or entries of admissions as aforesaid have been made or provided, but have not been duly stamped, to produce such appointments, admissions, or entries of admissions as aforesaid to the Commissioners appointed to inspect and manage the revenues of the Stamp Duties, to be duly stamped, which such Commissioners are hereby authorized and empowered and required to duly stamp, on payment of double the amount of the duties first payable or to have been paid on such appointments, admissions, or entries as aforesaid, without any other fine or forfeiture thereon; and in order to denote the said duties, the said Commissioners are hereby authorized and empowered to use such stamps as shall have been heretofore provided to denote any former duties on stamped vellum, parchment, and paper, or to cause new stamps to be provided for that purpose, and to do all other things necessary for putting this Act in execution, in the like and in as full and ample manner as they or the major part of them are authorized to put in execution any former law concerning stamped vellum, parchment, and paper; and such persons so providing appointments, admissions, or entries of admissions as aforesaid, duly stamped, or procuring the same to be duly stamped in manner aforesaid, are and shall be hereby confirmed and qualified to act as clerk of the peace, town clerk, and other public officer, or member or members, officer or officers of such cities, corporations, and borough towns respectively, to all intents and purposes, and shall and may hold and enjoy and execute such offices, or any other office or offices into which he or they hath or have been elected, notwithstanding his or their omission, or the omission of any of their predecessors in such cities, corporations, or borough towns as aforesaid, and shall be indemnified and discharged of and from all incapacities, disabilities, forfeitures, penalties, and damages by reason of any such omission; and none of his or their acts shall be questioned or avoided by reason of the same.

And after noticing that many persons who may have paid the proper stamp duties, either before or within six months after the execution of the contracts in writing entered into by them to serve as clerks to attornies or solicitors, scriveners, or notaries public in Great Britain, have omitted to cause affidavits to be made, and afterward to be filed in the proper office, of the actual execution of such contracts, and have also omitted to cause such contracts and the indentures thereof to be enrolled within the time in which the same ought to have been done; and many solicitors, attornies, notaries public, and others have omitted to take out annual certificates, or to enter the same in the proper office; and many infants and others may thereby incur certain disabilities: for preventing thereof, and relieving such persons

It is Enacted,

VI. That every person who shall, either before or within six months after the execution of such contract or indenture, have paid the proper stamp duty in that behalf, and who at the passing of this Act shall have neglected or omitted to cause any such affidavit or affidavits as aforesaid to be made and filed, or such contract or indenture to be enrolled, and who, on or before the first day of Hilary Term 1835, shall cause such contract or indenture to be enrolled with the proper officer in that behalf, and one or more affidavit or affidavits to be made, and afterwards to be filed, in such manner as the same ought to have been made and filed in due time, shall be and is hereby indemnified, freed, and discharged from and against all penalties, forfeitures, incapacities, and disabilities in or by any Act or Acts of Parliament mentioned, and incurred or to be incurred for or by reason of such neglect or omission; and every such affidavit and affidavits so to be made, and which shall be duly filed on or before the first day of Hilary Term 1835, shall be as effectual as if the same had been made and filed within the respective times the same ought, by the laws now in being for that purpose, to have been made and filed; and that the respective officer or officers who ought to receive, file, enter, or register such contract or indenture, or affidavit or affidavits, shall not refuse to receive, file, enter, or register the same by reason that the attorney, solicitor, or notary public to whom such infant or other person shall have been articled or have contracted to serve, shall have neglected to take out his annual certificate, or to register the same, but such officer or officers are hereby directed and empowered to receive, file, enter, or register the same, notwithstanding such omission; and that every person who shall have regularly served any attorney or attornies, solicitor or solicitors, notary public or notaries public, for the term of years required by law, shall not be prevented or disqualified from being admitted an attorney, solicitor, or notary public, by reason of any omission of the person or persons to whom he served for the same term, or for any part thereof, having so neglected to take out his annual certificate, or to register the same, provided that such person is otherwise entitled to be created and admitted to such office by the laws now in force relating thereto.

