods, and alfo an Affidavit miade d"'aCcH[fica'tp before the proper Officer of the Cufloms of fuch Port or Place in this Kingdom where the faid'Goods {ball &crfcu pay ' be im.ported, by the Mafter, or Purfer, or other Perfon commanding the Ship or VefTel importing the fucii Duties only fame, that the Goods fo imported are the fame Goods for which the faid Certificate was made by the Col- ^^ if they had ledtor, Comptroller, or other Chief Officer in America, as aforefaid, {hall be fubjeiSt and liable to, and (hall Crol.tl'oi-^Br' pay fuch Duties only in Great Britain, as in cafe they had been of the Growth and Produce of the Plan- ift pi,'ctatior"!' rations, Iflands, or Colonies in yfm^r/i:(7, belonging to the Crown oi Great Britain; anything in the faid Prize Cocoa " recited Adl, or any other Act, or anyUfage or Cuitom, to the contrary in any wife notwithltanding. ^^^^ the Plan- tationSj how to _ be charged. CAP. XXIII. .oAnn%,c. 16, Vi'J. An A61 for die more effeclual preventing fraudulent Conveyances, in order to multiply Votes for ele6ting Knights of Shires to ferve in Parliament. HERE AS by an Act of Parliament made in the feventh Year of the Reign of his late Ma- . ^. g -yy, ,, jelty King William the Third, intituled. An A£i for the further rejulnting ElsSiions of Members q, .2,!, ' to ferve in Parliameyit, a7id for the preventing irregular Proceedings of Sheriffs and other Officers in the eleRlng ' and returning fuch Members, it is, amongfb other Things, ena£ted. That all Conveyances of any Mef- ' fuages. Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, in any County, City, Borough, Town Corporate, Pore, ' or Place, in order to multiply Voices, or to fplit and divide the Interefc in any Houfes or Lands amongft ' feveral Perfons, to enable them to vote at Ele6tions of Members to ferve in Parliament, ihall be void and ' of none Efteft; and that no more than one fingle Voice fhall be admitted for one and the fame Ploufe and ' Tenement: and whereas (notwithftanding this Provifion to the contrary) many fraudulent and fcanda- ' lous PratStices have been ufed of late to create and multiply Votes at the EleiSlicn of Knights of the Shire ' to ferve in Parliament, to the great Abufe of the antient Law and Cuftom of that Part of Great Britain ' called England, to the great Injury of thofe Perfons who have jufl Right to eledt, and in Prejudice of the ' P'reedom of fuch Elections;' Therefore for the more effeipcual preventing of fuch undue Practices, be it enadted by the Queen's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spi- ritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament afiembled, and by the Authority of the fame. That all Etlates and Conveyances whatfoever made to any Perfon or Perfons in any fraudulent or ^^5 f^^^^^Jl","* collufive Manner; on Purpofe to qualify him or them to give his or their Vote or Votes at fuch Eledions a-iade to qja'l.fy 3 of
