employed to no other use and all the Orders or Warrants for the disposal thereof contrary to the intent of this Act to be void XI The provision hereby made for the payment of the said Interest-Mony for ever shall be in full satisfaction of the Debts and Interest thereof due to the said Orphans and Creditors and they are to acknowledge satisfaction of their respective Debts according to the usuall Custom paying such Fees to the Officers concerned as the Mayor and Court of Aldermen shall appoint not exceeding thirteen shillings and four pence for every thousand pounds The City hereby discharged Books to be kept of the Receipts and Disbursements Access thereto gratis from 9 to 12 in the Forenoon The Receipts and Payments to be yearly audited The Auditors Fees and the City and their Successors are hereby acquitted of the same XII The Chamberlain shall provide or keep one or more Book or Books of Vellum or Parchment of the Receipts and likewise of the Disbursements by virtue of this Act whereto all Persons may have free access to view the same between the hours of nine and twelve in the Forenoon without any Fee or Reward And the Receipts and Payments of all the Monies aforesaid shall be audited yearly upon Oath before one of the Auditors of the Imprest which Oath the said Auditors are hereby required to administer between Michaelmas Day and Saint Thomas the Apostle and for every thousand pounds the Accompts shall amount to the Auditor shall receive of the Chamberlain twenty shillings and no more The Accompts so audited shall be signed by the said Auditor and also allowed by the Mayor and Court of Aldermen and fairly entred and remain in the Chamber of the City to be perused and viewed XIII If any Chamberlain of the City Penalty of misimploying or other Person shall after Receipt of any the said Monies divert or misapply the same he shall forfeit treble the Sum so misapplied to be recovered by any the Orphans or Creditors that will sue for the same in any of their Majesties Courts of Record XIV The Chamberlain and Common Serjeant of the City upon request shall give unto every of the said Orphans and Creditors and their respective Executors Administrators or Assigns Liberty of assigning a Bill or Note in Writing of the Principal Debt or Interest owing to them And any Person to whom any Mony is payable by this Act may by Writing under his Hand and Seal transfer his Right and Interest therein to be registred in a Book to be kept by the Mayor and Court of Aldermen and the Note or Bill of the said Debt being delivered up to the Officer appointed by the Court of Aldermen for that purpose he shall give his Note or Bill in Writing of the Debt so assigned to the Party to whom such Assignment is made and such Assignee shall be entituled to the benefit thereof and may assign toties quâ—â—ies Assignments irrevocable And it shall not be in the Power of such Persons who have made such Assignments to release or discharge the same or the Monies thereby assigned XV. Orphans not compellable to bring in their Mony to the Chamber No Person shall be obliged or compelled by virtue of any Custom within the said City or by Order or Process of the Court of Orphans to pay into the Chamber any Sum of Mony or Personal Estate due or to be due or belonging to an Orphan of any Freeman any Law or Usage inforcing the same notwithstanding But this not to be construed to extend to impeach or prevent Process upon any Recognizance already given according to the Custom XVI The City answerable for their Officers defaults If the Corporation of the City or any of their Officers or other Person by colour of any Warrant or Authority from them misapply or convert to their own use any of the Sums hereby appropriated the Corporation shall be answerable for the same out of their Revenues in any Action to be brought by any of the said Orphans or Creditors the Sum recovered to be to the uses aforesaid and the Costs to the Party suing The Amerciaments Fines on such Suits to the use of the City Fines and Distresses upon the Corporation upon the Account of such Suit to be to the uses aforesaid and not to be pardoned or acquitted by their Majesties XVII Provided on Application made to the Mayor and Court of Aldermen by the Executors or Administrators of the Father of such Orphan to pay in or lodge any Sum of Mony of such Orphan in the said Chamber and to have the benefit of the said provision hereby made It shall be lawful for the said Mayor and Aldermen to pay off the like Sum to such Person entituled to the said yearly Payments as aforesaid as they think fit not being Orphans under the Age of twenty one years of Age and giving three months notice to or for the Person so to be paid off at the end of which three months upon payment or tender of the said Monies due for Principal and Interest to or for the Person to whom such notice shall be given according to the provision hereby made at the Office of the said Chamberlain