SCHEDULE D.D. NOTICE. NY Man who is enrolled in the Militia, and who, upon offering to enlist into the Army, denies that he belongs to the Militia, is liable upon Conviction before a Magistrate to be committed to Prison for Six Months, over and above any other Penalty or Punishment which he may thereby incur for obtaining Money on false Pretences. I * DECLARATION OF THE RECRUIT. do hereby acknowledge that the above Notice has been read over to me, and that I was strictly questioned by whether I did or did not belong to the Militia, and that I answered that I did not. I also hereby declare, that I did not then and do not now belong to the Militia. Signed in my Presence Signature of Justice of the Peace. *This Blank to be filled up by the Name of the Non-commissioned Officer or Man who actually enlisted the Recruit. CA P. VI. An Act for the regulating of His Majesty's Royal Marine Forces : [This Act and the Schedules are the same as 5 G.4. c.14. W HEREAS it may be necessary for the Safety of the United Kingdom, and the Defence of the Possessions of the Crown of Great Britain and Ireland, that a Body of Royal Marine Forces should be employed in His Majesty's Fleet and Naval Service, under the Direction of the Lord High Admiral or Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: And Whereas the said Royal Marine Forces may frequently be quartered or be on Shore, or sent to do Duty on board Transport Ships or Merchant Ships or Vessels, or Ships or Vessels of His Majesty, not being in Commission, or any Convict Hulk or Ship, where they will not be subject to the Laws relating to the Government of His Majesty's Forces by Sea; yet nevertheless it being requisite for the retaining of such Forces in their Duty, that an exact Discipline be observed; and that Marines who shall mutiny or stir up Sedition, or shall desert His Majesty's Service, be brought to a more exemplary and speedy Punishment than the Law will allow; Be it enacted by the King'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 Every Marine by the Authority of the same, That from and after the Twenty Officer, Non6 GEO. IV. fourth C commissioned Officer and Private Man, who shall mutiny or de.. sert, &c. fourth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and twenty five, if any Person being entered or in Pay as an Officer of Royal Marines, or who is or shall be listed or in Pay as a Noncommissioned Officer or Private Man in any Division of Royal Marines in His Majesty's Service, and on the Twenty fourth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and twenty five shall remain in such Service, or during the Continuance of this Act shall be voluntarily entered and in Pay as a Marine Officer or Private Man in His Majesty's Service, and being in such Service, at any Time during the Continuance of this Act, on Shore in any Place within the said Kingdom, or in any other of His Majesty's Dominions, or in Foreign Parts, or on board any Transport Ship, or Merchant Ship or Vessel, or any Ship or Vessel of His Majesty not being in Commission, or any Convict Hulk or Ship, shall begin, excite, cause or join in any Mutiny or Sedition in the Company to which he doth or shall belong, or in any other Company, Troop or Regiment, either of Marine or Land Forces, in His Majesty's Service, or shall not use his utmost endeavours to suppress the same; or coming to the Knowledge of any such Mutiny or intended Mutiny, shall not without Delay give Information thereof to his Commanding Officer; or shall desert His Majesty's Service; or being actually entered as a Marine in any Company, shall list himself in any other Company, Troop or Regiment, or enter as a Seaman in his Majesty's Service, without first having a Discharge in Writing from the Officer commanding in Chief the Company in which he last served as a Marine, in which Case he shall be reputed a Deserter; or shall be found sleeping upon his Post, or shall leave found sleeping it before relieved; or shall hold Correspondence with any Rebel or Enemy of His Majesty, or give them Advice or Intelligence of any kind, by any Ways or Means, or in any Manner whatsoever; or shall treat with such Rebels or Enemies, or enter into any Condition with them without His Majesty's Licence, or Licence of the Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or Two or more of the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the Time being; or shall strike or use any Violence against his Superior Officer being in the Execution of his Office; or shall disobey any lawful Command of his Superior Officer; all and every Person and Persons so offending in any or either of the Matters before mentioned on Shore in any Part of a Court-martial this Kingdom, or in any other of His Majesty's Dominions, or in or list in any other Regiment, &c. or shall be on or shall descrt his Post, &c. or shall strike Death, or such shall inflict. Constables, &c. may apprehend Deserters, and carry them before a Justice ; Foreign Parts, or on board any Transport Ship or Merchant Ship or Vessel, or any Ship or Vessel of His Majesty not being in Commission, or any Convict Hulk or Ship, shall suffer Death, or such other Punishment as by a Court-martial shall be inflicted. · LIII. And Whereas several Marines, who being duly entered, may afterwards desert, and be found wandering, or otherwise absenting themselves illegally from His Majesty's Service;' It is hereby further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Constable, Headborough or Tithingman of the Town or Place where any Person who may reasonably be suspected to be such a Deserter shall be found, or if no such Constable, Headborough or Tithingman can be immediately met with, then for any Marine Officer or Marine, to apprehend or cause such suspected Person to be apprehended, and to bring or cause him 10 to to be brought before any Justice of the Peace living in or near such Town or Place, who is hereby empowered and required to examine such suspected Person; and if, by his Confession or the Testimony of One or more Witness or Witnesses upon Oath, or by Knowledge of such Justice of the Peace, it shall appear or be found that such suspected Person is a Marine duly entered and ought to be with the Company to which he belongs, whether such Company shall be employed on board any of His Majesty's Ships or Vessels, or quartered on Shore, or employed on board any Transport Ship, or Merchant Ship or Vessel, or any Ship or Vessel of His Majesty not being in Commission, or