same Privileges during the Continuance of their, his or her said to Persons comContract, as they, he or she would have enjoyed under the said pounding for Acts, if they respectively had originally compounded for a Car- Male Servants, riage with Four Wheels; and all and every Person or Persons 52 G. 3. c. 93. under Sch. (C.) who have or hath compounded under the said Acts, or who shall compound under this Act for a Male Servant or Male Servants, chargeable with Duty under Schedule (C.) Number 1. of an Act passed in the Fifty second Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, may employ any Male Person or Male Persons, not being Servants to such Persons so compounding, as occasional Waiters, or in any of the Capacities enumerated in the said Schedule (C.) Number 1. free of any Duty, provided such respective Employments shall not exceed or extend beyond those allowed and defined by the Rules contained in the Schedule marked (C.) Number 3. of the said last mentioned Act, in respect of such Male Persons last mentioned; and all Assessments made or to be made on such Persons so compounding as last aforesaid, during the Continuance of his, her or their Composition, in respect of any such occasional Waiters or Male Persons aforesaid, shall be null and void. and other Officers acting VIII. And be it further enacted, That the several Persons who Commissioners for the Time being shall be Commissioners for putting in Execution the Acts relating to Assessed Taxes, and the said recited Acts under the formfor compounding for the said Duties, shall be Commissioners for er Composition putting in Execution this Act, and the Powers herein referred to Acts, to act in or contained, in all and every the respective Counties, Ridings, like Manner in Divisions, Shires and Stewartries, Cities, Boroughs, Cinque Ports, the Execution Towns and Places in Great Britain; and the several Assessors, of this Act. Collectors, Surveyors, Inspectors and Inspectors General for the Time being, appointed or to be appointed to put in Execution the said Acts, shall respectively be Assessors, Collectors, Surveyors, Inspectors and Inspectors General, to put in Execution this Act within the Limits of their respective Divisions, Districts and. Places to which they are or shall be appointed; and the respective Commissioners and other Persons authorized by the said. recited Acts to contract and agree for such Compositions, or to do or perform any other Matter or Thing for carrying the said recited Acts into Execution, shall severally and respectively contract and agree for the Compositions to be entered into under this Act, and do and perform all such other Matters and Things as are required to be done and performed in the Execution of this Act, within the Limits of their respective Jurisdictions; and all the Powers and Authorities given and granted to them by or under the said recited Acts, so far as they apply, and are not repugnant to the Provisions of this Act, shall and they are hereby declared to be levied and continued for and during the respective Terms herein limited, in as ample and effectual a Manner as if the same Powers and Authorities were expressly re-enacted by this Act, and shall severally be applied, construed, deemed and taken to belong to this Act, as Part thereof, in like Manner as if the same had been herein expressly given, granted, and applied by this Act; and the said Commissioners and others before mentioned are hereby empowered and required to do and perform all Things necessary for putting this Act in Execution, in the like 0 3 and Provisions of sition Acts to remain in force, except as varied by this Act. and in as full and ample a Manner as they or any of them are or were or was authorized to put in Execution the said several recited Acts. IX. And be it further enacted, That all and every the Proformer Compo- visions, Directions, Rules, Regulations, Methods, Clauses, Matters and Things contained in the said recited Acts, although expressly applied to the Compositions made under the said Acts, or either of them, shall severally and respectively be construed and deemed to apply to the Compositions to be entered into under this Act, and (except where other Provisions, Directions, Rules, Regulations, Methods, Clauses, Matters and Things are substituted in and by this Act,) shall severally and respectively be used and practised in ascertaining the Amount on which any Composition is to be made, and the additional Rate to be imposed thereon, and in doing and performing all other Matters and Things necessary for carrying this Act into Execution, and shall be construed, deemed, and taken to belong to this Act, as Part thereof, in like Manner as if the same were severally repeated in and expressly applied to the Provisions of this Act; and where other Provisions, Directions, Rules, Regulations, Methods, Clauses, Matters or Things are substituted by this Act, in lieu of any Provisions, Directions, Rules, Regulations, Methods, Clauses, Matters or Things contained in the said Acts, the same respectively shall be construed, used and practised in such Manner and to the like Effect in all respects, as if the said recited Acts and this Act had been incorporated, and as if this Act had expressly abrogated and made void the several Parts of the said recited Acts, in lieu whereof any Part or Parts of this Act are or is substituted. 