Pursers to debit themselves with Premium on Bills, Resident Naval Bills. No Premium or Discount. 57 G.3. c.20. § 1. Order in Council 24th June, 1824. Masters Assist- any other Commissioned Officer of the said Vessel and One Warrant Officer, or if there shall be no other Commissioned Officer, then in the Presence of any Two Warrant Officers, who shall certify and attest the Lists in the Manner before required. VIII. And be it further enacted, That the Purser of every Ship or Vessel, or in case the Vessel shall not have a Purser on board, then the Commanding Officer, shall debit himself, and be charged with any Premium which the Bills drawn by him in pursuance of this Act may bear, as Part of the Balance which may remain on Hand at the Conclusion of each Payment; and in case the said Bills shall be at a Discount, he shall add the said Discount to the Amount of the Bill to be drawn by him, which Discount shall be allowed in his Accounts, provided the Amount be duly certified at the Foot of such Bill, in the Form set forth in the Schedule to this Act: Provided nevertheless, that if the said Bills shall be drawn at any Port within the Foreign or Colonial Territories of Great Britain, where there shall be a resident Naval Officer, such Naval Officer is hereby enjoined and directed to give Cash for the Amount of such Bills at Par, upon which no Premium or Discount shall be charged or taken; and in case he shall not have sufficient Cash in Hand for the Purpose, he shall certify the same by Indorsement on such Bill. 'IX. And Whereas by an Act passed in the Fifty seventh Year of His late Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act for making further Regulations respecting the Pay of the Officers of the Royal Navy, in certain Cases therein mentioned, Officers and Persons of the • Ranks and Rates therein expressed, and (amongst others) passed Mates and passed Midshipmen entitled to full Pay, are authorized to draw upon the Commissioners of the Navy at the End of every Six Lunar Months or Twelve Months for their Pay, as therein provided: And Whereas His Majesty was pleased by his Order in Council, bearing Date the Twenty fourth Day of June last, to establish a new Class of Officers in the Royal Navy, under the Denomination of Masters Assistants;' Be it therefore enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act, every Master Assistant, who shall have passed for a Master or Second Master, shall have Licence, and he is hereby authorized to draw upon the Commissioners of the Navy a Bill or Bills for his Pay, at the Expiration of every Six Lunar Months or Twelve Months, but not for a less Period than Six Months, for the whole net Amount of his Pay, in the same Manner, subject to the like Deductions, and under similar Regulations, Limitations, Prohibitions and Restrictions, in every respect, as are in the said recited Act expressed and declared with regard to passed Mates and passed Midship men. SCHE THREE Days after Sight, be pleased to pay to or Order, the Sum of Pounds and Shillings [the Sum to be inserted in Words at Length]; on account of the Monthly Portion of Pay due to the Warrant and Petty Officers and Seamen, Non-commissioned Officers and Privates of Marines, and Boys of the above Ship from the Day of Day of and Warrant Non-commissioned • Privates of Marines, Boys, [insert the Numbers in Words at Length], were actually serving on board this Ship at the Date of drawing the above Bill. Witness my Hand, at the Day of WE do hereby certify, That at the Date of drawing this Bill, the Course of Exchange on England was at the Rate of [insert Words at Length]. Dated at Day of the A. B. Resident Merchants WHEN due, to be paid by the Treasurer of His Majesty's Navy, out of the Monies received under the Head of Wages. Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy. 4 G.4. c. 54. § 3. CA P. XIX. An Act for the Amendment of the Law as to the Offence of sending threatening Letters. [2d May 1825.] W HEREAS by an Act passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act for allowing the Benefit of Clergy to Persons convicted of certain Felonies under Two Acts, of the Ninth Year of King George the First and of the Twenty seventh Year of King George the Second, for making better Provision for the Punishment of Persons guilty of sending or delivering threatening Letters, and of Assaults with Intent to commit Robbery; certain Provisions are made for the Punishment of any Person who shall knowingly and wilfully send or deliver any such Letter or Writing as in the said Act is mentioned, threatening to accuse any of His Majesty's Subjects of any Crime punishable by Law with Death, Transportation or Pillory, or of any infamous Crime, with such View or Intent as in the said Act mentioned, or who shall procure, counsel, aid or abet the Commission of the said Offence, or shall forcibly rescue any Person being lawfully in Custody of any Officer or other Person for the said Offence; and also for 'the Punishment of any Person who shall maliciously threaten to accuse any other Person of any Crime punishable by Law with Death, Transportation or Pillory, or of any infamous Crime, ' with such View or Intent as in the said Act is mentioned, or who shall procure, counsel, aid or abet the Commission of the said Offence: And Whereas it is expedient to enact that not only every Crime now by Law deemed infamous by reason of the Person convicted thereof being thereby rendered incompetent to give Evidence, but also that each of the several Of'fences hereinafter mentioned shall be deemed and taken to be an infamous Crime within the Meaning of the said 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 Certain Crimes the Authority of the same, That as well every Crime now by Law deemed infamous, as also every Assault with Intent to commit any Rape, or the abominable Crimes of Sodomy or Buggery, or either of those Crimes, and every Attempt or Endeavour to commit any Rape, or the said abominable Crimes or either of them, and also every Solicitation, Persuasion, Promise, Threat or Menace, offered or made to any Person, whereby to move or induce such Person to commit or to permit the said abominable Crimes or either of them, shall be deemed and taken to be an infamous Crime within the Meaning of the said recited Act. herein mentioned deemed infamous within the Meaning of the recited Act. ' CA P. XX. An Act for fixing, until the Twenty fifth Day of March One [This Act is the same as 5G.4. c.31. except as to Dates.] CAP. CA P. XXI. An Act to amend an Act for the more effectual Adminis- WH HEREAS by an Act passed in the