Period, not being less than One Month, during which they are to above Eleven dren above Eleven may be employed as VII. And whereas by the said secondly-recited Act it was Repeal of enacted, that any Child above Eleven Years of Age, employed Provision in solely in the winding and throwing of raw Silk, and who shall 7 & 8 Vict. c. 15. have obtained the Surgical Certificate required by this Act of as to Children his having completed his Eleventh Year, may work, without any Years of Age Proof of having attended a School, for any Time not exceeding &c., and in lieu 'Ten Hours on any Working Day, but not after Half past Four of thereof Chil'the Clock of the Afternoon of any Saturday: And whereas it ' is expedient that so much of the said recited Act should be repealed: Be it therefore enacted, That so much of the said Act as is herein-before recited shall be and the same is hereby repealed; and in lieu thereof it shall be lawful for any Child employed solely in the winding and throwing of raw Silk, who shall have obtained the Surgical Certificate required by the said secondly-recited Act of his having completed his Eleventh Year, to be employed in all respects as young Persons may be employed under this Act. young Persons. VIII. And be it enacted, That every young Person, and every Young Persons Female above the Age of Eighteen Years, who shall be employed and Females in any Factory, or shall be allowed to remain in any Room where employed durany manufacturing Process is then carried on in any Factory, &c. to be held ing Meal Times, during any Part of the Times which by the Notice then fixed up to be employed in such Factory in that Behalf are mentioned as the Times allowed contrary to Acts. for Meals, shall be deemed to be employed contrary to the Provisions of the said recited Acts as amended by this Act. be construed as One Act. IX. And be it enacted, That the Three herein-before recited Recited Acts Acts as amended by this Act, and this Act, shall be construed and this Act to together as One Act, and in all respects as if the Provisions herein-before contained had been contained in the secondly hereinbefore recited Act: Provided nevertheless, that nothing herein contained shall apply to any Offence committed under the said recited Acts before the passing of this Act, or to any Proceedings taken Act may be amended, &c. taken under any of the said Acts, and pending at the Time of the passing of this Act. X. And be it further enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of Parliament. CA P. LV. 12 & 13 Vict. c. 85. Aldermen and Assessors of the cid Wards of the Borough of Dublin shall in this Year be the l'ersons to presille at Elec tions of Alder men, &c., and act as Assessors 6 An Act to amend an Act of the last Session for amending an Act for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in Ireland so far as relates to the Borough of Dublin. [5th August 1850.] WHEREAS by an Act of the last Session of Parliament, intituled An Act to amend an Act for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in Ireland, so far as relates to the Borough of Dublin, it is amongst other things enacted, that on the Twenty-fifth Day of November in the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty all the Councillors of and in every Ward of the Borough of Dublin then in Office shall go out of Office, and all and every the Aldermen for each and every Ward of the said Borough then in Office shall continue in Office during the said Twenty-fifth Day of November in the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty, for the Purpose of holding and presiding at the Elections of Aldermen and Councillors in the several Wards of the said Borough to be held on the said Day, as therein-after mentioned, and thenceforth until the Names of the Persons so elected shall be published as in the said therein 'first-recited Act directed, not being later than Two of the Clock ' of the Afternoon of the Day next but One following the Day of • such Election; subject nevertheless to the Power and Provision for the Re-election of any Alderman or Councillor in the said 'therein first-recited Act contained: And whereas Provision was 'made in the said recited Act for the Re-division of the Borough " of Dublin into Wards: And whereas the said Re-division has ⚫ been made and duly approved by the Lord Lieutenant and Privy • Council of Ireland as by the said Act provided: And whereas 'the new Wards into which the said Borough has been divided 'do not correspond in Names, or in Extent or Boundaries, with the former Wards of the said Borough: And whereas it is 'doubtful which of the existing Aldermen of the said Borough is duly authorized under the Provisions of the said recited