General TABLES for finding the Dominical or Sunday Letter, and the Places of the Golden Numbers in the Calendar. To find the Dominical or Sunday letter for any given year of our Lord, add to the year its fourth part, omitting fractions, and also the number which in table I. standeth at the top of the column, wherein the number of hundreds contained in that given year is found: divide the sum by 7, and if there is no remainder, then A is the Sunday letter; but if any number remaineth, then the letter which standeth under that number at the top of the table is the Sunday letter. find the month and days of the month to which the golden numbers ought to be prefixed in the Calendar in any given year of our Lord, consisting of entire hundred years, and in all the intermediate years betwixt that and the next hundredth year following, look in the second column of table II. for the given year, consisting of entire hundreds, and note the number or cypher which stands against it in the third column; then in table III. look for the same number in the column under any given golden number, which when you have found, guide your eyes sideways to the left hand, and in the first column you will find the month and day to which that golden number ought to be prefixed in the Calendar during that period of one hundred years. The letter B. prefixed to certain hundredth years in table II. denotes those years which are still to be accounted bissextile or leap years in the new Calendar; whereas all the other hundredth years are to be accounted only common years. B 1600 0 B 1700 1 1800 1900 B 2000 122 B 2100 2 2200 3 2300 4 B 2400 3 B [CHAPTER XXXI.] AN ACT for explaining, amending, and enforcing an Act passed in the Thirteenth Year of His late Majesty's Reign, intituled "An Act for the better Regulation of the Linen and Hempen Manufactures in that Part of Great "Britain called Scotland," and for further regulating and encouraging the said Manufactures. Makers of heckles and free to exercise [XXIII.] AND be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that every maker of heckles, spinning-wheels, reels, weaving-looms, and weaving-reeds, other utensils, and also every weaver or manufacturer of linen, flaxen, or hempen cloth, or and weavers, heckler or dresser of flax or hemp, shall and may and is hereby authorized their trades in to exercise the said respective trades, within any city, town, corporation, any city, &c. burgh, or place in Scotland, without any lett or hindrance from any person or persons whatsoever, and without being chargeable or charged with payment of any entry-money or other duty whatsoever, for or in respect of their following such trade or business. Contracts, &c. entered into by the trustees, [XXX.] AND be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all contracts, securities, and agreements entered into and taken by authority of the said trustees [a] for promoting of the said linen and hempen manufactures, or any particular branch thereof, may be entered into and taken in the name of their secretary for the time being, and his successors in office, for the use of the fund established by the said Act [b] for encouraging the linen manufacture in Scotland; and all bonds, obligations, and other securities for the faithful bonds, &c. execution of any office, or for the performance of any other matter or thing relating to the said manufacture, shall and may be taken in the name of the said secretary for the time being, and his successors in office, for the use of the said fund; and all dilligences, suits, actions, and processes may be issued and suits, &c. and carried on in consequence of such contracts, securities, and agreements, secretary's bonds, and obligations, and prosecuted to a final issue in the name and at the name. instance of the said secretary for the time being. to be in the [i.e., the trustees appointed or to be appointed in pursuance of 13 Geo. 1. c. 26. s. 18.] [bi.e., 13 Geo. 1. c. 26.] No debt under 20s. for spi rituous liquors, contracted at one time, re coverable, &c. Retailer taking a pledge for liquors, to forfeit 40s. Application of the penalty. Owner may recover his pledge. No licence to [CHAPTER XL.] AN ACT for granting to His Majesty an additional Duty upon Spirituous Liquors, and upon Licences for retailing the same; and for repealing the Act of the Twentieth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled " An "Act for granting a Duty to His Majesty to be paid by Distillers upon "Licences to be taken out by them for retailing Spirituous Liquors;" and for the more effectually restraining the retailing of distilled Spirituous Liquors; and for allowing a Drawback upon the Exportation of British made Spirits; and that the Parish of Saint Mary le Bon, in the County of Middlesex, shall be under the Inspection of the Head Office of Excise. * [XII.] AND be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that from and after the said first day of July one thousand seven hundred and fifty one, no person or persons whatsoever shall be intitled unto or maintain any cause, action, or suit for, or recover either in law or equity, any sum or sums of money, debt, or demands whatsoever, for or on account of any spirituous liquors, unless such debt shall have really been and bona fide contracted at one time, to the amount of twenty shillings or upwards, nor shall any particular article or item in any account or demand for distilled spirituous liquors be allowed or maintained, where the liquors delivered at one time, and mentioned in such article or item, shall not amount to the full value of twenty shillings at the least,[a] and that without fraud or covin, and where no part of the liquors so sold or delivered shall have been returned or agreed to be retu directly or indirectly; and in case any retailer of spirituous liquors, with or without a licence, shall take or receive any pawn or pledge from any person or persons whatsoever by way of security for the payment of any sum or sums of money owing by such person or persons for such spirituous liquors or strong waters, every such person or persons offending herein shall forfeit and lose the sum of forty shillings for each and every pawn or pledge so taken in or received by him or them, to be levied and recovered by warrant under the hand and seal of one justice of the peace where the offence is committed; and that one moiety thereof shall be to the use of the poor of the parish where such offence is committed, and the other moiety to the informer or informers; and the person or persons to whom any such pawn or pledge doth or shall belong shall have the same remedy for recovering such pawn, or the value thereof, as if it had never been pledged. [XIII. b] AND be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no licence shall be granted for the retailing of spirituous liquors within any gaol, prison, house of correction, work-house, or house of entertainment for any parish poor, and that all licences granted or to be granted contrary to this [a a The foregoing part of this section is rep., so far as relates to spirituous liquors sold to be consumed elsewhere than on the premises where sold, and delivered at the resi dence of the purchaser thereof in quantities not less at any one time than a reputed quart, 25 & 26 Vict. c. 38. [ Sects. 13 to 16 are rep., 4 Geo. 4. c. 64. s. 1., as to gaols and houses of correction to which that Act extended; as to which, vide supra, page 467, note a.—The Act 4 Geo. 4. c. 64. is rep., 28 & 29 Vict. c. 126. s. 73.1 |