which may be payable by the said Commissioners, cannot be produced, it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Commissioners, or Comptroller General, or Assistant Comptroller General, to admit such other Evidence of the Existence or Death of the said Nominee as they may under the Circumstances of each particular Case deem expedient and sufficient. General of XIV. And be it enacted, That the Production of the Certificate Certificate of under the Hand of any Superintendent Registrar or Registrar of Registrar Births and Deaths, to be attested by Two or more credible Wit- Births, &c. nesses, certifying that such Certificate is a true Copy of the sufficient. Register Book, or of the Certificate of the Registrar General under the Seal of the Register Office, shall be sufficient Evidence of the Birth, Death, or Marriage of any Nominee in each Case, any thing in the said Acts or in any other Act for enabling the said Commissioners to grant Life Annuities to the contrary thereof notwithstanding: Provided always, that every such Certificate shall be accompanied with a Declaration of the Identity of every such Nominee, to be made, taken, and declared by and before such and the like Authorities as are mentioned in any of the said Acts; and whenever any such Certificate of Birth, Death, or Marriage shall be produced of any Superintendent Registrar or Registrar of Births and Deaths (other than that of the Registrar General) a Declaration shall be annexed thereunto of the Witnesses who attested the Execution thereof, or One of them, or their, his, or her solemn Affirmation in case they or either of them shall be of the People called Quakers or Moravians or Separatists, to be made before any Justice of the Peace or Magistrate of the County, City, Riding, Town, or Place wherein the Place of the Birth, Death, or Marriage of any such Nominee shall be situate, setting forth that such Witness or Witnesses did examine and compare the said Copy of the Register of Birth, Death, or Marriage with the Register thereof, and that it is a true and literal Copy thereof, and did see such Registrar or Superintendent Registrar (as the Case may be) sign the said Certificate, and that the Names of such Witnesses are of their own proper Handwriting. CAP. L. An Act to continue until the Thirty-first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, fand from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, an Act of the Ninth Year of His Majesty King George the 9 G. 4. c. 89. Fourth, for the Administration of Justice in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land. [27th July 1838.] CA P. LI. An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Levy of Grand WE [27th July 1838.] HEREAS the System now used in the County of the City of Dublin, of apportioning the Sums to be raised by Grand Jury Presentment according to the Amount of Ministers 6 • Money 5 G.4. c. cxviii. 1 Vict. c. 25. Grand Jury Presentments to be applotted according to Valuation under recited Acts. Charge and Recovery of Cess. Treasurer of the City of Dublin to obtain a Copy of such Valua tion from the Justices under recited Act, and divide and prepare it into Parochial Lists, and lay the same before the Grand Jury. 6 • Money charged upon each House therein, is partial and unequal: II. And be it enacted, That such Grand Jury Cess shall be chargeable upon the like Tenements according to their Value respectively in such Police Assessment, and payable by the like Persons, and recoverable in the same Manner as the said Police Rate or Tax is chargeable, payable, and recoverable under and by virtue of the Provisions of the said recited Acts, and not otherwise. III. And be it enacted, That the Treasurer of the County of the City of Dublin shall and he is hereby required, Fifteen Days at the least previous to the First Day of Easter Term next after the passing of this Act, to demand from the Justices appointed under the said recited Acts, passed respectively in the Sixth and Seventh Years of the Reign of His late Majesty and in the First Year of Her present Majesty, a Copy of such Valuation as aforesaid, which the said Justices are hereby empowered and required to give within Seven Days after such Demand; and such Treasurer shall forthwith divide and prepare such Valuation_into parochial Lists or Valuations, according to the respective Parishes or Parts thereof in which the Houses, Lands, and Tenements contained therein are situate respectively, and shall lay such Valuation so prepared and divided before the Grand Jury of the said County of the City of Dublin upon the First Day of Meeting of such Grand Jury after the Commencement of this Act; and the said Treasurer shall and he is hereby required thenceforward, Fifteen Days Days at the least before each Presenting Term, to call upon such Justices