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faid, unless he or they have respectively done the fame; and if any perfon or perfons, fo as aforefaid appointed agent or agents (who have not already done the fame) fhall refufe or neglect fo to do, on or before the first day of August, one thousand seven hundred and forty seven, in Great Britain, and on or before the first day of October, one thousand seven hundred and forty feven, in America, or other his Majefty's dominions; or if any person or perfons, hereafter to be appointed agent or agents for the purposes aforefaid, fhall refufe or neglect to exhibit, and caufe to be registered in any of the courts of admiralty aforefaid, his or their respective letter or letters of attorney, appointing him or them agent or agents as aforefaid, for the space of fix calendar months after fentence of condemnation of months after any prize or prizes fhall be given in any of the faid courts of admiralty, for the care and diftribution of which he or they shall be appointed agent or agents; fuch perfon or perfons, agent or agents, refufing or neglecting, fhall forfeit the fum of five hununder penalty dred pounds; to be recovered by him or them who will fue for of 500l. the fame, by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, in any court of record in Great Britain, America, or in any other of his Majesty's dominions, or elsewhere; in which no effoin, protection, privilege, or wager of law, or more than one imparlance, fhall be allowed.

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Agents apXII. Provided always, That if any agent or agents shall be pointed after appointed after the time any fentence of condemnation in any of the faid courts of admiralty fhall be given, fuch agent or ation of a prize, to register gents hall, under the aforefaid penalty, register, or cause to be their letters of registered, in manner aforefaid, his or their respective letter or attorney with- letters of attorney, appointing him or them agent or agents as in fix months. aforefaid, within the space of fix calendar months after the date of his or their faid letter or letters of attorney.

&c.

Registers in the courts of admiralty in

letters of at

XIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That the register or regifters of all and every the court and courts of admiralty in any of his Majefty's plantations in America, America, &c. or elsewhere, in any other of his Majefty's dominions, fhall, fhall yearly tranfcribe all yearly and every year upon the twenty third day of October, or within three calendar months next after the fame, make out torney regi- and transcribe true copies of all and every such letter and letters ftered in fuch of attorney, as fhall be fo registered in the faid court or courts, and tranfmit to which the judge and judges of the faid court and courts fhall the fame to affix his and their feal of office; and then the faid register and the treasurer regifters fhall tranfmit the fame to the treasurer of the faid of Greenwich royal hofpital at Greenwich, to be there registered, and to be inHospital;

courts, &c.

fpected by any person gratis; the charges of which copies, and affixing the feal or feals thereto, and tranfmitting the fame to the treasurer of the faid hofpital, fhall be paid by the faid agent or agents, at the time of making fuch registry as aforefaid; and in cafe fuch regifter or registers shall neglect or refufe to transcribe and tranfmit fuch copy and copies of the said letter and letters of attorney, in manner aforesaid (any ship or ships in that time failing from fuch port or place, to any port or ports in

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Great Britain) fuch register and regifters fo neglecting or refufing, fhall forfeit the fum of five hundred pounds, to be reco- Penalty sool. vered by him or them who will fue for the fame, by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, in any court of record in Great Britain or America, or in any other of his Majesty's dominions, or elsewhere; in which no effoin, protection, privilege, or wager of law, or more than one imparlance shall be allowed.

dence.

XIV. And for the more effectual making fuch letters of at- Copies of the torney evidence of the agency of the person or perfons to whom letters of atthe fame are made, be it further enacted by the authority afore- torney, &c. faid, That true copies of fuch letter and letters of attorney, and good eviof transcripts, under seal, transmitted by the faid regifter or regifters of the court and courts of admiralty of his Majesty's plantations in America, and elfew here within his Majesty's dominions, and registered by the faid treasurer of Greenwich Hofpital, fhall, from time to time, and at all times hereafter, be good and fufficient evidence of the agency of the perfon or perfons to whom fuch letter of attorney is or fhall be made, and from time to time, and at all times hereafter fhall be admitted, without further or other proof thereof, to be legal evidence in all his Majefty courts of record of law or equity; any law, custom, or ufage to the contrary thereof in any wife notwithstanding.