52 G. 3. c. 93. Act may be altered, &c. this Session. X. And Whereas Doubts have arisen whether, under the Provisions of an Act passed in the present Session of Parliament, intituled An Act for repealing certain of the Duties of Assessed Taxes, for reducing certain other of the said Duties, and for relieving Persons who have compounded for the same, the Duty of Three Shillings, theretofore chargeable under the Schedule marked (F.) of an Act passed in the Fifty second Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third (a), therein described, for Horses, Mares or Geldings being under the Height of Thirteen Hands, are wholly repealed, or reduced only; and it is reasonable and proper to remove such Doubts;' Be it further enacted, and it is hereby declared, That all and every the Provisions in the said Act contained, for repealing the several Duties of Three Shillings, and of Two Shillings and Ten Pence, and Two Pence, respectively, chargeable by the several Acts therein recited for and in respect of Horses, Mares, Geldings or Mules, shall be deemed and taken to extend to the Repeal of the said Duties of Three Shillings on all Horses, Mares or Geldings under the Height of Thirteen Hands in the said Schedule (F.) described; any thing in the said recited Acts contained to the contrary notwithstanding. XI. And be it further enacted, That this Act may be altered, varied or repealed, by any Act or Acts to be passed in this present Session of Parliament. (a) [See Cap. 4. § 1. ante.] The The SCHEDULE to which this Act refers. Form of Contract of Composition under the Act of the Fourth of George the Fourth. Amount of Duties. £. s. d. Amount of Duties. Schedules.. s. d. . C. No. 1. C. No. 3. D. No. 1. D. No. 2. D. No. 4. - E. No. 1. . E. No. 3. - G. . I. K. shall duly pay or in the said Division in pursuance of an Act passed in shall remove, and to which any Part of the said Composition shall thereupon be transferred, under the Provision of the said Act, by Two Instalments; viz. 1st Instalment, on or before the Tenth Day of October: 2d Instalment, on or before the Fifth Day of April; and so yearly, during the respective Terms of Five Years and Four Years, from the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and twenty three, mentioned in the said Act. The Condition of the above Composition is, That the above cause to be paid to the Collectors by Two Instalments for the said Compositions, or one of them, on or before the Days above mentioned, upon Demand, the yearly Sum of in even Portions, taking their or his Receipt in Writing for the same, otherwise the said Composition shall be levied of the Goods and Chattels of the said or sued for and recovered by any of the Ways and Means by which the Monies due on Assessments may be sued for and recovered. Witness, Witness, Clerk. Clerk. Commissioners of the within Divisions. N.B.-With the Consent of the Commissioners, the Collector of the Parish may witness the Signature of the Party to the Contract. 6 G.2. c.37. § 5. 27 G. 2. c.19. § 49. CAP. XLVI. An Act for repealing the Capital Punishments inflicted by several Acts of the Sixth and Twenty seventh Years of King George the Second, and of the Third, Fourth and Twenty second Years of King George the Third; and for providing other Punishments in lieu thereof, and in lieu of the Punishment of Frame breaking under an Act of the Twenty eighth Year of the same Reign. [4th July 1823.] W HEREAS by an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, intituled An Act for making perpetual the several Acts therein mentioned, for the 'better Regulation of Juries, and for empowering the Justices of Session or Assizes for the Counties Palatine of Chester, Lan'caster and Durham, to appoint a Special Jury in Manner therein mentioned; and for continuing the Act for regulating the Manu'facture of Cloth in the West Riding of the County of York (except a Clause therein contained); and for continuing an Act for the more effectual punishing wicked and evil disposed Persons going armed in Disguise, and for other Purposes therein mentioned; and to prevent