....... and Personal Property of his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors.-[2d May 1825.] 607 p [No. LVII. ] 7 George IV. c. 51.-An Act to confirm Sales made by the Surveyor-General and the Commissioners of the Land Revenue of the Crown, under an Act of the forty-eighth Year of his late Majesty.—[26th May 1826.] ..... 607 s [No. LVIII. ] 7 George IV. c. 77.—An Act to extend to Charing Cross the Strand and Places adjacent, the powers of an Act for making a more convenient communication from Mary-le-bone Park; and to enable the Commissioners of his Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, to grant Leases of the Site of Carlton Palace.-[31st May 1826.] ... ..... 607 u [No. LIX. ] 7 George IV. c. 78.-An Act to vest in the Commissioners of his Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, the Powers of several Acts for the Improvement of the Streets near Westminster-Hall, and the Houses of Parliament; and to authorize the conversion of the Pavements in several Parts of the Metropolis into Broken Stone Road.-[31st May 1826.] ..... ... ib. [ No. LX. ] 7 and 8 George IV. c. 68.-An Act for the Management and Improvement of the Land Revenues of the Crown in Ireland, and for other Purposes relating thereto.-[2d July 1827.] ........... .... ib. [No. LXI. ] 9 George IV. c. 70.—An Act to alter and enlarge the Powers of an Act passed in the seventh Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, for extending to Charing Cross, the Strand, and places adjacent, the Powers of an Act for making a more convenient communication from Mary-le-bone Park, and for enabling the Commissioners of his Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, to grant Leases of the Site of Carlton Palace; and for other Purposes re. lating thereto.-[19th July 1828.] .... 607 eee [No. LXII. ] 10 George IV. c. 50.—An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to the Management and Improvement of his Majesty's Woods, Forests, Parks, and Chases; of the Land Revenue of the Crown, within the Survey of the Exchequer in England; and of the Land Revenue of the Crown in Ireland; and for extending certain Provisions relating to the same to the Isles of Man and Alderney.—[19th June 1829.] ... .... 608 [No. LXIII. ] 10 George IV. c. 61.—An Act to amend an Act of the seventh Year of his present Majesty, for extending to Charing Cross, the Strand, and Places adjacent, the Powers of an Act for making a more convenient communication from Mary-le-bone Park.~[21th June 1829.] 652 [By 42 Ed. III. c. 10, entitled Children born beyond Sea if inheritable in England, upon the Petition in Parliament by the Commonalty, praying that the Children born beyond Sea in the seigniories of Calais, Guyne, and Gascony, and elsewhere in the lands and seigniories of the Lord the King, shall be hereafter as heretofore inheritable of their heritages in England as other Children born in England, it was enacted and asserted, that the Common Law and the Statute (25 Ed. III. st. 2, which see infra) heretofore made upon this point, shall be observed and kept. By Statutes 5 R. II. c. 3, 7 R. II. c. 12, 1 Hen. V. c. 7, Aliens were prohibited to take benefices without the King's licence. By 1 Ric. III. c. 9, entitled In what sort Italian Merchants may sell Merchandises-Several Restraints of Aliens, Provisions are contained to the following effect:-Italian Merchants shall sell their Merchandises in gross and employ their money in the commodities of this realmStrangers shall sell their Wares within eight months after their arrival, and employ their money as above-Strangers may carry away so much as they cannot sell within eight months-Strangers may remove their goods from one port to another-a Stranger shall not be a host of a stranger unless he be of his own country-Aliens shall not buy and sell Wool or Woollen Cloth within this realm, nor make Woollen Cloth, nor deliver Wool to that end-an Alien shall not be an HandicraftsmanAliens shall make no Cloth within this realm-Aliens shall sell their Wares in gross, and not by retail-Aliens shall take no Servant but the King's subject-who shall have forfeitures under the Act-the Act not to prevent Aliens from selling Books, written or printed, or inhabiting within the realm for that intent, which Proviso is repealed by 25 Hen. VIII. c. 15. By 14 & 15 Hen. VIII. c. 2, entitled What