VII. Provided always, That this Act or anything herein contained shall not extend or be construed to extend to restore or entitle any person or persons to any office or employment, benefice, matter, or thing whatsoever, already actually avoided by judgments of any of His Majesty's courts of record, already legally filled up and enjoyed by any other person; but that such office or employment, benefice, matter, or thing, so avoided or legally filled up and enjoyed, shall be and remain in and to the person or persons who is or are now or shall at the passing of this Act be legally entitled to the same, as if this Act had never been made.

VIII. That in case any action, suit, bill of indictment, or information shall from and after the passing of this Act be brought, carried on, or prosecuted against any person or persons hereby meant or intended to be indemnified, recapacitated, or restored, for or on account of any forfeiture, penalty, incapacity, or disability whatsoever incurred or to be incurred by any such neglect or omission, such person or persons may plead the general issue, and upon their defence give this Act and the special matter in evidence upon any trial to be had thereupon.

CAP. X.

AN ACT for continuing until the First Day of June One thousand eight hundred and thirty-six the several Acts for regulating the Turnpike Roads in Great Britain which will expire with the present or the next Session of Parliament. (26th March 1834.)

By this Act,

After noticing that it is expedient that the several Acts for making, amending, and repairing the turnpike roads in Great Britain, which will expire with the present Session or the next Session of Parliament, should be continued for a limited time :

It is therefore Enacted,

1. That all and every Act and Acts of Parliament for making, amending, and repairing any turnpike roads in Great Britain, which will expire with the present or the next session of Parliament, shall be and the same is and are hereby continued until the 1st of June 1836, or if Parliament shall then be sitting, until the end of the then Session of Parliament.

II. That nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to an Act, 52 Geo. 3. c. 149, intituled, ' An Act for widening and improving the Street or Road leading from Tower Hill to the Street called Upper East Smithfield, in the Parish of Saint Botolph without Aldgate, in the County of Middlesex;' nor to another Act, 53 Geo. 3. c. 72, intituled, 'An Act for enlarging the Powers of an Act of His present Majesty, for widening and improving Upper East Smithfield, in the Parish of Saint Botolph without Aldgate, in the County of Middlesex;' nor to another Act, 56 Geo. 3. c. xlv, intituled, 'An Act for altering, amending, and explaining Two Acts of His present Majesty's Reign, for widening and improving the Street leading from Tower Hill to the Street called Upper East Smithfield, in the County of Middlesex.'

CAP. XI.

AN ACT for continuing to His Majesty until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and thirty-five certain Duties on Offices and Pensions, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-four; and to appropriate any Sums arising from the Redemption of the Land Tax. (26th March 1834.)

By this Act, the Commons granted, and it is Enacted,

1. That the several and respective sums charged by virtue of an Act, 38 Geo. 3. c. 5, intituled, 'An Act for granting an Aid to His Majesty by a Land Tax, to be raised in Great Britain, for the Service of the Year One thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight,' upon any person or persons in respect of any public office or employment of profit, or any salaries, gratuitous bounty monies, rewards, fees, profits, perquisites, advantages, pensions, annuities, stipends, or yearly payments in the said Act mentioned, and which were by the said recited Act directed, after the 25th of March 1799, to be ascertained, raised, levied, collected, and paid according to the directions of any Act or Acts to be passed for that purpose, and which sums of money and duties last mentioned have been from time to time continued by divers Acts, and are now in force until the 25th of March 1834, shall be continued and raised, levied, collected, and paid unto His present Majesty from the said 25th of March 1834 until the 5th of July 1835.

H. That the several powers and provisions contained in an Act, 6 Geo. 4. c. 9, intituled 'An Act for continuing to His Majesty for One Year certain Duties on Personal Estates, Offices, and Pensions in England; and also for granting certain Duties on Sugar imported; for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and twenty-five,' for the ascertaining, assessing, taxing, regulating, paying, and accounting for the duties on offices and pensions, shall extend and be construed to extend to the duties on offices and pensions hereby granted and continued, except where other provisions are made by this Act; and that the several powers and provisions in the said Act contained, which relate or refer to any day or time within or during or before or after the year commencing from the 25th of March 1825, shall extend and be construed to relate to the like days and times within or during or before or after the year commencing from the 25th of March 1834 in like manner as by the said recited Act is directed with reference to the year 1825, and as if the several powers and provisions in the said recited Act contained were repeated and re-enacted in this present Act.

