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For encouraging the Linen Manufacture of Ireland, and bringing Flax and Hemp into, and the making of Sail-cloth in England. |
7 & 8 W. III. c. 39. |
156 |
Natives of England and Ireland may import into England, from Ireland, Hemp,Thread, Yarn, &c. free from Duty, on Certificate as herein mentioned, and on Oath by Master, &c. of Identity of Goods. Confirmed and explained, 1 Ann. stat. 1.c. 8. Extended to Irish Manufacture, 16 G. II. c. 26. § 6. |
§ 1. |
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English-made Sail-cloth may be exported Duty-free on Oath as herein mentioned. Cloth made of Hemp or Flax may be likewise exported, Custom Duty free, 2 G. III. c. 7. § 39. |
7 & 8 W. III. c. 39. § 2. | 156 |
For granting an Aid to His Majesty by Sale of the forfeited and other Estates and Interests in Ireland. See 12 & 13 W. III. c. 11. § |
11 W.III.c. 2. |
545 |
All Lands, &c. in Ireland, whereof any Persons are or shall be convicted of Treason or Rebellion since 13th Feb.1688, or before the End of Trinity Term, 1701, or who died in actual Rebellion since the said 13th Feb. 1688,or any in Trust for them were seized,&c., or whereof James II. was seized, &c. at his Accession, and all Judgments, &c. which Persons so convicted werepossessed, &c. on or since the said 13th Feb. 1688, vested in Trustees, &c. for the Purposes herein mentioned. |
§ 1. |
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Estates Tail vested in said Trustees and their Heirs. |
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All Grants, Demises, Custodiams, or Dispositions since the said 13th Feb. 1688, under the Great Seal of England or Ireland, &c. void. See 1 Ann. stat. 2. c. 21.–33 G. III.c. 46. |
§ 2. |
546 |
But not to make such Grantees accountable for the Profits of such Lands, Tenements, &c. by them received by or before the said 2d Nov. 1699. |
§ 3. |
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Proviso for Persons having any Right or Interest in any of the said Estates, and for new Grants thereof. |
§ 4. |
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Proviso for Estate which any Person adjudged to be comprised within the Articles of Limerick or Galloway, or their Heirs, &c. have or may claim to any Part of the forfeited Premises. |
§ 5. |
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Proviso for Personal Estates of Persons submitting to Their Majesties Authority. |
§ 6. |
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Trustees to take Oaths appointed by Stat.1 W. & M. c. 8. § 12. herein mentioned. |
§ 7. |
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The said Oaths to be administered by anyTwo or more of the Trustees. |
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The Trustees to appoint Registers, Clerks,&c. and Salaries, Fees, &c. |
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The said Registers, &c. to take an Oathherein mentioned. |
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547 |
Seven Trustees may meet, and act at such Places in Ireland as they shall think fit; and may send for Persons, Writings, &c. in Ireland, without Fee; and may administer Oaths. |
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Sheriffs, &c. to obey their Orders. |
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Seven Trustees may proceed summarily by Examinations on Oath, &c. and are to inform themselves of Names of Persons convicted, and of Estates forfeited, andof Incumbrances on such Estates. |
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Persons neglecting, &c. to appear, &c. committed. |
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Officers not obeying—Penalty. |
11W. III. c. 2. § 7. |
547 |
Persons discovering Debts due to convicted Persons (Exception) and paying Two-thirds, discharged of the entire Debt. |
§ 8. |
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Neglecting to make such Discovery—Penalty. |
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Allowance to Persons possessed of Goods of Persons convicted, and discovering same. |
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Ib. 548 |
Neglecting to discover same—Penalty. |
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548 |
Trustees may compound for Debts, &c. discovered. |
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Trustees may settle Debts secured by Penalties. |
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Allowance to other Persons discovering Estates concealed. |
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Trustees to certify Names of Discoverers and Allowances to Lords Justices or Chief Governor of Ireland, who are to pay the same. |
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Proviso for Sales of Goods sold under His Majesty's Commission. |
§ 9. |
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Proviso for Persons not convicted or attainted before the said last Day of Trinity Term 1701. |
§ 10. |
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All Persons (Exception) claiming Rights in forfeited Estates before 13th Feb.1688, shall by 10th Aug. 1700, enter their Claims thereunto, or in default thereof, such Right, Title, &c. to be void. |
§ 11. |
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How the Claims of Infants, Feme Coverts,
Idiots, and Lunatics, to be made. |
Ib. | 549 |
Claims to be tendered to Trustees signed by Party. |
§ 12. |
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Claimant to express his Demands, and how grounded, and the Circumstances of Incumbrances. |
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Claim to be entered, and be heard and determined by the Trustees before 25th March 1701. |
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Claimants to answer Claims, and produce Writings, &c. upon Oath. |
§ 13. |
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Regulation as to administering Oath where Party resides in England, or where in Ireland. |
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If claim not allowed, Claimants barred. |
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Persons knowingly making false Claims—Penalty. |
