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     Majesty‘s Dominions competent to try. and havingjuris- 
     
     diction to try criminal offences committed at the place 
     
     where such ofl'nice shall be committed. 
     
    
   
   
    
     V. And be it further enacted. That in case any ship 
     
     or vessel in any port or place within His Majesty’s Do- 
     
     minions shall have on board any such person or persons 
     
     who shall have been enlisted or entered to serve, or shall 
     
     have engaged,or agreed, or been procured to enlist or 
     
     enter to serve, or who shall be departing from His Ma- 
     
     jesty’s Dominions for the purpose and with the intent of 
     
     enlisting or entering to serve, or to be employed, or or 
     
     serving or being engaged or employed in the service of 
     
     any Foreign Prince. State or Potentate, Colony,1’rovincc, 
     
     or part of any Province or People, or of any person or 
     
     persons exercising or ass'uming to exercise the powers 
     
     of Government in or over any Foreign Colony, Province, 
     
     or part of any Province or people, either as an officer, 
     
     soldier. sailor, or marine, contrary to the provxsions of 
     
     this Act. it shall be lawful for any of the principal officers 
     
     of His Majesty's Customs where any such officers of the 
     
     Customs shall be, and in any part of His Majesty’s Do- 
     
     minions in which there are no officers of llis MajeSIy’s 
     
     Customs, for any Governor or persons having the chief 
     
     civil command, upon information on oath given before 
     
     them respectfully, which oath they are hereby respect- 
     
     fully authorized and empowered to administer, that such 
     
     person or persons as aforesaid is or are on board such 
     
     ship or vessel. to detain and prevent any such ship or 
     
     vessel, or to cause such ship or vessel to be detained 
     
     and preVentcd from proceeding to sea on her voyage with 
     
     such persons as aforesaid on board: Provided, never- 
     
     theless, that no principal officer. Governor. or person 
     
     shall act as aforesaid. upon such information upon oath 
     
     as aforesaid, unless the party so informing shall not only 
     
     have deposed in such information that the person or 
     
     persons on boazd such ship or vessel hath or have been 
     
     enlisted or entered to serve, or hath or have engaged or 
     
     agreed or procured to enlist or enter or serve, or is or 
     
     are departing as aforesaid, for the purpose and with the 
     
     intent of enlisting or entering to serve or to be employed, 
     
     or of serving, 01‘ being engaged or employed in such ser- 
     
     vice as aforesaid, but shall also have set forth in such 
     
     information upon oath, the facts or circumstances upon 
     
     which he forms his knowledge or belief, enabling him to 
     
     give such information upon oath; and that all and every 
     
     person and persons convicted of wilfully false swearing 
     
     in any such information upon oath, shall be deemed guil- 
     
     ty ofand suffer the penalties on persons convicted of wil- 
     
     fuLand corrupt perjury. 
     
    

    
     VI. And be it further enacted, Thatif any master or 
     
    
   
   
    
     other person having or taking the charge or com maud of . 
     
    
   
   
    
     any ship or Vessel, in any part of the United Kingdom 
     
     of Great Britain and Ireland, or in any part ofllis Majes- 
     
     ty’s Dominions beyond the seas,shall knowingly and will- 
     
     ingly take on board. or if such master or other person 
     
     having the command of any ship or vessel, or any owner 
     
     or owners of any such ship or vessel, shall knowingly 
     
     engage to take on board any person or persons who shall 
     
     have been enlisted or entered to serve, or shall have en- 
     
     gagcd or agreed or been procured to enlist or enter or 
     
     serve, or who shall be departing from His Majesty's Do- 
     
     minions for the purpose and with the intent of enlisting 
     
     or entering to serve, or to be employed, or of serving, 
     
     or being engaged or employed in any naval or military 
     
     service, contrary to the provisions of this Act, such 
     
     master or owner or other person as aforesaid shall for- 
     
     feit and pay the sum of fifty pounds for each and every 
     
     such person so taken or engaged to be taken on board; 
     
     and moreover every such ship or vessel. so having on 
     
     board, conveying, carrying. or transporting any such 
     
     person or persons, shall and may be seized and detained 
     
     by the collector, comptroller. surveyor, or other officer 
     
     of the Customs, until such penalty or penalties shall be 
     
     satisfied and paid, or until such master or person. or the 
     
     owner or owners of such ship or vessel. shall give good 
     
     and sufficient bail, by recognizance before one of His 
     
     Majesty’s Justices of the Peace. for the payment ofsnch 
     
     penalty or penalties. 
     
