The SCHEDULE to which this Act refers; CONTAINING The DUTIES payable by virtue of this Act; (that is to say,) If such Stage Carriage shall be licensed to carry- More than Six and not more than Ten Pas Duty per Mile. s. d. 0 1 0 11 And if such Stage Carriage shall be licensed to CA P. LXVII. An Act to amend an Act of the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of King William the Fourth, intituled An Act to amend the Law touching Letters Patent for Inventions. [24th August 1839.] WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of His Majesty King William the Fourth, 'intituled An Act to amend the Law touching Letters Patent for 5&6 W.4.c.83. Inventions, it is amongst other things enacted, that if any Person having obtained any Letters Patent as therein mentioned shall give Notice as thereby required of his Intention to apply to His Majesty in Council for a Prolongation of his Term of sole using ' and vending his Invention, and shall petition His Majesty in Council to that Effect, it shall be lawful for any Person to enter a Caveat at the Council Office, and if His Majesty shall refer the 'Consideration of such Petition to the Judicial Committee of 'the Privy Council, and Notice shall be first given to any Person or Persons who shall have entered such Caveats, the Petitioner 'shall be heard by his Counsel and Witnesses to prove his Case, ' and the Persons entering Caveats shall likewise be heard by 2 & 3 VICT. E e 'their Repealing Provision requiring the Application by Petition to be prosecuted with Effect before the Ex piration of the Term of the Patent. Term of Patent Right may be extended in certain Cases though the Application for such Extension not prosecuted with Effect before the Expiration thereof. their Counsel and Witnesses, whereupon, and upon hearing and Inquiry of the whole Matter, the Judicial Committee may report to His Majesty that a further Extension of the Term in the said 'Letters Patent shall be granted, not exceeding Seven Years, and His Majesty is thereby authorized and empowered, if he shall think fit, to grant new Letters Patent for the said Invention for a Term not exceeding Seven Years after the Expiration of the first Term, any Law, Custom, or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding; provided that no such Extension shall be granted if the Application by Petition shall not be made and prosecuted with Effect before the Expiration of the Term originally granted in such Letters Patent: And whereas it has happened since the 'passing of the said Act, and may again happen, that Parties de'sirous of obtaining an Extension of the Term granted in Letters 'Patent of which they are possessed, and who may have presented a Petition for such Purposes in manner by the said recited Act directed, before the Expiration of the said Term, may nevertheless be prevented by Causes over which they have no Control from prosecuting with Effect their Application before the Judicial 'Committee of the Privy Council; and it is expedient therefore that the said Judicial Committee should have Power, when under 'the Circumstances of the Case they shall see fit, to entertain such Application, and to report thereon, according to the Provisions of the said recited Act, notwithstanding that before the Hearing of the Case before them the Terms of the Letters Patent sought 'to be renewed or extended may have expired:' 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 so much of the said recited Act as provides that no Extension of the Term of Letters Patent shall be granted as therein mentioned if the Application by Petition for such Extension be not prosecuted with Effect before the Expiration of the Term originally granted in such Letters Patent, shall be and the same is hereby repealed. II. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, in all Cases where it shall appear to them that any Application for an Extension of the Term granted by any Letters Patent, the Petition for which Extension shall have been referred to them for their Consideration, has not been prosecuted with Effect before the Expiration of the said Term from any other Causes than the Neglect or Default of the Petitioner, to entertain such Application, and to report thereon as by the said recited Act provided, notwithstanding the Term originally granted in such Letters Patent may have expired before the Hearing of such Application; and it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, if She shall think fit, on the Report of the said Judicial Committee recommending an Extension of the Term of such Letters Patent, to grant such Extension, or to grant new Letters Patent for the Invention or Inventions specified in such original Letters Patent, for a Term not exceeding Seven Years after the Expiration of the Term mentioned in the said original Letters Patent: Provided always, that no such Extension or new Letters Patent shall be granted if a Petition for the same shall not have been presented as by the said recited Act directed before the Expiration of the Term sought to be extended, nor in case of Petitions presented after the Thirtieth Day of November One thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, unless such Petition shall be presented Six Calendar Months at the least before the Expiration of such Term, nor in any Case unless sufficient Reason shall be shown to the Satisfaction of the said Judicial Committee for the Omission to prosecute with Effect the said Application by Petition before the Expiration of the said Term. III. And be it further enacted, That this Act may be altered, Act may be amended, or repealed by any Act to be passed in the present amended, &c. Session. CA P. LXVIII. An Act to continue, until the Thirty-first Day of August One CA P. LXIX. An Act to authorize the Purchase or building of Lodgings for the Judges of Assize on their Circuits. [24th August 1839.] WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, inti 1 & 2 Vict. c. 96. tuled An Act to provide for improving and rebuilding Shire 7 G. 4. c. 63. Halls, County Halls, and other Buildings for holding the Assizes and Grand Sessions, and also Judges Lodgings, throughout England and Wales; it was amongst other things enacted, that whenever it should appear to the Justices at any General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be holden in any County, Riding, or