under his Hand and Seal, either commit such Offender to the Common Gaol, there to remain without Bail or Mainprize for the Space of Three Calendar Months, or Cause such Offender to be publicly or privately whipped, at the Discretion of such Justice. CLIII. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall be construed to extend to the Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, and Man, and the Islands thereto belonging, as to the sey, Guernsey, Provisions therein for mustering and paying, and to the Provi In what Cases this Act shall extend to Jer &c. Form of Conviction. sions for the Trial and Punishment of Officers and Soldiers who shall be charged with Mutiny and Desertion, or any other of the Offences which are by this Act declared to be punishable by the Sentence of a General, or Garrison, or Detachment, or Regimental Court-martial; and also to the Provisions which relate to the Punishment of Persons who shall conceal Deserters, or shall knowingly buy, exchange, or otherwise receive any Arms, Clothes, Caps, or other Furniture belonging to the King, or any such Articles generally deemed Regimental Necessaries, from any Soldier or Deserter, or who shall cause the Colour of any such Clothes to be changed. CLXI. And for the more easy Conviction of Offenders against this Act, be it enacted, That in case any Person shall be convicted of any Offences by which they shall become liable to any of the pecuniary Penalties under this Act, the following shall be the form of Conviction: 'at in the Year of our Lord Day of in the County aforesaid, A. B. came before me, [or us] One [or Two] of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the said County, and informed me [or us] that G. H. • of now last past, at on the Day of in the said County, did [here set forth the Fact in the Manner described in the Statute]; whereupon the said G. H., after being ⚫ duly summoned to answer the said Charge, appeared before me [or us] the said Justice [or Justices] on the at Day of in the said County, and having heard the Charge contained in the said Information, declared that he was not guilty of the said Offence; but the same being fully proved upon the Oath of I. K. a credible Witness, it manifestly appeared to me [or us] the said Justice [or Justices] that he the said G. H. is guilty of the said Offence charged upon him in the said Information: It is therefore considered and adjudged by me [or us] the said Justice [or Justices] that he the said G. H. be convicted, and I [or we] do hereby convict him of the Offence aforesaid; and I [or we] do hereby declare and adjudge that the said G. H. hath forfeited the Sum of for the Offence aforesaid, to be distributed as the Law directs, according to the Statute in that Case made and provided. Given, et cetera.' CAP. V. An Act for continuing to His Majesty for One Year certain A Register to be kept of all Money paid chequer for the Duties hereby granted. into the Ex IV. And be it further enacted, That there shall be provided and kept, in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer at Westminster, One Book of Register, in which all the Money that shall be paid into the said Exchequer for the said Rates and Duties hereby granted or continued on Personal Estates, and on Offices and Employments of Profit, Pensions, Annuities, and Stipends, shall be entered and registered apart and distinct from all other Monies paid and payable to His Majesty, and shall be carried to the Consolidated Fund; and that it shall Treasury to apbe lawful for the said Commissioners of the Treasury to issue and ply the Money apply the same from time to time to such Services, as shall then from time to have been voted by the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in this present Session of Parliament. V. Provided always, and be it enacted, That this Act may be amended, altered, or repealed by any Act or Acts to be made in this present Session of Parliament. CAP. VI. An Act to indemnify such Persons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments, and for extending the Time limited for those Purposes respectively until the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine. [See c. 17. post.] CAP. VII. [26th March 1828.] An Act to continue for One Year, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, so much of certain Acts of the Parliament of Ireland as relate to the lighting, cleansing, and watching of Cities and Towns, for the lighting, cleansing, and watching of which no particular Provision is made by any Act of Parliament. [26th March 1828.] [5 G.3. (I) 13 & 14 G.3. (I.) 25 G.3.(I.) and 36 G.3. (I.) continued.] CAP. VIII. An Act for fixing, until the Twenty-fifth Day of March One time. Act may be this Session. Sessions of the Peace may be held at Westminster, notwithstanding the Sitting of the Court of CAP. IX. An Act to enable the Justices of the Peace for Westminster WHEREAS the City and Liberties of Westminster < are not authorized to hold their Sessions during the Sitting of His Majesty's Court of King's Bench at Westminster or else'where in the County of Middlesex, and it is expedient that the 'said Justices should have such Power and Authority, for the < more speedy Trial of Offenders, and the more effectual Dispatch of Business;' Be it therefore enacted by the King'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 it shall be lawful for the said Justices of the Peace for the City and Liberties of Westminster to begin and continue, or to continue when begun, any Session of the Peace for the said City and Liberties, until the Business thereof shall be finally concluded, notwithstanding the Essoign Day or other Commencement of any King's Bench. Term may happen, or His Majesty's Court of King's Bench may sit at Westminster or elsewhere in the County of Middlesex, before, or at the Beginning, or during the Continuance of any such Session; and that all Trials, Judgments, Proceedings, Acts, and Things whatsoever, had, made, and done at any such Session, and all Proceedings, Acts, and Things whatsoever in pursuance of such Judgments, shall, notwithstanding the happening of the Essoign Day or other Commencement of any Term, or the Sitting of the Court of King's Bench as aforesaid, be good and valid in Law to all Intents and Purposes: Provided always, that every Session of the Peace to be held for the said City and Liberties shall commence in the Week preceding the holding of each of the Quarter or General Sessions of the Peace for the County of Middlesex. Commencement of the Sessions. Public Act. II. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall be deemed and taken to be a Public Act. CAP. X. Money to the Service An Act for applying certain Sums of Company for Expences of Pensions, &c.;- and also 2,134,630. CAP. CAP. XI. An Act to exempt Vessels propelled by Steam from the Pe- WHEREAS by various Acts passed in the Parliament of spectively, whereby Ships and Vessels are prohibited from the Use of Fire in certain Ports, Rivers, and Harbours within that Kingdom: And Whereas it is expedient to exempt Ships, Barges, or Vessels propelled by Steam from such Prohibition;' Be it therefore enacted by the King'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 the passing of this Act it shall be lawful to light and use Fires on Board all Ships, Vessels, Boats, or Barges propelled by Steam, in or upon any Port, Harbour, River, Canal, or Lake, or any Part thereof, in Ireland; any Act or Acts to the contrary notwithstanding. CA P. XII. An Act to indemnify Witnesses who may give Evidence, before CA P. XIII. An Act for further regulating the Payment of the Duties under the Management of the Commissioners of Stamps on Insurances from Loss or Damage by Fire. ( 6 [9th May 1828.] Fires may be used on board Vessels propelled by Steam on any River, &c. in Ireland. WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Fifty-fifth Year of the 55 G. 3. c. 184. Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled 'An Act for repealing the Stamp Duties on Deeds, Law Proceedings, and other written or printed Instruments, and the Duties on 'Fire Insurances, and on Legacies and Successions to Personal 'Estate upon Intestacies, now payable in Great Britain, and for granting other Duties in lieu thereof, a Duty is imposed in Great "Britain as follows; that is to say, for and in respect of every 'Insurance from Loss or Damage by Fire only, which shall be 'made or renewed or continued by any Public Company, or other 'Person or Persons, licensed or who ought to be licensed as in the said Act is mentioned, or by the Royal Exchange or London 'Assurance Corporation, a Duty of Three Shillings for every One 'hundred Pounds insured for a Year, and at and after that Rate ' for any fractional Part of One hundred Pounds insured, and for any fractional Part of a Year, as well as for any Number of Years, for which the Insurance shall be made or renewed or con 'tinued: And Whereas by an Act passed in the Fifty-sixth Year 56 G. 3. c. 56. ' of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act to re 'peal Detached ed in such Risks, shall be valued and insured separately. < peal the several Stamp Duties in Ireland, and also several Acts for the Collection and Management of the said Duties, and to grant new Stamp Duties in lieu thereof, and to make more effectual Regulations for collecting and managing the said Duties, certain Duties are imposed in Ireland as follows; that is to say, for any 'Assurance or Insurance for or upon any Sum of One hundred Pounds, or any lesser Sum, that is or shall be insured by any 'Person or Persons, in or by any Policy of Insurance for insuring Houses, Goods, Furniture, Warehouses, Merchandizes, or other 'Property, from Loss by Fire, yearly, a Duty of Two Shillings and Sixpence, and for every Hundred Pounds of such Insurance after the first Hundred, a like Sum of Two Shillings and Sixpence; and where the Sum insured shall exceed One hundred Pounds, or any progressive Sums of One hundred Pounds each, by any fractional Part of One hundred Pounds, a Duty in proportion for such fractional Part, and so in proportion for any shorter Period than a Year, in all the said Cases of Insurance 'from Loss by Fire: And Whereas in certain Cases several distinct Subjects or Parcels of Risk have been insured collectively ⚫ in One Sum, specified as payable in case of the Destruction by Fire of any One of such Subjects, and a Premium equal in Amount to the Aggregate of the several Premiums which would be payable for the Insurance of all such separate Subjects or Parcels by separate and distinct Insurances, has been received by the Insurers, but, the Duty payable to His Majesty under 'the said recited Acts in respect of such Insurance has been charged and paid only on the Amount of the single Sum specified to be so insured, and has not been increased in like Manner as the Premium has been increased, although such collective Insurance has been made to effect the Purpose of several separate and distinct Insurances, to the manifest Injury of His 'Majesty's Revenue;' Be it therefore enacted by the King'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 the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, in every Case where any Insurance from Loss or Damage by Fire shall be made or renewed or continued upon Two or more detached Buildings, or upon Two or more Buildings so separated from each other as to occasion a Plurality of Risks, or upon any Goods, Wares, Merchandize, or other moveable Property contained in Two or more such Buildings as above described, or lying or being in Two or more Places so separated from each other as to occasion a Plurality of Risks (except the Implements and Stock upon any One Farm), then and in any of the Cases aforesaid every such separate Building shall be separately valued, and a distinct and separate Sum shall be insured thereon, and in like Manner at least One distinct and separate Sum shall be insured upon the Goods, Wares, Merchandize, or other moveable Property contained in every such separate Building, or lying or being in every such separate Place as aforesaid; and it shall not be lawful to insure One gross Sum upon Two or more such separate Subjects or Parcels of Risk as aforesaid taken collectively. 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