Justices of the Peace may or der account to be kept of the fees. Table of fees to affixed. Penalty. order, warrant, information, recognizance, conviction, or for any other matter or thing done by the justices at Petty Sessions. SEC. 9. That it may be lawful for the justices to require an account to be kept of the fees, and in case of their amounting to a greater sum than such justices shall consider to be, and shall have been fixed as an adequate remuneration for such clerk, to appropriate any balance remaining after payment of the clerk, to the purchase of stationery or books for the use of the Petty Sessions. SEC. 10. That a printed table of fees shall be affixed be printed and within every court-house where such sessions are holden, and if any greater fees are taken than those set forth in the schedule, any person so offending shall forfeit the sum of £5, to be recovered by civil bill, by any person who shall sue for the same. Provided, nevertheless, that no fee shall be taken by any clerk, or other person, for any summons, warrant, information, recognizance, or other magisterial act, done by any justice, at any other time, place, or in any other manner than at petty sessions. Record to be kept at Petty Sessions, and signed by magistrates. Informations and recogni each month SEC. 11. That a registry or record be kept by every clerk of Petty Sessions, of all acts done at Petty Sessions, whether in criminal or civil cases, in the manner set forth in the schedule to this act, such registry to be signed on each day on which the Sessions are holden, by all the justices present; and that no summons, warrant, conviction, committal, information, recognizance, or other magisterial act, be issued or signed at such Petty Sessions, without making an entry thereof in the record or registry. SEC. 12. That all informations and recognizances zances to be in sworn and acknowledged at the Petty Sessions, or transmitted thereto, shall once at least in each month, be transmitted to the clerk of the crown or peace of such county, county of a city, or county of a town, as the case transmitted to clerks of crown and peace. may require; the office of such clerk of the crown or peace to be kept open from twelve o'clock till three every day, Sundays, Good Friday, and Christmas day excepted. Single justice to report to Petty Sessions. SEC. 13.-That in all cases in which it becomes necessary for a single justice to act magisterially, not being in Petty Sessions, save and except in the issue of summonses, such magistrates do report such case, together with the informations taken, or recognizances sworn or acknowledged, to the ensuing Petty Sessions, and that Particular a particular entry be made of such case. entry. mations and re SEC. 14. That a list of informations and recogni- Lists of inforzances taken before a single justice, be made out by the cognizances to respective clerks of the crown and peace, and be laid be laid before before the judges of assize and justices of quarter sessions respectively, together with the names of the justices before whom such proceedings were taken. and justices of judges of assize the peace at Quarter Sessions. the peace at SEC. 15.-Thatevery warrant, information, conviction, Proceedings at committal, recognizance, or order of the justices at Petty to be signed by Petty Sessions Sessions shall be signed by two justices at the least, two justices of and not by any one person as chairman, and on the least. behalf of the others; and that no summons, warrant, or order be signed by any justice or justices of the peace, unless the blanks in the warrant be first duly filled up. although summons may have SEC. 16.-That justices at Petty Sessions may hear Justices to hear and determine any case within their jurisdiction, although the summons may have issued from, or complaint be received by, any other justice or justices. issued from constables to SEC. 17. That all chief and other constables shall Chief and other attend the magistrates at Petty Sessions, and execute all attend at Petty orders of the magistrates, (when not engaged on actual Sessions. duty,) provided that they be not employed under such Proviso. authority in the levy of tithes, or of rents by distress, or in the levy of fines under the revenue laws, or game laws, except only where forcible resistance shall have been actually made, and proved by information taken on oath. We, the undersigned justices of the peace for the County of do hereby apply for the establishment of a Petty in the parish of Sessions at day of J. P. and J. J. P. &c. &c. 4 & 5 WILL. IV. CH. 93. Act to amend the Laws relating to Appeals against sum- Appeals to be Quarter Sessions which within the dis heard in the shall be holden WHEREAS, General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace are holden in each of the divisions of counties in Ireland; and it is expedient, for the ease and convenience of parties concerned in appeals thereto from the orders or convictions of Justices of the Peace, that the hearing thereof trict in which the original matshould be limited to the sessions holden in the division ter has occurred. where such order or conviction has been made; be it enacted, that every such appeal shall and may be heard and determined at the next General or Quarter Sessions to be held in the same division of the county wherein the order or conviction has been made or pronounced, and not at the sessions holden in any other division. Any thing in any act to the contrary notwithstanding. 43 GEO. III. CH. 141. Act to render Justices of Peace more safe in the Execution of their Duty. IT IS ENACTED: [11th August, 1803. SEC. 1.-Reciting that it is expedient that justices of the peace in Great Britain and Ireland respectively, who, by virtue of divers acts of parliament, are authorized and required to convict persons of sundry offences in a summary way, should be rendered more safe in the execution of their duty: That in all actions which shall be brought against any justice of the peace in Great Britain and Ireland, for, or on account of, any conviction under any act of parliament, or for, or by reason of, any thing done by such justice for the levying of any penalty, apprehending any party, or for carrying any such conviction into effect; in case such conviction shall have been quashed, the plaintiff or plaintiffs in such actions, besides the value of the penalty which may have been levied upon such plaintiff or plaintiffs, if so levied, shall not be entitled to recover any greater damages than the sum of two-penee, nor any costs of suit, unless it shall be expressly alleged in the declaration in the action, which shall be an action on the case only, that such acts were done maliciously, and without reasonable and probable cause. |