{"id":2757,"date":"2022-06-29T10:24:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T10:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/?page_id=2757"},"modified":"2023-10-20T16:01:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T16:01:43","slug":"1778-18-george-3-c-62-continuing-the-hulks-act","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/the-statutes\/eighteenth-century\/1778-18-george-3-c-62-continuing-the-hulks-act\/","title":{"rendered":"1778: 18 George 3 c.62: Continuing the Hulks Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>1778: 18 George 3 c.62: An act to continue an act, made in the sixteenth year of his present Majesty, intituled An act to authorise, for a limited time, the punishment, by hard labour, of offenders who, for certain crimes, are or shall become liable to be transported to any of his majesty&#8217;s colonies and plantations.<\/h3>\n<p>[Preamble.]<\/p>\n<p>WHEREAS an act of parliament was made in the sixteenth year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled,<\/p>\n<p>[16 Geo. 3. C 43. recited.]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/the-statutes\/eighteenth-century\/1776-16-george-3-c-43-hulks-act\/\">An act to authorise, for a limited time, the punishment, by hard labour, of offenders who, for certain crimes, are or shall become liable to be transported to any of his majesty&#8217;s colonies and plantations<\/a>: and whereas the said act is near expiring; be it therefore enacted by the king&#8217;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,<\/p>\n<p>[and further continued till June 1, 1 1779.]<\/p>\n<p>That the said act shall be, and is hereby continued from the expiration thereof, until the first day of June, one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=FcAuAAAAIAAJ&amp;pg=PA156#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">Pickering, Statutes at Large, vol. 32<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/the-statutes\/eighteenth-century\/1776-16-george-3-c-43-hulks-act\/\">1776: 16 George 3 c.43: The Hulks Act.<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1778: 18 George 3 c.62: An act to continue an act, made in the sixteenth year of his present Majesty, intituled An act to authorise, for a limited time, the punishment, by hard labour, of offenders who, for certain crimes, are or shall become liable to be transported to any of his majesty&#8217;s colonies and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":32,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2757","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2757\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}