the necessary and proper Expences to be thereby incurred shall be raised by Presentment of the Grand Jury at the Assizes of the County, in like Manner as the other Expences incurred in the Discharge of the necessary and accustomed Duties of such Clerk of the Peace are defrayed. journ from Time to Time Place, &c. as fixed by Order of Lord Lieutenant in Council. and Place to V. And be it enacted, That each such Extraordinary Court of Court may adSessions shall continue to sit, and shall adjourn from Time to Time and Place to Place as Convenience may require, until such Day as shall be specified for the Termination thereof in and by a like Order to be made by the said Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in Council; and that for the Purposes of each such Session, and during the Continuance thereof, such Precepts, Writs, Warrants, Processes, and other Means for enforcing the Attendance thereat of Grand Jurors, Petty Jurors, Witnesses, Traversers, Offenders, and other Persons, shall and may be issued and returned, and Juries impannelled, in like Manner as in ordinary Cases of proceeding at any Court of Criminal Jurisdiction: Provided always, Grand Jury. that the Names of the Persons returned to serve on the Grand Jury at any such Session shall be taken from the "Special Jurors List" of such County. unless Court shall otherwise order. VI. And be it enacted, That no Traverse in prox. shall be re- Offenders to be ceived or allowed at any such Court, but that every Person tried forthwith, charged with any Offence thereat shall plead forthwith, and the Trial be directly proceeded upon, unless the Court shall, upon sufficient Matter disclosed by Affidavit, think fit in its Discretion to postpone such Trial according to the Course of any Court of Oyer and Terminer, General Gaol Delivery, or General or Quarter Sessions, either to any subsequent Sitting or Adjournment of such Extraordinary Court, or to any other Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery, or General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace, or Adjournment thereof, for the same County. VII. And be it enacted, That no Proceeding of or at any Extraordinary Court of General Sessions holden under the Au thority of this Act shall, before Trial and Judgment, be removed into His Majesty's Court of King's Bench by Writ of Certiorari or otherwise. Proceedings not to be removed by Certiorari, &c. Carrying or concealing Firearms in certain deemed a Misdemeanor. Cases to be VIII. And be it enacted, That any Person not duly authorized by Law to keep Fire-arms who shall be found, between Sunset and Sunrise, with Fire-arms or other offensive Weapons in his Possession, in any Place save his own Dwelling House, or any Person not duly authorized by Law to keep Fire-arms who shall be found, at any Hour of the Day or Night, with any loaded or concealed Fire-arms or offensive Weapon, within any County in which any Court holden under this Act shall be then acting, shall be deemed to be guilty of a Misdemeanor. IX. And whereas Infractions of the Law and Violations of Lord Lieutethe Public Peace are frequently contrived and committed by nocturnal Assemblies of disorderly Persons, and it is desirable to provide under proper Regulations some Check to such Meetings; be it therefore enacted, That if the Grand Jury impannelled at any such Sessions to be holden under this Act shall make a Presentment to the Court that a Necessity exists for taking Measures to suppress nocturnal Meetings, such Pre N 2 sentment nant, on Presentment of Grand Jury, may direct such Court to issue a Notice enjoining the Inhabitants of Places therein specified to remain within their Habita tions at Night. Any Person found abroad in the Night after such Notice, in any Place specified therein, shall be deemed guilty of a Misdemeanor. After the Day named in such Notice, Court may authorize by Warrant domiciliary Visits in Places therein specified, &c. sentment shall be transmitted by the Chairman to the said Lord Lieutenant, together with the Opinion of the Court thereon; and it shall and may be thereupon lawful for the said Lord Lieutenant, with the Advice of His Majesty's Privy Council, to authorize and direct such Court to issue a Notice, enjoining the Inhabitants of such County, or any Part thereof, or of any adjacent County to be specified therein, to be and remain within their respective Lodgings and Habitations at all Hours between One Hour after Sunset and Sunrise, from and after such Day as shall be named and specified therein for that Purpose, and warning them that all Persons who may be found abroad or absent from their respective Habitations during such Hours, save upon some lawful and proper Occasion, will be liable to be punished as guilty of an Offence under the Provisions of this Act; and such Notice shall be printed and posted on some conspicuous Place in each Town and Village within each Barony or Half Barony of such County, or if the same be a County of a City or Town, on the principal Places for posting Notices within the same. X. And be it enacted, That any Male Person who shall be between One Hour after Sunset and Sunrise, at any Time after the Day specified in any such Notice, abroad in any Field, Road, or elsewhere out of his Habitation or Lodging, within any County or District specified in such Notice, save upon some lawful and proper Occasion, shall be deemed to be guilty of a Misdemeanor ; and that any Magistrate or Constable of Police who shall find any Person so abroad, within such Hours and within such County. or District, shall, at his Discretion, have Power and Authority to apprehend such Person; and he shall