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CA P. LXIX.

3 G.4. c. 126. $ 61.

4G.4. c.95.

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An Act to enable Justices of the Peace for Ridings, Divisions or Sokes, to act as Trustees for repairing and maintaining Turnpike Roads. [17th June 1824.] WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Third Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act to amend the general Laws now in being for regulating Turnpike Roads in that Part of Great Britain called England: And Whereas one other Act was passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His 'said present Majesty, intituled An Act to explain and amend an Act passed in the Third Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, to amend the general Laws now in being for regulating Turnpike Roads in that Part of Great Britain called England; and by the said first recited Act it was amongst other Things enacted, that all His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the Time being, acting for the County or Counties through which any Turnpike Road now does or hereafter shall pass, shall be added to and joined with the Trustees or Commissioners for making, repairing or maintaining every such Turnpike Road, and shall have all the same Powers and Authorities to all Intents and Purposes as if the said Justices had severally been named or elected Trustees or Commissioners in or under any Act or Acts of Parliament under which such Roads shall be made, repaired or maintained: And Whereas it is expedient that His Majesty's Justices of the Peace acting for any Riding, • Division or Soke should also be enabled to act as Trustees for the Repair of Turnpike Roads: 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 from and after the passing of this Act all His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the Time being, acting for the County or Counties, Riding or Ridings, Division or Divisions, Soke or Sokes, through any Part of which any Turnpike Road now does or hereafter shall pass, shall have such and the like Powers and Authorities for the making and repairing any such making and re- Turnpike Road, and be subject to the same Rules and Regu pairing Turnlations, by virtue of or under the said recited Acts, His Majesty's Justices of the Peace acting for any County or Counties.

Justices acting for Ridings or

Divisions, &c. through which

Roads pass to

have like Powers for

pike Roads as Justices for Counties.

CAP. LXX.

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An Act to permit Flour to be substituted for Foreign Wheat secured in Warehouses.

[17th June 1824] WHEREAS Foreign Wheat, which was imported into this the Kingdom prior to the Thirteenth Day of May One thousand eight hundred and twenty two, and secured in Warehouses, is allowed by Law to be taken out for Home Con 'sumption in Cases and under Conditions more favourable than is allowed in respect of Wheat imported since that Day, but

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Foreign Wheat may be taken out of Ware

no Opportunity has as yet occurred, by which the Proprietors of such Foreign Wheat have been able to avail themselves of 'the Benefit therein intended to them: And Whereas it might ' enable the Proprietors, of such Wheat to effect the Exportation thereof, if they were permitted to take the same out of such Warehouses to be ground into Flour under certain Regu'lations: And Whereas One Barrel of best Fine Wheat Flour, ⚫ weighing One hundred and ninety six Pounds, is equivalent to Five Bushels of Wheat of average Quality: 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 passing of this Act, it shall be lawful for the Importer or Proprietor of any Foreign Wheat imported before the said Thirteenth Day of May One thousand eight hundred and twenty two, and secured in Warehouse under the Laws in force, to take the same out of the Warehouse, upon his giving Bond, with Two sufficient Sureties, to be approved by the Collector and Comptroller of to return into the Customs, in the penal Sum of Five Pounds for every house an equiQuarter of Wheat to be taken out, with Condition to return into valent Quantity such Warehouse, or some other Warehouse in which Foreign of Flour in lieu Corn may be secured under the Laws in force, within Two of such Wheat. Months from the Date of such Bond, an equivalent Quantity of best fine Wheat Flour, computed after the Rate of One hundred and ninety six Pounds of such Flour for every Five Bushels of such Wheat, there to be kept and secured in lieu of such Wheat, subject to the same Rules, Regulations, Restrictions, Penalties and Forfeitures as such Wheat, or as any Foreign Flour imported and secured in Warehouses, under the Laws in force, was or would be subject to.

house on the Proprietor's giving Bond with Condition

such Ware

taken out.

II. And be it further enacted, That One Day at least before Notice to be any such Wheat shall be taken out of such Warehouse for the given before Purpose of such Exchange, the Importer or Proprietor thereof such Wheat is shall deliver a Notice in Writing to the principal Officer of the Customs having Charge of such Warehouse, of the Quantity and of the particular Parcel or Parcels of the Wheat (referring to the Importation thereof) intended to be so exchanged for Flour, and of the Name or Description and Situation of the Warehouse in which the equivalent Quantity of Flour is to be deposited, and shall also produce to such Officer a Certificate of the Collector and Comptroller that the Bond hereinbefore required has been given for such Wheat.

