66 Words "with Force and Arms," or of the Words "against the Peace," or of the Words "against the Form of the Statute;" nor for the Omission or Insertion of any other Words or Expressions of mere Form or Surplusage; nor for the Insertion of the Words "upon their Oath" instead of the Words upon their Oaths;" nor for omitting to state the Time at which the Offence was committed, when Time is not the Essence of the Offence; nor for stating the Time imperfectly; nor because any Person or Persons mentioned in any such Inquisition is or are designated by a Name of Office or other descriptive Appellation, instead of his, her, or their proper Name or Names; nor by reason of the Noninsertion of the Names of the Jurors in the Body of any such Inquisition, or of any Difference in the spelling of the Names of any of the Jurors in the Body of any such Inquisition, and the Names subscribed thereto; nor because any Juror or Jurors shall have set his or their Mark or Marks to any such Inquisition, instead of subscribing his or their Name or Names thereto; nor because any such Mark or Marks is or are unattested, provided the Name or Names of such Juror or Jurors is or are set forth; nor because any Juror or Jurors has or have signed his or their Christian Name or Names by means of an initial or partial Signature only, and not at full Length; nor because of any Erasures or Interlineations appearing in any such Inquisition, unless the same shall be proved to have been made therein after the same was signed; nor for Want of a proper Name, where the Inquest shall appear or purport to have been taken by a Coroner or any Two Magistrates of or for the County, Riding, or Division, City, Town, or Borough, or Place, in which it shall appear or purport to have been taken; nor (except only in Cases of Murder or Manslaughter) for or by reason of any such Inquisition not being duly sealed or written on Parchment; nor because the Coroner and Jury did not all view the Body at one and the same Instant, provided they all viewed the Body at the first Sitting of the Inquest; nor because all or any of the Jurors upon such Inquest may not have been rated to the Relief of the Poor; and in all or any of such Cases of technical Defect as are herein-before mentioned it shall be lawful for any Judge of either of Her Majesty's Courts in Dublin, or any Judge of Assize or Gaol Delivery, if he shall so think fit, upon the Occasion of any such Inquisition being called in question before him, to order the same to be amended in any of the respects aforesaid, and the same shall forthwith be amended accordingly. XLVII. And whereas it was provided by the herein-before recited Act passed in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, that it shall be lawful for the Grand Jury of the County of Dublin at each Presenting Term to present any Sum, not exceeding in the whole in any One Year the Sum of One hundred Pounds, for the Payment of each and every Coroner in such County respectively; provided that no Coroner shall receive more than at the Rate of One Pound Ten Shillings for each Inquest so held by him;' be it enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to repeal or alter the said Provision. 4 6 Nothing in this 7 & 8 Vict. Grand Jury of XLVIII. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Grand Jury of the County of Dublin at cach Presenting Term to the County of 9 & 10 VICT. Q present Dublin to pre sent for Ex pences of Inquests in advance. Finance Committee of County of Dublin to pay the Expences of Coroner, &c. Coroners to make Returns yearly of Inquests to Lord Lieutenant. Commencement of Act. Interpretation of Act. Act may be amended, &c. present in advance such Sum as they shall deem necessary for the Payment of all Expences incident to the holding Inquests within the said County during the ensuing Year, which Sum shall be applotted and levied in like Manner, and with the same Powers and Authorities, and subject to the same Rules and Regulations, as are enacted with reference to all other Sums presented by the said Grand Jury under and by virtue of the said last-recited Act. XLIX. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Finance Committee of the County of Dublin to pay to any Coroner of the said County all Sums of Money which he shall have advanced to any Witness or other Person under the Provisions of this Act, or to pay all Orders for Money which any Two Magistrates shall under the Provisions of this Act have given to any Witness or other Person for or concerning any Inquest held by them Provided always, that such Payments shall not in any Case exceed the Sums of Money contained in the Schedule (C.) hereto annexed. L. And be it enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act every Coroner in Ireland shall, on or before the Tenth Day of January in each Year, make out and transmit to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland a Return in Writing, according to such Form as the said Lord Lieutenant shall from Time to Time direct, of all the Cases in which he shall have been called upon to hold an Inquest touching the Death of any Person during the Year ending on the Thirty-first Day of December immediately preceding, and a Copy of the Finding of the Jury on every such Inquest. LI. And be it enacted, That this Act shall commence and take effect on the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. LII. And be it enacted, That in this Act the Word "Oath " shall in all Cases be construed and interpreted to signify and include all Affirmations which may now by Law be made and tendered by or to any Person or Persons in Ireland. LIII. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of Parliament. SCHEDULES referred to in the foregoing Act. SCHEDULE (A.) Form of Oath to be taken by Electors at any Election for the I A.B. do swear [or affirm], That I am a registered Elector of the County [or Borough] of my in right of [state the Nature of the Franchise, whether it be an Estate of Freehold, Leasehold, or of any other Nature, and the Townland, Parish, and Barony where situate], and that the Place of my Abode is at [if it be a Place consisting of more Places or Streets than One, specify what Street or Place], and that I have not been polled before at this Election [adding, except in Cases of Affirmation] So help me GOD. SCHE SCHEDULE (B.) Form of Oath to be taken by Candidates at any Election for the Office of Coroner. of I A.B. do swear [or affirm], That I truly and bonâ fide have, to and for my own Use and Benefit, such an Estate of Inheritance of the annual Value of Fifty Pounds Sterling [or of Freehold for my own Life, or for the Life of or for the Lives of the annual Value of One hundred Pounds Sterling, as the Case may be], in Law or Equity, as I have described