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other Collegiate Proceedings, as shall be from Time to Time provided by the Statutes, Rules, and Ordinances so to be made or approved by Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, as aforesaid. XIV. And for the better enabling every Student in the said Lecture Rooms Colleges to receive religious Instruction according to the Creed to be assigned which he professes to hold, be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for religious for the President and Professors or other governing Body of each of the said Colleges which shall be constituted in and by the said Letters Patent to assign Lecture Rooms within the Precincts of such College, wholly or in part, for the Use of such religious Teachers as shall be recognized by such governing Body, subject in each Case to the Approval of Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, and also, subject to the like Approval, to make Rules concerning the Days and Times when such religious Instruction shall be given therein, and for securing that the same shall not interfere with the general Discipline of the College: Provided always, that no Student shall be compelled by any Rule of the College to attend any theological Lecture or religious Instruction other than is approved by his Parents or Guardians, and that no religious Test shall be administered to any Person in order to entitle him to be admitted a Student of any such College, or to hold any Office therein, or to partake of any Advantage or Privilege thereof; but this Proviso shall not be deemed to prevent the making of Regulations for securing the due Attendance of the Students for Divine Worship at such Church or Chapel as shall be approved by their Parents or Guardians respectively.

XV. And for the better Government of the Students in the Where Students said Colleges, be it enacted, That no Student shall be allowed to shall dwell. continue in any of the said Colleges unless he shall dwell with his Parent or Guardian, or with some near Relation or Friend selected by his Parent or Guardian and approved by the President of the College, or with a Tutor or Master of a Boarding House licensed by the President of the College as herein-after provided, or in a Hall founded and endowed for the Reception of Students, and recognized by the College as herein-after provided.

Houses.

XVI. And be it enacted, That every Person who is desirous of Licence of being licensed as a Tutor or Master of a Boarding House in any Tutors and of the said Colleges shall apply in Writing under his Hand to the Masters of President of the College for his Licence; and it shall be lawful Boarding for the President, if he shall think fit, to require of any such Applicant such Testimonials of Character and Fitness for the Office as shall be satisfactory to him; and the Application shall specify the House or Houses belonging to or occupied by the Applicant, and intended by him for the Reception of Students, and the Number of Students who may be conveniently lodged and boarded therein, and also the Provision or Regulation proposed to be made for securing to the said Students the Means of due Attendance upon such religious Instruction and Divine Worship as may be approved by his Parents and Guardians and recognized by the governing Body of the College, and thereupon it shall be lawful for the President, in his Discretion, to grant or withhold the Licence for the academical Year then current or then next ensuing; and every such Licence shall be registered in the Archives of the College, and shall enure until the End of the

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academical

Endowment of Halls for Students.

Commissioners of Public Works may make Loans to

Companies in

corporated for founding Halls.

academical Year in which it shall be registered, and shall then be of no Force unless renewed in like Manner, but shall be revocable at any Time, and may be forthwith revoked by the President of the College in case of any Misbehaviour of such Tutor or Master of a Boarding House, or of the Students under his Care, which in the Opinion of the President and a Majority of the Professors of the College ought to be punished by immediate Revocation of such Licence.

XVII. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for any Person whomsoever having Power to make an absolute Disposition there of to give, grant, devise, bequeath, or assure, by any Deed, Will, or other Instrument sufficient in Law to create or convey an Estate therein, any Messuages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, or any Estate therein, or any Interest arising thereout, or any Money, Chattels, and Effects, to any Trustee or Trustees willing to accept the Trust, or to the Commissioners of Charitable Donations and Bequests in Ireland and their Successors, in trust for founding | and endowing Halls for the Reception of Students in any of the said Colleges, and by such Deed, Will, or Instrument to establish Rules or to specify the Authority for establishing Rules to be observed by the Students admitted to the Benefits of such Founda tion, and to specify the Authority by which the Observance of such Rules is to be enforced: Provided always, that no such Hall shall be recognized by any of the said Colleges unless the Instrument of Foundation shall provide that such Rules, and also the Appointment from Time to Time of the Principal or other Person holding chief Authority in such Hall, shall be of no Force until allowed by the Person or Persons appointed or to be appointed as aforesaid by Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, to execute the Office of Visitor of the said College.

