the sum indorsed upon the writ, together with an additional sum as a security for costs, to abide the event of the suit, instead of putting in and perfecting bail; it is enacted, That in all cases in which any defendant shall have been discharged from arrest upon making such deposit, and the sum so deposited shall have been paid into court, it shall be lawful for such defendant, instead of putting in and perfecting special bail, according to the course and practice of the court, to allow the sum so deposited with the sheriff, and by him paid into court, together with the additional sum of 10%. to be paid into court as a further security for costs, to remain in court to abide the event of the suit. And in all cases where any defendant shall have been arrested, it shall be lawful for such lastmentioned defendant, instead of putting in and perfecting special bail, to deposit and pay into court the sum indorsed upon the writ together with the amount of the king's fine (if any) upon the original writ, and the further sum of 201. as a security for the costs of the action; and thereupon the said defendant may and he is hereby required to enter a common appearance, or file common bail, within such time as he would have been required to have put in and perfected special bail according to the course of the court, or in default thereof, the plaintiff is hereby empowered to enter such common appearance or file common bail for the defendant, and the cause may proceed as if the defendant had put in and perfected special bail. And in case judgment shall be given for the plaintiff, he shall be entitled to receive the said money so remaining in or so deposited or paid into the court, or so much thereof as will be sufficient to satisfy the sum recovered by the judgment, and the costs of the application; and if judgment be given for the defendant, or the plaintiff discontinue his suit, or be otherwise barred, or in case the sum deposited and paid into court be more than sufficient to satisfy the plaintiff, the said money so paid into court, or so much thereof as shall remain, shall, by order of the court, be repaid to such defendant. § 2.

It shall be lawful for the defendant who hath made his election to make such deposit and payment as aforesaid, at any time in the progress of the cause, before issue joined in law or fact, or final or interlocutory judgment sigued, to receive the same out of court, upon putting in and perfecting special bail in the cause, and payment of such costs to the plaintiff as the court shall direct. § 3..

It shall be lawful for any defendant who shall have put in and perfected special bail in any cause, upon motion to the court in which the action is brought, if the court shall so think fit, to pay into court the sum which would have been deposited and paid in case the defendant had originally elected so to do, together with such further sum to answer the costs as the court may direct, to abide the event of the said suit, and to be disposed of in manner aforesaid; and thereupon it shall be lawful for the said court to direct a common appearance to be entered, or common bail to be filed for the defendant, and an execution to be entered upon the bail-piece in the said cause. § 4.

So much of any act heretofore passed for the recovery of debts within certain districts and jurisdictions, which may have authorized the arrest and imprisonment of defendants when the cause of action amounts to less than twenty pounds, exclusive of costs, shall be and is hereby, from the said 1st of August, repealed. §5.

This act shall extend only to that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland. § 6.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS (Ireland).

CAP. 36.--An Act to continue until the end of the next session of parliament, and to amend, the acts for the relief of insolvent debtors in Ireland. [4th June, 1829.

This act recites the 1 & 2 Geo. IV. c. 59. intituled An Act for the relief of insolvent debtors in Ireland, which was to continue in force until the 1st August, 1826, and thenceforth until the end of the then next session of parliament, and which act was amended by the 3 Geo. IV. c. 124; and that by the 7 & 8 Geo. IV. both the said acts were continued, and are in force until the end of this present session of parliament; and that it is expedient that the said acts should be further continued and amended; it is therefore enacted, That the said two first-recited acts shall be continued, and remain in force from the passing of this act until the end of the session of parliament next ensuing this present session, as amended by this act. § 1.

And during the period between the last day of Trinity term and the 1st November in every year, the Court for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors shall have full power and authority to regulate and appoint its sittings, at such times as shall appear fit and necessary for the due administration of justice in the said court; provided that the said court shall not be adjourned at any time during the said period for more than two calendar months at any one time. § 2.

CORONERS (Ireland).

CAP. 37.- An Act to amend the laws relating to coroners in Ireland. [4th June, 1829.