to furnish him with a Copy or Schedule of all such Alterations or Variations in the said Valuation as shall have been made under the Provisions of the said recited Acts from Time to Time, and which said Justices are hereby empowered and required in like Manner to furnish to such Treasurer, who shall amend such Valuation accordingly, and lay the same in such corrected and amended Form before such Grand Jury upon the First Day of each Presenting Term; and such Grand Jury shall thereupon Grand Jury to assess the several Sums to be raised by Grand Jury Presentment assess accordingly. upon the several Parishes or Portions thereof in the County of the City of Dublin, according and in proportion to their respective Valuation in such general Valuation or Assessment; and in the Penalty on Treaevent of the said Treasurer neglecting so to demand and furnish surer or Justices to the Grand Jury such Copy of the said Valuation, or in the neglecting in the event of the said Justices refusing or neglecting to comply with such Demand, within the Period aforesaid, such Treasurer or Justices so defaulting shall for every such Default forfeit and pay a Sum of Fifty Pounds to any Person who shall sue for the same by Civil Bill. above Parti culars. IV. And be it enacted, That, together with the Warrant spe- Treasurer to cifying the Amount so assessed by the said Grand Jury upon each furnish to each Parish or Part of a Parish in the County of the City of Dublin, Parish, &c. a such Treasurer shall furnish to the Churchwardens, or other proper of the Valuation Copy of so much Person or Persons therein respectively, a correct and proper Copy as appertains of so much of the said Valuation as shall appertain thereto; and thereto. the Amount of the Assessment to be raised off such Parish or Part of a Parish shall be applotted and apportioned in conformity with and in proportion to the Value of each and every House, Land, or Tenement contained therein respectively as the same shall be inserted in such Valuation. V. And be it enacted, That within Ten Days after every such Said Copy of Applotment shall have been completed such Churchwardens or Valuation to be other proper Person or Persons shall, together therewith, return returned after Applotment the said Valuation to the said Treasurer, and such Valuation made. shall be preserved by him amongst the County Records in his Office; and the Lord Mayor of the said City shall, at the Instance of the said Treasurer, issue his Warrants, as now by Law required, for the Collection of the Sums so applotted, and the same shall be collected and levied accordingly. of Valuation. VI. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Grand Jury to said Grand Jury of the County of the City of Dublin to present present for Exa reasonable Sum to be paid to the Receiver of the Police Tax or pences of Copy Rate in the said City under the said recited Acts as and for the Expences of preparing such Copy of the said Valuation, and the said Alterations and Corrections therein from Time to Time. VII. And be it enacted, That, for all Purposes relating to Grand Limits of the Jury Presentments, the County of the City of Dublin shall, from County of the and after the Commencement of this Act, be deemed to include City of Dublin defined. and to extend over the County of the City of Dublin, and such Parts of the County of Dublin as lie within the Circular Road: Provided always, that every such Part of the County of Dublin as aforesaid shall, from and after the Commencement of this Act, be freed and exempted from all Grand Jury Charge or Cess in respect Parts of County of Dublin within the Circular Road, not being Parishes, to be annexed to Parishes in the respect of forming a Portion of the County of Dublin, save and except such Charges or Cesses as shall have been previously duly charged and assessed thereon by Grand Jury Presentment or otherwise, and which Charges or Cesses may be recovered by all the Ways and Means theretofore in force for that Purpose notwithstanding the passing of this Act: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall be deemed, taken, or construed to make any College or Hospital chargeable with such Grand Jury Cess which is not now liable thereto. VIII. And be it enacted, That such Parts of the County of Dublin as are contained within the Circular Road, and within which there is no Parish Church, and which did not immediately before the passing of this Act belong to any Parish within the County of the City of Dublin, shall for all the Purposes of this Act be deemed to form a Portion of such Parish in the said County City of Dublin. of the City of Dublin as the Grand Jury thereof shall present and appoint; and such Grand Jury is hereby required, at the First Presenting Term after the passing of this Act, to present the same, and give due Notice thereof to such Parishes and Parts of the County of Dublin, by posting Copies of such Presentment in the most public and usual Places for posting public Notices. Presentment for 7 G.4.c.74. 