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A. D. i747» Anno vicefimo Georgii II. C. 24. 27 ' or Privateers, in any Aftioii where any Ship or Ships of War, or Privateers fhould be taken from the ' Enemy, funk, burnt or otherwilc deftroyed : And it was further enaiSled, That after the Sale or Sales of ' fuch Prize or Prizes as fnould be taken from the Enemy by any of his Majefty's Ships of War, publick ' Notification fhould be given by the Perfons or Agents appointed, as thereby is directed, of the Day ap- ' pointed for the Payment of the fevcral Shares of the Captors aforefaid ; after which publick Notification, ' if any Mens Shares fhould remain in the Hands of the Perfons or Agents appointed as aforefaid, either ' belonging to fuch Men as fliould be run from his Majefly's Service, or which fhould not be legally demanded ' within three Years ; then fuch Share or Shares fo remaining in the Perfons or Agents riands, or belong- ' ing to fuch Men as fhould run from his Majefly's Service, fhould go and be paid to the Ufe ol Greemmcb ' Hofphai : And whereas by the above recited Adt of the thirteenth Year of his prefent Majefly, the Shares ' of Prizes belonging to Run-men are not exprefly granted to Greemvich Hofphai, whereby the faid Hofpital ' lofeth the Benefit of fuch Shares of Run-men, of and in all Prizes taken from the Spaniards, on or fmce ' the fourth Day oi January in the Year of our Lord one thoufand iijven hundred and thiity-nine in Europe; "• and on or fince the twenty-fourth Day of June in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and ' forty, in any other Part of the World ; and fome Doubt may arife whether the Shares of Prizes belong- ' ing to Men running from their Ships, after Adjudication and Condemnation of fuch Prizes, fnall be for- ' feited by the i'aid Claufe in the faid jafl: recited Act :' For Remedy whereof, and to the Intent that all and every the Shares of Prizes belonging to Run-men, as well after as before Adjudication and Condemnation, and as well thofe taken from, his R4ajefty's tnemies, on or fince the fourth Day oi January in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and thirty-nine in Europe, and on or fince the twenty-fourth Day of June in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and forty, in any other Part of the World, as thofe taken on or fince the twenty-ninth Day oi March one thoufand feven hundred and forty-four, may be given, and go to, and be paid to the Ufe Oi Greemvich Hofpital aforefaid; Be it enacted by the King's mofl Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Com- mons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That no Perfon or Perfons Perfons fen-inj who, on the fourth Day oi January in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and thirty-nine, on Board the or at any Time fince did belong, or now does or do belong, or at any Time hereafter fhall belong, to any ^i^ ^"'^' ^™^^ of his Majefly's Ships or Veffels of War, or to any Merchant Ship employed in his Majefty's Service, and "'"-'""• '■'39' hath or have, at any Time heretofore, or fhall at any Time hereafter, run away, or v/ithdraw him or them- who (Kal! quit felves from the Ship or Veflel by which any Prize or Prizes fl-iall be taken from any of his Majefly's Ene- their Ships, mies, or otherwife from his Majefly's Service, before or after Notification fliall be given by the Perfons or Agents appointed as aforefaid, of the Day appointed for the Payment of the feveral Shares to the Captors to forfeit their of the faid Prize or Prizes, fhall have, or be intitled to have or claim any Intereft in, or Benefit of the Cl.um, faid Share or Shares of the faid Prize or Prizes, or the Bounty-money aforefaid, or any Part thereof; but to the ufe of fuch Share and Shares of fuch Prize and Prizes, and Bounty-money, fhall go and be paid to the Ufe of Greenwich Ho- Grecmuich Hofpital. fpital- IL Provided always, That if any Perfon or Perfons fhall or do run