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to be holden for such Division of such County, and the Clerk of the Peace, within Six Days after the Receipt thereof, shall give Notice of such Appeal to the Boundary Surveyor, and also to the Churchwardens or Churchwarden of the Parish or Parishes within or between which such Boundary Line or such Part thereof as shall be objected to shall be situate, and such Churchwardens or Churchwarden shall post Copies of such Notice, or shall cause the same to be posted and affixed, on the most public Doors of the Churches and other Places of Public Worship within such Parish or Parishes, and at such other Places as are appointed by Law for the posting of Notices in such Parishes, on the Sunday next after the Receipt of such Notice by such Churchwardens or Churchwarden; and the Justices at such First or Second Sessions or any Adjournment thereof, upon due Proof of such Notice having been given as aforesaid, and of the entering into such Recognizance, shall hear and finally determine the Cause and Matter of such Appeal in a summary Way, and shall and may award such Costs to the Party appealing or appealed against as they the said Justices shall think proper, whether such Appeal shall have been entered and tried or not; and it shall be lawful for such Justices at such Sessions, by their Order or Warrant, to levy such Costs so awarded by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the Person or Persons who shall refuse or neglect to pay the same, and for Want of sufficient Distress to commit such Person or Persons to the Common Gaol or House of Correction for such County, there to remain for any Time not exceeding Two Calendar Months, or until Payment of such Costs.

veyor to submit

Alterations in any County or Barony, and where Boun

daries are

X. In all Cases in which it is proposed to make any Altera- Boundary Surtion of the Boundary of any County or Barony, the Boundary to Grand Jury Surveyor shall submit to the Grand Jury of such County for a Report, &c. Approval a Report setting forth the Detail of the proposed of proposed Alterations in such Boundaries, with the Grounds for making the same, accompanied by a Map showing the Boundary or Boundaries as originally laid down on the Ordnance Plans of such County or Barony; and in all Cases of Alteration in the proposed to be Boundary between Counties a Report and explanatory Map shall be submitted for Approval to the Grand Juries of both Counties, and shall, after such Approval, be fiated by the Judge of Assize in each County at the same Spring or Summer Assizes, as the Case may be, before any further Proceedings take place in regard to the Alteration of such County Boundary: Provided always, that in case any Appeal shall have been lodged to Quarter Sessions against any such Alterations, such Reports shall not be so submitted until such Appeal shall have been determined.

altered, a Report to Grand Counties, &c.

Juries of both

XI. In all Cases in which it is proposed to make an Alteration Boundary Sur in any Boundary from that heretofore laid down on the Ordnance veyor to submit a Map and Plan of any County, whether such Alteration refers to the detailed Report Boundaries of Counties, Baronies, Parishes, Townlands, or other to Lord LieuteDenomination nant, showing

original and

altered Boundaries.

Lord Lieutenant may make Order directing that new Boundary

shall be deemed the Boundary of such County, Barony, &c.

Lord Lieutenant may de

clare from what

Period the same shall

take effect, and adjust all Matters in

respect to Right

of voting at Elections, &c.

Lord Lieute

or settling Disputes, &c.

17 VICT. Denomination, the Boundary Surveyor shall, with all convenient Speed after such Alteration shall have been so fiated, prepare and make out a Report in detail of the proposed Alteration in any of such Boundaries, with the Grounds for making such Alteration, accompanied by a Plan or Plans showing in detail the original Boundaries as laid down on the Ordnance Plans, and those which it is proposed to substitute for them, and shall submit the same to the Lord Lieutenant and Privy Council, who may, if he or they shall think fit so to do, make Order directing that the new Boundary so marked out by the Boundary Surveyor, or so altered by the Justices on the hearing of such Appeal, (as the Case may be,) or such Portion or Portions of either of such Boundary Lines as such Lord Lieutenant shall think proper, shall for all public Purposes be and be deemed and taken to be the Boundary of or Portions of the Boundary, as the Case may be, of such County, Barony, Parish, Townland, or other Division or Denomination of Land.

XII. The said Lord Lieutenant in Council shall and may by every such Order as aforesaid fix and declare from what Period the same shall take effect, and settle and adjust all such Matters in respect of the Right of voting at Elections of Members to serve in Parliament by Persons holding or occupying Houses, Lands, or Tenements in such County or Barony, and for the Alteration or Amendment of the Lists or Registers of Electors accordingly, and in respect of the Assessment, Applotment, and Levy of Grand Jury, and all other Rates and Assessments, and in respect of all other Matters and Things proper or necessary to be settled and adjusted in consequence of such Order; and the Order of the said Lord Lieutenant in Council shall be conclusive and binding in Law in respect of the several Matters and Things therein contained; and every such Order shall be published in the Dublin Gazette; and a Copy or Copies of such Order, certified under the Hand of the Clerk of the said Council, shall be transmitted to the Clerk of the Peace for each County to which such Order shall in any way relate, to be by him kept and preserved in his Office, and exhibited at all reasonable Hours to any Person or Persons who may desire to inspect the same, without Fee or Reward.

