Papists (No. 2) Act 1688

VI. Persons discovering Arms.

Reward. Refusers taking the Declaration, Penalty discharged.

And bee it further enacted That if any person or persons shall discover any concealed Arms Weapons Ammunition or Gunpowder belonging to any refuseing or makeing default as aforesaid soe as the same may be seized as aforesaid for the use of their Majestyes and their Successors the Justices of the Peace upon delivery of the same at the generall Quarter Sessions as aforesaid shall have power and they are hereby required as a Reward for such a discovery by Order of Sessions to allow to him or them a Summe of Money amounting to the full value of the Arms Weapons Ammunition or Gunpowder soe discovered the said Summe to be assessed by the Judgment of the said Justices at their said Sessions and to be levyed by distresse and sale of the Goods of the person offending against this Act rendring the Overplus which shall arise by such sale above the said summe soe allowed and above the necessary Charges of takeing such distresse to the Owner Provided alwayes That if any person who shall have refused or made default as aforesaid shall desire to submitt and conforme and for that purpose shall present himselfe before the Justices of Peace at the Generall Quarter Sessions to be holden for the County Rideing Division or Liberty where his refuseall or makeing default as aforesaid shall be certifyed as aforesaid and shall there in open Court make repeate and subscribe the said Declaration contained in the said Act made in the said thirtyeth yeare of the Raigne of the said late King Charles the Second and take the severall Oathes contained in an Act made in this present Parlyament Intituled An Act for Removeing and Preventing all Questions and Disputes concerning the assembling and sitting of this present Parlyament He shall from thenceforth be discharged of and from all disabilities and forfeitures which he might or should be lyable to for the future by reason of his refusall or default as aforesaid