Provisions rela ting to Borough continued. The separate 15,000) not to As to Agreement under 3&4 Vict. c. 88. s. 14. 3&4 Vict. c. 88. s. 24. repealed. Power to Jus Police (Counties and Boroughs). the Third and Fourth Years of Her Majesty, or this Act, the Population of which Borough according to the last Parliamentary Enumeration for the Time being does not exceed Five thousand. XVIII. Until the Constables or Watchmen appointed in and for any Parish, Town, or Place under the Act passed in the Session holden in the Third and Fourth Years of King William the Fourth, Chapter Ninety, or under any Local Act authorizing the Appoint ment of Constables or Watchmen, and authorizing Rates to be made and levied for the Purpose of defraying the Expenses of such Constables or Watchmen, are discontinued as a separate Force in manner provided by Section Twenty of the said Act of the Third and Fourth Years of Her Majesty and by this Act, all the Provisions of this Act applicable to the Constables of any Borough acting under the said Act of the Fifth and Sixth Years of King William the Fourth shall be applicable to the Constables or Watchmen appointed under the said Act of the Third and Fourth Years of King William the Fourth, or under such Local Act as aforesaid, in and for such Parish, Town, or Place, and until such Discontinuance all the Provisions of this Act applicable to the Watch Committee of a Borough shall be applicable to the Inspectors, Commissioners, or other Persons having the Appointment of Constables or Watchinen in and for such Parish, Town, or Place, and the Police of such Parish, Town, or Place shall be visited and inquired into by the Inspectors under this Act; and the Provision in this Act enabling the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to make Payment towards the Expenses of the Police of a Borough having a Population exceeding Five thousand, shall, until such Discontinuance, extend to the Police of such Parish, Town, or Place as aforesaid having the like Population. XIX. Provided, That where any such Parish, Town, or Place, having such Constables or Watchmen as aforesaid, contains, according to the last Parliamentary Enumeration, a Population of Fifteen thousand Persons or upwards, the Chief Constable of the County in which such Parish, Town, or Place is situate shall not give Notice, under the said Section Twenty of the said Act of the Third and Fourth Years of Her Majesty, that he is ready to undertake the Charge of such Parish, Town, or Place, without the previous Authority of One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State; and Notice of the Intention of the Chief Constable to apply to the Secretary of State for such Authority shall be published by such Chief Constable in such Parish, Town, or Place, in manner directed by the said Section Twenty respecting the Publication of the Notice therein mentioned, Fourteen Days at least before such Application is made. XX. No Agreement made under Section Fourteen of the said Act of the Third and Fourth Years of Her Majesty shall be put an end to without the Sanction of One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State. XXI. Section Twenty-four of the said Act of the Third and Fourth Years of Her Majesty shall be repealed. XXII. Where a Station House or Strong Room shall have tices to purchase been provided under the said Act of the Third and Fourth Years Station Houses of Police (Counties and Boroughs). 3&4 Vict. c. 88. and cause the for out of the same to be paid County Rates. of Her Majesty, Section Twelve, for any Police District or Division orStrong Rooms within any County in which the Provisions of the said Act of provided under the Second and Third Years of Her Majesty have not been put in force throughout the whole of such County before the passing of this Act, and the Cost of such Station or Strong Room has been incurred out of or now remains wholly or in part chargeable on the Police Rate for such Police District or Division, the Justices of the Peace for the County wherein such Police District or Division is situate, at any Quarter Sessions to be held after the passing of this Act, shall or may purchase such Station House or Strong Room for such Sum of Money as may be determined by such Justices, and hold the same for and on behalf of the County or Riding for the Purposes of this Act, and pay the Purchase Monies for the same out of the General County Rate for the said County; and where the Cost of erecting such Station House or Strong Room shall at the passing of this Act be chargeable by way of Mortgage either wholly or in part on the Police Rates for such Police District or Division, it shall be lawful for the said Justices to transfer such Charge from the Police Rates leviable in such Police District or Division to and continue such Charge upon the County Rate of the County in which such Police District or Division shall be situate; and the Police Rates of the said Police District or Division shall be thenceforth discharged from all future Payments in respect of the said Station House or Strong Room; and all Mortgages or other Instruments