This Act to be -meet in one Room at a certain Time to be named by the said Court, and it shall then be lawful to and for the said Grand Juries, when so assembled, or any Twenty-four Members thereof, and they are hereby required, to present the whole Amount of the Estimate so laid before them to be raised and levied by One Instalment, or by equal Half-yearly Instalments at every Easter and Michaelmas Term, on and out of all Houses and other Buildings erected or to be erected within the District of the Metropolis, and to be paid by all and every the Owners or Occupiers thereof, and for the raising of such Sum on the said Instalments, as the Case may be, to present a certain Rate of Assessment which shall be agreed on by the said Grand Juries or any Twenty-four Members thereof, of a certain Sum in the Pound, to be levied on the Value of all such Houses or other Buildings, according to the Valuation by which they are now or hereafter may be valued or rated, for or towards the Maintenance of the Police Establishment of the said District; and it shall be lawful for the said Grand Juries, or any Twenty-four Members thereof, to make such Presentment as aforesaid, whether they shall have been previously approved of by the Presentment Sessions for such Counties respectively or not. XVIII. And be it enacted, That this Act shall be deemed deemed a Pub- and taken to be a Public Act, and shall be judicially taken notice of as such by all Judges, Justices, and others. lic Act. Act may be altered. XIX. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of Parliament. 56 G. 3. c. 87. CAP. XXXVII. An Act to empower the Foreman or any other Member of Grand Juries in Ireland to administer Oaths to Witnesses on Bills of Indictment. [27th July 1838.] WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Fifty-sixth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, in' tituled An Act to regulate Proceedings of Grand Juries in • Ireland upon Bills of Indictment, reciting that a Practice had ' prevailed in many of the Grand Juries in Ireland to find Bills ' of Indictment without examining Witnesses for the Crown, it was enacted, that from and after the passing of that Act no Bill of Indictment should be returned a true Bill by any • Grand Jury in Ireland unless the same had been found by the Jurors upon the Evidence of One or more Witnesses for the Crown, sworn in Court, and produced before them: And whereas the Provision for the vivá voce Examination of Witnesses by the Grand Jury upon the Consideration of Bills of Indictment has been found most salutary; but the Admini•stration of the Oath in Court has been productive of Delay and of other Inconveniences: For Remedy whereof be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and 6 6 Temporal, Grand Juries nesses; and mations to such Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That in all Cases Bills of Indictwhere Bills of Indictment are to be laid before Grand Juries ment laid before in Ireland for their Consideration the Clerk of the Crown [at to be endorsed the Assizes and Clerk of the Peace at Quarter Sessions, or with the Names his or their Deputy, shall endorse upon the Back of each Bill of the Witof Indictment the Name or Names of the Witness or Witnesses Grand Juries for the Crown in support of such Bill, and shall send the same to administer so endorsed to the Grand Jury; and the Foreman or other Oaths or AffirMember of the Grand Jury so impannelled, Twelve Members Witnesses. of the said Grand Jury (at the least) being there present at the Time, shall, and he and they are hereby authorized and required so to do, previous to the Examination of any Witness whose Name shall appear endorsed upon the Back of any Bill of Indictment, administer to such Witness the Oath or (in case of Persons by Law permitted to make a solemn Affirmation in Courts of Justice) the solemn Affirmation required to be taken by such Witnesses; and the Foreman or other Member of the Grand Jury who shall have administered such Oath or Affirmation shall upon the Back of such Bill of Indictment state the Name or Names of such Witness or Witnesses as shall have been duly sworn or shall have made such Affirmation before him, and authenticate the same by his Signature or Initials Provided always, that the said Oath or Affirmation is not to be in addition to but in lieu of that heretofore administered in Court under the Provisions of the said Act passed in the Fifty-sixth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third; and provided also, that no Foreman of Grand Jury, nor any other Member thereof, shall have Power to administer such Oath or Affirmation to or to examine any Witness in support of any Bill of Indictment whose Name shall not have been previously endorsed on such Bill of Indictment by the Clerk of the Crown or Clerk of the Peace respectively. : any II. And be it enacted, That if any Person who shall take Swearing or any Oath or Affirmation under or in pursuance of the Provi- affirming falsely, Persions of this Act shall wilfully or knowingly swear or affirm or jury. answer falsely to any Matter or Thing, every such Person, being duly convicted thereof, shall incur and suffer such Penalties, Pains, and Disabilities as Persons convicted of wilful and corrupt Perjury are by Law liable to. III. