being authorized by virtue of the licence granted to me [or him, or 9 Geo. 4, c. 61. her] at the general annual licensing meeting [or special session] held

at

on the

day of -, one thousand eight hundred and to sell exciseable liquors by retail, to be drunk or consumed in the house or premises thereunto belonging, situate at [here describe the situation of the house], and commonly known by the sign of the do hereby give notice that it is my [or our] intention to apply at the special session to be holden at, in the county of on the day of one thousand eight hundred and for permission to transfer the above-mentioned licence to C. D. [state his trade or occupation], now residing at in the parish of in the county of and for six months last past having resided at [or in the several parishes of -], in the county of [or counties of], that the said C. D., intending to keep as an inn, alehouse or victualling house, the said house so as aforesaid kept by me [or us], may sell exciseable liquors by retail, to be drunk or consumed in the said house or premises thereunto belonging.

Given under my hand, this hundred and

day of

one thousand eight

N. B. A copy of this notice to be served upon one of the overseers
of the poor, and upon one of the constables or other peace
officers of the parish in which is situate the house kept by the
person whose notice it is.

14. Licence granted at a Special Session, in case of Death, &c.,

under s. 14.

At a special petty sessions of her Majesty's justices of the peace
acting for the division of N., in the county of C., holden at
in N., in the said county, on the

the

day of

for the

in the year one thousand eight hundred and
purpose of authorizing and empowering persons to open or
continue open, in certain cases, common inns, alehouses and
victualling houses:

We [&c., proceed to the asterisk* in Form of Licence No. 7, ante, p.
356, and there insert "as one A. B. duly licensed, but since dead [or
who hath removed from the said house, or yielded up the possession of
the said house to the said C. D., or who formerly occupied the said
house] was licensed and empowered to sell, &c." conclude as in No. 7.

Id. s. 14.

5 & 6 Vict.

15. Temporary Authority to Sell, granted at a Petty Sessions.
Division of N.
At a petty session of her Majesty's justices of c. 44, s. 1.
the peace in and for the county of C., holden at
Sthe
in N., in and for the division of N., in
the day of
in the year

in the county of C. to wit.

:

the said county, on of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Whereas no special session for the transfer of licences of inns, alehouses and victualling houses in the said division is now holden therein; And whereas application is now made at this petty session by T. T., now dwelling at S., in the parish of S., in the said division, and keeping the inn, alehouse or victualling house situate in the said division and mentioned in the within licence, granted pursuant to the provisions of the statute in that case made and provided, at a special session [or the general licensing meeting] in the within licence mentioned, to transfer the within licence to G. S., of the parish of S., in the division and county aforesaid: We, therefore, the undersigned, being the majority of the justices present at this petty session, by this

5 & 6 Vict.

c. 44.

indorsement under our hands and seals on the within licence so granted
as aforesaid, by virtue of the power vested in us by the statute in such
case made and provided, after examining upon oath all necessary par-
ties, do authorize the said G. S., being a person not disqualified by the
statute in such case made and provided, and to whom it is proposed by
such application to transfer such licence, to use, exercise and carry on
the business of a licensed victualler at the same house and at the same
premises mentioned in the within licence, and there to sell such excise-
able liquors as might heretofore have been lawfully sold and retailed
therein; the same being a case where justices of the peace assembled at
a special session are empowered, by the statute in that case made and
provided, to transfer or grant licences before the expiration thereof to
sell exciseable liquors by retail in the same house or premises, in respect
of which any person had been theretofore duly licensed: the authority
hereby granted, to continue and be in force until the now next ensuing
special session for transferring and granting such licences, which shall
be holden for the said division within which such house and premises
are situated, and no longer.

Given under our hands and seals, at the petty seesions aforesaid.
[Justices' signatures and seals.]

BILLIARDS.

8 & 9 Vict. c. 109.

The forms for convening the general licensing or special sessions meeting in tit. " Alehouses," ante, have been adapted to billiard

licences.

