14. Have you ever served in the Army, Marines, Ordnance, or Navy, or in the Forces of the East India Company? 15. Have you ever been rejected as unfit for Her Majesty's Service, or for the Service of the East India Company, upon any prior Enlistment? Note. The Magistrate is directed in putting the Twelfth Question to the Recruit, and before he receives his Answer, distinctly to apprize the Recruit that if he belongs to the Militia, and denies the Fact, he is liable to Six Months Imprisonment. I OATH to be taken by a RECRUIT on Attestation. do make Oath, That the above Questions have been separately put to me, that the Answers thereto have been read over to me, and that they are the same that I gave, and are true. I do also make Oath, That I will be faithful and bear true Allegiance to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors; and that I will, as in Duty bound, honestly and faithfully defend Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, in Person, Crown, and Dignity, against all Enemies; and will observe and obey all Orders of Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, and of the Generals and Officers set over me. above is the Description of the Recruit ; and in my Presence all the foregoing Questions were put to the that the Answers written opposite to them said L 3 are [this are those which he gave to me; and that the Thirtieth and Thirty-sixth Articles of the Rules and Articles for the better Government of Her Majesty's Royal Marine Forces while on shore, against Mutiny and Desertion, were read over to him; that he took the Oath of Allegiance and Fidelity; that he received the Sum of on being attested this Day; that he was not attested until Twenty-four Hours had elapsed after he received Enlisting Money; that Blank is to be supplied by the Words "the Place where he swears that he is enlisted is in the Vicinity of my Residence," or by the Words "the Place where he swears that he enlisted is within the Division, District, or Place for which I act," or by the Words "I am acting within the Division, District, or Place where the Head Quarters of the Recruiting Party is stationed," as the Case may be]; that I am not an Officer in the Marines, and that I have given him a Duplicate of this Certificate signed with my Name. Signature of the Justice. DECLARATION to be made by a MARINE renewing his Service. do declare, That I am at present [or I was, as the Case may be,] in the for a Term of the Royal Marine Forces; that I enlisted on the of Division of Years; that I am of the Age of Years; and that I will serve Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, as a Marine, for a further Term of Years [to be filled up with Twelve Years, and in the Case of a Marine about to embark for Foreign Service, with such Number of Years as shall be required to complete a total Service of Twenty-four Years], provided my Services should so long be required, and also for such further Term, not exceeding Two Years, as shall be directed by the Commanding Officer on any Foreign Station. I Declared before me Signature of Marine. FORM of OATH to be taken by a MASTER whose Apprentice by Trade a do make Oath, That I am was bound to serve as an Apprentice to me in the said Trade, by has absconded. of and that quit my Service without my Consent; and that to the best of my Knowledge and Belief the said is aged about Years. Witness my Hand at the Day of One thousand eight FORM OF JUSTICE'S CERTIFICATE to be given to the MASTER Day of of an Apprentice. one of Her Majesty's Justices of the certify, That came before me at the One thousand eight hundred and and made Oath that he was by Trade a that was bound to serve as an Apprentice to him in the said Trade, by Indenture dated the for the Term of of said Apprentice did on or about the abscond and quit the Service of the said Day Years; and that the Day of without his Consent; and that to the best of his Knowledge and Belief the said Apprentice is aged about It is important for the Public Service, and for the Interest of the Deserter, that this Part of the Return should be accurately filled up, and the Details should be inserted by the Magistrate, in his own Handwriting, or, under his Direction, by his Clerk. I do hereby certify that the Prisoner Signature and Address + Insert "is" or "is not," as the Case may be. I certify that I have inspected the Prisoner, and consider him for Military Service. Signature of Mi litary Medical Officer, or of Private Medical Practitioner. Insert "fit" or "unfit," as the Case may be; and if unfit, state the Cause of Unfitness. CAP. XVI. An Act for raising the Sum of Seventeen millions nine hundred and forty-six thousand five hundred Pounds by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight. Most Gracious Sovereign, [22d April 1848.] WE, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled, towards raising the necessary Supplies which we have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty in this Session of Parliament, have resolved to give and grant unto Your Majesty the Sum herein-after mentioned; and do therefore most humbly beseech 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 Treasury the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury of the United may raise Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, at any Time or Times, by Exchequer to cause any Number of Exchequer Bills to be made out at the Bills, in like Receipt of the Exchequer at Westminster, for any Sum or Sums Manner as is of Money not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Seventeen prescribed by millions nine hundred and forty-six thousand five hundred Pounds, in like Manner as is prescribed in an Act passed in the Forty-eighth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act for regulating the issuing and paying off of 48 G. 3. c. 1. Exchequer Bills, and in another Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Fourth and Fifth Years of the Reign 17,946.500/. of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act 4&5 W. 4. c. 15. to regulate the Office of the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer at Westminster, and in another Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for further regulating 5&6 Vict. c. 66. the Preparation and Issue of Exchequer Bills. Acts extended II. And be it enacted, That all and every the Clauses, Pro- The Clauses, visoes, Powers, Privileges, Advantages, Penalties, Forfeitures, &c. in recited and Disabilities contained in the said Acts shall be applied and to this Act. extended to the Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act, as fully and effectually to all Intents and Purposes as if the said several Clauses or Provisoes had been particularly repeated and re-enacted in the Body of this Act. III. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said The Treasury Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to issue and apply to apply the from Time to Time all such Sums of Money as shall be raised Money raised. by Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act to such Services as shall then have been voted by the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in this present Session of Parliament. IV. And be it enacted, That the Principal Sum or Sums of Bills, how to Money to be contained in such Exchequer Bills shall be charged be charged and upon paid. |