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 i86 C. i8. Anno tertio 8c quarto Ann^ Reginse. A. D. 1704. or their Deputies, or feme or one of them, yearly at the General Quarter-Seflions of the Peace to be holdcn for each County, Riding, or Divifion, or any Part thereof, in the Week after the Feaft of Saint Michael,, upon the firfl Day of the faid Seffions, or upon the firft Day that the faid Seflions ftiall be held by Adjournment at any other particular Place orDivifion, fhall return and give to the Juftices of the Peace in open Court : And any Head Conftable of the Fl.undred, Lathe, or Wapentake failing to iffue forth his or their Precept or Precepts to coiivene and meet together, with the Conftables, IVthingmen, and Head- borcugbs, as aforefaid, fhall forfeit and incur the Penalty of ten Pounds ; and any Conftable, Tything- man, and Hcadborough, failing to meet the Head Conftable of the Hundred, Lathe, or Wapentake purfuant to^ his Precept, and failing to prepare and make a true Lift, and to return and give in-the fame to the Juftices in open Court, as aforefaid, fliall forieit and incur the Penalty of five Pounds : And every fuch High Conftable, Conftable and Tythingman, fa offending, fhall be profecuted at the General Affizes, Seflions of Oyer and Tennine; and General Gaol Delivery, or Seflions of the Peace, before the Juftices thereof, who fhall have Power and Authority to hear and determine the fame. '^'"'lTfl'"'i ^^- And for the better Obfervance of this Aft, and of the faid Afts made in the fourth and fifth rc°a'rpubi ckiy '° ^'^"'■5 °f King William and Queen Mary, and in the faid feventh and eighth Years of the late every Quarter- King V^^iLLiAM, the Juftices of the Peace at the General Quarter-Seflions, held after the four and Seflions after 24. twentieth Day of June, yearly, fliall caufe the faid feveraL Adts to be publickly read in open Court. June, yedrly. Farlker Provlfiens ccaccmlng furors, 3 Ca. 2. c. z J, 4 Geo. 2. c. 7. 6 Gcs, 2. c, 37, 24 Geo. 2. c. 1 8. and 29 Gio, 2. c. 19. Anno Regni A N N iE Reginas quarto. AT the Parliament fummoned to be held at Weftmlnjier the fourteenth Day oijune. Anno Dom. 1705, in the fourth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady ANNE, by the Grace of God, of • * In the Inrel- ' ^'^S^^'^'^-> Scotland, France, and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, &c. And from thence conti- mentitis,' to ' ' i^'J^^ by feveral Prorogations, to the five and twentieth Day of Oiiober 1705 j * and then begun and thenineteenth ' holden, being the firft Seflion of this prefent Parliament.' ment it z theninetei Pay of March, C A P. I. An Act for exhibiting a Bill in this prefent Parliament for naturalizing the moft Excellent Princefs Sophia, Electrefs and Dutchefs Dowager oi Hanover, and the Iffue of her Body. ^f h"*" Ye?'l'% ' 117 HERE AS the moft Excellent Princefs Sophia, Ekftrefs and Dutchefs Dowager oi Hanover, her WntTohe ' VV ^-^d the Ifflie of her Body, are to be naturalized, and by Reafon of their being beyond the Seas, naturalized. ' they cannot qualify themfelves in Order thereto, according to the Aft made in the feventh Year of the 7'Ja. 1. c. 2, ' Reign of King James the Firft, which requires every Perfon to receive the Sacrament of the Lord's ' Supper, within one Month before any Bill for naturalization be exhibited, and alfo take the Oaths ' of Supremacy and Allegiance in the Parliament Houfe, before his or her Bill be twice read:' Be .it enaffed by the Qtieen's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spi-- ritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of AEilltobeex- the fame, That a Bill for the Naturalization of the faid moft Excellent Princefs Sophia, Eledlrefs and hjbited for their ]J^t;(-hefs Dowager oi Hanover, and the Ifiue of her Body^ fhall and may be exhibited and brought into . a ura iza ion. ^j^j_^ prefent Parliament, and twice read ; any Law, Statute, Matter, or Thing whatfoever to the con- trary notwithftanding. CAP. IL An A£i; for granting an Aid to her Majefty by a Land Tax, to be raifed in the Year one thoufand feven hundred and fix. EXP. 4s. in the Pound. CAP. in. An Act to repeal feveral Ciaufes In the Statute made in the third and fourth Years of her pre- fent Majefty's Reign, for fecuring the Kingdom of England from feveral Acts lately paffed in the Parliament of Scotland. ' XT 7 HEREAS in a Statute made in the third and fourth Years of her prefent Majefty's Reign, in- ■j&dAnnffi ' ' V* tituled, An AP. for the effeSiual fecuring the Kingdo7n of Y.x^2Xii from the apparent Dangers that nwj c, 7. ' ' arife from feveral A£is lately paffed in the Parlicment ^of Scotland, there are Claufes contained in' thefe ' Words following (that is to fay :) Natives of Scot- ' JT. And be it further enacSbed by the Authority aforefaid. That from and after the five and twentieth ^•'!f /T?>' ''"- ' Day oi December one thoufand feven hundred and five, no Perfon or Perfons_, being a Native or Natives !n England'.'&cO ' °^ '^e Kingdom of Scotland (except fuch as are now fettled Inhabitants within the Kingdom of England, after 25 Dec. ' or the Dominions thereunto belonging, and fliall continue Lrhabitants thereof, and fuch as are now in J705, adiudged ' Service in her Majefty's. Fleet or Army) fliall be capable to inherit any Lands^ Tenements, or Aliens, &€, 2 . ' Hereditaments