Compositions made before the passing of this Act may be varied at the End of Seven teen Years, or continued for Twenty one Years. recited Act or this Act to the contrary thereof in any wise not withstanding. XXVI. Provided also, and be it enacted, That in all Cases in which a Composition for the Tithes of any Parish shall have been ascertained and fixed, and a Certificate thereof made and signed at any Time previous to the passing of this Act, it shall be lawful for any Incumbent, or other Person, or Body Corporate entitled Years or Four to Tithes in such Parish, or any Three of the Members of the Special Vestry who shall have signified the Approbation of such Composition by such Vestry, in Manner required by the said recited Act, at any Time within One Year after the Date of such Certificate, to require the Churchwardens of such Parish to cause a Special Vestry of Persons duly qualified pursuant to the said recited Act and this Act, to be called by Public Notice in the Manner required by the said recited Act or this Act, and to be holden on some Day named in such Notice, not being less than Fourteen Days nor more than Three Weeks distant from the Date of such Notice, for the Purpose of determining whether such Composition shall not be increased or diminished, until after the First Day of May in the Seventh Year and in the Fourteenth Year from the Commencement of such Composition, or whether the Amount of such Composition shall be invariable for the Term Vestry may sig- of Twenty-one Years from the Commencement thereof; and it nify their shall and may be lawful for such Vestry to signify their Assent on Behalf of the Owners and Occupiers of Land in such Parish, that such Composition shall not be increased or diminished until after the First Day of May in the Seventh Year and in the Fourteenth Year from the Commencement of such Composition, or that the Amount of such Composition shall be invariable for the Term of Twenty one Years from the Commencement thereof; and that such Composition shall continue to be levied for such Term of Twenty one Years, and shall not be subject to any Variation in the Amount thereof during such Period of Twenty one Years, under the Provisions of the said recited Act or this Act, whatever the Price of Corn may be; and such Assent shall be signified by a Copy of the Resolution of such Vestry, signed by the Chairman of such Vestry, and by Three other Persons at least, entitled to vote, and being present at such Special Vestry; it shall be lawful for the Chairman of such Vestry, or for any Churchwarden of such Parish, to deliver or transmit such Copy of such Resolution, so signed as aforesaid, to the Incumbent of such Parish, and to the Impropriator or other Person or Persons (if any) entitled to any Tithes or Portion of Tithes in such Persons entitled Parish; and it shall be lawful for the Incumbent of such Parish, Assent, Such Composition to continue whatever the Price of Corn may be, Copy of such to Tithes may Assent to such Resolution of Vestry, and (being entitled to any Tithes or Portion of Tithes in such Parish), and for the Impropriator of any Tithes or Portion of Tithes in such Parish, and for every other Person or Persons, or Body Corporate or Collegiate, or Corporation Aggregate or Sole, entitled to any Tithes or Portion of Tithes in such Parish, to assent to and agree with the Resolution of such Vestry, and to signify such Assent upon the Copy of such Resolution so signed by the Chairman and Vestrymen of the said Parish, when such Resolution shall be produced to them or any of them for that Purpose, by any of the Parties interested in the same; and such Copy, Copy, when so assented and agreed to by the said Parties, shall and transmit to and may, by some one or any of the Parties interested therein, be Registrar of the delivered or transmitted to the Registrar of the Bishop, to be Bishop, entered and recorded in the Registry of the Diocese, and shall be so entered and recorded accordingly; and in every such Case such Composition shall be variable only at the End of such Term of Seven Years or Fourteen Years, or shall remain in full Force and Effect for the whole Space of Twenty one Years, as may be agreed on at such Vestry; and in such last mentioned Case such Composition shall not be subject to any Variation in the Amount thereof, under the Provisions of the said recited Act or this Act, during such Period of Twenty one Years, whatever the Price of Corn may be; any Thing in the aid recited Act or this Act to the contrary thereof in any wise otwithstanding. XXVII. And be it further enacted, That in all Cases where Notice of any Vestry or Adjournment of any Vestry is required > be given in pursuance of the said recited Act or of this present ct, and it shall happen that there shall not be any Church in the 'arish wherein such Vestry is to be held, or that there shall not e any Church in such Parish fit for the Celebration of Divine ervice, the Notice of holding or adjourning every such Vestry hall and may be given by posting up such Notice on some ther Place of Public Worship, and by delivering Three true Copies of such Notice to One resident Magistrate within the aid Parish, or to any Three principal Householders of the said Parish paying Grand Jury Cess within such Parish; and that every Notice so given shall be good and sufficient Notice of the olding every such Vestry, to all Intents and Purposes in Law, as if such Notice had been given in the Parish Church. and thereupon not varied, whatComposition ever the Price of Corn may be. How Notice of where there is Six Days al lowed for No- XXVIII. And be it further enacted, That Notices required by the said Act of the last Session of Parliament for the establishing of Compositions for Tithes, to be given by