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Forests, and Land Revenues, or as the said Commissioners shall by any Order in Writing from time to time require, and do and shall pass and verify every such Account in the Manner required by the said Commissioners; and if he the said A. B.

do and shall well and truly answer and pay all such Balances as I shall be or become due to His Majesty upon the periodically making up of every such Account as aforesaid, and all such Sum or Sums of Money as shall be from time to time required to be paid on account thereof prior to the ascertaining such Balances, by any Order in Writing from the Commissioners for the Time being of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, or any Two of them, to such Person or Persons, at such Time or Times, and Office or Place, and in such Manner as he the said A. B. shall be directed or required by any such Order to pay the same, and in default of such Direction or Requisition, to such Persons, and in such Manner, and at such Time or Times as the said Commissioners shall from time to time require; and also if the said A. B. shall and do, during so long a Time as he shall continue in the said Office, well and truly execute all such Duties, and observe, obey, perform, and execute all such Orders, Rules, and Instructions as he hath received or shall from time to time receive from the Commissioners for the Time being of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, or any Two of them, touching or concerning the Premises, or the Execution of the Office or Employment aforesaid; and if he the said A. B. shall and do in all other respects faithfully and truly execute and perform the Duties of the said Office, and all the Trusts which shall be imposed in him as such Officer as aforesaid; then the abovewritten Obligation shall be void, otherwise the same shall be and remain in full Force and entire.

- Signed, sealed, and delivered by the above

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Farm of Certificate of Mortgage.

IN pursuance of a Warrant from the Lord High Treasurer [or from Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury (as the Case shall be)], bearing Date the

Day of

We A. and B. Two of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, in exercise of the Powers vested in us by an Act passed in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled [here insert the Title of this Act], do hereby certify that C. D. [insert the Name, Title, or Description of the Person or Persons, Bodies Politic or Corporate, or Company, by whom or on whose Behalf the Loan is to be advanced], hath [or have] contracted and agreed to advance and lend to the said Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, upon the Credit of the Possessions and Land Revenues of the Crown in Ireland, the Sum of to be applied by them for and towards the Purposes for which the same is by the said Act authorized to be borrowed, which Sum is to be paid by the said C. D. to one of the Cashiers of the Bank of England, and carried to the Account of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests,

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Forests, and Land Revenues, being [here describe the Account to which the same is to be carried]; and from and immediately after the Payment of the same in Manner aforesaid, the said Sum of shall by virtue of the said Act become and be a Loan charged upon the whole of the said Possessions and Land Revenues of the Crown in Ireland, and such Possessions and Revenues shall from thenceforth be subject and liable to the Repayment of the said Capital Sum so to be advanced, and to the Payment of Interest for the same, or for so much of the said Principal Sum as shall from time to time remain unpaid, after the Rate of [here insert the Rate of Interest agreed to be given], per Centum per Annum, to be computed from the Time the same shall be so advanced, and to be paid, without any Deduction, by Halfyearly Payments, on the

Day of

Day of

and the in every Year, until the whole of the said Principal Sum, and Interest thereon, shall be fully paid and discharged. Given under our Hands and Seals this

thousand eight hundred and

RECEIVED the

Day of

Form of Receipt to Mortgagees.

Day of

One thousand eight hundred and from A. B. the Sum of

One

of and of lawful

Money of Great Britain, being the Sum to be paid into the Bank of England pursuant to the above Certificate, and which Sum is placed to the Account of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, being [here describe the Account to which the same is to be carried].

Witness my Hand,

For the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, (Signed)

I A. B. [or We

Form of Transfer of Mortgage.

Day of

Cashier.

] being entitled to the Sum of by virtue of a Certificate bearing Date the under the Hands and Seals of Two of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, acting in execution of an Act made in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of His present Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled [here set forth the Title of this Act], upon the Credit of certain Parts of the Possessions and Land Revenues of the Crown in Ireland, do hereby transfer all my [or our] Right and Interest in and to the same Sum, and all Interest now due and to arise or accrue due thereon, his [or her or their] Executors, Administrators [or Successors], and Assigns. Dated the Day of

unto

and

One thousand eight hundred

CAP.

