And after noticing that in the said recited Act it is enacted, that it shall be lawful for the several grand juries in Ireland and they are thereby required at each assizes to appoint by presentment certain places within their respective counties, viz., one in each barony or half barony, where, and certain times when, presentment sessions shall be successively holden previous to the next assizes for such counties respectively, for the purposes set forth in said recited Act; and said recited Act enacts, that such presentment shall appoint the last meeting of such sessions to be holden in the County Court House: And that in many counties in Ireland the County Court House is not centrally situated in regard to the county ;

It is Enacted,

XIV. That it shall be lawful for the several grand juries and they are hereby required to appoint by presentment the last meeting of such sessions to be holden either in the County Court House or such other court house or place as they may deem most conveniently situated for the purpose; and the presentment sessions for the county at large shall be holden there; any words in the said recited Act to the contrary notwithstanding.

xv. That it shall be lawful for any grand jury to re-present any such sums of money as now are or at any time hereafter shall be unpaid or in arrear out of any denomination barony, county of a city or town, to be raised and levied on such denomination barony, county of a city or town, or on any part or portion thereof, upon which the same was originally required by the treasurer's warrant to be levied; and such sums of money so re-presented shall be levied in the same manner, and subject to the same rules, regulations, provisions, and powers, as any other sums of money presented by any grand jury.

And after reciting that the time limited by the said recited Act for lodging with the secretary of grand jury the certificates of the due execution of works contracted for, or of the performance of contracts, which contractors are by the said Act required to obtain from the county surveyor previous to applying for payment, has been fonnd inconvenient; and that it is expedient to amend the said Act in that respect;

It is Enacted,

XVI. That it shall be sufficient for such contractors, and they are hereby required, to produce such certificates as aforesaid at the sessions at which they may apply for payment; anything in the said Act requiring such certificates to be procured and lodged at any previous time to the contrary notwithstanding.

And after reciting that by the said recited Act two Justices of the Peace at petty sessions are empowered to order sums not exceeding a certain amount to be expended in repairing any bridge or road or pier or quay which may be suddenly damaged, and the repairs of which cannot be delayed until the next assizes without prejudice to the public, as in the said Act mentioned, but it is by the said Act required that the necessity of such repairs should be notified to such Justices by the county surveyor: And that it is expedient to dispense with such previous notification ;

XVII. That so much of the said Act as requires a previous notification of the necessity of such repairs as aforesaid on the part of the county survey or to such Justices shall be and the same is hereby repealed: Provided that nothing herein contained shall be construed to dispense with the certificate of the county surveyor, to be given after the execution of the work, that the money appears to have been faithfully and honestly expended pursuant to the order made by such Justices.

XVIII. That the said recited Act of the last session of Parliament, for consolidating and amending the laws relating to the presentment of public money by grand juries in Ireland, shall continue in full force and effect, save and except so far as the same is expressly repealed or altered by this Act; and that the said recited Act and this Act shall be construed together as one Act to all intents and purposes whatsoever.

XIX. That this Act shall only extend to that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland.

xx. That this Act may be amended, altered, or repealed by any Act to be passed in the present session of Parliament.

CAP. III.

AN ACT for transferring to the Commissioners of the Admiralty all Contracts, Bonds, and other Securities entered into with the Postmaster General in relation to the Packet Service.

By this ACT,

(18th March 1837.)

After reciting that it has been deemed expedient that the superintendence and management of the business relating to the packets and other vessels employed in conveying the mails and letters by sea should be transferred from the department of the Postmaster General to that of the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; and that it is therefore become necessary, for the better security of the public, to provide for the transfer to the said Commissioners of all the interests, powers, and authorities at present existing in the Postmaster General, by virtue of any contracts, bonds and other securities taken in his department, as far as relates to the packet service and to the persons employed therein :

It is Enacted,

That from and after the passing of this Act all the interests, powers, and authorities at present existing in the Postmaster General under any contract or contracts entered into with him or any of his predecessors in office, or with any person or persons on his or their behalf, by any body corporate or company, or person or persons, for the conveyance by sea of mails and

letters by steam boats or other ships or vessels, or under any bond or bonds given for the due execution of any such contracts, and also under any bond or other security entered into by any agent, officer, or other person hitherto employed under the said Postmaster, or entered into by any of the sureties of any such persons, either for the due execution of any such contract, or for the due execution of the duty of any such agent, officer, or other person employed as aforesaid, shall be transferred to and vested in the said Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral aforesaid for the time being, and shall be acted on, enforced, and carried into effect by such Commissioners in the same manner as if they had been named in the same contracts, bonds, and securities respectively instead of the Postmaster General; and all and every the orders and directions of the said Commissioners shall be as fully observed, obeyed, and performed by the contractors, and by the said agents and officers respectively, as if the same had proceeded from and been issued and given by the Postmaster General.

