XIII. There shall be issued 1,732,2401. for Ordnance services; viz. 116,851l. for the civil establishments at the Tower Woolwich, &c.; 107,6521. for the corps of royal engineers, sappers and miners, &c.; 352,726l. for the royal regiment of artillery, &c.; 34,3881. for salaries to barrack masters; 330,3261. for Ordnance works, &c.; 144,061l. for military, civil, and barrack contingencies; 188,000l. for Ordnance and military store branch services; 4,168l. for Ordnance services; 161,520l. for Ordnance superannuations, retired allowances, pensions, &c.; 260,3081. for Commissariat supplies; 32,2401. for the erection

of barracks.

XIV. There shall be issued 24,026,050l. to pay off Exchequer bills charged on the aids of 1839.

xv. There shall be issued 1,000,000l. for Canada.

XVI. There shall be issued 8,5201. for civil establishment of the Bahama Islands; 4,0491. for Bermuda Islands; 3,070l. for Prince Edward's Island; 9,9801. for Western Africa; 5,7071. for Western Australia; 11,790l. for British North American provinces; 18,8951. for Lower and Upper Canada; 4,163l. for Heligoland; 16,000l. for St. Helena; 2,400l. for Nova Scotia, XVII. There shall be issued 2,000,000l. to discharge supplies for 1838; 130,000l. for civil contingencies; 30,000l. for public education; 28,8391. for British Museum; 77,000l. for officers of both Houses of Parliament; 48,000l. for salaries, &c. at the Treasury; 19,5801. for salaries, &c. in the Home Department; 56,1171. for salaries, &c. in the Foreign Department; 17,678). for salaries, &c. in the Colonial Department; 24,000l. for salaries, &c. at the Privy Council, &c.; 35,7551. for office of the Paymaster General; 17,520l. for Comptroller General of Exchequer; 2,0061. for certain professors at Oxford and Cambridge; 12,500l. for Insolvent Debtors Court; 17,000l. for Penitentiary, Millbank; 5,300l. for the prison for juvenile offenders; 2,1371. for expenses of State Paper Office, &c.; 5,100l. for commission of criminal law; 1,4651. for handloom weavers commission; 103,6181. for salaries of consuls, &c.; 87,7851. for retired allowances to public officers; 84,066l. for repairs of public buildings and furniture of public offices; 10,000l. for Kingstown Harbour; 16,500l. for Holyhead roads, &c.; 11,250l. for new buildings at the British Museum; 6,9381. for providing temporary Houses of Parliament; 50,300l. for erecting new Houses of Parliament; 1,110l. for works at Penitentiary; 4,180l. for prison for juvenile offenders; 8,000l. for new post office at Glasgow; 2,500l. for ecclesiastical commissioners; 64,850l. for the Poor Law Commissioners; 14,700l. for commissions for preventing the slave trade; 8,850l. for salaries, &c. of factory inspectors; 5,600l. for salaries, &c. of inspectors of prisons; 51,175l. for the Mint; 8,500l. for Toulonese and Corsican emigrants, Dutch naval officers, and St. Domingo sufferers, &c.; 1,850l. for the vaccine establishment; 3,000l. for the Refuge for the Destitute; 3,0731. for criminal lunatics; 4,2001. for dissenting ministers, poor French refugee clergy, &c.; 68,000l. for law expenses, &c. in Scotland; 39,9001. for secret services; 208,5171. for stationery, &c. for public departments and the two Houses of Parliament, &c.; 16,000l. for law charges; 66,6604 for maintaining convicts at home and at Bermuda; 235,000l. for New South Wales, &c.; 25,000l. for support of captured negroes, &c.; 10,000l. for indexing, &c. public records; 31,000l. for revising barristers under 2 Will. 4. c. 45.; 11,300l. for expenses of sheriffs, and salaries, &c. of officers of the Exchequer; 80,000l. for charges hitherto paid out of county rates; 15,000l. for Polish refugees; 5,812l. for Egyptian antiquities, &c. for British Museum; 7,3501. for pictures for the National Gallery; 87,4811. for losses through the Danish government; 50,000l. for steam communication to India; 10,250l. for new buildings at British Museum; 3,9001. for Port Patrick Harbour; 25,000l. for erecting a model prison; 4,7001. for University of London; 1,300l. for the School of Design at Somerset House; 8,500l. for Poor Law commission; 10,000l. for Metropolitan Police officers; 23,500l. for compensation for slaves wrecked in the Comet and Encomium; 11,500! for law expenses, &c. in Scotland; 18,6671. for West India colonies; 58,7001. for stipendiary Justices in the colonies; 30,000l. for educating the negroes; 3,540l. for agents for emigration; 6,0631. for repairing, &c. the Rideau Canal.

XVIII. There shall be applied 50,000l. for the advancement of education in Ireland; 11,100l. for Foundling Hospital; Dublin; 20,000l. for the House of Industry, &c.; 150l. for the Hibernian Marine Society; 1,000l. for Female Orphan House; 2,5001. for the Westmoreland Lock Hospital; 1,000l. for Lying-in Hospital; 1,500l. for Dr. Steven's Hospital; 3,8001. for the Fever Hospital, &c.; 500l. for the Hospital for Incurables; 8,9287. for Roman Catholic College, Ireland; 3001. for Royal Irish Academy; 300l. for the Royal Hibernian Academy; 5,300l. for Royal Dublin Society.

XIX. There shall be applied 7001. for Board of Charitable Bequests; 1,950. for Royal Belfast Academical Institution; 17,180l. for Public Works; 22,3281. for Secretary to Lord Lieutenant, &c. of Ireland; 12,3891. for salaries, &c. heretofore paid out of the Civil List; 4,436l. for Paymaster of Civil Services, Ireland; 4,150l. for printing proclamations and statutes; 31,6611. for dissenting ministers; 60,000l. for criminal prosecutions; 33,9631. for the police of Dublin; 3,141l. for Board of Public Works; 7,000l. for Townland survey of Ireland; 7,142l. 11s. for commission on railways in Ireland.

xx. Supplies to be applied only for the purposes aforesaid.

XXI. Rules to be observed in the application of the sum appropriated to half-pay.-Not to prevent the receiving of half-pay under any Act relating to the general or local militia, &c.-Paymaster General, by permission of the Treasury, may issue half-pay to officers appointed to civil offices since July 1828.-An account of the number of officers so receiving half-pay to be Iaid before Parliament.

XXII. Treasury may authorize military officers in civil employments to receive half-pay in certain cases.

XXIII. Persons concerned in issuing, paying, and receiving money for the payment of half-pay, without the oaths having been taken as required, indemnified.

XXIV. Half-pay allowed to the officers of the Manx Fencibles.

xxv. Half-pay allowances to chaplains of regiments not being in possession of ecclesiastical benefices derived from the Crown

XXVI. By 1 & 2 Vict. c. 111, a sum was appropriated to be paid to half-pay officers, the surplus of which is hereby autherized to be disposed of as Her Majesty shall direct.

XXVII. Widows and persons claiming pensions shall make the required declaration.

XXVIII. Declarations to be made as specified in 5 & 6 Will. 4. c. 62.

CAP. XC.

AN ACT for raising the Sum of Twelve millions twenty-six thousand and fifty Pounds by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine.

By this Act it is provided,

(27th August 1839.)

1. That the Treasury may raise 12,026,050l. by Exchequer bills in like manner as is prescribed by 48 Geo. 3. c. 1. II. The clauses, &c. in recited Act extended to this Act.

III. Treasury to apply the money raised.

IV. Bills to be payable out of supplies of the next session.

v. Bills to bear interest.

vi. Bills to be current at the Exchequer after twelve months from their dates.

VII. Bank of England may advance 12,026,0501. on the credit of this Act, notwithstanding 5 & 6 W. & M. c. 20.

CAP. XCI.-IRELAND.

AN ACT to continue, until the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and forty-one, an Act of the last Session of Parliament relating to the Bank of Ireland.

By this ACT,

(27th August 1839.)

After reciting the passing of 1 & 2 Geo. 4. c. 72, 3 Geo. 4. c. 26, 7 Will. 4. & 1 Vict. c. 59, and 1 & 2 Vict. c. 81,— It is Enacted,

That the said respective sums of 500,000l. Irish currency and 1,250,000l. Irish currency shall be repaid to the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland on the 1st of January 1841, instead of the 1st of January 1840), unless such payments shall be made at an earlier period; and that all powers, provisions, matters, and things in the said Acts contained relating to the said sums and to the said day shall extend to the day hereby appointed for the repayment of the said sums, in the same manner as if the 1st of January 1841 had been originally named in the said recited Acts.

CAP. XCII.-IRELAND.

AN ACT to explain and amend an Act of the First and Second Years of Her present Majesty, so far as relates to Fines and Penalties levied under the Revenue Laws in Ireland.

(27th August 1839.)

ABSTRACT OF THE ENACTMENTS.

