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A. D. 1 754-. Anno vicefimo feptinio Georgii II. C. 4 — 6. 545 the PariPa whsre fiich Offender was taken to pay fuch Charges, is a great Difcouragcmcnt to Pariflics to ' t/ke Offenders ; and it is alio found b) Experience to be very difficult to make a Rate on the Inhabitants ' to raiCe fuch Tax, whereby Conllables and others are often kept out of their Money by them advanced '. for the Service of the Publick, and fometiines Jofe the fame, to their very great Injury and Vexation;' For Remedy whereof. Be it enniied 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 aflembled, and offenders n..t by the Authority of the fame. That from and after the twenty-fourth Day of June one thoufand feven having fmlident hundred and fifty-four, v/hen any Perfon, not having Goods or Money within the County where he is todefr.iy tlie Kx- takcn, fufficient to bear the Charges of himfelf, and of thofe who convey him, is committed to Gaol or l"-'-5" *^"" the Houfe of Correction by Warrant from any Juftice or Juilices of the Peace, then, on Application by p'"?'^.';"™ '" any Conftable or other Officer who conveyed him, to any Juftice of the Peace for the (lime County or jun c^'s to s,i-ant Place, {hall upon Oath examine into and ascertain the reafonable Expences to be allowed fuch Conftable a Warrant on or other Officer, and fliall forthwith, without Fee or Reward, by Warrant under his Hand and Seal, ■"= Trcaruiev of order tl>e Treafurcr of the County or Place to pay the fame, which the faid Treafurer is hereby required to '|"^ C-'o'-'n-y ("or do, as foon as he receives fuch Warrant; and any Sum fo paid fhall be allowed in his Accounts. ch'lrce" °' ' "^ II. And be it further ena£ted by the Authority aforefaid, That from and after the faid twenty-fourth ? "^^'^= -'^'^ Day of June fo much of the above-mentioned Ad palled in the third Year of King Janus the Firft, as r^-'fjj'n'lai3^° lates to taxing the Parifti where Offenders are taken, for defraying the Charges of conveying Offenders to Padtfes for^'cun'^ Gaol, fhall be repealed. veying Offenders to Gaol, repealed. ' III. And whereas the Expence as well as Lofs of Time in attending Courts of Juftice, is a Difcou- The Charges of ' ragCTjcnt to the poorer Sort to appear as Witneffes againft Offenders, who thereby efcape the publick Attendance to ' Juftice, and the Punifliment due to their Crimesj' Be it further enafted "by the Authority aforefaid, 1"= ^'J°<:'i l^y That from and after the faid twenty-fourth Day of June, when any poor Perfon fhall appear on Recogni- pe'i^ns'bVund^to zance in any Court to give Evidence againft another accuied of any Grand or Petit Larceny, or other ^;"5,e'°Evit'cnce "' Felony, it iliall and may be in the Povi'er of the Court, at the Prayer and on the Oath of fuch Peribn, Igaiml: Felons, and on Confideration of his Circumftances, in open Court to oi'der the Treafurer of the County or Place in which the OffenLC ftiall have been committed, to pay unto fuch Perfon fuch Sum of Money, a; t6 the faid Court fhall feem reafonable for his Time, Trouble and Expence; yvhich Order the proper Of-6d. tol^pai'd fleer of fuch Court is hereby direfted and required to make out, and to deliver unto fuch Perfon, upon to the Officer for being paid for the fame the Sum of fix Pence, and no more; and fuch Treafurer is hereby authorised '"'.'^^'s °""^-'= and required, upon Delivery of fuch Order, forthwith to pay to fuch Perfon, or other Perfon authorized '^'°°" to recei'e the fame, fuch Sum of Money as aforefaid, and Ihall be allowed the fame in his Accounts. IV. Provided always, ajid it is hereby declared and enadled by the Authority aforefaid. That nothing in I" Middlefex the this kSc contained ffiall extend to impower fuch Court, or any Juftice or Juftices of the Peace, to makc^"'^^':" °^„'=- Warrants or Orders on the Treafurer of the County of Middlefex for the Payment of the Expences of^i^'Ji'^re^he' the Conftable or other Officer in conveying any Perfon to Gaol, or for the Payment of any Perfon for his oft-cndcrwas ta- Time, Trouble and Expence, who fhall appear on his Recognizance to give Evidence as aforefaid; but ken, to pay all that within the faid County of Middljcx the Expences of the Conftable or other Officer, occaftoned by ■':'i <^harges. his conveying of any Perfon to Gaol by virtue of a V/arrant from any Juftice or Juftices of the Peace, fhall, (after fuch Expences have been exam.ined into upon Oath, and allowed by fuch Juftice or Juftices, and for which no Fee or Reward fhall be taken] be paid by the Overfeer or Overfeers of the Poor of the Pariflr or Place where the faid Perfon was apprehended, who is and are hereby authorized and required to pay the fame; and the Sum or Sums fo paid fhall be allov^ed in his or their Accounts. CAP. IV. An Aft for granting an Aid to his Majefty by a Land Tax to be raifed in Great Britain, for the Service of the Year one thoufand feven hundred and fifty-four. E X P. At 2s. in the Pound. CAP. V. An kdi. for punifhing Mutiny and Defertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters. EXP. / ^ CAP. VI. An A<£1 to repeal a Provifo in an A 61 made in the twentieth Year of his prefent Majefty's Reign, intituled. An AB for the better adjnfting and more eafy R.ecovery of the Wages of cer- 'iain Servants, and j or the better Regulation of fuch Servants, and of certain Apprentices, which provides that the faid Aft fliall not extend to the Stannaries in Devon and Cornwall. ■ H E R E A S by an kSi made in the twentieth Year of his prefent Majefty 's Reign, intituled, Anza Geo. '>. c '» ASlfor the better adjujling and more cajy Recovery of the JFages of certain Servants, and for the better' Regulation of fuch Servants and of certain Apprentices, divers Provifions and Regulations are made and en;. died for the more eafy Recovery of the V/ages of Servants in Htift)andry, Artificers, Handicrafts-men Miners, Colliers, Keel-men, Pit-men, Glafs-men, Potters and other Labourers, and ior determining Dif- ferences and Dilputes between Malfers and Miftrefles, and fuch Servants and other Labourers and Peri'ons aforefaid, which Provifions have been found very ufeful and beneficial ; but it being provided by the faid A£t that nothing therein contained Ihall extend to the Stannaries in the Counties of Devon and Cornwal' Vol. VII. 4 A ■ ' jh^