Rules as to convicted. lessen any Penalty or Term of Imprisonment shall no longer exist; and if any Person, in contravention of the existing Rules Persons acting of the said Prison, shall carry or take or shall attempt to carry in contraven. or take into the Queen's Prison any spirituous or fermented tion of existing Liquor, it shall be lawful for the Keeper of the said Prison or introducing his Deputy, or any Turnkey or other Person acting under his spirituous or their Authority, to apprehend or cause to be apprehended taken before a any Person so offending, and to convey him or her before a Justice, and Justice of the Peace, who is hereby empowered to hear and de- summarily termine such Cases in a summary Manner; and if the said Justice shall convict any Person of such Offence, he shall commit such Offender to the Common Gaol or House of Correction, there to be kept in Custody for any Period not exceeding Three Months, without Bail or Mainprize, unless such Offender shall immediately upon Conviction pay down such Sum of Money as shall be adjudged by the said Justice, not exceeding Ten Pounds nor less than Three Pounds: Provided nevertheless, that in every Penalty for cerCase where it shall be proved that the spirituous or fermented tain Offences Liquor was concealed about the Person of the offending Party duced below in Bladders or Skins, it shall not be lawful for any Justice to 10% reduce such Penalty below the Sum of Ten Pounds; any Law, Custom, or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding. VII. And be it enacted, That so much of an Act passed in the Fifty-third Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act for providing Relief for the poor Prisoners confined in the King's Bench, Fleet, and Marshalsea Prisons, as to Prisoners to provides that the Sum to be given to any one Prisoner shall 6d. per Day not exceed Sixpence per Diem, shall be and the same is hereby repealed. not to be re So much of 55 G. 3. c. 113. as restricts the Sum to be given repealed. CAP. VIII. An Act to continue for Three Years the Duties on Most Gracious Sovereign, WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Fifth and Sixth Years of Your Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act for 5&6 Viet, c. 35. 'granting to Her Majesty Duties on Profits arising from Property, Professions, Trades, and Offices, until the Sixth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and forty-five, certain Rates ' and Duties arising from Property, Professions, Trades, and Offices were granted to Your Majesty for a Term therein 'limited and now expired, and by an Act passed in the Eighth "Year of Your Majesty's Reign the same Rates and Duties were 'continued for a further limited Term, expiring with the Fifth 'Day of April One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight,' We, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, towards raising the necessary Supplies to defray Your Majesty's public Expenses, have freely and volun Rates and Duties granted by recited Act further continued for Three Years. The several in force. 11 VICT. tarily resolved to continue the said Rates and Duties, and to grant the same to Your Majesty for the Period herein-after limited; and do most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it 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, That the several Rates and Duties by the said first-recited Act granted shall be and the same are hereby continued, and shall be charged, raised, levied, collected, and paid unto and for the Use of Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, from and after the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, for the Term of Three Years thence next ensuing, and until the Assessments made or which ought to be made for the last Year of the said Term, or for any preceding Year, shall be completed, collected, levied, and paid. II. And be it enacted, That the said first-recited Act, and all Acts continued and every other Act and Acts in force upon or immediately before the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, in relation to the Duties granted by the said firstrecited Act, shall severally be continued and remain in full Force and Effect in relation to the Duties hereby continued and granted as aforesaid; and all and every the Powers, Authorities, Rules, Regulations, Directions, Penalties, Forfeitures, Clauses, Matters, and Things contained in the said Acts or any of them, and in force as aforesaid, shall (so far as the same shall be consistent with and shall not be superseded by the express Provisions of this Act) severally and respectively be duly observed, practised, applied, and put in execution in relation to the said Duties hereby continued and granted, as well during the Term herein limited as after the Expiration thereof respectively, for assessing, levying, recovering, paying, deducting, and accounting for the said Duties and all Arrears thereof, and for re-assessing the same in default of Payment, and for the suing for, adjudging, and recovering any Penalty which shall have been or may be incurred in relation to the said Duties, as fully and effectually to all Intents and Purposes as if the same Powers, Authorities, Rules, Regulations, Directions, Penalties, Forfeitures, Clauses, Matters, and Things were particularly repeated and re-enacted in the Body of this Act with reference to the said Duties hereby continued and granted as aforesaid. Assessments under Schedules (A.) and (B.) for the Year 1848 to be in Years. III. And whereas under and by virtue of the said recited Acts the Assessments made for the Year commencing from and after the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and forty-five of the Duties chargeable under the respective force for Three Schedules (A.) and (B.) of the said first-recited Act were continued in force for Three successive Years, and it is 'expedient that the Assessments of the Duties chargeable under the same Schedules by virtue of this Act should in like Manner be in force for the Term herein-after mentioned;' be it enacted, That the Assessments to be made for the Year commencing from the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred hundred and forty-eight of the several Duties chargeable under the said respective Schedules (A.) and (B.), by virtue of this Act, shall respectively be and remain in force for Three successive Years, under and subject to the same Rules, Regulations, and Conditions as are specified in the said first-recited Act with reference to the Assessments made under the same Schedules for the Period of Three Years in the said first-recited Act mentioned: Provided always, that the respective Commissioners acting in the Execution of the said Acts shall cause fresh Duplicates of the said Assessments to be made out for the Second and Third Years respectively of the said Term for which the said Duties are continued by this Act, and such Duplicates to be delivered, together with Warrants under their Hands and Seals, to the Collectors to be appointed for collecting and levying the said Duties for the said Second and Third Years respectively, any thing in the said first-recited Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding. Duties under IV. And whereas Contracts for Compositions for the Duties Power to comchargeable under Schedule (D.) of the said first-recited Act pound for have been entered into, pursuant to the Powers given by the Schedule (D.) 