shall be construed or intended to repeal or alter the Provision made for a retiring Pension for the late Treasurer of the County of Dublin, Proviso as to but that it shall be lawful for the County Board of the said lastCounty of mentioned County to order the Sum awarded to him as a Pension to be levied and paid to him by half-yearly Payments, in like Manner as 5 under the Provisions of the Act passed in the Seventh and Eighth Years of Her present Majesty's Reign, herein-before mentioned. Dublin. Affidavit of Emoluments to be made Crown and XXVII. And be it enacted, That before any Clerk of the Crown or Clerk of the Peace shall be entitled to receive such Salary as is Clerk of the hereby provided for him he shall, at each half-yearly Period of Pay- 10 ment, lay before the County Board an Account, verified on Oath, setting forth the total Amount of his Fees and other Emoluments, and distinguishing the several Sums paid and received under each separate Head of Service, and the Rates of Fees or Remunerations received on each; and it shall not be lawful for any County Board 15 to order to be paid to any Clerk of the Peace his Salary, unless it shall appear to them that he has given Security by Recognizance in the Sum of One thousand Pounds for the due and faithful Execution of his Office of Clerk of the Peace, and that such Recognizance has been duly deposited or registered in the Office for the Registry of 20 Judgments and Recognizances. Further Clerk of the other Officers in certain Cases. XXVIII. And be it enacted, That in any County wherein a Special Commission shall be held for the Trial of Offenders, the County Crown and Board, at the Meeting next immediately ensuing, shall and may make a further Order for Remuneration for the Clerk of the Crown of the 25 said County, and the Sheriff, and also for the Judge's Crier, acting at such Commission, not exceeding One Fourth of their annual Salary; subject, nevertheless, to the like Power as herein-before given to such County Board in case of Neglect or insufficient Discharge of Duty by any Officer. Orders for include Sta tionery. 30 XXIX. And be it enacted, That the Orders to be made under this Secretaries to Act for the Secretaries to the several County Boards shall be in full Acquittance of all Demands to be made by such Secretaries for Stationery, which such Secretaries shall be bound to furnish to the several County Boards without further Charge, not, however, including the 35 Expense of Printing, herein specially provided for. Order for XXX. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the County Board and they are hereby required to order, at each halfyearly Meeting of said Board, to be levied off the County at large, all such Sum or Sums of Money for paying the Rent or Rents of any 40 Court House or Sessions House, or their Appurtenances respectively, in in the said County, as now are or shall at any Time hereafter be payable for the same. to be held in where there may not be XXXI. And be it enacted, That in case at any Time hereafter the If Sessions Lord Lieutenant shall direct that a Quarter Sessions of the Peace, or are directed 5 any Adjournment thereof, shall be holden for the Despatch of Civil any Place or Criminal Business in any Town or Place in which there may not be a Sessions House, the respective County Engineer shall, on being a Sessions required by the Lord Lieutenant so to do, prepare such Specifications, House, the Engineer to Maps, Plans, Sections, and Elevations as may be necessary for the prepare Spe10 Erection of a Sessions House therein, expressing the Nature and cifications, probable Expense of the Works and the Materials proper to be employed, and the same shall be delivered to the Secretary of the County Board, who shall lay the same, together with a Copy of the Warrant of the Lord Lieutenant, before the County Board at the 15 Meeting of the same next after the Time at which he shall receive Plans, &c. examine Sessions the same; and the County Board shall examine such Specifications, County Maps, Plans, Sections, and Elevations, and such others as may be Board to laid before them, and either adopt the same or make such Alterations them, and to therein as they may think proper, or reject the same, and shall and order that a 20 they are hereby required to order that a proper and sufficient Sessions House shall House shall be provided or built in such Town or Place within the be built, and Period of One Year from such Board Meeting, and that a Sum not exceeding One thousand Pounds shall be levied off the County for that Purpose at One Time, or by Instalments to be completed within 25 the Period of Five Years; and the County Engineer shall thereupon prepare a proper Form of Tender for the Execution of such Work, and shall deliver the same to the Secretary