1732 Act

Anno Quinto Georgii II. Regis.

An Act for reviving an Act made in the Fifth
Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King 
George the First, intituled, An Act for the 
better securing the lawful Trade of His Ma-
jesty’s Subjects to and from the East Indies, and 
for the more effectual preventing all His Ma-
jesty’s Subjects trading thither under Foreign 
Commissions.

Whereas the act made in the 
fifth year of the reign of his 
late majesty King George the 
first [entitled an act for the 
better securing the lawful Trade 
of His Majesty Subjects to and 
from the East Indies, and for the 
more effectual preventing all His
Majesty Subjects trading thither 
under Foreign Commissions] which 
was to continue in force for five 
years, and from thence to the 
End of the then next Session of Parliament; and which 
by another Act made in the Ninth Year of His said late 
Majesty's Reign [entitled an Act to prevent his Ma-
jesty’s Subjects from subscribing or being concerned in en-
couraging or promoting any subscription for an East India 
Company in the Austrian Netherlands and for the better se-
curing the lawful Trade of his Majesty’s subjects to and 
from the East Indies] was further continued for Seven 
years,  from the Twenty fifth Day of March One Thou-
sand Seven Hundred and Twenty Three, and from thence to 
the End of the then next Session of Parliament, hath by 
experience been found useful and beneficial, and is lately 
expired, may it therefore please Your Majesty that it 
may be enacted, and be it enacted by the King’s most Ex-
cellent 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 first herein before mention-
ed Act shall be, and is hereby revived, and shall be in 
full force from the First Day of May, in the year of our 
Lord One Thousand seven hundred and thirty two, for 
and during the Term of Seven Years, and from thence 
to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, and 
no longer.