Section XVII Iron (Exception) may be imported, discharged from Duties of 4 W.& M.c.5.

And whereas the scarcity and dearnesse of Iron in this Kingdom have of late much discouraged the Manufactures thereof in which great numbers of the Poor are imployed For Remedy whereof for the future Bee it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may bee lawfull to import into this Kingdome from Ireland any Barr-Iron unwrought and Iron slitt or hammer'd into Rods (other then Suedish or other Forreigne Iron) discharged of the Impositions and Duties laid upon the same by an Act made in the Fourth and Fifth Yeare of the Reigne of Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary entituled An Act for granting to Their Majesties certain additional Impositions upon several Goods and Merchandizes for the prosecuting the Warr against France Any thing in the said Act to the contrary notwithstanding.