Five of the "The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," empowered to sell and convey or release Lands by any Assurance under the Hand and Seal or under the Common Seal, as the Case may be, of such Principal Officer, Body, or Corporation, or under the Hands and Seals or Hand and Seal of such Trustees, Guardians, Commissioners, or other Persons or Person, to grant and convey or release, either by way of voluntary Gift or of Sale, to the said Governors, in Fee Simple or otherwise, any Messuages, Buildings, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments to be used as and for Parsonages or Residences for Incumbents of Benefices, or the Outbuildings, Yards, Gardens, or Appurtenances thereto, or as and for Sites or for enlarging Sites for such Parsonages or Residences or the Outbuildings, Yards, Gardens, or Appurtenances thereto, and all such Assurances may be made according to the Form contained in the Twentieth Section of the Act passed in the First Year of Her Majesty's Reign, Chapter Twenty, or as near thereto as the Circumstances of the Case will admit, or in any other Form which the said Governors may approve; but no such Assurance or Assurances from the same Body or Persons otherwise than upon a Sale for the fair Value shall comprise (including the Site of any Buildings) more than One Acre, and upon every such Assurance by way of Sale the Purchase Money may be paid to the Seller or Sellers, or as he or they shall appoint, and the Receipt of them or him or their or his Appointees shall be a sufficient Discharge for the same, except that in the Case of a Sale for more than Twenty Pounds by a Tenant for Life or other Person having only a partial Estate, the Purchase Money shall be paid to and applied by Two Trustees in manner provided by the Seventy-first Section of "The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845." 5. To facilitate the Despatch of the Business of the said Governors, any Five of the said Governors may Governors, Three of whom at least shall be Archbishops or Bishops, shall make a Quorum for the future, and be sufficient at any Court for the Despatch, by Majority of Votes, of all Business of the said Governors. form a Quorum. 20 & 21 Vict. c. 17. Present Police CA P. LXX. An Act to alter the Distribution of the Constabulary Force in Ireland, and to thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, issue their Warrant to certain Commissioners directing them to hold a Court of Inquiry at Belfast, and to report upon the existing local Arrangements for the Preservation of the Peace of that Borough, the Magisterial Jurisdiction exercised within it, and the Amount and Constitution and Efficiency of the Police Force usually available there, and other Matters relating thereto And whereas the said Commissioners, having duly inquired into the said several Matters as directed by the said Warrant, have made their Report thereon, dated the Eighth Day of March last: And whereas it is expedient to provide for the more effectual Preservation of the Peace of the said Borough, and to alter the Distribution of the Constabulary Force now maintained in the several Counties and Towns in Ireland, and for that Purpose to amend an Act passed in the Twentieth and Twentyfirst Years of the Reign of Her Majesty, Chapter Seventeen, intituled An Act to amend the Act of the Eleventh and Twelfth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Seventy-two, so far as relates to the Distribution of the Constabulary Force in Ireland:' 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, as follows: 1. From and after the Commencement of this Act, it shall not be lawful for the Town Force in Bel- Council of the Borough of Belfast to appoint or maintain any Police Force; and all Persons who who have been appointed Chief Constables, Inspectors, Constables, or other Officers of fast shall cease the said Force, shall cease to hold their Offices, and shall severally discontinue acting in to exist. such Offices accordingly; and the Constabulary Force in the Town of Belfast shall have and discharge all Powers and Duties now lawfully had and discharged by the Police Force of the Town. 2. The Municipal Borough of Belfast shall for the Purposes of this Act be constituted Borough of a distinct District, herein-after called the Town of Belfast; and all and every the Pro- Belfast convisions of the several Acts relating to the Constabulary Force in Ireland shall apply to tinct District. the said Town of Belfast. stituted a dis 3. Whereas it is expedient to alter the Distribution of the Constabulary Force in the Distribution of several Counties and Towns in Ireland, and to allot to the Town of Belfast a just Propor- Constabulary. tion thereof:' Be it therefore enacted, That the Schedule to this Act annexed, and the Distribution of the Constabulary Force therein provided, shall be substituted for the Schedule annexed to the Act of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Seventeen: Provided always, that the total Number of Constables and Sub-Constables to be distributed shall not exceed the Number fixed by the said recited Act, and that the Number allotted to the Town of Belfast shall not be less than One hundred and thirty Constables and Sub-Constables. any Number 4. It shall be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant to add to the Constabulary Force which Lord Lieushall be allotted to the Town of Belfast under the Provisions of this Act any Number tenant to add of Men, not exceeding Three hundred and twenty, which the Lord Lieutenant may think of Men, not fit to provide for the more effectual Preservation of the Peace of the said Town, and exceeding 320, such additional Number of Men, together with the One hundred and thirty herein-before to the Conmentioned, shall constitute the ordinary Constabulary Force of the said Town. stabulary Force of Belfast. Force. 