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or Act may be repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of amended or Parliament. CAP. XXXVIII. An Act to amend an Act for punishing idle and disorderly Persons and Rogues and Vagabonds. [27th July 1838.] WHEREAS it is expedient to alter and amend an Act repealed. passed in the Fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for the Punish- 5 G. 4. c. 83. • ment Exposing obscene Prints, &c. in Shop Windows liable, on Conviction, 1 & 2 VICT. 'ment of idle and disorderly Persons and Rogues and Vagabonds, in that Part of Great Britain called England: 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 when any Person aggrieved by any Act or Determination of any Justice or Justices of the Peace out of Sessions, in or concerning the Execution of the said Act, shall have appealed against such Act or Determination according to the Provisions of the said Act, and shall thereupon have been discharged out of Custody, and such Person shall not personally appear and prosecute such Appeal at the General or Quarter Sessions according to the Recognizance entered into on such Appeal, it shall be lawful for the Justices assembled at such General or Quarter Sessions, or for any Justice of the Peace for the County or Place in which such Person shall have been convicted, on Proof of the said Conviction, and on Proof by Certificate under the Hand of the Clerk of the Peace for the said County or Place or of the Person acting as his Deputy that the Person so convicted did not personally appear to prosecute such Appeal, to issue a Warrant for the Apprehension and Committal of such Person for such Period of Time as, together with the Days during which such Person so convicted shall have been imprisoned (if any) previous to being discharged by reason of Appeal, shall complete the full Term for which such Person was adjudged to be imprisoned at the Time of his or her said Conviction. 6 II. And whereas by the said recited Act it is enacted, that every Person wilfully exposing to view in any Street, Road, Highway, or public Place any obscene Print, Picture, or other indecent Exhibition shall, on summary Conviction to Punishment. thereof, be liable to Punishment as therein provided: And whereas Doubts have arisen whether the exposing to public View in the Windows of Shops in Streets, Highways, or other 'public Places of any obscene Print, Picture, or other indecent Exhibition, is an Offence within the Meaning of the said ' recited Act: Be it therefore declared and enacted, That every Person who shall wilfully expose or cause to be exposed to public View in the Window or other Part of any Shop or other Building situate in any Street, Road, Highway, or public Place any obscene Print, Picture, or other indecent Exhibition shall be deemed to have wilfully exposed such obscene Print, Picture, or other indecent Exhibition to public View within the Intent and Meaning of the said Act, and shall accordingly be liable to be proceeded against, and on Conviction to be punished under the Provisions of the said Act. Commencement of the Act. III. And be it enacted, That this Act shall commence and take effect from and after the First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight. CAP. XXXIX. An Act for carrying into effect a Convention of Acces- Britain and WE HEREAS a Convention was concluded between His Convention late Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great between Great • Britain and Ireland and His Majesty the King of the French, France. for rendering more effectual the Means of suppressing the • Criminal Traffic called the Slave Trade, and signed at Paris on the Thirtieth Day of November in the Year of our Lord "One thousand eight hundred and thirty-one: And whereas by the Ninth Article of the said Convention the High Contracting Parties to the said Treaty agreed to invite the other • Maritime Powers to accede to it within as short a Period 6 as possible: And whereas a Supplementary Convention was Supplementary ' concluded between Their said Majesties, for the more effectual Convention. Suppression of the Traffic in Slaves, and signed at Paris on the Twenty-second Day of March