An Act to substitute, in certain Cases, other Punishment in lieu of Transportation.
WHEREAS by reason of the Difficulty of transporting Offenders beyond the Seas it has become expedient to substitute, in certain Cases, other Punishment in lieu of Transportation: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: