A. D. 1770. 459 



turns to be tranfmitted from the commiflioners of the cuftoms in Eng- 

 land and Scotland. [10 Geo. I/I, c. 39.] 



The duties formerly ])aid upon foreign hats or bonnets made of bafi: 

 or ftraw, chip, cane, and horfe-hair, were repealed ; and a new duty im- 

 pofed of I2y5 on every dozen of fuch hats, &c. not above 22 inches in 

 diameter, and of 25/ for fuch as exceed that dimenfion ; and of 6/B a 

 pound on plating and other materials of bail, &c. ufed in mating hats. 

 [ro Geo. Ill, c. 43.] 



Traders in excifeable commodities, found guilty of keeping falfe 

 weights and fcales for weighing their excifeable ftock, were fubjected to 

 a penalty of /^ 100. [10 Geo. Ill, c. 44.] 



The penalty of 30 per cent, payable to the India company on goods 

 imported from the Eafl-Indies by Eritifli lubjec^s trading to India un- 

 der foreign commiffions, not being found fufficient to check fuch illicit 

 trade, it was now raifed to cent per cent on the value of all goods io im- 

 ported. By the fame ad the civil and military fervants of the company 

 were made amenable to the court of king's bench in England for acls 

 of opprefHon committed in India. [10 Geo. Ill, c. 47.] 



Perfons knowingly receiving flolen jewels or gold and filver plate were 

 made liable to tranfportation for fourteen years. [10 Geo. Ill, c. 48.] 



The delays and evafions of juftice occafioned by the privileges enjoy- 

 ed by the members of both houfcs of parliament, and even by their fer- 

 vants, were found extremely prejudicial in a commercial country. It was 

 therefor enacted, that after the 24''' of June 1770 fuits might be pro- 

 fecuted in courts of record, equity, or admiralty, and courts having 

 caufes matrimonial and teftamentary, againll peers and all members of 

 parliament, without arrefting their perlons : and the courts may order 

 the iflucs levied by diftrefs infinite to be fold, and the money to be ap- 

 plied under the dire6tion of the court to pay the plaintiffs cofts. [10 

 Geo. Ill, c. 50.] 



An adl of the Scottifli parliament in the year 1685 had empowered 

 landed gentlemen to entail their ellates with fuch provifions and reftric- 

 tlons as they thought proper, which tallies [entails] when completed and 

 publiflied in the manner directed by the ad, were declared effedual 

 againfl purchafers, creditors, and all others whatfoever : and many of the 

 entails, made in confequence of this ad, limited the poflelfors of eftates 

 from granting leafes beyond their own lives. Such a law being an ef- 

 fectual bar againfl: all improvement, it was now altered fo far as to per- 

 mit the polFellurs of cftatcs fo entailed to give leafes for fourteen years 

 and one exifting life, for two exilling lives and the life of the lurvivor, 

 or for any number of years not exceeding thirty-one ; provided that 

 fuch leafes fliall oblige the tenants to improve the lands in the manner 

 exprelfed in the act. They are alio enabled to grant leafes for ninety- 

 nine years of lots, not exceeding live acres to one perfon, for the pur- 



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