Revived and continued enactments
Section 1 of the act made the Juries Act 1729 (3 Geo. 2. c. 25) and the Juries Act 1730 (4 Geo. 2. c. 7) perpetual. [2]
Section 2 of the act provided that justices in the counties palatine of Chester, Lancaster and Durham could, upon motion by the Crown, prosecutors, defendants, or plaintiffs in legal proceedings, order and appoint a special jury to be struck for trials in their respective courts, following the same procedures as special juries used in Westminster courts. [2]
Section 3 of the act continued the Cloth Manufacturer Act 1724 (11 Geo. 1. c. 24), from the expiration of the act until the end of the next session of parliament after 1 September 1740, except "as restrains any person, not having served seven years as an apprentice to the trade or broad clothing, or not having exercised and used such trade for the space of two years before the commencement of the said act, except as therein is excepted, from making or causing to be made any broad cloth in the said west riding, under the penalties therein mentioned". [2]
Section 4 of the act continued the Criminal Law Act 1722 (9 Geo. 1. c. 22), as continued by the Continuance of 9 Geo. 1. c. 22 Act 1725 (12 Geo. 1. c. 30), from the expiration of the act until the end of the next session of parliament after 1 September 1736. [2]
Section 5 of the act continued the provided that any person who, from 24 June 1733 onwards, unlawfully and maliciously broke down or cut down river banks or sea banks causing lands to be overflowed or damaged, would upon conviction be adjudged guilty of felony and suffer death without benefit of clergy. [2]
Section 6 of the act provided that any person who, from 24 June 1733 onwards and during the continuance of the Criminal Law Act 1722 (9 Geo. 1. c. 22), unlawfully and maliciously cut hop-binds growing on poles in any hop plantation would upon conviction be adjudged guilty of felony and suffer death without benefit of clergy. [2]
Section 7 of the act continued the Moss Troopers Act 1662 (14 Cha. 2. c. 22) [b] from the expiration of the act until the end of the next session of parliament after 1 September 1744. [2]
Section 8 of the act provided that the Moss Troopers Act 1662 (14 Cha. 2. c. 22) [c] would be deemed as a public act. [2]
Section 9 of the act revived and continued the Moss Troopers Act 1666 (18 & 19 Cha. 2. c. 3) [d] as provided that "the benefit of clergy is taken away from great, known and notorious thieves and spoil-takers in the counties of Northumberland and Cumberland, or either of them, during the continuance of the said act, who shall be duly convicted for theft done or committed within the said counties, or either of them, or otherwise; that it should and might be lawful for the justices of the assizes and commissioners of Oyer and Terminer or gaol delivery, before whom such offenders should be convicted within the said counties, or either of them, to transport or cause to be transported the said offenders, and every of them, into any of his Majesty's dominions in America, there to remain and not return" and the Moss Troopers Act 1677 (29 & 30 Cha. 2. c. 2) as provided that "the several justices of the peace of the said respective counties of Northumberland and Cumberland are impowered from time to time, at the respective quarter-sessions, to take good and sufficient security of the person or persons by them employed in the said service for the preservation of the said respective counties from theft and rapine, to answer the damages sustained by any person or persons by his or their neglect or default therein, and to pay and satisfy the same within four months after that proof thereof should have been made by the oath of one or more credible witness or witnesses, before the justices of the peace of the said respective counties, at the next quarter-sessions in the respective county (which oath or oaths the said justice or justices are thereby authorized to administer) so as the goods stolen were entred in one of the books to be kept for that purpose, within the space of forty eight hours after the same should have been stolen or gone: and it is thereby enacted, that books should be kept for that end in every market town of the said respective counties, and at such other convenient places therein, and by such person or persons as the said justices of the peace in the said respective counties, at their general sessions of the peace, should order or appoint, and also that the said several justices of the peace of the said respective counties, at the general quarter sessions of the peace for the said counties respectively, should yearly, or every two years at the farthest, in open court, make choice of and appoint such person or persons, as they should respectively think fit, for the said counties respectively, to be employed in the said service" from 24 June 1733 until the end of the next session of parliament after 1 September 1744. [2]
Section 10 of the act provided that the clauses of the Moss Troopers Act 1666 (18 & 19 Cha. 2. c. 3) [e] and the Moss Troopers Act 1677 (29 & 30 Cha. 2. c. 2) continued in section 9 of the act would be deemed as public acts. [2]
