surer's elerk shall make out, or cause to be made out, a Official Papers,sc. remittance bills or bill for the net balance, or that part of the net balance ascertained as aforesaid; which shall be Seamen. in the following form, or to the like effect : Sir, No. PAY to B. C., of Day of , on his [her or their] producing and delivering the duplicate hereof, the sum of , being on account of the wages of D. E., belonging to his Majesty's ship the if the same be demanded within six calendar months from the date hereof; otherwise you are to return this bill to the Treasurer of the Navy, at the Pay-office of the Navy, London. To the Receiver General of the Land Tax, in the County of the Collector of the Customs at the Port of the Collector of the Excise at the Clerk of the Check at Signed [F. G.] Commissioner of the Navy: Atttested [H. I.] Clerk to the Treasurer of the Navy. By virtue of the act, 55 Geo. 3, c. N. B.-The personating or falsely assuming the name and character of any person entitled to receive the wages of any inferior officer of seaman, non commissioned officer of marines, or marine, or procuring any other to do the same; or forging or uttering, knowing the same to be forged, any letter of attorney, bill, ticket, certificate, or assigument, last will, or other power or authority; or taking a false oath to obtain probate of a will, or letters of administration, in order to receive wages due to such officer or seaman, non-commissioned officer of marines, or marine, or demanding or receiving such wages due to such officer or seaman, non-commissioned officer of marines or marine, under probate of will, or letters of administration, knowing the will to be forged, or the probate or administration to have been obtained by means of a false oath, is made felony, without benefit of clergy, by the 55 Geo. 3, c. The officer to whom the aforegoing bill is addressed, is directed by act 55 Geo. 3, c. to examine the duplicate thereof when presented, and inquire into the truth, by the oath of the person presenting the same; and, being satisfied, he is to testify to that purpose, upon the back of the bill, and pay the amount without fee or reward; but, if he shall not be able to pay the amount, from not having public money sufficient in his hands, he shall note the cause of his refusing payment, and shall appoint another day, within one month at farthest from that time, and shall deliver back the bill so noted to the person presenting it; and if, upon complaint to the Commissioners of the Board of Revenue, on whose officer such bill shall have been drawn, it shall appear that such officer had unnecessarily delayed payment, taken any fee, or made any deduction whatsoever, he shall be fined in a sum not exceeding fifty pounds. And which bill shall be signed, attested, forwarded, and transmitted in the manner directed in cases of parties desiring their wages to be remitted at the pay of a ship, by the aforesaid act, passed in the 31st year of the reign of his late Majesty, and which remittance bills shall be made payable to such persons only as shall be expressed as administrators, executors, widows, next of kin, or creditors, in the check or certificate issued as before directed by the inspector; and all the money payable by the Treasurer of the Navy upon such check of administration, probate of will, administration with will annexed, or certificate, being made into a remittance bill, or bills, the Treasurer's clerk shall examine the said check, and if it shall appear that there are no further sums due by the said Treasurer of the Navy, but that the full sum due by him upon such authority has been paid and satisfied, the said clerk shall enclose the said check in the letter or cover which contains the bill of remittance, and forward it to the administrators, executors, widows, next of kin, or creditors, that it may be and remain (as with respect to any administrators or executors) Oficial Papers, &c. Seamen. Punishment in their hands, and stand in the place and stead of the original aðministration or probate of the will, as an authority to receive whatever other sums may be due or become due to the estate of the deceased. XXX. And be it further enacted, that if any person shall sign or subscribe any petition or application to the for persons falsely re- treasurer or paymaster of his majesty's navy for the time presenting being, falsely and wilfully representing herself or himnext of kin. self to be the widow or the nearest or one of the nearest of kindred of any deceased petty officer or seaman, noncommissioned officer of marines, or marine, who shall have belonged to or served on board any of his majesty's ships or vessels, or utter or publish any such petition or application so signed or subscribed as aforesaid, containing such false and wilful representation as aforesaid, in order to obtain a certificate from the inspector of seamen's wills, and powers to procure letters of administration to the effects of any such petty officer or seaman, non-commissioned officer of marines, or marine, or to procure payment of any wages, pay, prize-money, bounty-money, or other allowances of money under twenty pounds, for or in respect of services on board any ship or vessel of his majesty, his