A BILL To prohibit the Practice of paying the House Rents of able-bodied Labourers out of the Poor's Rate. [Note.-The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted in the Committee.] 5 Whereas a practice has prevailed in many Parishes Preamble. and Townships of England and Wales, of paying the House Rents of able-bodied Labourers out of the Poor's Rate: AND whereas such practice is found to be prejudicial to the welfare and independence of the Labouring Classes, and it is expedient to put an end to the same; 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, 10 and by the Authority of the same, THAT from and after the Twenty-fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two it shall not be lawful for any Overseer of the Poor or Parish Officer to make any such Payment for or on account of the House Rent of any able-bodied Labourer; and it shall and may be lawful for any 15 of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace to whom Parish or Township Accounts shall be submitted by virtue of an Act passed in the fiftieth year of the reign of His Majesty King GEORGE the Third, intituled, "An Act to amend the Laws for the Relief of the Poor, "so far as relates to the examining and allowing the Accounts of "Churchwardens and Overseers by Justices of the Peace," and they are hereby required to disallow and strike out any such Payments. For remedying Defects in the Titles to Lands allotted or taken in Exchange under Inclosure Acts. [Note.-The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted in the Committee.] HERCAS many Open and Common Fields, Heaths, Waste Preamble. have been heretofore divided, allotted and inclosed, under or by Virtue of the authority of Parliament, and numerous Exchanges and 5 Partitions have also been made, under the like authority, of different parts of the said Lands or of the Lands allotted in lieu thereof, and also of Messuages, Buildings and old Inclosures lying and being in the Parishes or Places which were so authorized to be divided and inclosed, and in other Parishes or Places adjoining 10 thereto respectively: And whereas many doubts and difficulties have arisen with respect to the Titles to several of the Messuages, Lands and Hereditaments so allotted or taken in exchange, or of which partition hath been made as aforesaid, and much inconvenience and expense has arisen 15 to the Persons interested therein or entitled thereto, in consequence of the provisions of the respective Acts not being strictly complied with, and from other causes; wherefore it is expedient that some provision should be made for remedying the same in manner herein mentioned; 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, 74. A Awards of Commissioners to be valid, not withstanding the same are omitted to be signed by exchanging Parties, or are not in rolled in due time; and ments in severalty shall be valid. assembled, and by the Authority of the same, THAT all and every the Awards of the Commissioners appointed by any Act or Acts of Inclosure, or which have been made in pursuance or under the authority of the said Acts or any of them, or which purport to be so made, and all and every the Allotments, Exchanges and Partitions 5 therein specified to be made to, between or amongst any person or persons whomsoever, shall be and be considered as good and valid, that all Allot- notwithstanding such Awards have never been inrolled, or have not been inrolled within the time directed by the said Acts respectively, or notwithstanding the parties making such exchanges or partitions, 10 or consenting to or requiring the same to be made, or any of them, may not have executed the said Awards respectively, or any other writing testifying thei consent to such exchanges or partitions, pursuant to the provisions of the said respective Acts; and that the said Awards and every of them shall be of the same effect, both for 15 establishing derivative Titles and in all other respects, as if the several formalities required by such Acts had been duly observed and performed; provided the Lands or Hereditaments so allotted, exchanged or divided were duly accepted by the parties to whom the same were set out or allotted or given in exchange, and provided 20 the possession thereof hath been held by such parties agreeable to such Awards; and that in all cases where the Commissioners shall have made separate and distict allotments to persons who were seised of or entitled to any lands or hereditaments as joint tenants, co-parceners or tenants in common, the same shall be valid and effec- 25 tual, notwithstanding the want of a clause in any such Act or Acts as aforesaid to enable them so to do, and the same allotments shall be held and enjoyed in such and the same manner and for such and the same uses and estates as the undivided shares of the respective persons to whom the same were so allotted would have been held 30 (such undivided interest therein only excepted.) Acts of Commissioners to be valid, not withstanding Death of any one or more of them. And be it further Enacted, That in all cases where several Commissioners shall have been appointed by any such Act, and it shall have been thereby enacted that any two or more of them might execute the powers thereby given, all acts done by such two or 35 more Commissioners shall be considered as valid and effectual notwithstanding the other Commissioner or Commissioners thereby appointed may have died before the doing of such acts or any of them by the said two or more Commissioners; and that in all cases where one or more of the Commissioners appointed by any such Act shall have died and a new Commissioner have been appointed in his place, it shall not be necessary in making out the Title to any lands or hereditaments to give any evidence that such new Commissioner was duly appointed, or to call for the production of the writing or instrument by which he was so appointed. And |