XV. And whereas feveral of the agents for prices haar, fince the twenty ninth day of March, one thousand feca hundred and forty four, been vexatiously fued by perfons who have been made run in the lifts of the names of the officers, Jamen, marines, foldiers, or others who were actually on board fuch of his Majesty's fhips or vessels of war, at the taking of fuch prize or prizes, and which faid lifts were duly certified after the condemnation of fuch prize or prizes, and tranfmitted to the faid agents, though the plaintiffs in fuch fuits knew, that by the feveral acts of parliament herein before recited, and paffed in the thirteenth and feventeenth years of his prefent Majefty, their respective shares of fuch prizes were forfeited by their running away from the fervice, and granted to the use of Greenwich Hospital, and that the faid agents are but the receivers thereof, and have the care and cuftody of the monies arifing by fuch fhares, to and for the benefit of the faid hofpital, till the end of three years limited by the faid acts, and within three calendar months after the expiration of which three years the faid agents are obliged by the faid acts to account for, and pay over the fame to the ufe of the faid hofpital, under certain penalties in the faid acts contained; which faid run-men very often commence thefe fuits before all the times appointed for the payment of the faid fhares are expired, and being generally paupers, they often difcontinue the faid fuits, and abfcond, whereby the faid agents are put to great cofts in the defence of the fame, and have no means of recovering the fame, and therefore deduct fuch costs out of the monies arifing from fuch fhares, remaining in their bands, at the time of their accounting with, and paying it to the treasurer of the faid hofpital, or his deputy, who are not authorized by the faid alts to allow the fame; nor can the governor and directors of the

faid hofpital enter into the defence of the said suits, whilst the faid monies remain in the faid agents hands, till it becomes payable to the Agents not li- faid hofpital, according to the directions of the faid acts; be it thereable to be fued fore enacted by the authority aforefaid, That no agent or agents by perfons shall be liable to be fued, impleaded, or arrefted, by any perfon made run. or perfons who fhall hereafter be made run from his Majesty's service, in the faid lifts tranfmitted to them of the names of the officers, feamen, marines, foldiers, or others intitled to fuch fhares, till the end of three months next after the expiration of three years, limited by the acts aforefaid, unless the perfon or perfons fo made run, thall obtain a certificate, before any action brought, from the commiffioners of his Majesty's navy, who fubfcribed and tranfmitted the faid lifts, the faid agent or agents, or fome of them, or their proper officer or officers, that the R or R's are taken off, and the forfeitures of fuch fhare or shares discharged, and the faid agent or agents, on the producing fuch certificate or certificates, hall refuse to pay the same, in case the fame be due and payable, according to the directions in his Majesty's faid declaration, within two months after demand made on fuch certificate.

till 3 months after the 3 years limited, unlefs certifi cates be firft

obtained of

the R's being taken off, &c.

XVI. And whereas feveral of the common penfioners and nurses in the faid royal hofpital of late have pawned or otherwife disposed of the wearing clothes, linen, and other goods delivered to them to wear and ufe, during their being penfioners or nurses of the faid hofpital, and continuing therein, and put the faid hofpital to great charge in redeeming or purchafing the fame, and are much encouraged by pawnbrokers and other ill-difpofed perfons, for lucre's fake, fo to do, though they know the perfon or persons who pawn or fell fuch clothes and linen, by the colour, make, and marks of and in the faid clothes and linen, have no abfolute or legal intereft or property in the fame; and that the faid penfioners and nurfes do often defert and run away from the faid hofpital, and carry away their clothes and linen with them: therefore for preventing fuch practices for the future, be it enacted by the authority aforefaid, That if any pawnbroker or other perfon or perfons fhall take to pawn, buy, exchange, or receive, any clothes, linen, or other goods or ftores belonging to his Majefty, his heirs or fucceffors, or to the governor and directors of the faid hofpital, appropriated to and for the wear of the faid penfioners or nurses during their continuance in the faid hofpital, or belonging thereto, and to the use of the faid hofpital, from any of the said penfioners, nurses, or other or changing perfon or perfons upon any account or pretence whatsoever, or the colour, or cause the colour of fuch clothes, linen, or goods to be changed, marks, to for or the marks thereon to be taken out or defaced, the person or feit 51. perfons fo offending fhall forfeit for every such offence the fum of five pounds upon conviction thereof, by the oath of one or more credible witnefs or witneffes, before any of his Majesty's juftices of the peace of the county wherein the faid offence or offences fhall be committed; which penalty or penalties of five pounds fhall be levied by warrant under the hand and feal, or hands and feals of the faid juftice or juftices of the peace, by

Perfons taking to pawn clothes, &c. belonging to the hofpital.

diftrefs

fale.