1. Provisions of 1 & 2 Vict. c. 99, not to extend to fines, penalties, and forfeitures incurred under the laws relating to the revenues of Customs, Excise, or Stamps.

2. In case any penalty, &c. has been recovered under the recited Act the same to be paid over to the proper department.

3. Act may be amended this session.

By this ACT,

After reciting the passing of 1 & 2 Vict. c. 99, and that doubts have arisen whether the said Act extends to and includes fines and penalties imposed under the laws relating to the revenues of Customs, Excise, and Stamps; and it is expedient to determine such doubts, and to exempt such fines and penalties from the operation of the said recited Act :—

It is Declared and Enacted,

1. That nothing in the said recited Act contained does or shall extend, or shall be deemed or construed to extend, to any fine, penalty, or forfeiture which has been or shall be incurred by or imposed upon any person whatsoever in Ireland under

any Act or Acts relating to the revenues of Customs, Excise or Stamps respectively, or to the suing for, mitigating, levying, recovering, or distributing any such fine, penalty, or forfeiture, but that all and every such fines, penalties, and forfeitures shall be sued for, mitigated, levied, and recovered and distributed under the powers, provisions, authorities, and directions of the several Acts relating to the said revenues respectively, and under and by the same persons, ways, and means, and in the same manner in every respect, as if the said recited Act had not been passed, anything in the said recited Act to the contrary notwithstanding.

II. That in case any fine, penalty, or forfeiture imposed on any person in Ireland, under any Act relating to the revenues of Customs, Excise, or Stamps, shall have been recovered under the provisions of the said recited Act, the same shall be paid over to the Commissioners of Customs, Excise, or Stamps respectively entitled thereto, or to the proper collector or officer to whom the same would have been payable in case the said recited Act had not been passed.

III. That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this present session of Parliament.

CAP. XCIII.

AN ACT for the Establishment of County and District Constables by the Authority of Justices of the Peace.

[This Act is printed in the Appendix, p. xxiv.]

(27th August 1839.)

CAP. XCIV.

AN ACT to exempt the Parliamentary Grant to the Heirs of John Duke of Marlborough from the Payment of the Duty of One Shilling and Sixpence in the Pound.

(27th August 1839.)

By this ACT, the pension settled on the Duke of Marlborough and his issue by 5 Anne, c. 4, is exempted from the duties of 1s. 6d. granted by the Act, 49 Geo. 3. c. 32.

CAP. XCV.

AN ACT for improving the Police in Bolton for Two Years, and from thence until the End of the then next Session of Parliament,

(27th August, 1839.)

ABSTRACT OF THE ENACTMENTS.

1. Her Majesty may establish a police office in Bolton, and appoint a Chief Commissioner of Police.

2. Chief Commissioner to be a Justice.

3. Oath of the Chief Commissioner.

4. Salary of the Chief Commissioner.

5. Police force to be appointed for the whole borough.

6. Appointment and salary of receiver.

7. Money to be placed in a bank.

8. Provisions of 10 Geo. 4. c. 44. extended to Bolton during the continuance of this Act.

9. Act not to affect 1 & 2 Will. 4. c. 41, or 10 Geo. 4. c. 44.

10. Offenders whose names and residences are unknown may be taken into custody.

11. Persons charged with recent aggravated assaults may be taken into custody.

12. Act not to affect any charter of incorporation, &c.

13. Continuance of Act.

14. Act may be amended or repealed.

15. Public Act.

By this ACT,

After reciting that questions are pending as to the powers of the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough of Bolton to levy rates under the authority of their charter of incorporation; and that it is expedient to make provision for the police of the said borough until such questions shall be determined :

It is Enacted,

1. That it shall be lawful for Her Majesty to establish a police office in the borough of Bolton, and, by warrant under her sign manual to appoint a fit person to be Chief Commissioner of Police for the said borough.

II. That it shall be lawful for Her Majesty to appoint the said Chief Commissioner so appointed to be a Justice of the Peace of the said borough and of the county of Lancaster, and of all liberties therein, to execute the duties of a Justice of the Peace at the said office, together with such other duties as shall be hereinafter specified, or as shall be from time to time directed by one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, for the more effectual administration of the police within the said borough, notwithstanding that he may not have such qualification by estate as is required in the case of other persons being Justices of the Peace for the county; and Her Majesty may remove the said Commissioner if she shall see occasion so to do; and upon any vacancy in the said office by death, removal, or otherwise, during the continuance of this Act, another fit person shall be appointed to be a Commissioner of Police of the said borough and Justice of the Peace as aforesaid, instead of the person by whom the vacancy was made, and by the same authority: Provided always, that no such Commissioner shall act as a Justice of the Peace of any Court of Sessions of the Peace, or in any manner out of sessions, except for the preservation of the peace, the prevention of crimes, the detection and committal of offenders, and in carrying into execution the purposes of this Act.

