whereof, shall lie on the person accused) any frame, mould or instrument, for the making of paper, with the words "Excise Office" visible in the substance of such paper; or shall make (or cause, &c.) or knowingly aid or assist in the making any paper, in the substance of which the words "Excise Office" shall be visible; or if any person, (except as before excepted) shall by any art, mystery or contrivance, cause or procure the said words "Excise Office" to appear visible in the substance of any paper; or if any person, (not being so appointed, &c.) shall engrave, cast cut, make, (or cause, &c.) any mark, stamp or device, or imitation of or to resemble any mark, &c. made or used by the direction of the commissioners of excise in England or Scotland, or the major part of them respectively, for the purpose of printing, stamping or marking of any paper to be used as or for a permit, to accompany any exciseable commodity removing or removed from one part of Great Britain to another, in pursuance of the directions of any of the statutes requiring such permits; every such offender shall be adjudged guilty of felony without benefit of clergy. And by s. 10, if any person shall, with intent to defraud his majesty, falsely make,. forge, counterfeit or alter, (or Forging, &c. cause, &c.) or willingly assist in falsely making, &c. any certificates redebenture or any certificate for the payment or return of lating to the du any money, or any part of any such debenture, &c. or any or excise, a signature thereon, in any case in which such debenture or capital felony. certificate is, by any act of parliament relating to the duties of customs or excise, required to be given or granted; or shall wilfully, with such intent as aforesaid, utter, publish or make use of any such debenture, &c. or part thereof, so being wholly or in part falsely made, &c.; every such offender shall be adjudged guilty of felony without benefit of clergy.

s. 10.

debentures or

ties of customis

stamp &c. there

P. 1091. 7. 10. The 56 Geo. 3. c. 78. I. which is the Persons forging last act for the better regulating and securing the collec- permits for the carriage of pation of the duties on paper in Ireland, and to prevent per, &c. or any frauds therein, enacts (s. 57.) that if any person shall coun- on, or using terfeit or forge any permit or let-pass for the carriage of such counterfeit paper, paste-board, mill-board, scale-board or glazed pa ported for 7 per, sheating or sheathing paper, button paper, or button years.

permits, trans

56 Geo.3. c.78, board s. 57. I.

miralty, &c. to

53 Geo.3.c. 151. $.12. E

board, or shall counterfeit any impression, stamp or mark, provided, &c. or to be provided, &c. by the commissioners of inland excise and taxes, or of customs and port duties, or any 3 or more of them, respectively, to be put to or upon such permit, &c. or shall make use of any such counterfeit or forged permit, &c. with such counterfeit impression, &c. knowing the same to be counterfeited, such person shall be adjudged guilty of felony, and be transported for 7 years.

*

Forging,&c. the P. 1093. l. 5. The 53 Geo, 3. c. 151. U. K. which is an name c. of the registrar of act for regulating the office of registrar of the high court of the court of ad- admiralty, and high court of appeals for prizes, enacts (s.12.) defraud suitors, that if any person shall, after 3 months from the commence&c. a felony. ment of this act, forge or counterfeit, (or procure, &c.) or willingly act or assist in forging, &c. the name or hand of the said registrar or his deputy, or any of the cashiers of the governor and company of the bank of England, to any certificate, entry, indorsement, declaration of trust, note, direction, authority, instrument, or writing whatsoever, for or in order to the receiving or obtaining any of the money or effects of any of the suitors of said courts, or either of them, or shall forge or counterfeit, (or procure, &c.) or willingly act or assist in forging, &c. any certificate, &c. made by such registrar or his deputy, or any of the said cashiers, &c. or shall utter or publish any such, knowing the same to be forged, &c. with intention to defraud any person whatsoever, every such offender shall be adjudged guilty of felony.

Forging, &c. mark or hand of

P. 1093. l. 16. The 52 Geo. 3. c. 143. G. B. (ante p. receiver of pre- 423) enacts, (s. 5.) that any person who shall make, forge, fines, a capital or counterfeit, (or cause, &c.) the mark or hand of the refelony. ceiver of prefines at the alienation office, upon any writ of covenant whereby such receiver or any other person shall or may be defrauded or suffer loss, shall be guilty of felony without benefit of clergy.

52 Geo.3.c.143. §. 5. G. B.

P. 1098. l. 4. The 55 Geo. 3. c.185.G.B. enacts, (s.7.)*

that

This act provides, (s. 15) that none of its provisions shall take effect un fil after the expiration of the interest now vested in the present registrar, This clause supersedes the 52. Geo, 3. c. 143. s. 8. G. B.

