56 WoFeerobe (en fer cone Teringiteane ats Ane for Yea, 3 ena of estos Soro craleariog Core Sica Be aulgel Falooy, Gener ue, ‘Teebe Cots, C. 46. Anno tricefimo Grorerr IIE. . D. 1790. iets paving) and accounting forthe (id Annuities payable by virtue ofthis AG, and alo for the Service, Paina, and Labour, of the aid Accountant General for performing the Tufts hereby repofed in him all which Allowances to be made as aforctaid, in refpeét of the Service, Pains, and Labour of any Officer or Giles of the fd Governor and Conny, Ul be fr the Uie and Bencke o the Gd Governor and “ompany, and at their Difpoll only. SERIA be icfurter enadie}y ‘That no Fee, Reward, or Gratuity whatforver fall be demanded or taken of any of his Majelty’s Subje@s, for converting the Interett of any Perfon or Perfons of or to any Life Annuities, or any of them, into certain Interets for Terms of Years in purfuance of this Ad, or for paying the faid Annuities, or any of them, or for any ‘Transfer of any Sum to be made in purfiance of thig A, upon Pain that any Officer or Perfon offending, by taking or demanding any fuch Fee, Reward, cr Gratuity, thall, for every uch Offence, forfeit the Sum of Twenty Pounds tothe Party aggrieved, wi fall Cots of Sut tobe recovered by Adtionof Debt, Bill Paint, of Information, in any of his Mafety’s Courts at Wefiminfler, whercin no Elfoin, Protection, Privilege, or Wager at Law, Injunction, or Badan ae woe thos a cea Teoneas thal be eos loro XXII” And ee Tres enaced by the Auiorty aloe “hati any Pefon or Perfo all Forze ‘counterfeit, or alter, or eaufe ot procare to be forged, counterkited, or altered, of Knowingly or wilfully a8 or afl in the forging, counterfeiting, or altering any Indorfement or Writing on the Back of any Certiicate or Certificates, made out 2s is herein-before mentioned by the Calbier oF Calhiers of the Bun of England, or any Receipt ot Receipts tobe given, ot any Certificate or Certificates to be made out by the ‘Aur ofthe Reed of his Majety’s Exchequer in puruance of this AG ot fall willy deve 19 the faid Governor and Company of the Bank of England, any {uch forged, counterfeited, or altered Certificate ‘or Certificates, knojwing the fame to be forged, counterfeited or altered, with Intent to defraud his Ma~ ety, his Hees and Succefor, or any Body or Bodies Pole or Corprate, or any Peron or Berns Wwhofnfoever 3 or thal forge or counterft, or caule or Procure to be forged or Counterieited, or knowingly Srey sdk and OUR TS forging ano congerotng ay Lever af Awotoey, of ther Auihony of iter ‘ment to transfer or alfign any principal Sum or Sums placed to the Credit af any Perfon or Perions ‘Whomfoever in the Books of the Bank of England, as hetcin-before mentioned, or any Part of tuch Sum fF Sums or to receive any fich Annuity or Annuities, Dividend or Dividends as afore, or any of them, cany Par therel, ox of any of them sox fal forge’ or counter, or caule or procure to be forged of ‘counterfeited, or knowingly and wilfully 2€ and afi in forging or counterRiting the Name or Names of ‘any of the Proprietors of any of the faid principal Sums, Annuities, or Dividends, or any Part thereof, ecof any of them, in oF fo any fuch pretended AGignment or Adignments, Initrument or Authority, of fhall knowingly and fraudulently demand, or endeavour to have any luch principal Sum or Sums, of any Pare thereof, or of day of them, or any fach Annuity of Annuities, Dividend or Dividends, or any Part hereof, by virtue of any fuch counterfe or forged, Leuer of Auorney, Authority, or fume, of fall falfely and deceitflly perfonate any true and real Proprietor or Propnetors of any of fach principal Sums 48 aferelady or of any Pare thereoh or of any Tach Annuity or Annuities, Dividend ox Dividends as afore= ‘aid, or of any Part thereof, and thereby alGign or transfer, of endeavour to affign or transfer, the aid principal Sums, or any of them, or any Pare theres, or of any of them, or thereby receive, of endeavour tO fe= sceive, the faid Annuity or Annuities, Dividend or Dividends, of any