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 A. D. 1756. Anno vicefinio nono Georgii II. C. 7. 641 the next Juftice of the Peace of any County, Riding, City or Place, or Chief Magiftrate of any City or Town Corporate (not being an Officer of Marines) and before fuch Juftice or Chief Magiftrate he or they (hall be at Liberty to declare his or their DiiTenc to fuch Inlifting; and upon fuch Declaration, and returning the Inlifting-money, and alfo each Perfon fo diffenting paying the Sum of twenty Siiil- lings for the Charges expended or laid out upon him, fuch Perfon or Perfons fo inlifled fiiall be forthwith difcharged and fet at Liberty, in the Prefence of fuch Juftic^ or Chief Magiftrate; but if fuch Perfon or Perfons ftiall refufe or negledt, within the Space of twenty-four Hours to return and pay fuch Money a? aforefaid, he or they ftiall be deemed and taken to be inlifted, as if he or they had given his or their Afl^nt thereto before the faid Juftice or Chief Magiftrate; or if fuch Perfon or Perfons ftiall declare his or their having voluntarily inlifted himfelf or themfelves, then fuch Juftice or Chief Magiftrate ftiall, and he is hereby required forthwith to certify under his Hand, that fuch Perfon or Peribns is or are duly inlifted; fetting forth the Place of the Birth, Age and Calling of him or them refpedVively (if known) and that the fecond and third Sections of the Articles of War for the better Government of his Majefty's Marine Forces while on Shore in Great Britain or Ireland, were read to him or them, and that he or they had taken the Oath of Fidelity mentioned in the twelfth Se6tion of the faid Articles of War; and if any fuch Perfon or Perfons fo to be certified as duly inlifted, fhall refufe to take the faid Oath of Fidelity be- fore the faid Juftice or Chief Magiftrate, it fhall and may be lawful for fuch Officer, from whom he has received fuch Money as aforefaid, to detain or confine fuch Perfon or Perfons until he or they fliail take the Oath before required; and every Officer of Marines that fhall a6l contrary hereto, or offend herein, 'upon Proof thereof upon Oath made by two Witnefl"es, before a General Court-martial to be thereupon called, fhall for fuch Offence be forthwith caftiiered and difplaced from fuch his Office, and ftiall be thereby utterly difabled to have or hold any Civil or Military Office or Employment within this Kingdom, or in his Majefty's Service. XLIIL Provided always, and it is hereby declared. That all his Majefty's -Marine Forces, as well Marin-e Forces Officers as private Men, fhall from Time to Time, during their being refpedively borne as Part of the ^jj'g™^ ^^ f''" "'^ Complement of any of his Majefty's Ships or Veflels, be iubjeil or liable in like Mantier, in all Refpe6ts, of^an°y"ships of' as any Officers or Seamen employed in his Majefty's Sea Service are fubject and liable to be governed War, liable to and proceeded againft and punifhed for Offences committed by them, during the Time they fhall be [jj^jj^^'l! '^^^~ borne as Part of the Complement of fuch Ships or Veftels, according to the Purport, Tenor, Effect and n' Geo. Zi. 13. true Intent and Meaning of an Aft of Parliament made in the twenty-fecond Year of his prefent Majefty's Reign, intituled. An ASt for amending, explaining and reduci-ng into one Ail of Parliament, the Laws relating to the Government of his Majejly's Ships, Fejjils and Fortes by Sed; this prefent Aft, or any thing herein contained notwithftanding. CAP. VII. An A£l for granting to his Majefty the Sum of two Millions, to be raifed by way of An- nuities and a Lottery, and charged on the Sinking Fund, redeemable by Parliament; and for extending to Ireland the Laws made in this Kingdom againft private and unlawful Lotteries. Moji Gracious Sovereign, WE your Majefty's moft dutiful and loyal Subj efts the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament afl'embled, towards raifing the neceflary Supplies to defray your Majefty's publick Expences, have freely refolved to give and grant unto your Majefty the Sum of two millions; one million five hundred thoufand Pounds, Part thereof, to be raifed by Annuities after the Rate of three Pounds ten Shillings per Centum per Annum, and five hundred thoufand Pounds, Refidue thereof, by a Lottery, to be attended with Annuities after the Rate of three Pounds per Centum per Annum, in fuch A^anner and Form as is herein after direfted; and do therefore moft humbly befeech your Majefty that it may be enafted, and be it enafted by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with die Advice and Confent of the Lords Spi- ritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament aftTembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That for or towards raifing the faid Sum of two millions, it ftiall and may be lawful to 2,000,0001. to and for the feveral Perfons, Natives or Foreigners, and Bodies Pohtick or Corporate, who '" P^r- ^^'.f^J'^'^gYj'^"- fuance of the Refolution of the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament aficmbled, have, in Books Lottery, opened at the Bank of Ensrland for that Purpofe, fubfcribed and agreed to contribute to the Payment of the faid Sum of two millions, and who have in purfuance of the faid Relolution-depoiited with, or ^^,,^,,3^,^ ^^p^ paid to the Cafhier or Caftiiers of the Governor and Company ot the Bank oi: England tor the lime fned loi. per being, the Sum often Pounds per Centum, in Part of the Sums by them fublcribed relpeftively, to ad- Cent.^mPart vance and pay unto the faid Caftiier or Caftiiers, who is and are hereby appointed the iveceiver and ,,,^, j^^^^Jj^J Receivers ot fuch Contributions (without any further or other Warrant to be lued tor, had or obtained withintlicTimes in that Behalf) the Remainder of the feveral Sums fo fubfcribed at or before the relpective Days or!'m>-«<i. Times, and in the Proportions in this Aft limited in that Behalf. , ^ /. „ IL And whereas it is intended that all fuch Contributors to the fud Sum of two millions, who fhall have fubfcribed for four hundred Pounds, fhall be intitled to three hundred Pounds in Annuities, ai'tei- the Rate of three Pounds ten Shillings per Centum per Annum, transteiTable at the Bank ot England, and to one hundred Pounds in Lottery Tickets, to be attended v.'ith Annuities (transferrable alio at the Bank of England) after the Rate of three Pounds per Centum per Jnuuni, and fo in Proportion tor a Vol. VIL ■ 4 N greater