better known who is a Negro in Rebellion It is hereby declared that all Negroes that have been absent from their Owner or Plantation the Term of Six Months be and are accounted as in actual Rebellion any thing to the Contrary notwithstanding AND be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that in Case any of the Officers Seamen or Soldiers on Board the said Sloops or in the said Parties shall in actual Service lose either Leg or Arm or be otherwise Disabled That then and in all such Cases Case of Maim all and every of the said Disabled Men shall receive Ten Pound per Annum without Charge during his or their Natural Lives And also their Cures to be Paid for out of the Publick Revenue of this Island by order of the Lieutenant-Governour and Council or of the Government of this Island out of the first Payment AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that all Monies which shall Remain over and above Surplus not expended or be not Expended of the said Sum of Four Thousand Three Hundred Three Pounds Three Shillings and Nine Pence arising by vertue of this Act and not hereby applyed towards the defraying the Charges of the Sloops and Parties aforesaid shall be and remain in the hands of the said Treasurers or either of them by this Act appointed to be applyed and disposed of for and towards such other use or uses as the Assembly of this Island shall appoint by a Law And that the said Receiver or Receivers Treasurer or Treasurers be allowed all his or their or either of their reasonable Charges in and about the discharging the Trust hereby reposed in them Commission or pretences to Commission hereby excepted AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the Fines and Forfeitures mentioned in this Act and not declared where they shall be Recovered Fines c. how disposed or how Disposed of be one half to Their Majesties for and towards the Support of the Government of this Island and the contingent Charges thereof the other half to the Informer who shall Sue for the same in any Court of Record within this Island and where no Essoyne Protection Injunction Wager of Law or nonvult ulterius prosequi shall be allowed An ACT To Encourage Sea-faring Men and other Their MAJESTIES Subjects Preamble WHEREAS great Numbers of Persons as well Sea-faring Men as others by the ill Usage and Discouragement they have formerly met with have been driven from this Island and for Common Subsistence many of them have fallen under the Necessity of taking unlawful Courses and been forced ever since the present War with France to seek for Shelter in the Ports and Settlements belonging to the French King in the West-Indies and elsewhere and afterwards Compelled to enter into his Service AND whereas divers other Persons being Disabled by their Losses in the late Dreadful Earthquake and other Misfortunes to Pay their Debts to avoid the Suits and Prosecutions of their Creditors have been likewise obliged to go off this Island And by reason of the Offences and Debts aforesaid cannot safely return again And forasmuch as nothing can more conduce to the Strength Security and Flourishing Condition of this Country than Multitudes of People and that it is become absolutely necessary in Order thereunto for putting the Island in this time of War into a Posture of Defence against the Enemy to Invite and Encourage as much as possible Their Majesties Subjects to come to this Island by Delivering them from the Penalties and Forfeitures they have already incurr'd and by preventing all Vexation and Trouble they may be put to hereafter by any Prosecution in Their Majesties Name for the said Offences or by means of the Suit or Suits of any other Persons to whom they stand indebted THE Lieutenant-Governour Council and Assembly most humbly beseech Their Majesties to be Graciously pleased to extend to all Persons so Offending as aforesaid Their Majesties Free and General Pardon Free and General Pardon and for the Ease and Quiet of them and the rest to give convenient Time to Pay their Debts AND that therefore it may be Enacted by the Lieutenant-Governour Council and Assembly and be it Enacted by the Authority of the same in Manner and Form following that is to say That all and every Person and Persons whosoever shall be and are hereby Acquitted Pardoned Released and Discharged against Their Majesties Their Heirs and Successors and all others whomsoever of and from all manner of Penalties incurr'd by Serving under the French King or his Subjects as aforesaid and all Crimes and Offences Acts of Hostility or Violence whatsoever Treason and Murder excepted and of and from all manner of Depredations by Sea or by Land and all other Crimes Offences and Misdemeanors whatsoever already done and committed before the First Day of this Session in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Three and not otherwise or afterwards And of and from all manner of Forfeitures Penalties Pains Corporal and Pains Pecuniary and all Suits Judgments and Executions for or by reason of the same or any of them AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Person or Persons that have committed Piracy or Robbery by Sea and not Murder or Treason that shall come hither Time of Surrender and Surrender and Submit themselves within Ten Days after their Arrival in this Island unto the Commander in Chief for the time being and give in moderate Security for their future Good Behaviour that then and in such Case the said Commander in Chief shall be by Vertue of this Act obliged to extend to such Person or Persons so Submitting and Surrendring as aforesaid Their Majesties Gracious Pardon under the Great Seal of this Island for the Crime or Crimes afore-mentioned without Let Hindrance or Molestation from Their Majesties Attorney-General or any other Person or Persons whatsoever for which Pardon the Parties to whom Their Majesties Mercy is so extended Fee for Pardon shall pay the Summ of Forty Shillings and no more to be paid as a full Fee unto such Officer or Officers as the Commander in Chief shall Direct and Appoint to receive the same AND be it further Enacted That the Attorney-General or any other Officer or Officers whatsoever that shall presume by any way or means directly or indirectly to Exact any Summ or Summs of Money of any Person or Persons whatsoever to whom such Act of Mercy is extended Case of Exaction or intended to be extended shall forfeit the Summ of One Hundred Pound currant Money 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 Patty injured to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any Court of Record within this Island where no Essoyne Protection Injunction Wager of Law or Nonvult
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
and by them retaken before they are Landed in any of the Enemies Commission-Ports one sixth Part of the Vessels Slaves Salvage allowed or Goods so re-taken or the Value thereof the said Vessel Slave or Goods having been first appraised by Two Persons indifferently Chosen one by the Commander or Commanders of the said Sloops or Vessels and the other by the respective Owner or Owners which shall be divided among the Officers Sea-men and Soldiers of the said Vessels proportionably to the Pay each Person receives of his Country for that Service AND that all such Persons as shall go out in the Parties to reduce the Negroes in Rebellion may be induced to proceed with the more Resolution and Vigor It is hereby Enacted that they shall receive from the Treasurers for each Negro kill'd that was actually in Rebellion which shall be evidenced by bringing in his Head to any Justice the Summ of Forty Shillings Rewards for Negroes slain or taken and for each Negroe in Rebellion taken and brought in alive not maimed or mortally wounded the Summ of Ten Pounds to be paid by the Owner or Proprietor of such Slave or Slaves who is hereby obliged under the Penalty of Fifty Pounds to Transport the Slave or Slaves so reduced from actual Rebellion and in case that no Owner can be found that then the Treasurer or Treasurers by this Act appointed or either of them shall be by Virtue of this Act obliged and impowered to Pay the said Ten Pound out of the Treasury and receive the said Slave or Slaves and him and them Sell and Transport as aforesaid and the Produce retain in his Hands to be Employed in the said Service and for defraying the contingent Charges thereof and to the end it may be better known what Negro shall be accounted Rebellious it is hereby declared That all Negroes absenting themselves from their Owners Plantation the Term of Six Months be and are accounted as in actual Rebellion any thing to the contrary notwithstanding AND be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in case any of the Officers or Sea-men on Board the said Sloops or Vessels or in the said Parties shall in actual Service Sea-man or Soldier disabled lose either Leg or Arm or be otherwise Disabled that then and in all such Cases all and every of the disabled Men shall receive Ten Pounds per Annum without Charge during his or their natural Life and also their Cures to be paid for out of the Publick Revenue of this Island by Order of the Lieutenant-Governour and