Division, in England or Wales, by any Presentment to be made by the Grand Jury at any Assizes or Session of Gaol Delivery or Session of the Peace to be holden for any such County, Riding, or Division, or by any Presentment to be at any Time made by any Two or more Justices of the Peace in and for such County, Riding, or Division, and laid before the Justices at any such General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace, that any Lodgings for the Accommodations of His Majesty's Judges ' of Assize in and for such County, Riding, or Division should be 'insufficient, inconvenient, deficient, or in want of Repair or Improvement, or that there was a Necessity for the Erection of 'new Lodgings for His Majesty's Judges of Assize, it should be lawful for the Justices assembled at the General or Quarter Sessions at which such Presentment should be laid before such Jus<tices in manner therein mentioned, to take such Measures, either by Contract or otherwise, as should appear to them to be requisite and proper for the altering, enlarging, repairing, improving, ' or pulling down of any such Lodgings or any Part thereof, and Enlarging the Powers of recited Act respecting the Purchase of Houses or Buildings for Judges Lodgings. Houses, &c. so purchased vested in Trust. Act may be amended, &c. 9 G. 4. c. 83. lieu of any Building, or any Part of any Building, which should be so pulled down: And whereas it is expedient that the Powers given by the said Act should be enlarged, by enabling the Justices to purchase any House or Building to be used as Lodgings for the Judges of Assize, or to purchase any Land, and to cause a House or Building to be erected thereon, to be used as such Lodgings:' 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 upon any such Presentment as in the hereinbefore recited Act is mentioned, setting forth that it is expedient to purchase any House or Building to be used wholly or partly as Lodgings for the Judges of Assize, or that it is expedient to purchase any Land for the Purpose of erecting thereon any such House or Building, and to cause any such House or Building to be erected thereon accordingly, all and singular the Powers, Authorities, and Provisions in the said recited Act contained relative to the altering, enlarging, repairing, improving, or pulling down and rebuilding any such Lodgings, and to the raising Money for that Purpose, shall be deemed and taken to apply to and to authorize the Purchase of any House or Buildings to be used wholly or partly as Lodgings for the Judges of Assize or special Commission of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery, and the Purchase of any Land, and the Erection thereon of any House or Buildings for such Purpose, and the defraying the Expences of any such Purchase or building, and the raising Money for any such Purpose, in the same Way as the Repair and Alteration of any Judges Lodgings are authorized and may be carried into effect under the Provisions of the said recited Act. II. And be it enacted, That any House, Building, or Land to be purchased under the Provisions of this Act shall be conveyed to such Person or Persons as the said Justices shall think fit, in Trust for the Purposes aforesaid, in the same Way as in the said recited Act is directed in respect to Land thereby authorized to be purchased. III. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of Parliament. CA P. LXX. An Act to amend an Act of the Ninth Year of King George WH • South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, and for the more effec'tual Government thereof, and for other Purposes relating thereto : And whereas the said Act hath been since continued, and will now shortly expire: And whereas it is expedient further to continue the said Act, with such Amendments as are herein-after ' mentioned;' 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 said recited Recited Act Act, as herein-after amended, shall continue and be in force until further continued. the Thirty-first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and forty, and thenceforward to the End of the then next Session of Parliament. powered to make Provision for Administration of Justice. II. And whereas by the said recited Act Provision was made Local Legis'for the Administration of Justice within the said Colonies, and latures emfor defining the Constitution and Powers of the Courts of Law ' and Equity therein: And whereas the Provisions of the said Act ' in that Behalf have, by reason of the Extension of the said Colo'nies, been found in divers respects inapplicable to the Circum'stances of the said Colonies, and to the Wants of the Inhabitants thereof; but the local Legislatures of the said respective Colonies 'established under the said recited Act have no Power to repeal or alter any of the before-mentioned Provisions thereof;' be it therefore enacted, That it shall be lawful for the local Legislatures of the said respective Colonies, by any Laws or Ordinances to be by them or either of them from Time to Time for that Purpose made in the Manner prescribed by the said recited Act, and subject to the Conditions and Provisoes therein contained, to make such Provision as to them may seem meet for the better Administration of Justice, and for defining the Constitution of the Courts of Law and Equity, and of Juries, within the said Colonies respectively, or within any present or future Dependency thereof respectively; any thing in the said recited Act, or in any Charter of Justice or Order in Council made and issued in pursuance thereof, or in any Law, Statute, or Usage, to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding. CA P. LXXI. An Act for regulating the Police Courts in the Metropolis. in force for the more effectual Administration of Justice in 'the Office of a Justice of the Peace in the several Police Offices 'established in the Metropolis, and for the more effectual Pre'vention of Depredations on the River Thames and its Vicinity' 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 several Police Courts now established under the Names of the Public Office in Bow Street, and the Police Offices in the Parishes of Saint Margaret Westminster, Saint James Westminster, Saint Mary-le-bone, Saint Andrew Holborn, Saint Leonard Shoreditch, Saint Mary Whitechapel, and Saint John Ee 3 Wapping, Continuance trates. |