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such Services as shall then have been voted by the Commons of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in this present
Session of Parliament.

of Supplies of

IV. And be it enacted, That the Principal Sum or Sums of Bills to be Money to be contained in such Exchequer Bills shall be and payable out are hereby charged and chargeable upon and shall be paid the next Session. and discharged by and out of the first Supplies to be granted in the next Session of Parliament.

V. And be it enacted, That the Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act shall bear Date on the Days on which the same shall be respectively issued, and shall and may bear an Interest not exceeding the Rate of Three-pence Halfpenny per Centum per Diem upon or in respect of the whole of the Monies respectively contained therein, payable out of any Aids or Supplies in the Receipt of Her Majesty's Exchequer at Westminster.

Interest on Ex

chequer Bills.

VI. And be it enacted, That all and every the Exchequer Bills to be Bills to be made forth by virtue of this Act, or so many of them, current at the as shall from Time to Time remain undischarged and uncan- 12 Months from Exchequer after celled, shall and may, from and after Twelve Calendar Months their Dates. from their respective Dates, be received and taken and shall pass, and be current to all and every the Receivers and Collectors. in Great Britain of the Customs, Excise, or any Revenue, Supply, Aid, or Tax whatsoever, already granted, due, or payable or which shall or may hereafter be granted, due, or payable, to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, and also at the Bank of England to the Account of Her Majesty's Exchequer from the said Receivers or Collectors, or from any other Person or Persons, Bodies Politic or Corporate whatsoever, making any Payment there to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, for or upon any Account, Cause, or Occasion whatsoever, according to the Purport and true Meaning of this Act.

advance

VII. And be it declared and enacted, That it shall and may Bank of Engbe lawful for the Governor and Company of the Bank of land may England to advance or lend to Her Majesty, upon the Credit 13,000,000l. on of the Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of this the Credit of Act, any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole this Act, notthe Sum of Thirteen Millions, any thing in an Act passed in 5 & 6 W. & M. withstanding the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of King William and c. 20. Queen Mary, intituled An Act for granting to Their Majesties several Rates and Duties upon Tonnage of Ships and Vessels, and upon Beer, Ale, and other Liquors; and for securing certain Recompences and Advantages in the said Act mentioned to such Persons as shall voluntarily advance the Sum of One million five hundred thousand Pounds towards carrying on the War against France, or in any subsequent Act, to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.

Lunatics.

CAP. XXVII.

An Act to make more effectual Provision for the Pre-
vention of Offences by insane Persons in Ireland.
[11th June 1838.]
WHEREAS it is expedient to make Provision for the

better Prevention of Crime being committed by Persons ⚫ insane in Ireland; 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 the Authority of the same, Justices to com- That if any Person shall be discovered and apprehended in mit dangerous Ireland under Circumstances denoting a Derangement of Mind, and a Purpose of committing some Crime, for which, if committed, such Person would be liable to be indicted, it shall be lawful for any Two Justices of the Peace of the County, County of a City, County of a Town, City or Town, and Liberties, before whom such Person may be brought, to call to their Assistance any legally qualified Physician, Surgeon, or Apothecary; and if upon View and Examination of the said Person so apprehended, or from other Proof, the said Justice shall be satisfied that such Person is a dangerous Lunatic or a dangerous Idiot, it shall be lawful for the said Justices, by Warrant under their Hands and Seals, to commit such Person to the Gaol of such County, County of a Town, City or Town, and Liberties, there to be kept in strict Custody until or unless such Person shall be discharged by the Order of Two Justices of the Peace, One whereof shall be One of the Justites who has signed such Warrant, or by the Assistant Barrister presiding at the County General Quarter Sessions, or by One of the Judges of Her Majesty's Superior Courts in Dublin, or by the Lord Chancellor or Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal, or until such Person shall be removed to the proper Lunatic Asylum by Order of the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland as herein-after provided.

Lord Lieute

nant may direct

Persons under

Sentence of Imprisonment or

Transportation to be removed

to a Lunatic Asylum.

II. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors, if he or they shall so think fit, to direct, by Warrant under his or their Hand or Hands, that any Person who may be detained in Custody in any Gaol by virtue of any such Warrant as aforesaid, or any Person who may be, under any Sentence of Imprisonment or Transportation, or under any Warrant in default of Surety to keep the Peace, in any Gaol or Place of Confinement, and in respect of whom it shall be certified by Two Physicians or Surgeons or a Surgeon and Physician that such Person is or has become insane, shall be removed to the Lunatic Asylum established either wholly or in part for the County, County of a City, or County of a Town in which such Person shall be in Custody; and every such Person so removed shall remain under Confinement in every such Asylum to which such Person may be removed until it shall be duly certified to

the said Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors, by Two Physicians or Surgeons or a Surgeon and Physician, that such Person has become of sound Mind; whereupon the said Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors is hereby authorized, if such Person shall remain subject to be continued in Custody, to issue his or their Warrant to the Keeper or other Person having the Care of any such Asylum, directing that such Person be remitted to the Prison or other Place of Confinement from which he or she shall have been taken, or, if the Period of Imprisonment or Custody of such Person shall have expired, or if such Person shall not be under any Sentence of Imprisonment, that such Person shall be discharged.

III. And be it enacted, That if it shall be certified to the said Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors, by Two Physicians or Surgeons or a Physician and Surgeon, that any Person committed to Prison for Trial for any Offence is or has become insane, or is an Idiot, it shall be lawful for such Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors, if he or they shall think fit, by Warrant under his or their Hand or Hands, to order that such Person shall be removed to the Lunatic Asylum established wholly or in part for the County, County of a City, or County of a Town in which such Person shall be in Custody, and detained in such Asylum, unless in the meantime admitted to Bail by some legal Authority, until the Assizes, Sessions, or Commission at which such Person should be brought to Trial or indicted according to the due Course of Law, and that such Person shall then be remitted to the Custody of the Keeper or Governor of the Gaol, or other Person in whose Custody such Person may have been under the Terms of the original Committal, in order to his or her being indicted and tried for such Offence, or otherwise disposed of according to Law: Provided always, that every such Person, while so detained in such Lunatic Asylum, shall have the same Liberty and Privilege of seeing his or her Friends and legal Advisers, at all reasonable Times, which he or she would have had in the Gaol or other Prison from which he or she may have been removed.

IV. And be it enacted, That this Act shall not extend to England or Scotland; and that it may be altered or amended by any Act to be passed in the present Session of Parliament.

Lord Lieutenant may diPersons committed for Trial to be removed Asylum.

rect insane

to a Lunatic

Act not to extend to England

or Scotland.

CAP. XXVIII.

An Act to repeal the several Acts now in force relating
to Bread to be sold in Ireland, and to provide other
Regulations for the making and Sale of Bread, and
for preventing the Adulteration of Meal, Flour, and
Bread, in that Part of the United Kingdom called
Ireland.
[4th July 1838.]
WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Sixth and Seventh
Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William
the Fourth, intituled An Act to repeal the several Acts now in
force relating to Bread to be sold out of the City of London and
the Liberties thereof, and beyond the Weekly Bills of Mortality,
and Ten Miles of the Royal Exchange; and to provide other
Regulations for the making and Sale of Bread, and for pre-
venting the Adulteration of Meal, Flour, and Bread, beyond the
• Limits aforesaid, certain Regulations and Provisions were made
relative to the making and selling of Bread, and for prevent-
ing the Adulteration of Meal, Flour, and Bread, beyond the
aforesaid Limits, which have been found beneficial to the
Public as well as to the Bakers of Great Britain: And whereas
it is deemed expedient that the several Acts now in force re-
lating to the making and selling of Bread, or to the Assize
and Price thereof, or to the Adulteration of Meal, Flour, or
Bread, in that Part of the United Kingdom called Ireland,
should be altogether repealed, and that in lieu thereof the
Regulations, Provisions, and Penalties herein-after contained,
and which are similar to those contained in the said recited
Act of the Sixth and Seventh Years of the Reign of His late
Majesty King William the Fourth, should be substituted; but
inasmuch as the Purposes aforesaid cannot be effected without
'the Aid and Authority of Parliament;' 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 Com-
mons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Autho-
rity of the same, That from and after the passing of this Act all
and every Acts or Act now in force relating to the making and
selling of Bread, or the Assize and Price thereof, or to the
Punishment of Persons who shall adulterate Meal, Flour, or
Bread, or who shall sell Bread deficient in its due Weight, in
Ireland, be and the same are hereby repealed, and there shall
be no longer any Assize of Bread in Ireland, or any Regulation
respecting the Price thereof.

