like manner.

committed, in the fum of fifty pounds, with condition for his to offend in or their future good behaviour, and that he or they fhall not fend in like manner; and upon his or their failure or refufal On refufal, to to enter into fuch bond, that he or they fhall be committed to be committed the county-gaol where fuch offence was or fhall be done, until till fuch bond given. fach bond fhall be given; and that if fuch perfon or perfons if convicted fall at any time after his or their becoming bound, as aforefaid, after, the bond be convicted for any matter or thing in the faid ftatute, that to be forfeited, &c. her the faid bond fhall be deemed to be forfeited, and the peBy 5 Geo. 1. alty be recovered, with full costs of fuit, in any of the courts c. 28. juch ofWifiminfer, which faid penalties fhall be diftributed in the fenders are to ne manner as the forfeitures are by the faid ftatute to be di- be tranfported. ibuted, and the party or parties fo convicted fhall be likewife. able to the penalties and forfeitures in the faid ftatute.

&c. convicted

V. And whereas divers keepers of forefts, chafes and parks, in ab of the truft repofed in them, have been in confederacy with deerders, whereby they have been greatly encouraged: be it therefore acted by the authority aforefaid, That if any keeper or keep- Keeper es, or other officer of any foreft, chafe, purlieu, paddock, other officer od, park or place where deer are usually kept, fhall be con- of any forest, ted upon the faid ftatute for killing or taking away any red or of killing any low deer, or being aiding or affifting therein, without the deer without afent of the owner or perfons chiefly intrusted with the cufto- the owner's of fuch foreft, chafe, purlieu, paddock, wood, park or place confent, fhall forfeit 50 l. there fuch deer shall be killed or taken away, That then fuch for each deer; reper or keepers, or other officer, being fo convicted, fhall for- to be levied the fum of fifty pounds for each deer fo killed or taken a- by distress; y, to be levied by way of diftrefs upon his or their goods and tels, to be diftributed as the forfeitures in the said statute are

be diftributed; and for want of fuch diftrefs, that then he or

ey thall fuffer imprisonment for three years without bail or and for want nprize, and be fet in the pillory for two hours on fome mar- thereof to be t-day in the next adjoining town to the place where the offence imprisoned three years was committed, by the chief officer or officers of fuch market- and fet in the town, or by his or their under-officer or under-officers. pillory.

VI. And whereas by the faid ftatute of the third and fourth years 3 & 4 W. & M. King William and Queen Mary fuch perfons are only to be punish- c.10. with three months imprisonment, who do in the night-time pull tan or deftroy the pales or walls of any park, forest or other ground here deer are kept, which hath been found ineffectual to prevent hiefs of that nature: be it therefore enacted by the authority forefaid, That if any perfon or perfons shall at any time pull Perfons condown or destroy, or caufe to be pulled down or deftroyed, the victed of pullpale or pales or walls of any park, foreft, chafe, purlieu, pad- ing down the dock, wood or other ground inclofed, where any red or fallow pales, &c. of deer shall be then kept, without the confent of the owner or the any park, &c. perfon chiefly intrufted with the custody thereof, that fuch per- ject to the pefon or perfons fo offending, and being convicted thereof by con- nalties of 3 & feffion or by the oath of one or more credible witness or witneffes, 4 W. & M. before one or more juftice or justices of the peace of the fame. 10. for kill. county wherein the offence fhall be committed, fhall be fubject deer. ing any one

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fhall be fub

ven on falt fhall not be

unto the forfeitures and penalties by the faid ftatute inflicted for the killing of any one deer, in the fame manner as if he or they had been thereof convicted according to the said statute.

CAP. XVI.

An act for laying a duty of two pennies Scots, or one fixth part of a penny tterling, upon every pint of ale or beer that fhall be vended or fold within the town of Dunbar, for improving and preferving the harbour, and repairing the town houfe, and building a school, and other publick buildings there; and for fupplying the laid town' with fresh water. Continued by 10 Geo. 2. c. 4.

CAP. XVII.

