Offenders personating or as racter, &c. of officers, seamen, &c. in the royal navy, to receive prize money, wages, &c. or forging letters of attorney, &c. wills, or powers; arisen whether the Punishment inflicted by the said two recited Acts of Parliament on persons guilty of the several Offences therein mentioned, extends to such Offences when committed with an intention to defraud any Corporation; and then enacts, that from and after the passing of this Act, whosoever willingly suming the cha and knowingly shall personate or falsely assume the Name or Character of, or procure any other to personate or falsely to assume the Name or Character of any Officer, Seaman, or other person entitled, or supposed to be entitled to any Wages, Pay, or other Allowances of Money, or Prize Money for Service done on board of any Ship or Vessel of his Majesty, his Heirs or Successors, or the Executor or Administrator, Wife, Relation, or Creditor of any such Officer or Seaman, or other person, in order to receive any Wages, Pay, or other Allowances of Money, or Prize Money, due or supposed to be due or payable for or on account of the Services of any such Officer or Seaman, or other person as aforesaid; or shall forge or counterfeit, or procure to be forged or counterfeited, any Letter of Attorney, Bill, Ticket, Certificate, Order, Assignment, last Will, or any other Power or Authority whatsoever, in order to receive any such Wages, Pay, or other Allowances of Money, or Prize Money, which shall be due or supposed to be due to any such Officer or Seaman, or other person as aforesaid; or shall willingly and knowingly take a false Oath, or procure any other person to take a false Oath, to obtain the Probate of any Will or Wills, or to obtain Letters of Administration in order to receive the Payment of any Wages, Pay, or other Allowances of Money or Prize Money, which shall be due or be supposed to be due to any such Officer, Seaman, or other person as aforesaid, who shall have really served, or shall be supposed to have served on board of any Ship or Vessel of his Majesty, his or uttering forged Heirs or Successors; or if any person shall from and after the passing of this Act utter or publish as true any false, forged, or wills, or powers, counterfeited Letter of Attorney, Bill, Ticket, Certificate, Order, or Assignment, last Will, or any other Power or Authority whatsoever, in order to receive any Wages, Pay, or other Allowances of Money or Prize Money, due or supposed to be due to any Officer or Seaman, or other person who shall have really served, or shall be supposed to have served, or shall hereafter serve, or be supposed to have served on board of any Ship or Vessel of his Majesty, his Heirs or Successors, with intent to defraud any Corporation whatsoever, knowing the same to be or taking false oath to procure probates, &c.; letters of at torney, &c. with intent to defraud any corporation, false, forged, or counterfeited, every such person, being thereof lawfully convicted, shall be deemed guilty of Felony, and shall ousted of clergy. suffer Death as a Felon, without Benefit of Clergy. mitted out of the realm may be tried in any county. By s. 86. of the foregoing Act, where the Offence of taking a Offences comfalse Oath or suborning any person so to do, or any of the Offences by this Act made cognizable in any of his Majesty's Courts of Record in Great Britain, shall be committed out of this Realm, the same may be alleged to be committed, and may be laid, enquired of, tried, and determined in any County in England. a mis lemeanor. By s. 43. if any Person shall insert or cause to be inserted in any Persons altering Order or Authority for receiving Prize or Bounty Money, after orders, &c. for prize money, attestation thereof as herein-before directed, the Name or Descrip- shall be guilty of tion of any Prize or Bounty Money, other than what shall have been originally expressed in the said Order or Authority when the same shall have been attested, the said Person shall, for every such Offence, be deemed guilty of a Misdemeanor, and be punished accordingly. Persons fraudu lently receiving By s. 57. any Person who shall falsely represent himself or herself to be within any of the Degrees of Relationship in Blood prize money, as before directed, in order to enable himself or herself to receive any Prize Money or Bounty Money, or Share of Prize Money or Bounty Money due or to grow due for or on account of the Services of any such Petty Officer, Non-commissioned Officer, Seaman, or Marines, under any such Order as aforesaid, or who, not being within any such Degree of Relationship, and not being licensed as aforesaid, shall receive any Wages, Pay, Prize