No. 3. Stat. 5 XX. And be it further enacted, That every person who PART II. under the provisions of this Act shall have been convicted CLASS V. as an idle and disorderly person, or as a rogue and vagabond, shall be deemed to be actually chargeable to the G. 3. c. 83. parish, township or place in which such person shall reside; Persons and such person shall be liable to be removed to the parish convicted of his or her last legal settlement, by the order of two Jus- chargeable tices of the Peace of the division or place in which such to parish person shall reside. in which they reside. to be XXI. Provided always, That wherever by any Act or Offenders Acts of Parliament now in force it is directed that any per- under son shall be punished as an idle and disorderly person, or as former Acts a rogue and vagabond, or as an incorrigible rogue, for any punished offence specified in such Act or Acts, and not hereinbefore under this provided for by this Act, in every such case, whether such Act. person shall or shall not have committed any offence against this Act, every such person shall be punished under the provisions, powers and directions of this Act. Acts in XXII. Provided also, and be it further enacted, That Proviso for nothing herein contained shall be construed to extend or force in apply to Scotland or Ireland, nor to alter any law now in Scotland force for the removal of poor persons born in Scotland, Ire- and Ireland land or the Isles of Man, Jersey and Guernsey, and becom- relative to ing chargeable to parishes in England, such persons not having committed acts of vagrancy as hereinbefore described, nor to alter any law now in force relating to lunatic vagrants. Anno 6 GEO. IV. Cap. 97. An Act for the better Preservation of the Peace and good removal of poor, &c. No. 4. WHEREAS it is expedient to add to the means anciently provided for maintaining peace and good order in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; Be it 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 it shall be lawful for the Chan- Chancellor cellor or Vice Chancellor of the said Universities respectively, or Vice to appoint such number of able men as he shall think fit to of Univerbe Constables in and for the said Universities respectively, sities may who shall continue in office either during good behaviour or appoint during pleasure, or for such period of time, either defined Constables. or dependant on future circumstances, as such Chancellor Chancellor No. 4. of such Constables. PART II. or Vice Chancellor shall direct; and to every man so apCLASS V. pointed such Chancellor or Vice Chancellor shall administer Stat. 6 an oath well and faithfully to execute the office of ConG. 4. c. 97. stable, within the precincts of the University for which he shall be appointed, during his continuance in office, and shall deliver to every such men a certificate of his having been so sworn, expressing the duration of his continuance in office, which certificate shall be evidence of his having been The power duly appointed; and every man so sworn shall have full power to act as a Constable within the precincts of the University for which he shall be appointed, and four miles of the same University for the time expressed in the certificate, unless he shall be sooner dismissed therefrom by the Chancellor or the Vice Chancellor for the time being; and shall, within the precincts of the University, and four miles of the same, and during his continuance in office, be subject to the like powers and authorities of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace within the limits of their respective jurisdictions, as other Constables are subject to, and have and enjoy all such powers and authorities, privileges, immunities and advantages as any Constable hath or shall have within Liability of his Constablewick: Provided always, that every such Con-. Constables stable, for any act done by him in the execution of his office, shall be liable to be sued or indicted in the Courts of Common Law, notwithstanding such Constable may be a member of the University, and notwithstanding any claim of cognizance or privilege whatsoever. to be sued. In absence II. And be it further enacted, That in the absence of of Chancel- the Chancellor and Vice Chancellor, it shall be lawful for lor, &c. any Pro Vice Chancellor or Deputy Vice Chancellor, to exDeputy ecute the powers given by this Act. may act. Oxford. III. And be it further enacted, That every common Punishing prostitutes prostitute and night walker found wandering in any public in the Uni- walk, street or highway, within the precincts of the said versity of University of Oxford, and not giving a satisfactory account of herself, shall be deemed an idle and disorderly person, within the true intent and meaning of an Act passed in the 5 G. 4. c. last Session of Parliament, intituled An Act for the Punishment of idle and disorderly Persons, and Rogues and Vagabonds, in that part of Great Britain called England, and shall and may be apprehended and dealt with accordingly. 83. Public Act. IV. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall be deemed to be a public Act; and shall be judicially taken notice of as such by all Judges, Justices and other persons whomsoever, without being specially pleaded, CLASS VI. STATUTES RELATIVE TO CEMETERIES AND BUILDING AND Anno 56 GEO. III. Cap. 141. An Act for enabling Ecclesiastical Corporate Bodies, under certain Circumstances, to alienate Lands for enlarging Cemeteries or Church-yards. [2d July 1816.] PART II. CLASS No. 1. Stat. 56 G. 3. c. 141. WHEREAS cemeteries, church-yards, or burying grounds, are in various places found to be too small, and the same cannot be conveniently enlarged, without appropriating for consecration some part of the lands belonging to corporations or spiritual persons, not authorized by law to alienate such land for any purpose whatsoever; be it 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 from and after the pass- Bodies coring of this Act, it shall and may be lawful for any spiritual porate may or ecclesiastical body corporate or spiritual person, being a corporation sole, possessing any land adjacent to any ceme-land adtery, church-yard, or burying ground, to sell, by indenture joining ceof bargain and sale, enrolled in the High Court of Chancery meteries within six calendar months, for the purpose of consecration, ing thereof: such portion thereof as may be deemed necessary for enlarging any such cemetery, church-yard, or burying ground, not