73. Licences of canteens.

74. Attestation of accounts.

75. Forms of actions at law.

76. Recovery of penalties.

77. Appropriation of penaltics.

78. Administration of oaths.-Perjury.

79. Duration of Act.

80. Alteration of the Act.

[Such of the provisions of this Act as are given at length appear to be the only ones necessary to be stated fully in the abridgment of this Statute.]

By this Act,

The standing army of the United Kingdom is fixed at 88,952 men, exclusive of the officers and men employed in the territorial possessions of the East India Company, but including the officers and men of the troops and companies recruiting for those regiments:

And it is Enacted,

1. That if any person who is or shall be commissioned or in pay as an officer, or who is or shall be listed or in pay as a noncommissioned officer or soldier, shall, at any time during the continuance of this Act, begin, excite, cause, or join in any mutiny or sedition in His Majesty's land or marine forces, or shall not use his utmost endeavours to suppress the same, or coming to the knowledge of any mutiny or intended mutiny shall not, without delay, give information thereof to his commanding officer; or shall misbehave himself before the enemy; or shall shamefully abandon or deliver up any garrison, fortress, post, or guard committed to his charge, or which he shall be commanded to defend; or shall compel the governor or commanding officer of any garrison, fortress, or post to deliver up to the enemy or to abandon the same ; or shall speak words or use any other means to induce such governor or commanding officer, or others, to misbehave before the enemy, or shamefully to abandon or deliver up any garrison, fortress, post, or guard committed to their respective charge, or which he or they shall be commanded to defend; or shall leave his post before relieved, or shall be found sleeping on his post; or shall hold correspondence with or give advice or intelligence to any rebel or enemy of His Majesty's, either by letters, messages, signs, or tokens, in any manner or way whatsoever; or shall treat or enter into any terms with such rebel or enemy, without His Majesty's licence or licence of the General or Chief Commander; or shall strike or shall use or offer any violence against his superior officer, being in the execution of his office, or shall disobey any lawful command of his superior officer; or shall desert His Majesty's service; all and every person and persons so offending in any of the matters before mentioned, whether such offence shall be committed within this realm, or in any other of His Majesty's dominions, or in foreign parts, upon land or upon the sea, shall suffer death, or such other punishment as by a court martial shall be awarded.

Sections II. and III. similar in effect, as applicable to soldiers, to sections II. and 111. of the Marine Mutiny Act.

xv. In this section is contained the following proviso-viz. Provided also, that all witnesses duly summoned by the Judge Advocate, or the person officiating as such, or by the president of a district or garrison court martial, shall, during their necessary attendance in such courts, and in going to and returning from the same, be privileged from arrest, and shall, if unduly arrested, be discharged by the Court out of which the writ or process issued by which such witness was arrested, or if such Court be not sitting then by any Judge of the Court of King's Bench in London or in Dublin, or the Court of Session in Scotland, or courts of law in the East or West Indies or elsewhere, according as the case shall require, upon its being made to appear to such Court or Judge, by any affidavit in a summary way, that such witness was arrested in going to or returning from or attending upon such court martial; and that all witnesses so duly summoned as aforesaid who shall not attend on such courts, or attending shall refuse to be sworn, or being sworn shall refuse to give evidence or to answer all such questions as the Court may legally demand of them, shall be liable to be attached in the Court of King's Bench in London or Dublin, or the Court of Session, or sheriff depute or stewarts depute, or their respective substitutes, within their several shires and stewartries, in Scotland, or courts of law in the East or West Indies, or in any of His Majesty's colonies, garrisons, or dominions in Europe or elsewhere respectively, upon complaint made, in like manner as if such witness had neglected to attend in a trial in any proceeding in that court.

Sections XXI., XXII., and XXIII., as to subsequent enlistment being no protection from punishment for desertion-the apprehension of deserters and fraudulent confession of desertion, -are, as applicable to soldiers, similar to sections xxv., XXVI., and XXVII. on the like subjects in the Marine Mutiny Act.

xxv. That every person who shall, in any part of His Majesty's dominions, directly or indirectly persuade any soldier to desert, shall suffer such punishment by fine or imprisonment, or both, as the Court before which the conviction may take place shall adjudge: and every person who shall assist any deserter, knowing him to be such, in deserting or in concealing himself, shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of 201.