XVIII. And for the Encouragement of Persons willing to found and endow Halls for the Reception of Students in the said Colleges as aforesaid, be it declared and enacted, That if Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, shall be pleased, by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Ireland, to incorporate any Number of Persons willing to found and endow any such Hall or Halls as aforesaid, such incorporated Hall shall be deemed a public Work for the Promotion of which the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland may make Loans within the Meaning of an Act passed in the Second Year of the Reign of His late 1&2 W.4.c.33. Majesty, intituled An Act for the Extension and Promotion of 6&7W.4.c.108. Public Works in Ireland, and of all Acts passed or to be passed for the Amendment thereof; and that it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland to make Loans to such incorporated Bodies respectively for the Extension and Promotion of such Foundations according to the Provisions of the last-recited Acts.

7 W. 4. &
1 Vict. c. 21.

6&7 Vict. c. 44.

Religious Teachers to be endowed by private Benefactions.

XIX. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for any Person whomsoever having Power to make an absolute Disposition thereaf to give, grant, devise, bequeath, or assure, by any Deed, Will, or other Instrument sufficient in Law to create or convey an Estate therein, any Messuages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, or any Estate therein, or Interest arising thereout, or any Money, Chattels, and Effects, to any Trustee or Trustees willing to accept

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the Trust, or to the Commissioners of Charitable Donations and Bequests in Ireland, and their Successors, in trust for establishing and maintaining Lectures or other Forms of religious Instruction for the Use of such Students of the said Colleges respectively as shall be desirous of receiving the same, subject to such Regulations consistent with the Intentions of the Donor thereof, as shall be made by the governing Body of the College, and approved by Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors: Provided always, that no such Gift shall take effect until it shall have been accepted by the governing Body of the College, and until Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, shall have signified Her or Their Approval of the Regulations according to which such Gift is to be applied.

XX. And be it enacted, That every such College which shall be established and endowed under this Act shall once at least in every Year, and also whenever Her Majesty's Pleasure shall be signified in that Behalf, report to Her Majesty their Proceedings; and a Copy of every such Report shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within Six Weeks after the same shall have been made, if Parliament be then sitting, or if not, then within Six Weeks next after the next Meeting of Parliament.

Colleges to

make Reports to Her Majesty, Parliament.

to be laid before

XXI. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or Alteration of repealed by any Act to be passed in this Session of Parliament.

CA P. LXVII.

An Act for making further Regulations for more effectually
securing the Correctness of the Jurors Books in Ireland.
[31st July 1845.]

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WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Fourth Year of the

Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, inti

Act.

tuled An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws relative 3&4 W.4.c.91. to Jurors and Juries in Ireland, containing Directions for making out yearly in every County, County of a City, and County of a Town in Ireland, a List or Lists of all Persons qualified and liable to serve on Juries as therein provided, and for copying 'the same into a Book, to be called "The Jurors Book," and enacting that the Sheriff shall not, in answer to any Writ of Venire facias, or Precept for the Return of Jurors, return the Names of any Persons not contained in the Jurors Book for the then current Year: And whereas it is expedient to make 'further Regulations for the Purpose of more effectually securing the Correctness of the said Jurors Books: 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 following Provision of the said Act, (videlicet,) Repeal of Part "and when every such List shall be duly corrected by the Jus- of Section 9, tices present at such Special Sessions or Adjournment thereof, and allowed and signed by them or Three of them, they the said Justices shall cause One General List to be made out therefrom, containing the Names of all Persons whose Qualification shall have been so allowed, arranged according to Rank and Property; and the presiding Justices at such Sessions shall deliver the same to

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the Clerk of the Peace, who shall thereupon cause the same to be
truly and fairly copied, in the same Order, in a Book to be by
him provided for that Purpose, at the Expence of the County,
City, and Town respectively, with proper Columns for making
the Register herein-after directed, and shall forthwith deliver the
same Book to the Sheriff of the County, City, or Town, or his
Under Sheriff, or the Town Clerk, which Book shall be called
6 The Jurors Book for the Year
(inserting the Calendar
Year for which such Book is to be in use), and that every Sheriff
on quitting his Office shall deliver the same to the succeeding
Sheriff; and that every Jurors Book so prepared shall be brought
into Use on the First Day of January after it shall be so delivered
by the Clerk of the Peace to the Sheriff, or his Under Sheriff, and
shall be used for One Year then next following," shall be and the
same is hereby repealed.