Third Year of His $G.4. c.55. present Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act for the more $ 6. effectual Administration of the Office of a Justice of the Peace in and near the Metropolis, and for the more effectual Prevention of Depredations on the River Thames and its Vicinity, for Seven Years, the yearly Salary payable to each of the Justices appointed under the said Act is fixed at Six hundred Pounds : And Whereas it is expedient to increase the said Salary;' 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, That it shall be lawful to pay to each of Justices' the Justices appointed or to be appointed under the said Act, Salaries. such yearly Salary as shall be directed by One of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, not exceeding the Sum of Eight hundred Pounds, to commence from the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and Twenty five. § 25. Bow Street II. And Whereas by the said recited Act the Chief Magistrate of the Public Office in Bow Street is empowered to administer to the Officers of the said Office, and to the Horse and Foot 'Patrol acting under the Orders of the said Chief Magistrate, an 'Oath duly to execute the Office of Constable within the Counties "of Middlesex, Surrey, Essex and Kent; and each of the Persons so sworn is empowered to act as a Constable in the Manner therein mentioned; and it is expedient to extend the Powers of 'the Persons so sworn as hereinafter mentioned;' Be it therefore further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Chief Magistrate of the said Public Office in Bow Street, to administer to such Persons respectively an Oath duly to execute the Office of a Constable within the Counties of Middlesex, Surrey, Essex and Kent, and within the Royal Palaces of His Majesty, His certain CounHeirs and Successors, and Ten Miles thereof; and that each of ties, and within such Persons being so sworn, and each of the Officers of the said Public Office, and each of the Horse and Foot Patrol already sworn under the said recited Act, shall, from and after the passing thereof. of this Act, have Power to act as a Constable for the said Counties, and also within the said Royal Palaces, and Ten Miles thereof, and shall have all such Powers and Authorities, Privileges and Advantages, as any Constable duly appointed now has or hereafter may have within his Constablewick. III. And be it further enacted, That all Powers and Authorities, Privileges, Advantages, Exemptions, Duties, Obligations and Liabilities, by the said recited Act conferred and imposed upon the Magistrates of the said Public Office in Bow Street, and upon the Clerks, Constables and others therein employed, and on the Horse and Foot Patrol acting under the Orders of the Chief Magistrate of that Office, shall, in case of the Removal of that Office from the said Street to any other Street or Place, be used 6 GEO. IV. H and Powers of Constables within the Royal Palaces and Ten Miles In case of Re- ontinue. Police Magistrates may swear in Street Keep ers to act as Constables. Wages. Certain offenders may be adjudged to hard Labour. t Sic. Summons to appear at any Place without and exercised, enjoyed and performed by the Magistrates, Clerks, Officers, Patrol and others respectively at the Office to be substituted for the said Public Office in Bow Street, in as full and ample Manner, to all Intents and Purposes, as if such substituted Office had been expressly named in the said recited Act and this Act. IV. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for Two of the Justices appointed under the said recited Act to any of the Police Offices thereby established, upon the Application of Five of the Inhabitants of any Street or Square, or of the Proprietor of any Place of public Resort, within the Limits of the Bills of Mortality and the Parishes therein enumerated, to appoint a competent Number of Persons, recommended by such Inhabitants or such Proprietor respectively, and approved of by such Justices, to be Constables, to keep the Peace within such Street or Square, or such Place of public Resort, and the Avenues leading thereto, for such Period of Time as such Justices shall deem fit and necessary, and to administer an Oath to every such Constable duly to execute that Office within the Limits and for the Period of Time for which he shall be appointed; and every Constable so sworn shall, within the Limits and during the Period for which he shall serve, have all such Powers and Authorities, Privileges and Advantages, as any Constable duly appointed hath or shall have within his Constablewick, and shall be paid by the Inhabitants or Proprietor respectively, on whose Application he shall be appointed, such Wages as shall be deemed reasonable and adequate by the Justices by whom he shall be appointed. 6 V. And be it further enacted, That whensoever any Offender convicted of a Misdemeanour of a fraudulent Nature under the said recited Act, shall be adjudged to Imprisonment in the House of Correction, it shall be lawful for the convicting Justices, if hef shall so think fit, to adjudge that such Offender shall be there kept to hard Labour. VI. And for preventing the Evasion of that Provision in the 'said recited Act, whereby Justices of the Peace are prohibited, except in certain Cases, from taking any Fees within the Limits of the Bills of Mortality, and certain Parishes in the said Act ' enumerated;' Be it further enacted, That every Suminons which shall, after the passing of this Act, be issued by any Justice of the Peace of the Counties of Middlesex and Surrey respectively, cified in recited requiring any Person residing within the said Limits and Parishes, to appear at any Place without those Limits and Parishes, to answer any Information or Complaint touching any Matter arising within the said Limits and Parishes, shall be utterly void and of none effect; any Law, Custom or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding. the Limits spe Act, void. Offences punishable under 3 G. 4. c. 40. shall be punishable VII. And be it further enacted and declared, That every Offence committed against the said recited Act, and thereby made punishable under an Act passed in the same Session of Parliament, intituled An Act for consolidating into One Act and under the Pro- amending the Laws relating to idle and disorderly Persons, Rogues and Vagabonds, incorrigible Rogues and other Vagrants in England, is and shall be punishable and punished under the Provisions of an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled An Act for visions of 5 G.4. c.83. the |