heirs, or successors; or if any person or persons shall demand or receive any wages, pay, prizemoney, bounty-money, or other allowance of money due or supposed to be due for or in respect of the services of any such petty officer or seaman, non-commissioned officer of marines, or marine, upon or by virtue of any certificate from the said inspector of seamen's wills, knowing such certificate to have been obtained by false representations or pretences, every such person shall, on being convicted of any such offence in due form of law, be transported beyond the seas for the term of seven years, in like manner as persons convicted of felony are directed to be transported by the laws and statutes of this realm. Punishment for forging names of ministers,' &c. XXXI. And be it further enacted, that if any person shall falsely make, forge, or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be falsely made, forged, or counterfeited, or willingly act and assist in the false making, forging, or counterfeiting the signature of any minister or householder of any parish to any certificate annexed or subjoined to or coutained in any check or petition for a certificate, as required, described, and mentioned in this act, to enable any person or persons to obtain probate of any will or letters of administration to any such petty officer or seaman, non-commissioned officer of marines, or marine; or shall utter or publish as true any such certificate annexed or subjoined to or contained in any such check or petition, with any false, forged, or counterfeited signature of any such minister or householder of any parish subscribed thereto, knowing the same signature to be false, forged, or counterfeited, with intention to de Official Seamen. fraud any person or persons, body or bodies, politic or corporate whatsoever, then every such person so offending, Papers, &c. and being thereof convicted by due course of law, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall be transported as a felon for the term of his or her natural life, or for the term of fourteen years, or seven years, as the court before which such offender or offenders shall be tried shall adjudge. XXXII. [Makes the false personating of any commission, warrant, or petty officer, &c. and the forging of any order of attorney, bill, ticket, or certificate, felony-death. But as to the false personating, see the 5 Geo. 4, c. 107, ante, p. 135. and as to the forgery, see the 57 Geo. 3, c. 127, post, p. 195.] Seamens' Remittance Bills. 1 & 2 Geo. 4, c. 49. Whereas, by [31 Geo. 2, c. 10, and by 32 Geo. 3, c. 33, and by 32 Geo. 3, c. 67,] petty officers and seamen, noncommissioned officers of marines and mariners in his majesty's navy, are enabled to cause payment of their wages to be made in the cases in those acts mentioned, to their wives and relations, by remittance bills; but doubts have been entertained whether the said acts authorize payment by such bills to such petty officers, seamen, non-commissioned officers of marines, and marines themselves, when discharged or paid off from his majesty's service; and it is expedient to remove such doubts, and to alter the form of remittance bills hitherto used in such cases:" be it therefore enacted, &c., that from and after the passing of this act, such petty officers and seamen, non-commissioned officers of marines, and marines, shall and may be enabled Petty of and empowered to obtain payment of their wages by remit- ficers and tance bill or bills to themselves or to their wives or rela- seamen, &c. may obtain tions, as provided by the said acts, whether they, such payment of petty officers and seamen, non-commissioned officers of their wages marines, and marines, be still serving his said majesty, by remit his heirs or successors, or discharged or paid off from the whether service; which said remittance bills shall be in the follow- serving, or ing form, or to the like effect: By virtue of the act, 2 Geo. 4, c. tance bills, paid off. producing and delivering the duplicate hereof, the sum of the Clerk of the Treasurer of the Navy at (Signed) Commissioner of the Navy. Clerk to the Treasurer of the Navy. Official N. B.-The personating, or falsely assuming, or procuring any other to Papers,&c. personate or falsely assume the name or character of any inferior officer or seaman, non-commissioned officer of marines, or marine, Seamen. or the wife or relation, executor, administrator, or creditor of any such officer or seaman, non commissioned officer of marines, or marine, in order to receive the wages due to such officer or seaman, non-commissioned officer of marines, or marine, is made felony without benefit of clergy, by the 55th Geo. 3, c. 60. The officer to whom the aforegoing bill is addressed, is directed by the above-mentioued acts of parliament to examine the duplicate thereof, when presented, and inquire into the truth, by the oath of the person presenting the same, and, being satisfied, he is to testify to that purpose, upon the back of the bill, and pay the amount without fee or reward; but, if he shall not be able to pay the amount, from not having public money sufficient in his hands, he shall note the cause of his refusing payment, and shall appoint another day, within