II. And instead thereof be it enacted, That when every such List made out and delivered by any High Constable or Collector shall be duly corrected by the Justices present at such Special Sessions or Adjournment thereof as in the said Act is mentioned, the said Lists shall be marked in their Presence with the suc cessive Numbers 1, 2, 3, &c., according to the Number of such Lists; and when the said Lists so corrected and numbered, shall be allowed and signed by them or any Three of them the said Justices shall cause One General List to be made out therefrom, containing the Names of all Persons whose Qualification shall have been so allowed, arranged according to Rank and Property, which General List shall be compared by the presiding Justices at such Sessions with the said Lists so allowed and signed and numbered as aforesaid, and shall be corrected by such Justices (if necessary) by reference to such Lists, and be made to correspond therewith: and the presiding Justices at such Sessions shall sign such General List at the Foot of each Page thereof, and shall deliver the same, together with the Lists so allowed and signed and numbered as aforesaid to the Clerk of the Peace, who shall thereupon cause the same to be truly and fairly copied, in the same Order in which the Names shall be arranged in the said General List, in a Book to be by him provided for that Purpose at the Expence of the County, City, and Town respectively, with proper Columns for making the Register directed by the said Act, and shall forthwith deliver the same Book to the Sheriff of the County, City, or Town, or his Under Sheriff, or the Town Clerk, which Book shall be called "The Jurors Book for the Year

"(inserting the Calendar Year for which such Book is to be in Use), and that every Sheriff on quitting his Office shall deliver the same to the succeeding Sheriff, and that every Jurors Book so prepared shall be brought into use on the First Day of January after it shall be so delivered by the Clerk of the Peace to the Sheriff or his Under Sheriff, and shall be used for One Year then next following.

III. And be it enacted, That the Clerk of the Peace shall cause the said Jury Lists, so allowed and signed as aforesaid, and the said General List, to be placed among the Records in his Office, and shall allow the same to be inspected at all reasonable Times, without Fee or Reward, by any Person who, by the Provisions of

the

the said Act of the Fourth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, would be entitled to peruse the Copies of any of the Jury Lists delivered to such Clerk of the Peace by the High Constable and Collector or Collectors.

Jurors Book may be corrected by the Court of

made thereof.

IV. And be it enacted, That if the Jurors Book shall be found to contain any Name which shall not be contained in any one of the said Jury Lists, or if any Name which shall be contained in any one of such Jury Lists shall not appear in such Book, it shall Queen's Bench be lawful for Her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench in Dublin, or or by a single any Judge of the said Court, upon Complaint thereof made to the Judge, upon said Court or Judge, to order the said Sheriff or Under Sheriff Complaint and the Clerk of the Peace respectively to produce the said Jurors Book and the said Jury Lists to the said Court or Judge; and if upon Inspection of the said Book and Jury Lists any such Error shall be found in the said Jurors Book the said Court or Judge shall order the same to be amended, and such Amendment shall be forthwith made and signed by the said Sheriff or Under Sheriff and Clerk of the Peace, in the Presence of the said Court or Judge. V. And whereas it is desirable that the Lists to be made out by the High Constables and Collector or Collectors under the Provisions of the said Act should in every Case be printed;' be it therefore enacted, That instead of the Words " you are authorized to order a sufficient Number of Copies thereof to be printed," which are contained in the Precept for returning Lists of Jurors in Schedule (A.) to the said Act annexed, such Precept shall in every Case contain the Words following; (videlicet,) "you are required to order a sufficient Number of Copies thereof to be printed;" and the said High Constables and Collector or Collectors are hereby required to cause a sufficient Number of Copies of the said Lists to be printed accordingly.

High Constables and Collectors required to cause Lists to be printed.

VI. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Grand Grand Jury at Jury of each County, County of a City, or County of a Town, Assizes, &c. to from Time to Time at the next ensuing Assizes or Presenting present Sum of Money for Term, and they are hereby empowered, if they shall so think fit, Expence of without previous Application at Presentment Sessions, to present printing Lists. such Sum of Money as they shall deem reasonable for defraying the Expence of printing such Lists.

VII. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or Alteration of repealed in this present Session of Parliament.

CA P. LXVIII.

An Act to stay Execution of Judgment for Misdemeanors upon giving Bail in Error.

[31st July 1845.]

Act.

WHEREAS it is expedient to make Provision for staying the Execution of Judgment upon Prosecution for Misdemeanor while a Writ of Error is depending to reverse such Judgment: Be it therefore 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 Parlia- Execution on ment assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That in every Case of Judgment, whether given before or after the passing of this Act for a Misdemeanor, where the Defendant or Defendants shall have obtained a Writ of Error to reverse such Judgment, of Error and Execution Bail thereon.

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Judgments for Misdemeanors stayed or suspended by Writ

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