any Convict Hulk or Ship, such Justice of the Peace shall, without Fee or Reward to himself or Clerk, forthwith cause him to be conveyed to the Gaol of the County or Place where he shall be found, or to the House of Correction or other public Prison in such Town or Place where such Deserter shall be apprehended; and transmit an Account thereof to the Secretary of the Admiralty for the Time being, with a Description of the Person of such Deserter, and the Name of the Division to which he may belong, to the End that he may be proceeded against according to Law; and the Keeper of every Gaol, House of Correction or Prison, shall receive such Subsistence-money for the Maintenance of such Deserter during the Time he shall continue in his Custody, as shall from time to time be directed in that Behalf by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty for the Time being, but shall not be entitled to any Fee or Reward on account of the Imprisonment of any such Deserter; any Law, Usage or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided always, that it shall be lawful for the said Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty for the Time being, if they should think fit, to order the Issue and Payment of any Arrears of Pay, or of the Surplus of such Pay, or any Portion thereof, to or on account of such Non-commissioned Officer or Marine, during or after the Expiration of his Period of Imprisonment in any Gaol or House of Correction or other public Prison. I SCHEDULES to which this Act refers. SCHEDULE (A ) Form of Oath. do make Oath, That I am by Trade a and to the best of my Knowledge and in the ; and that I have no no ways Belief was born in the Parish of Rupture, nor ever was troubled with Fits, and am Day of and Sworn before me at One thousand eight hundred and transmit an Gaol Keeper to receive the Subsistence of One thousand eight hundred and Witness present. I oath, SCHEDULE (B.) Form of Master's Oath. Oath, That I am by Trade a and that was bound to serve as an Apprentice to me in the said Trade, by Indenture dated the Day of that the said Day of for the Term of Seven Years; and did on or about the Service without my Consent; and that to the best of my Knowledge and Belief the said Years. Witness my Hand, at the Day of is aged about One thousand eight was bound to serve as an Apprentice to him in the said Trade, by Indenture dated the Day of Day of for the Term of Seven years; and that the said Apprentice did, on or about the abscond and quit the Service of the said without his Consent; and that to the best of his Knowledge and Belief the said Apprentice is aged about Years. To the [Churchwardens or Overseers] of the [Parish, Township, YOU are hereby required to pay to A. B. [describe whether Non-commissioned Officer, &c.] within named, on Furlough from Day of the Day of the Furlough] the Sum of any Money now in your Hands, or out of the first Money which shall come to your Hands in respect of the Rates for the Relief of the Poor, being at the Rate of Day from the Day of Day of per to the both inclusive; and for so doing this shall be your Warrant, and pass as such for your Repayment under the Marine Mutiny Act. CAP. VII. An Act for the further Repeal of certain Duties of Assessed 6 ક On all Assessments from April 5, 1825, land from May 24, 1825, the following Duties, viz. and in Scot On Windows W HEREAS by an Act passed in the Fourth Year of the 4G.4. c.11. Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act for §1-5. repealing certain of the Duties of Assessed Taxes, for reducing • certain other of the said Duties, and for relieving Persons who have compounded for the same, several of the Duties of Assessed Taxes were wholly repealed, and others thereof were reduced to One Moiety: And Whereas it is expedient to repeal certain of the remaining Duties of Assessed Taxes now payable to His Majesty and to grant Relief in the Cases hereinafter mentioned;' Be it therefore enacted by the King'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 from and after the fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and twenty five, in that Part of Great Britain called England, Wales and the Town of Berwick-on-Tweed, and from and after the Twenty fourth Day of May One thousand eight hundred and twenty five, in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, for and in respect of and upon all Assessments for any Year commencing from the respective Days and Year last aforesaid, the several and respective Duties granted and now payable to His Majesty by an Act passed in the By 48 G.3. Forty eighth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George c.55. Sched. the Third, and as set forth in the Schedule thereto annexed, (A.) marked (A.) (in the said first mentioned Act recited), for every in Dwelling Dwelling House, with the Offices therein described, containing Houses with not more than Six Windows or Lights, and not worth the Rent not more than of Five Pounds by the Year; and for every Dwelling House, Seven. with the Offices aforesaid, containing not more than Six Windows or Lights, and of the said Value of Five Pounds by the Year ; and for every such Dwelling House, with the Offices aforesaid, containing not more than Seven Windows or Lights; and also such of the Duties of One Shilling and Sixpence in the Pound, granted on inhabited Dwelling Houses by the said Act passed in the Forty eighth Year aforesaid and the Schedule thereunto Sched. (B.) annexed, marked (B.), as are now charged and chargeable, by Inhabited the Rules and Directions therein contained, for every inhabited Dwelling Dwelling House, with the Offices and Lands therein described, Houses under being under the Rent or Value of Ten Pounds by the Year; and 107. per Analso the several and respective Duties granted and payable to His Majesty by the said Act passed in the Forty eighth Year aforesaid, and described in the Schedule thereto annexed, marked (C.) No. 3. ; and in another Act passed in the Fifty second Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, and as set forth in the Schedule thereto also annexed, marked (C.) No. 3. (in the said first mentioned Act also described), so far as such last mentioned No.3. Duties are severally charged or chargeable in respect of every Male Person employed as an occasional Waiter in any Tavern, Waiters in Coffee House, Inn or other House in the said Schedule mentioned, Taverns, private C 3 num. Sched. (C.) 52 G.3, c.93. Occasional for Houses, &c. |