Deductions, authorized by recited Act, out Seamen of the Service of the said Ships or Vessels at the Port of Lerwick in Shetland, or at the Port of Kirkwall and its Dependencies, in the 'said United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and for the said last-mentioned Seamen and other Persons to be relanded and discharged at the said Port of Lerwick and its Dependencies, or at the Port of Kirkwall and its Dependencies, where they had been hired and taken on board, when the said Ships or • Vessels shall be on their Return to their respective Ports of Outfit: And whereas it is expedient that the Monies required by the said recited Act to be deducted and detained out of the Wages, Shares, or other Profits payable or accruing to such Seamen and other Persons so hired and taken on board and relanded and discharged at the said Port of Lerwick in Shetland, (or at the said Port of Kirkwall in Orkney,) should be paid to the Collectors or Receivers or Trustees appointed at the said • Port of Lerwick in Shetland, or at the said Port of Kirkwall in Orkney, as the Case may be, and not to the Collectors or Re'ceivers or Trustees at the Port where the said Ships or Vessels 'shall report or discharge their Cargoes: 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 from and after the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven all Monies deducted and detained, of the Wages of in pursuance of the said recited Act, out of the Wages, Shares, or other Profits payable or accruing to such Seamen and other Persons as shall be hired and taken on board at the Port of Lerwick and its Dependencies, or at the Port of Kirkwall and its Dependencies, and again relanded and discharged at the same, shall be paid, and the Masters, Commanders, or Owners of all Merchant or other Ships by the said recited Act made liable to the said Duties of Two Shillings per Month and One Shilling per Month are hereby required to pay all such Money so deducted and detained out of the Wages, Shares, or other Profits payable or accruing to such Seamen and other Persons as shall be hired and taken on board at the Port of Lerwick in Shetland, or at the Port of Kirkwall and its Dependencies, and again relanded and discharged at the same, to the Collectors or Receivers or Trustees appointed in pursuance of the said recited Act, or the said Act of the Twentieth Year of His late Majesty King George the Second, at whichever of the said Ports of Lerwick or Kirkwall the said Seamen or other Persons shall have been so hired and taken on board, and again relanded and discharged as aforesaid; and if any Master, Commander, or Owner shall not pay over the said Duties as hereby directed, he shall be liable, and the Ship or Vessel of which he is the Master, Commander, or Owner shall be liable, to all the Penalties and Liabilities to which he or it is respectively liable by the said recited Act of the Fourth and Fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty if he neglect to pay over the said Duties according to the Provisions of the said recited Act: Provided always, that every such Master, Commander, or Owner, having paid such Monies or Duties so by this Act directed and required to be paid as aforesaid, shall not be required to make any Payment on account of such Monies or Duties at any Port at wick and Kirkwall, to be paid to Collectors at those Ports. which the said Ship or Vessel shall report or discharge its Cargo, nor shall the Master, Commander, or Owner be exposed to any Penalties, nor the said Ship or Vessel be in any way delayed or impeded by the Officers of His Majesty's Customs, nor by any other Person, on account of such Nonpayment at any other Port than as aforesaid; provided such Master, Commander, or Owner produces before the Collector or Receiver for the Port at which such Ship or Vessel shall report or discharge her Cargo a Certificate of the Payment herein-before mentioned, signed by the Collector or Receiver of the Port of Lerwick in Shetland, or of the Port of Kirkwall in Orkney and its Dependencies, as the Case may be. II. And be it further enacted, That every Master, Commander, or Owner of any such Merchant Ship or other Vessel who shall keep a Muster Roll as required to be kept by the said recited Act shall make Abstracts from the said Muster Roll, in one of which he shall insert the Christian and Surnames of all Seamen and other Persons taken on board and intended to be relanded and discharged at the Port of Lerwick and its Dependencies, and in the other of which he shall make a similar Entry of all Seamen and other Persons taken on board and intended to be relanded and discharged at the Port of Kirkwall and its Dependencies, and that the said Abstracts shall respectively contain all the Particulars respecting the said Seamen and other Persons which are required to be contained in the said Muster Roll by the said recited Act; and that a Duplicate of the said Abstract of Lerwick Seamen shall, if required, be signed by the said Master, Commander, or other Person having the Care of the said Ship or Vessel, and shall be delivered to the Collectors or Receivers of the said Duties so appointed as aforesaid at Lerwick in Shetland; and that a similar Duplicate of the said Abstract of Kirkwall Seamen shall, if required, be signed as aforesaid, and be delivered to the Collectors and Receivers appointed as aforesaid at Kirkwall in Orkney: Provided always, that such Collector or Receiver at Lerwick or Kirkwall, as the Case may be, shall forthwith, on the Receipt of such Monies or Duties and of the said Duplicate, if required as aforesaid from such Master, Commander, or other Person having the Care of the said Ship or Vessel as aforesaid, grant a Certificate to such Master, Commander, or other Person as aforesaid, stating that such Monies or Duties have been duly paid according to the Provisions of this Act; and in case any such Master, Commander, or other Person shall neglect to make such Abstract, or shall neglect or refuse to deliver such Duplicate as aforesaid, every such Person shall forfeit and pay for every such Refusal or Omission the Sum of Five Pounds of the lawful Money of Great Britain. Masters of Merchant Ships to make Abstracts from their Muster Rolls of Names, &c. of Seamen belonging to Lerwick and Kirkwall, and give a Duplicate thereof to the Collectors at the said Ports. As to Payment of said Deductions when Sea men cannot be landed at Ler III. And whereas it sometimes occurs that such Seamen and other Persons so taken on board, and intended to be relanded and discharged at the aforesaid Ports of Lerwick or Kirkwall, are prevented by Weather or otherwise from being relanded at the said Ports where they had been so hired and taken on board ' as aforesaid, and are carried forward to some other Port in the wall. • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: And whereas it is expedient that they should not on that Account lose the • Benefits I 4 wick or Kirk Such Seamen entitled to all the Privileges of recited Act. This Act to be Benefits intended to be conferred upon them by this Act;' be it therefore enacted, That in case any such Seamen or other Persons so taken on board and intended to be relanded and discharged at the said Ports of Lerwick or Kirkwall shall, by Stress of Weather or otherwise, be carried forward to any other Port in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Master, Commander, or other Person having the Care of such Ship or Vessel shall in such Case pay over such Duties so detained out of the Wages or other Profits of such Seamen and other Persons so taken on board as aforesaid at Lerwick or Kirkwall to the Collectors or Receivers of the Port where the said Ship or Vessel shall report or discharge her Cargo: Provided always, that it shall be lawful for the Collectors, Receivers, or Trustees appointed in pursuance of the said recited Act, or of an Act of the Twentieth Year of His late Majesty King George the Second, at Lerwick or Kirkwall respectively, to demand from the Collectors, Receivers, or Trustees appointed at any such Port of Discharge each and every such Sum of Money so deducted from the Wages of the aforesaid Seamen and other Persons, and paid over as hereby directed; and the Collectors, Receivers, or Trustees at all such Ports of Discharge are hereby required to pay over, on Demand, all such Monies, to the Collectors, Receivers, or Trustees at Lerwick or Kirkwall, as the Case may be. IV. And be it further enacted, That the said Seamen and other Persons so taken on board and relanded and discharged, or intended to be relanded and discharged as aforesaid, at the Port of Lerwick and its Dependencies, or at the Port of Kirkwall and its Dependencies, shall be entitled to all the Profits and Advantages of the said recited Act as fully and completely as if they should have served during the same Number of Months in a Merchant Ship or other Private Ship or Vessel belonging to the Port of Lerwick and its Dependencies, or to the Port of Kirkwall and its Dependencies, as the Case may be, and discharging her Cargo at the same. V. And be it enacted, That this Act shall be deemed and taken deemed Part of to be Part of the said recited Act, as fully and effectually as if the same had been incorporated therewith. recited Act. 2 & 4 W.4. c. 73. CA P. XVI. An Act to revive and continue in force until the First Day of HEREAS by an Act passed in the Third and Fourth Year of His Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Colonies; for promoting the Industry of the manumitted Slaves; and for compensating the 'Persons hitherto entitled to the Services of such Slaves; after reciting that it was necessary that various Rules and Regulations should be framed and established for certain Purposes therein particularly enumerated, and further reciting that such Regulations could not, without great Inconvenience, be made, except by 6 6 6 by the respective Govrenors, Councils, and Assemblies, or other 'local Legislatures of the said respective Colonies, or by His Majesty, with the Advice of His Privy Council, in reference to those Colonies to which the legislative Authority of His Majesty ' in Council extends, it is enacted and declared, that nothing in the said Act contained extends or shall be construed to extend 'to prevent the Enactment by the respective Governors, Councils, ' and Assemblies, or by such other local Legislatures as aforesaid, or by His Majesty, with the Advice of His Privy Council, of any such Acts of General Assembly, or Ordinances or Orders in Council, as may be requisite for making and establishing 'such several Rules and Regulations as aforesaid, or any of them, or for carrying the same, or any of them, into full and complete Effect: And whereas on the Twelfth Day of December One 'thousand eight