hold the fame, notwithstand rived from any defcent, devife, limitation, or purchase, fhall litigated, fhall have, take, hold, and enjoy, the fame, as if the faid act, or any thing therein contained, had not been made; any thing in the ing the faid faid act contained to the contrary notwithstanding. act. III. Provided always, and be it enacted, That nothing herein This act not contained fhall extend, or be conftrued to affect any action or to affect any fuit now depending, which fhall be profecuted with effect, and action now without delay. depending, within fix IV Provided alfo, That nothing herein contained fhall extend, etc. or be construed to extend, to any perfon or perfons but fuch nor to extend who fhall, within the space of fix calendar months after the to any perlon paffing of this act, or of accruing of his, her, or their title, be- who shall not, ing of the age of twenty-one years, or who, being under the months after age of twenty-one years, fhall, within fix months after he or she paffing this fhall attain the age of twenty-one years, or being of unfound act, or coming mind, or in prifon, or beyond the feas, then within fix months of age, etc. after fuch difability removed, take and fubfcribe an oath in the lowing oath. words following: any take the fol A. B. do fincerely promife and fwear, That I will be faithful and The oath. bear true allegiance to his majesty King George the Third, and him will defend, to the utmost of my power, against all confpiracies and attempts whatever that shall be made against his perfon, crown, or dignity; and I will do my utmost endeavour to difclofe and make known to his Majesty, his heirs and fucceffors, all treafons and traiterous confpiracies which may be formed against him or them; and I do faithfully promife to maintain, Jupport, and defend, to the utmost of my power, the fucceffion of the crown in his Majesty's family, againft any person or perfons whatsoever; hereby utterly renouncing and abjuring any obedience or allegiance unto the perfon taking upon himself the file and title of Prince of Wales, in the life time of his father, and who, fince his death, is faid to have affumed the file and title of King of Great Britain, by the name of Charles the Third, and to other perfon claiming or pretending a right to the crown of thefa realms; and I do fwear, that I do reject and deteft, as an unchristian and impious pofition, That it is lawful to murder or destroy any perfon or perfous whatsoever, for or under pretence of their being hereticks and alfo that unchriftian and impious principle, that no faith is to be kept with hereticks: I further declare, that it is no article of my faith, and that I do renounce, reject, and abjure, the opinion, that princes excommunicated by the pope and council, or by any authority of the fie of Rome, or by any authority whatsoever, may be depofed or murdered by their fubjects, or any person whatsoever and I do declare, that I do not believe that the pope of Rome, or any other foreign prince, prelate, ftate, or potentate, hath, or ought to have, any temporal or civil jurifdiction, power, fuperiority, or pre-eminence, directly or indirectly, within this realm. And I do folemnly, in the prefence of God, profefs, testify, and declare, that I do make this declaration, and every part thereof, in the plain and ordinary fenfe of the words of this oath without any evafion, equivocation, or mental refervation whatever, and without any difpenfation already granted by the pope, or any authority of the fee of Rome, or any perfon whatever; and without : ; ; thinking Court of chancery, courts of record at Weft miniter,courts of great lef fions in Wales, thinking that I am or can be acquitted before God or man, or abfolved of this declaration, or any part thereof, although the pope, or any other perfons or authority whatsoever, fhall difpenfe with or annul the fame, or declare that it was null or void. Which oath it shall be competent to his Majesty's high court of chancery, or to any of his Majefty's courts of record at Westminster, the courts of great feffions within the principality of Wales and county palatine of Chefter, the courts of chancery or common pleas within the counties palatine of Lancaster and Durham, or to any court of general or quarter feffions of the peace of any county, riding, liberty, city, borough, town, or place, in the kingdom of England, or in the principality of Wales, to administer, and they are hereby required to adminifter the A register to fame accordingly of the taking and fubfcribing of which oaths. be kept of the a register fhall be kept and preferved, in the manner prescribed taking and by the laws now in being requiring oaths from persons taking fubfcribing offices or employments. etc. may adminifter the oath. the fame. This act not to extend to V. Provided always, and it is hereby enacted and declared, That nothing in this act contained fhall extend, or be conftrued any popish bi- to extend, to any popith bithop, prieft, jefuit, or fchoolmafter, shop, etc. who who fhall not have taken and fubfcribed the above oath in the fhall not have taken the faid above words before he thall have been apprehended or any prooath before he secution commenced against him. was apprehended, etc. Preamble. act of 1 Annæ, feff I. CA P. LXI. An act for repealing certain provifions in two acts, made in the first year of the reign of Queen Anne; one intituled, An act for the relief of the proteftant purchasers of the forfeited eftates in Ireland; and the other intituled, An act for advancing the fale of the forfeited eftates in Ireland, and for vefting fuch as remain unfold by the prefent trustees in her Majefty, her heirs and fucceffors, for fuch uses as the fame were before vested in the faid trustees; and for the more effectual felling and setting the faid eftates to proteftants; and for explaining feveral acts relative to the lord Bophin and fir Redmond Everard. W HEREAS by an act, passed in the first feffion of the first year of Queen Anne, intituled, An act for the relief of the Recital of an proteftant purchasers of the forfeited eftates in Ireland, it is enacted, That all difpofitions and fales of the feveral lands, tenements, and hereditaments, eftates and interefts, therein mentioned, which had been then fold or contracted for, or should be thereafter fold, by the truflees therein mentioned, fhould be made to proteftants only; and that every papist, or person profeffing the popish religion, should be difabled and made incapable to take any part thereof, or any intereft in or out of the fame; and that all conveyances and declarations of trust to any papist, or perfon professing the popish religion, concerning the fame, hould be void and of none effect; and that no fuch papist, or perfon professing the popish religion, during his continuing to be fuch, should be capable to inherit, take, or make title to, by defcent, purchase, limitation 1 mitation, devife, or other conveyance, or to have, hold, or enjoy, any forced by an CAP. Preamble. 