Council or of the Government of this Island out of the first Payment AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That when there shall be no necessity for the said Sloops or Vessels of War that it shall and may be lawful for the Commissioners or the major Part of them to Sell the same with all the Apparel and Furniture and of the Money arising therefrom with all other Summs of Money which shall remain over and above Remainder how applied or be not expended of the Money arising and appropriated by Virtue of this Act and not hereby applied shall be and remain in the Hands of the said Treasurers or either of them by this Act appointed to be applied and disposed of for and towards such other Use or Uses as the Assembly of this Island shall appoint by a Law and that the said Receiver or Receivers Treasurer or Treasurers shall be allowed all his or their or either of their reasonable Charges in and about the Discharging the Trust hereby reposed in them Commission or Pretences to Commission hereby excepted AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Fines and Forfeitures mentioned in this Act and not declared where they shall be Recovered Forfeitures c. disposed of or how Disposed of be One Half to Their Majesties for and towards the Support of the Government of this Island and the contingent Charges thereof the other Half to the Informer who shall Sue for the same in any Court of Record within this Island wherein no Essoin Protection Injunction Wager of Law or Nonvult ulterius prosequi shall be allowed An ACT Appropriating several Summs of Money heretofore Raised to the immediate Service of this Island WHEREAS there have been several Sums of Money raised by Virtue of one Act Preamble Entitled An Act for Raising Money for and towards the Defence of this Island and also by one other Act Entitled An Act for Raising Monies as a further Aid to Their Majesties for and towards the Defence of this Island And whereas it is provided in the said Acts That such Part of the Monies so raised and not laid out to the Uses therein directed should be appropriated to such Use or Service as the Governour Council and Assembly shall seem meet We do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesties that it may be Enacted AND be it Enacted by your Majesties Lieutenant-Governour Council and Assembly and it is hereby Enacted and Ordained by the Authority of the same That of the Monies arising by virtue of the Acts above-mentioned and not hitherto applied or made use of One Thousand and Three Hundred Pound currant Money of this Island Money appropriated be applied for the Payment of One Thousand Pound Sterling in England to Colonel Peter Beckford to be by him made use of for the Service of this Island in such manner as he shall think fit towards the effecting such things as he shall be directed by the Governour there to Solicite AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That of the Monies arising by virtue of the Acts above-mentioned and not hitherto applied or made use of so much thereof as shall be necessary for the Victualling and Manning of a Sloop to Transport Colonel Peter Beckford who is now going for England for the Service of this Island shall be Paid as the Governour shall Direct AND be it also Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That such Money as shall arise from the Freight of Goods Shipped on Board the said Sloop either to or from England be by Colonel Peter Beckford applyed to the Defraying the Charges of the said Vessel and that the Commander of the said Sloop do from time to time observe all such Orders and Instructions as he shall receive from the said Colonel Beckford AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That of the Monies arising by virtue of the Acts aforesaid the Sum of One Thousand Pound shall be Paid into the Hands of the Treasurer or Treasurers Appointed by an Act Entitled An Act to Reimburse Their Majesties Treasury and Encourage Their Subjects to come and Settle in this Island to be by them Employed and used for the paying the Passages of such Persons as shall Transport themselves hither upon the Encouragement of the said Act and to no other Uses Intents or Purposes whatsoever upon the Penalties in the said Act mentioned
AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That of the Money arising by virtue of the Acts aforesaid and not hitherto applyed or made use of that Seventy Pounds or such part thereof as shall be Expended be applyed and made use of for the defraying the Charge of a Sloop already sent to Windward to Cruise there to give notice to the English Fleet daily expected here of the Additional Force the French have or may suddenly receive AND be it further Enacted that of the Money arising by virtue of the Acts aforesaid and not hitherto applyed or made use of the Sum of One Hundred Sixty Two Pounds be Paid into the Hands of Colonel Edward Stanton for defraying the Charge of Twelve Men for Six Months to be constantly kept at Fort-William at Port-Morant for their Defence thereof and the Security of the Adjacent Parts AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Remainder of the said Monies arising by virtue of the beforementioned Acts and not by this present Act applyed shall be by the Governour by and with the Advice and Consent of the Council applyed and made use of for the immediate Defence of this Island and to no other Uses Intents or Purposes whatsoever and the Receiver or Receivers Treasurer or Treasurers in the said Act appointed are hereby Required and Impowered to Pay the same accordingly under the Penalties in this Act hereaftermentioned any thing in this or any other Act seeming to the Contrary in any wise notwithstanding AND be it further Enacted that the Receivers and Treasurers in the said Acts appointed are hereby Required and Impowred to Pay the several Sums by this Act appropriated into the Hands of such Person or Persons as shall be Impowred to receive the same by virtue of a Warrant to them or any of them under the Hand of the Governour by and with the Advice and Consent of the Council of this Island and if the said Receiver Forfeit of the Receiver or Treasurer refusing to pay or Receivers Treasurer or Treasurers or any of them shall refuse to Pay the aforesaid Sums or any part thereof having the same in their or any of their Hands the Receiver or Treasurer so refusing shall respectively Forfeit to Their Majesties for and towards the Support of this Government and the Charges thereof double the Sum he shall so refuse to Pay to be Recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any Court of Record where no Essoin Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed AND whereas with part of the Monies by the said Acts arising there were purchased for the Service of the Country Two Sloops Two Sloops to be disposed of be it Enacted that the Governour sell or make use of the said Sloops for the Countries Service at his Discretion and if sold the Governour apply the Monies by and with the Advice and Consent of the Council as before directed AND whereas several Sums of Money ordered to be Assessed and Levyed by the abovementioned Acts either not having been Assessed nor Levyed within the time in the said Acts limited and appointed in some of the Parishes within this Island BE it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That where any Tax mentioned to be Raised by either of the above-recited Acts Re-Assessment to be made and omitted to be either Assessed or Levyed by the Justices and Vestry or the Justices where the Vestries neglect their Duty or where no Vestry is are Impowered at any other Day or Place within Three Months after the Passing this Act as to the said Justices shall seem meet to Appoint to Assess and Levy as well during Martial Law as while the Common-Law is in force upon the several Inhabitants of the said Parishes the said Taxes and issue out their Warrants accordingly to the respective Constables for the Collecting Levying and Distraining for the same and Payment thereof as is directed in the said Acts which said Constables are hereby Impowered to Collect and in Case of refusal to Levy and Distrain for the same accordingly notwithstanding the time then limited in the said Acts be Elapsed by reason of Martial-Law or any other Cause Protection or Priviledge whatsoever and whatsoever Justices or Vestry or Constables shall omit to do their Duty therein shall Forfeit as is directed by the said Acts and to be Recovered and applied accordingly AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Pains and Penalties Penalties remitted by the abovementioned Acts by any the Justices or Vestry of the respespective Parishes incurred are hereby absolutely remitted and discharged and the Parties Offending fully indemnified for the same any Law or Statute to the Contrary in any wise notwithstanding An ACT For Appropriating several Sums of Money for the speedy Relief of the Wounded and Distressed Inhabitants of this Island who have suffered by the late Invasion of the French WHEREAS there have been several Sums of Money Raised by virtue of one Act Preamble Entitled An Act for Raising Money for and towardâ— the Defence