for the Payment of the Sums specified in any such Precept or of any of them. such Rates, the of Parishes, &c. to pay the same. II. And be it enacted, That in case Guardians do not pay If the Guarwithin the Time limited in such Precept the Sum or Sums of dians fail to pay Money therein required to be paid on behalf of any Parish, the Justices may said Justices assembled as aforesaid may cause to be issued and issue Warrants sent, by Post or otherwise, to the Overseers of the Poor of to the Overseers such Parish, or to the Petty Constable or Peace Officer, or other Person or Persons empowered in any Place to rate and levy the Monies assessed as such County, Police, or other Rate, Warrants to collect and pay to the Treasurer of the County or Place in which such Justices act, within a Time to be named and limited in such Warrants, the Rate or Rates charged on such Parish or Place respectively, together with an Addition to such Rate or Rates in the Proportion of One Shilling to every Ten; and such additional Sum shall be applied and disposed of in like Manner as the County Rate; and such Overseers of the Poor, Petty Constables, Peace Officers, or other Persons may reimburse themselves, as well for such additional Sums as for the original Amount of Rate or Rates, out of the Monies which they are respectively empowered to rate and levy for the Purpose of such County, Police, or other Rate, but shall not receive or take from the County Rate, or any other Rate, any Allowance or Compensation for their Trouble or Expences incurred in collecting, levying, or paying such County, Police, or other Rate. the Justices may levy the Rate by Distress and Sale. III. And be it enacted, That if any Overseer, Petty Con- If the Overseers, stable, Peace Officer, or other Person as aforesaid refuse, make &c. fail to pay, default, or neglect to pay to the Treasurer of the County or Place, within the Time limited as aforesaid, the Sum or Sums of Money specified in the said Warrants, and if the Clerk of the Peace or Treasurer of the County or Place make complaint thereof, then any Justice of the Peace of such County or Place may by Warrant under his Hand levy the same by Distress and Sale of the Goods of the Offender; and the Justices assembled as aforesaid may pay to any Clerk, Constable, Messenger, or other Person who may have been employed in making such Complaint, or in obtaining, drawing, or executing such Warrant, such reasonable Compensation out of the County Stock as to the said Justices may seem fit. any Contributions arrear. IV. And be it enacted, That in every Case where any Parish Parishes not in comprised in an Union has, on or before the Day on which arrear with Precept as aforesaid should be obeyed, contributed Money suffi- to be reimcient to enable the Guardians of the Union to pay any Sum or bursed by those Sums required by such Precept in respect of such Parish, as well which are in as to provide for the immediate Relief of the Poor of such Parish, and to satisfy all other Obligations of the said Guardians in respect of such Parish in force on that Day, and where, through the Default of any other Parish or Parishes in the same Union in contributing Money to such Guardians, or through the Neglect of such Guardians to demand sufficient Contributions from any other Parish or Parishes in the same Union, the said Guardians Ꭲ 4 Justices may issue Precepts of Parishes, &c. not comprised to the Overseers in Unions, or only partly within the Jurisdiction of the Justices, without the Intervention of stable. 7 & 8 VICT Guardians have applied the Money of such first-mentioned Parish to the Use of such other Parish or Parishes, and are: thereby rendered unable to pay any Money so required by such Precept on behalf of such first-mentioned Parish, and such Parish is by reason thereof compelled to pay the additional Sum of One Shilling in every Ten as herein-before provided, in every such i Case the Guardians of the Union shall reimburse such firstmentioned Parish such additional Sum, and all Costs incurred by reason of the Premises, out of the Monies of such other Parish or Parishes which may next thereafter come into the Hands of such Guardians; and in case more than One Parish be in de-.. fault as aforesaid the said Guardians shall charge such additional i Sum and Costs to every such Parish, in proportion to the Amount of the Deficiency of the Contribution of each Parish respectively on the Day on which the said Precept should have been obeyed. 3 V. And be it enacted, That in the Case of every Parish not. comprised within any Union, and in which the Laws for the Relief of the Poor are not administered by a Board of Guardians, and in the Case of every Parish comprised in a Union the Guardians of which are not empowered to relieve the Poor, and in the Case of any Parish comprised within a Union, or in which the Laws for the Relief of the Poor are administered by a Board of Guardians, of which Parish a Part only is situated within the Limits of the Commission of any Justices, for which Part no the High Con- separate Rate is levied for the Relief of the Poor, and in the Case of every Place not maintaining its own Poor, but liable to the Payment of County, Police, or other Rates as aforesaid, the Justices assembled as aforesaid may, so soon as any Vacancy occurs in the Office of High Constable as aforesaid, issue their Warrant to the Overseers, Petty Constables, Peace Officers, or other Persons, empowered by Law to rate and levy County,: Police, or other Rates in such Parish, Part of a Parish, or Place, to pay to the County Treasurer, or to transmit to him in such Manner as the said Justices may from Time to Time direct, within a Time limited in such Warrant, the County Rate, Police Rate, or other Rate or Rates as aforesaid charged on them ¦ without the Agency or Intervention of any High Constable, and such Justices may cause such Warrant to be sent by Post or otherwise; and in case the said Overseers, Petty Constable, Peace Officer, or other Person refuse or neglect to pay any such Rate within the Time limited in such Warrant, the same Remedy may be had against them as now by Law exists against Overseers neglecting to pay on the Warrant of the High Constable. Delivery of Precepts, &c. by Post, and Evi dence thereof. 