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1. For what purposes.

2. Rate, when and how made, &c. p. 298.

3. Rate, how levied and paid over, p. 303.

4. Business, at sessions, relating to it, p. 307.
5. Appeal, p. 308.

6. Borough Rate, p. 309

1. For what parposes a county rate may be made.

The purposes to which a county rate is applicable, are noticed under their proper heads, in the course of this work. The following concise list of them, is given, for the purpose of referring to them.

Apprentices, cost of prosecuting the master for ill treatment of: 32 G. 3, c. 57, s. 11. See ante, p. 107.

Bridges, repairing; 22 H. 8, c. 5. 1 Ann, c. 18. See ante, p. 178.

Coroner's fees, 25 G. 2, c. 29. 1 Vict c. 68.

294.

See ante, p.

Dead bodies cast on shore, burial of; 48 G. 3, c. 75. s. 6. Post.

Fine upon the county, expenses of litigating and setting it aside. R. v. Essex, 4 T. R. 591.

Gaols and houses of correction, building and repairing; 4 G. 4, c. 64; for setting the prisoners to work; Id. Salaries to chaplain, officers, &c. Id.

Insolvents, expenses of bringing them up before a commissioner on circuit, and the expenses of court houses, clerks, &c. 1 & 2 Vict. c. 110, s. 109.

Lunatics, county asylums for; 9 G. 4, c. 40.

Prisoners, charges of conveying them to prison, 27 G. 2, c. 3, s. 1, ante, p. 240; gaoler's fees for, 55 G. 3, c. 50. 56 G. 3, c. 60; allowance to, on being discharged, 5 G. 4, c. 85, s.

was prevented from executing the duties of his office, this was holden in Chancery to be a good ground for removing him from his office, although in his absence another coroner of the same county had performed his duties. Ex. p. Parnell, 1 Jac. & W. 451. In the same case it was ruled that the lord chancellor has authority, independently of the above statute, 25 G. 2, c. 29, to remove a coroner from his office for neglect of duty; and the practice is, to issue the writ de coronatore exoneranda, and the writ de coronatore eligendo, at the same time. Id.

CORPORATION.

See "Constable,"
" "Coroner," "Justices,"

"" Sessions."

COSTS.

Justices of the peace have no authority at common law to award costs, upon any proceeding before them; whatever authority they have upon the subject, is given to them entirely by statute. In cases of summary convictions, this authority is given to them, in most cases, by the statute creating the offence; but a general authority is also given to them by stat. 18. G. 3, c. 19, which we have already considered ante, p. 269, under the title "conviction." In cases of indictments for felony, and for some species of misdemeanor, the expenses of the prosecutor and witnesses, &c. may be ordered by the court in which the case is prosecuted, or the prosecutor bound over to appear, and is paid by the treasurer of the county or borough, out of the county or borough rate. See post, tit. Trial. In indictments for a nuisance arising from the furnace of a steam-engine, the court have power to award costs to the prosecutor, to be paid by the defendant; 1 & 2 G. 4, c. 41, s. 1 ; and in indictments for the non-repair of a highway, the court may award costs to the prosecutor, to be paid by the parties indicted, if the defence appears to be frivolous or vexatious. 5 & 6 W. 4, c. 50, s. 98. And generally, the cases in which costs may be awarded by statute, will be found under their proper heads, in the course of this work.

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COUNTERFEITING.

See "Coin."

COUNTY, DIVISION OF.

See Sessions, Petty."

COUNTY RATE.

1. For what purposes.

2. Rate, when and how made, &c. p. 298.

3. Rate, how levied and paid over, p. 303.

4. Business, at sessions, relating to it, p. 307.
5. Appeal, p. 308.

6. Borough Rate, p. 309

1. For what parposes a county rate may be made.

The purposes to which a county rate is applicable, are noticed under their proper heads, in the course of this work. The following concise list of them, is given, for the purpose of referring to them.

Apprentices, cost of prosecuting the master for ill treatment of: 32 G. 3, c. 57, s. 11. See ante, p. 107.

Bridges, repairing; 22 H. 8, c. 5. 1 Ann, c. 18. See ante, p. 178.

Coroner's fees, 25 G. 2, c. 29. 1 Vict c. 68.

