456 C. 6, — 8. Anno secundo Gulielmi & Mariae. Sess. 2. A.D. 1690.
all Powers, Provisions, Penalties, Articles, and Clauses therein contained, concerning the said Rates and Duties upon all Sorts of Tobacco, shall continue and be of full Force and Effect, until the said four and twentieth Day of June one thousand six hundred and ninety six, and shall be applied, practised, and executed, for the raising, levying, collecting, answering, and paying the said Duties upon Tobacco hereby continued, according to the Tenor and Intent of this present Act.
IV. Provided nevertheless, That this Act, nor anything therein contained, shall not extend, or be construed or taken to repeal or alter an Act made in the first Year of their majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act for prohibiting all Trade and Commerce with France, or any Part of the same.
V. Provided always, and it is hereby enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to and for any Person or Persons to advance and lend unto their Majesties, as well upon the Security of this Act, as upon the Security of the said two former Acts made in the Reign of the late King fumes ( from and after the Sum of
1 WM. flx hundred thousand Pounds, mentioned in an Act made in the first Year of (heir Majesties Reign, inti an Office for L'ld; An Act for appropriating certain Duties for paying the States General of the United Provinces their Receipt of these Charges for his Majesty's Expedition into this Kingdom, and for other Uses, shall be full V satisfied and paid Duties to be in to the said States General) any Sum or Sums of Money, and to have and receive for the Forbearance there london.and paid of any Sum not exceeding eight Pounds by the hundred for one whole Year and no more, directly or in neral of customs* directly The rest of this Act is omitted, being expired.
and kept apart, and paid Weekly into the Exchequer. 2 W. & M. ff, 2. C 10. EXP. Wages due to King Charles the second's Servants saved.
Not to extend to 1 W. & M. (T. ic. 34.
Credit of Loan at S percent. --- CAP. VI (16.)
An Act for punishing Officers and Soldiers who shall mutiny or desert their Majesties Service, and for punishing false Musters.
EXP.
CAP. VII (17.)
An Act for reviving a former Act for regulating the Measures and Prices of Coals.
'WHEREAS an Act was made in the sixteenth and seventeenth Years of the Reign of the late King Charles the Second,
[16 & 17 Car. 2. c. 2.]
intituled An act for regulating the Measures and Prices of Coals, which Act was to continue for three Years thence next following, and thenceforth to the End of the next Session of Parliament, and no longer, and is expired: And whereas the said Act was found to be very useful and beneficial to this Kingdom:'
[Revived for Seven Years. 12 C. 2. c. 18 §6. Coal Ships may be navigated by Foreigners, during the War. EXP.]
II. Be it enacted by the King's and Queen's most Excellent Majesties, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the said Act, and every Clause, Article, and Branch therein contained, shall be, and is, and are hereby revived and continued in full Force, Strength, and Virtue, to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever, and shall so stand and continue from the first Day of December one thousand six hundred and ninety, for the Space of seven Years, and from thence to the End of the first Session of Parliament then next following, and no longer.
[Farther Provisions relating hereto, 6 & 7 W. c. 10 & 18. 9 & 10 W. 3. c. 13. 10 & 11 W. 3. c. 21. 8 Ann. c. 4. 9 Ann. c. 6, 23 & 28. 12 Ann. St. 2. c. 9. & 17. 5 Geo. 1. c. 9. 8 Geo. 1. c. 14. 3 Geo. 2. c. 26. 4 Geo. 2. c. 30. 10 Geo. 2. c. 32. 11 Geo. 2. C 15. 13 Geo. 2. c. 21. 14 Geo. 2. c. 41. 17 Geo. 2. c. 35. 19 Geo. 2. c. 35. 22 Geo. 2. c. 37. 23 Geo. 2. c. 26. 30 Geo. 2. c. 19. 31 Geo. 2. c. 15. 32 Geo. 2. c. 27. and 33 Geo. 2. c. 15.]
CAP. VIII (.8.)
An Act for paving and cleansing the Streets in the Cities of London and Westminster, and Suburbs and Liberties thereof, and Out Parishes in the County of Middlesex, and in the Borough of Southwark, and other Places within the Weekly Bills of Mortality, in the County of Surrey, and for regulating the Markets therein mentioned.
[13 & 14 Car. 2. c. 2.] --- 'WHEREAS an Act was made at a Parliament held at Westminster, in the thirteenth and fourteenth Years of the Reign of his late Majesty King Charles the Second, for the repairing the Highways and Sewers, and for paving and keeping clean the Streets in and about the Cities of London and Westminster, wherein (amongst other Things) many necessary and wholesome Provisions were made for the cleansing and paving the said Streets, and other Parishes and Places comprised within the Weekly Bills of Mortality; which said Act being since expired, many Persons in the Out Pnrifhcs in Middhfx, ' and other Parishes in the Limits aforesaid, which have been chosen to serve the Office of Scavenger, 1 refuse to take the Execution of the said Office upon them; and others, who have been rated and af
towards the cleansing and carrying away the Dirt and Soil out of the Streets, have refused to pay the Rates afi efled upon them, there being no Law in Force to compel them thereunto, so that no Person can be employed to be Raker, to carry the Dirt out of the said Streets, for Want of some Provision for Payment for doing that Service; and the poorer Sort of People daily throw into the said Streets all the " Dirt, Filth, and Coal Ashes made in their Houses; reason whereof the said Streets are become ex
dirty and filthy, so that their Majesties Subjects cannot conveniently pass through the same about
their lawful Occasions, and many other Inconveniences daily arise for Want of the like Provisions in
other
