294 G- II - Anno fexto Georgii Regis. A. D. 1719. Overplus of laft ' enacted to be made good by Grants in this Seffion of Parliament :' Now it is hereby provided, enacted J^'h c^ m -' a declared by the Authority aforefaid, That fo much of the faid Sum of one hundred and ten thoufand fioiilte Li"tT 1>a '" ^ ourl ^ s ' as ' s or ^ la " ^ e more t '- lan f u ^ c ' ent to Satisfy the faid reduced Officers, according to the faid Rules by the aforefaid Act prefcribed to be obferved in the Application thereof, or any Part of fuch Over- plus, mail or may be difpofed to fuch Officers who were maimed or loft their Limbs in the late Wars, or to fuch others, as by reafon of their long Service, or otherwife, his Majefty fhall judge to be proper Ob- jects of Charity, or to the Widows or Children of fuch Officers, according to fuch Warrant or Warrants under his Majefty s Royal Sign Manual, as fhall be figned in that Behalf; any Thing in this or the faid former Act to the contrary notwithffanding. ciaufe to prevent ' L. And whereas the Corporation of the Governor and Company of Merchants of Great Britain trad- Re U cei e tsa"d g ' '"§ to the South-Seas and other Parts of America, and for encouraging the Fifhery, may iffue out Receipts Warrant? pf the ' un der the Hand or Hands of one or more of their Officers, from Time to Time, upon or for Subfcrip- Offkersof the ' tions to be by the faid Company taken for increafing their capital Stock, purfuant to an Act of this pre- Sourh-Sea ' fent Seffion of Parliament in that Behalf; and may alfo iffue out Warrants under the Hand or Hands of Company. « one or more f the j r Officers for the Dividend from Time to Time to be made to the Proprietors of the Farther Pro-vi- ' Stock in the faid Company:' It is hereby enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That if any Perfon or Per- bis Co ■ eo. I SGeo.'i. c'.z'i Warrant or Warrants, with fuch counterfeit Indorfement or Writing thereon or therein, knowino- "the &iz. 9 Got. 1. fame to be fo forged, counterfeited or altered, to the faid Company, or any of their Officers, or fhall c 6. 1 Geo. 2. offer to alienate or difpofe of tie fame, knowing the fame to be forged, counterfeited or altered, and . " 6 I* , 2 " with Intent to defraud the faid Company, or any other Perfon or Perfons, Bodies Politick or Corporate Geo. 2. e. °- c then anc ^ ' n ^ ucn Cafe every fuch Perfon or Perfons fo offending (being thereof lawfully convicted] fhall Geo. a. c. 17. be adjudged a Felon, and fhall fuffer Death, as in Cafes of Felony, without Benefit of Clergy. 6 Geo. 2. e. 25 &? 2S. 7 Geo. 2. c. 17. 9 Geo. 2. c. 34. 10 Geo. 2, c. 17. 20 Geo. 2. c. 3. 24 Geo. 2. c. 2 & XI. 26 Geo. 2. e. 16. Ciaufe for ex- ' LI. And whereas by an Act paiTed laft Seffion of Parliament, intituled, An Acl for the Recovery of the pl^mng the Aft < Credit of the Britifb Ftjhery in foreign Parts, and for better fecuring the Duties upon Salt, Liberty is given to concCTnni^fV. ' ' his Majefty ' s Subjects to import foreign Salt for the Ufe'of the Fifhery Duty-free after Midfummer-Day reign Salt eel- ' on e thoufand feven hundred and nineteen; and it being at the fame Time intended by the faid Act, That hied?.nd locked ' all fuch foreign Salt as was imported, weighed, cellared and locked up in the Prefence of an Officer for up before 24 « the Duties upon Salt, and under the joint Cuilody of fuch Officer and the Importer thereof, before the Co-c.rJ'J'salt ' k'.^ twenty- fourth Day of June one thoufand feven hundred and nineteen, fhould have the Benefit cf fee farther s Geo. ' being turned over as Stock in Hand, and be made ufe of in the Fifhery Duty-free; but for want of fuf- '.c.