Act for the encouragement of seamen, and the better manning of the navy.

Act to enable the post-master general to send the mail to the dominions of his Catholic majesty, on board any vessel authorised by his Catholic majesty to carry the same. Act to permit commodities of the growth or manufacture of Asia, Africa, or America, legally imported into Ireland, to be exported thence into Great Britain.

Act to continue the act for regulating the slave trade.

JUNE 21.

Act for the encouragement and relief of friendly societies.

Act to enable justices of the peace to impose fines upon constables, &c. for neglect of duty.

Abstract of an Act for establishing Regulations respecting Aliens arriving in this Kingdom, or resident, in certain cases.

1. It is enacted, that the master of a vessel arriving in any port of this kingdom shall immediately specify in writing, to the collector of such port, the number, names, rank, and occupation, of any foreigners which shall be on board his vessel.

2. Under the penalty of 101. for every foreigner on board the vessel whom he shall have neglected or refused to declare.

3. That every alien arriving in any port in this kingdom, on or after the 10th day of January 1793, shall immediately declare in writ ing, to the collector of such port,

pation, or, if servants, the name, &c. of their masters or mistresses, or shall verbally make such declaration to such officer to be reduced by him into writing; and shall also declare the country where they have principally resided for six months preceding their arrival; and every alien neglecting to make such declaration, or making a false declaration thereof, shall be adjudged to depart out of this realm, and, if afterwards found in this realm, shall be transported for life.

4. That every alien, arriving as aforesaid. shall obtain from the collector of such port a certificate of such declaration in writing.

5. Exception of foreign mariners employed in such ships certified by the master to the collector.

6. No alien to import any weapons, arms, gunpowder, or ammunition whatever, other than as merchandize according to law; and any officer of the customs may seize such weapons, &c. taking an ac

count thereof.

7. In case his majesty shall, by proclamation or order, direct that aliens shall not be landed in this kingdom, or shall only be landed at particular places, then the master of every ship, having aliens on board, shall not suffer them to land contrary to such proclamation or order (unless by express permission of his majesty), under the penalty of 501. for every alien so landing, and forfeiture of the ship.

S. No alien shall depart from the place of his arrival (except to make the declaration aforesaid) without obtaining a passport from the mayor or other chief magistrate of such place, or from one justice of peace for the district, containing

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the name, rank, and occupation of such alien, and the town to which he purposes to go.

9. Aliens (except servants of British subjects attendant on their masters), arrived in this kingdom since the first of January 1792, or arriving in future, desirous of changing their residence, or of quitting the town at which they have arrived by virtue of their first passport, shall obtain from the mayor, or a justice of peace for the district, a passport expressing the name and descripton of such alien, and also the name of the town to which such alien proposes to re

move.

10. Magistrates may grant passports to alien merchants to pass to and from all parts of the kingdom.

11. The mayor of any town, or a justice of peace of any district, may require of any alien arrived after the 1st of January 1792, or arriving in future (except servants as aforesaid), who shall be passing through or found in such town or district, to exhibit his passport; and in default thereof, or if he is not in the way to the town therein expressed, or if such mayor, &c. shall see cause to suspect that he is not, bona fide, proceeding to such town, or has landed contrary to such proclamation as aforesaid, such mayor, &c. may commit such alien to gaol until notice be sent to his majesty's secretary of state; and, unless his majesty shall signify his pleasure for the discharge of such alien, he shall be detained in gaol without bail until delivered by course of law.

12. Every alien who shall refuse to shew his passport, or who shall be found not proceeding to the town therein expressed, or who

shall land contrary to his majesty's order, shall be imprisoned for any time not exceeding one month, and afterwards shall depart the realm.

13. Any person forging or altering a passport, or obtaining such passport under any other name than that which he shall have declared to such custom-house officer, &c. or falsely pretending to be the person mentioned in such passport, shall be punished as in the preceding section.

14. Notice of these regulations to be printed in different languages, and affixed in the different ports, and delivered to all foreigners; but proof of such delivery not to be necessary to the conviction of any alien offending against this act.

15. Any alien neglecting to depart the realm when ordered by his majesty so to do, to be committed to the county gaol.

16. Any alien, disobeying such proclamation or order of his majesty, shall be imprisoned for a month, and then to depart the realm within a time to be limited; and if found within the realm after such time, to be transported for life.

17. Any secretary of state, who shall apprehend that immediate obedience will not be paid to such proclamation, may give any alien in charge to one of his majesty's messengers, to be conducted out of the kingdom.

18. His majesty, by order in council, or order under the royal sign manual, may order any alien arrived since the 1st of January 1792, or arriving hereafter (except alien merchants and servants of British subjects), to reside in such districts as his majesty shall think necessary; and aliens disobeying

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such order, to be committed to the county gaol.

19. Every alien who has arrived in England since the 1st of January 1792, shall, within ten days from the 10th of January 1793, and every alien arriving in future shall, within ten days after his arrival at the place expressed in his passport, deliver to the chief magistrate where he shall be, or, if no chief magistrate, to a justice of peace of the district, an account in writing of his name, rank, occupation, and place of abode, and the place of his residence for six months preceding, and take a certificate thereof; and in case of neglect or refusal to make such declaration, or of delivering a false account, to be imprisoned.

20. Magistrates may summon aliens, suspected of not having delivered such accounts, before them, and cause them to be arrested.

21. Any justice of the peace, mayor, or chief magistrate, may, by notice in writing, require of any housekeeper within their district an account in writing of the names, rank, and occupation, of all aliens resident in their houses.

22. Copies of accounts delivered to custom-house officers, &c. and of passports and certificates granted by magistrates, to be transmitted to one of the secretaries of state.

23. The justices of the courts of Westminster may admit aliens to bail.

24. As may also any justice of peace, by authority of the secretary of state.

25. All aliens, arrived in this kingdom since the 1st of January 1792, shall, if within the limits of the bills of mortality, or the parishes of Marybone, Pancras, and Chelsea, on the 10th of January

1793, or if out of those limits, within ten days from the said 10th of January, and every alien arriving in future shall, within ten days after his arrival, give to some neighbouring magistrate an account of all weapons, arms, gunpowder, and ammunition, in their possession, and shall, within three days from such notice, deliver up to such magistrate all such weapons, &c. except such only which they shall have licence to keep from one of his majesty's principal secretaries of state. And it shall not be lawful for any such alien, after such delivery, to buy, or to have in his possession, or in the possession of others for his use, any weapons, &c. And any person, neglecting or refusing to obey the above directions, shall, on conviction, be judged to depart this realm, and if found therein after such time, shall be transported.

26. Magistrates may require aliens resident in their jurisdictions, or passing through the same, to deliver up all weapons, &c. in their possession, under pain of being ordered to depart the realm.

27. Any of his majesty's secretaries of state, or any two justices of peace, or any mayor or chief magistrate, may cause any house, rented or occupied by any aliens, (except alien merchants), and any house in which any alien shall be a lodger or inmate, to be searched in the day-time, in the presence of a peace-officer, in order to discover any weapons, &c. and to seize the same.

28. And may require, from housekeepers where aliens may lodge, an account in writing of all weapons, &c. in their houses. 29. His majesty may send out of

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34. Aliens not fourteen years old excepted.

35. Certificates and passports to be given gratis.

36. Fresh passports or certificates may be granted where the former ones are lost or mislaid.

37. Persons adjudged to be transported, to be sent to such places as his majesty shall direct.

38. If any person, ordered or adjudged to be transported, shall be found at large within this realm, or, after sentence of transportation pronounced, he shall be guilty of felony, and shall suffer death as a felon, without benefit of clergy.