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A.D. 1763. Anno quarto Georgii III. c. 8. 141 Times during the Continuance of this Act, to require and command any High Constable, Constable, anj Private Men, and Bede], or other Officer, who shall quarter or billet any Marines in pursuance of this Act, to give an where quartered. Account in Writing unto the said Justice or Justices requiring the same, of the Number of Officers and Private Men who shall be quartered or billeted by them, and also the Names of the Housekeepers or Persons upon whom every such Officer or Private Adan shall be quartered or billeted, together with an Account of the Street or Place where every such Housekeeper dwells; and the Signs (if any) belonging to their Houses; to the end it may appear to the said Justice or Justices where such Officers and Private Men are quartered or billeted, and that he or they may thereby be the better enabled to prevent or punish all Abuses in the quartering or billeting of them.

XLIII. Provided nevertheless, and it is hereby declared by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the twenty-fifth Day of March one thousand seven hundred and sixty four, when and as fajikive; "lr'a often as any Person or Persons shall be infilled as a Marine or Marines in his Majesty's Service, he and they shall, within four Days, but not sooner than twenty-four Hours, after such Infilling respectively, be carried before the next Justice of the Peace of any County, Riding, City or Place, or chief Magistrate of any City or Town Corporate (not being an Officer of Marines), and before such Justice or chief Magistrate he or they shall be at Liberty to declare his or their Dissent to such Infilling; and upon such Declaration, and returning the enlisting money, and also each Person so dissenting paying the Sum of twenty Shillings for the Charges expended or laid out upon him, ftuh Person or Persons so infilled shall be forthwith discharged and set at Liberty, in the Presence of such Justice or chief Magistrate; but if such Person or Persons shall refuse or neglect, within the Space of twenty-four Hours, to return and pay such Money, as aforesaid, he or they shall be deemed and taken to be inlisted, as if he or they had given his or their Assent thereto before the said Justice or chief Magistrate; or if such Person or Persons shall declare his or their having voluntarily infilled himself or themselves, then such Justice or chief Magistrate shall, and he is hereby required forthwith to certify under his Hand, that such Person or Persons is or are duly infilled; setting forth the Place of the Birth, Age and Calling of him Or them respectively (if known), and that the second and third Sections of the Articles of War for the better Government of his Majesty's Marine Forces while onshore in Great Britain ox Ireland, were read to him or them, and that he or they had taken the Oath of Fidelity mentioned in the twelfth Section of the said Articles of War; and if any such Person or Persons, so to be certified as duly infilled, shall refuse to take the said Oath of Fidelity before the said Justice or chief Magistrate, it shall and may be lawful for such Officer, from whom, he has received such Money as aforesaid, to detain or confine such Person or Persons, until he or they shall take the Oath before required; and every Officer of Marines that shall act contrary hereto, or offend herein, upon Proof thereof upon Oath made by two Witnesses before a General court-martial to be thereupon called, shall, for such Offence, be forthwith cashiered and displaced from such his Office, and shall be thereby utterly disabled to have or hold any Civil or Military Office or Employment within this Kingdom, or in his Majesty's Service.

XLIV. And whereas it may be expedient in certain Cases, particularly where a sufficient Num ' ber of Marine Officers cannot be conveniently assembled, or in Matters wherein any of his Majesty's Land Forces may be interested, that Officers of the Land Forces should be associated with As oftenar. it ffiail be the Marine Officers for the Purpose of holding court-martial; 'Be it enacted and declared, That oaifs ot"

when and as often as it shall be necessary, it shall and may be lawful for Officers of the Marine and forcesmay fit" hi Con land Forces to sit in Conjunction upon court-martial, and to proceed in the Trial of any Marine junction upon Conns officer or Private Man, in like Manner to all Intents and Purposes as if such court-martial were martial; taking rank comp ofed of Marine Officers only; and the Officers of the Marine and Land Forces are, in such a5corilinf 1°'hese")0"' Cases, to take Rank according to the Seniority of their Commissions in either Service. JN ° 1 e, r omral

XLV provided always, and it is hereby declared, That all his Majesty's Marine Forces, as well Officers as private Aden, shall, from Time to Time, during their being respectively born as Part of ^tanne forces

the Compliment of any of his Majesty's Ships or Vessels, be subject or liable in like Manner, in all compliment "of any Respects, as any Officers or Seamen employed in his Majesty's Sea Service are subject: and liable to ships of War, are liable, be governed and proceeded against and punished for Offences committed by them during the Time to be governed by the they shall be born as Part of the Compliment of such Ships or Vessels, according to the Purport, ruies established by Afb Tenor, Effect, and true Intent and Meaning of an Act of Parliament made in the twenty second Geo' 3' c'3:'

Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, intituled, An Act for amending, explaining, and reducing into one Act of Parliament, the Laws relating to the Government of his Majestf s Ships Vessels) and Forces by Sea j this present Act or anything herein contained notwithstanding. CAP.