from serving as Constables. 5 & 6 Vict. c. 109. s. 23., as to Appointment of Con stable to take charge of Lock up Houses, repealed. Superintendents of Con pointed. serving the Office of Constable under the said Act: Be it enacted, That the said Exemption shall extend to all Postmasters and Persons employed in the Business of the Post Office. 6 VI. And whereas it is by the said recited Act enacted, that whenever the Justices shall have provided a Lock-up House under this Act they shall also appoint a superintending Constable to have the Charge thereof, who shall have all the Powers and Immunities of a Parish Constable under this Act, and shall have the Superintendence of all the Parish Constables appointed in such Parishes as shall be ordered by the said Justices, and under such Regulations as they shall make, and every such superintending Constable shall be entitled to hold his Office until dismissed by the Justices in General or Quarter Session assembled, and shall receive such Salary out of the County Rates as the Justices assembled as aforesaid shall order; and it is expedient that the said Enact'ment should be repealed, and other Provisions made in lieu thereof:' Be it enacted, That the said Enactment shall be stables to be ap- repealed; and that it shall be lawful for the Justices of the Peace of any County in General or Quarter Session assembled to appoint a superintending Constable for each or any Petty Sessional Division within the said County, who shall have all the Powers and Immunities of a Parish Constable under the said recited Act, and shall have the Superintendence of all the Parish Constables appointed in such Parishes as shall be ordered by the said Justices, and under such Regulations as they shall make, and shall perform such Duties as the said Justices shall require of him; and whenever the Justices assembled as aforesaid shall have provided a Lock-up House under the said recited Act, they shall also appoint a Constable to have the Charge thereof, who shall also have all the Powers and Immunities of a Parish Constable under the said recited Act; and every superintending Constable, and Constable so appointed to the Charge of a Lock-up House, shall be entitled to hold his Office until dismissed by the Justices in General or Quarter Sessions assembled, and shall receive such Salary and Allowances out of the County Rates as the Justices assembled as aforesaid shall order: Provided always, that Notice of the Day at which any Business relating to the Appointment or Dismissal, or to the fixing or ordering of the Salary and Allowances, of any such Constable shall begin at such General or Quarter Session shall be given by the Clerk of the Peace. When Lock-up Houses are proto appoint Constables to take charge of the vided Justices same. Notice for the Appointment, &c. of Con stables to be given by the Clerk. Act not to ap ply to the City of London, the Metropolitan Police District, or any Borough or Place within VII. And be it enacted, That nothing herein contained shall be taken to prevent the Appointment of Special Constables, or to apply to the City of London or the Metropolitan Police District, or to any Borough which is within the Provisions of Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His late the Provisions Majesty, intituled An Act to provide for the Regulation of Muniof 5 & 6 W. 4. cipal Corporations in England and Wales, or of any Charter 3&4 W.4.c.90. granted in pursuance of that Act or of any Act made for the c. 76. and an Amend Amendment thereof, or to any Parish, Town, or Place in which Rates are or shall be levied for the Payment of Constables. under the Provisions of an Act passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, making Provision for the lighting and watching of Parishes in England and Wales, or of any Local Act specially applying to such Parish, Town, or Place; and that nothing herein-before contained shall be taken to apply to the County Palatine of Chester. Police District VIII. And for the Purposes of exempting the Metropolitan Exempting Police District as herein-before provided, be it enacted, That Metropolitan the Justices in General or Quarter Sessions assembled shall in from Payments each Year, at the Time of making up their Accounts for the under this or Year, ascertain what Proportion any Expenses that have been the recited Act. incurred during the preceding Year under this or the said recited Act shall bear to the gross Amount of the County Rate expended within the same Period, and also what Proportion of the said County Rate has been levied within the Metropolitan Police District, and shall repay to each Parish within the said Metropolitan Police District such Proportion of the Sums so levied as they shall ascertain to be a like Proportion of the Sums expended under this Act out of the County Rate. IX. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or Act may be repealed by any Act to be passed in this Session of Parliament. amended, &c. CAP. XXI. An Act for shortening the Language used in Acts of Parliament. BE [10th June 1850.] QE it 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 Acts of Parlia every Act to be passed after the Commencement of this Act ment may be may be altered, amended, or repealed in the same Session of altered, &c. in Parliament, any Law or Usage to the contrary notwith- sion. standing. the same Ses tions, without II. Be it enacted, That all Acts shall be divided into Sec- Acts to be ditions, if there be more Enactments than One, which Sections vided into Secshall be deemed to be substantive Enactments, without any introductory introductory Words. Words. shall be suffi III. Be it enacted, That in any Act, when any former Act Where any Act is referred to, it shall be sufficient, if such Act was made before is referred to it the Seventh Year of Henry the Seventh, to cite the Year of cient to cite the the King's Reign in which it was made, and where there are Year of the more Statutes than One in the same Year the Statute, and Reign, Chapter, where there are more Chapters than One the Chapter; and if and Section, &c. such Act referred to was made after the Fourth Year of Henry the Seventh, to cite the Year of the Reign, and where there are more Statutes or Sessions than One in the same Year the Statute or the Session (as the Case may require), and where there Interpretation of certain Words for future Acts. Repealed Acts not to be revived, &c. Repealed Provisions of any Act to remain in force until the substituted Provisions come into force. Acts to be deemed Public Acts. Commencement of Act. there are more Chapters or Sections than One the Chapter or Section or Chapter and Section (as the Case may require), without reciting the Title of such Act, or the Provision of such Section, so referred to; and the Reference in all Cases shall be made according to the Copies of Statutes printed by the Queen's Printer, or to the Copies thereof contained in the Reports of the Commissioners of Public Records: Provided that where it is only intended to amend or repeal any Portion only of such Section it shall be necessary still either to recite such Portion or to set forth the Matter or Thing intended to be amended or repealed. IV. Be it enacted, That in all Acts Words importing the Masculine Gender shall be