Surveyors' general, &c. may ex amine wit nesses on oath. authorized to take the same and administer the proper oath or affirmation for that purpose; and if any person making any such affidavit or affirmation shall knowingly and wilfully make a false oath or affirmation, of or concerning any of the matters to be therein specified and set forth, every person so offending, and being thereof lawfully convicted, shall be subject and liable to such pains and penalties, as by any law now in force, persons convicted of wilful and corrupt perjury are subject and liable to. Customs. 6 Geo. 4, c. 106. XXXI. Be it enacted, that upon examinations and inquiries made by any surveyor-general of the customs, or any inspector-general of the customs, for ascertaining the truth of facts relative to the customs, or the conduct of officers or persons employed therein, and upon the like examinations and inquiries made by the collector and comptroller of any out-port in the united kingdom, or of any port in the Isle of Man, or made by any person or persons in any of the British possessions abroad, appointed by the commissioners of his majesty's customs to make such examinations and inquiries, any person examined before him or them as a witness shall deliver his testimony on oath to be administered by such of the surveyors-general, or such of the inspectors-general, or such collector and comptroller, or such person or persons as shall examine him, and who are hereby authorized to administer such oath; and, if such person shall be convicted of making a false deemed per- oath, touching any of the facts so testified on oath, or of jury. giving false evidence on his examination on oath, before any of the-surveyors general or inspectors-general of the customs, or such collector and controller, or such person or persons, in conformity to the direction of this act, every such person, so convicted as aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and shall be liable to the pains and penalties to which persons are liable for wilful and corrupt perjury. False oath Officers au oaths. Excise. 7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 53. XXIX. Be it enacted, that in all cases where any oath thorized to is or shall by this act, or any other act or acts of parliaadminister ment relating to the revenue of excise, be required and directed to be made or taken by any person or persons whomsoever, it shall be lawful for the commissioners or assistant commissioners, or any commissioner or assistant commissioner of excise, or for the commissioners of appeal under this act, or the justices or any justice of the peace, or officers or any officer or other persons or person before whom such oath is required to be made or taken, and they and he respectively are and is hereby authorized, to administer and receive such oath accordingly. affirmation may be XXX. And be it further enacted, that in every case in Quaker's which an oath is by this act, or any other act or acts of parliament relating to the revenue of excise, required and accepted in directed to be made or taken, and in all proceedings for lieu of an any misdemeanor, or for the recovery of any penalty in- oath. curred, or for the condemnation of any goods, commodities, or chattels, seized as forfeited, under or by virtue of this act, or any other act or acts of parliament relating to the revenue of excise, if the person required to make or take such oath shall be, and be known to be, one of the people called Quakers, then and in every such case, the solemn affirmation or declaration of such Quaker shall be administered and received as aforesaid, in lieu of such oath; any act or acts of parliament to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding. XXXI. And be it further enacted, that if any person Penalties who shall make or take any such oath or affirmation, or on perjury. declaration, shall wilfully and knowingly swear or affirm, or declare falsely, to any matter or thing therein, every such person, being duly convicted thereof, shall incur and suffer the pains and penalties to which persons are or shall be liable for wilful and corrupt perjury; and, if any person shall corruptly procure or suborn any other person to swear or affirm, or declare falsely, to any matter or thing in any such oath or affirmation, or declaration, every person duly convicted of such procuring or suborning shall, for every such offence, incur and suffer such penalties, forfeitures, pains, and disabilities, respectively, as persons are or shall be liable to on being convicted of subornation of perjury. Naval Stores. 39 & 40 Geo. 3, c. 89. XXXVI. Be it enacted, that if any person, upon examination upon oath or affirmation before any commissioner of the navy, ordnance, or victualling, respectively, or before any justice of the peace in Great Britain, in any matter relating to the execution of this act, shall wilfully and corruptly give false evidence, or shall, in any information or deposition sworn, or affirmation taken in writing, before any such commissioner or justice, wilfully and corruptly swear or affirm any matter or thing which shall be false or untrue, every such person so offending, and being thereof lawfully convicted, shall be, and is hereby declared to be, subject and liable to the like pains and penalties, as any Power to to adininister oaths. persons convicted of wilful and corrupt perjury are by any law now in force subject and liable to. Quarantine. 6 Geo. 4, c. 78. XXVIII. Be it enacted, that the consuls and vice-consuls consuls, &c. of his majesty, his heirs and successors, shall and are hereby empowered to administer oaths in all cases respecting quarantine, in like manner as if they were magistrates of the several towns or places where they respectively reside. Persons authorized to take examinations, and persons falsely or procuring others so to XXIX. And be it further enacted, that in all cases wherein, by virtue of this act, or any other act hereafter to be made touching quarantine, any examination or answer may admi- shall be taken or made upon oath, the person who shall be nister oaths, authorized and required to take such examinations and swearing answers, shall and may be deemed to have full power and authority to administer such oaths; and, if any person who shall be interrogated or examined, shall wilfully swear falsely to any matter concerning which such person shall depose, or make oath on such examination, or in such answer, or if any person shall procure any other person so to do, he or she so swearing falsely, or procuring any other person so to do, shall be deemed to have been guilty of, and shall be liable to be prosecuted for perjury, or subornation of perjury, as the case may be, and shall suffer the pains, penalties, and punishments of the law, in such case respectively made and provided. do, shall be deemed guilty of perjury. Vessels car. rying 50 Pilotage. 