Recited Act con tinued till 1st Sept. 1851. 2 Sheep and Cattle Contagious Disorders Prevention Continuance. assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the said Act shall continue and be in force until the First Day of September One thoueight hundred and fifty-one, and, if Parliament be then sitting, then further until the End of the then Session of Parliament. A BILL INTITULED An Act to provide for the Appointment of Sheriff of the County of Westmoreland. W HEREAS the Office of High Sheriff of Westmoreland, by Preamble. virtue of a certain Grant or Grants of His Majesty King John to Robert de Veteripont and his Heirs, and of divers Assignments or Conveyances thereof, descended and came to Henry 5 Earl of Thanet now deceased, who in his Lifetime and at the Time of his Death was and exercised and enjoyed the said Office of Hereditary High Sheriff, descendible to him and his Heirs: And whereas the said Henry Earl of Thanet died on or about the Twelfth Day of June One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine without 10 lawful Issue, having first made and published his Will, whereby (as it is alleged) he devised the said Office of Sheriff to Richard Tufton for Life, with divers Remainders over: And whereas Doubts have arisen whether the said Office of Sheriff passed by the said Devise contained in the said Will, or whether it became on the Death of 15 the said Henry Earl of Thanet vested in his Heir or Heiress at Law, or whether it escheated to the Crown: And whereas it being impracticable to settle and ascertain such Doubts and Rights within the Time necessary for executing and performing the said Office of Sheriff 487. c. 42. Sheriff within the said County, and it being necessary for the Administration of Justice within the said County that a Sheriff for the said County should be appointed until such Doubts and Rights could be settled and ascertained, it was by a certain Act of Parliament passed in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty, 5 12 & 13 Vict. intituled "An Act to provide for the Execution for One Year of "the Office of Sheriff in the County of Westmoreland," enacted that it should be lawful for Her Majesty, from and after the passing of that Act, to nominate and appoint, in Manner and Form therein mentioned, such Person to be Sheriff for One Year of the County 10 of Westmoreland as She should by the Advice of Her Council think fit: And whereas, in pursuance of the said Power given to Her Majesty by the said Act, Her Majesty, on the Eighteenth Day of July in the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, was graciously pleased, by the Advice of Her Council, to appoint George Edmund 15 Wilson of Heversham House, Esquire, to be Sheriff of the County of Westmoreland: And whereas grave Inconveniences have arisen in consequence of the said Office of Sheriff of Westmoreland having been so vested in the Heirs of the said Robert de Veteripont, and also still further Inconveniences in consequence of the conflicting Claims 20 of different Persons to the said Office under or by virtue of the said Grant; and the like Inconveniences may again occur if the Right to hold, exercise, or enjoy the said Office should be continued as aforetime in any of Her Majesty's Subjects; wherefore it is expedient that Provision should be made for the discontinuing and abolishing 25 such Rights, and for vesting the Appointment of the Sheriff of the County of Westmoreland in Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, in like Manner as is the Case in all other Counties of England and Wales: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual 30 and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the first Appointment by Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, of any of pointment by Her Majesty Her Majesty's Subjects, in manner herein-after mentioned, to be of Sheriff of Sheriff of the County of Westmoreland, all Right and Title in the 35 land, all other said Robert de Veteripont, his Heir or Heirs, or any Person or After the first Ap Westmore Rights to make such Appoint ment to cease. After passing of Act, Her Majesty to appoint to Office of Sheriff. Persons claiming through or under any of them, or under any Devise, II. And be it enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act it shall be lawful for the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, to appoint, in such Manner and Form as is provided |