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 72 C, 45' Anno v'cefimo Georgii II. A. D. 1747. are hereby acquitted and difcharged of and from the faid Penalties and Forfeitures; any thing in the faid for- mer Acts, or any cf them, contained to the contrary notvvithlknding. Apprentice?, &c. VI. And it is hereby further enaacd. That if any Mafter or Miitrefs (hall, by reafon of any fuch Ne- payin; ihe dou- „]gQ. 33 afoiefaid, becomc liable to forfeit and pay fach double Rates and Duties as atorefaid, and any fuch bleDjticsfor- f^levk Apprentice or Servant refpciStively, iliall and do, at any Time after fuch Forfeiture incurred, either fateaby their .^^ thf>' Prefcnce of onc ot more credible Witnefs or V/itnelles, or by Writing under the Hand of fuch a ers, c. q^^^^^ Apprentice or Servant refpeftively, figned in the Prefence of one or more credible Witnefs or Wit- ncfles' reauirc liis or her Mafter or Miftrefs refpedlively to pay the faid double Rates or Duties fo incurred as aforefaid, and fuch Rdafter or Miftrefs fnall not, within three Months after fuch Requcfl, pay the fame, and any fuch Clerk, Apprentice or Servant fliali, at any Time within two Years after the Determination of his Clerkfhip, Apprenticeftiip or Servitude, pay the laid double Rates and Duties fo forfeited and incur- red and not paid by his or her Mafter or Miitrefs refpeftively as aforefaid, then, and in fuch Cafe, it fhall and' may be lawful to and for any fuch Clerk, Apprentice or Servant, within three Months after fuch Pay- ment of the faid double Rates and Duties by him, her or them as aforefaid, to demand of his or her Ma- fa •■nburfed fer or Miftrcfs, or his, her or their Executors or Adminiftrators, double the Sum or Sums of Money, or double'X Sum other Confideration refpedively given, paid and agreed, or contrafted to be paid to fuch Mafter or Miftrcfs, paid in rcfpcftof for or in refpect of fuch Clerkfhip, Apprenticeftiip or Servitude ; and in cafe fuch Sum or Sums of Money fuch Apprcn- £|^^]] ^,^5. ]^g p^i^j within three Months after fuch Demand thereof made, it fhall and may be lawful to and ticeiTiip, &c, ^.^^ ^^^- j-^^j^ Clerk, Apprentice or Servant, to fue for and recover the fame, with full Cofts of Suit, againll vvithCuftsj ^^^^^ Mafter or Miftrefs, his, her or their Executors or Adminiftrators, by Aftion of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information, in any of his Majefty's Courts of Record at Weftminjier, wherein no Effoin, Proteclion or rr b Wao-er of Law, or more than one Imparlance fhall be allowed; and every fuch Clerk, Apprentice or Ser- cd from their^' vant'^fo paying fuch double Rates or Duties as aforefaid, fliall and may, immediately after Payment thereof ApprenticE/l.ip, refpeftively, and unon fignifying by Writing under his or her Hand, that he or ^t deftres to be difcharged ifthejrequireitjfroi-j, his, her or their Clerkftiip, Apprenticefhip and Service reipecTtively, fi^all be accordinglydifcharged from the fame refpeftively, and from all Adlions, Penalties, Forfeitures and Damages for not fer'ing the Time" for which he, fhe or they were refpectively bound, contracted for or agreed to ferve fuch Mafter or IVlifTrefs refpeiStivelv. and to have the VII. Provided always, and it is hereby further enafted and declared, That every fuch Clerk, Apprentice fame B^rcfit of or Servant, Ihall avail him or heifelf, and have fuch and the fame Benefit^and Advantage of the Time he their Service, as Qj. ii^g 0-jj^][ refpectively have continued with and ferved fuch Mafter or Miftrefs refpectively, as he or {he if they had been, J might have done, in cafe of anv AfTignment or turning over to any new or other Mailer or turned over. TV/T'ft- f Apprentices pay- VIII. Provided aW.