Saving Rights of the Crown. Construction of Act. for the County or other Jurisdiction wherein the Land shall be situate, such Justices, upon the Nonpayment thereof, are hereby required, by Warrant under their Hands and Seals, to cause the same to be levied by Distress. LXV. And be it enacted, That, notwithstanding any thing in this Act or in the Acts herein recited or referred to contained or implied to the contrary, it shall not be lawful for any Person or Persons to embank or reclaim from the Sea or Tidal Waters or Rivers, any Shore, Mud Bank, or Slobs belonging to Her Majesty in right of the Crown, or to reclaim Waste or other Lands belonging to Her Majesty in right of Her Crown, or to or construct Works on any such Lands, nor shall it be lawful for the said Commissioners to make Loans to any Person or Persons for the Purposes aforesaid, without the previous Consent of Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, to be signified in Writing under the Hands of Two of the Commissioners for the Time being of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings, and as far as regards the Embankment or Reclamation of Lands from the Sea or Tidal Waters or Rivers, or the Construction of Works below High-water Mark, without the previous Consent also of the Lord High Admiral, or Commissioners for executing the Of fice of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom, to be signified in Writing under the Hand of the Secretary of the Admiralty for the Time being, except in those Cases wherein the Soil and Bed of the Tidal Waters and Rivers and Rights of Vice Admiralty and Conservancy have been granted by the Crown to and are now vested in any other Body. LXVI. And be it enacted, That in the Construction of this Act, except where the Nature of the Provision or the Context of this Act shall exclude such Construction, the Word "Land" shall extend to all Hereditaments corporeal or incorporeal, and any Estate or Interest therein, and any undivided Part thereof, or any Charge or Incumbrance thereon; and the Words "Person or Persons" shall extend to all Bodies Politic, Corporate, or Collegiate, and also to all Archbishops, Bishops, Parsons, and other Ecclesiastical Persons, and to any Number of Persons associated together as a Company or Partnership; and the Word "Lease" shall include an Agreement for a Lease; and the Word "Benefice" shall include any Rectory, Vicarage, Perpetual Curacy, Donation, endowed public Chapel, Parochial Chapelry, and District Chapelry, the Incumbent whereof in right thereof shall be a Corporation sole; and the Word "Owner" shall include the reputed Owner; the Expression "Chief Rent" shall include all Rents reserved upon or payable out of or in respect of the Estate or Interest of any Person being an Owner within the Meaning of this Act, or any Estate or Interest paramount thereto; and every Word importing the Singular Number only shall extend to several Persons or Things as well as to one Person or Thing; and every Word importing the Plural Number shall extend to one Person or Thing as well as to several Persons and Things; and every Word importing the Masculine Gender only shall extend to a Female as well as to a Male; the the Word "Commissioners" or the Words "the said Commissioners" shall mean the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland for the Time being, or any Two of them, except where otherwise expressed; the Words "Commissioners of the Treasury" shall mean the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or any Two of them; and the Words "Paymaster of Civil Services" shall mean the Paymaster of Civil Services in Ireland for the Time being. LXVII. 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. To the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland. Showeth, amended, &c. THAT your Memorialist is, within the Meaning of an Act passed in the Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled An Act [here set forth the Title of this Act], Owner of the Lands mentioned in the Schedule hereunto annexed. That your Memorialist proposes to increase the Value of the said Lands by* as mentioned in or to be inferred from the annexed Report, Plan, Estimate, and Specification, which your Memorialist prays may be respectively considered as Part + State what of this his Memorial. That he is desirous of obtaining a Loan for that Purpose, to be secured by a Rent-charge on the Lands mentioned in the said Schedule, under the Provisions of the above-mentioned Act. That the present annual Value of the Lands is the Sum of Pounds, and that the Quit Rent[s] and Rent-charge[s] in lieu of Tithes now charged upon the same Lands amount together to the annual Sum of ticularly set