294.

See ante, p.

Dead bodies cast on shore, burial of; 48 G. 3, c. 75. s. 6. Post.

Fine upon the county, expenses of litigating and setting it aside. R. v. Essex, 4 T. R. 591.

Gaols and houses of correction, building and repairing; 4 G. 4, c. 64; for setting the prisoners to work; Id. Salaries to chaplain, officers, &c. Id.

Insolvents, expenses of bringing them up before a commissioner on circuit, and the expenses of court houses, clerks, &c. 1 & 2 Vict. c. 110, s. 109.

Lunatics, county asylums for; 9 G. 4, c. 40.

Prisoners, charges of conveying them to prison, 27 G. 2, c. 3, s. 1, ante, p. 240; gaoler's fees for, 55 G. 3, c. 50. 56 G. 3, c. 60; allowance to, on being discharged, 5 G. 4, c. 85, s.

was prevented from executing the duties of his office, this was holden in Chancery to be a good ground for removing him from his office, although in his absence another coroner of the same county had performed his duties. Ex. p. Parnell, 1 Jac. & W. 451. In the same case it was ruled that the lord chancellor has authority, independently of the above statute, 25 G. 2, c. 29, to remove a coroner from his office for neglect of duty; and the practice is, to issue the writ de coronatore exoneranda, and the writ de coronatore eligendo, at the same time. Id.

CORPORATION.

See "Constable," 29 66 Coroner,"

" "Justices," "Sessions."

COSTS.

Justices of the peace have no authority at common law to award costs, upon any proceeding before them; whatever authority they have upon the subject, is given to them entirely by statute. In cases of summary convictions, this authority is given to them, in most cases, by the statute creating the offence; but a general authority is also given to them by stat. 18. G. 3, c. 19, which we have already considered ante, p. 269, under the title "conviction." In cases of indictments for felony, and for some species of misdemeanor, the expenses of the prosecutor and witnesses, &c. may be ordered by the court in which the case is prosecuted, or the prosecutor bound over to appear, and is paid by the treasurer of the county or borough, out of the county or borough rate. See post, tit. Trial. In indictments for a nuisance arising from the furnace of a steam-engine, the court have power to award costs to the prosecutor, to be paid by the defendant; 1 & 2 G. 4, c. 41, s. 1; and in indictments for the non-repair of a highway, the court may award costs to the prosecutor, to be paid by the parties indicted, if the defence appears to be frivolous or vexatious. 5 & 6 W. 4, c. 50, s. 98. And generally, the cases in which costs may be awarded by statute, will be found under their proper heads, in the course of this work.

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1. For what purposes.

2. Rate, when and how made, &c. p. 298.

3. Rate, how levied and paid over, p. 303.

4. Business, at sessions, relating to it, p. 307.
5. Appeal, p. 308.

6. Borough Rate, p. 309

1. For what parposes a county rate may be made.

The purposes to which a county rate is applicable, are noticed under their proper heads, in the course of this work. The following concise list of them, is given, for the purpose of referring to them.

Apprentices, cost of prosecuting the master for ill treatment of: 32 G. 3, c. 57, s. 11. See ante, p. 107.

Bridges, repairing; 22 H. 8, c. 5. 1 Ann, c. 18. See ante, p. 178.

Coroner's fees, 25 G. 2, c. 29. 1 Vict c. 68. See ante, p.

294.

Dead bodies cast on shore, burial of; 48 G. 3, c. 75. s. 6. Post.

Fine upon the county, expenses of litigating and setting it aside. R. v. Essex, 4 T. R. 591.

Gaols and houses of correction, building and repairing; 4 G. 4, c. 64; for setting the prisoners to work; Id. Salaries to chaplain, officers, &c. Id.

Insolvents, expenses of bringing them up before a commissioner on circuit, and the expenses of court houses, clerks, &c. 1 & 2 Vict. c. 110, s. 109.

Lunatics, county asylums for; 9 G. 4, c. 40.

Prisoners, charges of conveying them to prison, 27 G. 2, c. 3, s. 1, ante, p. 240; gaoler's fees for, 55 G. 3, c. 50. 56 G. 3, c. 60; allowance to, on being discharged, 5 G. 4, c. 85, s.

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