Presentments assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after No Constable the passing of this Act, no Petty Constable shall be required at shall be reany Petty Session or elsewhere to make, nor shall any High Con- quired to make stable be required at any General Gaol Delivery, Great Session, respecting the or General or Quarter Session of the Peace in England to deliver Offences herein any Presentment respecting Popish Recusants, Persons absenting mentioned. themselves from their Parish Church or any other Place of Religious Worship licensed by Authority, Rogues and Vagabonds, Inmates, Retailers of Brandy, Ingrossers, Forestallers, Regraters, Profane Swearers and Cursers, Servants out of Service, Felonies and Robberies, unlicensed or disorderly Alehouses, False Weights and Measures, Highways and Bridges, Riots, Routs, and unlawful Assemblies, and whether the Poor are well provided for, and the Constables are legally chosen and sworn. CA P. XXXIX. An Act to repeal such Parts of Two Acts of King William and Queen Mary and of King George the Second, as relate to the settling the Rates of the Carriage of Goods. [21st June 1827.] HEREAS an Act was passed in the Third Year of the 3W.& M. c.12. Act for the better repairing and amending the Highways, and for settling the Rates of Carriage of Goods, whereby it was amongst other Things enacted, that the Justices of the Peace of every County and other Place within the Realm of England or Dominion of Wales should have Power and Authority, and were thereby enjoined and required at their then next respective Quarter or General Sessions after Easter Day yearly, to assess and rate the Prices of all Land Carriage of Goods whatsoever, to be brought into any Place or Places within their respective Limits and Jurisdictions by any common Waggoner or Carrier, and the Rates and Assessments so made to certify to the 'several Mayors and other Chief Officers of each respective ' Market Town within the Limits and Jurisdictions of such Justices of the Peace, to be hung up in some public Place in every 'such Market Town, to which all Persons might resort for their Information; and that no such common Waggoner or Carrier * should take for Carriage of such Goods and Merchandizes above the Rates and Prices so set, upon pain to forfeit for every such Offence the Sum of Five Pounds, to be levied by Distress ⚫ and Sale of his and their Goods, by Warrant of any Two Justices of the Peace where such Waggoner or Carrier should reside, in 'manner aforesaid, to the Use of the Party grieved: And Whereas ' another Act was passed in the Twenty first Year of the Reign of King George the Second, intituled An Act to explain and 21G.2. c. 28. amend an Act passed in the Fourteenth Year of His Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act for the Preservation of the Public Roads in that Part of Great Britain called England;' and so much of an Act passed in the Third Year of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary, intituled An Act for the better repairing and amending the Highways, and for settling the Rates R 3 'of So much of recited Acts as Rates for the 59 G. 3. c. 104. of the Carriage of Goods,' as relates to the settling the Rates of the Carriage of Goods, whereby, after reciting the hereinbefore recited Act, it was enacted, that if any common Waggoner 'or Carrier should, after the Tenth Day of June One thousand seven hundred and forty eight, demand and take any greater Price for the bringing of Goods to the City of London, or to any Place within the Bills of Mortality, than was allowed and 'settled by the Justices of the Peace for the County or Place 'from whence such Goods were brought for the carrying of Goods 'from London to the said County or Place, every such Carrier or Waggoner should for every such Offence forfeit and pay the Sum of Five Pounds to the Use of the Party grieved, to be ' recovered and levied in the Manner by the said recited Act directed, or by Distress and Sale of his Goods, by Warrant ' under the Hands and Seals of any Two Justices of the Peace for the Counties of Middlesex or Surry, or City of London, or City and Liberty of Westminster; and the Clerk of the Peace for every County and Place should immediately after Easter Session yearly certify to the Lord Mayor of the City of London, and also to the respective Clerks of the Peace for the Counties of Middlesex and Surry and City and Liberty of Westminster, the Rates and Assessments made for the Carriage of Goods, in pursuance of the said Act, in their respective Counties and Places, which Certificate, or an attested Copy thereof, signed by the Officer to whom the same should be so transmitted, should 'be taken and deemed sufficient Evidence of the Rates and Price set for the carrying of Goods to any County or Place: And Whereas the Provisions hereinbefore recited are at present inoperative, and inapplicable to the present Times, and it is 'expedient that the same should be repealed;' Be it therefore ' enacted by the King'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 passing of this Act, the Provisions hereinbefore set forth, and any other Powers 6 or Provisions in the said recited Acts contained, which relate to 'the settling the Rates of the Carriage of Goods, shall be and the same are hereby severally declared to be repealed. 