in the Statement thereof delivered by me to the Sheriff [or Under Sheriff] of of and in the Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, over and above all Charges and Incumbrances that may affect the same, and as doth qualify me to be elected and chosen to serve the Office of Coroner for the County of [Riding, or Division, County of a City, County of a Town, or Borough, or District thereof, as the Case may be], according to the Tenor and Meaning of an Act passed in the Ninth and Tenth Years of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Office of Coroner and the Expences of Inquests in Ireland;" and that my said Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments are lying and being at [if in a Street in a City, Town, or Borough, or other Place, specify what Street,] in the Parish of Barony of [or Ward of in the as [County of as the Case may be,] aforesaid. So help me GOD. SCHEDULE (C.) Table of Payments which any Coroner, or any Two Magistrates in his Absence, may make to any Witness or other Person who, being summoned, shall attend and give Evidence at any Inquest, or shall do any other Act or Thing in obedience to the Order of such Coroner or of such Two Magistrates as aforesaid. To any poor Witness, for each Day of Attendance at To the Owner or Occupier of any private House £ S. d. 0 3 6 036 To the Person or Persons who shall, pursuant to an To any legally qualified Medical Practitioner who, in To any Person or Persons who shall, pursuant to an CA P. XXXVIII. £ s. d. 05 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 10 0 An Act to empower the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods to form a Royal Park in Battersea Fields in the County of Surrey. [3d August 1846.] WHEREAS the Commissioners appointed by Her most Gracious Majesty to inquire into and consider the most ⚫ effectual Means of improving the Metropolis, and of providing increased Facilities of Communication within the same, did by their Fifth Report, dated the Twenty-third Day of July One 'thousand eight hundred and forty-five, (which has been laid before both Houses of Parliament by Her Majesty's Command,) humbly recommend to Her Majesty that a Royal Park should be formed on the Site of the Lands now called Battersea Fields in the Parish of Saint Mary Battersea in the County of Surrey, 'or certain Parts thereof, consisting in the whole of Three hundred and twenty Acres or thereabouts, together with an Embankment on the Right Bank of the River Thames: And whereas Her said Majesty has been graciously pleased to assent to the Recommendation of Her said Commissioners; but the same cannot be carried into effect without the Authority of Parliament: And whereas the Queen's most Excellent Majesty in right of Her Crown claims to be seised of the Ground or Soil and Bed of the River Thames, and the Shores thereof so far as the Tide flows and reflows in the same River, and the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London are Conservators of the same River, and claim also to be entitled to so much of the Ground and Soil and Bed of the said River and the Shores thereof as lie within the Limits and Bounds of their Jurisdiction as Conservators, and a Suit has been instituted by Her Majesty's Attorney General, on behalf of Her Majesty, against the said Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens, for the Purpose of ascer 'taining Park. 'taining and determining the Rights of Her Majesty and of the said Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens respectively, and such Suit is still pending: And whereas the Plan of the said Embank'ment has, without Prejudice to the Right and Title of the Crown, 'been submitted to and received the Approval of the Lord Mayor of the City of London, the Conservator of the said River Thames: May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and 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 the Commissioners of Her Commissioners Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings of Woods, &c. for the Time being shall and may, with the Consent and Appro- empowered to purchase Lands bation of the Lord High Treasurer, or of the Commissioners for for a Royal executing the Office of Lord High Treasurer of the United Park, to be Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the Time being, or called Battersea any Three or more of them, form a Royal Park in Battersea Fields in the Parish of Saint Mary Battersea in the County of Surrey, and for that Purpose lay out and apply any Monies which shall from Time to Time come into their Hands as such Commissioners as aforesaid from the Sale of any of the Possessions of the Crown, not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Two hundred thousand Pounds, in the Purchase of the Lands and Hereditaments required for the Purposes of this Act, and in laying out and planting the same, and forming the Embankment and other Works herein-after mentioned, and carrying the other Purposes of this Act into execution; and such Lands and Hereditaments, when purchased, shall be conveyed and assured to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, and when so conveyed shall for ever thereafter be a Royal Park by the Name of Battersea Park, and Part and Parcel of the Possessions and Land Revenues of Her Majesty in right of the Crown; and all Laws, Provisions, and Regulations now in force or hereafter to be in force with respect to Royal Parks shall be taken to extend and apply to such Park, except that the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings for the Time being may, in such Manner as by Law is provided with regard to the Hereditary Revenues of the Crown, not being Royal Parks, lease such Parts of the said intended Park as, with such Consent and Approbation as aforesaid, they shall deem it expedient to lease, for the Purposes of Sites for Dwelling Houses or ornamental Buildings, and Offices and Gardens thereto annexed; and that all and every the Powers and Provisions with regard to Leases for the Purposes aforesaid, to be made or granted by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings for the Time being, of the Hereditary Revenues of the Crown, not being Royal Parks, shall extend to such Part or Parts of the said intended Park so to be leased as aforesaid. II. And be it enacted, That the Commissioners of Her Ma. Commissioners jesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings of Woods, &c. for the Time being may, by and out of the aforesaid Monies, lay may lay out, out, plant, and enclose the said intended Park, and build any close the inplant, and enLodge or Lodges, Museums, or other ornamental Buildings therein, tended Park, and in such Manner as they may think fit; and it shall be lawful erect Buildings, for &c., make Re Q3 |