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Secretary not to retain more than

a certain Sum of Money in his Hands.

Church need not be constructed, nor

Places of Sepul

ture.

New Trustees to be elected.

Monument to be vested in Trustees.

Power to appoint new Trustees.

Committee of

Management or

Trustees to de

cide as to Re

ception of Busts, &c.

in his Absence the Senior Bailie thereof, shall ex officio be a Director and Member of the said Committee of Management.

XI. And be it enacted, That the Secretary of the said Association for the Time being shall at no Time retain in his Hands a larger Sum than One hundred Pounds Sterling belonging to the said Association, and received or held by him for the Purpose of this or the said recited Act, but shall immediately pay into the Hands of the Treasurer all Sums exceeding that Amount which may from Time to Time be deposited with or have been uplifted by him.

XII. And be it enacted, That the said Association shall no longer be obliged to construct or appropriate and set apart any Portion of the said Monument by this and the said recited Act authorized to be erected as a Church or Place for Divine Worship, and it shall not be necessary to make or construct Places of Sepulture beneath or connected with the said Monument, any thing in the said recited Act notwithstanding.

XIII. And be it enacted, That so soon as the said Monument shall be completed a Special Meeting of the whole Shareholders shall be called and held, at which Meeting it shall be lawful for the Shareholders present or represented to declare by their Votes the Parties, not exceeding Fifteen in Number, to whom, alongst with the official Persons after mentioned, the Care and Preservation of the said Monument, and the Management and Control of the future Arrangements and Uses of the same, shall be committed as Trustees.

XIV. And be it enacted, That the following Persons, and their respective Successors in Office, shall ex officiis be the Trustees in whom, alongst with the other Parties to be declared at such Special Meeting or assumed in manner after mentioned, the said Monument shall be vested upon its Completion, for the Purposes before and after mentioned; (videlicet,) the Lord Justice General of Scotland, the Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland, the Lord Advocate of Scotland, the Solicitor General of Scotland, the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, the Lord Provost of the City of Edinburgh, the Lord Provost of the City of Glasgow, and the Principals of the Universities of Saint Andrew's, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Edinburgh, all for the Time being.

XV. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful to the said Trustees to appoint from Time to Time other Persons to be Trustees, in the Room of any of the Trustees, not being Trustees ex officiis, who may have died or resigned.

XVI. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful to the Committee of Management of the said Association during the Progress of the said Monument, and after the Completion thereof it shall be lawful to the Trustees to be appointed under and in virtue of this Act, and the said Committee and Trustees shall have the full and exclusive Right, to determine whether any Bust, Statue, or other Memorial shall be acquired for the said Monument, and whether any Bust, Statue, or other Memorial which shall be presented or tendered shall be received into the

said Monument, and their Judgment and Decision in such Matter shall be final and conclusive, and they shall also have the exclusive Right of determining as to the Position and Disposal of such Busts, Statues, or Memorials within the said Monument: Provided always, that when any Bust, Statue, or Memorial shall have been received into the said Monument the same shall not be removed therefrom.

Trustees may

XVII. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful to the said Association and Association, at any General or Special Meeting thereof, during make Bye Laws. the Progress of the Work, and until the said Monument shall be vested in Trustees in manner before mentioned, and to the said Trustees after the said Monument shall be vested in them respectively, to make such Rules, Regulations, and Bye Laws as they shall think expedient, for Admission to view the said Monument or any Part thereof, or to study the Works of Art that may be deposited therein, or with which the same may be decorated, and for the Care and Preservation and Management and Control of the said Monument and Works of Art.

XVIII. And be it enacted, That Three or more of the said Quorum of Trustees present at any Meeting thereof shall be a Quorum for Trustees. the Purposes of this Act.

XIX. And be it enacted, That the Monies to be raised by the said Association in virtue of this and the said recited Act shall be laid out and applied, in the first place, for and towards the Payment, Discharge, and Satisfaction of all Costs, Charges, and Expenses incurred in applying for, obtaining, and passing this Act, and all the necessary Expenses preparatory and relative thereto; and all the Residue and Remainder of the said Monies shall be laid out and applied in erecting, completing, and preserving the aforesaid Edifice and Decorations thereof, and other Works connected therewith, and to no other Use, Intent, or Purpose whatsoever.