Licence for Public Billiard playing. (Given by 8 & 9 Vict. c. 109,

s. 10.)

holden at

on

At the general licensing annual meeting [or an adjournment of the general annual licensing meeting, or at a special petty session] of her Majesty's justices of the peace acting for the division [or liberty, &c. as the case may be] of in the county of the day of in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty for the purpose of granting billiard licences, we, being of her Majesty's justices of the peace acting for the said county [or liberty, &c. as the case may be], and being the majority of those assembled at the said session, do hereby authorize and empower A. L., now dwelling at in the parish of to keep a house for public billiard playing at [here specify the house], provided that he [or she] put and keep up the words "Licensed for Billiards" legibly painted in some conspicuous place near the door and on the outside of the said house, and do not wilfully or knowingly permit drunkenness or other disorderly conduct in the said house, and do not knowingly allow the consumption of exciseable liquors therein by the persons resorting thereto, and do not knowingly suffer any unlawful games therein, and do not knowingly suffer persons of notoriously bad character to assemble and meet together therein, and do not open the said house for play or allow any play therein after one and before eight of the clock in the morning, or keep it open or allow any play therein on Sundays, Christmas Day or Good Friday, or on any day appointed for a public fast or thanksgiving, but do maintain good order and rule therein and this licence shall continue in force from the day

of

longer.

:

next, until the day of then next following, and no

Given under our hands and seals on the day and at the place first written.

CONSTABLES (BOROUGH, SPECIAL).

1. Appointment of, yearly, in October.

Cornwall. At a special petty session of her Majesty's jusBorough and tices of the peace in and for the borough of Truro, Liberties of Truro, in the county of Cornwall, acting in and for the to wit. said borough, holden at the Town Hall, in the same borough, on, the day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and for the appointment of special constables for the said borough, of which special petty session due notice has been given to every justice usually acting in the said borough:

We, the undersigned justices, present at the said special petty session, in pursuance of the act of the sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, chapter seventy-six, do nominate and appoint, from the list of persons returned to us, the following persons, being inhabitants of the said borough (and not legally exempt from serving the office of constable), to act as special constables within the said borough during the year now next following and until other special constables for the said borough of Truro shall be nominated and appointed to act in their stead as special constables of the said borough of Truro, whensoever they respectively shall be required by the warrant of any of the justices of the peace having jurisdiction within the said borough of Truro so to act, but not otherwise, such number of persons being deemed by us, the said justices, necessary (having regard to the extent and population of the said borough of Truro) to act as special constables as aforesaid:

5 & 6 Will. 4,

c. 76, s. 83.

Given under our hands at the special petty session aforesaid.

W. T. C., Mayor.

J. T. N.

W. P. K.

2. Summons to Person appointed to take the Oath.

To C. E. A., of the parish of Saint Mary, within the borough of
Truro, in the county of Cornwall.

Cornwall. Whereas, at a special petty sessions of her Ma-
Borough and
jesty's justices of the peace in and for the said
Liberties of borough of Truro, acting in and for the said
Truro, to wit. borough, held on the day of October, 18-,
at the Town Hall, in and for the said borough, for the appointment of
persons to act as special constables within the said borough, you the
said C. E. A., an inhabitant of the said borough, and in other respects
duly qualified, were duly chosen to act as a special constable for the
said borough of Truro, whensoever you should be required by the war-
rant of any of the justices of the peace having jurisdiction within the
said borough so to act, but not otherwise: And whereas, in the opinion

Id.

5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 76, s. 83.

of me the undersigned, one of her Majesty's justices of the peace
having jurisdiction within the said borough, the ordinary police force
of the said borough is insufficient at this time to maintain the peace of
the said borough: These are therefore to require you personally to ap-
pear before me, or some other of her Majesty's justices of the peace of
and for the said borough and liberties, at the Town Hall in the said
borough, on the day of at o'clock in the
noon, in order to be administered to you the oath required by the
statute in such case made and provided to be taken by you for the due
execution of your said office of special constable. Herein fail not.
Given under my hand and seal the

eight hundred and

day of

-, one thousand

W. T. C., Mayor. (L. s.)

3. Oath.

This is the same as under 1 & 2 Will. 4, c. 41, tit. "Constables (Special)," post.