be committed and detained until Trial, unless held to Bail by some Person thereto authorized. XI. And be it enacted, That at any Time after the Day named and specified in such Notice it shall be lawful for the Court at any such Session to issue a Warrant, signed by the Chairman thereof, and countersigned by the Clerk of the Peace, and directed to One or more Magistrate or Magistrates, Chief Constable or Chief Constables of Police, authorizing him or them, at any Time from One Hour after Sunset until Sunrise, to demand and require that any or every Person being an Inhabitant or Inmate of any House or Building within the County or District specified in such Notice shall come forth and show himself or themselves; and if any such Person shall not so come forth and show himself within Ten Minutes after he shall be so required he shall be deemed to be then absent, and shall be certified in Writing to be so to the said Court by the Person or Persons by whom he may have been so required to appear; and every Owner of any House within such District shall, within Twenty-four Hours after he shall have been required by any Magistrate or Chief Constable so to do, deliver to such Magistrate or Chief Constable a List of the Names of every Inmate or Inhabitant in his House; and every such Owner who shall neglect or refuse so to do shall forfeit for every such Neglect or Refusal a Sum not exceeding Ten Shillings, on Conviction before a Magistrate in a summary Manner for such Neglect or Refusal, and in default of Payment, on on Demand, of the Sum so forfeited, may be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding One Week; and the Amount of the Sum so forfeited shall and may be levied by a Sale of his Goods and Chattels in case he shall not suffer such Imprisonment. XII. Provided always, and be it enacted, That no such War- As to the Exrant as aforesaid shall be executed or proceeded upon in any ecution of such County out of the ordinary Jurisdiction of such Court, unless the Warrants. same shall be endorsed by One or more of the Magistrates of such adjacent County. XIII. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Court to which such Certificate shall be returned to summon and require all Persons thereby certified to have been absent from their respective Dwellings to appear before such Court, and for such Court to examine such Persons or any other Person who may be produced before them upon Oath as to such Absence and the Cause thereof; and if it shall be proved that any such Person was duly required to appear by the Person or Persons so authorized as aforesaid, and if any such Person so summoned shall not appear before such Court, or if, upon such Examination, the Noncompliance of such Person with the Demand of the Person or Persons so authorized as aforesaid shall not be explained to the Satisfaction of such Court, or if it shall appear to such Court that such Person was so absent from his Dwelling as aforesaid without some lawful and proper Cause or Occasion, such Person shall be deemed to be guilty of an Offence within this Act, and the Court shall have Power to convict him summarily thereof, and, in case of a First Offence, to commit him to such Place of Confinement within the County as such Court shall think proper for any Period not exceeding One Month, or to impose upon him a Fine not exceeding One Pound, or both, and for any subsequent Offence to award a like Imprisonment for a Period not exceeding Three Months, or to impose a Fine not exceeding Five Pounds, or both, and also to order that the Party convicted shall give Security for his good Behaviour for Twelve Calendar Months, or in default thereof be liable to an additional Imprisonment for any Term not exceeding One Month. Court may sum mon and exa mine on Oath Persons certi been absent from their Dwellings, and may imprison Person convicted thereof who cannot satisfactorily account for the same. and fine any XIV. And be it enacted, That any Person who shall knowingly Giving false give false Information to any Person authorized by such Warrant, Information, &c. or shall obstruct any Person acting thereunder in the Execution thereof, after Notification of the Object and Nature thereof, shall be deemed to be guilty of a Misdemeanor. XV. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, by his Warrant, to direct to be issued, out of the Produce of the Consolidated Fund arising in Ireland, such Sums of Money as may be necessary for the Remuneration of any of His Majesty's Serjeants or Counsel appointed under the Authority of this Act; and that on the Production to the Grand Jury at the Assizes of any County of the Certificate of the Chief or Under Secretary of the said Lieutenant of the Amount of the Money so advanced and issued in respect of the Remuneration of such Serjeant or Counsel so employed within the same County, such Grand Jury shall present the same to be levied off the County at large, and such Money, when levied, shall be paid to the Collector of Excise of the District within N 3 which Sums may be advanced for Remuneration of Chairman, &c. out of Consolidated Fund; such Advances to be repaid by Grand Jury Present ment. Construction of Duration of Repeal of part, except as 18 G. 2. c. 33. except as to London; which such County may be situate, to be by him accounted for in like Manner as other Public Monies. XVI. And be it enacted, That in the Interpretation of this Act the Words "Lord Lieutenant of Ireland" shall extend to and include any Lords Justices or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the Time being; and the Word "County" shall extend to and include any Riding, or County of a