that he enlisted is in the Vicinity of my Residence, or within the Division or District or Place for which I act; that I am not an Officer of the Army, and that I have given him a Duplicate of this Certificate, signed with my Name. Signature of Justice. DECLARATION to be made by a SOLDIER renewing his Service. of Company in the Day of do declare, That I in Regiment; that I for a Term Years; that I am of the Age of Years; and that I will serve Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, [or in the Forces of the East India Company, as the Case may be,] for a further Term of Years [to be filled up with Eleven Years in the Infantry, and Twelve in the Cavalry or Artillery or other Ordnance Corps, and, in the Case of a Soldier about to embark for Foreign Service, with such Number of Years as shall be required to complete a total Service of Twenty-one Years in the Infantry or Twenty-four in the Cavalry or Artillery or other Ordnance Corps,] provided my Services should so long be required, and also for such further Term, not exceeding Two Years, as shall be directed by the Commanding Officer on any Foreign Station. Declared before me Signature of Soldier. FORM of OATH to be taken by a MASTER whose APPRENTICE I has absconded. of and that , do make Oath, That I am was by Trade a bound to serve as an Apprentice to me in the said Trade, by Indenture dated the Day of on or about the Day of for the did abscond and quit my Service without my Consent; and that to the best of my Knowledge and Belief the said FORM OF JUSTICE'S CERTIFICATE to be given to the MASTER of an Apprentice. of Day of One of Her Majesty's Justices of certify, That the came before me at and made Oath that he was by Trade a that was bound to serve as an Apprentice to for the Term of him in the said Trade, by Indenture dated the abscond and quit the Service of the said Years; without his Consent, and that to the best of his Knowledge and Belief the said Apprentice is aged about Years. FORM of DECLARATION of ATTESTATION of a COMMISSARY'S I ACCOUNTS. do solemnly and sincerely declare, That I have not applied any Monies or Stores or Supplies under my Care or Distribution to my own Use, or to the private Use of any other Person by way of Loan to such Person or otherwise, or in any Manner applied them, or knowingly permitted them to be applied, to any other than public Purposes, according to the Duty of my Office; and I make this solemn Declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the Provisions of an Act passed in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of His Majesty King William the Fourth, Chapter 62, for the Abolition of unnecessary Oaths, and for substituting Declarations in lieu thereof. Declared before me by the within-named this Day of It is important for the Public Service, and for the Interest of the Deserter, that this Part of the Return should be accurately filled up, and the Details should be inserted by the Magistrate, in his own Handwriting, or, under his Direction, by his Clerk. I do hereby certify that the Prisoner has been duly examined before me as to the Circumstance herein stated, and has declared in my Presence that he † a Deserter from the above mentioned Corps. Signature and Address of Magistrate. Signature of Prisoner. Signature of Informant. † Insert "is" or "is not," as the Case may be. I certify that I have inspected the Prisoner, and consider him for Military Service. Signature of Mi litary Medical Officer, or of Private Medical Practitioner. Insert "fit" or "unfit," as the Case may be; and if unfit, state the Cause of Unfitness. CAP. XII. 36 G. 3. c. 7. 57 G. 3. c. 6. An Act for the better Security of the Crown and Government of the United Kingdom. [22d April 1848.] W WHEREAS by an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain passed in the Thirty-sixth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for the Safety and Preservation of His Majesty's Person and Government against treasonable and seditious Practices and Attempts, it was among other things enacted, that if any Person or Persons whatsoever, after the Day of the passing of that Act, during the natural Life of His said Majesty, and until the End of the next Session of Parliament after the Demise of the Crown, should, within the Realm or without, compass, imagine, invent, devise, or intend Death or Destruction, or any bodily Harm tending to Death or Destruction, Maim or Wounding, Imprisonment or Restraint of the Person of His said Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, or to deprive or depose Him or Them from the Style, Honour, or Kingly Name of the Imperial Crown of this Realm or of any other of His said Majesty's Dominions or Countries, or to levy War against His said Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, within this Realm, in order, by Force