hundred and thirty-three an Act was passed by the Governor, Council, and Assembly of the Island of Jamaica, 'intituled An Act for the Abolition of Slavery in this Island, in 'consideration of Compensation; and for promoting the Industry of the manumitted Slaves; and to declare the Fifty-second Year of George the Third, Chapter One hundred and fifty-five, in force in this Island: And whereas by the said Act Provision was made for giving effect within the said Island to the said 'Act of Parliament by certain further and supplementary Enact'ments: And whereas the said Act of General Assembly was 'made to continue in force until the First Day of August One 'thousand eight hundred and forty: And whereas on the Fourth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and thirty-four the 'Governor, Council, and Assembly of the said Island passed ' another Act, intituled An Act to repeal Part of an Act of the Fourth Year of King William the Fourth, Chapter Forty-one, 'intituled An Act for the Abolition of Slavery in this Island, in 'consideration of Compensation; and for promoting the Industry of the manumitted Slaves; and to declare the Fifty-second of George the Third, Chapter One hundred and fifty-five, in force in this Island;' and to explain and amend and in aid of the said Act: And whereas by the said last-recited Act the said Act of 'the Twelfth Day of December One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three was explained and amended, and various additional Enactments were made supplementary to the said Act of Parliament: And whereas the said Act of General Assembly of the Fourth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and thirty'four was made to continue in force until the Thirty-first Day of 'December One thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, and no longer: And whereas the said last-recited Act expired on the said Thirty-first Day of December One thousand eight hundred ' and thirty-five, and hath not been since revived: And whereas 'certain of the Enactments contained in the said Act of General Assembly of the Fourth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and thirty-four are necessary to give full Effect in the said 'Island of Jamaica to the said Act of Parliament:' 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 the said recited Act of the Governor, Council, Recited Aet of the Governor, Council, and Assembly of Jamaica of 4th July 1834 revived, and continued until 1st August 1840. His Majesty may erect Two Council, and Assembly of the Island of Jamaica of the Fourth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, and all the Clauses and Provisions therein contained (save only the Provision which limits the Duration thereof), shall be and the same is and are hereby revived, and that the same and each and every of them shall, by force and virtue of this present Act, be and continue in force in the said Island of Jamaica until the First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and forty, unless before that Time some Act or Acts, to be continued in force till the First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and forty, shall have been passed by the Council and Assembly of the said Island in substitution for this present Act, and shall have been assented to by the Government or Officer administering the Government of the said Island; and when and so soon as any such substituted Act or Acts shall take effect in the said Island this Act shall cease and determine. CA P. XVII. An Act to make Provision for the better Administration of WHEREAS certain Acts or Statutes have heretofore been passed and enacted by the Legislative Councils and General Assemblies of His Majesty's Islands of Barbadoes, Saint Vincent, Grenada, Tobago, Antigua, Montserrat, Saint Christopher, Nevis, Dominica, and the Virgin Islands in the West Indies, for erecting therein certain Superior Courts of Justice ; and by such Acts of Assembly, or some of them, the said Courts 6 are invested with an exclusive Jurisdiction over all Persons ⚫ within the said Islands respectively, and in all Causes, Civil and • Criminal, arising within the same; and such Acts having been assented to, in the Name and on the Behalf of His Majesty's Royal Predecessors, by the Governors, or by the Officers administering the Governments of the said Islands, were subsequently allowed and confirmed by His Majesty's said Royal Predeces'sors, with the Advice of their Privy Council: And whereas it is expedient to make Provision for the better Administration of Justice throughout the several Islands aforesaid, and for that Purpose to erect Two Courts of Judicature within the same, and to commit to such Courts a superior and exclusive Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction, to be exercised by them throughout several of such Islands constituting distinct and separate Governments, and possessing distinct and separate General Assemblies: And whereas, by reason of such Acts of Assembly as aforesaid, and by reason of the Separation of the Governments of the said several Islands, and of the General Assemblies thereof, such • Courts of Judicature cannot be erected without having recourse to the Assistance and Authority of Parliament;' 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 it shall and may be lawful for His Majesty, and He is hereby authorized, by Charters or Letters 2 Patent |