THE STATUTES AT LARGE. Anno Regni VICTORIÆ, Britanniarum Reginæ, T the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the Eleventh Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady • VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, Queen of the United King'dom of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faith: And from thence continued, by several Prorogations, to the Thirty-first Day of January 1850; being the Third Session of 'the Fifteenth Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain ' and Ireland. < САР. І. An Act to amend an Act of the last Session, for making Provision for the Collection of County Cess in Ireland and for the Remuneration of the Collectors thereof. [224 February 1850.] WHEREAS an Act was passed in the last Session of Parlia ment, intituled An Act to make Provision during the present 12 & 13 Vict. Year, and to the End of the Year One thousand eight hundred c. 36. and fifty-one, relating to the Collection of County Cess in Ireland and to the Remuneration of the Collectors thereof: And whereas 'Collectors of County Cess, in entering into Security at the last 'Summer Assizes for the due Collection of such Cess, in several 'Cases were unable to avail themselves, or from Want of sufficient Notice or otherwise did not avail themselves, of the Provisions of the said recited Act in relation to modifying the Terms of ⚫ such Securities in the Manner in the said Act provided: And 'whereas in certain Counties, Baronies, and Districts of Ireland 'great Difficulties have existed in collecting the full Amount of County Cess, and it is expedient in such particular Cases where 'such Difficulties existed, and where the Collectors of County Cess appointed at or after the last Summer Assizes shall have ⚫ entered into Securities as by Law theretofore required for the 13 & 14 VICT. B • due Power to Lord Counties and Baronies this Act shall be in force, and in Securities of due Collection of all County Cess or public Money which they 'should respectively be required to collect, to extend to such Collectors the Benefit of the Provisions of the said recited Act 'for altering and modifying the Condition of the Securities so entered into by them, in like Manner as under the Provisions ' of the said Act:' Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That it shall be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, by any Order to be published in the Dublin Gazette, from Time to Time, before the Conclusion of the Spring to direct in what Assizes of this Year, to order and declare that in and for any County, or Barony or Baronies of a County, in Ireland, in such Order specified, the Provisions of this Act shall be in force; and a Copy of such Order shall be transmitted to the Secretary of such Places the the Grand Jury of such respective County; and from the making of such Order thenceforth as to any such County, or Barony or Baronies of a County, in such Order specified, any Bond and Warrant of Attorney to confess Judgment to the Treasurer of such County for the due Collection of County Cess or public Money, given and entered into by any High Constable or Collector of County Cess within any such County or for any such Barony in such Order specified, at or after the last Summer Assizes for such County and before the passing of this Act, shall in all respects be deemed and construed and dealt with as if such Bond and Warrant of Attorney had been conditioned for such High Constable or Collector duly collecting and paying to the County Treasurer all such public Money required by him to be collected as he should receive, or as he without Neglect or wilful Default might have received; and any such last-mentioned Bond and Warrant, without any Stamp, shall be as valid and effectual for the Purposes of the said recited Act, and shall be deemed to be within the Meaning and subject to the Provisions of the said recited Act, as fully and effectually as if such Bond and Warrant had been conditioned in the Manner and Form prescribed in and been given under and pursuant to the Provisions of the said recited Act. Cess given at or after the last Summer Assizes shall be deemed to be modified as if given under recited Act. Three Members of Grand Jury at the Spring Assizes of this Year to examine Collector's Accounts, and to certify the Amount he might without Neglect or wil ful Default have received. II. And be it enacted, That in every County in which or in any Barony of which the Provisions of this Act shall be in force in manner aforesaid it shall be lawful for the Secretary of the Grand Jury of such County, and he is hereby required, by Notice under his Hand, to be given to the High Constable or Collector of each Barony in which the Provisions of this Act shall be in force, Three Days before the swearing of the Grand Jury for the Spring Assizes of this Year, to require him to attend, with his Accounts, Books, and Vouchers, for the Examination of such Collector's Accounts, before Three Members of the Grand Jury at the ensuing Spring Assizes of this Year for such respective County; and each such High Constable or Collector of the same is hereby required to attend and produce his Accounts, Books, and Vouchers relating to the Collection of Grand Jury Cess in such respective Barony, before Three Members of the Grand Jury of such County at such Spring Assizes, who shall by the Grand Jury Jury be appointed for such Purpose, and shall examine the same; and after due Examination of the same, and after Examination upon Oath of such High Constable or Collector and such other Person or Persons as such Grand Jurors may require to be examined relating to the same, which Oath any such Grand Juror shall be empowered to administer, such Three Grand Jurors shall determine and ascertain the Amount of the Sums which such High Constable or Collector shall have received, or without Neglect or wilful Default might have received and collected, of the Amount of the County Cess required to be collected by him since the then last Summer Assizes, and shall by their Certificate certify under their Hands the Amount thereof which without Neglect or wilful Default might have been so collected, and also the Amount actually collected, together with a List of the Persons and Lands from whom or which such Cess has not been collected, and also a List of the Persons and Lands, if any, from whom or which the same might have been so collected and has not been collected; and such Certificate and Lists shall by such Grand Jurors or by the Secretary of the Grand Jury be laid before the Grand Jury at the said Spring Assizes, who shall take the same into their Consideration; and if they shall pass a Resolution approving of Certificate and such Certificate, or approving thereof subject to any Modifica- Lists to be laid tion, and if such High Constable or Collector shall duly pay or shall have paid over to the respective Treasurer of the County approved, and the whole Amount which it shall appear by such Certificate, so Money paid approved or modified, might without Neglect or wilful Default over, Collector have been collected, such High Constable or Collector in such to be entitled to Case shall receive and be paid his Poundage, as in the said recited Poundage. Act provided, upon the Amount so collected and paid over to the Treasurer. before Grand Jury, and if III. And be it enacted, That in the Construction of this Act, Interpretation unless the Subject or Context require another Construction, the of Terms. Word "County" shall extend to a County of a City or County of a Town, and the Word "Barony" shall extend to any District for which any such Collector may be or may have been appointed under the Powers by Law given in that Behalf. IV. 