670 C. 18. Anno vicesimo nono Georgii II. A.D. 1756.
670 C. 18. Anno vicesimo nono Georgii II. A.D. 1756.
Oaths); and every such Officer shall within six Months after he shall have taken and subscribed such Oaths as aforesaid, transmit a Certificate thereof signed by order! ofd such Court or tptidbn or per.foii*| before whom thcfifaipe shall; been so taken and subscribed as before directed, together with am Account of the Date, of his Commission, to his Majesty's Secretary at War for the time being, wlior is hereby required to register the names of all such Officers, and the Dates, of their commissions and such Court;or Person or Persons, before whom such Oaths are taken andt subscribed, are hereby! required to give such Certificate to every, such Officer, as aforesaid and every fuch officer noltrfiow in', the Service of the States General, who shall accept, of a Commission in the Corps. aforesaid, r and shall not take and subscribe the Oaths aforesaid, and transmit a Certificate thereof, in Manner before directed,) shall forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred Pounds, to be recovered by, action.df' deb'r, Bill, Plaint or Information, in any ptjhis majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, or in the court of session or Exchequer in Scotland one Moiety whereof shall go to the Person or Persons who shall sue for the same, and the other Moiety to his Majesty, within one Year after such Person so offending shall come into Great Britain. --- [Offences committed without this Realm, may be tried in Great Britain.]
VI. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That any Offence against this Act, though committed without this Realm, shall and may be alleged to be committed, and may be laid, inquired of, and tried, in any County in Great Britain.
[Not to work Corruption of Blood.]
VII. Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no Attainder for any Offence made Felony by this Act, shall make or work any Corruption of Blood, Loss of Dower, or Disherison of Heir or Heirs.
CAP. XVIII.
An act to obviate a Doubt arisen on an Act made in the last Session of Parliament, intituled, An Act for Relief of Insolvent Debtors, and for Relief of Sheriffs and Keepers of prisons, in respect to Escapes of such Persons as were prevented by the said Doubt from being discharged under the said act. --- [28 Geo. 2. c. 13.]
'WHEREAS by an Act passed the last Session of Parliament, intituled, An Act for Relief of Insolvent Debtors, it is (amongst other Things) enacted, That all Sheriffs, Gaolers or Keepers of Prisons in any County, Riding, Division, City, Town and Liberty, within this Kingdom, were required to make an exact alphabetial List of the Names of all such Persons who on the first Day of January one thousand seven hundred and fifty-five, were in their actual Custody, together with the Names of the Persons at whose suit such Prisoners were detained, and deliver the same upon Oath to the Justices at their first General or Quarter Sessions to be held after the thirty-first Day of March one thousand seven hundred and fifty-five; as also to fix upon the Gate of the said Prisons true Copies of the said Lists ten Days before the said Sessions; And it was thereby further enacted, That the Persons whose Names were inserted in such Lists, and who at the Time in the said recited Act mentioned were in the actual Custody of any Sheriff or Sheriffs, Gaoler or Gaolers, Keeper or Keepers of Prisons, taking the oath, and giving such Notice to their Creditors as the said Act requires, might be released and discharged from their Imprisonment: And whereas it was in, most Places impracticable for Sheriffs. Gaolers, or Keepers of Prisons to deliver in Lists at the time directed by the said Act, as the first General or Quarter Sessions next after the thirty first Day of March one thousand seven hundred and fifty-five, was held before the said act passed into a Law: And, whereas a Doubt has arisen, whether the Justices in any General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace held for any County, Riding, Division, City, Town or Liberty, within this Kingdom, had, by the said above recited Act, a Power to discharge any Prisoner or Prisoners at any General or Quarter, Sessions held subsequent to that held after the thirty first Day of March one thousand seven hundred and fifty-five; and, whether the Discharges of Prisoners by the Justices, in pursuance of the said Act, have been legal: And whereas the Justices of the Peace for the County Palatine of Lancaster, by reason of such Doubt, have absolutely refused to discharge the Prisoners in the Gaols of their several Jurisdictions; which Case may likewise have happened in other Places, whereby they are still detained, in a loathsome Prison: And whereas notwithstanding such Doubt the Justices in many Counties have proceeded to discharge, and have discharged Prisoners from many Gaols in this Kingdom, at the Sessions held subsequent to that held next after the thirty first Day of March one thousand seven hundred and fifty-five;' To obviate which Doubt, be it enacted by the King'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,
[Justices at their Quarter-Sessions, may order Prisoners for Debt on 1 Jan. 1755, to be brought before them, to be discharged on their conforming to the recited Act.]
That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Justices of the Peace for any County, Riding, Division, City, Town or Liberty, within this Kingdom, at their General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace, to be held for such County, Riding, Division, City, Town or Liberty, after the passing of this Act, or at any.subsequent General or Quarter Sessions (within the Time limited by the said recited Act) to direct and order the Sheriff or Sheriffs, Gaoler or Gaolers, Keeper or Keepers of Prisons, to bring up any Person or Persons, who was, or were, in their actual Custody, on the first Day of January one thousand seven hundred and fifty-five; and upon such Prisoner and Prisoners pursuing the Directions of the said former Act, such Justices may (if they see just Cause) release and discharge such Prisoner or Prisoners from their Imprisonment; anything in this or the said former Act to the contrary notwithstanding.
II. And
