'ters and Packets to and from Buenos Ayres, or any other Port For every Single Letter, One Shilling and Three Pence : Rates of Postage to be taken for the Convey ance of Letters or Packets to or from Saint Domingo. And for the Port and Conveyance of all and every the Letters and Rates to or For every Single Letter, Two Shillings and One Penny : I 2 And Rates to be paid when the Letters are put into the Post Office. Powers of Acts Post Office extended to this Act. And for every Ounce in Weight, Eight Shillings and Four Pence; and so in proportion for every Packet or Letter above the Weight of an Ounce. II. And be it further enacted, That the several Rates of Postage, chargeable and payable under and by virtue of this Act for the Port of Letters and Packets from the said United Kingdom to Saint Domingo or Cuba aforesaid, shall, in addition to and together with any Inland Rates to which such Letters and Packets may be liable, be paid on putting the same into the Post Office of the Town or Place in Great Britain or Ireland, from whence any such Letter is intended to be sent by the Post. III. And be it further enacted, That all and every the Clauses, relating to the Provisions, Powers, Privileges, Advantages, Disabilities, Penalties, Forfeitures, and Distribution thereof, and all other Matters and Things contained in any Act or Acts of Parliament in force at the Time of the passing of this Act, relating to the Post Office, or any Rates or Duties payable on the Port or Conveyance of Letters or Packets, and not repealed or altered by this Act, shall, so far as the same are applicable, continue in force and be applied and extended, and shall be construed to apply and extend to this present Act, and to the Rates and Duties hereby granted, as fully and effectually, to all Intents and Purposes, as if the same had been particularly repeated and re-enacted in the Body of this Act. Money arising by the Rates to be carried to Consolidated Fund. General Issue. Treble Costs. IV. And be it further enacted, That the Monies to arise by the Rates and Duties aforesaid (except the Monies which shall be necessary to defray such Expences as shall be incurred in the Management and Collection of the same) shall be paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer at Westminster, and be carried to and made Part of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. V. And be it further enacted, That if any Person or Persons shall be at any Time or Times sued, molested, or prosecuted, for any Thing by him, her, or them done or executed in pursuance of this Act, or of any Clause, Matter, or Thing herein contained, such Person and Persons shall and may plead the General Issue, and give the Special Matter in Evidence for his, her, or their Defence; and if upon the Trial a Verdict shall pass for the Defendant or Defendants, or the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs shall become nonsuited, then such Defendant or Defendants shall have Treble Costs awarded to him, her, or them, against such Plaintiff or Plaintiffs. CA P. VII. An Act for continuing to His Majesty for One Year certain Most Gracious Sovereign, WE E, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Ireland, Ireland, in Parliament assembled, towards raising the necessary 'Supplies to defray Your Majesty's public Expences, have freely and voluntarily resolved. to give and grant unto Your Majesty the Duties hereinafter mentioned: And Whereas by an Act 38G.3. c. 60. passed in the Thirty eighth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for making perpetual, subject to Redemption and Purchase in the Manner therein • stated, the several Sums of Money now charged in Great Britain as a Land Tax for One Year, from the Twenty fifth Day of ⚫ March One thousand seven hundred and ninety eight, the several and respective Sums of Money charged by virtue of an Act of 38G.3.c.5. the same Session of Parliament, intituled An Act for granting an "Aid to His Majesty by a Land Tax to be raised in Great Britain, for the Service of the Year One thousand seven hundred and ninety eight, on any Manors, Messuages, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments in Great Britain are, after the Twenty fifth Day of < March One thousand seven hundred and ninety nine, continued ⚫ and made perpetual, with a Provision that the several Sums of Money charged upon Estates in ready Money, Debts, Goods, Wares, Merchandize, or Personal Estates, or upon any Person or Persons in respect of any Public Office or Employment of < Profit, or any Salaries, Gratuities, Bounty Monies, Rewards, Fees, Profits, Perquisites, Advantages, Pensions, Annuities, Stipends, or yearly Payments in the said Act mentioned, should, after the Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand seven hun⚫dred and ninety nine, be ascertained, raised, levied, collected, and paid according to the Directions of any Act or Acts to be passed for that Purpose: And Whereas the Sums of Money and Duties last mentioned have been from time to time continued by divers Acts of Parliament, and are now in force until the Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and twenty seven;' Therefore we, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, do most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the several and respective sums of Money and Duties which shall have been or shall be charged upon Estates in ready Money, Debts, Goods, Wares, Merchandize, Chattels, or other Personal Estate, by virtue of the said Act passed in the Thirty eighth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, for granting an Aid to His Majesty by a Land Tax, and also the several Sums of Money and Duties which by virtue of the said recited Act, made in the Thirty eighth Year of His said late Majesty's Reign, for granting an Aid to His Majesty by a Land Tax, were charged in respect of any Public Offices or Employments, or any Annuities, Pensions, Stipends, or other annual Payments, and which have been continued and are in force until the Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and twenty seven, shall be continued and raised, levied, collected and paid unto His present Majesty within the Space of One Year from the said Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and twenty seven. I 3 II. And Duties charged on Personal Offices, and Pensions by recited Acts further continued. The several 6G.4. c.9. for ascertaining and regulating the Duties, ex tended to this Act. Duties on Sugar by 7G.4. c. 48. continued until July 5, 1828. Monies paid into the Exche quer under this Act shall be entered separate from other Payments. The Officers of the Exchequer to stop the Duties hereby II. And be it further enacted, That the several Clauses and Provisions