in Guildhall that from thenceforth the Annual Sum of Mony payable to such Person to whom such notice payment or tender shall be made shall cease and determine and the same shall become due and payable to or for the use of such Orphan who shall have paid in the Monies for the same and shall be registred accordingly and be assignable as aforesaid yet the Monies so tendred shall be paid to such Persons upon their demand of the same and assigning or giving a Discharge for the same And the provision hereby made shall remain a perpetual Fond for the benefit of the Orphans of the said City successively XVIII Debts mortgaged redeemable upon payment of Principal and Interest Provided it be within 3 years after this Session of Parliament If any such Debts due to any of the said Orphans have at any time before the said 25th day of December been mortgaged or covenanted to be so they are redeemable and shall be redeemed upon payment of the Principal Mony paid in consideration of making the Mortgage with the Charges and Interest for the same from the time of payment thereof after the rate of eight pounds per Cent. per Annum for one year discounting for what hath been received for the said Debt And upon payment or tender of Principal Interest and Charges the Security concerning the same to be void But such Redemption is to be made within three years after the end of this present Session of Parliament XIX Contracts with Solicitors void Solicitors to be paid at the discretion of the Mayor and Aldermen Their Forfeiture if they take more All Securities given by the Orphans to any Agents or Solicitors to obtain Payments of their Debts by Act of Parliament or
Customs shall charge every Master of any Vessel in his Victualling Bill with so much Beer Ale Cyder or Mum and no more as such number of men use to spend in such Voyages the Excise whereof to be recovered according to the Laws established III. The said Rate of One Shilling the Tun for Beer c. Exported shall be levied and paid under such Rules and Penalties and for such time and in such manner as by the Laws of Tonnage and Poundage are ordained IV. No Mum Imported during the continuance of this Act shall have any part of the Custom or Excise repaid upon Exportation Butter and Cheese I. Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 7. After any Factor or Buyer hath bought Butter or Cheese and approved the same the Seller shall not afterwards be chargeable with any Penalties in the Act of the 14 Car. 2. Entituled An Act for Reforming Abuses in Weighing and false Packing of Butter II. Such Factor or Buyer shall set his Seal or Mark or Name at length on the Cask in which such Butter is and in case the same be afterward exchanged or opened and the Cask changed or bad Butter pack'd up and mix'd with good or any Fraud be committed by the Seller the Offender being convicted upon Oath before one or more Justices of Peace or upon his own Confession shall forfeit Twenty Shillings for every such Ferkin and Offence to be levied by Distress and Sale of the Offenders Goods restoring the Overplus after Charges defrayed And Constables of Parishes and Chief Constables of Hundreds are hereby authorized to levy the same by Warrant under Hand and Seal of such Justice or Justices III. Warehouse-keepers Weighers Searchers or Shippers of Butter and Cheese in any Port within this Kingdom shall receive all Butter and Cheese that shall be brought to them for any Cheesemonger free of the City of London or any other making the said Commodities and take care thereof till the same can be shipped and shall ship it successively as it comes to their hands on the next Vessel that shall come to lade Butter and Cheese for London Except the Owners order the contrary and shall receive of the Owners Two Shillings and Six pence for every Load and no more and so proportionably And if any such Persons or their Servants shall refuse to receive such Goods or to take due care thereof or to ship them successively as aforesaid they shall forfeit being convicted in manner aforesaid for every Ferkin of Butter Ten Shillings and for every Weigh of Cheese Five Shillings to be levied as aforesaid IV. Warehouse-keepers Weighers c. shall keep Books and enter therein all Butter and Cheese that shall be brought to them as it comes with the time when received the quantity and and Owners Name and when the Goods are shipp'd off shall make Entries of the time when shipped the Master's Name the Vessels Name and to whom consigned Which Book shall be open for all Persons to see and search gratis And if any Ware-house-keeper c. shall not keep such Book or not make Entries as aforesaid or undue Entries or refuse in the day-time to produce the Book to be searched such Offenders being convict in manner aforesaid shall forfeit for every Firkin of Butter Two Shillings and Six pence and for every Weigh of Cheese Two Shilling and Six pence and for every other the aforesaid Offences Two Shillings