CA P. LXIX.

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An Act to provide for the Relief of Persons aggrieved by unlawful or excessive Distresses in Ireland. [2d July 1827.]

Win Ireland is far beyond the Means of Persons usually oc

HEREAS the Expence of suing out and trying Replevins

cupying small Tenements or Farms, and such Persons may there'fore frequently be subject to Injustice and Oppression;' Be it therefore enacted by the King'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 the Authority of the same, That from and after the passing of Where a Disthis Act, in all Cases where any Distress shall be made in Ireland tress is made for any Rent, Proportion of Rent, or Arrears of Rent, where the for Rent not annual Amount of such Ren t shall not exceed the Sum of Ten exceeding 107.. on Complaint Pounds, it shall and may be lawful for any One or more Justice to Justices that or Justices of the Peace in Ireland, within his or their Jurisdiction it is unlawful, or Districts within which the Distress shall have been made, or they may issue the Cattle, Goods, or Chattels shall have been distrained or im- Summons to pounded, or for any Two or more Justices assembled at any Petty Party comSession or reputed Sessions within such Districts, to take cogni- to show Cause plained against, zance of and to examine into any Complaint which shall be made why Replevin against any Person impounding any Cattle or distraining any should not be Goods or Chattels for such Rent, or any Arrears thereof, setting made. forth that when such Distress was taken, that there was either no Rent due, or that there was less Rent due than was claimed by the Person on whose Behalf such Distress was made; and if upon such Examination such Justice or Justices shall be of Opinion that such Complaint is well founded, it shall be lawful for such Justice or Justices to issue his or their Summons, requiring the Party complained against to attend and appear at the next or any subsequent Petty Session to be held in and for such District, at such Time and in such Place within such District as shall for that Purpose be named in such Summons, there to show Cause before the Justices of Peace there assembled, why Replevin and Deliverance of such Distress should not be made to such Complainant by virtue of this Act, and according to the Regulations herein contained.

II. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Justices of the Peace (Two at least being present) at any such Petty Sessions at which the Party complained against shall be so summoned to attend and appear, and such Justices are hereby authorized and required (the Service of such Summons having been first satisfactorily proved, and whether the Party complained against shall or shall not attend and appear) to hear such Complaint, and to examine into the Truth of the same, and to enquire into and ascertain the Amount of the Rent or Arrears of Rent actually due, upon the Oath of the Complainant, or any other Person or Persons; and if it shall be made appear to such Justices that either no Rent was due, or that such Distress was taken for a larger Sum than was actually due, it shall and may be lawful for such Justices, and they are hereby required to order thet Replevin and Deliverance shall be made of the Cattle, Goods, or Chattels so distrained, to the Person or Persons so

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Justices at Petty
Sessions may

grant Order for Replevin to be returnable to the next Quarter Sessions.

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Justices may adjudge the Payment of a smaller Sum.

Justices shall not make Order for Replevin until Recognizances and Sureties are given.

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Form of Recognizance, and Order of Replevin.

C.69.

7° & 8° GEO. IV.

A.D.1827. complaining, by the Poundkeeper or other Person in whose Custody the Cattle, Goods, or Chattels so distrained shall be; and such Order or Replevin and Deliverance shall be returnable to the Justices at the next General Quarter Sessions to be holden for the County, Division, City, Town, or Place within which such Distress shall have been taken or made, or such Cattle, Goods, or Chattels shall have been impounded, to be then and there tried and disposed of in manner hereinafter directed; and such Order of Replevin and Deliverance shall be in the Form or to the Effect hereafter specified and set forth.

III. Provided always, and be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for such Justices at such Petty Sessions, upon the Hearing of such Case, to adjudge the Payment of any Sum which they may think justly due; and if Payment of such Sum shall not be made accordingly, or shall not be received by the Party on whose Behalf such Distress shall have been made, it shall and may be lawful for such Justices at such Petty Sessions either to grant or to refuse to grant such Order of Replevin or Deliverance, according as they shall think just and fit.

