9 G. 4. c. 54.

One Justice may act at Petty Sessions in certain Cases.

tried or inquired into at the Assizes, and if to any Matter to be tried or inquired into at the Quarter Sessions, then to the Clerk of the Peace of such County, City, or Town, Fourteen Days at the latest from the Date of the Committal for Trial, or of the Bailment of the Party or Parties accused by or in such Informations, or of the taking of such Recognizance, as the Case may be, together with all such Informations, Examinations, and Recognizances taken by or before a Justice or Justices not sitting in Petty Sessions as may then be in the Hands of such Petty Sessions Clerk, any thing in the said recited Act, or in an Act made in the Ninth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for improving the Adminis tration of Justice in Criminal Cases in Ireland, to the contrary thereof notwithstanding; and the Clerk of the Petty Sessions shall on every such Information and Recognizance endorse the true Date of its being so transmitted, and shall, on the Day before the Day for holding each Petty Session, enter in the Book containing an Entry of the Proceedings at the Petty Sessions, an Account in Writing stating the Particulars of the Informations so transmitted by him since the last Sitting of such Petty Sessions, and to whom transmitted, and shall sign such Account; and if any Clerk of Petty Sessions shall omit or neglect to transmit any such Examination, Information, or Recognizance to the Officer to whom it ought to be transmitted within the Time aforesaid, or to enter or sign such Account as aforesaid, he shall forfeit for every such Omission or Neglect a Sum of Five Pounds, to be recovered, by Civil Bill before the Assistant Barrister of the County, by any Person who will sue for the same.

VII. And whereas it is by the said recited Act amongst other Things enacted, "that every Warrant, Information, Conviction, Committal, Recognizance, or Order of the Justices of Petty Sessions shall be signed by Two Justices at the least," and in consequence of said Enactment requiring the Attendance of Two 'Justices at every Petty Sessions, frequent Adjournments of such 'Petty Sessions have taken place from the Non-attendance of a sufficient Number of Justices, although in many Cases One 'Justice would be legally competent to transact certain Parts of the Business to be disposed of at such Petty Sessions;' for Remedy whereof in such Cases, be it therefore enacted, That in all Cases in which by Law any Warrant, Conviction, Committal, or Order may be made, or if that Act had not been passed might have been made by, or any Information or Recognizance taken before One Justice of the Peace alone, it shall and may be lawful to and for any One Justice of the Peace attending alone at the Time and Place fixed for holding any Petty Sessions to proceed in open Court, notwithstanding the Absence of any other Justice or Justices, to hear, determine, and dispose of all Complaints, Informations, Matters, and Things whatsoever then ready to be heard, determined, and disposed of at such Petty Sessions, which One Justice of the Peace is or may be by Law competent to hear, determine, or dispose of, or which might have been heard, determined, or disposed of by One Justice if that Act had not passed, and to sign any Warrant, Conviction, Order, or Committal, and to take any Information or Recognizance upon or relating

to every Suit, Complaint, Information, Matter, or Thing which by Law One Justice sitting alone is or may be empowered to sign or take, or could have signed or taken if that Act had not been passed.

any

Infor

Justices to bind Parties complaining of As

saults in Recognizances to attend Petty Sessions and prosecute.

VIII. And be it further enacted, That every Justice of the Peace at Petty Sessions or elsewhere, who shall receive mation on Oath from any Person complaining of his or her having been assaulted, and who shall thereupon sign any Summons or Warrant against any Person or Persons in order to their attending at any Petty Sessions to answer such Complaint, shall be at liberty, if he shall think fit, before issuing such Summons or Warrant to be served or executed, to bind the Party or Parties Complainants in such Information, by Recognizance to our Lord the King, in a Sum not exceeding Twenty Shillings, to attend and prosecute their said Information at such Petty Sessions; and it shall and Recognizances may be lawful for the Justices at such Petty Sessions or any One may be estreated acting as aforesaid, if he or they shall think fit, to estreat any if Party fail to such Recognizance on Default of the Party or Parties thereto in not attending and prosecuting their said Complaint and Information, and to return the same to the Clerk of the Peace of the County, County of a City, or County of a Town; and it shall be lawful for the Assistant Barrister at the next Quarter Sessions, if he shall think fit, to issue his Decree for the levying of the whole of the Sums secured by such Recognizance, or such Part thereof as he shall think proper, and to direct the same to be paid to such Infirmary, Hospital, or Dispensary as he shall think fit, and such Decree shall have the Force of any Decree of such Assistant Barrister, and shall be in such Form as he shall think proper.

IX. And be it enacted, That in every Civil or Criminal Proceeding in which any Justice or Justices of the Peace has or have or shall under any Act to be hereafter passed have Jurisdiction to hear and determine any Complaint, such Justice or Justices shall have full Power and Authority to compel the Attendance of any Person resident or being within the County or District for which he or they is or are a Justice or Justices, as a Witness at any Petty Sessions on the Hearing of such Complaint, and to examine such Person as to the Matter of such Complaint, or the Defence thereto, and to punish such Person for Disobedience to any Sumrequiring him to attend, or for refusing to be examined, as fully as any such Justice or Justices could do if such Person had been summoned to give Evidence at any General Sessions of the Peace in any Criminal Matter, and had refused to obey such Summons or to give Evidence.

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X. And whereas by Law many Fines and Penalties and Portions of Fines and Penalties are made payable to the Infirmary of the County, City, Town, or Place wherein the Conviction shall take place, and it is in some Cases doubtful to what Infirmary the same should be paid, and it may be expedient from Time to Time to direct the Payment of such Monies to par'ticular Local Charities;' be it therefore further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Justices at Petty Sessions, not less than Three being present, to declare and fix to what Infirmary or Infirmaries, Hospital or Hospitals, Dispensary or Dispensaries, supported in whole or in part by Presentment of any

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attend.

