and in the Construction of this Act the Term "Consul" shall (save where such Construction would be inconsistent with the Context) be construed to mean a Consul so authorized; and the District of every such Consul for the Purposes of this Act shall be all or such Parts of the Foreign Country in which (or at a Place within which) such Consul is appointed to reside, or is so directed or authorized as aforesaid, as such Secretary of State may, by such Writing under his Hand, direct, or, where there shall be no Direction in this Behalf, shall be the District of the Consulate of such Consul. 6 XX. And whereas many Marriages have been entered into abroad by British Subjects under Circumstances which may 'occasion Doubts as to the Validity of such Marriages, and it is expedient that such Marriages should be confirmed in the Cases herein-after mentioned:' Be it enacted, That all Marriages, both or one of the Parties being Subjects or a Subject of this Realm, which, before the passing of this Act, have been solemnized in any Foreign Country or Place, or on board a British Vessel of War on any Foreign Station, by a Minister in Holy Orders according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England, or of Ireland, or of the United Church of England and Ireland, or by an ordained Minister of the Church of Scotland, and all Marriages of the like Parties which have been solemnized according to any religious Rites or Ceremonies or contracted per verba de præsenti in any Foreign Country or Place in the Presence of any British Ambassador, Minister, Chargé d'Affaires, Consul General, Consul, or Vice Consul exercising his Functions within the Foreign Country or Place in which such Marriages have been had, or on board a British Vessel of War on any Foreign Station in the Presence of the Officer commanding such Vessel, and all Marriages of the like Parties which have been solemnized according to any religious Rites or Ceremonies or contracted per verba de præsenti in any Foreign Country or Place, and registered by or under the Authority of any British Consul General, Consul, or Vice Consul exercising his Functions within such Foreign Country or Place, the Signatures of the Parties being written in the Register, shall be deemed and held to be as valid in the Law and cognizable in the like Manner as if the same had been solemnized within Her Majesty's Dominions with a due Observance of all Forms required by Law: Provided always, that this Enactment shall not extend to render valid any Marriage which before the passing of this Act has been declared invalid by any Court of competent Jurisdiction in any Proceeding touching such Marriage or any Right dependent on the Validity or Invalidity thereof, or any Marriage where either of the Parties has afterwards, during the Life of the other, lawfully intermarried with any other Person. XXI. Provided always, and be it enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall confirm or impair or in anywise affect, or be construed to confirm or impair or in anywise affect, the Validity in Law of any Marriage solemnized beyond the Seas, Seas, otherwise than as herein provided; and this Act shall not extend to the Marriage of any of the Royal Family. XXII. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended Act may be or repealed by any Act to be passed during the present Session amended, &c. of Parliament. SCHEDULES. SCHEDULE (A.) NOTICE OF MARRIAGE. To the [British Consul General or Consul] at I hereby give you Notice, That a Marriage is intended to be had within Three Calendar Months from the Date hereof between me and the other Party herein named and described; (that is to say,) I Minor Day of (Signed) John Brown. SCHEDULE (B.) [Consul General or Consul] residing at do hereby certify, That this is a true Copy of the Entries of Marriages registered in my Office, from the Entry of the Marriage of John Brown and Elizabeth Reeve, Number One, to the Entry of the Marriage of Michael Jones and Maria Tomkins, Number Fourteen. Witness my Hand and Seal, this January 1850. Day of (Signature and Consular Seal of the Consul General or Consul.) CAP. LXIX. An Act to facilitate the Performance of the Duties of of the Administration of Criminal Justice in Ireland if • the several Statutes and Parts of Statutes relating to the Duties Z 4 • Duties of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace therein with respect to Persons charged with indictable Offences were consolidated, with such Additions and Alterations as may be deemed necessary, and that such Duties should be clearly 'defined by positive Enactment:' Be it therefore declared and 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 all Cases where a Charge or Offences a Jus- Complaint (A.) shall be made before any One or more of Her For