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he or fuch Perfon or Perfons' fhall think it neceffary to employ for the Purpose of erecting and establishing fuch Mint as aforefaid, or for any Purpose relative thereto, to go out of this Kingdom for any fuch Purpofe, and all Acts done by fuch Perfon and Perfons, and fuch Workmen, Artificers and others in conformity to fuch Licence and Authority, fhall be deemed and taken to be lawful Acts, any Law or Statute to the contrary notwithstanding.

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IV. And for the better enabling any fuch Perfon or Perfons to undertake and execute fuch Work as aforefaid,' Be it further enacted, That it fhall be lawful for any of His Majefty's faid Prin and to do every cipal Secretaries of State, by fuch Writing or Warrant as aforefaid, thing neceffary to license and authorize any Perfon or Perfons to do, or caufe to Work. be done, any other matter, Act or thing not herein specified, which it fhall appear neceffary or expedient to fuch Secretary to license or authorize for the enabling fuch Perfon or Perfons or the Perfons employed by him or them, to execute fuch Work as aforefaid, and all Acts, matters and things done in conformity to fuch Licence and Authority, shall be and be deemed and taken to be lawful, any Law or Statute to the contrary notwithstanding; and in cafe any Question fhall arife, whether any Act, matter or thing, done or procured to be done by any such Perfon relative to fuch Work as aforesaid, hath been done, or procured to be done, in conformity to any fuch Licence or Authority as aforefaid, or according to the Intent and Meaning thereof, it fhall be lawful for any of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State; upon Application made by any fuch Declaration of Perfon or on his behalf, by Writing under his Hand and Seal, to Secretary of State that every declare whether the fame hath been done in conformity thereto, or thing has been according to fuch Intent and Meaning; and the Declaration of His done in conMajefty's faid Secretary fo made that the fame hath been fo done, formity to Lifhall be final and conclufive Evidence that the fame hath been fo cence, Evidence thereof. done, and fhall be received in all cafes as fuch final and conclufive Evidence.

CA P. XCIII.

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An Act for enabling the Officers of the Customs at Creeks, Harbours and Bafins of Great Britain, to take Entries of Ships and Goods arriving from and bound to Ireland. [26th June 1816.] 7HEREAS it is expedient that the Officers of His Majesty's Customs at Creeks, Harbours and Bafins of Great Bitain, • should be authorized to take the Entries of Goods imported in Ships or Veffels arriving from Ireland, or intended to be laden on board Ships or Veffels bound to Ireland, fo far as refpects such • Produce of the United Kingdom as is permitted by Law to pass ⚫ from one Country to the other without Payment of Duty;' Be it therefore enacted by The King's Moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That it fhall and may be lawful for the Commiffioners Commiffioners of His Majesty's Cuftoms in England for the time of the Cuftoms being, or any Four or more of them, or for the Commiffioners of His may authorize the Principal Majefty's Customs in Scotland, or any Three or more of them, whenOfficers at ever and fo long as they may deem it proper, to authorize the Principal

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Coast Officer or Comptroller, or other Principal Officer of the Customs at any Creek, Harbour or Bafin of Great Britain, to take the Entries of Goods imported in any Ship or Veffel from Ireland, or intended to be laden on board any Ship or Vessel bound to Ireland, fo far as refpects fuch Produce of the United Kingdom as is permitted to pafs from one Country to the other without Payment of Duty.

ÍI. And it is hereby further enacted, That every Document, A&t valid as if taken and Deed, in refpect thereof, taken by and in the Prefence of such Officers, fhall be deemed and taken to be as valid and effectual to all Intents and Purposes, and fubject and liable to all Rules, Regulations, Restrictions, Penalties and Forfeitures, as if taken at the Custom House by and in the Prefence of the Collector and Comptroller of the Cuftoms at the Port to which fuch Creeks, Harbours and Bafins belong; any thing contained in any Act or Acts of Parliament to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.

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CA P. XCIV.

An Act to allow Makers of Oxygenated Muriatic Acid to take crushed Rock Salt, Duty free, for making fuch Acid or Oxymuriate of Lime, for bleaching Linen and Cotton.

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[26th June 1816.]

