170 C. 24, 25. Anno feptimo Georgii II. A. D. 1734. Fcr form* t<rwi HI.T)Rovided neverthelefs, That nothing in this Act contained (hall extend, or be conftrued to extend "/'(J'm.c. f A to make any Perfon chargeable to the Militia, that is not already chargeable by Law to the fame 13 & n'car.'i. or to enlarge the Power of the Lieutenants, ©r their Deputies in any Kind, beyond the Authority already <■• 3- given them by the Acts of the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth Years of King Charles' the Se- 10 &i'rvX. con( ^» relating to the Militia, faving only in the particular Cafes exprelly directed and provided for by c. 12. ' " this prefent Aft; and that no Perfon who is by this Act chargeable to the Militia, fhall be obliged at 1 Ar.n.ft. 2. anv X ime or Times hereafter, to advance more than one Month's Pay to any Horfe or Foot Soldier iGm. 1. ft. a. l l fuch Time as the Month's Pay by fuch County, City, Riding or Place, fo to be advanced, (hall c. 14. ' have been repaid and made good to fuch County, City, Riding or Place, by his Majefty, his Heirs or 9 Geo. 1. a Succeffors, out of his or their publick Treafury or Revenue. Concerning Aidi- ' I'm fee farther 30 G«. 2, c 25. 31 Geo. 2. c. 26. 32 Get. 2. c. 20. 33 Geo. 2. c. 2, 22, £? 24. CAP. XXIV. An Aft for granting to Samuel Buckley, Citizen and Stationer of* London, the fole Liberty of Printing and Reprinting the Hiftories of Thuanus, with Additions and Improvements, du- ring the Time therein limited. P R. ' XX/'nEREAS Samuel Buckley, Citizen and Stationer of London, hath, at a very great Expence,
- W by his own Induftry, and with the Afliftance of divers learned Perfons, in the Courfe of fe-!
' ral Years, procured many valuable Supplements to the celebrated Hiftories of Thuanus, with a Defign ' to publifh a new Impreffbn thereof, and hath now caufed to be printed, in the City of London, a fair
- and accurate Edition of the faid Hiftories in the Latin Language, in Seven Volumes in Folio, with
' great Additions and Improvements, upon Paper and with Types provided for that Purpofe: And
- whereas the fole Liberty of Printing and Reprinting Books for the Term of Fourteen Years, to com-
' mence from the Day of the firft publilhing the fame, granted to the Proprietors thereof by an Act lAnnae, c. 10. ' ma de in the eighth Year of Qu:en Anne, intituled, An Ac! for the Encouragement of Learning, by
- vejling the Copies of printed Bw.ks in the Authors or Pur chafers of fuch Copies, during the Times therein
' mentioned, extends not to prohibit the Importation, Vending or Selling ot any Books in Greek, Latin, f or any other foreign Language, printed beyond the Seas, as by a Provifo contained in the faid Act is ' declared : And whereas the Work thus compleated by the Care of the faid Samuel Buckley may be re-
- printed beyond the Seas, and, under Colour of the faid Provifo, which was not intended for the Ad-
4 vantage of Foreigners in Prejudice to the Natives of this Kingdom, many Copies of the faid Work,
- ■ fo reprinted, may be imported, vended and fold, to the great Damage of the faid Samuel Buckley : ,%
Therefore that he may not lofe the Fruit of his Expence and Labour, by the Avarice of foreign Print- ers, or fuffer by an Act made for the Encouragement of Learning, may it pleafe Your moft Excellent Majefty that it may be enacted, &c. " S. Buckley and his Affigns fhall have the fole Liberty of Printing and Vending the Hiftories of Thuanus, " &c. for 14 Years. The Nine Copies to be delivered for the publick Libraries by 24 June 1734. CAP. XXV. An Aft to explain and amend an Aft palled in the eleventh Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Firft, intituled, An Aft for the better regulating the Manufacture of Cloth in the Weft Riding of the County of York. c ' K7 HERE A S the Ait made in the eleventh Year of his late Majefty King George the Firft, it Geo. i.e. 24. £ W intituled, An A el for the better regulating the Manufacture of Cloth in the Wed Riding of the %R 4- *V" County of York (which, except that Part which reftrains certain Perfons therein defcribed from making Broad Cloth in the faid TVeJl Riding, was, by an Act made in the laft Seflion of Parliament, con- tinued till the firft Day of September in the Year one thoufand feven hundred and forty, and from thence to the End of the then next Seffion of Parliament) has been found highly beneficial to the ' Cloth Trade in the faid Weft Riding : And whereas there are Penalties in the faid Act directed to be ' levied upon the Owners, Occupiers, or Mill-men of the Fulling-mills in the faid Weft Riding, to ' which they may inadvertently become liable, to their great Lois, and the Difcouragement of the ' Manufacture; and feveral Doubts have arifen in Contraction of the faid Act, and the fame Act has ' been found defective for fome of the Purpofes thereof;" Wherefore for explaining and amending the fame, and for making the faid Law more effectual; Be it enacted by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this. A f ter J4j°™ prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That if any Owner, Maitcr, Occu- KSfmg-mias'to P' er ' or Mill-man, of any Fulling-mills in the faid Weft Riding, fhall, after the twenty-fourth Day of (tamp on a June in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and thirty-four, neglect or refufe to (tamp trBeLen Se tha h d on . a ^ eal °* ^ead< by " the faid Al ^ directed to be affixed to every Broad Cloth made in the faid Weft ETOdttflf an Riding, before fuch Cloth fhall be carried from the Mill, in Figures plainly to be feen and known, the every Broad true Length and Breadth of fuch Cloth, and alfo his Name or Part thereof upon the Rivet of the Seal, h 1=tR '-- b *f r? fti alK ^ k e t h ere °f lawfully convicted upon the Oath of one or more credible Witnefs or Witneffes, before tUiMU! r ° * one or more Juftice or Jufrices of the Peace for the faid Weft Riding? or of any Corporation within S the.
