CAP. VI. 21 G. 2. c. 12. An Act to repeal an Act of the Twenty-first Year of George the Second, for holding the Summer Assizes at Buckingham; and to authorize the Appointment of a more convenient Place for holding the same. [9th March 1849.] WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Twenty-first Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, intituled An Act for holding the Summer Assizes for the County of Buckingham at the County Town of Buckingham, it was enacted, that from and after the First Day of June One thousand seven hundred and forty-eight all the Commissions of Assize and Nisi Prius, and all General Commissions of Oyer and Terminer, and all • Commissions of General Gaol Delivery, which should thereafter be appointed to be held and executed for the said County next after the Term of Holy Trinity, should be held and executed in each Year at and in the said Town of Buckingham, and at no other Place within the said County of Buckingham, any Law, Statute, Usage, Matter, or Thing to the contrary notwithstanding: And whereas by an Act passed in the Session ' of Parliament holden in the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled 3 & 4 W. 4. c. 71. An Act for the Appointment of convenient Places for the holding of Assizes in England and Wales, after reciting that the Places at which the Assizes were then held in various Counties in England and Wales were inconvenient to the Inhabitants thereof, and that it would conduce to the more cheap, speedy, and effectual Administration of Justice to appoint other Places ⚫ instead thereof for the holding of Assizes, it was amongst other things declared and enacted, that His Majesty, by and with the Advice of His Most Honourable Privy Council, should have Power from Time to Time to order and direct at what Place or Places in any County in England or Wales the Assizes and Sessions under the Commissions of Gaol Delivery, and other Commissions for the Despatch of Civil and CriminalBusiness, should be holden: And whereas since the passing of the first above-recited Act up to the present Time the Summer 'Assizes for the said County have been regularly held in the Town of Buckingham: And whereas the holding of the said Assizes at the said Town is inconvenient to the Inhabitants of the said County at large, and it would conduce to the more cheap, speedy, and effectual Administration of Justice if some other Place or Places were appointed for the holding of the said Assizes, but by reason of the said first above-recited Act that Object cannot be effected under the Provisions of Provisions ofthe the secondly above-recited Act:' May it therefore please first-recited Act Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by requiring the Summer Assizes the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Com to be held in mons, mons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority the Town of of the same, That so much of the said first above-mentioned Buckingham repealed. Act as is herein-before recited shall be and the same is hereby repealed. extended II. And be it enacted, That all the Powers, and Provisions Provisions of of the said Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in 3&4 W.4.c.71. the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty to the County King William the Fourth shall extend and apply to the said of Buckingham. County of Buckingham, and every Place therein, any Law, Statute, Matter, or Thing to the contrary notwithstanding. CAP. VII. An Act to authorize the Inclosure of certain Lands, in pursuance of the Fourth Annual General Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales. [9th March 1849.] WHEREAS the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales have, in pursuance of an Act passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act 8&9 Vict. to facilitate the Inclosure and Improvement of Commons and c.118. Lands held in common, the Exchange of Lands, and the Division of intermixed Lands; to provide Remedies for defective or incomplete Executions, and for the Non-execution of the Powers of general and local Inclosure Acts; and to provide for the 'Revival of such Powers in certain Cases, issued Provisional Orders for and concerning the several proposed Inclosures ' mentioned in the Schedule to this Act, and have, in the annual General Report of their Proceedings, certified their Opinion that such Inclosures would be expedient; but the same cannot be proceeded with without the Authority of Parliament:' Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Inclosures Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords mentioned in Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parlia- be proceeded ment assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the with. said several proposed Inclosures mentioned in the Schedule to this Act be proceeded with. Schedule may II. And be it enacted, That in citing this Act in other Acts Short Title. of Parliament, and in legal Instruments, it shall be sufficient to use the Expression "The Annual Inclosure Act, 1849." 43 Eliz. c. 2. Justices of the and Boroughs to have the exclusive Right of appointing Overseers. CAP. VIII. An Act to remove Doubts as to the Appointment of WH HEREAS Doubts have been entertained as to the proper Authority for the Appointment of Overseers of the Poor of the Parishes comprised within certain Cities and Boroughs under the Provisions of the Act of the Forty-third Year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, intituled An Act for the Relief of the Poor, and it is expedient that such Doubts should be removed:' 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 in every City, Town Corporate, or Borough the Justices of the Peace having Jurisdiction therein shall have the exclusive Right of appointing the Overseers of the Poor of the several Parishes, Townships, or other Places separately maintaining their own Poor, or of any Parts thereof, within the said Cities, Towns 7 Corporate, Corporate, and Boroughs respectively, in like Manner and with the same Effect as the