transmit State ment to Secre. tary of State, where General Annual Meeting not held.

Mortgagees in possession to transmit Accounts.

Penalties how

Trustees or Commissioners of any Turnpike Road shall not hold their General Annual Meeting on or before the Twenty-fifth Day of March, according to the Directions of the said Act, the Clerk to such Trustees or Commissioners shall make out such Statement of the Debts, Revenues, and Expenditure of the Trust as should have been submitted to the Trustees or Commissioners at such General Annual Meeting in case the same had been holden, and transmit a Copy thereof to One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, on or before the Twenty-fourth Day of April in such Year; and, save as herein after provided, every such Clerk who shall neglect to make out such annual Statement, or to transmit a Copy thereof, within the Time herein-before prescribed for that Purpose, shall for every such Offence forfeit any Sum not exceeding Ten Pounds nor less than Five Pounds, at the Discretion of any Justice or Justices of the Peace before whom Com→ plaint of such Offence shall be made: Provided always, that it shall not be requisite for such Clerk to make out such Statement or transmit such Copy as aforesaid for or in respect of any Period during which the Tolls of such Road are received by any Mortgagee, Agent, or Person other than such Trustees or Commissioners or their Lessees or Farmers.

VI. And be it enacted, That every Mortgagee, Agent, or other Person in possession of any Toll Gate or Bar set up or erected on any Turnpike Road shall, on or before the Twenty-fifth Day of March in every Year, make and transmit to One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State an annual Statement of the Revenue of such Road received by such Mortgagee, Agent, or other Person during the Year ending the Thirty-first Day of December then preceding, and of the Expenditure or Application thereof, in the Form contained in the Schedule (A.) to the said Act of the Fourth Year of King William the Fourth annexed, or as near thereto as Circumstances will admit; and every Mortgagee, Agent, or other Person in possession as aforesaid who shall neglect to make out and transmit such annual Statement within the Time herein-before prescribed for that Purpose shall for every such Offence forfeit any Sum not exceeding Ten Pounds nor less than Five Pounds, at the Discretion of any Justice or Justices of the Peace before whom Complaint of such Offence shall be made.

VII. And be it enacted, That the Penalties hereby imposed to be recovered. shall be recovered and applied in the same Manner as Penalties imposed by an Act of the Third Year of King George the Fourth, intituled An Act to amend the general Laws now in being for regulating Turnpike Roads in that Part of Great Britain called England.

3 G. 4. c. 126.

As to Extension of Act.

50 G. 3. c. cxxxiii.

VIII. And be it enacted, That this Act shall not apply to Ireland, nor, except in respect of the Continuance of the Acts hereby continued, to Scotland.

SCHEDULE to which this Act refers.

SCHEDULE.

An Act passed in the Fiftieth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled "An Act for enlarging the Terms "and Powers of an Act of His present Majesty, for repairing the

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"Road

"Road from Buckingham, through Brackley, to join the Daventry "Turnpike Road near Banbury."

An Act passed in the Fifty-third Year of the Reign of King 53 G. 3. c. vi. George the Third, intituled "An Act for repairing the Road

"from the City of Coventry to the Rugby Turnpike Road in the

"Parish of Wolvey in the County of Warwick."

An Act passed in the Fifty-fifth Year of the Reign of King 55 G.3. c.xxxvii. George the Third, intituled "An Act for more effectually repair"ing the Road leading from Heron Syke to Kirkby in Kendal, "and from thence, through Shap, to Eamont Bridge in the "County of Westmorland; and for making a new Road from "the said Road at a Place called Far Cross Bank, near Kirkby "in Kendal, to communicate with the intended Canal from. "Lancaster to Kirkby in Kendal, and to join said Road at or 66 near a Place called The Lound, near Kirkby in Kendal

"aforesaid."

An Act passed in the Fifty-sixth Year of the Reign of King 56 G. 3. c. xxx.) George the Third, intituled "An Act for making and maintain.

ing a Road from near Gatton Lodge in the County of Surrey

"to Povey Cross in the said County.'

An Act passed in the Fifty-eighth Year of the Reign of King 58 G. 3. c.lxx. George the Third, intituled "An Act for making and maintaining "a Turnpike Road from the Turnpike Road leading from Ulver"stone to Kendal into the Turnpike Road leading from Millthorp "to Kendal, and a Continuation of the said Road from the last" mentioned Turnpike Road to join the Turnpike Road leading "from Lancaster to Kendal."

