1 Annæ,ftat.. C. 13. fatisfaction of the fum of three thousand five hundred pounds for falaries, and any fum not exceeding two thousand five hundred pounds for incident charges, to be allowed without account, and free of all taxes, to the feven commiflioners appointed by act of parliament for stating the accounts of all publick monies, and to none other ufe, intent, or purpose whatfoever: provided always, That out of the monies to be iffued to the guards and garrifons, as aforefaid, there shall and may be taken and applied, any fum not exceeding eighty seven thoufand one hundred twenty five pounds, ten fhillings, towards the charge of maintaining the foldiers, raised and to be raised for fea fervice, with their officers, and the contingent charges thereunto belonging: and out of the monies to be iffued for the fervice of the navy and fea fervices, as aforefaid, there fhall be taken and applied fuch fums, as, together with the faid fum not exceeding eighty seven thousand one hundred twenty five pounds, ten fhillings, fhall be neceffary for the charge of maintaining the faid foldiers for fea fervice, with their officers, and the contingent charges thereunto belonging; any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding. XXI. And whereas by an act of the first year of her Majesty's reign, intituled, An act for making good deficiencies, and for preferving the public credit, feveral tallies therein mentioned do amount to five thousand and feventeen pounds, nine fhillings, one penny, and the orders thereupon for reverfions of annuities were directed to be iffued to difcharge fuch off-reckonings for clothing, as were become due before the laft day of December, one thousand fix hundred ninety feven, which off-reckonings being otherwife Jatisfied, the faid tallies and orders do ftill remain in the hands of the late paymafter general of the army; and by the act last mentioned it was provided, That fuch perfon or perfons as should receive fuch debentures payable out of the forfeited eftates in Ireland, as are thereby directed, for monies due to any troops or companies (over and above what was due for the perfonal pay of the commission officers) should give fecurity to the paymaster general of double the value thereof, and at the end of twelve months fhould return unto the faid paymafter an account upon oath, of all the debentures by him or them iffued in purfuance of that all, and returning back to the hands of the faid paymaster fuch debentures as fhould remain not issued out to the end of the faid twelve months; in pursuance whereof feveral of the faid debentures have been returned, and others of them ought to be returned to the hands of the late paymafter general of the army, or to the paymaster general thereof for the time being, for the publick use and service: now it is hereby further enacted and declared by the authority aforefaid, That it fhall and may be lawful to and for the lord high treaapply the tal- furer of England, or any three or more of the commiffioners of lies, &c. for the treasury for the time being, to cause as well the faid orders the reverfion ary annuities and tallies, for the faid reverfionary annuities remaining unundifpofed of, difpofed, as aforefaid; as alfo all and every or any the faid deas alfo the de- bentures returned, or to be returned, to the faid late paymaster, turnable to the or to the paymaster general of her Majefty's forces for the time Treasury to bentures re N being, pursuant to the faid fecurities, or any of them, given paymafter geor to be given, upon the act laft mentioned, to be iffued, paid neral, for fatifover, or applied for or towards fatisfaction of all or any part of fying the out penfioners of the monies due in the reign of his late majefty King William Chelsea hothe Third, to the out penfioners of Chelsea hofpital, and fuch spital, &c. other publick debts as were incurred during the last war, as the faid lord high treasurer or commiffioners of the treasury shall direct, and in fuch proportions, manner, and form, as to him or them shall feem meet. САР. Х. An act to enlarge the time for the purchasers of the forfeited estates in ¡Annæ, stat.z. Times allowed to the purchasers of the forfeited eftates in Ireland, who C. 21. have paid one third part of their purchase money, for payment of the 11 W. 3. C. 2. refidue. On non-payment at those times, conveyance to be void. All unsatisfied debentures to be registered. EXP. CAP. XI. An alt for the making more effectual ber Majefty's gracious intentions for the augmentation of the maintenance of the poor clergy, by enabling her Majefty to grant in perpetuity the revenues of the firft fruits and tenths; and alfo for enabling any other perfons to make grants for the fame purpose. 26 H. 8. c. 3. 26 H. 8. c. 17. W HEREAS at a parliament holden in the fix and twentieth year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, the firft fruits, revenues, and profits for one year, upon every nomination or appointment to any dignity, benefice, office, or promotion fpiritual, within this realm, or elsewhere, within the said King's dominions, and also a perpetual yearly rent or penfion, amounting to the value of the tenth part of all the revenues and profits belonging to any dignity, benefice, or promotion spiritual whatsoever, within any diocese of this realm, or in Wales, were granted to the faid King Henry the Eighth, bis heirs and fucceffors; and divers other flatutes have fince been made touching the first fruits and annual tenths of the clergy, and the 27 H. 8. c. 8. ordering thereof: and whereas a fufficient fettled provifion for the 32 H. 8. c. 22, clergy, in many parts of this realm, hath never yet been made, by &. 