4. Certificate of having taken the Oath.

Borough of T. Į

We, two of her Majesty's justices of the peace for to wit. the said borough, do hereby certify that C. E. A., of street, in the parish of in the said borough, hath been duly chosen to act as a special constable for the said borough whensoever he shall be required by the warrant of any of the justices of the peace having jurisdiction within the said borough so to act, but not otherwise, and hath this day duly taken the oath before us faithfully to discharge the duties of the said office.

Witness our hands, this

day of

185-.

W. T. C., Mayor.
W. P. K.

7 & 8 Vict. c. 33, s. 8.

CONSTABLES (HIGH).

in N. in and for the

1. Appointment of High Constables in Special Sessions. County of C. At a special sessions of her Majesty's justices of the to wit. Speace acting in and for the petty sessions division of N. in the county of C., held at the said division, on- the day of in the year of our Lord for the purpose of hearing appeals against the rates of the several parishes within the said division, pursuant to the statute made and passed in a session of parliament holden in the sixth and seventh years of the reign of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled " An Act to regulate Parochial Assessments" [and if at an adjourned sessions, and thence continued by adjournment, or by several adjournments, to the day of at the same place], We, the undersigned, the justices present at the said special sessions, do appoint W. Y., of the parish of Ĉ., in the division of N. aforesaid, grocer, to be high constable for the hundred of C., the said hundred being wholly situate and included within the limits of the said division, and the said W. Y. is faithfully and truly to execute the office of high constable according to the directions of the statutes in that behalf made.

Given under our hands and seals at the special sessions aforesaid. [Justices' signatures and seals.]

2. Constable's Oath before the Justices appointing, or before any one 7 & 8 Vict. Justice of the County. c. 33, s. 8.

You shall faithfully and truly serve our sovereign lady the Queen in the office of high constable for the hundred of C. until another be sworn in your stead, according to the best of your skill and knowledge and the directions of the statutes in that behalf made. So help you GOD.

CONSTABLES (PAROCHIAL).

5 & 6 Vict.

in the division

c. 109, s. 2.

1. Justices' Precept to Overseers to return List of Men.
To the overseers of the poor of the parish of
of N., in the county of C.

County of We, the undersigned, [two] of her Majesty's justices of
C. the peace in and for the said county, usually acting in and
to wit. for the said division, do hereby, in pursuance of the statute
of the fifth and sixth years of the reign of her present Majesty,
chapter one hundred and nine, require you the said overseers to make
out and return to the clerks to her Majesty's justices of the peace in
and for the said county, usually acting in and for the said division, at
their office at N., before the twenty-fourth day of March next, a list
in writing of [six] men, being a competent number of men within
your parish qualified and liable to serve as constables for the same:
and we hereby give you notice, that a special petty session of the
peace will be holden at the in N. in and for the said division, on
the day of
next, at
noon, for the
appointment of parochial constables, which special session you are
hereby required to attend and verify the list so to be returned by yon.
Given under our hands this day of
in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and

o'clock in the

J. T. B.
J. D.

2. List to be returned to Clerks to Justices.
At a meeting of the inhabitants of this parish
in vestry, held after due summons, the

185-, at

Parish of in the division of N. day 185-. Soffor the purpose of making out a list of men residing within the said parish qualified and liable to serve as constables thereof, to be returned to her Majesty's justices of the peace acting in and for the division of N., in the county of C., in pursuance of a precept under the hands of two of her Majesty's justices of the peace.

The following list was made out by the said vestry pursuant to the

statute:

Christian Name and
Surname.

True Place of
Abode.

Title, Quality, Call-
ing, or Business.

Date of the Year of any previous Service.

Id. s. 8.