No. V. sions thereof, nor to abridge or affect any privilege of parliament: Provided also, that nothing herein contained shall extend to or in any man- 3 & 4 W. 4, ner affect any jurors or juries in any matter or cause to be heard or tried by civil bill before any assistant barrister in Ireland, but that all such matters and causes may be heard and tried as before the passing of nor juries on this act. c. 91. civil bills before assistant barristers. year YOU are hereby required, within one month from the date hereof, to make out a true list in writing, in the form hereunto annexed, containing the names of all men, being natural-born subjects of the king, between the ages of twenty-one and sixty, residing within your district of collection, qualified to serve upon juries; (that is to say,) of every such man who has in his own name or in trust for him a clear income of ten pounds by the year in lands or tenements situate in the said county [city or town], or in rents issuing out of any such lands or tenements, or in such lands, tenements, and rents taken together, in fee simple or fee tail, or for his own life, or for the life of any other person; and also of every such man who has a clear income of fifteen pounds by the in lands or tenements situate in the said county [city or town], held by lease, originally made for an absolute term of twenty-one years or more, whether the same be or be not determinable on any life or lives; and also of any resident merchant, freeman, and householder having a house and tenement in any city, town, or borough situate within the said county, of the clear yearly value of twenty pounds, such city, town, or borough not being a county of itself; [and if in any city or town, add, (and also of every resident merchant, freeman, and householder having lands or tenements or personal estate of the value of one hundred pounds ;)] and you are required to make out the said list in alphabetical order, and to write the christian and surname of every man at full length, and the place of his abode, his title, quality, calling, or business, and the nature of his qualification, in the proper columns of the forms hereunto annexed, according to the specimens given in such columns for your guidance; and if you have not a sufficient number of forms, you must apply to me for more; and in making such lists you are to omit the names of all peers, all judges, all clergymen, all Roman Catholic priests, all ministers of any religious congregation; all serjeants and barristers at law, all assistant barristers, all advocates in ecclesiastical courts or in courts of the civil law, if actually practising; and all attorneys, solicitors, and proctors, if actually practising, and having taken out their annual certificates; all officers of the courts of law and equity, and of the admiralty and ecclesiastical courts, and courts of the civil law, and of all courts of criminal jurisdiction, if actually exercising the duties of their respective offices; all public notaries, all coroners, all gaolers and keepers of the houses of correction; all members and licentiates of the king and queen's college of physicians in Ireland, and all other physicians, all members of the royal colleges of surgeons in London, Edinburgh, and Dublin, and apothecaries certificated by the court of examiners of the governor and company of the apothecaries hall of the city of Dublin, if actually practising as physicians, surgeons, or apothecaries respectively; all the officers of the navy and army on full pay; all officers of customs and excise; all sheriffs officers, police con No. V. 3 & 4 W. 4, c. 91. stables, and parish clerks; all persons employed or acting in the service Given under my hand, at day of Clerk of the peace for the said county [city, or town]. County of of or County of the Town SCHEDULE (B.) FORM OF RETURN OF JURORS. The Return of the High Constable and of the Collector of the Grand Jury Cess of the District of in the County [City or Town] of [No. VI.] 4 W. IV. c. 8.-An Act to amend an Act passed in the last Session, for consolidating and amending the Laws relative to Jurors and Juries in Ireland. [26th March 1834.] WHEREAS by an act passed in the last session of parliament, intituled An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws relative to Jurors and 3 & 4 W. 4, Juries in Ireland, it is amongst other things enacted, that the justices c. 91. assembled at every October general or quarter sessions of the peace to he holden in each division of each county at large, and the justices for and in each county of a city and county of a town, in Ireland, shall, at a sessions to be holden at October in every year, fix a place within such division and within such counties of cities and counties of towns respectively, and also a time not less than two nor more than three calendar months after the first day of such general or quarter sessions, for holding a special sessions, for the purpose of examining the lists of jurors in the said act mentioned, pursuant to the provisions thereof therein-after contained: And whereas the periods so prescribed for the holding of such special sessions have been found inconvenient, by reason of their approaching so nearly to the end of the current year as not to leave convenient time for the making out of the jurors book for the next ensuing year, and it is therefore expedient to