Justices of any County now have in respect of the Overseers of the Poor of any Parish within such County, and they are hereby required from Time to Time to make such Appointments accordingly. c. 2. s. 10. II. And be it enacted, That so much of the said Act as Repeal of Part renders the Mayor, Alderman, and head Officer of any City, of the 43 Eliz. Town, or Place Corporate liable, upon the Default of the Nomination of Overseers therein, to lose and forfeit for every such Default Five Pounds shall be and the same is hereby repealed. of Overseers III. And be it enacted, That the Appointments of any Over- Appointments seers of the Poor in such Cities, Towns Corporate, or Boroughs in Cities and heretofore made by Justices of the Peace therein, without the Boroughs by Concurrence of the Mayor or other head Officer thereof, shall Justices renbe deemed and taken to be valid, and that every Rate or Assessment made or to be made, and every other Act and Thing done or to be done by any Overseers so appointed, shall, if otherwise lawful, be valid for all Purposes. dered valid. and Places un IV. Provided nevertheless, and be it enacted, That this Act Saving of the shall not apply to the City of London, nor to any of the Parishes City of London comprised therein, nor to the Appointment of the Overseers of der Local Acts. any Parish, Township, or Place where such Appointment is regulated by the Provisions of any Local Act. V. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or Act may be repealed by any Act to be passed in the present Session of amended, &c. Parliament. CAP. IX. An Act to indemnify such Persons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments, and to extend the Time limited. for those Purposes respectively until the Twentyfifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and fifty. [3d April 1849.] WHEREAS divers Persons who, on account of their Offices, Places, Employments, or Professions, or any 'other Cause or Occasion, ought to have taken and subscribed 'the Oaths or Assurance respectively appointed to be by such 'Persons taken and subscribed in and by an Act passed in the 'First Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the First, of glorious Memory, intituled An Act for the further 1 G. 1. st. 2. Security of His Majesty's Person and Government, and the c. 13. "Succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants; and for extinguishing the Hopes of the pre'tended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret Abettors; or 'to have qualified themselves according to an Act passed in the 'Thirteenth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King Charles 'the Second, intituled An Act for the well-governing and regu- 13 C.2. st. 2. lating of Corporations; or to have qualified themselves accord- c. 1. B 3 'ing 25 C. 2. c. 2. 30 C. 2. st.2. 8 G. 1. c. 6. 9 G. 2. c. 26. 18 G. 2. c. 20. 6 G. 3. c. 53. 9 G. 4. c. 17. 10 G.4. c. 7. 6 ing to another Act passed in the Twenty-fifth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King Charles the Second, intituled An •Act for preventing the Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants; or according to another Act passed in the Thirtieth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King Charles the • Second, intituled An Act for the more effectual preserving the King's Person and Government, by disabling Papists from sitting in either House of Parliament; or according to another Act passed in the Eighth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the First, intituled An Act for granting the People called Quakers such Forms of Affirmation or Declaration as may remove the Difficulties which many of them lie under; or according to another Act passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Second, intituled An Act for indemnifying Persons who have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices within the Time limited by Law, and for allowing further Time for that Purpose; and for amending so • much of an Act passed in the Second Year of the Reign of His present Majesty as requires Persons to qualify themselves for Offices before the End of the next Term or Quarter Sessions; and also for enlarging the Time limited by Law for making and subscribing the Declaration against Transubstantiation; and for allowing a further Time for Enrolment of Deeds and Wills made by Papists; and for Relief of Protestant Purchasers, Devisees, and Lessees; or according to another Act passed in the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Second, intituled An Act to amend and render more effectual an Act passed in the Fifth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act for the further Qualification of Justices of the Peace;' or according to another Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for altering the Oath of Abjuration and the Assurance; and for amending so much of an Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of Her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled An Act for the Improvement of the Union of the Two Kingdoms,' as after the Time therein limited requires the Delivery of certain Lists and Copies therein ' mentioned to Persons indicted of High Treason or Misprision of Treason or according to another Act passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, 'intituled An Act for repealing so much of several Acts as imposes the Necessity of receiving the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper as a Qualification for certain Offices and Employments; or according to another Act passed in the Tenth Year of the Reign of His said Majesty, intituled An Act for the Relief of • His Majesty's Roman Catholic Subjects, so far only as the said Act relates to any Civil or Military Offices or Places of Trust, or Places of Profit or Corporate Offices; have, through Ignorance of the Law, Absence, or some unavoidable Accident, • omitted to take and subscribe the Oaths and Assurance and make and subscribe the Declaration required by the said recited Acts or either of them, or otherwise to qualify them 6 6 6 |