of this Island And also by One other Act Entitled An Act for Raising Money as a further Aid to their Majesties for and towards the Defence of this Island and whereas it 's Provided in the said Acts that such part of the Money so Raised and not laid out to the Uses therein Directed should be appropriated to such other Use and Service as to the Governour Council and Assembly shall seem meet AND whereas by a Subsequent Act of Their Majesties Lieutenant-Governour Council and Assembly of this Their Majesties Island of Jamaica made this present Sessions of this Assembly 't was Enacted among other things that of the Money arising by virtue of the Acts abovementioned and not therein applied or made use of the Sum of One Thousand and Three Hundred Pound currant Money of this Island Recourse to former Acts. should be applied for the Payment of One Thousand Pound Sterling in England to Colonel Peter Beckford to be by him made use of for the Service of this Island in such manner as he should think fit towards the Effecting such things as he should be directed there to Solicite by the Governour AND whereas by the said Act it was further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that out of the Monies arising by virtue of the said Acts abovementioned and not applied or made use of as much thereof as should be necessary for the Victualling and Manning a Sloop to Transport Colonel Peter Beckford who was then going for England for the Service of this Island should be Paid as the Governour should Direct AND whereas it was further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That of the Monies arising by virtue of the Acts abovementioned and not hitherto applied or made use of the Sum of One Hundred Sixty and Two Pounds should be Paid into the Hands of Colonel Edward Stanton for defraying the Charge of Twelve Men for Six Months to
be constantly kept at Fort-William at Port-Morant for the Defence thereof and Security of the adjacent Parts AND whereas the Receivers and Treasurers in the said Act first abovementioned and appointed are Required and Impowered by the said appropriating Act to Pay the several Sums by the said Acts appropriated under certain Penalties therein contained into the Hands of such Person or Persons as shall be impowered to receive the same by virtue of a Warrant to them or any of them under the Hand of the Governour by and with the Advice and Consent of the Council since the Passing of which Act Intitled An Act for Appropriating several Sums of Money heretofore Raised to the immediate Service of this Island this Your Majesties Island has been most miserably harrassed by Your Majesties Enemies Subjects to the Crown of France who with inhuman barbarity with Fire and Sword have laid Wast Four Parishes of this Island and infested and destroyed several Plantations in the other Parishes to the utter ruin and destruction of most of the Inhabitants thereof whereby without some speedy Relief several Hundreds of this Your Majesties Island must perish through Extreme Want General Calamity and the said Parishes and most part of the Sea-Coasts be wholly Deserted being destitute of Habitations and having no Means to Rebuild them except some speedy Succour from the Publick WE therefore Your Majesties Lieutenant-Governour Council and Assembly do humbly pray Your Majesty that for the immediate Relief and Support of the said poor distressed Inhabitants of this Island who have suffered in the late Invasion it may be Enacted and it is hereby Enacted by the Authority of the same that the aforesaid Sum of One Thousand and Three Hundred Pounds above recited by the Appropriating Act ordered to be applied for the Payment of One Thousand Pound Sterling in England to Colonel Peter Beckford to be by him made use of as by the said Act is directed as also the said Sum of One Hundred Sixty and Two Pound by the said Act appointed to be Paid into the Hands of Colonel Edward Stanton for the defraying the Charge of Twelve Men for Six Months to be constantly kept at Fort-William at Port-Morant for the Defence thereof and the Security of the Parts adjacent which said Sums are not yet made use of be forth with applied for Appropriations taken off and towards the Relief of the said distressed Inhabitants of this Your Majesties Island of Jamaica who have suffered by the barbarous Cruelties of Your Majesties Enemies in the late Invasion of this Island by the French as also for the Relief of the Sick and Wounded Persons in the late Expedition to Whily-Wood against the Enemy and to no other use whatsoever to be distributed in such manner and to such Persons as shall seem meet to the Commissioners to be appointed by Your Majesties Lieutenant-Governor and Council of this Your Island for that purpose AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the abovementioned Act Past this present Sessions Entitled An Act appropriating several Sums of Money heretofore Raised to the immediate Service of this Island as to so much of the said Act only as concerns the applying the One Thousand and Three Hundred Pound for the Payment of One Thousand Pound Sterling in England to Colonel Peter Beckford to be by him made use of for the Service of this Island as also for the applying any Sums of Monies other than what are already Expended for the Victualling and Manning a Sloop to Transport the said Colonel Peter Beckford for England or whereby the Receivers or Treasurers who by the Two Acts first abovementioned are Appointed Required and Impowered to Pay the several Sums by the said Appropriating Act applied into the Hands of such Person or Persons as shall be Impowered to receive the same by virtue of a Warrant to them or any of them under the Hand of the Governour by and with the Advice and Consent of the Council as also for the applying One Hundred Sixty and Two Pounds to be Paid into the Hands of Colonel Edward Stanton for the defraying the Charge of Twelve Men for Six Months to be constantly kept at Fort-William at Port-Morant shall be Repeal of Clauses and are hereby Repealed to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever any thing in the said recited Act to the Contrary notwithstanding AN ACT For the Encouragement and Freedom of Servants and Slaves which have done or shall do any remarkable Service against the French during this present War WHEREAS upon Advice of the late Invasion made by the French upon this Island Preamble there was set forth an Order of Council of War for the Encouragement of Negroes that All Negroes or Slaves that should do any Eminent Service against the Enemy should be forthwith set Free and that it is also thought reasonable for the Reward of Servants that have behaved themselves well in the late Service that they be freed of the time they have yet to Serve 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 that all Servants who receive no Salary which have or shall do any good Service against the Enemy the French Servants signalizing themselves against the Enemy and can prove the same before the Commissioners hereafter named shall forthwith be freed and that the said Commissioners upon Enquiry made of what time any such Servant or Servants had to Serve and his and their Occupation shall Value and Appraise the said time he or they had to Serve and give him or them a Certificate mentioning his or their Name or Names and the Party or Parties to whom he or they belonged and the Sum or Sums the Owner or Owners ought to receive for him or them which being Entred into the Secretary's Office shall be a sufficient Testimony of his or their Freedom as also a good Proof for the Owner or Owners to Recover the Summ or Summs he or they were appraised at AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Slaves that have or shall during this War with France do any Remarkable good Service against the Enemy Slaves freed and make Proofs thereof before the said Commissioners hereafter named shall be Freed and the said Commissioners shall give the said Slave a Certificate mentioning his Name the Person to whom he belonged and the Price he was appraised and valued at which is not to exceed the Summ of Fifty Pounds which said Certificate being entred into the Secretary's Office shall be sufficient to Discharge him of his Slavery and a Proof for the Owner to Recover what he was appraised at which Summ for either Servant or Slave so set Free and appraised is to be paid out of Money to be raised for that purpose AND whereas divers Persons have for the Defence of this Island Armed and sent out several of their Negroes