Apprentices strange Artificers shall take, it is enacted, that no Stranger shall take an Apprentice, but one that was born under the King's obeisance, upon pain of forfeiting Ten pounds that no Alien shall take above two Journeymen, except they be born under the King's obeisance (made perpetual by 21 IIen. VIII. c. 16. s. 8, and explained by 22 Hen. VIII. c. 13.) A great many Provisions are inserted for regulating the Wares of Aliens. There is a Proviso, that the Act shall not extend to Strangers in the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge, or within the Sanctuary of Saint Martin's the Grand; and also a Proviso, that it should be lawful for any Lord of Parliament, and others the King's subjects, having lands of the yearly value of one hunhundred pounds, to retain Strangers, Joiners and Glaziers, in their service. This Act was made perpetual by 21 Hen. VIII. c. 16, 22 Hen. VIII. c. 13, but altered and amended by 32 Hen. VIII. c. 16. The next Statute connected with the subject is 21 Hen. VIII. c. 16, "Touching Artificers, Strangers, what they may do as concerning retaining Apprentices, Journeymen," &c. by which it is provided, amongst other things, that no Stranger, Artificer, shall keep in his house above two Strangers born (which is repealed by Stat. 5 Eliz. c. 4.)-that Aliens housekeepers shall bear such charges as the King's subjects do-that Aliens shall be sworn to be true to the King, to obey him and his laws--that Aliens shall not assemble in conventicles, but in their halls-that no Alien, dwelling in Oxford, Cambridge, or Saint Martin's le Grand, shall have above ten persons, Aliens, in his house--(altered and amended by 32 Hen. VIII. c. 16, and see 5 Eliz. c. 4.)—and a Decree of the Star Chamber, containing a preamble respecting the mischiefs arising from the continual resort of Strangers, to the detriment of our own natural subjects, followed by several particular regulations, amongst others, that no Strangers but Denizens shall keep House or Shop, is ratified and confirmed. The 22 Hen. VIII. c. 13, was passed for Bakers, Brewers, Surgeons and Scriveners, not to be accounted Handicraftsmen within the laws prohibiting Aliens from exercising handicrafts. the King By the Stat. 32 Hen. VIII. c. 16, Concerning Strangers, calling unto his blessed remembrance the infinite number of Strangers and Aliens which daily do increase and multiply within his Grace's realms and dominions, in excessive numbers, to the great detriment hindrance loss and impoverishment of his Grace's natural and liege Subjects, and noticing the former Statutes upon the subject, (1 R. III. c. 9. 14 & 15 H. VIII. c. 2, 21 H. VIII. c. 16,) which have been frustrated chiefly by means of Letters Patent, obtained by the crafty suits inventions and practices of Strangers, lately made Denizens, which contain that every such Denizen shall be as free as Englishmen naturally born within the King's Grace's dominions and obeisance, any Acts or Statutes to the contrary notwithstanding,-it is enacted, that all Denizens shall be bound and obedient by and unto all the aforesaid Acts and Statutes, and to all the contents of the same, and to all other Acts and Statutes of this realm heretofore made, now being in their force and not repealed, any Letters Patent or Ordinances heretofore made, or hereafter to be made, to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding; and that also in all and every Letters Patent for the making of any Denizen, to be made to any Stranger not being born under the King's Grace's obeisance, shall be contained a Proviso, that he or they, to whom such Letters Patent shall be granted, shall be bound and obedient by and unto all the Acts and Estatutes of this realm as is aforesaid, and to all and every the contents of the same, except it shall be the King's most gracious pleasure to grant to any such Alien any special liberties or privileges more or otherwise than is contained in the said Estatutes; and in that case all such liberties and privileges so to be granted to any such Alien, contrary to the form of any of the said Estatutes, shall he plainly wholly and particularly expressed specified and declared by special words, as well in the Bill assigned with the King's Grace's hand for obtaining of any such Grant, as in the Letters Patent, to be made out of the Chancery, for and concerning