Penalty on unlawful recruit

ing.

shall be employed by any Marine, knowing him to be such, to
sell any Arms, Ammunition, Marine Clothes, or Military Fur-
niture, or any other Articles which according to the Custom
of the Marine Corps are generally deemed Regimental Neces-
saries, or any Provisions, Sheets, or other Articles used in
Barracks or provided under Barrack Regulations, or who shall
have in his or her Possession or Keeping any Arms, Ammu-
nition, Marine Clothes, or Military Furniture, or any other
Articles which, according to the Custom of the Marine Corps,
are generally deemed Regimental Necessaries, or any Provisions,
Sheets, or other Articles used in Barracks or provided under
Barrack Regulations, and shall not give a satisfactory Account
how he or she came by the same, or shall change or cause the
Colour or Mark of any such Clothes, Appointments, or Neces-
saries to be changed or defaced, shall forfeit for every such
Offence any Sum not exceeding Twenty Pounds, together with
Treble the Value of all or any of the several Articles of which
such Offender shall so become possessed; and if any Person
having been so convicted shall afterwards be guilty of any such
Offence, and shall be convicted thereof by One or more Justices
of the Peace, every such Offender shall for every such Offence
forfeit any Sum not exceeding Twenty Pounds but not less
than Five Pounds, and the Treble Value of all or any of the
several Articles of which such Offender shall have so become
possessed, and shall, in addition to such Forfeiture, be com-
mitted to the Common Gaol or House or Correction, there to
be imprisoned only, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard
Labour, for such Term not exceeding Six Calendar Months as
the convicting Justice or Justices shall think fit; and upon any
Information against any Person for a Second or any subsequent
Offence, a Copy of the Conviction certified by the proper Officer
having the Care or Custody of such Conviction, or any Copy
of the same proved to be a true Copy, shall be sufficient Evi-
dence to prove a Conviction for the former Offence; and if any
credible Person shall prove on Oath before a Justice of the
Peace or Person exercising like Authority according to the
Laws of that Part of Her Majesty's Dominions in which the
Offence shall be committed, a reasonable Cause to suspect that
any Person has in his or her Possession or on his or her Pre-
mises any Property of the Description herein-before described,
on or with respect to which any such Offence shall have been
committed, the Justice may and he is hereby required to grant
a Warrant to search for such Property as in the Case of stolen
Goods; and if upon Search any such Property shall be found
the same shall and may be seized by the Officer charged with
the Execution of such Warrant, who shall bring the Offender
in whose Possession the same shall be found before such Justice,
to be dealt with according to Law.

LXXXII. And be it enacted, That all the Persons (except
such Recruiting Parties as may be stationed under Military
Command) who shall cause to be advertised, posted, or dis-
persed Bills for the Purpose of procuring Recruits or Sub-

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stitutes for the Royal Marines, or shall open or keep any House or Place of Rendezvous or Office, or receive any Person therein under such Bill or Advertisement as connected with the Marine recruiting Service, or shall directly or indirectly interfere therewith, without Permission in Writing from the Lord High Admiral, or the said Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral, shall forfeit for every such Offence the Sum of Twenty Pounds.

LXXXIII. And for the better Preservation of the Game and Fish in or near such Place where any Officer shall at any Time be quartered, be it enacted, That every Officer who shall, without Leave in Writing from the Person or Persons entitled to grant such Leave, take, kill, or destroy any Game or Fish within the United Kingdom, and who upon Complaint thereof shall be, upon Oath of One or more credible Witness or Witnesses, convicted before any Justice, shall for every such Offence forfeit the Sum of Five Pounds.

Penalty on
Officers killing

Game.

LXXXIV. And be it enacted, That if any Action shall be Limitation of brought against any Member or Minister of a Court-martial to Actions. be assembled under the Authority of this Act, in respect of the Proceedings or the Sentence thereof, or against any other Person, for any thing done in pursuance or under the Authority of this Act, the same shall be brought in some one of the Courts of Record at Westminster or Dublin, or in the Court of Session in Scotland, and shall be commenced within Six Months next after the Cause of Action shall arise, and that it shall be lawful for the Defendant or Defendants therein to plead thereto the General Issue, and to give all special Matter in Evidence on the Trial, and if the Verdict shall be for the Defendant in any such Action, or if the Plaintiff shall become nonsuit or suffer any Discontinuance thereof, or if, in Scotland, the Court shall see fit to assoilzie the Defendant or dismiss the Complaint, the Court in which the Matter shall be tried shall allow the Defendant Treble Costs, for the Recovery of which he shall have the like Remedy as in other Cases where Costs by the Laws of this Realm are given to Defendants.