16 Geo. 3. C. 43, recited, and further continued till June 1, 1779 Preamble. CA P. LXII. An act to continue an act, made in the fixteenth year of his prefent Majefty, intituled, An act to authorize, for a limited time, the punishment, by hard labour, of offenders who, for certain crimes, are or fhall become liable to be tranfported to any of his Majesty's colonies and plantations. WH HEREAS an act of parliament was made in the fixteenth year of the reign of his prefent Majesty, intituled, An act to authorize, for a limited time, the punishment, by hard labour, of offenders who, for certain crimes, are or fhall become liable to be transported to any of his Majefty's colonies and plantations: and whereas the faid act is near expiring; be it therefore enacted by the King's most excellent majefty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords fpiritual and temporal, and commons, in this prefent parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, That the faid act fhall be, and is hereby continued, from the expiration thereof, until the first day of June, one thousand seven hundred and feventy-nine. An act for enabling trustees under particular turnpike acts, to meet and carry fuch acts into execution, notwithstanding they may not have met or adjourned agreeable to the directions of fuch acts; and for preventing difputes touching the payment of tolls for borfes or carriages belonging to or employed by officers or foldiers on duty. W HEREAS it has happened, and may hereafter happen, that the truflees appointed, or to be appointed, by act of parliament, for amending or repairing particular turnpike roads, have omitted, or may omit, to meet or adjourn in the manner directed by fuch acts reSpectively, or that the day or days, appointed for the first meeting of the trustees, has or have elapfed, or may elapfe, before the passing of fuch acts refpectively, whereby the intent of Juch respective acts bath been or may be fruftrated; for remedy whereof, be it enacted by the King's most excellent majefty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords fpiritual and temporal, and commons, in this prefent parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, That in all cafes where the trustees, appointed, or to be trustees under appointed, by any act or acts of parliament, made or to be made, for amending or repairing any particular turnpike roads, fhall repairing turnpike roads not have met, or fhall not meet, on the day or days appointed, fhall neglect to or to be appointed, for their first meeting, by any fuch act or acts meet on the refpectively, or on any day or days appointed, or to be appointday appointed, by adjournment, for their meeting, or have not adjourned, In cafe the any act for ed, etc. any five tru or fhall not adjourn, in the manner directed by any such act or acts of parliament, or when the day appointed, or to be appointed, for the first meeting of the trustees, has elapfed, or may elapfe, before the paffing of fuch act or acts; it thall and point a meet- may be lawful for any five or more of the trustees appointed to execute fuch act or acts refpectively, in any or either of the cafes aforefaid, ftees may ap ing. aforesaid,to cause notice,under their hands, to be affixed on all the turnpike gates which fhall be then erected on fuch roads refpectively; or, if no turnpike gate shall be then erected,to cause the like notice to be affixed in fome confpicuous place, in one of the market-towns near the roads directed to be repaired as aforefaid, and alfo to be published in fome newspaper circulated in that part of the country, at least twenty days before the intended meeting, appointing the trustees to meet at the place where the last preceding meeting was appointed to have been held, or at the place directed for the first meeting of fuch truftees, if no preceding meeting shall have been held; and the said trustees, when met in pursuance of fuch notice, fhall and may, and they are hereby impowered to carry fuch act or acts into execution, in the fame and as full and ample a manner, to all intents and purposes, as they might or could have done, if no such neglect or omiffion had happened, or fuch act or acts had been paffed previous to the day or days appointed for the first meeting of the trustees respectively, and fuch trustees had met on fuch day or days according to fuch appointment. foldiers on their march, II. And whereas difputes have arisen with respect to the exemptions meant to be allowed, by feveral acts of parliament for repairing Carriages and of publick roads within this kingdom, for the horses of officers and cattle employed in carrying foldiers upon their march or duty, and for carriages attending them; the arms or in order to prevent fuch difputes for the future, be it enacted baggage of and declared by the authority aforefaid, That no toll or duty officers or whatsoever shall be demanded or taken, by virtue of any act of parliament already made, or hereafter to be made, for repairing etc. exempted any of the publick roads within this kingdom, for or in refpect from tolls. of any horfes belonging to officers or foldiers upon their march or upon duty, or for any horses, cattle, or carriages, employed in carrying or conveying the arms or baggage of any fuch officers or foldiers, or in carrying any fick, wounded, or difabled officers or foldiers; and no carriages fo employed fhall be fubject to be weighed at any engine erected, or to be erected, upon any turn- Such carriages pike road, or the owner or driver thereof liable to any penalty or forfeiture for carrying any greater weight than is or may be allowed by law to be conveyed in any fuch carriage, any act of parliament made or to be made to the contrary hereof notwithstanding. CA P. LXIV. An act for enabling his Majefty to raise the fum of one million, for the ufes and purposes therein mentioned. Preamble. Credit of loan granted to his Majefty for 1,000,000l. Treasury may raise the fame by loans or exchequer bills, in like manner as is prefcribed by the land tax act of this feffion, concerning loans, etc. The claufes, etc. in the faid act relating to loans or exchequer bills, (exception) extended to the loans, etc. to be made in pursuance of this act. Principal and intereft, with charges, to be paid out of the next fupplies, and if none fufficient be granted before July 5, 1779, then to be paid out of the finking fund; and the monies fo iffued to be replaced out of the firft fupplies. The bank impowered to advance, on the faid credit of loan, any fum not exceeding 1,000,000l. САР. not liable to be weighed. |