FOREIGN SERVICE BUREAU |
| DIRECTOR Stanford Boze |
ABOUT
Whereas the enlistment or engagement of his Majesty's subjects to serve in war in foreign service, without his Majesty's license, and the fitting out and equipping and arming of vessels by bis Majesty's subjects, without his Majesty's license, for warlike 'operations in or against the dominions or territories of any foreign prince, state, potentate, or persons exercising or assuming to exercise the powers of government in or over any foreign country, colony, province, or part of any province, or against the ships, goods, or merchandise of any foreign prince, state, potentate, or persons as aforesaid, or their subjects, may be prejudicial to and tend to endanger the peace and welfare of this kingdom ; and whereas the laws in force are not sufficiently effectual for preventing the same!: Be it therefore enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords, spiritual and temporal, and commons, iu this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that from and after the passing of tli is act, an act passed in the; ninth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, intituled "An act to prevent the listing his Majesty's subjects to serve as soldiers without his Majesty's license;" and also an act passed in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of his said late Majesty King George the Second, intituled "Ail act to provent his Majesty's subjects from serving as officers under the French King, and for better enforcing an act passed in the ninth year of his present Majesty's reign to prevent the enlisting his Majesty's subjects to serve as soldiers without his Majesty's license; and for obliging such of his Majesty's subjects as shall accept commissions in the Scotch brigade in the service of the States-general of the United Provinces to take the oaths of allegiance and abjuration," and also an act passed in Ireland in the eleventh year of the reign of his said late Majesty King George the Second, intituled "An act for the more effectual preventing the enlisting of his Majesty's subjects to serve as soldiers in foreign service without bis Majesty's license;'' and also an act passed in Ireland in the nineteenth year of the reign of his said late Majestv King George the Second, intituled '•An act for the more effectual preventing his Majesty's subjects from entering into foreign service', and for publishing an act of the seventh year of King William the Third, intituled 'An act to prevent foreign education,"' and all and every the clauses and provisions in the said several acts contained, shall be and the same are hereby repealed.
II. And be it further declared and enacted, that if any natural-born subject of his Majesty, his heirs and successors, without the leave or license of his Majesty, his heirs or successors, for that purpose first ha