Penalties.

LXXXV. And be it enacted, That all Offences for which Recovery of any pecuniary Penalty or Forfeiture not exceeding Twenty Pounds, over and above any Forfeiture of Value or Treble Value, is by this Act imposed, shall and may be heard and determined by any Justice of the Peace in or near to the Place where the Offence shall be committed, or where the Offender may at any Time happen to be; and all such Penalties and Forfeitures, and Forfeiture of Value and Treble Value, and also the reasonable Costs attending the Prosecution, to be duly ascertained and awarded by such Justice, shall and may be enforced and recovered in the same Manner as any pecuniary Penalties may be recovered under the Provisions of an Act passed in the Third Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act to facilitate summary Pro- 3 G. 4. c. 25. ceedings before Justices of the Peace and others, and by another Act passed in the Fifth Year of the Reign of His said Majesty, intituled

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5 G. 4. c. 18.

Appropriation of Penalties.

intituled An Act for the more effectual Recovery of Penalties before Justices and Magistrates on Conviction of Offenders, and for facilitating the Execution of Warrants by Constables: Provided always, that in all Cases in which there shall not be sufficient Goods whereon any Penalty or Forfeiture can be levied, the Offender may be committed and imprisoned for any Time not exceeding Six Months; which said recited Acts shall be used and applied in Scotland for the Recovery of all such Penalties and Forfeitures as fully to all Intents as if the said recited Acts had extended to Scotland, any thing in the said recited Acts to the contrary notwithstanding; and all such Offences committed in the British Isles, or in any of Her Majesty's Dominions beyond the Seas, may be determined, and the Penalties and Forfeitures of Value or Treble Value recovered, before any Justices of the Peace or Persons exercising like Authority, according to the Laws of Her Majesty's Dominions in which the Offence shall be committed; and all Penalties and Forfeitures by this Act imposed exceeding Twenty Pounds shall be recovered by Action in some of the Courts of Record at Westminster or in Dublin, or in the Court of Session in Scotland, and in no other Court in the United Kingdom, and may be recovered in the British Isles, or in any other Part of Her Majesty's Dominions, in any of the Royal or Superior Courts of such Isles or other Parts of Her Majesty's Dominions.

LXXXVI. And be it enacted, That one Moiety of every such Penalty or Forfeiture, not including any Treble Value of any Articles, shall go to the Person who shall inform or sue for the same, and the other Moiety, together with the Treble Value of such Articles, or where the Offence shall be proved by the Person who shall inform, then the whole of the Penalty and such Treble Value, shall be paid over and applied in such Manner as the Lord High Admiral or the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral shall direct; any thing in an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His 5&6 W.4.c. 76. late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act to provide for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales, or in any other Act or Acts of Parliament, to the contrary notwithstanding; and every Justice who shall adjudge any Penalty under this Act shall, within Four Days thereafter at the furthest, report the same, and his Adjudication thereof, to the Secretary of the Admiralty.

Licences of
Canteens.

LXXXVII. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for any Two Justices of the Peace, within their respective Jurisdictions, to grant or transfer any Licence for selling by Retail any Spirit, Beer, Wine, Cider, or Perry to any Person or Persons applying for the same who shall hold any Canteen under any Lease thereof, or by Agreement with any Department or other Authority under the said Lord High Admiral, or the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral for the Time being, without regard to the Time of Year, or any Notices or Certificates required by any Act in respect of such Licences; and the Commissioners of Excise or their proper

Officers

Officers within their respective Districts shall also grant or transfer any such Licence as aforesaid; and such Persons holding such Canteens, and having such Licences as aforesaid, may sell therein Victuals, and all such exciseable Liquors as they shall be licensed and empowered to sell, without being subject for so doing to any Penalty or Forfeiture whatever.

Settlement.

