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6 G. 3. c. 53.

9 G. 4. c. 17.

10 G. 4. c. 7.

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11 VICT. "Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled 'An Act for the 'further Qualification of Justices of the Peace;' or according to another Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for altering the Oath of Abjuration and the Assurance; and for amending so much of an Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of Her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled An Act for the Improvement of the Union of the Two Kingdoms,' as after the Time therein limited requires the Delivery of certain Lists and Copies therein mentioned to Persons indicted of High Treason or Misprision of Treason; or according to another Act passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for repealing so much of several Acts as imposes the Necessity of receiving the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper as a Qualification for certain Offices and Employments; or according to another Act passed in the Tenth Year of the Reign of His said Majesty, intituled An "Act for the Relief of His Majesty's Roman Catholic Subjects, so far only as the said Act relates to any Civil or Military Offices or Places of Trust, or Places of Profit or Corporate Offices; have, through Ignorance of the Law, Absence, or 'some unavoidable Accident, omitted to take and subscribe the Oaths and Assurance and make and subscribe the Declaration ' required by the said recited Acts or either of them, or otherwise to qualify themselves as aforesaid, within such Time and in such Manner as in and by the said Acts respectively is required, whereby they have incurred, or may be in danger of incurring, divers Penalties and Disabilities: For quieting the Minds of Her Majesty's Subjects, and for preventing any Inconvenience that might otherwise happen by means of such Omissions,' 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 all and Person or Persons who, at or before the passing of every this Act, hath or shall have omitted to take and subscribe the Oaths and Declarations, or otherwise to qualify him, her, or themselves, within such Time and in such Manner as in and by the said Acts or any of them is required, and who, after further Time. accepting any such Office, Place, or Employment, or undertaking any Profession or Thing, on account of which such Qualification ought to have been had and is required, before the passing of this Act hath or have taken and subscribed the said Oaths or made the Declarations required by Law, or who on or before the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine shall take and subscribe the Oaths, Declarations, and Assurance respectively, in such Cases wherein by the said several Acts or any or either of them the said Oaths, Declarations, and Assurance ought to have been taken and subscribed, in such Manner and Form, and at or in such Place or Places, as are appointed in and by the said several Acts or any or either of them, shall be and are hereby indemnified,

Persons who

have omitted to qualify themselves as required by the recited Acts indemnified, and allowed

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nified, freed, and discharged from and against all Penalties, Forfeitures, Incapacities, and Disabilities incurred or to be incurred for or by reason of any Neglect or Omission, previous to the passing of this Act, of taking or subscribing the said Oaths or Assurance, or making or subscribing the said Declarations respectively, or taking or subscribing the said Oath, according to the above-mentioned Acts or any of them or any other Act or Acts; and such Person or Persons is and are and shall be fully and actually recapacitated and restored to the same State and Condition as he, she, or they were in before such Neglect or Omission, and shall be and be deemed and adjudged to have duly qualified him, her, or themselves according to the above-mentioned Acts and every of them; and that all Elections of, and Acts done or to be done by, any such Person or Persons, or by Authority derived from him, her, or them, are and shall be of the same Force and Validity as the same or any of them would have been if such Person or Persons respectively had taken the said Oaths or Assurance, and made and subscribed the said Declarations respectively, and taken and subscribed the said Oath, according to the Directions of the said Acts and every or any of them; and that the Qualification of such Person or Persons qualifying themselves in manner and within the Time appointed by this Act shall be to all Intents and Purposes as effectual as if such Person or Persons had respectively taken the said Oaths and Assurance, and made and subscribed the said Declarations respectively, and taken and subscribed the said Oath, within the Time and in the Manner appointed by the several Acts before mentioned.

