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inrolled in his majefly's high court of chancery, within fix calendar 

 months next after the execution thereof, and unlefs fuch (locks be 

 transferred in the public books ufually kept for the transfer of flocks, 

 fix kalendar months at leaft before the death of fuch donor or granter; 

 and unlefs the fame be made to take effecl in poffefTion for the charit- 

 able ufe intended immediately from the making thereof, and be with- 

 out any power of revocation, refervation, truft, condition, limitation, 

 claufe, or agreement, whatfoever, for the benefit of the donor or 

 granter, or of any claiming under him. Provided, that the faid li- 

 mitations fliall extend to purchafes or transfers made hereafter for va- 

 luable confiderations. And all fuch gifts, grants, conveyances, &c. 

 made after midfummer 1736, otherwife than herein direded, fhall be 

 abfolutely void. Provided, that nothing in this ad fliall be conflrued 

 to extend to make void difpofitions of lands, tenements, or heredita- 

 ments, or of perfonal eftate, to be laid out in the purchafe of fuch 

 lands, &c. which fhall be made in any other form than by this ad di- 

 reded, to, or in trufl for, either of the two Englifli univerfities, and 

 their refpedive colleges or houfes of learning, or for the colleges of 

 Eton, Winchefler, or Weflminfter, for the better fupport and main- 

 tenance of the fcholars only upon the foundation of the lafl-named 

 three colleges. Provided, neverthelefs, that no fuch college, or houfe 

 of learning, which doth, or fliall, hold fo many advowfons of eccle- 

 fiaftical benefits as are, or Ihall be, equal in number to half the num- 

 ber of their fellows (or where there are no fellows, to half the num- 

 ber of their fludents upon the foundation) fhall, from midfummer 

 I 736, be capable of purchafing, taking, or otherwife holding, any 

 other advowfons, by any means whatever ; fuch advowfons as are an- 

 nexed to the headdiips of colleges not being computed in the number 

 hereby limited. This ad Ihall not extend to Scotland.' [9 Geo. II, 



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Several focieties petitioned to be excepted out of this bill, particu- 

 larly the corporation for the fons of the clergy, that for Queen Anne's 

 bounty, the grey-coat hofpital in Wellminfler, and the trufiees for the 

 charity-fchools of London, Wefiminfler, and Southvvark. But they 

 were rejeded. 



Notwithllanding the very ill fuccefs of the late whale filTiery of the 

 South-fea company for eight years together, yet this year one Ihip, be- 

 longing to private adventurers, brought home to London no fewer than 

 feven whales ; aixi 130 Dutch iliips were faid to have caught this fame 

 year Coo whales. So precarious is whalc-filhing in the frozen and ter- 

 rible leas of Spitlhergen, &c. 



Advices were received this year from Carolina, that the French of 

 Millifippi were making war, jointly with their own Indians, on a nation 

 ot Indians, called Ciuckalluvi, dependent on Carolina. Their plan was 



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