18. Party prosecuted to plead forthwith. 19. Limitation of Actions. imprisoned with or without Hard Labour in the Common Gaol or House of Correction, and also to direct that the offender shall be kept in solitary confinement for any portion or portions of such imprisonment, or of such imprisonment with Hard Labour, not exceeding One Month at any one time, and not exceeding Three Months in any one year, as to the court in its discretion shall seem meet. 5 And be it Enacted, That when any person shall be prosecuted by indictment for any misdemeanor committed against the provisions of this Act, such person shall plead to such Indictment forthwith, so that the trial thereof may not be delayed or postponed to any subsequent 10 Commission of Oyer and Termiuer, or session of the court in which such trial is to take place, unless the court shall otherwise direct. 25 And be it Enacted, That no action, suit or proceeding shall be commenced or prosecuted against any person or persons for any thing done in pursuance of this Act until after Thirty Days' notice thereof 15 shall be given to such person or persons, nor after a sufficient satisfaction or tender thereof hath been made to the party or parties aggrieved, nor after the expiration of Three calendar Months next after the fact committed; and every such action, suit or prosecution shall be laid or brought in the county where the cause of action shall have arisen, and 20 not elsewhere; and the defendant or defendants in every such action, suit or prosecution shall and may plead generally not guilty, and give this Act and the special matter in evidence, at any trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done in pursuance and by the authority of this Act; and if any replevin shall be brought for any cattle, goods or chattels seized or taken by virtue or in pursuance of this Act, it shall and may be lawful and sufficient to and for the defendant or defendants, or avowant or avowants, in any such replevin, to avow, plead or make cognizance generally that he or they took the same cattle, goods or chattels as a distress, by force of the statute in that 30 case made and provided, without more particularly setting forth this Act, or the cause of making or detaining the said distress, or making any more special plea, avowry or cognizance, any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding; and if it shall appear that the matter on which the cause of action arose was done, or the distress replevied made, in pursuance of this Act, or that such action or suit shall have been brought before the expiration or Thirty Days after notice thereof given as aforesaid, or after sufficient satisfaction made or tendered as aforesaid, or after the time limited for bringing the same as aforesaid, or shall be brought in any other county than as 40 aforesaid, then the Jury shall find for the defendant or defendants, avowant or avowants; and upon such verdict, or if the plaintiff or plaintiffs shall be nonsuited, or shall discontinue his or their action, suit or prosecution after the defendant or defendants shall have appeared, 35 5 appeared, or upon demurrer judgment shall be given against the plaintiff or plaintiffs, the defendant or defendants, avowant or avowants, shall recover double costs, and shall have such remedy for the same as any defendant or defendants hath or have in other cases of costs given by law. And be it Enacted, That the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland shall cause an abstract of the provisions of this Act to be prepared, and shall in such manner as he shall think convenient cause such abstract to be printed, published, posted or distributed for the information 10 of all persons in Ireland affected by the enactments herein contained. Clause. 21. And be it Enacted, That in the construction of this Act the words Interpretation "Lord Lieutenant" shall be construed to include the Lords Justices or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the time being; 15 and that, where the subject or context requires it, every word importing the singular number only shall extend and be applied to several persons and things as well as one person and thing; and every word importing the plural number shall extend and be applied to one person or thing as well as several persons and things; and every word importing the masculine gender shall extend and be applied to the feminine gender. 20 22. alteration of Act. And be it Enacted, That this Act shall continue and be in force Continuance and until the First day of October One thousand eight hundred and Fortynine, and may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in the present Session of Parliament. (Ireland.) A BILL For the further Amendment of the Acts for the [Note.-The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted W Preamble: 1 & 2 W. 4, HEREAS an Act was passed in the first year of Her present Majesty's reign, intituled, "An Act to amend the 1 Vict. c. 21. Acts for the Extension and Promotion of Public Works in Ireland," reciting an Act of the first and second years of his late Majesty 5 King WILLIAM the Fourth, intituled, "An Act for the Extension and Promotion of Public Works in Ireland," the provisions whereof c. 33. were amended and extended by an Act passed in the then last Session of Parliament, and that the Commissioners acting under and c. 108. in execution thereof were authorized to make advances by way of 10 loan to a certain amount in the said Acts limited, in aid of the 15 20 execution of Public Works in Ireland, and were also authorized to make advances for the like purpose by way of grant, in aid of the construction of certain Works, to an amount not exceeding in the whole the sum of Fifty thousand Pounds; and that it was expedient, with a view to the further promotion of Public Works in Ireland, and the employment of the labouring population, that the said Commissioners should be enabled to make advances to an additional amount, by way of grant; and that provision should be made for making advances for the execution of Public Works under certain circumstances, partly by way of loan and partly by way of grant, that is to say, by loan to the extent of One moiety of such advances, and by grant to the extent of the other moiety thereof; and by the said 2. A 6 & 7 W. 4, 1 & 2 Vict c. 88. Sec. 14. 6 & 7 Vict., c. 44. Sec. 17. said first-recited Act it is enacted, that it should and might be law- And whereas by another Act passed in the first and second years of Her present Majesty, intituled, "An Act to authorize a further Issue of Exchequer Bills for Public Works and Fisheries, and Employment of the Poor, and to amend the Acts relating thereto," it is enacted, that it should be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to appropriate out of the sum of Five hundred thousand Pounds in Exchequer Bills authorized to be advanced under the authority of said Act, any sum or sums in Exchequer Bills, not exceeding Fifty thousand Pounds in the whole, for the promotion and extension of Public Works in Ireland, to be applied by the Commissioners appointed under the authority of an Act of the first and second years of the reign of his late Majesty King WILLIAM the Fourth, intituled, "An Act for the Extension and Promotion of Public Works in Ireland," to the purposes and under the provisions of the said Act: And whereas of the said sum of Fifty thousand Pounds so made applicable under the said last-mentioned Act, the sum of Four thousand Pounds was applied to grants, the remaining Forty-six thousand Pounds having been issued by way of loan : And whereas by another Act passed in the sixth and seventh years of Her present Majesty, intituled, "An Act to amend the Acts for carrying on Public Works in Ireland," after reciting as therein. recited, it is enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to order that out of such monies as at or after the passing of said Act may be in the Exchequer, or as may be thereafter paid into the Bank of England to the credit of Her 20 25 30 35 40 |