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 A. D. 1733. Anno fexto Georgii II. C. 36. 147 aforefaid That from and after the twenty-fourth Day of June one thoufand feven hundred and thirty- *°°'- ^. ena] '/. three if' any Perfon or Perfons fhall fell, procure or deliver any Ticket, Receipt, Chance or Number °" x „ ! X pro- in or belonging to any foreign Lottery or pretended foreign Lottery, or in or belonging to any Clafs, Part curing Ounces or Divilion of fuch Lottery or pretended Lottery, or in or belonging to any Undertaking whatfoever in foreign Lot. in the Nature of a Lottery, or fhall fell, procure or deliver any Ticket, Receipt, Chance or Number in j^", 3 ^ 2 * or belonging to any Duplicate or pretended Duplicate of any foreign Lottery or pretended foreign Lot- gu farther', tery or fhall receive or caufe to be received, any Money whatfoever for any fuch Ticket, Receipt, viGm. i'c.%%. Chance or Number, or for or in Confideration of any Money to be repaid, in Cafe any Ticket or 'I^m. *. '■■■■*■ Tickets, Number or Numbers in any foreign Lottery or pretended foreign Lottery, or any Clafs, Part 29 "' or Divilion thereof, fha 1 prove fortunate, and fhall be convicted of any of the laid Offences, upon Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information in any of his Majefty's Courts of Record at tyeftminfter (in which no Effoign, Privilege, Protection or Wager of Law, or more than one Imparlance fhall be allowed) or upon the Oath or Oaths, or Affirmation or Affirmations, of one or more credible Witnefs or WitnefTes, before two or more Juftices of the Peace of the County, Divifion or Liberty where fuch Offence fhall be committed, or the Offender fhall be found (which Oath or Affirmation fuch Juftices of the Peace are hereby impowered and required to adminifter or give) the Perfon fo convicted fhall, for every fuch Offence, forfeit the Sum of two hundred Pounds, one third Part thereof to the Ufe of his Majefty, his Heirs and Succeffors, one third Part thereof to him, her or them who fhall fue for the fame or make Information of the Offence, and the remaining third Part thereof to the Poor of the Parifh where fuch Offence fhall be committed ; the fame (in cafe of Conviction before two Juftices) to be levied by Diftrefs and Sale of the Offender's Goods, by Warrant under the Hands and Seals of fuch Juftices before whom fuch Offender fhall be convicted ; and fhall alfo, for every fuch Offence, by the Court or by fuch Juftices as the Cafe fhall happen, be committed to the County Gaol, there to remain, without Bail or Mainprize, for the Space of one whole Year, and from thence till the faid Sum of two hundred Pounds fo forfeited as aforefaid, fhall be fully paid and fatisfied. XXX. Provided neverthelefs, That any Perfon who fhall think him or herfelf aggrieved by the Judg- Appeal to the ment or Determination of fuch Juftices in any of the Cafes aforefaid, fhall have Liberty to appeal to Quarter-Seffi- the next Quarter- Seffions to be held for the County, City or Place where fuch Judgment or Determi- on °' nation fhall be made or given, and that the Judgment to be given by the Juftices of the next Quarter- ™ t ?on IS™" Seffions fhall be final. final. ' XXXI. And whereas, by Reafort of the Abfence of feveral Perfons, being Creditors and others of ' the faid Corporation, and of other Impediments and Difabilities, their refpective Claims could not be Bennet, James Lightboun, William Kynajton and Francis Elde, or any three or more of them, fhall have not determined full Power and Authority to ftate and afcertain the Accounts, and to hear and determine the Claims mi ted by^he" and Demands of all and every fuch Perfon and Perfons, being Creditors of the faid Corporation, or former Aft. intitled to any Share or Shares in the Stock or Fund of the faid Corporation, or any ways interested in any of the Effects of or belonging to the fame, as have not made and entred their refpective , Claims in the Manner and within the Time limited, directed and_ prefcribed by the faid Act; pro- vided the faid Claims be made on or before the twenty-fifth Day of December in the Year of our Lord one thoufand • feven hundred and thirty-three ; any Thing contained in the faid Act to the contrary notwithftanding. XXXII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That this Act fhall be deemed and PublickAft. taken to be a publick Act, of which all Judges and Juftices are to take Notice, and if any Action or Suit fhall be brought againft any Perfon for what he lhall do in Purfuance of this Act, fuch Action or Limitation of Suit fhall be commenced within fix Months, and not afterwards} and fuch Perfons fhall and may Aa ' ons ' plead the General Iffue> and give this Ad and the fpecial Matter in Evidence. 5« 7 c7«.s. <-.u. CAP. XXXVI. An Act for making effectual fuch Agreement as fhall be made between the Charitable Corporation for Relief of induftrious Poor, by affifting them with fmall Sums upon Pledges, at legal Intereft, and their Creditors. P R. Three Parts in four in Number and Value of the Corporation Creditors may, before 25 Dec. 1733, -compound with them for Debts, whofe Agreement fhall be binding to the reft of the Creditors. Such Agreement made by Truftees, 6fV. binding to Infants. U 2 C A P.
 * received, heard, adjufted and determined within the Time limited and prefcribed by the Act herein
 * firft recited :' Be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That the faid Robert Holford, John ReliefforClaims