Churchwardens for holding Special Vestries in Parishes, pursuant to the tificate, instead said recited Act, after the Copy of any Certificate of Composition of Three Days, for Tithes shall be received by such Churchwardens, may be given under 4 G.4. at any Time within Six Days next after the Copy of any such c.99. § 28. Certificate shall have been received by such Churchwardens; and such Notice, so given within such Six Days, shall be sufficient and valid to all Intents and Purposes as if such Notice had been given within Three Days next after the Receipt of any such Copy, in Manner required and directed by the said recited Act. XXIX. And be it further enacted, That in all Cases where any Proviso for Notice is required to be given, or any Objection to be submitted Acts required to any Bishop or Archbishop, or any Act or Instrument is required Bishops, Archor authorized to be done or executed by any Bishop or Arch- bishop, or Lord bishop, under the Provisions of the said recited Act or this Act, it Lieutenant, shall and may be lawful for the Archbishop of the Province, in while the See is case of the Vacancy of any Bishoprick, and for the Lord Lieu- vacant. tenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, in case of the Vacancy of any Archbishoprick, to receive such Notices and Objections, and to do and execute all such Acts and Instruments as should or could have been done or executed by any such Bishop or Archbishop, in case such Bishoprick or Archbishoprick to be done by 4 G.4. c.99. to remain in force as amended by this Act, &c. After July 5, and Allowances on British Herrings under 55G.3. c.94. bishoprick were not then vacant, as fully to all Intents and Pr poses, as if all such Matters and Things were done or executed by such Bishop or Archbishop authorized or required to do r execute the same. XXX. And be it further enacted, That the said recited Acta the last Session of Parliament, for the establishing of Composi tions for Tithes in Ireland, shall continue in Force and Effect except only so far as the same or any Part thereof is expressi repealed or altered by this present Act; and that the said recited Act and this Act shall be construed together as One Act, to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever. 6 CA P. LXIV. An Act to amend the several Acts for the Encouragement and Improvement of the British and Irish Fisheries. [17th June 1824] WHEREAS it is expedient that the Bounties and Allow ances payable in respect of Vessels fitted out and employed in the British and Irish Fisheries, and also in respect of Herrings or other Fish taken and cured in such Fisheries, 'should cease, and that certain other Bounties should be granted upon Herrings and other Fish:' Be it therefore 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 Fifth Day of July One thousand 1825, Bounties eight hundred and twenty five, the several Bounties and Allow ances hereafter mentioned and specified shall cease and determine; that is to say, the Bounty of Four Shillings granted by an Act made in the Fifty fifth Year of the Reign of His late Mejesty King George the Third, for continuing and amending several Acts relating to the British White Herring Fishery, every Barrel of Herrings caught, landed, cured and packed as by the said Act is directed; and also the Bounty of Four Shillings 1&2 G.4.c.79. granted by an Act made in the Parliament holden in the First and Second Years of the Reign of His present Majesty, for re pealing certain Bounties granted for the Encouragement of the Deep Sea British White Herring Fishery, and for making further Regulations relating to the said Fishery, for every Barrel Herrings caught in the Fisheries of the Isle of Man or other British Fisheries, in Vessels or Boats fitted out from the said Isle, landed there, and cured and packed as is directed by the said Act; and also the several specific Bounties and Allowances granted and made payable under and by virtue of an Act mad in the First Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act for the further Encouragement and Improvement of the British Fisheries; and also such of the several specific Bounties and Allowances granted and made payable under and by virtue Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for the Excouragement and Improvement of the Fisheries, as shall be in I G.4. c. 103. 59 G.3. c.109. several specific Bounties and Allowances granted and made pay Force at the Time of the passing of this Act; and also the able able under or by virtue of an Act made in the First Year of the and Reign of His present Majesty, for amending the said Act of 16.4. c.82. the Fifty ninth Year of His late Majesty's Reign; and all such specific Bounties and Allowances payable under the said recited Acts, or any of them, shall be and are hereby repealed accord- repealed. ingly, from and after the said Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty five. paid as herein After July 5, cured according 55 G.3. c.94., &c. and of II. And be it further enacted, That from and after the said Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty five, and until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty nine, the several and respective Bounties hereinafter mentioned shall be paid and allowed; that is to say, for every Barrel of Herrings which shall be caught, landed, cured and packed, according to the Directions of an Act made in the Forty eighth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, for the further Encouragement and better Regulation of the British White Herring Fishery, or of the said Act made in the Fifty fifth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, or of any other Act or Acts in Force relating to the British Herring Fishery; and also for every Barrel of Herrings caught