5. The Expense of the said additional Force, save as to the additional Pay herein-after As to Expenses mentioned, shall, in the first instance, be advanced and defrayed in like Manner as the of additional Expense of the Force appointed under the Constabulary Acts is to be advanced and defrayed; One Moiety of the Monies so advanced shall be repaid by the Town Council of the Borough of Belfast by means of Rates, to be applotted and levied in the same Manner as the Monies hitherto raised and applied or which may be applicable in the said Town of Belfast to the Maintenance of a Police Force. Town Council 6. The Inspector General of Constabulary shall, with the Assistance of the Receiver, Inspector twice in each Year, ascertain the Amount of the Monies chargeable under the Provisions General shall of this Act to the said Town of Belfast, and shall make out a Certificate thereof under his transmit to Hand, specifying the Force or Service in respect whereof such Charge may have been of Belfast incurred, and transmit the same, when signed by the Receiver and approved and certified Half-yearly by the Chief or Under Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant, to the Town Clerk of the Borough Accounts. of Belfast, who shall lay the same forthwith before the Town Council, and thereupon the Town Council shall forthwith make and levy a Rate sufficient for the Payment thereof, and shall thereout, or out of any Monies in their Hands, pay the Amount mentioned in such Certificate to the Paymaster General's Department in Ireland. &c. 7. The Officers of the Constabulary Force in the Town of Belfast shall consist of One Provision as to Inspector, who shall rank as a County Inspector of Constabulary, and be called "the Inspec- Officers of the Constabulary tor of Constabulary for the Town of Belfast," and Two or more Sub-Inspectors, who Force in shall be provided from the Number of Sub-Inspectors mentioned in the Schedule annexed Belfast, and to the Act of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Seventeen. their Salaries, The Inspector shall be appointed in like Manner as Constabulary Officers now are, and his Salary shall be Four hundred Pounds a Year, and shall be wholly defrayed by the Town Council of the Borough, and shall be included in the Certificate to be furnished by the Inspector General of Constabulary, under the Sixth Section of this Act, and be raised and paid in the Manner therein directed. 8. The Inspector General of Constabulary shall fix the Number of Men, not exceeding Inspector One hundred and fifty, who shall discharge the Duties of a Night Watch; and for each General to of appoint Con stables for Night Watch, who shall receive extra of the said One hundred and fifty Men there shall be charged the Sum of Sixpence per Diem, to be wholly defrayed by the Town Council of the Borough of Belfast, and such Sum shall be included by the Inspector General of Constabulary in the Certificate to be Remuneration furnished by him, under the Sixth Section of this Act, and shall be raised and paid in manner for Night therein directed; and it shall be lawful for the said Inspector General, with the Approval Duty. of the Lord Lieutenant, to apply such Sum to remunerate the Constabulary Force stationed in Belfast, for discharging the Duties of a Night Watch. 9. Notwithstanding any Regulations requiring Persons entering the Constabulary Force to be unmarried, or to be under a certain Age, the Inspector General of the Constabulary Force in Ireland shall admit into the said Force any Constable of the said Local Police Force whose Age shall not exceed Forty Years, and who, within One Calendar Month after such Notification in the "Dublin Gazette" as aforesaid, shall apply to be admitted, and who in other respects shall be eligible according to the said Regulations. 10. It shall be lawful for the Council of the said Borough (if they shall so think fit) to grant to any Head Constable, Inspector, or Constable belonging to the present Police Force of said Borough, whose Office shall cease or become unnecessary by means of the Provisions of this Act, such an adequate Compensation, by way of yearly Allowance or other Gratuity, as shall to them seem just: Provided always, that any such Compensation shall be wholly charged on and defrayed by the local Funds which the said Council may have Authority to levy. 11. The several Provisions of the Local Acts in force within the Borough relating to the Applotment, Levy, Collection, Recovery, and Receipts of Rates applicable wholly or in part to the Support of the Police Force and Establishment in the Police District of Belfast shall continue in force notwithstanding the passing of this Act. 12. This Act and the several Acts now in force relating to the Constabulary Force in Ireland shall be construed as One Act, so far as is consistent with the Tenor hereof, ad nothing herein contained shall be construed to deprive the Lord Lieutenant of any Power now vested in him in relation to the said Constabulary Force. 13. The Expression "Lord Lieutenant" in this Act shall mean the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland. 14. This Act shall come into operation from and after a Day to be fixed by the Lord Lieutenant, and notified in the "Dublin Gazette," and not being less than Twenty-one Days after such Notification.. 