A. D. 1757* Anno tricefimo primo Georgii 11. C. 23. 227 fold or conveyed, or fuch Annuity or Annuities, Dividend or Dividends, or any Part thereof, to be received by virtue of any fuch counterfeit or forged Letter of Attorney, Authority or Inftrument; or lliill falfely and deceitfully perfonate any true and real Proprietors of the faid Shares in Stock Annuities and Dividends, or any of them, or any Part thereof, and thereby transferring or endeavouring to transfer the Stock, or re- reiving or endeavouring to receive the Money, of fuch true and lawful Proprietor, as if fuch Offender were the true and lawful Owner thereof; then, and in every or any fuch Cafe, all and every fuch Perfon and Perfons, being thereof lawfully convicted in due Form of Law, (hall be deemed guilty of Felony, and fuffer Death as a Felon, without Benefit of Clergy. ' LXXVIIL And whereas Doubts may arife whether the Punifhment infli6ted in and by an A61 of Parlia-
- ment made and paffed in the fecond Year of the Reign of his prefent Majefty, intituled, An A^ for the penalty in the
' 7nore effeflual preventing andfurlher Puni/hment of Forgery, Perjury and Subornation of Perjury ; and to make Acl of 2 Geo. a, ' it Felony to fleal Bonds, Notes or other Securities for Payment of Money, on Perfons guilty of the feveral Spe- <^' 25.
- cies of Forgery therein mentioned, extends to the Commiffion of the like Forgeries with an Intention to
- defraud any Corporation ;' Be it therefore enaded by the Authority aforefaid. That if any Perfon from of forglnj or
and after the firft Day of y///y one thoufand feven hundred and fifty-eight, fhall falfely make, forge or coun- pubhnung any terfeit, or caufe or procure to be falfely made, forged or counterfeited, or willingly acl or allift in the ^^^^^i^tl^^^^l[j^^' making, forging or counterfeiting any Deed, Will, Tefbment, Bond, Writing Obligatory, Bill of Ex- qu^tfan'e, tc chanee, Promiffory Note for Payment of Money, Indorfement or Aflignment of any Bill of Exchange, or with indent to Pfomiflbry Note for Payment of Money, or any Acquittance or Receipt either for Money or Goods, with detVmd any Gor- an Intention to defraud any Corporation whatfoever; or fliall utter or publifh as true, any falfe, forged or P'J^*'^°/'.'^^^^"'^' counterfeited Deed, Will, Teftament, Bond, Writing Obligatory, Bill of Exchange, Promiflbry Note for "^' ^^^"* Payment of Money, Indorfement, or AfTignment of any Bill of Exchange, or PromifTory Note for Pay- ment of Money, Acquittance or Receipt either for Money or Goods, with Intention to defraud any Cor- poration, knowing the fame to be falfe, forged or counterfeited ; then every fuch Perfon, being thereof law- fully convicted according to the due Courfe of Law, ihall be deemed guilty of Felony, and fuffer Death as a Felon, without Benefit of Clergy. LXXIX. And it is hereby enabled by the Authority aforefaid. That if any Perfon or Perfons fhall, at Limititjon of any Time or Times, be fued or profecuted for any Thing by him or them done or executed in purfuance of ^ftions. this h.€t, or of any Matter or Thing in this A61 contained, fuch Perfon or Perfons fhall and may plead the General Iffue, and give the Special Matter in Evidence for his or their Defence ; and if upon the Trial a General Iflue. VerdicSl {hall pafs for the Defendant or Defendants, or the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs fhall become nonfuited, then fuch Defendant or Defendants fliall have Treble Cofts to him or them awarded againft fuch Plaintiff Treble Co^s. or Plaintiffs. See farther 32 CAP. XXIIL c.».2...33 w An A61 for the more eafy and fpeedy Recovery of Small Debts within the Wellern Divifion of the Hundred of Brixton^ in the County of Surry.
- TT 7HEREAS many fmall Debts are daily contra61ed within the Weflern Divifion of the Hundred of „ ,,
- VV Brixton, in the County of Surry, by reafon of the great Number of Artificers and working People, ' '^'
' conftantly employed in many great and ufeful Works and Manufa6tures for Exportation, as well as Home ' Confumption ; and although the Perfons contradting fuch Debts are generally very well able to pay the ' fame, yet they frequently refufe or negledl fo to do, prefuming on the great Discouragements and Dif- ' ficulties their Creditors muft labour under, from the unavoidable Expences attending Suits at Law;' For Remedy whereof, May it pleafe your moft Excellent Majefly, that it may be enacted ; and be it enacted by the King's moft Excellent Majefly, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Tem- poral, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame. That from and after the paffing of this K&t, the fixty Perfons herein after named, refiding within the Weftern Divifion of the faid Hundred o^ Brixton-, videlicet, fojhua^ Smith, John Baker, Arthur Collins, Melachy Haivtaine, cm-imWionzvi Henry Rcbirfon, John Page, Alexander Gordon, William Bridges, Samuel Plumb, Efquires ; Mark Bell, Philip Naaies, JForlidge, Tlmnas Barry, Ifaac Akerman, John Litrnifden, Benjamin Doggct, MichaelCuff, John Broom, "John Madr'nl, John Spcnce, Theodore Hodgfon, Thomas JVilUamfon, John Smith, Benjamin Ajlerley, Nightingale Draper, Ijaac Streatly, Daniel Parker, Thomas Strong, Humphry Webb, Matthew Shrub, William Ifles, Ezckiel Edmonds, Nuce Sterry, Thomas Gooding, John Standford, Francis Hunt, John Rofe, Richard AJierley, Bcnja- iiiin Biggs, Tyfon Chapman, William Charletuood, Thomas Harding, Francis Fairchild, Charles Ryley, Thomas Hammond, Ralph Crutcher, Philip Bourne, Richard Penley, William Saunders, James Gomb, John Suter, Wil" Ham Courtney, Thomas Berryman, Peter Baits, Richard Dollett, John Patterfon, Thcynas Sawkins, Charles New- jirne Pigott Sivift Kirby Morgan Rife, and Francis Hutchings, (hall be, and are hereby declared and appointed Commiflloners to hear and determine all fuch Matters of Debt to be brought before them as are herein after-mentioned ; which faid feveral Perfons hereby declared and appointed, and all fuch Perfons who by Commiffioners virtue of this AcSl fliall become Commiffioners for the Put^ofes aforefaid for the time being, fliall be, and coiTftituted a " are hereby conftituted a Court of Jufticc, by the Name of The Court of Reque/ls for the Weflern Divifion ij/' Court of Juiike, the Hundred <9/" Brixton ; and the {'aid Commiffioners herein before nominated and appointed for the time ^,'^^ °^^^^*^ being, or any three or more of them, fliall have Power and Authority, and are hereby authorized, im- ^'^"■^* powered and required to hear and determine all Matters of Debt within the faid Weftern Divifion of the Cc^rt t de Hundred o^ Brixton, where the Debt in Demand doth not amount to the Sum of forty Shillings, and to give mine a n Ma^' and pronounce fuch Judgment and Decree therein refpecSively, and to award Execution thereupon, with tors of Debt, not Cofts, againft the Bodies and Goods of all and every the Perfon or Perfons againft whom they {hall give or am.nntingto pronounce any Judgment or Decree, as to them fliall item juft in Law or Equity ; and, for that Purpofe, '^'^■ all fuch Commiffioners as aforefaid for the time being, or any three or more of them, are hereby authorized 'l?lJ°mn^ g 2 and-*
