dicature, of extortion, breach of public truft, embezzlement of pub lic money, or ftores, or of defrauding the faid United Company, or for carrying on any monopoly, every fuch offender, after being fo convicted, fhall and may, immediately after the fentence of such court fhall have been inflicted, be fent over to England, by the order of the governor and council of the prefidency or fettlement where fuch offender fhall be tried and convicted as aforefaid; and moreover every fuch offender fhall be, and is hereby declared to be

And be it enacted, by the authority aforefaid, That in cafe any military Officer of the faid United Company fhall, by the judgment or fentence of any court martial, legally confirmed, be found guilty of cowardice, or any or either of the offences above-mentioned, fuch perfon or perfons, fo found guilty fhall, and he is hereby declared to be

And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That after any judgment of the faid fupreme court of judicature, or of any court of judicature in Great Britain, or at any of the faid United Company's fettlements, against any of the faid United Company's fervants, civil or military, for any debt or penalty due to the faid United Company, fhall be made known to the court of directors for the time being of the faid United Company, it shall not be lawful for the faid United Company, or their court of directors, to release or compound fuch fentence or judgment, or to release, discharge, or put a stop to any profecution, fuit, or action commenced, or to be commenced, for any debt or penalty due to the faid United Company, or for carrying on any illicit trade, without the unanimous confent of the faid court of directors, to be taken by ballot; and alfo the confent of in number of the proprietors of the faid United Company, to be taken by ballot at a general court of the faid United Company, to be fpecially called for that purpose, and of which general court days public notice, at the leaft, fhall be given before the holding the fame, and of the particular occafion for which fuch general court fhall be called.

And be it further enacted, by the authority aforefaid, that it fhall and may be lawful for the Prefident and Council of the faid United Company's fettlement at Fort William in Bengal, from time to time to make and iffue fuch rules, ordinances, and regulations for the good order and civil government of the faid United Company's fettlement at Fort William aforefaid, and other factories and places fubordinate, or to be fubordinate thereto, as fhall be deemed juft and reasonable (fuch rules, ordinances, and regulations not being repugnant to the laws of this realm) and alfo to impofe and levy all neceffary and reafonable impofts and duties on commerce and trade, for the fupport of the faid United Company's civil government in Bengal, and to fet, impofe, inflict, and levy reasonable fines and forfeitures for the breach or non-obfervance of fuch rules, ordinances, regulations, rates, and duties; but nevertheless the fame, or any of them, fhalí not be valid, or of any force or effect, until the fame fhall be duly registered in the faid fupreme court of judicature, to be by the faid new charter eftablished, with the confent and approbation of the faid court, and from and immediately after the registering thereof as aforefaid, the fame fhall be good and valid in law: But neverthelefs it fhall be lawful for any perfon or perfons to appeal therefrom to his Majefty, his heirs or fucceffors, in council in England, fo as fuch appeal or notice thereof be lodged in the faid new court of judicature,

judicature, within the space of days after the time of the regiftering fuch rules, ordinances, regulations, rates or duties: Yet nevertheless fuch appeal fhall not obftruct, impede, or hinder the immediate execution of any rule, ordinance, regulation, rate or duty, fo made and registered as aforefaid, until the fame fhall appear to have been quafhed or vacated upon the hearing and determination of fuch appeal.

And be it further enacted, by the authority aforefaid, That the Prefident and Council for the time being of the faid United Company's fettlement at Fort William aforefaid fhall and may, and they are hereby refpectively declared to be and to have full power to act as Juftices of the Peace for the faid fettlement, and for the feveral fettlements and factories fubordinate or hereafter to be fubordinate thereto; and for that purpose they are hereby authorifed and impowered to hold quarter-feffions times within the faid fettlement, and fhall be at all times a court of record, with full power and authority to do and tranfact all matters and things which to the office of a Justice or Juftices of the Peace do belong or appertain.

And be it further enacted, by the authority aforefaid, That any offence or offences committed againft this act, or any of the claufes, reftrictions, and regulations herein contained, fhall and may be fued for and profecuted, according to the nature of fuch offence or of fences, by any perfon or perfons whatfoever, in the faid fupreme court of judicature to be by the faid charter eftablifhed; in which no effoign, wager of law, or protection fhall be allowed; and

of all the fines by the faid fupreme court of judicature inflicted and imposed by the authority of this act, shall be to the ufe of the faid United Company, and thereof to the

perfon or persons who fhall profecute or fue for the fame; all which faid offences fhall be tried in the faid court by a jury of British subjects, refident at Calcutta, and not otherwife.

And be it further enacted, by the authority aforefaid, That if any perfon or perfons fhall be fued, molefted, or profecuted for any thing done by virtue of this act, or the faid new charter, fuch perfon or perfons fhall and may plead the general iffue, and give this act and the fpecial matter in evidence in his or their defence; and if afterwards a verdict fhall pafs for the defendant or defendants, or the plaintiff or plaintiffs fhall difcontinue his or their action or actions, or be nonfuited, or judgment fhall be given against him, her, or them, upon demurrer or otherwife, then fuch defendant or defendants fhall have cofts awarded to him or them against fuch

plaintiff or plaintiffs.

And be it further enacted, by the authority aforefaid, That this act fhall be deemed and taken to be a public act; of which notice fhall be judicially taken by all Judges, Juftices, and other perfons whatfoever, without fpecially pleading the fame.

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR, LENOX &
TILDEN FOUNDATION

THE

POLITICAL REGISTER.

For JUNE, 1772.

NUMBER LXIV.

To the Printer of the Political Regifter:
SIR,

THE

HE following "Difcourfe, on the Nature and Foundation of Political Power, with Observations how far each Perfon is concerned to live in a State of Subjection to it ;" is an attempt to refute the notion of an original contract fubfifting between prince and people, on which Mr. Locke, a favourite author, has built his fyftem of politicks. None, however, must think it is done with the defign to recommend the political creed of Tories: on the contrary, the fole aim of it is to inveftigate truth, and point out what is moft probable.

Few queftions have been agitated with more heat than thofe regarding the foundations of civil fociety, and the laws whereby this fociety is preferved. On one fide, principles have been eftablished with an evident tendency to foment eternal feditions, in the view of preventing tyranny; and on the other, the most horrid tyranny has been confecrated for the purposes of repreffing for ever all popular infurrections. So that prejudice and paffion may be faid to have been continual obftructions in the way of moft politicians, towards finding a juft medium between thefe extremities.

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