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II. And whereas several Persons well affected to Her Indemnity to Majesty's Government, and to the United Church of England those who have and Ireland, have, through Ignorance of the Law, neglected, make and subor been, by Sickness or other unavoidable Causes, prevented scribe the Oath ⚫ from taking and subscribing the Declaration according to the and Declaration Directions of an Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the Irish Act the Second Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Anne, of 2 Anne. intituled An Act to prevent the further Growth of Popery; be it therefore enacted, That all Persons who have incurred any Penalty or Incapacity in the said recited Act mentioned, by neglecting to qualify themselves according to the said Act, shall be and are hereby indemnified, freed, and discharged from all Incapacities, Disabilities, Penalties, and Forfeitures incurred by reason of such Omission or Neglect as aforesaid; and that no Act done by any of them, not yet avoided, shall be questioned or avoided by reason of such Omission or Neglect, but that all such Acts shall be and are hereby declared to be as good and effectual as if such Persons respectively had taken and subscribed the said Oath, and made and repeated and subscribed the said Declaration, at such Time and Place and Manner as in the said Act is mentioned; any thing in the said Act to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided always, that such Person or Persons do and shall take and subscribe the said Oaths, and make, repeat, and subscribe the said Declaration, in such [No. 12. Price 2d.] M

Manner

Not to indem

nify Persons against whom

final Judgment has been given.

Not to exempt

Justices acting

without legal Qualification.

Admissions to Corporations may be stamped

after the Time allowed.

Manner and Form, and in such Place or Places respectively, as are directed and appointed by the said last-recited Act, on or before the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.

III. Provided always, and be it enacted, That this Act, or any thing herein contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to indemnify any Person against whom final Judgment shall have been given in any Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information in any of Her Majesty's Courts of Record, for any Penalty incurred by having neglected to qualify himself within the Time limited by Law.

IV. Provided also, and be it enacted, That nothing contained in this Act shall extend or be construed to extend to exempt any Justice of the Peace within Great Britain from the Penalties to which he is subject for acting as such without being possessed of the Qualification required by the Laws now in force.

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V. And whereas the Appointment of divers Clerks of the Peace, Town Clerks, and other Public Officers, and the Admission of divers Members and Officers of Cities, Corporations, and Borough Towns, in Great Britain and Ireland, or the Entries of such Admissions in the Court Books, Rolls, or Records of such Cities, Corporations, and Borough Towns which by several Acts are directed and required to be stamped, may not have been provided or the same not stamped, or may have been lost or mislaid;' be it enacted, That for the Relief of such Persons whose Appointments and Admissions, or the Entries of whose Admissions as aforesaid, may not have been provided or not duly stamped, or where the same have been lost or mislaid, it shall and may be lawful to and for such Persons in Great Britain or Ireland, on or before the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, to provide or cause to be provided Appointments and Admissions, or Entries of Admissions, as aforesaid, duly stamped, or in case where such Appointments, Admissions, or Entries of Admissions as aforesaid have been made or provided, but have not been duly stamped, to produce such Appointments, Admissions, or Entries of Admissions as aforesaid to the Commissioners appointed to inspect and manage the Revenues of the Stamp Duties, to be duly stamped, which such Commissioners are hereby authorized and empowered and required to duly stamp, on Payment of double the Amount of the Duties first payable or to have been paid on such Appointments, Admissions, or Entries as aforesaid, without any other Fine or Forfeiture thereon; and in order to denote the said Duties the said Commissioners are hereby authorized and empowered to use such Stamps as shall have been heretofore provided to denote any former Duties on stamped Vellum, Parchment, and Paper, or to cause new Stamps to be provided for that Purpose, and to do all other Things necessary for putting this Act in execution, in the like and in as full and ample Manner as they or the major Part of them are authorized to put in execution any

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former Law concerning stamped Vellum, Parchment, and
Paper; and such Person so providing Appointments, Admis-
sions, or Entries of Admissions as aforesaid, duly stamped, or
procuring the same to be duly stamped in manner aforesaid, are
and shall be hereby confirmed and qualified to act as Clerk of
the Peace, Town Clerk, and other Public Officer, or Member
or Members, Officer or Officers of such Cities, Corporations,
and Borough Towns respectively, to all Intents and Purposes,
and shall and may hold and enjoy and execute such Offices or
any other Office or Offices into which he or they hath or have
been elected, notwithstanding his or their Omission, or the
Omission of any of their Predecessors in such Cities, Corpo-
rations, or Borough Towns as aforesaid, and shall be indemni-
fied and discharged of and from all Incapacities, Disabilities,
Forfeitures, Penalties, and Damages by reason of any such
Omission; and none of his or their Acts shall be questioned or
avoided by reason of the same.

