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 ENABLING ACT — HEMISSION OF SENTENCES. 335 place or places as aforesaid should have power and authority to 1790 remit or shorten the time or term for which felons and offenders as aforesaid have been or shall hereafter be transported, in cases where it shall appear that such felons or other offenders are proper objects of the Royal Mercy. Be it therefore enacted by the King's His Majeaty Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of authorize the Lords, spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present L?euteium^' Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that it ^mft™*^'^ ^ shall be lawful for his Majesty, his heirs and successors, at all sentences, times, by his or their Commission, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, to authorize and empower the Grovernor or the Lieutenant- Governor for the time being of such place or places as aforesaid, or of any of them, by an instrument in writing under the Seal of the Government in which the place or places as aforesaid are or shall be situated, to remit, either absolutely or conditionally, the whole or any part of the time or term for which any such felons or other offenders aforesaid shall have been or shall hereafter be respectively conveyed and transported to such place or places as aforesaid ; and that such instrument or instruments shall have the like force and effect to all intents and purposes as if his Majesty, his heirs and successors, had in such cases respectively signified his or their Royal intention of mercy under his or their Sign-manual. II. And be it further enacted : That such Governor or Lieu- Duplicates tenant-Governor as aforesaid shall, by the first opportunity, mentetobe transmit to one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, a tTsocreto^- duplicate, under the Seal of the Government, of each and every °' ^^^' instrument as aforesaid, by which the time or term of transporta- tion of any such felons or other offenders as aforesaid hath been remitted or shortened, and that the names of such felons and other offenders respectively which shall be contained in such duplicates as aforesaid shall be inserted in the next General Pardon which shall pass under the Great Seal of Great Britain, after the receipt of such duplicate or duplicates by one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.