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have been provided, and not before; any Thing in any Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided also, that no Periods of Dissuch Private Militia Man shall be discharged at any orher Period charge of Men. of the Year, than between the First Day of November and the Twenty fifth Day of March.

Payments by Overseers under this Act shall be

allowed as other Militia Ex

pences; Penalty

51.

XXIII. And be it further enacted, That all Payments made by any Overseer or Overseers in pursuance of any Order or Certificate of any Justice or Justices of the Peace under this Act shall be allowed and passed in their respective Accounts, in like Manner as other Expences incurred on account of the Militia are now by Law passed and allowed; and if any Overseer of the Poor on Overseer not shall, on Demand made in pursuance of any Order or Certificate paying Money, of Justice or Justices of the Peace for the Payment of any any Sum of Money by virtue of this Act, and Production of such Order or Certificate to him, refuse or neglect to pay and satisfy the Sum or Sums of Money directed to be paid in or by such Order or Certificate, every such Overseer of the Poor so refusing or neglecting to make such Payment, shall, for every such Neglect, forfeit the Sum of Five Pounds, to be recovered upon the Oath of One or more credible Witness or Witnesses, or by the Confession of the Party accused, before the Justice making such Order or any other Justice of the Peace of the County, Riding, Division, City or Place, where the Offence shall be committed; which said Justice is hereby authorized and required, upon any Information exhibited or Complaint made in that Behalf, to summon the Party accused, and to examine into the Matter of Fact, and upon due Proof thereof as aforesaid to give Judgment for such Penalty, to be levied by Distress and Sale of the Offender's Goods and Chattels, in case the same shall not be forthwith paid, by Warrant under the Hand and Seal of such Justice, causing the Overplus (if any), after deducting the Charges of such Distress and Sale, to be rendered to the Party; and the Penalty so adjudged shall be paid, Application of one Moiety thereof to the Party who shall inform for the same, Penalty. and the other Moiety thereof to the Poor of the Parish, to the Overseers of which any such Sum of Money ought to have been paid.

having separate Overseers, and to Places united

for the Purpose of balloting for Men, &c.

XXIV. And be it further enacted, That all the Provisions in Act shall extend this Act contained, relating to the Allowances to the Families of to all Places any Persons serving in the Militia for any Parish, Tything or Township, or any United Parishes, Tythings or Townships, and for the Reimbursement of all Sums of Money which shall be advanced under any of the Provisions of this Act, shall extend to all Hamlets, Vills and Places having separate Overseers of the Poor, and maintaining the Poor thereof separately and distinctly, and also to all Parishes, Tythings, Townships and Places united for the Purposes of ballotting for Militia Men, as well as to all other Parishes, Tythings and Places; and the Justices of the Peace, who shall make Orders for the Relief of any such Families, or any other Justice of the same County, Riding, Division or Place, shall give Directions for the Reimbursement of the Money to be advanced for such Purpose by the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish, Tything, Township or Place, or United Parishes, Tythings, Townships or Places respectively, which ought to reimburse the same, or to contribute to the Reimbursement thereof; and the Treasurers

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of the several Counties, Ridings, Divisions and Places, and the Justices of the Peace of the several Counties, Ridings, Divisions and Places within which all and every such Parishes, Tythings, Townships and Places respectively shall be, shall make Reimbursement, and direct Reimbursement to be made by such several Parishes, Tythings, Townships and Places respectively, in the same Manner as by this Act is provided with respect to Parishes, Tythings and Townships therein described, so that in all Cases whatsoever such Reimbursement may be fully made according to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act; and where any Man shall serve for any United Parishes or Places, or for any Parish or portions of Re- Place comprising more than one Township or Place, which shall

Justices shall ascertain Pro

lief between

such United

Places, &c. on
Certificate of
Numbers by
Subdivision
Clerks.

The Adjutant,
&c. shall make
monthly Re-
turns of Pro-
motions,

Deaths, &c. to
Subdivision
Clerks;

who shall transmit Extracts to

the Overseers.

Appeal may be made to the

have separate and distinct Overseers of the Poor, all and every such Justices as aforesaid, shall ascertain in what Proportions such United Parishes or Places, or such several Townships or Places comprised within the same Parish or Place for which any such Man, whose Family shall be so relieved shall serve, ought to contribute to such Relief, such Proportions to be ascertained according to the Numbers of Men liable to be ballotted for the Militia, which each of such United Parishes or Places, or each of such Townships or Places, as the case may be, shall appear to have had by the last Returns made for that Purpose, and such Justices shall make Orders for the Reimbursement of such Advances as aforesaid, in such several Proportions so to be ascertained, and from time to time as Occasion shall require; and in order to enable such Justices to ascertain such Proportions, the Clerks of the several Subdivision Meetings shall, when thereunto required, certify, by Writing under their Hands, the Number of Men so liable to be ballotted for, according to the Returns made for each of such Parishes, Townships or Places, for which Certificate there shall be paid a Fee of One Shilling and no more.