XIII. It shall be lawful for the said Lord Lieutenant in nant may make Council, from Time to Time, as Occasion may require, to make supplemental Order for re- any supplemental Order or Orders for removing such Doubts moving Doubts or settling such Disputes as may arise in consequence of the Changes effected by virtue of the Provisions herein-before contained; and and every such supplemental Order shall be published, and transmitted to the Clerk of the Peace, to be by him preserved, and exhibited for Inspection in like Manner as herein-before provided in respect of any original Order; and every such supplemental Order shall have the same Force and Effect as if it had formed Part of any original Order made under the Provisions of this Act.

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Boundaries of

Owners.

XIV. No Order made in pursuance of this Act shall in Act not to any way affect the Boundary or Boundaries of any Land with affect the reference to any Right, Title, Claim, Possession, or Interest Lands with therein; nor shall the Description or Denomination in any respect to Pleadings or Proceedings, Criminal or Civil, in any Court of Rights of Law or Equity, pending or instituted previous to the Time limited for such Order taking effect, be in any way vitiated or affected thereby; and in the Case of any Suit or Proceeding, Criminal or Civil, pending or instituted previous to the Time assigned in and by such Order for the same taking effect, such Suit or Proceeding shall and may be continued as if no such Order had been made, and without regard thereto; and the said Order shall in respect of such Suit or Proceeding, and any and every Matter relating thereto, be void and of none effect; and wherever, in any Deed or Instrument made previous to the Time appointed for such Order taking effect, any Portion or Portions of Land shall have been described or denominated by the Name of the County, Barony, Half Barony, Parish, Townland, or other Division or Denomination of Land to which the same may have originally belonged, such Portion or Portions of Land shall be deemed and taken to have been described or denominated by the Name of the County, Barony, Half Barony, Parish, Townland, or other Division or Denomination of Land to which it shall be by such Order united, as if such last-mentioned County, Barony, Half Barony, Parish, Townland, or other Division or Denomination of Land to which the same originally belonged; and such Portion or Portions of Land shall and may, in all Suits and Proceedings at Law or Equity at any Time afterwards instituted, be described and denominated as belonging to the County, Barony, Half Barony, Parish, Townland, or other Division or Denomination of Land to which it shall be so united by such Order.

receive for

by the Lord

XV. The Boundary Surveyor and every other Surveyor or Boundary SurPerson who shall be employed in the Execution of this Act veyor, &c. shall shall be entitled to receive for his Trouble and Loss of Time Trouble, &c., such Sum and Sums of Money and Allowance for Travelling such Sum as and Hotel Expenses as shall be fixed by the Lord Lieutenant; shall be fixed which Sums of Money and Allowances shall be paid by the Lieutenant. Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury at such Times and under such Regulations as shall be fixed by the Lord Lieutenant and the said Commissioners, out of Monies to be provided by Parliament for that Purpose.

XVI. In the Construction of this Act the Word "Lord Construction of Lieutenant" shall be deemed to mean Lord Lieutenant or other certain Terms. Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland; the Word "County " shall include County of a City, County of a Town, and Towns Corporate, and where Counties have been divided into Ridings, each Riding shall for the Purposes of this Act be deemed and taken to be a separate County; the Word "Parish" shall [No. 11. Price 2d.] include

Act to extend

to Ireland only.

include all Chapelries or Divisions of Parishes, or extra-parochial Divisions, and all Unions of Parishes.

XVII. This Act shall extend to Ireland only.

CAP. XVIII.

Short Title of
Act.

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ment of Act.

Interpretation of Terms.

