Oke's Synop. 2nd ed. p. 370. 9. Justices' Appointment of Special Sessions for transferring, &c., for the Year ensuing. (Id. s. 4.) [To be written underneath No. 8, ante.] We, the undersigned, the majority of the justices present at the general annual licensing meeting aforesaid, do hereby appoint [six] special sessions for the year ensuing to be holden in and for the said division, for the purpose of licensing such persons intending to keep inns, alehouses and victualling houses, theretofore kept by other persons being about to remove from such inns, alehouses, or victualling houses, in the cases and in the manner and for the time directed by the statute in that case made and provided, to be holden on the following days, at the hour of twelve at noon of each day and at this place, viz.— 16th October. 5th February, 1850. 2nd April, 1850. J. T. B. J. D. M. W. L. 10. Justices' Precept to High Constable to give Notice of Special Sessions.]-Proceed to the asterisk* in_ Form No. 1, ante, p. 341, then :—do hereby appoint [six] special sessions for the year ensuing, to be holden in and for the said division, for the purpose of licensing such persons intending to keep inns, alehouses, and victualling houses, theretofore kept by other persons being about to remove from such inns, alehouses, or victualling houses, in the cases and in the manner and for the time directed by the statute in that case made and provided, and also for the purpose of transferring billiard licences, and do, by this precept under our hands, appoint the said [six] special sessions to be holden on the respective days hereafter mentioned, at the in N., in the said division, at the hour of twelve at noon each, that is to say, On the 16th day of October next, On the 4th day of December next, On the 5th day of February, 1850, On the 2nd day of April, 1850, On the 4th day of June, 1850, On the 6th day of August, 1850, and we hereby require you, within five days next ensuing the day on which you shall receive this precept, to order the several petty constables, or other peace officers within your constablewick, to affix, or cause to be affixed, on the door of the church or chapel, and where there shall be no church or chapel, on some other public and conspicuous place within their respective districts, a notice of the said several days, hour and place at which such several special sessions are appointed to be holden as aforesaid, and to give to, or leave at the dwelling house of each and every justice of the peace acting for the said division, and of each and every person keeping an inn, alehouse, or victualling house, or a licensed billiard table or bagatelle board, in the said division, or who shall have given notice of his, her, or their intention to keep an inn, alehouse, or victualling house, or a billiard table or bagatelle board, and to apply at any of the said special sessions so to be holden as aforesaid, for a licence to sell exciseable liquors by retail to be drunk or consumed on the premises, or to keep such billiard table or bagatelle board within their respective districts, a copy of such notice. Given, &c. [as No. 1, ante, p. 341]. 11. High Constable's Warrant to the Petty Constables.]—Proceed to the asterisk* in Form No. 2, ante, p. 341, then :-and require you forth- Oke's Synop. with to affix or cause to be affixed on the door of the church or chapel, 2nd ed. p. 370. and where there shall be no church or chapel, on some other public and conspicuous place within your district, a notice in writing that [six] special sessions of the peace for the year ensuing will be holden in and for the said division on the respective days hereafter mentioned, at the in N., in the said division, at the hour of twelve at noon each day, that is to say, [here state the days as in Form, No. 10, supra], for the purpose of licensing such persons intending to keep inns, alehouses, and victualling houses, within the said division, theretofore kept by other persons being about to remove from such inns, alehouses, or victualling houses, in the cases and in the manner and for the time directed by the statute in that case made and provided, and also for the purpose of transferring billiard or bagatelle licences, and that you also forthwith give a copy of such notice to, or leave the same at the dwellinghouse of each and every justice of the peace acting for the said division living within your district, and to each and every person keeping an inn, alehouse, or victualling house, or a licensed billiard table or bagatelle board, within your district, or who shall have given notice of his, her, or their intention to keep an inn, alehouse, or victualling house, and to apply at any of the said special sessions, so to be holden as aforesaid, for a licence to sell exciseable liquors by retail, to be drunk or consumed on the premises, or to keep such billiard table or bagatelle board within your district. 