From and after 29 Sept.

the mayor, aldermen,

and justices of

London, are

impowered to do all that by

feffions in their feveral counties, fhall be done and performed in like manner in the city of London, in the months of October and April yearly, by the mayor, aldermen, and justices of peace there; and that the perfons making fuch oaths shall be no corn-chandler, mealman, factor, merchant, or other perfon interested in fuch corn fo to be imported, but shall be some fubftantial housekeepers living in Middlesex or Surry, qualified as aforefaid: and whereas the power given by the faid act to the faid mayor, aldermen, and justices of peace of the city of London, for examining and determining the common market prices of middling English corn and grain, only in the months of October and April yearly, is found ineffectual to answer the good purposes of the faid act: be it therefore enacted by the King's most excellent majesty, 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 all that by virtue. of the faid act is to be done by the juftices of the peace at their quarter feffions in their several counties, fhall, from and after the twenty ninth day of September next, be done and performed in like manner in the city of London, not only in the months of October and April yearly, but alfo in the months of January and July yearly, by the mayor, aldermen, and juftices of peace there; and that the perfons making fuch oaths, fhall be no corn. Perfons making oaths to chandler, mealman, factor, merchant, or other perfon intebe fubftantial rested in such corn to be imported, but shall be some substantial houfekeepers houfekeepers living in Middlefex or Surry, qualified as aforefaid; any thing in the faid act, or in any law or ftatute contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

virtue of the recited act

may be done by juftices at the quarter feffions, in the

months of Jan. and July, as well as in October and April yearly.

in Middlefex or Surry.

CAP. XVIII.

An act to amend and render more effectual, in his Majesty's dominions in America, an act paft in this prefent feffion of parliament, intituled, An act for punishing mutiny and defertion, and for the better payment of the army and their quarters.

Preamble. Conftables, &c. to quarter officers and men in the barracks provided for them; and if there fhall not be fufficient room there, to billet the refidue in inns, ale-houses, &c. and if these shall be alfo infufficient, then in hired uninhabitated houses, to be provided and furnished for the purpose. No more billets to be ordered than there are effective men. Commander in chief to give early notice to the respective governors, of the marching of the troops, and their numbers, that quarters may be provided accordingly. Military officers taking on themfelves to quarter folders; or using any menace to a civil officer, to deter them from their duty; to be cafhiered; unless the conviction be reverfed upon appeal. Perfons aggrieved by being quartered on, may complain to the juftices, and be relieved. No justice having any military office to be concerned in bil-. leting foldiers, except where there fhall be no other juftice. Officers and foldiers quartered in inns, or ale houses, are to be furnished with provifions at a certain rate. What innholders, &c. may allow men quartered on them instead of meat. What officers and foldiers quartered in barracks, or hired houses, are to be furnished with at the provincial expence. How the expences incurred thereby are to be reimbursed. Penalty on taking money to excuse any person from being quartered on. Commanding of ficers may exchange men in their quarters. Penalty on conftables, &c. delaying to quarter or billet officers or foldiers after due notice; or receiving money to excufe any perfon from being quartered on; and on perfons refufing to receive the officers and foldiers billeted on them, or to furnish them with neceflaries as the act directs; is any fum