This act recites that whereas the 6 Ann. c. 7. of the parliament of Ireland was passed, intituled An Act for lessening sheriffs' fees on executions, whereby, after reciting that through the corruption and partiality of sub-sheriffs and their bailiffs it had become very difficult to have any mesne process or execution duly executed, it was enacted, that where any sheriff should, on any mesne process or execution, return that the person could not be found, or that he had not any goods or lands, in such case the party plaintiff might take out the same or any other mesne process or execution, directed to all or any of the coroners of the county, who should and might execute the same without any further direction or regard to

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the said sheriffs; and that thereupon the said coroner or coroners should be authorized and empowered to take bail for the appearance of such person taken by him or them on mesne process, as the sheriff might have done, and should be liable to an action in case of any escape of any person in his or their custody on such mesne process or execution, as the sheriff should have been, and that the said coroner or coroners should and might take such fees, for execution of the said several writs, as was by the said act appointed; and in case the said coroner or coroners should commit any person to the county gaol, the gaoler was thereby directed and required to receive and detain them: and whereas by the 3 Geo. IV. c. 115. intituled An Act to regulate the qualifications of persons holding the office of coroner in Ireland, it was amongst other things enacted, that no writ or process in any civil suit or action should in any case be awarded to any coroner in Ireland, except in cases in which the sheriff should be interested in the suit, or should be of kindred either to the plaintiff or defendant; by which said lastmentioned enactment the said provisions of the act of Queen Ann were repealed: and whereas such repeal has been found to be of mischievous consequence; it is therefore enacted, That so much of the 3 Geo. IV. c. 115. as is hereinbefore recited shall be repealed, and that the said provisions of the act of Queen Ann shall be revived and re-enacted. § 1.

Right of voting for Coroners.-And from and after the commencement of this act no person shall be permitted to vote at any election for the office of coroner in any county in Ireland, unless such person shall be, at the time when he claims so to vote, qualified by law to vote at an election for a knight of the shire to serve in parliament for such county, of which qualification the certificate by law prescribed of their registry of the freehold of such person shall be sufficient evidence. § 2.

Coroners may remunerate Witnesses attending Inquests. And it shall be lawful for any coroner, before whom any physician, surgeon, apothecary, chemist, or other person practising medicine or surgery, shall, in pursuance of a summous from such coroner, attend and be examined relative to the death of any deceased person, to grant to such witness an order, signed by such coroner, upon the treasurer of the county or county of a city within which such inquest shall be held, for such sum (not exceeding five pounds) as to such coroner shall seem fit; and the treasurer upon whom such order shall be given shall pay the same to the person presenting it; and the amount of every such payment shall be raised off the county or county of the city by the grand jury, in like manner as other sums authorized to be presented and levied by such grand jury. §3.

No election for the office of coroner shall continue longer than ten days from the day of the delivery of the writ for holding such election. §4.

ATTEMPTS TO MURDER (Scotland).

CAP. 38.-An Act for the more effectual punishment of attempts to murder, in certain cases, in Scotland. [4th June, 1829.

After reciting the 6 Geo. IV. c. 126. intituled An Act to make provision in Scotland for the further prevention of malicious shooting and attempting to discharge loaded fire arms, stabbing, cutting, wounding, poisoning, and disabling his majesty's subjects; and that the said act did not extend to the punishment of cases of attempts to murder by means of suffocation, strangulation, and drowning; and that it is expedient that the provisions relative to all the aforesaid offences should be included in one act; it is enacted, That the said act shall be and is hereby repealed, except as to any offences against the same committed before the passing of this act, which shall be dealt with and punished as if this act had not been passed. §1.