III. Provided always, That no assessment shall be made by any commissioner or commissioners, assessor or assessors of the land tax, or otherwise, for or in respect of the several duties of 1s. 6d. in the pound payable to His Majesty under the several Acts in force on annuities, pensions, stipends, salaries, wages, allowances, or other yearly payments whatever granted and continued by this Act, where the same are payable out of the public revenue of the receipt of the Exchequer or elsewhere in Great Britain by any officer or officers; but that all and every such annuities, pensions, stipends, salaries, wages, allowances, or other yearly payments shall and are hereby declared to be charged and assessed to the said duties respectively to the same annual amount as heretofore rated, charged, or assessed under any Act or Acts; and all monies applicable to the payment of such annuities, pensions, stipends, salaries, wages, allowances, or other yearly payments shall be issued, paid, and discharged less by the amount of the said duties to all intents as if the same were continued to be charged by annual assessment, and hereby authorized to be stopped and deducted as duties payable to His Majesty, anything in this Act or any former Act or Acts contained to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided also, that where any officer who shall be in receipt of any such annuity, pension, stipend, salary, wages, allowance, or other yearly payment payable at the Exchequer or elsewhere in Great Britain, out of the public revenue as aforesaid, shall also be in receipt of perquisites, fees, gratuities, wages, allowances, or other profits not so payable, but which are chargeable with the said duties, it shall be lawful for the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury to authorize such last-mentioned duties, unless otherwise paid, to be stopped or detained from the amount of the salary or other yearly payment made to any such officer; and it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners of the Treasury, or any three or more of them, by any warrant under their hands, whenever they shall deem the same advisable, to authorize and direct that the amount of any annuity, pension, stipend, salary, wages, allowances, or other yearly payments whatever payable out of the public revenue in any branch or department thereof, and chargeable with any of the said duties, shall be reduced and paid short by the amount of the assessment or assessments of any of such duties respectively, as if such assessments were actually made; and every such warrant shall be received in discharge of any such assessment, and as a full authority for reducing the said annual payments and paying the same short as aforesaid.

IV. That there shall be provided and kept, in the office of the Auditor of the Exchequer at Westminster, one book of register, in which all the money that shall be paid into the said Exchequer for the said rates and duties hereby granted or continued on offices and employments of profit, pensions, annuities, and stipends, shall be entered and registered apart and distinct from all other monies paid and payable to His Majesty; and the said duties shall be carried to and made part of the Consolidated

Fund.

And after noticing an Act, 42 Geo. 3. c. 116, whereby it is enacted, that the sums to be paid by way of interest on the contracts for the redemption of the land tax by the transfer of stock or payment of money by instalments shall be paid into the receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer, and shall be applicable to such uses and purposes as shall have been or shall be voted by the Commons in Parliament:

It is Enacted,

v. That after the passing of this Act the sums so paid into the receipt of the Exchequer shall be placed to the account of the Consolidated Fund.

VI. That this Act may be altered, amended, or repealed by any Act or Acts in this present Session.

CAP. XII.

AN ACT to apply a Sum of Seven Millions, out of the Consolidated Fund, to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.

By this Act, the Commons granted, and it is Enacted,

(26th March 1834.)

1. That there shall and may be issued and applied, for or towards making good the supply for the service of the year 1834, the sum of 7,000,000l. out of the Consolidated Fund, and the Commissioners of the Treasury, or any three or more of them, or the Lord High Treasurer for the time being, are or is to issue and apply the same accordingly.