XXV. And be it further enacted, That the Adjutant of every Regiment, Battalion or Corps of Militia, or where there shall be no Adjutant, the Serjeant Major thereof, shall, within Seven Days after the Twenty fourth Day of every Month, during the Time of the Militia to which he shall belong remaining embodied or in actual Service, return to the respective Clerks of the Subdivision Meetings of the County, Riding or Place to which such Regiment, Battalion or Corps shall belong, a particular List of all Promotions and Vacancies, and all Deaths, Desertions and other Casualties that shall have occurred among the Private Militia Men serving for the several and respective Subdivisions of the County, Riding or Place to which such Regiment, Battalion or Corps shall belong in the Calendar Month preceding each such Twenty fourth Day as aforesaid; and shall specify the Christian and Surname of each Man so returned, and whether ballotted Man, Substitute, hired Man or Volunteer, and the Parish, Tything or Place for which he was serving; and such respective Clerks of the Subdivision Meetings shall, within fourteen Days after the Receipt of such Return, transmit proper Extracts thereof to the respective Overseers of the Poor of the respective Parishes, Tythings or Places for which any such Man shall have been serving.

XXVI. And be it further enacted, That if any Person shall find himself aggrieved by any Order of any Justice or Justices of the

Peace

Peace for the Payment of any such Sum of Money as aforesaid, it Quarter Sesshall and may be lawful for such Person to appeal to the Justices sions. of the Peace at the next General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the same County, Riding, Division, City or Place, when any Demand in pursuance of such Order shall be made as aforesaid, who are hereby empowered to hear and finally determine the same; and it shall be lawful for the said Justices, at such Sessions, to award and order, where they shall see Occasion, the Payment of such Sum and Sums of Money which such Appellant, as Churchwarden or Overseer of the Poor, ought to have paid in pursuance of such Order made by virtue of this Act, and hath neglected to pay in manner aforesaid.

XXVII. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Justices of the Peace, at any General Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be held for each respective County, Riding, City, Town, Division and Place in England, to order and direct such Recompence and Satisfaction, as they shall think just and reasonable, to be made and given to the respective Treasurers for their extraordinary Trouble, Labour and Expences in the Execution of their respective Offices, while the Militia is embodied and in actual Service, for such Time and in such manner as they shall think proper, to be paid or allowed out of the Public Stock or Treasure of every such County, Riding, Town, Division and Place respectively. "Act may be altered or repealed this Session. § 28.

[See 51 G. 3. c. 114. § 5. 51 G. 3. c. 118. § 5.]

CA P. XLVIII.

An Act to enable the East India Company to defray the Expences of certain Volunteer Corps raised by the said Com[27th May 1803.]

pany.

CA P. XLIX.

An Act to amend so much of several Acts passed in the Sixth
and Seventh Year, and in the Seventh and Eighth Year of
the Reign of King William the Third (a), as relates to the
Exportation of Silver Bullion.
[27th May 1803.]
(a) [6 & 7 W. 3. c.17. § 5. &c.—7&8 W.3. c. 19. § 6.]

WE

Quarter Sessions may order Recompence to

the Treasurers out of the

County Stock.

HEREAS the United Company of Merchants trading to the East Indies, and others may be possessed of large Quantities of Foreign Molten Silver and Bullion, brought from • Parts beyond the Seas, but may not be able to make Proof, according to Law, that no Part of the same was (before the same was Molten) the Coin of this Realm, or Chippings thereof, nor Plate wrought within Great Britain, for the obtaining Certificates for the Exportation thereof: And Whereas it is expedient that Permission should be given to export such Molten Silver ‹ and Bullion, under certain Restrictions;' Be it therefore 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 Treasury may same, That from and after the passing of this Act, it shall be law- grant Licences ful

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to Persons for

ful for the Lord High Treasurer for the time being, or the Lords the Exportation Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury for the time being, or any

of Bullion.

Persons so licensed may export Bullion without the usual Certificate.

EXP.

