Offenders (Conveyance) Act 1754
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1754 c. 3 |
| Year | 1754 |
(27 Geo. 2) C A P. III.
'W H E R E A S by an Act passed in the third Year of the Reign of KingJames the First, intituled, An Act for the rating and levying of the Charges for conveying Malefactors and Offenders to the Gaol ; every Offender so to be conveyed shall bear the Charges of himself, and of those who convey him; and if he refuse so to do, his Goods within the same County may be distrained and sold to satisfy the same; and if he hath no Goods, the Constable, Churchwardens and other Inhabitants of the Parish where he was taken, shall make a Tax on every Inhabitant thereof to pay the said Charges: And whereas the taxing the Parish where such Offender was taken to pay such Charges, is a great Discouragement to Parishes to take Offenders; and it is also found by Experience to be very difficult to make a Rate on the Inhabitants to raise such Tax, whereby Constables and others are often kept out of their Money by them advanced for the Service of the Publick, and sometimes loSe the same, to their very great Injury and Vexation;' For Remedy whereof, Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Adviceand Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the twenty-fourth Day ofJune one thousand seven hundred and fifty-four, when any Person, not having Goods or Money within the County where he is taken, sufficient to bear the Charges of himself, and of those who convey him, is committed to Gaol or the House of Correction by Warrant from any Justice or Justices of the Peace, then, on Application by any Constable or other Officer who conveyed him, to any Justice of the Peace for the same County or Place, shall upon Oath examine into and ascertain the reasonable Expences to be allowed such Constable or other Officer, and shall forthwith, without Fee or Reward, by Warrant under his Hand and Seal, order the Treasurer of the County or Place to pay the same, which the said Treasurer is hereby required to do, as soon as he receives such Warrant; and any Sum so paid shall be allowed in his Accounts.
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