by the Lessor and for their several Trades Occupations and Callings to be Rated and Taxed by the Justices of the Parish of Sr. Andrews any thing in this Act to the Contrary notwithstanding AND be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid that the Nation and People of the Jews Residing within this Island The Jews Pay or cause to be Paid towards the Raising of the said Sum of Mony before mentioned and expressed to be Raised on the Inhabitants of this Island over and above and besides the Tax as aforesaid Assessed the full Sum of Seven Hundred and Fifty Pounds Currant Mony of this Island to be rated Assessed Taxed Collected and Paid in by Solomon Ararij Jacob de Leon Moses Toiro Jacob Mendez Guteres Jacob Henriques Jacob Rodrigues de Leon Moses Jesurum Cardoso Samuel Gabay Jacob Lopes Torres Isaac Coutinho Isaac Nunes Gonsales and Abraham Nunes or any Five of them into the Hands of the Receiver or Receivers hereafter mentioned Impowred and Appointed to Receive the same at or within One Month after the Tenth day of June which will be in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Three any thing herein to the Contrary notwithstanding Case of Failure And in Case of failure in the Compliance of the said Payment BE it furtâ—â—r Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the Sum of Two Hundred and Fifty Pounds more besides the said Seven Hundred and Fifty Pounds above appointed to be Assessed on the Nation and People of the Jews abovesaid That then it shall and may be Lawful for the Treasurer or Treasurers hereafter to be appointed by Warrant of Distress under his or their Hands and Seals Directed to the Constable or Constables for the respective Parishes where such Jew or Jews reside to Levy or singly cause to be Levyed at Discretion upon the several Jews Inhabitants of this Island such proportional Sum or Sums as shall make up the Sum of One Thousand Pound as aforesaid And also if any of the Jews Rated or Assessed by the Persons above-named shall refuse to Pay the said Sum by them so Assessed That then it shall and may be Lawful for the respective Justices in their respective Parishes or within the Commission of the Peace for the same where the said Jews reside for so much as any of the said Jews are Assessed and Rated by the Persons abovesaid who are hereby Impowred to Issue out their Warrant or Warrants to the respective Constables to Distrain any of the Goods and Chattels of any of the said Jews that shall refuse or delay to pay the same any Law Custom or Usage to the Contrary notwithstanding AND be it further Enacted that if the several Persons or any of them of the Jewish Nation beforementioned Impowred and Appointed to assess levy collect and pay in the aforesaid Sum assessed upon the Nation of the Jews shall neglect his or their Duty therein that then it shall and may be Lawful for the Governor or Commander in Chief by Warrant under his Hand and Seal Directed to the Provost-Marshal or his Lawful Deputy to Levy or cause to be Levied on all and every Person or Persons so Offending 100 l. forfeit One Hundred Pound currant Mony of this Island or the value thereof upon his or their Monies Slaves Goods or Chattels and sell the same by Publick Outcry returning the Overplus if any be to the Owner and in Case no Mony Slaves or Goods are to be found as aforesaid that then he take into Custody the Body of the Person or Persons so offending and him or them in safe Custody keep until he or they Pay the said Sum of One Hundred Pound for the said Offence any Law Custom or Usage or any thing in this Act seeming to the Contrary notwithstanding AND be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid that the respective Justices of the respective Parishes and Precincts or within the Commission of the Peace for the same or any two of them deliver into the Hands of their respective Constables within their respective Parishes and Precinct a Roll of such Tax or Assessment as aforesaid Time for Collection so that the Collection be made within Two Months after the Tenth day of June which shall be in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Three with a Warrant under the same Signed and Sealed by the said Justices or any two of them Impowring and Requiring the said Constables to Levy the said Tax or Assessment and Pay the same into the hands of the Church-Wardens for the time being in the Parish where the same is Taxed or Assessed as aforesaid And where it shall happen there are no Church-Wardens That then the Constables are hereby required to Pay the same into the Hands of the Justices of the said Parish Deducting Four Pence in the Pound for Collecting the same in all the Parishes of this Island Port Royal and Kingston only Excepted where it shall be done gratis who are hereby Required to Receive and Pay the same into the Hands of the Receiver or Receivers hereafter named within one Month after the Collecting thereof And lest any Person or Persons so as aforesaid Taxed or Assessed shall refuse or delay to pay his or their Tat or Assessment the said Justices or any two of them are hereby required in the Warrant aforesaid to Impower and Command the Constables aforesaid by Vertue thereof to Distrain the Slaves Horses Mares Colts Mules Asses Distress to be made Neat Cattle Sheep Lambs Goats Kids or any other Personal Estate whatsoever of Him Her or Them so refusing or delaying and sell the same forthwith at Publick Outcry retaining to themselves Twelve Pence in the Pound for every such Distress on Slaves Horses Mares Colts Mules Asses Neat Cattle Sheep Lambs Goats Kids or any other Personal Estate whatsoever Distrained on or Sold as aforesaid returning the Overplus if any be to the Owner AND be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid that for the better Assessing Collecting Levying and Paying in the Sums of Mony so as aforesaid Limited and Appointed to be Raised and Paid as aforesaid and for the more Effectual putting this Act in Execution Justices and Vestries Duty the Justices and Vestries within their several Parishes and Precincts or within the Commission of the Peace for the same are hereby Required and Impowred immediately on the passing this Act with all possible Speed to proceed to the Discharge of their said Duties in Manner and Form as is before Directed and Appointed AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that if the Justices Vestry-men Constables or Church-Wardens or any of them shall neglect or wilfully fail in his or their Duty in Assessing Penalty of Neglect Collecting or Paying the same as aforesaid That then and in such Case every Justice so Neglecting or wilfully failing in his or their Duty in this Act Prescribed contrary to
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
and are hereby required from time to time to pay the Mony arising by virtue of this Act to such Person or Persons and to such Uses as the Justices and Vestry Payment to whom or major part of them shall direct and appoint and that the Church-Wardens of the said Parish for the time being shall keep a distinct Accompt of the Mony by them and each of them received by virtue of this Act and likewise render a true and just Accompt thereof to the Justices and Vestry of the said Parish of Port-Royal when thereunto required and also pay the full Balance of the same unto the succeeding Church-Wardens or to whomsoever the said Justices and Vestry or major part of them shall direct and appoint under the Penalty of Fifty Pounds for every Offence committed contrary to their Duty in this Act enjoyned AND whereas several of the Freeholders of Port-Royal may be or are not Resident or Inhabitants on the said Place for the better Recovery of the said Tax to be Assessed as aforesaid Be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid that in such Cases from Absent Freeholders and after the Twenty Fifth Day of July One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Three an Action of Debt shall Lye in any Court of Record or before any Justice of the Peace as in other Debts for the Church-Wardens of the respective Parish of Port-Royal and their Successors to Recover against any of the said Persons Rated or Assessed by virtue of this Act or any of them or their Heirs Executors Administrators Assigns Agents or Attorneys here all such Sum and Sums of Mony as are or shall be Rated or Assessed upon them as aforesaid And that the same Rate or Assessment produced in such Court of Record or before such Justice of the Peace as aforesaid shall be sufficient Evidence and Proof for the Recovery of all such Sum or Sums Mony so Rated or Assessed as aforesaid AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Person or Persons being Seized Possessed or Interested of or in any Ground which was formerly builded upon and the Houses thereupon being now Destroyed Neglect of Rebuilding or pulled Down at the times or by the means of the late Dreadful Earthquake shall not within Three Years next Ensuing Build on the same that then the Judges of the Court of Common-Pleas of the said Parish for the time being or any one of them shall forthwith cause publick Proclamation to be made as well at or upon the said Ground as also in the Court-House of the said Parish thereby to give notice to all Persons that shall or may be therein Concerned to cause the same to be rebuilded within the space of Nine Months then next following and in Case the Owners thereof or other Person or Persons having Interest therein shall refuse or neglect to Rebuild the same within such time as aforesaid that then and in such Case the said Judges of the said Court or any one of them are hereby Authorized to Issue out their Warrants to the Provost Marshal for the time being requiring him to Impannel and return before them or any one of them a Jury of good and lawful Men of the said Parish which the