Section VI

Seaman's Will not to be written on the same Paper with a Letter of Attorney.

And whereas it is necessary that Seamen should appoint Attorneys who may receive their Pay in their absence but of late an evil Practice is introduced that in the Letters constituteing such Attorneys there is added a Clause purporting a Will made by such Seamen whereby they make their Attorneys their Executors and give their whole Estate or great part thereof the Seamen being ignorant of the Efficacy and Consequence of such a Clause whereby the Relations and Familys of such Seamen as are killed at Sea often suffer great loss For preventing such Inconveniency for the future be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the said Four and twentieth Day of June no Will of any Seamen contained printed or written in the same Paper or Parchment with a Warrant or Letter of Attorney shall be good or available in Law to any intent or purpose whatsoever.