Penalties how to be recovered and applied. The Persons taking the Accounts to certify and affirm as to their Correctness, and de Default, or Falsification, on Proof thereof being made before any Two Justices of the Peace of the County in which he shall so act, on the Testimony of One or more credible Witnesses, forfeit a Sum not exceeding Five Pounds nor less than Forty Shillings, at the Discretion of the said Justices before whom such Complaint shall be so made. VIII. And be it enacted, That the Amount of such several Forfeitures which may be received under this Act shall, if not immediately paid, be levied by Warrant under the Hands and Seals of any Two Justices of the Peace of the County, in such Manner as is directed by a certain Act passed in the Sixth and 6 & 7 Vict. c. 56. Seventh Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for the better Collection of Fines, Penalties, Issues, Deodands, Amerciaments, and forfeited Recognizances in Ireland, and for the Appropriation thereof, or any Act of the present Session in force for the better Collection of Fines, Penalties, Issues, and forfeited Recognizances in Ireland, and that the Amount of such Forfeitures, when so paid or levied, shall be paid one Half to the Informer, and the other Half to the Credit of and to be appropriated in the same Manner as the surplus Fund under such Act. IX. And be it enacted, That the said several Persons so appointed to take the said Accounts, or to assist therein, shall sign and certify the same, and make solemn Affirmation before any Justice of the Peace within the County, to the Effect that the said Account has been truly and faithfully taken by him (or them), and that to the best of his (or their) Knowledge the same is correct, so far as may be known, and shall deliver the same to such Officer of the said Police or Constabulary Forces, or other Person as may be appointed by the said Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors to receive the same, within Such Officer to each County, City, Town, or Place; and such Officer or Person shall examine the same, and cause any Defect or Inaccuracy which may be discovered therein to be supplied or corrected so far as may be possible, and shall certify and transmit the same to the Office of the said Chief or Under Secretary, in such Manner and within such Time as the said Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors shall direct, and the same shall be digested and reduced into Order under the Direction of the said Chief or Under Secretary, by such Persons as the said Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors shall appoint for that Purpose; and that an Abstract thereof shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within Twelve Months after laid before Par- the Day on which the said Account shall be taken, or (if Parlia ment be not then sitting) within the first Fourteen Days of the Session next ensuing. liver them to the Officer appointed to receive them. transmit them to the Office of the Chief Secretary. An Abstract thereof to be liament. Punishment of Affirmation or X. And be it enacted, That every solemn Affirmation or DePersons wilfully claration made or signed under the Authority of this Act shall making false be of the same Force and Effect as if the Person making such Affirmation or Declaration had taken an Oath in the usual Form, so that if the Person making such Affirmation or Declaration shall be convicted of having therein wilfully and falsely affirmed or declared any Matter or Thing, he shall be subject to the same Pains, Penalties, and Forfeitures to which Persons convicted of wilful Perjury are subject. XI. And 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 amended, &c. Parliament. CA P. XLV. An Act to continue an Act to amend the Laws relating to CA P. XLVI. An Act to suspend the making of Lists and the Ballots and CA P. XLVII. [29th July 1850.] An Act for further continuing certain temporary Provisions W HEREAS an Act was passed in the Tenth and Eleventh An Act to amend the Law as to Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in 10 & 11 Vict. • England, by which it was enacted, that certain of the Provisions c. 98. ⚫ therein contained should continue until the First Day of August • One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, and, if Parliament ⚫ were then sitting, until the End of the then Session of Parlia ⚫ment; and such Provisions have, by an Act passed in the last 12 & 13 Vict. Session of Parliament, been continued until the First Day of c. 39. August One thousand eight hundred and fifty, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament: And whereas it is expedient that the said Provisions should be further continued:" 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 the said Provisions of the said firstly-recited Act shall continue until the First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and to the End further conof the then next Session of Parliament. Certain Provi sions of first recited Act tinued. II. 