IV. Provided always, and be it enacted, That it shall not be lawful for the Justices at any such Petty Sessions to make any such Order for Replevin and Deliverance of any such Distress, unless nor until the Party complaining shall at such Petty Sessions have entered into Recognizance in Double the Amount of the Rent or Arrears of Rent which may appear to such Justices to be due, with Two sufficient Sureties, conditioned to abide the Decision upon such Case at the next ensuing Quarter Sessions.

V. And be it further enacted, That every Recognizance to be taken before such Justices of the Peace, before making any Order for the Replevin and Deliverance of any Cattle, Goods, or Chattels distrained, and every Order for Replevin and Deliverance of such Cattle, Goods, or Chattels, which shall be made by such Justices at Petty Sessions, shall be in the Form or to the Effect following respectively; (that is to say,)

Form of Recognizance.

KNOW all Men by these Presents, That we A. B. Principal,

and C. D. of

and 'E. F. of Sureties, do hereby acknowledge ourselves to be held and firmly bound to [G. H. the Person or Persons making the Distress], his [or her] Heirs, Executors, or Administrators, in the Sum of

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[being Double the Sum ascertained by the Justices at Petty Sessions to be due], for the true Payment of which we do hereby bind ourselves and each of us, and our and each of our Heirs, Executors, and Administrators. Sealed with our Seals, and • dated this Day of

The Condition of the above Recognizance is, That if the said A. B. shall appear at the next General Quarter Sessions to be held at [name the Place], and shall then and there abide any Suit to be brought against him by or on Behalf of [I. K. the Person by whom or on whose Behalf the Rent is claimed], for the Sum of [specify the Sum], claimed as Rent or Arrears of Rent

• due

due to the said I. K., and if the said A. B. shall well and truly satisfy and pay such Sum of Money and Costs, as shall at such • Quarter Sessions be decreed or awarded to be due from the said A. B. to the said I. K., then this Recognizance shall be null and • void, otherwise to remain in full Force and Effect in Law.

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WE, the undersigned L. M. of

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of. Justices of the Peace, at a Petty Sessions [or reputed Petty Sessions] held this Day at having duly and carefully examined into the Complaint of A.B. [the Person whose Goods have been distrained for Rent], and being of Opinion that at the Time such Distress was made, that the Sum claimed as Rent or Arrears of Rent from the said A. B. was not justly due; and the said A. B. having • entered into Recognizance with Two sufficient Sureties in • Double the Amount which appears to us to be justly due, con<ditioned to abide the Trial or Suit to be instituted in such Case < at the next General Quarter Sessions to be held at

and fully to satisfy and pay whatever Sum and Costs shall be ⚫ awarded and decreed to [I. K. the Person by whom or on whose Behalf the Rent is claimed]; We do hereby order and decree, That Replevin and Deliverance shall be made by you, the undernamed Poundkeeper, or Keeper of the Cattle [or Goods or Chattels] so distrained, to the said E. F. of the said Cattle [or Goods and Chattels] so distrained; that is to say [here specify the Cattle or Goods or Chattels so distrained]; and for your so doing this shall be your sufficient Authority. Given under our Hands and Seals, this

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VI. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Poundkeeper or other Keeper of any Cattle, Goods, or Chattels so distrained, in whose Custody such Cattle, Goods, or Chattels shall be, such Poundkeeper or other Person being served with Copy of such Order for Replevin and Deliverance as aforesaid, certified by the Signature of One of the Justices under whose Authority such Order shall be made, or by the Clerk of the Petty Sessions, and every such Poundkeeper or other Person as aforesaid is hereby authorized, empowered, and required to deliver up the Cattle, Goods, or Chattels specified in such Order, to the Person or Persons from whom they shall have been distrained as aforesaid.

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Poundkeeper served with a Copy of Order signed by Justice or the

Clerk of Petty Sessions, shall deliver up the Distress.

VII. And be it further enacted, That any and every Pound- Penalty for not keeper or other Person as aforesaid so served with such Copy of delivering such Order certified as aforesaid, who after Tender made to him Cattle, Goods, of his lawful Fees shall neglect or refuse to deliver up such

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Cattle

or Chattels.

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