in Vessels or Boats fitted out from the Isle of Man, landed there, and cured and packed according to the Directions of the before recited Act of the First and Second Years of His present Majesty's Reign; and also for every Barrel of Herrings caught, landed, cured and packed according to the Directions of the said recited Acts of c.82.; the Fifty ninth Year of His late Majesty's Reign, and of the First Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for the Encouragement and Improvement of the Irish Fisheries, a Bounty of Four Shillings in the Year ending on the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty six; a Bounty of Three Shillings in the Year ending on the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty seven; a Bounty of Two Shillings in the Year ending on the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty eight; and a Bounty of One Shilling in the Year ending on the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty nine; and also that there shall be paid and allowed, until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty nine, to all Persons residing in Great Britain, and who shall cure and dry Cod Fish, Ling or Hake, taken on the Coasts of Great Britain, Ireland or the Isle of Man, under the Regulations and Directions contained in or referred to by the hereinbefore recited Act of the First Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for the further Encouragement and Improvement of the British Fisheries, a Bounty of Four Shillings for every Hundred Weight of such dried Cod Fish, Ling or Hake; and that there and on Pickled shall be also paid and allowed, under the like Regulations and Cod under ReDirections, to such Persons residing as aforesaid, and curing gulations of Cod Fish, Ling or Hake in the Pickle, a Bounty of Two Shillings G.4. c.103. and Sixpence for every Barrel of such pickled Cod Fish, Ling or Hake, until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty nine; and that there shall also be paid and allowed to Persons residing on the Coasts of Ireland, and who shall cure and dry Cod Fish, Ling, Hake, Haddock, Glassen or Conger Eel, taken on the Coasts of Ireland under the Regulations and for de Directions on Dried Cod cured in Great Britain until July 5, 1829; until July 5, 1829. Bounties in Ireland on Dried Cod, &c. and on Pickled Cod, as in Great Britain. Tonnage Bounty to Vessels engaged in the White Fisheries to Directions mentioned in or referred to by the said recited A of the Fifty ninth Year of His late Majesty's Reign, for de Encouragement and Improvement of the Irish Fisheries, a Boun of Four Shillings for every Hundred Weight of such Dried Cod Fish, Ling, Hake, Haddock, Glassen or Conger Eel, until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty nine; and that there shall also be paid and allowed, until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty nine, a Bounty of Two Shillings and Sixpence for every Barrel of Cod, Ling Hake, Haddock, Glassen or Conger Eel taken on the Coasts of Ireland, and cured with Pickle by Persons residing in Ireland, and curing such Fish according to such Rules and Regulations as the Commissioners of the Irish Fisheries shall from time to time make and appoint for that Purpose. III. And be it further enacted, That from and after the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty five, and until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty nine, the several and respective Bounties hereinafter men5th July, 1829. tioned shall be paid and allowed to the Owner or Owners of all such decked or half decked Vessels, or to the Person or Persons hiring or chartering such Vessels as are described in the said Act made in the Fifty ninth Year of the Reign of His said late Ma jesty, for the further Encouragement and Improvement of the Irish Fisheries, and in the said Act made in the First Year of His present Majesty's Reign, for the further Encouragement and Improvement of the British Fisheries, and which shall be fitted out from any Port in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for the Purpose of fishing for and curing Cod Fish, Ling, Hake, Haddock, Glassen or Conger Eel; that is to say, a Bounty of Twenty Shillings per Ton for such Vessels in the Year ending on the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty six; a Bounty of Fifteen Shillings per Ton in the Year ending on the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty seven; a Bounty of Ten Shillings per Ton in the Year ending on the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty eight; and a Bounty of Five Shillings per Ton in the Year ending on the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty nine. Bounties under this Act payable as Boun ties on Fish and on Tonnage under recited Act. Payable in B. Currency, to cease July 5, 1829. of them, IV. And be it further enacted, That the Bounties by this Act granted and made payable shall be paid in such Manner and under such Directions, and subject to such Rules, Regulations and Restrictions, in all respects, as the Bounties heretofore granted under the said recited Acts respectively, or any upon such Herrings, Cod Fish, Ling, Hake, Haddock, Glassen or Conger Eel, and upon or in respect of the Tonnage of any Vessels as aforesaid, are by the said recited Act respectively made payable, and as if all such Directions, Rules, Regulations and Restrictions were repeated and re-enacted in this Act, to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever. such V. And be it enacted, That the several Bounties hereinbefore granted and made payable shall be paid according to the Amount thereof in British Currency, and shall wholly cease and determine on the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty nine. VI. And |