CAP. IV.

AN ACT to continue, until the First Day of July One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, the Powers of the Commissioners for inquiring concerning Charities in England and Wales.

(18th March 1837.)

CAP. V.

AN ACT for amending an Act of His late Majesty, for restricting the Punishment of Leasing-making, Sedition, and Blasphemy, in Scotland.

By this ACT,

(18th March 1837.)

After reciting the passing of 6 Geo. 4. c. 47, whereby, upon a recital "that it is expedient that the punishment of the crimes of leasing-making, sedition, and blasphemy, as known in the law of Scotland, should be restricted, and that these crimes should be punished in the same manner as such crimes would be punished if committed in England," it was (among other things) enacted, "that if any person shall henceforth be convicted of any of the aforesaid crimes, such person shall be liable to be punished only by fine and imprisonment, or both, at the discretion of the Court before which such person shall be tried"; and it was by the said recited Act further enacted," that if any person after being so convicted shall offend a second time, and be thereof lawfully convicted, such person may, on such second conviction, be adjudged, at the discretion of the Court, either to suffer the punishment of fine or imprisonment, or both, or to be banished from the United Kingdom and all other parts of His Majesty's dominions for such term of years as the Court in which such conviction shall take place shall order": And the passing of 11 Geo. 4. & 1 Will. 4. c. 73, intituled,' An Act to repeal so much of an Act of the Sixtieth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, for the more effectual Prevention and Punishment of blasphemous and seditious Libels, as relates to the Sentence of Banishment for the Second Offence, and to provide some further Remedy against the Abuse of publishing Libels,' whereby so much and such parts of the said Act, 60 Geo. 3. as related to the sentence of banishment for the second offence was wholly repealed: And that it is expedient that the punishment of the crimes of leasing-making, sedition, and blasphemy under the law of Scotland should be in like manner restricted, and that these crimes should be punished in the same manner in Scotland as they would be punished if committed in England :—

It is Enacted,

That so much and such parts of the said recited Act, 6 Geo. 4. as regard the punishment by banishment of any person convicted a second time of any of the aforesaid crimes of leasing-making, sedition, and blasphemy, in Scotland, shall be and the same are hereby repealed.

CAP. VI.

AN ACT to apply the Sum of Two Millions to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.

By this ACT, the Commons granted, and it is Enacted,

(22nd March 1837.)

That there shall be applied, for the service of the year 1837, Two Millions now remaining in the Exchequer.

CAP. VII.

AN ACT for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better payment of the Army and their Quarters.

(21st April 1837.)

This Act limits the number of the forces to 81,311 men, exclusive of the officers and men belonging to the regiments employed in the territorial possessions of the East India Company. An abstract of the other enactments which it contains will be found in the Law Journal Abridgment of Statutes for the year 1834.

CAP. VIII.

AN ACT for the Regulation of His Majesty's Royal Marine Forces while on Shore.

(21st April 1857.)

An Abstract of the provisions of this Act previous and subsequent to section XVIII. will be found in the Law Journal Abridgment of Statutes for the year 1834. By that section it is enacted :-That when any sentence of death shall be com muted for transportation, or when any marine shall by court-martial be adjudged to be transported, as authorized by this Act, it shall be lawful for the commanding officer of the division to which such marine shall have belonged to cause him to be conveyed to the nearest ship for the reception of convicts, or if there shall be no such ship in the neighbourhood of the division, then to the gaol of the county in which such division shall be stationed, there to remain in safe custody until he shall be removed therefrom by due authority under an order for his transportation to be made by some Justice of the King's Bench or Common Pleas or Baron of the Exchequer as aforesaid; and that a certificate of his sentence, after the same shall have been approved by the Lord High Admiral, or the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral, (such certificate to be signed by the commanding officer of the division from which he shall be sent,) shall be a sufficient order, requisition, and authority to the superintendent or chief officer of the convict ship, or the sheriff or the keeper of the gaol of the county, as the case may be, to receive and detain him: Provided always, that in case of any such offender being so conveyed to the gaol of the county, the usual allowance of 6d. per diem shall be made to the keeper of the gaol for the subsistence of such offender during his detention therein, which allowance shall be paid by the paymaster of the division upon production to him by the said keeper of a declaration, to be made by him before offs of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace of such county, of the num ber of days during which the offender shall have been so detained and subsisted in such gaol.

