your Baili We command you, [or as before or often we have commanded you,] that you omit not by reason of any Liberty in wick, but that you enter the same, and take C.D. of if he shall be found in your Bailiwick, and him safely keep until he shall have given you Bail or made Deposit with you according to Law in an Action on Promises [or of Debt, etc.], at the Suit of A.B., or until the said C.D. shall by other lawful Means be discharged from your Custody. And We do further command you, that on Execution hereof you do deliver a Copy hereof to the said C.D. And We hereby require the said C.D. to take notice, that within Eight Days after Execution hereof on him, inclusive of the Day of such Execution, he should cause Special Bail to be put in for him in Our Court of to the said Action, and that in default of his so doing such Proceedings may be had and taken as are mentioned in the Warning hereunder written or indorsed hereon. And We do further command you the said Sheriff, that immediately after the Execution hereof you do return this Writ to Our said Court, together with the Manner in which you shall have executed the same, and the Day of the Execution hereof; or that if the same shall remain unexecuted, then that you do so return the same at the Expiration of Four Calendar Months from the Date hereof, or sooner if you shall be thereto required by Order of the said Court or by any Judge thereof. Witness of at Westminstr the Day Memoranda to be subscribed to the Writ. N.B. This Writ is to be executed within Four Calendar Months from the Date thereof, including the Day of such Date, and not afterwards. A Warning to the Defendant. 1. If a Defendant, being in Custody, shall be detained on this Writ, or if a Defendant, being arrested thereon, shall go to Prison for Want of Bail, the Plaintiff may declare against any such Defendant before the End of the Term next after such Detainer or Arrest, and proceed thereon to Judgment and Execution. 2. If a Defendant, being arrested on this Writ, shall have made a Deposit of Money according to the Statute 7 & 8 Geo. 4. c. 71., and shall omit to enter a Common Appearance to the Action, the the Plaintiff will be at liberty to enter a Common Appearance for the Defendant, and proceed thereon to Judgment and Execution. 3. If a Defendant, having given Bail on the Arrest, shall omit to put in Special Bail as required, the Plaintiff may proceed against the Sheriff or on the Bail Bond. 4. If a Defendant, having been served only with this Writ, and not arrested thereon, shall not enter a Cominon Appearance within Eight Days after such Service, the Plaintiff may enter a Common Appearance for such Defendant, and proceed thereon to Judgment and Execution. Indorsements to be made on the Writ of Capias. This Writ was issued in Person by the Plaintiff within named, who resides at [mention the City, Town, or Parish, and also the Name of the Hamlet, Street, and Number of the House of the Plaintiff's Residence, if any such there be.] No. 5. Writ of Detainer. WILLIAM the Fourth, etc. To the Marshal of the Marshalsea of Our Court before Us [or To the Warden of Our Prison of the Fleet]. We command you, that you detain C.D. if he shall be found in your Custody at the Delivery hereof to you, and him safely keep in an Action on Promises [or of Debt, etc., as the Case may be], at the Suit of A. B., until he shall be lawfully discharged from your Custody. And We do further command you, that on Receipt hereof you do warn the said C.D., by serving a Copy hereof on him, that within Eight Days after Service of such Copy, inclusive of the Day of such Service, he do cause Special Bail to be put in for him in Our Court of to the said Action; and that in default of his so doing the said A.B. may declare against him before the End of the Term next after his Detainer, and proceed thereon to Judgment and Execution. And We do further command you the said [Marshal or Warden, as the Case may be], that immediately after the Service hereof you do return this Our Writ, or a Copy hereof, to Our said Court, together with the Day of the Service hereof. Witness at Westminster the of Day N.B.-This Writ is to be indorsed in the same Manner as the Writ of Capias, but not to contain the Warning on that Writ. No. 6. Writ of Summons to be served on a Member of Parliament in order to enforce the Provisions of the Statute 6 Geo. 4. c. 16. s.10. WILLIAM the Fourth, etc. To C.D. of, etc. Esquire, having Privilege of Parliament, We command you, that within One Calendar Month next after of Day N.B.-This Writ is to be served within Four Calendar Months from the Date thereof, including the Day of such Date, and not afterwards. Direction. This Summons is to be indorsed with the Name of the Plaintiff or his Attorney in like Manner as the Writ of Capias. CA P. XL. An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Business of the Civil Departments of the Navy, and to make other Regulations for more effectually carrying on the Duties of the said Departments. [1st June 1832.] W WHEREAS His Majesty, by His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal, bearing Date the Second Day of • November One thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, was pleased to constitute and appoint certain Persons therein named to be principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy, and by other Letters Patent under the Great Seal, bearing Date the Twenty-fifth Day of February One thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, was pleased to constitute and appoint <certain other Persons therein named Commissioners for victualling His Majesty's Navy, and for the Care of sick and wounded Seamen: And whereas it has been deemed expedient that the • Number of Offices in the Civil Departments of the Navy should be reduced, and to that End that the Offices or Departments of the principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy, and of the Commissioners for victualling His Majesty's Navy, and for the Care of sick and wounded Seamen, should be abolished: And whereas various Duties of the said Commis 6 sioners In case His revoke the sioners of the Navy and for Victualling, the Powers and Authorities vested in them by any Statutes shall be transferred to the Admiralty. sioners being established and regulated by divers Acts of Parliament, it is requisite that such Acts should in some Cases be 'altered, and new Provisions