A.D. 1763. Anno quarto Ge org 1 1 III. C: 31.' 195 XII. Provided always, and be it enacted, That all Penalties, all Cofts and Charges of Suit, and Recovery of PenaUief, all Sums of Money for which any Perfon or Perfons is or are by this Act made anfwerable, may and &c. fhall be recovered in any of his Majefty's Courts of Record at Weftminfter, by Adtion of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information, wherein no Effoin Wager at Law, or Protection, or more than one Imparlance fhall be allowed. XIII. Provided always, and be it enacted, That no Fee or Gratuity whatfoever, fhall be given No Fee payble for any or paid for or upon Account of any Warrant or Sum of Money which fhall be iflued in relation to, Warrant or Sum of Mo- or in purfuance of this Aft. oFthi^AV" purfuance XIV". Provided always, and be it enacted, That any Perfon being on Half-pay, and ferving in ® fficets ° n Half-pay the Militia, fhall and may, and he is hereby impowered to receive and take the Subfiftence-money „™ n r B 'V'^ rf s'bf'ft by this Act directed to be paid to Captains, Lieutenants or Enfigns ; and the receiving and taking Mce-money payable to " fuch Subfiftence-money by any fuch Captain, Lieutenant or Enfign, fhall not be deemed a Receiv- Lieutenants or Enfigns, ing or Taking Pay, fo as in any Manner to prevent fuch Perfon on Half- pay receiving his Half-pay ; they taking the following and fuch Perfon fhall take the following Oath before fome Juftice of the Peace, who is hereby im- Oath before a juftice. powered to adminifter the fame ; 1A. B. do fwear, That I had not, between the any Place or Employment The Oath, of Profit Civil or Military under his Majefty, befides my Allowance of Half-pay as a re- duced in late Regiment of fave and except my Subfiftence as a Lieutenant or Enfign, as the Cafe may be, for ferving in the Militia of the County of And the taking the faid Oath fhall be fufficient to intitle fuch Perfon to receive his Half-pay, without taking any other Oath any Law, Ufage or Cuftom to the contrary thereof notwiih- flanding. CAP. XXXI. An Act to indemnify fuch Perfons as have omitted to qualify themfelves for Offices and Employments-, and to indemnify Juftices of the Peace, Deputy Lieutenants, and Officers of the Militia, or others, who have omitted to regifter or deliver in their Qualifications within the Time limited by Law, and for giving further Time for thofe Purpofes ; and to indemnify Members and Officers in Cities, Corporations, and Borough Towns, whofe Admiffions have been omitted to be damped accord- ing to the feveral Acts of Parliament now in Force for that Purpofe, or having been ftamped, have been loft or miflaid, and for allowing them Time to provide Admiffions duly ftamped ; and to prevent the Deftruction of Trees and Undeiwoods growing in Forefts and Chafes.
- "1T7HEREAS divers Perfons who, on Account of their Offices, Places, Employments, or Preamble reciting the fe-
VV Profeffions, or any other Caufe or Occafion, ought to have taken and fubfcribed the veral Qualifying Acts of ' Oaths, or the AfTurance, refpeftively appointed to be by fuch Perfons taken and fubfcribed, in ' and by an Act made in the firft Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Firft, * Geo - *• '• *3>
- of Glorious Memory, intituled, An ASi for the further Security of his Majefty's Perfon and Govern-
mcnt, and the SucceJJion of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princefs Sophia, being P rot eft ants ; and
- for extinguijhing the Hopes of the pretended Prince o/" Wales, and his open and fecret Abettors ; or to
' have qualified themfelves according to an Act made in the thirteenth Year of the Reign of King 13 Car. 2. St. 2. c. i« ' Charles the Second, intituled, An A SI for the well governing and regulating Corporations ; or to I have qualified themfelves according to another Act made in the twenty-fifth Year of the Reign of 25 Car. 2. e, 2,
- King Charles the Second, intituled, An Ail for preventing the Dangers which may happen from
- Popijh Rccufants, by receiving the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper according to the Ufage or" the
' Church of England, and making and fubfcribing the Declaration againft Tranfubftantiation th'ere- ' in mentioned; or according to another Act made in the thirtieth Year of the Reign of King 30 Car. 2. St, 2. 1 Charles the Second, intituled, An Ail for the more effeSlual preferring the King's Perfon and Go-
- vernment, by difabling Papifts from fitting in either Houfe of Parliament ; or according to another Act
- made in the eighteenth Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George the Second, intitu- 18 Geo. 2. c. 2o»
' led, An ASi to amend and render more effectual an ASi pajfed in the fifth Year of his prefent Ma-
- J e Jb' s R- e 'g n i intituled, An A SI for the further Qualification of Juftices of the Peace ; or according to
- another Act made in the fecond Year of the Reign of his prefent Majefty, intituled, An ASi to ex- and 2 Geo. 3. c. %o,
1 plain, amend, and reduce into one Alt of Parliament, the feveral Lavos now in being relating to the raiflng
- and training the Militia within that Part of Great Britain called England ; have,, through Ignorance
- of the Law, Abfence, or fome unavoidable Accident, omitted to take and fubfcribe the faid Oaths
- and AfTurance, or otherwife to qualify themfelves as aforefaid, within fuch Time, and in fuch
- Manner, as in and by the faid Acts refpectively, or by any other Act of Parliament in that Be-
- half made and provided, is required, whereby they may be in Danger of incurring divers Penalties
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