An act for laying a duty of two pennies Scots, or one sixth part of a penny fterling, upon every pint of ale or beer that fhall be vended or fold within the town of Invernefs, and privileges thereof, for paying the debts of the faid town, and for building a church, and making a harbour there. Continued by 11 Geo. 2. c. 16.

CAP. XVIII.

An act for recovering the credit of the British fishery in foreign parts; and better fecuring the duties on falt.

WH HEREAS it is found by experience, that the allowances given by the feveral acts of parliament relating to the duties on falt upon the exportation of fish do much exceed the duty of falt ufed in curing the fame, which is fo far from being an encouragement to a fair trade, that it is rather an inducement to the curers and exporters of fish to commit feveral frauds, by curing the faid fifb in fo deficient a manner, that it will but just ferve the examination upon Shipping it off, and not keep good to foreign markets, to the great dif paragement of the British fishery, as well as diminution of his Majesty's Jaid duties: be it therefore enacted by the King'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 the authority of the fame, That the present allowThe present ances given by the laws relating to the duties upon falt upon the allowances gi; exportation of fifh fhall not be paid for any fish that fhall be exported from and after the four and twentieth day of June one thousand seven hundred and nineteen; but that the curers of fifh fhall from thenceforth be allowed to import foreign falt, or after 24 June, take from any falt-works or falt-pits, any fuch quantity of British falt, where the fame is allowed by law, for the curing of fish Curers of fish for exportation, as they fhall think proper for curing fish for fotion may ufe reign markets, without paying any duty to his Majefty for the foreign falt or fame, except the customs payable upon the importation thereof, fuch foreign falt being landed, or fuch British falt being taken without duty, from the faid falt-pits or falt-works and weighed in the prefence except the of an officer for the duties on falt; and fuch foreign or British cultoms. falt being lodged in a warehouse under the lock and key of the Such falt to be faid officer, as well as the proprietor of the faid falt: which foweighed and warehoufed. reign or British falt fo lodged as aforefaid fhall remain in the cuBy 6 Geo. 1. ftody of the faid officer jointly with the faid proprietor of the said c. 11. fect. 51. falt, during all the feveral intervals of the refpective fishing feaStock fo celfons; the proprietor or proprietors, or his or their agent or alared up may be turned gents, entring at the next office for the duty on falt the refpec

paid for any

h exported

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for exporta

British falt

tive quantities of foreign or British falt fo lodged by him or them, over as flock from time to time, as aforefaid; and the faid officer keeping an in band, &c. account of every refpective quantity of the faid falt fo entred and lodged in his cuftody as aforefaid; and that at the beginning of

8 Geo. 1. c. 4.

c.