111. That every such Commissioner, before he shall begin to execute the duties of his office, shall take the following oath before two Justices of the borough of Bolton or of the county of Lancaster; (that is to say,)

'I A. B. doswear, That I will faithfully and honestly, without Fear or Favour, according to the best of my Skill and Know. 'ledge, execute all the Powers and Duties of the Commissioner of Police of the Borough of Bolton, under an Act passed in ' the Third Year of the Reign of Queen Victoria, intituled [here insert the Title of this Act].'

IV. That an annual sum not exceeding 600l. shall be paid quarterly to the Chief Commissioner appointed by Her Majesty as aforesaid, out of the rates hereinafter mentioned,

v. That a sufficient number of fit and able men shall from time to time, by the directions of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, be appointed by the said Commissioner as a police force for the whole of the borough of Bolton, who shall be sworn in by the said Commissioner to act as constables for preserving the peace, and preventing robberies and other felonies, and apprehending offenders against the peace; and the men so sworn shall, not only within the said borough, but also within the county of Lancaster, and within all liberties therein, have all such powers, authorities, privileges, and advantages, and be liable to all such duties and responsibilities, as any constable duly appointed has or hereafter may have within his constablewick by virtue of the common law of this realm, or of any statute made or to be made, and shall obey all such lawful commands as they may from time to time receive from the said Commissioner for conducting themselves in the execution of their office. VI. That the treasurer of the said borough shall receive all sums of money applicable to the purposes of this Act, and shall be styled" Receiver of the Police of the Borough of Bolton," or in case such treasurer shall refuse to take on him the duties of the office of receiver, or shall be removed from the said office, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty to appoint a proper person to be receiver; and Her Majesty may remove any such receiver, and upon any vacancy in the office may appoint another receiver; and every such receiver shall give security to Her Majesty in a bond, with two sureties, in such sum as the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall direct, for the faithful performance of his duty as such receiver; and a yearly salary not exceeding 3001., to be payable quarterly, shall be allowed to every such receiver out of the monies so received by him. VII. That the receiver shall immediately pay all monies, bills, and notes by him received under this Act into some bank to be selected by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, and the same shall be placed to an account in the books of such bank, which shall be intituled "The Account of the Public Monies of the Receiver of Police for the Borough of Bolton," inserting the name of the receiver for the time being; and every draft or order for money on the said bank shall be countersigned by the Commissioner appointed under this Act; and all drafts and orders, so countersigned, but not otherwise, shall be a sufficient authority to the bank to pay the amount to the persons named in them, or to the bearers thereof.

VIII. That during the continuance of this Act all the powers of rating, and of levying and recovering rates, and all other powers and provisions of an Act, 10 Geo. 4. c. 44, intituled, An Act for improving the Police in and near the Metropolis,' shall apply to the borough of Bolton, and to the Commissioner, receiver, and constables appointed under this Act, and to all things done under the authority of this Act, except so far as is herein otherwise provided, as if the said Act had been made applicable to the borough of Bolton instead of the Metropolitan Police District, or any city or borough therein, and to the county of Lancaster instead of the county of Middlesex, and to the bank so selected by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury instead of the Bank of England, and as if the said Act had authorized the appointment of one Justice instead of two Justices; and the provisions in the said Act contained with respect to the night watch and night police established in any parish, township, precinct, or place within the Metropolitan Police District before the passing of the said Act shall extend and be applied to any watch or police, either by night or by day, established in any part of the borough of Bolton before the passing of this Act; and upon the establishment of the police under this Act the powers of all constables appointed within the said borough, or any part thereof, otherwise than under this Act, shall cease during the continuance of this Act; and the appeal given by the said Act against any assessment made by an assessor appointed under the said Act may be made, in the case of any appeal against any assessment made by an assessor appointed under this Act, either to the Court of Sessions of the Peace holden for the borough of Bolton, or to the Court of Quarter Sessions of the county of Lancaster holden at Salford, either of which Courts shall have all the powers for hearing and determining and giving relief in the matter of any such appeal which VOL. XVII.-STAT.