and Six pence to be levied as aforesaid and for want of Goods to levy the Penalty the Justice before whom such Conviction shall be made may commit the Offender to Goal till the Penalties be satisfied V. If Masters of Vessels coming to lade Butter and Cheese or their Servants refuse to take on Board any such Butter and Cheese as shall be tendred to be shipped by any such Warehouse-keeper c. before their Vessels be laden they shall forfeit being convict as aforesaid for every Firkin of Butter so refused Five Shillings and for every Weigh of Cheese Two shillings and Six pence to be levied as aforesaid VI. One half of the Forfeitures within this Act to go to the Poor of the Parish and the other half to the Informer VII This Act shall not exclude Cheesemongers free of the City of London from sending their own Vessels or such as they shall hire for their own Goods VIII Nothing in this Act shall extend to the Counties of Chester and Lancaster nor to the County of the City of Chester IX Persons aggrieved by the Determination of any Justice of Peace may appeal to the next General Quarter-Sessions whose Determination shall be final The Person appealing first giving to the Party accused a Bond of Twenty Pounds Penalty with one or more Sureties to the liking of the Justice of Peace to pay such Costs as shall be allowed in case the Appellant be not relieved the said Costs to be paid within a Month after the determining the Appeal Cattel I. Stat. 3 4 W. M cap. 8. It shall be lawful for any Persons native or foreign at any time to ship and transport into any part of the World in Amity with Their Majesties Beef Pork or Hogs-flesh Butter Cheese or Candles free from any Custom or Imposition whatsoever Chancellor I. Stat. Ann. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 21. Commissioners to be appointed to execute the Office of Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England for the time being may use and exercise all and every the same and like Offices Authority Jurisdiction and Execution of Laws and other Customs Priviledges Emoluments and Advantages which the Lord Chancellor of England or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of right ought to use have and execute as belonging to their Offices or otherwise and shall have and take place next after the Peers of this Realm and Speaker of the House of Commons unless any of them shall happen to be a Peer and then to take place accordingly II. Any one Commissioner may hear Motions and give Orders touching Interlocutory Proceedings so as such one Commissioner in the absence of the others shall not make Decrees or put the Great Seal to any thing unless there be two present III. The nominating and appointing of the Custos Rotulorum in all Shires and Counties shall be as is directed by a Statute made in the 37 year of K. Hen. 8. IV. The Custos Rotulorum or other person to whom of right it doth belong shall from time to time nominate and appoint the Clerk of the Peace V. If any Clerk of the Peace shall misdemean himself in his Office the Justices of Peace in their General Quarter-Sessions or the Major part of them upon Complaint in Writing exhibited against him may upon Examination and due Proof thereof suspend or discharge him And in such case the Custos Rotulorum or other person to whom of Right it shall belong shall appoint another person residing within such County c. to be Clerk of the Peace in
such Lights within the City and Liberties for one and twenty years from the 24th day of June 1694. at the Rent of six hundred pounds yearly to be reserved to be appropriated towards raising such a Fond and payment of the said Interest-mony And after that Term expired the Profits whatsoever that shall be made by granting Licenses to lighten the Streets shall be appropriated and applied to the uses aforesaid V. Every Apprentice after 24th of June 1694 to pay 2 s. 6 d. at his being bound to be transmitted to the Chamberlain on penalty of 5 l. 5 s. to be paid by every one admitted a Freeman 4 s. ê™ Tun on Wine imported The Collector to be appointed by the Mayor and Aldermen For the increase of the Fond every Apprentice after the 24th day of June 1694. when he is bound shall pay two shillings and six pence to the Master or Wardens of such Company as his Master is Member of to be by the said Master and Wardens transmitted to the Chamberlain of the City to be employed for the uses aforesaid upon the Penalty of five pounds for every Sum not so transmitted to be recovered in the Name of the Chamberlain And Books of Vellum or Parchment to be kept in the Common Halls of such Payments for any Person to inspect gratis VI. And every Person after the said 24th day of June 1694. when he is admitted a Freeman shall pay the Sum of five shillings the said several Sums of two shillings and six pence and five shillings to be paid over and above the usual Fees VII Also every Importer shall pay a Duty of four shillings per Tun