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ulterius prosequi shall be allowed any Law Custom or Usage or any Thing in this Act seeming to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That this Their Majesties Free-Pardon as aforesaid shall be as good and effectual in the Law to every of the said Persons before-mentioned as the same Pardon should have been if all and every the Persons and all and singular the Offences aforesaid had been particularly singularly especially and plainly Named Rehearsed and Specified and also Pardoned by proper and express Words and Names and be as fully largely This Pardon to be taken in the largest Sense amply and beneficially Understood Interpreted and Expounded to all Intents and Purposes against Their Majesties Their Heirs and Successors and all others to and for the Benefit Advantage and Favour of the Persons before intended to be Pardoned as the same can or may be Understood Interpreted and Expounded any Statutes Acts Laws Customs or Usages heretofore had made or used to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding AND be it further Enacted by the Lieutenant-Governour Council and Assembly and by the Authority of the same That all and every Person or Persons whomsoever that shall come and Reside here and Claim the Benefit of this Act and be employed in the Service of the Country in Privateering Trade or otherwise shall by Vertue hereof be Protected Excepted and Excused from the Payment of their said Debts contracted before their coming hither or their going off from hence for the space of Five Years to be computed from the First Day of this present Session and during the said Time that all real personal Time for Debtors or mixt Actions and all Arrests Process Suits Informations Judgments Executions and all other Prosecutions whatsoever to be had commenced sued or prosecuted for or by reason of their said Debts or any Summ or Summs of Money by them as aforesaid Due or Owing to any Person or Persons whomsoever be and are hereby Suspended Respited and Discharged and made Void for and during the said Term of Five Years and no longer PROVIDED always and it is the true Intent and Meaning of this present Act That no Person or Persons claiming the Benefit of the same shall plead the Statute of Limitation in their Favour or behalf as if the said Intermission had not been after the Expiration of the said Five Years but that the same shall be accounted as if this Law had not been made any Thing in this Act seeming to the contrary notwithstanding AND if any Action or Suit hereby Suspended Respited and Discharged shall be Commenced or Prosecuted every Person so Sued may plead the General Issue and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence and if the Plaintiff shall become Nonsuit Suit commenced contrary to this Act. or forbear further Prosecution or suffer Discontinuance or if a Verdict shall pass against him the said Plaintiff shall for ever absolutely Forfeit and Lose his Original Debt so Sued for and besides Pay to the Defendant his Double Costs and Charges out of Purse to be Assessed by the Jury or the Judges of the Court where such Action or Suit shall be Commenced and Levied by Rule of Court of the said Plaintiff's Goods and Chattels or the said Plaintiff to stand committed till Payment thereof at the Discretion of the said Court PROVIDED always nevertheless That no Person shall take or have any Benefit or Advantage by this Act or any thing therein contained who shall not within Twenty Days after his Arrival Names to be enrolled cause his Name to be Entred into the Office of Inrolments for this Island in a Book to be kept there for that particular Purpose and Claim and Demand the Benefit of the same which said Claim and Demand and Entry of his Name as aforesaid shall be to all Intents and Purposes as effectual and available in the Law as if the said Person had been herein particularly named and expressed and an attested Copy of the said Entry and Claim as aforesaid shall be pleaded in any Court and of as much Authority Force and Validity in the Law as this present Act or Special Pardon under the Broad Seal as aforesaid any Statutes Acts Laws Usages or Customs to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Secretary or Clerk of the Enrolments for the time being Fee for Enrolment shall not refuse to make Entry of such Claim and Demand as aforesaid and give an attested Copy thereof or take more than Fifteen Pence for such Entry and the Copy thereof under the Penalty of Ten Pounds for every such Offence to be paid to him who by Bill Plaint Information or Action of Debt shall Sue for the same AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That whereas by an Act of this Country Entitled An Act for Restraining and Punishing Privateers and Pyrates in which Act among other Things Relation to a former Act. there is contained one Clause Branch and Article whereby it was thus Enacted Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Person and Persons that shall any way knowingly Entertain Harbour Conceal Trade or Hold any Correspondence by Letter or otherwise with any Person or Persons that shall be deemed or adjudged to be Privateers Pyrates or other Offenders within the Construction of this Act and that shall not readily endeavour to the best of his or their Power to apprehend or cause to be apprehended such Offender or Offenders shall be liable to be Prosecuted as Accessaries and Confederates and to suffer such Pains and Penalties as in such Case by Law is provided WHICH said Clause Branch or Article contained in the said Act and every Word Matter and Thing contained in that Clause Branch or Article shall from henceforth be repealed annulled revoked annihilated Cause repealed and utterly made void for ever any Thing in the said Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding An ACT For making Kingston a Parish Preamble WHEREAS it hath pleased Almighty God by his late Dreadful Judgment to lay Waste and Destroy the Habitations and Dwelling-Places of many of the People late of Port-Royal whereby they were necessitated to resort to some more convenient Place wherein to Unite and Settle for the Advantage of Trade and better Conveniency of Living and did by the Encouragement of the then Government Repair to and Settle upon a certain Place now called and known by the Name of Kingston in the Parish of St. Andrews on the Harbour of Port-Royal aforesaid and have with great Trouble and Charge made a Considerable Progress in Building and Settling there and being willing and desirous there to Continue by reason of the Convenient Situation of the Place and Commodiousness of the Channel and Harbour BE it therefore Enacted and Ordained by Their Majesties Lieutenant-Governour Council and Assembly