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III. And be it further enacted, That such Bond shall not be Bond not to be discharged until the proper Officers of the Customs shall have discharged till ascertained that the Flour so deposited is fine Wheat Flour of Officer of Custhe best Quality; and if any Package so deposited, purporting tained the Quato contain such Flour, shall be found to contain Flour of an lity of the inferior Quality, or any other Article than the best fine Wheat Flour. Flour, such Package and the Contents thereof shall be forfeited, together with the penal Sum of Five Pounds, secured by such Bond, for every Quarter of the Wheat for which the same was intended to be deposited as an equivalent Quantity of Flour.

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Foreign Corn IV. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful to remov may be removed any Foreign Corn from the Warehouse in which the same shall from one Ware at any Time be secured, to any other Warehouse, in any Part of the United Kingdom, in which Foreign Corn may be secured upon the Importation thereof, under the like Rules, Regulations and Conditions as other Goods may be removed from one Warehouse to another under the Provisions of an Act passed in the housed Goods. Fourth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act to make more effectual Provision for permitting Goods imported to be secured in Warehouses or other Places, without Payment of Duty on the first Entry thereof.

gulations as other ware

4 G. 4. c. 24.

48 G.3. c.96.

51 G.S. c.79.

55 G.3. c.46.

56 G.3. c.117.

59 G.3. c. 127.

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CAP. LXXI.

An Act to amend several Acts passed for the better Care
and Maintenance of Lunatics, being Paupers or Criminals,
in England.
[17th June 1824.]
HEREAS an Act was passed in the Forty eighth Year

W of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third.

'intituled An Act for the better Care and Maintenance of Lunatics, being Paupers or Criminals in England: And Whereas another Act was passed in the Fifty first Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act to amend an Act of the Forty eighth Year of His present Majesty, for the better Care and Maintenance of Lunatics, being Paupers or Criminals, in England: And Whereas another Act was passed in the Fifty fifth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act to amend an Act passed in the Forty eighth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act for the better Care and • Maintenance of Lunatics, being Paupers or Criminals, in England: And Whereas another Act was passed in the Fifty sixth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act to • amend an Act passed in the Thirty ninth and Fortieth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for the safe Custody of Insane Persons charged with Offences: And Whereas another Act was passed in the Fifty ninth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, intituled An Act for making Provision for the better Care of Pauper Lunatics in England: And Whereas it is expedient that the said Acts should be amended:' 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 No Order to be same, That no Order or Determination to be made at any Meeting made by Visit of the Visiting Justices which shall be held under or by virtue of ing Justices, the said recited Acts, or any of them, or this Act, shall be made unless the major Part of Justices or entered into, unless the major Part of the Justices present at such Meeting shall concur therein, nor unless due Notice of such Meeting shall have been previously given, according to the Provisions of the said recited Acts, or according to the Rules and Regulations made by the Visiting Justices; and that all Acts, Orders and Proceedings which by the said recited Acts or any of them, or by this Act, are directed to be had, made, done or exercised by or before the said Visiting Justices, and all the

present concur therein.

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Powers and Authorities by such Acts or any of them, or by this Act, vested in them generally, shall and may be had, made, done and exercised by the major Part of such Justices present at the respective Meetings to be held by virtue of the said recited Acts and this Act, the whole Number present not being less than Three; and all Acts, Orders and Proceedings had, made, done or exercised by or before such Three Visiting Justices shall have the same Force and Effect, and be binding and conclusive on all Parties to all Intents and Purposes whatever, and as fully and effectually as if the same were had, made, done or exercised by or before the major Part of all the said Visiting Justices so appointed.

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II. And Whereas Doubts may arise in Cases where Two Counties may have united, or in Cases where the Justices of the Peace of any County may have united with the Subscribers to any Institution for the Care of Lunatics established by voluntary Contribution, for the Purpose of erecting a Lunatic Asylum, whether the Number of Visiting Justices or Visitors of such 'Asylum can from time to time be increased; Be it further In Cases where enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Number of Two Counties Visiting Justices or Visitors of such Asylum, to be increased from have united, &c. time to time, notwithstanding the Terms of any original Agree- Visiting Jusment between such Counties, or between such Justices of any tices or Visitors County and the Subscribers to any such Institution, due regard may be increasbeing always had in making such Augmentation to the Pro- ed. portion originally established between such Visiting Justices or Visitors as aforesaid; and any such additional Number of Visiting Justices or Visitors as may be agreed on shall be appointed in the same Manner, and by the same Authorities, as Vacancies in the Number of such Visiting Justices or Visitors may be supplied by any Law now in force.

