58 G.3. c.73.

4 G.4. c.81. $ 49.

Officers and others, authorized under the Articles of War

hereby respectively authorized, empowered and required to swear and take the Affirmation of all and every such Witnesses and Witness as shall be produced or attend before such Examiners respectively to be examined, and to administer the necessary Oaths and Affirmations for that Purpose; and that the Depositions of all and any and every such Witnesses and Witness shall be of the same Force, Validity and Effect, and shall and may be filed, used and acted upon as fully and effectually, to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever, as if such Witnesses or Witness had been sworn or had affirmed before the said Court of Exchequer, or any of the Barons thereof.

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CA P. LXI.

An Act to amend Two Acts; of the Fifty eighth Year of
His late Majesty, for regulating the Payment of Regimental
Debts, and the Distribution of the Effects of Officers and
Soldiers dying in Service, and the Receipt of Sums due
to Soldiers; and of the Fourth Year of His present
Majesty, for punishing Mutiny and Desertion of Officers
and Soldiers in the Service of the East India Company.
[22d June 1825.]
HEREAS an Act was passed in the Fifty eighth Year of
the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third,
'intituled An Act for regulating the Payment of Regimental Debts,
and the Distribution of the Effects of Officers and Soldiers dying
in Service, and the Receipt of Sums due to Soldiers: And Whereas
by an Act passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His
present Majesty, intituled An Act to consolidate and amend the
Laws for punishing Mutiny__and__Desertion of Officers and
"Soldiers in the Service of the East India Company, and to au-
'thorize Soldiers and Sailors in the East Indies to send and receive
'Letters at a reduced Rate of Postage, and by certain Articles of
‹ War made in pursuance thereof, Provision is made for theCare
and Application of the Effects and Credits of deceased Officers
and Soldiers in the said Company's Service: And Whereas the
Transmission to Regimental Agents or other Persons of the
Effects or Proceeds of Effects of Officers and Soldiers dying in
His Majesty's Service, or in the Service of the said Company,
has been found highly beneficial in securing an early Dis-
'tribution of such Effects among the Relations of such Officers
and Soldiers at small Expence, and many Sums are thereby
saved to the Relations of Soldiers, which would otherwise be,
from their small Amount, wholly lost; and it is therefore ex-
pedient to render the Provisions of the said recited Acts,.
relating to such Matters, more effectual;' Be it therefore enact-
ed 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 it shall be lawful for all Officers and Persons who may
be employed or required by or under the Authority of any
Articles of War in force for the Time being, either for the Officers
or Soldiers in the Service of His Majesty, or for the European

Officers

to take care of

Effects of Officers and Soldiers, may re

ceive same without taking out Letters of

Officers or Soldiers in the Service of the said Company, to take care of or collect, or superintend and direct the Collection of the Effect of Officers or Soldiers dying in Service out of the United Kingdom, to ask, demand and receive any such Effects, and to commence, prosecute and carry on any Actions or Suits for the Recovery thereof, without taking out any Letters of Administration, either with any Will annexed or otherwise, in like Manner Administrain every Respect as if such Officers or Persons had been appointed tion, &c. Executors, or had taken out Letters of Administration of such Effects; and no Registrar of any Court in the East Indies, or elsewhere in any Colonies or Possessions of His Majesty abroad, shall in any Manner interpose in relation to any such Effects, unless required or authorized so to do by any such Officers or Persons under the Provisions of this Act; any Act or Acts of Parliament, Law, Statute or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding.

Effects remitted

to Agents, &c. not deemed As

sets so as to render Admi

nistration ne

cessary, &c.

II. And be it further enacted, That such Effects or Proceeds of Effects, when remitted to any Regimental Agent or other Person, under any Order or Regulation of the Secretary at War in that Behalf or of the Military Secretary to the Government of any of the said Company's Presidencies respectively, shall not, by reason of coming into the Hands of such Agent or Person, be deemed or taken to be Assets or Effects within the Province in which such Agent or Person shall reside, so as to render it necessary that Administration should be taken out in respect thereof in such Province, unless Administration of any other Effects of the Officer or Soldier to whom the Proceeds so remitted shall have belonged shall have been or shall be taken out in such Province; and it shall be lawful for the Secretary at War, in all Cases relating to the Effects of any Officer or Soldier in His Majesty's Service, and for the Military Secretary to the Government of the Presidency to which the deceased Öfficer or Soldier shall have belonged, in all Cases relating to the Effects of any Effects. European Officer or Soldier in the Service of the said Company, to order that any such Effects or Proceeds of any such Effects shall be remitted to any other Place where the same can be more conveniently paid over to the Person or Persons entitled thereto; and the Obedience to any such Orders by any Agent or Person to whose Hands any such Effects shall come, shall be a sufficient Discharge to such Agent or Person; and no such Agent or Per- Agent, &c. inson shall be liable to any Action or Suit by reason of any such demnified. Effects or Proceeds of Effects having been in his Hands, and thereafter transmitted under the Order of the Secretary at War or Military Secretary respectively in that Behalf.

III. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Secretary at War, in the Case of any Officer or Soldier in His Majesty's Service, and for the Military Secretary to the Government of the Presidency to which the deceased Officer or Soldier shall have belonged, in the Case of any European Officer or Soldier in the Service of the said Company, to order or direct the Payment of any Charges or Expences attending or relating to the Illness or Funeral of any such Officer or Soldier, out of any such Effects or Proceeds of Effects, or out of any Arrears of Pay or Half Pay, and that such Charges and Expences, together with all

Regimental

Place of Remittance may be changed to suit Persons entitled to

Surplus only, after Payment of Funeral Expences and Debts, &c.

deemed Personal Estate of Deceased.

Scotch Act,

W.3.

Sum to be deposited with each Prisoner for Aliment.

Aliment paid out of Sum deposited till exhausted.

If no Title to Aliment, Sum deposited to be

returned.

Regimental Debts and Military Payments which may be allowed under the Provisions of any Act or Acts of Parliament, or Articles of War made in pursuance thereof, shall be made out of such Effects or Proceeds of Effects, or Arrears of Pay or Half Pay, and the Surplus only, after such Payment, shall be deemed the Personal Estate of the Deceased.

WHEREAS

CA P. LXII.

An Act to amend an Act of the Scottish Parliament, relative
to the Aliment of poor Prisoners. [22d June 1825.]
HEREAS by an Act of the Parliament of Scotland, passed
in the First Parliament of King William the Third, in-
• tituled Act anent the Aliment of poor Prisoners, it was enacted,
' that where any Person is made or shall be made Prisoner for
< a Civil Debt or Cause, and shall be found or become so poor as
'that he cannot aliment himself, then and in that Case it shall be
leisom to the Magistrates of the Burgh where the Prison is to
‹ which the said Prisoner is committed, upon the Complaint of the
'said Prisoner, and his making Faith in their Presence that he
hath not wherewith to aliment himself, to intimate the same to
the Creditors, One or more, at whose Instance the said Person
was committed or is detained, and to require him and them
either to provide and give Security for an Aliment to him, not
' under Three Shillings Scots or Three Pence Sterling per Diem,
or else to consent to his Liberation: And Whereas much Dis-
tress is often suffered by such poor Prisoners, from the Want of
Support between the Time that they are committed to Prison
and the Time when an Aliment is awarded and paid to them
pursuant to the said recited Act;' 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 from and after the Expiration of One Month after the
passing of this Act, it shall not be lawful for the Gaoler or
Keeper of any Prison to which a Prisoner shall be brought to
be confined for a Civil Debt, to receive such Prisoner into his
Custody or confine him in such Prison, unless the Sum of Ten
Shillings Sterling shall be deposited in his Hands by the Creditor,
Incarcerater or other Person for Behoof of such Creditor, as a
Means of and Security for the Aliment of such Prisoner in the
Manner herein directed.

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II. And be it enacted, in the Event of an Aliment being awarded under the said recited Act, That the Gaoler or other Person in whose Hands the said Sum of Ten Shillings shall have been deposited, shall pay out of the same the Aliment of the said Prisoner, at the same Rate at which Aliment shall subsequently be allowed to such Prisoner, from the Time that he shall have been brought to the Prison to the Time when Aliment shall have been so awarded to him pursuant to the said recited Act, and thereafter until the Sum so deposited shall be exhausted.

III. And be it enacted, That where on Application by any such Prisoner for the Benefit of the said recited Act, it shall be found that he is not entitled to the same, then the whole of the

said Sum of Ten Shillings by this Act required to be deposited shall forthwith be returned to the Creditor or Person by whom the same shall have been deposited.

IV. And be it enacted, That where any such Prisoner shall not apply for the Benefit of the said recited Act, before the Expiry of Thirty Days from the Day of his Commitment, the said Sum of Ten Shillings shall in like Manner be returned to the Creditor or Person by whom the same shall have been deposited, at the Expiry of the said Thirty Days.

V. And be it enacted, That where an Aliment shall be awarded to any such Prisoner pursuant to the said recited Act, but the said Sum of Ten Shillings shall not be thereby exhausted in the Manner herein directed, fat the Time such Prisoner shall be liberated, so much of the said Sum of Ten Shillings as shall remain unexhausted shall be returned to the Creditor or Person by whom the same shall be deposited.

Where no Application, Deposit to be returned.

Money not ex

hausted returned.