15. This Act may be cited for all Purposes as the "Constabulary (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1865." CA P. LXXI. An Act to amend the Acts for the Establishment of a National Gallery in [29th June 1865.] WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Session of Parliament held in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of the Reign of Her Majesty, intituled An Act to provide 17 & 18 Vict. for the Establishment of a National Gallery of Paintings, Sculpture, and the Fine Arts, c. 99. for the Care of a Public Library, and the Erection of a Public Museum, in Dublin : And whereas a further Act was passed in the Session of Parliament held in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to amend an Act of last Session, to provide for the Establishment of a National 18 & 19 Vict. Gallery of Paintings, Sculpture, and the Fine Arts, for the Care of a Public Library, c. 44. and the Erection of a Public Museum, in Dublin: And whereas it is by the said firstrecited Act, amongst other things, enacted, that certain Persons therein named, together with such other Persons as the Lord Lieutenant should approve, should be Trustees for the Building therein-after mentioned, and that it should be lawful for such Trustees to receive such Sum of Money as might be subscribed, given, or contributed, or might from any Source become available, for the Purpose of erecting a suitable Building in Dublin, to be devoted in part to the fit Accommodation of a National Gallery of Paintings, Sculpture, and the Fine Arts, and the Remainder to the Reception of a public Library; and it is by the same Act enacted, that "it should be lawful for the Governors and "Guardians of Archbishop Marsh's Library (anything in an Act of the Parliament "of Ireland, intituled An Act for settling and preserving a Public Library for ever in "the House for that Purpose built by his Grace Narcissus then Lord Archbishop of Armagh "on Part of the Ground belonging to the Archbishop of Dublin's Palace near the City of 6 "Dublin, Indenture of from the Right 6 6 "Dublin, passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne, or otherwise to the "contrary notwithstanding,) to cause the said Library to be removed to the said Building "so to be erected as soon as the same should be completed, and in a Condition to receive "the said Library; provided always, that the said Governors and Guardians shall "approve of the Plans and Arrangements of that Portion of the said Building to be ""appropriated to the Reception of a Public Library;" and it was by the same Act further enacted, that certain Persons therein mentioned, and their Successors, as thereinafter directed, should be and were thereby constituted a Body Corporate by the Name of the Governors and Guardians of the National Gallery of Ireland, with Power to the said Body Corporate to receive Devises, Bequests, Donations, and Subscriptions (annual or otherwise) of Land, Buildings, Money, and Works of Art, and to hold the same, and to lay out such Sums of Money as they should so receive for the Purposes of the National Gallery of Ireland in the Improvement and Enlargement of the Collection of Works of Art presented to or purchased for the said Gallery, or deposited therein, and the said Body Corporate should have the entire and exclusive Possession, Occupation, ' and Control, for the Purposes of their Trusts therein mentioned, of those Portions of the said Building so to be erected as therein-before mentioned, which should be, upon the Completion of the said Building, set apart by the Building Trustees for the Accom'modation of the National Gallery of Ireland, and of all such other Buildings, Enclosures, and Appurtenances as should or might from Time to Time be required and obtained for the Purposes of the said National Gallery or any Part thereof, and that the Building so to be erected should be constructed according to such Plans and Specifications as 'should have been approved and agreed upon by and between the said Building Trustees, the said Governors and Guardians of the National Gallery of Ireland, and the said Governors and Guardians of Archbishop Marsh's Library: And whereas it is by the said Act further enacted, that "the Persons who for the Time being should compose the "said respective Bodies Corporate, that is to say, the Governors and Guardians of the "National Gallery of Ireland, and the Governors and Guardians of Archbishop Marsh's "Library, should be One Body Corporate, under the Name of the Joint Trustees of "the National Gallery of Ireland and of Marsh's Library," and so soon as the said Building so to be erected as aforesaid should have been completed the said Building Trustees shall declare it to be so by an Instrument under the Hands of them or of any Three of them, and thereupon the said Building, together with the Ground whereon the same should have been erected, should become and be vested in the said last-mentioned Body Corporate for ever, subject nevertheless to the exclusive Possession, Occupation, and Control of those Portions of the said Building respectively to be occupied by the said Governors and Guardians of the National Gallery of Ireland, and the said Governors and Guardians of Archbishop Marsh's Library, for the Purposes of their respective Trusts as aforesaid: And whereas by Indenture bearing Date the Fourth Day of August One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, and made between the Right Honourable Sidney Herbert of Belgrave Square in the Parish of Saint George, Hanover Square, in the County of Middlesex, M.P., of the one Part, and the Royal Dublin Society for promoting Husbandry and other useful Arts in Ireland, of the other Part, reciting as therein recited, the said Right Honourable Sidney Herbert, in pursuance of the Power and Authority for that Purpose given and reserved by the therein and herein-before recited Act of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of Her present Majesty Queen • Victoria, and of any other Power in that Behalf enabling him, and for the Considerations therein mentioned, granted and demised unto the said Royal Dublin Society all that and those that Piece or Parcel of Ground lying between the House of the said Society and the Flagway on the East Side of Merrion Square (which said Piece or Parcel of Land is commonly called "Leinster Lawn,") containing in the whole Three Acres Three Roods and Thirty-six Perches Statute Measure, and situate, lying, and being in the Parish of Saint Peter and County of the City of Dublin, and which said Piece or Parcel of Ground is, as to its Contents, Dimensions, Abuttals, and Boundaries, more particularly described in the Map or Plan annexed thereto, together with all and singular the Messuages and Tenements and all Erections and Buildings to be built and erected thereon, and all Rights, Easements, Ways, Paths, Passages, Waters, Water 6 courses, |