in the Year of our Lord • One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three: And whereas 6 an Act passed in the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign France of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An 3&4W. 4. c.72. • Act for carrying into effect Two Conventions with the King of the French for suppressing the Slave Trade: And whereas a Convention Convention was concluded between His Majesty the King between Fran of the French and the Hans Towns containing the Accession Towns. of the Hans Towns to the said before Two Conventions between Great Britain and France for the more effectual Suppression of the Slave Trade, and signed at Hamburgh on the Ninth Day of June One thousand eight hundred and thirtyseven, containing as follows: 6 Article 1.-The Senates of the Free Hanseatic Cities of Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburgh accede to the Con⚫ventions concluded and signed on the Thirtieth of Novem⚫ber One thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, and on the Twenty-second of March One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, between His Majesty the King of the • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and His Majesty the King of the French, relating to the Suppression of the Slave Trade, as well as to the Annex of the latter Convention containing Instructions to Cruizers, excepting the Reservations and Modifications expressed in the Second, Third, and Fourth Articles herein-after 6 given, which Articles shall be considered additional to the said Conventions and to the Annex above mentioned, and excepting the Differences which necessarily result 'from the Situation of the Hanseatic Cities as Parties 6 acceding to the Conventions in the Question; after their Conclusion His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom ' of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Majesty the King ' of of the French, having accepted the said Accession, all the Articles of these Two Conventions, and all the Conditions of the said Annex, shall in consequence be held to ⚫ have been concluded and signed in the same Manner as the present Convention, directly between His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and "Ireland, His Majesty the King of the French, and the Senates of the Free Hanseatic Cities of Lubeck, Bremen, ' and Hamburgh; Their said Majesties and the Senates of the Free Hanseatic Cities engage and promise reciprocally to fulfil faithfully, excepting the Reservations and • Modifications hereby stipulated, all the Clauses, Conditions, and Obligations which result therefrom; and in order to prevent any Uncertainty, it has been agreed that the above-mentioned Conventions, and the Annex of the latter, containing Instructions to Cruizers, should be inserted here Word for Word in the said Convention. of Accession, which were accordingly inserted Word for • Word therein. 6 Article 2.-It is agreed, with reference to the Fifth Article of the Instructions annexed to the supplementary • Convention of March the Twenty-second One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, that all Vessels bearing the Flag of Lubeck, and which appear by their Papers to belong to Lubeck, which may be detained, in execution of the Conventions herein above transcribed, by the 'Cruizers of His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom ' of Great Britain and Ireland, or of His Majesty the King ❝ of the French, employed on the Stations of America or Africa, or of Madagascar, shall be conducted or sent to the Port of Travemunde; all Vessels bearing the Flag of • Bremen, and which appear by their Papers to belong to • Bremen, which may in like Manner be detained, shall be 'conducted or sent to the Port of Bremerhaven; and all • Vessels bearing the Flag of Hamburgh, and which appear by their Papers to belong to Hamburgh, which may in like Manner be detained, shall be conducted or sent to the Port of Cuxhaven; in case the Navigation of the Baltic should be interrupted or impracticable, the Three • Senates agree to fix Bremerhaven and Cuxhaven as the Ports to which Lubeck Vessels detained as above mentioned may be conducted or sent. 6 6 'Article 3.-Whereas the landing, at the above-men'tioned Ports, of Slaves who are found on board Vessels bearing the Hanseatic Flag, and which appear by their Papers to belong to the said Hanseatic Cities, or to any one of them, might be attended with great Inconvenience; it is agreed, That the Slaves on board of any 'such Vessel detained by a British or French Cruizer shall 'be previously landed at the Place or Port the nearest (be it British or French) to which a Slave Vessel under the Flag of One of those Two Nations, found and detained ' under |