47. reafon whereof divers mean and ftipendiary preachers are in many 34 & 35 H. 8. places entertained to ferve the cures, and officiate there; who depend- 2 & 3 Ed. 6. ing for their neceffary maintenance upon the good-will and liking of c. 20. their hearers, have been, and are thereby under temptation of too 7 Ed. 6. c. 4. . Eliz. C. 4. much complying and fuiting their doctrines and teaching to the humours rather than the good of their bearers, which hath been a great occafion Geo. 1. c. 10, 5 Annæ, c. 24. of faction and fchifm, and contempt of the ministry: and forafmuch as your Majefty, taking into your princely and ferious confideration the mean and infufficient maintenance belonging to the clergy in divers parts of this your kingdom, has been most graciously pleafed, out of your most religious and tender concern for the church of England (whereof your Majefty is the only fupreme head on earth) and for the poor clergy thereof, not only to remit the arrears of your tenths due from The Queen may erect a from your poor clergy, but also to declare unto your most dutiful and loyal commons your royal pleasure and pious defire, that the whole revenue arifing from the firft fruits and tenths of the clergy might be Settled for a perpetual augmentation of the maintenance of the faid clergy, in places where the fame is not already fufficiently provided for we your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal fubjects, the commons of England, in parliament affembled, to the end that your Majesty's most gracious intentions may be made effectual, and that the church may receive so great and lasting an advantage from your Majesty's parting with fo great a branch of your revenue, towards the better provifion for the clergy not fufficiently provided for; and to the intent your Majefty's fingular zeal for the support of the clergy, and the honour, intereft, and future fecurity of the church, as by law established, may be perpetuated to all ages, do moft humbly befeech your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the Queen's most excellent majefty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords fpiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, That itthall and may be lawful for the Queen's most excellent majecorporation, fty, by her letters patents under the great feal of England, to them, and their incorporate fuch perfons as her Majefty fhall therein nominate fucceffors, the or appoint, to be one body politick and corporate, to have a firft fruits and common feal, and perpetual fucceffion; and alfo at her Majefty's will and pleasure, by the fame, or any other letters patents, augmentation of the mainte- to grant, limit, or fettle, to or upon the faid corporation, and their fucceffors for ever, all the revenue of first fruits, and yearmeaner clergy. ly perpetual tenths of all dignities, offices, benefices, and promotions fpiritual whatsoever, to be applied and difpofed of, to and for the augmentation of the maintenance of such parfons, vicars, curates, and minifters, officiating in any church or chapel within the kingdom of England, dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick upon Tweed, where the liturgy and rites of the church of England, as now by law established, are or fhall be used and obferved, with fuch lawful powers, authorities, directions, limitations, and appointments, and under fuch rules and reftrictions, and in fuch manner and form, as fhall be therein expreffed; the ftatute made in the first year of her faid Majesty's 1 Annæ, ftat. reign, intituled, An act for the better fupport of her Majesty's boufbold, and of the honour and dignity of the crown, or any other law to the contrary in any wife notwithstanding, and fettle on tenths, for nance of the By 3 Geo. 1. C. 10. a colletor is to be appointed. 1. c. 7. All statutes, &c. relating and tenths to to first fruits continue in force. II. Provided always, and it is hereby declared, That all and every the ftatutes and provifions, touching or concerning the ordering, levying, and true anfwering and payment, or qualification of the faid firit fruits and tenths, or touching the charge, difcharge, or alteration of them, or any of them, or any matter or thing relating thereunto, which were in force at the time of making this act, fhall be, remain, and continue in their full force and effect, and be obferved and put in due execution according to the tenors and purports of the fame, and every of them, them, for fuch intents and purposes nevertheless, as shall be contained or directed in or by the faid letters patents. III. Provided alfo, That this act, or any thing therein con- Act not to tained, shall not extend to avoid, or any way to impeach or void any affect any grant, exchange, alienation, or incumbrance, at any heretofore grant, &c. time heretofore made, of or upon the faid revenues of firft made of any fruits and tenths, or any part thereof; but that the fame fhall, the faid reduring the continuance of fuch grant, exchange, alienation, venues. or incumbrance refpectively, be and remain of and in fuch force and virtue, and no other, to all intents and purposes, as if this act had not been made. IV. And for the encouragement of fuch well-difposed perfons as fhall, by her Majesty's royal example, be moved