alter the same; be it therefore enacted, &c. That the justices assembled at any October general or quarter sessions Justices to fix a of the peace to be holden in each division of each county at large and place and time each county of a city and county of a town in Ireland shall fix a place for examining within such cities and counties of towns respectively, and also a time, lists of jurors. not less than one lunar month nor more than six weeks after the first day of such October general or quarter sessions, for holding a special sessions for the purpose of examining the list of jurors, as by the said act directed; and that the several provisions and clauses of the said recited act relating to the special sessions thereby directed to be fixed at the October sessions shall be extended and applied to and be in force with respect to the special sessions hereby required to be fixed. cited act to be II. And whereas, in consequence of the difficulty which in certain Where jurors instances has been found to exist since the passing of the said recited book is not act in making up the list of jurors before the first day of January in the completed, the present year, the jurors book by the said act prescribed has not been return of jurors made up in sufficient time to be delivered to the sheriff or other proper according to officer, so as to be brought into use on the said first day of January, as the form in use is by the said recited act provided, and jurors have therefore in those before the recases been necessarily returned and impanelled in the mode usually deemed lawful. practised before the passing of the said recited act: And whereas it is expedient to prevent any doubts with respect to the validity of such proceedings; be it therefore declared and enacted, That where, in any county, county of a city, or county of a town in Ireland, the said jurors book shall not have been delivered to the sheriff or other proper officer before the said first day of January in this present year, the returning and impanelling of jurors in like manner as was used and accustomed before the passing of the said recited act shall be and be considered to have been lawful, and that all returns and panels of jurors in such cases heretofore made, or hereafter, until the completion and delivery of a proper jurors book, to be made, have been, are, and shall, and shall be deemed and taken to be and to have been, to all intents and purposes, equally good, valid, regular, effectual, and binding in law as if the said recited act had not passed. 1 W. 4, c. 70. [No. VII.] 4 & 5 W. IV. c. 47.-An Act for preventing the Interference of the Spring Assizes with the April Quarter Sessions. [13th August 1834.] WHEREAS by an act passed in the first year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled An Act for the more effectual Administration of Justice in England and Wales, it is directed, that the justices of the peace in every county, riding, or division for which quarter sessions of the peace ought by law to be held shall hold their general quarter sessions of the peace (among other times) in the first week after the twentyeighth day of December and in the first week after the thirty-first day of March: And whereas in some counties of England and Wales the time usually fixed for holding the spring assizes interferes with the due holding of the last-mentioned quarter sessions; and although the justices of the peace have authority to hold general sessions of the peace at other times of the year besides those specified in the said recited act, such sessions are not quarter sessions within the intent of various acts of parliament which give jurisdiction to justices of the peace in their quarter sessions or in their general quarter sessions; and for the purpose of preventing the inconvenience arising from such interference as aforesaid it is expedient to allow to the justices of the peace a discretion as to the time of holding their general quarter sessions, which they are now required to hold in the week next after the thirty-first day of March: Be it therefore declared and enacted by, &c., That in every Epiphany sescounty, riding, or division for which general quarter sessions ought to sions may name be held it shall be lawful for the justices asssembled in their general body to fix the quarter sessions in the week next after the twenty-eighth day of Deday for holding cember in every year to name (if they shall see occasion so to do) two the next general justices of the peace who shall be empowered, as soon as may be after the quarter ses Justices at two of their sions. Proviso. time for holding the spring assizes shall be appointed, to fix the day for holding the next general quarter sessions of the peace for such county, riding, or division, so as such time shall not be earlier than the seventh day of March nor later than the twenty-second day of April, and to give notice of the day so fixed by advertisement in such newspapers as shall be directed by the justices so assembled; and in every such case the general quarter sessions held on the day so fixed and notified shall be valid, and it shall not be necessary to hold any sessions of the peace for such county, riding, or division in the week next after the thirty-first day of March, any thing in the said recited act to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided always, That in every county, riding, and division where no other day shall be fixed in the manner herein-before mentioned, the justices of the peace shall hold their general quarter sessions of the peace in the week next after the thirty-first day of March as by the said recited act they are required. 