A. D. 173 1. Anno quarto Georgii II. C. 7-9. 45 to take the Oaths of Office, and Perfons who have not read the Common Prayer, and declared their Af- fent and Confent to the fame, according to Law, upon the Terms therein mentioned. E X P. " Perfons qualifying themfelves before 23 January 1731 indemnified. Members of Corporations who " have neglected to take the Oaths of Office, qualifying themfelves by 21 'January 1731, indemnified. " Offices avoided by Law, not to be reftored. Eccleiiaftical Perfons who have omitted to read the Com- " mon Prayer in time indemnified. But not to prejudice others lawfully infututed in their Places. " CAP. VII. An Act to explain and amend an Act made in the third Year of his Majefty 's Reign, intituled, An Abl for the better Regulation of "Juries, fo far as die fame relates to the County of Middle/ex. « TTTHEREAS by an Act of Parliament made in the third Year oT his Majefty's Reign, inti- « yy tuled, An Aft for the better Regulation of Juries, it is among other Things enacted, That no 3 Geo. 2. c. 25, ' Perfons fhall be returned as Jurors to ferve on Trials at any Affixes or Nifi Prius, or at the Great ' Seffions in Wales, or at the Seffions for the Counties Palatine of Lancajter, Chejlcr and Durham,- ' who have ferved within the Space of one Year before in the County of Rutland, or four Years in the
- County of York, or of two Years before in any other County, not being a County of a City or Town :
' And if any fuch Sheriff (hall wilfully tranfgrefs therein, any Judge or Juftice of Affize, or Nifi Prius, ' or of the faid Great Seffions, or the Judge or Judges of the Seifions for the laid Counties Palatine, ' may, and is hereby required, on Examination and Proof of fuch Offence in a fummary Way, to fet
- a Fine or Fines upon every fuch Offender, as he fhall think meet, not exceeding five Pounds for any
' one Offence : And whereas by reafon of the frequent Seffions of Nifi Prius in the Court of King's 4 Bench, Common Pleas and Exchequer at Weflminjier, the faid Provifion cannot be put in Execution in
- the County of Middlefex, but is found to be impracticable : ' Be it therefore enacted by the King's moft
Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Com- mons, in this prefent Parliament affembled,. and by the Authority of the fame, That from and after After 1 May the firft Day of May in the Year of our Lord, one thoufand feven hundred and thirty-one, the faid T p J > cli ™l ein recited Claufe or any Part thereof fhall not extend or be conftrued to extend to the faid County of to^extend to " 0t MiMefeX. . , . Middlefex. II. Provided always, and be it enacted by the Authority aforefaid. That no Perfon fhall be returned None to be re- to ferve as a Juror at any Seffion of Nifi prius in the County of Middlefex, who has been returned to turned, who has. ferve as a Juror at any iuch Seffion of Nifi prius in the laid County, in the two Terms or Vacations keen returned in next immediately preceding, under fuch Penalty upon the Sheriff, Under Sheriff, Bailiff or other Of- preceding. 6 ficer imployed or concerned in the fummoning or returning of Jurors in the faid County of Mid- Made perpetual dlefex, as might have been inflicted upon them or any of them for any Offence againft the faid re- h v 6 Geo - z - Cited Claufe. _ _ Leaffeholders III. And whereas by the very frequent Occafions there are for Juries in the County of Middlefex, and where theim- by the final I Number of Freeholders that are in the faid County, the Sheriffs of the faid County may proved Rents be under Difficulties in procuring Juries to anfwer the Purpofes of this Act; for Remedy whereof be p™ ^^" s ° '* it enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That all Leafeholders upon Leafes where the improved Rents or liable toferv'eon Value (hall amount to fifty Pounds or upwards per Annum over and above all Ground Rents or other Juries. Reservations payable by virtue of the faid Leafes, (hall be liable and obliged to ferve upon Juries when Far ^ e ["'^ they fhall be legally fummoned for that Purpofe ; any thing in this or any former Act to the contrary not- "Xe^Gco'.-^c"^. withftanding. ' 24 £«>• 2. c. r8. CAP. VIII. 2 9 Gc °' *• <■ '2* An Act for the more effectual repairing the Road leading from God/lone in the County of Surrey, to High- ■ gate, at the Entrance into AJhdoivn ForeJi in the Pariih of Eaft Grinjled in the County of Sujfex. P R. The Toll took Place 1 May 173 1, and fhall continue till the Expiration of the Act 10 Geo. 1. c. 13. CAP. IX. An Act for railing one million two hundred thoufand Pounds by Annuities and a Lot- tery, in manner therein mentioned, and for appropriating the Supplies granted in this Seiiion of Parliament, and for making forth Duplicates of Exchequer Bills, Lottery Tickets and Orders, loft, burnt or otherwife deftroyed. HEPvEAS in and by an Act made and paned in the ninth and tenth Years of the Reign of 9 & 10 W. 3. our late Sovereign Lord King William the Third, of Glorious Memory, intituled, An Acl c - 2 5- ' for granting to his Majefty, his Heirs and Succe£ors, further Duties upon Stampt Vellum Parchment and Paper, ' it is enacted, That from and after the fifil Day of Auguft in the Year of our Lord one thoufand fix
- hundred and ninety-eight, there fhall be throughout the Kingdom of England, Dominion of Wales
1 and Town of Berwick upon Tweed, railed, collected and paid unto his Majefty, his Heirs and SuccelTors ' for ever, for the Teveral and refpectise things therein mentioned, which ihould be written or ingroffrd ' at any Time or Times, from and after the faid firft Day of Augujl one thoufand fix hundred and ' ninety-