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. XLVIII. An Act to continue certain Acts relating to Linen, Hempen, and other Manufactures in Ireland. [29th July 1850.] WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Session of Parlia ment held in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of His Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act 5&6W.4.c.27. to continue and amend certain Regulations for the Linen and Hempen Manufactures in Ireland: And whereas an Act was passed in the Session of Parliament held in the Third and T 3 Fourth S & 4 Vict. c. 91. 7 & 8 Vict. c. 47. Fourth Years of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for the more effectual Prevention of Frauds and Abuses committed by Weavers, Sewers, and other Persons employed in the Linen, Hempen, Union, Cotton, Silk, and Woollen Manufactures in Ireland, and for the better Payment of their Wages, for One Year, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of 'Parliament: And whereas an Act was passed in the Session of 'Parliament held in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of 5 & 6 Vict. c.68. Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to amend, and continue 'to the Twenty-seventh Day of July One thousand eight hundred ' and forty-three, and to the End of the next Session of Parliament, an Act of the Third and Fourth Years of Her present Majesty, for the more effectual Prevention of Frauds and Abuses 'committed by Weavers, Sewers, and other Persons employed in the Linen, Hempen, Union, Cotton, Silk, and Woollen Manufactures in Ireland, and for the better Payment of their Wages: And whereas an Act was passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to amend, and continue for Five Years, and to the End of the next Session of Parliament, 'certain Acts relating to Linen, Hempen, and other Manufactures in Ireland: And whereas it is expedient that the first herein-before recited Act, and the secondly and thirdly and fourthly herein-before recited Acts should be continued, subject to the respective Amendments thereof:' 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 Continuation of same, That the said first herein-before recited Act, except as to Acts. such Parts thereof as have been repealed by the said secondly herein-before recited Act, and subject to the Amendments thereof in the said subsequent recited Acts contained, and the said secondly and thirdly and fourthly herein-before recited Acts, subject to the respective Amendments thereof, shall be continued and shall be and remain in force from the passing of this Act for One Year, and until the End of the then next Session of Parliament. II. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in the present Session of Parliament, Act may be amended, &c. An Act to defray the Charge of the Pay, Clothing, and contingent and other Expenses of the Disembodied Militia in Great Britain and Ireland; to grant Allowances in certain Cases to Subaltern Officers, Adjutants, Paymasters, Quartermasters, Surgeons, Assistant Surgeons, Surgeons Mates, and Serjeant Majors of the Militia; and to authorize the Employment of the Non-commissioned Officers. [29th July 1850.] [This Act is the same, except as to Dates, as 12 & 13 Vict. c.75.] САР. CA P. L. An Act to continue the Exemption of Inhabitants from Liability to be rated as such in respect of Stock in Trade or other Property to the Relief of the Poor. [29th July 1850.] [3&4 Vict. c. 89. continued until 1st October 1851, and to the End of the then next Session.] CA P. LI. An Act for the Transfer of the Equitable Jurisdiction of the The Jurisdic- chequer as a cery in Ireland the Jurisdiction of the Court of Exchequer ' as a Court of Equity:' 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 on the First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and fifty all the Power, Authority, and Jurisdiction of Her Majesty's Court of Exchequer at Dublin as a Court of Equity, and all the Power, Authority, and Jurisdiction which shall have been conferred on or committed to the said Court of Exchequer by or under the special abolished, and Authority of any Act or Acts of Parliament, (other than such transferred to Power, Authority, and Jurisdiction as shall be then possessed by the Court of or be incident to the said Court of Exchequer as a Court of Law, Chancery. or as shall then be possessed by the said Court of Exchequer as a Court of Revenue, and not heretofore exercised or exerciseable by the same Court sitting as a Court of Equity,) shall be by force of this Act transferred and given to Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery in Ireland, to all Intents and Purposes, in as full and ample a Manner as the same might have been exercised by the said Court of Exchequer if this Act had not passed; and the same Power, Authority, and Jurisdiction shall, so far as respects the Exercise thereof by the said Court of Exchequer, cease and determine: Provided always, that this Act shall not abridge, lessen, or in anywise affect the