ing the Government of the said Island, and the said Executive Council thereof, that the Sum of Two thousand five hundred Pounds Sterling had been so expended, it should be and 'become competent to the said Company, without Licence 'from His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, to alienate and 'convey in Fee Simple, but subject to the Quit Rents aforesaid, 6 any Part or Parts of the Lands so granted to them, not ex'ceeding Twelve thousand five hundred Acres in the whole; ⚫ and such and the same Proceedings should from Time to Time ⚫ take place upon each successive Application of the said Company for the Purpose aforesaid to the said Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or other Person administering the Government of the said Island and its Dependencies, and the said • Executive Council thereof; and upon each successive Report so made as aforesaid of the further Expenditure upon any such Lands of any further Sum of Two thousand five hundred Pounds Sterling as aforesaid, the said Company should be and become competent to alienate Twelve thousand five hundred Acres, or any smaller Quantity of the Lands to be granted to them, until One Moiety or equal Half Part of such Lands ⚫ should, in manner aforesaid, become alienable; provided always, that every such Report as aforesaid should be enrolled in the Supreme Court of Van Diemen's Land; provided also, that it should be lawful for the said Company to alienate any of the Lands to be granted to them as aforesaid, upon obtaining a 'special Licence for that Purpose from His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, through One of His or their principal Secretaries of State; provided further, that every Grant or Conveyance of Lands to be made by the Company should be absolutely null and void unless the same should expressly refer to and particularize the Surveyor General's or Deputy Surveyor General's Report, or the Licence from His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, as the Case might be, under the Authority of which the same might be so granted or conveyed; provided nevertheless, that nothing therein contained should extend to or prevent any Demise of any such Lands made by the said Company for any Term not exceeding Twentyone Years, without any Covenant of Renewal, so as that not more than One Moiety of the Lands so to be granted as aforesaid be demised within Twenty Years next succeeding the Date of any such Grant; ninthly, that the Quit Rents to accrue due upon any Lands to be granted to the said Com'pany by His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, for and during the Term of Five Years, to commence and be computed from and after the Expiration of the first Five Years next following the Date of any such Grant, should not be actually collected and received until the Expiration of such Second Term of Five Years, and that at that Time all Quit Rents then due and in arrear by the said Company should be re'mitted if One hundred and fifty Convicts should have been ' regularly employed and maintained by the said Company for and during the greater Part of such Second Term of Five [No. 35. Price 2d.] • Years; 6 M m 6 • Years; tenthly, that the said Quit Rents to accrue due for ⚫ and during the further Term of Five Years, to commence and be computed from and after the Expiration of the Second Term of Five Years next following the Date of any such • Grant should not be actually collected and received until the Expiration of such Third Term of Five Years, and that at that Time all Quit Rents accrued due and then in arrear by the said Company in respect of such Third Term of Five Years 'should be remitted, if Two hundred and fifty Convicts should • have been regularly employed and maintained by the said Company for and during the greater Part of the said Third Term of Five Years; eleventhly, that the said Quit Rents to ⚫ accrue due for and during the further Term of Five Years, to commence and be computed from and after the Expiration of the said Third Term of Five Years next following the Date ⚫ of any such Grant, should not be actually collected until the Expiration of the Fourth Term of Five Years, and at that Time all Quit Rents accrued due and then in arrear by the said Company in respect of the said Fourth Term of Five Years should be remitted if Three hundred and fifty Convicts 'should have been regularly employed and maintained by the said Company for and during the greater Part of such Fourth Term of Five Years; twelfthly, that if at any Time within • Twenty Years next after the Date of any such Grant it should be made to appear to the Satisfaction of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, or of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or other Person administering the Government for the Time being of the said Island and its Dependencies, that the " said Company had by the Employment of Convicts exonerated the Treasury from a Charge equal in the