C. 21. 468 C. 27. Anno nono Georgii Regis. A. D. 1722, tioned in this Act, or in any other Act or Ads made for the encouraging, fettling, fecuring or better Louring the lawful Trade of his Majefty's Subjects to and from the Eqjl-Indies and Parts aforefaid, or for preventing all or any unlawful Trade thereto or therefrom; which Capias mall fpecify the Sum of the IKnatuS" Perullt y fued for? and ruch Offender and Offenders fhall be obliged to give fufficient Bail or Security by lioiu sIiMeft™ ' natural-born Subjects or Denizens, to the Perfon or Perfons to whom fuch Capias fhall be directed, to appear in the Court, out of which fuch Capias fhall iffue at the Day or Return of fuch Writ, to anfwer fuch Suit or Profecution; and fhall likewife, at the Time of fuch appearing, give fufficient Bail or Security by fuch Perfons as aforefaid, in the faid Court, to anfwer and pay all the Forfeitures and Pe- nalties incurred for fuch Offence and Offences, in cafe he, fhe or they fhall be convicted thereof, or to yield his, her or their Body or Bodies to Prifon. °tMA& and"hc ^' Anc * lt ' s hereby further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That all and every the Offence and other AftTher/ Offences committed or done againft this Act, or againft one Act made in the ninth Year of the Reign of enumerated, may his late Majefty King William, intituled, An Act for raifing a Sum not exceeding two millions., upon a be laid in Lon- Fund for Payment of Annuities after the Rate of eight Pounds per Centum per Annum, and for fittling the don or Mid- Trade to the Eaft-Indies, or againft one other Act made in the fifth Year of the Reign of his prefent Ma-
- £*' w J e fty> intituled, An Ail for the 'better fecuring the lawful Trade of his Majefty' s SubjeSis to and from the Ezft-
.. ' Indies; and for the more effectual preventing all his Majefty's SubjeSts trading thither under foreign Commij/ions,
5 Geo. 1, c. ai. or againft one other A<t made in the feventh Year of the Reign of his prefent Majefty, intituled, An Ail fir 1 Geo. 1. Stat. i. the further preventing his Majefty s Subjeclsfrom trading to the Eaft-Indies under foreign Commij/ions; and for encouraging and further fecuring the lavjful Trade thereto; and for further regulating the Pilots of Dover, Ceal and the Ijk of Thanet, fhall and may, from and after the fourteenth Day of June in the Year of our Lord one tlioufand feven hundred and twenty-three, be laid or alledged to be in the City of London or County of Middlefex, at the Pleafure of the Informer or Profecutor. This Aa, and x. And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That this Act, and alfo the faid Ails ln&°'Gto'V' made m the fifth and f event h Years of his faid prefent Majefty's Reign, in all and every the Claufes, Ar- Jtat/i. T.'zi. tides and Parts thereof, fhall be and be deemed, conftrued and adjudged to be publick Acts, to all In- publick Afls. ' tents and Purpofes whatfoever : And furthermore, that the faid Act made in the fifth Year of his faid Aa 5 Geo. 1. Majefty's Reign, fhall ftand, continue and be in full Force and Virtue for feven Years, to be computed continued for from the five and twentieth Day of March one thoufand feven hundred and twenty-three, and from •Farther* conV^' trjenc e to the End of the then next SefTion of Parliament, and no longer; any Thing therein to the con- nued by 70 Geo. trary thereof in any wife notwithftanding. 2. c 47.' XL And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That in cafe the faid United Com- Jf'the Company pany fhall firft inform, fue or profecute for any of the Offences committed contrary to all or any the fitft inform, the Laws or Statutes made for encouraging, fettling or fecuring to the faid Company the lawful Trade to f*t' ° f nvn^" and irom t^ 6 Eaf -Indies, or for preventing any unlawful Trade thereto or therefrom, that then the Part, vo'lve'uponthern" Share and Proportion of the Penalties and Forfeitures otherwife given or appointed, in and by any of the faid Acts, to any other Perfon or Perfons that fhould fue or inform for the fame, fhall devolve upon, and be to the Ufe of - the faid United Company, although fuch Information, Suit or Profecution be com- menced by the faid Company after the Time limited by Law for the Suit, Profecution or Information of the common Informer is elapfed. If Suit be com- XII. Provided always, That if any Suit or Profecution fhall be commenced upon or by Virtue of any menced on tRe t ^ e aforefaid former Act or Acts, then and in fuch Cafe the Offender or Offenders fhall not be fued or Offenders not to profecuted. upon this Act, or any Branch or Article thereof, except fuch Suit or Profecution be by Bill be feed on this or Bills of Complaint in the faid Courts of Chancery or Exchequer. A(X, except by Bill of Complaint. Concerning Eaft-India Company fee farther 3 Geo. 2. c. 14. fif 20. II Ceo. 2. c. 22. 17 Geo. 2. c. 17. 27 Geo. 2. c, 9. 1 Geo. 3. c. 14. cap. xxvir. An Act for preventing Journeymen Shoemakers felling, exchanging or pawning Boots, Shoes, Slippers, Cut Leather or other Materials for making Boots, Shoes or Slippers, and for bet- ter regulating the faid Journeymen. concerning Shoe- ' I. "ITT HE RE AS great Frauds and Abufes are frequently practifed by Journeymen Shoemakers, makers, &c. fee ' y and others employed as fuch in the Art or Myftery of Cordwainers, and their Accomplices, 13 u. z. ft. 1. ' i n purloining, imbezil'ing, felling, pawning or exchanging for worfe, the good Leather, and other l £' 6 ' Materials delivered to or entrufted with them, for making Boots, Shoes, Slippers and other Wares; 4 H..'c.-.' ' an d it is neceffary to make further Provifion for difcovering and punifhing fuch Offences, and for better 2 H. 6. c. 7. ' regulating the faid Journeymen :' May it therefore pleafe your moft Excellent Majefty, that it may be 4 Ed. 4. c. 7. enacted; and be it enacted by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent 14 & 15/-'. S. f j^g Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the '" %' E j g Authority of the fame, That if any Journeyman Shoemaker or other Perfon hired or employed as fuch, c. o. ' within the Bills of Mortality, fhall, after the twenty-fourth Day of June in the Year of our Lord one 5 (if 6 Ed. 6. thoufand feven hundred and twenty-three, be accufed by the Mafter fo hiring or employing fuch Jour- c. 15. 1 El. c. 8. I Ja.: 1. c. 22. 13 £f 14 Car. 2. c. 7. 1 W. & M. St. I. c. 33. neyman