-ays, That in cafe where any Profecution fliall be commenced againft any Mafter or ingthe double . Mjfl-.gfj for recovering any of the Penalties and Forfeitures inflnEted and incurred by the faid former Acts, p'^'fcrt^o^sare or any of them, the Cterk, Apprentice or Servant of fuch Mafter or Miftrefs refpedively, fliall pay fuch comm-'na-T "" double Ratcs and Duties, at any Tiine within two Years after the End of his, her or their Clerkfhip, Ap- EgainR their prenticcfliip or Servitude, and every fuch Clerk, Apprentice or Servant refpedively, fhal], upon Payment of MaRe's, to be f^^^^h double Rates and Duties as aforefaid, be capable and qualified to follow and exercife his, her and their qualified to foi-^ refpedive Trades and Employments ; and the Indentures or Contrails of fuch Clerk, Apprentice and Ser- lowtheirfra «^' ^^^^j. refpetPcivcly, fliall be good and available in Law and Equity, and may be given in Evidence in any sic farther con- Court whatlocver ; any thing in this or the faid former Ads, or any of them, contained to the contrary not- , cenunghdenturcs vvithftandina;. 3aGrt.2. c. 23. c YK._ A u'd whereas it is rcafonable and fit that Prize Ships or Veflels, lawfully condemned, flioiild be" Prize Sliips to t deemed as Britijh built Ships or Veflels to all Intents and Purpofes,' Be it therefore enaifted by the Au- '^.:="J'^J'= thority aforefaid. That all Prize Ships or Veflels which have been at any Time, or ftiall he legally con- eruiihbiuit. ^j,jj,„ej^ fliall, to all Intents and Purpofes whatfoever, be confidered as Britijh built Ships or Vellels, and be deemed and taken as fuch, and fliall be intitled to have and enjoy all and every the fame Rights, Liber- tics, Privileges and Advantages in all Refpeits whatfoever with Britifn built Ships or VefTcls, and fliail be fubjeft and liable to all and every the Rules and Regulations that Britifl) built Ships or Veflels are fubject- and liable to; any Law, Cuftom or Ufige to the contrary thereof in any wife notwithftanding. ' X. And whereas his Majefty's Ships of War and Privateers have, during the prefent War againft iv-r77:rf ' and Spain, taken divers Goods and Merchandizes from his Majefty's Enemies, which have, with the Pri- ' vity and Approbation of the Coniniiflioners or other proper Officers of the Cuftoms orExcifc, been land- ' ed and depoflted in Warchoufes under his M.ijcfty's Locks, in order to be examined to afcertain the Par- ' ticulars and Natures of fuch Goods, and iundry Parts whereof, having upon fuch Examination, been ' found unfit for the Confumption of this Kingdom, and moft proper to be exported to Koreign Parts, have ' been declared by the Captors for Exportation, and in order thereto, been continued in fuch Warchoufes, ' under the Care and inTpccition t.f the OfEcers of the Cuftoms or Excife : .^nd whereas forae Driibtshave ' arifen, whether the faid Goods can be re-exported by any odiers but the Captors, or in o;hcr Ships than ' thofe in which they were taken antl imported, or without firlt being entered and paying the_ Duties of ' Cuftom or Excife for the fame ;' and which in feveral Inftanccs amounting to more than the Profit that ' can be made by the Captors of fuch Goods, would deprive them of the whole Benefit thereof; and in ' inanyTnftances, the re-exporting fuch Prize Goods by the Captors themfelves, in the Ships in which ' they are taken and imported, would be impofTible ; Goods taken in Neutral Ships, being often condemned ^ where the Ship is difcharged, and would in mofl Cafes be impra<fticahle,^as the Goods declared for l~ ' portation are never any thing near a fufficicnt Cargoc to lade a Ship to a Foreign Market, and the Cap- ' tors not being Merchants, but Seamen, have no Houfes Abroad, and arc wholly unacquaintcil with ' Tranfadions of this Nature ;' For Remedy of which Inconveniency, and for the further encouraging the making Captures from the Enemy, Be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That all Goods and Merchandize