Power, Authority, or Jurisdiction of or incident to the said Court of Exchequer as a Court of Law, or the Power, Authority, or Jurisdiction of the same Court as a Court of Revenue, not heretofore exercised or exerciseable by the same Court sitting as a Court of Equity. ings transferred Chancery to be carried on ac to Court of II. And be it enacted, That all Suits and Matters which on the Suits depending said First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and fifty and Proceedshall be depending in the said Court of Exchequer as a Court of Equity, or under such Act or Acts of Parliament as aforesaid, (except as aforesaid,) shall be by force of this Act transferred, with all the Proceedings therein, to the said Court of Chancery, there cording to the to be carried on and prosecuted and dealt with and decided ac- Practice of that cording to the Practice of that Court, in the same Manner in every respect as if such Suits and Matters had been originally commenced in the said Court of Chancery; and all Decrees and Orders Ꭲ 4 which Court. Writs return quer to be returnable in Chancery. Lord Chan which shall have been made by the said Court of Exchequer in such Suits and Matters shall, to all Intents and Purposes, be deemed and taken to be Decrees or Orders respectively of the said Court of Chancery; and all Writs which shall have been then able in Exche- issued in the same Suits and Matters, or any of them returnable in the said Court of Exchequer, shall be by force of this Act returnable in the said Court of Chancery: Provided always, that in case on the said First Day of August any of the said Suits or Matters so hereby transferred shall have been partly heard by the said Court of Exchequer, it shall be lawful for the said Court of Chancery, by Order specially made for the Purpose, to remit such partly heard Suit or Matter to the said Court of Exchequer, and the said Court of Exchequer shall thereupon, with all convenient Speed, hear the same, and make such Rule, Order, or Decree therein as shall appear to said Court of Exchequer right and fitting in the Premises, anything herein contained to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding; but such Suit or Matter shall in all other respects and for all other Purposes stand and be considered as transferred to the said Court of Chancery, in like Manner as all other Suits and Matters so hereby transferred as aforesaid. cellor may remit to the Court of Exchequer Causes partly heard by that Court. Lord Chan cellor to make General Orders for the Taxation of Costs, &c. by reason of the Transfer. Stocks, &c. standing in the Name of the Accountant General of the Court of Exchequer to be transferred into the Name of Accountant such Purposes were respective ly applicable to. as the same III. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Lord Chancellor from Time to Time to make such General Orders (as well with respect to the Taxation and Allowance of Costs as in all other respects) as to him shall seem fit and proper to be made, by reason or in consequence of the Transfer hereby made to the said Court of Chancery of such Suits and Matters as aforesaid, or for carrying the same Transfer into complete Effect. IV. And be it enacted, That on the said First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and fifty all Stocks, Funds, Annuities, and Securities whatsoever which shall then be standing in the Name of the Accountant General of the said Court of Exchequer as such Accountant General in the Books of the Bank of Ireland, or in the Books of any other Body Politic or Corporate or Company whatsoever, and all such Exchequer Bills or other Securities which at any Time before the said First Day of August One thousand General of the eight hundred and fifty shall have been transferred into or vested Court of Chan- in the Name of or shall be in the Custody or Power of the Ac cery, and to be countant General of the Court of Exchequer as such Accountant applicable to General, and which shall not have been applied to the Trusts and Purposes to which the same were applicable under the Order or Direction of the said Court of Exchequer, shall on the said First Day of August become by force of this Act vested in the Accountant General of the said Court of Chancery for the Time being, in trust to attend the Orders of the said Court of Chancery, and without any Act or Deed whatsoever to be done or executed by the Accountant General of the said Court of Exchequer for the Time being, and shall and may be proceeded upon by and in the Name of the Accountant General of the said Court of Chancery, in right of his Office, by any Action or Suit at Law or in Equity, or in any other Manner, as the same might have been proceeded on by or in the Name of the said Accountant General of the Court of Exchequer for the Time being, and shall be applicable to all such Purposes as the same were respectively applicable to, except where Officers of Bank otherwise directed by this Act; and all such Funds, Stocks, of Ireland, &c. Annuities, |