not

not exceeding 51. nor less than 40s. to be paid to the treasurer of the colony. Officers to give notice to inn-keepers, &c. of fubfiftence money in their hands; and their accounts to be paid off according to the rates of fubfiftence here established. Officers not giving fuch notice, the accounts to be discharged out of their arrears of pay; if no arrears are due, then out of the fubfistence-money of the regiment, and the officer to be cashiered. On nonpayment of quarters, for want of money, the officer to make up the accounts, and give certificates for the fums due. Juftices may demand an account of quartering of the officers and foldiers, in order to prevent and remedy abuses in quartering. Juftices, in pursuance of orders received, are to issue orders to conftables to provide carriages for the troops on their march. Rates of carriages. Carriages not obliged to carry above 12 cwt. nor to travel above one days march, unless other carriages cannot be procured. Penalty on conftables, &c. neglecting to provide or furnish carriages. Colony to repay the extra expences of carriages. Where carriages shall be necessarily provided for long marches beyond the settlements, the horfes and carriages are to be fairly appraised; and if loft or deftroyed to be paid for according to certificate. Deserter may be apprehended, and committed; gaoler to receive his fubfiftence money in the interim. Pety on perfons harbouring deferters; or buying soldiers arms or clothes,&c. Penalty on officer breaking open a house to fearch for deferters, without warrant. Perfons not being foldiers committing any offences in any fort or garrison, &c. not within the jurifdiction of any civil government, may be apprehended; and being charged on oath with the offence, may be committed to safe custody, till delivered over to the civil magistrate. Suits in what courts to be profecuted. How the troops are to pay in paffing ferries. Pecuniary penalties to be paid at the rate of 4s. 8d. fterling, the Spanish milled dollar. Limitation of actions. General iffue. Treble costs. This act to be in force from 24 March, 1766, to 24 March, 1768.

CAP. XIX.

An act for the more effectual encouragement of the trade and manufacture of leather gloves and mitts in this kingdom.

W

HEREAS, till of late years, great quantities of foreign kid Preamble. and lamb skins were yearly imported into this kingdom, in order to be manufactured into gloves and mits, to the great benefit of trade, and employment of the poor in the manufacture thereof and whereas large quantities of foreign manufactured leather gloves and mitts are clandeftinely brought into this kingdom, whereby not only the revenue is defrauded, but many thousands of his Majesty's fubjects, employed in the manufacture of leather gloves and mitts, are deprived of the means of providing for themselves and their families: and whereas the preventing the importation of fuch foreign manufactured leather gloves and mitts, would tend to the increase of the trade and manufactures of this kingdom, and would also encourage the importation of foreign kid and lamb fkins: May it please your Majefty, 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 fpiri- From and af tual and temporal, and commons, in this prefent parliament af ter 24 June, fembled, and by the authority of the fame, That if any foreign 1766, all fomanufactured leather gloves or mitts fhall, from and after the reign manutwenty fourth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and factured leather gloves or fixty fix, be imported, brought, or conveyed into this kingdom, mitts brought or any part of the British dominions, the fame fhall be, and are into any part hereby declared to be, forfeited, and shall be liable to be searched of the British for and seized by any officer or officers of the cuftoms or excife, dominions,

D 2

in

are liable to forfeiture;

and the importer,

vender, retailer,

exposer to fale,

or concealer

thereof, forfeit more

in like manner as other prohibited and uncustomed goods are and fhall be difpofed of as is herein after mentioned: and every perfon or perfons who fhall bring, convey, or import or fhall caufe to be brought, conveyed, or imported, into this kingdom, or any part of the British dominions, any fuch leather gloves or mitts, or thall be aiding, abetting, or affifting therein; or, being a vender or venders, retailer or retailers, of any kind of leather gloves or mitts, in whofe cuftody or poffeffion any fuch foreign manufactured leather gloves or mitis fhall be found; or who fhall fell, or expofe to fale, any fuch leather gloves or mitts; or who fhall conceal any fuch leather gloves or mitts, with intent to prevent the forfeiture or feizure of the fame; fhall, over and above the forfeiture and loss of fuch leather gloves and mitts, and all intereft which he, she, or they, may have therein, for every fuch offence, forfeit and pay the fum of two hundred pounds, together with double coûts of fuit.

over 200 1. with double cofts of fuit. Any of the faid goods feized in England, out of

the cities of London and Westminster, and limits of the weekly bills of mortality, not exceeding 20l. in value,

