1718: 5 George 1 c.7: Continuing the tobacco act

1718: 5 George 1 c.7: An act for continuing an act made in the twelfth year of the reign of her late majesty Queen Anne, intituled, An act for encouraging the tobacco trade.

WHEREAS an act was made in the twelfth year of the reign of her late majesty Queen Anne, intituled, An act for the encouraging the tobacco trade, to continue for the space of five years, to commence from the first day of June one thousand seven hundred and fourteen, and from thence to the end of the then next session of parliament, which act is near expiring: and whereas the said act hath been found to be very beneficial to the said trade, and of good use for the purposes thereby designed: be it therefore 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 the said recited act made in the twelfth year of her said late Majesty’s reign concerning tobacco, and all and every the rules, directions, powers, penalties, discounts, allowances, clauses, matters and things therein contained, shall by virtue of this act be continued, and be in full force, during such time as the respective duties on tobacco shall respectively continue; any law, statute, matter or thing to the contrary notwithstanding.

Source: Pickering, Statutes at Large, volume 14.