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by the said Act are given to Justices of the Peace in Quarter Sessions assembled; and in the form of conviction used for offences against this Act the title of this Act shall be inserted instead of the title of the said Act: Provided always, that nothing in the said Act contained, or in this Act by reference to the said Act, shall authorize the extension of the police district within the provisions of this Act beyond the borough of Bolton; and that the overseers of each of the townships of Little Bolton and of Tonge with Haulgh shall severally take an account of the proportion between the amount contributed to any rate for the relief of the poor from that part of their respective townships which is within the borough and those parts respectively which are not within the borough; and that whenever the said overseers shall have severally received any warrant from the said Commissioner (which he is hereby authorized to issue to the overseers of each of the said townships in like manner as if the whole of the said townships had been within the borough), and the said overseers shall have levied any amount required for the purposes of this Act, they shall severally pay over to the said receiver so much only of the amount mentioned in the warrant as shall bear the same proportion to the whole sum mentioned in the warrant as the amount contributed to the whole rate from that portion of their townships which is within the borough bears to the whole rate, and shall retain the remainder thereof in their own hands to be applied to the other purposes of the poor rates; and such remainder shall be taken as payment, by the several persons by whom the same shall have been contributed, from those portions of the said several townships which are not within the borough, on account of the next rate which shall be made in the said several townships for the relief of the poor, and so as often as the case shall arise: Provided also, that nothing herein contained shall prevent any person from voting at any election of a member to serve in Parliament for any county, city, borough, or place other than the county of Lancaster and the boroughs and places therein: Provided also, that the boroughreeves of Great and Little Bolton shall from time to time hereafter be appointed as if this Act had not been passed.

IX. Provided and enacted, That nothing herein contained shall be deemed to affect an Act, 1 & 2 Will. 4. c. 41, intituled, An Act for amending the Laws relating to the Appointment of Special Constables, and for the better Preservation of the Peace,' or any Act passed for enlarging the powers of Justices of the Peace under the last-recited Act, but all the powers and authorities given by the said Acts or either of them may be exercised in the same manner as if this Act had not been passed.

And after reciting the passing of an Act, 32 Geo. 3. c. 71, (local,) intituled, 'An Act for inclosing, dividing, and allotting a certain Common or Waste Ground called Bolton Moor, and other the Commons and Waste Grounds within the Township of Great Bolton, in the County Palatine of Lancaster: and for widening, paving, lighting, watching, cleansing, and regulating the Streets, Lanes, Passages, and Places within the Towns of Great Bolton and Little Bolton; and for supplying the said Towns with Water; and for providing Fire Engines and Firemen; and for removing and preventing Nuisances, Encroachments, and Annoyances; and for licensing and regulating Hackney Coaches and Chairs within the said Towns;' and another Act, 57 Geo. 3. c. 59, (local,) intituled, An Act for granting further Powers for improving the Town of Great Bolton in the County of Lancaster;' and another Act, 11 Geo. 4. & 1 Will. 4. c. 46, (local,) intituled, An Act for more effectually cleansing, paving, lighting, watching, regulating, and improving the Township of Little Bolton in the County Palatine of Lancaster, whereby certain offences were forbidden in the several townships of Great Bolton and Little Bolton, which several townships, with the exception of certain parts of Little Bolton, form part of the borough of Bolton ;—

It is Enacted,

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x. That it shall be lawful for any constable appointed under this Act, and for all persons whom he shall call to his assistance, to take into custody without warrant any person who, within view of any such constable, in any thoroughfare within the said borough, or within any part of the township of Little Bolton not included in the said borough, shall offend against any provision of the said Acts or either of them, and whose name and residence shall be unknown to such constable, and cannot be ascertained by such constable.

XI. That it shall be lawful for any constable appointed under this Act to take into custody without warrant any person who within the said borough shall be charged by any other person with committing any aggravated assault, in every case in which such constable shall have good reason to believe that such assault has been committed, although not within view of such constable, and that by reason of the recent commission of the offence a warrant could not have been obtained for the apprebension of the offender.

XII. Provided and enacted, That the words "Treasurer of the said Borough" shall be taken to mean the person for the time being so called within the borough of Bolton; and that nothing in this Act contained shall be deemed or taken to confirm his appointment, or to sanction the creation of such an officer as a corporate officer, or to confirm or affect the charter of incorporation granted by Her Majesty in the year 1838, upon the petition of certain of the inhabitants of Bolton, or any Act done or to be done in pursuance of such charter.

XIII. That this Act shall continue in force for two years, and from thence until the end of the then next session of Parliament.

XIV. That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this session of Parliament.

XV. That this Act shall be deemed and taken to be a public Act, and shall be judicially taken notice of as such by all Judges, Justices, and others.