^&i6. 11 ficicnt Words to exprefs clearly and plainly the Intention of the faid Act, in relation to fuch fore ion Geo. 1. e. 30. 3 Salt fo imported as aforefaid before the faid twenty-fourth Day of June one thoufand feven hundred and ell' 2' T 6°' I ' nmcteen i tn e Proprietors of the faid Salt have, to their great Lofs and Detriment, not been able to make Geo. I'. C c 12. ' u f e °f the faid Salt in the laft Fifhery, nor will, for the Time to come, be enabled to make any Ufe at 14 Geo. 2. c. 22. ' a " of it, unlefs the faid Act be better explained :' For Remedy whereof, and to fupply the Defect in 26 Geo. 2, c. 3 the faid Act, Be it, and it is hereby enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That all fuch foreign Salt fo im-
- » V-' ported, cellared and locked up as aforefaid before the faid twenty-fourth of June one thoufand feven hun-
dred and nineteen, fhall, at the Defire of the Proprietor or Proprietors thereof, or his or their Agent or Agents, be turned over as Stock in Hand for the Ufe of the Fifhery Duty-free; fubject neverthelefs to the fame Conditions and Reftrictions as all other foreign Salt intended for the Ufe of the Fifhery, and have the fame Benefit and Advantage as all other foreign Salt intended for the Ufe of the Fifhery, and imported after the faid twenty-fourth Day of June one thoufand feven hundred and nineteen; any Thing in this Act, or any other, to the contrary thereof notwithftanding. Ciaufe for giving ' LII. And for the Relief of any Perfon or Perfons, who through Neglect or Inadvertency have omitted f ^a^inn-DuT ' t0 pa y ^ ^ evera ^ Rates and Duties upon Monies given, paid or contracted for with Apprentices, and oa Apprentices™ ' to have the Indentures or Contracts ftampt within the Times for thofe Purpofes refpectively limit, d by Indentures. ' the Acts of Parliament in that Cafe made:' Be it enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That upon Pay- 8 Ann. c. 9. ment of the feveral Rates and Duties fo omitted or neglected to be paid as aforefaid, on or before the twenty- Fartber Proyi- ninth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and twenty, to fuch Perfon or T17t-"a'i% Per . fons t0 whom the fame ought to be paid, and tendring to be ftampt fuch Indentures or Contrads fo Geo. 2. e. 22. omitted to be ftampt at the fame Time, or at any Time on or before the twenty-fifth Day of December one zoGeo. 2. r. 45. thoufand feven hundred and twenty, the fame Indentur s or Contracts fhall be good and available in Law y- Geo. z. e.i 3 . or Equity, and maybe given in Evidence in any Court whatfoever; and the Apprentices therein named fhall be capable of following and exercifing the refpective intended Trades or Employments, as fully as if the Rates and Duties fo omitted had been duly paid within the refpective Times in the faid Acts of Parliament limited; and the ferfons who have incurred any Penalty by the Omiffions aforefaid, are hereby acquitted and difcharged of and from the faid Penalties; any Thing in the faid Acts contained to the con- trary notwithftanding. Ciaufe for Relief ' LIII. And whereas Thomas Vernon, Efq; did in the Month of May one thoufand fever* hundred and non, EfjTirT re- ' fixtse F ™port into the Port of London, on board the Ship Lambert from Alexandria, four Bales of Senna, JatioVto Senna ' containing three thoufand four hundred and eight Pounds Weight, and did then duly enter the fame at imported in May ' the Cuflorn-houfe, and paid and difcharged the Cuftoms and Duties then due and payable by Lavv for I 7 l6 - ' the fame, and actually fold the faid Senna on board the faid Ship before Entry made thereof as aforefaid, " ' and
