A. D. 1724. Anno undecimoG e org n Regis. C. 5 7. 507 VIII. Provided always, That nothing herein contained (hall extend, or be conflrued to extend, to This Aft not t« invalidate or make void any Charter heretofore granted to and accepted by any City, Borough or Town ""■" Toid "J Corporate, or any Corporation within the fame, or any of them, or any Elections or Acts had, made or Ch " ,cr ' " or lo done in Purfuance of any fuch Charter ; nor to make good the Eleftion of any Officer or Member, or of Eleflion where any Perfon claiming to be an Officer or Member of any City, Borough or Corporation, againft whom Judgment of any Judgment of Oufier fhall have been entred or given upon any Information in the Nature of a §>uo Softer has been Warranto, or whofe Eleftion fhall have been avoided upon any Writ of Mandamus, on or before the lair 3W: " ,cJ rincc Day of Michaelmas Term in the Year of our Loid one thoufand feven hundred and twenty-four. laftDayofMich. IX. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid. That where any Writ of Mandamus fhall Ketlmi'tnte' iflue out of the Court of King's Bench in any of the Cafes aforefaid, the Perfon or Pcrfons to whom fuch made^o the firft. Writ fhall be directed, fhall make his or their Return to the firft Writ of Mandamus. Writ of Man- damus. CAP. V. An Act for enlarging the Term granted by an Aft made in the tenth Year of her late Majefty's Reign, 3 Geo. 2. c. 37. for amending and maintaining the Road between Northjleet, Grave/end and Roche/for, in the County of Kent ; and for explaining the fame Aft, and for appropriating Part of the Money arifmg thereby to- wards repairing the Road between the Town of Chatham and Boughton under the Blean, in the faid County of Kent. P R. By this Aft the private Aft of 10 Ann. c. 34. is continued from 6 June 1725, for 15 Years. [Continued by 11 Geo. 2. c. 37.] CAP. VI. An Aft for punifhing Mutiny and Defertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters. EXP. CAP. VII. An Act for rating fuch unrated Goods and Merchandizes as are ufually imported into this Kingdom, and pay a Duty ad Valorem upon the Oath of the Importer ; and for afcertain- ing the Value of all Goods and Merchandizes not inferted in the former or prefent Book of Rates; and for repealing certain Duties upon Drugs and Rags; and for continuing the Duty upon Apples ; and for afcertaining the Method of admeafuring of Pictures imported. Moji Gracious Sovereign, I. "ITT H E R E A S by the Aft of Tonnage and Poundage made in the twelfth Year of the Reign of 12 Car. 2. c. 4. VV King Charles the Second, a Subfidy called Poundage was laid upon all Manner of Goods "3 ^ M-Cw.zj, and Merchandizes of every Merchant, natural-born Subjeft, Denizen and Alien, to be brought into c ' "' , this Realm, or any the Dominions to the fame belonging, by way of Merchandize, of the Value of * 5 ar ' *' e ' ' every twenty Shillings of the fame Goods 'and Aierchandizes, according to the feveral and particular Rates and Values of the fame Goods and Merchandizes, as the fame are particularly and refpeftively rated and valued in the Book of Rates therein mentioned and referred unto (fubferibed with the Hand of Sir Harboitle Grimjione, Baronet, then Speaker of the Houfe of Commons) twelve Pence, and fo after that Rate ; in which Book of Rates it is provided, That if there mould happen to be brought into this Realm any Goods liable to the Payment of Cuftom and Subiidy, which either were omitted ia the faid Book, or were not then ufed to be brought in, or by reafon of trie great Diverfity of the Value of fome Goods could not be rated ; That in fuch Cafe every Cuftomer or Collector for the Time be- ing fhould levy the faid Cuftom and Subfidy of Poundage according to the Value and Price of fuch Goods, to be affirmed upon the Oath of the Merchant in the Prefence of the Cuftomer, Collector, Comptroller and Surveyor, or any two of them : And whereas a further Subfidy of Poundage, of twelve Pence in the Pound, was granted to his Majefty King William the Third (of glorious Memory) for 9 w. 3. c. 2j. his Life, by an Aft made in the ninth Year of his Reign, upon all Goods and Merchandizes imported (except fuch as are therein excepted) which further Subfidy was again granted to her late Majefty Queen Anne for her Life, by an Aft made in the firft Year of her Reign ; and the faid further Subfidy 1 Ann. Stat. r. was again granted to his prefent Majefty for his Life (which God long preferve) by an Aft made in the c- 7' firft Year of his Majefty's Reign, with the like Provifion with refpeft to any Goods imported that 1 Geo. 1. Stat. 2. were not rated in the faid Book of Rates, as was made touching the like Goods liable to the firft men- c - I2 - tioned Subfidy of twelve Pence in the Pound, granted by the faid Aft made in the twelfth Year of King lz c a r. 2. c. 4. Charles the Second : And whereas by an Aft made in the fecond Year of her faid late Majefty another z Ann. c. 9. Subfidy of Poundage was granted upon all Goods and Merchandizes imported (except as therein is ex- cepted) commonly called the one third Subfidy; and by an Aft paffed in the third Year of her faid late 3 Ann - c - 5- Majefty another Subfidy of Poundage was granted upon all Goods and Merchandizes imported (except as therein is excepted) commonly called the two thirds Subfidy ; which faid feveral Subfidies of one third and two thirds are, by the refpeftive Afts which granted and continued the fame, to be paid in Proportion to the faid further Subfidy granted by the faid Aft of the ninth Year of the Reign of King 9 W. 3. c. 23, William the Third, and fince continued during his prefent Majefty's Life as aforefaid : And whereas by an Aft made in the fecond Year of the Reign of their late Majefties King William and Queen 2 w. & M.
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