6 under similar Circumstances, would, according to the ' above-mentioned Conventions, be conducted or sent to; the British Ports of Bathurst on the Gambia, Port Royal in Jamaica, the Cape of Good Hope, and Demerara, as well as the French Ports of La Goree, Martinique, Bourbon, Cayenne, shall be considered as respectively fixed on for this Purpose for the British and French Cruizers in Africa, the West Indies, Madagascar, and the Brazils. 6 'Article 4.-If the Senates of the Free Hanseatic Cities ⚫ should not deem it expedient to fit out Cruizers of their own for the Repression of the Trade, they nevertheless 'engage to furnish the special Authority or Warrants required by the Fifth Article of the Convention of the Thirtieth of November One thousand eight hundred and C thirty-one, to the Commanders of British and French Cruizers, as soon as the Names and the Number thereof ' are notified to them. And whereas it is expedient that the Provisions of the said ' recited Act of the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of His 'late Majesty King William the Fourth should be applied to to extend to Hans Towns. the said Convention of Accession of the Hans Towns, signed ' at Hamburgh on the Ninth Day of June One thousand eight ' hundred and thirty-seven, for the carrying into execution the 'said Convention and Articles for the more effectual Suppression of the Slave Trade;' Be it therefore 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 all Clauses, Provisions, Powers, and Authorities Provisions of contained in, and all Penalties and Forfeitures imposed by, the the recited Act said recited Act of the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign the Convenof His late Majesty King William the Fourth, shall be applied tion of Accesand put in force for the Purpose of carrying into execution sion of the the said Convention, and the several Articles, Stipulations, and Regulations therein respectively contained, except so far as any of such Powers and Authorities are altered by this Act, as fully and effectually as if the same were re-enacted in this Act, as to such Convention and all Matters therein respectively contained. II. And be it enacted, That, in pursuance of the said Second Ports to which Article of the Convention of the Hans Towns, all Vessels bearing Vessels bearing the captured the Flag of Lubeck, and which appear by their Papers to belong the several to Lubeck, which may be detained, in execution of the said Con- Flags shall be vention of the Years One thousand eight hundred and thirty- taken. one and One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three respectively, by the Cruizers of Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, employed on the Stations of America, of Africa, or of Madagascar, shall be conducted or sent to the Port of Travemunde; and all Vessels bearing the Flag of Bremen, and which appear by their Papers to belong to Bremen, which may in like Manner be detained, shall be conducted or sent to the Port of Bremerhaven; and all Vessels bearing the Flag of Hamburgh, and which appear by Slaves on board Vessels bearing the-Flag of Hanseatic Cities to be taken to certain Ports. Treaty between Great Britain and Sweden. 1 & 2 VICT. their Papers to belong to Hamburgh, which may in like Manner be detained, shall be conducted or sent to the Port of Cuxhaven ; and in case the Navigation of the Baltic should be interrupted or impracticable, to the Ports of Bremerhaven or Cuxhaven. III. And be it enacted, That, in pursuance of the said Third Article of the Convention of the said Hans Towns, Slaves who are found on board Vessels bearing the Hanseatic Flag, and which appear by their Papers to belong to the Hanseatic Cities or to any one of them, detained by a British Cruizer, shall be previously landed at the Place or Port the nearest (be it British) to which a Slave Vessel under the Flag of One of those Two Nations, found and detained under similar Circumstances, would, according to the above-mentioned Conventions, be conducted or sent; videlicet, the British Ports of Bathurst on the Gambia, Port Royal in Jamaica, the Cape of Good Hope, and Demerara. CAP. XL. An Act to carry into effect an additional Article to a Treaty with Sweden relative to the Slave Trade. [27th July 1838.] HEREAS a Treaty was made between His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire• land and the King of Sweden and Norway, for preventing Their • Subjects from engaging in any Traffic in Slaves, and signed at Stockholm on the Sixth Day of November One thousand eight hundred and twenty-four: And whereas an Act was passed in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of His 7&8 G, 4. c. 54. late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act to carry Additional into effect the Treaty with Sweden relative to the Slave Trade: And whereas Their said Majesties have agreed to an addi⚫tional Article to the said Treaty, as follows: "It is hereby agreed between the High Contracting Parties that in all Cases in which a Vessel shall, under the above-mentioned Treaty, be detained by their respective Cruizers as having been engaged in the Slave Trade, or as having been fitted out for the Purposes thereof, and shall consequently be adjudged and condemned by the Mixed Courts of Commission to be established • under that Treaty, the said Vessel shall, immediately after its Condemnation, be broken up entirely, and shall be sold in separate Parts after having been so broken up :" And whereas it is expedient that the Provisions of the said recited Act should be applied to the said additional Article for the carrying the same into effect: Be it therefore 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 all Clauses, Provisions, Powers, and Authorities recited Act to contained in, and all Penalties and Forfeitures imposed by, the said recited Act of the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, shall be applied Provisions of extend to the additional Article. and and put in force for the Purpose of carrying into execution the said additional Article, as fully and effectually as if the same were re-enacted in this Act as to such before-mentioned additional Article, and all Matters therein contained, and as if such additional Article had formed Part of and been inserted Word for Word in the said Treaty of One thousand eight hundred and twenty-four. CAP. XLI. An Act for carrying into effect an additional Article to a Treaty with the Netherlands relating to the Slave Trade. [27th July 1838.] WHEREAS a Treaty was concluded between His Majesty Treaty between the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Great Britain 'Ireland and His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, and lands. signed at the Hague on the Fourth Day of May One thousand eight hundred and eighteen, for the Suppression of the Slave Trade: And whereas an Act was passed in the Fifty-ninth "Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, and the Nether 'intituled An Act to carry into effect the Treaty with the Nether- 59 G. 3. c. 16. ' lands relating to the Slave Trade: And whereas additional and Additional ' ' explanatory Articles were concluded between Their said Articles to the Majesties on the Thirty-first Day of December One thousand Treaty. eight hundred and twenty-two and the Twenty-fifth Day of January One thousand eight hundred and twenty-three respec'tively: And whereas by the Seventh Article of the Treaty of the said Fourth Day of May One thousand eight hundred and eighteen, Regulations for Mixed Courts of Justice were 'established: And whereas by the Sixth Article of those Regulations it was stipulated, among other things, "that in case of the Condemnation of a Vessel she shall be declared lawful 'Prize, as well as her Cargo, of whatever Description it may be, with the Exception of the Slaves who may be on board as Objects of Commerce, and the said Vessel, as well as her Cargo, shall be sold by public Sale for the Profit of the Two "Governments:" And whereas by a separate and additional Article to the said Treaty of the Fourth Day of May One 'thousand eight hundred and eighteen, signed at the Hague on the Seventh Day of February One thousand eight hundred ' and thirty-seven, it was agreed between Their said Majesties, that the Words in the said last-mentioned Regulation, "And 'the said Vessel, as well as her Cargo, shall be sold by public 'Sale for the Profit of the Two Governments," shall be annulled, and in lieu thereof the following Stipulations inserted, which shall, in consequence, make an integral Part of the said 'Sixth Article of the above-mentioned Regulations, and of the said Treaty of the Fourth of May One thousand eight hundred and eighteen, namely, "And the said Vessel shall be entirely demolished, and the Materials thereof publicly 'sold in separate Parts, as well as her Cargo, for the Profit of the Two Governments," and that the said additional Article • of 1 & 2 VICT. of the Seventh Day of February One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven shall be of the same Force and Effect as if it had been inserted Word for Word in the before-mentioned Treaty of the Fourth of May One thousand eight hundred ' and eighteen, and in the Regulation thereto annexed: And whereas it is expedient that the Provisions of the said recited Act of the Fifty-ninth Year of His late Majesty King George 'the Third should be applied to the said explanatory and addi⚫tional Articles of One thousand eight hundred and twenty-two and One thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, and to the 'said separate and additional Article signed at the Hague on the 'said Seventh Day of February One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, for the carrying the said additional Articles into execution for the more effectual Prevention of the Traffic in Slaves:' Be it therefore 