'said recited Act in that Behalf, for a Term expiring with the continued. Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and fortyeight, and it is expedient to renew and continue the Powers of the Commissioners to enter into new Contracts for such • Compositions for the Term limited by this Act;' be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Commissioners for Special Purposes in the said first-recited Act mentioned to contract and agree for a Composition for the Duties chargeable under the said last-mentioned Schedule by virtue of this Act with any Person who may be desirous of compounding for the same for the Period of Three Years, to commence from the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, under and subject to the Rules, Regulations, and Conditions specified in the said first-recited Act with reference to the Compositions thereby authorized to be made for the Duties chargeable under the same Schedule for the Term in the said first-recited Act mentioned. V. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or Act may be repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of amended, &c. Parliament. CAP. IX. An Act to continue for Three Years the Stamp Duties Most Gracious Sovereign, WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Fifth and Sixth Years of Your Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act to assimilate 5&6 Viet. c. 82, the Stamp Duties in Great Britain and Ireland, and to make Regulations Duties continued for Three Years. Recited Acts continued in force. 6 Regulations for collecting and managing the same, until the Tenth Day of October One thousand eight hundred and forty'five, certain Rates and Duties denominated Stamp Duties were granted to Your Majesty for a Term therein limited, and now expired; and by an Act passed in the Eighth Year of Your Majesty's Reign, the same Rates and Duties were continued for a further limited Term, which will expire on the Tenth Day of October One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight:' We, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled, towards raising the necessary Supplies to defray Your Majesty's public Expenses, have freely and voluntarily resolved to continue the said Rates and Duties, and to grant the same to Your Majesty for the Period herein-after mentioned; and do most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it 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, That all the several Sums of Money, and Duties, and Composition for Duties, granted by the said first-recited Act, and not repealed by any subsequent Act, and also all Duties now payable in lieu or instead of any of the said Duties which may have been so repealed, shall be and the same are hereby continued, and shall be charged, raised, levied, collected, and paid unto and for the Use of Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, for the Term of Three Years, to commence on and to be computed from the Tenth Day of October One thousand eight hundred and fortyeight. II. And be it enacted, That the said first-recited Act, and all and other Acts and every other Act and Acts now in force in relation to the Duties granted by the same Act, shall severally be continued and remain in full Force in all respects in relation to the Duties hereby continued and granted, and all and every the Powers and Authorities, Rules, Regulations, Directions, Penalties, Forfeitures, Clauses, Matters, and Things contained in the said Acts or any of them, and in force as aforesaid, shall severally and respectively be duly observed, practised, applied, and put in execution in relation to the said Duties hereby continued and granted, as well during the Term herein limited as after the Expiration thereof, for the charging, raising, levying, paying, accounting for, and securing of the said Duties and all Arrears thereof, and for the preventing, detecting, and punishing of all Frauds, Forgeries, and other Öffences relating thereto, as fully and effectually to all Intents and Purposes as if the same Powers, Authorities, Rules, Regulations, Directions, Penalties, Forfeitures, Clauses, Matters, and Things were particularly repeated and re-enacted in the Body of this Act with reference to the said Duties hereby granted. Act may be amended, &c. III. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of Parliament. CAP. CAP. X. An Act for empowering certain Officers of the High [13th April 1848.] WE HEREAS by an Act passed in the Fifth and Sixth 'An Act for abolishing certain Offices in the High Court of 5&6 Vict.c.103. Clerks of Re Assistant Clerks Declarations. II. And be it enacted, That from and after the passing of Clerk of Affithis Act it shall be lawful for every Clerk of Affidavits, As- davits and sistant Clerk, and Second Assistant Clerk of Affidavits of the may administer High Court of Chancery, to administer all such Oaths, and Oaths and take take all such Declarations, Affirmations, and Attestations upon Honour, as can now be administered or taken, or at any Time hereafter may by any Act of Parliament be directed to be administered or taken, by or before a Master in Ordinary of the said Court. Persons swear Officers to be III. And be it enacted, That all Persons swearing, declaring, ing or declaring affirming, or attesting before any Clerk of Enrolments in before such Chancery, or Clerk of Records and Writs, or Clerk of Affidavits, or Assistant Clerk, or Second Assistant Clerk of Affidavits, Penalties for [No. 4. Price 2d.] D subject to under Perjury. |