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PART VII.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Class 1. Annual Indemnity Act.
2. Mutiny Act.
3. Billetting Act.

4. Disembodied Militia Act.
5. Marine Act.

CLASS I.

Annual Indemnity Act.

10 George IV. c. 12.-An Act to indemnify such Persons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments, and for extending the Time limited for those Purposes respectively until the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and thirty.[13th April 1829.]

10 Geo. IV. WHEREAS divers persons, who, on account of their offices, places,

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c. 2.

employments, or professions, or any other cause or occasion, ought to have taken and subscribed the oaths or assurance respectively appointed to be by such persons taken and subscribed in and by an Act made in the first year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the First of glorious memory, intituled "An Act for the further Security of His Majesty's "Person and Government, and the Succession of the Crown in the Heirs "of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants; and for extinguishing "the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret "abettors;" or to have qualified themselves according to an Act made in the thirteenth year of the reign of King Charles the Second, intituled 13 C. 2. st. 2. "An Act for the well-governing and regulating of Corporations;" or to c. 1. have qualified themselves according to another Act made in the twenty25 C. 2. st. 2. fifth year of the reign of King Charles the Second, intituled " An Act for "preventing the Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants;" or according to another Act made in the thirtieth year of the reign of King 30 C. 2. st. 2. Charles the Second, intituled " An Act for the more effectual preserving "the King's Person and Government, by disabling Papists from sitting "in either House of Parliament;" or according to another Act made in the eighth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the First, intituled "An Act for granting the People called Quakers such Forms of "Affirmation or Declaration as may reinove the difficulties which many "of them lie under;" or according to another Act made in the ninth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, intituled "An "Act for indemnifying Persons who have omitted to qualify themselves "for Offices within the time limited by law, and for allowing further "time for that purpose; and for amending so much of an Act passed in "the Second Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, as requires Per.

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sons to qualify themselves for Offices before the end of the next Term or "Quarter Sessions; and also for enlarging the time limited by law for "making and subscribing the Declaration against Transubstantiation; "and for allowing a further time for Enrolment of Deeds and Wills made "by Papists; and for Relief of Protestant Purchasers, Devisees, and "Lessees;" or according to another Act made in the eighteenth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, intituled " An Act 18 G. 2. c. 20. "to amend and render more effectual an Act passed in the Fifth Year of "His present Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act for the further Quali"fication of Justices of the Peace;"" or according to another Act made in the sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, intituled "An Act for altering the Oath of Abjuration, and the Assur- 6 G. 3. c. 53. "ance; and for amending so much of an Act made in the Seventh Year "of the Reign of Her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled An Act for "the Improvement of the Union of the Two Kingdoms,' as after the "time therein limited requires the Delivery of certain Lists and Copies "therein mentioned to persons indicted of High Treason or Misprision "of Treason;" have, through ignorance of the law, absence, or same unavoidable accident, omitted to take and subscribe the oaths and assurance and make and subscribe the declaration required by the said recited Acts or either of them, or otherwise to qualify themselves as aforesaid, within such time and in such manner as in and by the said Acts respectively is required, whereby they have incurred, or may be in danger of incurring, divers penalties and disabilities: For quieting the minds of his Majesty's subjects, and for preventing any inconvenience that might otherwise happen by means of such omissions, be it 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 all and every person or Persons who persons who, at or before the passing of this Act, hath or shall have omit- have omitted ted to take and subscribe the oaths and declarations, or otherwise to qua- to qualify lify him, her, or themselves, within such time and in such manner as in and themselves as by the said Acts, or any of them, is required; and who, after accepting required by any such office, place, or employment, or undertaking any profession Law, indemor thing on account of which such qualification ought to have been had nified and and is required, before the passing of this Act hath or have taken and allowed fursubscribed the said oaths, or made the declarations required by law, or who, on or before the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty, shall take and subscribe the oaths, declarations, and assurance respectively, in such cases wherein by the said Acts or either of them the said oaths, declarations, and assurance ought to have been taken and subscribed, in such manner and form, and at or in such place or places, as are appointed in and by the said Act made in the first year of the reign of his said late Majesty King George the First, or by any other Act or Acts in that behalf made and provided; and hath or have made and subscribed, or shall, on or before the said twenty-fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty, make and subscribe the said declaration against transubstantiation; and also hath or have made and subscribed, or shall, on or before the said twenty-fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty, make and subscribe the said declaration in the said statute made in the thirtieth year of King Charles the Second, in such cases wherein the said declaration ought to have been made and subscribed, or to take and subscribe the oath directed by the said Act made in the eighteenth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, in such cases wherein the said oath ought to have been taken and subscribed, in such manner as by the said Act is directed, shall be and are hereby indemnified, freed, and discharged from and against all penalties, forfeitures, incapacities, and disabilities incurred or to be incurred for or by reason of any neglect or omission, previous to the passing of this Act, of taking or subscribing the said oaths or assurance, or making or subscribing the said declarations respectively, or taking or subscribing the said oath, according to the above-mentioned Acts or any of them, or any other Act or Acts; and such person or per

ther Time.