or Constraint, to compel Him or Them to change His or Their Measures or Counsels, or in order to put any Force or Constraint upon or to intimidate or overawe both Houses or either House of Parliament, or to move or stir any Foreigner or Stranger with Force to invade this Realm or any other of His said Majesty's Dominions or Countries under the Obeisance of His said Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and such Compassings, Imaginations, Inventions, Devices, or Intentions, or any of them, should express, utter, or declare, by publishing any Printing or Writing, or by any overt Act or Deed, being legally convicted thereof, upon the Oaths of Two lawful and credible Witnesses, upon Trial, or otherwise convicted or attainted by due Course of Law, then every such • Person or Persons so as aforesaid offending should be deemed, declared, and adjudged to be a Traitor and Traitors, and should suffer Pains of. Death, and also lose and forfeit as in Cases of High Treason: And whereas by an Act of Parliament passed in the Fifty-seventh Year of the same Reign, intituled An Act to make perpetual certain Parts of an Act of the Thirty-sixth Year of His present Majesty, for the Safety and Preservation of His Majesty's Person and Government against treasonable and seditious Practices and Attempts, and for the Safety and Preservation of the Person of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent against treasonable Practices and Attempts, all the herein-before recited Provisions of the said Act of the Thirty'sixth Year of His said Majesty's Reign which relate to the Heirs and Successors of His said Majesty, the Sovereigns of these Realms, were made perpetual: And whereas Doubts are entertained whether the Provisions so made perpetual were by 6 the After passing of this Act, Provisions of 36 G. 3. c. 7. the last-recited Act extended to Ireland: And whereas it is expedient to repeal all such of the Provisions made perpetual by the last-recited Act as do not relate to Offences against the 'Person of the Sovereign, and to enact other Provisions instead 'thereof applicable to all Parts of the United Kingdom, and to ' extend to Ireland such of the Provisions of the said Acts as are not hereby repealed:' Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this Act the Provisions of the said Act of the Thirty-sixth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, made perpetual by the said Act of the Fifty-seventh Year of the same Reign, and all the Provisions of the last-mentioned Act in relation thereto, save such of the same respectively as relate to the compassing, imagining, inventing, devising, or Person of the intending Death or Destruction, or any bodily Harm tending Sovereign. to Death or Destruction, Maim or Wounding, Imprisonment or Restraint of the Person of the Heirs and Successors of His said Majesty King George the Third, and the expressing, uttering, or declaring of such Compassings, Imaginations, Inventions, Devices, or Intentions, or any of them, shall be and the same are hereby repealed. II. And be it declared and enacted, That such of the said recited Provisions made perpetual by the said Act of the Fiftyseventh Year of the Reign of King George the Third as are not hereby repealed shall extend to and be in force in that Part of the United Kingdom called Ireland. III. And be it enacted, That if any Person whatsoever after the passing of this Act shall, within the United Kingdom or without, compass, imagine, invent, devise, or intend to deprive or depose our most Gracious Lady the Queen, Her Heirs or Successors, from the Style, Honour, or Royal Name of the Imperial Crown of the United Kingdom, or of any other of Her Majesty's Dominions and Countries, or to levy War against Her Majesty, Her Heirs or Successors, within any Part of the United Kingdom, in order by Force or Constraint to compel Her or Them to change Her or Their Measures or Counsels, or in order to put any Force or Constraint upon or in order to intimidate or overawe both Houses or either House of Parliament, or to move or stir any Foreigner or Stranger with Force to invade the United Kingdom or any other Her Majesty's Dominions or Countries under the Obeisance of Her Majesty, Her Heirs or Successors, and such Compassings, Imaginations, Inventions, Devices, or Intentions, or any of them, shall express, utter, or declare, by publishing any Printing or Writing, or by open and advised Speaking, or by any overt Act or Deed, every Person so offending shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the Seas for the Term of his or her natural Life, or for any Term not less than Seven Years, or to be imprisoned and 57 G. 3. c. 6. repealed, except as to Offences against the So much of Offences declared Felonies by this Act to be punishable by Transportation or Imprisonment. |