430 C. 7. Anno nono Georgii Regis. A. D. 1722. fo much of the fa'id Annuities or yearly Funds payable at the Exchequer, as fhall bear Proportion to the Monies fo paid in Part of the Principal, fhall ceafe, determine and be abated ; any Thing in this or any former Act or Acts of Parliament contained, or other Matter or Thing whatfoever to the contrary not- withftanding. After RcJemp- X VIIL Provided alfo, and it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That from and after tion of Capital, the Redemption of the faid Capital or Principal Sums, amounting to thirty-three millions eight hundred
- ^ toWe two thoufantl four hundred eighty-three Pounds fourteen Shillings and one Half-penny, and the faid feve-
thet'etofcall be ral yearly Funds or Sums payable at the Exchequer, according to. the feveral and refpective Provifoes and undeiftood to be Conditions of Redemption in this Act contained for that Purpofe, then, and not till then, fo much of redeemed by Par- the feveral Duties, Revenues and Incomes as are by this Aft applicable thereunto, during the Continu- liament, &c. ancc thereof, fhall be underftood to be redeemed by Parliament, and fhall not be illued or applied to any Ufe or Purpofe without Authority of Parliament. 8 Geo. 1. c. ii. ' XIX. And whereas by an Act of Parliament pafTed in the eighth Year of his Majefty's Reign, inti- Prwifionsfor- < tu ] ec i ? j n jff t0 . na ll e the South-Sea Company to difpofe of the Effeils in their Handi by way of Lottery or againft requiring ' Suhfcription, or to fell Part of their Fund or Annuity payable at the Exchequer, in order to pay the Debts of the Special Bail, &c. ' faid Company, and for Relief of fuch who were intended to have the Benefit of a late Acl, touching Payment. of continued, ' ten per Centum, therein mentioned; It was amongft other Things enacted,. That no Special Bail fhoufd ' be required in any Action or Suit, brought or to be brought upon any Contract made or entred into ' fince the firft Day of December one thoufand feven hundred and nineteen, and before the firft Day of .' December one thoufand feven hundred and twenty, for or concerning the Sale or Purchafe of any Stock ' of the South-Sea Company, or Delivery of any Intereft or Receipt in any Subfcription taken in by the ' Corporation of the Governor and Company of Merchants of Great Britain trading to the South-Seas and
- other Parts in America, and for encouraging the Fifhery, or any other Company or Corporation, or
Farther Tro-A- ' pretended Company or Corporation whatfoever, until the firft Day of March which fhould be in the fioru concerning c Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and twenty-two : And whereas it is thought neceffary, this Company, « that the faid Provifion made by the faid Act fhould be continued fome Time longer ;' Be it therefore 1 Geo. 2. c. 8, ena< 3ed by the Authority aforefaid, That no Special Bail fhall be required in any Action or Suit brought 3 Geo. 2 -^ T or to be brought upon any fuch Contract, for any fuch Stock or Intereft as aforefaid, until the firft Day of c. 5, ' 5 Geo.'z. March one thoufand feven hundred and twenty-three. c. 1 J. 6 Geo. 1. c, 25 C? 28. 7 Geo. 2. c. 17. 9 Geo. 2. c. 34. 10 Geo. s. c. 17. 20 Geo. 2. e. 3. 24 Gw_2. c. 2 £? II. 26 Geo. 2. c. 16.
Cap. VII.
An act for amending the laws relating to the settlement, imployment and relief of the poor.
(3 & 4 W. &M. C 11. s.11.) Whereas by an act of parliment, made and passed in the third and fourth reign of thier late majesties King William and Queen Mary, it was provided, That in every parish a book or books should be kept, wherein the names of all persons who did or might recive collections should be registered, with the time when they were first admitted to such relief, an the ocassion which brought them under that necessity; and that no cuh paraish should be allowed to have or recive collections at the charge of the parish, but by authority, or under the hand of one justice of peace residing in such parish, or if none there dwelling, in the parts near or next adjoining or by order of the justices at thier quarter-sessions, except in case of pesstilential diseases, plauge or small pox: and whereas under colour of the proviso in the said act, many perosns have applied to some justices of peace, without the knowledge of any officers of the parish and thereby, upon untrue suggestions, and sometimes upon false or frivolous pretences, have obtained relied, which hath greatly contributed to to the the increase of the parish-rates: for remedy whereof, be it enacted by the Kings most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spritiual and temporal and commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, No poor to be relived till oath made of a reasonable cause That from and after the twenty fifth day of March which shall be in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and twenty three, no justice of peace shall order relief to any poor person dwelling in any parish, until oath be made before such justice of some matter which he shall judge to be a reasonable cause or ground for having such relief, and that the same person had by himself, herself or some other, applied for relief to the parishioners of the parish, at some vestry or other publick meeting of the said parishioners, or to two of the overseers of the poor of such parish, and was by them refused to be relived, and until such justice hath summoned two of the overseers of the poor to shew cause why such relief should not be given, and the person so summoned hath been heard or made default to appear before such justice; any thing in the said proviso or any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
or longer than the cause continues II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the person whom such Justices of peace shall think so to order be relived, shall be entered in such book or books to be kept by the parish, as one of those who is to receive collection, as long as the cause for such relief continues, and no longer; and that no officer of any parish shall (except upon sudden ad emergent occasions) bring to the account of thier parish (indechirable) monies he shall give to any poor person of the same parish, who is not registered in such book or book to be kept by the said parish, as a person entitled to recive collection, on pain of forfieting the sum of five pounds, to be levied by distress and sale, warrant of any tow or more justices of the peace os the same (indechirable), who shall have examined into and found him gulity of the offence; which said sum shall be applied to and for the use of the poor of the said parish, by direction of the said justice or justices of the peace.