6 Geo. 4, c. 125. LXXX. Be it enacted, that every person, who, in any examination upon oath, under the provisions of this act, shall wilfully give false testimony, or a false account of the matter sworn to by such person, shall be liable to be prosecuted for the same by indictment, and, if duly convicted of false swearing in the premises, shall be subject and liable to such punishments, disqualifications, and disabili ties, as any person would be subject or liable to for wilful and corrupt perjury, in any other case, by the laws and statutes of the realm. Vessels carrying Passengers. VII. Be it enacted, that no such ship or vessel (any persons British ship or vessel whatsoever; see sec. 1), carrying fifty vided with persons or upwards, including the crew, shall be cleared shall be pro a surgeon. 'out, unless such ship or vessel shall be provided with a surgeon, who shall produce to the officer of the customs required to give the clearance or sufferance, a certificate of his having passed his examination at Surgeons' Hall, in London, or at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edin'burgh or Dublin. dicine chest VIII. And be it further enacted, that every such sur- Every surgeon shall have a medicine-chest properly stored with geon shall medicines, in proportion to the number of persons on board have a meof such ship or vessel, of the kind, and according to the properly assortment generally used and made for such voyages on stored, or board of his majesty's ships of war; and, before any such oath, &c. ship or vessel shall be allowed to be cleared out, every such surgeon shall specify upon oath, before the collector or comptroller, or other chief officer of the customs, at the port or place from whence such ship or vessel is to be cleared out, the contents of such medicine-chest, and shall further make oath that the medicines are of good and proper quality, to the best of his knowledge and belief, which oath such collector, comptroller, or other chief officer of the customs is hereby required and empowered to administer; and the affidavit of every such surgeon shall be deposited and preserved in the custom-house where the clearance or sufferance of such ship or vessel shall be granted; and the master or owner of every such ship or vessel failing to provide a medicine-chest of the description above mentioned, and every such surgeon neglecting or refusing to make oath as herein directed, shall forfeit and pay the sum of fifty pounds. sels shall one person for every XI. And be it further enacted, that it shall not be law- Masters of ful for any master or other person taking or having the foreign vescharge or command of any ship or vessel, other than a have on British ship or vessel, owned, navigated, and registered board no according to law, clearing out from any port or place in more than the united kingdom aforesaid, from and after the said first day of July, 1803, to have or take on board a greater num- five tons ber of persons, including the crew, than in the proportion burthen; of one person for every five tons of the burthen of such ship or vessel; and every such ship or vessel shall be deemed and taken to be of such tonnage or burthen as shall be ascertained by the oath of the master or other person having or taking the charge or command thereof, taken before the collector or other chief officer of the customs, at the port from whence such ship or vessel shall be cleared out, which the said collector or other chief officer is hereby authorized and required to administer. [Collector may search the vessel; penalty of fifty pounds a-head beyond the legal number]. persons XX. And be it further enacted, that if any person taking Penalty on any oath by this act authorized or required to be taken, taking false shall thereby commit wilful perjury, or if any person shall oaths, or snborning unlawfully procure or suborn any person to take any oath others to by this act authorized or required to be taken, whereby take them. such person shall commit wilful perjury, every such person shall incur and suffer the like pains and penalties as are by law inflicted upon persons committing wilful and corrupt perjury, or subornation of perjury, in Great Britain and Ireland respectively. Commis sioners may summon bankrupt. Power to examine the bankrupt. Punishment of perjury and false affirmatiou. Bankrupts. 6 Geo. 4, c. 16. XXXVI. Be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for the commissioners, by writing under their hands, to summon any bankrupt before them, whether such bankrupt shall have obtained his certificate or not; and in case he shall not come at the time by them appointed (having no lawful impediment made known to them at such time, and allowed by them), it shall be lawful for the said commissioners, by warrant under their hands and seals, to authorize and direct any person or persons they shall think fit to appre hend and arrest such bankrupt, and bring him before them; and, upon the appearance of such bankrupt, or if such bankrupt be present at any meeting of the said commissioners, it shall be lawful for them to examine such bankrupt upon oath, either by word of mouth, or on interrogatories in writing, touching all matters relating either to his trade, dealings, or estate, or which may tend to disclose any secret grant, conveyance, or concealment of his lands, tenements, goods, money, or debts, and to reduce his answers into writing, which examination, so reduced into writing, the said bankrupt shall sign and subscribe XXXVII. And be it further enacted, that it shall be lawful for the commissioners, in manner aforesaid, to summon before them the wife of any bankrupt, and in manner aforesaid to examine her for the finding out and discovery of the estate, goods, and chattels of such bankrupt, concealed, kept, or disposed of by such wife, in her own person, or by her own act, or by any other person. XCIX. And be it enacted, that any bankrupt or other person who shall, in any examination before the commissioners, or in any affidavit or deposition authorized or directed by the present, or any act hereby repealed, wilfully and corruptly swear falsely, being convicted thereof, shall suffer the pains and penalties in force against wilful and corrupt perjury; and, where any oath is hereby directed or required to be taken or administered, or affidavit to be made by or to any party, such party, if a Quaker, shall or |