deemed and taken to include Females, and the Singular to include the Plural, and the Plural the Singular, unless the contrary as to Gender or Number is expressly provided; and the Word "Month" to mean Calendar Month, unless Words be added showing Lunar Month to be intended; and "County" shall be held to mean also County of a Town or of a City, unless such extended Meaning is expressly excluded by Words; and the Word "Land" shall include Messuages, Tenements, and Hereditaments, Houses and Buildings, of any Tenure, unless where there are Words to exclude Houses and Buildings, or to restrict the Meaning to Tenements of some particular Tenure; and the Words "Oath," "swear," and "Affidavit" shall include Affirmation, Declaration, affirming, and declaring, in the Case of Persons by Law allowed to declare or affirm instead of swearing. V. Be it enacted, That where any Act repealing in whole or in part any former Act is itself repealed, such last Repeal shall not revive the Act or Provisions before repealed, unless Words be added reviving such Act or Provisions. VI. Be it enacted, That wherever any Act shall be made repealing in whole or in part any former Act, and substituting some Provision or Provisions instead of the Provision or Provisions repealed, such Provision or Provisions so repealed shall remain in force until the substituted Provision or Provisions shall come into operation by force of the last made Act. VII. Be it enacted, That every Act made after the Commencement of this Act shall be deemed and taken to be a Public Act, and shall be judicially taken notice of as such, unless the contrary be expressly provided and declared by such Act. VIII. Be it declared and enacted, That this Act shall commence and take effect from and immediately after the Commencement of the next Session of Parliament. CAP. CAP. XXII. An Act for raising the Sum of Eight millions five hundred and fifty-eight thousand seven hundred Pounds by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty. [10th June 1850.] Most Gracious Sovereign, WE VE Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled, towards raising the necessary Supplies which we have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty in this Session of Parliament, have resolved to give and grant unto Your Majesty the Sum herein-after mentioned; and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and 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 it shall be lawful for Treasury the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury of the United may raise Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, at any Time or Times, 8,558,700l. by to cause any Number of Exchequer Bills to be made out at the Bills, in like Receipt of the Exchequer at Westminster for any Sum or Sums Manner as is of Money not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Eight millions prescribed by five hundred and fifty-eight thousand seven hundred Pounds, in like Manner as is prescribed in an Act passed in the Fortyeighth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled Exchequer An Act for regulating the issuing and paying off of Exchequer 48 G. 3. c. 1. Bills, and in another Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Fourth and Fifth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act to regulate 4&5 W.4.c.15, the Office of the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer at Westminster, and in another Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for further regulating the Preparation 5&6 Viet. c. 66. and Issue of Exchequer Bills. II. And be it enacted, That all and every the Clauses, Pro- The Clauses, visoes, Powers, Privileges, Advantages, Penalties, Forfeitures, Acts extended and Disabilities contained in the said Acts shall be applied and to this Act. extended to the Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act, as fully and effectually to all Intents and Purposes as if the said several Clauses or Provisoes had been particularly repeated and re-enacted in the Body of this Act. to apply the III. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said The Treasury Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to issue and apply Money raised. from Time to Time all such Sums of Money as shall be raised by Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act to such Services as shall then have been voted by the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in this present Session of Parliament. IV. And be it enacted, That the Principal Sum or Sums of Bills how to be Money to be contained in such Exchequer Bills shall be charged charged and [No. 12. Price 2d.] M paid, upon Interest on Bills charged on Supplies to be current in Payment of Public Re venue after Twelve Calendar Months from their Dates. Bank of England may advance 8,558,700l. on the Credit of Bills, notwithstanding 5 & 6 W. & M. e. 20. 27 Hen. 6. c. 5. 13 VICT. upon and shall be paid out of any Supplies to be granted in the next Session of Parliament. V. And be it enacted, That the Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act shall bear Date on the Days on which the same shall be respectively issued, and shall bear an Interest not exceeding the Rate of Three-pence Halfpenny per Centum per Diem in respect of the whole of the Monies respectively contained therein, payable out of any Aids or Supplies in the Bank of England standing to the Credit of the Exchequer. pass VI. And be it enacted, That all the Exchequer Bills to be made out by virtue of this Act, or so many of them as shall from Time to Time remain undischarged and uncancelled, shall, after Twelve Calendar Months from their respective Dates, be taken and shall and be current to all the Receivers and Collectors in Great Britain of the Customs, Excise, or any Revenue, Supply, Aid, or Tax whatsoever already granted or payable or which shall hereafter be granted or payable to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, and also at the Bank of England to the Account of Her Majesty's Exchequer, from the said Receivers or Collectors, or from any other Person or Persons, Bodies Politic or Corporate whatsoever, making any Payment there to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, upon any Account what ever. VII. And be it declared and enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Governor and Company of the Bank of England to advance or lend to Her Majesty, upon the Credit of the Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act, any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Eight millions five hundred and fifty-eight thousand seven hundred Pounds; anything in an Act passed in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary, intituled An Act for granting to Their Majesties several Rates and Duties upon Tonnage of Ships and Vessels, and upon Beer, Ale, and other Liquors; and for securing certain Recompences and Advantages in the said Act mentioned to such Persons as shall voluntarily advance the Sum of One million five hundred thousand Pounds towards carrying on the War against France, or in any subsequent Act, to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. CAP. XXIII. An Act to repeal an Exception in an Act of the Twenty- W WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Twenty-seventh |