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580 C. 40. Anno decimo feptimo G e o r g i i II. A. D. 1744." ney to be for fuch Ufe or Service, fuch Perfon fo offending, being lawfully convicted, fhall be taken, deemed and adjudged to be guilty of High Treafon, and fhall fuffer and forfeit as in Cafes of High Treafon. Any of thePre- II. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That if the eldeft or any other Son or Sons of tender' s^Sons i at- t ] le f a jj p rc tender, fhall after the faid firft Day of. May land or attempt to land, or fhall be found in in'^c'rciu Britain Great Britain or Ireland, or any of the Dominions or Territories belonging to the Crown of Great Britain!, or Ireland, to be or fhall be found on board any Ship, VefTel or Boat, being fo on board with Intent to land in Great Bri- attainted. tain or Ireland, or any of the Dominions or Territories aforefaid, he and they refpectively, fhall by vir- tue of this Act ftand and be adjudged attainted of High Treafon, to all Intents and Purpofes whatfo- ' ever, and fhall fuffer and forfeit as Perfons attainted of High Treafon by the Laws of the Land ought to fuffer and forfeit. ' III. And whereas in andby the faid recited Act of the feventh Year of the Reign of her faid late Ma- ' jefty Queen Anne, it is provided and enacted, That after the Deceafe of the Perfon who pretended to

  • be Prince of Wales, during the Life of the late King James, and fince pretends to be King of Great

' Britain, and at the End of the Term of three Years after the immediate Succeffion to the Crown, upon

  • the Demife of her faid late Majefty fhould take Effect, no Attainder for Treafon fhould extend to the

' difheriting of any Heir, nor to the Prejudice of the Right or Title of any Perfon or Perfons, other than c the Right or Title of the Offender or Offenders, during his, her or their natural Lives only ; and that

  • it fhould and might be lawful to every Perfon or Perfons, to whom the Right or Intereft of any Lands,

' Tenements or Hereditaments, after the Death of any fuch Offender or Offenders, fhould or might have ' appertained, if no fuch Attainder had been, to enter into the fame ;' Be it further enacted by the Au- 7 Anna?, c. 21. ' thority aforefaid, That the faid Provifion fo made by the faid laft recited Claufe, fhall not take Place, ■§. 10. pofcponeiJ. nor have any Operation, Force or Effect whatfoever, until after the Deceafes, not only of the faid Pre- tender, but alfo of his eldeft, and all and every other Son and Sons. Oflences com- jy_ ^nd b e j t f llr ther enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That where any of the Offences againft this Land may be Act ^ au ^ e committed out of this Realm, the fame, may be alledged and laid, enquired of and tried in tried 'in any any County in that Part of Great Britain called England, or in any Shire or Stewartry in that Part of Gnat Part of Great Britain called Scotland. Britain. CtHCir/iing Treafon fee farther 20 Ceo. 2. c. 30 & 461 CAP. XL. An Act to continue the feveral Laws therein mentioned for preventing Theft and Rapine ori the Northern Borders of England; for the more effectual punifhing wicked and evil difpo- fed Perfons going armed in Difguife, and doing Injuries and Violences to the Perfons and Properties of his Majetty's Subjects, and for the more fpeedy bringing the Offenders to Ju- ftice ; for continuing two Claufes to prevent the cutting or breaking down the Bank of any River, or Sea Bank, and to prevent the malicious cutting of Hop-binds ; and for the more effectual Punifhment of Perfons malicioufly fetting on Fire any Mine, Pit or Delph of Coal, orCannel Coal; and of Perfons unlawfully hunting or taking any Red or Fallow Deer in Forefts or Chaces, or beating or wounding the Keepers or other Officers in Forefts, Chaces or Parks; and for granting a Liberty to carry Sugars of the Growth, Produce or Manu-i' facture of any of his Majefty's Sugar Colonies in America, from the faid Colonies directly to i foreign Parts in Ships built in Great Britain, and navigated according to Law; and to ex- plain two Acts relating to the Profecution of Offenders for embeziling Naval Stores, or i Stores of War ; and to prevent the retailing of Wine within either of the Univerfities in j that Part of Great Britain called England without Licence. W H E R E A S the Laws herein after mentioned, which have by Experience been found ufeful and beneficial, are near expiring;' May it therefore pleafe your Majefty that it may be enacted; r>nd be it enacted by the King's moil Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confentof the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of ■S3 & 14 Car. a. the fame, That an Act made in the thirteenth and fourteenth Years of the Reign of King Charles the

  • . 22. Second, intituled, An Aft for preventing of Theft and Rapine upon the Northern Borders of 'England, which

by feveral Acts hath from Time to Time been continued ; and which by an Act made in the fixth Year » Geo. 2. ?, 57. of the Reign of his prefent Majefty, intituled, An Act for making perpetual the feveral Ails therein mentioned, for the better Regulation of Juries, and for impowering the Jvflices of Sejjlon or AJfizes for the Counties Palatine ^/"Chefter, Lancafter and Durham, to appoint a fpecial Jury, in Manner therein mentioned ; and for continuing the ASffor regulating the Manufacture of Cloth in the Wejl Riding of the County of "York {except a Claufe therein % contained) and for continuing an Ail for the more effectual punifhing ivicked and evil difpofed Perfons going armed I in Difguife, and for other Purpofes therein mentioned; and to prevent the cutting or breaking down the Bank of any River, or any Sea Bank; and to prevent the malicious cutting of Hop-binds ; and for continuing an Ail made in the thirteenth and fourteenth Years of the Reign of King Charles the Second, for preventing Theft and Ra- pine upon the Northern Borders of England ; and for reviving and continuing certain Claufes in two other Ails Continued to 24 made for the fame Putpofe; was further continued until the firft Day of September one tnoufand feven hun- | June 175,1, &c 3 . dred