diftrefs and fale of the goods and chattels of the faid offender or to be levied by offenders; one moiety of which faid penalty or penalties fhall diftrefs and be paid to the informer or informers, and the other moiety shall go and be paid to the ufe of the faid hofpital; and in cafe any Difpofal of the fuch offender or offenders, who fhall be convicted as aforefait, forfeiture. of having bought, exchanged, received, or taken in pawn any For want of fuch clothes, linen, or other goods or ftores as aforefaid, or of distress ofhaving caufed the colour of fuch clothes, linen, or goods to be fender to be changed, contrary to the intent of this act, fhall not have fuf- committed for 3 months; ficient goods and chattels, whereon diftrefs may be made, to the value of the penalty or penalties recovered againft him, her, or them, for fuch offence or offences, or fhall not pay fuch penalty or penalties within four days after fuch conviction, then, and in fuch case, fuch juftice of the peace fhall and may, by warrant under his hand and feal, either commit fuch offender or offenders to the common gaol of the county where fuch offence or offences fhall be committed, there to remain without

bail or mainprize for the space of three months, or caufe fuch or to be puboffender or offenders to be publickly whipt, at the difcretion of lickly whipt. fuch juftice; and that if any penfioner, or nurfe of the said Penfioners or hofpital, fhall defert or run away from the fame, and carry anurfes going way with them any clothes, linen, ftores, or goods delivered to off with the him, her, or them, to wear and ufe, whilft they, or any of hofpital them, was or were penfioners or nurses of or belonging to the clothes, &c. faid hofpital, or any other clothes, goods, or ftores belonging to be committhereto; fuch person or perfons being lawfully convicted there-ted for fix of, by the oath or oaths of one or more credible witness or witneffes, fhall be committed to the common gaol or house of correction, where he, fhe, or they thall be apprehended, for the fpace of fix months, without bail or mainprize.

months.

&c.

XVII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, Perfons fued That if at any time or times hereafter, any perfon or perfons on this act, fhall be fued for any matter or thing done in the execution of this act, or if the governor, mafter, lieutenant governor, directors, captains, or any other officers of the faid royal hofpital at Greenwich, commonly called the officers of the house, who now are, or at any time hereafter fhall be concerned in the government of the faid hofpital or house, or any fteward, minifter, fervant, or agent, employed or to be employed by the governor, master, lieutenant governor, or directors, in collecting or receiving the rents and revenues of the faid house, or in any other matter or thing relating to the said house, or any or either of them, fhall be fued for any matter or thing done in the execution of this act, or in any wife relating to the faid hofpital or houfe, fuch governor, mafter, lieutenant governor, directors, captains, and officers of the faid houfe, and their ftewards, minifters, fervants, and agents, and each and every of them, fhall and may plead the general iffue, and give the fpecial matter in evidence; and if upon trial the plaintiff or plaintiffs fhall be- to plead the come nonfuit, or if a verdict fhall be given against him or them, general issue. the defendant or defendants fhall recover treble his and their Treble cofts. VOL. XIX. cofts

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cofts of fuit, and may levy the fame by execution, to be awarded out of the court, where fuch action or actions fhall be brought.

CAP. XXV.

An act for repairing the high road leading from the town of Stockton upon Tees, to Darlington, and from thence through Winston to Barnard Castle, in the fame county.

Certain tolls granted for 21 years. Enlarged by 22 Geo. 2. c. 51.

CAP. XXVI.

An act for reviving and continuing an act paffed in the fixth year of the reign of his late majefty King George the Firft, intituled, An act for laying a duty of two penny Scots, or one fixth part of a penny fterling, upon every Scots pint of beer or ale vended or fold within the town of Bruntifland, and liberties thereof for increasing the publick revenue of the faid town, and for other purposes therein mentioned.

The act 6 Geo. 2. c. 8. revived and continued for 31 years.

CAP. XXVII.

An act for founding and building a chapel in Wednesfield, in the parish of Wolverhampton, in the county of Stafford.

CAP. XXVIII.

An act for repairing the road leading from Catherick Bridge in the county of York, to Yarm in the faid county; and from thence to Stockton in the county of Durham; and from thence through Sedgefield, in the faid county of Durham, to the city of Durham.

Certain tolls granted for 21 years.

CAP. XXIX.

An act to confirm an agreement made by the rector and veftrymen of the parish of Saint James within the liberty of Westminster, for enlarging the churchyard of the said parish, and for other purposes there

in mentioned.

CAP. XXX.

An alt for allowing perfons impeached of high treafon, whereby any corruption of blood may be made, or for mifprifion of fuch treason, to make their full defence by council.

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HEREAS it is thought reasonable, that perfons impeached by the house of commons of high treafon, whereby any corruption of blood is made, or for misprifion of fuch treafon, should have the fame benefit and advantage in making their defence, as they may have on indictments, or other profecutions: the commons therefore humbly pray your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the King's most excellent majefty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords fpiritual and temporal, and commons, in this prefent parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, That from and after the first day of June, lowed to perin the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty fons impeach- feven, all and every perfon and perfons whatfoever, who fhall ed of high be impeached by the commons of Great Britain of any high treafon by the treafon, whereby any corruption of blood may or thall be made

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