and it is hereby Enacted and Ordained by the Authority of the same Bounds thereof That the aforesaid Place commonly called and known by the Name of Kingston lying in the Parish of St. Andrews on the Harbour of Port-Royal bounded Southerly by the Harbour Westerly and Northerly by the Line of the Land of Sir William Beeston Knight and to continue from a Callabash his North-Easterly Corner Tree by a strait Line to the Foot of the Long Mountain Eighty Chain distant from the Sea and from thence towards Three Rivers at the same Distance from the Sea until it meets with the Bounds of the Parish of Port-Royal And also all that Part of the Harbour which lies to the North-Easterly and Easterly Part of the Middle Ground shall be and for ever hereafter be taken and esteemed to all Intents and Purposes an intire and distinct Parish separate from the said Parish of Sr. Andrews and be called and known by the Name of the Town and Parish of Kingston and Have Use Exercise and Enjoy all and every the Powers Authorities Benefits Priviledges Rights Immunities and Customs that all or any of the Parishes or Precincts within this Island have or ought to Have Use Exercise or Enjoy of Common Right or by Vertue of any General Act or Act of this Country as fully amply and effectually as if the same had then been a distinct and separate Parish or Precinct and therein by Name expresly mentioned and specified And particularly that there shall be chosen Three Representatives to Serve in every Assembly hereafter or after the first Prorogation of this present Assembly for the said Town and Parish of Kingston any Law Custom or Usage to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding AND be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That for the Ease of the Merchants and Trading People of the said Town of Kingston that there be Erected Established and Held in the said Town a Quarter-Sessions for the Conservation of the Peace and a Court of Common-Pleas Courts of Justice with the same Power and Authority that is or hath been lately Held or Exercised at Port-Royal which said Court shall be held the first time on the Second Thursday in October in this present Year One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Three and afterwards Once every Two Months and the Sessions every Three Months any Thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding AND be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid that the Receiver-General Secretary of this Island and Naval Officer for the time being do by Themselves or Deputies within One Month after the passing this Act keep or cause to be kept in the Town of Kingston aforesaid their several and respective Offices Publick Offices as they now do or heretofore have or ought to have done on Port-Royal on Penalty of Fifty Pounds each for every Month they or any of them shall Neglect or Refuse to do the same to be Recovered against them or any of them by Bill Plaint Information or otherwise in the Supreme Court of this Island the One Half to Their Majesties for and towards the Support of the Government of this Island and the contingent Charges thereof and the other Half to the Informer or him that shall Sue for the same wherein no Essoyn Injunction Protection Wager of Law or Nonvult ulterius prosequi shall be Allowed An ACT For the better Securing of Port Royal. Preamble WHEREAS the Town of Port-Royal is a Town of a very Considerable Trade and of great Strength to resist the Enemy in time of War by reason of Their Majesties Fortifications and a great number of Houses through the Mercy of God left standing thereon AND whereas by the late Dreadful Earthquake the Land on the Back-Sea-side is settled lower than it was by reason whereof the Sea hath more power to gain upon it and if not timely prevented by Wharfing to resist the Violence thereof may endanger the Houses that are standing on that Sea-side for prevention whereof BE it Enacted and Ordained by Their Majesties Lieutenant-Governour Council and Assembly and it is hereby Enacted and Ordained by the Authority of the same That it shall and may be lawful from and after the Twenty Fifth day of July in the Year of our Lord 1693. for the Justices and Vestry of the Parish of Port-Royal or the Major part of them to Assess Tax Mony for the Work and Levy such Sum or Sums of Mony upon all and every the Freeholders of the said Parish of Port-Royal as to them shall seem Meet and Convenient for and towards the Wharfing or otherwise Securing the Town of Port-Royal towards the Great-Sea-side abovementioned AND whereas after the Wharfs are made they may from time to time want Repairing Be it therefore further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid and it is hereby Enacted and Ordained by the Authority of the same that it shall and may be lawful for the Justices and Vestry of Port-Royal aforesaid or the Major part of them to Assess Tax For the Repairs and Levy yearly and every Year such Sum or Sums of Mony upon the Freeholders of the said Parish of Port-Royal at such times as to them shall seem requisite or necessary for Repairing and Maintaining