Fisheries (Scotland) Act 1726
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
(13 Geo. 1) C A P. XXX.
'WHEREAS by the fifteenth Article of the Treaty ofUnion it is provided, that two thousand Pounds per Annum , for the Space of seven Years, should be applied towards encouraging and promoting the Manufacture of coarse Wool within those Shires of Scotland , which produce the Wool, and that the first two thousand Pounds should be paid at Martinmass then next, and so yearly at Martinmass , during the Timeaforesaid: And whereas by an Act passed in the fifth Year of his Majesty's Reign, intituled,An Act for settling certain yearly Funds, payable out of the Revenue of Scotland, to satisfy publick Debts in Scotland and other Uses mentioned in the Treaty of Union; and to discharge the Equivalent claimed in behalf of Scotland, in the Terms of the same Treaty, and for obviating all future Disputes, Charges and Expences, concerning those Equivalents , It is amongst other Things provided, That yearly and every Year, reckoning the first Year to begin from the Feast of the Nativity of St. John Baptist one thousand seven hundred and nineteen, the full Sum of two thousand Pounds of lawful Money of Great Britain should be one yearly Fund, payable at the four most usual Feasts of the Year, that is to say, the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel , the Birth our Lord Christ, the Annunciation of the blessed Virgin Mary , and the Feast of the Nativity of St. John Baptist ; the first Payment thereof to be due and payable at the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel in the Year one thousand seven hundred and nineteen, to be charged upon and paid out of the Monies arisen and to arise, from Time to Time, of or for any of the Customs, Duties, Excises or Revenues that are or shall be under the Management of the Commissioners of the Customs, and Commissioners of the Excise in Scotland , after the Payments therein directed to be made, and subject to Redemption by Parliament, upon Payment of the full Sum of forty thousand Pounds, and of all Arrears of the said Annuity, if any such be, in such Manner as is more particularly mentioned in the said Act, to be wholly applied towards the encouraging and promoting the Fisheries, and such other Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland , as may most conduce to the general Good of the united Kingdom, according to the Tenor and true Meaning of the said fifteenth Article of the said Treaty of Union , and to no other Use, Intent or Purpose whatsoever; which said Annuity hath not hitherto been paid or applied to the Purposes for which the same was intended: And whereas by an Act passed in the twelfth Year of his Majesty's Reign, intituled for continuing the Duties upon Malt, Mum, Cyder and Perry, in that Part of Great...
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