in Causes of Appeal. Judgments, &c, mittee or their Surrogates, in all Causes of Appeal from Ecclesiastical Courts and from Admiralty or Vice Admiralty Courts, Her Majesty in Council and the said Judicial Committee and their Surrogates shall have the same Powers, by Attachment and Committal of the Person to any of Her Majesty's Gaols, and subsequent Dis. charge of any Person so committed, as by any Statute, Custom, or Usage belong to the Judge of the High Court of Admiralty of England; and the said Judicial Committee shall have the same Immunities and Privileges as are conferred on the Judge of the High Court of Admiralty of England under an Act passed in the 3 & 4 Vict. c. 65. Fourth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty, intituled An Act to improve the Practice and extend the Jurisdiction of the High Court of Admiralty of England, as fully as if the same had been thereby expressly given to the said Judicial Committee. Orders, &c. may be enforced by Sequestration against certain Persons pronounced contumacious and in Contempt. Inhibitions, &c. to be in Her Majesty's Name, and of force throughout Her Dominions. Monitions for Payments into the Registry of the Admiralty Court under Orders, &c. VIII. And be it enacted, That in all Causes of Appeal to Her Majesty in Council from Ecclesiastical Courts, and from Admiralty or Vice Admiralty Courts, in which any Person duly monished or cited or required to comply with any lawful Order or Decree of Her Majesty in Council, or of the said Judicial Committee or their Surrogates, and neglecting or refusing to pay Obedience to such lawful Order or Decree, or committing any Contempt of the Process under the Seal of Her Majesty in Ecclesiastical and Maritime Causes, shall reside out of the Dominions of Her Majesty, or shall have Privilege of Peerage, or shall be a Lord of Parliament or a Member of the House of Commons, it shall be lawful for the said Judicial Committee or their Surrogates to pronounce such Person to be contumacious and in Contempt, and after he shall have been so pronounced contumacious and in Contempt to cause Process of Sequestration to issue under the said Seal of Her Majesty against the Real and Personal Estate, Goods, Chattels, and Effects, wheresoever lying within the Dominions of Her Majesty, of the Person against or upon whom such Order or Decree shall have been made, in order to enforce Obedience to the same, and Payment of the Expences attending such Sequestration, and all Proceedings consequent thereon, and to make such further Order in respect of or consequent on such Sequestration, and in respect to such Real and Personal Estate, Goods, Chattels, and Effects sequestrated thereby, as may be necessary, or for Payment of Monies arising from the same to the Person to whom the same may be due or into the Registry of the High Court of Admiralty and Appeals for the Benefit of those who may be ultimately entitled thereto. IX. And be it enacted, That all Inhibitions, Citations, Monitions, and other Instruments incidental to or arising out of such Causes of Appeal shall be issued in the Name of Her Majesty, and under Seal of Her Majesty, in Ecclesiastical and Maritime Causes, and shall be of full Authority in all Places throughout the Dominions of Her Majesty. X. And be it enacted, That in all Appeals in Ecclesiastical and Maritime Causes to Her Majesty in Council it shall be lawful for Her Majesty in Council, and the said Judicial Committee or their Surrogates, at the Petition of any Person interested in the same, to decree Monitions for the Transmission of any Sum or Sums of Money respecting which any Order or Decree may be made, or any Questions may be depending arising out of such Causes, and the Proceeds Proceeds of all Ships or Vessels, Goods, and Cargoes respecting due. Council. XI. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, All Appeals by Order in Council, to direct that all Causes of Appeal from from EcclesiEcclesiastical Courts, and from the Vice Admiralty Court of the astical and Admiralty Courts Cape of Good Hope, and all Vice Admiralty Courts to the Westmay be referred. ward thereof, in which the Appeal and Petition of Reference to to the Judicial Her Majesty shall have been lodged in the Registry of the High Committee by Court of Admiralty and Appeals within Twelve Calendar Months an Order in from the giving or pronouncing of any Order, Decree, or Sentence appealed from, and all Causes of Appeal from Vice Admiralty Courts to the Eastward of the Cape of Good Hope, in which the Appeal and Petition of Reference to Her Majesty shall have been lodged in the Registry of the High Court of Admiralty and Appeals within Eighteen Calendar Months from the giving or pronouncing any Order, Decree, or Sentence appealed from, shall be referred to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and the said Judicial Committee and their Surrogates shall have full Power forthwith to proceed in the said Appeals, and the usual Inhibition and Citation shall be decreed and issued, and all usual Proceedings taken, as if the same had been referred to the said Judicial Committee by a special Order of Her Majesty in Council in each Cause respectively. prose XII. And be it declared and enacted, That as well the Costs of defending any Decree or Sentence appealed from as of cuting any Appeal, or in any Manner intervening in any Cause of Appeal, and the Costs on either Side, or of any Party, in the Court below, and the Costs of opposing any Matter