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in like Manner as if such Weirs were situate within the Tideway or Place where the Tide ebbs and flows: Provided always, that in all other respects such Weirs, and the Persons using, possess ing, tenanting, or fishing the same, shall be subject to the Provisions of the said recited Acts and this Act in relation to the

same.

Weirs, &c. to be subject to Provisions of recited Act, &c.

III. And be it enacted, That in any of the following Counties, In certain or on the Sea Coast of the same, or any of them, (that is to say,) Counties the the Counties of Antrim, Tyrone, Donegal, Londonderry, Mayo, Close Time to Fermanagh, Leitrim, and Sligo, no Fish of the Salmon Kind shall be from 20th August to 31st be killed, destroyed, or taken, by any Person or by any Means January. whatever, in or from any River, Lake, or Estuary whatsoever, or on the Sea Coast, between the Twentieth Day of August in any Year and the Thirty-first Day of January in the Year following, both the said Days inclusive.

IV. Provided always, and be it enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall prevent any Person from killing, destroying, or taking any Fish of the Salmon Kind during such Periods as aforesaid, or any of them respectively, in or from any River, Lake, or Estuary, or on any Part of the Sea Coast where the catching of Salmon shall be permitted during such Periods or any of them respectively by the said Commissioners, in pursuance of the Powers vested in them for that Purpose by the said firstrecited Act, or any Act or Acts amending the same.

Not to prevent fishing in any Lake, &c. where Commissioners. permitted by the

c. 108. §§ 1. 10. 14. 23, 24.

V. And be it enacted, That the said respective Close Times for Penalties, ForFish of the Salmon Kind, as fixed by this Act, shall be observed feitures, and and kept in the like Manner in every respect as the Close Time Regulations for such Fish by the said recited Acts or any of them provided; Observance of for enforcing and the Observance thereof respectively shall and may be enforced Close Season. by all the Means, Powers, Persons, and Authorities provided in 5 & 6 Vict. respect of such Close Time in the said recited Acts or any of c. 106. them; and the Provisions of the said recited Acts, so far as the 7 & 8 Vict. same are applicable, and not varied by this Act, shall be extended c. 108. §§ 1. 2. 8 & 9 Vict. and applied to the respective Close Times hereby fixed, as if the same had been set forth in the said recited Acts; and all Persons guilty of any Breach of any of the Provisions of the said Acts or any of them, or this Act, relating to such respective Close Times, or offending in any respect against the Provisions of this Act, shall be liable to the like Penalties and Forfeitures as are provided by the said recited Acts or any of them, as if the respective Times, Periods, Matters, and Things herein provided to be observed and done were set forth in the said recited Acts, and the Matters and Things provided to be done for Observance of the Close Season in the said Acts were set forth in this Act; and all such Powers, Authorities, and Provisions for or in relation to the Enforcement of the Observance of the Close Season or Seasons, or for or in relation to the altering of the Close Season or Seasons, provided and given by the said recited Acts or any of them, shall extend and apply to the Subjects and Purposes of this Act, and may be used and exercised for enforcing the Provisions of this Act, in as full and effectual a Manner as if they were set forth in this Act, and applied and extended by express Terms to the Subjects and Purposes thereof; and all such Penalties and Forfeitures shall and may be sued for, recovered, and levied 3 B 3

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Interpretation of Act.

Act may be amended, &c.

in the same Manner as by the said recited Acts provided in Cases of Offences prohibited by the said Acts or any of them.

VI. And be it enacted, That this Act and the said recited Acts shall be construed as One Act; and the said recited Acts shall remain in full Force and Effect, except so far as the Provisions of the same are repealed or altered by or are inconsistent with this Act; and the Commissioners for the Execution of the said Acts shall be Commissioners for the Execution of this Act; and, save when the Nature of the Provision or the Context shall exclude such Construction, Words and Expressions to which a particular or extended Meeting is given in the said recited Acts or any of them shall have or include the same particular or extended Meaning in this Act.

VII. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of Parliament.

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CA P. CXV.

An Act to amend the Laws as to District Lunatic Asylums in Ireland; to provide for the Expence of the Maintenance of certain Lunatic Poor removed from the Richmond Lunatic Asylum, Dublin, for Want of Room therein; and to provide for the Salaries and Expences incident to the Office of Inspector of Lunatics in Ireland.

[28th August 1846.]