whole to the Sum of Twenty-five thousand Pounds Sterling, then the Lands which might by His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, have been granted to the said Company, should be for ever discharged of and from the Quit Rents thereafter to accrue due in respect thereof, and in calculating the Amount of the Sums from which the said Treasury had been so exonerated it should be 'assumed and taken that the said Treasury had been saved the Sum of Sixteen Pounds Sterling for each and every Convict who should appear to have been maintained during One whole Year by the said Company, and in such Proportion for a lesser • Term than One Year that each and every Convict should have been so maintained by the said Company; and it was further declared that in any Grants to be made by His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, to the said Company of any Lands situate in the said Island of Van Diemen's or its Dependencies, all necessary Covenants should be made and entered into by the said Company for ensuring the due Observance and Perfor 'mance on their Part of the several Covenants, Provisoes, ⚫ and Restrictions aforesaid: And whereas by divers Instructions which have issued from Time to Time by Order of His said Majesty King George the Fourth and of His late Majesty King William the Fourth to the Governor, Lieutenant Gover nor, nor, or other Person administering the Government of the ⚫ said Island of Van Diemen's Land and its Dependencies, the said Company have been authorized to take possession of 'several Portions of Land and other Hereditaments situate in the said Island and its Dependencies, and have, with the Assent of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or other Per⚫ son administering the Government for the Time being of the 'said Island and its Dependencies, entered into and taken pos'session of the said Lands and Hereditaments, and the said Company have ever since been and now continue in the • Possession thereof, but no Grant thereof has been made to the said Company: And whereas the said Company have from Time to Time employed and maintained upon the said Lands very large Numbers of Convicts, and the Company have by such Employment and Maintenance of Convicts as • aforesaid exonerated Her Majesty's Treasury from a Charge 'exceeding in the whole the Sum of Fifteen thousand Pounds Sterling, and the said Company have also laid out large Sums of Money in the Improvement of divers Parts of the said Lands and Hereditaments: And whereas the said Company have, by the Means aforesaid and otherwise, substantially • fulfilled the material Conditions contained in the said Letters • Patent or Charter on their Part to be observed and performed, and by reason of the Lapse of Time and the Alteration of • Circumstances others of the said Conditions have become im• material, and it is just and expedient that Her Majesty should be authorized, if She should so please, to grant to the said • Company Lands and Hereditaments in the said Island and its Dependencies, freed from the Quit Rents and the other • Restrictions and Conditions in the said Letters Patent or • Charter contained, and that other Powers should be granted to the said Company; but the same cannot be effected with' out the Authority of Parliament:' May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the Queen'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 it shall be lawful for Her said Majesty, Her Heirs Her Majesty, or Successors, from Time to Time and at all Time hereafter, by Warrant by Warrant under the Royal Sign Manual, to authorize and under the Sign empower the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or other Person for the Time being administering the Government of the said the Company, Island of Van Diemen's Land and its Dependencies, to execute freed and discharged from a Deed or Deeds, under the Great Seal of the said Island and Quit Rents, &c. its Dependencies, granting to the said Company any Lands, in the Charter Tenements, and Hereditaments in the said Island and its Depen- expressed. dencies, freed and for ever discharged of and from the Quit Rents, Conditions, Provisoes, Limitations, and Restrictions in the said Letters Patent or Charter expressed and herein-before recited, or such of them, or such Parts thereof, as Her Majesty, Her Heirs or Successors, shall in and by the said Grant or Warrant or Grants or Warrants direct; and it shall be lawful for 6 Manual, may grant Lands to Power to the Company, at any Special General Meeting, to reduce the Number of Directors. Public Act. Act may be amended, &c. the said Company to hold, alienate, sell, and dispose of all or any Part or Parts of the said Lands so to be granted, subject only to such Conditions and Restrictions, if any, as shall be stipulated in and by the Grant or Grants thereof to the said Company, and to hold, alienate, sell, and dispose of all Lands purchased or to be purchased by the said Company, freed