(Ireland.) A BILL ΤΟ Continue so much of an Act of the Second and [Note.-The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted in the Committee.] W c. 79. HEREAS by an Act passed in the Second and Third Preamble. Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled "An 2 & 3 Vict. "Act for the better Prevention of the Sale of Spirits by "unlicensed Persons in Ireland," it is amongst other things enacted, 5 "that if during the Space of Five Years from the passing of the said "Act any Officer or Constable of Police shall make Oath in Writing, 66 to be by him taken and subscribed before a Justice of the Peace "within his Jurisdiction (which Oath every such Justice is thereby "empowered to administer and receive), that he, the said Officer or 10" Constable, has good Reason to believe that Spirits are retailed or "sold without a Licence, or kept for Sale without Licence, in any 66 Room, House, or other Place within the said District, at or over "the outer Door of which Room, House, or Place no Sign or Notice "is posted or written, importing that the Owner or Occupier thereof 85. "is "is licensed to sell Spirits, it shall be lawful for such Justice, by "Warrant under his Hand and Seal, to authorize and empower, within "the Police District of Dublin Metropolis any Justice or Superin"tendent Inspector of Police, and in any other Part of Ireland any "Justice or Sub-Inspector or Chief Constable of Police, to enter into 5 any such Room, House, or other Place as aforesaid at or over the "outer Door of which no such Sign or Notice shall be posted or "written :" And whereas certain other Provisions of the like temporary Nature are contained in the said recited Act imposing Penalties on Persons who shall be convicted of having been found in such un- 10 licensed Premises, and to have been drinking or tippling therein, or who shall delay to admit Justices and others seeking to enter such Premises for the Purposes of executing such Warrant, or who shall maliciously or without probable Cause make such Oath, or enter such Premises, or apprehend Persons who shall not be or shall not have 15 recently been tippling therein, and also to define what shall be sufficient Evidence for the Purpose of such Conviction in the Manner in the said Act specified: And whereas the said recited Provisions of 7 & 8 Vict. the said Act were by an Act of the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty continued in force for the further 20 Period of Five Years, and will expire on the Twenty-fourth Day of August in this present Year, and it is expedient to continue the same : Be it therefore enacted by the Queen'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 25 Recited Pro- the Authority of the same, That the said recited Provisions of the said Act shall be and continue in force for the further Period of Five Years from the said Twenty-fourth Day of August in this present c. 82. visions of said Act continued for Five Years. Provisions of recited Act to apply to this Act, except as hereby altered. Act may be amended,&c. Year. II. And be it enacted, That in every respect, save where it is 30 expressly altered by this Act, the said first-recited Act, and every Clause, Matter, and Thing therein contained, shall be and remain in full Force, and shall apply to this Act, as if the same were herein re-enacted. III. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of Parliament. A BILL ΤΟ 10 Enable the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital to regulate and manage the Markets held at Greenwich in the County of Kent. [Note.-The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted in the Committee.] HEREAS His Majesty King William the Third by His Preamble. W of July One thousand seven hundred, did give and grant to the Right Honorable Henry Earl of Romney, his Heirs and 5 Assigns, free, lawful, and absolute Right, Power, Licence, and Authority for him, his Heirs and Assigns, to have, keep, and enjoy, at the Villa of East Greenwich in the County of Kent, Two Markets upon Wednesday and Saturday in every Week for ever, for the buying and selling all Goods and Wares whatsoever commonly bought and sold in such Markets, together with free Liberty of erecting and keeping a Court of Piepowder, with all Liberties, free Customs, Powers, Customs, Tolls, and other Profits and Commodities thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, as mentioned in the said Letters Patent: And whereas by an Indenture dated the Ninth Day 15 of December One thousand seven hundred, made between the said Henry Earl of Romney of the one Part, and the several Persons therein 81. A |