possible, to that Part of Her Majesty's Dominions in which he shall have been so apprehended. Removal of VIII. And be it enacted, That the Court before which any Per- Providing for son apprehended under this Act shall be prosecuted or tried within Expence of the said United Kingdom may order, if it shall think fit, that the Offenders to the Expences of apprehending and removing the Prisoner from any United King Part of Her Majesty's Dominions not within the said United Kingdom. dom to any Place within the said United Kingdom, shall be repaid to the Person defraying the same, by the Treasurer of the County or other Jurisdiction in England or Ireland, or by the Sheriff Depute or Substitute of the County in Scotland, in which the Offence is charged to have been committed, the Amount of such Expences being previously ascertained by an Account thereof, verified by Production of proper Vouchers before Two Justices of the Peace of such County or other Jurisdiction, which last-mentioned Justices shall examine into the Correctness of the said Account, and shall allow the same, or such Part thereof as shall to them appear just and reasonable, under their Hands and Seals; and every Treasurer, or Sheriff Depute or Substitute, who shall pay the Amount so ascertained, shall be allowed such Payment in his Accounts respecting the Business of such County or other Jurisdiction. for ing the original of Treason and IX. Provided always, and be it enacted, That it shall not be Proof of the lawful for any Person to endorse his Name on any such Warrant, Signature of for the Purpose of authorizing the Apprehension of any Person the Person issuunder this Act, until it shall have been proved to him, upon Oath Warrant. or by Affidavit, that the Seal or Signature upon the same is the Seal or Signature of the Person having lawful Authority to issue such Warrant whose Seal or Signature the same purports to be. X. Provided also, and be it enacted, That it shall not be lawful Warrant not any Person to endorse his Name upon any such Warrant, for to be endorsed, the Purpose of authorizing the Apprehension of any Person under except in Cases this Act, unless it shall appear upon the Face of the said Warrant Felony, &c. that the Offence which the Person for whose Apprehension the said Warrant has been issued is charged to have committed is such that, if committed within that Part of Her Majesty's Dominions where the Warrant is so endorsed, it would have amounted in Law to a Treason, or some Felony such as the Justices of the Peace in General or Quarter Sessions assembled have not Authority to try in England under the Provisions of an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty, intituled An Act to define the 5&6 Vict. c. 38. Jurisdiction of Justices in General and Quarter Sessions of the Peace, or unless the Depositions appear sufficient to warrant the Committal of such Person for Trial. XI. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this Session of Parliament. CA P. XXXV. An Act to amend so much of an Act of the last Session, for the Government of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, as relates to Norfolk Island. [28th July 1843.] W Act may be amended, &c. WHEREAS by an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled An Act for the Government of New South 5&6 Vict. c. 76. 'Wales and Van Diemen's Land, it was enacted, that it should 6 be lawful for Her Majesty to define the Limits of the Colony of • New South Wales, and to erect into a separate Colony any Territories comprised within the said Colony, provided that 'no Part of the Territories lying Southward of the Twenty-sixth Degree of South Latitude in the said Colony of New South Wales 'should be detached from the said Colony: And whereas it is expedient that Norfolk Island should be severed from the 'Government of New South Wales, and annexed to the Govern ment of Van Diemen's Land; but inasmuch as Norfolk Island lies Southward of the Twenty-sixth Degree of South Latitude, it may be doubted if such Severance can be made without Authority of Parliament: 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 ParNorfolk Island liament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That it shall may be annexed be lawful for Her Majesty, by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to sever Norfolk Island from the Government of New South Wales and from the Diocese of Australia, and to annex it to the Government and Colony of Van Diemen's Land and to the Diocese of Tas mania, from and after a Day to be mentioned in such Letters Patent; and from and after such Day Norfolk Island shall cease to belong to the Colony of New South Wales and to the Diocese of Australia, and shall be taken to be a Part of the Colony of Van Diemen's Land and of the Diocese of Tasmania. to Van Diemen's Land. Continuance of nances. II. Provided always, and be it enacted, That, until annulled or Laws and Ordi- altered by competent Authority, all Laws, Ordinances, and Regulations, Civil and Ecclesiastical, in force within Norfolk Island at the Time when such Letters Patent shall take effect, shall continue in force as if Norfolk Island had continued a Part of the Colony of New South Wales and of the Diocese of Australia, subject only to such Changes as