XXVI. That every commissioned officer who shall, without warrant from one or more of His Majesty's Justices, forcibly enter into or break open the dwelling house or outhouses of any person whomsoever, under pretence of searching for deserters, shall, upon due proof thereof, forfeit the sum of 201.

Sections XXXIV., XXXV., XXXVI., and XXXVII. being as to the enlisting and swearing of recruits-dissent and relief from enlistment-offences connected with enlistment-and penalty on officers offending against laws regarding enlistment, -are, as applicable to soldiers, similar to sections XXXIII., XXXIV., XXXVII., and xxxix. in the Marine Mutiny Act.

XL. That any person duly bound as an apprentice who shall enlist as a soldier in His Majesty's or the East India Company's service, and shall state to the magistrate before whom he shall be carried and attested that he is not an apprentice, shall be deemed guilty of obtaining money under false pretences within the true intent and meaning of the before-recited Acts, and shall, after the expiration of his apprenticeship, whether he shall have been so convicted and punished or not, be liable to serve as a soldier in any of His Majesty's regular forces, or in the forces of the East India Company, according to the terms of the enlistment; and if on the expiration of his apprenticeship he shall not deliver himself up to some officer authorized to receive recruits, may be taken as a deserter from His Majesty's forces.

XLI. That no master shall be entitled to claim an apprentice whoshall enlist as a soldier in His Majesty's or the East India Company's service, unless he shall, within one calendar month after such apprentice shall have left his service, go before some Justice and take the oath mentioned in the Schedule to this Act annexed, and produce the certificate of such Justice of his having taken such oath, which certificate such Justice is required to give in the form in the Schedule to this Act annexed; and unless such apprentice shall have been bound, if in England, for the full term of seven years, not having been above the age of fourteen when so bound, and if in Ireland or in the British isles, for the full term of five years at the least, not having been above the age of sixteen when so bound, and, if in Scotland, for the full term of four years, by a regular contract or indenture of apprenticeship, duly extended, signed, and tested, and binding on both parties by the law of Scotland, prior to the period of enlistment; and unless such contract or indenture so duly executed shall, within three months after the commencement of the apprenticeship, and before the period of enlistment, have been produced to a Justice of the Peace of the county wherein the parties reside, and there shall have been indorsed thereon by such Justice a certificate or declaration signed by him, specifying the date when the person by whom such contract or indenture shall have been so produced, which certificate or declaration such Justice of the Peace is hereby required to indorse and sign; and unless such apprentice shall, when claimed by such master, be under twenty-one years of age; provided that any master of an apprentice indentured for the sea service shall be entitled to claim and recover him in the form and manner above directed, notwithstanding such apprentice may have been bound for a less terin than seven, five, or four years as aforesaid; and any such master, who shall give up the indentures of apprenticeship within one month after the enlisting of such apprentice, shall be entitled to receive, to his own use, so much of the bounty payable to such recruit, after deducting therefrom 21. 2s. to provide him with necessaries, as shall not have been paid to such recruit before notice given of his being an apprentice.

XLII. That no apprentice claimed by his master shall be taken from any corps or recruiting party but under a warrant of a Justice residing near and within whose jurisdiction such apprentice shall then happen to be, before whom he shall be carried, and such Justice shall inquire into the matter upon oath, which oath he is hereby empowered to administer, and shall require the production and proof of the indenture, and that notice of the said warrant has been given to the commanding officer, and a copy thereof left with some officer or non-commissioned officer of the party, and that such person so enlisted declared that he was no apprentice; and such Justice, if required by such officer or non-commissioned officer, shall commit the offender to the common gaol of the said place, and shall keep the indenture, to be produced when required, and shall bind over such person as he may think proper to give evidence against the offender, who shall be tried at the next or at the session immediately succeeding the next general or quarter sessions of the county, division, or place, unless the Court shall on just cause put off the trial; and the production of the indenture, with the certificate of the Justices that the same was proved, shall be sufficient evidence of the said indenture; and every such offender, in Scotland, may be tried by the Judge Ordinary in the county or stewartry, in such and the like manner as any person may be tried in Scotland for any offence not inferring a capital punishment; provided that any Justice not required as aforesaid to commit such apprentice may deliver him to his master.