then operating by way of Charge on the said Police Rates in respect of such Station House or Strong Room shall be thereafter deemed to be Charges on the General County Rate of the said County, in the same Manner as if the same had been originally charged on such County Rate, and such Station House or Strong Room shall thenceforth be the Property of the said County for the Purposes of this Act. XXIII. For facilitating the Purchase of Lands and Tenements for the Purposes mentioned in Section Twelve of the said Act of the Third and Fourth Years of Her Majesty, the Provisions of "The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," except the Provisions with respect to the Purchase and taking of Lands otherwise than by Agreement, shall be incorporated with the said Act of the Third and Fourth Year of Her Majesty and this Act; and the Expression "the Promoters of the Undertaking" in the said Lands Clauses Consolidation Act shall for the Purposes of such Incorporation mean the Justices of the Peace of any County in General or Quarter Sessions assembled; and the Powers of providing Station Houses and Strong Rooms contained in Sections Twelve and Thirteen of the said Act of the Third and Fourth Years of Her Majesty and this Act shall extend to authorize the providing of such Station Houses and Strong Rooms within any Borough lying within or adjoining to the County for which the same may be provided. XXIV. The Act of the Seventh Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, Chapter Eighteen, " to authorize the Disposal of unnecessary Prisons in England," shall extend to and include all Station Houses, Lock-up Houses, Strong Rooms, and the Sites thereof, Provisions of 8&9 Vict. c. 18. Purchases of &c. by Justices, Provisions of Station Houses, Police (Counties and Boroughs). &c. extended to thereof, and all other Lands and Tenements whatsoever which this Act. may at any Time be vested in the Justices of the Peace of any County, or in any Persons in trust for them, for the Purposes of the Police, and which in the Judgment of such Justices shall for any Reason whatever have become unnecessary. Powers of 15 & 16 Vict. under this Act. As to Appointment of Two Chief Constables in Cheshire. XXV. And whereas in the County of Chester a Constabulary Force is now maintained and regulated under "The Cheshire Constabulary Act, 1852" The said Cheshire Constabulary Force shall continue to act in their respective Appointments, and shall be subject to the same Authorities as heretofore; and "The Cheshire Constabulary Act, 1852," shall continue in force until a Day to be notified by the Chief Constable to be appointed for the said County of Chester by Writing under his Hand to the Justices for the said County in General Quarter Sessions assembled, as that on which he will be ready to take the Charge of the said County, which Notice shall be published within the said County in such Manner as shall seem fit to the said Justices; and upon the Day so named the said Cheshire Constabulary Force shall be discontinued, and the Powers and Provisions of "The Cheshire Constabulary Act, 1852," shall cease and determine: Provided always, that any Rate authorized by "The Cheshire Constabulary Act, 1852," and duly made previously to the Day on which the Chief Constable shall undertake the Charge of the County of Chester as aforesaid, shall be levied and collected in the same Manner as if this Act had not been passed; and all Sums of Money collected and received and not then applied, and to be collected and received as and for Rates levied under the Powers and Authorities of "The Cheshire Constabulary Act, 1852," shall be applied, after defraying all Charges to which the same shall be liable, in and towards Payment of the Police Rates to be levied. under this Act and the said Act of the Third and Fourth Years of Her Majesty, upon the respective Townships and Places within the Hundreds or Divisions of Hundreds in the said County of Chester, by which Hundreds or Divisions of Hundreds such Sums of Money shall have been respectively contributed, and shall be apportioned as nearly as may be rateably according to the Proportions thereof respectively contributed by such Townships or Places; and the Application of such Moneys by the Clerk of the Peace for the said County of Chester, certified and allowed by any Two Justices of the County, shall be binding and conclusive: Provided also, that in case the Rates levied and collected under "The Cheshire Constabulary Act, 1852," within any such Hundred or Division, shall be insufficient to defray the Charges to which the same shall be liable, the Deficiency shall be paid out of the Rates to be levied within the said County of Chester under this Act and the said Act of the Third and Fourth Years of Her Majesty. XXVI. Provided further, That in case Two Chief Constables shall be appointed for the said County of Chester under Section Four of the said Act of the Second and Third Years of Her Majesty, the last preceding Section of this Act shall be read and construed as applicable to the separate District of each of such Two Police (Counties and Boroughs). Two Chief Constables, and as if the same had been specially enacted with reference to such separate District instead of the whole County. 