"Her Majesty:"

"Lords of the Admiralty:"

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An Act for the Encouragement of Seamen and the more
effectual Manning of Her Majesty's Navy during the
present War.
[2d June 1854.]
WHEREAS Her Majesty, by Her Order in Council,
dated the Twenty-ninth Day of March in the Year One
'thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, was pleased to order
that general Reprisals be granted against the Ships, Vessels,
and Goods of the Emperor of All the Russias, his Subjects,
and others inhabiting within any of his Countries, Territories,
or Dominions, so that Her Majesty's Fleets and Ships shall
⚫ and may lawfully seize all Ships, Vessels, and Goods belonging
to the Emperor of All the Russias, or his Subjects, or others
inhabiting within any of his Territories, Countries, or
• Dominions, and bring the same to Judgment in such Courts
of Admiralty within Her Majesty's Dominions, Possessions,
or Colonies, as shall be duly commissioned to take cognizance
thereof: And whereas Her Majesty hath of Her Royal
Munificence been graciously pleased, by Her Proclamation
bearing the same Date, to declare Her Intention to give the
Benefit of all Prizes taken during the present War to the
Captors thereof, being in Her Majesty's Service (save as
therein excepted): Now, for the Encouragement of the
Officers and Crews of Her Majesty's Ships and Vessels of
War, and for inducing all British Seamen, who may be in
any Foreign Service to return into this Kingdom, and become
serviceable to Her Majesty; and for the more effectually
securing and extending the Trade of Her Majesty's Subjects:'
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, as follows:

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I. This Act may for all Purposes be cited as "The Prize Act, Russia, 1854."

II. This Act shall come into operation on the First Day of June One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.

III. In the Construction of this Act, the following Terms shall have the Meanings hereby assigned to them, if not inconsistent with the Context or Subject Matter:

"Her Majesty" shall include Her Majesty, Her Heirs and
Successors:

"Lords of the Admiralty" shall include the Lord High
Admiral and also the Commissioners for executing the
Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland for the Time being:

"Court

"Court of Admiralty" shall include the High Court of "Court of AdAdmiralty of England and all Admiralty, Vice-Admiralty, miralty:" and other Courts, having or exercising Admiralty Jurisdiction within Her Majesty's Dominions, which shall be duly authorized to take cognizance of and judicially to proceed in Matters of Prize:

"Vice-Admiralty Courts" shall include all such Courts other "Vice-Admithan the High Court of Admiralty of England: ralty Courts:"

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Judge" shall include any Judge, Deyuty Judge, Surrogate, “Judge:" or other Person duly appointed to act as Judge in any

Court of Admiralty:

Vessel:"

Ship and Vessel" shall include all and all Manner of Ships, "Ship and Vessels, and Boats: "Her Majesty's Ships and Vessels of War" shall include all "Her Majesty's Ships and Vessels belonging to Her Majesty, as also any sels of War:" hired armed Ships or Vessels in Her Majesty's Service:

Ships and Ves

"Officers and Crew" shall include all Flag Officers, "Officers and Commanders, other Officers, Engineers, Seamen, Marines, Crew:" Soldiers, and others on board any of Her Majesty's Ships

or Vessel of War:

"Government Accountant" shall include any Officer in charge "Government of public Money, whether belonging to the Commissariat, Accountant," Customs, or any other Department, who may have been,

or may be hereafter appointed by the Lords of the Treasury

or Admiralty:

enforce Orders

IV. All Vice-Admiralty Courts within Her Majesty's Vice AdmiDominions are hereby empowered, directed, and required to ralty Courts to enforce upon all Persons within their respective Jurisdictions of High Court all Orders whatsoever of the High Court of Admiralty of of Admiralty. England, whether relating to Prizes or to any Matter or Thing arising therefrom.

Goods taken by

V. The Officers and Crew of any of Her Majesty's Ships Ships and or Vessels of War shall have the whole Right and Interest to Her Majesty's and in the Proceeds of all and every Ship, Vessel, Goods, and Ships and adMerchandise which they have taken or shall hereafter take judged as Prize to be divided during the Continuance of Hostilities against the Emperor of according to All the Russias, after the same shall have been adjudged lawful Her Majesty's Prize in any Court of Admiralty, such Proceeds to be divided in Proclamation. such Proportions and after such Manner as Her Majesty by Her Proclamation has already ordered and directed, or as Her Majesty shall think fit to order and direct by any Proclamation hereafter to be issued: Provided nevertheless, that whenever any Prize shall Share reserved be taken by any of Her Majesty's Fleets, Squadrons, Ships, or in conjunction. Vessels of War, while acting in conjunction with any Fleets, Squadrons, Ships, or Vessels of War of any other Power in alliance with Her Majesty, the Court of Admiralty adjudicating thereon shall apportion to such Ally a Share of the Proceeds of such Prize, after the same has been condemned, proportionate to the Number of Officers and Men present and employed by such Ally, as compared with the Number of Officers and Men present and employed on the Part of Her Majesty, in taking such Prize,

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