Page:Ruffhead - The Statutes at Large - vol 6.djvu/730

This page needs to be proofread.

664 C. 12 — 14. Anno decimo nono Georgii II. A. D. 1746. Officers of the fore enafted by the Authority aforefaid, That it fliall and may be lawful to and for the Officers of the Exchequer to f a jj Receipt of his Majefty's Exchequer, to make out Orders in the Names of the refpeftive Proprietor or ■ondSeSal?DnT P ro P r ' etors 5 wno fliall & T & bring their refpeftive Receipt or Receipts to be exchanged for Orders, to be intheProprietors payable firft in Courfe, within their refpeftive Claffis, in which fuch Receipt or Receipts is or are con- Names, who fliall tained ; and the Orders to be made out for the Receipts contained in the Claffis firft in Courfe of Pay- firft bring their ment, mall be numbered in an arithmetical Progreffion, beginning with N" I, and fo on, afcending untrl Heceipw. a ]] the Orders are made out for the Receipts contained in the faid Claffis ; and the like Method fliall be obferved in making out and numbering the Orders for Receipts in each particular Claffis, which fhall alfo begin with N° I, refpeftively, and fo to be numbered in an arithmetical Progreffion ; and the faid Orders fo to be made out and numbered as aforefaid, fhall be regiftered and payable in Courfe. F.-ovifo, LXXX1V. Provided always, That the Officers of the faid Receipt of Exchequer fhall not incur any Penalty or Difability for or on account of their making out, numbering, regiftering or paying the faid Orders in the Courfe and Manner herein before directed; any thing in the before recited Ad: to the con- trary thereof in any wife notwithftanding. CAP. XIII. An A<5t to enlarge the Time for Juftices of the Peace to take and fubferibe the Oath' directed by an Act made in the laft Seffion of Parliament, intituled, An AR to amend and render more effeSlual an A£t faffed in the fifth Tear of his prefent Majejly's Reign, intituled, An Act for the further Qualification of Juftices of the Peace. 5 Geo. 2. c. 18. ' IT 7 H E R E A S by an Aft parTed in the laft Seffion of Parliament, intituled, An Ail to amend and ' VV render more effectual an Ail pafijed in the fifth Tear of his prefent Majefty s Reign, intituled, An Aft iSO». 2. c. 20. ' for the further Qualification of Juftices of the Peace; it is, amongft other Things, enacted, That no ' Perfon (except fuch as are therein excepted) fhall, from and after the twenty-fifth Day of March one ' thoufand feven hundred and forty-fix, be capable of being a juftice of the Peace, or of afting as fuch, ' for any County, Riding or Divifion, within that Part of Great Britain called England, or the Princi- ' pality of Wales, who fhall not, before the faid twenty-fifth Day of March, or before he takes upon ' himfelf to aft as a Juftice of the Peace, after the faid twenty-fifth Day of March, at fome General or £ Quarter Seffions for the County, Riding or Divifion, for which he does or fhall intend to aft, firft take ' and fubferibe the Oath in the faid Aft fet forth, under the Forfeiture in the faid Aft mentioned : And ' whereas feveral Juftices of the Peace may, by reafon of various Accidents, negleft or ornit to take and ' fubferibe the faid Oath before the twenty-fifth Day of March one thoufand feven hundred and forty- 6 fix:' Now to prevent any Inconveniences that may happen by reafon of fuch Negleft or Omiffion, Be it enafted by the King's moft excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spi- Juftices allowed ritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the to 20 Nov. 1746, fame, That every Juftice of the Peace who has not taken and fubferibed, or fhall not take and fubferibe to qualify them- the faid Oath, before the twenty-fifth Day of March one thoufand feven hundred and forty-fix, accord- ing to the Direftion of the faid Aft, may neverthelefs continue to aft as a Juftice.of the Peace, until the Sk further 24 twentieth Day of November one thoufand feven hundred and forty-fix, without being liable to, or incur- Geo. 2. c. 44 & r i n g an y Penalties or Incapacities, for not taking or fubfciibing the faid Oath within the Time by the ss . ?6G«.2. faid Aa pj-efcribed. c 14 csr 27. r 27 Gee. 2. c. 16 C?20. 1 Geo. 3. CAP. XIV. c. 13. An Act to continue the Duties for Encouragement of the Coinage of Money. AY it pleafe your moft Excellent Majefty ; Whereas great Benefit and Advantage did accrue to iSCar. 2. c. 5. ' 1V& England, by one Aft of Parliament paffed in the eighteenth Year of the Reign of his Majefty - King Charles the Second, intituled, An Alt for encouraging of Coinage ; and continued by another 25 Car. 2. c. 8. ' Aft made in the twenty- fifth Year of the Reign of his Majefty King Charles the Second, intituled, ' An Ac! for continuing a former Acl concerning Coinage; both which faid Afts were revived by an Aft made 1 Jac. 2. c. 7. ' in the 1 H irft Year of the Reign of his Majefty King James the Second ; and were continued by an Aft 4W. &m.c. 24. ' made in the fourth Year of the Reign of King William" and Queen Mary of glorious Memory ; and ,jW. 3 .-c. 11. ' were further continued by an Aft made in the twelfth Year of the Reign of the faid late King William-; 4. Am. ~c. 22. ' and were further continued by an Aft made in the feventh Year of the Reign of her late Majefty 7 Ann. c. 24. ' Queen Anne of blefl'ed Memory, and then extended to Scotland; and were further continued by an Aft 1 Gjzo. i.e. 43. ' made in the firft Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Firft of glorious Memory, ' to be in Force for feven Years from the firft Day of March one thoufand feven hundred and fifteen, ' and until the End of.the firft Seffion of Parliament then next following ; and were further continued by 9 Geo. 1. c. 59. « another Aft made in the ninth Year of his faid late Majefty's Reign, for feven Years from the firft ' Day of March one thoufand feven hundred and twenty-three, and until the End of the firft Seffion of 4 Geo. 2. c. i2.- e Parliament then next following ; and were further continued by another Aft made in the fourth Year ' of the Reign of his prefent Majefty, for feven Years, from the firft Day of March one thoufand feven ■' hundred and thirty, and until the End of the firft Seffion of Parliament then next following; and were • further