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of any persons who may voluntarily present themselves before such Inspector or Inspectors for examination by him or them under the provisions herein before contained: Provided also, That it shall be lawful for the said Inspector or Inspectors, where he or they shall be of opinion that the inquiries under this Act have been prolonged by frivolous or vexatious opposition of any person or persons, to direct, by a certificate under the hand or hands of such Inspector or Inspectors, that a sum of money in such certificate to be mentioned be paid by such person or persons to the Promoters of the proposed Acts, 10 in respect of the increased costs, charges and expenses under this Act occasioned by such frivolous or vexatious opposition; and in such case the Promoters, or such of them as shall have paid the whole of such costs, charges and expenses to the said Commissioners, shall be entitled to sue for and recover the sum mentioned in such lastmentioned certificate, as money paid to the use and at the request of the person or persons by such certificate directed to pay the same.

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And be it Enacted, That where it is intended to make application to Parliament for an Act relating to any port or harbour, or to any tidal water, or to any navigable river, or in any manner directly or 20 indirectly affecting the navigation of such port, harbour, tidal water or navigable river, a statement in duplicate, with such copy of plans, sections, books of reference, or other documents as aforesaid, shall be sent or delivered to the Lord High Admiral, or to the Lords Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral, in the manner hereinbefore directed for sending or delivering such statement and documents to the office of the first-mentioned Commissioners, in the case of the intention to make application to Parliament for the other Acts above specified; and the Lord High Admiral or the said Lords Commissioners may, where he or they shall deem it 30 necessary or expedient, cause the like examination, survey and inquiries to be made by an Inspector or Inspectors, and shall have the same powers, with respect to such examination, survey and inquiries in relation to the proposed Acts to which the statement sent or delivered to him or them shall relate, as hereinbefore enacted in regard to the said first-mentioned Commissioners, with respect to the Acts in relation to which a statement is to be sent or delivered to them; and the Inspector or Inspectors who may be appointed by such Lord High Admiral or Lords Commissioners shall, in relation to the purposes of their appointment, have the same powers and authorities as the Inspector or Inspectors appointed by such first-mentioned Commissioners, in relation to the purposes of their appointment, as if all the provisions hereinbefore enacted in regard to the firstmentioned Commissioners and the Inspector or Inspectors by them appointed with respect to the cases in which they respectively are authorized to act had been repeated in regard to such Lord High 687.

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Inspectors may charge

a portion of the Expenses on Opponents.

8.

Notices to be given to

the Admiralty where appli

cations relate

to ports or

navigable

rivers.

9.

Inquiry may be made after

time limited, by permission of either House of Parliament.

10. Interpretation of Act.

Admiral or Lords Commissioners as aforesaid, and the Inspector or
Inspectors appointed by him or them, with respect to the cases in
which he or they respectively are authorized to act as aforesaid: Pro-
vided nevertheless, That such Lord High Admiral or Lords Com-
missioners shall not be required to lay the Reports of the said In- 5
spectors before the Houses of Parliament, unless such Reports be
specially called for by either House; but such Lord High Admiral
or Lords Commissioners shall report to Parliament, under the hand
of his or their Secretary for the time being, on every such act
touching the jurisdiction or authority of the Lord High Admiral.

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And be it Enacted, That in case either House of Parliament shall order that an examination, survey and inquiries be made in reference to any such application to Parliament as hercinbefore mentioned by an Inspector or Inspectors, the first-mentioned Commissioners, or the said Lord High Admiral or Lords Commis- 15 sioners, as the case may be, shall thereupon appoint an Inspector or Inspectors, and such Inspector or Inspectors shall make the like examination, survey, inquiries and report, in the same manner, and shall have the same powers and authorities in relation thereto, as if he or they had been appointed as hereinbefore pro- 20 vided; and the report of such Inspector or Inspectors, or the Report of the Lord High Admiral or Lords Commissioners, shall be laid before or made to both Houses of Parliament within such time as by such order shall be directed; and all the provisions herein before contained with reference to surveys, examinations and inquiries, and 25 costs, charges and expenses, shall be applicable to the examination, survey and inquiries directed by every such order as aforesaid, and the costs, charges and expenses thereof.

And be it Enacted, That in this Act words importing the singular number shall include the plural number, and words importing the 30 plural number shall include the singular number, and words importing the masculine gender shall include females, and any act directed or authorized to be done by the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, Works and Buildings may be done either by the Chief Commissioner or by any other Two of the said 35 Commissioners; and the persons whose names shall be subscribed to Notices to be any statement which may be sent or delivered to or at the office of the said Commissioners, or to the said Lord High Admiral or Lords Commissioners, shall be deemed to be the Promoters of the proposed Act thereby referred to for all the purposes of this Act, and notwith- 40 standing the persons subscribing such statement shall have signed for and on behalf of any other party.

Persons signing

deemed Pro

moters.

11. Act may be

amended, &c.

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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BILL

To provide for the Expenses of erecting and maintaining
Lock-up Houses on the Borders of Counties.

[Note.-The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted in the Committee.]

WHERE 15 by an Act of Parliament, passed in the sixth Preamble:

c. 109, s. 22.

year of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled, "An 5 & 6 Vict., Act for the Appointment and Payment of Parish Constables," it was enacted, that it should be lawful for the Justices of the Peace of any 5 county in General or Quarter Sessions assembled, if they should think fit, to order that Lock-up Houses for the temporary confinement of persons taken into custody by any constable, and not yet committed for trial, or in execution of any sentence, should be provided in such places within their county as the said Justices should think fit; and for that 10 purpose to purchase and hold lands and tenements, or to appropriate to that purpose any lands and tenements belonging to the county which were not needed for the purpose to which they were applied, or intended to be applied, before such appropriation, or, instead of providing new Lock-up Houses, to order that the Lock-up Houses, 15 Strong-rooms or Cages belonging to any parish be appropriated for the purpose of that Act, and, if necessary, be enlarged or improved; and that the expenses of building, hiring or otherwise providing, repairing and furnishing such Lock-up Houses should be defrayed out of the County Rates:

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And whereas it is often desirable that on the borders of Two or more counties or places having respectively a separate General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace, or in some other situation convenient for the common use of such counties or places, a Lock-up House for 699.