6 CA P. XL. An Act to continue, until the Tenth Day of October One W present tinued. 'present Majesty until the Tenth Day of October One thousand eight hundred and twenty seven: And Whereas it is expedient that the said Act should be further continued as hereinafter ' mentioned;' Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excel'lent 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 Recited Act recited Act, passed in the Fifty ninth Year aforesaid, shall be and further conthe same is hereby further continued until the Tenth Day of October One thousand eight hundred and thirty, save and except so far as the said Act passed in the Fifty ninth Year aforesaid, and also another Act therein mentioned and thereby continued, passed in the Fifty first Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, are repealed or altered by an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for repealing the Excise Duties and Drawbacks on Flint Glass in Great Britain, and imposing other Duties and another Drawback in lieu thereof throughout the United Kingdom. CA P. XLI. An Act for raising the Sum of Thirteen millions eight hundred thousand Pounds by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and twenty seven. [21st June 1827.] CA P. XLII. An Act for granting and applying certain Sums of Money CA P. XLIII. An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws in force in WE HEREAS several Acts have been passed in the Parliament of Ireland for Unions and Divisions of Parishes, and for uniting or disappropriating Appropriate Parishes or 'Parts of Parishes; and it is desirable that the Provisions con'tained in such Acts of Parliament should be consolidated Certain Irish Acts or Parts of Acts repealed; viz. 2 G. 1. c. 14. in part. 8 G. 1. c. 12. in part. 10 G. 1. c. 7. in part. 7 G. 2. c.7. in part. 9 G. 2. c. 12. 7 G. 3. c. 9. in part. 11 & 12 G. 3. c. 16. in part. 13 & 14 G. 3. c. 27. in part. and amended;' Be it enacted by the King'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 passing of this Act the several Acts hereinafter mentioned, or so much of such Acts as is hereinafter specified or referred to, shall be repealed; that is to say, so much and such Part only of an Act passed in the Second Year of the Reign of King George the First, intituled An Act for real Union and Division of Parishes, as relates to the real Union and Division of Parishes; and also so much of an Act passed in the Eighth Year of the Reign of the said King, intituled An Act for the better enabling the Clergy having Cure of Souls to reside upon their respective Benefices, and for the Encouragement of Protestant Schools within this Kingdom of Ireland, as relates to the endowing of Churches with Glebes in the Case of Unions of Parishes; and also so much of an Act passed in the Tenth Year of the Reign of the said King, intituled An Act for confirming the several Grants made by Her late Majesty of the First Fruits and Twentieth Parts payable out of Ecclesiastical Benefices in this Kingdom, and also for giving the Archbishops and other Ecclesias tical Persons Four Years Time for the Payment of First Fruits, for incorporating the Trustees and Commissioners of the said First Fruits, as relates to the Payment of First Fruits by divided Parishes; and also so much of an Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of King George the Second, intituled An Act for continuing several temporary Statutes, and for other Purposes therein mentioned, as relates to the separating or uniting Glebes belonging to Parishes; and also the whole of an Act passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of the said King George the Second, for explaining and amending the said first recited Act of the Second Year of King George the First; and also so much of an Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, for explaining and amending the said first recited Act of the Second Year of King George the First, and for other Purposes, as relates to the Payment of Money for Buildings or Improvements made in Glebes in the Case