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 704 C. 39. Anno decimo nono Georgii II. A. D. 1746. Prof. Paftor or Minifter officiating did not, in exprefs Words, pray for his Majefty, his Heirs or Suc- 0.1th by whom ceiTors, by Name, and for all_ the Royal Family; and it (hall be competent for any Candidate or tobeadmini- Member of the Meeting, affembled for any fuch Election, to make this Objection, and to prove flcrd. t h e f amc by a Witnefs or Witneffes upon Oath, or by referring it to the Oath of the Perfon ob- jected to, which Oath the Prefes or Clerk of fuch Meeting is hereby impowered to adminifter • and in cafe the fame (hall be proved, or the Perfon fo objected to (hall admit the Fact, or refuf- to depofe concerning it, he (hall be, and is hereby difqualified from, and rendered incapable of vo- te ^Evidence tin g» or hein S chofen at any fuch Election as aforelaid ; but fuch Admiffion, or Confeflion upon Oath, . upon Pro&cu- or otherwife lb made at fuch Meeting, affembled for any fuch Election, (hall not be made ufe of, or tjon for Penal- given in Evidence againft any fuch Perfon, upon any Profecution, for any Penalty inflicted by this or tics " any former Act of Parliament. Civil or mai- XIII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That if any Perfon or Perfons, at tary Officers re- any Time after the faid firft Day of September, either Peers, or Commoners, who have, or (hall have fort (i E, H M n " anv Office or Offices, civil or military, in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, (hall refort to, ing-hoiifes, &c!" or frequent any Epifcopal Meeting-houfe or Congregation in Scotland, whereof the Paftor's or Mini- fter's Letters of Orders (hall not be entered on Record, or regiftrate as aforefaid, or whereof a Certi- ficate of the Paftor or Minifter's having taken the Oaths, and his Name, or Place of Abode, and alfo the Place where his Meeting is to be held, (hall not be entered according to the Directions of this Act, and where the Paftor or Minifter (hall not pray, in exprefs Words, for his Majefty, his Heirs or Succeffors, by Name, and all the Royal Family, in the Manner before directed, every Perfon fo offending, being thereof lawfully convicted before any two or more of his Majefty's Ju- ftices of the Peace, or before any other Judge competent of the Place, (hall be difabled from thence- Penaity. forth to hold fuch Office or Offices, and (hall forfeit the fame ; and (hall be adjudged incapable to bear any Office, civil or military, in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, for the Space of one Year from and after the Date of fuch Conviction, judges, &c. XIV. And be it enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That in cafe any of the faid Judges, or Ma- Bu t ty!n n t S he h?ir £ iin ' ates > flia11 be g uilt y of an y wilful Neglect or Omiffion of their Duty in the PremiiTes, they (hall premiires. forfeit the Sum of fifty Pounds Sterling, toties quoties ; one Moiety thereof to the Informer, the other Pen, ity t0 be difpofed °f f° r * ne Ufe of the Poor of the Parifh where the Offender (hall be refident a y ' for the time being, to be recovered by fummary Complaint before the Court of Seffion, or by Sa 26 Ga. z, Profecution before the Court of Jufticiary at Edinburgh, or at the Circuit Courts of Jufticiary. f. 291, CAP. XXXIX. An Act for the more effectual difarming the Highlands in Scotland; and for the more effec- tually fecuring the Peace of the faid Highlands ; and for reftraining the Ufe of the High- land Drefs ; and for further indemnifying fuch Perfons as have acted in Defence of his Majefty's Perfon and Government, during the unnatural Rebellion •, and for indemnify- ing the Judges and other Officers of the Court of Jufticiary in Scotland, for not perform- ing the Northern Circuit in May one thoufand feven hundred and forty-fix ; and for obliging the Mafters and Teachers of Private Schools in Scotland, and Chaplains, Tutors and Governors of Children or Youth, to take the Oaths to his Majefty, his Heirs and Succeffors, and to regifter the fame. "to 1 j Ceo.. 1. c.54, -' IT 7 HE RE AS by an Act made in the firft Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King George See 21 Ceo. 2. ' y the Firft, of Glorious Memory, intituled, An Ail for the more ejfeilual fecuring the Peace of •' was in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and fixteen, it (hould not be lawful for •* any Perfon or Perfons (except fuch Perfons as are therein mentioned and defcribed) within the ' Shire of Dunbartain, on the North Side of the Water of Levin, Stirling on the North Side of the ' River of Forth, Perth, Kincardin, Aberdeen, Invertiefs, Nairn, Cromarty, Argyle, Forfar, Barnff, Su- ' therland, Caithnefs, Elgine, and Rofs, to have in his or their Cuftody, ufe, or bear, Broad Sword '.or Target, Poignard, Whinger, or Durk, Side Piitol, Gun, or other warlike Weapon, otherwife ■■' than in the faid Act was directed, under certain Penalties appointed by the faid Act; which Act ' having by Experience been found not fufficient to attain the Ends therein propofed, was further en- 11 Geo 1 c 26 ' ^ orcct ' ky an Act made in the eleventh Year of the Reign of his late Majefty, intituled, An Ail for ' ' more effeilual difarming the Highlands in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland ; and for the better ' fecuring the Peace and £hiiet of that Part of the Kingdom: And whereas the faid Act of the Eleventh ' Year of his late Majefty being, fo far as it related to the difarming the Highlands, to continue in ' Force only during the Term of feven Years, and from thence to the End of the next Selfion of f Parliament, is now expired: And whereas many Perfons within the faid Bounds and Shires ft il ' continue poffeiTed of great Quantities of Arms, and there, with a great Number of fuch Perfons, ' have lately raifed and carried on a moft audacious and wicked Rebellion againft his Majefty, in ' favour of a Popifh Pretender, and in Profecution thereof did, in a traiterous and hoftile Manner, ' tions upon the Country, and committed many other Diforders, to the Terror and great Los of 8 ' his
 * the Highlands in Scotland, it was enacted, That from and after the firft Day of November, which
 * march into the Southern Parts of this Kingdom, took Poffeffion of feveral Towns, raifed Cf ntribu-