the same. In the same Act are contained Provisions, that no Alien dwelling in Oxford, &c. shall keep above two Servants, that are Strangers, at one time-that every Alien shall be bound by and unto the Laws and Statutes of this realm, and to all and singular the contents of the same-that no Person may keep above two Strangers at one time, except Lords of Parliament, who may keep six-and lastly, it is enacted by Sec. 13, that all Leases of any Dwelling-house or Shop, within this realm or any of the King's dominions, made to any Stranger, Artificer, or Handicraftsman, born out of the King's obeisance, not being Denizen, from and after the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel next ensuing, shall be void and of none effect; and that no Stranger, Artificer, or Handicraftsman, born out of the King's obeisance, not being Denizen, shall, after the same Feast take any Lease of any Dwelling-house or Shop within this realm or in any other the King's dominions, upon pain to lose and forfeit, for every time doing contrary to this Act, one hundred shillings; and that no persons after the same Feast shall grant or let to farm any Dwelling-house or Shop, to any such Stranger Artificer or Handicraftsman, not being Denizen, to the intent to dwell or inhabit in the sanie, upon like pain of one hundred shillings, the one moiety of which pains and forfeitures to be to the King our Sovereign Lord, and the other moiety to such as will sue for the same. As the above Provisions are not now of any practical importance, it was thought preferrible to refer to them by way of Note, rather than to insert them in the body of the Collection. There are several Regulations in the Statute Book respecting the payment of additional Duties by Aliens, but I apprehend that these have become obsolete since the passing the Statute 27 Geo. III. c. 13, for Consolidating the Duties on the Customs, by which all former Duties are repealed, and in this and the subsequent Acts upon the subject for regulating the amount of Duties, no distinction is made with respect to Aliens. By 6th Ann, c. 37, For the Encouragement of the Trade to America, Sec. 20, Provision was made for naturalizing foreign Seamen, who should serve on board any of her Majesty's ships of war, or any Privateer or Merchant ship belonging to any of her Majesty's subjects, during the then present war, according to the Provisions of the Act. By 13th Geo. II. c. S, For the better Supply of Mariners and Seamen, to serve in his Majesty's Ships of War, and on board Merchant Ships and other Trading Ships and Privateers, permission is given to employ a greater proportion of foreign Seamen than is allowed by Stat. 12 Chas. II. and by Sec. 2, it is enacted, that for encouraging foreign_Mariners and Seamen to come and serve on board ships belonging to Great Britain, every such foreign Seamen or Mariner, who shall have lawfully served during the time of war on board any of his Majesty's ships of war, or any Merchant or other Trading ship or vessel, or Privateer, which at the time of such service shall belong to any of his Majesty's subjects in Great Britain, shall be deemed and taken to be a natural-born Subject of his Majesty's kingdom of Great Britain, and have and enjoy all the privileges powers rights and capacities which such foreign Mariner or Seamen would have had and enjoyed in case he had been a natural-born Subject of his Majesty, and actually a native within the kingdom of Great Britain, subject to the restrictions mentioned in Stat. 12 & 13 W. III. c. 2. Section 3 provides, that no persons naturalized thereby shall be enabled to be of the Privy Council, or a Member of either House of Parliament, or to take any Office or place of Trust, civil or military, or to have any grant of Lands from the Crown to himself, or any other person in trust for him-and by Section 4 it shall be lawful for his Majesty, in any future war, to publish a Proclamation to permit Ships to be manned with foreign Mariners, in the manner provided by the Act; and upon the publishing such Proclamation, the Act and every thing therein contained shall be deemed in full force and virtue during such war-and by 20 Geo. III. c. 20. For the better Supply of Mariners and Seamen, to serve in his Majesty's Ships of War, and on board Merchant Ships and other Trading Ships and Vessels, after reciting |