700
Stores,
Anno decimo GEORGII lif.
A. D. 17
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2.
47. fore, to the End that fuch evil Practices may for the future be remedica and prevented,' be it! Ferfone in the Service of enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That all and every Officer and Officers, Mariners, or the Iaft India Company or Perfons, in the Service of the faid United Company, who fhall, from and after the & anfpirting any Warlike this Act, carry, transport, or fend, or caufe to be carried, tranfported, or fent to the .
aforefaid, or fhall put or caufe to be put on board any Ship in the Service of the faid United Co trading to the East Indies, any Artillery, Ordnance, Mufquets, Fire Armis, Ammunition, V... Intent to unpofe of the like Stores of any Kind whatsoever, or fhall knowingly aid or affift therein, without the la exce me in the East Indies, Authority of the faid United Company, with Intention or for the Purpose of tranfperting, f r within the limits of trafficking, bartering, exchanging, or otherwife uttering or difpofing of the fame in the n The Company's Trade, or within the Limits of the faid United Company's Trade; fhall, in every fuch Cafe, be decell may be profecuted in the and adjudged to be guilty of a high Crime and Mildemeanour, and as fuch fhall and may be prefe Cont of King's Bench, and the table to Corpora cuted for the fame in His Majelly's Court of King's Bench at IF'eliminster; and fuch Perfon or Pet
fo offending being convicted, thall be liable to fuch Corporal Punishment or line as the 1.id ( fball think fit.
or affi
rein, with
Pan:fipeat or Fine,
40 y'Ges. III, 6. 49.
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III. And whereas, by One other Act of Parliament paffed in the Seventh Year of the Re- a His prefent Majefty, intituled, An Act for regulating certain Procedings of the Geyeral Cisnerosi United Company of Merchants of England trading to the Falt Indies, it was enacted, That no ! dend fhould be made by the faid Company, for or in respect of any Time fubfequent to the wa ty-fourth Day of June, One thousand feven hundred and fixty-feven, otherwife than in puritate of a Vote or Refolution, paffed by way of Balloting,in a General Court of the faid Company, w xa ⚫ fhall have been fummoned for the Purpose of declaring a Dividend, and of the Meeting of wha
• General Court for fuch Purpofe, Seven Days Notice at the leaft fhall have been given in Wat ee fixed upon the Royal Exchange in London; and it was thereby further enacted, That no Ball upon any Queftion propofed in any General Court of the faid Company, relative to any M whatfoever, hould be begun within a lefs Space of Time than Eight Hours after the Adjourns - or Breaking-up of the General Court in which it fhall have been determined that fuch Quer fhould be decided by Balloting: And whereas the Balloting for every Dividend of the faid Comp. v, as prefcribed by the last recited Act, would be attended with much Inconvenience and Dan Cafes where no Alteration in the Rate of the faid Company's Dividend is made or intended tape made: And whereas the Time or Space of Eight Hours thereby alfo prescribed for taking in n. 3. loting in Question, and not relative to the Declaration of a Dividend, is not fuficient to give the When Dividend .l Proprietors at large of the faid Company's Stock a full and fair Opportunity to exercite their R be voted and declared by of taking fuch Part in every fuch Determination as they are intitled to by Law: Therefore, tor: differing from the Rate, venting the aforefaid Inconveniencies for the future,' be it enacted by the Authority aforefaid, I of Company's Dividend from and after the paffing of this Act, when any Half Yearly or other Dividend of the laid Comprar for preceding Half Year, fhall he voted and declared by a General Court of Proprietors, not varying or differing from the Re a Declaration from the of the faid Company's Dividend for the laft preceding Half Year, that then and in every fuch Carr, Chairman of fuch Vote, it fhall not be neceffary for the faid General Court of the faid Company to proceed to a Balle: for declaring a Dividend, refpecting fuch Dividends; but that a Declaration from the Chairman for the Time being of the L-1 Company of the voting and agreeing of the General Court of Proprietors to fuch Dividend, tha 1 No balloting to be begun be a fufficient Notice and Authority for declaring and making fuch Dividend; and the from and after the paffing of this Act, no Balloting upon any Question propofed in any General Cont of the faid Company, relative to any Matter whatfoever, fhall be begun within a lefs Space of Tine than Twenty-four Hours after the Adjournment or Breaking-up of the General Court in which t fhall have been determined that fuch Question should be decided by Balloting; any Thing in the 1. ¿ laft recited Act to the contrary notwithstanding.
a General Court, not
To be fuficient Notice
within less than 24
Hours after Adjournment of General Court,
Company's Servants in
Oppreffon or other Crine.
may be tried in the
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IV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That if any Perfon or Perfons whatfoever she bait Indies guilty of employed by or in the Service of the faid United Company, in any Civil or Military Station, Other,
or Capacity whatsoever, in the East Indies, or deriving or claiming any Power, Authority, or Jun diction, by or from the faid United Company, fhall, after the paffing of this Act, be guilty of oj preí. fing any
of His Majefty's Subjects beyond the Seas within their respective Juridictions; or, mt Exercife of any fuch Station, Office, Employment, Power, or Authority derived or claimed by, tm, or under the faid United Company, or fhall be guilty of any other Crime or Offence; fuch Upper.. fions, Crimes, and Offences, fhall and may be enquired of, heard, and determined, in His Majeun Court of King's Bench in England; and fuch Punithments fhall be inflicted on fuch Offenders, e Cime may be alledg do ufually inflicted for Offences of the like Nature committed in that Part of Great Britain called gard.
and that the fame, and all other Offences committed against this Act, may be alledged to be commit ted, and may be laid, enquired of, and tried in the County of Middlesex.
Court of King's Bench, and punished as if Of.
fence committed in
England.
be committed in Middle- kx.
Deferdants may plead
the
General Infue.
Publick AQ,
Tefendant to deliver to
ย
V. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That in all Actions, or Suits, bro ;': against the faid United Company, their Agents, or Servants, or any Perfon deriving Authority the faid Company, for any Thing by him or them done in fuch Capacity, from and after the pi of this Act, the Defendant or Defendants, in any such Action or Suit, may plead-the General ¦à and give the Special Matter in Evidence.
VI. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That this Act shall be deemed and talen to be a Publick Act; of which Notice fhall be judicially taken, by all judges, Juftices, and oth r Perfons whatfoever, without specially pleading the fane..
VII. Provided always, and it is hereby enacted' and declared, That the Defendant.or Defen ar Lintiff a Notice of the or his or their Attorney, fhall deliver to the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs in every fuch Action, or his or ther Beedance of his Defence; Attorney, a No.ice in Writing, figned by the Defendant or Defendants, or his or their Attorney, ef the Subftance of the Defence or Defences which he or they intend to rely upon, Six Days before the
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