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament

holden in the First and Second Years of the Reign of His 1 & 2 G. 4. c. 33. late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act to make

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more effectual Provision for the Establishment of Asylums for

the Lunatic Poor, and for the Custody of Insane Persons charged with Offences, in Ireland, certain Provisions were made for the Erection and Establishment of Lunatic Asylums in and ⚫ for Districts to be limited and appointed in manner and by the Authority in the said Act mentioned: And whereas by an Act passed in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act for appropriating_the_Richmond Lunatic Asylum in Dublin to the Purposes of a District Lunatic Asylum, it was among other things enacted, that a certain Building commonly known by the Name of the Richmond Lunatic Asylum, in the City of Dublin, theretofore established and used as an Asylum or Hospital for the Reception and Management of "Lunatic Patients, should and might be and become, and the same has accordingly become, a Lunatic Asylum for the County of the City of Dublin, and for such other County or Counties as from Time to Time, under the Provisions of the said first-recited Act of the First and Second Years of His late Majesty, constituted, together with the said City of Dublin, a District of a Lunatic Asylum: And whereas, in consequence of the Number of Lunatic Poor whose Cases urgently required Admission into the Richmond Lunatic Asylum, it became necessary, in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-four, to remove 'a certain

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a certain Number of the Lunatic Poor then being Inmates of the 'said Asylum, and whose Cases did not so urgently require their Residence therein, to an Hospital or Asylum at Island Bridge in the County of Dublin, connected with and attached to the House ' of Industry in the City of Dublin; and such Lunatic Poor so ' removed have been kept, superintended, and maintained in the 'said Hospital, and the Expences of such Care, Superintendence, and Maintenance have been defrayed by the Poor Law Commissioners out of certain Funds in their Hands applicable to the Purposes of the said House of Industry: And whereas it is expedient that the Sum so defrayed and expended should be repaid to the said Commissioners, and that the Expence of the future Care, Superintendence, and Maintenance of such Lunatic 'Poor so removed (whilst they continue as Inmates of such Hospital) should be provided for by the County, Counties, or District which would have been or would be respectively chargeable in < respect of them, in case they remained as Inmates of the said Richmond Asylum:' 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 Amount of the Sums so heretofore defrayed or expended The Sums by the said Poor Law Commissioners in and for the Care, Super- expended in intendence, and Maintenance of the said Lunatic Poor so removed supporting the Lunatic Poor to the said Hospital, and of all Sums to be hereafter from Time to Time duly defrayed or expended by the said Poor Law Commis- Richmond Lusioners in and for the Care, Superintendence, and Maintenance in natic Asylum the said Hospital of the said Lunatic Poor, or any other Lunatic to be raised by Poor, who, with the Consent of the Poor Law Commissioners and the Districts of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, may be removed from the said Richmond Lunatic Asylum, or from the District thereof, to the said Hospital, whilst they shall continue therein, to be ascertained by any Order of the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, and Privy Council in Ireland, shall be raised off and provided for and paid by the same County or Counties, County of a City, or District off or by which and in all respects as the Sums or Expences requisite for supporting, supplying, and maintaining the same respective Lunatic Poor would or might be, or ought to have been or to be raised, provided for, and paid in case the same Lunatic Poor were respectively kept and maintained in the said Richmond Lunatic Asylum; and the Grand Jury of each such County, County of a Grand Jury to City, or County of a Town, or of the County or County of a City present the Sums or County of a Town in which such District may be situated, necessary. shall, without any previous Proceeding at any Presentment Sessions, present the Sum or Sums so to be ascertained accordingly, or in default thereof the same shall be inserted in and raised by an Order of the Judge of Assize or of the Court at any Presenting Term, which Order shall have the Force of a Presentment, and the Sum or Sums therein mentioned shall be applotted and raised and levied accordingly as if the same had been inserted in a Presentment duly made at the Assizes or Presenting Term at which such Order shall be made; and such Sums respectively, when so from Time to Time raised and provided, shall be paid 3 B 4

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liable therefor.

In case of
Change of Dis
tricts of Lunatic
Asylums the
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paid under re-
cited Provisions

shall be paid by
Instalments,
and applied in
liquidation of
the Payments
which the
County trans-
ferred from one
District shall
be liable to

make for the
Asylum of an-
other District.

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over to the said Poor Law Commissioners, and by them be placed to the Credit of the Funds of the said House of Industry.

