662 C. 1 7. Anno primo G e org 11 II. Stat 2. A. D. 1728. Right of ap- pealing con- firmed. After ?4 June 172S. Com- plaints may be determined by three Commif- fioners of Excift: All Adjudica- tjons mav be executed by Warrant of three Commif- fioners. See farther con- cerning Exnfe, 39 Geo. 2. c. 34, a t, Geo. 2. c. 1 6 32 Geo. 2. c. 17 33 Gee. 2. c. 9. 3 Geo 3. c. 7. iz Car. c. 4 3 Geo. 2. Stat, c. I. 1 Ann. c. c. ' Offences refpectively relating either to the Duties on Malt, or to the Duties on Hides and Skins, tanned ' tawed ordreifed, and upon Vellum and Parchment, be not taken away and repealed :' Now for preventing and avoiding all fuch Doubts and Queftions, and declaring and re-eftablifhing the Right and Liberty of ap- pealing in the refpedtive Cafes before mentioned, Be it further enadted and declared by the Authority afore- laid, That neither the faid Adt of the fixth Year of his faid late Majefty's Reign, nor any Claufe, Matter or Thing therein contained, did or doth extend, or fhall be conftrued to extend, or to have extended to take away, repeal or alter the Right and Liberty of appealing in the refpedtive Cafes before mentioned, or in any of them ; and the Right and Liberty of appealing in the refpedtive Cafes before mentioned, and the feveral Jurifdictions and Powers, as well of the Commiffioners of Appeals, as of the Juftices of the Peace alTem- bled in their refpedtive Quarter- Seffions, now is and are, and ought to continue and be in the fame Plight and Condition, as the faid Right, Liberty, Jurifdictions and Powers refpectively was and were before the making the faid Aft of the fixth Year of his faid late Majefty's Reign ; and that Appeals already- brought,- or hereafter to be brought in the refpedtive Cafes before mentioned, which have happened fince the palling the fame Adt, are and ftand in the fame Plight and Condition, as they refpedtively would have done in cafe the faid Adt had never been made ; the aforefaid Adt, or any other Lav/, Statute, Provi- fion orUfage to the contrary thereof in any wife notwithftanding. ' IV. And whereas Complaints and Informations, which at the chief Office in London for the Duties of ' Excife, and other Duties there managed, are exhibited and commenced, either by Traders and Dealers in ' the Commodities refpectively liable to fuch Duties, who apprehend themfelves to have been overcharged, ' or by Profecutors and Informers againft fuch Traders and Dealers, for Offences or Fadts by them committed ' or incurred, either by their having omitted to do Things, which by the Laws relating to the faid refpedtive ' Duties they are required to do, or by their having done other Things contrary to the faid refpedtive Laws, ' cannot be heard, adjudged and determined with the like Difpatch, Eafe and Convenience to the Parties ' concerned therein, as might be done in cafe the fame were to be heard, adjudged and determined by a lefs ' Number of the Commiffioners for the faid Duties for the Time being, than a Majority of them : And ' whereas fuch Complaints and Informations happening by the Means aforefaid to remain and continue in ' Sufpcnce and undetermined, is difcouraging and disadvantageous to the Parties concerned therein :' For Remedy thereof, Be it enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That from and after the twenty-fourth Day of "June one thoufand feven hundred and twenty -eight, all fuch Complaints and Informations as aforefaid, ei- ther of the one or the other Sort, . which before the faid twenty-fourth Day of 'June one thoufand feven hun- dred and twenty-eight fhall not be heard, adjudged and determined, but fhall then, or at any Time after, be depending at the faid chief Office, fhall and may be heard, adjudged and determined by any three or more of fuch Commiffioners for the Time being, and that it fhall be fufficient in the written Account or Record of fuch Proceedings to mention, that fuch Complaint or Complaints, Information or Informations, are made and exhibited to and before three of fuch Commiffioners, without particularly mentioning or ex- preffihg the Chriftian and Surnames of fuch three Commiffioners for the Time being; and that every fuch Adjudication and Determination of fuch three or more of fuch Commiffioners for the Time being, fhall and hereby is declared to be as good and valid in the Law, and of the fame Force and Effedt, to all Intents and Putpofes whatfoever, as if fuch Adjudication and Determination had been by all, or the Majority of (uch Commiffioners for the Time being; any Law or Statute to the contrary in any wife notwith- ftanding. V. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That all and every fuch Adjudication and Ad- judications, Determination and Determinations, fhall and may, from and after the faid twenty-fourth Day of June one thoufand (even hundred and twenty-eight, be executed by Virtue of a Warrant or Warrants under the Hands and Seals of any three Commiffioners for the Time being, whether fuch CommiffionErs fetting their Hands and Seals to fuch Warrant or Warrants fhall or fhall not happen to be the particular Commiffioners, by whom fuch Adjudication or Determination fhall be made, or whether fuch three Com- miffioners, fo fetting their Hands and Seals to fuch Warrant or Warrants, were Commiffioners at the par- ticular Time or Times when fuch Adjudication or Adjudications, Determination or Determinations as aforefaid fhall happen to be made; provided that the Perfons fo fetting their Hands and Seals to fuch War- rant or Warrants, at the Time r..-d Times of fuch their fetting their Hands and Seals thereto, actually are fuch Commiffioners ; any Law, Statute or Ufage to the contrary in any wife notwithftanding. CAP. XVIf. An Act for repealing the preient Duties en Wine Lees and Lignum Vila', and laying new Du- ties on Wine Lees ; and for prohibiting the Importation of Wine in Flafks, BotJcs, or fm.ifl Cafks ; and for preventing Frauds in exporting Silk Manufactures, and for fupplying the Want of regular Certificates of fuch Manufactures being landed in foreign Parts, where fuch Certificates cannot be had -, and for giving further Time to Clerks and Apprentices to pay Duties omiued to be paid for their Indentures and Contracts. Mojl Gracious Sovereign, ? HERE AS in the Book of Rates annext fo the Adt; of Tonnage and Poundage, made in the )f twelfth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, a particular Rate of four Pounds per ' Ton was fixt upon Wine Lees imported ; according to which Rate a Subfidy of twelve Pence in the Pound ' was thereby payable to his Majefty ; and whereas according to the faid Rate a further Subfidy of Pound- ' age of twelve Pence in the Pound on Wine Lees imported, was granted to his prefent Majefty for his Life ' (which God long preferve) by an Adt made in the hrft Year of his Majefty's Reign : And whereas by an ' Adt made in the iecond Year of her late Majefty Queen An-ne, another Subfidy was granted on the Im- ' portation