of the County Board, who shall lay the same, and the Specifications, Maps, Plans, Sections, and Elevations, as approved of by the County Board, before the next 30 Meeting of the County Board, who shall direct within what Period, before the Day to which such Meeting may be adjourned, Tenders for the Execution of the Works shall be received; and any Tenders that shall be made for the Execution of such Works shall be opened at the first Adjournment of such Meeting, and dealt with in all 35 respects in like Manner as any other Tender for a Work approved of a Sum levied off the County for that Purpose. Lieutenant Commis and ordered: Provided always, that if such Order shall not be made, If no Order and a valid Contract for executing such Work shall not be entered made, Lord, into, within the Period of Two Months from the Meeting at which to direct such Warrant shall have been laid before the County Board, it shall sioners of 40 be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant to direct the Commissioners of Public Works Public Works in Ireland to build or provide such Sessions House; and to build Seson the Production to the County Board, at any Meeting, of the Certificate of the Secretary of such Commissioners, that a Sum not exceeding the Sum of One thousand Pounds has been expended in 45 building such Sessions House, and purchasing a Site for the same, 541. or sions House. Order to repay Advances by Order of Lord Lieu tenant to defray, Expenses of a Board of Health. Order of or for either of such Purposes, the County Board shall and they are XXXII. And be it enacted, That whenever the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland shall at any Time have ordered any Sum or Sums of Money to be advanced out of the Consolidated Fund for the Payment 15 of the Expenses incurred by any Commissioners appointed by such Lord Lieutenant to form a Board of Health in any City, Town, or District, it shall be lawful for the County Board of any County in which such Expense has been or shall be incurred, and they are hereby required, to order all sums so advanced to be raised off such 20 County: Provided always, however, that it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, if they think fit, to direct that such Sum shall be repaid by such Instalments as they may think proper. XXXIII. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the County 25 Board of any County and they are hereby required to order to be levied off such County, or off any District or Districts of the same, (as the Case may be,) all and every such Sum or Sums of Money as may be chargeable upon and directed to be presented and levied off such County, or any Barony or Half Barony thereof, by and under the 30 Provisions of an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His 6 W. 4. c. 13. late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled "An Act to consoli"date the Laws relating to the Constabulary Force in Ireland," or any Act amending the same, as the said Acts are amended and altered by an Act of the Ninth and Tenth Years of Her present Majesty's Reign, 35 9 & 10 Vict. intituled " An Act to provide for removing the Charge of the Consta"bulary Force in Ireland from the Counties, and for enlarging the "Reserve Force, and to make further Provision for the Regulation and Disposition of the said Constabulary Force ;" and every such Order shall be made pursuant to the Regulations of the said Acts, or such of 40 them as may be applicable to the Case, save that the same shall be made by the County Board at a half-yearly Meeting, and not by the Grand Jury; and the Money levied under every such Order shall be paid over in such Manner and to such Bank or Person as the Commis c. 97. sioners sioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, or any Three or more of them, shall direct. c. 108. XXXIV. And be it enacted, That when in any County any Special Order for Constables shall have been appointed by virtue of an Act of the Expenses of Special 5 Second and Third Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King Constables. William the Fourth, intituled "An Act for amending the Laws in 2 & 3 W. 4. "Ireland relative to the Appointment of Special Constables, and "for the better Preservation of the Peace," and the Justices of the Peace of such County acting at a Special Sessions held for that 10 Purpose, or the major Part of them, shall, in pursuance of the Powers given to them by the said Act, have made any Order or Orders upon the County Treasurer or Finance Committee for the Payment to such Special Constables of a reasonable Allowance for their Trouble and Loss of Time, or to defray Expenses incurred in providing Staves 15 or other necessary Articles for such Special Constables, it shall and may be lawful for the County Board of