exceeding one acre. sell por tions of for enlarg sents. be ascer tained. II. Provided always, That in case of any spiritual per- With cerson being a corporation sole, the consent of the Lord Bi- tain conshop of the diocese or Ordinary, and of the Patron of the living held by such corporation sole, shall be testified by their being parties to the alienation of the said land; and Value of that previously thereto the value of such land shall be as- the land to certained, and, together with a description thereof, be committed to writing by some competent person, to be named and appointed by the Ordinary; which person so appointed shall verify the same on oath, before some one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the county, town, or district, in which such land is situated; which oath the said Justice is hereby empowered to administer; and in case the value If value shall appear to exceed one hundred pounds, that other above 1007. lands, of at least an equal value, estimated and verified in manner aforesaid, shall be well and legally conveyed to and veyed. other lands to be con No. 1. PART II. for the same uses as the lands conveyed by the said spiriCLASS tual persons or corporations sole, and as the consideration VI. thereof; and in case the value shall appear not to amount Stat. 56 to one hundred pounds, but shall exceed twenty pounds, G.3.c.141. such value shall be paid to the Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne, for the augmentation of the maintenance of Application of the mo- the poor Clergy, to be by them used and applied for the ney if un- benefit of such spiritual person or corporation sole, in the der that va- same manner as they are now empowered by law to use and lue. Time with in which may be apply other sums of money coming into their hands; and in case the value shall not amount to twenty pounds, the said value shall be paid in money to such spiritual person or corporation sole, to be by him applied at his own dis cretion. III. Provided always, That no alienation made by virtue of this Act shall be questioned after the expiration of twenty alienations years from the time of such alienation, on account of any questioned. want of compliance with the forms prescribed by this Act. Burial IV. And be it further enacted, That all ground which ground dishas been or shall be consecrated as burial ground shall, charged of adverse ti- after twenty years from the time of such consecration, be tles, &c. af- considered as discharged from all adverse titles, claims, and ter twenty demands whatsoever, and as absolutely vested in the trustee or trustees, if any, thereof; and if there should not be any such trustee or trustees, then in the Vicar or perpetual Curate, if any, for the time being; and if there should not be any Vicar or Perpetual Curate, then in the Rector for the time being of each parish in which such burial ground is or shall be situate. years from consecra tion there of. No. 2. Anno 58 GEO. III. Cap. 45. An Act for building and promoting the building of additional Churches in populous Parishes. [30th May 1818.] WHEREAS the population of Great Britain, and more particularly in the metropolis and its vicinity, and in other cities and great towns, has greatly increased, and the churches and chapels now existing in the metropolis and its vicinity, and in many great and populous parishes and extra-parochial places, are inadequate to the accommodation of the inhabitants thereof: and whereas it is therefore necessary that such evil should be remedied, and that additional churches and chapels for the celebration of Divine service, according to the Rites of the United Church of England and Ireland, as by law established, should be VI. No. 2. thorize erected and maintained in such parishes and places, and PART II. that a certain number of free seats should be made therein: CLASS and whereas his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, is desirous Stat. 58 of aiding his subjects in the establishing additional churches G. 3. c. 45. in such parishes and places as may require the same: May it therefore please your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it 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 it shall be His Majeslawful for the King's most excellent Majesty, by warrant ty may auor warrants under his royal sign manual, to authorize and Commisempower the Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury of the sioners of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland now or for Treasury to the time being, or any three or more of them, or the Lord issue exHigh Treasurer of the United Kingdom of Great Britain bills not exand Ireland for the time being, to cause or direct any num-ceeding one ber of exchequer bills to be made out at his Majesty's Exchequer at Westminster, not exceeding in the whole the sum of one million, in the same or like manner, form, and order, and according to the same or like rules and directions (except where other directions for making out the same are contained and particularly expressed in this Act) as in and by an Act made in the forty-eighth year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled An Act for regulat-48 Geo. 3. ing the issuing and paying off of Exchequer Bills, are c. 1. enacted and prescribed. chequer million. II. And be it further enacted, That all and every the Powers of clauses, provisoes, powers, privileges, advantages, penalties, recited Act forfeitures, and disabilities contained in the said recited to extend to exchequer Act of the forty-eighth year of his present Majesty's reign, bills made shall be applied and extended to the exchequer bills to be out under made out in pursuance of this Act, as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes as if the said several clauses or provisoes had been particularly repeated and re-enacted in the body of this Act. may this Act. terest of two-pence per cent. III. And be it further enacted, That the said exchequer Bills to bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act shall and bear an inbear an interest not exceeding the rate of two-pence per centum per diem upon or in respect of the whole of the monies respectively contained therein, and the principal and inte- per diem. rest thereof respectively shall be made payable at such periods as shall be fixed by the said Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, or any three or more of them, or the said Times Lord High Treasurer for the time being; but nevertheless when pay able. |