what tice of the Peace may grant a Warrant or Sum mons to cause a Person charged there with to be brought before him. In what Cases the Party may be summoned instead of issuing a Warrant in the first instance. If the Summons be not obeyed, then a Warrant may be issued. Majesty's Justices of the Peace for any County, Division, Liberty, City, Borough, or Place within Ireland, that any Person has committed or is suspected to have committed any Treason, Felony, or indictable Misdemeanor, or other indictable Offence whatsoever, within the Limits of the Jurisdiction of such Justice or Justices of the Peace, or that any Person guilty or suspected to be guilty of having committed any such Crime or Offence elsewhere out of the Jurisdiction of such Justice or Justices is residing or being or is suspected to reside or be within the Limits of the Jurisdiction of such Justice or Justices, then and in every such Case, if the Person so charged or complained against shall not then be in Custody, it shall be lawful for such Justice or Justices of the Peace to issue his or their Warrant (B.) to apprehend such Person, and to cause him to be brought before such Justice or Justices, or any other Justice or Justices for the same County, Division, Liberty, City, Borough, or Place, to answer to such Charge or Complaint, and to be further dealt with according to Law: Provided always, that in all Cases it shall be lawful for such Justice or Justices to whom such Charge or Complaint shall be preferred, if he or they shall so think fit, instead of issuing in the first instance his or their Warrant to apprehend the Person so charged or complained against, to issue his or their Summons (C.) directed to such Person, requiring him to appear before the said Justice or Justices at a Time and Place to be therein mentioned, or before such other Justice or Justices of the same County, Division, Liberty, City, Borough, or Place as may then be there, and if after being served with such Summons in manner hereinafter mentioned he shall fail to appear at such Time and Place, in obedience to such Summons, then and in every such Case the said Justice or Justices, or any other Justice or Justices of the Peace for the same County, Division, Liberty, City, Borough, or Place, may issue his or their Warrant (D.) to apprehend such Person so charged or complained against, and cause such Person to be brought before him or them, or before some other Justice or Justices of the Peace for the same County, Division, Liberty, City, Borough, or Place, to answer to the said Charge or Complaint, and to be further dealt with according to Law: Provided nevertheless, that nothing herein contained shall prevent any Justice or Justices of the Peace from issuing the Warrant herein-before first mentioned at any Time before or after after the Time mentioned in such Summons for the Appearance of the said accused Party. Offences com II. And be it enacted, That in all Cases of indictable Crimes Warrant to or Offences of any Kind or Nature whatsoever committed on apprehend for the High Seas, or in any Creek, Harbour, Haven, or other mitted on the Place in which the Admiralty of England or Ireland have or High Seas or claim to have Jurisdiction, and in all Cases of Crimes or Offences abroad. committed on Land beyond the Seas, for which an Indictment may legally be preferred in any Place within Ireland, it shall be lawful for any One or more of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for any County, Division, Liberty, City, Borough, or Place within Ireland in which any Person charged with having committed or with being suspected to have committed any such Crime or Offence shall reside or be, or shall be supposed or suspected to reside or be, to issue his or their Varrant (E.) to apprehend the Person so charged, and to cause him to be brought before him or them, or some other Justice or Justices of the Peace for the same County, Division, Liberty, City, Borough, or Place, to answer to the said Charges, and to be further dealt with according to Law. III. And be it enacted, That where any Indictment shall be Warrant to found by the Grand Jury in any Court of Oyer and Terminer apprehend a Party against or General Gaol Delivery, or in any Court of General or whom an Quarter Sessions of the Peace, against any Person who shall Indictment is then be at large, and whether such Person shall have been found. bound by any Recognizance to appear to answer to the same or not, the Person who shall act as Clerk of the Crown at such Court of Oyer and Terminer or Gaol Delivery, or as Clerk of the Peace at such Sessions, at which the said Indictment shall be found, shall at any Time afterwards, after the End of the Sessions of Oyer and Terminer or Gaol Delivery or Sessions of the Peace at which such Indictment