shall be necessarily consequent upon the Change of Government. Scientific Socie. ties exempted from Rates upon obtaining the Certificate herein-after mentioned. W CA P. XXXVI. An Act to exempt from County, Borough, Parochial, and Owner, Owner, and occupied by it for the Transaction of its Business, and for carrying into effect its Purposes, provided that such Society shall be supported wholly or in part by annual voluntary Contributions, and shall not, and by its Laws may not, make any Dividend, Gift, Division, or Bonus in Money unto or between any of its Members, and provided also that such Society shall obtain the Certificate of the Barrister at Law or Lord Advocate, as herein-after mentioned. Scientific Socie the Rules of II. Provided always, and be it enacted, That before any Society shall be entitled to the Benefit of this Act such Society shall cause ties to cause Three Copies of all Laws, Rules, and Regulations for the Manage their Rules of Three Copies of ment thereof, signed by the President or other chief Officer and Management to Three Members of the Council or Committee of Management, and be submitted to countersigned by the Clerk or Secretary of such Society, to be the Barrister or submitted, in England, Wales, and Berwick-upon-Tweed, to the Person appointBarrister at Law for the Time being appointed to certify the Rules ed to certify of Friendly Societies there, and in Scotland to the Lord Advocate, Friendly Socieor any Depute appointed by him to certify the Rules of Friendly ties, &c. Societies there, and in Ireland to the Barrister for the Time being appointed to certify the Rules of Friendly Societies there, for the Purpose of ascertaining whether such Society is entitled to the Benefit of this Act; and such Barrister or Lord Advocate, as the Case may be, shall give a Certificate on each of the said Copies that the Society so applying is entitled to the Benefit of this Act, or shall state in Writing the Grounds on which such Certificate is withheld; and one of such Copies, when certified by such Barrister One certified or Lord Advocate, shall be returned to the Society, another Copy returned to the Copy to be shall be retained by such Barrister or Lord Advocate, and the Society; one other of such Copies shall be transmitted by such Barrister or to be retained Lord Advocate to the Clerk of the Peace for the Borough or by the BarrisCounty where the Land or Buildings of such Society in respect of which such Exemption is claimed shall be situated, and shall by him be laid before the Recorder or Justices for such Borough or County at the General Quarter Sessions, or Adjournment thereof, held next after the Time when such Copy shall have been so certified, and transmitted to him as aforesaid, and the Recorder or Justices then and there present are hereby authorized and required, without Motion, to allow and confirm the same; and such Copy shall be filed by such Clerk of the Peace with the Rolls of the Sessions of the Peace in his Custody, without Fee or Reward. ter; and the mitted to the Clerk of the Peace. other trans Certain Alterations made in the Rules to III. And be it enacted, That if the Laws, Rules, and Regulations of any such Society shall be altered, so as to affect or relate to the Property or Constitution of such Society, such Alterations shall, within One Calendar Month after the same shall have been deposited in made, be submitted to such Barrister or Lord Advocate, and such like Manner. Barrister or Lord Advocate shall certify as aforesaid; and such Rules, when so certified, shall be filed with the Clerk of the Peace as aforesaid; and in the meantime such Society shall be entitled to the Benefit of this Act, as if no such Alterations had been made: Provided always, that if the said Barrister or Lord Advo- In case of Refusal to certify., cate shall refuse to certify, that then, subject to such Appeal as is herein-after provided, the said Society shall cease to be entitled to the Benefit of this Act from the Time when such Alterations shall come into operation. 0 4 VI. Pro Fee to be paid to the Barrister or Lord Advocate. Provision in Cases where Certificate is refused. Appeal to Quarter Sessions. IV. Provided always, and be it enacted, That the Fee payable to such Barrister or Lord Advocate for perusing the Laws, Rules, and Regulations of each Society, or the Alterations made therein, and giving such Certificate or Statement as aforesaid, shall not at any One Time exceed the Sum of One Guinea, which, together with the Expence of transmitting the Rules to and from the said Barrister or Lord Advocate, shall be defrayed by each Society respectively. V. Provided always, and be it enacted, That in case any such Barrister or Lord Advocate shall refuse to certify that any such Society is entitled to the Benefit of this Act, it shall then be lawful for any such Society to submit the Laws, Rules, and Regulations thereof to the Court of Quarter Sessions for the Borough or County where the Land or Buildings of the Society shall be situated, together with the Reasons so assigned by the said Barrister or Lord Advocate as aforesaid; and the Recorder or Justices at such Quarter Sessions shall and may, if he or they think fit, order the same Rules to be filed, notwithstanding such Refusal