Person or Persons upon Oath relating to the same, which Oath any such Justice shall be empowered to administer, such Justices and Cess-payers shall determine and ascertain the Amount of the Sums which such High Constable or Collector shall have received or without Neglect or wilful Default might have received and collected of the Amount of the Grand Jury Cess required to be collected by him since the then last Assizes, and shall cause the Chairman of such Special Sessions to certify under his Hand the Amount thereof which without Neglect or wilful Default might have been so collected, and also the Amount actually collected, together with a List of the Persons and Lands from whom or which such Cess has not been collected, and also a List of the Persons and Lands, if any, from whom or which the same might have been so collected and has not been collected; and Certificate and such Certificate and Lists/ shall by the Secretary of the Grand Lists to be laid Jury be laid before the Grand Jury at the then next Assizes, Jury, and if who shall take the same into their Consideration; and if they approved and shall pass a Resolution approving of such Certificate, or approv- Money paid ing thereof subject to any Modification, and if such High Con- to be entitled stable or Collector shall duly pay or shall have paid over to the to Poundage. respective Treasurer of the County the whole Amount which it shall appear by such Certificate, so approved or modified, might without Neglect or wilful Default have been collected, such High Constable or Collector in such Case shall receive and be paid his Poundage as in the said first-recited Act, or any Act amending the same, and this Act, provided, upon the Amount so collected and paid over to the Treasurer. so fro I ! before Grand over, Collector Order before III. Provided always, and be it enacted, That as regards Provision for any such County or Barony specified in such Order as aforesaid, appointing a where a Collector has not yet been appointed for any Barony any County or to collect the County Cess payable before the Summer Assizes Barony speof this Year, in such Case, at any Time previous to the Summer cified in the Assizes of this Year, the Appointment of any such High Con- the Summer stable or Collector may be made for such Barony by the Trea- Assizes of this surer of such respective County, and such Security as aforesaid Year. may be given before such Treasurer, and such Appointment and Security so made and given shall be as valid and effectual to all Intents and Purposes, and subject to like Provisions and Powers, as if such High Constable or Collector had been duly appointed by the Grand Jury or any Quarter Sessions or Special Sessions, and such Security had been duly given in the Manner in the said recited Act or any Act amending the same directed: Provided always, that in such last-mentioned Case the Examination of the Accounts, Books, and Vouchers of the High Constable or Collector, instead of being held and had before a Special Session as herein-before provided, shall be held and had before any Three Members of the Grand Jury of such County at the said Summer Assizes, in like Manner and with like Powers, who may grant a like Certificate, which shall be laid before the said Grand Jury and shall be dealt with in like Manner and deemed and taken as if the same had been made and given at a Special Session as herein-before mentioned. 1 IV. And Collector shall pay his Collection monthly to the County Bank, or as soon as he has received 100%. Powers of this exercised to the Interpretation of Terms. Act may be IV. And be it enacted, That any such High Constable or Collector shall, on or before the First Day of every Month, or so often as he shall have received One hundred Pounds, pay into the County Bank, to the Credit of the Treasurer of the County, the Sums he may have received up to such Period, and shall furnish to the Treasurer of the County an Account of the Sums so received and paid in. 1 V. And be it enacted, That the Proceedings, Powers, and Authorities and Provisions by this Act authorized and provided may (save when hereby otherwise declared) be had, taken, and exercised during the present Year, and to the End of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. VI. And be it enacted, That in the Construction of this Act, unless the Subject or Context require another Construction, the Word "County" shall extend to a County of a City or County of a Town, and, the Word "Barony" shall extend to any District for which any such Collector may be or may have been appointed under the Powers by Law given in that Behalf. VII. 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 3 & 4 Vict. c. 110. Recited Act further continued. Act may be Parliament. CAP. XXXVII. tod buf.. An Act to continue to the First Day of October One thousand eight hundred and fifty, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, an Act to amend the Laws relating to Loan Societies. [13th July 1849.] WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty, intituled An Act to amend the Laws relating to Loan Societies, which Act has been continued by sundry Acts until the First Day of October in the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, and it is expedient that the same should be further continued: 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 the said Act shall be further continued to the First Day of October in the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament.! 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. CAP. 1849. Assaults (Ireland)-Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction. Cap.38,39, An Act to continue for Five Years an Act of the HEREAS an Act was passed in the Session of Parlia WHE ment holden in the Second and Third Years of the 235 Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for the 2&3 Viet. c. 77. better Prevention and Punishment of Assaults in Ireland for Five Years: And whereas by an Act of the Seventh and 7 & 8 Vict. Eighth Years of Her Majesty's Reign the said first-recited c. 23. Act was continued, and will expire on the First Day of September in this present Year, and it is expedient further to continue the same:' 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 First-recited the said first-recited Act shall be and continue in full Force Act continued and Effect for the further Period of Five Years from the said First Day of September in this present Year. for Five Years. II. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or Act may be repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of amended, &c. Parliament. CAP. XXXIX. 1 An Act for further continuing, until the First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and fifty, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, certain temporary Provisions concerning Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in England. [13th July 1849.] WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Tenth and Eleventh An Act to amend the Law as to Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in 10 & 11 Vict. England, by which it was enacted, that certain of the Pro- c. 98. • visions therein contained should continue until the First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, and, if Parliament were then sitting, until the End of the then Session of Parliament; and such Provisions have, by an Act 11 & 12 Vict. passed in the last Session of Parliament, been continued until c. 67. the First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament: And whereas it is expedient that the said Provisions 'should be further continued:' 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 the said Provisions of the said firstly-recited Act Certain Provishall continue until the First Day of August One thousand eight sions of first hundred recited Act further continued. Act may be amended, &c. 3 & 4 W. 4. c. 16. hundred and fifty, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament. II. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of Parlia An Act to continue, until the Thirty-first Day of July One thousand eight hundred and fifty, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, certain of the Allowances of the Duty of Excise on Soap used in Manufactures. tovush so of 1. [13th July 1849.] WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Third Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King iam the Fourth, intituled An Act to repeal the Duties, Allowances, and Drawbacks of Excise on Soap, and to grant other Duties, Allowances, and Drawbacks in lieu thereof, certain Allowances of the Duties of Excise paid on Soap were granted in respect of Soap used in re in certain Manufactures and Processes set forth in the said Act, and which Allowances were to cease at the to cease at the End of the Session of Parliament next after the Thirty-first Day of May One thousand eight hundred and thirty-five: And whereas by subsequent Acts, and particularly by an Act passed in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, the said Allowances (except the Allowance for the whitening of new Linen in the Piece for Sale) were continued until the End of the Session of Parliament next after the Thirty-first Day of July One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight: And whereas it is expedient that the said Allowances (except as aforesaid) should be further continued:' 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 Certain Allow- Authority of the same, That the said Allowances (except the Allowance of the Duty on Soap used, employed, or consumed in the whitening of new Linen in the Piece for Sale) shall continue and remain payable until the End of the Session of Parliament next after the Thirty-first Day of July One thousand eight hundred and fifty, in like Manner as if the same had been made payable until that Time by the said first-recited Act. 10 & 11 Vict. c. 41. ances of the Duty on Soap continued. 6 56 G. 3. c. 68. that CAP. XLI. An Act to extend an Act of the Fifty-sixth Year of [13th July 1849.] WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Fifty-sixth Year of His late Majesty George the Third, intituled An Act • to Standard Sil Pieces of a to provide for a new Silver Coinage, and to regulate_the_Currency of the Gold and Silver Coin of this Realm: And whereas it is expedient that the Provisions of the said Act, so far as regards the Silver Coin of the Realm, should be extended :' 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 from and after the The Pound passing of this Act it shall and may be lawful for Her Majesty's Troy of Master and Worker of the Mint at Her Majesty's Mint in ver, &c. may London to coin or cause to be coined any Silver Bullion which be coined into at any Time before or after the passing of this Act shall have Crowns or been or shall be brought to or delivered or deposited at the lower Denosaid Mint into Silver Coins of a Standard and Fineness of mination. Eleven Ounces Two Pennyweights of fine Silver and Eighteen Pennyweights of Alloy in the Pound Troy, and in Weight after the Rate of Sixty-six Shillings to every Pound Troy, whether the same be coined in Crowns, or in any Pieces of a lower Denomination; anything in any Act or Acts in force in Great Britain or Ireland respectively immediately before the passing of this Act, or anything in any Indenture with Her Majesty's. Master or Worker of the said Mint for the Time being, or any Law, Usage, or Custom whatsoever, to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding: Provided always, that all and every Silver Coin, not being of a Denomination which is authorized to be coined by the said recited Act, but being of a Denomination which is authorized to be coined by this Act, which shall be issued after the passing of this Act, shall be deemed and taken to have been coined after the passing and under the Authority of this Act, and shall be subject to all and every the Rules, Regulations, and Provisions relating to Silver Coin to be coined in pursuance of the Provisions of this Act. " Silver Coin II. And be it enacted, That all and every Act and Acts in Former Acts force immediately before the passing of this Act respecting the relating to Coin of this Realm, or the clipping, diminishing, or counter-extended to feiting of the same, or respecting any other Matters relating this Act. thereto, and all Provisions, Proceedings, Penalties, Forfeitures, and Punishments therein contained or directed, and not repugnant or contradictory to the Provisions of this Act, shall be and continue in full Force and Effect, and shall be applied and put in execution with respect to the Silver Coin to be coined or issued in pursuance of the Provisions of this Act, as fully and effectually to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever as if the same were repeated and re-enacted in this Act. T CAP. |