feitures were herein repeated and set forth and made applicable to the Securities to be given in pursuance of this Act, and every other Matter or Thing to be done by virtue of this Act. sioners, with of the Railway, transfer the Interest, to other Par XXXII. And be it enacted, That in case the said Railway Power for between Mullingar and Galway shall not be completed by the Public Works said Railway Company and opened for the Use of the Public Loan Commison or before the Thirty-first Day of December One thousand the Consent of eight hundred and fifty-one, and in case any Monies shall have Treasury, to been advanced to the said Railway Company under the Provi- take possession sions of this Act, and which shall be unpaid, then and thereupon &c. between it shall be lawful for the Public Works Loan Commissioners, Athlone and with the Consent of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Trea-Galway, and to sury, at any Time after the said Thirty-first Day of December same, and all One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and notwithstanding the Company's any subsequent Receipt of Interest or Principal, to enter upon Rights, and and take possession of the entire Line of Railway belonging to Privileges the said Company between Athlone and Galway, or so much therein or rethereof as shall be completed, and all Lands and Hereditaments lating thereto, acquired or agreed to be acquired by the said Railway Com- ties, if the pany for the Purposes of the said Line, and any Stations or Railway from Buildings belonging to or intended to be appropriated to the Mullingar to Galway be not said Line, and thenceforth to hold the same freed and dis- completed by charged from all Claim and Demand whatsoever both at Law 31st Dec. 1851. and in Equity of the said Railway; and the said Public Works Loan Commissioners, with such Consent as aforesaid, may transfer the said Line, Property, and Effects to any Company or Partnership or Party, subject nevertheless to the Payment by such Transferee of the Monies due to the said Public Works Loan Commissioners, and Interest, in all respects as is or shall be provided with respect to the Payment thereof by the said Railway Company; and thereupon such Transferee shall be entitled to have the said Line, Property, and Effects for his own Use, freed and discharged from all Claims and Demands whatsoever of the said Railway Company; and, as regards the said Line from Athlone to Galway, and the Property therein, such Transferee shall have all and every the Rights, Powers, and Privileges by any of the said recited Acts or this Act given or vested in the said Railway Company, and in all respects as if the same were herein repeated and conferred on or given to such Transferee, to the end and intent that such Transferee may complete the said Line, and acquire Lands and Hereditaments for that Purpose, and work the same, and receive and take Tolls in respect thereof, in all respects as the said Railway Company is by the said Acts or any of them, or this Act, authorized to do, and may in respect of such Railway from Athlone to Galway stand in the Place of the said Railway Company; and all the Powers and Provisions herein contained with respect to the Securities to be given as aforesaid, and the Powers and Provisions applicable to the said Railway Company, shall apply to such Transferee, and the said several Baronies and Half Baronies and County of the Town of Galway shall in all respects be liable to contribute and pay to such Trans Y 4 feree Act may be amended, &c. Treasury may issue One hundred and fifty thousand Pounds for Relief of dis tressed Poor Law Unions in 12 & 13 Vict. c. 24. feree the Monies they would (but for such Transferee) be liable to pay to the said Railway Company, and the same shall be raised and paid accordingly as herein-before is directed, in all respects as if the same were payable to the said Railway Company; and any such Transfer may be made on such Terms and Conditions as the said Public Works Loan Commissioners, with such Consent as aforesaid, may think fit; and on any such Transfer the said Transferee shall in all respects stand in the Place of the said Railway Company as regards the Liability or the Securities to the said Public Works Loan Commissioners, and as if the same had been made to the said Public Works Loan Commissioners by such Transferee instead of by the said Railway Company, except so far as the same may be altered by reason of any special Terms and Provisions made on such Transfer. XXXIII. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed during the present Session of Parliament. CAP. LXIII. An Act to authorize a further Advance of Money for САР. CAP. LXIV. An Act to remove Doubts as to the Authority of Justices of the Peace to act in certain Matters relating to the Poor in Cities and Boroughs. [28th July 1849.] WHEREAS by the Act of the Forty-third Year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, intituled An Act for the Relief of the Poor, Authority is given to Justices of the Peace for Counties to act in certain Matters relating to the Poor, and Doubts have been entertained whether the same Powers extend to Justices of the Peace having Jurisdiction within Cities and Boroughs, 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 Justices of the the same, That, notwithstanding anything in the said Act con- Peace in Cities tained, all Powers and Authorities which by the said Act may and Boroughs be exercised out of General or Quarter Sessions by Two or Matters relating more Justices of any County, may be exercised within any City to the Relief of or Borough by any Two or more Justices of the Peace having the Poor under Jurisdiction within such City or Borough respectively, as fully such Cities and in all respects as by the Justices of the County in or for any Boroughs. Parish of such County. may act in all the 43 Eliz. in II. And be it enacted, That nothing heretofore done in any Acts of the City or Borough for the Purposes of the said Act by any Two Justices in any or more Justices having Jurisdiction in such City or Borough confirmed. City or Borough shall be deemed or taken to have been illegally or insufficiently done by reason only that neither of the said last-mentioned Justices was Mayor, Bailiff, or Head Officer of such City or Borough, but everything so done by such Two or more Justices, if otherwise lawful, shall be deemed to be and to have been valid to all Intents and Purposes. III. 