carry LXXVIII. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That No Waggon or no Waggon, Wain, Cart, or Carriage, impressed by Authority of Carriage to this Act, shall be liable or obliged by virtue of this Act to carry above above Thirty Hundred Weight; any thing in this Act contained Thirty Hundred Weight. to the contrary notwithstanding. LXXIX. Provided also, and be it further enacted, That no Owners of CarOwner of any such Carriage in Ireland shall be compelled or riages in Ireobliged to take any Loading until the same shall be first duly land not obliged weighed at the Expence of the Owner or Owners of such Car- to take Loading riage, if he or they shall think fit, and if the same can be done in till it is weighed. a reasonable Time without Let or Hindrance of His Majesty's Service; and if any Officer requiring such Carriage shall force or compel the Owner to take any Loading until the same shall be first duly weighed, if the same can be done in a reasonable Time as aforesaid, or shall, contrary to the Will of the Owner of such Carriage, or his Servant, put or permit any Person whatsoever to put any greater Load upon any Carriage than is hereinafter directed, either at the Time of Loading or on the March, every such Officer shall for every such Offence forfeit the Sum of Twenty Shillings to the Party injured, upon such Proof and in such Manner as is hereinbefore appointed. Limiting the Weight which Carriages imPressed in Ireland shall LXXX. And be it further enacted, That no Car impressed by Authority of this Act in Ireland shall be liable or obliged to carry above Six Hundred Weight, and that no Dray so impressed shall be liable or obliged to carry more than Twelve Hundred Weight; and if the Owner shall consent to carry above be obliged to Six Hundred Weight, or Twelve Hundred Weight respectively, carry. on any Carriage, he shall be allowed and paid at the Rate aforesaid for every Hundred above the Weight of Six Hundred Pounds, or Twelve Hundred Pounds, put on his Carriage, according to the Nature and Description thereof; and the Owner or Owners of such Carriage or Carriages shall not be compelled or obliged to proceed with such Carriage or Carriages under the Sum of Three Pence for each Mile or reputed Mile for each Car, or Sixpence a Mile for each Day, at the least, in case he or they shall be required to carry a less Weight on such Carriage or Carriages than the Weights hereinbefore appointed for the same respectively. the March of LXXXI. And be it further enacted, That whenever any Troops Notice to be or Companies of Soldiers shall receive Orders to march from given to the Dublin, and that it shall be necessary to impress Carriages for that Lord Mayor of Purpose, Notice shall be given to the Lord Mayor of the City Dublin, before of Dublin at least Twenty four Hours before the March of such Troops out of Troops or Companies of Soldiers out of the said City, or, in case that City, to of Emergency, as long before such March as the Nature of the provide CarCase shall permit, of the Number of Troops, Companies or Sol- riages. diers appointed to March; whereupon the Lord Mayor for the Time being shall summon a proportionable Number of Cars or Drays, or either of them, at his Discretion, out of the Licensed Cars, Drays, and other Cars and Drays, within the County of the said City, and so from time to time the said Cars and Drays are by Turns to be employed in carrying the Baggage of such Troops or Companies, at the Prices and under the Regulations hereinbefore mentioned; and it is hereby directed, that no Country Cars, Drays, or other Carriages coming to any of the Markets in Ireland, shall be detained or employed against the Will of the Owners, in carrying the Baggage of the Army, on any Pretence whatsoever. LXXXII. And be it further enacted, That if any High Constable or Petty Constable shall wilfully neglect or refuse to execute such Warrant or Warrants of the Justices of the Peace as shall be directed unto them for providing Carriages, Horses, Boats, Barges, and other Vessels as aforesaid; or shall demand or receive, for the Use of the Owners furnishing such Waggons, Wains, Carts, Cars, or Carriages, more than the Rates hereinbefore allowed respectively; or if any Person or Persons appointed by such Constable or Petty Constable to provide or furnish any Carriage, Man, Horse, Boat, Barge, or other Vessel, shall refuse or neglect to provide the same; or if such Person or Persons, or any other Person or Persons whomsoever, shall wilfully do any Act or Thing whereby the Execution of any such Warrant shall be hindered or frustrated, every such Constable or other Person or Persons so offending shall for every such Offence forfeit any Sum not exceeding Five Pounds, nor less than Forty Shillings, to the Use of the Poor of such Parish or Parishes adjoining to the Parish where such Offence shall be committed, as shall be fixed upon by the Justice or Justices by whom such Offence shall be inquired of, heard, and determined; and all and every such Offence and Offences shall and may be inquired of, heard, and finally determined by any One of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace dwelling in or near the Place where any such Offence shall be committed, who has hereby Power to cause the said Penalty to be levied by Distress and Sale of the Offender's Goods and Chattels, rendering the Overplus (if any) to the Owners. LXXXIII. And be it further enacted, That the Officer commanding the Party for whose Use any such Carriage or Horse shall be impressed in Ireland is hereby required, before the Owner of any Carriage or Horse in Ireland shall be compelled to take any Loading, or be forced to proceed on the March with his Carriage, to pay or cause to be paid down in Hand to the Owner of such