A. D. 1711. Anno declmo Ann^ ReglniB. C. 26. 5B5 conftrued to extend, to charge tlic faid Stamp Duties, or any of their., on any Warrants or Inftruments trie chirf jo- which have been figned, or that hereafter (hall he figned by the Chief Jullices in Eyre, or by any War- ftices in Ejic, den, Lieutenant, or other Officer of her Majefty's Forefts or Chafes, or any oF them, or by their OiRcers, ^■'^• or any of them, for any Matter or Thing relating to their refpedlive Offices. LXXV. Provided always, and it is hereby ena(5led, That every Perfon, who fliall be appointed a Com- CommifnoncrD mifiioner for all or any the Duties granted by this Aft, and every fubordinate Officer under fuch Com- an^i 0^"" to niiffioners, who fliall receive any Salary or Allowance in refpedt of his Office (the feveral Commiffioners ^^ fwni. and Officers of the Cuftoms excepted) fliall, before his afting in his refpedtive Trufl, take an Oath for his due and faithful Execution of the fame, according to this A& ; which Oath fhall and may be admini- flred to any fuch Commiffioners by any other Perfon who fhall be appointed a Commiffioner, as aforefaid, and to the faid Officers refpedlively, by any one of the faid Commiffioners, or byone Juftice of the Peace, who fliall give to the Officer a Certificate thereof ^■rt//j-. LXXVi. Provided alfo, and it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforefaid. That if any Per- perfon! rued uc- fon or Perfons fliall at any Time or Times be fued or profecuted for any Thing by him or them done or on this Aa, or executed in purfuance of this Aft, or of any Matter or Thing in this Aft contained, or in purfuance of tlie Leather or the faid former Aft (intituled, ^n A£l far laying certain Duties upon Hides and Skins, tanned, tawed, or Candle Afls, dreJJ'ed, and upon Vellum and Parchment, for the Term of thirty-two Years, for profecuting the War, and other ^^ ** i in- her Aiajeji/s mofi necefjciry Occaftons,) or if any Perfon or Perfons now is, or hereafter fliall be fued or pro- ^ Anna?, c j"i. fecuted for any Matter or Thing by him or them done in purfuance of an Aft of the eighth Year of her Majefty's Reign, For laying certain Duties on Candles, and certain Rates upon Monies to be given with Clerks s Anns, c. g, and Apprentices, or in purfuance of an Aft of the ninth Year of her Majefl:y's Reign, For granting further . , Duties on Candles, and other Duties therein inentioned, fuch Perfon or Perfons fhall and may plead the General ' j • • Ifl'ue, and give the fpecial Matter in Evidence for his or their Defence ; and if upon the Trial a Verdift fhall pafs for the Defendant or Defendants, or the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs fliall become nonfuited, then fuch Defendant or Defendants fliall have Teeble Cofis to him or them awarded againfl: fuch Plaintiff or Plain- tiffs. LXXVII. And to the end all the faid Rates and Duties upon Skins and Hides, and Pieces of Skins and Hides, made Wares, Vellum, and Parchment, Starch, Coffee, Tea, Drugs, Gilt and Silver Wire, Po- licies of Affurance, and any other Duties before by this Aft granted, may be duly and certainly raifed, and the fame (except the neceflary Charges of executing this AftJ maybe juftly and duly brought into the faid Receipt of Exchequer, according to the true Meaning hereof, it is hereby enafted by the Authority afore- faid. That from time to, time, during the Continuance of this Aft, there fliall be appointed fuch and fo commiffioneia many Commiffioners and Officers as fhall be proper and neceffary for managing, raifing, collefting, and and Ofricers to paying the faid fev.eral Rates and Duties herein before granted, and for keeping and rendring the Accounts fce appoin-ed, of the fame; and that the refpeftiye Commiffioners and Officers concerned therein, fhall perform their fe- ^^'l,'!