Orders to be affignable. Treasury to direct payment on Oct, 10, 1790, of all orders un der 501. Commiffion to the fuffer ered to issue their warrant to the auditor of the receipt of the exchequer to pay, out of any money remaining there of the said aids or supplies, remaining for the service of the year in which such interest and instalment shall become due, the respective sum and sums to which the proprietors of each and every such order for fifty pounds, and the equi multiples of fifty pounds, made out by virtue of this act, shall be intitled, by instalments of fix pounds and five shillings per centum, together with the half-years interest due upon such sum as shall be remaining unpaid and undischarged on each half-yearly day of payment, when such proportional sum shall be so directed to be paid off. II. And be it further enacted, That the standing orders which shall be made out at the exchequer in pursuance and under the authority of this act, shall be affignable on the back of fuch orders, on the affignment being attested by two or more credible witnesses, which affignment shall intitle the affignee, his executors, administrators, and affigns, to the benefit attending such order or orders, and to the interest which shall become due and payable in respect of the fame. III. And be it enacted, That the commissioners of the treasury now being, or any three or more of them, or the high treasurer for the time being, shall be, and they are hereby authorised, impowered, and required, out of any of the aids or supplies that shall be granted for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety, to direct the payment at the receipt of the exchequer of the principal fums contained in all and every the several and respective orders made forth for any fum or sums of money less than fifty pounds, on the tenth day of October one thousand seven hundred and ninety, together with the interest thereon, computed from the faid fifth day of July one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, to the said tenth day of October one thousand seven hundred and ninety. IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That ers to deliver in order to prevent fuch orders from being fraudulently obtained ers certificates from the auditor of the exchequer, or his officers, by any other of the fums to perfon or persons than those who shall be duly entitled to the fame, which they the said respective commiffioners appointed for ascertaining the are intitled, to losses afore mentioned, shall make forth and deliver to each and be tranfmitted to the treasury, &c. every perfon named in the faid books, or to his or her lawful attorney, to be transmitted by them to the commiffioners of his Majesty's treasury, a certificate containing the name and addition of such claimant, and the sum to which he or she shall be intitled; which certificate shall be carried to the proper officer in the office of the faid auditor of the exchequer, who, upon receipt thereof, shall deliver the order made out for the benefit of fuch person, and shall take a receipt on the back of such certificate as a difcharge for the faid order. V. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the or ders directed to be made out for the purposes in this act mentioned, shall be numbered in an arithmetical order, beginning with number one, and so proceeding, in an arithmetical progrel Orders to be numbered arithmeti cally. fion fion afcending, wherein the common excess or difference shall act, except this always be one, and shall be registered accordingly. VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Claufes of all and every the clauses, provifoes, powers, privileges, advantages, malt act to penalties, forfeitures, and disabilities, contained in an act made extend to and paffed in this feffion of parliament, intituled, An act for con- fuch as charge timing and granting to his Majesty certain duties upon malt, mum, the loans, &c. plar, and perry, for the service of the year one thousand feven hundred and ninety, (except fuch clauses as charge the loans or exchequer bills authorised to be made by the said act, and except such clauses as limit the rate of interest to be paid for the forbearance of money lent on the credit of the said act, and except the directions for making forth tallies for loans made out), shall be applied and extended to the orders which shall be made out in pursuance of this act, as fully and effectually, to all intents and purposes, as if the faid clauses were repeated and re-enacted in the body of this present act. made out in VII. Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforefaid, That in case any of the said orders made forth by virtue of Treasury may this act shall be filled up by writing or indorsements thereon, or direct new orby any accident be defaced, it shall and may be lawful for the commiffioners of the treasury, or any three or more of them, or lieu of fuch as the high treasurer for the time being, and he and they are hereby may be deauthorised and impowered by his or their direction, from time to faced, &c, time, to cause new orders to be made forth at the receipt of the exchequer, in lieu of such orders which shall be so filled up or defaced, which orders so filled up or defaced shall be cancelled at the receipt of the exchequer, and kept there on a file or files for that purpose; and such orders so to be made forth in lieu thereof shall, in all respects, be subject to the same rules, methods, and continuance, and have and be intitled to the same and like benefits and advantages, and bear the same numbers, dates, and principal sums, as was or were borne by such order or orders so cancelled. in VIII. Provided always, and it is hereby enacted by the authority aforesaid, That out of any of the aids