9 G. 4. c. 55. exclusive Burial, or for placing a Monument, Tablet, or Gravestone, as the Case may be, so as to identify the same, and if a Place of exclusive Burial, add, "numbered on the Plan of the Cemetery, made in pursuance of the said Act"], to Given under our Common Seal [or under our Hands and in the Year of our Lord Day of assign unto the said C.D. the exclusive Right of Burial in [here describe the Place], and numbered on the Plan of the Cemetery made in pursuance of the said Act, which was granted to me [or unto A.B. of ] in perpetuity [or as the Case may be] by [here state the Name of the Company] by a Deed of Grant bearing Date the Day of and all my Estate, Title, and Interest therein, to hold the same unto the said C.D. in perpetuity [or as the Case may be, for the Remainder of the Period for which the same was granted by the said Company], subject to the Conditions on which I held the same immediately before the Execution hereof. Witness my Hand and Seal this CAP. LXVI. Day of An Act for extending the Provisions of the Law respecting Threatening Letters and accusing Parties with a view to extort Money. [9th July 1847.] WHEREAS it is expedient to extend the Provisions of so much of the Statute made and passed in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of King George the Fourth, 7 & 8 G.4. c. 29. intituled An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws in England relative to Larceny and other Offences connected therewith, and of an Act passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws in Ireland relative to Larceny and other Offences connected therewith, as relates to the Offences of 6 sending Threatening Letters, and also so much of the Statute 'made and passed in the First Year of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act to amend the Laws relating to Robbery and stealing from the Person, as relates to the Offence of accusing Persons of unnatural Crimes, and to make further Provisions for the Punishment of such Offences:' 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 Autho 7 W. 4. & 1 Vict. c. 87. Letters, accu extort Money, rity of the same, That if any Person shall knowingly send, or Persons sending deliver, or utter to any other Person, any Letter or Writing threatening accusing or threatening to accuse either the Person to whom sing others with such Letter or Writing shall be sent or delivered, or any other certain Crimes, Person, of any Crime punishable by Law with Death or Trans- with a view to portation, or of any Assault with Intent to commit any Rape, guilty of or of any Attempt or Endeavour to commit any Rape, or of any Felony. Crime in and by the said first-mentioned Act defined to be an infamous Crime, with a View or Intent to extort or gain, by means of such Threatening Letter or Writing, any Property, Money, Security, or other valuable Thing from any Person whatever, or any Letter or Writing threatening to kill or murder any other Person, or to burn or destroy any House, Barn, or other Building, or any Rick or Stack of Grain, Hay, or Straw, or other agricultural Produce, or shall knowingly procure, counsel, aid, or abet the Commission of the said Offences, or either of them, every such Offender shall be guilty of Felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the Seas for Life, or for any Term not less than Seven Years, or to be imprisoned, with or without hard Labour, for any Term not exceeding Four Years, and if a Male, to be once, twice, or thrice publicly or privately whipped (if the Court shall so think fit) in addition to such Imprisonment. before mention II. And be it enacted, That if any Person shall accuse or Persons accuthreaten to accuse either the Person to whom such Accusation sing others of or Threat shall be made or any other Person of any of the Crimes hereinCrimes herein-before specified, with the View or Intent in any ed, with the of the Cases last aforesaid to extort or gain from such Person view of extortso accused or threatened to be accused, or from any other ing Money, &c. guilty of Person whatever, any Property, Money, Security, or other Felony. valuable Thing, every such Offender shall be guilty of Felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the Seas for Life, or for any Term not less than Seven Years, or to be imprisoned, with or without hard Labour, for any Term not exceeding Four Years, and if a Male to be once, twice, or thrice publicly or privately whipped (if the Court shall so think fit) in addition to such Imprisonment. CAP. LXVII. An Act to amend the Law as to the Custody of Reign of King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for 5 G. 4. c. 84. the Transportation of Offenders from Great Britain, it was ⚫ enacted, that it should be lawful for His Majesty, by any Order or Orders in Council, to declare His Royal Will and • Pleasure that Male Offenders convicted in Great Britain So much of may be kept to hard Labour out of England and being under Sentence or Order of Transportation should be kept to Labour in any Part of His Majesty's Dominions out of England to be named in such Order or Orders in • Council: And whereas it is expedient that it should be made lawful to remove to the same Places of Confinement any Male • Offender convicted in Ireland who would have been removable thereunto if he had been convicted in Great Britain :' 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 it shall be lawful for One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State to direct that any Male Offender convicted in Ireland, and being under Sentence or Order of Transportation, may be removed to and confined and Transportation kept to Labour in any such Place of Confinement out of England, in like Manner as if he had been convicted in Great Britain; and every Offender, who shall be so removed shall continue in Custody, and shall be kept to Labour in the Place of Confinement to be so provided, or any other Place of Confinement to be from Time to Time provided by Her Majesty out of England, until Her Majesty shall otherwise direct, or until the Offender shall be entitled to his Liberty; and that all the Enactments of the said Act relating to the Returns to be made concerning every Person in Custody in each of such Places of Confinement, and the Powers and Duties of the Superintendent and Overseer having the Custody of any such Offender, and to the Treatment of such Offenders while so confined, and the Time during which they shall be so confined, shall, subject to the Amendments made in the said Act by an 9 & 10 Vict.c.26. Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled An Act for abolishing the Office of Superintendent of Convicts under Sentence of Transportation, apply to all such Male Offenders convicted in Ireland, and removed under the Authority of this Act, as if they had been convicted in Great Britain and removed under the Authority of the first-recited Act to such Places of Confinement. extended to Offenders convicted in Ireland. Offenders under portation may be removed to any Prison in Great Britain. II. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by an Order in Writing, to be notified in Writing by One Order of Trans- of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, to direct that any Persons under Sentence or Order of Transportation within Great Britain shall be removed from the Prisons in which they are severally confined to any other of Her Majesty's Prisons or Penitentiaries in Great Britain, there to be confined for such Time as Her Majesty by any such Order, notified as aforesaid, shall direct, not exceeding the Time for which they might have been lawfully confined in the Prisons from which they shall have been severally removed; and the Expence of maintaining any such Person in the Prison to which he shall be removed under this Act, and any other additional Expence incurred in such Prison by such Removal and Confinement, shall be defrayed in like Manner as the Expence of maintaining any such Person in any Place of Confinement appointed under the first-recited Act. III. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or Act may be repealed by any Act to be passed in this Session of Parliament. amended, &c. CAP. LXVIII. An Act to suspend until the First Day of October One WHEREAS it is expedient to suspend for a further Period the making of Lists and the Ballots and Enrolments for ⚫ the Militia of the United Kingdom: 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 all General and Subdivision Meetings relating General and to the Militia of the United Kingdom, and all Proceedings Subdivision Meetings rerelating to the procuring any Returns, or preparing or making lating to the out Lists of such Militia or any Part thereof, or relating to the Militia susballoting for or enrolling any Militia-men or Substitutes, or pended. supplying any Vacancies in such Militia, shall cease and remain suspended until the First Day of October One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight. cil. II. Provided always, and be it enacted, That it shall be Proceedings lawful for Her Majesty by any Order in Council to direct that may be had during such any Proceedings shall be had at any Time before the Expiration Suspension by of such Period as aforesaid, either for the giving of Notices and Order in Counmaking Returns and preparing Lists, and also for the proceeding to ballot and enrol Men for the filling up Vacancies in the Militia of the United Kingdom or any Part thereof, as Her Majesty shall deem expedient; and upon the issuing of any such Order all such Proceedings shall be had for carrying into execution all the Provisions of the Acts in force in England, Scotland, and Ireland respectively, relating to the giving Notices for and Returns for Lists, and for the balloting and enrolling of Men to supply any Vacancies in the Militia, and holding General and Subdivision Meetings for such Purpose, at such Times respectively as shall be expressed in any such Order in Council, or by any Directions given in pursuance thereof, to Lord Lieutenants, or Deputy Lieutenants acting for Lord Lieutenants, of the several Counties, Shires, Ridings, Cities, and Places in Great Britain, or to the Governors and Deputy Governors of Counties and Places in Ireland, or to the Warden and Special Deputy Wardens of the Stannaries; and all the Provisions of the several Acts in force in England, Scotland, and Ireland respectively, relating to the Militia and Corps of Miners in Cornwall and Devon, shall upon any such Order, and Direction given in 004 pursuance Act to extend Stannaries and 10 & 11 VICT. pursuance. thereof, become and be in full Force and be carried into execution at the Period specified in such Order or Direction as aforesaid, with all such Penalties and Forfeitures for any Neglect thereof, as fully as if such Periods had been fixed in the Acts relating to such Militia and Miners. III. And be it enacted, That this Act shall be construed to to Wardens of extend to the Warden and Special Deputy Wardens of the Stannaries and Corps of Miners in Cornwall and Devon, as fully as if they were severally repeated in every Clause, Provision, Direction, and Authority herein contained. to Corps of Miners. Act may be amended, &c. 6 G. 4. c. 123. Recited Act 6 G. 4. c. 123. repealed. Parliamentary 6 IV. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this Session of Parliament. 6 CAP. LXIX. An Act for the more effectual Taxation of Costs on [22d July 1847.] II. And be it enacted, That no Parliamentary Agent, Atney, or Solicitorney, or Solicitor, nor any Executor, Administrator, or Assignee of any Parliamentary Agent, Attorney, or Solicitor, shall commence or maintain any Action or Suit for the Recovery of any Costs, Charges, or Expences in respect of any Proceedings in the House of Commons in any future Session of Parliament relating to any Petition for a Private Bill, or Private Bill, or in tor not to sue for Costs until One Month after Delivery of his Bill. respect |