detained.

Judgment or Determination thereupon, may be pleaded in Bar or instituted for given in Evidence under the General Issue, and shall be deemed the Recovery in any Court whatever to be a complete Bar in any Action, Suit, of the Vessels or Proceeding, whether instituted by any Person or Persons for the Recovery of any such Ship, Vessel, or Cargo, or of any Damage, or for any Injury sustained thereby or by the Persons on board the same, in consequence of any Capture, Seizure, or Detention, or anything done under or in pursuance of the Provisions of the said Agreements.

V. And be it enacted, That any Ship or Vessel which shall be Vessels concondemned as aforesaid may be taken into Her Majesty's Service, demned to be upon Payment of such Sum as the Lord High Admiral, or the sold for Her Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, shall deem a proper Price vice or broken Majesty's Serfor the same, or if not so taken, shall be broken up and demolished, up. and the Materials thereof shall be publicly sold in separate Parts, and the Proceeds thereof shall be paid to such Person or Persons as the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury may appoint to receive the same.

VI. And be it enacted, That where any Ship or Vessel employed Captors of Vesor engaged in such illicit Traffic in Slaves, in violation of the sels, after Condemnation, ensaid Agreements, shall be seized by any Ship or Vessel belonging titled to Proto Her Majesty or the East India Company, and afterwards con- ceeds belonging demned, there shall be paid to the Captors the net Proceeds to to Her Majesty. which Her Majesty is entitled, the same to be distributed in the Manner herein-after directed for the Distribution of Bounties on

Slaves taken on board the said Vessels.

VII. And be it enacted, That there shall be paid to the Com- Bounty for mander, Officers, and Crews of Her Majesty's Ships, or the Com- Slaves captured. mander, Officers, and Crews of the Ships of the East India Company, a Bounty of Five Pounds for every Man, Woman, and Child Slave seized and found on board any Ship or Vessel taken and condemned in pursuance of the Provisions of the said Agreements and of this Act, such Bounty to be issued and paid by Order from the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, and to be distributed to and amongst the Captors aforesaid in such Manner and Proportions as Her Majesty shall think fit to order by any Order in Council made or to be made or by any Proclamation for that Purpose.

VIII. And be it enacted, That where any Ship or Vessel which shall have been seized and condemned under the Provisions of the said Agreements shall have been or shall be demolished, and the Materials thereof publicly sold in separate Parts as well as her Cargo, there shall be paid to the Commanders, Officers, and Crews of Her Majesty's Ships or of those of the East India Company, in addition to the Amount of the Proceeds of such Sale as herein-before mentioned, a further Bounty on the Tonnage of such Ship or Vessel at the Rate of Thirty Shillings for every Ton of such Tonnage.

IX. And be it enacted, That where any Ship or Vessel having no Slaves on board shall have been seized and condemned under the Provisions of the said Agreements there shall be paid to the Commanders, Officers, and Crews of Her Majesty's Ships or those of the East India Company an additional Bounty upon the Tonnage of such Ship or Vessel at the Rate of Four Pounds for

Bounty on Tonnage of Slave Ships captured and demolished.

Where no

Slaves are on board a Ship seized and condemned, an additional Bounty to be paid.

Bounties to be

every Ton; and the Tonnage of all such Vessels shall be ascertained according to the Mode of ascertaining the Admeasurement of British Vessels, either by the principal Officer of the Customs at the Port where the Vessel may be at the Time of Condemnation, or in default thereof by the best Evidence which can be obtained Provided always, that in every Case in which any Ship or Vessel shall be seized with Slaves on board in which the Bounty calculated upon the Number of Slaves shall be less than the Bounty calculated upon the Tonnage, the Commanders of Her Majesty's Ships or of those of the East India Company, making the Seizure, may elect to take the Bounty calculated according to Tonnage, instead of the Bounty which would be payable upon the Number of Slaves on board.

X. And be it enacted, That all Bounties payable under this Act paid out of the shall be paid out of the Consolidated Fund of the United KingConsolidated dom of Great Britain and Ireland to the Commanders, Officers, and Crews of Her Majesty's Ships and of the Ships of the East India Company, and such Bounties shall be issued and paid by Order from the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury.

Fund..

Bounties not

XI. And be it enacted, That the said Bounty as also all Bounties liable to Pay- payable under any of the Acts for the Abolition or Suppression of the Slave Trade, shall not hereafter be charged with Treasury Fees or Exchequer Fees of any Description.

ment of Fees.

Proof of
Tonnage.

Copy of Sentence of Condemnation to

be produced to Commissioners

XII. Provided always, and be it enacted, That in order to entitle the Captors to receive the said Bounty Money the Tonnage of the Ship or Vessel so seized and condemned shall be proved to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury by producing a Copy, duly certified, of the Sentence or Decree of Condemnation, or by such documentary or other Evidence as they may deem satisfactory.