Wilfully shooting, stabbing, administering poison, attempting to strangle or drown.-And if any person shall, within Scotland, wilfully, maliciously, and unlawfully shoot at any of his majesty's subjects, or shall wilfully, maliciously, and unlawfully present, point, or level any kind of loaded fire-arms at any of his majesty's subjects, and attempt, by drawing a trigger or in any other manner, to discharge the same at or against their person; or shall wilfully, maliciously, and unlawfully stab or cut any of his majesty's subjects, with intent in so doing, or by means thereof, to murder, or to maim, disfigure or disable such his majesty's subjects, or with intent to do some other grievous bodily harm to such his majesty's subjects; or shall wilfully, maliciously, and unlawfully administer to, or cause to be administered to or taken by any of his majesty's subjects any deadly poison or other noxious and destructive substance or thing, with intent thereby, or by means thereof, to murder or disable such his majesty's subjects, or with intent to do some other grievous bodily harm to such his majesty's subjects; or shall wilfully, maliciously, and unlawfully attempt to suffocate or to strangle or to drown any of his majesty's subjects, with the intent thereby to murder or disable such his majesty's subjects, or with intent to do some other grievous bodily harm to such his majesty's subjects; such person so offending, and being lawfully found guilty, actor, or art and part, of any one or more of the several offences hereinbefore enumerated, shall be held guilty of a capital crime, and shall receive sentence of death accordingly. § 2.

Throwing Sulphuric Acid.-And if any person in Scotland shall wilfully, maliciously, and unlawfully throw at or otherwise apply to any of his majesty's subjects any sulphuric acid, or other corrosive substance calculated by external application to burn or injure the human frame, with intent in so doing, or by means thereof, to murder or maim or disfigure or disable such his majesty's subjects, or with intent to do some other grievous bodily harm to such, and where, in consequence of such acid or other substance

being so wilfully, maliciously, and unlawfully thrown or applied with intent as aforesaid, any of his majesty's subjects shall be maimed, disfigured, or disabled, or receive other grievous bodily harm, such person, being thereof lawfully found guilty, actor, or art and part, shall be held guilty of a capital crime, and shall receive sentence of death accordingly. §3.

But if it shall appear, upon the trial of any person accused of any of the several offences herein before enumerated, that, under the circumstances of the case, if death had ensued, the act done would not have amounted to the crime of murder, such person shall not be held guilty of a capital crime, or be subject to the punishment aforesaid. § 4.

Nothing in this or in any other statute enacting a capital punishment shall be held to affect or impair the power of the prosecutor to restrict the pains of law. § 5.

ROADS AND BRIDGES (Ireland).

CAP. 40.—An Act to continue for one year, and until the end of the then next session of parliament, an act of the sixth year of his present majesty, for providing for the repairing, maintaining, and keeping in repair certain roads and bridges in Ireland. [19th June, 1829.

By this act the 6 Geo. IV. c. 101. which by 7 & 8 Geo. IV. c. 23. was continued until the end of this present session, is further continued for one year, and from thence until the end of the then next session of parliament.

BUTTER TRADE (Ireland).

CAP. 41.-An Act to amend the laws for the regulation of the butter trade in Ireland. [19th June, 1829.

After reciting the 52 Geo. III. c. 134. intituled An Act for the better regulation of the butter trade in Ireland; the 53 Geo. III. c. 46. intituled An Act for the further regulation of the butter trade in Ireland; the 53 Geo. III. c. lxx. intituled An Act for reviving, amending, and making perpetual an act passed in the parliament of Ireland in the fortieth year of the reign of his present majesty, for the better regulation of the butter trade of the city of Cork and the liberties thereof, and for other purposes therein mentioned; the 3 Geo. IV. c. lxxxv. intituled An Act for amending the several acts in force for making wide and convenient streets, ways, and passages in the city of Cork and the suburbs thereof, and for paving, cleansing, lighting, and otherwise improving the said city, and for regulating the Court of Conscience established therein; the 7 & 8 Geo. IV. c. 61. intituled An Act for the better regulation of the butter trade in Ireland; and that it is expedient to amend the laws for the regulation of the butter trade in Ireland, in the manner hereinafter provided; it is enacted, That nothing in the