As enacted, it specified duties on exports of certain commodities, coal, and candles and regulated the state lottery.

Section 57, the last to be repealed, reinforced the Suppression of Lotteries Act 1698 and specified a £100 fine for offenders, to be distributed one third each to the Crown, the parish poor, and the informant.

[3] The penalties specified in the act for unauthorised lotteries were extended to the Kingdom of Ireland in 1756.

[6] The portions of the long title describing the provisions repealed in 1867 were deleted by the Statute Law Revision Act 1887.

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