42 G.3. c.116. § 23.

Three or more of them, to authorize any Person or Persons, or any Body or Bodies Politic or Corporate, to ship or export, or cause to be shipped or exported, from Great Britain, on board any Vessel or Ship whatsoever, any Molten Silver or Bullion, by any Licence or Licences given from time to time for that Purpose, under their respective Hands, (such Licences specifying the Nature and Quantities of such Molten Silver or Bullion, and being entered in the Books of the Custom House of the Port from whence such Exportation shall be made before the Shipping and Exportation thereof,) without any Oath, Certificate or other Document whatsoever, now requisite for the lawful Shipping or Exportation of any such Molten Silver or Bullion; and it shall be lawful for any such Person or Persons, or Body or Bodies Politick or Corporate, to whom any such Licence or Licences shall be granted as aforesaid, to ship or export any such Molten Silver or Bullion specified in any such Licence or Licences, without the Certificate or Certificates now required by Law; and no such Molten Silver or Bullion, so shipped or exported under any such Licence or Licences as aforesaid, shall be seizable, or seized or forfeited for the want of any Certificate or Certificates: And the Owners and Proprietors thereof, and all Commissioners and Officers of His Majesty's Customs, and all other Persons whomsoever, having any Concern whatsoever in the Shipping or Exportation thereof, or in the permitting the same to be shipped or exported under any such Licence or Licences as aforesaid, shall be and are hereby freed, discharged and indemnified, from and against all Forfeitures andPenalties whatsoever in respect thereof; any Act or Acts of Parliament, or Law or Statute, to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.

CAP. L.

An Act for more speedily completing the Militia of Great
Britain, raised under Two Acts, passed in the Forty second
Year of the Reign of His present Majesty; and for amend-
ing the said Acts.
[11th June 1803.]

CAP. LI.

An Act to render more effectual an Act passed in the Forty second Year of His present Majesty's Reign, for consolidating the Provisions of the several Acts passed for the Redemption and Sale of the Land Tax. [11th June 1803.] WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Forty second Year of

His Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act for consolidating the Provisions of the several Acts passed for the Redemption and • Sale of the Land Tax into one Act; and for making further Provision for the Redemption and Sale thereof; and for removing · Doubts respecting the Right of Persons claiming to vote at Elec•tions for Knights of the Shire, and other Members to serve in Parliament, in respect of Messuages, Lands or Tenements, the Land • Tax upon which shall have been redeemed or purchased, it is enacted, that the Amount of the Money to be paid as the Con

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sideration for the Redemption or Purchase of Land Tax, in the Cases therein specified, shall be calculated, settled and ascer'tained according to the Price of Stock, to be from time to time 'transmitted to the Receivers General, or their Deputies in Eng• land, or to the Collectors in Scotland, in the Manner therein directed, and according to the Table in the Schedule to the said • Act annexed, marked (L), and the Rules and Directions therein. 'contained: And Whereas the said Table contains only the 'Amount of the several Sums of Money to be paid for the Redemption or Purchase of Land Tax, when the Three Pounds per Centum Bank Annuities are at any Prices between Sixty and Par;' Be it therefore 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, That whenever the Price of the Three Pounds per Centum Bank Annuities, to be transmitted pursuant to the Directions of the said Act, shall be at any Price between Fifty and Sixty, the Amount of the Money to be paid as the Whole, or as any Instalment or Instalments, of the Consideration for the Redemption or Purchase of any Land Tax, shall be settled and adjusted, and the Payments made, according to the Table contained in the Schedule to this Act annexed; and all and every the Rules and Directions in the said Act, or in the said Schedule thereto contained, in relation to the calculating, ascertaining, settling and adjusting the Amount of the Money to be paid as the Whole, or as any Instalment or Instalments, of the Consideration for such Redemption or Purchase of Land Tax as aforesaid, in Cases where the Price of Three Pounds per Centum Bank Annuities shall be above Sixty, shall, in so far as the same are applicable, be used, observed and practised in relation to the calculating, settling, ascertaining and adjusting the Amount of the Money to be paid as the Whole, or as any Instalment or Instalments of the Consideration for such Redemption or Purchase, in Cases where the Price of the said Annuities shall be between Fifty and Sixty, in the same Manner as if such Rules and Directions had been repeated in the Body of this Act, or in the Schedule hereto.

When the Price
of 3 per Cents.
shall be between
501. and 601. the
for the Redemp-
tion of Land
Tax shall
tled according

Consideration

to the Schedule annexed to this Act, subject to the Rules in recited Act.

When neces sary, the Treasury may direct

Tables to be formed to meet

II. And be it further enacted, That whenever, by reason of any Variations in the Prices of the Three Pounds per Centum Bank Annuities, which are not specified in and provided for by the Tables contained in the said respective Schedules to the said recited Act and this Act annexed, it shall become necessary that other Tables should be transmitted to the respective Receivers or in the Prices of any Variation their Deputies in England, or to the Collectors in Scotland, in the 3 per Cents. order to enable them to calculate, settle and ascertain the Amount of the Money to be paid as the Consideration for the Redemption or Purchase of any Land Tax, it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, or the Lord High Treasurer for the time being, to order and direct that proper Tables, adapted to meet such Variations in the Prices of the said Bank Annuities as aforesaid, shall be formed and constructed upon the same Principles as the Tables contained in the said Schedules to the said recited Act and this Act are formed and constructed; and that such Tables shall be transmitted by the Commissioners for the Affairs of Taxes to the respective Receivers General or their Deputies in England,

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