the cutting or breaking down the Bank of any River or any Sea Bank; and to prevent the malicious cutting off Hop Binds; and for continuing an Act made in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Years of the Reign of King Charles the Second, for preventing Theft and Rapine upon the Northern Borders of England, and for reviving and continuing certain Clauses in Two other Acts made for the same Purpose, it is among other Things enacted, that if any Person or Persons shall unlawfully and maliciously break down or cut down the Bank or Banks of any River or any Sea Bank, whereby any Lands shall be overflowed or damaged, every Person so offending, being thereof lawfully 'convicted, shall be adjudged guilty of Felony, and shall suffer Death as in Cases of Felony without Benefit of Clergy: And Whereas by the same Act it is further enacted, that if any Person or Persons shall unlawfully and maliciously cut any Hop Binds growing on Poles in any Plantation of Hops, every Person or Persons so offending, being thereof lawfully convicted, shall be adjudged guilty of Felony, and shall suffer Death as in Cases of Felony without Benefit of Clergy: And Whereas by an Act passed in the Twenty seventh Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act for discharging the Corporation of the Governor, Bailiffs and Commonalty of the Company of Conservators of the Great Level of the Fens, commonly called Bedford Level, from a Debt due to the Duke of Bedford and Earl of Lincoln; and for enabling the Proprietors of Lands in the North Level, Part of the said Great Level, to raise Money to discharge the Proportion of the said North Level in the Debts of the said Corporation; and for ascertaining and appropriating the Taxes to be laid on the said North Level; and for the more effectual draining and preserving the said North Level, and divers Lands adjoining thereto, in the Manor of Crowland; it is among other Things enacted, that if any Per 6 ⚫ son 4 son or Persons shall maliciously cut, break down, burn, demolish or destroy any Bank, Mill, Engine, Flood Gate or Sluice, making or erecting, or made or erected, supported or main'tained, for answering the Purposes specified in the said Act, every Person or Persons so offending, being thereof convicted, shall be guilty of Felony, and shall suffer Death as Felons with'out Benefit of Clergy: And Whereas by an Act passed in the 6 § 6. Third Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the 3 G.3. c.16. Third, intituled An Act to empower the Commissioners or Governors of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, after defraying the necessary Expences thereof, to provide for such Seamen, worn out and become decrepit in the Service of their Country, who shall not be provided for within the said Hospital, and to enable 'them to receive such Pensions as shall be granted them by the said Commissioners or Governors in the most easy and convenient Manner, and for preventing Frauds and Abuses attending the same, it is among other Things enacted, that whosoever willingly and knowingly shall personate or falsely assume the Name or Character of, or procure any other to personate or falsely to assume the Name and Character of any Person entitled or ⚫ supposed to be entitled as an Out Pensioner to any Out Pension or Allowance of Money, from the Commissioners or Governors of the said Hospital, in order to receive the Money 'due or supposed to be due on such Out Pension, every such Person so offending, and being lawfully convicted of any such 'Offence or Offences, shall be deemed guilty of Felony, and suffer Death as a Felon without Benefit of Clergy: And Whereas it is expedient that a lesser Degree of Punishment should be 'provided for the several Offences created by the above recited Acts: 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 so much of the repealed; and said recited Acts as excludes the Benefit of Clergy from Persons Offenders to be convicted of the Felonies thereby respectively created, shall be liable to Transand the same are hereby repealed; and that from and after the portation. passing of this Act, any Person convicted of the said Felonies, or any of them, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the Seas for Life, or for any Term not less than Seven Years, or to be imprisoned only, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard Labour in the Common Gaol or House of Correction, for any Term not exceeding Seven Years. II. And Whereas by an Act passed in the Fourth Year of 4 G.3. c.37. the Reign of His said late Majesty King George the Third, in- $ 16. tituled An Act for the better establishing a Manufactory of Cam bricks and Lawns, or Goods of the kind usually known under those . Whereas |