Prize, Greenwich Hospital etc. Act 1759
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1759 c. 19 |
| Year | 1759 |
(33 Geo. 2) C A P. XIX.
'WH E R E A S by an Act of Parliament made in the twenty-ninth Year of his present Majesty's Reign, intituled, , it was (amongst other Thing's) enacted, That the Flag Officers, Commanders, and other Officers, Seamen, Marines, and Soldiers on Board every Ship and Vessel of War in his Majesty's Pay, should have the Sole Interest and Property of and in all and every Ship, Vessel, Goods and Merchandizes, which they should take from and after the seventeenth Day ofMay in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty-six, during the Continuance of the War against France (being first adjudged lawful Prize in Manner therein mentioned) to be divided in such Proportions, and after such Manner as his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors should think fit to order and direct by Proclamation or Proclamations thereafter to be issued for those Purposes; and it was by the said Act directed, that all Appraisements and Sales of any Ship or Ships, Goods, Wares or Merchandizes as should be taken by any of his Majesty's Ships of War, should be made by Agents or Persons to be nominated and appointed by the Captors as therein mentioned; and that after the Sale or Sales of such Prize or Prizes as should be taken from the Enemy by any of his Majesty's Ships of War, public Notification should be given by the Persons or Agents appointed, as therein before mentioned, of the Day appointed for the Payment of the several Shares to the Captors; after which public Notification, if any Mens Shares should remain in the Hands of such Persons or Agents, either belonging to such Men as should be run from his Majesty's Service, or which should not be legally demanded within three Years, but then such Share or Shares so remaining in the Persons or Agents Hands, or belonging to such Men as should be run from his Majesty's Service, should go and be paid to the Use of Greenwich Hospital ; and by the said Act a certain Bounty was directed to be paid by the Treasurer of his Majesty's Navy, as therein is mentioned, unto the Officers, Seamen, Marines, Soldiers, or others, that should have been actually on Board any of his Majesty's Ship or Ships, or Privateer or Privateers, in any Action where any Ship or Ships of War or Privateers should have been taken from the Enemy, sunk, burnt or otherwise destroyed, since his Majesty's Declaration of War against France , to be divided in Manner, Form and Proportion as by his Majesty's Proclamation should be directed; and it was by the said Act further directed, that the Bill or Bills to be made out (as therein is mentioned) for such Bounty, should be made payable to such Person or Persons as should be authorized and appointed by the Officers or Persons intitled thereto, in such Manner as is therein before directed for the nominating and appointing Agents for Appraisements and Sales to be made as therein before is mentioned; the same to be distributed and divided, by the Person or Persons so authorized and appointed, amongst the Captors, in such Manner, Form and Proportions as is therein before mentioned; and that the several Shares of such Captors, if not legally demanded within three Years after public Notification, and also of such as should be run from his Majesty's Service, should be applied to the Use of the said Hospital: And whereas no Time is limited, or particular Method prescribed by the said Act, for the giving Notifications of the Day appointed for the Payment of the Shares of Prizes, nor is any express Direction given for the Notification of the Day of Payment of the Shares of such Bounty Money as aforesaid; and many Agents have neglected to specify in the Notification by them given in the London Gazette , for Payment of Shares of Prizes condemned in the High Court or other Courts of Admiralty in Great Britain , the Particular Day or Time when such Payments were to commence, whereby it is very difficult, if not impossible, to ascertain the Time when the said Hospital becomes intitled to the unclaimed Shares, by Means whereof the said Hospital cannot have the full Benefit intended by the said recited Act:' 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 first Day ofSeptember in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty, all Notifications by the said Act required to be given of the Payment of the Shares of Prizes taken, or to be taken from the Enemy by any of his Majesty's Ships or Vessels of War, and condemned, or to be condemned, inGreat Britain ; and from and after the first Day of one thousand seven hundred and sixty-one, all Notifications by the said Act required to be given of the Payment of the Shares of Prizes taken, or to be taken from the Enemy, and condemned, or to be condemned in any other of his Majesty's Dominions inEurope , or in any of his Majesty's Plantations in America ; and from and after twenty-fifth Day of December one thousand seven hundred and sixty-one, all Notifications by the said Act required to be given of the Payment of the Shares of Prizes taken, or to be taken from the Enemy, and condemned, or to be condemned in any other of his Majesty's Dominions; shall be respectively given and published in such Manner as is herein after mentioned, (that is to say) if the Prize or Prizes shall have been, or shall be condemned in his Majesty's High Court or other Court of Admiralty inGreat Britain , then the Person or Persons, Agent or Agents, appointed or to be appointed in pursuance of the said Act for the Appraisement and Sale of such Prize or Prizes, shall insert and publish, or cause to be inserted and published, such...
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