All Persons, except Candidates, who may be examined by the House of Lords respect ing any alleged Actions for any may make No Witness in demnified with out Certificate from Lord Chancellor that he has given true Evidence. CAP. XVIII. An Act to indemnify Witnesses who may give Evidence before the Lords Spiritual and Temporal on a Bill to exclude the Freemen of Liverpool from voting at the Election of Members of Parliament for that Borough. [22d May 1834.] WHEREAS the Commons of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled have passed a Bill, intituled An Act to exclude the Freemen of Liverpool from voting at the Election of • Members of Parliament for that Borough: And whereas it is alleged that gross and notorious Bribery and Corruption have been proved to have long prevailed amongst the said Freemen at Elections of Members to serve in Parliament: And whereas it is necessary to examine as Witnesses at the Bar of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in respect of such alleged Bribery and Corruption, several Persons: And whereas the Evidence of such • Persons may lead to Disclosures tending to expose them to penal Consequences: And whereas it is expedient to indemnify such Persons as they are herein-after indemnified, upon their truly and faithfully making such Disclosure and Discovery as herein-after mentioned:' Be it therefore enacted by the King'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, for the more effectually prosecuting the said Inquiry, all and every Person and Persons, not having been Candidates or a Candidate for the said Borough at the last Election, who may or hath been or may have been implicated or engaged in such alleged Bribery and Corruption at or connected with any Election of Members to serve in Parliament for the said Borough of Liverpool, and who shall be examined as Witnesses or a Witness at the Bar of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, touching such alleged Bribery and Corruption, and who shall upon such Examination make a true and faithful Discovery and Disclosure to the best of his, her, or their Knowledge, touching all Acts, Matters, and Things to which he, she, or they shall be so examined, shall be, and he, she, and they is and are hereby freed, indemnified, and discharged of, from, and against all penal Actions, Forfeitures, Punishments, Disabilities, and Incapacities, and all criminal Prosecutions which he, she, or they may have been or may become liable or subject to, or which he, she, or they may have incurred or may incur, at the Suit of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, or any other Person or Persons, for or by reason or means of or in relation to any Act, Matter, or Thing done or committed by such Person or Persons in respect of such alleged Bribery and Corruption, respecting or concerning which such Person or Persons shall be so examined as aforesaid, and shall make such true and faithful Discovery and Disclosure as aforesaid. II. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That where any Witness shall be examined before the House of Lords, such Witness shall not be indemnified under this Act unless he or she shall receive from the Lord Chancellor or Lord Speaker a Certificate in Writing stating that such Witness has, upon his or her Examination, made a true and faithful Disclosure touching all Acts and Matters to which he or she has been so examined. CAP. 6 CAP. XIX. An Act to repeal certain Duties on Houses. Inhabited Dwelling WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Forty-eighth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act for 48 G. 3. c. 55. ' repealing the Duties of Assessed Taxes, and granting new Duties in lieu thereof, and certain additional Duties to be consolidated there' with; and also for repealing the Stamp Duties on Game Certificates, and granting new Duties in lieu thereof, to be placed under the • Management of the Commissioners for the Affairs of Taxes, certain 'Duties of One Shilling and Sixpence, Two Shillings and Threepence, and Two Shillings and Ten-pence in the Pound respectively were granted and made payable yearly on all Inhabited Dwelling Houses throughout Great Britain according to the Value 'thereof as specified in Schedule (B.) to the said Act annexed: And whereas by an Act passed in the Third and Fourth Years 6 6 ' of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act to reduce 3 & 4 W. 4. "certain of the Duties on Dwelling Houses, and to repeal other Duties c. 39. 