said Provost Marshal is hereby Authorized and Required to do accordingly which Jury so Returned shall upon their Oaths to be Administred to them by the said Judges or one of them who are likewise hereby Authorized to Administer the same Enquire Estimate and Assess the true and just Value of such void Ground according to their Judgments and that from and after such Enquiry and Valuation thereof made as aforesaid by Inquest of the said Jury it shall and may be Lawful to and for the said Judge or Judges to make Sale of the Fee and Inheritance thereof by Conveyance under his or their Hands and Seals to any Person or Persons that will Purchase the same at such Price at which the same shall have been so as aforesaid Estimated and Valued by the said Jury and the Monies thereupon to be received of the Purchasers thereof shall forthwith be paid into the Hands of the Church-wardens of the said Parish for the time being and from thence to be issued out and Paid by the said Church-wardens for the time being unto such Person or Persons who shall have any Estate or Interest in to or out of the same according to his or their respective Estate or Estates Title or Interest which Sale so made and Enrolled in the Office of Enrolments of this Island Sale to be Enrolled shall be Final and Conclusive to all other Persons whatsoever and shall Bar them their Heirs and Assigns to Claim any Estate Right Title or Interest of in or out of the Grounds so Sold Precedent to the said Sale and the Purchaser or Purchasers thereof his and their Heirs and Assigns shall and may by virtue of this Act have hold and enjoy the same against all Persons Claiming any Estate Right Title or Interest in to or out of the same his her and their Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns freed and discharged of and from Incumbrances in Estate Title Charge or otherwise Precedent to the said Sale Their Majesties Quit-Rents only excepted AND be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid and it is hereby Enacted and Ordained by the Authority of the same That the Receiver General and Naval Officer of this Island shall by themselves or lawful Deputy Offices to be kept on Port-Royal keep their Offices on Port-Royal as at any time heretofore they have or ought to have done and that the Secretary of this Island shall from time to time by his lawful Deputy keep his Office at Port-Royal as at any time heretofore has now doth or ought to have done under the Penalty of Fifty Pounds for every Month the Receiver General Naval Officer or Secretary of this Island or any of them shall neglect or refuse to do the same AND be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the Fines and Forfeitures in this Act mentioned and contained Fines c. how disposed shall be one half 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 half to the Parish of Port-Royal for and towards the Wharfing Repairing and Maintaining the Wharfs so to be Made Repaired and Maintained as in this Act mentioned and to and for no other Use Intent or Purpose whatsoever to be recovered in any Court of Record within this Island by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information wherein no Essoin Injunction 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 Making and Clearing a Publick Road from St. Mary's and St. George's into the Parish of St. Andrew's
the Market shall be adjudged Open and Publick within this Act as aforesaid BE it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the Tenth Day of August of this present Year One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Three that this Act and every Clause thereof is and shall be of Force to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Person whatsoever Seller Buyer or Officer that shall Offend against any Particular in this Act mentioned or contained Forfeiture on Offending or any Branch thereof he she or they so Offending shall Forfeit Forty Shillings for every such Offence one half to the Church-wardens of the Parish where such Offence shall be Committed for the Use of the said Parish the other half to the Clerk of the Market Informer or who shall Sue for the same to be Recovered before any Justice of the Peace any Law Custom or Usage to the Contrary notwithstanding An ACT For Reimbursing Their Majesties Treasury Preamble WHEREAS Their Majesties Revenue is considerably Anticipated the Principal Branch of which is the Customs of Wines and that great Quantities were lost at Port-Royal in the late dreadful Earthquake WE therefore your Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Assembly of this your Island do most humbly beseech your Majesty that it may be Enacted and be it Enacted by your Majesties Lieutenant-Governour Council and Assembly and it is hereby Enacted and Ordained by the Authority of the same that from and after the Seventeenth Day of this Instant August One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Three there shall be Raised Levyed and Paid unto your Majesties for the Term and time of Three Months from and after the said Seventeenth Day of August Impost on Wines and no longer as an Additional Duty and Impost upon Madera Wines Imported over and above what is already payable for the same viz. the Sum of Forty Shillings for every Tun. AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for every Slave Exported by way of Merchandize from and after the said Seventeenth Day of August for the Term aforesaid and no longer the Exporter or Owner shall pay the Sum of Twenty Shillings per Head Negroes as an Impost to Their Majesties all which Negroes so Exported shall be Entred in the Receiver-Generals Office and immediately Bond given by the Owner or Exporter to Their Majesties for the Payment of the Money into the Hand of the Receiver-General or his Lawful Deputy within One Month after the Entry so made as aforesaid AND whosoever shall persume after the said Seventeenth Day of August to Export any Slave or Slaves and not make such Entry and give Bond and Pay as before in this Act is Directed Forfeiture upon Non-Entry of Slaves shall Forfeit for every such Slave so Exported the Summ of Fifty Pounds to be Recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any Court of Record within this Island 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 he or they that shall Sue for the same wherein no Essoyn Injunction Protection Wager of Law or Nonvult ulterius prosequi shall be allowed AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Merchant or other Person Importing any Madera Wines into this Island Of Wines from and after the said Seventeenth Day of August for and during the said Term of Three Months and no longer do and shall make Entry make up Accounts and give Bonds to Pay the said Summs arising by Vertue of this Act according to the Way and Method and under the same Penalty for not doing the same and to be Recovered in the same Manner as is Directed by an Act of this Island Entitled An Act for Raising a Publick Revenue for the Support of the Government of this His MAJESTY's Island AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Money arising by Vertue of this Act shall be to the Use of Their Majesties for the Support of the Government of this Island and the Contingent Charges thereof and towards the Repairing the Losses the Revenue has sustained by the Wines and other Merchandises lost in the Earthquake An ACT To Reimburse Their MAJESTIES Treasury and Incourage Their Subjects to come and Settle in this Island Preamble WHEREAS Their Majesties Revenue is considerably Anticipated the Principal Branch of which is the Customs of Wines great Quantities whereof were lost at Port-Royal in the late Dreadful Earthquake WE therefore Your Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Assembly of this Your Island of Jamaica do most humbly beseech Your Majesties That it may be Enacted and be it Enacted by Your Majesties Lieutenant-Governour Council and Assembly and it is hereby Enacted by the Authority of the same that from and after the Seventeenth Day of November in this present Year One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Three shall be Raised Levied and Paid unto Your Majesties Your Heirs and Successors for the Term and Time of Five Years from the said Seventeenth Day of November and no longer as an Additional Duty and Impost on the several Liquors hereafter mentioned over and above what is already payable for the same Additional Duty on Wines viz. for every Tun of Spanish and Madera Wine imported into this Island the Summ of Forty Shillings all Wines of the Growth of the Western Islands or Mixture of Madera Wines with those of the Western Islands the Summ of Five Pound per Tun for every Tun of French or Rhenish Wines Thirty Shillings for every Tun of Beer or Syder Four Shillings for every Tun of Mumm or Metheglin Twenty Shillings for every Gallon of Brandy Six Pence for every Gallon of English Spirits Three Pence and so proportionably for a Greater or Lesser Quantity All which said Liquors shall be duly Entred and under the same Penalties and Regulations as in a former Act of this Country Entitled An Act for Raising a Publick Revenue for the Support of the Government of this His Majesty's Island AND be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That for every Slave exported from this Island by way of Merchandize the Exporter or Owner shall Pay the Summ of Twenty Shillings On Slaves as an Impost to Their Majesties for and during the Term and Time of Five Years aforesaid excepting only such Slaves who by Misdemeanor shall by the Judgment of Two Justices of the Peace and Three Freeholders be ordered to be Transported off this Island by the Master or Owner of such Slave or Slaves AND be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That out of the several Summ or Summs of Money arising by Virtue of this Act and one other Act Entitled An Act to Reimburse Their Majesties Treasury made this present Session there shall be first Deducted
