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 468 C. 30,31. Anno decimo quinto G e or g i i II. A. D. 1742. for Exportation, the Importer thereof do make Oath (or being a ghwker) a folemn Affirmation, before the proper Officer or Officers of the Cuftoms (who has or have hereby Power to adminifter the fame) that fuch Cambricks were imported into Great Britain, after the faid firft Day of Augujl' one thoufand fevcn ljundred and forty-two; and that the faid additional Duty had been paid for the lame, and had not been fince drawn back; any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding. Taking a falfe XIV; And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That if any Perfon (hall falfely make any 0atl j> to f£ lt Oath or Affirmation. by this Act di reded to be made, and fhall thereof be legally convicted in any of his imprifoned r» Majefty's Courts of Record in Great Britain, fuch Perfon fo guilty, fhall forfeit the Sum of two hundred Months. Pounds, and be imprifoned for twelve Months. How to recover XV. And be it further enacted by the Aurhority aforefaid, That the feveral Penalties and Forfeitures to* Penalties. in this Act mentioned fhall and may be profecuted, and determined, by Bill, Plaint, or Information, in any of his Majefty's Courts of Record at Wejhninjler or in the Court of Exchequer in Scotland reflectively, wherein no Effoin, Protection, Privilege, Wager of Law, or more than one Imparlance fhall be allowed; and one Moiety of the faid Penalties and Forfeitures fhall be to the Ufe of the King's Majefty, and the other Moiety to fuch Perfon or Perfons as will Cue for, or profecute the fame. XVI. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That if any Action or Suit fhall be com- menced againft any Perfon or Perfons for any Thing done in purfuance of this Act; the Defendant or General Iflue. Defendants in any fuch Action or Suit, may plead the General IfTue, and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence, at any Trial to be had thereupon, and that the fame was done in purfuance, and by the Authority of this Act; and if it fhall appear fo to have been done, the Jury fhall find for the Defendant or Defendants; and if the Plaintiff fhall be nonfuited, or difcontinue his Action, after the Defendant or Defendants fhall have appeared, or if Judgment fhall be given upon any Verdict or Treble Cods. Demurrer againft the Plaintiff", the Defendant or Defendants fhall and may recover Treble Cofts, Concerning Limm an ^ nave the like Remedy for the fame, as any Defendant or Defendants have in other Cafes by fee farther 17 Law. Geo. 2. c. 30. ' . %Ga.z. c. 24, 25, 27 & 36. 21 Gti, :, f . 26. 24 Geo, 2. c. 46. 29 Ceo. 2. c. 15. 32 Get, z, c, 32. CAP. XXX. An Aft to prevent the Marriage of Lunaticks. 4OJ0. 2. c, 10. c 'ITTHEREAS Perfons who have the Misfortune to become Lunaticks, may, by reafon of fuch ' W their Diforder, be liable to be furprifed into unfuitable Marriages, which may be of pernicious ' Confequence, and a great Misfortune to their Families :' Wherefore, for preventing the fame, and the ill Confequence thereof, Be it enacted by the King's raoft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affsmbled, and by the Authority of the fame, That from and after the twenty-fourth Day of June in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and forty-two, in cafe any Perfon who now is, or at any Time here- Lunatick not to after fhall be found a Lunatick, by any Inquifition taken or to be taken by virtue of a Commiffion under marry till d "'. a - the Great Seal of Great Britain; or any Lunatick or Perfon under a Phrenzy, whofe Perfon and Eftate by by d the^ord '" v ' rtue of anv Act of Parliament, now are, or hereafter fhall be committed to the Care and Cuftody of par- Chancellor, &c. tieular Truftees, fhall marry before he or flie fhall be declared of fane Mind by the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, the Lord Keeper or Lords Commiffioners of the Great Seal of Great Britain for the Time being, or fuch Truftees as aforefaid, or the Major Part of them refpedtively; every fuch Marriage fhall be, and is hereby declared to be null and void to all Intents and Purpofes whatfoever. C A P. XXXI. An Act; for further regulating the Plantation Trade; and for Relief of Merchants importing Prize Goods from America, and for preventing collufive Captures there; and for obliging the Claimers of VefTels feized for Exportation of Wool, or any unlawful Importation, to give Security for Cofts; and for allowing Eaft India Goods to be taken out of Warehoufes, in order to be cleaned and refrefhed. «• 22. « Yy Reign of his late Majefty King William the Third, for preventing Frauds, and regulating and 5 Ann. c, S. ' Abufes in the Plantation Trade, and by another Act of the fifth Year of her late Majefty Queen Anne, ' for the Union of the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland, no Ship or Veffel whatfoever fhall be ' deemed or pafs as a Ship of the built and Property of Great Britain, Ireland, Guernfey, Jerfey or any of ' his Majefty's Plantations in America, or a Prize Ship made free, fo as to be qualified to trade, to, from, ' or in any of the faid Plantations, until the Perfon or Perfons claiming Property in fuch Ship or Veffel ' fhall make Oath, and regifter the fame in the Manner therein directed; and in cafe any Ship's Name ' fo regiftred fhall be altered, or any Transfer of Property to another Port, fuch Ship is thereby directed ' ficers to be cancelled; and in cafe of any Alteration of Property in the fame Port, by the Sale of one ' on
 * i8W, 3. ' "STrHEREAS by an Act of Parliament made and paffed in the feventh and eighth Years of the
 * to be' regiftred de novo, upon delivering up the former Certificate of the Regifter to the proper Of-
 * or more Shares in any Ship, after regiftring thereof, fuch Sale is to be acknowledged by Indorfement