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Persons who have omitted to make and subscribe the Oaths, &c., required by the Irish Act of 2 Anne, indemnified, and allowed further Time for that Purpose.

Not to indemnify Persons

against whom final Judg

ment is given.

sons is and are and shall be fully and actually recapacitated and restored to the same state and condition as he, she, or they were in before such neglect or omission, and shall be deemed and adjudged to have duly qualified him, her, or themselves according to the above-mentioned Acts and every of them; and that all elections of, and Acts done or to be done by any such person or persons, or by authority derived from him, her, or them, are and shall be of the same force and validity as the same or any of them would have been if such person or persons respectively had taken the said oaths or assurance, and made and subscribed the said declarations respectively, and taken and subscribed the said oath, according to the directions of the said Acts and every or any of them; and that the qualification of such person or persons qualifying themselves in manner and within the time appointed by this Act shall be to all intents and purposes as effectual as if such person or persons had respectively taken the said oaths and assurance, and made and subscribed the said declarations respectively, and taken and subscribed the said oath, within the time and in the maner appointed by the several Acts before mentioned. II. And whereas several persons well affected to his Majesty's government, and to the united church of England and Ireland, have, through ignorance of the law, neglected, or been, by sickness or other unavoidable causes, prevented from taking and subscribing the declaration according to the directions of an Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland, in the second year of the reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled "An "Act to prevent the further Growth of Popery;" be it therefore further enacted, That all persons who have incurred any penalty or incapacity in the said recited Act mentioned, by neglecting to qualify themselves according to the said Act, shall be and are hereby indemnified, freed, and discharged from all incapacities, disabilities, penalties, and forfeitures incurred by reason of such omission or neglect as aforesaid; and that no Act done by any of them, not yet avoided, shall be questioned or avoided by reason of such omission or neglect, but that all such Acts shall be and are hereby declared to be as good and effectual as if such persons respectively had taken and subscribed the said oath, and made and repeated and subscribed the said declaration, at such time and place and manner as in the said Act is mentioned; any thing in the said Act to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided always, that such person or persons do and shall take and subscribe the said oaths, and make, repeat, and subscribe the said declaration, in such manner and form, and in such place or places respectively, as are directed and appointed by the said last-recited Act, on or before the twentyfifth day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty.

III. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That this Act, or any thing herein-contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to indemnify any person against whom final judgment shall have been given in any action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, in any of his Majesty's Courts of Record, for any penalty incurred by having neglected to qualify himself within the time limited by law.

Nor to exempt IV. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That nothing contained Justices acting in this Act shall extend or be construed to extend to exempt any justice without legal of the peace within Great Britain from the penalties to which he is subQualification. ject for acting as such without being possessed of the qualification required by the laws now in force.

Admissions to Corporations may be

stamped after Time allowed by Law.

V. And whereas the appointment of divers clerks of the peace, town clerks, and other public officers, and the admission of divers members and officers of cities, corporations, and borough towns in Great Britain and Ireland, or the entries of such admissions in the court books, rolls, or records of such cities, corporations, and borough towns, which by several Acts are directed and required to be stamped, may not have been provided, or the same not stamped, or may have been lost or mislaid; be it further enacted, That for the relief of such persons whose appointments and admissions, or the entries of whose admissions as aforesaid, may not have been provided, or not duly stamped, or where the same have been lost or mislaid, it shall and may be lawful to and for such persons in Great Britain or Ireland, on or before the twenty-fifth

