A. D. 1670. Anno vicefimo fccundo Caroli IT. C. 2 5. 325 rity in Ecclefiaftical Affairs, as fully and as amply as himfelf or any of his PredcccfTors have or might have done the fame j any Thing in this A£i: notwithlhmding. CAP. IT. An Aft for Repairing of the Haven and Piers of Great Tarmouth. A Rate impofed upon Sea-Coals, Wheat, pr. and EXP; Rye, Barley, Malt, &c-. for ten Years towards the Repair oi Yarmouth Haven and I'ier. Bailiffs, Alder- men and Burgefles there may appoint C<;llc(^t:ois of the faid Rate. Commiffioners appointed to have In- ag Car, 2. c. lo.. fpc£lion of the Receipts and Difburfemeiits of all fuch Monies. When and by .whom to be appointed. The Commiffioners Power. Allowance to the Colleftors,- Receivers, i^c. Colleftors may at feafonabie Times enter Ships to fee what Goods are there. And for Non-payment of the Rate, diftrain upon the faid Ship, b!c. Pjftreffes to be fold. What is exempted from Payment of the faid Duty. Ten Perfons 9 Geo. i. c. la.. to be chofen to contrail: with Workmen for the Repair of the Haven. In Default of fuch Contrail, who fliall t.ike Care of the faid Reparations. The Continuance of this Ail for ten Years. CAP. III. An Ail for granting unto his Majeffy an Impofition upon all Wines and Vinegar, imported between the EXP; four and twentieth Day of yutie one thoufand fix hundred feventy, and the four and twentieth Day of 'June one thoufand 1l hiuidred feventy-eight. C A P. IV.. An Aft for the fettling the Impofition on Brandjr.. HEREAS by two Ails made in the twelfth Year of his Majefty's Reign, and confii-med by this liCar.a, c. 2-;.. prefent Paili^mcn';, there was laid upon every Gallon of Spirits, made of any Kind of Wine or '^■'-'^'■•-" '•^■*'- ' Cyder imported, tht U, a- and Duty of Four-pence, namely, by each of the faid Ails Two-pence: And ' upon every Gill'ii o( . irr-ing-water perfeilly made, imported from beyond the Seas, the Rate and Duty of ' Eight-pence; (2} aA wlierL-as fonie Doubts have been made and raifed concerning a certain Liquor im.- ' ported from beyond ihe Seas, called Brandy, whether the fame fhould pay the Rate and Duty laid by tlie ' (aid Ails upon Spirits jnade of any Kind of Wine or Cyder imported,, or the Rate and Duty thereby laid ' upon Strong-water perfeilly m.ade, imported from beyond the Seas :' II. Be it therefore declared by the Ki:ig's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent. of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by Aut- ihority of the fame, That the faid Licjuor tall'.'d Brandy was at the Time of making and confirming the Brandy and' feid Ails, and is a Stiong-water perfeilly made, and being imported from beyond the Seas, vi'as and is Strong- water- charged and chargeable in and by the fiid Ails, with the Rate and Duty of Eight-pence ^<?r Gallon, fet j|.|"f^jj ^.^ °^ ' and impofed in and by both the faid Ails upon Strong-water perfeilly mad€ and imported from beyond the AdU. Seas, and was not, nor is not chargeable v/ith the Rate and Duty of Four-pence only per Gallon by the faid Ails fet and impofed upon Spirits made of V/ine or Cyder imported. III. Provided alv/ays, and it is hereby enailed. That in regard it doth not appear that the Rate or Duty Eight-pence perr of Eight-pence /itT Gallon was by his Majefty's Commiffioners, Farmers or other Officers in that Behalf cJailon not dc claimed or demanded by Virtue of the iaid A.&S before the firfl: Day of November in the Year of our Lord '^'"f^n .f^'^^" one thoufi d fix hundred fixty and fix. That no Perfon or Perfons, who have imported any Brandies before vcmber 16^6°* that Time, fhall be charged or chargeable vt'ith any more than the Rate and Duty of Four-pence ;i(?r Gal- N,,peri">,n be'- lon for any of the faid Liquor caUed Brandy, imported from beyond the Seas before the faiJ firft Day of fore that ch,irge^. November in the Year of our Lord one thoufand fix hundred fixty and fix ; any Thing in the faid Ails, or in ^= ^"J '""= this prefent Ail, to the contrary notwithftanding. '^tnce""'" IV. Provided always, and be it further enailed, That no Penalty infliiT:ed by the two aforefaid or any p"^"','- other Ail or Ails of Parliament, for Non-payment of the faid Duties fince the firfl Day of November one and when to°bT thoufand fix hundred fixty and fix, fhall be levied upon any Perfon now in arrear, until the faid Peifon fo in iev:ed. arrear fhall upon Demand to be made after the pafTing of this Ail, refufe to pay the faid Duties, or to fecure _ .^,_ , ^ the fame to be paid within three Months after fuch Demand ; and upon fuch Payment or Security given, all f,„„^ rtiaJn^^ former Bonds or Obligations given for the Payment of the Four-pences formerly in Controverfy, fhall be hereto, 2 ;/^. &f delivered up by the feveral Perfon or Perfons in whofe Cuflody the fame or any of them are; and that no M.jiat.r.c.g.. Tuy fhall be fubjeil to any Attaint by reafon of any Verdiil heretofore by them given concerning any 3® 4^^- ^'9' 'i-^.. Matter relating to this or any of the aforefaid Ails. ^k'w •jo S fif 9 fF. -5, c. 19. 10 fef II ff. 3. f. 4 £f 21. 12 W. 3. c. 1 1. I Ann. flat. 2- c. 14. 4 Ann. c. 12. 12 Ann. fiat. 2. c. 3, 3 Geo. i. c. 4. 6 Oe». i. . c. 21. %G£0. 1. (-. 18. II Ceo. I. c. 30. 2 Geo. 2. c. 28. 6 Geo. 2. c. ly. 7 Geo. 2. c. 14. 9 Geo. 2. c, 23. 10 Geo. 2. c. ly. 11 Geo. 2. c. 26. '15 do. 2. c. 25. 16 Go. c. 8. 17 Geo. 2. c. ly. ig Ceo. 2. c. 12. loGeo. 2. c, 39. 24 Ccj, 2. c. 4^1. 26 Geo. 2. c. 13. 27 Geo. 2. c. li. 31 G«. ai c, 36. 32 Geo- 2*. c. 29, 33 Geo. 2. c. 9 £f 28, CAP. V. An Aft for taking away the Benefit of Clergy from fuch as fteal Cloth from the Rack, and from ; fuch as fhall (teal or imbezil his Majefty's Ammunition and Stores. HEREAS many evil-dlfpofed Perfons have of late more frequently than in former Times ufed and prailifed the cutting of Cloth and other Woollen Manufailures in the Night-time off from the jq°^j 5^^^ ^^ ' Racks or Tenters, where the faid Cloth is put for the drying thereof, and felonioully Ileal and carry away c. i5."§." n. " ' the 15 Geo. a.c.27f