the said Wharfs and that the Constable or Constables of the said Parish of Port-Royal shall gather in the abovesaid Monies so to be Levyed Assessed and Taxed as before mentioned and appointed by this present Act and pay the same into the Hands of the Church-Wardens of the said Parish of Port-Royal for the time being Deducting to him or themselves Four Pence in the Pound for Collecting the same And in Case any Constable or Constables shall neglect his or their Duty in Collecting Gathering or Paying in the Mony so Collected by Vertue of this Act he or they so neglecting his or their Duty therein shall Forfeit for every such Offence the Sum of Twenty Pounds AND in Case any Person or Persons shall refuse or delay to pay his or their Tax so to be Assessed Taxed and Levyed Case of Refusal as in this present Act is prescribed Be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid that it shall and may be lawful to and for any two of Their Majesties Justices of the Peace of the Parish of Port-Royal aforesaid to Issue out their Warrant of Distress directed to any Constable of the said Parish to Levy the same upon the Goods or Chattels of him her or them so refusing or delaying to pay the same and Sell the same at Publick Outcry returning the Overplus if any be to the Owner AND to the Intent that the Mony which shall be Collected and Raised by virtue of this Act may be applyed to the use and purpose by this Act mentioned and directed Be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid that the Church-Warden or Church-Wardens of the said Parish of Port-Royal for the time being shall
Act all Merchants and others Importing any of the Wines and Liquors aforesaid do Entry to be made and Bond given and shall make Entry in the Office of the Receiver-General for the time being after the same manner and methods as is prescribed in an Act of this Country Entitled An Act for Raising a Publick Revenue for the Support of the Government of this His Majesty's Island all which said Entries of this Additional Duty and Impost on Negroes by virtue of this Act laid on shall be kept in a Book apart and distinct from the other Branches of Their Majesties Revenue and all Bonds for their Additional Impost shall be taken in Their Majesties Names and the Mony arising thereon as it shall become Due shall be paid into the Hands of the Receiver-General and be by him Paid over to the Treasurer or Treasurers by virtue of this Act appointed within Twenty Days after the Receipt thereof For the taking the said Bonds and making the said Entries Receiving and Paying the said Monies the Receiver-General or his Lawful Deputy shall retain to himself Two and a Half per Cent. and no more any Law Custom or Usage to the Contrary notwithstanding AND be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That for all such quantities of any of the Liquors beforementioned as the Customs Due for the same Custom under 5 l. shall amount to but Five Pounds or under no Bonds shall be taken or Credit given after the Entry thereof but the Customs for the same shall be immediately Paid to the Receiver-General or his lawful Deputy and by him Paid over into the Hands of the Treasurer or Treasurers as is before Directed AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Negroes to be Exported shall be Entred in the Receiver-Generals Office Negro's Exported and immediately Bond given by the Owner or Exporter to Their Majesties for the payment of the Mony into the Hands of the Receiver-General or his lawful Deputy within one Month after the Entry so made as aforesaid and whosoever shall presume after the said Seventeenth Day of November in this present Year One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Three to Export any Slave or Slaves and not make such Entry and give Bond and Pay as before in this Act is Directed shall Forfeit for every such Slave so Exported the Sum of Fifty Pounds AND forasmuch as the present Necessity many require the Advancement of Mony upon the Credit of this Act Money advanced Be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid that it shall and may be lawful for any Person or Persons whatsoever to Advance and Lend unto Their Majesties upon the Credit of this Act any Sum or Sums of Mony not exceeding One Thousand Pounds in the whole and to have and receive for the Loan of the said Mony so Lent and Advanced after the rate of Twelve Pounds Ten Shillings per Cent. per Annum AND to the End that the said Mony that shall be Lent unto Their Majesties upon the Credit hereof may be well and sufficiently secured Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that all and every Person and Persons who shall Advance and Lend unto Their Majesties any Sum or Sums of Mony not exceeding One Thousand Pounds in the whole as aforesaid upon the Credit of this Act and actually Pay the same into the Hands of the Treasurer or Treasurers for the time being shall be by the Treasurer or Treasurers How to be repaid upon the first Payment of Monies that shall be Paid into his or their Hands by virtue of this Act after Deduction and Payment of the said Sum of One Thousand Seven Hundred Seventy Four Pounds Sixteen Shillings to Their Majesties as aforesaid be forthwith Paid unto the Person or Persons so lending the said Sums their Executors Administrators or Assigns successively as they shall become Due with the Interest aforesaid for discharge of the Mony so Lent and Advanced without Fee or Change AND be it further Enacted That the Honourable Samuel Bernard and Nicholas Law Esquires and James Bradshaw William Hutchinson Thomas Clarke Modyford Freeman and James Banister Esquires be and are hereby Required and Impowered to nominate and appoint from time to time Managers appointed such fit Person or Persons in England Scotland Ireland New England New York or any other Parts of America or elsewhere as they or the Major part of them shall think fit to make known the purport of this Act as aforesaid