respect to any

on gold or silver

another, or sel

plate, &c. with

possessed of

that if any person shall forge or counterfeit, (or cause, &c.) Forging, &c. in any mark, stamp, or die, which shall have been provided, mark, stamp or made, or used in pursuance of this or any former act, relat- die, for duties ing to any duties on gold or silver plate made or wrought plate, or remov in Great Britain, for the purpose of marking or stamping marks from one ing' the true duty any such gold or silver plate, in the manner directed by piece of plate to any such act; or shall forge, counterfeit or resemble, (or ling, &c. any cause, &c.) the impression of any such mark, &c. upon any such forged or such gold or silver plate, with intent to defraud the king: transposed mark &c. or being or if any person shall mark or stamp (or cause, &c.) any such gold or silver plate, or any vessel or ware of base metal, forged stamps, &c. or frauduwith any such forged or counterfeited mark, &c. ; or shall tently using true transpose or remove, (or cause, &c.) from one piece of stamps, a capital felony. gold or silver plate to another, or to any vessel, &c. of base 55 Geo-3.185. metal, any impression made with any mark, &c. which s. 7. G. B. shall have been provided, &c. in pursuance of this or any former act, for the purpose of marking or stamping any such gold or silver plate as aforesaid; or if any person shall sell, exchange, or expose to sale, or export out of Great Britain, any such gold or silver plate, or any vessel, &c. of base metal, having thereupon the impression of any such forged, &c. stamp, or any forged, &c. impression of any mark, &c. so provided, &c. as aforesaid, or any impression of any such mark, &c. which shall have been transposed, &c. from any other piece of plate as aforesaid, knowing the same to be so forged, &c. or transposed, &c. ; or if any person shall wilfully, and without lawful excuse, (the proof whereof shall lie on the person accused,) have or be possessed of any such forged, &c. mark, &c. or shall privately and secretly use any mark, &c. so provided, &c. with intent to defraud the king, every such offender, and every person knowingly and wilfully aiding, &c. in com mitting such offence, shall be adjudged guilty of felony without benefit of clergy.

P. 1108,

Murders, &c. committed with in any island

to states of America, nor

may be tried in

&c. under, a

U. K.

Of Courts of a Criminal Jurisdiction.

P. 1108. l. 12. and Addenda I. p. 134. l. 14. The

57 Geo. 3. c. 53. U. K. recites, that grievous murders and (not part of manslaughters have been committed at the settlement in king's dominions, nor subject the bay of Honduras in South America, (the same being a settlement, for certain purposes, in the possession and European pow- under the protection of his majesty, but not within the er,) by master or crew, &c. of territory and dominion of his majesty,) by persons resida British ship, ing within said settlement; and the like offences have any of his ma- been committed in the South Pacific ocean, as well on jesty's islands, the high seas as on land, in the islands of New Zealand commission &c. and Otaheite, and in other islands and places not within 57. Geo.3.c. 55. his majesty's dominions, by the masters and crews of British ships, and other persons who have for the most part deserted from or left their ships, and have continued to live amongst the inhabitants of those islands; and therefore enacts, that all murders and manslaughters committed or that shall be committed on land at said settlement in the bay of Honduras, by any person residing or being within said settlement, and all murders, &c. committed or that shall be committed in the said islands of New Zealand and Otaheite, or within any other islands, &c. not within his majesty's dominions, nor subject to any European state or power, nor within the territory of the united states of America, by the master or crew of any British ship or vessel, or any of them, or by any person sailing in or belonging thereto,or that shall have sailed in and belonged thereto, and have quitted any British ship, &c. to live in any of the said islands, &c. or that shall be there living, shall and may be tried, &c. in any of his majesty's islands, plantations, colonies, dominions, forts or factories, under the king's commission to be issued in pursuance of the 46 Geo. 3. c. 54. (see Addenda I. p. 133.) as if such offence had The 33 Hen. S. been committed on the high seas. Provided (s. 2.) that nothing herein shall repeal the 33 Hen. 8. c. 23. Eng. And it was provided (s. 3.) that this act might be altered, tering, &c. act. &c. during the then session.

s. 2.

c. 23. not here

by repealed.

S. 3.

Proviso as to al

P. 1112.

sessions, for the

quarter in every year, shall be

P. 1112. 1. 39. The 54 Geo. 3. c. 84. E. & W. enacts, The quarter that the quarter sessions for the Michaelmas quarter shall Michaelmas (in order to render the attendance at the same more generally convenient,) in every year be holden, for every county, holden in the first week after riding, division, city, borough and place, within England 11th October. and Wales, and for Berwick upon Tweed, in the first 51 Geo, 3.c.84, week after the 11th day of October, instead of the time now appointed for holding the same. Provided (s. 3.) that nothing in this act shall vary the time at which the sessions Proviso as to for London or Middlesex are now holden.

E. & W.

s. 13.

London, &c.

Justices of peace

general and general quarter

clerks of the

land and Wales.

P. 1121. last line. The 57 Geo. 3. c. 91. E. & W. recites, that doubts had arisen touching the fees and allow- at their annual ances due and to be made to the clerks of the peace of the several counties and other divisions in England and sessions, to settle a table of fees to Wales; and enacts, that it shall be lawful for the justices be taken by the of the peace for the county of Kent, and for the county peace for the palatine of Lancaster, at their annual general sessions of counties of Eng• the peace, and for the justices of peace in every other 57 Geo. 3. c.91. county, &c. with England and Wales, at their respective E. & W. general quarter sessions, to settle a table of fees, &c. to be taken by the clerk of the peace for such county of Kent and such county palatine, and such other counties, ridings, divisions, cities, towns, liberties and precincts; and such table of fees, &c. shall be subject to the approbation of the justices at the then next succeeding general annual session of the peace for the county palatine of Lancaster, and for the county of Kent,and at the then next succeeding general quarter session for every other such county, &c. or at some adjournment thereof respectively; and such tableof fees, &c. when so approved, shall be laid before the judges of assize at the next assizes for such counties, &c. except the Such tables to several places being counties in which assizes are not re- be laid before judges of assize, gularly holden in every year, and in those cases before and justices at the justices at the next assizes for the adjoining county where assizes are regularly holden, and to which prisoners are generally removed for trial from such places, and also except the counties in Wales and the county palatine of Chester, and before the justices at the next great sessions for the several counties in Wales, and for the county palatine of Chester; and the said judges and justices are

hereby

great sessions.