Money, Bounty Money or other Allowances of Money for the Use of any such Petty Officer, Non-commissioned Officer, Seaman or Marine; or if any Agent or Person whose Licence and agents so shall have been revoked as herein-after mentioned, shall offer acting, himself to receive or shall receive any such Wages, Pay, Prize Money, Bounty Money, or other Allowance of Money, not being within any of the Degrees of Relationship aforesaid, and shall be guilty of be thereof duly convicted, shall be deemed guilty of a Misde meanor. a misdemeanor. mitted abroad By s. 86. where any Offence by this Act made cognizable in Offences comany Court of Record in Great Britain, shall be committed out may be tried in of this Realm, the same may be alleged to be committed, and any county. may be laid, enquired of, tried and determined in any County in England. tain statutes. The Statute 55 G. 3. c. 60. s. 1. repeals 9, 10 W. 3. A repeal of serc. 41. s. 3, 6.—20 G. 2. c. 24. s. 6.-31 G. 2. c. 10. s. 21, Petty officers, &c. or seamen forging certificates, how punishable. Persons falsely representing the next of kin of any deceased petty officer, &c. or seaman, 22, 23, 24.- 9 G. 3. c. 30. s. 5, 6.-26 G. 3. c. 63.-32 G. 3. c. 34.-32 G. 3. c. 67. s. 14, 16.-49 G. 3. c. 108. s. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 10, 17. and 54 G. 3. c. 93. s. 7. for preventing Frauds and Felonies being committed in the Payment of Seamen's Wages, Prize Money, &c. and of those of Non-commissioned Officers of Marines and Marines. By s. 29. it is enacted, that if any Petty Officer or Seaman, Non-commissioned Officer of Marines or Marine, shall receive his Pay, or shall attempt to receive the same, or any Part thereof, upon any Certificate purporting to be a Certificate of Servitude, or a Certificate of Discharge, knowing the same to be forged or counterfeited; or if any such Petty Officer or Seaman, Non-commissioned Officer of Marines or Marine, or any other Person, shall falsely make, forge, or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be falsely, made, forged, or counterfeited, or shall willingly act or assist in the false making, forging, or counterfeiting of any such Certificate; every such Petty Officer or Seaman, Non-commissioned Officer of Marines, or Marine, or other Person, being thereof lawfully convicted, shall be punished as in Cases of wilful and corrupt Perjury. If any Person shall sign or subscribe any Petition or Applica tion to the Treasurer or Paymaster of his Majesty's Navy for the time being, falsely and wilfully representing herself or himself to be the Widow or the nearest or one of the nearest of kindred of any deceased Petty Officer or Seaman, Non-commissioned Officer of Marines, or Marine, who shall have belonged to or served on board any of his Majesty's Ships or Vessels, or utter or publish any such Petition or Application so signed or subscribed as aforesaid, containing such false and wilful Representation as aforesaid, in order to obtain a Certificate from the Inspector of Seamen's Wills and Powers, to procure Letters of Administration to the Effects of any such Petty Officer or Seaman, Non-commissioned Officer of Marines, or Marine, or to procure Payment of any Wages, Pay, Prize Money, Bounty Money, or other Allowances of Money under Twenty Pounds, for or in respect of Services on board any Ship or Vessel of his Majesty, his Heirs or Successors; or if any Person or Persons shall dewages, &c. under mand or receive any Wages, Pay, Prize Money, Bounty Money, or other Allowance of Money due or supposed to be due for or in respect of the Services of any such Petty Officer or Seaman, Non-commissioned Officer of Marines or Marine, upon or by virtue of any Certificate from the said Inspector of Seamen's Wills, knowing such Certificate to have been obtained by false or demanding a false certificate, Representation or Pretences; every. such Person shalk, on being convicted of any such Offence in due Form of Law, he trans shall be transported. ported beyond the Seas for the Term of Seven Years, in like. Manner as Persons convicted of Felony are directed to be transported by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm. s. 30. ་ Persons forging names of minis ters or house certificate, shall If any Person shall falsely make, forge, or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be falsely made, forged, or counterfeited, or willingly act and assist in the false making, forging,.or counterfeit- holders to any ing the Signature of any Minister or Householder of any Parish, be guilty of to any Certificate annexed or subjoined to or contained in any felony. Check or Petition for a Certificate as required, described, and mentioned in