XIII. Provided always, and be it enacted, That in order to entitle the Captors to receive the said Bounty Money on Slaves the Number of Men, Women, and Children so taken, delivered over, and condemned shall be proved to the Commissioners of of the Treasury. Her Majesty's Treasury by producing a Copy, duly certified, of the Sentence or Decree of Condemnation, and also a Certificate under the Hand of the proper Officer or Officers, Military or Civil, who may be appointed to receive such Slaves.

One Moiety

of the Bounty

in certain Cases.

XIV. And be it enacted, That where any Slaves, or Persons treated as Slaves, shall be seized on board any Ship or Vessel taken only to be paid and condemned in pursuance of the said Agreements and of this Act, but who shall not have been delivered over in consequence of Death, Sickness, or other inevitable Circumstance, it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, if to their Discretion it shall seem meet, to direct Payment of One Moiety of the Bounty which would have been due in each Case respectively if the said Slaves had been delivered over.

Parties claiming Benefit under this Act may resort to the Court of Admiralty.

XV. Provided also, and be it enacted, That any Party or Parties claiming any Benefit by way of Bounty under the Provisions of this Act, or of any Share of the Proceeds of any Vessel confiscated in pursuance of the Provisions of the aforesaid Agreements, may resort to the High Court of Admiralty for the Purpose of obtaining the Judgment of the said Court in that Behalf, and that it shall be lawful for the Judge of the said High Court

of

of Admiralty to determine thereon, and also to hear and determine any Question of joint Capture which may arise upon any Seizure made in pursuance of this Act, and also to enforce any Decrees or Sentences of the said Vice Admiralty Courts relating to any such Seizure.

Accounts extended to

XVI. And be it enacted, That all the Provisions, Rules, Regu- Regulations, lations, Forfeitures, and Penalties respecting the Delivery by Prize &c. respecting Agents of Accounts for Examination, and the Distribution of Prize Prize Agents Money, and the accounting for and paying over the Proceeds of Prize and the Per-centage due thereon to Greenwich Hospital, Bounties, &c. shall be extended to all Bounties and Proceeds to be distributed, under this Act. under the Provisions of this Act, to the Officers and Crews of any of Her Majesty's Ships and Vessels of War.

ment of Costs awarded for

XVII. And be it enacted, That where any Ship or Vessel be- Commissioners longing in whole or in part to the before-mentioned Chiefs, or of the Treasury their Subjects or Dependents, shall have been detained and brought may order Payto Adjudication by any Officers of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland or of those of the East India Company, and Vessels dethe said Ship shall be restored by Sentence of the Court, it shall tained but not be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, by condemned. Warrant signed by any Two or more of them, to direct Payment to be made out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland of any Costs or Damages which may be duly awarded: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall exempt such Officer from his Liability to make good the Payments so made when lawfully called upon either by the Parties interested therein or by Order of the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury.

repay to the

XVIII. And be it enacted, That when any Seizure shall be made The Commis. by any of the Commanders, Officers, and Crews of Her Majesty's sioners of the Ships or of those of the East India Company, and Judgment shall Treasury may be given against the Seizor, or when such Seizure shall be relin- Seizor of any quished by him, it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Vessel not Her Majesty's Treasury, if to their Discretion it shall seem meet, condemned the by Warrant signed by any Two or more of them, to direct Payment Expenses into be made out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland of such Costs and Expenses as the Seizor may have incurred in respect of such Seizure, or any proportional Part thereof.

of Dublin.

CA P. LXXXV.

An Act to amend an Act for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in Ireland, so far as relates to the Borough [1st August 1849.] WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Third and Fourth Years of Her present

curred by him.

Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act for the Regulation of Muni- 3 & 4 Vict. cipal Corporations in Ireland: And whereas another Act was c. 108. passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Sixth and 6&7 Vict. c. 93. Seventh Years of Her present Majesty's Reign, for the Amendment of the said first-recited Act: And whereas it is expedient to alter the Qualification of Burgesses of the Borough of Dublin under the said first-recited Act, and to assimilate the same to the

• Quali

After present
Year Provisions

of first-recited Act as to Qualification of Burgesses in Dublin repealed.

After the present Year no Burgesses to

be enrolled unless qualified under this Act.

Qualification of Burgesses.

"Qualification of Burgesses of Boroughs in England and Scotland, and for such Purpose, and for other Purposes herein-after mentioned, to amend the Provisions of the said first-recited Act, as far only as regards the said Borough of Dublin:' Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the Expiration of the present Year, as far as regards the said Borough of Dublin, the Pro. visions in the said first-recited Act contained relating to the Qualification of Burgesses shall be and the same are hereby repealed, except as to any Burgess Roll theretofore formed or Election made under the Provisions of the said Act for or relating to the said Borough.

II. And be it enacted, That from and after the Expiration of the present Year no Person shall be enrolled a Burgess of the said Borough of Dublin for the Purpose of enjoying the Rights conferred for the first Time by the said recited Acts or either of them, or this Act, in respect of any Title, other than by Occupancy and Payment of Rates within such Borough according to the Meaning and Provisions of this Act.