11. That the Commissioners of the Treasury or any three or more of them, by warrant under their hands, may cause any number of Exchequer bills to be made out at the receipt of the Exchequer for any sum or sums not exceeding in the whole 7,000,000l.; to be made out in the same or like manner, form, and order, and according to the same or like rules and directions, as directed and prescribed in and by an Act, 48 Geo. 3. c. 1.

III. That all and every the clauses, provisoes, powers, privileges, advantages, penalties, forfeitures, and disabilities contained in the said recited Act shall be applied and extended to the Exchequer bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act.

IV. The Exchequer bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act to bear an interest not exceeding the rate of 34d. per centum per diem.

v. That the Commissioners of the Treasury, or any three or more of them, shall cause such Exchequer bills as shall be so made out, to be placed as so much cash in the respective offices of the Tellers of the Exchequer.

VI. That the said Exchequer bills in the hands of the said Tellers shall be locked up and secured as cash, and may by the said Commissioners of the Treasury be issued and applied from time to time to such services as shall then have been voted by the Commons of the United Kingdom in this present session.

VII. That the principal sum or sums of money to be contained in all such Exchequer bills to be made forth by virtue of this Act, together with the interest that may become due thereon, shall be and the same are hereby made chargeable and charged upon the growing produce of the Consolidated Fund in the next succeeding quarter to that in which the said Exchequer bills have been issued; and it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being, or any three or more of them, and they are hereby authorized, from time to time, by warrant under their hands, to direct the Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer at Westminster, in such manner as they shall think necessary, to issue unto such person or persons as shall be named in the said warrant, out of the growing produce of the said Consolidated Fund of the next succeeding quarter to that in which the said Exchequer Bills have been issued, any sum or sums not exceeding in the whole a sum sufficient to discharge and pay off the principal sum or sums contained in such Exchequer bills then outstanding, and which may have been made out and issued by virtue of this Act, together with all such interest as may be due thereupon.

VIII. That it shall and may be lawful for the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, and they are hereby empowered, to take, accept, and receive the Exchequer Bills authorized to be made out in pursuance of this Act, and to advance or lend to His Majesty, at the receipt of the Exchequer at Westminster, upon the credit of the sum granted by this Act out of the Consolidated Fund, any sum or sums not exceeding in the whole the sum of 7,000,000l.; anything in an Act, 5 & 6 W. & M. c. 20, or any other Act or Acts, to the contrary notwithstanding.

CAP. XIII.

AN ACT to repeal so much of an Act of the last Session of Parliament, for the Prevention of Smuggling, as authorizes Magistrates to sentence Persons convicted of certain Offences to serve His Majesty in His Naval Service, and to alter and amend the said Act.

(22nd May 1834.)

ABSTRACT OF THE ENACTMENTS.

1. Power of ordering certain offenders to be sent into the naval service for five years, and of imposing certain penalties, repealed. 2. Persons found on board vessels within prohibited distances, and having prohibited lading;-or assembled to the number of three or more to run spirits, tea, tobacco, or silk; -or procuring others to assemble to run goods; or obstructing officers in the execution of their duty; -to be sent to house of correction to hard labour, for not less than six months for the first offence, nine for second, and twelve for third.

3. Justices of limited jurisdictions not having houses of correction, to commit to some neighbouring house of correction.

4. Justices may order imprisonment in lieu of penalty; for first offence for six or nine months, and for a second offence six or

twelve months, with hard labour.

5. Justices may commute the sentence of hard labour for imprisonment where the offender is a female or is incapable of hard labour from age or sickness.

6. Where a person is liable to be committed to hard labour, and it appears that he has before been convicted of a similar offence, the Justices may extend the period of imprisonment.

7. As to the amended warrant.

8. Limitation of power to mitigate penalties.

9. The Treasury or Commissioners of Customs may release persons committed under this Act.

10. As to the form of informations and convictions.

11. None of His Majesty's subjects to hoist in their vessels the Union Jack or any pendants, &c. usually worn in His Majesty's ships

and prohibited to be worn by proclamation of 1st January 1801, under a penalty of 500l.