CAP. IX.

AN ACT to amend several Acts relating to the Royal Mint.

ABSTRACT OF THE ENACTMENTS.

(21st April 1857.)

1. After 5th of April, 1837, all fees, &c. payable to the Master of the Mint to cease.

2. So much of recited Acts as authorizes the charging of money upon the Consolidated Fund for salaries to officers repealed.

3. From and after the same date, the seigniorage to be paid into the Bank, to the credit of the Consolidated Fund.

4. Treasury may authorize the issue of money for the purchase of bullion for coinage.—Such issues not be applied to any other pur◄ pose.-Account thereof to be annually laid before Parliament.

By this ACT,

After reciting an Act, 39 Geo. 3. c. 94, intituled, ‘An Act to ascertain the Salary of the Master and Worker of His Ma jesty's Mint' And another Act, 1 & 2 Will. 4. c. 10, intituled, An Act to reduce the Salary of the Master and Worker of His Majesty's Mint,' and that the monies required for defraying the charge of the salary of the Master and Worker and the other expenses of His Majesty's Mint are now provided from various different sources, partly from fees, allowances, and emoluments authorized by the indenture between His Majesty and the said Master and Worker, partly from the Consolidated Fund, partly by annual grants of Parliament, and partly from the profits derived from the coinage of silver and copper: And that the said fees, allowances, and emoluments are payable out of public monies applicable to defray the expenses of the coinage; and it would tend to simplicity in the accounts of the Mint that no such fees, allowances, or emoluments should henceforth be pay able: And that it is expedient that the whole charge of His Majesty's Mint should be brought annually under the consideration of Parliament:

It is Enacted,

1. That the fees, allowances, and emoluments granted by the said indenture between His Majesty and the Master and Worker of the Mint shall from and after the 5th of April 1837 cease and be no longer payable.

II. That so much of the said recited Acts and of any other Act or Acts as authorizes the Lord High Treasurer or the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury to charge upon the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland any sum or sums of money for the salaries and allowances to the officers of the Mint in England shall, from and after the said 5th of April 1857, be and the same is hereby repealed, save and except such parts thereof as relate to the salary payable to the present Comptroller of His Majesty's Mint.

III. That it shall not be lawful for the Master and Worker of His Majesty's Mint at any time after the 5th of April 1837 to apply any part of the seigniorage which accrues upon the coinage of silver or copper in aid of any of the expenses of the said coinage, or of any of the expenditure of the Mint, anything in any Act or Acts to the contrary notwithstanding; and the whole of such seigniorage shall be paid from time to time to the account of His Majesty's Exchequer at the Bank of England, to be carried by the Comptroller General of the Exchequer to the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

And after reciting that circumstances may require that the Master and Worker of the Mint should be authorized to purchase bullion in order to provide supplies of coin for the public service: and that it is expedient to authorize the issue of money from the Consolidated Fund for that purpose;―

It is Enacted,

IV. That it shall be lawful for the Lord High Treasurer, or the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, or any three or more of them, for the time being, to authorize and direct the issue, upon account, to the Master and Worker of His Majesty's Mint from time to time, out of the said Consolidated Fund, of such sum or sums of money as may be necessary to effect such purchases of bullion for coinage: Provided always, that such issues shall not be applied to any other purpose, and that the whole amount which shall be received by the Master and Worker of the Mint in payment for the coin which shall be produced from the bullion so purchased shall be paid to the account of His Majesty's Exchequer at the Bank of England, to be carried by the Comptroller of the Exchequer to the Consolidated Fund in repayment of the advances so made: Provided also, that an account of all such issues and repayments in each year shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within ten days after the commencement of every session.

CAP. X.

AN ACT to alter, amend, and continue for a certain Period, an Act for repealing certain Acts relating to the Removal of poor Persons born in Scotland and Ireland, and chargeable to Parishes in England, and to make other Provisions in lieu thereof.

By this ACT,

(21st April 1837.)