Sections LL., LIV., LVI., LVII., as to how and where troops may be billeted-allowance to innkeepers-and rates to be paid and mode of proceeding, -are, as applicable to soldiers, similar to XLV., XLVI., XLVII., and XLVIII. in the Marine Mutiny Act,

LVIII. That it shall be lawful for His Majesty, or the Lord Lieutenant or Chief Governors of Ireland, by his or their order, distinctly stating that a case of emergency doth exist, signified by the Secretary at War, or, if in Ireland, by the Chief Secretary or Under Secretary, or the first clerk in the military department, to authorize any General or field officer commanding His Majesty's forces in any district or place, or tol the chief acting agent for the supply of stores and provisions, by writing under his hand, reciting such order of His Majesty or Lord Lieutenant or Chief Governor aforesaid, to require all Justices within their several jurisdictions in England and Ireland to issue their warrants for the provision, not only of waggons, wains, carts, and cars kept by or belonging to any person, and for any use whatsoever, but also of saddle horses, coaches, post chaises, chaises, and other four-wheeled carriages kept for hire, and also of boats, barges, and other vessels used for the transport of any commodities whatsoever upon any canal or navigable river, as shall be mentioned in the said warrants, therein specifying the place and distance to which such carriages or vessels shall go; and on the production of such requisition to such Justice by any officer of the corps ordered to be conveyed, or by any officer of the Commissariat or Ordnance department, such Justice shall take all the same proceedings in regard to such additional supply so required on the said emergency as he is by this Act required to take for the ordinary provision of carriages; and all provisions whatsoever of this Act, as regards the procuring of the ordinary supply of carriages; and the duties of officers and non-commissioned officers, Justices, constables, and owners of carriages, in that behalf, shall be to all intents and purposes applicable for the providing and payment, according to the rate of posting or of hire usually paid for such other description of carriages or vessels so required on emergency, according to the length of the journey or voyage in each case, but making no allowance for post-horse duty, or turnpike, canal, river, or lock tolls, which duty or tolls are hereby declared not to be demandable for such carriages and vessels while employed in such service or returning therefrom: and it shall be lawful to convey thereon, not only the baggage, provisions, and military stores of such regiment or detachment, but also the officers, soldiers, servants, women, children, and other persons of and belonging to the same.

LIX. That it shall be lawful for the Justices of the Peace assembled at their quarter sessions to direct the treasurer to pay, without fee, out of the public stock of the county or riding, or if such public stock be insufficient, then out of the monies which the said Justices shall have power to raise for that purpose, in like manner as for county gaols and bridges, such reasonable sums 29 shall bave been expended by the constables within their respective jurisdictions for carriages and vessels, over and above what was or ought to have been paid by the officer requiring the same, regard being had to the season of the year and condition of the ways by which such carriages and vessels are to pass.

LXI. That all His Majesty's officers and soldiers, being in proper staff or regimental or military uniform, dress or undress, and their horses, (but not when passing in any hired or private vehicle,) and all carriages and horses belonging to His Majesty or employed in his service, when conveying persons or baggage under the provisions of this Act, or returning therefrom, shall be exempted from payment of any duties and tolls on embarking or disembarking from or upon any pier, wharf, quay, or landing place, or passing turnpike roads or bridges, otherwise demandable by virtue of any Act already made or hereafter to be made; and any toll collector who shall demand and receive toil from any of His Majesty's officers or soldiers, they being in proper staff or regimental or military uniform, dress or undress, or for their horses, every such toll collector shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding 51. for every such offence, for which forfeiture and penalty he shall be prosecuted before a Justice of the Peace, and in no other way; provided that nothing herein contained shall exempt any boats, barges, or other vessels employed in conveying the said persons, horses, baggage, or stores along any canal, from payment of tolls, in like manner as other boats, barges, and vessels are liable thereto.

LXII. That when any soldiers on service have occasion in their march to pass regular ferries in Scotland, the officer commanding may at his option pass over with his soldiers as passengers, and shall pay for himself and each soldier one half only of the ordinary rate payable by single persons, or may hire the ferry boat for himself and his party, debarring others for that time, and shall in such cases pay only half the ordinary rate for such boat.

