at SCHEDULE referred to by the foregoing Act. Form of Conviction. }BE it remembered, That on this in the Year of our Lord to wit. in the County of of Day of , A. B. is duly convicted before us, C. D. and J. G., Two of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the , for that the said A B. [specify the Offence, and the Time and Place when and where committed,] whereby the said A. B. has forfeited the Sum of this being adjudged to be the First [or Second] Offence [as the Case may be] against the Provisions of an Act to prohibit the Payment of Wages in Goods, besides the Costs of this Conviction, which we assess at the Sum of [here state to whom and in what Proportions the Penalty and Costs are to be paid], pursuant to the Statute in that Case provided. Given under our Hands and Seals, to wit. Summons to Witness. WHEREAS Information upon Oath hath been made before me, A. B. Esquire, One of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County aforesaid, that C.D. of has been guilty of an Offence against the Laws prohibiting the Payment of Wages in Goods, and that you are a material Witness to be examined on the Hearing and Determination of such Information; These are therefore to require you to appear personally before me, and such other Justice or Justices as shall hear and determine such Information, at the County aforesaid, on the the Hour of of the same Day, there to be examined touching the Matters alleged in such Information. As witness my Hand, to wit. Day of Warrant of Commitment of a Witness. in at To the Constable or other proper Officer and to the WHEREAS C.D. hath been duly summoned to appear and on this Day of before us, against A. B., of having [stating the Offence as laid in the Information], contrary to the Laws now in force for prohibiting the Payment of Wages in Goods: And whereas the said C. D. hath not appeared before us at the Time and Place aforesaid specified for that Purpose, or offered any reasonable Excuse for his Default [or ]: And whereas the said C. D. having appeared before us at the Time and Place aforesaid specified for that Purpose, hath not submitted to be examined as a Witness and give his Evidence before us touching the Matter of the said Complaint, but but hath refused so to do [or ]; Therefore we the said Justices do hereby, in pursuance of the Statute made, &cet. [setting forth the Title of this Act] commit the said C. D. to the [describing the Prison], there to remain without Bail or Mainprize, for his Contempt aforesaid, for the Space of Three Calendar Months, or until he shall submit himself to be examined and give his Evidence touching the Matter of the said Complaint, or shall otherwise be discharged by due Course of Law. And you [the Constable or Peace Officer to whom the Warrant is directed] are hereby authorized and required to take into your Custody the Body of the said C. D., and him safely to convey to the said Prison, and him there to deliver to the Gaoler or Keeper thereof, who is hereby authorized and required to receive into his Custody the Body of the said C. D., and him safely to retain and keep, pursuant to this Commitment. Given under our Hands and Seals, this Day of in the Year of our Lord to wit. Warrant to distrain for Forfeiture. To the Constable [Headborough] or [Tithingman] of WHEREAS A. B. of to be is this Day convicted before us, C. D. and J. G., Two of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the said County, upon Oath of H. K., a credible Witness, for that the said A. B. did [here set forth the Offence], contrary to the Statute in that Case made and provided, by reason whereof the said A. B. hath forfeited the Sum of distributed as herein is mentioned, besides the Sum of for Costs, both of which he hath refused to pay; These are therefore, in His Majesty's Name, to command you to levy the said Sum of and also the Sum of for Costs, by Distress of the Goods and Chattels of him the said A. B.; and if within the Space of Days next after such Distress by you taken, the said Sums, together with the reasonable Charges of taking and keeping the same, shall not be paid, that then you do sell the said Goods and Chattels so by you distrained, and out of the Money arising by such Sale that you do retain the said Costs, and also the said Forfeiture or Sum of thereout pay to L. M., who hath informed and prosecuted in this Case, the Sum of being his adjudged Portion of such Forfeiture, the Residue whereof is to go to the Treasurer of the said County of in aid of the Rates thereof; and that you do return the Overplus, on Demand, to him the said A. B. (the reasonable Charges of taking, keeping, and selling the said Distress being first deducted); and if sufficient Distress cannot be found of the Goods and Chattels of the said A. B. whereon to levy the said Sum of that then you certify the same to us, together with this Warrant. Given under our Hands and Seals, , and Com C. D. and J. G., Two of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace in Day of for Costs: And whereas on the rant to the [Constable] of in the Year aforesaid we did issue our Warto levy the said Sum of and Costs, by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of him the said A. B., and to distribute the same according to the Directions of the said Statute: And whereas it duly appears to us, upon the Oath of the said [Constable], that the said [Constable] hath used his best Endeavours to levy the said Sum on the Goods and Chattels of the said A. B. as aforesaid, but that no sufficient Distress can be had whereon to levy the same [or by Confession of the said A.B., or by the Oath of a credible Witness, that the said A.B. hath not Goods and Chattels within our Jurisdiction whereon to levy the said Forfeiture and Costs]; These are therefore to command you the said [Constable] of aforesaid to apprehend the said A. B., and him safely to convey to the Common Gaol [or House of Correction] at in the said County, and there to deliver him to the Keeper thereof, together with this Precept. And we do also command you the said Keeper to receive and keep in your Custody the said A. B. for the Space of Three Months, unless the said Sum and Costs shall be sooner paid; and for so doing this shall be your sufficient Warrant. Given under our Hands and Seals, CA P. XXXVIII. An Act to amend and render more effectual an Act passed WHE HEREAS an Act was passed in the Fifty-eighth Year of An Act for building and promoting the building of additional 58 G. 3. c. 45. passed in the Fifty-ninth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to amend and render 59 G. 3. c. 134, more effectual an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, for 'building and promoting the building of additional Churches in 'populous Parishes: And whereas another Act was passed in the • Third 3 G. 4. c. 72. 5 G. 4. c. 103. 