such County, and such County Board is hereby required, to order to be raised off such County, or any District thereof within which such Special Constables may have served, the Amount of all Sums paid by the Finance Committee 20 pursuant to such Order or Orders; and the Word "Treasurer" used in the said last-mentioned Act shall be extended to and include the Finance Committee. superannu 5 G. 4. c. 28. XXXV. And be it enacted, That whenever the Lord Lieutenant Order for of Ireland shall, under and by virtue of the Provisions of an Act Constables 25 passed in the Fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King ated for George the Fourth, intituled "An Act to amend an Act of the Third Wounds, &c. "Year of His present Majesty's Reign, for the Appointment of Con" stables in Ireland," or under the Provisions of any other Act, have ordered any Sum or Sums of Money to be paid and advanced out of 30 the Produce of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland arising in Ireland, as an annual Remuneration or Superannuation to any Chief Constable, Constable, or Sub-Constable disabled by any Maim, Wound, or Hurt, or other grievous Injury, received by him in the Execution or Performance of the Duty of his 35 Office, it shall and may be lawful for the County Board of any County for which or for any Barony whereof such Constable shall have been appointed, or the County Board of the County in which such Chief or other Constable may have been maimed, wounded, or hurt, in case the Lord Lieutenant shall direct that such County shall bear the 40 Charge, and such County Board is hereby required, upon the Production of the Certificate of the Chief Secretary of the Lord Lieutenant for the Time being, or of the Under Secretary, of the Amount of the Sum or Sums so paid and advanced out of the said Consolidated D Fund 541. Order for Constables superannu ated for Age or Infirmity. Order for Prosecutors and Wit nesses in Cases of Felony. Fund for the Superannuation of such Constables, to order one Moiety of such Sum or Sums so paid, advanced, and certified as aforesaid to be levied off such County or any District thereof, and the same, when levied, shall be paid over in such Manner and to such Bank or Person as the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, or any 5 Three or more of them, shall direct. XXXVI. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the County Board of each County and they are hereby required to order such yearly Allowance, Superannuation, Compensation, Gratuity, or Remuneration as the Lord Lieutenant shall direct or at any Time 10 have directed to be paid by such County, or such Proportion thereof as he shall direct or have directed, (and which may be lawfully chargeable on such County,) to be paid to any Magistrate, Inspector, Deputy Inspector, County Inspector, Sub-Inspector, Chief Constable, Head Constable, Constable, or Sub-Constable, who has been or shall here- 15 after be superannuated by virtue of the Provisions of any Act or Acts of Parliament now in force authorizing such Lord Lieutenant to grant such Superannuation; and such Allowance, Superannuation, Compensation, Gratuity, or Remuneration shall be ordered in equal Moieties half-yearly during the Life of each Person so entitled 20 thereto, on Proof to the County Board from Time to Time that such Person is living, and when raised such Money shall be paid to each such Person by the Finance Committee. XXXVII. And be it enacted, That where any Person shall have Expenses of been tried for any Felony whatsoever it shall be lawful for the Court 25 before whom such Person shall have been tried, in case it shall appear that there was a reasonable Ground of Prosecution, to make an Order for the County Bank of the County in which the Offence shall have been or shall have been alleged to have been committed to pay to the Prosecutor, upon his Application, or to such other Person as the 30 Court shall appoint to prosecute in such Cases, such Sum of Money as to such Court shall seem reasonable, not exceeding the Expenses which it shall appear to the Court that such Prosecutor may have bonâ fide incurred in carrying on such Prosecution, or not exceeding in the whole the Sum of One Guinea (including Attorney's Fee) in 35 any Case where the Court shall have appointed any Person to prosecute as aforesaid; and in case such Prosecutor shall appear to the Court to be in poor Circumstances, such Court may make a further reasonable Allowance to such Prosecutor for Trouble and Loss of Time; which Order the Clerk of the Crown or Clerk of the Peace respectively 40 is hereby directed and required forthwith to make out and deliver to such Prosecutor or Person, without Fee or Reward; and when any Person shall appear on Recognizance or Subpoena to give Evidence as to |