LXV. That any person who shall unlawfully have in his or her possession or keeping, or who shall knowingly detain, buy exchange, or receive from any soldier or deserter, or any other person, on any pretence whatsoever, or shall solicit or entice any soldier, or shall be employed by any soldier, knowing him to be such, to sell any arms, ammunition, clothes, or military furniture, or any provisions, or any sheets or other articles used in barracks, provided under barrack regulations, or regimental necessaries, or any article of forage provided for any horses belonging to His Majesty's service, or shall change the colour of any clothes as aforesaid, shall forfeit for every such offence any sum not exceeding 201. nor less than 5l., together with treble value of all or any of the several articles of which such offender shall so become possessed; and if any credible person shall prove on oath before a Justice of the Peace a reasonable cause to suspect that any person has in his or her possession, or on his or her premises, any property of the description hereinbefore described, on or with respect to which any such offence shall have been committed, the Justice may grant a warrant to search for such property, as in the case of stolen goods.

LXVII. That every person, not being an authorized army agent, who shall negociate or act as agent for and in relation to the purchase, sale, or exchange of any commission in His Majesty's forces, shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of 100l.; and every person, whether authorized or not as an army agent, who shall receive any money or reward in respect of any such purchase, sale, or exchange, or shall negociate or receive for any purpose whatsoever any money or consideration where no price is allowed by His Majesty's regulations, or any money or consideration exceeding the amount so allowed, shall forfeit 1001., and treble the value of the consideration where the commission is not allowed to be sold, or treble the excess of such consideration beyond the regular price.

And for the better preservation of game and fish in or near such places where any officers shall at any time be quar

tered:

It is Enacted,

LXVIII. That every officer who shall, without leave in writing from the persons entitled to grant such leave, take, kill, or destroy any game or fish within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and upon complaint thereof shall be, upon oath of one or more credible witnesses, convicted before any Justice, shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of 51.

LXIX. That no officer of His Majesty's forces residing in barracks or elsewhere under military law shall be deemed liable to have any parish poor child bound apprentice to him.

LXX. That any Justice in the United Kingdom, within whose jurisdiction any soldier in the regular army, or on the permanent staff of the militia, having a wife or child, shall be billeted, may summon such soldier before him in the place where he is billeted, which summons he is hereby directed to obey,) and take his examination in writing, upon oath, touching the place of his last legal settlement in England, and such Justice shall give an attested copy of such examination to the person examined, to be by him delivered to his commanding officer, to be produced when required; which said examination and such attested copy shall be at any time admitted in evidence as to such last legal settlement before any Justice or at any general or quarter sessions, although such soldier be dead or absent from the kingdom: provided that in case any soldier shall be again summoned to make oath as aforesaid, then, on such examination or such attested copy thereof being produced by him or by any other person on his behalf, such soldier shall not be obliged to take any other oath with regard to his legal settlement, but shall leave a copy of such examination, or a copy of such attested copy of examination, if required.

LXXI. That the churchwardens of every parish in England and Ireland, and the constables or other officers of every parish or place in Scotland, on receiving a notification from the Secretary at War of the names of any soldiers belonging to the said parish who have, for meritorious conduct in the army received His Majesty's special approbation, or who, in consequence of misconduct, have been dismissed His Majesty's service with disgrace, shall affix such notification on the outside of the door of the church or chapel belonging to such parish or place on the Sunday next succeeding the receipt of the said notification.

LXXII. That it shall be lawful for the Justice, before whom any recruit shall be attested before the expiration of the term of service for which he had been hired by his master, to adjudge to such recruit a reasonable proportion of his wages for the time he has actually served; and the said Justice shall make an order for the payment of the amount so awarded, and, in case of neglect or refusal to pay the same within four days, shall issue his warrant for levying the same by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the master.

CAP. VII.

AN ACT to repeal, at the Period within mentioned, so much of an Act passed in the Fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled, 'An Act to alter certain Rates of Postage, and to amend, explain, and enlarge several Provisions in an Act made in the Ninth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne, and in other Acts relating to the Revenue of the Post Office,' as authorizes the taking of certain Rates of Inland Postage within His Majesty's Dominions in North America. (26th March 1834.)

By this Act,

After noticing, 5 Geo. 3. 6. 25,

It is Enacted,

1. That from and after His Majesty's consent shall in the usual form be signified by the Governors or Deputy Governors of His Majesty's colonies or provinces in North America to Bills or Acts of the legislatures of such respective colonies or provinces authorizing the demanding and taking within such respective colonies or provinces, by His Majesty's Postmaster General or his deputy or deputies, the like rates of postage as are authorized to be received and taken by the said recited Act, 5 Geo. 3, or such other rates of postage as in and by such Bills or Acts respectively may be mentioned and authorized to be received and taken, and for making such regulations for the management of the Post Office within such colonies and provinces, by His Majesty's Postmaster General or his deputies, as shall be therein directed, then the said Act, 5 Geo. 3, so far as the said Act authorizes the demand and receipt of any rates for the inland carriage and conveyance of letters and packets within such colonies or provinces respectively, shall thenceforth be absolutely repealed, and be no longer of any effect.

