Act may be amended, &c. 5&6 W. 4. c.50. V. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed during the present Session of Parliament. quit to striz zd bondab bar bayron ka No. 2019 SCHEDULE (A.) va boods The Honourable Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for of the WHEREAS it is humbly complained to us by C.D. [Designation] that EF. [Designation Defender, is owing to the Complainer the Sum of olie I odtwhich the said Defender refuses or delays to pay; and therefore the said Defender ought to be decerned and ordained to make Payment to the Complainer with Expenses: Therefore it is our Will, that on Sight hereof ye lawfully summon the said Defender to compear before us, or any Two or more of us, in the ood bil at: too upon the Day of od zd atotoraft Clock noon, to answer at the Complainer's Instance in the said Matter, with Certification, in case of Failure, of being held as confessed; requiring you also, to deliver to the Defender a Copy of any Account, Document of Debt, or State of the Demand pursued for; and, that ye cite Witnesses and Havers for both Parties to compear at the said Place and Date, to give. Evidence in the said Matter as accords of Law. Given under the Hand of the, Clerk of Court, at - the Day of Years. to it Eighteen hundred and dil dt to tamogor £fQ, OYrJh?? mond nidh WP., Clerk, tuomisine du [or Depute Clerk.] Citation for Defender.orosë, tanis E. F., Defender above designed, you are hereby summoned to appear and answer before the Justices in the Matter, and at the Time and Place, and under the Certification, set forth in the above Copy, of the Complaint against you. a, An Act for requiring annual Returns of the Expenditure on Highways in England and Wales to be transmitted to the Secretary of State, and afterwards laid before Parliament.od es [13th July 1849.] WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Sixth Year of King William the Fourth, intituled An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Highways in that Part of Great Britain called England, it was enacted, that within One Ca ⚫lendar ་ T "lendar Month after the Election or Appointment of Surveyor as therein directed the Accounts for the Year preceding of • Monies received and disbursed by virtue of the said Act should be signed by the Surveyor, District Surveyor, or Assistant Surveyor for the Year preceding, and laid before the Justices ' of the Peace at a Special Sessions for the Highways holden at the Place nearest to the Parish or District for which such Surveyor should have been appointed; and that at the Spe'cial Sessions for executing the Purposes of the said Act held 'next after the Twenty-fifth Day of March in every Year by 'the Justices of the Peace within their respective Divisions the Surveyor of each of the Parishes within such respective Divisions should verify his Accounts: And whereas it is 'expedient that annual Statements of the Receipts and Expenditure on Highways in England should be transmitted to One of the Secretaries of State, to the Intent that Abstracts thereof may be laid before both Houses of Parliament: Be it enacted, therefore, 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 at the Clerks to JusSpecial Sessions in each Division at which the Accounts of tices at Special any Surveyors, District Surveyors, and Assistant Surveyors prepare Stateshall be produced and verified as by the said recited Act ments from required the Clerk to the Justices shall prepare from such Accounts of Surveyors of Accounts a separate Statement in Writing, according to the Highways, and Form in the Schedule to this Act, of the Receipts and Ex- transmit them penditure on account of the Highways of each Parish in such to Secretary of Division, and shall, within Fourteen Days after such Special Sessions, transmit all such Statements to One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State; and for the Preparation and Transmission of each such Statement such Clerk shall be entitled to to the Fee of Two Shildo the respective Parish lings; and if any such Clerk to such Justices shall neglect to Penalty on transmit any such Statement within the Time herein-before Neglect. prescribed for that Purpose, he shall for every such Offence, on Conviction, forfeit any Sum not exceeding Five Pounds nor less than Forty Shillings, and such Penalty shall be recovered and applied as Penalties are by the said Act made recoverable and applicable. Sessions to State. Boroughs, and ments of II. And be it enacted, That the Town Clerk of every City, Town Clerks Borough, Port, Cinque Port, or Town Corporate subject to the of Cities and Provisions of the Act passed in the Seventh Year of King Wil- Clerks to Trusliam the Fourth, "to provide for the Regulation of Municipal tees and Com"Corporations in England and Wales," and the Clerk to the missioners, to Trustees or Commissioners appointed under any Act of Parlia- Prepare Statement where the Council of such City, Borough, Port, Cinque Accounts Port, or Town Corporate, or such Trustees or Commissioners, respecting are authorized to pave, cleanse, or repair any Highway, shall, transmit them within Thirty Days next after every annual or other periodical to Secretary of Account of the Receipts and