, to ascertain the time when the hospital at
Greenwich became entitled to the unclaimed shares, of consequence could
not enjoy the full benefit of the act; the bill now prepared imported,
that, from and after the first day of September in the present year, all
notifications of the payment of the shares of prizes taken by any of
his majesty's ships of war, and condemned in Great Britain, and from and
after the first day of February, in the year one thousand seven hundred
and sixty-one, all notifications of the payment of the shares and prizes
taken and condemned in any other of his majesty's dominions in Europe,
or in any of the British plantations in America; and from and after the
twenty-fifth day of December, in the year one thousand seven hundred
and sixty-one, all notifications of the payment of the shares of prizes
taken and condemned in any other of his majesty's dominions, shall be
respectively given and published in the following manner:--If the
prize be condemned in any court of admiralty in Great Britain, such
notification, under the agent's hand, shall be published in the London
Gazette; and if condemned in any court of admiralty in any other of his
majesty's dominions, such notification shall be published in like manner
in the Gazette, or other newspaper of public authority, of the island or
place where the prize is condemned; and if there shall be no Gazette,
or such newspaper, published there, then in some or one of the public
newspapers of the place; and such agents shall deliver to the collector,
customer, or searcher, or his lawful deputy; and if there shall be no
such officer, then to the principal officer or officers of the place
where the prize is condemned, or to the lawful deputy of such principal
officers, two of the Gazettes or other newspapers in which such
notifications are inserted; and if there shall not be any public
newspapers in any such island or place, the agent shall give two such
notifications in writing, under his hand; and every such collector, or
other officer as aforesaid, shall subscribe his name on both the said
Gazettes, newspapers, or written notifications; and, by the first
ship which shall sail from thence to any port of Great Britain, shall
transmit to the treasurer or deputy-treasurers of the said royal
hospital one of the said notifications, with his name so subscribed, to
be there registered; and shall faithfully preserve and keep the other,
with his name thereon subscribed