§ 14. |
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Witnesses forsewearing themselves—Punishment. |
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Claimants making good their Claims, Trustees to allow the same. |
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Trustees taken to be a Court of Record, their Judgment to be recorded in Books of Parchment, and be final, notwithstanding Disability in Claimants. |
§ 15. |
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Claims allowed to be certified by Trustees, if required, under their Hands and Seals; such Certificate or a Copy of Decree allowed as Evidence, and all Rights, Interests, and Incumbrances so allowed, never after to be called in question—Proviso. |
§ 16. |
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Conveyances of Lands in Ireland since 29th May 1686, by Persons since convicted or attainted, being private Trusts (Exception) declared fraudulent, so voluntary Assurances since 29th May1686, and no Claim allowed thereupon. |
11 W. III. c. 2. § 17. |
550 |
Incumbrances satisfied by or assigned to other Persons allowed for so much as was really paid thereupon. |
§ 18. |
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Debtors to such convicted or attainted Persons, who have before 10th March1699, satisfied such Debts to any Grantees from the Crown of such forfeited Estates, discharged for what wasreally paid. |
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Such Grantees, &c. to repay the Monies so received into the Exchequer in Ireland, by 24th August 1700, deducting Expences. |
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Refusing to make such Repayment—Penalty. |
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551 |
Trustees, upon Certificate of Payment of such Monies into the Exchequer, to discharge Parties so paying the same in Manner herein mentioned. |
§ 19. |
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Trustees to secure the personal Goods and Chattels so vested in them, and make an Inventory thereof, and by whom forfeited, and (being appraised upon Oath) to sell the same by Auction. |
§ 20. |
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Notice thereof. |
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Trustees may expose such Goods to sale at a lower Rate than Appraisement. |
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Trustees to enter Contracts, &c. in theirBooks. |
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Trustees to give a Note to Buyer of Thingsbought. |
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Money arising by Sales paid by Buyer into Exchequer in Ireland, and thereupon Trustees to order Delivery of Things bought. |
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If Money not paid within Time appointed—Penalty. |
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After Time expired for entering Claims, Trustees before 25th March 1702, to sell the Estates vested in them, and not claimed after 10th Nov. 1700, and the Estates claimed as soon as the Claims are determined. |
§ 22. |
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Notice of Time and Place of Sale. |
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Sale by Auction and Biddings in Sterling Money English Value. |
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Contracts, &c. entered by Trustees. |
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Buyers to have a Note of Contract under Hands and Seals of Trustees upon Payment by Buyers of Money into Exchequer in Ireland, and Certificate. |
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Trustees to execute Bargain and Sale, to be entered by Trustees, and delivered to Purchasers to be inrolled in Chancery in Ireland—Fee. |
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Docket entered—Fee. |
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Purchase good notwithstanding any Statute of Mortmain. |
§ 23. |
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Purchasers having inrolled Conveyances actually seized of Premises. |
§ 24. |
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Sheriffs, on Precept from Trustees, to put Purchaser in Possession. |
11 W. III. c. 2. § 24. |
552 |
Purchasers to hold clear of all Quit Rents, &c., and of all other Demands, Exception of Breaches of Trusts by Trustees. |
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Estates held of the King in Soccage, as of his Castle of Dublin, subject to such Crown Rents, &c. as they were on the 13th Feb. 1688. |
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Which Crown Rents, &c. to be for Support of Government of Ireland, and unalienable. |
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All Grants and Incumbrances thereon since the said 13th Feb. declared void. |
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Purchasers not paying their Money in Time—Penalty. |
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New Sale. |
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Proviso for Grants of Quit Rents, and for Grants for Abatements of Quit Rents. |
§ 25. |
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How such forfeited Estates, subject to Debts or Incumbrances or Rent Charges, may be sold. |
§ 26. |
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Proviso for Sale thereof in Parcels. |
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In such Cases Trustees to apportion Rent Charges. |
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Persons possessed of Lands, &c. hereby vested in Trustees, shall before 10th August 1700, give Trustees a true Account thereof in Writing—Penalty. |
§ 27. |
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And to answer the Profits from 2d Nov. 1699, till the Time of Sale—On Neglect, &c. Prosecution in the Name of the King's Attorney General. |
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Fines, &c. vested in Trustees, sued for in Name of Attorney General. |
§ 28. |
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Application thereof. |