which shall be referred to the said Judicial Committee, and the Costs of all such Issues as shall be tried by Direction of the said Judicial Committee respecting any such Appeal or Matter, shall be paid by such Party or Parties, Person or Persons, as the said Judicial Committee shall order, and that such Costs shall be taxed as in and by the said Act for the better Administration of Justice in the Privy Council is directed respecting the Costs of prosecuting any Appeal or Matter referred by Her Majesty under the Authority of the said Act, save the Costs arising out of any Ecclesiastical or Maritime Cause of Appeal, which shall be taxed by the Registrar hereinafter named, or his Assistant Registrar. Costs may be awarded by the Judicial Committee, and taxed.. Appointment of XIII. And be it enacted, That the Registrar of the High Court of Admiralty of England for the Time being may be appointed by Her Majesty to be Registrar of Her Majesty in Ecclesiastical and Maritime Causes, and shall have Power to appoint an Assistant siastical and Registrar, as provided by an Act passed in the Fourth Year of Maritime the Reign of Her Majesty, intituled An Act to make Provision for Causes. the Judge, Registrar, and Marshall of the High Court of Admiralty 3&4 Vict. c. 66. of England, and shall during his good Behaviour, and while he shall be Registrar of the said High Court of Admiralty, hold his Office of Registrar of Her Majesty in Ecclesiastical and Maritime Causes, and shall do all such Things, and shall have the same Powers aud P 3 Privileges Custody of Records, &c. of the Court of Delegates and Appeals. Judicial Committee may make Rules, &c. respecting Prac. tice and Mode of proceeding in Appeals, &c. Proviso. Judicial Com mittee of Privy Council to proceed with Causes depending before late High Court of Delegates. Definition of Terms. Privileges in respect to the same, as belong to his Predecessors in the Office of Registrar of His Majesty in Ecclesiastical and Maritime Causes. XIV. And be it enacted, That all Records, Muniments, Books, Papers, Wills, and other Documents remaining in the Registry of the High Court of Admiralty and Appeals, appertaining to the late High Court of Delegates and Appeals for Prizes, shall be and remain in the Custody and Possession of the said Registrar of Her Majesty in Ecclesiastical and Maritime Causes. pro XV. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Judicial Committee from Time to Time to make such Rules, Orders, and Regulations respecting the Practice and Mode of ceeding in all Appeals from Ecclesiastical and Admiralty and Vice Admiralty Courts, and the Conduct and Duties of the Officers and Practitioners therein, and to appoint such Officer or Officers as may be necessary for the Execution of Processes under the said Seal of Her Majesty, and in respect to all Appeals and other Matters referred to them, as to them shall seem fit, and from Time to Time to repeal or alter such Rules, Orders, or Regulations: Provided always, that no such Rules, Orders, or Regulations shall be of any Force or Effect until the same shall have been approved by Her Majesty in Council. XVI. And whereas, in certain Causes which were depending before the late High Court of Delegates, certain Decrees or 'Orders were made and interposed, and are not yet fully carried into effect: And whereas, in consequence of the Death of the Judges Delegate, or some of them, named in the several Com. missions under the Great Seal, such Decrees or Orders cannot be 'carried into effect;' be it enacted, That all such Causes of Appeal and Complaint which were depending before the High Court of Delegates, and in which any Decree, Order, or Thing, for the Reason lastly herein-before mentioned, is outstanding and not fully ended and determined, shall be transferred to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council; and the said Judicial Committee shall take up and proceed with the said Causes in the same Manner as if the same had been originally Causes of Appeal and Complaint depending before the said Judicial Committee. XVII. And be it enacted, That in this Act all Words denoting a Male Person shall be taken to include a Female also, and all Words denoting one Person or Thing shall be taken to include also several Persons or Things, unless a contrary Sense shall clearly appear from the Context; and that the Words "Arches Court of Canterbury," used in this Act, shall be construed to extend to such Court as shall exercise the Jurisdiction of the said Court or be substituted for the same; and that wherever the Words "Ecclesiastical Court" have been used in this Act the same shall be construed to extend to such Court as shall exercise the Jurisdiction or any Part of the Jurisdiction exercised by any Ecclesiastical Court or be substituted for the same; and the Words "Ecclesiastical and Maritime Cause of Appeal" shall be construed to extend to Causes appealed from Ecclesiastical Courts and such Court as shall exercise the Jurisdiction or any Part of the Jurisdiction exercised by any Ecclesiastical Court or be substituted for the same. САР. CA P. XXXIX. An Act for Confirmation of certain Marriages in Ireland. WHEREAS Marriages have in divers Instances been had and brated in celebrated in Ireland, by Presbyterian and other Protestant Dissenting Ministers or Teachers, or those who at the Time of such Marriages had been such, between Persons being of the same or different religious Persuasions; and it is expedient to 'confirm such Marriages:' 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 all Certain MarMarriages had and celebrated in Ireland, since the passing of riages cele. an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled An Act Ireland by for Confirmation of certain Marriages in Ireland, and before the Protestant Dispassing of this Act, by Presbyterian or other Protestant Dissenting senting MinisMinisters or Teachers, or those who at the Time of such Marriages ters to be the had been such, shall be, and shall be adjudged and taken to have same in Law as if solemnized by been and to be, of the same Force and Effect in Law as if such Clergymen of Marriages had been had and solemnized by Clergymen of the the Established United Church of England and Ireland, and of no other Force nor Effect whatsoever. Church. II. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended, altered, Act may be or repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of amended, &c. Parliament. CA P. XL, An Act to amend the Laws for the Prevention of Frauds WHE THEREAS an Act was passed in the Session of Parliament Third, intituled An Act for the further Encouragement of the 8&9 W. 3. c. 36. 'for the better preventing the Importation of the same, whereby (amongst other Matters therein contained) certain Penalties, 'Forfeitures, and Punishments therein referred to were imposed upon Persons embezzling or otherwise unlawfully selling or receiving, as therein is mentioned, Silk delivered by the Silk Manufacturers to be worked up: And whereas an Act was passed in 'the First Year of the Reign of Her late Majesty Queen Anne, · 'intituled An Act for the more effectual preventing the Abuses and 1 Ann. s. 2. c. 18. 'Frauds of Persons employed in working up the Woollen, Linen, Fustian, Cotton, and Iron Manufactures of this Kingdom: And 'whereas the said Act was made perpetual by an Act passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of Her said late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled An Act for reviving and continuing an Act made 9 Ann. c. 30. in the First Year of Her Majesty's Reign, for the more effectual preventing Abuses and Frauds of Persons employed in the working P.4 · up 12 G. 1. c. 34. 13 G. 2. c. 8. 22 G. 2. c. 27. 17 G. 3. c. 56. up the Woollen, Linen, Fustian, Cotton, and Iron Manufactures of this Kingdom: And whereas an Act was passed in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the First, 'intituled An Act to prevent unlawful Combination of Workmen employed in the Woollen Manufactures, and for better Payment of 'their Wages: And whereas an Act was passed in the Thirteenth Year of His late Majesty King George the Second, intituled An Act to explain and amend an Act made in the First Year of the Reign of Her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled An Act for the more effectual preventing the Abuses and Frauds of Persons employed in the working up the Woollen, Linen, Fustian, Cotton, and Iron Manufactures of this Kingdom;' and also for extending the said Act to the Manufacture of Leather: And whereas an Act was passed in the Twenty-second Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, intituled An Act for the more effectual preventing of Frauds and Abuses committed by Persons employed in the Manufacture of Hats, and in the Woollen, 'Linen, Fustian, Cotton, Iron, Leather, Fur, Hemp, Flax, Mohair, and Silk Manufactures; and for preventing unlawful Combina tions of Journeymen Dyers and Journeymen Hotpressers, and of all Persons employed in the said several Manufactures, and for the better Payment of their Wages: And whereas another Act was passed in the Seventeenth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for amending and rendering more effectual the several Laws now in being for the more effectual preventing of Frauds and Abuses by Persons employed in the Manufacture of Hats, and in the Woollen, Linen, Fustian, Cotton, Iron, Leather, Fur, Hemp, Flax, Mohair, and Silk Manufactures; and also for making Provisions to prevent Frauds by Journeymen Dyers: And whereas an Act was passed in the Thirty-second Year of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for extending the Provisions of an Act • made in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, 'intituled 'An Act to empower the Magistrates therein mentioned to 'settle and regulate the Wages of Persons employed in the Silk Manufactures within their respective Jurisdictions,' to Manufac tures of Silk mixed with other Materials; and for the more effectual Punishment of Buyers and Receivers of Silk purloined and embezzled by Persons employed in the Manufacture thereof: And whereas the Provisions of the said Acts have not been 'effectual to prevent Frauds, Embezzlements, and Abuses by Persons employed in the Woollen, Linen, Cotton, Flax, Mohair, and Silk Hosiery Manufactures; and it is expedient to repeal so much of the said recited Acts as relates to the said Manufactures, and to make further Provisions in lieu thereof, as well for the Benefit and Encouragement of Trade and Manufactures as for the Security of the Property of Manufacturers and the Wages of the Workmen engaged in the said Manufactures: 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, So much of the and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the Commencement of this Act so much of the said recited Acts or any of them as relates to the Woollen, Linen, Cotton, Flax, Mohair, and 32 G. 3. c. 44. said Acts as lates to the 6 |