12. Act may be altered.

By this Act,

After noticing an Act, 3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 53, intituled, 'An Act for the Prevention of Smuggling:' and that it is expedient to repeal so much of the said Act as authorizes and requires Justices of the Peace to order persons convicted of certain offences therein mentioned to be carried and conveyed on board any of His Majesty's ships, in order to serve His Majesty in his naval service for the term of five years; and to substitute other provisions in lieu thereof: And that it is also expedient to amend certain other parts of the said Act:

It is Enacted,

1. That from and after the passing of this Act so much of the said Act as authorizes and requires Justices of the Peace to order persons convicted of certain offences therein mentioned to be carried or conveyed on board any of His Majesty's ships, in order to serve His Majesty in his naval service for the term of five years, and so much of the said Act as imposes certain pecuniary penalties for any of the offences hereinafter next mentioned, shall be and the same is hereby repealed.

II. That every person, being a subject of His Majesty, who shall be found or discovered to have been on board any vessel or boat liable to forfeiture under the said or any other Act relating to the Customs for being found or discovered to have been within any of the distances in the said Act mentioned from the United Kingdom or from the Isle of Man, having on board or in any manner attached thereto, or having had on board or in any manner attached thereto, or conveying or having conveyed in any manner, such goods or things as subject such vessel or boat to forfeiture, or who shall be found or discovered to have been within any such distances as aforesaid on board any vessel or boat from which any part of the cargo or lading of such vessel or boat shall have been thrown overboard, or staved or destroyed, to prevent seizure; and every person, not being a subject of His Majesty, who shall be found or discovered to have been on board any vessel or boat liable to forfeiture for any of the causes aforesaid, within one league of the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man; and that all persons who are assembled to the number of three or more for the purpose of unshipping, carrying, conveying, or concealing any spirits or tobacco, or any tea or silk, (such tea or silk being of the value of 201. or more,) liable to forfeiture under any Act relating to the Customs or Excise; and that every person who shall by any means procure or hire, or shall depute or authorize any other to procure or hire, any person or persons to assemble for the purpose of being concerned in the landing or unshipping or carrying or conveying any goods which are prohibited to be imported, or the duties for which have not been paid or secured; and that every person who shall obstruct any officer or officers of the Army, Navy, or Marines, being duly employed for the prevention of smuggling, and on full pay, or any officer or officers of Customs or Excise, or any person acting in his or their aid or assistance, or duly employed for the prevention of smuggling, in the execution of his or their duty, or in the due seizing of any goods liable to forfeiture by the said Act or any other Act relating to the Customs, or who shall rescue or cause to be rescued any goods which have been duly seized, or who shall attempt or endeavour to do so, or shall before or at or after any seizure stave, break, or otherwise destroy any goods to prevent the seizure thereof or the securing the same ; shall, upon being duly convicted of any of the said offences before any two Justices of the Peace, be adjudged by such Justices for the first offence to be imprisoned in any house of correction, and there kept to hard labour for any term not less than six nor greater than nine calendar months; and for the second offence, for any term not less than nine nor greater than twelve calendar months; and for the third offence, or any subsequent offence, for twelve calendar months.

III. That where any person shall have been convicted of any offence against this or any other Act relating to the Customs, for which offence such person shall be liable to be committed to hard labour, and such conviction shall take place before any Justices of the Peace for any city, borough, liberty, division, franchise, or town corporate not having any house of correction situate within the same, it shall be lawful for such Justices and they are hereby required, by warrant under their hands and seals, to commit such offender to any house of correction near to the place where such offender is convicted, there to be kept to hard labour for such time as is hereinbefore provided for a first, second, and third offence respectively; and the governor or keeper of such house of correction is hereby required to receive such offenders, and to obey the said warrant in all respects.