made for the due Execution of the 'said Duties:' Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That in case His Majesty shall be pleased to cancel and revoke the said Letters Patent by which the said several Persons were respectively constituted and appointed principal Officers and Commissioners of the Navy, and Commissioners for victualling His Majesty's Navy, and for the Care of sick and wounded Seamen, as aforesaid, all the Interests, Titles, Authorities, Powers, and Duties vested in the said respective Commissioners by any Act or Acts of Parliament, and every Matter relating to them and their respective Offices, shall from and after such Revocation be and the same are hereby declared to be transferred to the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the Time being, and shall be vested in and exercised by them in as full and ample a Manner, to all Intents and Purposes, as if they had been named in the said Acts instead of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy, and the Commissioners for victualling His Majesty's Navy, and for the Care of sick and wounded Seamen respectively, Commissioners subject however to the Provisions herein-after established: Provided always, that such Transfer shall not be deemed to confer on the said Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral aforesaid any new Office within the Meaning of an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Anne, intituled An Act for the Security of Her Majesty's Person and Government, and of the Succession to the Crown of Great Britain in the Protestant Line; nor shall any such Commissioner last mentioned, by taking upon himself, under any new Letters Patent which His Majesty may think fit to cause to be issued, the Duties of the Offices so abolished, be disqualified from sitting and voting in Parliament, or thereby vacate the Seat in Parliament which any such Commissioner may then hold; any thing contained in the said Act of Queen Anne, or in any other Act, or any Usage of Parliament, to the contrary notwithstanding; but it is nevertheless hereby declared, that from and after the passing of this Act no greater Number than Five Commissioners of the Admiralty shall be competent at any One Time to sit and vote in the Commons House of Parliament. of the Admi ralty not there by disqualified from sitting in Parliament. Lands, &c. vested in Navy and Victualling Commissioners transferred to the Admiralty. II. And be it further enacted, That from and after the Revocation of the said Letters Patent, all Manors, Messuages, Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, Erections, Buildings, and Property whatever heretofore purchased, taken, held, or in any Manner occupied by or in the Name of His Majesty or His Royal Progenitors, for the Use of the Naval or Victualling Departments, or which by an Act of the First and Second Years of the Reign of 1 & 2 G. 4. c. 93. His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for vesting all Estates and Property occupied by or for the Naval Service of this Kingdom in the principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy, and for granting certain Powers to the said principal principal Officers and Commissioners; or by an Act passed in the 1 & 2 G. 4. same Session of Parliament, for vesting certain Lands and Here- c.107. ditaments at Gillingham in the County of Kent in Trustees, to be appropriated to the Public Service in the Department of the Navy; or by an Act passed in the Fifth Year of the Reign of 5 G. 4. c. 49. His said Majesty, for enabling the Commissioners for victualling His Majesty's Navy to purchase certain Premises for completing a Victualling Establishment at Cremill Point near Plymouth in the County of Devon, and for supplying the said Establishment with Water; or by an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the same 6 G. 4. c. 36. Reign, for enabling the Corporation of Pembroke to convey to the Commissioners of the Navy the Right of letting the Stalls, Sittings, and other Conveniences in the Market established in the Town of Pembroke Dock, and the Right to the Rents, Tolls, and Fees thereof; or by an Act passed in the same Year, for enabling 6 G. 4. c. 103. the Commissioners of the Navy to acquire certain Portions of the Docks and Shore Ground at Leith for a Naval Yard; or which by any other Act of Parliament, or by any Deed or Deeds, have been conveyed to or vested in the principal Officers and Commissioners of the Navy, or the Commissioners for victualling His Majesty's Navy, according to their respective Estates and Interests therein and Titles thereto, with their Appurtenances, and all Rights, Capacities, Powers, Authorities, and Duties vested in the said Commissioners of the Navy and Victualling respectively by any of the said Acts, shall be and the same are hereby declared to be transferred to and vested in the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral aforesaid for the Time being, to be held, enjoyed, and executed by them and their Successors in Office, in Trust for His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, for the Public Service; and every Clause, Covenant, Matter, and Thing contained in the said Acts of Parliament and Deeds respectively shall extend and be applied to the said lastmentioned Commissioners, in as full and ample a Manner, to all Intents and Purposes, as if they had been named therein instead of the Commissioners of the Navy and Victualling respectively. III. And be it further enacted, That from and after the RevoIcation of the said Letters Patent, all Contracts, Covenants, and Agreements made between the said Commissioners of the Navy and Victualling respectively, or any Person on their Behalf, and any other Person or Persons whomsoever, for the Supply of any Stores, Goods, or other Things for His Majesty's Service, or for the Performance of any Work, or on any other Account in anywise relating to the Naval and Victualling Departments respectively, or in which the said Commissioners are in any Manner interested or concerned, shall in like Manner be transferred to and vested in the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral aforesaid for the Time being, and shall be executed and enforced by them in the same Manner as if they had been named therein. IV. And whereas by an Act passed in the Eleventh Year of 6 Navy Contracts transferred Duties of the ferred, except |