A. D. i759> Anno tricefimo tertio Georgii II. C. 20. 457 umber one thoufand feven hundred and fixty, by any Agent or Agents for any Prize or Prizes taken or to be taken by any of his Majeity's Ships or V-flels of War, or by any Agent or Agents for the Receipt and Diftribution of any Bounty Bill or Bills, within fourteen Days after the fame fhall be fo exhibited or delivered to fuch Regifter or Regifters at his or their refpedtive Offices ; which Re- giftry (hall contain the Day of Delivery and Entry, the Dates of the Letters of Attorney, the Mames and Places of Abode of the Agents, the Names of the Prizes taken, or of the Ships of War or Privateers of the Enemy, taken, burnt, funk or otherwife deftroyed, together with the Names of the Ships or Veflels by which fuch Prizes {hall have been taken, or by which fuch Ships of War or Privatees of the Enemy {hall have been taken, burnt, funk or otherwife deftroyed j and the faid and Tranfcripes thereof P.egifter or Regiflers (hall, on the twenty -fixth Day of Afarc^, and the thirtieth Day of 5'^/>/fw^i.'r, to be tranfmjtted by or within forty Days thereafter, in every Year tranfmit or deliver unto the Treafurer of the faid ^^nj, half-yearly, to the Hofpital, or to the lawful Deputy of fuch Treafurer for the Time being, a true Copy or Tranfcript JjJ'^"^"*'^'*^e"°^- under his or their Hand or Hands of all fuch Entries as aforefaid, within the preceding half Year j*^ * and if fuch Regifter or Regifters fhall nvgle£l or refuCe to make and keep fuch Entries, or to tranf- mit or deliver fuch Copies thereof as aforefaid, within the refpedlive Times herein before limited for that Purpofe, he or they (hall, for every fuch Offence, forfeit the Sum of one hundred Pounds, to °" ^^"alty «f forfeiting be recovered by Adion of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information, in any of his Majefty's Courts of Re- '°° * cord, in which no Eflbin, Protection, Privilege, Wager of Law, or more than one Imparlance {hall he allowed. , r •» • r .. ^ VIE And be it further enafled by the Authority aforefaid. That all Penalties and Forfeitures °[J^^'^°'^y^*><^^" ^°p given and granted by this Ad, {hall be applied, one Moiety to the Informer or Informers, and the forme" anlthe°othCT ^ other Moiety to the Ufe of the faid Royal Hofpital. to the uie of the Hof- pital. VIII. And be it further enaded by the Authority aforefaid. That all Penalties and Forfei- Thofe given to the Ufe tures, and Parts of Penalties and Forfeitures given or to be given to the Ufe of the faTd Royal of the Hofpital, may be Hofpital by this prefent Ad, or any other Ad: or Ads of Parliament, fhall and may be fued for [SfM^fte^/co^e^^'J^or"© and recovered in the Name of the Mafter or Governor, or of the Lieutenant or Deputy Go- Deputy Governor!""'^ "' vernor for the Time being of the faid Hofpital. See farther zCm. j.r. 16. CAP. XX. An Ad to enforce and render more eflfedual the Laws relating to the Qualification of Members to fit in the Houfe of Commons. « "1X7 H E R E A S by an Ad pafled in the ninth Year of the Reign of her late Majefty Queen Preamble, reciting ' VV Anne, intituled. An A£i for fe curing the Freedom of Parliaments, by the farther qualifying ChuCes in A( ^ Anns,
- the Members to fit in the Houfe of Commons, it was enaded. That no Perfons {hould be capable to ^' 5-
- fit or vote, as a Member of the Houfe of Commons for any County, City, Borough or Cinque ^ ^^' *• '"• 24»
- Port, within that Part of Great Britain C2cA England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town ^^ ^-X clo I', ll*
j ' Berwick upon Tweed, who fhould not have an Eftate, Feehold or Copyhold for his own Life, or ,g Geo. z. c. zZ.
- for fome greater Eftate, either in Law or Equity, to and for his own Ufe and Benefit, of or in iiGea. z, c, 14.
' Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, over and above what would fatisfy and clear all Incum-
- brances that might affcd the fame, lyin^^ or being within that Part o^ Great Britain called England,
- the Dominion of PFales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed, of the refpedive annual Value therein
- limited ; videlicet. The annual Value of fix hundred Pounds above Reprizes, for every Knight
- of a Shire; and the annual Value of three hundred Pounds above Reprizes, for every Citizen, Bur-
- gefs or Baron of the Cinque Ports:' Now, in order to enforce and render the faid Ad more effec-
tual. Be it enaded by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this preftnt Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame. That from and after the Determination of this prefent Parliament, every All Members In future Perfon, except as is herein after excepted, who fhall be eleded a Member of the Houfe of Com- Py"""^"" "°' p"^'- mons, fhall, before he prefumes to vote in the Houfe of Commons, or fit there during any D^hate jj^g^Ya^gr7tod ^"^^"r* in the faid Houfe of Commons, after their Speaker is chofen, produce and deliver in to the Clerk in n the Tab°e while of the faid Houfe, at the Table in the Middle of the faid Houfe, and whilft the Houfe of Com- the Houfe is fitt'ing, a mons is there duly fitting, with their Speaker in the Chair of the faid Houfe, a Paper or Account ^'g"ed Schedule of their figned by every fuch Member, containing the Name or Names of the Parifh, Townftiip or Pre- ^^'peftive Qualifications, cind, or of the feveral Parifhes, Townlhips or Precin£is, and alfo of the County, or of the feve- ral Counties, in which the Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments do lie, whereby he makes out his Qualification, declaring the fame to be of the annual Value of fix hundred Pounds above Reprizes, if a Knight of a Shire; and of the annual Value of three hundred Pounds above Reprizes, if a Citi- zen, Burgefs or Baron of the Cinque Ports j and fhall alfo, at the fame Time, take and fubfcibe the and take and fubfcribs following Oath ; videlicet^ the following Oath,
- T //. 5. do fwear. That I truly and bona fide have fuch an Eftate in Law or Equity, and of fuch
- 1 Value, to and for rny own Ufe and Benefit, of or in La^^ds, Tenements or Flereditaments,
I * over and above what will fatisfy and clear all Incumbrances that may aft'ed the fame, as doth qua- iP* lify me to be eleded and returned to ferve as a Member for the Place I am returned for, according Vol. Vm. Nnn * to
