A, D. 1763. Anno quarto Georgii III. C. 8> 141 Times during the Continuance of this Act, to require and command any High Conftable, Conftable, and Private Men, and Bedel, or other Officer, who fhall quarter or billet any Marines in purfuance of this Act, to give an where l uartered - Account in Writing unto the faid Juftice or Juftices requiring the fame,' of the Number of Officers and Private Men who fhall be quartered or billeted by them, and alfo the Names of the Houfekeepers or Perfons upon whom every fuch Officer or Private Man ihall be quartered or billeted, together with an Account of the Street or Place where every fuch Houfekeeper dwells ; and the Signs (if any] be- Ion<nnc to their Houfes ; to the end it may appear to the faid Juftice or Juftices where fuch Officers ■and Private Men are quartered or billeted, and that he or they may thereby be the better enabled to prevent or punifh all Abufes in the quartering or billeting of them. XLIII. Provided neverthelefs, and it is hereby declared by the Authority aforefaid, That from ^" fe for ^ e '! ef of and after the twenty-fifth Day of March one thoufand feven hundred and fixty-four, when and as t hemfeiveL' 7 " "^ often as any Perfon or Perfons fhall be inlifted as a Marine or Marines in his Majefty's Service, he and they {hall, within four Days, but not fooner than twenty-four Hours, after fuch Inlifting re- fpeftively, be carried before the next Juftice of the Peace of any County, Riding, City or Place, or chief Magiftrate of any City or Town Corporate (not being an Officer of Marines), and before fuch Juftice or chief Magiftrate he or they fhall be at Liberty to declare his or their Diflent to fuch In- lifting; and upon fuch Declaration, and returning the Inlifting-money, and alfo each Perfon fo dif- fenting paying the Sum of twenty Shillings for the Charges expended or laid out upon him, fucbf Perfon or Perfons fo inlifted fhall be forthwith difcharged and fet at Liberty, in the Prefence of fuch Juftice or chief Magiftrate ; but if fuch Perfon or Perfons fhall refufe or neglect, within the Space of twenty-four Hours, to return and pay fuch Money, as aforefaid, he or they fhall be deemed and taken to be inlifted, as if he or they had given his or their AfTent thereto before the faid Juftice or chief Magiftrate; or if fuch Perfon or Perfons fhall declare his or their having voluntarily inlifted- himfelf or themfelves, then fuch Juftice or chief Magiftrate fhall, and he is hereby required forth- with to certify under his Hand, that fuch Perfon or Perfons is or are duly inlifted ; fetting forth the Place of the Birth, Age and Calling of him or them reflectively (if known), and that the iecond and- third Sections of the Articles of War for the better Government of his Majefty's Marine Forces while on Shore in Great Britain ox Ireland, were read to him or .them, and that he or they had taken the Oath of Fidelity mentioned in the twelfth Section of the faid Articles of War ; and if any fuch Perfon or Perfons, fo to be certified as duly inlifted, fhall refufe to take the faid Oath of Fidelity before the faid Juftice or chief Magiftrate, it fhall and may be lawful for fuch Officer, from whom. he has received fuch Money as aforefaid, to detain or confine fuch Perfon or Perfons, until he or they fhall take the Oath before required ; and every Officer of Marines that fhall act contrary hereto, or offend herein, upon Proof thereof upon Oath made by two Witneffes before a General Court-martial to be thereupon called, fhall, for fuch Offence, be forthwith cafhiered and difplaced from fuch his Office, and fhall be thereby utterly difabled to have or hold any Civil or Military Office or Employment within this Kingdom, or in his Majefty's Service. ' XLIV. And whereas it may be expedient in certain Cafes, particularly where a fufficient Num-
- ber of Marine Officers cannot be conveniently afiembled, or in Matters wherein any of his Ma-
c jelly's Land Forces may be interefted, that Officers of the Land Forces fhould be aflbciated with As oftenar. it ffiaii be-
- the Marine Officers for the Purpofe of holding Courts-martial ;' Be it enacted and declared, That neceflal 'y> Officers of •
when and as often as it fhall be neceffary, it fhall and may be lawful for Officers of the Marine and ^ C es mT-.fiTi,, Co"t Land Forces to fit in Conjunction upon Courts-martial, and to proceed in the Trial of any Marine junflion upon Coi-.ris -" Officer or Private Man, in like Manner to all Intents and Purpofes as. if fuch Courts-martial were martial; taking Rank: compofed of Marine Officers only; and the Officers of the Marine and Land Forces are, in. fuch a . ccordin s t0 the Senio-- Cafes, to take Rank according to the Seniority of their Commiffions in either Service.. r ^f theu ' Commif - XLV". provided always, and it is hereby declared, That all his Majefty's Marine Forces, as well Officers as Private Men, fhall, from Time to Time, during their being refpectively borne as Part of Madne Forces bd "g the Complement of any of his Majefty's Ships or Veffels, be fubject or liable in like Manner, in all ^mliLlntlf *™* Refpects, as any Officers or Seamen employed in his Majefty's Sea Service are fubjeft and liable to sh^VoTw^%rTiLbe^ be governed and proceeded againft and punifhed for Offences committed by them during the Time to be governed by the they fhall be borne as Part of the Complement of fuch Ships or Veffels, according to the Purport, RuIes eftabliihed by a&z Tenor, Effect, and true Intent and Meaning of an Act of Parliament made in the twenty-fecond " Geo,-s..c. jj,. Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Second, intituled, An Aft for amending, ex- plaining, and reducing into one Ail of Parliament, the Laws relating to the Government of his Majefty's Ships, Veffeh) and Forces by Sea; this prefent Act or any Thing herein contained notwithftanding. SAP,