shall have been found, upon Application of the Prosecutor, or of any Person on his Behalf, and on Payment of a Fee of Sixpence, if such Person shall not have already appeared and pleaded to such Indictment, grant unto such Prosecutor or Person a Certificate (F.) of such Indictment having been found; and upon Production of such Certificate to any Justice or Justices of the Peace for any County, Division, Liberty, City, Borough, or Place in which the Offence shall in such Indictment be alleged to have been committed, or in which the Person indicted in and by such Indictment shall reside or be, or be supposed or suspected to reside or be, it shall be lawful for such Justice or Justices, and he and they are hereby required, to issue his or their Warrant (G.) to apprehend such Person so indicted, and to cause him to be brought before such Justice or Justices, or any other Justice or Justices for the same County, Division, Liberty, City, Borough, or Place, to be dealt with according to Law, and afterwards, if such Person be thereupon apprehended and brought before any such Justice or Justices, such Justice or Justices, upon its being proved upon Oath or Affirmation before him or them that the Person so apprehended is the same Person If Person indicted be already in Prison for some other Offence, Justice may order him to be detained until removed by Writ of Habeas. Power to Jus tice to issue Warrants on Justices for adjoining Counties, &c. may act as such for one County, &c. while residing in another. All Acts of Justice, &c. to be valid. Person who is charged and named in such Indictment, shall, without further Inquiry or Examination, commit (H.) him for Trial, or admit him to Bail, in manner herein-after mentioned; or if such Person so indicted shall be confined in any Gaol or Prison for any other Offence than that charged in the said Indictment, at the Time of such Application, and Production of the said Certificate to such Justice or Justices as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for such Justice or Justices and he and they are hereby required, upon it being proved before him or them upon Oath or Affirmation that the Person so indicted and the Person so confined in Prison are one and the same Person, to issue his or their Warrant (I.) directed to the Gaoler or Keeper of the Gaol or Prison in which the Person so indicted shall then be confined as aforesaid, commanding him to detain such Person in his Custody until by Her Majesty's Writ of Habeas Corpus he shall be removed therefrom, for the Purpose of being tried upon the said Indictment, or until he shall otherwise be removed or discharged out of his Custody by due Course of Law. IV. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for any Justice or Justices of the Peace to grant or issue and cause to be executed any Warrant as aforesaid or any Search Warrant on a Sunday as well as on any other Day. V. And be it enacted, That in Cases where a Justice of the Peace for any County, Division, Liberty, City, Borough, or Place shall be also Justice of the Peace for a County, Division, Liberty, City, Borough, or Place next adjoining thereto or surrounded thereby, it shall and may be lawful for such Justice of the Peace to act as such Justice for the one County, Division, Liberty, City, Borough, or other Place whilst he is residing or happens to be in the other such County, Division, Liberty, City, Borough, or other Place, in all Matters and Things herein-before or hereafter in this Act mentioned; and that all such Acts of such Justice, and the Acts of any Constable or other Officer in obedience thereto, shall be as valid, good, and effectual in the Law to all Intents and Purposes as if such Justice at the Time he shall so act as aforesaid were in the County, Division, Liberty, City, Borough, or other Place for which he shall so act; and all Constables and other Officers for the County, Division, Liberty, City, Borough, or Place for which such Justice shall so act as aforesaid are hereby authorized and required to obey the Warrants, Orders, Directions, Act or Acts of such Justice which in that Behalf shall be granted, given, or done, and to do and perform their several Offices and Duties in respect thereof, under the Pains and Penalties to which any Constable or other Officer may be liable for a Neglect of Duty; and any such Constable or other Peace Officer, or any other Person, apprehending or taking into Custody any Person offending against Law, and whom he lawfully may and ought to apprehend or take into Custody, by virtue of may take them his Office or otherwise, in any such County, Division, Liberty, City, Borough, or Place, may lawfully take and convey such Person Constables, &c. apprehending Offenders in one such County, &c. before such Justice in the |