VII. And be it enacted, That this Act shall not extend to Act not to extend to cerany Lease by an Ecclesiastical Corporation or Spiritual Person, tain Leases. or to any Lease of the Possessions of any College, Hospital, or Charitable Foundation, or to any Lease where, before the passing of this Act, the Hereditaments comprised in such Lease have been surrendered or relinquished, or recovered adversely, by reason of the Invalidity thereof, or there has been any Judgment or Decree in any Action or Suit concerning the Validity of such Lease, and shall not prejudice or affect any Action or Pending Suits Suit already commenced and now pending in any Court of Law not to be preor Equity, but every such Action and Suit may be proceeded with, and such Relief had therein, as if this Act had not passed. VIII. And be it enacted, That this Act shall not extend to Extent of Act. Scotland. judiced. IX. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or Act may be repealed by any Act to be passed in this Session of Parliament, amended, &c. CAP. XXVII. An Act to remove Doubts concerning the Transportation of Offenders under Judgment of Death to whom Mercy may be extended in Ireland. [26th June 1849.] WHEREAS Doubts have arisen as to the Power of the Crown to mitigate the Punishment of Offenders under 'Judgment of Death for Treason in Ireland: Be it declared and 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 whenever Her Majesty, or the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the Time being, shall be pleased to extend Mercy to any Offender under Judgment of Death in Ireland for any Offence whatsoever by Law punishable with Death, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by Warrant under Her Royal Sign Manual, or for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the Time being, by Warrant signed by such Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors, to order the Transportation of such Offender for the Term of the natural Life of such Offender, or for any Term of Years (as in such Warrant shall be expressed); and such Warrant shall be as effectual in the Law, and shall be carried into execution by the Transportation of such Offender to any Place beyond the Seas to which Offenders may be transported, in the same Manner as if such Warrant had been a Sentence and Order for the Transportation for the like Term of such Offender pronounced, made, and recorded in respect of an Offence in respect of which such Sentence and Order might have been pronounced and made by a Court of competent Jurisdiction. II. And Her Majesty or the Lord Lieuorder the Transportation of any Offender under Death to whom Mercy may be extended. tenant may Judgment of Warrants to be recorded. II. And be it enacted, That every such Warrant shall be lodged with the Clerk of the Crown or Clerk of the Peace acting for the Court where the Judgment of Death hath been or shall be pronounced or recorded, to be kept among the Records of such Court. CAP. XXVIII. An Act to enable the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital to regulate and manage the Markets held at Greenwich in the County of Kent. 6 [26th June 1849 ] HEREAS His Majesty King William the Third, by His Letters Patent, dated at Westminster the Eighteenth Day of July One thousand seven hundred, did give and grant to the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Romney, his Heirs and Assigns, free, lawful, and absolute Right, Power, Licence, and Authority, for him, his Heirs and Assigns, to have, keep, and enjoy, at the Villa of East Greenwich in the County of Kent, Two Markets upon Wednesday and Saturday in every Week for ever, for the buying and selling all Goods and • Wares whatsoever commonly bought and sold in such Markets, together with free Liberty of erecting and keeping a Court of Piepowder, with all Liberties, free Customs, Powers, Customs, Tolls, and other Profits and Commodities thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, as mentioned in the said Letters Patent: And whereas by an Indenture dated the Ninth Day of December One thousand seven hundred, made between the said Henry Earl of Romney of the one Part, and the several Persons therein named of the other Part, and by 'virtue of Two several Acts of Parliament passed in the Sixteenth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, and the Tenth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, relating to the Property of the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital, the said Two Markets and 'Court of Piepowder in and by the said recited Letters Patent granted, together with the said Letters Patent, and all Tolls, and other Profits, Benefits, Advantages, and Appurtenances 'whatsoever to them belonging or appertaining, or that should come or accrue by the same, became vested in the Commis'sioners of Greenwich Hospital and their Successors, in trust for and as Part of the Estates and Property of the said Hospital: And whereas the said Commissioners have at con"siderable Expense erected on certain Ground, forming Part of the Estates and Property of the said Hospital, a commodious Market Place, with suitable Buildings, in which the said Markets are now carried on: And whereas the said Markets are of great Benefit and Advantage to the Inhabitants of the Parish of Greenwich, and it is expedient that the said Com'missioners 'missioners should be empowered to make proper Rules and Regulations for the better Management thereof:' May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and 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 "The Markets and Fairs Clauses 10 & 11 Vict. Act, 1847," shall be incorporated with and form Part of this c. 14. incorAct, except so far as the same is inconsistent therewith, or may this Act. porated