    

    
     VII. And be it further enacted, That if any person 
     
     within any part of the United Kingdom, or in 
     
     any part of His Majesty’s Dominions beyond the seas, 
     
     shall. without the leave and license of His majesty for 
     
     that. purpose first had and obtained as aforesaid, equip, 
     
     furnish, fit out, or arm, or attempt or endeavor to equip, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     furnish, fit out, or arm, or procure to be equipped, fur- 
     
     nished, fitted out, or armed, or shall knowingly aid, 
     
     assist or be concerned in the equipping. furnishing. fit- 
     
     ting out, or arming of any ship or vessel, with intent or 
     
     in order that such ship'or vessel shall be employed in 
     
     the service of any foreign Prince, state. or, potentute, or 
     
     of any foreign colony, province, or part of any province 
     
     or people. or of any person or persons eXercising or as- 
     
     suming to exercise any powers of government in or 
     
     over any foreign state, colony, province. or part of any 
     
     province or people, as a transport or store ship. or with 
     
     intent to cruise or commit hostilities against any 
     
     Prince, state, or potentate, or against the subjects or 
     
     citizens of any Prince, state, or potentate, or against 
     
     the persons exercising or assuming to exercise the 
     
     powers of government in.any colony, province, or 
     
     part of any province, or country, with Whom His 
     
     Majesty shall not then be at war; or shall, Within the 
     
     United Kingdom, or any of His Majesty’s Dominions, 
     
     or in any settlement, colony. territory, island, or place 
     
     belonging or subject to His Majesty, issue or deliver 
     
     any commission for any ship or vessel to the intent 
     
     that snch ship or vessel shall be employed as 
     
     aforesaid, every such person so offending shall 
     
     be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, 
     
     upon conviction thereof upon any information or in- 
     
     dictment, be punished by fine and imprisonment, or 
     
     either of them, at the discretion of the court in which 
     
     such offender shall be convicted, and every such ship 
     
     0,. vesscp with the tackle, apparel, and furniture, to- 
     
     gether with all the materials, arms, ammunition, and 
     
     stores. which may belong to or be on board of any such 
     
     ship or vessel, shall be forfeited; and it shall be law- 
     
     ful for any officer of His Majesty’s customs or Excise, 
     
     or any oilicer of His Majesty‘s Navy, who is by Law 
     
     empowered to make seizures, for any forfeiture in- 
     
     curred under any of the laws of customs or Excise or 
     
     the Laws of trade and Navigation, to seize such ships 
     
     and vessels aforesaid, and in such places and in such 
     
     manner in which the officers of His Majesty’s Customs 
     
     or Excise and the officers of His Majesty’s Navy are 
     
     empowered respectively to make seizures under the 
     
     laws of customs and Excise, or. under the LaWs of 
     
     trade and navigation; and that every such ship and 
     
     vessel, with the tackle, apparel, and furniture, to- 
     
     gether with all the materials, arms, ammunition, and 
     
     stores which may belong to or be on board of such 
     
     ship or vessel, may be prosecuted aud’coudemned in 
     
     the like manner and in such courts as ships or ves- 
     
     sels may be prosecuted and condemned for any breach 
     
     of the laws for the protection of the revenues of cus- 
     
     toms and excise, or the laws of trade and navigation. 
     
    
   
   
    
     VIII. And be it further enacted, that if any person 
     
     in any part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain 
     
     anti Ireland, or in any part of His Majesty's Domin- 
     
     ions beyond the seas, without the leave and licence 
     
     of His Majesty for that purpose first had and obtain- 
     
     ed as aforesaid, shall by adding to the number of guns 
     
     of such vessel, or by changing those on board for 
     
     other guns, or by the addition of any equipment for war, 
     
     increase or augment, .or procure to be increased or aug- 
     
     mented, or shall be knowingly concerned in increasing 
     
     or augmenting the warlike force of any ship or vessel 
     
     of war, or cruizer, or other armed vessel which at the 
     
     time of her arrival in any part of the United Kingdom, 
     
     or any of His Majesty's Dominions, was a ship of war, 
     
     cruizer, or armed vessel in the service of any foreign 
     
     prince, state, or potentate, or of any person or persons 
     
     exercising or assuming to exercise any powers of gov- 
     
     ernment in or over any colony, province, or part ofauy 
     
     province or people belonging to the subjects of any such 
     
     Prince, state. or potentatc, or to the inhabitants of any 
     
     colony province, or part of any province or country 
     
     under the control of any person or persons so exercising 
     
     or assuming to exercise the pOWers of government. 
     
     every such person so offending shall be deemed guilty of 
     
     a misdemeanor, and shall, upon being convicted thereof, 
     
     upon any information or indictment, be punished by 
     
     fine and imprisonment, or either of them, at the dis- 
     
     cretion of the court before which such offender shall be 
     
    
   
   
    
     convicted. 
     
    
   
   
    
     IX. And be it further enacted, that offences made 
     
     punishable by the provisions of this Act, committed out 
     
     of the United Kingdom, may be prosecuted bud tried in