Recovery of wages. No appeal. Power to magistrates to order repairs. 3 & 4 WILL. IV. CH. 78. Act to amend the Laws relating to Grand Juries in Ireland. [28th August, 1833. IT IS ENACTED, SEC. 50. That all contractors under this act shall be liable to be summoned before the justices assembled at any Petty Sessions, on complaint of the party aggrieved, for the recovery of any wages, or money payable to any person employed by them in the execution of such works, so as the sum demanded do not exceed £6; and such justices are hereby required to adjudicate thereon, and their decision shall be final, and the sum adjudged to be due shall be levied by warrant of distress, under hand and seal of any two such justices, off the goods and chattels of such contractor. SEC. 56.-That any two justices of the peace, in Petty Sessions assembled, may, under their hands and seals, order any sum not exceeding £10, to be expended in repairing any bridge, or public road suddenly damaged, provided it shall appear on the view of one or both of them, or on that of the county surveyor, that such repairs cannot be delayed till the next assizes, without prejudice to the public; and it shall be lawful for such justices to appoint a proper person to repair the same; and the grand jury of the county is hereby empowered to present at the next assizes, the sum so expended on repairing a bridge, to be levied off the county at large; that on a road, to be levied off the barony, or half barony, or on the county of a city or town; such sum to be paid to the person appointed by the justices, on production of an order under their hands and seals, as also of a certificate under the hand of the county sur veyor, that the sum specified appears to have been faithfully and honestly expended. Provided always, that no such order shall be made by the justices, unless the necessity of the case shall be notified to them by the county surveyor, in all cases where his attendance can be readily procured; and provided also, that no justice of the peace shall make or sign more than one order for the expenditure of any sum as aforesaid, for the reparation of the same sudden damage between the termination of one assize and the commencement of another. SEC. 63. That the grand jury may present for the holding of Petty Sessions an annual sum not exceeding £10, for the rent of a room not being in a house where spirituous or fermented liquors are sold, or in a police barrack, or in any other building maintained either wholly or in part at the public expense, but such presentment is to be made as all others under this act. Grand jury to present any sum not exceeding £10 for Petty Sessions room. assaulting persons in execu SEC. 81. That in case any one shall resist any per- Resisting or son or persons employed in the execution of this act, or shall assault any surveyor, or deputy surveyor, collector, tion of this or? supervisor, overseer, contractor, or peace-officer, in the relating to execution of this or any other act for the making or re- roads. pairing of high roads, or shall make or attempt to make any rescue of goods distrained by virtue of this or any other such act; or if any constable or sub-constable shall refuse or neglect to execute any warrant granted by any justice of the peace, pursuant to any power by this act created, every such offender, on conviction before two justices at Petty Sessions, by the oath of one credible witness, shall for every such offence forfeit any sum not exceeding £10, nor less than forty shillings, at Penalty. the discretion of the justices: and in default of payment the offender to be committed for any period not exceeding three months, or until the fine be paid. Notes payable to treasurer su able at Petty Sessions, if not exceeding £10. Stamp not required. Materials protected from distress. 4 GEO. IV. CH. 32. Act for Amendment of the Laws respecting Charitable Loan Societies in Ireland. IT IS ENACTED, [30th May, 1823. SEC. 5.-That all securities entered into for payment of such loans, or of instalments of loans, may be made payable to the treasurer or clerk of the said societies, and may be sued for and recovered in his name, for the benefit of the said societies, before the assistant barrister or the justices assembled at Petty Session, ten days' notice being previously given to the party sued, and provided that the value of such notes and securities do not exceed the sum of £10. SEC. 9.-That no note or security under this act shall be chargeable with stamp duty. SEC. 10.—That materials given to parties under this act are protected from distress for rent, or from any execution whatever, save and except where the execution is at the suit of the officers of the charitable societies. 10 GEO. IV. CH. 33. Act to amend several Acts for the Encouragement of the IT IS ENACTEd, [4th June, 1829. fishermen to Notes given by SEC. 1.-(Reciting 59 Geo. III. ch. 109, and 5 Geo. IV. commissioners ch. 64 :) That any promissory note, or other security given by virtue of the before-mentioned acts to the of fisheries su able at Petty fishermen, and now by law suable before assistant Sessions. barristers, may be sued for and recovered, in the name of the commissioners, or secretary, or other officer to whom such notes are made payable, before any two justices at Petty Sessions. cess. SEC. 2. That when it shall be proved to the satis- Service of profaction of the justices, that service of process could not be effected in the usual manner upon any fisherman or his sureties, but that a true copy of the process had been affixed fourteen days at the least before the day of hearing, upon the door or other conspicuous part of the residence of the party sued, and upon the door of the parish church and Roman Catholic chapel, if any there be, and that the same had remained there for one hour at least between eleven o'clock in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, such justices may hear the case, and determine it in the absence of the defendant. SEC. 3. That costs of proceedings at the Petty Sessions shall not exceed the rate of charge established by the Irish act, 36 Geo. III.,(a) for suitors by civil bill before assistant barristers: and that it shall be lawful for the commissioners of the fisheries to make special agreements with attornies, or other legal assistants, for the recovery of sums due on such promissory notes as before mentioned, so as that the fees do not exceed those mentioned in 36 Geo. III. ch. 25. Costs not to tablished by exceed those es civil bill act. (a) Fees established by 36 Geo. III. ch. 25. To plaintiff's attorney for drawing process entering it attending at the hearing To defendant's attorney for attending at the hearing To plaintiff's attorney for drawing up a decree To defendant's attorney for drawing up a dismiss To attorney for drawing and filing every renewal, and drawing or filling up the affidavit to obtain it Magistrates to appoint appraisers. 7 GEO. IV. CH. 42. Act to amend the Laws of force in Ireland, for preventing the vexatious Impounding of Cattle for Trespass or Damage feasant. IT IS ENACTED, [26th May, 1826, SEC. 1.-(Reciting 37 Geo. III. ch. 36, and 40 Geo. III, ch. 71,) That magistrates at Quarter Sessions, not less than three being present, may nominate and appoint any number (not exceeding three) of persons to act as appraisers and arbitrators, under this act, for such parish or number of parishes, as such magistrates shall determine, and such magistrates, not less than three being present, may, from time to time suspend, or remove, or appoint others in place of the said arbitrators, and fix the rate of fees of such arbitrators, and alter and vary the amount thereof, from time to time, and each arbitrator so appointed, shall take and subscribe the following oath : "I, A. B. of C. D., in the parish of E., do swear that I will, "when called upon, justly and honestly appraise, and value, and "arbitrate, with respect to all matters relating to the trespassing "and damage feasant of animals of any description; and that I "will faithfully and honestly perform all other the duties of an 66 appraiser and arbitrator, according to the act made in the seventh year of king Geo. IV., intituled, &c. [set forth the title]; and "that I will not accept or take any fee or reward for executing "such duty, save and except what I shall be entitled to under the "provisions of said act. 66 "So help me God." This oath to be administered in open court, at Petty Sessions, and to be registered and recorded there; and |