for the giving Notice to such Persons as are willing to Transport themselves hither upon the Encouragement thereof AND in Case of the Death Absence or Refusal of any of the Persons aforementioned That then it shall and may be lawful for the Persons Remaining or Surviving or the Major part of them to choose to themselves such other Person or Persons as they shall think fit to act in the room or stead of him or them that shall Remove In case of Death how to be supplied Decease or Refuse and that the Person or Persons so Chosen shall be and are Impowered to act as fully and freely to all Intents and Purposes as if he or they had been mentioned and appointed by Name in this Act and the Persons therein nominated and appointed as aforesaid shall from time to time continue to act and do all and every such thing and things as by this Act they are Impowered and Required to perform AND be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners appointed by virtue of this Act or the Major part of them from time to time are hereby Required and Impowered as often as they shall think convenient to choose one or more of themselves to Receive Receivers how chosen and Pay the Mony arising by virtue of this Act for the Uses and Purposes herein mentioned of the Receipt of all which the Treasurer or Treasurers for the time being shall keep an exact and distinct Accompt as also of all Payments made for the Uses and Purposes by this Act required and render a Just and True Accompt thereof when thereunto demanded unto the rest of the Persons in this Act nominated and appointed or the Major part of them or unto the Assembly of this Island when Sitting and Assembled and if the said Treasurer or Treasurers for the Time being after the Receipt of any of the said Monies shall divert or misapply the same or any part thereof by any pretence whatsoever otherwise than before intended and directed contrary to the true intent and meaning of this Act the Person or Persons so Offending shall Forfeit to Their Majesties Forfeiture for Misapplication for and towards the Support of the Government of this Island and the contingent Charges thereof double the Sum so diverted and misapplied and the said Treasurer or Treasurers for the time being shall be allowed Two and a Half per Cent. for defraying his
or their Charges in or about the discharge of the Trust hereby in him or them reposed AND whereas after the Expiration of this Act some of the Monies arising by virtue hereof may remain in the Hands of the Treasurer or Treasurers for the time being Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that such Sum or Sums of Mony if any be Surplus of Money in the Hands of the said Treasurer or Treasurers shall notwithstanding the Expiration of this Act be there and still in his or their Hands remain and be Employed to the Uses and Intents in this Act appointed BE it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Secretary of this Island shall from time to time upon demand Copies of this Act to be deliver'd give Copy or Copies of this Act to any Person without delay or excuse for every of which he shall receive the Fee or Sum of Ten Shillings and in Case he shall delay or refuse to give such Copy or Copies as aforesaid to any Person or Persons demanding the same he shall for every Copy so demanded and not given Forfeit the Sum of Forty Shillings to be recovered before any Justice of the Peace BE it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if the Receiver-General or his lawful Deputy shall refuse to make Entry and do and perform all and every such thing or things as by this Act or any Branch thereof is enjoyned him Forfeiture of the Receiver-General on Refusal of Entry he shall Forfeit for every such Offence the Sum of Five Hundred Pounds Currant Mony of this Island and all other Person or Persons Offending contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act shall Forfeit for every such Offence wherein Penalties are not already laid the Sum of One Hundred Pounds the Moiety of all the Forfeitures within this Act mentioned shall be to Their Majesties their Heirs and Successors for and towards the Support of the Government of this Island and the contingent Charges thereof and the other Moiety to the Informer or he that shall Sue for the same to be Recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any Court of Record within this Island where no Essoin Protection Wager of Law or Nonvult ulterius prosequi shall be allowed any Law Custom or Usage to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding An ACT For Raising Money to Solicit in England the Affairs of this Their Majesties Island Preamble WHEREAS Their Majesties Island of Jamaica hath divers times lain under great Disadvantages through the Misrepresentation of the Proceedings and Interests thereof which hath chiefly happened for want of some fit Persons fully Instructed to appear in England and there truly Represent and Solicit the same And inasmuch as Their Majesties have been Graciously pleased to permit the raising Three Hundred Pounds Sterling per Annum to be Employed to the Use and to prevent the Disadvantage above expressed and that by a modest Calculation of the said Summ it appears that Four Hundred and Fifty Pounds currant Money of this Island of Jamaica the Charges of Collecting and Receivers Charges for the Receipt and the Exchange in remitting the same being included will not amount or produce more than the said Summ of Three Hundred Pounds Sterling Money of England THE Assembly do therefore most humbly beseech Your most Excellent Majesties That it may be Enacted and be it Enacted by the Lieutenant-Governour Council and Assembly and it is hereby Enacted by the Authority of the same Four Hundred and Fifty Pounds to be raised That the said Summ of Four Hundred and Fifty Pounds currant Money of this Island for the making Good the said Summ of Three Hundred Pounds Sterling Money of England and defraying