12 Geo. 2. c. 19 The Overplus of lad Year's Half-pay how to be applied. 404 C. 24^ 25. Anno decimo tertio Georgii II. A. D. 1740. fame, except fuch Perfons who did actual Service in fome Regiment, Troop or Company ; that no Perfon having any other Place or Imployment of Profit, Civil or Military, under his Majefty, mail uave or receive any Part of the laid Half-pay ; that no Chaplain of any Garilon or Regiment, who has any Ecclefiaftical Benefice in Great Britain or Ireland, fhall have or receive any of the faid Half-pay ; that no Perfon (hall have or receive any Part of the fame, who hath refigned his Commiflion, and has had no Commiflion fince ; that no Part of the fame fhall be allowed to any Perfon by virtue of any War- rant or Appointment, except to fuch Perfons who would have been otherwife intitled to the fame as reduced Officers ; and that no Part of the fame (hall be allowed to any of the Officers of the five Regi. ments of Dragoons, and eight Regiments of Foot lately difbanded in Ireland, except to fuch as were lately taken off the Eftablifhment of Half-pay in Great Britain. ' XXII. And whereas by an Act of Parliament made in the twelfth Year of his Majefty's Reign, ' intituled, An Aft for granting to his Majejly the Sum of five hundred thou/and Pounds out of the Sinking 1 Fund for the Service of the Year one thoufand [even hundred and thirty-nine ; and for enabling his Majefty 1 to raife the further Sum of five hundred thoufand Pounds out of the growing Produce of the faid Fund ; and ' for the further appropriating the Supplies granted in this SeJJion of Parliament ; and for giving Time for the ' Payment of Duties omitted to be paid for the Indentures and Contracts of Clerks and Apprentices; feveral Sup- ■* plies which had been granted to his Majefty, as is therein mentioned, were appropriated to feveral Ufes ' and Purpofes therein exprefied, amongft which, any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding thirty-nine
- thoufand one hundred twenty-four Pounds nineteen Shillings and two Pence, was appropriated to be
' paid to the reduced Officers of his Majefty's Land Forces and Marines, fubjecf. neverthelefs to fuch ' Rules to be obferved in the Application of the faid Half-pay, as in and by the aforcfaid Act were pre- ' fcribed in that Behalf :' Now it is hereby provided, enacted and declared by the Authority aforefaid, That fo much of the faid Sum of thirty-nine thoufand one hundred and twenty-four Pounds nineteen Shillings and two Pence, as is or fhall be more than fufficient to fatisfy the faid reduced Officers, accord- ing to the Rules by the faid Act prefcribed to be obferved in the Application thereof, or any Part of fuch Overplus, (hall or may be difpofed of to fuch Officers who are maimed or have loft their Limbs in the late Wars, or fuch others as by reafon of their long Service or otherwife his Majefty fhall judge to be proper Objects of Charity, or to the Widows or Children of fuch Officers, according to fuch Warrant or Warrants under his Majefty's Royal Sign Manual, as (hall be figned in that Behalf; any thing in this Act, or the faid former Act to the contrary notwithftanding. C A P. XXIV. An Act for amending and enforcing the Laws relating to Rogues, Vagabonds, and other idle and difor- derly Perfons, and for reducing the fame into one Act of Parliament ; and alfo for amending the Laws for erecting, providing and regulating Houfes of Correction. REP. 17 Geo. 2. c. 5. CAP. XXV. An Act for the more effectual Maintenance and Well-keeping of Stanes Bridge and Egham Caufeway, being the Highway from London to the Weft Parts of England. P R. WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament made in the firft Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth, intituled, An Acl concerning the Bridge of Stanes, the Chancellor of England for the Time being, or the Keeper of the King's Great Seal, and their Succefiors, were authorized and im- powered to depute and aflign two, three or four Perfons of the Town and Parifh of Stanes, to take and receive Toll and Cuftom, as before that Time had been ufed to be paid, as well for Carts and Horfes laden with Merchandize and other Stuff carried over and upon the fame Bridge,, as of Barges coming underneath the fame Bridge, and to employ the faid Tolls for repairing and making the laid Bridge, and alfo the Caufeway extending from the faid Town of Stanes to the Town of Egham in the County of Surrey, and to render a yearly Account thereof to the faid Chancellor or Keeper for the Tjme being, or before fuch Perfons as either of them lhould depute and aflign : And whereas by another Act made in the thirty-ninth Year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, intituled, An Acl for the better Maintenance and Well-keeping of Stanes Bridge and Egham Caufeway, being the Highway from London unto the Weft Parts of England, it was enacted, That the Chancellor of England for the Time being, or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and their Succefiors, (hould have the Deputation and Aflign- ment of four Men, whereof two to be of the Town and Parifti of Stanes aforefaid, and the other two to be of the Town and Parifh of Egham aforefaid ; and the faid four to take and receive by themfelves, or their fufficient Deputy or Deputies, the Toll and Cuftom as before that Time ought or had been ufed to be paid, and to employ the fame upon the Reparation and making of the faid Bridge and Caufeway, and thereof yearly to yield Account to the faid Chancellor or Keeper of the Great Seal for the Time being, or before fuch Perfons as he (hould depute and affign, between the Feafts of Saint Michael the Archangel and All Saints; and if by Default of the four Perfons aforefaid, or any of them, in not ga- thering or not well-employing the faid Toll, the (aid Bridge and Caufeway, or either of them, fhould not be fufficiently kept and maintained, the Chancellor or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal had Power to inflict a Penalty upon them, or any of. them, in whem fuch Default (hould be found as aforefaid, not exceeding ten Pounds, the fame to be levied by Diftreis by fuch Perfon or Perfons as fhould be nominated by the faid Chancellor or Keeper of the Great Seal, and to be employed for maintaining the faid Bridge and Caufeway : And whereas the Tolls and Duties arifing by virtue of the faid A6ts, ' after Preamble, re- citing 1 H. 8. £.9. 39 Eliz. not fiinttct.