City, or County of a Town, or City and County; and every Word importing the Singular Number shall extend and be applied to several Persons or Things as well as to one Person or Thing; and every Word importing the Masculine Gender shall extend and be applied to a Female as well as to a Male; save and except where, in the Use of any such Expression as aforesaid, the Nature of the Provision or the Context shall exclude such Construction. XVII. And be it enacted, That this Act shall continue and be in force for Five Years from and after the passing thereof, and no longer; and may be altered or repealed during this present Session of Parliament. An Act for continuing, until the First Day of June One thou- CA P. L. An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Highways in that Part of Great Britain called England. [31st August 1833.] WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Laws relating to Highways in that Part of Great Britain called England, and to consolidate the same in One Act, and to make other Provisions respecting Highways' Be it therefore enacted by the King'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 so much of an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of King George the First, intituled An Act for preventing the Carriage of excessive Loads of Meal, Malt, Bricks, and Coals within Ten Miles of the Cities of London and Westminster, as relates to the Carriage of Bricks, except so far as the same relates to the City of London; and also an Act passed in the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of King George the Second, intituled An Act to repeal a Clause made in the Third Year of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary, relating to Carts used by Persons inhabiting within the Limits of the Weekly Bills of Mortality, and to allow such Carts to be drawn with Three Horses, and to prevent the Misbehaviour of the Drivers of Carts in Streets within the said Limits, except so far as the same relates to the City of London; and also so much of an Act passed in the Twenty-fourth Year Year of the Reign of King George the Second, intituled An Act 24 G. 2. c. 43. for the more effectual Preservation of the Turnpike Roads in that in part, except Part of Great Britain called England, and for the Disposition of as to London; Penalties given by Acts of Parliament relating to the Highways in that Part of Great Britain called England, and for enforcing the Recovery thereof; and for the more effectual preventing the Mischiefs occasioned by the Drivers riding upon Carts, Drays, Carrs, and Waggons in the City of London and within Ten Miles thereof, as relates to the preventing Mischief occasioned by the Drivers riding upon Carts, Drays, Carrs, and Waggons in the City of London or within Ten Miles thereof, except so far as the same relates to the City of London; and also an Act passed in the Thirtieth Year of the Reign of King George the Second, intituled An Act to explain and amend an Act made in the Eighteenth Year 30 G. 2. c. 22. of His present Majesty's Reign, to prevent the Misbehaviour of the except as to Drivers of Carts in the Streets in London, Westminster, and the London; Limits of the Weekly Bills of Mortality, and for other Purposes in this Act mentioned, except so far as the same relates to the City of London; and also an Act passed in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act to explain, 13 G. 3. c. 78. amend, and reduce into One Act of Parliament the Statutes now in being for the Amendment and Preservation of the public Highways within that Part of Great Britain called England, and for other Purposes; and also an Act passed in the Thirty-fourth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act for the more 34 G. 3. c. 64. effectually repairing of such Parts of the Highways of this Kingdom as are to be repaired by Two Parishes; and also an Act passed in the same Thirty-fourth Year of the Reign of George the Third, intituled An Act for varying some of the Provisions in an Act of 34 G. 3. c. 74. the Thirteenth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, respecting the public Highways within that Part of Great Britain called England, which relate to the Performance of Statute Duty; and also so much of an Act passed in the Forty-second Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act for amending the Laws relating Part of to the Militia in England, and for augmenting the Militia, as relates 42 G. 3. c. 90. to the Exemption of any Serjeant, Corporal, Drummer, or Private of the Militia from performing Highway Duty, commonly called Statute Duty; and also an Act passed in the Forty-fourth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act to alter 44 G. 3. c. 52. and amend so much of an Act passed in the Thirty-fourth Year of His present Majesty as relates to the Amount of the Sums to be paid by Persons compounding for the Performance of Statute Duty; and also an Act passed in the Fifty-fourth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act to amend an Act of the 54 G. 3. c. 109. Thirteenth Year of His present Majesty, to explain, amend, and reduce into One Act the Statutes now in force for the Amendment and Preservation of the public Highways within England, and for other Purposes; and also an Act passed in the Fifty-fifth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act to amend and an Act of the Thirteenth Year of His present Majesty, for the Amend- 55 G. 3. c. 68. ment and Preservation of the public Highways, in so far as the same relates to Notice of Appeal against turning or diverting a public Highway, and to extend the Provisions of the same Act to the stop |