chase Monies arising from such Sales in the Purchase of other Real Estate, to be charged with such Liabilities. Page 594 41. An Act for exchanging Freehold and Copyhold Estates belonging to John Motteux Esquire, in West Rudham and East Rudham in the County of Norfolk, for Freehold, Copyhold, and Leasehold Estates in Darsingham in the same County, settled under the Will of Horatio Earl of Orford deceased. Ibid. 42. An Act for authorizing the Sale of the Real Estate devised by the Will of Henry Boulton Esquire, deceased, and for the Application of the Monies to arise thereby. Ibid. 43. An Act for vesting the undivided Sixth Share of Ann Campbell Bligh Spinster, a Lunatic, as One of the Six Daughters and Co-heiresses of William Bligh Esquire, deceased, in certain Lands and Hereditaments in New South Wales of which the said William Bligh died seised, in Trustees, in whom the other Five undivided Sixth Shares are now vested, upon Trust for Sale. 595 44. An Act for enabling the Trustees of the Will of the Reverend John Templer Clerk, deceased, to exchange certain of the Real Estates thereby devised, situate in the County of Devon, for certain other Estates situate in the same County. Ibid. 45. An Act to enable William Russell Esquire to grant Leases of Coal Mines under the Lands within the Manor or Lordship of Brancepeth and other Lands in the County of Durham, devised by or subject to the Uses and Trusts of the Will and Codicil of William Russell Esquire, deceased, and the Will and Codicil of Matthew Russell Esquire, deceased. Ibid. 46. An Act for inclosing Lands within the Parishes of Rathkeale and Croagh in the County of Limerick. Ibid. PRIVATE ACTS, NOT PRINTED. 47. An Act for naturalizing John Christoph Kayser. 48. An Act to enable William Beckett Esquire and his Issue Male to take the Name and bear the Arms of Turner, pursuant to the Will of Martha Turner Widow, deceased. 49. An Act for naturalizing Ernest Reuss. 50. An Act for naturalizing Don Manuel de la Torre y Antunano. 51. An Act for naturalizing George Edward Biber. 52. An Act to dissolve the Marriage of Johnstone Napier Esquire, a Lieutenant Colonel in the Military Service of the East India Company on their Madras Establishment, with Isabella his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes therein mentioned. 53. An Act to dissolve the Marriage of Dionysius Lardner Clerk, Doctor of Civil Law, with Cecilia Lardner his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes therein mentioned. 54. An Act to dissolve the Marriage of Henry Coode (otherwise Cood) Esquire with Jane his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes. 55. An Act to dissolve the Marriage of William Carleton Esquire with Rosamond Carleton his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes therein mentioned. 56. An Act for naturalizing Nicola Ivanoff. 57. An Act to dissolve the Marriage of Robert Allison with Mary Ann his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes therein mentioned. 58. An Act to dissolve the Marriage of Edward Leigh Pemberton with Charlotte his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes therein mentioned. 59. An Act to dissolve the Marriage of Richard John Sutcliffe Mellin Esquire with Jane Mellin his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes therein mentioned. 60. An Act to dissolve the Marriage of the Reverend William Andrew Weguelin Clerk with Emma his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes therein mentioned. 61. An Act for naturalizing Alexander Henry Augustus John Count de Saint George. 62. An Act for naturalizing Samuel Aspinwall Goddard. THE STATUTES AT LARGE. Anno Regni VICTORIÆ, Britanniarum Reginæ, A T the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the Fifteenth Day of November, Anno Domini 1837, in the First Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady 'VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, Queen of the United 'Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faith: And from thence continued, by several Prorogations, to the Fifth Day of February 1839; being the Second Session of the Thirteenth Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain ' and Ireland.' CA P. I. An Act to amend an Act of the First and Second Year of HEREAS by an Act passed in the last Session of Parlia WE ment, intituled An Act for the more effectual Relief of the 1 & 2 Vict. c.56. destitute Poor in Ireland, it is amongst other things enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Poor Law Commissioners from Time to Time, by Order under their Seal, to unite such and so many 'Townlands as they may think fit to be an Union for the Relief of the destitute Poor, to declare any Union to be dissolved, or any Townland or Townlands to be added to or separated from 'such Union, to divide any Union into Electoral Divisions for the 'Election of Guardians, and to alter any Division from Time to 'Time as they may see fit, so nevertheless that in making or alter'ing such Division no Townland shall be divided; and Provision is thereby further made for the Election of Guardians for every 'Electoral Division, for the Relief of the destitute Poor resident ' in such Electoral Divisions, and the charging of the Expence of such Relief thereon, and for making and levying Rates within every such Electoral Division: And whereas the Boundaries of many Townlands are not accurately known, and Places exist 'which are not Townlands, or not known as Townlands, and Doubts 'have been entertained whether the Provisions of the said Act can 6 2 & 3 VICT. B • be Recited Act to extend to every Place in Ire land. Cities, Towns, &c. with a Population exceeding 10.000 may be constituted Electoral Divisions; and such Electoral Divisions may be divided into Wards. Places may be declared to be Townlands. Boundaries of Townlands, &c. may be declared for the Purposes of the recited Act. Rate-payers to vote at Elec tions of Guar be applied to such Townlands and Places; and it is expedient that such Doubts should be removed:' Be it therefore declared and 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 recited Provisions, and all other Provisions of the said Act in any way relating to Townlands, shall be construed to extend and apply to every Place in Ireland, whether known as a Townland or not. II. And be it enacted, That where in the Abstract of the Accounts of the Population taken by Authority of Parliament under an Act made in the Fifty-fifth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, and the several Acts amending the same, the Population of any City, Borough, or Town, and the Suburbs thereof, shall be stated to exceed Ten thousand, or where the Population of any other Place shall be so stated to exceed Ten thousand, and the Area of such Place shall not exceed Three Miles for every Ten thousand Persons, it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners to constitute such City, Borough, or Town, and the Suburbs thereof, or such other Place, or any Part or Parts thereof respectively, an Electoral Division for the Purposes of the said Act; and, for the Purpose of conducting the Election of Guardians, from Time to Time to divide such Electoral Division into such and so many Wards, and to alter the same as they may see fit, and to determine and alter the Number of Guardians to be elected by the Ratepayers in every such Ward. III. