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<HEAD>Coppie of an Act to be pre&s;ented to his Grace, his Maje&s;ties high Com|mi&s;&s;ioner, and to the Right Ho|nourable E&s;tates of Parlia|ment, anent <HI>Gun-Pouder</HI> and <HI>Allom.</HI></HEAD>
<P>OUR Soveraign Lord, Con&s;idering the great Encouragements, of|fered and given for the Erecting of Manufactories, by &s;everal Acts of Parliaments, Specially by the Act 1661, Entituled, <HI>Act for Erecting of Manufactories,</HI> and the Act 1681, Entituled, <HI>Act for Encouraging of Trade, and Manufactories;</HI> And that in pur&s;uance thereof, and upon the Experience of the Benefit and Advantage redounding thereby to this Kingdom, particular Acts of Parliament have been made and pa&s;t in favours of Manufactories, alreadie &s;et up. As al&s;o, That this Kingdom having at pre&s;ent no <HI>Pouder-Mill,</HI> or work for making of <HI>Gun-Pouder,</HI> nor having ever had a Work for making of <HI>Allom,</HI> both which may neverthele&s;s be very Advanta|gious as well for Export, as for nece&s;&s;ary inward Con&s;umption. Several per&s;ons have ingadged in a Co-partnarie for &s;etting up and carrying on the &s;aid Works, which may be &s;o u&s;eful, as &s;aid is. Therefore, His Maje&s;tie, with Advice and Con&s;ent of the E&s;tates of Parliament, Statutes and Declares in Favours of Sir <HI>Alexander Hope</HI> of <HI>Ker&s;s,</HI> Sir <HI>Robert Dick&s;on</HI> of <HI>Sornbegg, George Clerk, Junior</HI> and <HI>James Balfour,</HI> Merchants in <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and their Co-partners, either already a&s;&s;umed, or to be a&s;&s;umed, and their Succe&s;&s;ors, Undertakers, of the &s;aid Works, That the &s;aid two Works for making of <HI>Gun-Pouder,</HI> and for making of <HI>Allom,</HI> when &s;et up and Erected, &s;hall be <HI>Manufactories,</HI> And that the fore&s;aid Partners and Societie engadged for carrying on the &s;aid Works, &s;hall be a Free and Lawful Incorporation, with all Priviledges u&s;ual, and &s;hall have Right to, and brook and enjoy all the Priviledges and Immu|nities provided in Favours of <HI>Manufactories</HI> by the fore&s;aid Acts of Parliament; And particularly, and for the more &s;pecial Amplification hereof, the hail Pri|viledges, Liberties, and Immunities, granted to the Cloath and Linnen Ma|nufactories, which are here holden as expre&s;t. And farder, Becau&s;e the &s;aid <HI>Allom-Work</HI> was never before erected in this Kingdom, and that the Un|dertakers mu&s;t nece&s;&s;arly at fir&s;t be at great pains and Expences. Therfore, His Maje&s;tie with Advice and Con&s;ent fore&s;aid, Statutes and Ordains, That the fore&s;aid Undertakers thereof, &s;hall have the &s;ole power and Priviledge of making of the &s;ame, for the &s;pace of twenty five years, from and after the date hereof, and that it &s;hall not be Lei&s;om during that &s;pace, for any other per&s;on or per&s;ons to make <HI>Allom</HI> within this Kingdom, providing alwayes that the &s;aid Undertakers do &s;et up the &s;aid <HI>Allom</HI> work with due Diligence. As al&s;o, That the&s;e Pre&s;ents &s;hall be without prejudice to the Importation of <HI>Allom</HI> from Forraign parts by Merchants, as they have been in U&s;e to do before the making hereof.</P>
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<HEAD>REASONS FOR Pa&s;&s;ing the Act in Favours of the UN|DERTAKERS for the mak|ing of <HI>Gun-pouder</HI> and <HI>Allom.</HI></HEAD>
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<ITEM><HI>1mo.</HI> Becau&s;e the need of both <HI>Gun-pouder</HI> and <HI>Allom</HI> for the u&s;e of the Kingdom, is evident.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>2do.</HI> Becau&s;e we have formerly had <HI>Gun-pouder</HI> Mills; But thorow the want of due incouragement, they have long &s;ince been neglected and gone to Ruine.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>3tio.</HI> Becau&s;e the fore&s;aid works when &s;et up, will not only hinder the nece&s;&s;ary im|port of both <HI>Gun-pouder</HI> and <HI>Allom;</HI> But this Kingdom having within it &s;elf the mo&s;t of the Matterials nece&s;&s;ary, the works may be quickly improven to furni&s;h a good export.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>4to.</HI> The &s;etting up of the &s;aid work at fir&s;t, where &s;uch works are quite out of u&s;e, will evidently require great pains and charges.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5^t^o. If &s;et up they would entertain a great many Idle and Poor people both in Work and Bread.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>6to.</HI> The <HI>Allom</HI> work being wholly new, and which will need great pre|parations, and if once &s;et up, would imploy and maintain at lea&s;t a hundered per|&s;ons, de&s;erves the incouragement of the &s;ole power of making <HI>Allom</HI> for twenty five years after the Grant of the Act; Specially when the &s;ame is &s;ought with the provi&s;ion; that in the mean time this priviledge &s;hall not hinder the u&s;ual import.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>7mo.</HI> There is al&s;o a &s;pecial rea&s;on for the <HI>Pouder-work;</HI> becau&s;e it may not only fur|ni&s;h <HI>Pouder</HI> for the Kings Forces and Magazins; But if at any time thorow accidents which often happen the <HI>Pouder</HI> in the publick Magazins &s;hould be &s;poiled, or grow weak, the fore&s;aid <HI>Pouder-work</HI> would recover it from time to time, to its full &s;trength, and when Ships of force go abroad they may be furni&s;hed by our own Mills.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>8vo.</HI> It is found by experience of all other Nations, that Manufactories do Enrich tho&s;e Kingdoms, where they are unanimou&s;ly carried on.</ITEM>
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