with be hereby varied or altered. II. And be it enacted, That in citing this Act in other Acts Short Title of of Parliament, and in Deeds, legal Instruments, and legal and Act. other Proceedings, it shall be sufficient to use the Expression "The Greenwich Markets Act, 1849." Commissioners III. And be it enacted, That the Commissioners of Green- of Greenwich wich Hospital shall be the Undertakers for regulating and Hospital to be managing the Markets according to the Provisions of this Act Undertakers and the Act incorporated herewith. IV. And be it enacted, That the Limits within which this and the said incorporated Act shall be put in force shall be the said Parish of Greenwich. for regulating the Market. Limits of Act. taken. V. And be it enacted, That immediately after the passing of Tolls to be this Act all Tolls, Pickage, Stallage, Rents, and Duties whatsoever which have been heretofore demanded by the said Commissioners under the Authority of the said recited Letters Patent, or by Custom or otherwise, and all Exemptions from the Payment of such Tolls, Pickage, Stallage, Rents, and Duties which have been heretofore claimed by any Person or Persons whomsoever, shall cease, and the same are hereby absolutely extinguished; and it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners and their Successors from Time to Time to demand from any Person or Persons occupying or using any Stand, Stall, Shed, or Place in the Market Place or Buildings, or bringing into any such Market Place or Buildings any Poultry, or marketable Provisions, Goods, Wares, Merchandize, Articles, or Things specified in the Schedule to this Act annexed, such Stallage, Rents, and Tolls as the said Commissioners shall from Time to Time appoint, not exceeding the several Stallages, Rents, and Tolls specified in the said Schedule. measuring. VI. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Person Tolls for for the Time being appointed to attend the Weighing House or weighing or Place for weighing or measuring any Article sold in the Market Place and Buildings by Weight or Measure, or for weighing any Waggon or Cart, from Time to Time to demand such Tolls as the said Commissioners or their Successors shall appoint, not exceeding in any Case the Amount specified in the Schedule to this Act annexed. VII. And be it enacted, That with respect to any Bye Bye Laws to Laws to be made under the Authority of this Act and the be in Writing, Act incorporated herewith the same shall be reduced to Writing Two of the and signed by under Commissioners. Saving the under the Hands and Seals of the said Commissioners or their Successors, or any Two or more of them. VIII. Provided always, and be it enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to City of London. prejudice or derogate from the Estates, Rights, Interests, Privileges, Franchises, or Authorities of the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London, or their Successors, or the Lord Mayor of the said City for the Time being, nor to prohibit, defeat, alter, or diminish any Power, Authority, or Jurisdiction which at the Time of passing this Act the said Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens, or the said Lord Mayor for the Time being, did or might lawfully claim, use, or Saving the Overseers, and Parishioners, and the Church wardens, Over seers, and Governors and Directors of the Parish of Greenwich. 9 G. 4. c. xliii. 4 G. 4. c. lxx. Public Act, exercise. IX. Provided also, and be it enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall be deemed, construed, or taken to alter, take away, abridge, prejudice, or in any Manner interfere with the Rights, Powers, Jurisdictions, and Authorities of the Churchwardens, Overseers of the Poor, and Parishioners, or the Churchwardens, Overseers, and Governors and Directors of the Poor of the said Parish of Greenwich for the Time being acting under and by virtue of an Act passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for repealing an Act of the Twenty-sixth Year of the Reign of King George the Second, for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor in the Parish of East Greenwich in the County of Kent, and for repairing the Highways and cleansing the Streets thereof, and for making more effectual Provisions in lieu of the said Act, and also of an Act passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act for lighting and watching the Parish and Town of Greenwich in the County of Kent, and removing and preventing Nuisances therein. X. And be it enacted, That this Act shall be a Public Act, and judicially taken notice of as such. SCHEDULE to which this Act refers. TABLE OF TOLLS, RENTS, AND STALLAGES. For every Stall, Bulk, Block, Tressel, or Station used by any Person for exposing to Sale Meat, Fish, or any other live or dead Victuals, Fruit, China, Glass, Earthenware, or other Goods, Articles, Commodities, or Things, according to the Size or Dimensions of the same; viz. for each Superficial Square Foot thereof: If such Stall, Bulk, Block, Tressel, or Station be within the covered Market Place: If taken by the Year, the Sum of By the Half Year, the Sum of If otherwise taken, for each Market Day For each Compartment or Space on the Surface of the Ground used by any Person for the like Purpose, according to the Size or Dimensions of the same; viz. for each Superficial Square Foot thereof: If the Compartment or Space be within the If taken by the Year, the Sum of By the Quarter, the Sum of If otherwise taken, for every Market Day or other Day in the Week, the Sum of If the Compartment or Space be not within the covered Market: If taken by the Year, the Sum of By the Quarter, the Sum of £ s. d. 000 421 000 0 1 0 6 3 0 0 01 If otherwise taken, for each Market Day [No. 12. Price 2d.] M |