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 amended, &c. Parliament. CA P. II. An Act to restrain Party Processions in Ireland. [12th March 1850.] WHEREAS Numbers of Persons have been in the Practice of assembling and marching together in procession in 'Ireland in a Manner calculated to create and perpetuate Ani'mosities between different Classes of Her Majesty's Subjects, ' and to endanger the public Peace:' 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 B 2 same, What Proces sions shall be unlawful; Persons attending thereat guilty of a Mis demeanor. Power to Justices to com semblies or Processions to same, That from and after the passing of this Act all Assemblies of Persons in Ireland who shall meet and parade together or join in procession, and who shall bear, wear, or have amongst them or any of them any Fire-arms or other offensive Weapons, or any Banner, Emblem, Flag, or Symbol, the Display whereof may be calculated or tend to provoke Animosity between different Classes of Her Majesty's Subjects, or who shall be accompanied by any Person or Persons playing Music or singing any Song which may be calculated or tend to provoke Animosity between different Classes of Her Majesty's Subjects, shall be unlawful Assemblies, and every Person present thereat shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor, and upon Conviction thereof shall be punished accordingly. II. And be it enacted, That any Justice or Justices of the Peace shall proceed, with such Assistance as in the Judgment of such mand such As Justice or Justices may be necessary, to the Place where any such Assembly of Persons hereby declared to be unlawful shall be held or take place, and such Justice or one of such Justices, or some other Person by their or his Order, shall then and there read or repeat aloud to the Persons so assembled a Command or Notice to disperse in the Words or to the Effect following; (that is to say,) disperse. Penalty on Per- such Command, OUR Sovereign Lady the Queen doth charge and command all Persons being here assembled immediately to disperse and peaceably to depart upon pain of Fine or Imprisonment, according to the Statute passed in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of Queen Victoria, to restrain Party Processions in • Ireland. GOD save the Queen.' III. And be it enacted, That the Persons so met and assembled together shall forthwith, after such Command or Notice shall have been read or repeated aloud as aforesaid, disperse and depart; and if any One or more of the Persons so met or assembled together as aforesaid shall not disperse and depart within the Space of One Quarter of an Hour from the Time of such Command or Notice having been read or repeated aloud as aforesaid, such Person or Persons shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor, and it shall be lawful for the Justice or Justices who shall have read or repeated, or who shall have ordered to be read or repeated, such Command or Notice, or for any other Justice or Justices of the Peace, to seize, or by Order to any Constable or other Person to cause to be seized and detained for the Use of Her Majesty, any such Fire-arms or other offensive Weapon, and any such Banner, Emblem, Flag, or Symbol, and any musical Instruments in the Possession of any such Persons, and to cause the Person or Persons so refusing or neglecting to disperse or depart to be apprehended, either with or without a Warrant for that Purpose, or to be summoned to answer for such Offence; and such Offender or Offenders may thereupon be proceeded against in a summary Way for such Offence before any Two Justices of the Peace before whom he or they may be brought or summoned to appear; and every Person, being convicted thereof on the Oath of One or more credible Witness or Witnesses, shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Five Pounds, and to Imprisonment for any Term not exceeding One Calendar Month unless such such Penalty be sooner paid, or, at the Discretion of the said Justices, to be committed to any One of Her Majesty's Common Gaols or Prisons in Ireland for a Term not exceeding One Calendar Month, and for a Second or any subsequent Offence against the Provisions of this Act to a Penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds, and to Imprisonment for any Term not exceeding Two Calendar Months unless the same be sooner paid, or, in the Discretion of the said Justices, to be committed to any One of Her Majesty's Common Gaols or Prisons in Ireland for a Term not exceeding Two Calendar Months. IV. And be it enacted, That all Fire-arms or other offensive Fire-arms in Weapons which shall be borne, employed, or be in the personal possession of Possession of any Person forming Part of any Assembly or Pro-Persons forming Part of any cession declared unlawful under this Act, shall be forfeited to the Assembly, &c. Use of Her Majesty, whether the Command or Notice under this to be forfeited. Act provided shall have been read or repeated or not, or whether after the reading or repeating of the same such Assembly or Procession shall have dispersed or not; and any such Person who shall neglect or refuse to deliver up such Arms or offensive Weapons at any such Meeting as aforesaid to any Justice of the Peace, when required so to do, shall for every such Refusal or Neglect be subject to the Penalties in this Act already set forth, which Penalties shall be recoverable in the same summary Manner, and the Party so offending shall be subject to Imprisonment in like Manner, as has already been provided in respect to the summary Proceedings under this Act. Notice not to V. Provided always, and be it enacted, That no Person who Party proceeded shall have been proceeded against in a summary Way as aforesaid against for not for not dispersing or departing within the Space of One Quarter departing after of an Hour from the Time of such Command or Notice having be indicted for been read or repeated aloud as aforesaid, shall likewise be in- Misdemeanor dicted for a Misdemeanor for having been present at the unlawful for being present Assembly at which such Command or Notice shall have been so at Assembly at read or repeated: Provided also, that nothing herein contained which Notice shall prevent the Prosecution by Indictment for a Misdemeanor of any Person who shall be present at any such unlawful Assembly as aforesaid, and who shall not have been proceeded against in a summary Way as herein-before last mentioned. was read. VI. 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. CA P. III. An Act to apply the Sum of Eight Millions out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year One thousand amended, &c. · eight hundred and fifty. [25th March 1850] B 3 CAP. |