15 & 16 Vict. c. xxxi. XXVII. The Superannuation Fund formed under "The Cheshire Provision as to Constabulary Act, 1852," shall (after Repayment thereout to such Superannuation Officers of the said Cheshire Constabulary Force who may not be Fund under appointed Officers under this Act, and the said Acts of the Second and Third and Third and Fourth Years of Her Majesty, of such Sums of Money as shall have been deducted from their respective Salaries or contributed by them respectively to such Superannuation Fund, which Repayments shall be made by the Treasurer of such Fund accordingly,) form Part of the Superannuation Fund to be formed in the said County of Chester under the Provisions of the said Act of the Third and Fourth Years of Her Majesty ; and any Allowance which the Justices of the said County of Chester have, by virtue of the said Cheshire Constabulary Act, 1852, ordered to be paid out of the Superannuation Fund under that Act, shall thereafter be paid out of the Superannuation Fund to be formed under the Provisions of the said Act of the Third and Fourth Years of Her Majesty. XXVIII. The Service of any Officer in the said Cheshire Constabulary Force who shall be appointed an Officer under this Act and the said Acts of the Second and Third and Third and Fourth Years of Her Majesty, shall be considered an Equivalent to a Service under such Acts, for the Purpose of estimating the Allowance to be paid to any such Officer out of the Superannuation Fund to be formed in the said County of Chester under the said Act of the Third and Fourth Years of Her Majesty. XXIX. An Allowance which the Justices of the said County of Chester have, by virtue of "The Cheshire Constabulary Act, 1852," ordered to be paid to the Widow of a Constable who died in the Execution of his Duty, out of the Rates to be levied and made on the Hundred of Wirral under that Act, shall be paid out of and be chargeable on the Rates to be levied within the said County of Chester by virtue of this Act and the said Act of the Third and Fourth Years of Her Majesty, or on such One of the said Rates, if such there are, as the Justices of the said County in General Quarter Sessions assembled shall from Time to Time order and direct. As to Superannuations to certain Police Officers. Police Rates in the County of Chester made liable to An nuity paid to the Widow of an Officer who died in the Execution of his Duty. Terms. XXX. The Word "County" shall in this Act have the same Interpretation Meaning as is assigned to such Word in the said Act of the Third of certain and Fourth Years of Her Majesty, except as to the Soke or Liberty of Peterborough in the County of Northampton, which for all Purposes of this and the several recited Acts shall be deemed and taken to be a County of itself; and the several Provisions in this Act and the said recited Acts shall apply and operate in, for, and concerning the said Soke or Liberty accordingly; and the Word "Borough" shall mean any City, Borough, or Place incorporated under the Provisions of the said Act of the Fifth and Sixth Years of King William the Fourth, or which has otherwise become subject to the Provisions of the same Act; and every Part 19 & 20 VICT. Bb of 2 & 3 Vict. c. 93. and 3 & 4 Vict. c. 88. and this Act to be as One. Extent of Act. Marriages in Church valid. Indemnifica tion of Ministers. Police (Counties and Boroughs). of the Cinque Ports, Two ancient Towns of Winchelsea and Rye, and their several Members and Liberties, which is not within the Municipal Boundaries of a Place named in One of the Schedules (A.) and (B.) to the last-mentioned Act, shall for the Purposes of the said Acts of Her Majesty and this Act be deemed to form Part of the County in which the same is situate, and shall be dealt with, under the said Acts of Her Majesty and this Act, as a Liberty which, under the said Acts of Her Majesty, forms Part of a County, notwithstanding it may be a Member or Liberty of a Place named. in One of the said Schedules. XXXI. The said Acts of the Second and Third and of the Third and Fourth Years of Her Majesty and this Act shall be construed together as One Act. 6 6 XXXII. Nothing in this Act shall extend to any Part of the Metropolitan Police District or to the City of London. W CA P. LXX. An Act to render valid certain Marriages in the Church I. All Marriages heretofore solemnized in the said Church, and the Publication of Banns in such Church previous to any such Marriage, shall be and be deemed to have been as good, valid, and effectual in the Law to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever as if such Marriages had been solemnized and such Publication of Banns had taken place in the Parish Church of Kirk Leatham. II. No Minister who has solemnized any of the said Marriages shall be liable to any Ecclesiastical Censures, or to any other Proceedings or Penalties whatsoever, by reason of his having so as aforesaid solemnized the same respectively. III. The |