^'^'^'?^,^. veral Duties in relation to the Premiffes, as to them refpeftively fliall appertain, under fuch and the like '"^^"^'^ Penalties, Forfeitures, and Difabilities, for any Offence or Negleft therein, or for detaining, diverting, -S' ■'H- or mifapplying any Part of the Monies arifing by the fame Rates and Duties, as are prefcribed and to be infliftcd by virtue of an Aft pf Parliament made and pafled in the ninth Year of the Reign of his late Ma- jefty ICing William the Third, intituled, An ASt for raifing a Sum, not exceeding tzuo Millions, upon a Fund for Payment of Annuities after the Rate of eight Pounds per Centum per Annum, and for fettliiig the Trade to the Eaff Indies, for the like Offence or Negleft relating to the Duties thereby granted or referred unto, or for detaining, diverting, and mifapplying any Part of the Monies which were granted or appro- priated by the Aft laft-mentioned. ' LXXVIII. And whereas it is intended that the faid feveral Rates and Duties upon Hides and Skins, ' and Pieces of Hides and Skins, made Wares, Vellum, and Parchment, and upon Starch, Coffee, Tea, ' and Drugs, and upon Gilt and Silver Wire, and the faid Duties upon Policies of Affurance, and all fuch ' Sum and. Sums of Money as fhall arife or be brought into the Receipt of her Majefty's Exchequer, by, ' upon, or. for all and every or any the Rates and Duties granted by this Aft, fliall all together be made a ' Fund or Security for raifing any Sum not exceeding eighteen hundred thoufand Pounds, towards your ' Majefty's Supply, by fuch Methods, and in fuch Manner and Form as are herein after mentioned :' Now we your Majefty's moft dutiful and loyal Subjefts, the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament aflembled, for and towards the raifing the faid Sum of eighteen hundred thoufand Pounds, do further moft humbly be- feech your Majefty, that it may be enafted ; and be it enafted by the Authority aforefaid, 'I hat yearly and 168003!. to he every Year, during the. Term of thirty-two Years, reckoning the firft Year to begin from the nine and the yearly Fund twentieth Day of September one thoufand feven hundred and twelve, the full Sum of one hundred fixty-eight '^j"' fa"'";? «ft' thoufand and three Pounds, by or out of the Agonies to arife by or for the faid feveral Rates and Duties g^^ r^n'^'pai herein before granted, or any of them, and to be brought into the Receipt of the Exchequer, from time to a-^iggol. with time, in cafe the fame fliall extend to the faid Sum of one hundred fixty-eight thoufand and three Pounds, interert at 61. fhall be co,;nputed and reckoned to be a yearly F'lnd; and in cafe all the Monies arifing into the Exchequer p«r Cent, of or for all the Rates, Duties, and Sums of Money charged, as aforefaid, fhali not amount to one hun- dred fixty-eight thoufapd and three Pounds per Annum, then the Monies fo arifing, fo far as the fame fliall extend, fliall be Part of the faid yearly Fund of one hundred fixty-eight thoufand and three Pounds/^r Annum, for and towards the an'wering and paying of all and every the principal Sums herein after men- tioned, amounting in the whole to the Sum of two Millions three hundred forty-one thoufand nine hun- dred and ninety Pou;ids, principal Money, together with Intereft for the fame after the Rate of fix Pounds per Centum per Annum, as herein after is alfo mentioned ; and in cafe the faid Monies by this Aft appointed Deficiency to be or appropriated, as aforefaid, fliall, at any Time or Times, appear to be fo deficient or low in'the Pro- made good out duce of the fame, as that within any one Year to be reckoned, as aforefaid, the faid Monies arifing ijito "'^^'^'^■'^■'^'°f° the Exchequer, for all the Rates, Duties, and Sums of Monev charged, as aforefaid, fhall not amount to ^Et^^X^^ Vol. IV. 4 F ■ • ' fo ' ^*""'""-