III. And be it further enacted, That in any Case in which a Two Justices dangerous Idiot, whose Settlement, by reason of the may make an

Lunatic or

Lunacy of such Person, cannot be ascertained, shall be by the Order of Two Justices confined in any Lunatic Asylum, it shall and may be lawful for any Two Justices acting in and for the County in which such Asylum shall be situated, at any Time to examine into the legal Settlement of such Lunatic or dangerous Idiot; and if satisfactory Evidence can be obtained as to such Settlement, it shall and may be lawful for such Justices to adjudge the last legal Settlement of such Lunatic to be in such Parish or Place as may on such Evidence appear to him to be the Place of such legal Settlement; and forthwith to make an Order on the Overseers of the Poor of such Parish or Place to pay such Weekly Sum to the Treasurer of such Asylum as shall have been fixed by the Visiting Justices as a fit Rate for the Maintenance, Medicine, Clothing and Care of Lunatics confined in such Asylum.

Order on Over

seers of Lunatic's Parish for

a

Weekly Maintenance.

IV. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That if the Appeal to Overseers of the Poor of any Parish or Place shall feel themselves Quarter Sesaggrieved by any such Order as aforesaid, it shall be lawful sions. for them to appeal, at the next General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the County in which such Lunatic Asylum shall be situated; and the Justices at such Sessions shall hear and deter

Costs,

mine the Matter of such Appeal, as in Cases of Appeals against Orders of Removal, and award such Costs to either Party as to them shall seem just and reasonable; and in case the Settlement of any Lunatic respecting whom such Order shall have been made, shall be then and there determined not to be in the Parish or Place on whom such Order shall have been made, then such Costs shall be paid by the Treasurer of the County or united by whom paid. Counties at whose Expence such Lunatic Asylum shall have been erected.

Visiting Justices may fix Weekly Rate for Mainte

nance of Insane

Persons.

Provisions, &c. of Acts re.. lating to Counties, to extend to Ridings, Divisions, &c.

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• V. And Whereas it is by the said recited Acts enacted, that the Visiting Justices shall from time to time fix a certain Weekly Rate to be paid for each Person confined in every such Asylum as is authorized by the said recited Acts to be esta'blished, which Rate may be sufficient to defray the whole Expence of the Maintenance and Care, Medicines and Clothing requisite for such Person, and the Salaries of the Officers and • Attendants: And Whereas it is by the said recited Acts of the Forty eighth and Fifty ninth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty enacted, that the Justices acting for the Division of the County where such Parish for which any Pauper Lunatic has been directed and conveyed to such Lunatic Asylum shall be situated, shall from time to time make Order on the Over'seers of such Parish, for the Payment of all reasonable Charges of conveying such poor Person to such Asylum, and for the Weekly Payment to the Treasurer thereof of such Sums as the Visiting Justices of such Asylum shall have fixed: And Whereas it is expedient that better Provision should be made 'for the Recovery of such Sums;' Be it therefore further enacted, That if the Overseers for the Time being of such Parish, upon whom such Order shall be made, shall for the Space of Twenty Days after due Notice of such Order refuse or neglect to pay the Sums so ordered to be paid, the same shall be recovered by Distress and Sale of the Goods of such Overseers so refusing or neglecting, or of any of them, by Warrant under the Hands and Seals of any Two Justices of any such respective Counties.

VI. And be it further enacted, That all Provisions, Directions, Clauses, Matters and Things whatever, in this Act or any said recited Acts contained, relating to Counties, shall extend and be construed to extend to all Ridings, Divisions, Cities, Towns, Liberties and Places possessing separate Jurisdictions; and, if relating to Parishes, shall extend and be construed to extend to all Villages, Townships, and Places maintaining their own Poor, as fully and amply as if they were severally and respectively repeated in every such Provision, Direction and Clause, and with relation to any such Matter or Thing.

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