of them, or any Patt thereof, or of ‘any ofthem, with Intent to deceive and defraud his Majefty, his Heirs or Suecelfors, or any Body or Bodies. Politic or Corporate, or any Perfon or Perfons whatfaever s oF if any Perfon ot Perfons (all wth the ike Intent forge, counter, 6 alter, or caule or procure tobe forged, counterfeited or sitered, or knowingly OF willully actor aft in the forging, counterfeiting, or altering, any Regier or Regitters of the Birth of any Peron or Perfons to 5e appointed a Nominee or Nominees in purfunnce ofthis A&t,or any Certificate or Cere fificatesto be given in purfuance of this Act; then, and in every or any fuch Cale, all snd every Perfon or Pesfons fo offending, and being thereof lawfully conviéted, thall be adjudged guilty of Felony, and fh fuffer Death, as in Cafes of Felony, without Benekic of Clergy. XXIV. And be it further enaled by the Authority aforefaid, That if any Perfon or Perfons thal be fed, moletted, oF profecuted, for any "Thing done by. virtue of in purlaance of this A, fuch Perfon oF Perfons thall and may plead the General Iffue, and give this AG and the fpecial Mare in Evidence in his, het, or their Defence or Defences and ifa Verdict all pats forthe Defendant or Defendants, or the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs (hall. difcontinue hiss her, or their Aétion or Profeeution, or be non(uited, or Judge sncat ball be gven aint him, her, of thm upon Demurter or eerie, then. fach Deienlant or Dex fendants fhall have Treble Coffs awarded to Kim, her, or them, again(t any fuch Plaintiff or Plaintiff. CAP, XLVI. An AQ for Seng are fecuring a certain Annuity for the Ufe of the Heirs and Defcendants of William "ane Ele the ovina Hope of te Province of Pantdomia, in Confdratonat te meron cous Services ofthe tad Piliny Powry 5 which his Family have (ulsined in coo (of the uahappy Diflentions in diner us mavenes “ Leters Patent of King Charles IL. and an A of the State of Pem ania, “ for vefting the Efates of the lat & Brapetere of aoa vay in sh Common rches- Att hone of gaat we eel see wee te Clad Pao ian eran dre dl Earn Wu Job Been, Soe air, and Yan Pear of Wingele Strrt, Eig. to commence Jer. $1790. The Commnioncrs of toe “ Trealury are by Warrant ta dtcl the Audtar of the Exchejuerto tae forth and pals Debeotures for : theA.D. 1790. Anno tricefimo Gzorcr1 TIL. C. 47, 48. the Gid Annuity, without any Fess, Such Warrant not to be determinable on the Demi of his Ma- «jet. Oficers ofthe Trealary and Exchequer to do al neceliry Aas without Fee, “The Trultees (0 convey with all convenient Speed the Gid Annuity to Mefiis, Peay, and inthe mein ‘Time to receive * the Atouly, and pay it tothe proper Partct. “Te Receipt of the Trultees, Uc. to be a ficient DIC “ charge for the Annuity, which foto be. pa fee of all Taxes. Annuity tobe confered areal Pro- « perty Mung out of Lande in Mdlfer. "Conveyance ofthe Annuity to be ivolled in Chancery, and & Guuted with the “Auditor of te Exchoquer. "Public At. ‘Trutees to be anfwerable for their own Ads ‘ Saly, aad may reimbure hemielves tet nccellry Expedces.” CAP. XLVII. An A@ for enabling his Majefty to authorize his Governor or Lieutenant Governor of fach Places beyond the Seas, to which Felons or other Offenders may be tran{ported, to remit the Sentences of fuch Offenders, EREAS by everal Orders made by his Msjefy, by and with the Advice of his Privy Council, purfuance of Authority given tohis Majetty in that Behalf, by an Act palled in the Twenty” © fourth Year of his Majefty’s Reign, intituled, dn A't for the effeélual Tranfportation of Felons and other § Offenders and to autborize the Remrval of Prifaners ia certain Cafe, and for ether Perpifes therein men- tioned; bis Majelty hath declared and appointed, by and with the’ Advice aforefid, hat the Eattern © Coaft of New Sovth lakes, and the Iande thereunto adjacent, Mhould be the Place or Places beyond Sea to which certain Felons, and other Offenders, thould be conveyed and tranfported: And whereas feveral £ Felons and other Offenders