| Chap. 94. |
Soldiers.
' according to that Act, the Justices of Peace in their Sessions, by
their discretions
' may fine such Treasurers, to be levied by Distress and Sale, to
' be prosecuted by any two of them whom they shall authorise. |
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| 43 El. 3. |
' If such Soldier or Mariner be taken begging, or
shall counterfeit a
' Certificate, he shall be punished as a Rogue. |
§. 9.
Begging. |
| 43 El. 3. |
' The surplusage of such Stock shall be ordered
and bestowed by the
' more part of the Justices in their Quarter Sessions, by their discretion,
to
' such charitable uses, in such manner as is limited by the Statutes for
the
' Poor, and against Rogues. |
Surplusage. |
| 43 El. 3. |
' The Forfeitures of every Treasurer, Collector,
Churchwarden and
' other Officers by that Act shall be imployed as the Money to be levied,
' and the overplus is directed, or may be reserved as a Stock for Soldiers
' and Mariners. |
Penalties |
| 43 El. 3. |
' Justices of Peace in the County shall not meddle
as to this matter
' in any City, Borough, Place or Corporation, where is any Justice of
' Peace; but the Justices of Peace, Mayors, Bailiffs and other Head Officers
' of Cities, Boroughs, Places and Towns corporate, where there
' is any Justice of Peace, may put in execution the said Act in all things,
' as Justices of Peace of the County may do. |
Corporations. |
| 43 El. 3. |
' Relief shall be given to such Soldiers and Mariners
out of the Stock
' of the County out of which he was prest; but if that Taxation shall
be
' before imployed, or they shall not be prest Men, then out of the place
' where they are born or last inhabited by the space of three year, at
his
' or their election. |
§. 10.
Who to be
setled. |
43 El. 3.
21 Jac. 28.
3 Car. 1.
c. 3.
17 Car. 1.
c. 4. |
' This Act was to continue to the end of the next
Session of Parliament.
' And 21 Jac. c. 28. was continued, and by 3 Car. 2. c.
3. was further
' continued: And now by the Statute of 17 Car. 1. c. 4.
continued
' until some other Act shall be made for the continuance or discontinuance
thereof. |
Continuance
of the
Act. |
14 Car. 2.
c. 9. |
' For Relief and Reward of such persons as have
lost or hazarded their
' Lives, Limbs or Fortunes, in the service of the King or his Father,
every
' Parish shall be charged weekly to the payment of such a sum as they
' have been rated by 43 El. c. 3. And likewise such further
sum as the Justices
' of Peace in their Quarter Sessions shall adjudge meet to be assessed
' on every Parish or Chapelry that hath distinct Officers, so as such additional
' sum exceed not 2 s. 6 d. nor be under 3 d.
in any Parish in each
' week, to be levied and paid in such manner, and under such penalties
as
' directed by 43 El. c. 3. |
§. 11.
Additional
Levy. |
14 Car. 2.
c. 9. |
' Every Officer, Soldier or Mariner, maimed, aged,
indigent or disabled
' in Body during the late Wars, or that are so impoverished by their Sufferings
' under the usurped Powers, that they are destitute of a competent
' subsistence, and have continued faithful to their trust and no ways deserted
' the same, shall repair to the place where he was last setled, before
' he took up Arms, with a Certificate of his Service and Hurts, under the
' hand of his Captain or commissioned Officer, and to the two next
Justices
' of the Peace of that Country, who shall examine the truth of that
' Certificate by the Oath of the party and such Witnesses as he shall produce,
' and assign him relief until the next Quarter Sessions, where a yearly
' Pension shall be setled under such power of revocation, as is appointed
' by 43 El. c. 3. And if the Captain or Officer be dead, two
Justices
' upon request, by persons of credit, may give such relief as in cases
of Examination.
' It seems hereby, that where such Certificate of the Officer
' cannot be had, the Justices of Peace in Sessions have no power to grant
' any Pension. Quære. |
§. 12.
To whom. |
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