An Act passed in the Fifty-ninth Year of the Reign of King 59 G.3.c.xcviii. George the Third, intituled "An Act for further continuing the "Term and enlarging the Powers of Two Acts passed in the "Seventeenth and Thirty-sixth Years of His present Majesty's "Reign, for repairing and widening several Roads leading to, "through, and from the Towns of Bala and Dolgelly in the County of Merioneth, and other Roads therein mentioned, in "the Counties of Montgomery, Denbigh, and Salop; and for "repairing several other Roads in the Counties of Merioneth "and Denbigh."

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An Act passed in the First Year of the Reign of King George 1G. 4. c. lxxiii. the Fourth, intituled "An Act for repairing the Road from

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Towcester, through Brackley in the County of Northampton,

"to Western Gate in the Parish of Weston on the Green in the

County of Oxford."

An Act passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of King George 4G. 4. c. ii. the Fourth, intituled "An Act for building a Bridge over the "River Severn at or near to the Mythe Hill within the Parish "and near to the Town of Tewkesbury in the County of Glou"cester to the opposite Side of the said River in the Parish of "Bushley in the County of Worcester, and for making convenient "Roads and Avenues to communicate with such Bridge within the "Counties of Gloucester and Worcester."

An Act passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of King George 4 G. 4. c. xxiv. the Fourth, intituled "An Act for more effectually repairing and

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improving the Road from the Town of Garstang to the Town of

"Lancaster, and from thence to a Place called Heiring Syke, and

the

4 G. 4. c. xliii.

6 G. 4. c. lxxxix.

6 G. 4. c. cxlii.

6 G. 4. c. cxlix.

7 G. 4. c. lxi.

7 G. 4. c. lxxx.

7 & 8 G. 4. c. xiii

7&8 G.4. c. lxiii.

55 G. 3. c. xc.

"the Road from the Guide Post in the Township of Slyne with "Hest to Hest Bank, all in the County Palatine of Lancaster."

An Act passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, intituled "An Act for making and maintaining a "Turnpike Road from the Turnpike Road between the Town of "Mold in the County of Flint and the Town of Wrexham in the "County of Denbigh to the Turnpike Road between the Town of "Ruthin in the said County of Denbigh and the Town of Wrex"ham aforesaid, and also Two several Branches of Road there"from."

An Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, intituled "An Act for amending and maintaining "the Road from the Market Place in Cromford to the Guide Post on Hopton Moor, and Two Branch Roads to Newhaven House "and Wirksworth, all in the County of Derby."

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An Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, intituled "An Act for making and maintaining a Turnpike Road from the Town of Birmingham to or near the "Town of Pershore."

An Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, intituled "An Act for repairing, widening, improving, "and maintaining in repair the Turnpike Roads from Leeds to "Halifax, and the several Branches and Roads therein mentioned, "in the West Riding of the County of York."

An Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, intituled "An Act for altering, amending, "and enlarging the Powers and Provisions of an Act relating to "the Tewkesbury Severn Bridge and Roads."

An Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, intituled "An Act for making and main"taining a Turnpike Road from a Place called Coxbridge, near "Farnham in the County of Surrey, to Ramshill near Petersfield "in the County of Southampton."

An Act passed in the Eighth Year of King George the Fourth, intituled "An Act for more effectually repairing and maintaining "the Road from Foxley Hatch in the Parish of Croydon into "the Town of Reigate in the County of Surrey."

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An Act passed in the Eighth Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, intituled "An Act for more effectually repairing the Road from Rochdale, through Bamford and Birtle, "to Bury, and several other Roads therein mentioned, all in the "County Palatine of Lancaster."

An Act passed in the Fifty-fifth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled "An Act for continuing and amending "an Act of His present Majesty, for repairing several Roads "leading from Shenfield to Harwich and Rochford, and other "Places in the County of Essex, and for extending the said Act "to the Road from Great Hallingbury to Hockerill, in the County "of Hertford."

And the Acts continued by any of the Acts in this Schedule mentioned.

САР.

An Act to amend the Laws relating to Pilotage.

[1st August 1849.]

HEREAS under the existing Laws for the Regulation of

chant Vessels,

Examination.