6 IX. And whereas, on account of the Increase in the Number ' of Prisons belonging to the County of the City of Dublin, it is expedient to augment the Sums which the Grand Juries of the said County of the City of Dublin are authorized to present annually as a Recompence for the Services of the Chaplains of the several Prisons in the said City (and especially of the principal City Gaol of Newgate, where the Number of Prisoners annually committed is larger and the Duty more onerous than in the other Prisons), under and by virtue of an Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws relating to Prisons in Ireland;' be it therefore enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Grand Jury of the County of the City of Dublin, at the Easter Presenting Term in every Year, to present a reasonable Sum, not exceeding the Sum of Fifty Pounds nor less than Forty Pounds, as a Salary or Recompence for the Services of any Clergyman of the Established Church or Priest of the Roman Catholic Church who, under the Provisions of the said recited Act, or of an Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the 6 & 7W.4.c.51. Fourth, intituled An Act for converting the Richmond General Penitentiary into one of the Prisons for the County of the City of Dublin, and to amend the Law relating to Prisons in Ireland, has been or shall be duly appointed Chaplain of the Gaol of Newgate, and a Sum not exceeding Forty Pounds or less than Thirty Pounds for any such Clergyman who has been so appointed Chaplain of any of the Prisons in the County of the said City; provided it shall fully appear to the said Grand Jury and to the Court that such Chaplain has duly and regularly executed the several Duties of his Office; and provided further, that if any such Clergyman or Priest shall be appointed Chaplain of Two or more Prisons, he may receive such Salary for each of such Prisons, provided the whole of such Salaries shall not ex ceed ceed One hundred Pounds per Annum; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to alter the Power of the Grand Jury of the said City to present for the Protestant Dissenting Chaplain of the Gaols of the said City any Sums which they are now authorized to present under the said first-recited Act; and provided also, that it shall not be lawful for any Grand Jury to present any Salary for any such Chaplain as aforesaid if it shall appear to them that such Chaplain is interdicted or prohibited from exercising the Functions of his Office, either by the Rules of the Church to which he belongs or by any other competent Authority. X. And be it enacted, That this Act shall commence and take Commencement effect from and after the First Day of April next after the passing of this Act. of this Act. XI. 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 altered," Parliament. CA P. LII. An Act to continue for Five Years, and from thence until the End of the then next Session of Parliament, an Act of 5 & 6W.4. c. 27. the Fifth and Sixth Years of His late Majesty, for the Regulation of the Linen and Hempen Manufactures in Ireland. [27th July 1838.] WH CA P. LIII. An Act to amend an Act of the last Session of Parliament for providing more effectual Means to make Treasurers of Counties and Counties of Cities in Ireland account for Public Monies, and to secure the same. [27th July 1838.] HEREAS an Act was passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled An Act to provide more effectual Means 7 W.4.& 1 Vict. 'to make Treasurers of Counties and Counties of Cities in Ireland c.54. 'account for Public Monies, and to secure the same: And whereas it is expedient to amend the said Act:' 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 the same, That every Payment to be made by any Treasurer of Payments by any County or County of a City or Town in Ireland, after the Treasurers of Commencement of this Act, shall be made by a Draft upon the Counties to be Bank with which he has or shall have his public Account, purby Draft. suant to the Provisions of the said Act, whether the same shall exceed Ten Pounds or not, and that every such Draft shall be drawn and countersigned in like Manner as a Draft by such Treasurer for a Sum exceeding Ten Pounds ought now to be under Provisions of the said Act; and all Drafts to be drawn by any such Treasurer, under the Authority of the herein-before recited Act of the last Session of Parliament or of this present Act, shall be exempt from any Stamp Duty whatever. II. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in Council to alter or rescind any Rule or Regu Lord Lieutenant may alter or rescind Rules. |