PASSENGERS, Limitation of General Issue. Double Costs. this Act, or by or before any Justice of the Peace, shall be quashed for Want of Form, nor be removed or removable by Ĉertiorari, or any other Writ of Process whatsoever, into any of His Majesty's Courts of Record at Dublin; and where any Distress shall be made for any Sum or Sums of Money to be levied by virtue of this Act, the Distress itself shall not be deemed unlawful, nor the Party or Parties making the same be deemed a Trespasser or Trespassers, on account of any Defect or Want of Form in the Summons, Conviction, Warrant of Distress or other Proceedings relating thereto; nor shall the Party or Parties distraining be deemed a Trespasser or Trespassers ab initio, on account of any Irregularity which shall be afterwards committed by the Party or Parties distraining, but the Person or Persons aggrieved by such Irregularity shall and may recover full Satisfaction for the special Damage (if any) in an Action on the Case; but no Plaintiff or Plaintiffs shall recover in any Action for such Irregularity as aforesaid, if Tender of sufficient Amends shall have been made by or on behalf of the Party distraining before such Action commenced. Sect. 10. AND be it further enacted, That any Action or Suit which shall be brought or commenced against any Person or Persons for any thing done in pursuance and by the Authority of this Act, shall be commenced within Three Calendar Months next after the Fact committed, and not afterwards, and shall be brought in the County, City, or Place where the Cause of Action shall arise, and not elsewhere; and that the Defendant or Defendants in such Action or Suit to be brought may plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the special Matter in Evidence at any Trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done in pursuance and by the Authority of this Act; and if it shall appear to be so done, or if any such Action or Suit shall be brought after the Time before limited for bringing the same, or shall be brought in any County, City, or Place other than as aforesaid, then and in every such Case the Jury shall find for the Defendant or Defendants; and upon such Verdict, or if the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs shall be nonsuited, or shall discontinue his, her, or their Action, or if a Verdict shall pass against the Plaintiff, or if upon Demurrer Judgment shall be given against such Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, the Defendant or Defendants shall and may recover Double Costs, and have the like Remedy for the same as any Defendant or Defendants hath or have for Costs of Suit in other Cases by Law. 56° GEO. III. Cap. 57. DUTIES. An Act to repeal the Provisions of former Acts, granting SOUTH-SEA exclusive Privileges of Trade to the South Sea Company, and to indemnify the said Company for the Loss of such Privileges. SECT. 1-ABOLISHES the South Sea Company. Sect. 2-PROVIDES Indemnity to the Company, by a Guarantee Fund to be created. Sect. 5-PROVIDES the means for raising the Guarantee Fund, consisting of the following Duties:-Goods, Wares, and Merchandize imported into the United Kingdom from any Place within the Limits of the exclusive Trade of the said Company, (except Blubber, Train Oil, Head Matter, or Whale Fins, Seal Skins, and other Produce of Fish or Creatures living in the Seas, taken and caught by Crews of British Ships), a Duty of Two Pounds for every One hundred Pounds of the Value thereof. SHIPS or Vessels entering Outwards or Inwards at any Port in the United Kingdom to or from any Port or Place within the said Limits, a Duty of One Shilling and Sixpence for every Ton Burthen of such Ships or Vessels. Sect. 13-ENACTS, that when Guarantee Fund shall be completed, and Notice published in London and Dublin Gazettes, the above Duties shall cease. 34 34 36 3 ADVOCATE in Scotland may stop Proceedings ANSWERS of Master to Interrogatories to be received as Evidence on Trials AMERICA and West Indies may be declared to be in- fected with Yellow Fever, &c. BILL of Health, Manifest, and Log Book to be deli- CONSULS may administer Oaths COUNCIL to declare what Places are to be deemed in- 16 28 2 3 6 6 24 25 32. 35 33 GOODS brought in, or put on board, Ships liable to Sorts of, especially liable to Infection to be aired in manner directed by Council IRELAND Lord Lieutenant may appoint Places for performing Quarantine JUSTICES may try Offences not provided for in the Act and may fine and imprison LAZARET, Persons in, to obey Orders may be sent to by force escaping from See Persons. LOG BOOK, Manifest, and Bill of Health to be de MANIFEST, Bill of Health, and Log Book to be delivered to Officer MASTER to answer Questions to Officer coming off to his Vessel such Answers to be received as Evidence on Trials Sect. 25 having touched at infected Place, or having in- 15 14 18 18 not to quit Vessel, nor permit any Person to quit Place for Quarantine Persons authorized to administer OATHS may be administered by Consuls False, deemed Perjury OFFICER to go off to Vessel arriving, and put Ques- may compel Persons under Quarantine to obey may require other Persons to assist him in en- may compel liable Persons to repair to Lazaret guilty of any Breach of Duty, to suffer Dismis deserting from Duty, permitting Goods to be |