feitures, and Disabilities contained in the said recited Acts shall be applied and extended to the Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act, as fully and effectually, to all Intents and Purposes, as if the said several Clauses, Provisoes, Powers, Privileges, Advantages, Penalties, Forfeitures, and Disabilities had been particularly repeated and re-enacted in the Body of this Act. IV. And be it enacted, That the Exchequer Bills to be made Interest on Exout in pursuance of this Act shall and may bear an Interest not chequer Bills. exceeding the Rate of Three-pence Halfpenny per Centum per Diem, upon or in respect of the whole of the Monies respectively contained therein. advance withstanding V. And be it declared, and enacted, That it shall and may Bank of be lawful for the Governor and Company of the Bank of England may England, and they are hereby empowered, to take, accept, and 8,000,000l. on receive the Exchequer Bills authorized to be made out in the Credit of pursuance of this Act, and to advance or lend to Her Majesty, this Act, notat the Receipt of the Exchequer at Westminster, upon the 5 & 6 W. & M. Credit of the Sum granted by this Act, out of the Consolidated c. 20. Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Eight Millions, any thing in an Act passed in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary, intituled An Act for granting to Their Majesties several Rates and Duties upon the Tonnage of Ships and Vessels, and upon Beer, Ale, and other Liquors; and for securing certain Recompences and Advantages in the said Act mentioned to such Persons as shall voluntarily advance the Sum of One million five hundred thousand Pounds towards carrying on the War against France, or in any other Act or Acts to the contrary notwithstanding. Act to be deli VI. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Bills prepared Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, and they are hereby by virtue of this authorized and empowered, to cause such Bills as shall be pre-vered to the pared by virtue of this Act to be delivered from Time to Time Bank, as Secuto the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, in such rity for sucht Proportions as the Public Service may require, as Security for any Advance or Advances which may be made to Her Majesty by the said Governor and Company of the Bank of England under the Authority of this Act. Advances. Services voted VII. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Monies raised Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to issue and apply by Bills to be from Time to Time all such Sums of Money as shall be raised applied to the by Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act to by the Com such Services as shall then have been voted by the Commons of mons. the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in this present Session of Parliament. chargeable upon VIII. And be it enacted, That the Principal Sum or Sums Exchequer of Money to be contained in all such Exchequer Bills to be Bills made made forth by virtue of this Act, together with the Interest the growing that may become due thereon, shall be and the same are hereby Produce of the made chargeable and charged upon the growing Produce of Consolidated the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain G 3 and Fund. and Ireland in the next succeeding Quarter to that in which the said Exchequer Bills have been issued; and it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury for the Time being, or any Three or more of them, and they are hereby authorized, from Time to Time, by Warrant under their Hands, to direct the Comptroller General of the Receipt of the Exchequer at Westminster, in such Manner as they shall think necessary, to grant a Credit on the Exchequer Funds in the Bank of England unto such Person or Persons as shall be named in the said Warrant, which Credit shall be chargeable on and paid out of the growing Produce of the said Consolidated Fund of the next succeeding Quarter to that in which the said Exchequer Bills have been issued, for any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole a Sum sufficient to discharge and pay off the Principal Sum or Sums of Money contained in such Exchequer Bills then outstanding, and which may have been made out and issued by virtue of this Act, together with all such Interest as may be due thereupon. 6 CAP. VI. An Act to alter the Hours within which certain Oaths 30 Car. 2. st. 2. the more effectual preserving the King's Person and Government, by disabling Papists from sitting in either House of Parliament, 'certain Oaths and Declarations are required to be made and subscribed by Peers and Members of the House of Peers, which said Oaths and Declarations are required to be made and 'subscribed between the Hours of Nine in the Morning and Four in the Afternoon: And whereas it is expedient that the Time for making the said Oaths and subscribing the said Declarations by Peers and Members of the House of Peers should be extended as herein-after mentioned:' Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent 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 from and after the passing of this Act the said Oaths and Declarations, and all other Oaths or Declarations Peers to make required to be made and subscribed by Peers and Members of the House of Peers at the Table of the said House, shall and may be made and subscribed betwixt the Hours of Nine in the Lords till Five Morning and Five in the Afternoon; and that the said Oaths and Declarations made and subscribed between the Hours last aforesaid shall be as effectual to all Intents and Purposes as if made and subscribed within the Hours mentioned in the said recited Act. Extension of the Time for Oaths, &c. in the House of o'Clock in the Afternoon. CAP. VII. An Act to amend the Law affecting transported Con- WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Third Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, intituled An Act for abolishing 2&3 W.4. c. 62. the Punishment of Death in certain Cases, and substituting a lesser "Punishment in lieu thereof, it is among other things enacted, that neither the Governor nor Lieutenant Governor of any Island, Colony, or Settlement, or any other Person, shall give any • Pardon or Ticket of Leave to any Person sentenced to Transportation, or who shall receive a Pardon on condition of Transportation, or any Order or Permission to suspend or remit the Labour of any such Person, except in Cases of Illness, until such Person, if transported for Seven Years shall have served Four, if transported for Fourteen Years shall have 'served Six, or if transported for Life shall have served Eight Years of Labour; and that no such Person shall be capable of acquiring or holding any Property, or of bringing any Action for the Recovery of any Property, until after such Person shall have duly obtained a Pardon from the Governor or Lieutenant Governor of the Colony or Settlement in which he or she shall have been confined; provided that nothing 'therein contained shall in any Manner affect His Majesty's Royal Prerogative of Mercy: And whereas it is expedient that the Law with respect to Pardons and Tickets of Leave ⚫ should be amended;' be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of Repeal of so the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present much of the Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That recited Act as so much of the above-recited Act as is herein-before recited shall dons and Tickets be repealed. of Leave. 