II. That from and after His Majesty's consent shall be so signified to such Bills or Acts of colonial or provincial legislatures as bereinbefore mentioned, all the revenue which may arise from the collection of the rates of inland postage within the said respective colonies or provinces (after deducting the expenses of collection, and of the establishment and management of the Post Office within and throughout the said respective colonies or provinces under the direction of His Majesty's Postmaster General or his deputies,) shall and may, instead of being remitted as heretofore to the General Post Office in London, as part of the general revenue of the Post Office, be appropriated, applied, and distributed to and among the said respective colonies and provinces in proportion to the gross amount of the rates and duties of postage which shall be raised, collected, and received within each and every such respective colonies or provinces, unless and until the said colonies or provinces shall, by Bills or Acts of their respective legislatures to which His Majesty's consent shall in the usual form be signified, unite and agree in directing any other mode in which such surplus shall be applied and disposed of.

III. This Act may be altered, varied, or repealed in this present session.

CAP. VIII.-IRELAND.

AN ACT to amend an Act passed in the last Session, for consolidating and amending the Laws relative to Jurors and Juries in Ireland.

(26th March 1834.)

CAP. IX.

AN ACT to indemnify such Persons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments, and for extending the Time limited for those Purposes respectively until the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and thirty-five; to permit such Persons in Great Britain as have omitted to make and file Affidavits of the Execution of Indentures of Clerks to Attornies and Solicitors to make and file the same on or before the First Day of Hilary Term One thousand eight hundred and thirty-five; and to allow Persons to make and file such Affidavits, although the Persons whom they served shall have neglected to take out their Annual Certificates. (26th March 1834.)

ABSTRACT OF THE ENACTMENTS.

1. Persons who have omitted to qualify themselves as required by the recited Acts indemnified and allowed further time.

2. Indemnity to those who have omitted to make and subscribe the oaths, &c. required by the Irish Act of 2 Anne.

3. Not to indemnify persons against whom final judgment is given.

4. Not to exempt Justices acting without legal qualification.

5. Admissions to corporations may be stamped after time allowed by law.

6. Indemnity to persons who have paid the duties on indentures to serve as clerks to attornies, &c., but have neglected to cause affida

vits thereof to be made. Neglect of attornies, &c. in taking out their annual certificates not to disqualify the persons who have

served them.

7. Not to restore persons to any office avoided by Judgment. 8. General issue.

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By this Act,

After noticing that divers persons, who, on account of their offices, places, employments, or professions, or any other cause or occasion, ought to have taken and subscribed the oaths or assurance respectively appointed to be by such persons taken and subscribed in and by 1 Geo. 1. st. 2. c. 13; or to have qualified themselves according to an Act, 13 Car. 2. st. 2. c. 1; or according to another Act, 25 Car. 2. st. 2. c. 2; or according to another Act, 30 Car. 2. st. 2. c. 1; or according to another Act, 8 Geo. 1. c. 6; or according to another Act, 9 Geo. 2. c. 26; or according to another Act, 18 Geo. 2. c. 20; or according to another Act, 6 Geo. 3. c. 53; or according to another Act, 9 Geo. 4. c. 17; or according to another Act, 10 Geo. 4. c. 7, so far only as the said Act relates to any civil or military offices or places of trust, or places of profit or corporate offices; have, through ignorance of the law, absence, or some unavoidable accident, omitted to take and subscribe the oaths and assurance and make and subscribe the declaration required by the said recited Acts or either of them, or otherwise to qualify themselves as aforesaid, within such time and in such manner as in and by the said Acts respectively is required, whereby they have incurred, or may be in danger of incurring, divers penalties and disabilities: for quieting the minds of His Majesty's subjects, and for preventing any inconvenience that might otherwise happen by means of such omissions:

It is Enacted,

1. That all and every person or persons who, at or before the passing of this Act, hath or shall have omitted to take and subscribe the oaths and declarations, or otherwise to qualify him, her, or themselves, within such time and in such manner as in and by the said Acts, or any of them, is required, and who, after accepting any such office, place, or employment, or undertaking any profession or thing, on account of which such qualification ought to have been had and is required, before the passing of this Act hath or have taken and subscribed the said oaths or made the declarations required by law, or who, on or before the 25th March 1835, shall take and subscribe the oaths, declarations, and assurance respectively, in such cases wherein by the said several Acts or any or either of them the said oaths, declarations, and assurance ought to have been taken and subscribed, in such manner and form, and at or in such place or places, as are appointed in and by the said several Acts or any or either of them, shall be and are hereby indemnified, freed, and discharged from and against all penalties, forfeitures, incapacities, and disabilities incurred or to be incurred for or by reason of any neglect or omission, previous to the passing of this Act, of taking or subscribing the said oaths or assurance, or making or subscribing the said declarations respectively, or taking or subscribing the said oath, according to the above-mentioned Acts or any of them, or any other Act or Acts; and such person or persons is and are and shall be fully and actually recapacitated and restored to the same state and condition as he, she, or they were in before such neglect or omission, and shall be and be deemed and adjudged to have duly qualified him, her, or themselves according to the above-mentioned Acts and every of them; and that all elections of, and acts done or to be done by any such person or persons, or by authority derived from him, her, or them, are and shall be of the same force and validity as the same or any of them would have been if such person or persons respectively had taken the said oaths or assurance, and made and subscribed the said declarations respectively, and taken and subscribed the said oath, according to the directions of the said Acts and every or any of them; and that the qualification of such person or persons qualifying themselves in manner and within the time appointed by this Act shall be to all intents and purposes as effectual as if such person or persons bad respectively taken the said oaths and assurance, and made and subscribed the said declarations respectively, and taken and subscribed the said oath, within the time and in the manner appointed by the several Acts before mentioned.

And after noticing that several persons well affected to His Majesty's government, and to the United Church of England and Ireland, have, through ignorance of the law, neglected, or been, by sickness or other unavoidable causes, prevented from taking and subscribing the declaration according to the directions of an Act, (Irish) 2 Anne, intituled, 'An Act to prevent the further Growth of Popery':

It is Enacted,

II. That all persons who have incurred any penalty or incapacity in the said recited Act mentioned, by neglecting to qualify themselves according to the said Act, shall be and are hereby indemnified, freed, and discharged from all incapacities, disabilities, penalties, and forfeitures incurred by reason of such omission or neglect as aforesaid; and that no act done by any of them, not yet avoided, shall be questioned or avoided by reason of such omission or neglect, but that all such Acts shall be and are hereby declared to be as good and effectual as if such persons respectively had taken and subscribed the said oath, and made and repeated and subscribed the said declaration, at such time and place and manner as in the said Act is mentioned; anything in the said Act to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided always, that such person or persons do and shall take and subscribe the said oaths, and make, repeat, and subscribe the said declaration, in such manner and form, and in such place or places respectively, as are directed and appointed by the said last-recited Act, on or before the 25th March 1835.

III. Provided always, That this Act, or anything herein contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to indemnify any person against whom final judgment shall have been given in any action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, in any of His Majesty's courts of record, for any penalty incurred by having neglected to qualify himself within the time limited by law.

IV. Provided always, That nothing contained in this Act shall extend or be construed to extend to exempt any Justice of the Peace within Great Britain from the penalties to which he is subject for acting as such without being possessed of the qualification required by the laws now in force.

And after noticing that the appointment of divers clerks of the peace, town clerks, and other public officers, and the admission of divers members and officers of cities, corporations, and borough towns in Great Britain and Ireland, or the entries of such admissions in the court books, rolls, or records of such cities, corporations, and borough towns, which by several Acts are directed and required to be stamped, may not have been provided or the same not stamped, or may have been lost or mislaid :

It is further Enacted,

v. That for the relief of such persons whose appointments and admissions, or the entries of whose admissions as aforesaid, may not have been provided, or not duly stamped, or where the same have been lost or mislaid, it shall and may be lawful to and for such persons in Great Britain or Ireland, on or before the 25th March 1835, to provide or cause to be provided appointments and admissions, or entries of admissions as aforesaid, duly stamped; or in case where such appointments, admissions,