contained in an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act for continuing to His Majesty for One Year certain Duties on Personal Estates, Offices, and Pensions in England; and also for granting certain Duties on Sugar imported; for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and twenty five, for the ascertaining, assessing, taxing, regulating, paying, and accounting for the Duties on Personal Estates, Offices, and Pensions, shall extend and be construed to extend to the Duties on Personal Estates, Offices, and Pensions hereby granted and continued, except where other Provisions are made by this Act; and that the several Clauses and Provisions in the said Act contained, which relate or refer to any Day or Time within or during or before or after the Year commencing from the Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and twenty six, shall extend and be construed to relate to the like Days and Times within or during or before or after the Year commencing from the Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and twenty seven, in like Manner as by the said recited Act is directed with reference to the Year One thousand eight hundred and twenty six, and as if the several Clauses and Provisions in the said recited Act contained were repeated and reenacted in this present Act. III. And Whereas by an Act passed in the last Session of 'Parliament, intituled An Act to alter and amend the several Laws relating to the Customs, and by a Table contained in the said Act, several Duties on Sugar, Brown or Muscovado, or Clayed, not being refined, were made payable until the Fifth Day of July 'One thousand eight hundred and twenty seven;' Be it enacted, That the several Duties made payable on such Sugar by the said Act, and the Table contained in the said Act, shall be and the same are hereby further continued, from and after the Expiration of the Time limited as aforesaid, until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty eight. IV. And be it further enacted, That there shall be provided and kept in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer at Westminster, One Book of Register, in which all the Money that shall be paid into the said Exchequer for the said Rates and Duties hereby granted or continued on Personal Estates, and on Offices and Employments of Profit, Pensions, Annuities, and Stipends, and from so much of the said Duties on Sugar as shall arise and be payable in Great Britain, shall be entered and registered apart and distinct from all other Monies paid and payable to His Majesty; and that it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of the Treasury to issue and apply the same from time to time to such Services as shall then have been voted by the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in this present Session of Parliament; and that so much of the said Duties on Sugar as shall arise and be payable in Ireland shall be paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer there, and shall be carried to the Consolidated Fund. V. Provided always, and be it enacted, That no assessment shall be made by any Commissioner or Commissioners, Assessor or Assessors of the Land Tax, or otherwise, on or in respect of General of the Land Tax. of the Duties hereby granted on Annuities, Pensions, Stipends, granted out of Fees, Salaries, Wages, Allowances, Profits, or other yearly Pay- Annuities, ments whatsoever payable at the Receipt of His Majesty's Ex- Pensions, &c. chequer; nor shall any such Duties be collected or received by payable at the Exchequer, any Collector of the Land Tax, or included in the Parchment and pay the or other Duplicates, as heretofore; but all and, every such An- same over to nuities, Pensions, Stipends, Fees, Salaries, Wages, Allowances, the Receiver Profits, or other yearly Payments, shall be and they are hereby respectively charged, assessed, and taxed with the Duties hereby granted or continued, at the same annual Rate and to the like Amount as the same were respectively rated, charged, and assessed under the said recited Act of the Sixth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, or under any other Act or Acts; and the proper Officer or Officers in the said Exchequer shall, and he and they is and are hereby respectively directed, authorized, and empowered from Time to Time to stop and detain such Duties out of the said Annuities, Pensions, Stipends, Fees, Salaries, Wages, Allowances, Profits, or other yearly Payments or Arrears thereof, without any other or further Authority than the Provisions of this Act, and to all Intents as if such Duties had been brought into Assessment as heretofore, any Thing in this Act or in any other Act or Acts contained to the contrary thereof notwithstanding; and every such Officer or Officers shall, and he and they is and are hereby required from time to time to pay over the said Duties so stopped to the Receiver General of the Land Tax authorized to receive the same, and to render true Lists and Accounts thereof gratis to the Commissioners for the Affairs of Taxes, so that such Receiver General may be duly charged therewith. VI. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, at any Time or Times when they shall think fit so to do, to cause or direct any Number of Exchequer Bills to be made out at the Receipt of the Exchequer at Westminster, for any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the Whole, including any Sum or Sums of Money issued towards the Aids or Supplies in pursuance of this Act, the Sum of Three Millions, in the same or like Manner, Form, and Order, and according to the same or like Rules and Directions as are directed and prescribed in and by an Act made in the Forty eighth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for regulating the issuing and paying off of Exchequer Bills. VII. And be it further enacted, That all and every the Clauses, Provisoes, Powers, Privileges, Advantages, Penalties, Forfeitures, and Disabilities contained in the said recited Act, made in the Forty eighth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act for regulating the issuing and paying off of Exchequer Bills, shall be applied and extended to the Exchequer Bills to be made in pursuance of this Act, as fully and effectually, to all Intents and Purposes, as if the said several Clauses or Provisoes had been particularly repeated and re-enacted in the Body of this Act. VIII. And be it further enacted, That the Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act shall and may bear an Interest not exceeding the Rate of Four Pounds I 4 The Treasury may direct Exchequer Bills to be made out, not exceeding 3,000,000l. Powers of 48G.3. c.l. extended to this Act. Exchequer per Centum per Annum Interest not |