Official several degrees of relationship following: that is to say, Papers, &c. parents, children, brothers, or sisters of such petty officers, seamen, marines, supernumeraries or boys; any thing herein before contained, &c. Seamen. Persons falsely re themselves to receive such wages or prize money, deemed misde III. And be it further enacted, that if any person who shall falsely represent himself or herself to be within any presenting of the degrees of relationship in blood as before described, as relations, in order to enable himself or herself to receive any prize&c. in order money or bounty-money, or share of prize-money or bounty money, due or to grow due for or on account of the services of any such petty officer, non-commissioned officer, seaman, or marine, supernumerary or boy, under any such order as aforesaid; or who, not being within any such guilty of a degree of relationship, and not being licensed as aforesaid, shall receive any wages, pay, prize-money, bounty-money, or other allowances of money for the use of any such petty officer, non-commissioned officer, seaman, or marine, supernumerary or boy; or if any agent or person, whose licence shall have been revoked as hereinafter mentioned, shall offer himself to receive, or shall receive, any such wages, pay, prize-money, bounty-money, or other allowance of money, not being within any of the degrees of relationship aforesaid, and be thereof duly convicted, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished accordingly. meanor. Falsifying dates of orders declared a misde meanor. X. [Orders for payment, certificate as to the right of the persons giving them, and the inventory of goods furnished, shall be in the forms set forth in the schedules B, C, & D.] XII. And be it further enacted, that if any person or persons shall knowingly insert or cause to be inserted in any order for the payment of prize-money, bounty-money, grants, or other allowances of money, payable by the commissioners and governors of the royal hospital for seamen at Greenwich, or by their treasurer, any other date than the day on which the said order shall be executed, or shall knowingly present or utter any order bearing any false date as aforesaid, such person or persons shall for every such offence be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished accordingly.] XVIII. [Persons falsely assuming the name and character of others entitled to prize-money, &c., or forging, or counterfeiting letters of attorney, &c., deemed guilty of felony. "[See ante, title" False Personating," and see next act."] Schedule (B.) ORDER for the payment of prize or bounty-money, grant, or other allowances in the nature thereof. sum of out of the amount of my share of prize Official or bounty money, grant, or other allowance of money in the nature Papers, &c. thereof, for the capture of while I was serving on board his majesty's ship or vessel the vanced to me by the said To the Treasurer of Greenwich Hospital, and for value ad Seamen. Schedule (C.) CERTIFICATE. THIS is to certify, that the within order was signed in my [or our] presence by the said represented to me by of who is known to me, [or day of to be on board at the captures in the in the county 18 (Captain, or minister and church wardens of the said parish of NOTE. This certificate to be signed by the captain or commanding officer, and one other signing officer of the ship to which the party belongs. If discharged from the service, and resident at any place where there is a deputy or agent of the hospital, to be signed by that deputy. If within four miles of the hospital, by the Clerk of the Check or his first clerk. If at any other place within the bills of mortality, by the officer for prizes in the Navy Pay-office or his assistant. If by marines at head quarters where there is no deputy to the hos pital, to be signed by the Colonel or Commanding Officer and the Adjutant. If by any person at sick-quarters, to be signed by the surgeon and one of his assistants; but where there is a deputy, to be signed by such deputy. If at any other place in England, to be signed by the minister and one of the churchwardens; and if in Scotland, by the minister and one of the elders. Schedule (D.) The following are the particulars acknowledged by the said to have been received by him, and to be the consideration for the within Witness 57 Geo. 3, c. 127. IV. Be it enacted, that, in order to bring into one act the several provisions made for the prevention and punishment of the crimes of [personation] and forgery, for the purpose of obtaining prize money, if any person or persons [Here follow the provisions as to personation, which, being capital, are in effect repealed by 5 ̊ Geo. 4, c. 107; see ante, tit. "False Personating."] shall falsely make, forge, counterfeit, or alter, or cause or procure to be falsely made, forged, counterfeited, or altered, or willingly act or assist in the false making, forging, counterfeit- Persons ing, or altering, any letter of attorney, order, bill, ticket, counterfeit. certificate of service, or other certificate whatsoever, as- ing letters signment, last will, or other power or authority whatso- of attorney ever, in order to receive or to enable any other person to prize Official Seamen. receive any wages, pay, prize money, bounty money, penPapers, &c. sion money, or