VI. And be it enacted, That where the Creditor shall consent On Liberation, to the Liberation of any such Prisoner, without Payment of any Sum remaining Part of the Debt for which he shall have been incarcerated, before returned. such Prisoner shall have had reasonable Time to obtain the Benefit of the said recited Act, the said Sum of Ten Shillings shall be returned to the Creditor or Person by whom the same shall have been deposited, after deducting the Amount of the Aliment of such Prisoner during his Confinement, at the lowest Rate at which Aliment is usually modified by the Magistrate of the Burgh. VII. And be it enacted, That every Prisoner who shall claim Prisoners the Benefit of the said recited Act shall be bound, when desired, claiming Beneto execute a Disposition omnium bonorum in favour of the Creditor at whose Instance he is incarcerated for Behoof of all his Creditors, the Expence of such Disposition being always defrayed by the Creditor demanding the same; and any such Prisoner refusing to grant such Disposition, after being duly required in Writing so to do, shall not be entitled to Aliment during the Time he shall persist in such Refusal.

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CA P. LXIII.

An Act to make further Provisions for the Regulation of Cotton Mills and Factories, and for the better Preservation of the Health of young Persons employed therein.

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[22d June 1825.]

fit of Act to

execute Di
position in

Favour of
Creditors.

HEREAS an Act was passed in the Forty second Year of 42 G.3. c.73. the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third,

intituled An Act for the Preservation of the Health and Morals

of Apprentices, and others, employed in Cotton and other Mills,

• and Cotton and other Factories: And Whereas another Act was 59 G.3. c.66.

passed in the Fifty ninth Year of the Reign of His said late Ma

jesty, intituled An Act to make further Provisions for the Regulation of Cotton Mills and Factories, and for the better Preservation of the Health of young Persons employed therein: And < Whereas it is expedient that some further Provision should be <made for the Regulation of Mills, Manufactories and Buildings employed in the Preparation and Spinning of Cotton Wool;' Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by 6 GEO. IV.

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and

Age and Hours of young Persons working in

Cotton Mills and Factories.

Hours of Work on Saturday.

Hour and Time for Breakfast and Dinner.

No Labour during such Times.

Proviso for unavoidable Loss

of Time in case

of Accidents happening to Engines, &c.;

and of a Want of Water.

Ceilings and

Walls to be washed.

Copy of Act hung up in every Manufactory, &c.

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 from and after the First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and twenty five, no Person being under the Age of Sixteen Years shall be employed in any Description of Works whatsoever, in spinning Cotton Wool into Yarn, or in the previous Preparation of such Wool, or in cleaning of any Mill, Manufactory or Building, or any Millwork or Machinery therein, for more than Twelve Hours in any One Day, exclusive of the necessary Time for Meals, such Twelve Hours to be between the Hours of Five of the Clock in the Morning and Eight of the Clock in the Evening.

II. And be it further enacted, That no Ferson under the Age above mentioned shall be worked in any Cotton Mill or Factory more than Nine Hours on a Saturday; such Nine Hours to be completed between the Hours of Five of the Clock in the Morning and Half past Four of the Clock in the Afternoon.

III. And be it further enacted, That there shall be allowed to every such Person, in the Course of every Day, not less than Half an Hour to Breakfast, and not less than One Hour for Dinner; such Half Hour for Breakfast to be between the Hours of Half past Six of the Clock and Ten of the Clock in the Morning, and such Hour for Dinner to be between the Hours of Eleven of the Clock in the Forenoon and Three of the Clock in the Afternoon; and during such before mentioned Half Hour for Breakfast, and such One Hour for Dinner, no such Person shall be required to perform any Labour or Work of the Nature or Description above mentioned in any such Mill, Manufactory or Building.

IV. Provided nevertheless, and be it further enacted, That if at any Time, in any such Mill, Manufactory or Buildings, Time shall be lost in consequence of any Accident happening to the Steam Engine, Water Wheels, or Mill Gearing, then and in every such Case, and so often as the same shall happen, it shall be lawful for the Occupier of any such Mill, Manufactory or Building, to extend the before mentioned Time of daily Labour, after the Rate of One additional Hour in any One Day, until such lost Time shall have been worked up during the Six following Days (Saturday excepted), but no longer.

V. Provided also, and be it further enacted, That if at any Time in any such Mill, Manufactory or Buildings as are situated upon Streams of Water, Time shall be lost in consequence of the Want of a due Supply or of an Excess of Water, then and in every such Case, and so often as the same shall happen, it shall be lawful for the Occupier of any such Mill, Manufactory or Building, to extend the before mentioned Time of daily Labour after the Rate of Half an Hour per Day, until such lost Time shall have been made good, but no longer.

VI. And be it further enacted, That the Ceilings and interior Walls of every such Mill, Manufactory or Building, shall be washed with Quick Lime and Water once in every Year.

VII. And be it further enacted, That in a conspicuous Part of every such Mill, Manufactory or Building, a Copy of this Act, or a full and true Abstract of the Regulations provided hereby, shall be

hung