6 respects Par dons. II. And be it enacted, That after the Time when this Act Manner of shall take effect in any Place to which Felons and Offenders granting Parhave been or may be transported by Law, neither the Governor 2x. nor Lieutenant Governor of such Place shall be empowered as heretofore to remit, either absolutely or conditionally, the Whole or any Part of the Time for which any such Felons or other Offenders shall have been or shall be hereafter transported to such Place, but instead thereof the Governor or Lieutenant Governor shall from Time to Time, by an Instrument in Writing under his Hand, recommend such Felons or other Offenders as he shall think fit to be recommended to Her Majesty for an absolute or conditional Pardon; and in case Her Majesty shall, through One of Her Principal Secretaries of State, signify Her Approval of any such Recommendation, it shall be lawful for the Governor or Lieutenant Governor to grant such absolute or conditional Pardon pursuant to such Instructions as shall be sent Holders of to sue for Per to him by the Secretary of State, by an Instrument in Writing under the Seal of his Government, which shall be deemed from the Day of the Date thereof to have, within such Place or Places as shall be specified in such Pardon, but not elsewhere, the same Effect in the Law to all Intents and Purposes as if a general, absolute, or conditional Pardon had passed on that Day under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom. III. And whereas the Practice hath prevailed in those Places to which Felons and Offenders have been transported by Law of granting, in certain Cases and on certain Conditions, Personal Property. mission to such Felons and Offenders to employ themselves for their own Benefit (which Permissions are usually called and known by the Name of Tickets of Leave), and it is just that they should be protected in their Persons and in the Pos⚫ session of such Property as they may acquire by their Industry while holding such Tickets of Leave;' be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for every Felon under Sentence or Order of Transportation who shall hold any such Ticket of Leave, notwithstanding his or her Conviction of Felony, to acquire and hold Personal Property, and to maintain any Action or Suit for the Recovery of any Personal Property so acquired by him or her, and for any Damage or Injury sustained by him or her, in the Courts of the Colony or Place where such Felon shall lawfully reside; and if the Defendant in any such Action or Suit shall plead or allege in his or her Defence the Plaintiff's or Complainant's Conviction of Felony, and the Plaintiff or Complainant shall allege and prove that he or she hath received and doth still continue to hold unrevoked such a Ticket of Leave as aforesaid, a Verdict shall pass and Judgment shall be given for the Plaintiff or Complainant: Provided always, that whenever such Ticket of Leave shall be revoked all Property so acquired by any such Felon shall vest absolutely in Her Majesty, and shall be disposed of at the Discretion of the Governor or Lieutenant Governor, subject to such Instructions as shall be from Time to Time sent to him by One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State. Holders of Tickets of Leave declared inca IV. Provided always, and be it declared and enacted, That no Felon under Sentence of Transportation who shall hold a pable of holding Ticket of Leave shall be capable of acquiring or holding any Real Property. Estate in Lands or Tenements other than as Tenant for Years, or for some less Term or Estate, determinable in each Case upon the Revocation of the Ticket of Leave, until after such Felon shall have duly obtained an absolute or conditional Pardon from the Governor or Lieutenant Governor of the Place to which he shall have been so transported, pursuant to the Provisions hereinbefore contained. Commencement of Act. V. And be it enacted, That this Act shall be proclaimed by the Governor or Lieutenant Governor of every Place to which Felons and Offenders have been or now may be transported by Law within Six Weeks after a Copy of it shall have been received by him, and shall take effect in every such Place from the Day of the Proclamation thereof; and in case Her Majesty shall be pleased, 5 pleased, with the Advice of Her Privy Council, to appoint any new Place or Places beyond the Seas to which Felons and other Offenders under Sentence or Order of Transportation may be conveyed, this Act shall take effect in every such Place from the Time of such Appointment. VI. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or Act may be repealed by any Act to be passed in this Session of Parliament. amended. CAP. VIII. An Act to empower Justices of the Peace in Ireland WE HEREAS Doubts have arisen whether Justices of the Peace in Ireland may lawfully act in Cases relating to • Cesses, Rates, and Taxes to which such Justices respectively are rated or chargeable;' be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent 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 it shall and may be lawful to and for all and every Justice or ered to act in Justices of the Peace for any County, County of a City, or Cases relating County of a Town, or Borough, or Town Corporate, in Ireland, to Grand Jury within their respective Jurisdictions, to do and perform all Acts and Poor Law appertaining to their Office as Justice or Justices of the Peace Rates, although Justices of the Rates and other under or in execution of the Laws for the Presentment of Public liable to such Money by Grand Juries in Ireland, or the Laws for the more Rates. effectual Relief of the Destitute Poor in Ireland, or for the Apprehension and Punishment of Vagrants, or under an Act passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act to make Provision for lighting, cleansing, 9 G. 4. c. 82. and watching of Cities, Towns Corporate, and Market Towns in Ireland, in certain Cases, or under or in execution of any other Laws concerning local Cesses, Rates, or Taxes, notwithstanding any such Justice or Justices is or are rated to or chargeable with the Cesses, Rates, or Taxes affected by such Act or Acts of such Justice or Justices as aforesaid. be declared void. II. And be it enacted, That no Act of any such Justice or Former Acts of Justices done before the passing of this Act shall hereafter be Justices not to quashed or declared void because the same has been done by any such Justice or Justices so rated or chargeable as aforesaid. III. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or Act may be repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of amended this Parliament. Session. |