CO to specify the distances from his majesty's docks, dockyards, arsenals, wharfs, moorings, ships, and hulks, within which no private ship of war, transport, or any other private or merchant ship or vessel, &c. or other craft, shall be moored, anchored or placed, and for any other the purposes herein-after mentioned; and from time to time to vary such rules; and also from time to time to appoint proper persons, to be called "the king's harbour-masters,” to superintend such ports, &c. for the purposes aforesaid, and to enforce obedience to all such rules, &c; all which said rules, &c. shall, upon the making thereof, and also from time to time whenever the same shall be varied, be. forthwith printed and published in the London Gazette, and being also printed and put upon pasteboard, shall be constantly kept hung up in some conspicuous part of the custom house, or other place of public resort for business, in the port, &c. for which the same shall be made, or where the same shall be directed to be in force, to the intent that the same may be seen and read, and pies or extracts taken therefrom by all persons interested therein. This statute provides that no private ship, &c. shall be fastened to any of his majesty's moorings, &c. Penalties for unless forced thereto by stress of weather, &c. under a private ships, &c. fastening to penalty of £10 for every tide which such ship, &c. shall his majesty's moorings, &c. remain so moored; and empowers the harbour-master or and for other any officer belonging to any of his majesty's ships or ves- obstructions,&c. sels of war, &c. to remove the same to some proper place beyond such distances as aforesaid; and also provides for the appointing of proper places for breaming ships and leaving and receiving gunpowder; and imposes penalties on the offences of breaming ships except at appointed places, and on keeping guns shotted, &c. in any of such ports, &c. and authorizes the harbour-master, &c. to enter private ships to search for gunpowder, guns shotted, &c; and, further, imposes a penalty of £10 upon persons throwing, &c. ballast or rubbish, &c. into any of such ports, &c. and prescribes the manner in which ships may unlade their ballast, or take it in from the shore, in such port, &c. and contains provisions respecting the sweeping s. 3. to 28. for for anchors, &c. and raising of ships, &c. sunk or stranded in such ports, &c: and this act regulates the form of proceeding for the recovery of the penalties hereby imposed; and lastly provides (s. 28.) that nothing in this act Proviso as to shall prejudice, alter, &c. any right of property, privirights of corpo- lege, or jurisdiction, or any powers of conservancy held Tations, &c. 5. 28. Weights and measures. 55 Geo.3.c.43. E. W. Prerogative of coining. or enjoyed by any body corporate, or by any person, in, to, upon, or over any of the ports, &c. or navigable rivers of the united kingdom, or to the banks, shores, or sides thereof; or to repeal any of the provisions contained in any act which may have been passed for the regulation of any river, port, or harbour, in the united kingdom, or the shipping frequenting the same, except such acts or provisions as are expressly repealed by this act. The 55 Geo. 3. c. 43. E. & W. which also respects the king's prerogative as the arbiter of domestic commerce, and which provides for the purchasing of proper measures, duly marked according to the standard of the exchequer, for the use of the respective counties, &c. and towns corporate of England and Wales, will be found in another part in this supplement. I shall also reserve for another place, the 56 Geo. 3. c. 68.U.K. which provides for a new silver coinage,and re56 Geo.3.c.68. gulates the currency of the gold and silver coin of this U. K, realm, which might be referred to this head "of the king's prerogative." mise crown Of the King's Revenue. P. 175. l. 39. The 52 Geo. 3. c. 161. U. K. is an act Hismajesty empowered to de- enabling the king to demise or grant any land or ground lands for build. belonging to the crown, within the ordering or survey of the duchy of Lancaster, for the erection of houses or other 52 Geo.3.c.161. buildings, and for gardens, yards, &c. to be used there ing on, &c, U. K. with, as also any tenements or hereditaments the greatest part of the yearly value whereof shall consist of any building or buildings thereon, under the seal of the duchy of Lancaster, Lancaster, for such term and at such rent as herein mentioned. And this act also empowers the king to demise or grant any land or ground within the ordering and survey of the exchequer, and of the duchy of Lancaster, fit for gardens, yards, &c. to be occupied with any houses or buildings erected upon ground belonging to the crown. And this act empowers the lord high treasurer or commissioners of the treasury to authorize the commissioners of his majesty's woods, forests, and land revenues, or the surveyor general of his majesty's woods and forests, on the behalf of the king, to grant any of the waste or other lands within any of said forests, in exchange for any other lands in or adjoining to the same forest, being fit and proper for the lands, in or adOr exchange growth of timber, and conveniently situated for that pur- joining forests. pose; and the lord high treasurer, or commissioners of the Monies arising treasury, are hereby also empowered to authorize the sale or sell small of small parcels of land within any of the royal forests, parcels interwhich are intermixed with, adjoining, contiguous or con- lands of indivimixed, &c. with venient to, or surrounded by the lands of individuals, and duals. which are of little or no value to the crown for the growth of timber. And for the further improvement of the land revenue of the crown, the 54 Geo. 3. c. 70. U. K. provides, 54 Geo.3. c.70. that the monies arising from the sale of any manors or U. K. lordships belonging to the crown, which consist of mano- from sale of rial rights and quit rents, without any lands, or with very placed to credit crown lands,&c. small