GEO. III. 39, 40, c. 80. POLICE, tons may ed from certain con any other infectious Difeafe or Diftemper as aforesaid, it fhall and may be lawful to and for His Majesty, His Heirs -PLAGUE. and Succeffors, by His or their Proclamation, to prohibit and restrain all fmall Boats and Veffels, under the Burthen be prohibit of Twenty Tons, from failing or paffing out of any Port or Place of Great Britain, or the Ifles of Guernsey, Ferfey, Alderfailing until fecurity be ney, Sark, and Man, or any of them, until Security be first given with given by the Mafter of every fuch Boat or Veffel refpectiveditions. ly, to the Satisfaction of the Principal Officer of the Cuf toms, or the Chief Magiftrate of the Port or Place from whence fuch Boat or Veffel fhall fail, by Bond taken by fuch Officer or Magiftrate, to the King, His Heirs or Succeffors, with fufficient Sureties, in the Penalty of Three hundred Pounds, with Condition that if fuch Boat or Veffel fhall not go to or touch at any Country, Port, or Place to be mentioned for that Purpose in fuch Proclamation; and if neither the Master or other Perfon having Charge of fuch Boat or Veffel, nor any Mariner or Paffenger in fuch Boat or Veffel fhall, during the Time aforefaid, go on board any other Ship or Veffel at Sea; and fuch Mafter or other Perfon having Charge of fuch Boat or Vessel shall not permit or fuffer any Perfon or Perfons to come on board fuch Boat or Veffel at Sea from any other Ship or Veffel, and shall not, during the Time aforefaid, receive any Goods and Merchandizes whatsoever out of any other Ship or Veffel, then fuch Bond fhall be void, for the making of which Bond no If any fuch Fee or Reward whatsoever shall be taken; and in case any veffel fhall Boat or Veffel, for which fuch Security fhall be required by fail before fuch Proclamation, fhall fet fail or pafs out of any Port or fecurity be given it Place of Great Britain, or the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Thall be for- Alderney, Sark, and Man, or any of them refpectively, be20. by the fore fuch Security be given as aforefaid, every fuch Boat or mafter and Veffel fo filing or paffing out of any Port or Place, contrary each marin- to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, together with her Tackle, Apparel, and Furniture, fhall be forfeited to His Majesty, His Heirs and Succeffors; and the Mafter of, and every Mariner failing in any fuch Boat or Veffel shall feverally forfeit and pay the Sum of Twenty Pounds. feited, and er on board. Publication 30, THAT the Publication in the London Gazette of any in the Lon- Order of Council made in purfuance of this Act, or His to be fuffi- Majefty's Royal Proclamation made in pursuance of the dient notice. fame, fhall be deemed and taken to be fufficient Notice to don Gazette all Perfons concerned, of all Matters therein respectively contained. GEO. 111, 39,40, c.80, POLICE, 31, THAT all Forfeitures and Penalties aforefaid, that-PLAGUE. fhall be incurred by any Offence committed against any Recovery Part of this Act, fhall and may be recovered by Suit in any and appliof His Majefty's Courts of Record at Westminster, in which cation of penalties. no Effoign, Wager of Law, or more than One Imparlance fhall be granted, or in Scotland by fummary Action in the Court of Seffion, or by Profecution before the Court of Jufticiary there, or by Suit in any of His Majefty's Courts in the Iflands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man, by or by Information before any Two Juftices of the Peace of the County, Riding, Divifion, City, or Place where the Offence was committed, and may be levied of the Offender's Goods and Chattels, and if he fhall not have Goods and Chattels, equal in Value to the Amount of fuch Forfeiture or Penalty, then fuch Offender fhall be committed to Gaol till Payment thereof, and every fuch Forfeiture and Penalty fhall belong and be given, one Moiety to the Perfon who fhall fue for the fame, and the other Moiety to His Majefty, His Heirs and Succeffors, to be applied towards defraying the Expences of erecting and maintaining the Lazaret as aforefaid. minifter 32, THAT in all Cafes wherein by or by virtue and in Ferfons aupursuance of any of the Provifions of this Act, any Examin- thorized to take exa. ations or Answers fhall be directed to be taken or made minations upon Oath, the Perfon who fhall by or by virtue of the may adfame be authorized and required to take fuch Examinations oaths. and Answers, fhall and fhall be deemed to have full Power and Authority to adminifter fuch Oath; and if any Perfon Penalty on perfons who fhall be fo interrogated or examined, fhall wilfully fwear fwearing falfely to any Matter concerning which fuch Perfon fhall falfely, or depofe, or make Oath on such Examination, or if any Perfon procuring fhall procure any other Perfon fo to do, he or the fhall be do fo. deemed to have been guilty of, and shall be liable to be profecuted for wilful and corrupt Perjury, or Subornation of wilful and corrupt Perjury, as the Cafe may be; and fhall fuffer the Penalties of the Law in fuch Cafes respectively made and provided. others to 33, THAT all Offences committed againft any of the Pro- Offences, vifions of this Act (not being Felony), and every Offence or not felon ious, again Difobedience to any Order of Council made for better car- this act of rying into Execution this Act, for which no specific Penal- any orde POLICE, may be GEO. III. ty, Forfeiture, or Punishment is provided by this Act, fhall 39,40, c.80. and may be tried, heard, and determined before any Two -PLAGUE. Juftices of the Peace of the County, Riding, Divifion, City, of council, or Place where fuch Offence or Difobedience fhall happen; and if any Person fhall be convicted of any fuch Offence or tried before Difobedience, he or the fhall be liable to fuch Forfeiture and two juftices, who may Penalty, not