7 & 8 G. 4. c. 72. Third Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act to amend and render more effectual Two Acts passed in the Fifty-eighth and Fifty ninth Years of His late Majesty, for building and promoting the building of additional Churches in populous Parishes: And whereas another Act was passed in the Fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act to make further Provision, and to amend and render more effectual Three Acts, passed in the Fifty-eighth and Fifty ninth Years of His late Majesty and in the Third Year of His present Majesty, for building and promoting the building of additional Churches in populous Parishes: And 'whereas another Act was passed in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty, intituled An Act to • amend the Acts for building and promoting the building of addi'tional Churches in populous Parishes: And whereas by the said recited Act passed in the Fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty it was amongst other Things enacted, that with a view to afford Facility to the Erection of Churches and Chapels it should be lawful for certain Persons building or purchasing the same, and endowing them with Pew Rents, to nominate for Forty Years Spiritual Persons to serve such Churches or Chapels respectively, subject to the Consent of the Bishop of the Diocese, and to certain Regulations therein provided: And whereas by the said recited Act passed in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty further Encouragement was given to the same Object by authorizing His 'Majesty's Commissioners for building new Churches to declare that any Person or Persons building a Chapel, and endowing the same to the Satisfaction of the said Commissioners with some permanent Provision in Land or Monies in the Funds, should have the perpetual Right of nominating the Minister to 6 serve the same: And whereas the said Provisions of the said 'last-recited Act have been found insufficient for such their Purposes, and require Amendment, in order to provide more effectually for the improved Pastoral Superintendence of His Majesty's Subjects: 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 so in certain Cases much of the said recited Act passed in the Seventh and Eighth So much of 7 & 8 G. 4. c. 72. as au. thorizes the Commissioners to declare the Right of nominating, repealed. In Parishes where the Population amounts to 2,000, and the Churches do not afford Accommodation, or where 300 Persons Years of the Reign of His late Majesty as authorizes the said Commissioners to declare, in the Cases therein provided, the Right of nominating the Spiritual Persons to serve the Chapels therein named respectively to be in the l'erson or Persons building and endowing the same, his, her, or their Heirs and Assigns or Appointees, shall be and the same is hereby repealed. II. And be it enacted, That in all Parishes and Extra-parochial Places the Population of which, according to the Returns then last made in pursuance of any Act or Acts of Parliament, shall amount to Two thousand Persons, and in which the existing Churches or Chapels do not afford Accommodation for more than One Third of the Inhabitants for the Attendance upon Divine Service according to the Rites of the United Church of England and Ireland, and also in all Parishes and Extra-parochial Places Church or Chapel, accord. ing to the Con ditions herein mentioned, the Bishop may declare the Right of nominating to be in such Person or his Trustees. in which Three hundred Persons, whatever may be the Amount reside more of the whole Population, shall be resident upwards of Two Miles than Two Miles from any such existing Church or Chapel and within One Mile from the Church, if any of the Site upon which a new Church or Chapel is proposed Person shall to be erected under the Provisions of this Act, and where any declare his Person or Persons belonging to the Church of England shall Intention of declare his, her, or their Intention of building a Church or Chapel, building a or of purchasing any Building fit in all respects to be used as a Church or Chapel for the Performance of Divine Service as aforesaid, or where a Church or Chapel has already been built on the Faith of the said recited Act of the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of King George the Fourth, in such a Situation within the said Parish or Place as shall be adapted to the Convenience of that Part of the Inhabitants for whom such additional Accommodation is necessary, and where such Person or Persons shall declare their Intention of providing a Sum of One thousand Pounds at the least by way of Endowment for such Church or Chapel, to be secured upon Lands or Money in the Funds, in addition to the Pew Rents and Profits arising from the said Church or Chapel, in case any such Rents shall be taken, and shall also declare his, her, or their Intention of providing a Fund for the Repairs of the said Church or Chapel, in manner following, (namely,) One Sum, equal in Amount to Five Pounds upon every One hundred Pounds of the original Cost of erecting and fitting up or of purchasing such Chapel or Building, to be secured upon Lands or Money in the Funds as aforesaid, and also a further Sum to be reserved annually out of the Pew Rents of the said Church or Chapel, after the Rate of Five Pounds for every One hundred Pounds of the Sum so to be provided as last aforesaid, and also if such Person or Persons shall further declare his, her, or their Intention of setting apart or appropriating One Third at least of the Sittings in such Church or Chapel to be and continue for ever as Free Sittings, it shall be lawful for the Bishop of the Diocese in which such Parish or Extra-parochial Place is locally situate, if he shall see fit, and he is hereby authorized, to declare by Writing under his Hand and Seal that the Right of nominating a Minister to such Church or Chapel, when so built or purchased and endowed as aforesaid, and when the Conditions herein-before mentioned shall have been performed, shall for ever thereafter be in the Person or Persons so building or purchasing and endowing the same, his, her, or their Heirs and Assigns, or in such Trustee or Trustees, being Members of the United Church of England and Ireland, as he, she, or they shall appoint, and in such future Trustee or Trustees, being Members of the United Church of England and Ireland, as shall from Time to Time be nominated by Writing under the Hand or Hands of the Trustees or Trustee for the Time being of the said Church or Chapel, or the major Part of them, or chosen in such Manner as may in the first instance be agreed upon by the Persons building and endowing such Church or Chapel, or the major Part of them, and the Bishop of the Diocese, in Writing under their Hands and Seals, in the Place and Stead of any One or more who shall from Time to Time die, resign, or become incapable of acting, or in such Ecclesiastical Person |