WHEREAS by an Act made in the Fifty fifth Year of the

Reign of His prefent Majesty, for (amongst other things) • allowing Makers of Oxygenated Muriatic Acid to take Salt, Duty free, for making fuch Acid or Oxymuriate of Lime, for bleaching Linen and Cotton; any Maker or Makers of Oxygenated Muriatic Acid, or Oxymuriate of Lime, in Great Britain, may • receive and have delivered to him, her or them, from and out of any Warehouse belonging and adjoining to any Salt Mine, Salt Pit, or Salt Work, or Salt Refinery, for making Oxygenated • Muriatic Acid, for the fole Purpose of bleaching Linen or Cotton • Cloth, or Linen and Cotton Cloth, or Linen or Cotton Yarn or Twift, or other Goods manufactured of Linen or Cotton, or to be ufed, employed, fpent or confumed in the making of Oxymuriate of Lime, for the fole Purpose of such bleaching as aforefaid, upon fuch Bond or Security as is prescribed and directed by that Act: And Whereas it is expedient to permit fuch Maker or Makers of Oxygenated Muriatic Acid, or Oxymuriate of Lime, for the fole Purpose aforefaid, to receive and have delivered to him, her or them, from and out of any Warehouse belonging and adjoining to any Salt Mine or Salt Pit, any crushed Rock Salt, for the fole Purpose aforefaid, upon fuch Bond as aforefaid;' Be it therefore enacted by The King's Moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Autho rity of the fame, That from and after the Fifth Day of July One Salt may be de- thoufand eight hundred and fixteen, it shall and may be lawful to kers of Oxgyenand for any Maker or Makers of Oxygenated Muriatic Acid, or ated Muriatic Oxymuriate of Lime, in Great Britain, to receive and have delivered Acid for Bleach- to him, her or them, from and out of any Warehoufe belonging and adjoining to any Salt Mine or Salt Pit, Salt Work or Salt Refinery, Regulations re- crushed Rock Salt for making Oxygenated Muriatic Acid for the

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fole Purpose of bleaching Linen or Cotton Cloth, or Linen and Cotton Cloth, or Linen or Cotton Yarn or Twist, or other Goods manufactured of Linen or Cotton, or to be used, employed, spent or confumed in the making of Oxymuriate of Lime, for the fole Purpofe of fuch bleaching as aforefaid, under and fubject to the several Provifions and Regulations prescribed and contained in the faid Act with refpect to the Salt fo received and delivered as aforefaid, as fully and effectually, as if the fame were repeated and contained in the prefent Act.

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II. And be it further enacted, That all Salt to be received and Salt to be mixed delivered to any Maker or Makers of Oxygenated Muriatic Acid, in Prefence of or Oxymuriate of Lime, under the Provifions of the faid laft recited Officer with A&t, for the Purposes aforefaid, fhall before fuch Delivery and after Black Manfuch Salt fhall have been weighed for that Purpose, be thoroughly ganese. mixed in the Prefence of the Officer with Powder of Black Manganese in the Proportion of Five Pounds of fuch Powder of Black Manganefe with every Bufhel of fuch Salt; and that the Officer fhall, in the Permit to be given for the Removal of fuch Salt, exprefs the Quantity of Salt only, fpecifying that fuch Salt has been mixed with Powder of Black Manganefe in the Proportion aforefaid; and Such mixed Salt that the Officer who shall afterwards attend the mixing of fuch Salt to be used in lieu with Vitriolic Acid and Manganefe and Water, as prefcribed by the of the Salt ufed faid Act, for the making of Oxygenated Muriatic Acid, fhall permit Act in preparing fuch Salt fo mixed as aforefaid to be used in lieu of genuine mere the Oxygenated chantable Salt, otherwife called Muriate of Soda, unmixed with any Muriatic Acid. Dirt, Rubbish or other extraneous Material or Ingredient whatfoever, and fit and proper for falting Provifion for the Food of Man, and fhall deduct Five Pounds Weight of Manganefe from the Weight of Manganefe directed by the faid A&t to be then mixed with every Fifty fix Pounds Weight of Salt, and fo in Proportion for any greater or lefs Quantity; and fuch Certificate of mixing fhall be granted in refpect of fuch Salt as is directed by the faid Act, in refpect of mixing genuine merchantable Salt; and no fuch Maker or Makers fhall be fubject in refpect of fuch Mixture of Powder of Black Manganefe with fuch Salt before the Delivery thereof as aforefaid to the Penalty impofed by the faid Act upon any fuch Maker or Makers, who fhall before the making of any Salt intended to be mixed with Vitriolic Acid, Manganese and Water, or with Vitriolic Acid and Manganefe, under or by virtue of the faid A&t, clandeftinely add to fuch Salt any extraneous or adulterating Material or Materials, or Subftance or Subftances whatsoever, any thing in the said A&t to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.

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III. Provided always, and be it enacted, That nothing in the faid Paper Makers recited A&t or in this Act contained, fhall prevent, or be conftrued not prevented to prevent, any Maker or Makers of Paper, from ufing in the from ufing Oxybleaching of Rags to be employed by fuch Maker or Makers of muriate of Lime Paper in the Manufacture of Paper, any Oxymuriate of Lime or Bleaching Liquor, made and prepared in the manner and according to the Directions, and by the Perfons entitled to make the fame, in and by the faid recited Act and this A&t made, mentioned and prescribed.

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CAP. XCV.

An Act to authorize fuch Person as His Majefty fhall appoint to transfer a certain Sum in Three Pounds per Cent. Re duced Annuities, now standing in the Name of the diffolved College of Hertford, in the University of Oxford; and also to receive Dividends due upon fuch Annuities.

[26th June 1816.]