III. And be it enacted, That from and after the Expiration of the present Year, in the Borough of Dublin, every Male Person of full Age who on the last Day of August in any Year shall have occupied any House, Warehouse, Counting-house, or Shop within such Borough of Dublin during that Year and the whole of each of the Two preceding Years, and also during the Time of such Occupation shall have been an inhabitant Householder within the said Borough, or within Seven Statute Miles of the said Borough of Dublin, shall, if duly enrolled in that Year according to the Provisions of the said recited Acts, be a Burgess of such Borough, and Member of the Body Corporate of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of such Borough: Provided always, that no such Person shall be so enrolled in any Year from and after the present Year unless he shall have been rated in respect of such Premises so occupied by him within the said Borough to all Rates made for the Relief of the Poor of the Electoral Division or Union wherein such Premises are situated during the Time of his Occupation as aforesaid, and unless he shall have paid on or before the last Day of August as aforesaid all such of the Rates, Cesses, and Taxes specified in the Schedule to this Act annexed as shall have become payable by him (if any) in respect of the said Premises, except such as shall become payable within Six Calendar Months next before the said last Day of August: Provided also, that the Premises in respect of the Occupation of which any Person shall have been so rated need not be the same Premises or in the same Parish, but may be different Premises in the same Parish or in different Parishes: Provided also, that any Person who shall be enrolled as a Burgess upon the Burgess Roll of the said Borough of Dublin at the Time of the passing of this Act shall, for the Purposes of this Act, without further Proof, be deemed to have been duly rated to the Relief of the Poor in respect of Premises within such Borough for the Space of Twelve Calendar Months next preceding the last Day of August in the Year One thousand eight hundred

and

and forty-eight, and to have duly paid all such Rates, and to have been otherwise duly qualified and entitled under the Provisions of the said first-recited Act to be enrolled as a Burgess at the Time of the last Revision of such Burgess Roll preceding the passing of this Act: Provided also, that no Person being an Alien shall be so enrolled or vote in any Year, and that no Person shall be so enrolled or vote in any Year who within Twelve Calendar Months next before the said last Day of August shall have received Relief under the Acts for the more effectual Relief of the destitute Poor in Ireland, or any Pension or charitable Allowance from any Fund intrusted to the Charitable Trustees of such Borough Provided also, that in every Case provided in this Act the Distance of Seven Statute Miles shall be computed by the nearest public Road or Way by Land or Water.

Aliens, and Persons who have received

Poor Law

Relief, not to be enrolled.

Medical Assistance, &c. Schools not to disqualify.

in endowed

rated.

IV. And be it enacted, That no Medical or Surgical Assistance given by the Charitable Trustees of the said Borough shall be taken to be such charitable Allowance as shall disqualify any Person from being enrolled a Burgess, nor shall any Person be so disqualified by reason that any Child of such Person shall have been admitted and taught within any public or endowed School. V. And be it enacted, That in the said Borough it shall be Occupiers may lawful for any Person occupying any House, Warehouse, Counting- claim to be house, or Shop to claim to be rated to the Relief of the Poor in respect of such Premises, whether the Landlord shall or shall not be liable to be rated to the Relief of the Poor in respect thereof; and upon such Occupier so claiming, and actually paying or tendering to the Collector thereof, or to the Person or Persons entitled to receive the same, the full Amount of the last made Rate then payable in respect of such Premises, the Guardians or other Per. sons charged with making any Rate for the Relief of the desti. tute Poor which shall or ought to include such Premises are hereby required to put the Name of such Occupier upon the Rate for the Time being; and in case any such Guardians or other Persons shall neglect or refuse so to do, such Occupier shall nevertheless for the Purposes of the said recited Acts and this Act be deemed to have been rated to the Relief of the Poor in respect of such Premises from the Period at which the Rate shall have been made in respect of which he shall have so claimed to be rated as aforesaid: Provided always, that where by virtue of any Act of Parliament the Landlord shall be liable to the Payment of the Rate for the Relief of the Poor in respect of any Premises occupied by his Tenant, nothing herein contained shall be deemed to vary or discharge the Liability of such Landlord, but, in case the Tenant who shall have been rated for such Premises in consequence of any such Claim as aforesaid shall make default in the Payment of the Poor's Rate payable in respect thereof, such Landlord shall be and remain liable for the Payment thereof in the same Manner as if he alone had been rated in respect of the Premises so occupied by his Tenant.

in Rate Book not to invali.

VI. And in order to provide against any Person being prevented Misnomers, &c. from being enrolled as a Burgess by reason of Misnomer or any inaccurate or insufficient Description in a Rate of the Person date Right to occupying any such Premises as herein-before mentioned, or by be enrolled. reason of any inaccurate Description of the Premises so occupied,

be