and Paid unto Their Majesties Deduction to Their Majesties to and for the Use of Their Majesties the Summ of One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Four Pounds Sixteen Shillings as a Summ equivalent to Their Majesties for the Customs of Wines lost in the Earthquake AND be it further Enacted That upon due Proof made in the Supreme Court of Judicature an Action of Debt shall lie for Their Majesties against any Person whatsoever Bond not produced their Executors Administrators or Attorneys that stand Indebted to Their Majesties for Customs whether Bond be given or not without being obliged to produce it the giving of which shall not be pleaded in Bar except by the Persons named and for the Summs in this Act mentioned Provided also that if the Bond for the said Debt supposed to be lost shall afterwards be found and put in Suit that then the said Judgment shall be and be pleaded in Bar to the same and that the said Actions be brought within Two Courts after this Act becomes in Force AND be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That after the Deduction and Payment of the said Summ of One Thousand Seven Hundred Seventy Four Pounds Sixteen Shillings unto Their Majesties Remainder after Deduction the remainder of the Monies arising by Virtue of this Act and the Act before-mentioned shall be and remain as a Fund to Encourage such of Their Majesties Subjects or others as are willing to Transport themselves hither and be applied to no other Use Intent or Purpose whatsoever AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That whereas Benjamin Way Joseph Seargeant William Hutchinson Case of some Private Persons Francis Hall and Edmond Edlyn stand indebted to Their Majesties in the several Summs following viz. Benjamin Way in the Summ of Nine Hundred Twenty One Pounds Twelve Shillings Joseph Seargeant in the Summ of One Hundred Eighty Seven Pounds Four Shillings William Hutchinson in the Summ of One Hundred and Four Pounds Francis Hall in the Summ of Four Hundred Pounds and Edmond Edlyn in the Summ of One Hundred and Sixty Two Pounds which said Summs were due to Their Majesties for the Customs of Wines which were lost in the Earthquake The said Benjamin Way Joseph Seargeant William Hutchinson Francis Hall and Edmond Edlyn and every of them their Heirs Executors and Administrators shall be and are hereby for ever indemnified and saved Harmless against Their Majesties Their Heirs and Successors from Payment of the said several Summs due from the said several Persons or any Part thereof as also from all manner of Action or Actions Suit or Suits against them or any of them their or any of their Executors Administrators or Assigns for the same already commenced or to be commenced and if all or any of the Persons aforesaid be Sued or Impleaded they may Plead the General Issue and give this Act in Evidence any Law Custom or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding Encouragement for Settlers AND to the end it may be understood what sort of People are by this Act intended to be Encouraged Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Tradesmen and other Persons of what Calling or Condition soever not able to Pay their Passages excepting Jews Cripples and Children under Eleven Years of Age who upon Encouragement of this Act are willing to Transport themselves to this Island shall upon Repairing to any Master or Commander of any Ship or Vessel bound for this Island Passage paid and Person free be received on Board his Ship or Vessel and after his or their Arrival in this Island be Free from all manner of Servitude whatsoever and have Liberty to Hire and Imploy him her or themselves here how they think fit in any Honest Trade Service or Calling and the Captain Master or Commander of such Ship or Vessel shall receive of the Treasurers named and appointed by this Act for the Passage of every Person so Transporting him or themselves from England or Scotland the Summ of Seven Pounds Ten Shillings and for every Person from Ireland the Summ of Six Pounds currant Money of this Island without Fraud or Delay AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for each Person so brought hither from Europe the Captain Captains c. Encourag'd Master or Commander of each Ship or Vessel shall for his Encouragement and to his own Use receive of the said Treasurer or Treasurers the Sum of Twenty Shillings per Head over and above the said Sums AND whereas several of their Majesties Subjects under the qualifications aforesaid Residing at New England New York Carolina or other Parts of America the Windward Islands and Providence may upon the Encouragement of this Act be willing to Transport themselves to this Island BE it therefore Enacted that all Masters or Commanders of any Vessel or Vessels that shall Import any such Persons before mentioned shall for every Person so brought from New England Persons from other Plantations New York Carolina or other parts of America receive the Sum of Three Pounds Ten Shillings and for every Person brought from Providence and the Windward Islands the Sum of Forty Shillings current Mony of this Island without Fraud or Delay and that the Master or Commander of every Vessel who shall Import any Persons by Encouragement of this Act from New England New York Carolina or other parts of America the Windward Islands and Providence shall receive the Sum of Ten Shillings per Head to and for his Own proper Use and Benefit over and above the Sums aforesaid for the Passage of each Person AND be it likewise Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Master or Masters of any Vessel or Vessels who shall Import any Passenger upon the Credit of this Act shall within Forty Eight Hours after his or their Arrival Deliver to the Secretary of this Island or his Lawful Deputy upon Oath which said Oath the Secretary is hereby Impowered to Administer a fair written List of all such Persons as he A List to be given or they shall have brought to this Island in which List shall be contained the Names Surnames Age Trade and Country of all and every the said Person and Persons as also if Single or Married which said List the Secretary or his Lawful Deputy is forthwith to enter in a Book to be kept for that purpose and then to Transmit the same with his Certificate Indorsed to the Treasurer or Treasurers receiving for the same the Sum of Two Shillings and Sixpence from the said Treasurer or Treasurers who are hereby Ordered and Required upon receipt thereof to pay the said Master or Masters the several Sums for the respective Passages as is above Directed AND be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That for the well and truly Assessing Collecting Levying and paying in all and every the Sum and Sums of Mony arising by virtue of this
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
Residing within this Island Pay or Cause to be Paid towards the Raising of the said Sum of Mony beforementioned and expressed to be Raised on the Inhabitants of this Island over and above and besides the Tax as aforesaid Assessed the full Sum of One Thousand Pound currant Mony of this Island to be rated Assessed Taxed Collected and Paid in by Solomon Ararii Jacob de Leon Moles Toiro Jacob Mendez Guteres Jacob Henriques Jacob Rodrigues de Leon Moses Jesurum Cordoso Samuel Gabay Jacob Lopes Torres Isaac Cotileo Isaac Nunes Gonsales and Abraham Nunes or any Five of them into the Hands of the Receiver or Receivers hereafter mentioned Impowered and Appointed to Receive the same at or within One Month after the Tenth Day of December which shall be in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Three any thing herein contained to the Contrary notwithstanding and in Case of Failure and Non-payment BE it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Case of Failure That the Sum of Two Hundred and Fifty Pound more besides the said Sum of One Thousand Pound above appointed be Assessed on the Nation and People of the Jews aforesaid and that then it shall and may be lawful for the Treasurer or Treasurers hereafter appointed by Warrant of Distress under his or their Hands and Seals directed to the Constable or Constables for the respective Parishes where such Jew or Jews Reside to Levy or singly cause to be Levied at Discretion upon the several Jews Inhabitants of this Island such proportionable Sum or Sums as shall make up the Sum of One