要 VI. And be it enacted, That whenever Precepts or Warrants as provided by this Act are to be sent by Post, the Clerk of the Peace shall send every such Precept or Warrant by Post as a registered Letter, according to the Regulations of the Postmaster General in force for the Time being in that Behalf; and every Precept or Warrant delivered or tendered as a registered Letter at the Address of the Person to whom it is addressed, whether a Receipt be given for the same or not, shall be deemed to have been been served on the Person to whom the same was so delivered or tendered; and if delivered or tendered to the Clerk or other like Officer acting for any Guardians, shall be deemed to have been served on the whole of such Guardians; and if delivered or tendered to any One Overseer of a Parish, shall be deemed to have been served on the whole of the Overseers of such Parish. VII. And whereas it is expedient to relieve High Constables Where Special 'from the Duty of serving Notices of the holding of Special Sessions are reSessions on the Justices of the Peace of the Division of Special holden Notice quired to be "Sessions personally;' be it enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act, in all Cases in which Special Sessions are required to be holden for any Division of any County or Place, if Notice of the intended holding of such Special Sessions be signed by any One Justice of the Peace usually acting within such Division, and if a Copy of such Notice be sent by Post a reasonable Time before the Day on which such Sessions are to be holden, addressed to each Justice of the Peace resident and usually acting within such Division at his Residence in such Division, such Notice shall be deemed to have been duly given to or served on each such Justice of the Peace, any Law or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding. of the same to be sent to each Justice. " at Quarter Ses 授 2 VIII. And whereas it is expedient to relieve High Con- High Constable ⚫ stables, in certain Cases, from the Duty of attending at the now appointed. • Court of Quarter Sessions;' be it enacted, That where High sions to be ap Constables have heretofore been usually appointed at Courts of pointed at Spect Quarter Sessions the High Constables of such Places shall here- cial Sessions. after be appointed by such Justices as may be present at the Special Sessions of their Division held for the Purpose of hearing Appeals against the Rates of the several Parishes in such Division, or at any Adjournment thereof, but if the Hundred or other like Division of the County for which any High Constable is to be appointed be not included within the Limits of any One Division of the County for which such Special Sessions are held, then the Justices of the Peace for the County assembled at General or Quarter Sessions, or any Adjournment thereof, may from Time to Time determine the Division of the Special Sessions at which such High Constable is to be appointed, and shall cause Notice of such Determination to be sent by Post, or otherwise, to the High Constable for the Time being of such Hundred or other like Division; and every High Con- High Constable, whether appointed at a Special Sessions, or at an Adjourn- stables to take ment thereof, or at a Court Leet, or any other Special Court, only the Oath shall, if present at the Time of his being appointed, then and tion of their there take his Oath for the due Execution of his Office, and if Office. otherwise, he shall forthwith, on the Receipt of his Appointment, go before the next or some other Justice of the Peace for the County in which he resides, and then and there take his said Oath of Office, and he shall not, in virtue of his Office of High Constable, be required to take any other Oath than the said Oath for the due Execution of his Office. for due Execu 1 sh IX. And be it enacted, That in the Construction of this Construction of Act the Word "Parish" shall be construed to include any the Words Parish," Township, "Union," 7 & 8 VICT Township, Vill, or Place maintaining its own Poor, whether parochial or extra-parochial, or any Part of a Parish, Township, Vill, or other Place for which a separate Poor Rate may be made; the Word "Union" shall be construed to mean and include any Number of Parishes united under the Act passed in the Fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, "for the Amendment and better Administration of the Laws relating to the Poor in England," or under an Act passed in the Twenty-second Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, "for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor," or under any local Act; and the Word "Guar dians" shall mean and include any Board of Guardians acting under the Provisions of the said Act passed in the Fifth Year of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, and empowered to relieve the Poor of any Parish or Union, and the Visitors, Guardians, Directors, Managers, Acting Guardians, Vestrymen, or other Officers in a Union appointed to act in the ordering of Relief of the Poor from the Poor Rate under any general or local Act of Parliament; and the Word " Hundred" shall mean and include any Hundred, Wapentake, Ward, or other District in the Nature of a Hundred, by whatever Name denominated. County of SCHEDULE to which this Act refers. Form of Precept. To the Guardians of the to wit. S Union. THESE are to require you, the Guardians of the Union, from and out of the Monies paid into the Hands of the Day of [and towards a Police Rate, at in the [Signature of the Clerk of the Peace.] CAP. XXXIV. An Act to amend and continue until the First Day of W HEREAS an Act was passed in the Third Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to im- 2&3 Vict. c.42 prove Prisons and Prison Discipline in Scotland, and another Act was passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of Her pre sent Majesty, intituled An Act for the better regulating the 5&6 Vict. c.67. Number of Prisoners admitted to the General Prison at Perth: And whereas it is expedient to make further Provision for the Improvement of Prisons and Prison Discipline in Scotland: 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 from and after Last-recited the Commencement of this Act the last-recited Act shall be Act repealed. repealed. II. And be it enacted, That so much of the first-recited Act Part of firstas provides that all the Expences of the General Board of recited Act Directors of Prisons in Scotland (excepting the Salary of the repealed. Secretary) shall be defrayed by Assessment upon the Counties of Scotland, and Burghs situated therein, shall from and after the Commencement of this Act be repealed. III. And be it enacted, That after the present Sheriffs of the Counties of Edinburgh and Perth (who have been appointed Members of the General Board of Directors of Prisons in Scotland by Her Majesty) shall respectively cease to hold their said Offices, the Sheriff of the County of Edinburgh for the Time being and the Sheriff of the County of Perth for the Time being shall be Members of the said General Board, in addition to those named or referred to in the first-recited Act; and that of the Fourteen Persons other than those referred to by their official Titles in the first-recited Act, whom Her Majesty is empowered to appoint as Members of the said General Board, Three Sheriffs of |