of real Union and Division of Parishes; and also so much of an Act passed in the Eleventh and Twelfth Years of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act for erecting Parochial Chapels of Ease in Parishes of large Extent, and making such Chapels, and those that are already erected, Perpetual Cures, and for making a proper Provision for the Maintenance of Perpetual Curates to officiate in the same; and also in like Manner for making Appropriate Parishes Perpetual Cures, as relates to the uniting or disappropriating Appropriate Parishes; and also so much of an Act passed in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Years of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act to amend an Act passed in the Eighth Year of His present Majesty intituled, An Act for erecting Two Chapels of Ease in the Parish of Armagh, and making such Chapels and those that are already in said Parish, Perpetual Cures, and for making a proper Provision for the Maintenance of Perpetual Curates to officiate in the same, and for other Purposes, as relates to the uniting or disappropriating Appropriate Parishes; and also so much of an Act passed passed in the Twenty third and Twenty fourth Years of King 23 & 24 G. 3. George the Third, intituled An Act for making Appropriate Parishes c. 49. in part. belonging to Archbishops and Bishops Perpetual Cures, and the better to enable such Archbishops and Bishops to endow and augment the Endowment of Vicarages and Curacies to them respectively appertaining; and to render more effectual the several Acts now in force to enable the Clergy having Cure of Souls to reside on their respective Benefices, and to build on their respective Glebe Lands, as relates to the uniting or disappropriating of Appropriate Parishes; and the said several Acts and Parts of Acts as aforesaid are hereby respectively repealed accordingly. II. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act it shall and may be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the Time being, with the Assent of the major Part of His Majesty's Privy Council in Ireland in Council assembled, Six at least consenting, and with the Advice and Approbation of the Archbishop of the Province and the Bishop of the Diocese, certified under their Hands and Archiepiscopal and Episcopal Seals, with the Consent of the respective Patrons, certified under their Hands and Seals, attested by Two or more credible Witnesses subscribing thereunto, to divide old Parishes, or to separate any Parish or Part of a Parish heretofore united, in whatever Manner such Union may have been effected, and to unite Parishes one to another, or any Part of a Parish to another Parish, or Part of a Parish in perpetuity, and to erect such divided or united Parishes or Parts of Parishes into new Parishes, with all Parochial Rights. III. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, with such Advice and Approbation and in such Manner as are hereinbefore mentioned, to divide and separate or to unite the Glebe belonging to any Parishes so divided and separated or united, and to annex such Glebe, or any Part or Proportion thereof, to such divided or united Parish or Parishes or Parts thereof, which shall be erected into new Parishes or united to others; and that all such Divisions and Separations or Unions of Glebes shall be good, firm, and valid in Law; and that such Glebe, or such Part thereof as shall be so annexed, shall be always deemed and taken to be the Glebe or Glebes of such newly-erected or united Parish or Parishes; and that the Incumbents of any such newly-erected or united Parish or Parishes shall hold and enjoy such divided and separated or united Part of such Glebe, annexed to such newly-erected or united Parish, in as full and ample Manner to all Intents and Purposes as if such newly-erected or united Parish had been an old Parish, and as if such Proportion of Glebe had been always held with, and enjoyed as the Glebe belonging to, such newly-erected or united Parish or Parishes, any Law or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding. Lord Lieutenant, with Assent of the Privy Council, Bishop, Patrons, &c. may divide or unite Parishes. Lord Lieu tenant, &c. may in like Manner separate or unite Glebes, and annex the same to Parishes. IV. And be it further enacted, That where One or more Parish Where or Parishes, or Part of One or more Parish or Parishes, shall be Parishes, &c. united to another Parish or Parishes, or to a Part of any Parish are so united, or Parishes, in pursuance of this Act, and the Incumbent of any succeeding of the said united Parishes, or of the Parish or Parishes whereof shall pay First Incumbent,&c. Part Fruits. |