as aforesaid; and such filing shall have the same Effect as if the said Barrister or Lord Advocate had certified as aforesaid. ⚫VI. Provided also, and be it enacted, That any Person or Persons assessed to any Rate from which any Society shall be exempted by this Act may appeal from the Decision of the said Barrister or Lord Advocate in granting such Certificate as aforesaid to the said Court of Quarter Sessions, within Four Calendar Months next after the first Assessment of such Rate made after such Certificate shall have been filed as aforesaid, or within Four Calendar Months next after the first Assessment of such Rate made after such Exemption shall have been claimed by such Society, such Appellant first giving to the Clerk or Secretary of the Society in question, Twenty-one Days previously to the Sitting of the said Court, Notice in Writing of his Intention to bring such Appeal, together with a Statement in Writing of the Grounds thereof, and within Four Days after such Notice entering into a Recognizance before some Justice, with Two sufficient Sureties, to try such Appeal at and abide the Order of and pay such Costs as shall be awarded by the Recorder or Justices at such Quarter Sessions; and at such Quarter Sessions such Recorder or Justices shall, on its being proved that such Notice and Statement have been given as aforesaid, proceed to hear such Appeal, according to the Grounds set forth in such Statement, and not otherwise, and, if the Certificate of the said Barrister or Lord Advocate shall appear to him or them to have been granted contrary to the Provisions of this Act, shall and may annul the same, and shall and may, according to their Discretion, award such Costs to the Party appealing or appealed against as he or they shall think proper, and his or their Determination concerning the Premises shall be conclusive and binding on all Parties to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever. С А Р. CA P. XXXVII. An Act to make better Provision for the Spiritual Care of WHEREAS it is expedient to make better Provision for the Spiritual Care of populous Parishes, and to render the 'Estates and Revenues vested in "The Ecclesiastical Commis'sioners for England," and the Funds at the Disposal of "The 'Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the Poor Clergy," applicable immediately to such Purpose:' 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 the Queen Anne's said Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England may, upon the Bounty Board Conditions herein-after mentioned, forthwith borrow, and the said may lend EcGovernors of the Bounty of Queen Anne, together with the Most Commissioners Reverend William Howley Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, may, for England a upon the Security herein-after mentioned, forthwith lend and trans- Sum of Stock. fer to the said Commissioners, the Capital Sum of Six hundred thousand Pounds Three Pounds per Centum Reduced Bank Annuities, Part of a certain Sum of such Stock now standing in the Names of the said Governors and of the said Archbishop in the Books of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England. clesiastical ther Sums of II. And be it enacted, That at any Time and from Time to Time Bounty Board the said Commissioners may borrow, and the said Governors and may lend furthe Archbishop of Canterbury for the Time being may, if they Stock. shall think fit, lend and transfer to the said Commissioners, in like Manner, and upon the like Security and Conditions, any further Capital Sum or Sums of Stock, being Part of the Stock so standing as aforesaid. dends half yearly. III. And be it enacted, That the said Commissioners shall, upon Commissioners the Transfer of any such Stock as aforesaid into their Names in to pay Divithe Books of the said Governor and Company, accept the same in such Books, and shall pay or cause to be paid to the said Governors, by half-yearly Payments on the Tenth Day of April and the Fourteenth Day of October in every Year, a Sum equal in Amount to the Amount of the Dividends which such Stock, or so much thereof as shall on such Days respectively remain unre placed, would produce; and that it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners at any Time to replace the Whole or any Part of any such Sum of Stock. The whole sioners under IV. And be it enacted, That all the Monies from Time to Time accruing to the said Commissioners by reason of the Suspension of Property of Canonries by or under the Provisions of an Act passed in the Ses- the Commission of Parliament held in the Third and Fourth Years of the the Cathedral Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to carry into effect, Acts to be with certain Modifications, the Fourth Report of the Commissioners Security for of Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues, and of an Act passed in the every such Session of Parliament held in the Fourth and Fifth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to explain and amend Two several Acts relating to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, and all the Lands, Tithes, Rent-charges, Tenements, and other Hereditaments vested or to be vested in them under the Provisions Loan. 3&4 Vict. c. 113. 4 & 5 Vict. c. 39. |