upon all sorts of Wine imported after the said 24th day of June 1694. into the Port of the City of London or the Members thereof by way of Merchandize over and above the present Duties and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity The Collector to be appointed by the Mayor and Court of Aldermen And the said Imposition to be paid in the same manner and by such Rules and under such Penalties as are provided in an Act of Parliament made in the 12th year of King Charles II. Entituled A Subsidy granted to the King of Tonnage and Poundage c. VIII 4 d. for meetage of every Chaldron of Coals after the 29th of June 1694 After the 29th of Sept. 1700 6 d. ê™ Chaldron or Tun to continue for 50 years To be paid by the Owner of the Vessel There shall be paid for all such sort of Coals or Culm as are usually sold by the Chaldron imported into the Port of London or Members thereof after the 24th day of June 1694. for every Chaldron thereof the Sum of four pence Meetage for ever over and above what is now paid to be paid as the present Duty of Meetage is And after the 29th day of September 1700. the farther Sum of six pence And for such Coals as are sold by the Tun for every Tun thereof containing two thousand Weight the like Sum of six pence which shall continue from the said 29th day of September for fifty year and no longer to be paid by the Master or Owner of the Ship or Vessel whereupon they are laden before they shall break Bulk or have a Meeter assigned at such place as the Mayor and Court of Aldermen shall appoint within the City or Liberties for Receipt thereof upon receipt whereof the Party appointed to receive the same shall without delay gratis deliver a Receipt which shall be a sufficient Discharge How to be collected And the same Imposition of six pence per Chaldron shall be collected and levied in such manner and in every respect as in and by one Act made in the 19th year of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for the rebuilding the City of London the Imposition of Coals thereby granted was to be collected and levied And the Powers and Directions for that Act shall be exercised for the collecting of the said Duty of six pence as if particularly expressed in this during all the time it is payable The Monies to be paid into the receipt of the Chamber Collectors to give reasonable security All Sums of Mony as part of the said Fond are to be paid into the Receipt of the Chamber and are hereby appropriated for the raising the said Fond and applied towards the discharge of the said Debts And every Person that shall be concerned in the Receipt of any of the Sums so appropriate before he take upon him the execution of such Office shall find Sureties in such reasonable Sum as by the Mayor and Court of Aldermen shall be thought fitting for the faithful execution of such Office IX After the expiration of 6 d. per Chaldron the City revenues liable for 6000 l. ê™ ann besides the 8000 l. per ann The Mony raised by this Act to be applied for the payment of 4 l. per Cent. due the 25th of Dec. 1693 And also for the payment of 4 l. per Cent. from between the 25th of Dec. 1655 and the 25th of Dec. 1693 The payments to be made twice a year at St. Thomas and St. John Baptist or within 14 days after The perpetual Interest to be in full satisfaction of the principal Debt After the said Imposition of six pence shall determine all the Revenues of the City of London in possession or reverson shall stand and be charged with the full yearly Sum of six thousand pounds over and above the said yearly Sum of eight thousand pounds in like manner appropriated as the yearly Sum of eight thousand pound was X. And all the Rents Impositions and Sums of Mony by this Act applied to be charged raised or paid after reasonable Salaries and Allowances deducted for ever shall be applied for the payment of the Annual Sum of four pounds for the Interest of every hundred pound and proportionably for a greater or lesser Sum of the above-mentioned respective Debts and all the Interest thereof due on the 25th day of December 1693. to any Orphan of the City or the Executors c. of such Orphan And also for the payment of the like yearly Interest of four pounds for every hundred pound principal Mony and the Interest thereof to be computed as aforesaid due at any time between the said 25th day of December 1655. and the said 25th day of December 1693. upon Bond Bill or Note liable to pay Interest from the said City unto any Person or Persons or to so much thereof only as the Monies appointed by this Act to be raised and paid shall yearly amount unto to satisfie and pay towards the Interest to the said Orphans and Creditors equally in proportion to their respective Interests The Payments to be made twice in every year upon St. Thomas Day and St. John Baptists or within fourteen days after The first payment to be made on St. Thomas Day 1694. or within fourteen days after The said Monies to be