After reciting the 3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 40, intituled, An Act to repeal certain Acts relating to the Removal of poor Persons born in Scotland and Ireland, and chargeable to Parishes in England, and to make other Provisions in lieu thereof until the First Day of May One thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament: And that the provisions of the said Act have been found beneficial: and that the said Act will expire at the end of the present session of Parliament, and it is desirable that the same should be continued and renewed as hereinafter provided:

It is Enacted,

1. That the said Act, and all and every the provisions thereof, shall be and the same are hereby continued and renewed to the 1st of May 1839, and the end of the then next session of Parliament.

II. That every person to whom any order for removing a poor person or persons, made in pursuance of the said recited Act or of this Act, shall be delivered for the purpose of being carried into execution, shall and may detain and hold in safe custody every poor person mentioned in any such order until such poor person shall have arrived at the place to which he is ordered to be removed, and shall and may for that purpose in every county and place through which he shall pass in the due execution of such order have and exercise the powers with which a constable is by law invested, notwithstanding such person may not otherwise be empowered to act as a constable for the county or place respectively through which he may have occasion to pass in carrying such order into full execution.

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CAP. XI.

AN ACT to apply the Sum of Eight Millions, out of the Consolidated Fund, to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.

By this ACT, the Commons granted, and it is Enacted,

(5th May 1837.)

1. That there shall be applied, for the service of the year 1837, Eight Millions out of the Consolidated Fund.

II. That the Treasury may cause Eight Millions of Exchequer bills to be made out in manner prescribed by 48 Geo. 3. c. 1. III. That the clauses, provisoes, powers, privileges, advantages, penalties, forfeitures, and disabilities contained in the 48 Geo. 3. c. 1, shall be applied and extended to the Exchequer bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act.

IV. That the interest on Exchequer bills shall not exceed the rate of 34d. per centum per diem upon or in respect of the whole of the monies respectively contained therein.

v. That the Bank of England may advance Eight Millions on the credit of this Act, notwithstanding 5 & 6 W. and M. c. 20. VI. That the Treasury may cause the bills to be delivered to the Bank of England as security for advances.

VII. That the Treasury may apply the money raised to the services of the year.

VIII. Exchequer bills made chargeable upon the growing produce of the Consolidated Fund.

CAP. XII.

AN ACT to indemnify such Persons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments, and for extending the Time limited for those Purposes respectively until the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight; and for the Relief of Clerks to Attornies and Solicitors in certain Cases.

(8th June 1837.)

The first eight sections, and the 11th and 12th of this Statute, are similar in language and enactments to the ten sections contained in 6 Will. 4. c. 7, for which see 14 Law Journ. Abridgment of Statutes, p. 20. The following are the provisions of ss. 9 and 10:—

ABSTRACT OF THE ENACTMENTS.

9. The word "Months" in 7 Geo. 4. c. 44. to mean calendar months. 10. Indentures, &c. may be stamped before last day of Michaelmas term, 1837, if application was made therefor within six calendar months from the dates thereof.

After reciting that by an Act, 7 Geo. 4. c. 44, to allow, until the 10th of October 1826, the inrolment of certain articles of clerkship, and for other purposes therein mentioned, it was enacted, that it should not be lawful for the Commissioners of Stamps, or any of their officers, to stamp, under any pretence whatever, after the expiration of six months from their date, any articles of clerkship to attornies or others, as therein specified: And that the using of the word "Months" in the said lastmentioned Act, in this respect, without the addition of the word "Calendar," occasioned mistakes and inconveniences;—

It is Enacted,

Ix. That from and after the passing of this Act the word "Months" used in the said last-mentioned Act, so far as the same relates to the stamping of articles of clerkship to attornies and others therein specified, shall be understood to mean calendar months.

And after reciting that several persons bound to serve as clerks or apprentices to attornies or solicitors have applied to have the indentures or contracts of such clerkship stamped after the expiration of six lunar and before the expiration of six calendar months from the date thereof;

It is Enacted,

x. That it shall and may be lawful for the Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes, or any of their proper officers, at any time before the last day of Michaelmas term 1837, to stamp any articles of clerkship, contract, indenture, or other instrument whereby any person hath become bound to serve as a clerk or apprentice, in order to his admission as an attorney or solicitor in any of the courts of law or equity, although the period of six calendar months from the date thereof hath now elapsed, upon payment of the proper duty payable in respect of the same, and of the further sum of 51. by way of penalty, provided it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the said Commissioners that application was made to them or to their proper officer to have such articles, contract, indenture, or instrument stamped within six calendar months from the date thereof.