day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty, to provide or cause to be provided appointments and admissions, or entries of admissions as aforesaid, duly stamped; or in case where such appointments, admissions, or entries of admissions as aforesaid, have been made or provided, but have not been duly stamped, to produce such appointments, admissions, or entries of admissions as aforesaid, to the commissioners appointed to inspect and manage the revenues of the stamp duties, to be duly stamped; which such commissioners are hereby authorized, empowered, and required to duly stamp, on payment of the duties first payable or to have been paid on such appointments, admissions, or entries of admissions as aforesaid, without any fine or forfeiture thereon; and in order to denote the said duties, the said commissioners are hereby authorized and empowered to use such stamps as shall have been heretofore provided to denote any former duties on stamped vellum, parchment, and paper, or to cause new stamps to be provided for that purpose, and to do all other things necessary for putting this Act in execution, in the like and in as full and ample manner as they or the major part of them are authorized to put in execution any former law concerning stamped vellum, parchment, and paper; and such persons so providing appointments, admissions, or entries of admissions as aforesaid, duly stamped, or procuring the same to be duly stamped, in manner aforesaid, are and shall be hereby confirmed and qualified to act as clerk of the peace, town clerk, or other public officer, or member or members, officer or officers of such cities, corporations, and borough towns respectively, to all intents and purposes; and shall and may hold and enjoy and execute such offices, or any other office or offices into which he or they hath or have been elected, notwithstanding his or their omission, or the omission of any of their predecessors, in such cities, corporations, or borough towns as aforesaid; and shall be indemnified and discharged of and from all incapacities, disabilities, forfeitures, penalties, and damages by reason of any such omission; and none of his or their Acts shall be questioned or avoided by reason of the same.

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Office avoided by Judgment.

VI. Provided always, and be it enacted, That this Act or any thing Not to restore herein contained shall not extend or be construed to extend to restore or Persons to any entitle any person or persons to any office or employment, benefice, matter or thing whatsoever, already actually avoided by judgment of any of his Majesty's Courts of Record, or already legally filled up and enjoyed by any other person; but that such office or employment, benefice, matter, or thing so avoided, or legally filled up and enjoyed, shall be and remain in and to the person or persons who is or are now, or shall at the passing of this Act, be legally entitled to the same, as if this Act had never been made.

VII. And be it further enacted, That in case any action, suit, bill of in- General Issue, dictment, or information, shall from and after the passing of this Act, be brought, carried on, or prosecuted against any person or persons hereby meant or intended to be indemnified, recapacitated, or restored, for or on account of any forfeiture, penalty, incapacity, or disability whatsoever, incurred or to be incurred by any such neglect or omission, such person or persons may plead the general issue, and upon their defence give this Act and the special matter in evidence upon any trial to be had thereupon.

PART VII.-CLASS II.

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Numbers.

MUTINY ACT.

10 Geo. IV. c. 6.-An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion; and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters. -[23d March 1829.]

10 Geo. IV. WHEREAS the raising or keeping a standing army within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in time of peace, unless it be with the consent of Parliament, is against law: And whereas it is adjudged necessary by his Majesty, and this present Parliament, that a body of forces should be continued, for the safety of the United Kingdom, the defence of the possessions of his Majesty's crown, and the preservation of the balance of power in Europe, and that the whole number of such forces should consist of eighty-nine thousand seven hundred and twenty-three men, exclusive of the officers and men belonging to the regiments enployed in the territorial possessions of the East India Company, but including the officers and men of the troops and companies recruiting for those regiments: And whereas no man can be forejudged of life or limb, or subjected in time of peace to any kind of punishment within this realm, by martial law, or in any other manner than by the judgment of his peers, and according to the known and established laws of this realm; yet nevertheless, it being requisite, for the retaining all the before-mentioned forces in their duty, that an exact discipline be observed, and that soldiers who shall mutiny or stir up sedition, or shall desert his Majesty's service, be brought to a more exemplary and speedy punishment than the usual forms of the law will allow; 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 if any person who is or punishable by shall be commissioned or in pay as an officer, or who is or shall be listed Death. or in pay as a non-commissioned officer or soldier, shall, at any time during the continuance of this Act, begin, excite, cause, or join in any mutiny or sedition in his Majesty's land or marine forces, or shall not use his utmost endeavours to suppress the same, or coming to the knowledge of any mutiny or intended mutiny, shall not, without delay, give information thereof to his commanding officer; or shall misbehave himself before the enemy; or shall shamefully abandon or deliver up any garrison, fortress, post, or guard committed to his charge, or which he Shall be commanded to defend; or shall compel the governor or commanding officer of any garrison, fortress, or post, to deliver up to the enemy or to abandon the same; or shall speak words or use any other means to induce such governor or commanding officer, or others, to misbehave before the enemy, or shamefully to abandon or deliver up any garrison, fortress, post, or guard committed to their respective charge, or which he or they shall be commanded to defend; or shall leave his post before relieved, or shall be found sleeping on his post; or shall hold correspondence with or give advice or intelligence to any rebel or enemy of his Majesty, either by letters, messages, signs, or tokens, in any manner or way whatsoever; or shall treat or enter into any terms with such rebel or enemy, without his Majesty's licence, or licence of the general or

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