determine the matter of such appeal, and shall make such order therein as shall to the said court seem meet, and in case of the dismissal of the appeal, or the affirmance of the conviction, shall issue the necessary process for the apprehension and punishment of the offender, according to the conviction. charged from whom justices ficates to in their route, deviating their way or from it, to be deemed XV. Provided always, and be it further en- Persons disacted, That nothing herein contained shall extend prison, to or be construed to extend so as to restrain, hinder, grant certior prevent any visiting justice of any county gaol, receive alms house of correction, or other prison, from granting loitering on a certificate or other instrument for enabling any person discharged from a county gaol, house of correction, or other prison, to have or receive alms rogues and vagabonds. or relief in or upon his or her route to his or her place of settlement; provided that such certificate be made and drawn up in compliance with the directions and provisions of any act or acts of parliament for the better regulation and management of gaols, houses of correction, or prisons; and if any person to whom any such certificate or instrument shall be delivered shall act in any manner contrary to the directions or provisions of such certificate or instrument, or shall loiter upon his or her route, or shall deviate therefrom, every such person shall be and be deemed to be a rogue and vagabond within the provisions and directions of this act, and shall be punished accordingly. XVI. And be it further enacted, That from Justices not tificates en abling persons to ask relief, except to soldiers and sailors. 43 Geo. 3. c. 61. to grant cer- and after the passing of this act, no justice of the peace, mayor, or other magistrate shall grant to any person, other than a person entitled thereto under and by virtue of an act passed in the fortythird year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Third, intituled "An act for the relief of soldiers, sailors, and marines, and of the wives of soldiers in the cases therein mentioned, so far as relates to England," any certificate or other instrument enabling such person to ask alms or relief in their route to any place, or for Others asking any other purpose whatever; and every person asking alms or relief under and by virtue of any certificate or other instrument hereby prohibited, is liable to be declared to be an idle and disorderly person in like manner as if he or she had possessed no such certificate or other instrument as aforesaid. alms under such certificate, rogues and vagabonds. Form of conviction under this act. XVII. And be it further enacted, That no proceeding to be had before any justice or justices of the peace under the provisions of this act shall be quashed for want of form; and every conviction of any offender as an idle and disorderly person, or as a rogue and vagabond, or as an incorrigible rogue, under this act, shall be in the form or to the effect following, or as near thereto as circumstances will permit; (that is to say,) ' is convicted before me C. D., one of his majesty's 'justices of the peace, in and for the said county, ' at , in the said county [here state the offence 'proved before the magistrate], and for which said offence the said A. B. is ordered to be commit'ted to the house of correction at 'to be kept to hard labour for the space of there '[or until the next general or quarter sessions]. Given under my hand and seal the day, year, ' and at the place first above written.' be transmitted to the ses sions, and a to be evidence. And the justice or justices of the peace, before Conviction to whom any such conviction shall take place, shall, and he and they is and are hereby required to certified copy transmit the said conviction to the next general or quarter sessions of the peace to be holden in and for the county, riding, division, or place wherein such conviction shall have taken place, there to be filed and kept on record; and a copy of the conviction so filed, duly certified by the clerk of the peace, shall and may be read as evidence in any court of record, or before any justice or justices of the peace acting under the powers and provisions of this act. XVIII. And be it further enacted, That in all In actions against jus. cases where an action shall be brought against tices, &c. have treble costs. defendants to any justice of the peace, constable, or other person, for or on account of any matter or thing whatsoever done or commanded by him in the execution of his duty or office under this act, such justice, constable, or other person, if he shall have judgment in his favour, shall have treble costs awarded to him by the court, unless the judge shall certify that there was a reasonable cause for such action. Limitation of actions. XIX. And be it further enacted, That every such action shall be commenced within three calendar months after the cause of action or comGeneral issue. plaint shall have arisen, and not afterwards; and if any person or persons shall be sued for any matter or thing which he, she, or they shall have done in the execution of this act, he, she, or they may plead the general issue, and give the special matter in evidence. Persons convicted under chargeable to which they shall reside. XX. And be it further enacted, That every this act to be person who under the provisions of this act shall the parish in have been convicted as an idle and disorderly person, or as a rogue and vagabond, shall be deemed to be actually chargeable to the parish, township, or place in which such person shall reside; and such person shall be liable to be removed to the parish of his or her last legal settlement, by the order of two justices of the peace of the division or place in which such person shall reside. Persons com. XXI. Provided always, That wherever by any fences under to be punish act. act or acts of parliament now in force it is directed mitting of that any person shall be punished as an idle and former acts disorderly person, or as a rogue and vagabond, ed under this or as an incorrigible rogue, for any offence specified in such act or acts, and not hereinbefore provided for by this act, in every such case, whether such person shall or shall not have committed any offence against this act, every such person shall be punished under the provisions, powers, and directions of this act. to repeal any in Scotland or Ireland relative to the removal of poor, &c. XXII. Provided also, and be it further enacted, Not to extend That nothing herein contained shall be construed act in force to extend or apply to Scotland or Ireland, nor to alter any law now in force for the removal of poor persons born in Scotland, Ireland, or the Isles of Man, Jersey, and Guernsey, and becoming chargeable to parishes in England, such persons not having committed acts of vagrancy as hereinbefore described, nor to alter any law now in force relating to lunatic vagrants. 5 GEO. IV. c. 84. An Act for the Transportation of Offenders from |