have, in pusluance of the {aid A®, been conveyed and tranfported to the £ Ealtern Coatt of New South Wal, 0f the Mlands thereunto adjacent, there to remain during the Tecms « imes for which they were fo rebeci ively fentenced to be traniported by the Courts in which they were £ convidted: And whereas his Majefly, by and with the Advice of his Privy Council may hereafter de- ¢ clare and appoint the Place or Places aforefid, or fome other Place or Places beyond Sea, to be the Place £ of Places to which other Felons and Offenders thall hereafier be conveyed and tranfportcd and fuch © Felons and Offenders. may be fo, tranfported accordingly: And whereas it would greatly advance the Delign of fach Sentences, fo carried into Execution as. aforeaic, or which may hereafter be palled and £ carried into Execution, that the Governor, 0 (in cafe of his Death or Abfence) the Lieutenant Governor < for the Time being of fuch the Place or Places as aforelaid, fhould have Power and Authority to remit or { fboren the Time or Term for whch fch Felons and Offenders as afore are been or thal heater © be tra in Cafes where it fhll appea ions, oF other Offenders, are proper Obj oe Rent Morey Be ie therelre adel hy che Kings sho BncclcntAlsjelty by sod wnt he” Advice and Confent of the Lord's Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this pre(ent Parliament al- iembed,and by the Auhorty of the fame, That fll awl for is Majety, his Heirs and Succes, atall Thos, by his or their Commiffion under the Great Seal of Great Britain, to authorife and impower the Governor, or the Lieutenant Governor for tke Time being, of fuch Place or Places as aforeaid, or of any of them, by an Inftrument in Writing, under the Seal of the Government in which the Place or Places as sore(aid are or thll be fituated, to remit, either abfolutely or conditionally, the Whole or any Part of the Time or ‘Term for which any fuch Felons, or other Offenders afore(aid, thall have been or fhall here= after be relpeGtively conveyed and tranfported to fach Place or Places 2s aforeGid ; and that {uch In\tru ‘ment or Inftruments thall have the like’ Force and EfeSt, to all Intents and Purpotes, as if his Majefty, his Heirs and Succeffors, had. in fac Cafes refpestively fignfied his or their Royal Intention of Mercy under his of their Sign Manual. I. And be it further enafted, That (uch Governor or Lieutenant Governor as aforeaid tall, by the firft Opportunity, trantmit to one of his Majefty's principal Secretaries of State, a Duplicate, under” the Seal fof the Government, of each and every Inftrument as aforeaid by which the Time or Term of Tranipor- {ation of any fuch Felons, of other Offenders as aforefaid, hath been remitted or fhortened ; and that the Names of fich Felons, and other fenders elpevely, which (all be contain inch uplistes a ‘aforelaid, thall be inferted in the next General. Pardon which hall pa under the Great Seal of Great Britain, afver the Receipt of fuch Duplicate or Duplicates by one of his Majelty’s principal Secretaries of CAP, XLVII. An AG for difcontinuing the Judgment which has been required by Law to be given againft Women convicted of certain Crimes, and fubltituting another Judgment in lieu thereof. HEREAS itis expedient that the Judgment which has been required by Law to be given and ‘awarded againtt any Woman or Women in the Cafes of High Treafon, or of Petit Treafon, * thould be no longer continued :” Be it enaéted by the King’s mott Excellent Majefty, by and with che “Advice and Conient of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in this prelent Parliament al ‘embled, and by the authority of the fame, That from and after the fith Day of ‘Yune one thoutand feven hundred and ninety, the Judgment to be given and awarded aguinft any Woman or Women convicted of the ‘Grime of High Treafon, ar of the Crime of Petit Treafon, or of abetting, procuring, ot counéeling any Petit 3 Geo. 1 Treaton, 57 Presmite. 24 Oco teas se ” His Met, Wile, ‘Ofende Preamble, From fone 1790, Wont conan igh Tresor, Serta be hinge