how carried into Execution. Royal Mercy to any Offender liable to the Punishment of Death by in cafes of Naval the Sentence of a Naval Court Martial on Condition of Tranfport- Courts Martial, ation or Imprisonment, or of being kept to hard Labour for Life, or for any Term of Years, it fhall and may be lawful, on a Communication of the Intention of His Majefty from the Lords Commiffioners of the Admiralty, or any Three or more of them, for One of His Majefty's Principal Secretaries of State to notify to any Justice of The King's Bench or Common Pleas or Baron of the Exchequer of the Degree of the Coif, fuch Intention of Mercy as aforefaid; whereupon the faid Juftice or Baron fhall allow fuch Offender the Benefit of fuch conditional Pardon as fhall be expreffed in fuch Notification, in the fame manner as if a conditional Pardon to the fame Effect had paffed under the Great Seal for that Purpose; and the faid Juftice or Baron, and all other Officers or Perfons whatsoever, are to make fuch Order or Orders, and to do and perform all fuch Act or Acts for the carrying into effect the Punishment mentioned in fuch conditional Pardon, as may be required by the faid Acts of the Thirty seventh and Fifty fifth Years of His faid Majefty, or by 37 G. 3. c. 140. any other Act or Acts which may be in force at the time when fuch $2-4 conditional Pardon fhall be granted for carrying into Execution any 55G. 3. c. 156. Sentence of Transportation or Imprifonment, or to be kept to hard Labour, paffed at any Court of Oyer and Terminer or Gaol Delivery in the United Kingdom; and every Sheriff, Gaoler, Keeper, Governor or Superintendant, whom it may concern, and all Conftables and other Perfons, shall be bound to obey fuch Order or Orders, and be affiftant in the Execution thereof, and of all fuch A&t or Acts as aforefaid, and be liable to the fame Punishment for Neglect, Difobedience or Interruption of the fame, as they would be if the faid Offender had been convicted by any Court of Oyer and Terminer or Gaol Delivery, and as if such Örder and Orders had been made, and fuch Act or Acts performed, or required to be performed in pursuance of fuch Conviction. finement to an other. II. And be it further enacted, That it fhall and may be lawful for Offenders reHis Majefty to cause any Offender who may be in Prifon or Confine- moved from one ment after or under any Sentence of a Naval Court Martial, or after Place of Conor under any conditional Pardon as aforefaid, to be removed from the Prifon or Place of Confinement in which he may at any time be, to fuch other fit and proper Prison or Place of Confinement being a Public Gaol, Prifon, Hulk, Penitentiary House or House of Correction, within the United Kingdom, as to His Majefty may feem expedient; and any One of His Majefty's Principal Secretaries of State is hereby authorized and empowered to iffue a Warrant or other Inftrument under his Hand for fuch Removal, and for carrying into Execution fuch Part or Parts of fuch Sentence as may remain unexpired or unfatisfied, or for which His Majefty's Gracious Pardon may not have been granted; and every Sheriff, Gaoler, Keeper, Governor or Superintendant, whom it may concern, and all Constables and other Persons, shall be bound to obey the aforefaid Warrant or Inftrument, be affiftant in the Execution thereof, and be liable to the fame Punishment for Neglect, Difobedience or Interruption of the fame, as if the faid Perfon were under Sentence of a Court of Oyer and Terminer or Gaol Delivery for fuch Imprisonment, as in the faid Warrant may be specified. III. And Pay of Offenders stopped during Imprisonment. Allowanee to In cafes of In fanity Prisoners removed to Lunatic Asylum. continued. III. And be it further enacted, That during the Imprisonment of any Officer, Petty Officer or Seaman, or Officer, Non Commiffioned Officer or Private of Royal Marines in any Gaol or Prifon, or other Place of Confinement in pursuance of any fuch Sentence of a Naval Court Martial, or under any conditional Pardon, or Order or Warrant for Removal as aforesaid, all Pay and Wages of fuch Officer, Petty Officer or Seaman, or Officer, Non Commiffioned Officer or Private of Royal Marines fhall be fufpended and stopped, and the Gaoler, Keeper, Governor or Superintendant, in whose Cuftody fuch Officer, Petty Officer or Seaman, or Officer, Non Commiffioned Officer or Private of Royal Marines may be, fhall receive and apply, in the Subfiftence and Support of every fuch Prifoner, an Allowance of fuch a Sum of Money per Diem as fhall at that time be appointed by any Act of Parliament for the regulating of His Majefty's Royal Marine Forces while on Shore, to be paid to any Gaoler or Keeper of any Prifon or Houfe of Correction for the Subfiftence of any Non Commiffioned Officer or Private Marine committed into their Cuftody under fuch Act, and which Allowance the faid Commiffioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral for the time being are hereby authorized and required to caufe to be paid by the Treafurer of the Navy or the Paymaster of Royal Marines, as the cafe