A BILL To continue for a limited Time an Act of the last Session, for empowering the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland to apprehend and detain such Persons as he or they shall suspect of conspiring against Her Majesty's Person and Government. [Note.-The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted in the Committee.] W 66 5" 66 c 35. HEREAS an Act was passed in the last Session of Parlia- Preamble. ment, intituled "An Act to empower the Lord Lieutenant 11 & 12 Vict. "or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland to apprehend and detain, until the First Day of March One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, such Persons as he or they shall suspect of conspiring against Her Majesty's Person and Government :" And whereas it is necessary for the Safety of Ireland that the Provisions of the said Act should be continued for a limited Time: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and 10 with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That all and every Person and Persons who Persons imprisoned in is, are, or shall be within Prison within that Part of the United Ireland for Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called Ireland at or on the High Trea15 Day on which this Act shall receive Her Majesty's Royal Assent, be detained 9. [1.] or son, &c. may till 1st Sep tember 1849, or after by Warrant of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy and shall not Council of Ireland, signed by Six of the said Privy Council, for tried without High Treason or treasonable Practices, or Suspicion of High be bailed or an Order from the Treason or treasonable Practices, or by Warrant signed by the Lord Privy Coun- Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the 5 cil. Time being, or his or their Chief Secretary, for such Causes as aforesaid, may be detained in safe Custody, without Bail or Mainprize, until the First Day of September One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and that no Judge or Justice of the Peace shall bail or try any such Person or Persons so committed, without Order from 10 Her Majesty's said Privy Council, until the First Day of September One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, any Law or Statute to the contrary notwithstanding. Persons to whom War directed shall detain the committed in II. And be it enacted, That in Cases where any Person or Perrants of Com sons have been before the passing of this Act, or shall be during the 15 mitment are Time this Act shall continue in force, arrested, committed, or detained in custody by Force of a Warrant or Warrants of Her Majesty's Persons so Most Honourable Privy Council of Ireland, signed by Six of the said safe Custody. Privy Council, for High Treason or treasonable Practices, or Suspicion of High Treason or treasonable Practices, or by Warrant or 20 Warrants signed by the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the Time being, or his or their Chief Secretary, for such Causes as aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful for any Person or Persons to whom such Warrant or Warrants have been or shall be directed to detain such Person or Persons so arrested, 25 committed, or detained in his or their Custody in any Place whatever within Ireland, and that such Person or Persons to whom such Warrant or Warrants have been or shall be directed shall be deemed and taken to be to all Intents and Purposes lawfully authorized to detain in safe Custody, and to be the lawful Gaolers and Keepers of 30 such Persons so arrested, committed, or detained, and that such Place or Places where such Persons so arrested, committed, or detained are or shall be detained in Custody shall be deemed and taken to all Intents and Purposes to be lawful Prisons and Gaols for the Detention and safe Custody of such Person and Persons respectively; and that it 35 charged with Custody, as shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord Lieutenant or other also Place of Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the Time being, by Detention, Warrant signed by him or them, or for the Chief Secretary of may be such Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors, by Warrant signed by such Chief Secretary, or for Her Majesty's 40 Privy Council of Ireland, by Warrant signed by Six of the Privy Persons changed by Warrant as herein mentioned. Council, 5 Council, from Time to Time as Occasion shall be, to change the Person or Persons by whom, and the Place in which such Person or Persons so arrested, committed, or detained, shall be detained in safe Custody. ted to the Copies of III. Provided always, and be it enacted, That Copies of such Warrants to Warrants respectively shall be transmitted to the Clerk of the Crown be transmitin and for the County of the City of Dublin, and shall be filed by him in the Public Office of the Pleas of the Crown at the City of Dublin. Clerk of the Crown for A BILL ΤΟ Continue for a limited Period an Act for authorizing the Application of Highway Rates to Turnpike Roads. [Note.-The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted W HEREAS an Act was passed in the Fifth Year of the Preamble. Reign of Her Majesty, intituled "An Act to authorize 4 & 5 Vict. "for One Year, and until the End of the then next c. 59. "Session of Parliament, an Application of a Portion of the Highway 5" Rates to Turnpike Roads in certain Cases," which Act has been continued by sundry Acts until the First Day of October in the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament; and it is expedient that the same be further continued: Be it enacted by the Queen's most 10 Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the said Recited Act Act shall be continued until the First Day of October in the Year further conOne thousand eight hundred and fifty, and to the End of the then 15 next Session of Parliament. tinued. II. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed Act may be by any Act to be passed in this Session of Parliament. 456. amended, &c. |