this Act, to enable any Person or Persons to obtain Probate of any Will or Letters of Administration to any such Petty Officer or Seaman, Non-commissioned Officer of Marines, or Marine; or shall utter or publish as true any such Certificate annexed or subjoined to or contained in any such Check or Petition, with any false, forged, or counterfeited Signature of any such Minister or Householder of any Parish subscribed thereto, knowing the same Signature to be false, forged, or counterfeited, with intention to defraud any Person or Persons, Body or Bodies Politic or Corporate whatsoever, then every such Person so offending, and being thereof convicted by due course of Law, shall be deemed guilty of Felony, and shall be transported as a Felon, for the Term of his or her natural Life, or for the Term of Fourteen Years or Seven Years, as the Court before which such Offender or Offenders shall be tried shall adjudge. s. 31. If any Person or Persons shall willingly or knowingly personate or falsely assume, or cause or procure any other Person to personate or falsely assume, the Name or Character of any Commission, Warrant, or Petty Officer or Seaman, or any Commissioned or Non-commissioned Officer of Marines, or Marine, or any other Person entitled or supposed to be entitled to any Wages, Pay, Prize Money, Bounty Money, or other Allowances of Money, for or in respect of Services performed or supposed to have been performed on board of any Ship or Vessel of his Majesty, his Heirs or Successors, or the Wife, Widow, Executor or Administrator, Relation or Creditor of any such Officer, Seaman, or other Person as aforesaid, in order to receive any Wages, Pay, Prize Money, Bounty Money, or other Allowances of Money due or supposed to be due for or in respect of the Services of any such Officer, Seaman, Marine, or other Offenders personating or falsely assuming the name, &c. of creditor, &c.; &c. certificate, &c. or last will, or uttering same; Person as aforesaid, performed or supposed to have been performed on board of any Ship or Vessel of his Majesty, his Heirs or forging any let- or Successors; or shall falsely make, forge, counterfeit, or alter, ter of attorney, or cause or procure to be falsely made, forged, counterfeited, or altered, or willingly act or assist in the false making, forging, counterfeiting, or altering any Letter of Attorney, Bill, Ticket, or Certificate purporting to be a Certificate from the Inspector of Seamen's Wills and Powers, or his Assistant, Assignment, last Will, or other Power or Authority whatsoever, in order to receive, or to enable any other Person to receive any Wages, Pay, Prize Money, Bounty Money, or other Allowances of Money, due or supposed to be due for or in respect of the Services of any such Officer, Seaman, Marine, or other Person as aforesaid, performed or supposed to have been performed on board of any Ship or Vessel of his Majesty, his Heirs or Successors, with intention to defraud any Person or Persons, Body or Bodies Politic or Corporate whatsoever; or shall utter or publish as true any false, forged, counterfeited, or altered Letter of Attorney, Bill, Ticket, Certificate purporting to be a Certificate from the Inspector of Seamen's Wills and Powers or his Assistant, Assignment, last Will, or other Power or Authority whatsoever, in order to receive any Wages, Pay, Prize Money, Bounty Money, or other Allowances of Money due or supposed to be due for or in respect of the Services of any such Officer, Seaman, Marine, or other Person as aforesaid, performed or supposed to have been performed on board of any Ship or Vessel of his Majesty, his Heirs or Successors, with intention to defraud any Person or Persons, Body or Bodies Politic or Corporate whatsoever, knowing the same to be false, forged, counterfeited, or altered; or shall willingly and knowingly take a false Oath, or cause or procure any other Person to take a false Oath, to obtain the Probate of any Will or Wills, or to obtain Letters of Administration in order to receive or to enable any other Person to receive any Wages, Pay, Prize Money, Bounty Money or other Allowances of Money due or supposed to be due for or in respect of the Services of any such Officer, Seaman, Marine, or other Person as aforesaid, performed or supposed to have been performed on board of any Ship or Vessel of his Majesty, or demanding or his Heirs or Successors; or shall demand or receive any Wages, receiving wages upon such pro- Pay, Prize Money, Bounty Money, or other Allowances of Money due or supposed to be due for or in respect of the Services of any such Officer, Seaman, Marine, or other Person as or taking a false oath to procure probate of will, &c.; bate, etc. |