Application of

Money to be raised.

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XX. And be it enacted, That the whole Powers and Provi- As to Exercise sions by the said recited Act and by this Act conferred on the of Powers con Directors and Committee of Management of the said Association, rectors by rein so far as the same shall be subsisting and capable of taking cited Act and effect, shall be competent and applicable to and be exercised this Act. by the Trustees appointed and to be declared and assumed under

and by virtue of this Act.

XXI. And be it enacted, That this Act shall be deemed and Public Act. taken to be a Public Act, and shall be judicially taken notice of as such.

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After passing

of this Act no Freeman of Great Yarmouth to vote as such at any

future Election

for Members of

Parliament.

1 & 2 Vict. c. 56.

10 & 11 Vict.

c. 31.

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CAP. XXIV.

An Act for disfranchising the Freemen of the Borough
of Great Yarmouth.
[30th June 1848.]
WHEREAS a Select Committee of the House of Commons,
appointed in the present Session of Parliament to try the
Matter of certain Petitions complaining of an undue Election
of Members to serve in Parliament for the Borough of Great
Yarmouth, have reported their Opinion, from the Evidence-
laid before them, that gross, systematic, and extensive Bribery
prevailed at the last and at the previous Election for the
Borough of Great Yarmouth amongst the Freemen of that
Borough; and the said Committee have also expressed to the
House of Commons their unanimous Opinion that the Free-
men of the Borough of Great Yarmouth should be disfran-
chised, and that no Writ should be issued for the said Borough
until legislative Measures should have been taken for the
Purpose of such Disfranchisement:' 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 from and after the passing of this Act no Freeman
of the said Borough of Great Yarmouth shall be entitled to vote
as such in any Election of a Member or Members to serve in
Parliament for the said Borough.

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CAP. XXV.

An Act to extend the Powers given by former Acts for
purchasing or hiring Land in connexion with or for the
Use of Workhouses in Ireland; and for providing for
the Burial of the Poor.
[30th June 1848.]
WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Second Year of the
Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for the
more effectual Relief of the destitute Poor of Ireland, Power was
given to the Poor Law Commissioners to purchase or hire any
Land of any Tenure, not exceeding Twelve Acres Imperial
Measure, for the Purpose of building a Workhouse thereon,
or to be occupied with any such Workhouse: And whereas by
another Act passed in the Tenth Year of the Reign of Her
'present Majesty, intituled An Act to make further Provision for
the Relief of the destitute Poor in Ireland, further Power was
given to the said Commissioners to purchase or hire Land not
exceeding Three Statute Acres, in addition to the aforesaid
Twelve Acres, to be used for the Site of a Fever Ward, or for
a Cemetery, or for such other Purpose as the said Commis-
sioners might approve: And whereas it is desirable that the
Powers of the Commissioners for administering the Laws for
the Relief of the Poor in Ireland to hire or purchase Land

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memorialize

hire additional

or hire the

Acres.