Then the falt

every of the feveral fishing feafons the proprietor or proprietors At every fishof the faid falt, or his or their agent or agents, fhall make oath ing feafon in writing before the officer for the duty on falt, at the office proprietor to areft to the place where the faid falt is lodged, declaring the make oath of the quantity, antity of the foreign or British falt refpectively lodged as afore- and that it is ad; and that all the faid falt is intended for the curing of fish for curing fish fr exportation only, and fhall not by his or their order, con- for exportaEnt or connivance, directly or indirectly, be fold, given away tion only: any ways delivered, but for the purpofe aforefaid; after which tered and exThis claufe alcath fo made as aforefaid, and filed up by the faid officer in his plained, and fid office for the duty on falt as aforefaid, the officer in whofe farther proviit cuftody with the proprietor or proprietors, his or their a- fions made, ent or agents, the falt has continued during the interval of the f. 1, 4, 9, 10. thing feafon, fhall deliver into the fole cuftody of the faid pro- & 8 Geo. 1. prietor or proprietors, his or their agent or agents, all the faid c. 16. f. 1. & for the curing of fish taken during the faid fishing feafon; 11 Geo. 1. nd that at the end of every fishing feafon the officer for the faid C. 30. f. 41, 42. ry on falt fhall take a particular account of the quantities of fo- to be delivergn and Britifbfalt respectively remaining in hand; which remain- ed to the profalt thall be immediately locked up in the joint cuftody of prietor. te faid officer and proprietor or proprietors, his or their agent agents as aforefaid; and the faid proprietor or proprietors, his their agent or agents, of the faid falt, ufing the faid falt as arefaid fhall, as foon as poffible, after the end of every fishing After fishing on, deliver alfo an account in writing into the faid office for season an ache duty on falt as aforefaid, containing the quantity of fish ex- count to be orted or entred and shipped to be exported, on which the falt taken of the remaining ten away after its delivery into the fole cuftody of the said pro- falt, and to be ietor or proprietors, his or their agent or agents, has been warehoufed. ed or confumed, together with a certificate or certificates by Proprietor to te proper officers of the feveral ports where the faid fish were give an acpped for exportation, verifying the faid account; which cer- quantity of cates the faid officers are hereby directed to give gratis ; which fish exported bad account, delivered into the faid office as aforefaid, fhall be on which the Ermed by the oath of the faid proprietor or proprietors using falt was used, te faid falt as aforefaid, or his or their agent or agents who have ed the fame, and fhall remain in the faid office, to the end at the quantity of fith cured for exportation and the quantity of falt ufed in curing the faid fish may, from time to time, apar upon oath, and be compared together; and in cafe any of the faid falt fhall be delivered over to any other perfons, and Salt delivered 'ed by them in curing of fish, the feveral quantities of falt fo de- over to any vered over shall be expreffed in the faid account; and each per- accounted for. fon to whom fuch falt fhall be fo delivered, or his agent, fhall sewife upon oath make another account of the particular quanty of fuch falt ufed by each of them in the curing of fish fo exported or fhipped for exportation as aforefaid; which faid account,

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&c.

other to be

Penalty.

Every bufhel of falt taken out of the cel

lars, and not accounted for, forfeits 20s.

count, together with proper certificates as aforefaid, fhall likewife be tranfmitted into the office aforefaid, there to remain for the purposes above-mentioned: but if fuch proprietor or proprietors, his or their agent or agents, or any other person or perfons to whom any quantity of falt fhall be by them delivered over as aforefaid fhall, for the fpace of fix months after the end of every respective fishing season, neglect or refuse to deliver fuch account attefted upon oath as aforefaid, fuch proprietor or proprietors, and fuch other perfon or perfons as aforefaid, fhall for every fuch offence forfeit forty pounds.

II. And to the end that no part of the falt delivered into the fole cuftody of the proprietor or proprietors thereof, or of his or their agent or agents, or by them to any other perfons, for the curing of fib for exportation only, during the faid feveral fishing feafons, may be fold, given away or otherwife delivered or ufed, directly or indirectly, but for the purpofe aforefaid; and to obviate the frauds which the publick revenue would otherwife be expofed to by the prefent relaxation of the former laws and the indulgence intended hereby to the fair trader: be it enacted by the authority aforefaid, That for every bufhel of falt fo taken out of the cellars or falt-works, which fhall not be accounted for in the manner above-mentioned, by the oaths of the perfons and proper certificates, or by certificate from the juftices of the peace at the quarter-feffions, that proof was there made that fuch falt was put on board any boat or vesfel for curing of fish at fea, and was there taken by enemies or otherwife loft or perifhed at fea, or fhall not be returned into or found remaining at the end of every fishing season in the cellars or warehouses as aforefaid, the proprietor or proprietors thereof, his or their agent or agents who took out the fame, or the perfon or perions to whom the fame or any part thereof was delivered for curing of fish as aforefaid, fhall respectively, according to each of their refpective quantities with which they stand Such falt fold, accountable, forfeit and pay the fum of twenty fhillings; and given away, every fuch perfon felling, giving away, ufing or delivering any ufedor bought, fuch falt, or confenting or being any ways privy to the felling, for curing fish, giving away, ufing or delivering fuch falt, directly or indiforfeits zos. rectly, otherwife than for the purposes aforefaid, thall forfeit,

otherwife than

the bufhel.