II. Provided always, and be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That if any fuch leather gloves or mitts fhall be found and feized in that part of Great Britain called England, out of the cities of London and Westminster, and the limits of the weekly bills of mortality, and the fame fhall not exceed in value the fum of twenty pounds, it fhall and may be lawful for two or more of his Majefty's juftices of the peace for fuch county, city, borough, or place, where the fame fhall be found and feized, upon information before them that fuch leather gloves or mitts were feized as leather gloves or mitts unduly may be pro- brought into and not manufactured within this kingdom, to ceededagainft, hear and determine the same, and to proceed to condemnation before, and or discharge thereof as fhall feem juft; any thing herein before determined by 2 juftices; contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

are condemn

and one moi

to the officer;

1

III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, if the goods That after condemnation thereof in due courfe of law, all and ed, they are to every fuch leather gloves and mitts shall be publickly fold, to be publickly the beft advantage, for exportation, by the candle; and one fold, for ex- moiety of the produce, or money arifing by the fale of fuch portation; leather gloves and mitts, fhall be to the ufe of his Majefty, his ety of the pro- heirs, and fucceffors, and the other moiety thereof to the use duce is to go of the officer or officers who fhall feize and fecure the fame: to the King; and no fuch leather gloves or mitts fhall be confumed or used and the other in this kingdom, but fhall be exported again to fome port or and fecurity place not being any part of his Majefty's dominions; and fhall is to be given not be fold, otherwife than on condition to be exported as aforefaid and fuch leather gloves and mitte fhall not be delivered out of the warehoufe, or place wherein the fame fhall have been fecured, until fufficient fecurity be first given' to the King's Majefty, his heirs and fucceffors, which the commiffioners of his Majefty's cuftoms or excife are hereby impowered and required to take, that the fame, and every part thereof, fhall be exported as aforefaid, and not landed again in any part which is to be of his Majefty's dominions; which fecurities fhall be dischargdischarged up- ed without fee or reward, upon certificate returned under the

for the due exportation thereof, before delivery of the fame out

of the warehouse where secured;

common

fuch exporta

doubt whe

Yommon feal of the chief magiftrate in any place or places be- on a return of ond the feas, and out of his Majefty's dominions, or under a certificate, the hands and feals of two known English merchants upon fuch or proof of place, that the goods were there landed; or upon proof, by tion. credible perfons, that fuch goods were taken by enemies, or perished in the feas; the examination and proof thereof being left to the judgement of the faid commiffioners: which commiffioners are hereby refpectively impowered, from time to time, to call upon the perfon or perfons who have entered into fuch fecurity, to produce fuch certificate or proof as aforefaid. IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, In cafe of That if any fuch leather gloves or mitts fhall be feized, by vir- ther fuch tue and in purfuance of this act, and any doubt or queftion goods are of shall afterwards arife where the fame were manufactured, the foreign maproof fhall lie upon the perfon or perfons in whofe cuftody or nufacture, the poffeffion the fame were found, and not upon the profecutor or di is to lie on Onus proban. profecutors, plaintiff or plaintiffs; and in cafe no proof thall be the poffeffor; given, that fuch leather gloves or mitts were manufactured within Great Britain, then the fame fhall, without any further proceeding, be taken and held to have been manufactured out of Great Britain, and contrary to, and in violation of, this act; any law or cuftom to the contrary notwithstanding.

to conviction,

V. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That if any and the pofperfon or persons, in whose cuftody or poffeffion any fuch lea- feffor (not im ther gloves or mitts fhall be feized by virtue and in purfuance porting or of this act (such perfon or perfons not importing or concealing concealing the the fame) fhall difcover, upon oath, before any one or more covering the fame) but dif juftice or justices of the peace, the perfon or perfons who fold vender, fuch leather gloves or mitts to fuch perfon or perfons in whose custody or poffeffion the fame fhall be seized, so as that such fo as he may perfon or perfons, fo felling the fame, fhall or may be profe- be profecuted cuted and convicted, according to the intent of this act, as the feller thereof, in case the same shall be, or be taken and held to be, within the intent and meaning of this act, manufactured out of Great Britain, such person or perfons, fo difcovering as aforefaid, fhall be, and is and are hereby freed and difcharged is discharged of and from all and every the penalties and forfeitures by this from the peact inflicted upon all and every perfon and perfons, being a feiture, nalty and forvender or venders, retailer or retailers, having in his, her, or their cuftody or poffeffion any fuch leather gloves or mitts not made or manufactured in Great Britain; and of and from any to the place of ing proof as proof that the fame, fo feized as aforefaid, were manufactured their manuin Great Britain.