or fupplies to be grant- Treasury may ed to his Majesty for the service of the years one thousand seven reward per. hundred and ninety, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, fons employed one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, one thousand seven tion of this hundred and ninety-three, one thousand seven hundred and ninety- act. four, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, one thousand feven hundred and ninety-fix, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, and one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, or out of fuch monies as shall or may remain in the exchequer of the consolidated fund, it shall and may be lawful to and for the commiffioners of the treasury, or any three or more of them, or the high treasurer for the time being, to reward such person or persons that shall or may be in any ways employed in the execution of this act for their labour, pains, and service therein respectively, and to fatisfy and discharge such incidental charges and expences as shall necessarily attend the execution of the fame, in fuch manner as the said commiffioners of the treasury, or any three E4 If supplies be not granted for payment of orders, they shall be paid out of the consolidated fund, three or more of them, or the high treasurer for the time being, shall from time to time think fit and reasonable in that behalf. IX. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in cafe fufficient aids or supplies shall not be granted before the fifth day of April one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, or before the fifth day of April in each subsequent year, before the whole of the faid orders, herein directed to be made forth, are fatisfied and paid off with interest for the fame, then such sum as should or ought to be fatisfied and paid pursuant to this act, in part of the principal fum of such orders, together with the interest that shall then have become due, shall be charged upon such monies as, at any time after the faid fifth day of April in each year, shall be or remain in the exchequer of the consolidated fund, (except fuch monies of the faid consolidated fund as are appropriated to any use or uses by any act or acts of parliament in that behalf); and such monies of the said consolidated fund shall and may be issued and applied, as foon as the fame can be regularly stated and afcertained, for and towards paying off such inftalment or instalments, and the interest due and payable on the several orders, according to the directions of this act; any act or acts of parliament, or any clause or clauses in any act or acts of parliament, to the contrary notwithstanding. Money iffued X. Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforefrom confoli- faid, That whatever monies shall be so issued out of the faid condated fund, to be replaced folidated fund shall, from time to time, be replaced by and out of out of the first the first supplies to be then-after granted in parliament; any supplies. Persons forging orders, &c. to fuffer death, Preamble. thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding. XI. And it is hereby enacted by the authority aforefaid, That if any perfon or persons shall forge or counterfeit any order, which shall have been made forth by virtue of this act, before the same shall have been paid off and cancelled, or any order to be renewed or made forth in pursuance of this act, or any indorsement or writing thereupon or therein, or tender in payment any fuch forged or counterfeit order, with intent to defraud his Majefty, his heirs and successors, or the perfon or perfons to be appointed to pay off the fame, or to pay any interest thereupon, or any of them, then every such perfon or persons so offending, being thereof lawfully convicted, shall be adjudged a felon, and shall suffer death as in cases of felony, without benefit of clergy. CAP. XXXV. An act to explain and amend an act, passed in the twentieth year of the reign of his present Majesty, touching the election for knights of the shire to serve in parliament for that part of Great Britain called England. HEREAS W reign of his an act was passed in the twentieth year of the present Majesty, intituled, An act to remove certain difficulties relative to voters at county elections, whereby it is, among other things, enacted, That, from and after the first day of January one thousand feven hundred and eighty-one, no perfon shall 20 Geo. 3. c. 17, and vote wate for electing of any knight or knights of the shire to serve in pardament, within that part of Great Britain called England, or the principality of Wales, in respect of any messuages, lands, or tenements, which have not, for fix calendar months next before fuch election, been charged or affeffed towards fome aid granted, or to be granted to his Mauty, bis heirs or fuccessors, by a land tax, (in cafe any fuch aid be the granted and affeffable), in the name of the person or persons who fbe claim to vote at fuch election for or in respect of any such messuages, d, or tenements, or in the name of his or their tenant or tenants Anally occupying the fame as tenant or tenants of the owner or landJord thereof: and whereas the form of affeffment prescribed by the faid act, and thereunto annexed, denotes that the names, both of the proprietor and of the occupier, ought to be Specified; and doubts have arifen, whether, if fuch form be not strictly pursued, the fuffrage of the perfon claiming to vote be admissible: and whereas an act was passed in the twenty-fecond year of his present Majesty's reign, intituled, An act 22Geo.3.c.31, for the preventing of bribery and corruption in the election of recited. members to serve in parliament for the borough of Cricklade in the county of Wilts, whereby it is