pay and undergo the penalties and punishments herein aftermentioned; that is to fay, every proprietor of fuch falt, or his agent, for every buthel of fuch falt fo fold, given away, ufed or delivered, fhall forfeit and pay the fum of twenty fhillings; one third part thereof to the ufe of his Majefty, his heirs and fucceffors, and the remainder thereof to fuch person that shall inform or fue for the fame; and every other perfon buying, taking or using any fuch falt, otherwife than for the purposes aforefaid and in the manner aforefaid, fhall forfeit and pay the fum of twenty fhillings for every buthel of falt fo bought, delivered or used, and after that rate for a greater or leffer quantity; one third part thereof for the ufe of his Majefty, his heirs and fucceffors, and the remainder thereof to fuch person or perfons that shall inform or fue for the fame: which faid fums or penalties

nalties fhall be levied in fuch manner as other penalties herein after-mentioned are to be levied; or in default of payment of In default of fuch fums, within fourteen days after conviction of fuch crime, payment offender to be and where no fufficient effects can be found to answer the fame, fent to the the perfon or perfons fo offending fhall be fent to the house of house of corcorrection, there to be whipp'd, and kept to hard labour for any rection. time not exceeding three months.

III. And for preventing the imbezilling of falt lodged under the lock and key of the officer and proprietors during the intervals of the refpective fishing feafons; be it enacted by the authority aforefaid, That for every bushel of such falt fo lodged, Salt wanting which fhall either be carried away or fhall be found wanting at at re-deliverthe re-delivering thereof into the fole cuftody of the proprietors, ing forfeits reasonable allowances for the wafte of fuch falt being firft made, 20s. the the faid proprietor or proprietors fhall forfeit twenty fhillings.

bufhel.

bufhel.

IV. And for preventing any frauds, imbezilments or mifapplication of any foreign falt after it is imported or landed, and before it is cellared and ftored up under the joint cuftody of the proprietor and the officer for the falt-duties for curing of fish for exportation as aforefaid, and of any British falt after its being weighed and taken away from the falt-works or falt-pits of Great Britain, and before it is stored and locked up by the proprietor and the officer for the falt-duties for curing of fish for exportation, as before-mentioned; be it enacted by the authority aforefaid, That any perfon or perfons who, from and after the Foreign falt four and twentieth day of June one thousand seven hundred and imbezilled afnineteen, fhall take away, imbezil or mifapply any foreign falt ter importaafter the importation or landing thereof, and before it is cellared tion and beand stored up for the curing of fifh as above-mentioned, fhall forfeits 205. fore cellaring, forfeit and pay the fum of twenty fhillings for every bufhel of the bushel, at foreign falt fo taken away, imbezilled or mifapplied, 'reckoning 84lb. to the fuch foreign falt at eighty and four pounds weight to the bushel, and fo in proportion for a greater or lefs quantity; and any per- British falt imfon or perfons who, from and after the faid four and twentieth bezilled forday of June one thousand seven hundred and nineteen, fhall feits 10s. the bufhel, at 56lb, take away, imbezil or mifapply any British falt after it is weigh- to the bushel. ed at and carried from any falt-work or falt-pit in Great Britain, and before it is brought unto and locked up in any cellar or ftorehouse by the proprietor and the officer for the falt-duties, for the curing of fish, as directed by this act, every fuch perfon or perfons fhall forfeit and pay the fum of ten fhillings for every bushel of British falt fo taken away, imbezilled or mifapplied, reckoning fuch British falt at fifty and fix pounds weight to the bushel, and fo in proportion for a greater or lefs quantity. V. And whereas confiderable quantities of foreign and British falt, as alfo fome quantities of falt which has already been laid on fish, and returned unconfumed, defigned for the curing of fifb, the duties whereof are paid or fecured to be paid, are in the hands of several perfons, dealers in fifb, which quantities of falt ought to be returned under the lock and key of the officers of the duties on falt in England and the officers of the customs in Scotland, and the duties thereof re

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