from the Conditions and Restrictions imposed by the said Letters Patent or Charter. II. And whereas it was by the said Letters Patent or Charter declared, that the Two Persons therein named should be the Governor and Deputy Governor of the said Company, and that such Two Persons, together with Eighteen other • Persons therein named, should be the first Directors of the said Company, and that after the Period therein named Six of the said Eighteen Directors, or their Successors, should go out of Office annually, and their Places be from Time to Time supplied: And whereas it is expedient that Power should be given to the said Company to reduce the said Number of Directors;' be it therefore enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Company from Time to Time, at any Special General Meeting, to resolve and declare that at a Time or Times to be fixed at such Meeting or Meetings the Number of the Directors of the said Company shall be reduced to any Number they may think proper, not being less than Nine exclusive of the said Governor and Deputy Governor, and to fix the Mode in which such Reduction shall take place, and thereupon at the Time or Times fixed at such Meeting or Meetings the Number of the said Directors shall be reduced accordingly; and after any such Reduction shall have taken place the Number of Directors to go out of Office as aforesaid shall be One Third of the whole Number of Directors, exclusive of the said Governor and Deputy Governor, instead of the said Number of Six Directors as aforesaid. III. And be it enacted, That this Act shall be deemed and taken to be a Public Act, and shall extend to and be in force in the said Island of Van Diemen's Land and its Dependencies, and shall be judicially taken notice of as such. IV. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of Parliament. CAP. LVIII. An Act to remove Doubts as to Quakers and Jews [2d July 1847.] WHEREAS Doubts have been entertained as to the Validity of Marriages amongst the People called Quakers ' and amongst Persons professing the Jewish Religion, solem'nized in England before the First Day of July One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, or in Ireland before the First Day of April One thousand eight hundred and forty-five, • according according to the Usages of those Denominations respectively: And whereas it is expedient to put an end to such Doubts;' be it therefore declared and enacted by the Queen'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 all Marriages so solemnized as aforesaid were and are good in Quakers and Law to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever, provided that the nized before Parties to such Marriages were both Quakers, or both Persons certain Dates professing the Jewish Religion respectively. CAP. LIX. Marriages of Jews solem declared valid. An Act for amending an Act, intituled An Act for amending, explaining, and reducing into One Act of Parliament the Laws relating to the Government of His Majesty's Ships, Vessels, and Forces by Sea. [2d July 1847.] WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Twenty-second Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, intituled An Act for amending, explaining, and 22 G. 2. c. 33. reducing into One Act of Parliament the Laws relating to the 'Government of His Majesty's Ships, Vessels, and Forces by W Sea, Courts-martial holden and appointed by virtue of that Act are, in certain Cases, authorized and required to pronounce Judgment of Death; and it is expedient that in all Cases (except Murder and Buggery or Sodomy with Man or 'Beast) such Courts-martial shall be authorized to abstain from pronouncing Judgment of Death, if such Courts-martial shall think fit, and to impose such other Punishment as the Nature and Degree of the Offence shall be found to deserve:' Be it therefore enacted by the Queen'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 it shall and Courts-martial may be lawful for any such Court-martial, holden and appointed to as aforesaid, either to pronounce Judgment of Death in all Cases in which by Law such Court is now authorized or required so to do, or, if such Court shall so think fit, in all such Cases (except Murder and Buggery or Sodomy with Man or Beast) to impose such other Punishment as the Nature and Degree of the Offence shall be found to deserve. have a discretionary Power in awarding Sentence in all Cases except Murder. II. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for any such Court-martial Court-martial, holden and appointed as aforesaid, to try any may take cogPerson, who at the Time of the Offence committed shall be in nizance of Manslaughter. actual Service and Full Pay in the Fleet or Ships of War of Her Majesty, for Manslaughter, whether committed within the Jurisdiction of the Admiralty or out of any Part of Her Majesty's Dominions on shore, and to impose upon every such Person, so convicted of Manslaughter by the Sentence of such |