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II. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the several Bakers or Sellers of Bread in Ireland to make and sell or offer for Sale in his, her, or their Shop, or to deliver to his, her, or their Customer or Customers, Bread made of the Flour or Meal of Wheat, Barley, Rye, Oats, Buck Wheat, Indian Corn, Peas, Beans, Rice, or other Grain, or of Potatoes, or any of them, such Ingredients being mixed with any common Salt,

Salt, pure Water, Eggs, Milk, Barm, Leaven, Potato, or other Yeast, Butter, Seeds, or Sugar, in such Proportions as they shall think fit, and with no other Ingredient or Matter whatsoever, subject to the Regulations herein-after contained.

Size.

III. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Bakers to several Bakers or Sellers of Bread in Ireland to make and sell make Bread of or offer for Sale in his, her, or their Shop, or to deliver to his, any Weight or her, or their Customer or Customers, Bread made of such Weight or Size as such Bakers or Sellers of Bread shall think fit, any Law or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding.

and in no other

Manner.

IV. And be it enacted, That from and after the Commence- Bread to be ment of this Act all Bread sold in Ireland shall be sold by the sold by Weight, several Bakers or Sellers of Bread respectively by Weight only, and not by Measure; and in case any Baker or Seller of Bread in Ireland shall sell or cause to be sold Bread in any other Manner than by Weight, then and in such Case every such Baker or Seller of Bread shall for every such Offence forfeit and pay any Sum not exceeding Forty Shillings, which the Penalty. Magistrate or Magistrates, Justice or Justices before whom such Offender or Offenders shall be convicted shall order and direct: Provided always, that nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to prevent or hinder any such Baker or Seller of Bread from selling Bread usually sold under the Denomination of French or Fancy Bread or Rolls without previously weighing the same.

Weight.

V. And be it enacted, That the several Bakers or Sellers of Bakers to use Bread respectively in Ireland in the Sale of Bread shall use Avoirdupois Avoirdupois Weight of Sixteen Ounces to the Pound, according to the Standard in the Exchequer, and the several Gradations of the same for any less Quantity than a Pound; and Penalty for in case any such Baker or Seller of Bread shall at any Time using any other. use any other than the Avoirdupois, and the several Gradations of the same, he, she, or they shall for every such Offence forfeit and pay any Sum not exceeding Forty Shillings nor less than Ten Shillings, as the Magistrate or Magistrates, Justice or Justices before whom such Conviction shall take place shall from Time to Time order and adjudge.

VI. And be it enacted, That every Baker or Seller of Bread Bakers to proin Ireland shall cause to be fixed in some conspicuous Part of vide in their his, her, or their Shop, on or near the Counter, a Beam and Shops Beams, Scales, and Scales, with proper Weights or other sufficient Balance, in order Weights, and to that every Person who may purchase any such Bread may, if he weigh the or she shall think proper, require the same to be weighed in Bread, if required. his or her Presence; and in case any such Baker or Seller of Penalty. Bread shall neglect to fix such Beam and Scales or other sufficient Balance in manner aforesaid, or to provide and keep for Use proper Beam and Scales, and proper Weights or Balance, or shall have or use any incorrect or false Beam or Scales or Balance, or any false Weight not being of the Weight it purports to be, according to the Standard in the Exchequer, or shall, when thereunto required by any Person who may purchase any such Bread, refuse to weigh the same in the

Presence