Petty Sessions of the Peace in Boroughs. Justices at Quarter Sessions, or the Council in Boroughs, may provide Places for holding Petty Sessions. CAP. XVIII. An Act for the holding of Petty Sessions of the Peace called Petty Sessions of the Peace are holden in and for certain Divisions of the several Counties of England and 'Wales called Petty Sessional Divisions, and important Duties have lately been assigned to the Justices attending at such Petty Sessions, and to their Clerks, by certain Acts of Parliament, and it is desirable to declare and enact that the Sittings of Justices of the Peace, or of a Stipendiary Magistrate, ' in and for every City, Borough, or Town Corporate having a separate Commission of the Peace, or for any Part thereof, shall be deemed a Petty Sessions of the Peace within the Meaning of such Acts, and that Buildings or Places at which such Petty Sessions may be holden shall, where necessary, be provided: Be it therefore 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 every Sitting and Acting of Justices of the Peace, or of a Stipendiary Magistrate, in and for any City, Borough, or Town Corporate having a separate Commission of the Peace, or any Part thereof, within England and Wales, at any Police Court or other Place appointed in that Behalf, shall be deemed a Petty Sessions of the Peace, and the District for which the same shall be holden shall be deemed a Petty Sessional Division, within the Meaning of any Acts of Parliament, already made or hereafter to be made, having relation to such Petty Sessions, or to any Business to be transacted thereat. 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And be it enacted, That in all Cases where at present there are not, or where hereafter there shall not be, any fit or Place for the holding of such Petty Sessions within any proper such Petty Sessional Division as aforesaid, in any County, Riding, Liberty, or Division within England and Wales, or within any City, Borough, or Town Corporate within the same, it shall be lawful for the Justices of the Peace for any such County, Riding, Liberty, or Division, in General or Quarter Sessions assembled, and for the Council or other governing Body in any such City, Borough, or Town Corporate having a separate Commission of the Peace, respectively, if they shall respectively think fit, from Time to Time to direct that fit and proper Places be hired or otherwise provided for the holding of such Petty Sessions of the Peace within any such Petty Sessional Division as aforesaid, and that the Expenses thereof and attendant thereon be paid out of the County Rate or Borough Fund respectively, as the Case may be: Provided always, that no such Direction for hiring or otherwise providing any Place for the holding of such Petty Sessions shall be given by the Justices for any such County, County, Riding, Liberty, or Division, so assembled as aforesaid, unless an Application in Writing for that Purpose, signed by the Justices of the Peace acting in such Petty Sessional Division, or the major Part of such Justices, shall have been transmitted to the Clerk of the Peace Six Weeks at the least before the holding of the General or Quarter Sessions at which such Direction shall be given; and the Clerk of the Peace shall cause Notice of such Application to be published in some Newspaper circulating in the same County, Riding, Liberty, or Division, and in which the Advertisements of County Business are usually inserted, Fourteen Days at the least before the holding of such General or Quarter Sessions: Provided always, The Justices or that in every such Case when it may be so required to provide Council may a fit and proper Place for the holding of such Petty Sessions as Use of the aforesaid, if it shall appear to the Justices so assembled as County Court aforesaid, or to the Council of such City, Borough, or Town for that PurCorporate respectively, that the County Court for the District pose. is holden in any Building or Place which would be appropriate for the holding of such Petty Sessions, it shall be lawful for such Justices or Council respectively to contract with the Treasurer of such County Court for the Use and Occupation thereof or of so much thereof as may be needed for the Purposes of such Petty Sessions, for such Time or Times, weekly or otherwise, and at such annual Rent, and subject to such Conditions as to Repairs, Alterations, or Improvements of such Building or Place, as may be agreed upon. agree for the ferent Counties may provide Places for holding Petty Sessions at the III. Provided always, and be it enacted, That where Justices Justices of the of the Peace, acting as such for Two or more adjoining Counties, Pence of difRidings, Liberties, or Divisions, hold Petty Sessions, on or near the common Boundaries of such Counties, Ridings, Liberties, or Divisions, it shall be lawful for the Justices of the Peace of each of such Counties, Ridings, Liberties, or Divisions, upon such Ap- joint Expense plication as herein-before provided, to agree with the Justices of of such Counthe Peace of the other or others of such Counties, Ridings, Liber- ties. ties, or Divisions, that a Place for the holding of such Petty Sessions be hired or otherwise provided within either of such Counties, Ridings, Liberties, or Divisions, and that the same be so hired or otherwise provided at the joint Expense of such Counties, Ridings, Liberties, or Divisions, in such Manner and Proportions as in the said Agreement shall be specified; and all the Provisions of an Act of the last Session, intituled An Act to 11 & 12 Vict. provide for the Expenses of erecting and maintaining Lock-up c. 101. Houses on the Borders of Counties, concerning the Appointment and re-assembling of Committees, filling up Vacancies in Committees, the Proceedings of Committees, the Agreement to be drawn by them (except so far as respects the Appointment and Salary of a Superintendent Constable), and the Powers of the Court of General or Quarter Sessions and of Committees in relation to such Agreement, and the executing the same, and doing all necessary Acts consequential upon such Agreement, shall extend and be applicable to every Agreement to be made under this Act by and between the Justices of Two or more such 12 VICT. such Counties, Ridings, Liberties, or Divisions as aforesaid, as if such Provisions had been here repeated, and the Agreement to be made as aforesaid under this Act, and the Place to be provided for the holding of such Petty Sessions as aforesaid, had been substituted in such Provisions for such Agreement and Lock-up House as in the said Act mentioned. 6 10 & 11 Vict. e. 45. CAP. XIX. An Act to make perpetual an Act of the Tenth and [11th May 1849.] WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Session of Parlia ment holden in the Tenth and Eleventh Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to authorize for One Year, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Removal of Prisoners from the several Gaols in Ireland in Cases of Epidemic Diseases: And whereas the 'said Act will expire at the End of the present Session of Parliament, and it is expedient to make the said Act perpetual: Be it therefore 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 made perpetual. the said recited Act shall be and the same is hereby made perpetual. Recited Act Act may be II. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or amended, &c. repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of Parliament. Treasury may raise 17,786,7001. CAP. XX. An Act for raising the Sum of Seventeen millions seven hundred and eighty-six thousand seven hundred Pounds by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. [11th May 1849.] Most Gracious Sovereign, 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 which we have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty in this Session of Parliament, have resolved to give and grant unto Your Majesty the Sum herein-after mentioned; and do therefore 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 it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom Manner as is Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, at any Time or Times, by Exchequer to cause any Number of Exchequer Bills to be made out at the Bills, in like Receipt of the Exchequer at Westminster for any Sum or Sums prescribed by of Money not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Seventeen millions seven hundred and eighty-six thousand seven hundred Pounds, in like Manner as is prescribed in an Act passed in the Forty-eighth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act for regulating the issuing and paying off of Ex- 48 G. 3. c. 1. chequer Bills, and in another Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Fourth and Fifth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act to 4&5 W. 4. c.15. regulate the Office of the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer at Westminster, and in another Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for further regulating the 5&6 Vict. c.66. Preparation and Issue of Exchequer Bills. to this Act. II. And be it enacted, That all and every the Clauses, Pro- The Clauses, visoes, Powers, Privileges, Advantages, Penalties, Forfeitures, &c. in recited and Disabilities contained in the said Acts shall be applied and Acts extended extended to the Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act, as fully and effectually to all Intents and Purposes as if the said several Clauses or Provisoes had been particularly repeated and re-enacted in the Body of this Act. III. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to issue and apply from Time to Time all such Sums of Money as shall be raised by Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act to such Services as shall then have been voted by the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in this present Session of Parliament. The Treasury Money raised. to apply the IV. And be it enacted, That the Principal Sum or Sums of Bills, how to be charged and Money to be contained in such Exchequer Bills shall be charged paid. upon and shall be paid out of any Supplies to be granted in the next Session of Parliament. Bills. V. And be it enacted, That the Exchequer Bills to be made Interest on out in pursuance of this Act shall bear Date on the Days on which the same shall be respectively issued, and shall bear an Interest not exceeding the Rate of Three-pence Halfpenny per Centum per Diem in respect of the whole of the Monies respectively contained therein, payable out of any Aids or Supplies in the Bank of England standing to the Credit of the Exchequer. lendar Months VI. And be it enacted, That all the Exchequer Bills to be Bills charged. made out by virtue of this Act, or so many of them as shall from on Supplies to be current in Time to Time remain undischarged and uncancelled, shall, after Payment of Twelve Calendar Months from their respective Dates, be taken Public Revenue and shall pass and be current to all the Receivers and Collectors after Twelve Cain Great Britain of the Customs, Excise, or any Revenue, from their Supply, Aid, or Tax whatsoever already granted or payable, or Dates. which shall hereafter be granted or payable, to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, and also at the Bank of England to the Account of Her Majesty's Exchequer, from the said Re[No. 11. Price 2d.] L ceivers Bank of England may advance 17,786,7007. on the Credit of standing 5 & 6 W. & M. c. 20. ceivers or Collectors, or from any other Person or Persons, Bodies Politic or Corporate whatsoever, making any Payment there to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, upon any Account whatever. VII. And be it declared and enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Governor and Company of the Bank of England to advance or lend to Her Majesty, upon the Credit of the Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act, any Sum or Bills, notwith- Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Seventeen millions seven hundred and eighty-six thousand seven hundred Pounds; anything in an Act passed in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary, intituled An Act for granting to Their Majesties several Rates and Duties upon Tonnage of Ships and Vessels, and upon Beer, Ale, and other Liquors; and for securing certain Recompences and Advantages in the said Act mentioned to such Persons as shall voluntarily advance the Sum of One million five hundred thousand Pounds towards carrying on the War against France, or in any subsequent Act, to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. 1 G. 4. c. 51. 9 & 10 Vict. c. 3. (New foundland Act.) 10 Vict. c. 1. (Newfoundland Act.) ' CAP. XXI. An Act to confirm certain Acts of the Legislature of Newfoundland respecting the rebuilding of the Town of Saint John's Newfoundland, and to enable the said Legislature to make other Provisions respecting the rebuilding of the said Town. [24th May 1849.] WHEREAS by an Act passed in the First Year of King George the Fourth, intituled An Act to regulate the rebuilding of the Town of Saint John's in Newfoundland, and for indemnifying Persons giving up Ground for that Purpose, it was enacted, that certain Streets and Cross Streets in the 'said Town should be respectively of the Width specified in the said Act: And whereas by an Act of the Legislature of Newfoundland passed in the Ninth and Tenth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to regulate the rebuilding of the Town of Saint John's, and the Drainage and Sewerage of the same, and to repeal certain Acts therein ' mentioned; and by another Act of the said Legislature of Newfoundland passed in the Tenth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to amend an Act passed in the Ninth and Tenth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, entitled "An Act to regulate the rebuilding of the Town "of Saint John's, and the Drainage and Sewerage of the same, "and to repeal certain Acts therein mentioned," certain Provisions are made respecting the Boundaries, Width, and Direction of certain Streets and Cross Streets or Fire Breaks in the said Town of Saint John, and such Provisions may conflict with the Provisions of the said Act of the First Year of King George |