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No Protection, &c. to hinder any Prosecution, &c. in pursuance of this Act. |
§ 29. |
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Trustees not accountable to His Majesty for Rents, &c. of the said Estates. |
§ 30. |
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Purchasers of forfeited Estates from Grantees since 13th Feb. 1688, discharged of Purchase Money remaining unpaid. |
§ 31. |
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Trustees to allow amongst such Purchasers, since 13th Feb. 1688, as shall prove Payment of Money before 10th August 1700, £21,000, in proportion to their Payments. |
§ 32. |
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Trustees to give a Certificate of Proportions to be a charge in Nature of a Statute Staple.—Such Allowance not to be made to Purchasers herein mentioned. |
§ 33. |
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Persons having received such Purchase Money, liable to repay Surplus after Allowance to Purchasers. |
§ 34. |
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How the same may be recovered. |
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Persons having entered upon forfeited Estates without Grant, are to answer Profits during Occupation into the Exchequer by 1st Aug. 1700— Penalty. |
§ 35. |
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But discovering same, discharged of Profits before 2d Nov. 1699. |
§ 36. |
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Committing Waste on the said forfeited Estates since 10th May 1695— Penalty. |
§ 37. |
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The said forfeited Estates not charged with Arrears of Rent or Interest incurred during War in Ireland. |
11 W. III. c. 2. § 38. |
555 |
Persons claiming Interests in forfeited Estates making default of Payment (since Reduction of Ireland), such Rent, &c. to be paid into Exchequer by 1st Nov. 1700—Penalty. |
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Upon Decease of Trustees, the Survivors (or major Part), being Four at least, to execute this Act. |
§ 39. |
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Recital of Stat. 10 W. III. c. 9. Debentures for Arrears to Officers of Army, Transport Service, Clothing the Army, Tallies, &c. to be taken at the Exchequer as Sterling Money for Purchases. |
§ 40. |
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The said Principal and Principal and Interest on Tallies, &c. to be computed. |
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The said Debentures, &c. to be registered. |
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Trustees once in Thirty Days to examine Register with Debentures, and cancel same. |
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Trustees every Three Months, to transmit Account of Debentures, &c. to Exchequer in England. |
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Appropriation of the Monies arising by this Act in Ireland (Exception.) |
§ 41. |
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Misapplying the same—Penalty. |
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Allowance to the Commissioners for enquiring into the said forfeited Estates, and to their Secretary, out of the first Monies arising by this Act. |
§ 42. |
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Allowance to Trustees from 25th March 1700, payable Quarterly during the Execution of this Act. |
§ 43. |
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Monies to be imprest for paying Salaries of inferior Officers, and for incident Charges. |
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The said Allowances with the £ 21,000 former Purchasers, to be paid out of the Exchequer in Ireland by the Trustees' Warrants, without any other Authority. |
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The Trustees may make so many of their Contracts for Lands, &c. to be paid in Coin, as will discharge Salaries, &c. and Money Payments appointed by this Act. |
§ 44. |
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If more Money raised in Specie than will satisfy Money Payments aforesaid, Over plus transmitted to Exchequer in England, and appropriated as herein mentioned. |
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Salaries Tax free. |
§ 45. |
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In what case Officers or others having taken Grants of forfeited Estates in lieu of Arrears, &c. entitled to such Arrears, &c. |
§ 46. |
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Trustees as soon as may be after the 25th March 1701, to convey the Church Livings forfeited to such Trustees as Bishop of Diocese shall nominate for employing the Profits thereof for 20 Years, from 2d Nov. 1699, in rebuilding or repairing Parish Churches, and
afterwards in Augmentation of small Livings. |
11W. III. c. 2. § 47. |
557 |
Such Appointments to be inrolled. |
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The said Trustees, before the 25th March 1702, to determine entered Claims remaining, to be of the same Force as if made before the said 25th March |
12 & 13 W. III. c. 10 § 92. |
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The said Trustees, before 24th June 1702, to sell Estates vested in them by Stat. 11 W. III. c. 2. § 12. at the Times herein mentioned. |
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Such Sales and the Conveyances thereon available as if made before the said 25th March |
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Proviso for Persons who have petitioned the House of Commons for Relief in respect of not entering Claims in respect of Irish Forfeitures, pursuant to Stat. 11 W. III. c. 2. |
12 & 13 W. III. c. 11. § 29. |
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The Estates, &c. so claimed by the said Petitions (Exception) not to be aliened by the said Trustees under 11 & 12 W. III. c. until after the End of next Session. |
§ 30. |
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Proviso for Petitions to be further examined, and those lying before the House. |
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