VI. Provided always, and be it enacted, That this Act, or
any thing herein contained, shall not extend or be construed to
extend to restore or entitle any Person or Persons to any Office
or Employment, Benefice, Matter, or Thing whatsoever, already
actually avoided by Judgment of any of Her Majesty's Courts
of Record, already legally filled up and enjoyed by any other
Person, but that such Office or Employment, Benefice, Matter,
or Thing so avoided or legally filled up and enjoyed shall be
and remain in and to the Person or Persons who is or are now
or shall at the passing of this Act be legally entitled to the
same, as if this Act had never been passed.

Not to restore
Persons to any

Office avoided by Judgment.

VII. And be it enacted, That in case any Action, Suit, Bill General Issue. of Indictment, or Information shall from and after the passing of this Act be brought, carried on, or prosecuted against any Person or Persons hereby meant or intended to be indemnified, recapacitated, or restored, for or on account of any Forfeiture, Penalty, Incapacity, or Disability whatsoever incurred or to be incurred by any such Neglect or Omission, such Person or Persons may plead the General Issue, and upon their Defence give this Act and the special Matter in Evidence upon any Trial to be had thereupon.

CAP. XX.

An Act to authorize for One Year, and to the End of
the then next Session of Parliament, the Removal of
Aliens from the Realm.
[9th June 1848.]

WHEREAS it is expedient, for the due Security of the

Peace and Tranquillity of this Realm, that Provision 'should be made, for a Time to be limited, respecting Aliens 'arriving or resident in this Kingdom:' 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

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Where Alien shall not have been sent out of the Realm within One Month after Commitment, Judges, &c. empowered, where Appli

cation has been made, to continue in or

discharge such Alien out of Custody.

Act not to ex•

tend to Ambas

sadors, &c., or Aliens who

have resided in the Kingdom for Three Years.

Duration of
Act.

Act may be amended, &c.

or her Appearance to answer the Matters alleged against him or her.

V. Provided nevertheless, and be it enacted, That where any Alien who shall have been committed under this Act to remain until he or she shall be taken in charge for the Purpose of being sent out of the Realm shall not be sent out of the Realm within One Calendar Month after such Commitment, it shall in every such Case be lawful for any of the Justices of Her Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster or in Dublin, or for any of the Barons in Great Britain or Ireland, being of the Degree of the Coif, or for the Lord Justice Clerk or any of the Commissioners of Justiciary in Scotland, or for any Two of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace in any Part of the United Kingdom, upon Application made to him or them by or on the Behalf of the Person so committed, and upon Proof made to him or them that reasonable Notice of the Intention to make such Application had been given to some or One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State in Great Britain, or to the Lord Lieutenant or Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, or his or their Chief Secretary, according to his or their Discretion, to order the Person so committed to be continued in or discharged out of Custody.

VI. Provided always, and be it enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall affect any Foreign Ambassador or other Public Minister duly authorized, nor any Person belonging to the diplomatic or domestic Establishment of any such Foreign Ambassador or Public Minister, registered as such according to Law, or being actually attendant upon such Ambassador or Minister, nor any Alien under the Age of Fourteen Years, or who shall have been residing within this Realm for Three Years next before the passing of this Act.

VII. And be it enacted, That this Act shall continue in force for One Year from the passing thereof, and until the End of the then next Session of Parliament.

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

CAP. XXI.

9 G. 4. c. 73.

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An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Insolvent Debtors in India. [9th June 1848.] W WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, 'intituled An Act to provide for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors in the East Indies until the First Day of March One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three: And whereas a certain other Act was passed in the Second Year of the Reign of His late 2&3 W. 4. c. 43. Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act to continue until the First Day of March One thousand eight hundred and thirty-six an Act of the Ninth Year of His late Majesty, for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors in India, whereby

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