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. LXV. An Act to provide a more convenient Mode of levying and collecting County Rates, County Police Rates, and District Police Rates in Parishes situated partly within and partly without the Limits of Boroughs which are not liable to such Rates. [28th July 1849.] WHEREAS there are several Parishes and Places in England and Wales Parts of which are comprised in Boroughs not subject to contribute to the County Rate or County or District Police Rate, while the Parts out of the • Borough The Overseers of Parishes situated partly within Boroughs and partly without to collect the County Rates, on the Part of comprised within the Borough. Similar Pro vision for the Collection of the Borough Rate in Places similarly situated. Borough are liable to contribute thereto: And whereas there are several Parishes Parts of which are comprised in Boroughs which are subject to District, Borough, and other Rates, while the Parts out of the Borough are not liable to contribute thereto 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 where any Parish or Place separately maintaining its own Poor shall be divided in manner herein-before stated, and any County Rate, or County or District Police Rate, or other Rate which may by Law be raised in like Manner as a County Rate, shall be assessable upon the Part of the Parish or Place which is comprised within the County and excluded from the Borough, the Overseers of such Parish or Place shall, on Receipt of any Precept or other lawful Demand from the Justices of the County, or other due Authority in that Behalf, demanding the Payment of any Sum of Money as the Contribution of the Part of such Parish or Place out of the Borough towards any such Rate as aforesaid, with all convenient Speed assess the Sum so required upon the Persons liable within such Part of the Parish or Place to pay the Poor Rate therein, by means of a separate Rate, to be made, allowed, and published in like Manner as the Poor Rate, and either by themselves or by the Collector of Poor Rates for the Time being appointed for the said Parish or Place shall collect the same separately or with the Poor Rate payable by the Parties assessed thereto, and for the Purposes of assessing and collecting the same shall have all such Powers, Authorities, Privileges, Protections, and Incidents as belong to them in the assessing and Collection of the Poor Rate; and all Provisions of the Law for enforcing the Collection of the Poor Rate, and recovering the Costs of the Proceedings therein, shall be applicable to the Collection of the Rate or Rates herein provided for. II. And be it enacted, That in every Case in which any such Parish or Place shall be partly within and partly without any Borough, the Overseers or other Persons charged with the Collection of the Rates made for the Relief of the Poor in such Parish or Place, upon the Receipt of any Warrant from the Mayor, or any Justice or Justices of the Peace, High Constable, or other Officer duly authorized to act in that Behalf within the Borough, for the Payment of Money for the Contribution of the Part of such Parish within such Borough towards any District, Borough, or other Rate, (which Warrants every such Mayor, Justice of the Peace, High Constable, and other Officer shall be severally empowered to direct to them in like Manner as if the whole of such Parish or Place were within their Borough,) shall assess upon and levy from the Inhabitants and Occupiers of all Messuages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments liable to the Poor Rates in that Part of their Parish or Place which is within the Borough, the Amount mentioned in the Warrant, either as a separate Rate or Rates, for which the said Overseers shall have all the Powers which belong to them for levying a Rate for the Relief of the Poor, or with and as Part of the Poor Rate to which the Inhabitants and Occupiers of Property within that Part of the Parish or Place may be liable in common with the Inhabitants and Occupiers of Property within the other Part thereof which is not within the Borough, and out of the Monies so levied and collected shall pay the Amount mentioned in the Warrant to the Person duly authorized to receive the same, and in default thereof shall be subject to all the Provisions and Penalties provided by this Act, or any Act concerning the Nonpayment of any Borough Rate. III. And be it enacted, That any Person assessed to any Appeal against Rate made under the Authority of this Act may appeal against the Rate, and the same in like Manner, and with the like Consequences in Accounts. all respects, and subject to the same Provisions and Regulations, as in Appeals against the Poor Rate; and that every Overseer and Collector shall account for the Money levied, collected, and expended under the Authority of this Act, to the Auditor of the District comprising such Parish or Place, in like Manner as for the Poor Rate, and if any Balance be found to be in his Hands shall apply the same towards the next Rate required for the Purpose of this Act, or shall pay the same to his Successor in Office; and in default of his so applying the same while in Office, or making Payment to his Successor within Seven Days after the Balance shall have been found, such Auditor shall proceed to recover the same from the Person holding the same, in like Manner as Sums certified by him to be due from Persons accounting shall from Time to Time be recoverable, and he shall be paid his Costs and Expenses, when not recovered from the Defendant, by the then Overseers of the Parish or Place, who shall be reimbursed out of the Balance of such Rate, or, if need be, out of the next Rate. Funds Guardians of IV. And be it enacted, That where a Precept shall be issued Mode of proto the Guardians of the Union comprising any such Parish or uns when Place, under the Provisions of the Act passed in the Eighth the Precept is Year of the Reign of Her Majesty, intituled An Act for facili- sent to the tating the Collection of County Rates, and for relieving High the Union comConstables from Attendance at Quarter Sessions in certain Cases, prising the and from certain other Duties, and such Precept shall contain divided Place. a Sum to be assessed and charged in respect of any such Rate 7&8 Vict. c. 33. as is herein provided for upon a Part of such Parish or Place as aforesaid, the said Guardians may require the Overseers of such Parish or Place to pay to their Treasurer a Sum of Money sufficient to enable the said Guardians to pay the Sum so assessed, with the other Sums mentioned in the said Precept, to the Treasurer of the County or other Person lawfully authorized to receive it; and the said Overseers shall pay the Amount out of any Monies in their Possession belonging to the Parish or Place, or to the Part of such Parish or Place respectively, and reimburse themselves, if necessary, by a Rate, to be levied as herein-before described, upon the Persons liable thereto, or if |