And be it Enacted, That if any person who shall be chosen or appointed to applot Grand Jury Cess in pursuance of this Act, shall neglect or refuse or omit to act in the making of the applotment for the manor, parish or denomination, or place or district in 5 respect of which he shall have been so chosen or appointed, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of Twenty Pounds, to be recovered by civil bill by any person who shall sue for the same, one moiety thereof to be paid to the person who shall so sue, and the other to the Treasurer of the county, to be applied in aid of the public 10 expenditure of such county, and to be accounted for by him accordingly.

And be it Enacted, That if any person who shall be chosen or appointed applotter, or who shall act as applotter by virtue of or under colour of this Act, or any Order made by virtue of this Act, 15 shall wilfully act in or about the making of any applotment of Grand Jury Cess in disobedience or contravention or disregard of the Order of such Court or Judge, such person so offending shall forfeit and pay the sum of Fifty Pounds, to be recovered by civil bill by any person who shall sue for the same, one moiety thereof 20 to be paid to the person who shall so sue, and the other to be paid to the Treasurer of such county, to be by him applied in aid of the public expenditure of the county, and accounted for accordingly.

And be it Enacted, That in the construction of this Act the 25 word "County" shall be construed to mean and include any county at large, or county of a city or of a town, or city or town and county; and every word importing the singular number only shall extend and be applied to several persons or things, as well as one person or thing; and every word importing the masculine gender 30 only shall extend and be applied to a female, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction respectively.

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And be it Enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed Act may be by any Act to be passed in this present Session of Parliament.

amended or repealed.

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To authorize the Purchase or Building of Lodgings for the
Judges of Assize on their Circuits.

HEREAS by an Act passed in the seventh year of the Preamble. reign of his late Majesty King GEORGE the Fourth, intituled, "An Act to provide for improving and rebuilding Shire Halls, County Halls, and other Buildings for holding the Assizes and grand 5 Sessions; and also Judges' Lodgings throughout England and Wales,"

it was, amongst other things, enacted, that whenever it should appear to the Justices at any General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be holden in any County, Riding or Division in England or Wales, by any Presentment to be made by the Grand Jury at any Assizes or 10 Session of Gaol Delivery, or Session of the Peace to be holden for

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any such County, Riding or Division, or by any Presentment to be at any time made by any Two or more Justices of the Peace in and for such County, Riding or Division, and laid before the Justices at any such General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace, that any Lodgings for the accommodations of his Majesty's Judges of Assize in and for such County, Riding or Division should be insufficient, inconvenient, deficient, or in want of repair or improvement, or that there was a necessity for the erection of new Lodgings for his Majesty's Judges of Assize, it should be lawful for the Justices assembled at the General or Quarter Sessions at which such Presentment should be laid before such Justices in manner therein mentioned, to take such measures, either by contract or otherwise, as should appear to them to be requisite and proper for the altering, enlarging, repairing, improving or pulling down of any such Lodgings, or any part thereof, and for the building of any new Lodgings, or any part thereof, in lieu of any Building, or any part of any Building, which should be so pulled

down.

And whereas it is expedient that the powers given by the said Act should be enlarged, by enabling the Justices to purchase any House or

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Explaining

Provision in recited Act relating to Purchase of Houses or Buildings for Judges' Lodgings.

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Houses, &c. so purchased vested in

Clerk of the Peace for time being.

3. Act may be amended or repealed.

Building to be used as Lodgings for the Judges of Assize, or to purchase any Land, and to cause a House or Building to be erected thereon to be used as such Lodgings;

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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 upon any such Presentment as in the hereinbefore recited Act is mentioned, setting forth that it is expedient to purchase any House or Building to be used wholly or partly as Lodgings for the Judges of Assize, or that it is ex- 10 pedient to purchase any Land for the purpose of erecting thereon any such House or Building, and to cause any such House or Building to be erected thereon, accordingly all and singular the powers, authorities and provisions in the said recited Act contained relative to the altering, enlarging, repairing, improving or pulling down and rebuild- 15 ing any such Lodgings, and to the raising money for that purpose, shall be deemed and taken to apply to and to authorize the Purchase of any House or Buildings to be used wholly or partly as Lodgings for the Judges of Assize, and the Purchase of any Land, and the erection thereon of any House or Buildings for such purpose, and the defraying 20 the expenses of any such Purchase or Building, and the raising money for any such purpose, in the same way as the repair and alteration of any Judges' Lodgings are authorized and may be carried into effect under the provisions of the said recited Act.

And be it Enacted, That any House, Building or Land to be pur- 25 chased under the provisions of this Act, shall be conveyed to and shall vest in the Clerk of the Peace for the time being of the County, Riding or Division for the use of which such Purchase shall have been made.

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