the Charges of collecting receiving and remitting the same be raised levied and paid within Three Months after the Tenth Day of August One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Three and so the said Summ to be raised levied and paid yearly and every Year for and during the full Time and Term of Eleven Years Time limited to and for the Uses above-mentioned to be paid by the Inhabitants of the several Parishes within this Island into the Hands of such Person or Persons who shall from time to time be appointed by the Commissioners hereafter named or the major Part of them to be Receiver or Receivers of the same according to the several Rates and Proportions hereafter following That is to say Rates of the several Parishes for the Parish and Town of Port-Royal Forty Nine Pounds Ten Shillings and Ten Pence for the Parish of St. Andrews Fifty Two Pounds Seventeen Shillings and Five Pence for the Parish of St. Katherines Fifty Six Pounds Sixteen Shillings and Three Pence for the Parish of Sr. Dorothy Twenty Five Pounds Three Shillings and One Peny for the Parish of Vere Forty Seven Pounds One Shilling and Eight Pence for the Parish of Clarendon Forty Two Pounds One Shilling and Eight Pence for the Parish of Sr. Elizabeth Fifty One Pound Six Shillings and Eight Pence for the Parish of St. Thomas to Windward Twenty Seven Pounds Ten Shillings for the Parish of Sr. Davids Sixteen Pounds and Eleven Pence for the Parish of Sr. Thomas in the Vale Twenty One Pound Nine Shillings for the Parish of Sr. Johns Fifteen Pounds Eight Shillings and Three Pence for the Parish of St. George's Three Pounds Thirteen Shillings and-Six Pence for the Parish of St. Mary's Eleven Pounds Five Shillings and Seven Pence for the Parish of St. Ann's Seven Pounds Thirteen Shillings and Six Pence for the Parish of St. James Two Pounds Sixteen Shillings and Eight Pence for the Town and Parish of Kingston Nineteen Pounds and Five Shillings AND be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That the Justices and Vestry-men for the time being in their respective Parishes aforesaid and where no Vestry is the Justices by themselves within the Limits of their several Commissions are hereby Impowered and Required at the usual times of Assessing their Parish-Tax Assessors to Assess Tax and Levy for the said Term of Eleven Years the several Summs over and above the usual Taxes assessed and raised on the several Parishes by Virtue of an Act of this Island Entitled An Act for the Maintenance of Ministers and the Poor and Erecting and Repairing of Churches AND whereas in some Parishes there may not be Money in the Church-Wardens Hands for the paying of the Tax above assessed for this present Year it is therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That then the Church-Wardens of such Parish or Parishes Money to be advanc'd and where no Church-Wardens are the Justices themselves within the Limits of their Commissions do Pay the said Summ or Summs as is above Assessed for this present Year in such manner as is hereafter Directed under the Penalty of Ten Pounds each for refusing to Pay the same AND for the Reimbursing the said
Church-Wardens or Justices who do by Virtue of this Act Advance and Pay the said Parish-Tax for this present Year it shall and may be Lawful for the said Justices and Vestry and where no Vestry is the Justices themselves within the Limits of their respective Commissions are hereby Required and Impowered That at the next usual time of Assessing their Parish-Tax that they Assess such Summ or Summs of Money as shall have been Lent and Advanced by the Church-Wardens or Justices as is above Required which Money so Assessed and Levied shall be by the Church-Wardens and where no Church-Wardens are How to be reimbursed by the Justices within the Limits of their respective Commissions paid unto the Hands of the Persons so Lending the Money for this present Year with Lawful Interest for the same which said Summ with the said Interest shall be Paid by the Church-Wardens or Justices or where no Church-Wardens are by the Justices within the Limits of their respective Commissions on Demand under Penalty of double the Summ so Lent and Demanded as aforesaid AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the several Summs yearly to be Collected as aforesaid shall for this present Year and the Years ensuing during the time mentioned in this Act be Paid by the Church-Wardens or Justices of each respective Parish within Twenty One Days after their Receipt thereof Time of Payment into the Hands of the Receiver or Receivers Impowered to Receive the same and if any of the Justices Church-Wardens Vestry-men or Constables shall neglect his or their Duty in Assessing Levying or Paying the said Summs which are above required to be Assessed Levied and Paid he or they so neglecting or failing of his or their Duty therein shall respectively Forfeit for every such Offence the Summ of Fifty Pounds AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Money so Raised and Paid as aforesaid into the Hands of the said Receiver or Receivers for the time being shall by them be yearly remitted on the Countries Risque in such manner as they shall think fit into the Hands of Gilbert Heathcote To whom remitted Bartholomew Gracedieu and John Tutt of London Merchants or any One of them or such other Person or Persons as shall from time to time be appointed to Solicit in England the Publick Affairs of this Island as Occasion shall require and as to them shall seem most to the Interest and Advantage thereof AND in Case of the Death Absence or Refusal of any of the Solicitors before-mentioned or the Commissioners hereafter mentioned in this Act that then the Persons remaining or surviving or the major Part of them do chuse to themselves such other Person or Persons as they shall think fit in the room or stead of him or them that shall Remove Decease or Refuse and that the Person or