6 Ric. 2, c. 5. [No. VIII.] 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 26.-An Act for the Appointment of convenient Places for the holding of Assizes in Ireland. [21st August 1835.] WHEREAS, by a statute made in the sixth year of the reign of king Richard the second, it was ordained, that the justices assigned to take assizes and deliver the gaols should hold their sessions in the principal and chief towns of every of the counties where the shire courts of 11 Ric. 2, c. 11. the same counties should be holden: And whereas by a statute made in the eleventh year of the same reign, reciting so much of the said statute of the sixth year as is herein-before recited, and stating that the said statute was in part prejudicial and grievous to the people of divers counties in England, it was provided that the chancellor of England for No. VIII. 5 & 6 W. 4, c. 26. the time being should have power thereof to make and provide remedy, by advice of the justices, from time to time when need should be, notwithstanding the said statute: And whereas the places at which the assizes are now held in various counties of Ireland are inconvenient to the inhabitants thereof, and it would conduce to the more cheap, speedy, and effectual administration of justice to appoint other places instead thereof for the holding of assizes; but doubts may be entertained whether that object can be fully effected by virtue of the statutes hereinbefore referred to: Be it therefore enacted, &c., That so much of Recited staeach of the said statutes as relates or may be construed to relate to tutes in part holding assizes or sessions in Ireland shall be and the same is hereby repealed. repealed. II. And be it declared and enacted, That the lord lieutenant or other Lord lieutechief governor or governors of Ireland, by and with the advice of the nant, &c. in privy council of Ireland, shall have power from time to time to order council may and direct at what place or places in any county in Ireland the assizes direct at what and sessions under the commissions of gaol delivery, and other complaces assizes and sessions missions for the dispatch of civil and criminal business, shall be holden, shall be held, and to order and direct such assizes and sessions for the dispatch of criminal and civil business to be holden at more than one place in the may be holden same county, and to order and direct the assizes and sessions under in more than such commissions for the dispatch of criminal or civil business to be one place in the holden at one or more place or places in such county; and further to county; as order and direct any special commissions of oyer and terminer and also special gaol delivery to be holden at any one or more places in any such commissions. county. and that they vide counties for the purpose III. Provided always, That it shall not be lawful for the lord lieu Place for holdtenant or other chief governor or governors of Ireland, and the privy ing assizes not council there, to make any order for changing the place for holding the to be changed, assizes in any county, or for dividing any county, for the purposes of or counties this act, unless a memorial shall have been presented to him or them by divided, unless a majority of the grand jury of the assizes of such county, praying that desired by masuch change or division may be made. jority of grand IV. That in case the lord lieuteuant or other chief governor or gover- jury. nors of Ireland, by and with the advice of the privy council of Ireland, Power to dishall think fit to order and direct that the assizes or any such special commissions shall be holden at more than one place in any one county, of holding it shall be lawful for the lord lieutenant or other chief governor or assizes in difgovernors, by and with the advice aforesaid, to divide any such county ferent divisions for the purposes of this act, and to make rules and regulations touching of the same the venue in all cases, civil and criminal, then pending or thereafter to county. be pending and to be tried within any division of such county so to be made as aforesaid; and touching the liability and attendance of jurors, whether grand jurors, special jurors, or common jurors, at the assizes and sessions as aforesaid, or at any sessions under any special commissions, to be holden within any such division; and touching the use of any house of correction or prison as a common gaol, and the government and keeping thereof; and touching the alterations of any commissions, writs, precepts, or other proceedings whatsoever for carrying into effect the purposes of this act; and touching any other matters that may be requisite for carrying into effect the purposes of this act; and all such rules and regulations shall be of the like force and effect as if the same had been made by the authority of parliament, and shall be notified in the Dublin Gazette, or in such other manner as the lord lieutenant or other chief governor or governors of Ireland by and with the advice of the privy council of Ireland shall think fit to direct. |