7 HEREAS by the Laws in being, relative to the Transfer of Annuities transferrable at the Bank of England, Books are directed to be kept by the Accountant General of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England for the time being, wherein all Affignments or Transfers of fuch Annuities fhall be entered and registered, and fuch Entries are to be conceived in proper Words for that Purpose, and to be figned by the Parties making fuch Transfers, or, if fuch Party be abfent, by his or 'their refpective Attorney or Attornies thereunto lawfully autho rized, in Writing under his or their Hand and Seal, or Hands and Seals, to be attefted by Two or more credible Witneffes; and it is alfo declared, that no other Method of affigning and transferring fuch Annuities fhall be good or available in Law: And Whereas by an Inquifition taken at the City of Oxford, on the Fourth Day of May laft, by virtue of a Commiffion under the Great Seal of Great Britain, it was (amongst other things) found that Hert ford College, in the University of Oxford, on the Twenty eighth Day of June, in the Year One thoufand eight hundred and five, ⚫ became and was diffolved, and that the faid diffolved College at the time of its Diffolution was poffeffed of One thoufand Pounds Capital Stock in the Three per Cent. Reduced Bank Annuities, ftanding in the Names of the Principal and Fellows of Hertford College, Oxford, in the Books of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England; and that fince the Diffolution of the faid diffolved College the Dividends on the faid Sum of One thoufand Pounds Three per Cent. Reduced Bank Annuities had been, and ftill were in arrear and unpaid; and that the faid Stocks, Funds, Monies and Securities had efcheated and devolved, and did then belong to His Majesty, by virtue of His Prerogative Royal, and the fame were, by the Commiffioners in the faid Commiffion named, feized into the Hands of His Majefty; but by reafon of the Laws aforefaid there are no Means of making a Transfer of fuch Annuities, or of receiving the Arrears of Dividends due thereon, without the Authority of Parliament;' Be it therefore enacted by The King's Moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That it fhall and may be lawful for His Majefty, his Heirs and Succeffors, by Warrant under His or their Royal Sign Manual, to appoint and empower any Perfon or Perfons to affign and transfer the faid Sum of One thousand Pounds Capital Stock of Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities, into the Name of any other Perfon or duced Annuities Perfons, and alfo to receive all fuch Dividends as are or fhall be now standing in due and in arrear upon the faid Capital Stock, and to give proper diffolved College Receipts and Discharges for the fame; and fuch Perfon or Perfons

His Majesty may empower any Perfon to transfer the 1000l. Three per Cent. Re

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fo appointed and empowered as aforefaid may and fhall, and he and of Hertford, into 487 they is and are hereby authorized to affign and transfer the faid Sum the Names of of One thousand Pounds Capital Stock, now ftanding in the Books any other Perof the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, from the fons, and receive Name of the Principal and Fellows of Hertford College, Oxford, into the Name of any other Perfon or Perfons; and alfo to receive and give proper Receipts and Discharges for all fuch Dividends upon the faid Capital Stock, as are or fhall be due and in arrear; any Law, Ufage or Cuftom to the contrary notwithstanding.

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II. And be it further enacted, That the faid Governor and Com- Bank indempany of the Bank of England, and their Succeffors, fhall be, and nified. they are hereby held harmless and indemnified from and against all Claims and Demands of or by any Perfon or Perfons, Body or Bodies Politic or Corporate, for or by reafon or in confequence of the Transfer of the faid Sum of One thousand Pounds Three per Gent. Reduced Annuities, hereinbefore authorized and directed to be transferred, or in any manner refpecting the fame, or for or by reafon or in confequence of the Payment by the faid Governor and Company of the Bank of England, of the Dividends hereinbefore directed to be received; and the faid Governor and Company of the Bank of England fhall not be required to fee to the Application of the faid Dividends, nor be in any manner refponfible for the Mifapplication or Nonapplication thereof.

CAP. XCVI.

An Act for establishing an Agreement with the Governor and
Company of the Bank of England, for advancing the Sum
of Three Millions, for the Service of the Year One thou-
fand eight hundred and fixteen.
[26th June 1816.]

• Moft Gracious Sovereign,

WHEREAS the Governor and Company of the Bank of

England are willing and contented to advance the Sum of • Three Millions Sterling for the Public Service, in the manner and upon the Terms and Conditions hereinafter mentioned, upon the 'faid Governor and Company being authorized and empowered by • Parliament to increase their Capital Stock, which now confifts of Eleven millions fix hundred and forty-two thousand four hundred 'Pounds to Fourteen millions five hundred and fifty-three thou'fand Pounds, and that the propofed Encrease of Two millions 'nine hundred and ten thoufand fix hundred Pounds propriated amongst the Proprietors of Bank Stock at the Rate of may be apTwenty five Pounds for every One hundred Pounds of Bank Stock which they refpectively held on the Twenty-third Day of May 'One thoufand eight hundred and fixteen, and, until Repayment to the faid Governor and Company of the faid Sum of Three Millions, upon the Promiffory Notes of the faid Governor and • Company, expreffed to be payable to Bearer on Demand, being received in Payment of all Sums of Money which now are or fhall become payable for any Part of the Public Revenue, and being accepted by the Collectors, Receivers and other Officers of 'the Revenue authorized to receive the fame if offered to be fo paid, fractional Parts of Twenty Shillings only excepted; and ❝ that in confideration of the above propofed Encrease of the Capital Ii 4

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