A. D. 173 1. Anno quarto Georgii II. C. 31, 32. 71 ever directly or indirecTtly, by Writing or otherwife, to give any Orders or Directions to any Mafter or Perfon having the Command or Rule of any Ship or Veffel imployed in the Coal Trade, or to any Auent or Servant imployed in the felling of Coals, which (hall any Ways relate to the keeping o£ Turn in felling or delivering of Coals in the River of Thames, and that no Mafter or Mafters, or other Perfon having the Command or Rule of any Ship or Veflel as aforefaid, (hall obey any fuch Orders or keep Turn as aforefaid ; upon Pain that every Perfon giving fuch Directions, and the Perfon or Perfons- obfervlrig and following the fame, or any otherwife directly or indirectly acting contrary to the true In- tuit and Meaning of this Act, (hall refpeclively forfeit and pay the Sum of one hundred Pounds for every fuch Offence, one Moiety thereof to his Majefty, his Heirs and Succeffors, and the other Moiay ta him or them who lhall Cue for the fame, within the Space of fix Months next after fuch Offence or Offences lhall be committed, to be recovered with treble Cofts of Suit, by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information, in any of his Majefty's Courts of Record, wherein no Effoin, Protection, VVager of Law, nor more than one Imparlance (hall be allowed. ' II. And whereas in order to oblige Ships imployed in the Coal Trade to keep Turn,, a Method has
- been or may be practifed, for the Mailers of fuch Ships to deliver their Coequets into the Hands of
' particular Agents imployed by the Owners of fuch Ships, by which Means fuch Mafters have been or ' may be difabled from delivering their Coals, until permitted by fuch Agents,' Be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That the Mafter of every Ship or Veffel loaded with Coals, or other Perfon Coequets to in having the Care or Charge thereof, (hall deliver or caufe to be delivered, to the proper Officer of the delivered within Cuftoms at the Port of London, the Coequets containing the Lading of fuch Ship or Veffel, within the Arrival©! th" Space of four Days after the Arrival of fuch Ship or Veffel as high as Gravefend, in the faid River of ship. Thames, on Pain of forfeiting the Sum of fifty Pounds, on their Neglect or Refufal. fo to do, to be fued p cna i ty -o!, for, recovered and difpofed of in the Manner before directed. III. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That this Act (hall be deemed, adjudged PublickAfl.- and taken to be a publick Act, and be judicially taken Notice of as fuch by all Judges, Juftices, and Concerning Coah other Perfons whatfoever, without fpecially pleading the fame. fa farther, 10 (ivbicb it made perpetual by 31 Gii.2. c. 42. J II Geo. 2. c. 15. 13 Geo. 2. c. 21. 14 Geo. 2. c, 41. 17GV0.2. f. 35. 19 Geo. Z. c. 35. iz Geo. 2. c—ljji- 21 Gte. 2, c. 26,. 30 Geo. 2. c- J9.. 31 Cm, .2. c. 15, i2-Gco. 2. c . 27. 33 Geo. 2. c. 15. e a p. xxxi. An Act for making more effectual an A<Efc paffed in the thirteenth Year of the Reign. of his late Ma- jefty King George the Firft r for repairing, widening and amending the Roads from IVigan tO' Pre/Ion in the County of Lancajlcr. PR.. Act 13 Geo. 1. c. 9- continued from the firft Day oijiine 1731,. for zi Years. Farther continued by ; %l Geo. 2.. c. 7.. cap: xxxiii. An Acl for the more effectual punifriing Stealers of Lead or Iron Bars fixed to' Houfes, or- any Fences belonging thereunto.
- TT7HEREAS the pernicious Practice of dealing Lead, Iron Bars, Iron Gates, Iron Palifadoes-
- W and Iron. Rails fixed to Dwelling-houfes, Out -houfes,. Coach-houfes, Stables, and other Build-
ings, and fixed in Gardens,. Orchards, Court-yards, Fences and Outlets belonging to Dwelling-houfes ' and other Buildings, hath of late Time been much ufed to the. great Detriment of his Majefty's Sub- jects ; and it is neceffary for the more effectual preventing of iuch Offences, to inflict a more exem- r ' plary Punifhment on fuch Offenders,, than by the Laws of this Realm can now be done ; ' Be it there- fore enacted by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of- the Lords - Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That from and after the twenty-fourth. Day of June one thoufand kven hundred and thirty- Stg ,- . r , 7 one, all and every Perfon and Perfons, who (hall ileal,, rip, cut or break, with Intent to fteal, any Lead, iron Bars, &c.* Iron Bar, Iron Gate, Iron Palifadoe or Iron Rail whatfoever, being fixed to any Dwelling-houfe, Out- fixed to Houfes, iioufe, Coach-houfe, Stable or other Building, ufed or occupied with fuch Dwelling-houfe, or there- !f> ar ' y i* cnC |fVe- unto belonging, or to any other Building, whatfoever, or fixed in any Garden, Orchard, Court-yard, to,°lhtli be guU-- Fence or Outlet, belonging, to any Dwelling-houfe or other Building, (hall be deemed andconftrued ty.of Felar.y,. to be guilty, of Felony ; and every fuch Felon and Felons lhall b* fubject and liable to the like Pains and Penalties as ire Cafes of Felony ;. and the Court, by and before whom fuch Perfon or Perfons lhall be tried, (hall, and hereby have Power and Authority to tranfport fuch Felons for the Space and lie trs«>r- of feven Years ? in like Manner as other Felons are directed to be tranfported by the Laws and ported for feyew Statutes of this Realm ; and all and every Perfon and Perfons who lhall be aiding, abetting or * cacSi artifting in dealing, or in fuch ripping,, cutting or breaking any Lead,. Iron Bar, Iron Gate, Iron Palifadoe or Iron Rail, fixed to any Dwelling-houfe,. Out-houfe, Coach-houfe, Stable or other Building, or fixed in "any Garden, Orchard, Court-yard, Fence or Outlet, belonging to any Dwelling-houfe or other Building, or who lhall buy or receive any fuch Lead, Iron Bar, Iron Gate, Iron Palifadoe or Iron Rail, knowing the fame to be ftolen, (hall be fubject and liable to the fame Punilhments, as if he s . file or they, had ftolen the fame ; any Law to the. contrary in any wife, not withftanding. e a p^