Justices cmpowered to compel Wit

nesses to attend at Petty Sessions.

Justices at Petty Sessions may fix the Infirmary,

&c. to which Fines at Petty Sessions are to be paid.

Clerk of the

Peace or Clerk of the Crown to keep an Office, to be attended by himself or some competent Person Three Hours a Day.

not to exceed Two Shillings.

Grand Jury, the Fines and Penalties imposed at every or any Petty Sessions holden within such County, County of a City, or County of a Town, and payable by Law to the Infirmary of the County, City, Town, or Place wherein the Conviction shall take place, shall be paid, and from Time to Time to alter every such Place of Payment as they may think fit; and the Clerk of Petty Sessions shall insert all Receipts and Payments made, together with the Name of the Institution to which such Payments are made, in the proper Columns of the Schedule to be returned every Three Months to the Chief Secretary for Ireland, according to the Provisions of the Fourth Section of this Act and the Form of Return annexed, which Return is to be signed by the Clerk of the Petty Sessions, and countersigned by the Justices; and every such Infirmary, Hospital, and Dispensary so fixed by such Grand Jury shall be deemed entitled to the Payment of such Fine and Fines, and to all the Remedies for the Recovery and enforcing the Payment of and accounting for the same provided by Law for enforcing such Payment and Account to any County Infirmary.

XI. And be it enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act every Person who now holds or shall at any Time hereafter hold the Office of Clerk of the Peace or Clerk of the Crown of any County, or County of a City, or County of a Town in Ireland shall keep, in the Place or Town in the County, City, or Town of which he shall be such Clerk of the Crown or Clerk of the Peace in which the Assizes for such County, Town, or City are or shall be holden, an Office in which he or some sufficient and competent Person appointed by him shall attend, and such Office shall be kept open every Day, except Sunday, Good Friday, and Christmas Day, from the Hour of Twelve of the Clock until Three of the Clock in the Afternoon; and if any Clerk of the Peace or Clerk of the Crown shall omit or neglect to keep such Office open, and to attend by himself or some sufficient Person in the same during the said Period of Three Hours in each Day, or any Part thereof, he shall, for every such Omission or Neglect, forfeit the Sum of Five Pounds to any Person who will sue for the same by Civil Bill before the Assistant Barrister having Jurisdiction to determine Causes by Civil Bill in the Place or District in which such Office is or ought to be kept, or by Action in any of the Superior Courts, and such Clerk of the Peace or Clerk of the Crown shall and may be fined (whether sued for such Penalty or not) by any Judge of Assize in such Place such Sum, not exceeding Ten Pounds, as he shall think proper for such Omission or Neglect.

Fee for engross- XII. And be it enacted, That from and after the passing of this ing Informations Act it shall not be lawful for any Clerk of Petty Sessions in Ireland to demand or receive for engrossing or preparing any Number of Informations relating to the same Transaction any greater Fee or Reward than the Sum of Two Shillings, and that he shall not demand or receive from any Person any Fee for engrossing or preparing any Recognizance unless he shall be required by such Person, or some Person on his Behalf, to prepare the same.

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CA P. XXXV.

1 & 2G. 4. c. 30.

4 G. 4. c. 74.

7 G. 4. c. 76.

An Act for further improving the Road between London and
Holyhead, by Coventry, Birmingham, and Shrewsbury.
[14th July 1836.]

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WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Fifty-fifth Year of the

Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, inti55G. 3. c. 152. tuled An Act for granting to His Majesty the Sum of Twenty thousand Pounds to be issued and applied towards repairing 'Roads between London and Holyhead by Chester, and between ‹ London and Bangor by Shrewsbury; and by the said Act certain • Commissioners were appointed for carrying the same into exe'cution: And whereas an Act was passed in the First and Second Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, 'intituled An Act for further improving the Roads between London and Holyhead, by Coventry, Birmingham, and Shrewsbury: And whereas an Act was passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of 'His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for vesting in Commissioners the Bridges now building over the Menai 'Straits and the River Conway, and the Harbours of Howth and Holyhead, and the Road from Dublin to Howth; and for the 'further Improvement of the Road from London to Holyhead; and by the said Act certain Commissioners were appointed for carrying the same into execution, and various Powers were given to the said Commissioners: And whereas an Act was passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for further extending the Powers of an Act for vesting in Commissioners the Bridges building over the Menai Straits and the River Conway, and the Harbours of Howth and Holyhead, and the Road from Dublin to Howth, and for the further Improvement of the Road from London to Holyhead: And whereas an Act was passed in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of His said late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for the further Improvement of the Road from London to Holyhead, and of the Road from London to Liverpool: And whereas an Act was 'passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for the further Improvement of the Road from London to Holyhead, and of the Road from London to Liverpool: And whereas an Act was passed in the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act for transferring to the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods and Forests the several Powers now vested in the Holyhead Road Commissioners, and for discharging the last-mentioned Commissioners from the future Repairs and Maintenance of the Roads, Harbours, and Bridges now ' under their Care and Management; and by the said Act it was directed that the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, • Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings for the Time being, and such other Person or Persons as should be nominated and appointed in manner therein mentioned, should be Commissioners for carrying into execution the Powers and Provisions of the several therein and herein before recited Acts and that Act: And whereas an Act was passed in the Fourth and Fifth Years

7&8G. 4. c. 35.

9 G. 4. c. 75.

3&4W.4. c. 43.

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