Thousand Two Hundred Fifty Pound as aforesaid and also if any of the Jews Rated or Assessed by the Persons above-named shall refuse to Pay the said Sum by them so Assessed that then it shall and may be lawful for the respective Justices in the respective Parishes where the said Jews Reside for so much as any of the said Jews are Assessed and Rated by the Persons abovesaid who are hereby Impowered to Issue out their Warrant or Warrants to the respective Constables to Distrain any of the Goods and Chattels of any of the said Jews that shall refuse or delay to Pay the same any Law Custom or Usage to the Contrary notwithstanding AND be it further Enacted That if the several Persons or any of them of the Jewish Nation aforementioned Impowred and Appointed to Assess Levy Collect and Pay in the aforesaid Sum Assessed upon the Nation of the Jews shall neglect his or their Duty therein Neglect of Jewish Assessors that then it shall and may be lawful for the Governour or Commander in Chief by Warrant under his Hand and Seal directed to the Provost-Marshal or his lawful Deputy to Levy or Cause to be Levyed on all and every Person and Persons to Offending One Hundred and Fifty Pound currant Money of this Island or the value thereof upon his or their Monies Slaves Goods or Chattels and sell the same by publick Outcry returning the Overplus if any be to the Owner and in Case no Monies Slaves or Goods are to be found as aforesaid that then he take into Custody the Body of the Person or Persons so Offending and him or them in safe Custody keep until he or they Pay the said Sum of One Hundred and Fifty Pound for the said Offence any Law Custom or Usage or any thing in this Act seeming to the Contrary notwithstanding AND be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That the respective Justices of the respective Parishes or Precincts or within the Commission of the Peace for the same or any Two of them Deliver into the Hands of their respective Constables within their respective Parishes and Precincts Time of Collection a Roll of such Tax or Assessment as aforesaid so that the Collection be made within Three Months after the Tenth Day of November which shall be in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Three with a Warrant under the same Signed and Sealed by the said Justices or any two of them Impowring and Requiring the said Constables to Levy the said Tax or Assessment and Pay the same into the Hands of the Church-Wardens for the time being in the Parish where the same is Taxed or Assessed as aforesaid and where it shall happen there are no Church-Wardens that then the Constables are hereby required to Pay the same into the Hands of the Justices of the said Parish Deducting Four Pence in the Pound for Colleting the same in all the Parishes of this Island Port-Royal and Kingston only excepted where it shall be done Gratis who are hereby required to Receive and Pay the same into the Hands of the Receiver or Receivers hereafter named within one Month after the Collecting thereof and lest any Person or Persons so as aforesaid Taxed or Assessed shall refuse or delay to Pay his her or their Tax or Assessment the said Justices or any Two of them are hereby required in the Warrant aforesaid to Impower and Command the Constable as aforesaid by virtue thereof to Distrain the Slaves Distress upon Non-payment Horses Mares Colts Mules Asses Neat Cattle Sheep Lambs Goats Kids or any other Personal Estate whatsoever of him her or them so refusing or delaying and Sell the same forthwith at Publick Outcry retaining to themselves Twelve Pence in the Pound for every such Distress on Slaves Horses Mares Colts Mules Asses Neat Cattle Sheep Lambs Goats Kids or any other Personal Estate whatsoever Distrained on or Sold as aforesaid returning the Overplus if any be to the Owner AND be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That for the better Assessing Collecting Levying and Paying in the Sums of Money so as aforesaid limited and appointed to be Raised and Paid as aforesaid and for the more effectual putting this Act in Execution the Justices and Vestries within their several Parishes and Precincts are hereby required and impowered immediately on Passing this Act with all possible speed to proceed to the Discharge of their said Duties in manner and form as is before Directed and Appointed AND be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That if the Governour or Commander in Chief for the time being shall before the Levying and Paying the Tax and Assessment by virtue of this Act laid on and Assessed Case of Law-Martial put Martial-Law in force in this Island and for that Reason if any Person refuse to Pay his her or their Tax as aforesaid all and every Person or Persons so refusing shall after the expiration of the Law-Martial Pay double the Sum so laid on and Assessed to be Recovered by Warrant from any of Their Majesties Justices of the Peace for the said Precinct directed to any Constable to Levy the same upon the Monies Goods or Chattels of the Person or Persons so Offending and the said Goods or Chattels so Distrained to Sell at publick Outcry returning
the true Intent and Meaning thereof shall Forfeit Fifty Pound and all and every Vestry-man Church-Warden or Constable the sum of Twenty Pound for every such Offence as aforesaid AND be it Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid that all Owners of Slaves Horses Mares Colts Mules Asses Neat Cattle Sheep Goats Lambs Kids Tradesmen and Hired-men whatsoever as aforesaid shall and are hereby by Themselves Guardians Overseers Trustees or Pen-keepers within the several Parishes aforesaid required and obliged to give a just and true Account on Oath to the best of their Knowledge Account on Oath at such Time or Times as the Justices of each Parish or Precinct or within the Commission of the Peace for the same shall Direct of all Slaves Horses Mares Colts Mules Asses Neat Cattle Sheep Lambs Goats Kids Rents Trades and Callings whatsoever as aforesaid belonging to such Owner Guardian Overseer Trustees or Pen-keepers within their respective Parish or Precinct or within the Commission of the Peace for the same the Nation of the Jews only Excepted to the Justices of the Peace or any of them in the said Parishes or Precincts or within the Commission of the Peace for the same who are hereby Required and Impowred to Administer the same and to ask all such further Questions as to them or any of them shall seem Meet and Necessary relating to this present Act. The Tenour of which Oath shall be as followeth Oath I A. B. do Swear that I have within the Parish of C Slaves Young and Old and also Horses Mares Colts Mules Asses Neat Cattle Sheep Lambs Goats Kids and no more So help me God And if it be to an Overseer I D. E. Overseer of the Plantation of F. G. do Swear that the said F. G. hath within the Parish of H Slaves Young and Old and also Horses Mares Colts Mules Asses Neat Cattle Sheep Lambs Goats Kids c. and no more to the best of my knowledg And so to Pen-keepers or any other Person for Cattle Horses Mares Colts Mules Asses Neat Cattle Sheep Lambs Goats Kids Rents Trades Taverns and Callings whatsoever Mutatis Mutandis and if any Person or Persons shall refuse either by Themselves Case of Refusal Overseers or Pen-keepers to give an Account upon Oath as aforesaid of their Slaves Horses Mares Colts Mules Asses Neat Cattle Sheep Lambs Goats Kids Rents Trades and Callings in manner aforesaid That then it shall be Lawful for the Justices and Vestry or the Justices where there is no Vestry to Tax the Person or Persons so refusing according to their Discretion AND forasmuch as the present Necessity will require the Advancing of Mony for and towards the Buying or Hiring and Equipping the said Two Sloops and Men to Sea with all possible Expedition BE it enacted by Authority aforesaid that it shall and may be lawful to and for any Person or Persons to advance and lend to Their Majesties for and towards the furtherance of this present occasion such Sum or Sums of Mony as may be needful and that whosoever shall advance and lend any such Sum or Sums of Mony upon the security of this Act Interect on Mony advanc'd shall receive for the Loan of the Sum they shall so lend after the rate of Twelve Pound Ten Shillings per Cent. per Ann. for the time he or they shall be in disburse of the said Sum on the Credit of this said Act as aforesaid any thing beforementioned to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding AND to the end that all Moneys 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 any Sum or Sums of Mony to Their Majesties on the Credit of this Act and actually Pay the same into the Hands of the Receiver or Receivers hereafter Named and Appointed shall by the Receiver or Receivers on the first Payment of Mony that shall be Paid into the Receivers Hands by virtue of this Act be forthwith Paid into the Person or Persons their Executors or Administrators so lending the said Sum Advanced with the Interest of the same for the discharge of the Mony so Lent and Advanced And that all and every other Sum or Sums of Mony that shall be laid out or be Paid by the Receiver or Receivers for