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4-2 3 .C?) JI Anno tricefima tertio Georgji H. A. D. i 759- s-eoteoce not t«bt re-- - fejrce.-j rtt-»:3 that no Sentence given by any Court-martial, and figned by the Pre fident thereof h, Mied more ihan once, ^^^{e j^ be revifed nioie thau once. , . , / t5.-rertcrs beyond Sea, &c. XI.^Aiid. be it further cuacled. That if any Officer or Private Man (hall defert his Majefty'- Hiay he tried here or ta ' Service in any of his Dominions beyond the Seas, or elfewhere beyond the Seas, and fhali efcapc ^^ * • an?r come into' this Reahn 'or/r^'/jW, before he be tried by a Court-martial for fuch Offei/ce, and ' ■ ihall be^apprehended for the fame ; fuch Officer or Private Mai) ihaU- be tuai. for the £ame,. as if th«  . faid Offence iiad been comtmtted within- this RtaJni. ■::"..■':,: ■^■■' •> Tliis Act not to exerapt XII. Provided always. That nothing in tins Ad contained {halt extend, or be conftrued to ex 3mar" ProcefI"'°"' °" ^^"'^'^ ^^ ^^^^^P^ ^"7 Marine, either Officer or Pnvate Man whatfoever, while ou Shore, from be- inary roes. ijig. proceeded againft. by jthc ordinary CourCe of Law. . . Pcrfons acquitted by the XIII. Provided alfo, and be it further enacted. That no Perfon or Perfons being acquitted or Civil Magiftratf, may convidcd of any Capital Crimes, Violences or Oriences by the Civil Magiltrate, fhall be liable to Court niaitirr^ ^^ * ^^ puniined by a Court-martial for the fame, othcrwife than by caflaiering. uTcr'Imer"/^"*^^^'* ^^^' ^^o^'*'^^^ ^^^°r ^"^ ^s it further enaded, That if any Marine Officer, Non-commiffion Iwcred'^^rert" theCiviV ^^r^^-^ oi" Private Man, ftiall be accufed of any, Capital Crime, or of any Violence or Offence Ma-iilraie, Sec. to the Civil Magiftrate ; and fnaU alfo be aiding and affifting to the Officers of Jullice in the feizing and apprehending fuch Offender, in order to bring him to Trial : And if any fuch Com- manding Officer fhall wilfully negled or refufe, upon Application made to him for that Purpofe , : to deliver over any fuch acciifed Perfon to the Civil MagiiVate, or to be aiding and affilfing to the Officers of Juftice in the apprehending fuch Offender ; every fuch Officer fo offending, and beijig thereof convidted before any two or more Juftices of the Peace for the County where the Fadt is committed, by the Oath of two credible Witneffes, fnall be deemed and taken to be ipjo facto ca- fticred, and fliall be utterly diiabled to have or hold any Civil or Military Office or imployment within this Kingdom, or in his Majefty's Service; provided the faid Convidion be affirmed at the - next Quarter-Seffions of the Peace for the faid County, and a Certificate thereof be tranlinitted to the Judge Advocate, who is hereby obliged to certify the fame to the next Court-martial- XV. And whereas his Majefty hath been gracioufly pleafed, in Compaffion to the diftreffed Condition of feveral Widows of Officers of the Army, who have loft their Lives in the Service of the late War, or during the late Rebellion, by Orders made under his Royal Sign Manual, to direct his Commiffary General of the Mufters, to allow upon the Mufter-rolls of all the Regiments, Troops and Companies, a Number of fiditious Names therein mentioned, inflcad of Private Men, in order to raife and fettle a Fund for the Maintenance of fuch Widows of Officers as are or fliall be intitled to his Royal Bounty : Therefore for the more effedtually fulfilling his Majefty's faid gra- cious intentions, with refpe£t to the allowing of li6titious Names upon the Mufter-rolls of the faid Marine Forces while on Shore, for the Purpofes aforefaid ; Be it further enaded and declared by Fictitious Names allow- the Authority aforefaid. That it fhall and may be lawful, during the Continuance of this Ad, to ed b> hi^s^Maj^e^fty's^Order ^^^j ^^^ ^.j^^ '^^jj j^^^.^ ^^^^ Admiral, or three or more of the faid Commiffioncrs for executing the ^o7"he"Mainte"ance oV ^^^ Office of Lord High Admiral for the Time being, by Orders in Writing under his or their re- OfHcers Widows, not to fpcdive Hand or Hands, to dired the Perfon for the Time being authoiifed to pay the faid Marine be conftrued a filfs Forccs, to pay Over the full Pay of fuch fiditious Private Men as fliall be allowed on the Muftcr- ^i"'*«=- rolls of the faid Marine Forces while on Shore as aforefaid, to the proper Receiver api^ointcd by l>'!^ffuch^ML to th- '^'^ ^Lajefty, according to fuch Orders and Inftrudions as his Majefty flialj be pleafed to make under R«ce°verr * '^" " ^'^ ^'to'"* Manual, for the Purpofe aforefaid; and that no Allowance of any fuch fictitious Name upon any Mufter-roll of the faid Marine Forccs while on Shore as aforefaid, fhall he conftrued to be a falfe Muffer ; any Thing in this or any former Ad contained to the contrary notwith- ftanding. XVL And whereas there is and may be Occafion for the marching and quartering of the faid Marine Forces in feveral Parts of this Kingdom ; Be it further enadled by the Authority aforcfaiJ, Conftables, &c. to quar- That for and during the Continuance of this Ad, and no longer (in puifuance of an Order or Or- Inn" Alehou"i &c'" ^^^'^ in Writing in that Behalf, under the Hand of the faid Lord High Admiral, or under the ' " *"' ^' Hands of three or more of the Commiffioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral for the Time being) it fhall and may be lawful to and for the Conftables, Tythingmen, Headboroughs, and other Chi-f Officers and Magiftrates of Cities, Towns and Villages, and other Places within England^ Wules^ and the Town o? Berwick upon Tzveed^ and in their Default or Abfencc, for any one Juftice of the Peace inhabiting in or near any fuch City, Town, Village or Place, and for no ethers ; and fuch Conftables, and other Civil Magiftrates as aforefaid, are hereby required to quarter and billet the Marines, both Officers and Private Men in his Majefty's Service, in Inns, Livery Stables, Alehoufes, Vidualling-houfes, and the Houfes of Sellers of Wine by Retail to be drank in their own Houfes or Places thereunto belonging, and all Houfes of Perfons felling Brandy, But in no Diftilleri Strong Waters, Cyder or Metheglin, by Retail, to be drank in Houfes, other than and except Houfes, or Shcpk'-epers, the Houfe or Houfcs of any Diflillers, who keep Houfes or Places of diffilling Brandy and Strong 01 in any private Houfes. Waters, and the Houfe of any Shopkeeper, whofe principal Dealings fliall be more in other Goods and Merchai di'.es, than in Brandy and Stron;;; Waters (fo as futh Diftillcrs and Shopkeepers do not permit rr fufFer Tippling in his or their Houfes j and in no oiher, and in no private Houfes z whatfoever.