A.D. 1757. Anno triccfimo primo Geohgi i IL C. ir. i8i li'no- fnr ilTiiin'^ Commlffions to fwear fuch Widows, Children, Fathers, Mothers, Brothers or Sifters, being nor more i..«ii I..V, >, o- - than three ShTl'iings, uniefsThe Goods and Chatties are of the Value of fixty Pounds ; under the Penalty of fifty Pounds, to be paid by the Offender to the Party aggrieved. 23. Whoever willingly and knowingly Ihall perfonate, or falfely affume, the Name or Charadler of, or procure any other to perfonate or falfely to aflume, the Name or Charadler of any Officer, Seaman or othe»- Perfon, intitled to Wages, Pay, Allowances or Prize Money, for Service done on Board of any Ship of the Royal Navy, or the Executor, Adminiftrator, Wife, Relation or Creditor of any fuch Officer, Sea- man or other Perfon, in order to receive any Wages, Pay, Allowances or Prize Money, or fhall forge or counterfeit, or procure to be forged or counterfeited, any Letter of Attorney, or other Power or Authority whatfoever, in order to receive any Wages, Pay, Allowances or Prize Money, or fhall willingly and know- ingly take a falfe Oath, or procure a falfe Oath to be taken, to obtain the Probate of a Will, or Letters of Adminiflration, in order to receive any Wages, Pay, Allowances or Prize Money, {hall be guilty of Fe- lony, and fufTer Death. _ ^ ^ 24. When the Pay Books are clofed. Tickets fhall be made out at the Navy OiHce to the Seamen who fliall not have received their Wages, and fuch Tickets {ball be paid in Courfe once a Month. 25. Britijh Governors, Minifters and Confuls, refiding at Foreign Parts, or where no fuch are prefent, anv two Britijh Merchants, are required to provide for Seafaring Men and Boys, Subjeds of Great Britain, who, by Shipwreck, Capture or other unavoidable Accident, {hall be in Foreign Parts, or who {hall be dif- charged there as unferviceable from the Royal Navy, and fubftft them at fix Pence per Diem each ; and fejid them home as foon as conveniently may be, in any Ship belonging to the Royal Navy, or in any Merchant 26. Maflers of Ships fhall be allowed fix Pence per Diem for all fuch Men and Boys as fhall exceed their Complement. 27. Seamen fhall not be taken out of the Service for any Debt under twenty Pounds : 28. But Creditors may file a Common Appearance, fo as to inritle them to proceed to Judgment and Out- lawry, and to have an Execution thereupon, except againfl the Bodies of fuch Seamen. 29. Receivers of Seamens Wages taking more than fix Pence in the Pound, fhall, for every Offence, forfeit fifty Pounds ; and if any fuch Offender be a Clerk, Officer or Servant, in an Office belonging to the Navy, he fhall alfo lofe his Place, and be incapable of holding any Place of Profit in any fuch Office. 30. Clerks, Officers and Servants, in Offices belonging to the Navy, taking Fees (not allowed by the Ad) for doing any thing direfted by the A6t, fhall be fubjeft to the fame Forfeitures. 3r. Part of feveral Afts made in the ninth and tenth Years of King William the Third, and in the fourth Year of Queen Anne, and in the firfl Year of King George the Second, and alfo another AQ: made in the faid firfl Year of King George the Second, relating to Seamen, are repealed. 32. This Abftrad, together with the Articles of War, fhall be printed, and kept hung up in the mofl publick Place of every Ship of the Royal Navy, that it may be acceflible to all inferior Officers and Sea- men ; and every Captain and Commander, fhall caufe the fame to be read over once in every Month after the Articles of War are read ; and the Reading the fame {hall be attefled by the Captain or Commander, and figning Officers, at the Foot of the Muflier Books : To the End that every Seaman in the Royal Navy may know the Punifhments he is liable to for any Negleil or Difobedience, and the Encouragements he is intitled to by the Performance of his Duty ; and that upon fufFering any Injury, he may be enabled to lay his Complaint before the Lord High Admiral, or the Commiffioners of the Admiralty, who are by the Ait Ses farther directed to enquire into the fame, and to grant Redrefs, if fuch Complaint be juflly founded j aiid to take 32 G^o, 2.f. 25* cfpecial Care that this hOi be punctually carried into Execution. SjC-w. 2, .-. 19,^ a Geo. 3. f, lb, CAP. XL An A61 to amend an A6t made in the third Year of the Reign of King William and Qiieen y,,. f^^„^^ Mary, intituled, An AB for the belter Explanation.^ and fwpplying the DefeEls of the Jormer i'ro-^lfiom con- Laws for the Settlement of the Poor., fo far as the fame relates to Apprentices gaining a Set- Zfe'rfo^i^TEi. clement by Indenture-, and alfo to impower Juftices of the Peace to determine Differences -^^ ^' z^ar.i^ between ^ Mailers and Miftrefles and their Servants in Hufbandry, touching their Wages, cl/,' 2. '.t^/* though fuch Servants are hired for lefs Time than a Year. 8 &f 9 *r. 3. c, 30. 9 &' 10 W, 3. c. H. i» Ann. fiat. I. c. 18. 5 Geo. i, c, 8. 9 Geo, i, c. 7. f'Dea. 2. c. 28. 3 Geo. 2. c. 29. 17 Get, a. c. 3, 37 ©" ^J,
- TT 7 HERE AS by an A61: made in the third Year of the Reign of King William and Queen Ma- Preamble,
- VV RY, intituled. An ASl for the better Explanation., and Jupplying theDefeBsoftheforrnerLavus for
' the Settlement of the Poor., it is enacted. That if any Perfon fhall be bound an Apprentice by Indenture
- and inhabit in any Town or Parifh, fuch Binding and Inhabitation fhall be adjudged a good Settlement:
- And whereas Hnce the making the faid Ait, great Numbers of Perfons have been unwarily bound Ap-
- prentices by certain Deeds, Writings or Contracts, not indented, by which binding many of them have
- fuffered great Lofs and Dair.age, on Account of their having been refufed a Settlement in fuch Town or
- Parifh, where they have been fo bound and refided forty Day:-, and have been removed to the Parifh or Place
- where their laft legal Settlement was before fuch Apprenticefhip, where they have had no Encouragement
- to exercife their Trades, or Opportunity to gain a Livelihood by their faid Trades to which they were fo
- bound Apprentices :' For Relief therefore of fuch Apprentices, and for preventing the like Mifchief for
the