exceeding the Sum of Fifty Pounds for any One fine or im- Offence, or to fuch Imprisonment, not exceeding Three prifon the Months for any One Offence, as fhall in the Discretion of the Two Juftices who fhall have heard and determined the Application fame, be judged proper; and fuch Forfeiture and Penalty of penalty. fhall be paid, one Moiety to the Perfon fuing for the fame, and the other to His Majefty, to be applied as the Moieties of other Forfeitures and Penalties are herein before directed to be applied. offender. No attaind to work 34, PROVIDED always, That no attainder of Felony by er of felony virtue of this Act fhall be extended to work any Corruption corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture of any Goods, Chattels, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments. of blood, &c. Offences upon fea 35, THAT all Offences committed upon the High Seas against this Act, or against any Order of Council made for may be pro- carrying this Act into Execution, fhall be deemed to be done within the Body of the County nearest to the Place where fuch Offence was committed, and fhall and may be profe cuted within fuch County. fecuted within the neareft county. Defendants illue. 36, THAT if any Action or Suit fhall be commenced may plead against any Perfon or Perfons for any Thing done in purthe general fuance and Execution of this prefent Act, or of any Order of Council made by virtue thereof, the Defendant or Defendants in fuch Action or Suit may plead the General Iffue, and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence at any Trial to be had thereupon, and that the fame was done in pursuance and in the Execution of the faid Act; and if it fhall appear fo to have been done, then the Jury fhall find for the Defendant or Defendants; and if the Plaintiff fhall be nonfuited, or difcontinue his Action after the Defendant or Defendants fhall have appeared, or if Judgment shall have been given upon any Verdict or Demurrer against the Plaintiff, the Defendant or Defendants fhall and may recover Treble Cofts, and have the like Remedy for the fame as the Defendant or Defendants hath or Limitation have in other Cafes by Law; and that no fuch Action or Treble cofts. of actions. Suit fhall be brought against any Perfon for any Matter or GEO. 11, Thing done in purfuance or Execution of this Act, but 39,40, c. 80, within the Space of Two Years after fuch Matter or Thing -PLAGUE. fhall have been done. POLICE, mencement of this act. 37, THAT this Act fhall commence and take Effect, ex- Comcept as is herein-before otherwife provided, on the First Day of October One thousand eight hundred. No. LVIII. WILLIAM and MARY, Parl. 1, 1689, c. 3. Abolishing Prelacy. WHEREAS the Estates of this Kingdom in their Claim Claim of of Right, of the Eleventh of April laft, declared, That right. Prelacy, and the Superiority of any Office in the Church above Prefbyters, is, and hath been, a great and infupportable Grievance to this Nation, and contrary to the Inclinations of the generality of the People ever fince the Reformation, they having reformed from Popery by Prefbyters, and therefore ought to be Abolished: Our Soveraign Lord and Lady, the King and Queen's Majefties, with Advice and Confent of the Eftates of Parliament, do hereby abolish Prelacy, and all Superiority of any Office in the Church of this Kingdom above Prefbyters; and hereby Refcinds, Caffes, and Annuls, the first Act of the fecond Acts reSeffion of the first Parliament of King Charles the Second; establishing and the second Act of the third Seffion of the firft Parlia- prelacy. ment of King Charles the Second; and the fourth Act of the third Parliament of King Charles the Second, and all other Acts, Statutes, and Conftitutions, in fo far allanerly as they are inconfiftent with this Act, and do establish Prelacy, or the Superiority of Church Officers above Prefbyters. And the King and Queen's Majefties do declare, that They, with Advice and Confent of the Estates of this Parliament, will fettle by Law, that Church-Government in this Kingdom which is most agreeable to the Inclinations of the People. fcinded WM. MARY, No. LIX. WILLIAM and MARY, Parl. 1, Seff. 2, 1690, c. 1. A re fcinding the First Act of the Second Parliament 1669. OUR Soveraign Lord and Lady, the King and Queen's Majefties, taking into their Confideration, that by the fecond Article of the Grievances prefented to their Majef ties, by the Estates of this Kingdom, it is declared, That the first Act of the second Parliament of King Charles the King's ec- Second, entituled, A&t afferting His Majefty's Supremacy fupremacy over all Perfons, and in all Caufes Ecclefiaftical, is inconabolished. fiftent with the Establishment of the Church-Government elefiaftical now defired, and ought to be abrogat. Therefore their Majefties, with Advice and Confent of the Eftates of Parliament, do hereby Abrogat, Refcind, and Annul, the forefaid Act, and declares the fame in the whole Heads, Articles, and Claufes thereof, to be of no force or effect in all time coming. Narrative as to the nifters. No. LX. WILLIAM and MARY, Parl. 1, Seff. 2, 1690, c. 2. All refloring the Prefbyterian Ministers who were thrust from their Churches fince the first day of January 1661. FORASMUCH as by an Act of this prefent Parliament, reouted mi- lative to, and in profecution of, the Claim of Right, Prelacy, and the Superiority of Church-Officers above Prefbyters, is abolished; and that many Minifters of the Prebyterian Perfuafion, fince the firft of January One thousand fix hundred and fixty-one, have been deprived of their Churches, or banished, for not conforming to Prelacy, and not complying with the courfes of the Time: Therefore their Majefties, with Advice and Consent of the Estates of Parliament, ordain and appoint, that all these Presbyterian Minifters, yet alive, who were thruft from their Charges 3 |