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Order or con.

viction of jns removed into any court, or

tices not to be

the execution superseded.

No actions for penalties shall be commenc

ed but in the

name of the attorney-gene

for Scotland,

"act [title of this act]; for that the said A. B. on the

day of

last past, did [here state the offence, as the case inay happen to be] con<< trary to the form of the statute in that case made and provided; for which of"fence we do adjudge that the said A. B. hath forfeited the sum of justices mitigate the penalty] which sum of "we do hereby mitigate to the sum of

" and [if the

day of

given under our "hands and seals, this XXI. And be it further enacted, that no order or conviction made in pursuance of this act by any justices of the peace, shall be removed by certiorari, advocation, or suspension into any court whatever; and that no writ of certiorari, advocation, or suspension shall supersede execution or other proceedings upon any such order or conviction, but that execution and other proceedings shall be had thereupon any such writ or writs or allowance thereof notwithstanding.

XXII. And be it further enacted, that it shall not be lawful for any person or persons whatsoever to commence, prosecute, enter, or file, or cause or procure to be commenced, prosecuted, entered or filed, any action, bill, plaint, or information in any of his majesty's courts, or before any justice or justices of the peace against ral in England any person or persons, for the recovery of any fine, penalty or forfeiture made or and Ireland, incurred by virtue of this act, unless the same be commenced, prosecuted, entered, and advocate or filed in the name of his majesty's attorney-general in that part of Great Britain or some officer called England, or in the name of his majesty's attorney-general in Ireland, or his of the stamp majesty's advocate for Scotland (as the case may be respectively), or in the name of the solicitor or some other officer of his majesty's stamp duties in that part of Great Britain called England, or in Scotland or Ireland respectively; and if any action, bill, plaint or information shall be commenced, prosecuted, entered, or filed in the name or names of any other person or persons than is or are in that behalf before mentioned, the same and every proceeding thereupon had, are hereby declared, and the same shall be null and void to all intents and purposes.

duties.

Duties to be

under the management of

the commissioners of stamps.

Duties and

act.

XXIII. And be it further enacted, That for the better and more effectually levying and collecting the said duties, the same shall be under the government, care, and management of the commissioners for the time being appointed in Great Britain and Ireland respectively, to manage the duties on stamped vellum, parchment, and paper; who, or the major part of them, in Great Britain and Ireland respectively, are hereby required and empowered to do all other things necessary to be done for putting this act into execution, with relation to the said duties hereby granted, in the like and in as full and ample a manner as they or the major part of them were authorized to put in execution any law or laws concerning stamped vellum, parchment, and paper.

XXIV. And be it further enacted, That the said duties shall be and are hereby discounts to be made payable to his majesty, his heirs and successors; and the said duties and the paid and alseveral allowances, discounts, and sums of money, for or in respect of the same, lowed as former duties and shall and may be respectively raised, levied, collected, answered, paid, recovered, discounts; and adjudged, accounted for, and applied and appropriated, mitigated and allowed, in provisions of former acts to such and the like manner, and in or by any or either of the general, or special extend to this ways, means, or methods, by which the duties upon newspapers, and discounts and allowances in respect thereof, under the management of the said commissioners of stamped vellum, parchment, or paper, are or may be raised, levied, collected, answered, paid, recovered, adjudged, initigated and allowed; and the several persons and also all such pamphlets and papers, of what nature or kind soever, by this act made liable to the payment of duty, or entitled to any discount or allowance, shall be and the same are hereby made subject and liable to all and every the conditions regulations, rules, and restrictions, to which such persons and newspapers are generally or specially subject and liable by any act or acts of parliament in force before the passing of this act; and all and every pain, penalty, fine, or forfeiture for any offence whatever committed against or in breach of any act or acts of parliament now in force for securing the duties under the management of the said commissioners of stamped vellum, parchment, and paper, upon newspapers, or for the regulation or improvement of the said duties, and the several clauses, powers, provisions, directions, matters, and things therein contained, shall (except as the same or any of them are by this act altered or repealed) and are hereby directed and declared to extend to, and shall be respectively applied, practised, and put in execution for and in respect of the several duties charged, imposed, and allowed, in as full and ample a manner, to all intents and purposes whatsoever, as if all and every the said clauses, provisions, powers, restrictions, directions, fines, pains, penalties or, forfeitures, matters and things, were particularly repeated and re-enacted in the body of this act.