Act, and of the Act for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in • Ireland, to hold and preside at any Election to be held for each or any of the said new Wards on the Twenty-fifth Day of November in this Year' 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 several Aldermen and Assessors of the said respective former Wards of the said Borough of Dublin, specified in the First Column of the Schedule to this Act annexed, shall in this present Year be the Persons to hold and preside at the Elections which shall take place on the said Twenty-fifth Day of November in this Year of Aldermen and Councillors, or to act thereat as Asses- for those new sors respectively, for the said respective new Wards of the said Wards that are Borough specified in the Second Column of the said Schedule in respectively speconnexion with the Names of such respective former Wards specified in the said First Column thereof. cified in the Schedule. man, &c. of before the 25th II. And be it enacted, That in case any Vacancy shall occur Vacancy in the or shall have occurred before the said Twenty-fifth Day of Novem- Office of Alderber in this Year in the Office of any Alderman, Councillor, or Assessor of any Ward mentioned in the First Column of the Sche- any old Ward dule to this Act annexed, by Death or Resignation, or by reason of November in of any of the Causes of Disqualification of an Alderman or Coun- this Year to be cillor mentioned in the Eighty-eighth Section of the said Act of filled up under the Third and Fourth Years of Her present Majesty's Reign, for the 3 & 4 Vict. c. 108. as if the the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in Ireland, (as such Re-division of Section is numbered in the Copies of the said Act printed by the the Borough Queen's Printers,) such Vacancy shall be filled up and such new into new Wards Election respectively had for such Ward, under the Provisions of had not taken the said Act of the Third and Fourth Years of Her present Ma- place. jesty's Reign, as if the said Re-division of the City of Dublin into new Wards as aforesaid had not taken place, and as if the said recited Act of the last Session of Parliament had not been passed, but such Officers so elected shall go out of Office at the Time in that Behalf appointed as to such Office by the said Act of the last Session: Provided always, that if any such Vacancy has already taken place or shall take place before the passing of this Act, such Election shall be had as if such Vacancy had occurred on the Day of the passing of this Act: Provided also, that if any In case of such Vacancy in the Office of Alderman shall occur on or within Vacancy on that Six Days before the said Twenty-fifth Day of November in this Day who to Year, or in the Case of the Illness or Incapacity to act or the unavoidable Absence of such Alderman on the said last-mentioned Day, then a Councillor for the Ward, according to Seniority (and who shall not be disabled by Illness, Incapacity, or unavoidable Absence to act), or in the Case of a Vacancy in the Office of Assessor for a Ward on or within Six Days before the said Twenty-fifth Day of November, then such Person (being a Burgess of the Ward) as the Alderman and Councillors of the Ward, or a Majority of them, shall appoint to act in the Room of such Assessor for such Purpose, shall hold, preside, or act at the Election of Aldermen and Councillors to be held on the said Twentyfifth Day of November in this Year, in the Room of and with like Powers as such Alderman or Assessor respectively, as the Case may be. III. And be it enacted, That the said recited Act of the last Session of Parliament, and the said herein-before mentioned Act for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in Ireland, and any Act amending the same, and this Act, shall be construed together as One Act. IV. And be it enacted, That the Schedule to this Act annexed shall be deemed and construed as Part of this Act. V. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of Parliament. bold Elections. Recited Acts and this Act to be One Act. Schedule Part of this Act. Act may be amended, &c. SCHE SCHEDULE to which the foregoing Act refers. Former Wards. New Wards. Alderman of Custom House Ward to preside at Elections of North Dock Ward. Poor Law Commissioners, upon Applicawardens, &c. of tion of Church Post Office Ward St. Paul's Ward St. Catherine's Ward St. Andrew's Ward St. Audeon's Ward St. Stephen's Ward St. Patrick's Ward 6 CA P. LVI. North City Ward. Royal Exchange Ward. An Act to continue the Act for exempting certain Bills CA P. LVII. An Act to prevent the holding of Vestry or other Meetings HEREAS the holding.of Vestry or other Parochial Meetings in the Parish Church