Carriage or Horse, or to his Servant, One Third Part of the full Sum to which the Owner of such Carriage or Horse would be entitled for the March in the said Warrant directed to be made, according to the Rate so fixed for the same as aforesaid; and every such Payment shall be made, if required, in the Presence of a Justice of the Peace, Constable, or Petty Constable. LXXXIV. And Whereas, in consequence of certain Exemp'tions from Toll expressly allowed by several Acts for His Majesty's Forces on their March or on Duty, and for the Horses and Carriages attending them, Doubts have arisen whether in all Cases not so exempted, the Horses and Soldiers, and the Carriages and Horses belonging to His Majesty, or employed in His Majesty's Service, and returning therefrom, may not be charged with the Payment of Tolls;' Therefore, for obviating such Doubts, it is hereby enacted and declared, That all His Majesty's Officers and Soldiers, being in proper Staff or Regimental Uniform, and their Horses, on Duty or on their March, and all Carriages and Horses belonging to His Majesty, or employed in His Service, and returning therefrom, or employed in His Service, exService, when conveying the Officers, Soldiers, Servants, Women, empted from Children or other Persons of or belonging to His Majesty's Payment of Tolls; Forces, or the Arms, Clothes, Accoutrements, Tents, Baggage, and other Equipage of or belonging to His Majesty's Forces on their Marches, or any Ordnance, or Barrack, or Commissariat or other Public Stores of or belonging to His Majesty, or for the Use of His Majesty's Forces, or returning therefrom were and are and shall be exempted from Payment of any Duties and Tolls otherwise demandable by virtue of any Act already made, or hereafter to be made, for Persons, Horses, or Carriages, or any Baggage of any Troops embarking or disembarking from or upon any Pier, Wharf, Quay, or Landing Place, or passing Turnpike Roads or Bridges, unless by such Act it has been or shall unless where it be expressly provided that the said Officers, Soldiers, Carriages, is provided and Horses are and shall be liable equally with others to the Duties and Tolls therein authorized to be demanded and taken: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall exempt from the Payment of Tolls any Boats, Barges, or other Vessels employed in conveying the Officers, Soldiers, Servants, Women, Children, or other Persons of or belonging to His Majesty's Forces, or the Arms, Clothes, Accoutrements, Tents, Baggage, and other Equipage of or belonging to His Majesty's Forces, or any Military Stores, along any Canal; but the same shall be liable to Toll in like Manner as other Boats, Barges, and Vessels are liable thereto. every LXXXV. And Whereas the respective Sums of Money by this Act appointed to be paid to the Constables by the Officers demanding such Carriages, Horses, Boats, Barges, or Vessels, 'may not in many Cases be sufficient to answer the Charge and Expence of providing the same, insomuch that the said Constables may frequently be at great Charges over and above what ' is received by them of the said Officers, to the great Burthen ' of the Townships of which they are Constables, or else the Persons providing such Carriages are grievously oppressed;' For Remedy whereof, and that the said Overplus Charge may be borne by each County or Riding at the general Charge of such County or Riding, be it further enacted, That the Treasurer or Treasurers of such respective County or Riding shall, without Fee or Reward, pay unto such Constable all and such reasonable Sum or Sums of Money so by him paid or laid out for such Carriages, Horses, Boats, Barges, and other Vessels, over and above what was or ought to have been paid by the Officer requiring such Carriages, Horses, Boats, Barges, and other Vesssels, out of the public Stock of such County or Riding, according to such Rates, Orders, Rules, and Directions as the Justices of the Peace in their Quarter Sessions assembled, within their respective Jurisdictions, shall from time to time during the Continuance of this Act make, direct and appoint (which Orders shall be made without Fee or Reward); regard being always had to the Season of the Year, and the Length and Condition of the Ways by and through which such Carriages, Horses, Boats, Barges, and other Vessels are to travel and pass. LXXXVI. And that they are liable with others. Treasurer of the the Constables extraordinary Charges. The Money for that Purpose how to be raised. Officers, &c. to be quartered in Scotland as the Laws in force at the Union direct. No Officer, &c. to be quartered upon any Foreign Consul. Carriages in Scotland how to be provided. How the Troops are to pay in passing over Ferries in Scotland. LXXXVI. And in case the public Stock of the County or Riding be not sufficient, over and above the other Purposes for which it was raised, to satisfy the extraordinary Charge of Carriages, Horses, Boats, Barges, and other Vessels before mentioned, it is hereby further enacted, That the said Justices of the Peace in the General Quarter Sessions shall have Power from time to time to raise Monies upon the respective Counties or Ridings, in such Manner as they now raise Monies for County Gaols and Bridges, to satisfy such extraordinary Charges of Carriages, Horses, Boats, Barges, and other Vessels. LXXXVII. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to quarter Officers and Soldiers in Scotland in such and the like Places and Houses as they might have been quartered in by the Laws in force in Scotland at the Time of its Union with England; and that the Possessors of such Houses shall only be liable to furnish the said Officers and Soldiers quartered there as by the said Laws in force at the Time of the said Union was provided; and that no Officer shall be obliged to pay for his Lodging where he shall be regularly billetted, except in the Suburbs of Edinburgh. LXXXVIII. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful to quarter or billet, in any Part of the United Kingdom, any Officer or Soldier upon or in the House or Residence of any Foreign Consul duly accredited as such; any thing in this Act, or in any Act or Acts, or Law or Custom, to the contrary notwithstanding. LXXXIX. And be it further enacted, That the Carriages for the Service of the Forces from time to time quartered or marching in Scotland shall be provided in like Manner and at the Rates, and the Furnisher of such Carriages shall be paid, as was directed by the Law in force in Scotland at the Time of its Union with England: Provided always, that a Cart with One or more Horses, for which the Furnisher shall demand and receive the Sum of Nine Pence per Mile, shall be required to carry Fifteen Hundred Weight at the least. XC. And be it further enacted, That where any Troop or Parties upon Command have occasion in their March to pass regular Ferries in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, it shall and may be lawful for the Commanding Officer either to pass over with his Party as Passengers, or to hire the Ferry Boat entirely to himself and his Party, debarring others for that Time in his Option; and in case he shall choose to take Passage for himself and Party as Passengers, he shall only pay, for himself and for each Person, Officer, or Soldier under his Command, Half of the ordinary Rate payable by single Persons at any such Ferry; and in case he shall hire the Ferry Boat for himself and Party, he shall pay Half of the ordinary Rate for such Boat or Boats; and in such Places where there are no regular Ferries, but that all Passengers hire Boats at the Rate they can agree for, Officers with or without Parties are to agree for Boats at the Rate as other Persons do in the like Cases. XCI. And for the better Preservation of Game and Fish in or near such Places where any Officers shall at any Time be quartered, be it further enacted, That if, from and after the said Twenty or Fish. Twenty fourth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and Penalty on twenty seven, any Officer shall, without Leave first had and Officers deobtained in Writing from the Person or Persons entitled to grant stroying Game such Leave, take, kill or destroy any Hare, Pheasant, Partridge, or any other Sort of Game, or any Fish, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and upon Complaint thereof shall be, upon Oath of One or more credible Witness or Witnesses, convicted before any Justice or Justices of the Peace, who is and are hereby authorized to hear and determine the same, every Officer so offending shall for every such Offence forfeit the Sum of Five Pounds, to be distributed among the Poor of the Place where such Offence shall be committed. to be enlisted. XCII. And be it further enacted, That every Person who shall Persons receivreceive Enlisting Money from any Officer employed on the Re- ing Enlisting cruiting Service, or from any Noncommissioned Officer or Private Money deemed Soldier belonging to the Recruiting Party under the Command of such Officer, or from any Person employed on the Recruiting Service, he, being an attested Soldier, shall be deemed to be enlisted as a Soldier in His Majesty's Service, and shall, while he shall remain with the Recruiting Party, be entitled to be billetted and quartered as a Soldier in His Majesty's Service: Provided always, that every such Person so enlisted shall be entitled to all the Benefits herein enacted for the Relief of Persons hastily enlisting themselves. Oath and Attestation of Service to His taken to His Majesty to be Heirs and Successors. · XCIII. And Whereas it is highly expedient that no Doubt ⚫ should remain as to Service of Soldiers, by reason of any Omis'sion of His Majesty's Heirs and Successors in any Oath of Attest'ation;' Be it therefore declared and enacted, That any Oath and Attestation of Service heretofore or hereafter taken and made to His Majesty is and shall be deemed and construed to be an Oath of Service to His Majesty's Heirs and Successors, as the Sovereign of the Realm for the Time being, as fully and effectually to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever as if the Words Heirs and Successors had been inserted in any such Oath or Attestation. XCIV. Provided always, and it is hereby enacted and declared, Clause for ReThat from and after the said Twenty fourth Day of March One lief of Persons thousand eight hundred and twenty seven, when and as often as hastily enlisting any Person or Persons shall be enlisted as a Soldier or Soldiers themselves. in His Majesty's Land Service, he or they shall within Four Days, but not sooner than Twenty four Hours, after such enlisting respectively, be carried or go with some Officer, Noncommissioned Officer, or Private Soldier belonging to the Recruiting Party by which he shall be enlisted, or with the Person employed on the Recruiting Service with whom he shall have enlisted, before some Justice of the Peace of any County, Riding, City, or Place, or Chief Magistrate of any City or Town Corporate, residing or being next to or in the Vicinity of the Place, and acting for the Division or District where such Person or Persons shall have been enlisted, and not being an Officer in the Army, and before such Justice or Chief Magistrate, he or they shall be at liberty to declare his or their Dissent to such enlisting; and upon such Declaration, and returning the Enlisting Money, and also each Person so dissenting paying the Sum of Twenty Shillings for the Charges expended or laid out upon him, together with such full Rate |