Application of duties,

XXV. And be it further enacted, that the monies arising from the duties hereby

granted shall be paid into the receipt of the exchequer at Westminster and Dublin respectively, and shall be carried to and made part of the consolidated fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

XXVI. Provided always, and be it further enacted, that nothing in this act shall Exceptions. extend to acts of parliament, proclamations, orders of council, forms of prayer and thanksgiving, and acts of state, ordered to be printed by his majesty, his heirs, or successors, or his or their sufficient and authorized officer; or to any printed votes or other matters by order of either House of Parliament; or to books commonly used in the schools of Great Britain or Ireland, or books or papers containing only matters of devotion, piety, or charity; or daily accounts; or bills of goods imported and exported; or warrants or certificates for the delivery of goods; and the weekly bills of mortality; or to papers containing any lists of prices current, or of the state of the markets, or any account of the arrival, sailing, or other circumstances relating to merchant ships or vessels; or of any other matter wholly of a commercial nature; provided such bills, lists or accounts do not contain any other matter than what hath been usually comprised therein; or to the printers or publishers of the foregoing matters, or any or either of them.

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XXVII. Provided also, and be it further enacted, That nothing in this act con- Reprinted tained shall extend or be construed to extend to charge with stamp duties any work works repubreprinted and republished in parts or numbers, whether such work shall be wholly bers not reprinted or shall be republished in an abridged form; provided that the work so chargeable reprinted and republished shall have been first printed and published two years duty, &c. at the least previous to such reprinting and republication, and provided the said work was not first published in any parts or numbers.

XXVIII. And be it further enacted, that this act may be altered, amended, or repealed, by any act to be passed in the present session of parliament.

with stamp

Act may be repealed or altered this ses. sion.

INDEX

TO VOL. XLI.

INDEX TO DEBATES IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.

Blasphemous and Seditious Libels Bills, 343, 706, Prince Regent's Speech on Opening the Session, 1.
960, 977.

INDEX TO DEBATES IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Blasphemous and Seditious Libels Bill, 1169, 1414, Marriage Act, 1445.

Complaint of a Pamphlet, entitled, "A Trifling Orange Lodges in Ireland, 1592.

King George the Fourth; Message from, 1596, Savings Banks, 1391.

1

Seditious Meetings Prevention Bill, 578, 594, 701,,State of the Manufacturing Districts, 890, 1217.
757, 816, 863, 1028.

Southwark Petition, respecting the State of the Westminster Petition respecting the State of the
Country, 1026.

INDEX OF NAMES.-HOUSE OF LORDS.

Holland, Lord, 342, 582, 588, 687, 696, 718, 957,
958, 960, 969, 972, 973, 984, 1009, 1296, 1303,
1306, 1309, 1312.

Blessington, Farl of, 693, 694, 746, 1295, 1313, King, Lord, 82, 1245, 1603.

Lansdowne, Marquis of, 41, 48, 418, 506, 712,
959, 1291, 1305, 1312, 1595, 1601, 1634, 1641.

Caernarvon, Earl of, 48, 744, 977, 1237, 1603, Lauderdale, Earl of, 971, 1277, 1602, 1631.

Darnley, Earl of, 506, 590, 693, 753, 806, 1314, Lord Chancellor [Eldon] 38, 342, 543, 581, 586,
1378, 1596.

Harrowby, Earl of, 710, 964, 1253, 1306, 1307, Wellington, Duke of, 983.
1383, 1587, 1602.

INDEX OF NAMES.-HOUSE OF COMMONS.