12. Petty Constable's Notice. Division of N., Cambridgeshire. Notice of Sessions for transferring Alehouse and Billiard Licenses. Notice is hereby given, that [six] special sessions of the peace for the year ensuing will be holden in and for the said division, on the respective days hereafter mentioned, at the in N., in the said division, at the hour of twelve at noon of each day, that is to say, [here state the days as in Form No. 10, supra], for the purpose of licensing persons intending to keep inns, alehouses, or victualling houses within the said division, theretofore kept by other persons being about to remove from such inns, alehouses, or victualling houses, and for the purpose of licensing persons intending to keep billiard tables in the cases and in the manner and for the time directed by the statutes in such case made and provided. Dated the A.D. 185 W. T. day of Constable for the parish of in the hundred of C., in the said division. 13. Notice of Application for Transfer of Licence. (Id. s. 11.) To the overseers of the poor, and the constables of the [parish] of in the county of, and to all whom it may concern. I, A. B. [or we the executors, &c. of the late A. B.], victualler, being authorized by virtue of the licence granted to me [or him, or her] at the general annual licensing meeting [or special session] held at on the day of, one thousand eight hundred and to sell exciseable liquors by retail, to be drunk or consumed in the house or premises thereunto belonging, situate at [here describe the situation of the house], and commonly known by the sign of the, do hereby give notice that it is my [or our] intention to apply at the special session to Oke's Synop. 2nd ed. p. 370. in the county of be holden at day of N. B. A copy of this notice to be served upon one of the overseers of the poor, and upon one of the constables or other peace officers of the parish in which is situate the house kept by the person whose notice it is. 14. Licence granted at a Special Session, in case of Death, &c. under s. 14. At a special sessions of her Majesty's justices of the peace acting for the division of N., in the county of C., holden at the —, in N., in the said county, on the day of, in the year one thousand eight hundred and for the purpose of authorizing and empowering persons to open or continue open, in certain cases, common inns, alehouses and victualling houses: -, We [&c. proceed to the asterisk in Form of Licence No. 7, ante, p. 344, and there insert "as one A. B. duly licensed, but since dead [or who hath removed from the said house, or yielded up the possession of the said house to the said C. D., or who formerly occupied the said house] was licensed and empowered to sell, &c." conclude as in No. 7. 15. Temporary Authority to sell, to be signed at a Petty Sessions. (5 & 6 Vict. c. 44, s. 1.) the Division of N., At a petty session of her Majesty's justices of in the county of C. the peace in and for the county of C., holden at to wit. in N., in and for the division of N., in the said county, on ——, the day of in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Whereas no special session for the transfer of licences of inns, alehouses and victualling houses in the said division is now holden therein: And whereas application is now made at this petty session by T. T., now dwelling at S., in the parish of S., in the said division, and keeping the inn, alehouse or victualling house situate in the said division and mentioned in the within licence, granted pursuant to the provisions of the statute in that case made and provided, at a special session [or the general licensing meeting] in the within licence mentioned, to transfer the within licence to G. S., of the parish of S., in the division and county aforesaid: We, therefore, the undersigned, being the majority of the justices present at this petty session, by this indorsement under our hands and seals on the within licence so granted as aforesaid, by virtue of the power vested in us by the statute in such case made and provided, after examining upon oath all necessary parties, do authorize the said G. S., being a person not disqualified by the statute in such case made and provided, and to whom it is proposed by such application to transfer such licence, to use, exercise and carry on the business of a licensed victualler at the same house and at the same premises mentioned in the within licence, and there to sell such exciseable liquors as might heretofore have been lawfully sold and retailed therein; the same being a case where justices of the peace assembled at a special session are empowered, by the statute in that case made and provided, to transfer or grant licences before the expiration thereof to sell exciseable liquors by retail in the same house or premises, in respect of which any person had been theretofore duly licensed: the authority hereby granted, to continue and be in force until the now next ensuing special session for transferring and granting such licences, which shall be holden for the said division within which such house and premises are situated, and no longer. Given under our hands and seals at the petty sessions aforesaid. [Justices' signatures and seals.] Oke's Synop. 