and towards the Buying Equipping Victualling and fitting to Sea as also for Paying the Officers and Seamen on Board the said Sloops and also for Paying the Officers and Soldiers of the Two Parties beforementioned for Reducing the Rebellious Negroes shall as they become due be Paid by the Receiver or Receivers that are hereafter mentioned and Appointed without Fee or Charge Receivers Names AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the Honourable Colonel Charles Knights one of Their Majesties Council of this Island and also Colonel Thomas Clarke Captain Lancelot Talbott Captain Robert Wardlow William Hutchinson Esq Captain Josiah Heathcote and Captain Thomas Clarke be and are hereby Required and Impowred and Warranted to be Receiver or Receivers of all and singular the several Sums aforesaid mentioned and intended to be raised on the several Parishes or People aforesaid and shall and may Lawfully by Advice and Consent of the Lieutenant Governour or Commander in Chief forthwith Buy or Hire Two good and substantial Sloops fit for War and Provide Equip Fit ready for the Sea and Victual the same for Fifty Effective Officers Seamen and Soldiers Inclusively for each Sloop for the said Six Months or for such shorter time as to to them shall appear most convenient and that the said Two Sloops being thus Fitted and Victualled it is hereby Required that the Right Honourable Sir William Beeston Knight Captains appointed by whome Their Majesties Lieutenant Governour aforesaid by Commission under his Hand and Seal do Constitute and Appoint on Board each of the said Sloops such Discreet and Able Captains for this present Service as his Honour shall in his Prudence think fit and can Confide in and that each of the said Captains receive for their Pay after the rate of Six Pounds per Month And other Officers And likewise appoint by his Warrant for each Sloop one Master at Four Pounds per Month one Boatswain one Gunner at Three Pounds per Month each one Chirurgeon and one Carpenter at Four Pounds per Month each on Board each Sloop And Command and Require them in Their Majesties name to Raise and Enlist on Board the said Two Sloops by Impressing or otherwise to make and fill up the full number of Fifty Effective Officers Seamen and Soldiers in each Sloop who shall also receive after the rate of Forty Shillings each Man per Month. And that their monthly Pay arising from this present Service shall be paid out of the Mony raised by this present Act Commanding and Requiring the respective Captains
the Overplus if any be to the Owner retaining to himself Twelve Pence in the Pound for every such Distress all which said Forfeitures of the Persons so Offending shall be Paid as the other Monies by this Act arising into the Hands of the Receivers in this Act nominated and appointed and Employed to the same Uses Intents and Purposes as the Monies already by this Act Raised and Appropriated and to no other Use Intent and Purpose whatsoever any Law Custom or Usage or any Thing in this Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if the Justices Vestry-men Constables or Church-Wardens or any of them shall neglect or wilfully fail in his or their Duty in Assessing Collecting or Paying the same as aforesaid that then and in such case Neglect of Assessors every Justice so neglecting or wilfully failing in his or their Duty in this Act prescribed contrary to the true intent and meaning thereof shall Forfeit Fifty Pounds for every such Offence and all and every Vestry-man Church-Warden or Constable the Summ of Twenty Pounds for every such Offence as aforesaid AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Owners of Slaves Horses Mares Colts Mules Asses Neat Cattel Sheep Goats Lambs and Kids whatsoever as aforesaid shall and are hereby by themselves Guardians Overseers Trustees or Pen-keepers within the several Parishes aforesaid required and obliged to give a True and Just Account Account on Oath on Oath to the best of their Knowledge at such time or times as the Justices in each Parish or Precinct shall Direct of all Slaves Horses Mares Colts Mules Asses Neat Cattel Sheep Lambs Goats Kids and Rents whatsoever as aforesaid belonging to such Owner Guardian Overseer Trustees or Pen-keepers within their respective Parish or Precinct aforesaid to the Justices of the Peace or any of them in the said Parishes or Precincts who are hereby required and impowered to Administer the same and to ask all further Questions as to them or any of them shall seem meet and necessary relating to this present Act the Tenour of which Oaths shall be as followeth I A. B. do Swear that I have within the Parish of C Slaves Young and Old also Horses Mares Colts Mules Asses Neat Cattel Sheep Goats Lambs Kids and no more So help me God And if it be to an Overseer I D. E. Overseer of the Plantation of G. H. do Swear that the said G. H. hath within the Parish of I Slaves Young and Old and also Horses Mares Colts Mules Asses Neat Cattel Sheep Lambs Goats Kids c. and no more to the best of my Knowledge And so to Pen-keepers or any other Persons for Cattel Horses Mares Colts Mules Asses Neat Cattel Sheep Lambs Goats Kids and Rents whatsoever mutatis mutandis And if any Person or Persons whatsoever shall refuse either by themselves Overseers Case of Refusal or Pen-keepers to give an Account upon Oath as aforesaid of their Horses Mares Colts Mules Asses Neat Cattel Sheep Lambs Goats Kids or Rents in manner aforesaid that then it shall be lawful for the Justices and Vestry or the Justices where there is no Vestry to Tax the Person or Persons so refusing according to their Discretion AND forasmuch as the present Necessity will require the Advancement of Money for and towards the Buying or Hiring and Equipping the said Two Sloops and Men and Victualling those Two already in and such other Vessel or Vessels as shall be Impressed into the Service BE it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for any Person or Persons to Advance and Lend to Their Majesties Money advanc'd for and towards the furtherance of this present Occasion such Summ or Summs of Money as may be needful and that whosoever shall Advance and Lend any such Summ or Summs of Money upon the Security of this Act shall receive for the Loan of the Summ they shall so Lend after the Rate of Twelve Pound and a Half per Cent. per Annum for the time he or they shall be indisburst of the said Money on the Credit of this Act as aforesaid any thing before-mentioned to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding AND to the End that all Monies that shall be Lent unto Their Majesties upon the Credit hereof may be well and sufficiently secured Security for the same Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Person and Persons who shall Advance and Lend any Summ or Summs of Money to Their Majesties on the Credit of this Act and actually Pay the same into the Hands of the Receiver or Receivers herein after named and appointed shall by the Receiver or Receivers on the first Payment of Money that shall be paid into the Receivers Hands by Virtue of this Act be forthwith paid unto the Person or Persons their Executors or Administrators so Lending the said Summ advanced with the Interest of the same for the Discharge of the Money so lent and advanced and that all and every other Summ and Summs of Money that shall be laid out or paid by the Receiver or Receivers for and towards the Buying Equipping Victualling and Fitting to Sea as also for Paying the Officers and Sea-men on Board the said Four Sloops and Victualling such other Vessel or Vessels as shall be Impressed as also for Paying the Officers and Soldiers of the Two Parties before-mentioned for reducing the Rebellious Negroes shall as they become Due be paid by the Receiver or Receivers that are hereafter mentioned and appointed without Fee or Charge AND be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Honourable Colonel Charles Knights Names of the Receivers one of Their Majesties Council of this Island and also Colonel Thomas Clarke Captain Lancelot Talbot Captain Robert Wardlow William Hutchinson Esq Captain Josiah Heathcote and Captain Thomas Clarke be and are hereby Required Impowered and Warranted to be Receiver or Receivers of all and singular the several Summs aforesaid mentioned and intended to be raised on the several Parishes or People aforesaid and shall and may lawfully by Advice and Consent of the Lieutenant-Governour or Commander in Chief forthwith Buy or Hire Two more Good and Substantial Sloops fit for War and Provide Equip Fit ready for the Sea and Victual the same for Sixty effective Officers Sea-men and Soldiers inclusively for each Sloop for the said Six Months or for such shorter time as to them shall appear most Convenient and that the said Two Sloops being thus Fitted and Victualled it is hereby Requested That the Right Honourable Sir William Beeston Knight Captain to be Commission'd Their Majesties Lieutenant-Governour aforesaid by Commission under his Hand and Seal do Constitute and Appoint on Board of each of the said Sloops such Discreet and Able Captains for this present Service as his Honour shall in his Prudence think Fit and can