quantities of land belonging to them, and of manors of "Navy timber or lands of which his majesty is not the sole proprietor, nursery fund." but is entitled to an undivided share jointly with individuals, and of lands dispersed in small quantities and intermixed with the property of individuals, and lying remote from other property belonging to the crown, and any other hereditaments authorized by the 48 Geo. 3. c. 73. s. 11. E. to be sold, shall be paid into the bank, and placed to the account of the "Navy timber nursery fund." And this act empowers bodies corporate, tenants for life, committees, guardians, and trustees, &c. to convey lands to his. majesty, to be appropriated to the growth of timber, &c. And the 55 Geo. 3. c. 55. U. K. is an act to enable the 55 Geo,3. c.55. commissioners of his majesty's woods, forests, and land re- U. K. venues, to contract for the purchase and surrender of the der crown pur crown Leases held un chased, &c. crown leases, and to sell his majesty's interest in certain small parcels of land belonging to his majesty's subjects 57 Geo.3. c.97. within the royal forests. And by the 57 Geo. 3. c. 97. U. K. Lands adjacent the commissioners of his majesty's woods, &c. are empowio forests, &c. ered to purchase lands, &c. on behalf of the crown,lying ad U. K. purchased. Crown lands sold. 56 Geo.3.c.128. E. King may grant lands within jacent to the royal forests, or other extensive properties of the crown; and, on the other hand, to sell any parts of the crown lands which shall, in their judgment, be desirable to be sold, to create a fund for the purchase of the estates so to be bought on behalf of the crown. The 56 Geo. 3. c. 128. E. may be here also referred to, which recites, that many corporate and other public bodies, and many societies for the promotion of the arts, or of literature bills of mortality or knowledge, or for charitable or other useful purposes, as scites for public buildings are frequently desirous of erecting buildings for the trans&.c. acting and carrying on the several useful purposes in which they are engaged; and therefore enables the king to grant any lands, &c. within the survey of the court of exchequer in England, situate within the bills of niortality, in order to be appropriated as a scite for erecting any building for any of the purposes aforesaid, or to be used as a curtilage, or for an access to any such building, or as an easement, &c. thereto, or for cemeteries or burial grounds. And the commissioners of his majesty's woods, forests, and land revenues, are invested with divers powers in respect of the estate and land revenue of the crown, for the purpose of making a more convenient communication from Mary-le-bone Park, and the northern parts of the improvement of metropolis, to Charing Cross, Westminster, by the 53 Geo.3. c. 121. E. and 57 Geo. 3. c. 97 & c. 98. E. 53 Geo.3.c.121. E. 57 Geo.3. c.97. & 98. E. Crown lands alienated for Westminster. viously incur red. P. 187. l. 31. The 51 Geo. 3. c. 91. I. which authorizes Petitioners for discharge of ar- the court of exchequer, upon petition, to discharge any rears of quit rents to pay any lands, &c. from quit, crown, and composition rents, incosts, &c. pre-curred previous to 29 September 1810, except where proceedings had been had within 20 years, and in such case 51 Geo.5. c.91. to discharge the arrears of such rents to 29 September 1804, is amended by the 56 Geo. 3. c. 71. 1. which further provides, that such petitioners shall pay such costs and expenses as shall be certified by the auditor general,to have been incurred by or on behalf of the king for the recovery of such rents. P. 188. I. 56 Geo.3. c.71. I. P. 188. 1. 25. The 38 Geo. 3. c. 50. Ir. here referred Forfeited recog to, is repealed by the 57 Geo. 3. c. 56. I, which will be stated in another place. nizances. I. emption of leal G. B. P. 189. last line. By the 55 Geo. 3. c. 134. G. B. the Rate for prerate which shall be paid by the king, and all claiming ore altered. royal mines under the crown, in exercising the right of 55 Geo.3.c.134. pre-emption given them by the 5 W. & M. c. 6. Eng.* as far as respects any ore wherein there is lead, shall be £25. per ton for all ore washed, made clean and merchantable, wherein there is lead, instead of £9. per ton as by the 5 W. & M. c. 6. is directed; and such encreased rate shall be paid, subject to the provisions, and according to the regulations contained in the 5 W. & M. c. 6. with regard to the said original rate of £9. per ton. Custody of lu 55 Geo 3.c.46. E. P. 191. 1. 22. The 55 Geo. 3. c. 46. E. has amended the 48 Geo. 3. c. 96. E. and contains several provisions for the natics. better care and maintenance of lunatics, being paupers or criminals, in England. And the 56 Geo. 3. c. 117. U. K. has amended the 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 94. Eng. "an act for the safe custody of insane persons charged with offences." The 57 Geo. 3. c. 106. I. which provides for the establishment of asylums for the lunatic poor in Ireland, and the 55 Geo. 3. c. 107. I. by virtue of which the Richmond lunatic asylum hath been erected in Dublin, may be here also referred to. P. 191. last line. The period in which deeds relative to Land tax. the redemption of the land tax were required to be inrolled or registered by the 50 Geo. 3. c. 58. G. B. was extended by the 52 Geo. 3. c. 80. G. B. And the several acts for the redemption and sale of the land tax, are explained, amended, and rendered more effectual by the 53 Geo. 3. c. 123. & c. 142. G. B. and by the 54 Geo. 3. c. 173. G. B. and 57 Geo. 3. c. 100. G. B. : P. 192. l. 19. The 57, Geo. 3. c. 5, E. & W. is the last act continuing the temporary duties upon malt but the 52 Geo. 3. c. 128. G. B. as amended by the 53 Geo. 3. c.9. G. B. contains permanent provisions for better securing the duties on malt. The duties of excise in Ireland on c 2 malt * The framer of this act was probably not aware that the 4 Ann. c. 12. It gave the crown the same right of pre-emption of ore in Ireland. Malt tax. |