[Eighteen similar Pages, numbered consecutively 1813-1830, are to be transmitted to every officiating

Minister in England.]

The County,

&c. to wit.

II.

FORM of the PRECEPT for giving Notice to High Constables, Overseers, and Householders in England, of the Time and Place appointed by Justices of the Peace for taking the Answers and Returns under this Act.

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To the Constable [Tithingman or Headborough] of in the said County.

YOU are hereby required, with all convenient Speed, to give or cause to be given Notice to the High Constable of the Hundred of and to the Overseers of the Poor of every Parish, Township, or Place within the said Hundred; and if there is no Overseer therein, then to some substantial Householder therein, that they are severally required to appear at on the

Day of next, at the Hour of in the Forenoon, before such of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace as shall be then and there assembled, and that the said Overseers or Householders as aforesaid, or some One of them, for every such Parish, Township, or Place, are then and there to deliver upon Oath or Affirmation a just and true Account in Writing, signed by. themselves, containing an Answer to the several Questions propounded in the Schedule to an Act, 11th George 4th, intituled, "An Act for taking an Account of the Population of Great "Britain, and of the Increase or Diminution thereof." Given under my Hand [or our Hands] this Day of in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and

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3 G. 4. c. 30.

4 G. 4. c. 94.

6 G. 4. c. 58.

III.

FORM of the OATH or AFFIRMATION to the Return. YOU shall swear [or affirm] that the Answers and Returns now made by you to the several Questions contained in the Schedule annexed to an Act, 11th George 4th, intituled " An Act for taking

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an Account of the Population of Great Britain, and of the In(C crease or Diminution thereof,” is a full and true Answer to the said Question, to the best of your Knowledge and Belief.

IV.

FORM of INDORSEMENT by the High Constables in
England, and by the Sheriff's Clerk or Town Clerk in
Scotland.

County of

Riding, Division, or District of

Hundred, Rape, Wapentake, Lathe, Precinct, Soke, Franchise, or
Liberty of

City, Borough, Town, or County Corporate, of
Parish, Township, &c. of

CA P. XXXI.

An Act for reducing the Duty on Malt made from Bear or
Bigg only, in Ireland, to the same Duty as is now payable
thereon in Scotland.
[23d June 1830.]

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HEREAS an Act was passed in the Third Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act for reducing, during the Continuance of the present Duty on Malt, the Duty on • Malt made from Bear or Bigg only, in Scotland, whereby, under ⚫ certain Regulations in the said Act contained, a smaller Duty of Excise was imposed on Malt made from Bear or Bigg only in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, in place of the Duty of Excise then payable on Malt made in Great Britain from Barley or any other Corn or Grain: And whereas by an Act • made in the Fourth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act to grant certain Duties of Excise upon Spirits distilled from Corn or Grain in Scotland and Ireland, and upon • Licences for Stills for making such Spirits, and to provide for the better collecting and securing such Duties, and for Warehousing of • such Spirits without Payment of Duty, Provisions were made for

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granting a certain Allowance or Drawback on Spirits distilled 'from Malt only in Scotland and Ireland, and for regulating the Proportion of Malt made from Barley or from Bear or Bigg, in Scotland, to be used in the Distillation of such Spirits: And ' whereas an Act was passsed in the Sixth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act for providing equivalent Rates of Excise Duties, Allowances, and Drawbacks on Beer and Malt, and on Spirits, made in Scotland or Ireland, according to the • Measure of the new Imperial Standard Gallon, whereby the following Duties and Allowances on Malt were directed and authorized to be raised, levied, collected, allowed, and paid; that is to say, For and upon every One hundred Gallons Imperial Standard Gallon Measure, and so in proportion for any greater

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or Grain, (except Malt made for Home Consumption in Scotland from Bear or Bigg only,) or which shall be brought from Scotland • into England without a Certificate from the proper Officer that it hath paid the full Duty thereby imposed, an Excise Duty of One • Pound Thirteen Shillings and Four-pence; For and upon every 'One hundred Gallons Imperial Standard Gallon Measure, and so in proportion for any greater or less Quantity of Malt, which shall be made from Bear or Bigg only in Scotland, for Consumption in Scotland, One Pound Five Shillings; Allowances, For and upon every One hundred Gallons Imperial Standard • Gallon Measure, and so in proportion for any greater or less Quantity of Spirits of the Strength of Hydrometer Proof, and so in proportion for any greater or less Strength, distilled in • Scotland or Ireland from Malt only, not being mixed with any 'unmalted Corn or Grain whatever, after the Rate of Two such "Gallons of such Spirits for every Eight Gallons Imperial Standard Gallon Measure of Barley Malt, or Ten such Gallons and Two Third Parts of another such Gallon of Bear or Bigg Malt, in respect of which Spirits any Distiller in Scotland or Ireland shall be charged with Duty, during the Time that such Distiller shall use Malt only, Five Pounds Sixteen Shillings and Eight-pence: And whereas it is expedient that the lesser Duty payable under the said last-recited Act, on Malt made from Bear or Bigg only in Scotland, should be extended to, and be charged, levied, and 'collected on, Malt made from Bear or Bigg only in Ireland; and • that the said recited Act of the Third Year of His late Majesty's 'Reign, and the Provisions for regulating the Allowances and Proportions on Spirits made from Bear or Bigg only in Scotland, in the said recited Act of the Fourth Year of His Majesty's Reign • should be extended to Ireland:' May it therefore please 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 from and after the Tenth Day of October, One thousand eight hundred and thirty, in lieu of the higher duty now payable on Malt made from Bear or Bigg in Ireland, the Duty which shall be charged, raised, and levied upon such Malt as shall be made from Bear or Bigg only in Ireland shall be the Sum of Two Shillings for and in respect of every Bushel of such Malt as shall from and after the said Tenth Day of October One thousand eight hundred and thirty be made from Bear or Bigg only in Ireland, being after the Rate of One Pound Five Shillings for every One hundred Gallons of such Malt, the Duty imposed by the said last-recited Act on Malt made from Bear or Bigg only in Scotland: Provided never- The Duty imtheless, that from and after the said Tenth Day of October One thousand eight hundred and thirty, the Duty imposed by the said last-recited Act on Malt made from Barley or other Corn or Grain shall be charged and paid for and upon every Bushel of all Malt whatsoever which shall be made in and brought from Ireland into Great Britain, or which shall be made by any Maltster or Maker of Malt in Ireland; save and except such Malt only as shall be Q 4

posed by the

last-recited Act shall be

charged on all Malt made

from Barley in Ireland and brought into

Great Britain.

made

After the 10th October 1830, the Duty to be paid on Malt

made from Bear or Bigg in Ireland

shall be 2s. per Bushel.