An Act to amend the Penal Servitude Acts
WHEREAS Two Acts were passed, the one Chapter Ninety-nine in the Session of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, and the other Chapter Three in the Session of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Years of the same Reign, having for their Object the Substitution of other Punishments in lieu of Transportation: And whereas it is expedient to amend the said Acts: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spir...