A. D. 1753. Anno vicefimo fexto Georgii II. C. 33. 525 enafted by the Authority aforefaid, That when any Information (hall be brought ?gainft the Mafter, MateUpon Informa- or other Perfon, having the Charge of an^ Ship or Vefisl, for Recovery of the" Penalty inflidcd by the faid^'"^' brought/or Aft for importing Candies, Soap, or Starch, o herwife than by the faid Act is prefcribed ; it (hall J^"™,""'.' ^'^ ^ be lawful for fuch Mafter, Mate or other Perfon, to ftop and detain the Wages of the Mariners b'"th7'r^^tEd and Men ferying on Board fuch Ship or Vehel, until Uich Information fhall be hsard and deter- acI the 'vI?e« mined; and if upon the Hearing and Determination therecf it fhall appear that fuch Candles, Soap orof '^^ Mitineis Starch, were put on Board fuch Ship or Veffel by any of the Mariners or Men ferving therein, without the'° i": 'i'-'^^ned Knowledge or Privity of the Mafter, Mate or other Perfon, having the Charge of fuch Ship or Veffel, J^^^', J '^ede'^!? "■' it fhail be lawful for fuch Mafter, Mate or other Perfon aforefaid, to keep and retain in his Hands fo much ofmrned* ^T" " the Wages of the Mariners and Men ferving on Board fuch Ship or VeiTel, who fhall be found guilty of or : . ';•.'■ privy to fuch Olfence, as will be futficient to anfwer and fatisfy the Penalty inflided upon fuch Mafter, MatCj^j „„^-„ eoA-' or other Perfon aforefaid, who fhall be and is hereby indemnified for {o doing. viflion, to bvaj- plied in Pajment of the Foffeiciire. IX. ' And whereas the Provifton contained in an Act made in the twenty-third Year of the Reign i^G^o. i.e. 21. ' of his piefent Majefty, for the due and regular Payment of the Bounties granted upon the Expor-§' ^6- ' tation of Brlt.'jh-m-a.de Sail Cloth has proved ineff'edual ;' Be it therefore enadled bv the Authority afore- The Bounties on' faid. That the Bounties due fuice thefirft of Jtm; one thoufand f.ven hundred and fifty, (being the Com-^"' '"'"u'^o'ir" mencement of the faid Provillon) and which" ihall hereafter become due on the Exportation of i?/-/V//7j-made|u(,fiS'y' Ippii- Sail Cloth, inftead of being paid in the manner in the faid A<3: direfted, fhall be, and the fame are hereby charged cable to' Pajment upon, and (hall be paid out of fuch Parts of the Old Subfidy as are applicabljs to ihe Paymient of Incidents, of Incidents. X. ' And whereas by two Ads of Parliament made in the fixth and twenty-fecond Years of the Reigns Geo. 2. c. j-;. ' of his prefent Majefty, for the Encouragement of thi Whale Fifhery carried on by his Majefty's 5r/- 2.1 Geo. a. c 45. ' tij]) Subjects, a Bounty of forty Shillings /^r Ton, under certain Regulations mentioned in the faid Adls, ' is to be paid by the Receiver General of the Cuftoms to the Mafter or Owners of Ships employed in the ' Whale Fifhery in the Greenland Seas or Davis's Streights, on their Return to this Kingdom : And where- ' as yohn Hennicker, Henry Bird the Elder, Henry Bird the Younger, and Conrad Lang of Loudon, Mer- ' chants, did fit out in the Year one thoufand feven hundred and fifty-two, four Ships, called the Merry ' Jacks, Sivord Fijh, Revolution, and Neptune for the W"hale Fifhery in the Greenland ^td^s, in the manner, ' prefcribed and appointed by the faid Acts, and which faid Ships were adually employed in the faid Fifliery, ' but were unavoidably loft in the faid Seas;' Be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforefaid. That the Trrafory impow- Commiffioners of his Majefty's Treafury forthe Time being, or any three of them, lliall be, and they areered todirea the hereby impowered to direft, if they think fit, the Payment of the Bounties which the faid y_ohn Henuicker,^'°'^'^'^'-^ "^ '"'- Henry 5/jy/ the Elder, i?«//r_y 5//y/ the Younger, an i Conrad Lang, would have been intitled to 'n cafe the ^^'J^^-°.J°JJ^'^0. faid Ships had returned to this Kingdom; any thing in the faid two feveral Ads contained to the contrary Ri'^ij, and Conrad notwithftanding. Ling. XL ' And whereas by two Ads of Parliament made in the fixth and twenty-fecond Years of the Reign g „ ' of his prefent Majefty, forthe Encouragement of the Whale Fiihcry carried on by his Britijh Adajeiliy's-,^ G°a" '^' ^^' ' Subjeds, a Bounty of forty Shillings j)t.v Ton, under certain Regulations mentioned in the faid Ads, is ' to be paid by the Receiver General of the Cuftoms to the Mafter or Owners of Ships employed in the ' Whale Fiihery in the Greenland Seas or Davis's Strcights, on their Return to this Kingdom : And whereas ' Phi'ip Hnu, on the Behalf of himfelf and feveral other Perfons, did in ths Year one thoi^fand feven hun- ' drcd and fifty-two, fit out tv/o Ships, called the Argle and Camphtoun, for the faid Fifhery, in theman- ' ner required by the faid Ads ; and which faid Ships wer ; adually employed in the faid Fiihery, and did re- turn to this Kingdom with three Whales; but by reafon of an Omiftlon orMiftake in making the Affida- vits, and giving the Security required by the faid Ads, the faid Owners have not been able to obtain the 45' Iff to Phi- How and others would have been intitled to in cafe they had complied with all the Forms'and Regulationjlip How, s.c. required by the faid Ads of Parliament ; any thing in the faid two fevcral Ads contained to the contrary notwithftanding. CAP. XXXIIL An Aft for the better preventing of clandeftine Marriages. Sl/;^7"^'«^S1 HE RE AS great Mifchiefs and Inconveniencies have arifen from Clandeftine Marriages;' For>' '" 3-^'- 1^ preventing thereof for tie future. Be it enaded by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by andg 3__ -^^ '^^J.f^' • with the Advice and Confent of the Lords'Spiritua! and Temporal, and Comm.ons, in this prefent Parlia- ,;,.' ,",;,^-, ■^" nient aftembled, and by the Au hori'y of the fime. That from and after the twenty-fifth Day of March m a,.-,, c. 13. the Year of our Lord one houfand feven hundred and fifty-four, all Banns of Matrirnony fhvill be publifhed §• i?-'- in ;in audible manner in the Parifti Church, or in fome publick Chapel, in which publick Ch?pe] Banns of Piiblic.ition cf Matrimony ha"e been uiually publifhed, of or belonging to fuch Parilii or Chapelry wherein the Perfons to^ ""S' be married fhall dwell, according to the Form of Words prefcribed by t!is Riibrick prefixed to the OfHce of Mstrimon V in the Bojk of Common Pray r, upon three Simdnxs preceding ths Solemnization of Marriage, durii'g the'Time of iV'orning Service, or of Evening Service (if there be no Morning Service in fuch Church or Chapel upon anyof thofe Sundays) immediately after the fecond Leffon : And vvhenfoever it iliail happen- that the Perfons to be married fliall dwell in divers Parifties or Chapelrie-;, the Banns fhall in like manner be publiihed in the Church or Chapel belonging to fuch Pariili or Chape'ry wherein e?ch of -the faid P-crfons fhall dv/eil; and v/here both or cither of the Perfons to be married fcall dwell in anv Extraparochial Place., {ha, ing no Church cr Chapel wherein B..nns have been ufually pubhilied) then the Banns fliall ia like man- ia et