one month, at farthest, from that time, and shall deliver back the bill so noted to the person presenting it; and if, upon complaint to the Commissioners of the Board of Revenue, on whose officer such bill shall have been drawn, it shall appear that such officer hath unnecessarily delayed payment, taken any fee, or made any deduction whatsoever, he shall be fined in a sum not exceeding fifty pounds. Navy-office. To be paid out of money received by the Right Honour able the Treasurer of his Majesty's Navy for the payment of seamen's wages. I have examined the duplicate hereof, and inquired into the truth of it, on the oath of and am satisfied that is the real person mentioned therein. Dated at this day of Collector. Provisions of 55 Geo. remittance ed to this act. II. And be it further enacted, that all and every the enactments, provisions, clauses, regulations, powers, authori3, c. 60, ap- ties, pains, penalties, and forfeitures, contained in an act plicable to passed in the 55th year of the reign of his late majesty, inbilis extend- tituled, “ An Act to repeal several Acts relating to the Execution of Letters of Attorney and Wills of Petty Officers, Seamen, and Marines, in his Majesty's Navy, and to make new Provisions respecting the same, applicable to the Remittance Bills in that Act mentioned," shall be deemed and taken, and the same are hereby declared to be, applicable to the remittance bills authorized by this act, as fully and effectually, to all intents and purposes, as if the same were repeated in this act. Persons procuring others to cations to the treasurer or paymaster III. "And whereas it is expedient that the provisions in the said last-mentioned act should be extended to the cases sign or utter hereinafter mentioned;" be it therefore further enacted, faise appli- that if any person or persons shall cause or procure any other person to sign, or subscribe, or utter, or publish any such false petition or application to the treasurer or paymaster of his majesty's navy for the time being, as is mentioned in the said last-mentioned act, for any of the purposes mentioned in that act; or if any person or persons shall cause or procure any other person to demand or receive any wages, pay, prize-money, bounty-money, or other allowance of money, due or supposed to be due for or in of the navy, or procuring persons to apply for pay, &c. or false certificates, Official Seamen. shall be respect of the services of any such petty officer or seaman, non-commissioned officer of marines or marine, upon or by Papers, &c. virtue of any certificate from the inspector of seamen's wills or his assistant, knowing such certificate to have been obtained by false representations or pretences; every such person shall, on being convicted of any such offence in due liable to form of law, be transported beyond the seas for the term of transportaseven years, in like manner as persons convicted of felony tion for are directed to be tronsported by the laws and statutes of this realm. seven years. others to or to apply for pay on IV. And be it further enacted, that if any person or per- Persons sons shall cause or procure any other person to utter or procuring publish as true, any false, forged, counterfeited, or altered utter forged letter of attorney, bill, ticket, certificate, purporting to be a letters of certificate from the inspector of seamen's wills and powers, attorney, or his assistant, assignment, last will, or other power or authority whatsoever mentioned in that act, for the purpose probates of and with the intention therein also mentioned, knowing forged wills, the same to be false, forged, counterfeited, or altered; or &c. guilty shall cause or procure any other person to demand or reof felony. ceive any wages, pay, prize-money, bounty-money, or other allowances of money, due or supposed to be due, for or in respect of the services of any such petty officer, seaman, non-commissioned officer of marines, or marine, or other person, as in that act mentioned, performed, or supposed to have been performed on board any of his majesty's ships or vessels, upon or by virtue of any probate of any will or letters of administration, knowing the will on which such probate shall have been obtained to be false, forged, and counterfeited, or knowing the probate of such will or such letters of administration, as last aforesaid, to have been obtained by means of any such false oath as in that act mentioned, with the intention therein also mentioned; every such person or persons so offending, and being thereof convicted according to due course of law, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall suffer death as a felon without benefit of clergy. Seamen's Orders. 59 Geo. 3, c. 56. I. [Repeals the provisions of 58 Geo. 3, c. 64, relating to orders made by petty officers, &c.] II. [None but persons duly licensed can receive wages or prize-money under orders] provided always, that nothing herein contained shall extend, or be construed to extend, to prevent any such petty officers, non-commissioned officers, seamen, or marines, supernumeraries or boys, from giving such orders to receive their wages, pay, prize-money, or bounty-money, to their wives, or to the persons in the K |