or Chapel, or in the Vestry Room attached to such Church or Chapel, is productive of Scandal to Religion and other great Inconveniences:' For Remedy thereof 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 the same, That it shall be lawful for the Commissioners for administering the Laws for Relief of the Poor in England, at any Time or Times after the passing of this Act, upon Application in Writing of the Churchwardens, or, where there are no Churchwardens, of the Overseers of any Parish in England the Population whereof exceeds Two thousand Persons according to the then last preceding Census, such Application being made pursuant to a Resolution of the to put this Act Vestry of such Parish, to make an Order under their Seal of Office that this Act or any Part thereof shall be applied to and be put in force within such Parish; and a Copy of such Order shall be published in such Newspaper or Gazette, or both, as the said Commissioners may direct, and shall be deposited with the Churchwardens or Overseers (where there are no Church. wardens) of any such Parish. any Parish where Popula tion exceeds 2,000, may make an Order in force. II. And such Order II. And be it enacted, That from and after the Expiration After 12 Months of Twelve Calendar Months from the making and publishing of from the pubany such Order no Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Parish for lishing of any the Purpose of holding a Vestry, or for any other Purpose than certain Meetthat of Divine Worship, or some ecclesiastical or charitable Ob- ings prohibited ject, or some other Purpose approved by the Bishop of the Diocese, from being held shall be holden in any Parish Church or Chapel, or other consecrated Church or Chapel, nor in the Chancel thereof, nor, except in case of Urgency, and with the previous Approval of the said Commissioners, in the Vestry Room attached to such Church or Chapel, in any Parish or Place named in such Order, any public or private Act of Parliament to the contrary notwithstanding. in Churches and Chapels. Places of Meet ing. III. And be it enacted, That where any Vestry or other Meet- Power to proing, by virtue of any Statute, Law, or Custom, has heretofore vide other been holden in the Church or Chapel of any Parish or Place named in any such Order as aforesaid, or in the Vestry Room of such Church or Chapel, any such Vestry or other Meeting shall from and after the making and publishing of such Order be holden in such other Room or Place within the Parish or Place as shall be provided for the holding thereof in pursuance of the Provisions of this Act, and all Acts done in such other Room or Place as aforesaid shall be as good, valid, and effectual in the Law, to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever, as if such Vestry Meeting had been held in the Vestry Room of such Church or Chapel or in the Body of such Church or Chapel as aforesaid. 8 & 9 Vict. c. 18. IV. And be it enacted, That the Churchwardens and Overseers, Power to puror Overseers alone, as the Case may require, of any Parish, with chase Lands, the Sanction of the said Commissioners and of a Majority of the &c. under Vestry, may by Agreement hire any Room, or purchase or take upon Lease or exchange any Lands or Buildings, or sell Lands belonging to such Parish, and invest the Proceeds of such Sale in the Purchase of other Lands and Buildings, or erect suitable Buildings, for the Purpose of holding of any Vestry and other Meeting for the Transaction of any Business of or relating to the Parish; and the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, except the Parts and Enactments of that Act with respect to the Purchase and taking of Lands otherwise than by Agreement, and with respect to the Recovery of Forfeitures, Penalties, and Costs, and with respect to Lands acquired by the Promoters of the Undertaking, but which shall not be wanted for the Purpose thereof, shall, in so far as the same is consistent with this Act, be incorporated with this Act; and for the Purposes of this Act the Expressions "the Promoters of the Undertaking" or "the Secre⚫ tary," whenever used in that Act, shall respectively mean the Churchwardens and Overseers, or Overseers as aforesaid; and the Expression "Tolls or Rates," whenever used in the said firstmentioned Act, shall mean Monies to be raised for the Relief of the Poor mentioned in this Act; and all Lands and Premises which shall be so purchased or taken on Lease by the Churchwardens and Overseers, or Overseers as aforesaid, of any Parish shall be conveyed, demised, and assured to such Churchwardens and Overseers, or Overseers alone as aforesaid, and their Successors, in trust for the Purposes of this Act, and shall be ac cepted, |