A. D. 1755.' Anno vicefimo odlavo Georgii II. C. 20. 6ii and may be levied by Diftrefs and Sale of the Offender's Goods and Chattels, by Waii-ant or Warrants it-.w- ledt.i by under the Hand and Seal or Hands and Seals of fuch Juftice or Juftices; and in cafe no fiifficient Diftrcfs DiftrefsandSMc, can be found, then it {hall and may be lawful for fuch Juftice or Juftices to commit fuch Offender or Of- '-' ■ fenders to the common Gaol of the County or Place where fuch Offence fliall be committed, for any Time not exceeding three Months, nor lefs than one Month. IV. And, for the Relief of any Perfon or Perfons, who, through Negleft or Inadvertency, have omitted to pay the feveral Rates and Duties, or any Part thereof, upon Monies given, paid, contraded or agreed for, with or in relation to any Clerk, Apprentice or Servant, who hath been put or placed to or with any Mafter orMiftrefs to learn any Profeffion, 'i^-ade or Employment, and to have fuch Indentures, or other Writings which contain the Covenants, Articles, Contradts or Agreements, relating to the Service of fuch Clerk, Apprentice or Servant, {tamped within the Times by the I'everal Acts of Parliament for thofe Pur- pofcs refpeftively limited, or who have alfo in like manner omitted to_ infert and write, in Words at Length,^ in fuch Indentures or other Writings as aforeiaid, the full Sum or Sums of Money, or any Part thereof,, received or in any wife direflly or indiredly given, paid, or agreed or contradted for, with or in relation to every fucli Clerk, Apprentice or Servant as aforefaid ; Be it enadted, That upon Payment of the Rates and Duties upon Monies, or fuch Part of fuch Monies, fo negledted or omitted to be paid as aforefaid, on or Fuithe-.Timc al- before the firft Day o{ Augiijl one thoufand feven hundred and fifty-five, to fuch Perfon or Perfons to whom '°"'='* forPay- the fiime ought to be paid, and tendering the iaid Indentures or other Writings to be {lamped at the fame ™«n'oft'i«Du- Time, or at any Time on or before the twenty-ninth Day of Septemhei- one thoufand kvcn hundred and t'"p'^Jj'"for '" fifty-five (of which timely Notice is to be given in the London Gazette) thz fame Indentures or o. her clerks and Ap- Writings fliall be good and available in Law and Equity, and may be given in Evidence in any Court what- prentices, foever; and the Clerk, Apprentice or Servant therein named, fnall be capable of following and exercifing their refpective intended Trades or Employments, as fully as if the faid Rates and Duties fo omitted had been duly paid, and the full Sum or Sums received or agreed for as aforefaid had been inferted ; and the Perfons who have incurred any Penalties by the Omiffions aforefaid, {hall be acquitted and difcharged of and from the faid Penalties ; any Thing in the faid former Adts to the contrary notv^ithitanding. ' V. And whereas divers Perfons through Mi{lake, Ablence, or fome unavoidable Accident, to the Pre- 'Judice of Infants, and others, have omitted to caufe Affidavits to be made and filed in the proper Offices
- of the adlual Execution of feveral Contradts in Writing to ferve as Clerks to Attornies and Sollicitors,
- within the Time limited and expreffed by certain Adts palled in the twenty-fecond and twenty-fourth
- ■ Years of his prefent Maje{ty's Reign, whereby many Perfons may be in danger of incurring the Difabi-
- lities in the faid Adt of the twenty-fecond Year of his prefent Majefty's Reign Ipecified ;' Be it therefore
enadted by the Authority aforefaid. That all and every Perfon and Perfons who have omitted to caufe fuch FunherTIme al- Affidavit or Affidavits to be made and filed as aforefaid, and who fhall, on or before the firtt Day of Hillary 1™'='^ for filing Tei-m next, caufe one or more Affidavit or Affidavits to be made and filed in fich manner as directed by the o^ ^ffidaviis ot faid laft recited Ads, or either of them, fliall be and are hereby indemnified, freed and difcharged from and Comr'/fts T again{l all Penalties, Forfeitures, Incapacities and Dilabilities in the faid Adt of the twenty-fecond Year of cic.ks to Attor- his prefent Majefty's Reign mentioned, incurred or to be incurred, for or by reafon of any Negledt or "'^s. O miffion in caufing fuch Affidavit or Affidavits lb to be made and filed as aforeiaid, according to the Direc- ti ons of the faid laft recited Adts, or either of them ; and fuch Affidavit or Affidavits fo to be made and filed aS aforefaid, {hall be as effedtual to all Intents and Purpofes, as if the fame had been made and filed within the refpedtive Times limited by the faid feveral la{l recited Adts, or either of them. C A P. XX. An Aft for continuing, explaining, and amending the feveral Aifls of Parliament made for the further Encouragement of the Whale Fidiery carried on by his Majefly's Stibjeds ; and to authorize the Payment of the Bounty x.o 'Thonias Hood ?iVd others, upon three Ships fitted out for the faid Fifliery, and loft in the Greenland Seas. ' TX /HERE AS divers Acts of Parliament have been made for the Encouragement of his Majefty's ' VV Subjedts to carry on and improve the Whale Fithery, which by the Bounties given by the faid Acts ' has of late Years gradually increafed, and by the Continuance thereof will ftill further increafe, to the great ' Advantage of the Trade and Navigation of this Kingdom ;' Be it therefore enacted by the King's moft Excellent A4ajefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament aflembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That an Adt made in the fifth Year of his prefent Majefty's Reign, intituled, Jn ASi for encouraghig //vGreenland Fijhery, which 5 Cea.2 c.;S. was to be in force for nine Years, from the twenty-fifth Day oi De<:c?nler one thoufand feven hundred and thirty-one, and which Adt by an Adt of Parliament made in the thirteenth Year of his prefent Mnjefty's jjc.o. :. c. z%. Reign, intituled. An Ai^ for contimdng feveral Laws therein nicntioned, relating to the Prsmium.s upon the hn- portation of Mafls, Yards and Bowfprits, Tar, Pitch and Turpcfjlim ; to Britifh made Sail Cloth, mid the Duties payable on Foreign Sail Cloth ; to the Greenland a7id to the Whale Fijliery ; for granting ajwthcr Bounty for all Ships c?nployed in th. Whale Fijliery durijjg the prefent War ; for exempting Hmpoom-ers a7id others employed in the (Jreenland Fijhcry Trade, from being ijjiprcffed; and for giving further Time for the Payjnent of Duties omitted to be paid for the Indenturci and ContraEis of Clerks and Apprentices, was continued unto the twenty-iihh Day oi Dccctnber one thoufand feven hundred and fifty, and from thence to the End of the then next Sellion uf Parliament ; and which Adt, by an Adt of Parliament made in the twciity-fecond Year of his prefent Ma- ^l Geo. s, c. 45^ 4 1 2i jefty'