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Commissioners, by Order under their Seal, to declare any Place not known to the said Commissioners as a Townland or Townlands to be, for the Purposes of the said Act, a Townland. IV. And be it enacted, That in every Case in which the Boundaries of any Townland, or of any Place declared by the Commissioners to be a Townland, shall not be determined and made known to the Commissioners, it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners, by Order under their Seal, to declare, for the Purposes of the said Act, the Boundaries of such Townland or Place; and the Boun. daries so declared shall accordingly be deemed and taken to be the Boundaries of such Townland or Place until the true Boundaries thereof shall be lawfully ascertained and made known to the Commissioners, and until they shall have revoked such Order. V. And be it enacted, That in the Election of Guardians under the Provisions of the said Act every Rate-payer who, under the last Rate made in any Union, shall have paid or contributed or dians according be liable to pay or contribute Rate in respect of Property in any Electoral Division shall have a Vote or Votes in the Election of Guardians in such Electoral Division, according to the Scale of Votes provided by the said Act. to Scale in recited Act. Sums not exceeding 2001. may be borrow ed to defray Expences previous to the levying of a Rate. 6 VI. And whereas under the said Act certain Expences may be incurred in and about the Election of Guardians, in making Rates, Surveys, and Valuations, and in other respects, before any Rate can be levied or collected for the defraying of such Expences; be it enacted, That, for the Purpose of defraying any Expences to be incurred in carrying the Provisions of the said Act into execution, previous to the levying of a Rate in any Union, 6 8 Union, it shall be lawful to borrow and charge upon the first Rate to be made and levied in such Union under the Provisions of the said Act a Sum not exceeding Two hundred Pounds, with Interest thereon. VII. And be it enacted, That all Conveyances or Assignments on the Purchase or Sale of any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments by the Poor Law Commissioners under the Provisions of the said Act may be made according to the Form set forth in the Schedule hereunto annexed, or in such other Form or Forms as the Poor Law Commissioners shall from Time to Time direct, or as near thereto as the Number of Parties, the Nature of the Interests, and the Circumstances of the Case will admit; and such Conveyances shall be valid and effectual in the Law, without Livery of Seisin being made, or any Bargain and Sale to vest Possession being executed or recited or referred to, and without being enrolled, and shall have such Operation as in the said Act mentioned. VIII. And be it enacted and declared, That so often as any Purchase or Compensation Money shall, under the Provisions of the said Act, be payable into the Bank of Ireland in the Name and with the Privity of the Accountant General of the Court of Chancery, to be placed to his Account, and such Money shall not be placed to the Account of such Accountant General to the Credit of the Parties interested in the Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, under the Provisions in the said Act referred to, such Purchase or Compensation Money shall be placed to the Account of the said Accountant General "ex parte the Poor Law Commissioners." IX. And whereas by the said Act it is provided, that if any 'Person or Persons shall find himself or themselves aggrieved by any Order or Conviction of any Justice or Justices, (except where 'such Justice shall be an Assistant Barrister,) where such Person Conveyances to be made in the in the Schedule. Form set forth Money paid into the Bank of Ireland. Appeals may be heard at Ses sions at which an Assistant Barrister does or Persons shall be convicted in any Penalty or Penalties exceed not attend. ing Five Pounds, or by any Rate made under this Act, or shall 'have any material Objection to any Person or Persons being put in or left out of such Rate, or to the Sum charged on any Person therein, it shall be lawful for such Person or Persons to appeal to any Sessions of the Peace to be held in the Presence of the 'Assistant Barrister in and for the County in which such Rate or 'such Order shall have been made or Conviction taken place within 'Four Calendar Months next after the Cause of Complaint shall ' have arisen, or if such Sessions shall be held before the Expira'tion of One Calendar Month next after such Cause of Complaint, then such Appeal shall be made to the next following Sessions: 'And whereas certain Sessions of the Peace for Counties are not 'held in the Presence of Assistant Barristers, and it is therefore 'doubted whether Appeals under the said Act can be made to such 'Sessions; be it therefore declared and enacted, That every such Appeal may be made and heard, and the Matter thereof determined by any General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace held for the County, County of a City, or County of a Town, in which the Cause of Complaint may have arisen, in the same Manner in all respects as is provided by the said Act, although such Sessions be not held in the Presence of an Assistant Barrister; and in the Case As to hearing of an Appeal against a Rate when the rateable Hereditament in Appeals within respect of which the Rate is made and the Cause of Complaint limited JurisB 2 arises dictions. |