enacted, That fuch freeholders only shall be intitled to vote in the election of members to serve in parliament for the faid borough of Cricklade, as shall be duly qualified to vite at elections for knights of the shire for the county of Wilts, according to the laws in force for regulating county elections at the time of paffing the fame act: be it therefore enacted by the King's moft excellent majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords fpiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, That nothing in the Nothing in faid acts contained shall extend, or be construed to extend, to pre- recited acts vent any person from voting at any election of a knight or to prevent knights of a shire to ferve in parliament within that part of Great any perfon Britain called England, or the principality of Wales, or at any for knights election of a burgess or burgesses to serve in parliament for the of the thire, borough of Cricklade, in the county of Wilts, for or in respect of or for burgeffes for any messuages, lands, or tenements, which have been charged or Cricklade, for affeffed, for fix calendar months next before such election, to- lands, &c. wards some aid granted or to be granted to his Majesty, his heirs which have or fucceffors, by land tax, in the name of the perfon claiming been affefled to vote, or for or in respect of any messuages, lands, or tenements, to the land to which the person so claiming to vote shall have become en- tax, in the tit'ed by defcent, marriage, marriage fettlement, devise, promotion name of fuch to any benefice in a church, or promotion to any office, within person, &c. twelve calendar months next before fuch election, and which melluages, lands, or tenements, shall have been within two years next before fuch election charged or assessed to the land tax, in the name of the perfon or persons by or through whom fuch perfon so claiming to vote shall derive his title to fuch messuages, lands, or tenements, or of some predecessor of such perfon fo claiming to vote, although the name of the tenant or tenants actually occupying fuch messuages, lands, or tenements, shall not be inferted in fuch affefsment, according to the form of aflessiment to the faid first recited act annexed. a from voting II. And for 6 months nor to pre son from vot fo affeffed in the name of II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Tha vent any per- nothing in the said acts contained shall extend, or be construe ing at any fuch to extend, to prevent any person from voting at any such electio election, for of a knight or knights of any shire, or of a burgess or burgefle lands, &c. for the said borough of Cricklade, for or in respect of any messuage lands, or tenements, which have been charged or affessed, for fr calendar months next before such election, towards some a granted, or to be granted to his Majesty, his heirs or successor by a land tax, in the name of a tenant or tenants actually occu pying the same at the time of such assessment being made, al though the name of the person so claiming to vote, or the perfo or persons by or through whom such person so claiming to vot derives his title, or of the predecessor of the person so claimin to vote, shall not be inserted in the assessment, according to th form of the afsessment to the said first recited act annexed. the tenant actually ocactuany cupying the fame. Preamble. 28 Geo. 3. CAP. XXXVI. An act to alter, explain, and amend an act, made in the twenty-eight year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An act fo limiting the number of persons to be carried on the outside c stage coaches, or other carriages, and for regulating the condu of the drivers and guards thereof. W HEREAS an act was passed in the twenty-eighth year the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An act for limitin c. 57, recited. the number of persons to be carried on the outside of stag coaches, or other carriages: and whereas the regulations and pena ties thereby established and inflicted have proved insufficient to answe the good purposes thereby intended: and whereas it is expedient the certain regulations should be established with respect to the conduct the drivers of stage coaches, and other fuch carriages, and of the per fons going therewith as guards: may it therefore please your Ma jesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's mot excellent majesty, by and with the advice and confent of the lord spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present parliamen From Sept.29, affembled, and by the authority of the fame, That, from and af 1790, it more ter the twenty-ninth day of September one thousand seven hundre than the num- and ninety, if the driver of any coach, chaise, or other carriag ber of perfons herein mentioned are of the like fort, drawn by three or more horses, and going o travelling for hire, shall permit or suffer more than one person of carried on the the coach box besides himself, and four persons on the roof; an outfide of any if fuch coach, chaise, or other carriage, shall be drawn by lef stage coach, the driver to than three horses, more than one person on the coach box, an pay 5s. for three persons on the roof, (except the driver of such coach, chaife each person or other carriage, drawn by less than three horses, which shall not limited num- go or travel a greater distance than twenty-five miles from the ber, to the poft office in the city of London, and who shall not carry more collector of than one person on the coach box, and four persons on the roof the tolls, &c. at one and the fame time), to go or be conveyed by any fuck coach, chaife, or carriage respectively, every such driver shall pay to the collector of the tolls, at every turnpike gate through which above the fuck |