6o6 C. 1 6, 17. Anno vicefimo oflavo Georgii II. A. D. 1755; No Fee for Pay- XXXIII. And it is hereby enafled by the Authority aforefaid, That no Fee or Gratuity fhall be de- ment ofContri- mandcd or taken of any of his Majefty's Subjcdts, for receiving or paying the faid Contribution-monies, or bution-money. gny of ihcm, Or for any Tallies or Receipts concerning the fame, or for iflliing the Monies for paying the faid feveral Annuities, or any of them, or for paying the faid Annuities, or any of them ; and that no Fee Transfers to be or Gratuity fluill be demanded or taken for any Transfer, great or fmall, to be made in purfuance of this made gratis. ji^Q. . ^ p^j^ p^jj^ ^Y^^^ j]^g Ofiicer or Perfon offending, by taking or demanding any fuch Fee or Gratuity con- Penaltj-. trary to this Aft, fliall forfeit the Sum of twenty Founds to the Party grieved, to be recovered with full Cofts of Siiit, in any of his Majefty's Courts of Record at Wejlrnlnjicr . XXXIV. And it is hereby enailed by the Authority aforefaid. That if any Perfon or Perfons {hall at anyTime be fued or profecuted, for any Thing by him or them done or executed in purfuance of this AcV, or of any Matter or Thing in this Aft contained, fuch Perfon or Perfons fhall and may plead the General General Iffuc. Iflue, and give the fpecial Matter in Evidence for his or their Defence ; and if upon the Trial a Verdift fhall pafs tor the Defendant or Defendants, or the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs fhall difcontinue his or their Aftion, or be nonfuited, or Judgment flia|i be given againfl: him or them upon Demurrer, or otherwife. Treble Cods, then fuch Defendant or Defendants fhall have treble Cofls to him or them awarded againfl fuch Plaintiff or Plaintiffs. CAP. XVI. Refer M7 sfg Afi KQi for the better Supply of Mariners and Seamen to ferve In his Majefty's Ships of War, 'Am!'ul'i. ^"d on board Merchant Ships, and other Trading Ships andVeflels. §. 64. 10 Am, c, 17. 8 Geo, I, c, 34. 8 Gee. 2. c, 29. ao CtD. 2. c. 38.
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' O R the better Supply of Mariners and Seamen to ferve in his Majefty's Ships of War, and on board Merchant Ships, and other trading Ships and Veflels ;' Be it enafted by the King's moft Excellent Merchant Ships lyijjgfjy^ by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in ^^foreiRn^SM'- '■^'^ prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame. That from and after the paffing of this men- Aft, until the twenty-fifth Day of March one thoufand feven hundred and fifty-fix, and no longer (except in refpeft to fuch Merchant Ships, and other trading Ships or Velfels, which fhall be on their Voyage before foas the Number the faid twenty-fifth Day of March one thoufand feven hundred and fifty-fix, who fhall be and are hereby errpioyed^do^not gHo-wed the Liberty and Benefit of returning home, navigated in the Manner as herein after is provided) fourth? nf the ^^ ^^^^ ^"d may be lawful for any Merchant Ship, or other trading Ship or Velfel, to be navigated by foreign whole Crew, and Seamen or Mariners, not being Natives of Great Britain,, or of any of the Colonies or Plantations thereto the other fourth belonging, or his Majefty's natural or naturalized Subjefts, fo as the Number of fuch foreign Seamen or he JwaysNatiyes Mariners do not exceed three fourths of the Mariners at any one Time employed to navigate fuch Merchant Deatlf d'ct" Ship, or Other trading Ship or Velfel ; and that one fourth at leaft of the Mariners or Seamen fo employed fualties of War be at all Times Natives, or his Majefty's naturalized Subjefts of Great Britain (fudden Death, and Hazard and Seas except- and Cafualties of War and the Seas faved and excepted) one Aft of Parliament made in the twelfth Year e<i ; of the Reign of his late Majefty King Charles the Second, intituled, An Aiifor the encouraging and increafmg 12 ar. 2. c. 1 • gj- Shippifig and Navigation, or any other Statute or Law to the contrary notwithftanding. P™'^™?""' II. Provided always. That nothing in this Aft contained fhall extend to take away or reftrain the EfFeft this Aft ** °^ ^"y "^ Royal Proclamation as his Majefty, his Heirs and Succeflbrs, are impowered to make by virtue ijGeo. 2. c. 3. of an Aft paffed in the thirteenth Year of his Majefty's Reign, intituled. An A£l for the better Supply of See farther 31 Mariners and Seamen to ferve in his Majejly's Ships of War, and on board Merchant Ships and other trading Cm. a. e. 10. Ships, and Privateers, CAP. xvir. An Afi: to amend an Afl made in the twenty-fixth Year of the Reign of his prefent Majefty, intituled, /In JS for the Amendment and Prefervation of the piiblick Highways and Turnpike Roads of this Kingdom ; and for the more effehual Execution of the Laws relating thereto. sS Geo, 2. c. 30. ^ -ffrr H E R E A S an Aft paffed in the twenty-fixth Year of the Reign of his prefent Majefty, intituled, ' V V An ASlfor the Amencbnent and Prefervation of the puhllck Highways and Turnpike Roads of this King- ' ilom ; and for the more effeSiiial Execution of the Laivs relating thereto, hath not anfvvered the good Purpoles ' intended thereby ;' Be it enafted by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Con- fent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame. That for three Years, to be computed from the twenty-fourth Day of June in ■ the Year one thoufand feven hundred and fifty-five, and no longer, it fhall and may be lawful for all Carriages with Waggons, Wains, Carts and Carriages, for all Goods and Merchandize, either loaden or unloaden, having Wheels Clinches the H'ellies of the Wheels thereof of nine Inches from Side to Side, at the leaft, to pafs through all and fromP?ymentof^'^^y turnpike Gate or Gates, Bar or Bars, without paying of any Toll or Duty payable by virtue of any Toll for 3 Years. :^ft or A£ts of Parliament, for the faid Space of three Years, to be computed from the faid twenty-fourth Day of June, Wh-eTe Inches -ri^^' '^i^'^ ^? f^'"her enafted by the Authority aforefaid, That from and after the faid twenty-fourth hioi.i may he Day of /?«« it fliall and may be lawful for all Waggons, having the Fellies of the Wheels thereof of the dv.v.v.-, by 6 JBreadth or Gauge of fix Inches from Side to Side, at the leaft, at the Sole or Bottom of the Wheel, to Hoifcs, ^ pjfs