Expenditure of such Council, State. Trustees, or Commissioners, in respect of the Highways under Highways, and Penalty on Abstracts of Statements to be laid before Parliament. First-recited Act to be One. Act may be their Management has been made out, or where Provision is made for the Settlement or Audit of such Account, then within Thirty Days after such Settlement or Audit, prepare from such Account a Statement in Writing, showing (as far as Circumstances will permit) the like Particulars of such Receipts and Expenditure as are indicated under the Heads of Receipts and Expenditure respectively in the Form contained in the Schedule to this Act, and shall, within the Time aforesaid, transmit such Statement to One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State; and if such Town Clerk or Clerk to the Trustees or Commissioners shall neglect to transmit any such Statement within such Time as aforesaid, he shall for every such Offence, on Conviction, forfeit any Sum not exceeding Ten Pounds nor less than Five Pounds, and such Penalty shall be recovered and applied as Penalties are by the said Act made recoverable and applicable. III. And be it enacted, That such Secretary of State shall every Year cause the Statements transmitted to him under this Act to be abstracted, and the Abstracts thereof to be laid before both Houses of Parliament. IV. And be it enacted, That the said first-recited Act and this Act shall be construed together as One Act. V. 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. SCHEDULE. GENERAL STATEMENT of the RECEIPTS and EXPENDITURE on account of the HIGHWAYS of the Parish [Township, Hamlet, &c.] of in the County of for the Year ending 25th March 18, as appearing from the on the Day of CAP. XXXVI. An Act to make Provision, during the present Year, · WHEREAS by an Act of the Sixth and Seventh Years 6 P 4 Majesty, Power to Lord to continue by Collectors of Grand Jury Cess for the then current Year. 12 & 13 VICT. 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 Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, by any Order to be published in the Dublin Dublin Gazette, Gazette, from Time to Time to order and declare that in and for Security given any County or Barony in such Order specified the Provision herein-after contained relating to the Security to be given by any High Constable or Collector of Grand Jury Cess for the due Collection of the same shall be in force during the then current Year; and a Copy of such Order shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the Grand Jury of such respective County; and from the making of such Order thenceforth as to any such County or Barony it shall be and be deemed valid and sufficient, for the Purposes of the said recited Act, that any such Bond and Warrant of Attorney to confess Judgment to the Treasurer in the said Act directed to be given, and so given and entered into during the then current Year in which such Order shall have been made, shall be conditioned for any such High Constable or Collector duly collecting and paying to the County Treasurer all such public Money so required by him to be collected as he shall receive, or as he without Neglect or wilful Default might have received; and any such last-mentioned Bond and Warrant, without any Stamp, shall be as valid and effectual for the Purposes of the said Act, or any Act amending the same, and shall be deemed to be within the Meaning and subject to the Provisions of the said recited Act, or any Aet amending the same, as fully and effectually as any such Bond and Warrant as is by the said recited Act prescribed. oge zoond no 71700' A Special Ses sions to be held to examine Collector's Accounts, and to certify the Amount he might without Neglect or wilful Default have received. II. And be it enacted, That in every County in which or in any Barony of which the Provision of this Act last aforesaid shall be in force in manner aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the Secretary of the Grand Jury of such County and he is hereby required, by Notice under his Hand to be posted at the usual Places for posting public Notices in each Barony next hereinafter mentioned, to convene a Special Sessions for the Examination of the Collector's Accounts, to be holden in each Barony in which such last-mentioned Provision shall be so in force at the usual Place for holding Presentment Sessions, on a certain Day not more than Ten Days previously to the First Day of the assembling of the Grand Jury at each Assizes, at which said Special Sessions respectively the several Justices of the County shall be entitled to attend and take a Part in the Proceedings, and also such Cess-payers as were associated with the Justices at the Presentment Sessions held for such respective Barony after the then last Assizes; and at such Special Sessions in each such Barony, the High Constable or Collector of the same is hereby required to attend and produce his Accounts, Books, and Vouchers relating to the Collection of Grand Jury Cess in such Barony before such Justices and Cess-payers, who shall examine the same; and after due Examination of the same, and after Examination of such High Constable or Collector or other Person |