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II. And whereas by an Act of the Seventh Year of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for the further Amendment of an Act of the First and Second Years of 'His present Majesty, for the Establishment of Asylums for the 'Lunatic Poor in Ireland, it is amongst other things enacted, that if it shall at any Time happen that any Money shall have been raised off any County, County of a City, or County of a Town, or any Part thereof, towards defraying the Expences of erecting, establishing, maintaining, or supporting of any Lunatic Asylum, ' and that by reason of any Change of the District or Place in or for which such Asylum shall have been established such County, County of a City, or County of a Town, or any Part thereof, shall be taken out of the District liable to be assessed for such Expences, then and in such Case any Sum or Sums of Money which shall have been raised off such County, County of a City, or County of a Town, or such Part thereof as aforesaid 'shall be raised off any and every County, County of a City, or County of a Town, or any Part or Parts thereof, which shall ' remain within such District; and all and every Sum and Sums ' which shall be so raised shall be repaid to the Treasurer of the County, County of a City, or County of a Town which shall have been removed from such District; and that whenever any County, County of a City, or County of a Town, or any Part or Parts thereof, which shall have been comprised in any former District, shall, by reason of any such Change as aforesaid, be 'comprised in or shall form Part of any new District, such County, County of a City, or County of a Town, or such Part 'thereof, shall be and is hereby declared to be subject and liable towards the defraying the Expences of any Asylum in or for such new District, in like Manner as is directed by the said ' recited Acts, or either of them, and as if such County, County of a City, or County of a Town, or such Part thereof, had been originally comprised in or formed Part of such new District: And whereas by the said recited Act of the last Session of Parliament it is amongst other things enacted, that when any Change of the District of any District Asylum shall be made as aforesaid, no Sum of Money for defraying the Expences of maintaining or supporting any such District Asylum (after the same shall have been erected and established) shall from and after the passing of this Act be raised off any County, County of a City, or County of a Town, or any Part thereof, which shall remain (or be) within such District, or be repaid to the Treasurer of the County, County of a City, or County of a Town which shall have been removed from such District, or be raised off any such County, County of a City, or County of a Town, or Part thereof, which shall have been comprised in any former District, and shall by reason of any such Change be comprised in or form Part of any new District for any such Asylum, any thing in the said recited Enactment to the contrary notwithstanding And whereas it is expedient that the Sums payable under the said recited Provisions should be paid by Instalments ' and applied as herein mentioned;' be it therefore enacted, That

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the respective Sums of Money for erecting and establishing any
such Lunatic Asylum so to be raised and repaid as in the said
recited Provisions mentioned shall be raised and paid in or by
Instalments or Proportions, which Instalments or Proportions
shall, as nearly as the Circumstances of the Case will admit, be
payable at the same Periods as the Instalments or Proportions or
Sums which any such last-mentioned County, County of a City, or
County of a Town which shall have been removed or transferred
from any such District shall be liable to pay and contribute
towards the Erection or Establishment of any District Lunatic
Asylum in and for the District to which such last-mentioned
County, County of a City, or County of a Town shall be so trans-
ferred;
and it shall be lawful for the said Lord Lieutenant or other
Chief Governor or Governors and Privy Council in Ireland by any
Order to ascertain the Instalment or Proportion, Instalments or
Proportions, which ought to be so raised and paid, and the Times
at which the same shall be payable and paid, and the County,
County of a City, or County of a Town, or Part or Parts of a
County, County of a City, or County of a Town, off which each
such Instalment or Proportion ought to be raised; and the Grand
Jury of each such County, County of a City, or County of a Town
shall, without any previous Proceeding at any Presentment Ses-
sions, present the Sum or Sums to be ascertained by any such
Order or Orders accordingly, or in default thereof the same shall
be inserted in and raised by an Order of the Judge of Assize or of
the Court at any Presenting Term, which Order shall have the
Force of a Presentment, and the Sum or Sums therein mentioned
shall be applotted and raised and levied accordingly as if the
same had been inserted in a Presentment duly made at the Assizes
or Presenting Term at which such Order shall be made, and the
same shall be so payable and shall be paid at the Periods aforesaid
to the Treasurer of the County, County of a City, or County of a
Town, which shall have been so removed or transferred from any
such District, and such Treasurer shall pay over and apply such
Sums when so received, so far as the same shall extend or shall
be required, as the Case may be, in Liquidation and Discharge of
such Instalments so payable by such last-mentioned County,
County of a City, or County of a Town so transferred as
aforesaid.

III. And be it enacted, That any Person who has been or shall Persons rebe, by Order of the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or moved from Governors of Ireland, removed from any Gaol and admitted into Gaols to District Asylums any District Lunatic Asylum, not being a Criminal Lunatic within by Order of the the Meaning of the said recited Act of the last Session of Par Lord Lieuliament, may lawfully be discharged from such Lunatic Asylum tenant, not without the Order of the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor being Crimior Governors of Ireland, as in the Case of other Lunatic Poor, nals, may be in case it shall be duly certified by Medical Certificate that such discharged on Person has become of sound Mind, or has ceased to be or is they are of not a dangerous Lunatic or dangerous Idiot: Provided always, sound Mind, &c. that nothing in this Provision contained shall apply to any Person who after he or she shall have been committed for Trial, or for default of Surety to keep the Peace, or after he or she shall have been convicted of any Offence, and during his or her Imprison

ment

Certificate that

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