Persons so chosen shall here and in England each for themselves be Impowered to Act as fully to all Intents and Purposes in each Place as if he or they had been mentioned and appointed by Name in this Act. AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Honourable Samuel Bernard and Nicholas Law Esquires and James Bradshaw William Hutchinson Thomas Clarke James Banister and Modyford Freeman Esquires Commissioners and Receivers shall be and are hereby Impowered and Appointed to be Commissioners and they or the major Part of them from time to time to appoint one or more of themselves to be Receiver or Receivers of the Money by this Act to be raised AND whereas at this present Sessions there are General Instructions drawn up by the Council and Assembly for Direction to the Solicitors in England the Commissioners named in this Act Instructions to be observed are at no time to Order any thing contrary to any Particulars contained therein but fully to observe and be directed thereby any thing in this Act seeming to the contrary notwithstanding which said Instructions are to be Signed by the Clerk of the Council and the Speaker of the Assembly and be Entred in the Minutes of both Houses PROVIDED nevertheless That the Commissioners before-mentioned Farther Instructions may from time to time upon any sudden or emergent Occasions give to the Solicitors in England such further Instructions as they shall think fit for the Publick Service of this Island AND in case it shall be thought fit at any time hereafter to turn out or alter any of the Solicitors in England that then the said Commissioners or major Part of them are hereby impowered from time to time to turn out Solicitors chang'd or alter as aforesaid all or any of the Solicitors in this Act mentioned AND be it further Enacted That the Person or Persons so named to be Receiver or Receivers shall receive and pay all such Summ or Summs of Money as shall come to his or their Hands arising by Virtue of this Act Of all which the Receiver or Receivers for the time being shall keep an Exact and Distinct Account of all Payments and Remittances made for the Uses and Purposes by this Act required Account to be given and render a Just and True Account thereof when demanded unto the rest of the Commissioners in this Act nominated or the major Part of them when thereunto required or to the Assembly of this Island when sitting and assembled of all the Summ and Summs of Money by him or them received by Virtue of this Act and how laid out or remitted and if the said Receiver or Receivers for the time being after the Receipt of any of the said Money shall divert or misapply the same or any Part thereof by any Pretence whatsoever otherwise than before intended and directed contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act the Person or Persons so Offending shall Forfeit to Their Majesties for and towards the Support of the Government of this Island and the contingent Charges thereof double the Summ so diverted or misapplied and the said Receiver or Receivers for the time being shall be allowed all his or their reasonable Expences in or about the Discharge of the Trust hereby reposed in him or them Expences allowed Commission or pretence of Commission hereby excepted and in case the Receiver or Receivers for the time being shall Neglect or Refuse to remit the aforesaid Summ or Summs of Money when received yearly and every Year during the continuance of the Act to the Solicitors in England shall Forfeit for every such Offence the Summ of Five Hundred Pounds AND be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That one Half of the Forfeiture contained in this Act Forfeitures applied and not herein applied shall be to our Sovereign Lord and Lady the King and Queen Their Heirs and Successors for and towards the Support of the Government of this Island and the contingent Charges thereof the other Half to him or them that shall Sue for the same
or Slaves who have been killed in Service BE it therefore further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That upon Proof made before the said Commissioners Slave kill'd of any such Negro or Slave so killed in Service or that shall be during the War the Owner or Owners thereof shall receive such Summ or Summs of Money as the Commissioners shall think fit not exceeding the Summ of Fifty Pounds to be paid to the Owner or Owners in the same manner as is before expressed for Servants Negroes or Slaves so Freed AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that any Owner or Overseer that shall hinder any Servant or Slave from Repairing to the Commissioners hereafter in this Act mentioned Owner detaining a Slave to make their Pretensions and Claim their Freedom such Owner or Overseer shall Forfeit such Servant or Slave and they be made Free and no Satisfaction to be made to the Owner for such Servant or Slave AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Honourable Richard Lloyd Esquire Francis Rose James Banister Thomas Bindlos and John Walters Esquires Commissioners for Claims or any Three of them be and are hereby Authorized and Appointed to be Commissioners for the Hearing and Determining all Claims that shall be made by Virtue of this Act by any Servant or Slave and that the said Commissioners or any Three of them are hereby fully Impowered to Administer Oaths to any Person or Persons that can give Evidence therein and Issue out their Warrants for all Persons to attend and come before them who can give Evidence relating to the Matters to be by them Determined by Virtue of this Act and to Imprison for Three Months without Bail or Mainprize all such Persons as shall refuse Obedience to such their Warrants issued out and the Determination concerning the Freedom of any Servant or Slave made by the Commissioners aforesaid or any Three of them pursuant to this Act being signified under their Hands and Seals shall be the final Determination of all Claims