facture.

VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, Recovery of That all pecuniary penalties and forfeitures, by this act im- penalties and pofed, fhall and may be fued for and recovered in any of his forfeitures; Majesty's courts of record at Westminster, or in the court of Exchequer at Edinburgh, refpectively, by action, bill, plaint, or information, in the name of his Majesty's attorney general, or in the name of his Majefty's advocate in Scotland, or in the name or names of fome officer or officers of the customs or excife;

and applica- and that one moiety of every fuch penalty and forfeiture shall tion thereof. be to his Majefty, his heirs and fucceffors, and the other moiety thereof to the officer or officers of the customs or excife, who fhall inform and profecute for the fame.

Officer neglecting for

1 month to

VII. Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted, That if any officer or officers of the customs or excife shall neglect or refuse, for the space of one calendar month after fuch conprofecute for demnation as aforefaid, to profecute to effect any perfon or any pecuniary penalty, perfons, for any pecuniary penalty or forfeiture by this act inflicted upon offenders against the fame; that then it fhall be any other lawful for any perfon or perfons whomfoever, to fue for, pro-. fecute, and recover, the refpective pecuniary penalties and forfeitures by this act inflicted, in like manner as is herein before directed, with regard to the officers of the customs or excife; and one moiety of the faid pecuniary forfeitures, when recovered, fhall, in such case, go and be applied to the use of his Majefty, his heirs and fucceffors, and the other moiety to the perfon or perfons who fhall fue or profecute for the fame respectively.

perfon may fue for and recover the Lame.

The weavers

of fuch goods

are not subject to any penalty, for. feiture, or

proof, upon

that account.

This act does

VIII. Provided alfo, and be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That nothing in this act contained shall extend, or be, in any wife conftrued to extend, to fubject any perfon or perfons who shall wear, or make ufe of, fuch leather gloves or mitts as aforefaid, as part of his, her, or their apparel or dress only, to any forfeiture, or to any pecuniary penalty or penalties inflicted by this act, or to any proof that the same were manufactured within Great Britain.

IX. Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority not extend to aforefaid, That nothing in this act contained shall extend, or repeal any of be construed or deemed to extend, in any wife to repeal any of the powers of the powers and authorities granted in and by an act made in

the act of 11 Geo. I.

the eleventh year of the reign of his late majefty King George the First, intituled, An act for more effectual preventing frauds and abuses in the public revenues; for preventing frauds in the falt duties, and for giving relief for falt ufed in the curing of falmon and cod fish, in the year one thousand feven hundred and nineteen, exported from that part of Great Britain called Scotland; for enabling the infurance companies to plead the general iffue in actions with regard to brought against them; and for fecuring the ftamp duties upon policies of infurance; with regard to feizures of any prohibited or run goods, wares, merchandizes, or commodities.

feizures of

prohibited or run goods.

X. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any action or fuit fhall be commenced against any perfon or perfons, for any thing done in pursuance of this act, the defendant or defendants, in fuch action or fuit, may plead the general iffue, and give this act, and the fpecial matter, in General iffue. evidence at any trial to be had thereupon; and that the same was done by the authority of this act and if it shall appear to have been so done, then the jury fhall find for the defendant or defendants: and if the plaintiff fhall be nonfuited, or difcontinue his action after the defendant or defendants fhall