6 ' of Assessed Taxes, certain reduced Duties were granted and made payable on Inhabited Dwelling Houses, in certain Cases in the 'said last-recited Act specified, in lieu of the Duties so as aforesaid 'granted and made payable by the said Act of the Forty-eighth 'Year of King George the Third: And whereas it is expedient to repeal the said Duties on Inhabited Dwelling Houses: Be it therefore enacted by the King'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 from and after the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and thirty-four the said Duties so as aforesaid granted and made payable on Inhabited Dwelling Houses, and all Compositions in lieu of the said Duties, shall cease and determine, and the same are hereby repealed, so far as relates to any Assessment of the Duties of Assessed Taxes, or of Compositions in lieu thereof, to be made for any Year commencing from or after the said Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and thirtyfour. Duties on Inhabited Houses W. 4. c. 39. repealed from under 3 & 4 5th April 1834. Taxes to reduce tioned Duties; II. And be it enacted, That where any Contract of Composition Commissioners now in force for any of the Duties of Assessed Taxes doth include of Assessed the Duty on any Inhabited Dwelling House or Dwelling Houses Compositions repealed by this Act, it shall be lawful for the Commissioners acting which include in the Execution of the several Acts relating to the said Duties, in the above-mentheir respective Districts, and they are hereby authorized and required, to cause the Amount of the Composition payable under such Contract, and the Assessments and Duplicates relating thereto, for any Year commencing as aforesaid, to be reduced to the Extent of the said Duty hereby repealed and of the additional Duty payable thereon by virtue of such Contract, and such Reduction shall com- Reduction to mence and take effect from and after the said Fifth Day of April take effect from One thousand eight hundred and thirty-four; and all such Contracts shall be of the same Force and Effect for the Recovery and enforcing Payment of the reduced Instalments of Composition, to all Intents and Purposes, as if the full Amount of the Instalments compounded for had continued payable on such Contracts. [No. 9. Price 2d.] I III. And same Date. Qualifications conferred by Payment of said Duties to remain with the Occupiers of Houses of the Rent or Value specified in recited Acts. 33 G. 2. c. 27. III. And be it enacted, That where under or by virtue of any Act or Acts in force, in order to qualify or entitle any Person to vote at the Election of any Commissioner or Commissioners, or as a Qualification for any other Purpose, it is required that such Person shall occupy a Dwelling House assessed to the said Duties on Inhabited Dwelling Houses at a certain Rent or Value, it shall be sufficient to entitle any such Person to vote on any such Occasion, and it shall be deemed to be a sufficient Qualification, or for any such Purpose as aforesaid, if such Person shall occupy a Dwelling House which shall be bona fide of the Rent or Value specified or required in or by any such Act or Acts as aforesaid, without reference to any Assessment of the said Duties hereby repealed, provided such Person shall be in other respects duly qualified for any such Purpose as aforesaid; and in case of Dispute such Rent or Value shall be ascertained and determined according to the Rules and Directions contained in the said Schedule (B.) annexed to the said recited Act of the Forty-eighth Year of King George the Third. 6 CAP. XX. An Act to explain and amend an Act passed in the ⚫ said said Act, although the Object of the Legislature was to secure a Supply of fresh Fish to the Cities of London and Westminster, and 'to prevent the forestalling of the same: And whereas it is expedient to remove such Doubts, and to facilitate the Conveyance ' of fresh Fish to the legal Markets of the Metropolis:' Be it therefore declared and enacted by the King'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 nothing in the said recited Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to prevent any Person from unloading or discharging from any Fishing Ship, Sloop, Smack, or other Fishing Vessel or Vessels any Salmon, Salmon Trout, Turbot, large Fresh Cod, Half Fresh Cod, Haddock, Scate, Fresh Ling, Soles, Whitings, or other Fish which may arrive at the Nore, or from putting the same into any other Vessel or Vessels, Boat or Boats, for the Purpose of bringing the same for Sale by First Hand at any Fish Market or Markets legally established within the Cities of London and Westminster, but that every Person shall be at liberty to unload or discharge such Fish, and to put the same into other Boats for the Purpose aforesaid, without being subject or liable to any Penalty or Punishment for so doing, any thing in the said recited Act, or in any other Act, to the contrary notwithstanding. CAP. XXI. An Act for amending certain Provisions of an Act of the Thirty-sixth of George the Third, for regulating the buying and selling of Hay and Straw. [16th June 1834.] WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Thirty-sixth Year of the Nothing in re cited Act to several Sorts of Fish herein mentioned from being discharged from any Fishing Vessel for the Purpose of being sent to prevent the any legal Market in London or Westminster. Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled 'An Act to regulate the buying and selling of Hay and Straw, and 36 G. 3. c. 88. "for repealing so much of Two Acts, made in the Second Year of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary, and in the Thirty-first Year of the Reign of King George the Second, as relate to the buying and selling of Hay and Straw within the Limits therein mentioned, it is amongst other things enacted, that the Markets for Sale of Hay and Straw within the Cities and Limits aforesaid shall end at Three of the Clock in the Afternoon of every Market • Day between Lady Day and Michaelmas, and at Two of the 'Clock in the Afternoon of every Market Day between Michaelmas • and Lady Day, and that Notices thereof shall be given by the Clerk or Toll Gatherer, or his Deputy, in the several Markets or Places for the Sale of Hay and Straw within the Cities and Limits aforesaid, by ringing, on the usual Market Days, a large Hand < Bell round each respective Market or Place for the Sale of Hay or Straw, One Hour before the Expiration of the Times above mentioned, and again at the Expiration of the Hours above ' mentioned, on Pain of forfeiting for every such Offence a Sum of • Money not exceeding Ten Shillings nor less than Five Shillings; and every Person who shall sell any Hay or Straw in any Market within the Cities or Limits aforesaid after the Hours aforesaid 6 ⚫ shall forfeit for every Bundle or Truss of Hay so sold the Sum of 6 'Sixpence, and for every Bundle or Truss of Straw so sold the Sum of Three-pence; and it is also by the same Act further enacted, ⚫ that if any Person having the Care or Direction of any Waggon, Wain, or Cart used for the Purpose of bringing Hay or Straw shall suffer the same to remain in any Market or Place for the Sale of Hay and Straw within the Cities and Limits aforesaid, on the usual Market Days from Lady Day to Michaelmas after Five of the Clock in the Afternoon, and from Michaelmas to Lady Day after Three of the Clock in the Afternoon, in any Year, every Person so offending shall forfeit for every such Waggon, Wain, or Cart so left as aforesaid a Sum of Money not exceeding Twenty Shillings nor less than Five Shillings: And whereas the said recited Provisions were well calculated to prevent Obstructions and Inconvenience to the Public in Markets held for the Sale of Hay and Straw in open or public Streets or Thoroughfares, but the same are unnecessary, and may become vexatious and oppressive, in other Markets, and ought therefore to be par'tially repealed;' be it therefore enacted by the King'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 from and after the passing of this Act the several Provisions of the said Act of the Thirty-sixth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, Chapter certain Markets. Eighty-eight, which are herein-before recited, shall be and the same are hereby repealed so far as regards any Market for the Sale of Hay, Straw, and Clover through which there does not exist by Law any public Right of Way for Carts and Carriages; and that upon any Complaint made or Information laid for the Recovery of Penalties upon Breach of any of the said recited Provisions of the said Act it shall be incumbent upon the Party suing for such Penalty to shew by Evidence that there does exist such public Right of Way for Carts and Carriages through the Market in which the Offence shall be charged to have been committed. Recited Provisions of 36 G. 3. c. 88. repealed as to 11 G. 2. c. 19. CAP. XXII. An Act to amend an Act of the Eleventh Year of King 6 [16th June 1834.] WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Second, intituled An Act for the more effectual securing the Payment of Rents and "preventing Frauds by Tenants, it was enacted, that where any Tenant for Life should happen to die before or on the Day on which any Rent was reserved or made payable upon any Demise or Lease of any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments which determined on the Death of such Tenant for Life, the Executors or • Administrators of such Tenant for Life should and might, in an Action on the Case, recover of and from such Undertenant or Undertenants of such Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, if • such Tenant for Life die on the Day on which the same was made payable the whole, or if before such Day then a Proportion of • such |