and Disputes that shall or may arise by Virtue of this Act without any further Appeal any Thing to the contrary notwithstanding AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Honourable Nicholas Laws Esquire Edward Stanton Modyford Freeman Josiah Heathcote and James Bradshaw Esquires or any Three of them be and are hereby Appointed and Authorized to be Commissioners to Hear and Determine all Claims that shall or may be made by Virtue of this Act Other Commissioners by any Servant or Slave who shall belong to the Parishes of Kingston St. Andrews St. Davids and St. Thomas to Windward in the same manner and have and full like Power and Authority as is given to the Commissioners first above-mentioned AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That he Honourable Richard Lloyd Esquire Francis Rose James Banister Thomas Bindlos and John Walters Esquires or any Three of them do meet on Thursday the Nineth Day of August in this present Year One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Four and St. Jago de la Vega and so every Thursday in the next Six Weeks following Time of Meeting and then to adjourn themselves from time to time as they shall think fit AND the Honourable Nicholas Laws Edward Stanton Modyford Freeman Josiah Heathcote and James Bradshaw Esquires or any Three of them are hereby required to meet at Kingston on Thursday the Nineth of August in this present Year One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Four and every Thursday in the next Six Weeks following and then to adjourn themselves from time to time as they shall think fit and all Marshals and Constables Officers to attend are hereby required to give their Attendance and Execute their Order as required by the said Commissioners and the Secretary keep a Book wherein shall be Entred the Certificates of all such Servants or Slaves who shall be Freed by Virtue of this Act as aforesaid and that he take Fifteen Pence for his Fee and no more AND be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That all Accounts for Provisions furnished to Their Majesties for Man and Horse for Publick Work done and Materials found for the Fortifications and all others Things and Matters relating any wise to the Preparations that were made for Defence for this Island be stated and adjusted by Samuel Lewis and John Walters Esquires Auditors of Accounts at St. Jago de la Vega Charles Whittle and Charles Saddler Esquires of Port-Royal Edmond Edlin and Samuel Foxley Esquires at Kingston who are hereby Appointed Authorized and Impowered to audit the same and that a Certificate of the State thereof under the Hands and Seals of the said Commissioners or any one of them shall be sufficient to Entitle the several Parties concerned to demand and receive out of the Money to be raised for that purpose the Summ due to them without any further Proof AND the said Commissioners are hereby Required and Impowered to Hear and Determine the several Causes in this Act mentioned Material or any other Law to the contrary notwithstanding Provided this Act continue in Force during this present War with France and no longer An ACT For Prevention of Indebted Persons from Departing this Island in the Time of martial-Martial-Law WHEREAS by an Act of this Island now in Force Entitled Preamble An Act for Settling the Militia the martial-Martial-Law may on some Emergent Occasions be declared to be in Force on the ceasing of which the common-Common-Law revives and takes Place whereby in the said Times several Ill-disposed Persons and indebted take Advantage and go off the Island to the manifest Loss of their Creditors and general Discouragement to Trade Be it therefore Enacted and Ordained by the Lieutenant-Governour Council and Assembly and it is hereby Enacted by the Authority of the same That it shall and may be lawful for any Creditor or Creditors to Stop Arrest and Detain in Prison by due Process of Law and Debtor or Debtors that shall attempt or go about to depart this Island Debtors detained until he or they shall Pay and Satisfy their Debt or Debts or in case of such going off or departure a Foreign Attachment may Issue against his or their Goods or Chattels as in time of the Common-Law Attachment notwithstanding the said afore-recited Act or any Clause therein being or seeming to the contrary notwithstanding AND whereas several Disputes have heretofore arisen about the Proceedings of the Surveyors of High-ways Surveyors of High-ways and of the Justices Vestries and Church-Wardens within the several Parishes and Precincts in this Island for keeping in Repair the High ways Raising and Laying on the Parish Taxes and Collecting Levying and Applying the same by the Constable or any other Officer or Officers thereto appointed in the time when Martial-Law is in Force in this Island for the prevention of which and avoiding the like Inconvenience occasioned by
Evil disposed Persons to the Prejudice of Their Majesties Service and Injury to the Publick BE it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Church-Wardens and Surveyors of the High-ways shall proceed to the Discharge of their several Duties and the Justices and the Vestries in the several and respective Parishes and Precincts within this Island as well when martial-Martial-Law is in Force as at any other time are hereby Required and Impowered to Meet and Raise such Parochial Tax or Taxes as by the several Acts is Directed and Appointed and the several Constables Collect Levy and Distrain for the same accordingly and any Justice Church-Warden Vestry-man Surveyor or Constable neglecting his or their Duty he or they so Offending shall incur the Penalty in the Acts mentioned any Act Usage or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding AND be it further Enacted That this Act shall continue in Force during this present War with France and no longer WHICH Laws having upon the Perusal of the Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Trade