other allowances of money due, or supposed to be due, for or in respect of the services of any such officer, seaman, marine, (supernumerary or boy, 59 Geo. 3, c. 56,) or other person as aforesaid, (i. e. commissioned officer, warrant or petty officer, or seaman, or any commissioned or non-commissioned officer of marines, or marine, (supernumerary or boy, id.)] performed or supposed to have been performed on board of any ship or vessel of his majesty, his heirs or successors, with intention to defraud any person or persons, body or bodies politic or corporate whatsoever; or shall utter or publish as true, or shall aid or or uttering assist in uttering or publishing as true, any false, forged, such letters counterfeited, or altered letter of attorney, order, bill, of attorney, ticket, certificate of service, or other certificate whatso &c. obtain pro bate of wills, or letters of ad. ministration, in ever, assignment, last will, or other power or authority whatsoever, in order to receive any wages, pay, prizemoney, bounty-money, pension-money, or other allowances of money due or supposed to be due for or in respect of the services of any such officer, seaman, marine, [supernumerary or boy, id.] or other person as aforesaid, performed or supposed to have been performed on board of any ship or vessel of his majesty, his heirs or successors, with intention to defraud any person or persons, body or bodies politic or corporate whatsoever, knowing the same to be false, forged, or counterfeited, or altered; or shall willingly and knowingly take a false oath to obtain the or taking a probate of any will or wills, or to obtain letters of adminisfalse oath to tration, in order to receive or to enable any other person to receive any wages, pay, prize-money, bounty-money, pension-money, or other allowances of money due or supposed to be due for or in respect of the services of any such officer, seaman, marine, [supernumerary or boy, id.] or other person as aforesaid, performed or supposed to have been performed. on board of any ship or vessel of his majesty, his heirs or successors, or shall demand or receive any wages, pay, prize-money, bounty-money, pension-money, or other allowances of money due or supposed to be due for or in respect of the services of any such officer, seaman, marine, or other person as aforesaid, 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 aforesaid, with intention to defraud any person or persons, body or bodies politic or corporate whatsoever, then 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. order to receive pay or prize money, shall suffer death. Note. In this act are incorporated all the provisions relating to the same subject of the 31 Geo. 2, c. 10; 9 Geo. 3, c. 30; 32 Geo. 3, c. 33; 32 Geo. 3, c. 34; 32 Geo. 3, c. 67; 35 Geo. 3, c. 28; 35 Geo. 3, c. 94; 49 Geo. 3, c. 123; 49 Geo. 3, c. 108; 54 Geo. 3, c. 93; and therefore it is thought unnecessary to insert the similar clauses of those acts. Registers of Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials. 52 Geo. 3, c. 146. (See also the Marriage Act, post, Appendix. 1. [Enacts that the officiating ministers shall keep registers of public and private baptisms, of marriages, and of burials, in books of parchment or good and durable paper. Entries to be made according to schedules, A, B, and C.] II. [King's printer to transmit to each parish a printed copy of this act, and register books adapted to the forms herein prescribed.] VI. [Annual copies of registers to be made, and to be certified by the officiating minister, and attested by the churchwardens.] VII. [Such annual copies of register books to be transmitted to the registers of each diocese by the churchwardens.] XIV. And be it further enacted, that if any person shall knowingly and wilfully insert, or cause or permit to be inserted, in any such register book of such baptisms, burials, or marriages, as aforesaid, or in any such copy of any such register so directed to be transmitted to the registrars as aforesaid, or in any such lists or declarations also directed to be transmitted to such registrars as aforesaid, any false entry of any matter or thing relating to any baptism, burial, or marriage, or shall falsely make, alter, forge, or counterfeit, or cause or procure, or wilfully permit to be falsely made, altered, forged, or counterfeited, any part of any such register, list, or declaration, or of any such copy of any such register, or shall wilfully destroy, deface, or injure, or cause or procure, or permit to be destroyed, defaced, or injured, any such register book, or any part thereof, or shall knowingly and wilfully sign or certify any copy of any such register hereby required to be transmitted as aforesaid, which shall be false in any part thereof, knowing the same to be false; every person so offending, and being thereof lawfully convicted, shall be deemed and adjudged to be guilty of felony, and shall be transported for the term of fourteen years. Schedules to which this Act refers. 1. BAPTISMS solemnized in the Parish of St. A., in the County of B., in the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirteen. MARRIAGES Solemnized in the parish of St. A. in the county of B. in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen. Burials in the Parish of A., in the County of B., in the Year One Thousand |