LXXXVIII. And be it enacted, That any Justice in the Mode of record. United Kingdom, within whose Jurisdiction any Marine shall ing a Marine's be quartered on shore, may summon such Marine before him, which Summons such Marine is hereby required to obey, and take his Examination in Writing upon Oath touching the Place of his last legal Settlement in England; and such Justice shall give an attested Copy of such Examination to the Person so examined, to be by him delivered to his Commanding Officer to be produced when required; which said Examination and such attested Copy shall be at any Time admitted in Evidence as to such legal Settlement before any Justice or at any General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace, although such Marine be dead or absent from the Kingdom: Provided always, that in case any Marine shall be again summoned to make Oath as aforesaid, then, on such Examination or such attested Copy being produced, such Marine shall not be obliged to make any other or further Oath with regard to his legal Settlement, but shall leave with such Justice a Copy of such Examination or a Copy of such attested Copy of Examination, if required.

of Oaths.

LXXXIX. And be it enacted, That all Oaths and Decla- Admin ist ration rations which are authorized or required by this Act may be administered (unless where otherwise provided) by any Justice of the Peace or Magistrate acting as such; and that any Person Perjury. giving false Evidence or taking a false Oath or Declaration in any Case wherein an Oath or Declaration is authorized or required to be taken by this Act, and being thereof duly convicted, shall be deemed guilty of wilful and corrupt Perjury, and shall be liable to such Pains and Penalties as Persons convicted of wilful and corrupt Perjury are or may be subject and liable to.

Terms.

XC. And be it enacted, That all Clauses and Provisions in Definition of this Act contained relating to England shall be construed to extend to Wales and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed; and all Clauses and Provisions relating to Marines shall be construed to include Non-commissioned Officers and Drummers, unless when otherwise provided; and all Clauses and Provisions relating to Justices shall be construed to extend to all Magistrates authorized to act as such in their respective Jurisdictions; and all the Powers given to and Regulations made for the Conduct of Constables, and all Penalties and Forfeitures for any Neglect thereof, shall extend to all Tithingmen, Headboroughs, and such like Officers, and Inspectors or other Officers of Police, and High Constables, and other chief Officers and Magistrates of Cities, Towns, Villages, and Places in England and Ireland, and to all Justices of the Peace, Magistrates of Burghs, Commissioners of Police, and other chief Officers and Magistrates

Marines not to private Houses,

be billeted in

&c.

Duration of
Act.

Act may be amended, &c.

Magistrates of Cities, Towns, Villages, Parishes, and Places in Scotland, who shall act in the Execution of this Act; and all Provisions for billeting Marines in Victualling Houses shall extend and apply to all Inns, Livery Stables, Alehouses, and to the Houses of Sellers of Wine by Retail, whether British or Foreign, to be drank in their own Houses or Places thereunto belonging, and to all Houses of Persons selling Brandy, Strong Waters, Cider, or Metheglin, by Retail, in England and Ireland; and in Ireland, when there shall not be found sufficient Room in such Houses, then Marines may be billeted in such Manner as has been heretofore customary: Provided always, that no Officer or Marine shall be billeted in England in any private Houses or in any Canteen held or occupied under the Authority of the Ordnance or Marine Department, or upon Persons who keep Taverns only being Vintners of the City of London admitted to their Freedom of that Company in right of Patrimony or Apprenticeship, notwithstanding such Persons who keep such Taverns only have taken out Victualling Licences; nor in the House of any Distiller kept for distilling Brandy and Strong Waters; nor in the House of any Shopkeeper whose principal Dealings shall be more in other Goods and Merchandize than in Brandy and Strong Waters, so as such Distillers and Shopkeepers do not permit Tippling in such Houses; nor in the House or Residence in any Part of the United Kingdom of any Foreign Consul duly credited as such.

XCI. And be it enacted, That this Act shall continue in force within Great Britain from the Twenty-fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven until the Twenty-fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight inclusive; and within Ireland, and in Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, and the Isle of Man, and the Islands thereto belonging, from the First Day of May One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven until the First Day of May One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight inclusive; and within the Garrison of Gibraltar, and in Spain and Portugal, from the Twenty-fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven until the Twenty-fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight inclusive; and in all other Parts of Europe where Royal Marine Forces may be serving, and the West Indies and North America and Cape of Good Hope, from the Twenty-fifth Day of September One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven until the Twenty-fifth Day of September One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight inclusive; and in all other Places from the Twenty-fifth Day of November One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven until the Twenty-fifth Day of November One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight inclusive.

XCII. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of Parliament.

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