and Foreign Plantations been Presented to His Majesty at this Board His Majesty was Graciously Pleased with the Advice of His Privy-Council to Approve and Confirm the same and pursuant to His Royal Pleasure thereupon Signified and Expressed all the said Laws as afore-mentioned are hereby Approved and Confirmed accordingly Will. Bridgeman AT THE COURT AT KENSINGTON The 26th Day of December 1695. PRESENT The King 's Most Excellent MAJESTY In COUNCIL Lord Keeper Lord Privy-Seal Duke of Norfolk Duke of Schonberge Duke of Shrewsbury Marq. of Winchester Lord Great Chamberlain Earl of Bridgwater Earl of Stamford Earl of Scarborough Earl of Romney Lord Godolphin Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Secret Trumbull Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer L. Chief Justice Holt. Mr. Russell Mr. Boscawen Mr. Smith WHEREAS by Commission under the Great Seal of England to Sir William Beeston Knight His MAJESTY 's Lieutenant-Governour and Commander in Chief of the Island of JAMAICA bearing Date the Twentieth Day of September One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Two in the Fourth Year of His MAJESTY 's Reign His MAJESTY has been Graciously pleased to Authorize and Impower the Governour Council and Assembly of the said Island to Constitute and Ordain Laws Statutes and Ordinances which are to Continue and be in Force till His MAJESTY 's Pleasure be signified to the contrary And forasmuch as a certain Law has in pursuance of the said Commission been transmitted to His MAJESTY with the Humble Desire of the Governour Council and Assembly That His MAJESTY would be Pleased to Pass the same in the Words following viz. An ACT To Enable George Ivey Esquire to Sell his Estate for the Payment of the Debts of his Father William Ivey Esquire Deceased WHEREAS William Ivey Esquire Preamble lately Deceased was Seized in his Demesnes as of Fee of and in several Plantations Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with the Appurtenances in the Parishes of Clarendon Vere and S. Katherines and elsewhere within this Island and of several Negroes and Stock thereunto belonging and appertaining All which said Plantations Lands Tenements and Hereditaments together with all and every the Negroes thereon being or thereunto belonging by his Last Will and Testament bearing Date the One and Twentieth Day of September One Thousand Six Hundred Eighty Nine he devised to George Ivey Esquire his Eldest Son and his Heirs and for want of Issue of him the said George to William Ivey Second Son of the said William the Testator and the Heirs of his Body with divers Remainders over and of his said Will made the said George his Eldest Son sole Executor who since has duly proved his said Father 's said Will. AND whereas the said William the Testator was at the time of his Decease indebted to the Royal African Company of England and to divers other Persons by Judgment Bonds and otherwise in the Summ of Two Thousand Pounds and upwards and forasmuch as the Personal Estate of the said William the Testator not including the said Negroes and Stock was so very inconsiderable that the said George Ivey by Reason of the Intail aforesaid without the Assistance of an Act of the Assembly has no way left of Paying his Fathers said Debts unless by the Sale of all the said Negroes and Stock left upon and belonging to the Lands and Plantations so Intailed which must inevitably Ruin and Destroy the said Plantations c. AND forasmuch as it is highly just and reasonable that no Act of the said William Ivey the Testator should prevent or hinder all or any part of his said Estate from being lyable and subject to the payment of his just Debts or debar the said George his eldest Son from disposing of and applying the same for the payment and discharge of the same and forasmuch as William Ivey Consent of the Second Son the second Son of William the Testator to whom the next remainder in Tail after the Death of George the Tenant now in Possession without Issue of his Body is limited has upon Consideration of the Sum of Four Hundred Pounds testified and declared his Consent to the Passing of this present Act BE it therefore Enacted by Their Majesties Lieutenant-Governour Council and Assembly and it is hereby Enacted by the Authority of the same that for the Payment of the Debts aforesaid it shall and may be lawful to and for the said George Ivey and he is hereby fully Authorized Impowered and Enabled to Sell Dispose of or Convey or by his last Will and Testament to Devise all or any part or parcel of the said Plantations Lands Tenements and other Hereditaments above-mentioned together with all and every the Negroes thereunto belonging or appertaining to any Person or Persons whatsoever in such manner and form and as amply and effectually to all Intents Constructions and Purposes as if the same had Descended to him the said George Ivey and he were thereof Seized and Possessed in Fee-Simple and no such Intail and Remainder or Remainders as aforesaid had ever been made limited or created and the Purchaser or Purchasers Devisee or Devisees of the same or any part or parcel thereof shall be deemed adjudged and taken to be Seized thereof and of every part and parcel thereof to them and their Heirs for ever as if the said George had suffered a Common Recovery in Their Majesties Court of Common-Pleas at Westminster of all or any part or parcel of the said Premises Purchaser c. secured to the Use or Uses of the Purchaser or Purchasers Devisee or Devisees and of their Heirs for ever and the said Purchaser or Purchasers Devisee or Devisees their Heirs or Assigns shall and may hold occupy and enjoy the same free from any Estates Uses Limitations Remainders Charges and Provisoes had made or created in and by the said last Will and Testament of the abovementioned William Ivey the Testator any Law Custom or Usage to the Contrary notwithstanding WHICH Law having upon the