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 former Act to all Clauses, Provisions, Powers, and Authorities contained in, and all Penalties and Forfeitures imposed by, the said recited Act of the Fifty-ninth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, shall be applied and put in force for the Purpose of carrying into execution the said before-mentioned additional Articles, except so far as any of such Powers and Authorities are altered by this Act, as fully and effectually as if the same were re-enacted in this Act as to such before-mentioned additional Article, and as if the said additional Articles respectively had been inserted in and made Part of the said Treaty of One thousand eight hundred and eighteen. Provisions of extend to the additional Articles. 7481013 20 Car. 2. c. 8. CAP. XLII. An Act to empower the Commissioners of Her Majesty's WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Twentieth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King Charles the Second, intituled An Act for the Increase and Preservation of Timber within the Forest of Dean, it was enacted, that to the end the ⚫ said Forest and Premises might be perpetually preserved and 'estated in the Crown for public Use, and might not be granted or disposed to any private Use or Benefit, in case any Person or Persons whatsoever should presume to take, or should obtain any Gift, Grant, Estate, or Interest of or in the Inclo'sures or Wastes of the said Forest, or any Wood or Trees growing thereon, or of or in any of the Mines or Quarries of or within the said Inclosures or any Part thereof, every such • Gift, Grant, Estate, and Interest should ipso facto be null and void, and the Person or Persons so taking or obtaining the same should be and was thereby made and declared utterly 'disable and incapable to have, hold, or enjoy any such Gift, Grant, Estate, or Interest: And whereas, notwithstanding the Provisions in the said Act made and enacted, many Encroach'ments have been made and continued on the Waste Lands of the said Forest: And whereas by virtue and under the Authority of an Act passed in the First and Second Years of 'the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act for ascertaining the Boundaries of the Forest of 1&2 W. 4.c.12. Dean, for inquiring into the Rights and Privileges claimed by the Free Miners of the Hundred of St. Briavels, and for other Purposes, a Commission was issued under the Seal of Her 'Majesty's Court of Exchequer, bearing Date the Twenty-first Day of January One thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, 'directed to certain Commissioners therein named, with Authority to them to inquire of and ascertain and distinguish the 'Boundaries of the Forest of Dean, and of the Lands of Her Majesty's Subjects within the same, and to inquire of the Purprestures, Encroachments, and Trespasses on the Soil of the Crown within the Boundaries of the said Forest, and also to inquire of the Existence, Origin, and Particulars of the Rights and Privileges claimed by Persons born within the Hundred of St. Briavels, within the Boundary of the said 'Forest, calling themselves Free Miners, and the said Commis'sioners were by the said Commission directed to report on 'the aforesaid Matters to the Lord High Treasurer or Lords "Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury as in the said Com'mission is mentioned: And whereas the said Commissioners so appointed as aforesaid proceeded to make the Inquiries so as aforesaid directed to be made, and by their Second Report 'to the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, under their Hands and Seals, dated the First Day of May One ⚫ thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, and which Report is 'stated by them to relate to the Boundaries of the Forest of 'Dean and of the Lands of Her Majesty's Subjects within the same, and the Rights and Interests of Persons occupying or 'claiming to be interested in Lands or Tenements within the Bounds of the said Forest, the Origin or alleged Origin of 'such Rights and Interests, and also the Dates, Value, and other Particulars of all other Purprestures, Encroachments, and Trespasses in and upon the Soil of Her Majesty within the said Forest, after stating, amongst other things in the 'said Report, that the said Commissioners had confined their Attention to Encroachments in the said Forest properly so 'called, and that they had found it necessary to have Maps 'prepared, in which the Encroachments described as such in ' a certain Map made in the Year One thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, in pursuance of the Report of certain Com'missioners, should be laid down distinct from those of a more 'modern Date; and also stating that in the Maps so pre'pared under the Direction of the said Commissioners whose Report is now in recital, (and which Maps are annexed to [No. 17. 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