Pilots and Pilotage in various Ports of the United Kingdom Masters of Vessels are liable to the compulsory Employment of Pilots, notwithstanding that the said Masters are either them'selves or have on board their respective Vessels some One or • more Persons competent to perform that Duty: And whereas it is 'expedient that the Authorities in Matters of Pilotage should be ⚫ permitted in certain Cases to relieve the Masters of Vessels from such Compulsion, under certain prescribed Regulations:' 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, notwithstanding any such Law, Masters and or any Usage, Custom, or Prescription whatever to the contrary Mates of Merhereof, any Master or Mate may, upon satisfactory Testimonials as after passing to Sobriety and good Conduct being lodged with the Corporation an Examination of the Trinity House of Deptford Strond, or the Sub-Commis- before legally sioners of Pilotage, or other legally constituted Authority in Matters constituted of Pilotage for any Port or District, as the Case may be, be ex- Authorities, to amined by some of the Elder Brethren of the said Corporation, be competent or by the said Sub-Commissioners or other constituted Authority, within the to pilot Vessels if they respectively shall see fit so to do, but not otherwise, with Limits in regard or without the Assistance of other Persons to be appointed by the to which they said Corporation, Sub-Commissioners, or other constituted Autho- shall have rity respectively, as they shall see fit, as to his Seamanship and passed their his Fitness to pilot any Vessel of which he may be the Master or the Mate, within the Limits for which he shall be so examined, and for which, if found fit to pilot the same, he shall receive a Certificate under the Common Seal of the said Corporation, or the Seal (if any) or Hands of the said Sub-Commissioners or other constituted Authority, setting forth the said Limits and the Vessel for which he shall be so certified, which Certificate shall be in force for One Year and no longer, and may be renewed from Year to Year, at the Discretion of the said Corporation, Sub-Commissioners, or other constituted Authority, as the Case may be, such Renewal to be endorsed on such Certificate and signed by the Secretary of the said Corporation for the Time being, or by any Two of the said Sub-Commissioners or other Persons composing such other constituted Authorities as aforesaid; and such Certificate, so long as the same shall be in force as above provided, shall be a full and sufficient Authority for the Person to whom the same shall have been granted to pilot and conduct, within the Limits specified in the said Certificate, the Vessel whereof he may be the Master or the Mate, without the Aid or Assistance of any duly licensed Pilot, and without being subject to any of the Penalties in that Behalf imposed by any Act or Acts or by or under any Charter or Charters relating to Pilotage: Provided always, that any Person to whom such Certificate shall have been granted, and who shall not employ a duly licensed Pilot, shall pilot and conduct such

Act may be amended, &c.

Instruments, &c. may be

signed by Two

Commissioners

of the Treasury.

Commencement of Act.

Vessel without the Aid or Assistance of any unlicensed Pilot : Provided also, that it shall not be lawful for the said Corporation, Sub-Commissioners, or other Authorities in Pilotage to grant any such Certificate as herein-before is mentioned in respect of any Port or District within which they have no Jurisdiction in Matters of Pilotage; and in any Case where a concurrent Jurisdiction exists such Certificate shall not be valid unless granted by each and every of the Corporations, Sub-Commissioners, or other Authorities having Jurisdiction in the Port or District for which the same is granted.

II. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in the present Session of Parliament.

CA P. LXXXIX.

An Act to reduce the Number of Signatures required to Instruments issued by the Lords of the Treasury.

[1st August 1849.]

HEREAS it is expedient to reduce the Number of Signatures required to Warrants and other Instruments issued by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury:' Be it 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 where any Warrant, Appointment, Authority, Approval, Instrument, or Act whatsoever is by any Act of Parliament or otherwise required to be issued, made, signified, or done by or under the Hands of the said Commissioners, or by or under the Hands of any Three or more of them, every such Warrant, Appointment, Authority, Approval, Instrument, or Act may be issued, made, signified, or done by or under the Hands of any Two or more of the said Commissioners, and when so issued, made, signified, or done as aforesaid shall be binding and have the same Effect to all Intents and Purposes as if issued, made, signified, or done by or under the Hands of the said Commissioners or by or under the Hands of any Three or more of them, as the Case may require.

CA P. XC.

An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Customs.
[1st August 1849.]

HEREAS several Acts were passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Eighth and Ninth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, for consolidating the Laws of Customs: And whereas since the passing of the said 'Act divers Acts for the Amendment thereof have from Time to Time been passed: And whereas certain further Amendments of the same Acts are now required:' 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 passing of this Act the same shall,