to contribute to fo pious and charitable a purpose, and that fuch their charity may be rightly applied; be it enacted by the authority aforefaid, That all and every perfon and perfons, having in his or their own right any estate or intereft in poffeffion, reverfion, or contingency, of or in any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any property of or in any goods or chattles, fhall have full power, licence, and authority, at his, her, and their will and pleasure, by deed inrolled, in fuch manner, and within fuch time, as is directed by the ftatute made in the twenty seventh year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, for 27 H. 8. c. 16. inrolment of bargains and fales, or by his, her, or their last Persons may will or teftament in writing, duly executed according to law, to give lands, give and grant to, and veft in the faid corporation, and their tenements, or goods, &c. fucceffors, all fuch his, her, or their eftate, intereft, or proper- to the faid ty in fuch lands, tenements, and hereditaments, goods and corporation, chattles, or any part or parts thereof, for and towards the augmentation of the maintenance of fuch minifters as aforesaid, officiating in fuch church or chapel, where the liturgy and rites of the faid church are or shall be so used or obferved, as aforefaid, and having no fettled competent provifion belonging to the fame, and to be for that purpose applied according to the will of the faid benefactor, in and by fuch deed inrolled, or by fuch will or teftament executed, as aforefaid, expreffed and in default of fuch direction, limitation, or appointment, in fuch manner as by her Majefty's letters patents fhall be directed or appointed, as aforefaid. And fuch corporation, and their fucceffors, fhall have full capacity and ability to purchase, receive, take, hold, and enjoy, for the purposes aforefaid, as well from fuch perfons as shall be so charitably difpofed to give the fame, as from all other perfons as fhall be willing to fell or aliene to or fell or aliene the faid corporation any manors, lands, tenements, goods, any manors, or chattles, without any licence or writ of Ad quod damnum, the lands, &c. ftatute of Mortmain, or any other ftatute or law to the contrary notwithstanding. V. Provided always, That this act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to enable any perfon or perfons, Perfons excepted from being within age, or of None fane memory, or women covert, making fuch without their hufbands, to make any fuch gift, grant, or aliena gifts, &c. tion; any thing in this act contained to the contrary in any wife notwithstanding. VI. And whereas four bonds for four half yearly payments of the firft fruits, as the fame are rated, and alfo a fifth bond for a further value or payment, in respect of the fame first fruits, have been required and taken from the clergy, to their great and unnecessary burden and grievance: for remedy thereof be it enacted and deOne bond on-clared by the authority aforefaid, That from and after the twenly to be taken ty fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand sefor the four ven hundred and four, one bond only fhall in fuch case be payments of the first fruits, given or required for the four payments of the faid first fruits : which faid firft fruits, as well as the tenths payable by the clergy, shall hereafter be answered and paid by them according to fuch rates and proportions only as the fame have heretofore been usually rated and paid: and no fuch fifth bond already given fhall, from and after the faid twenty fifth day of March, in the year one thousand seven hundred and four, be fued or recovered. 13 & 14 Car. 2. C. 3. 2 W. & M. ff. 1. c. 9. ■ Annæ, ftat. I. c. 28. CAP. XII. An act for raising the militia for the year one thousand feven hundred and four, notwithstanding the month's pay formerly advanced be not repaid. Militia forces may be drawn out into actual service any time before 24th June, 1705. notwithstanding the one month's pay formerly advanced be not repaid. EXP. CAP. XIII. An act for prolonging the time by an act of parliament, made in the first year of her Majefty's reign, for importing thrown filk of the growth of Sicily, from Leghorn, EXP. CAP. XIV. An alt for the better fecuring and regulating the duties upon falt. HEREAS great fums of money are paid out of her Majesty's duties upon falt, on account of debentures for falt fhipped to be exported to foreign parts; and it is found by experience, that great part of the falt, for which fuch debentures have been paid, hath been fraudulently landed on the coafts of England and Wales, and not exported to any foreign parts, or having been actually landed in Ireland, or other places out of England and Wales, have been shipped off again from thence, and fraudulently brought into England or Wales; by which evil practices her Majesty's faid duties are very much leffened in the produce thereof, and the falt makers, who pay their full duties, are very much prejudiced and difcouraged in their trade, by reafon they cannot fell their falt in places which are fupplied with falt run, as aforefaid: for remedy whereof be it enacted by the Queen's most excellent majefty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this prefent parliament affembled, and by authority of the fame, That no falt whatsoever, being of the produce or manufacture ing from Ire of England, Wales, Berwick upon Tweed, Scotland, or Ireland, nor land,Scotland, No falt com any |