So much of

recited Act

should be further extended, in order that a greater Quantity • thereof may be cultivated for the Employment of Children or Persons under the Age of Sixteen who are Inmates of Workhouses, and for the further Purpose of thus instructing such Children in an improved System of the Cultivation of Land:' 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 Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That it shall be lawful for Boards of the Majority of the Guardians of any Union to memorialize the Guardians may Commissioners to hire or purchase such additional Quantity of Commissioners Land as may be deemed necessary for the aforesaid Purposes, to purchase or according to the Circumstances of the Union; and on Receipt Land, who may, of such Memorial it shall be lawful for the Commissioners, by with Consent and with the Approval of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to hire of Lord Lieuor purchase such Quantity of Land as they shall think requisite tenant, purchase for the Purposes aforesaid: Provided always, that the Quantity same; of Land so hired or purchased shall not exceed Twenty-five not to exceed Statute Acres in addition to the Quantity heretofore authorized 25 Statute by Law, and shall be used solely for the Purposes above stated. II. And be it enacted, That so much of the said recited Act passed in the Tenth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty 10 & 11 Viet. as extends to other Parts of Ireland certain Provisions of the c. 31. as extends said Act relating to the Establishment of Schools in the North certain Proand South Dublin Unions, and which authorizes the Poor Law Commissioners to combine Unions into School Districts for the Management of certain Classes of infant Poor in the said Act specified, be repealed; and in lieu thereof it shall be lawful for the Commissioners for administering the Laws for the Relief land repealed; of the Poor in Ireland to combine any Two or more Unions and other Proin Ireland for the Maintenance and Education of Children not in lieu thereof. above the Age of Fifteen Years, being Inmates of the Workhouses of such Unions respectively; and that all the Provisions of the said Act which relate to the hiring and purchasing of Land for the like Purpose in respect of the North and South Dublin Unions, the Erection of a School on such Land, the Contribution to the Cost thereof, and the Expenses of furnishing, fitting up, and otherwise providing such School, the Mode of charging the Maintenance of the Children, and regulating the proportionate Numbers thereof to be received from cach Union, the Establishment of a Board of Management of such School, and the Appointment of Officers for the Superintendence thereof, and all other the Powers and Provisions relating to the Establishment of such School for the Use of the North and South Dublin Unions, shall apply in like Manner to every Combination of Two or more Unions under this Act.

visions as to
Schools in the

North and
South Dublin

Unions to other
Parts of Ire-

visions enacted

Boards of

III. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Board Guardians may of Guardians of any Union in Ireland to provide a Coffin for provide Coffins the Burial of any deceased Person who at the Time of his or for Burial of her Death shall have been receiving Relief out of the Work- Persons who at house, at the Charge of the said Union or any Electoral Division Death were therein, or who shall have been at the Time of his or her receiving Out[No. 16. Price 2d.] Death door Relief.

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the Time of

Former Acts

and this Act to
be construed
as One.

Act may be

amended, &c.

6&7W.4.c.116.

11 & 12 VICT Death dependent for Support on any Person receiving such Relief, and to charge the Cost of providing such Coffin to the Union at large or Electoral Division to which such Relief shall have been chargeable, as the Case may be.

IV. And be it enacted, That the several Acts now in force for the Relief of the destitute Poor in Ireland and this Act shall be construed as One Act, except so far as the Provisions of any one of such Acts may repeal or alter the Provisions of any previous Act.

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

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CAP. XXVI.

An Act to remove Difficulties in the Appointment of
Collectors of Grand Jury Cess in Ireland in certain
Cases, and to remove Doubts as to the Jurisdiction
of the Divisional Justices of the Police District of
'Dublin Metropolis relating to the Recovery of Poor
Rates, and other Cases.
[30th June 1848.]

WHEREAS by an Act of the Sixth and Seventh Years
of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the
Fourth, intituled An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws
relating to the Presentment of Public Money by Grand Juries in
Ireland, it is amongst other things provided, that the Grand
Jury of each County in Ireland shall at each Assizes appoint
a proper Person to be High Constable and Collector for each
Barony in such County, to collect all Monies presented to
be raised on such Barony, or a County of a City, or County
of a Town, in manner therein particularly specified; and that
if
any such High Constable or Collector shall happen to die
before he shall have collected the whole of the Money pre-
'sented to be raised, or if any Case of Vacancy shall occur, it
shall be lawful for the Justices of the Peace at any General
Quarter Sessions, or Adjournment thereof, to appoint another
Person to be High Constable or Collector pro tempore until a
High Constable or Collector shall be appointed by the Grand
Jury; and it is also provided that no Person shall act as High
Constable or Collector unless he shall have given Security, as
therein mentioned, at the Assizes before the Grand Jury by
whom he shall have been appointed, or before the Justices of
the Peace at the General Quarter Sessions, if he shall have
been appointed at such Sessions, as therein in certain Cases
provided; and on his producing the Treasurer's Certificate as
therein mentioned it shall be lawful for the Grand Jury to
present a Sum not exceeding Nine-pence in the Pound on
the Amount of the Collection to be paid to such High Con-
'stable or Collector for his Trouble therein: And whereas it
has sometimes happened that properly qualified Persons could
not be duly appointed at the Assizes to act as High Con-
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