may be, to the faid Gaoler, Keeper, Governor or Superintendant accordingly. IV. And be it further enacted, That if any Perfon, being in Prison or Confinement under any fuch Sentence, or by virtue of any fuch Warrant or Inftrument as aforefaid, fhall become infane, and fhall be certified by Two Phyficians or Surgeons to be infane, it fhall and may be lawful for One of the faid Secretaries of State to direct, by a Warrant or Inftrument under his Hand, the Removal of fuch Perfon to fuch Lunatic Afylum, or other proper Receptacle for Infane Perfons in the United Kingdom, as he may judge proper, for the unexpired Term of any fuch Sentence or Imprisonment or Confinement; and if any fuch Person should be in the fame manner certified to be of found Mind, the faid Secretary of State may iffue a fimilar Warrant or Inftrument for his being removed to fuch Prison or Place of Confinement as he may deem expedient. CAP. VI. An Act to continue, until the Fifth Day of July One thousand 54 G. 3. c.175. Reign of His prefent Majefty, intituled Ah Alt to explain HEREAS an A&t paffed in the Fifty fourth Year of the and amend feveral Alts relating to Spiritual Perfons holding of "Farms, and for enforcing the Refidence of fuch Perfons on their Be"nefices, in England, for One Year, and from thence until Six Weeks after the Meeting of the then next Seffion of Parliament, is near expiring: And Whereas it is expedient that the faid Act should be continued ;' Be it therefore enacted by the The King's Moft Excellent Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That the faid Act shall be and the fame is hereby continued until the Fifth Day of July One thoufand eight hundred and fixteen. CAP. VII. An Act to continue until the Fifth Day of April One thou- • Moft Gracious Sovereign, WHEREAS an Majet, Year of HEREAS an A&t paffed in the Forty eighth Year of the 48 G. 3. c. 3. Reign of His prefent Majefty, intituled An Ad for empowering the Governor and Company of the Bank of England to advance the Sum of Three Millions towards the Supply for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight: And 'Whereas another A&t paffed in the laft Seffion of Parliament to 55 G. 3. c. 16. 'continue and amend the faid recited A&t: And Whereas the Go• vernor and Company of the Bank of England are willing and have ' agreed to continue the Loan of the faid Sum of Three Millions * advanced under the Provisions of the faid recited Act, until the Fifth Day of April One thoufand eight hundred and eighteen, 'without Intereft: Now, therefore, We Your Majefty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament affembled, do moft humbly befeech Your Majefty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by The King's Moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That it fhall be lawful for the Governor and Company of the Bank Bank to conof England to continue the Advance and Loan to His Majesty made tinue Loan of in pursuance of the faid firft recited Act, upon the Credit of Exche- 3,000,000l. quer Bills authorized to be issued and iffued under the said Act, of the Sum of Three Millions without Intereft, until the Fifth Day of April One thoufand eight hundred and eighteen; any thing contained in any A&t or Acts of Parliament to the contrary notwithstanding. II. And be it further enacted, That the Exchequer Bills made out under the Provifions of the said first recited A&t for securing the faid Advance of Three Millions, fhall remain and continue as a Šecurity for the Repayment of the faid Sum of Money at the Period by Security for this A& fpecified, in like manner in every refpect as if new Exche Loan, and payquer Bills were made out for that Purpose, payable on the Fifth able on April 5, Day of April One thousand eight hundred and eighteen ; and fhall, together with all Charges incident to or attending the fame, be and are hereby charged and chargeable upon, and shall be repaid or borne by or out of the Aids or Supplies which shall be granted by Parlia raent for the Services of the Year One thoufand eight hundred and eighteen; and in cafe fufficient Aids or Supplies for that Purpose fhall without Interest. Exchequer Bills iffued under 48 G. 3. c. 3. to remain a 1818. How Monies Exchequer Bills to bear Interest if Provifion not made for Payment before April 5, 1818. 49 G. 3. c. 17. further con tinued. fhall not be granted before the faid Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and eighteen, then all the faid Exchequer Bills with the Charges incident to or attending the fame, fhall be and are hereby charged and chargeable upon fuch Monies as at any time or times at or after fuch Period fhall be or remain in the Receipt of the Exchequer of the faid Confolidated Fund (except fuch Monies of the faid Confolidated Fund as fhall then be appropriated to any particular Ufe or Ufes by any Act or Acts of Parliament in that behalf); and fuch Monies of the faid Confolidated Fund fhall and may be iffued and applied as foon as the fame can be regularly ftated and afcertained, for and towards paying off, cancelling and discharging fuch Exchequer Bills and Charges until the whole of them shall be paid off, cancelled and discharged, or Money fufficient for that Purpose be kept and referved in the Exchequer, to be payable on demand to the refpective Proprietors thereof. III. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That whatever Monies fhall be fo iffued out of the faid Confolidated Fund shall from time to time be replaced by and out of the firft Supplies to be then after granted by Parliament; any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding. : IV. Provided alfo, and be it further enacted, That no Intereft fhall be payable or paid upon or in refpect of the faid Exchequer Bills Provided always, that in cafe Provifion fhall not be made by Parliament for Payment of the faid Exchequer Bills, so that the fame fhall be fully paid and discharged on or before the faid Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and eighteen, then and in fuch cafe the faid Exchequer Bills, or fuch Part thereof as shall then remain unpaid, fhall, from and after the faid Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and eighteen, bear Interest at and after the Rate of Four Pounds Ten Shillings per Centum per Annum; and fuch Intereft is hereby made chargeable and charged upon, and shall be borne and paid by and out of the fame Fund as the Principal Money payable in respect of the said Exchequer Bills is by this Ác charged and chargeable upon; any thing in this Act, or any other Act or Acts of Parliament, contained to the contrary thereof notwithstanding. CAP. VIII. An Act to continue until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and seventeen, an Act of the Forty ninth Year of His prefent Majefty, for regulating the Trade and Commerce to and from The Cape of Good Hope. (22d March 1816.] W and fit to be continued ;' Be it therefore enacted by The King's Moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That an Act made in the Forty ninth Year of the Reign of His present Majefty, intituled An A& to authorize His Majefty during the prefent War to make Regulations refpecting the Trade and Commerce to and from The Cape of Good Hope; which was revived and continued from the Expiration thereof, until the Twenty fifth Day of . of March One thousand eight hundred and fixteen, by an Act of the CAP. IX. An Act for charging certain Duties on Foreign Packets or WHEREAS it is expedient that a Tonnage Duty should be imposed upon French Packets or Paffage Veffels, on their ⚫ entering and departing any of the Ports of Great Britain, equivalent to the Duty now payable on British Packets or Paffage Veffels entering and departing the Ports of France; Be it therefore enacted by The King's Moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That, from and after the paffing of this Act, French Packets, there fhall be raised, collected, levied and paid unto His Majefty, his &c. to pay Duty. Heirs and Succeffors, a Tonnage Duty at and after the Rate of Three Shillings and Six pence of good and lawful Money of Great Britain for each and every Ton Burthen of every Packet or Paffage Veffel belonging to the Subjects of His Moft Chriftian Majefty, which shall lade or unlade any Goods, Wares or Merchandize, or take in or fet on Shore any Paffengers in any Port, Creek, Harbour or Road of Great Britain, and that the Tonnage of every fuch Veffel fhall, in cafe of Doubt or Difpute as to the fame, be ascertained by the proper Officers of the Cuftoms by Admeasurement, in manner directed by an Act paffed in the Twenty fixth Year of the Reign of 26 G. 3. c. 60. His prefent Majefty, intituled An Ad for the further Encouragement and Encreafe of Shipping and Navigation. II. And be it further enacted, That it fhall and may be lawful for Packets not payany Officer or Officers of His Majesty's Customs, to ftop and detain ing Duty detainany Packet or Paffage Veffel liable to the Payment of the faid Duty, ed and fold. until the fame is paid as aforefaid; and in cafe Payment thereof fhall not be made for the Space of Thirty Days after the Arrival of fuch Veffel at any fuch Port, Creek, Harbour or Road in this Kingdom, it fhall and may be lawful to and for the Commiffioners of His Majefty's Cuftoms in England and Scotland refpectively, or any Three or more of them, to caufe fuch Packet or Paffage Veffel, and her Mafts, Apparel and Furniture, to be fold publicly to the beft Bidder, and the Produce thereof to be applied, firft to the Charges that shall arife by fuch Detention and Sale, next to the faid Duty impofed by this Act, and the Overplus to be paid to the Proprietor of such Packet or Paffage Veffel or other Perfon duly authorized by fuch Proprietor to receive the fame. of Cuftoms. III. And be it further enacted, That the Tonnage Duty hereby Duty under impofed fhall be paid into the Hands of the proper Officers of His Commiffioners Majefty's Cuftoms at the respective Ports or Places where fuch Duty hall become due and payable; and fuch Duty fhall be under the Management of the Commiffioners of His Majesty's Customs in England and Scotland respectively. IV. And |