A. D. 173 t. Anno quarto Georgii II. C. 28. 67 4 VII And whereas foreign unwrought Hemp re-exported does draw back Part of the Duties payable 1 noon importation thereof, to the great DMcouragement of manufacturing of Cordage within this No Allowance on FU-exporta- k^innHnm"to be exnorted to America-^ Be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That from wrought Hemp ivuiuuu"'* ... ,'_..- ..u i->.... „r <v,,..„ ,..,„ *i.,..,r™ ..,i <"«.., a „ l,,,^,l^,l ,„.l ti.lrf.. „„„ »i /u.n »„ .h,. nri.iis il after the faid twenty-fourth Day of June one thoufand (even hundred and thirty-one, there fhall; o,hc ,!ra "! ' lot bc allowed or made on the Re-exportation of Hemp unwrpught to any of his Majefty's BriiiJI) "™~; ,b " Dominions in America, any Drawback, or Re-payment ot any of the Duties or Culloms, charged and id on the Importation thereof into this Kingdom, by any Act or Adts of Parliament; any Law, Cu- ftom or Ufage to the contrary notwithllandfng. rcrl» tliftinct Letters and Words at Length; and if any Manufacturer or Maker of Sail Cloth (ball fell or 9 Ceo.' x. c. 37- expofe to fale, any Piece or Pieces of Sail Cloth, without being damped as aforefaid, fuch Manufacturer '• 3- or Maker fo offending, and being thereof lawfully convicted, upon the Oath of any one or more credi- ble Witnefs or Witnefles, before any one or more Juftice or Juftices of the Peace for the County, Citv or Town, where the Offence (hall be committed (which Oath fuch Juftice or Juftices is and are hereby impowered and required to adminifter) (hall forfeit and pay the Sum of rive Pounds for each Penalty 5 j. and every Piece of Sail Cloth, by him or them fold or expofed to fale, not being (lamped as aforefaid, Malicioufly cut- and if any Perfon or Perfons whatfoever (hall wilfully or malicioufly cut off, deftroy or obliterate, any ting off fuch Stamp fo affixed as aforefaid, or fhall affix or make ufe of any Stamp, on which (hall be marked the Mark, forfeits Name and Place of Abode of any other Perfon or Perfons, and not his or their real Name or Names, , and Place or Places of Abode, fuch Perfon or Perfons being convicted of any of the Offences aforefaid, See farther, (hall for every fuch Offence forfeit and pay the Sum of ten Pounds; both which lafl mentioned For- ^tj^ C 'e V -'-. feitures fhall and may be levied and recovered by Diftrefs and Sale of the Offender's Goods and Chat- i 9 c«!a. c.27. ties by Warrant or Warrants under the Hands and Seals of two or more Juftices of the Peace for the £? c«.z. ■-. ax County, Riding, City or Place, where the Offence fhall be committed, and fhall go and be applied to ^ ^ the Ufe of the Informer or Informers. a. c. 32* CAP. XXVIII. An Act: for the more effectual preventing Frauds committed by Tenants, and for the more eafy Recovery of Rents, and Renewal of Leales. FO R fecuring to Leffors and Land Owners their juft Rights, and to prevent Frauds frequently Former Prsvi/!- committed by Tenants, Be it enacted by the King's mod Excellent Majefty, by and with the) *" ™' h "z a g l i Advice and Content of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parlia- " *" "' s ~ " ' ment affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That in cafe any Tenant or Tenants for any i.Aur. e.u. Term of Life, Lives or Years, or other Perfon or Perfons, who are or (hall come into Poffeffion of Ptrlons!,o!d ' n 5 any Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, by, from or under, or by Collufion with fuch Tenant or °f t e e r r E a " pi ^^ori Tenants, (hall wilfully hold over any Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, after the Determination of of Leafes, to pay fuch Term or Terms, and after Demand made, and Notice in Writing given, for delivering the Pof- double dieyea- feffion- thereof, by his or their Landlords or Leffors, or the Perfon or Perfons to whom the Remainder lv d ue ' or Reversion of fuch Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments (hall belong, his or their Agent or Agents thereunto lawfully authorized; then and in fuch Cafe fuch Perfon or Perfons fo holding over, (hall, for- and during the Time he, fhe and they fhall fo hold over, or keep the Perfon or Perfons intitled, out of Poffeffion of the faid Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, as aforefaid, pay to the Perfon or Perfons fo kept out of Poffeffion, their Executors, Adminiftrators or Affigns, at the Rate of double the yearlv Value of the Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments fo detained, for fo long time as the fame are detained, to be recovered in any of his Majefty's Courts of Record, by Action ot Debt, whereunto the Defendant or Defendants fhall be obliged to give fpecial Bail, againfl the recovering of which faid Penalty there .(hall be no Relief in Equity. y II. And whereas great Inconveniencies do frequently happen to Leffors and Landlords, in Cafes ' of Re-entry for Nonpayment of Rent, by reafon of the many Niceties that attend Re-entries at
- Common Law; and forafmuch as when a legal Re-entry is made, the Landlord or Leffor muft be
- >at the Expence, Charge, and Delay, of recovering in Ejectment, before he can obtain the actual
- Poffeffion of the demifed Premifles; and it often happens that after fuch a Re-entry made, the LelTee
' or his Affignee, upon one or more Bills filed in a Court of Equity, not only holds out the Leffor or ' Landlord by an Injunction, from recovering the Poffeffion, but likewife, pending the faid Suit, do run ' much more in Arrear, without giving any Security for the Rents due, when the faid Re-entry was ' made, or which (hall or do afterwards incur : ' For remedy whereof, be it enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That in all Cafes between Landlord and Tenant, from and after the twenty-fourth Day On half a Year's of June one thoufand feven hundred and thirty-one, as often as it (hall happen that one half Year's I ien j, i " vH Arrear ' Rent fhall be in Arrear, and the Landlord or Leffor, to whom the fame is due, hath Right by Law to- renter fe'rvmg re-enter for the Nonpayment thereof, fuch Landlord or Leffor (hall and may, without any formal De- a Declaration of mand or Re-entry, ferve a Declaration in Ejectment for the Recovery of the demifed Premiffes, or E JeSment, in cafe the fame cannot be legally ferved, or no Tenant be in actual Poffeffion of the Premifles, then to affix the fame upon the Door of any demifed Meffuage, or in cafe fuch Ejectment (hall not be for the Recovery of any Meffuage, then upon fome notorious Place of the Lands, Tenements or Heredita- ments,- comprized in fuch Declaration in Ejectment, and fuch affixing fhall be deemed legal Service K 2 thereof,
