542 ^ c. '5' Anno prinio Georgii III. . A. p. 1760. OpprefTions, and other illegal Acts commiued by the Piefidents or Council, may be in- quired into and punilhcd by the Court of King's Hench, cr Court ofCom- niiffioncrs in England. Preamble, reciting A£l S Ceo. J, c. 50. X Geo. 1. t. 4i> and 4 Geo. 1. e, 8. Re{lri£^ions and Regulations, and by the fameMeans, Methods and Proceedings, Manner and Form, as fuch or the like Offences committed in any of the faid Company's principal Settlements in the faid A£l mentioned, may or can be tried and proceeded againft by virtue of the faid A<51 and Articles of War, or either of them. II. And be it further enabled by the Authority aforefaid, That if any of the faldUnited Company's Prefidents, or Council, at their (diid Settlement of Fort M.'irlborough, or at any other principal Set- tlement, wherein the faid Company maybe hereafter impowered to hold Courts of Judicature, fhall be guilty of opprefling any of his Majefty's Subjects beyond the Seas, within their refpedlive Jurif- diftions or Commands, or fliall be guilty of any other Crime or Offence contrary to the Laws of that Part of Great Britain called England^ or in force within their refpedtive Jurifdiftions or Com- mands, fuch Opprcflion, Crimes, and Offences, may be inquired of, heard, and determined in his Majefty's Court of King's Bench, within that Part of Great Britain called England, or before fuch Commiffioners, and in fuch County of that Part of Great Britain called England, as fhall be affigned by his Majefty's Commiffion, and by good and lawful Men of the fame County ; and fuch Punifh- ment fhall be inflidled on fuch Offenders as are ufually infli(5led for Offences of the like Nature com- mitted in that Part of Great Britain called England. CAP. XV. An Ad to enable his Majefty to grant unto George Keith, late Earl Marifchall, a Sum therein limited, out of the Principal Money and Intercft now remaining due to the Publick on account of the Purchafe Money of certain Parts of the forfeited Eftates of the faid late Earl. WHEREAS by an Ad of Parliament paffed in the firft Year of the Reign of his late Ma- jefty King George the Firft, intituled, Jn J^ for appointing Commiffioners to irtquire of the Eflatcs of certain Traitors, and of Popijh Recufants, and of Ejtates given to Juperfiitious Ujes, in order to raife Money out of them fever ally for the life of the Publick ; the Eftates of all Perfons who, fmce the twenty-fourth Day of June one thoufand feven hundred and fifteen, had been, or before the twenty-fourth Day of June one thoufand feven hundred and eighteen fhould be, attainted of High Treafon committed before the firft Day of June one thoufand feven hundred and fixteen, were veftcd in his Majelty for the Ufe of the Publick: And whereas by another Ad of Parliament pafted in the fame Year, intituled, Jn A^for the Attainder of George Earl <?/" Marifchall, William Earl of Seaforth, James £^?7</ySouthefque, James Earl of Panmuir, and others, of High Treafon, unlefs thsy /hall render th:'nf elves to fuftice by a Day certain therein mentioned; George Keith, late Earl Marif- chall, was attainted of High Treafon, whereby and by force of the faid firft recited Ad his Eftate became veftcd in tlie Crown for the Ufe of the Publick : And whereas by another A£t of Parlia- ment pafl'ed in the fourth Year of the Reign of his faid late Majefty, intituled. An ASi for vefiing the forfeited Eflatcs in Great Britain and Ireland in Trujiees, to be fold for the Ufe of the Publick ; and for giving Relif to laivful Creditors by determining the Claims ; and for the more effeSlual bringing into the refpeSiive Exchequers the Rents and Profits of the faid Eflatcs tilljbld; the Eftate of the faid George Keith, late Earl Marifchall, in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, was vefted in certain Truftees therein named, to be fold for the Ufe of the Publick : And whereas certain Parts or Por- tions of the faid Eftate (the Rents whereof then amounted to the neat yearly Sum of two thoufand three hundred and eighry-four Pounds eighteen Shillings four Pence and two Thirds of a Penny Sterling) having been put up to publick Sale, in purfuance of the faid laft mentioned A6t, and fold to Robert Hacket, of London, Efquire, for the Sum of forty-one thoufand one hundred feventy- two Pounds fix Shillings nine Pence and two Thirds of a Penny Sterling, Minutes or Articles of the faid Sale were, on or about the twenty-fecond Day of OSloher one thoufand feven hundred and twenty, executed between four of the Truftees in the faid Ad named and the faid Robert Hacket ^ whereby it was declared, that any Superiorities or Feu Duties which belonged to the (eiiA George Keith, late Earl Marifchall, and which were not expreffed in the Particulars of the faid Eftate, figncd by one of the faid Commiffioners and the faid Robert Hacket, were not to belong to the faid Robert Hacket, but were exprcfsly excepted and refervcd to be afterwards expofed to Sale by the faid Commiffioners, as thty fhould think fit to dired ; and it was alfo declared and agreed, that the faid Purchafe Money, fubjed to certain contingent Dedudlions therein mentioned, Ihould be paid into the Exchequer on the firft Day of Auguji one thoufand feven hundred and twenty-one ; and that, upon Payment thereof, an Indenture or Contra6t of Bargain and Sale of the Prcmifles, fhould be executed to, and in Favour of, the faid Robert Hacket, or his Afligns : And whereas the faid Robert Hacket, by an Indenture executed by him, bearing Date the fevcnth Day of March one thoufand feven hundred and twenty-three, ana uecorded in the Books of Exchequer in Scotland, conveyed all his Right 10 the faid Premiffcs to, and in Favour of, the Governor and Company of Undertakers for raifing the Thames Water in Tork Buildings : And whereas it appears by a Report of David Mon- crief, his Majefty's Deputy Remembrancer of his faid Court of Exchequer in Scotland, to the Barons of the faid Court, bearing Date the twenty-fiift Day of December one thoufand feven hundred and fifty-fix, that there then was remaining due to the f^ublick a confidcrablc Part of the faid Price or Purchafe Money (after an Allowance of all Payments and Dedudionsj together with Intcreft for
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