forth in the said Schedule. That the Expence of effecting such said is estimated at the Sum of Pounds, as more par in manner afore Pounds Sterling, as *Here state the proposed Works. Estate or Interest the Memo rialist has in the Lands, and the Particulars of the Title by which the Memorialist is conOwner within the Meaning of the Act, having Provisions of the regard to the stituted an Act. Also state whole of said Lands are held whether the more particularly mentioned and set forth in the Estimate annexed; and that the estimated Increase in the annual Value expected to arise to the said Lands in said Schedule, the Subject under one and of such proposed Improvements, amounts to as set forth in the annexed Report. of the Sum of Pounds, rests or Title, the same Inte. and what Ex tent is held thereby, and if under different Interests or Titles, how much And this Memorialist further states and specifies, that his Estate and Interest in the said Lands and Premises is as follows:† And this Memorialist now applies and asks for the Advance Pounds by way of Loan, under the Provisions of the said Act, for defraying the Expence of the under each. posed Works, with such Alterations and Modifications as the Commissioners of Public Works may approve of. Dated at this Day of Witness of Signature of Owner. A a 2 18 pro SCHE State the Oc cupation, Residence, and Post Town of Applicant and Witness. TABLE for calculating RENT-CHARGES to be paid off in less Time than Twenty-two Years. Note.-This Table is calculated on the Assumption that a yearly Rent-charge of £6 10s. continuing for a Term of 22 Years (but payable half-yearly) is equivalent to the Sum of £100 in ready Money. SCHE 18 11 5 21 18 5 26 19 1 35 7 0 52 3 0 102 11 4 Note. This Table is calculated on the Assumption that a yearly Rent-charge of £6 10s. continuing for a Term of 22 Years (but payable half-yearly) is equivalent to the Sum of £100 in ready Money. 8 & 9 Vict. c. 117. CA P. XXXIII. An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Removal WH HEREAS an Act was passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty, for the Removal from England of poor Persons who, though born in Scotland, Ireland, or the ⚫ Islands of Man, Scilly, Jersey, or Guernsey, and not settled in 8&9 Vict. c. 83. England, are chargeable to some Parish in England; and by s. 77. another Act passed in the same Year Provision was made for the Removal from Scotland of poor Persons who, though born in England, Ireland, or the Isle of Man, and not settled in Scotland, receive Relief from some Parish or Combination in Scotland: And whereas it is expedient that certain Provisions of the said Acts should be amended:' 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 Guardians, &c. the same, That it shall be lawful for any Guardian, Relieving in England may Officer, or Overseer of any Parish or Union in England to take and convey before Two Justices of the Peace, without Summons therefrom under or Warrant, every poor Person who shall become chargeable to any Parish in England, and who he may have Reason to believe is liable to be removed from England under the first-recited out Summons, Act; and the Justices before whom any such Person shall be so brought shall hear and examine and proceed in the same Manner in all respects as if such Person had been brought before them under and in the Manner directed by that Act. take Persons removable first-recited Act before Two Justices with &c. Inspectors of the Poor in Scotland to take Persons remov recited Act before Sheriff or Two Justices, without II. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for any Inspector of the Poor, or other Officer appointed by the Parochial Board of any Parish or Combination in Scotland, to take and able therefrom convey before the Sheriff or any Two Justices of the Peace of under secondly- the County in which the Parish or Combination for which such Inspector or Officer acts, or any Portion thereof, is situated, without previous Complaint or Warrant in that Behalf, every poor Person who shall be in the course of receiving Parochial Relief in any Parish or Combination in Scotland, and who he may have Reason to believe is liable to be removed from Scotland under the secondly-recited Act; and the Sheriff or Justices before whom any such Person shall be so brought shall make such Examination, and proceed in the same Manner in all respects as if such Person had been brought before him or them under and in the Manner directed by that Act. previous Com plaint, &c. Persons taking Powers of Constables. Interpretation of Act. IV. And be it enacted, That in the Construction of this Act the Singular Number or Masculine Gender shall, except when |