2nd ed. P. 370. BILLIARDS. The Forms for convening the general licensing meeting in tit. " Alehouses," ante, have been adapted to billiard licences as well as for transferring them. Licence for Public Billiard playing. (Given by 8 & 9 Vict. c. 109, s. 10.) at holden at on the in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred for the " purpose of granting billiard licences, we, being of her Majesty's justices of the peace acting for the said county [or liberty, &c. as the case may be], and being the majority of those assembled at the said session, do hereby authorize and empower A. L., now dwelling , in the parish of -, to keep a house for public billiard playing at [here specify the house], provided that he [or she] put and keep up the words "Licensed for Billiards" legibly painted in some conspicuous place near the door and on the outside of the said house, and do not wilfully or knowingly permit drunkenness or other disorderly conduct in the said house, and do not knowingly allow the consumption of exciseable liquors therein by the persons resorting thereto, and do not knowingly suffer any unlawful games therein, and do not knowingly suffer persons of notoriously bad character to assemble and meet together therein, and do not open the said house for play or allow any play therein after one and before eight of the clock in the morning, or keep it open or allow any play therein on Sundays, Christmas Day or Good Friday, or on any day appointed for a public fast or thanksgiving, but do maintain good order and rule therein and this licence shall continue in force from the day of next, until the day of then next following, and no longer. Given under our hands and seals on the day and at the place first written. Oke's Synop. 2nd ed. p. 371. CONSTABLES (BOROUGH, SPECIAL). 1. Appointment of, yearly, in October. (5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 76, s. 83.) Cornwall. Borough and liberties of Truro to wit. rough, on At a special petty session of her Majesty's justices of the peace in and for the borough of Truro, in the county of Cornwall, acting in and for the said borough, holden at the Town Hall in the same bothe day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and for the appointment of special constables for the said borough, of which special petty session due notice has been given to every justice usually acting in the said borough. We, the undersigned justices, present at the said special petty session, in pursuance of an act of parliament passed in the sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled "An Act to provide for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales," do nominate and appoint, from the list of persons returned to us, the following persons, being inhabitants of the said borough (and not legally exempt from serving the office of constable), to act as special constables within the said borough during the year now next following and until other special constables for the said borough of Truro shall be nominated and appointed to act in their stead as special constables of the said borough of Truro, whensoever they respectively shall be required by the warrant of any of the justices of the peace having jurisdiction within the said borough of Truro so to act, but not otherwise, such number of persons being deemed by us, the said justices, necessary (having regard to the extent and population of the said borough of Truro) to act as special constables as aforesaid. Given under our hands at the special petty session aforesaid. W. T. C., Mayor. J. T. N. W. P. K. 2. Summons to Person appointed to take the Oath. (Id.) To C. E. A., of the parish of Saint Mary, within the borough of Cornwall. Whereas, at a petty special sessions of her Majesty's jusBorough tices of the peace in and for the said borough of Truro, and >acting in and for the said borough, held on the - day of Liberties of October, 18-, at the Town Hall, in and for the said Truro. borough, for the appointment of persons to act as special constables within the said borough, you the said C. E. A., an inhabitant of the said borough, and in other respects duly qualified, were duly chosen to act as a special constable for the said borough of Truro, whensoever you should be required by the warrant of any of the justices of the peace having jurisdiction within the said borough so to act, but not otherwise: And whereas, in the opinion of me the undersigned, one of her Majesty's justices of the peace having jurisdiction within the said borough, the ordinary police force of the said borough is insufficient at this time to maintain the peace of the said borough: These are therefore to require you personally to appear before me, or some other of her Majesty's justices of the peace of and for the said borough and liberties, at the Town Hall in the said borough, on the day of, at o'clock in the noon, in order to be administered to you the oath required |