away, or withdraw him or themfelves Shareofthe from any fuch Ship or Veflel as aforefaid, after Notification given as aforefaid, he or they fliall only forfeit P"2;e Money in and lofe fuch Part of his and their Share and Shares of the faid Prize and Prizes, and Bounty-money, as j^*^ '^^'^"'i' fliall be remaiiiing in the faid Agent or Agents Hands, at the Time of his and their running away, or with- ^^,1 j-o,feited. drawing him or themfelves; any thing herein before contained to the contrary thereof in any wife notwith- flanding. ' IIL And as feveral Perfons may have bought the Shares of Prizes of Run-men, for a Confidcration a ' great deal under the real Value thereof, which hath much encouraged Seamen to quit and leave their ' Ships, and his Majefty's Service ;' Be it enafled by the Authority aforefaid. That the Vendee or Vendees, Perfons who AfTignee or Affigns of fuch Share and Shares, and Bounty-mony, or either of them, as is and are, or fliall bought the ^ be, on or before the fi.rft Day of June in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and forty-feven. Shares of Prizes, /;;;iY/^c/^ aftually bought and affigned, fhall, on the Payments of the fame, be aliov.'ed the full Confidera- ° ^"""™^"' tion-money, he and they really and hona fide gave for the fame, and Literefl after the Rate of five Pounds on or before i fer Centum, which fhall have accrued due from the Day of the Payment of the faid Confideration-money, to J""'^ '747. '° be .the Time or Times of Payment of fuch Share and Shares, and Bounty-money, according to the Direftion ^']°^'"^^^^?"" of this Act, or the feveral Acts herein recited, or any of them, and no more; arid that the Surplus of the „!,', "andintcreft faid Share and Shares, and Bounty-money in the faid Agents Hands, after the real ConfiJeration and In- at's'l- perCent, tereft for the fame fnall have been paid and fatisfied, fliall be paid to the Treafurer of the faid Royal Hofpi- the Surplus of tal at Greenvjich, or his Deputy or Agent, for the Ufe of the fame ; and for the better afcertaining the f"^ Sh.^res, &c. whole and true Sum of the Confideration-money hona file paid, the Vendee or Affignee of every fuch Share ^' ""^ P^"* 'j the r-n nni iTv- i-,-i-^i.i' ii- r r^ ■ t> ,- ■ i Treafurer of or Kun-men nov/ actually bougnr, it Jivmg, and it dead, .then Ins and their reipective Iceprefentative and Greenwich Reprefentatives to the befl of their Knowledge and Belief, fhall make an Affidavit before fome or one of the Hofpital. Judges of the Courts of King s Bench or Conmion Pleas at JVcfhninfter, or before fome or one of the Barons AiTidavitto be of the Exchequer, or fome Commiffioner of the fame Courts in the Country in Great Britain, and in any ™!,'^°[/'^^'"'i other Parts of his Majefty's Dominions, before fome or one of the Judges of the Courts of I^aw or Equity Mon^'S'-'"" there, or before fome other Perfon or Perfons authorized by thofe Courts to take Affidavits, of the real '" ' Confideration-money paid for the faid Share or Shares, and of the true and real Days and Times of the and the Time of Execution ot'fuch Affignments by the Afiigners thereof, and which Afndavits fo fvvrorn and taken, fhall be executmgthe filed in the faid Courts where fworn ; and all Perfons who fliall wilfully and corruptly Avear falfly in I'uch A.nignmcnts. Affidavits, fhall be guilty of, and tried and punifhed as for wilful and corrupt Perjury; and that no Bill of '*f^'l> °""fl-' Sale or Affignment now made and executed, or which fliall be made and executed on or before the faid firft ^ff^^f '"^ ^ '" Day of June, of the Share and Shares of any Prize or Bounty-money to which fuch Perfons as aforefaid no BiU of Sa'e, arc or fliall, before the faid firft Day of June be intitled, fhall be deemed good and valid in Lav/ or Equity, &c. to bev.iliJ, wherein the true or real Sum and Sums of Money given and paid for i'uch Share and Shares to the faid Cap- where the Con- £ ^ ■ ■ ^ ^Qj. fideraiion-mo-