IV. That where any person shall have been convicted before any two Justices of the Peace of any offence not being one of those hereinbefore mentioned, and for which any penalty shall have been inflicted by the said Act or any other Act relating to the Customs, it shall and may be lawful for the said Justices, if they shall think fit, to order and adjudge that such person shall, in default of paying the said penalty, be imprisoned for the first of such offences in any of His Majesty's gaols within their jurisdiction for a period of not less than six or more than nine calendar months, and if such party shall have been before convicted of any offence against this or any other Act relating to the Customs, to be imprisoned in any house of correction, and there kept to hard labour, for any period not less than six or more than twelve calendar months.

v. That where any person shall have been convicted of any offence against the said Act or any Act relating to the Customs, for which such person would be liable to be committed to hard labour, it shall and may be lawful for the Justices before whom such person is so convicted, provided such person is a female, or provided it appears to such Justices that such person is from age or sickness incapable of hard labour, to order and adjudge that such person shall, in lieu of being committed to hard labour, be imprisoned in any of His Majesty's gaols within their jurisdiction for the length of time to which such person would have been liable to be kept to hard labour: Provided always, that in all such cases the cause of mitigation shall be stated in the warrant of commitment.

VI. That where any person shall have been convicted before any two Justices of the Peace of any offence against this or any other Act relating to the Customs, for which such person is liable to be committed to hard labour, and it shall, at any time during such imprisonment, be made appear to the said or any other two Justices in the presence of such person that such person had been before convicted of any such offence, it shall be lawful for such Justices and they are hereby required to commit such offender to some house of correction, to be kept to hard labour, for any period not less than nine and not greater than twelve calendar months in the whole from the date of the first commitment, and to amend the warrant of commitment accordingly.

VII. That it shall not be necessary in such amended warrant of commitment to state or refer to the former conviction. And after noticing that by the said Act power is given to Justices of the Peace to mitigate penalties in certain cases :It is further Enacted,

VIII. That such power shall be exercised by such Justice only where the offender is convicted of a first offence against the said Act or any other Act relating to the Customs, and not where such offender is convicted of a second or other subsequent offence of that description.

IX. That it shall and may be lawful for the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, or any three or more of them, for the time being, or for the Commissioners of His Majesty Customs, by any order made for that purpose under their hands, to release from confinement any person or persons committed under this Act, on such terms and conditions as to them respectively shall appear to be proper.

x. That all informations before Justices of the Peace for any offences committed against this Act, and all convictions for such offences, and warrants of Justices of the Peace founded upon such convictions, shall be drawn respectively in the form or to the effect in the Schedule to this Act annexed.

And after noticing that His late Majesty King George the Third, by His Royal Proclamation bearing date the 1st of January 1801, was pleased, with the advice of his Privy Council, to order and appoint what ensign or colours should be borne at sea by merchant ships or vessels belonging to any of His Majesty's subjects of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the dominions thereunto belonging, thereby charging and commanding all His Majesty's subjects whatsoever that they should not presume to wear in any of their ships or vessels His Majesty's Jack, commonly called the Union Jack, nor any pendants, nor any such colours as are usually worn by His Majesty's ships, without particular warrant for their so doing from His Majesty, or his High Admiral of Great Britain, or the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral, for the time being; and also commanding His Majesty's subjects that without such warrant as aforesaid they should not presume to wear on board their ships or vessels any flags, jacks, pendants, or colours made in imitation of or resembling those of His Majesty, or any kind of pendant whatsoever, or any other ensign than the ensign described in the margin of the said proclamation: And after noticing that by an Act, 3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 53, intituled, 'An Act for the Prevention of Smuggling,' a penalty of 50l. is imposed on every person who shall wear, carry, or hoist in or on board any vessel or boat whatever belonging to any of His Majesty's subjects, without particular warrant for that purpose, His Majesty's Jack, or any pendant, ensign, or colours as therein mentioned: And that it is expedient that all doubts that may have been entertained as to the law on this subject should be removed, and that further provision should be made for carrying the said proclamation into effect:

It is therefore Enacted and Declared,

XI. That from and after the passing of this Act it shall not be lawful for any of His Majesty's subjects whomsoever to hoist, carry, or wear in or on board any ship, vessel, or fishing boat, or any other vessel or boat whatever, whether merchant or otherwise, belonging to any of His Majesty's subjects, His Majesty's Jack commonly called the Union Jack, or any pendant,