LXII. Notification of Conduct of Marines.-That the churchwardens of every parish in England, on receiving a notification from the Secretary of the Admiralty of the name of any marine belonging to the said parish or place who has for meritorious conduct received His Majesty's special approbation, or who in consequence of misconduct has been dismissed His Majesty's service with disgrace, shall affix such notification on the outside of the door of the church or chapel belonging to such parish or place on the Sunday next succeeding the receipt of such notification.

LXIII. Marines to be subject to the discipline of the navy while on board ship.

LXIV. Duration of Act.-That this Act shall continue in force within Great Britain from the 25th of April 1832, until the 25th of April 1833 inclusive.

LXV. That this Act may be altered, varied, or repealed during this session.

CAP. XXIV.

AN ACT to indemnify such Persons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments, and for extending the Time limited for those Purposes respectively until the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three; to permit such Persons in Great Britain as have omitted to make and file Affidavits of the Execution of Indentures of Clerks to Attornies and Solicitors to make and file the same on or before the First Day of Hilary Term One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three; and to allow Persons to make and file such Affidavits, although the Persons whom they served shall have neglected to take out their Annual Certificates.

(9th April 1832.)

ABSTRACT OF THE ENACTMENTS.

1. Persons who have omitted to qualify themselves as required by the recited Acts, indemnified and allowed further time.

2. Indemnity to those who have omitted to make and subscribe the Oaths, &c. required by the Irish Act of 2 Anne.

3. Not to indemnify persons against whom final Judgment is given.

4. Not to exempt Justices acting without legal Qualification.

5. Admissions to Corporations may be stamped after time allowed by law.

6. Indemnity to persons who have paid the duties on Indentures to serve as Clerks to Attornies, &c., but have neglected to cause Affidavits thereof to be made.-Neglect of Attornies, &c. in taking out their Annual Certificates, not to disqualify the persons

who have served them.

7. Not to restore persons to any office avoided by Judgment.

8. General Issue.

By this ACT,

After stating that divers persons, who, on account of their offices, places, employments, or professions, or any other cause or occasion, ought to have taken and subscribed the oaths or assurance respectively appointed to be by such persons taken and subscribed in and by an Act, 1 Geo. 1. st. 2. c. 13, intituled, An Act for the further Security of His Majesty's Person and Government, and the Succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants; and for extinguishing the Hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret Abettors;' or to have qualified themselves according to an Act, 13 C. 2. st. 2. c. 1, intituled, 'An Act for the well-governing and regulating of Corporations; or to have qualified themselves according to another Act, 25 C. 2. st. 2. c. 2, intituled, An Act for preventing the Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants;' or according to another Act, 30 C.2. st. 2, intituled, 'An Act for the more effectual preserving the King's Person and Government, by disabling Papists from sitting in either House of Parliament;' or according to another Act, 8 Geo. 1. c. 6, intituled, An Act for granting the People called Quakers such Forms of Affirmation or Declaration as may remove the Difficulties which many of them lie under;' or according to another Act, 9 Geo. 2. c. 26, intituled, An Act for indemnifying Persons who have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices within the Time limited by Law, and for allowing further Time for that Purpose; and for amending so much of an Act, passed in the Second Year of the Reign of His Present Majesty, as requires Persons to qualify themselves for Offices before the End of the next Term or Quarter Sessions, and also for enlarging the Time limited by Law for making and subscribing the Declaration against Transubstantiation; and for allowing a further Time for Enrolment of Deeds and Wills made by Papists; and for Relief of Protestant Purchasers, Devisees, and Lessees ;' or according to another Act, 18 Geo. 2, c. 20, intituled, An Act to amend and render more effectual an Act passed in the Fifth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled, "An Act for the further Qualification of Justices of the Peace ;"' or according to another Act, 6 Geo. 3. c. 53, intituled, An Act for altering the Oath of Abjuration, and the Assurance; and for amending so much of an Act made in the Seventh Year of the Reign of Her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled, "An Act for the Improvement of the Union of the Two Kingdoms," as after the Time therein limited requires the Delivery of certain Lists and Copies therein mentioned to Persons indicted of High Treason or Misprision of Treason;' or according to another Act, 9 Geo. 4. c. 17, intituled, An Act for repealing so much of several Acts as imposes the Necessity of receiving the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper as a Qualification for certain Offices and Employments;' or according to another

Act, 10 Geo. 4. c. 7, intituled,' An Act for the Relief of His Majesty's Roman Catholic Subjects,' so far only as the said Act relates to any civil or military offices or places of trust, or places of profit or corporate offices; have, through ignorance of the law, absence, or some unavoidable accident, omitted to take and subscribe the oaths and assurance and make and subscribe the declaration required by the said recited Acts or either of them, or otherwise to qualify themselves as aforesaid, within such time and in such manner as in and by the said Acts respectively is required, whereby they have incurred, or may be in danger of incurring, divers penalties and disabilities: For quieting the minds of His Majesty's subjects, and for preventing any inconvenience that might otherwise happen by means of snch omissions

It is Enacted,

1. That all and every person or persons who, at or before the passing of this Act, hath or shall have omitted to take and subscribe the oaths and declarations, or otherwise to qualify him, her, or themselves, within such time and in such manner as in and by the said Acts, or any of them, is required; and who, after accepting any such office, place, or employment, or undertaking any profession or thing on account of which such qualification ought to have been had and is required, before the passing of this Act hath or have been taken and subscribed the said oaths, or made the declarations required by law, or who, on or before the 25th March 1833, shall take and subscribe the oaths, declarations, and assurance respectively, in such cases wherein by the said several Acts or any or either of them the said oaths, declarations, and assurance ought to have been taken and subscribed, in such manner and form, and at or in such place or places, as are appointed in and by the said several Acts or any or either of them, shall be and are hereby indemnified, freed, and discharged from and against all penalties, forfeitures, incapacities, and disabilities incurred or to be incurred for or by reason of any neglect or omission, previous to the passing of this Act, of taking or subscribing the said oaths or assurance, or making or subscribing the said declarations respectively, or taking or subscribing the said oath, according to the above-mentioned Acts or any of them, or any other Act or Acts; and such person or persons is and are and shall be fully and actually recapacitated and restored to the same state and condition as he, she, or they were in before such neglect or omission, and shall be deemed and adjudged to have duly qualified him, her, or themselves according to the above-mentioned Acts and every of them; and that all elections of, and acts done or to be done by any such person or persons, or by authority derived from him, her, or them, are and shall be of the same force and validity as the same or any of them would have been if such person or persons respectively had taken the said oaths or assurance, and made and subscribed the said declarations respectively, and taken and subscribed the said oath, according to the directions of the said Acts and every or any of them; and that the qualification of such person or persons qualifying themselves in manner and within the time appointed by this Act shall be to all intents and purposes as effectual as if such person or persons had respectively taken the said oaths and assurance, and made and subscribed the said declarations respectively, and taken and subscribed the said oath, within the time and in the manner appointed by the several Acts before mentioned.

And stating that several persons well affected to His Majesty's Government, and to the United Church of England and Ireland, have, through ignorance of the law, neglected, or been, by sickness or other unavoidable causes, prevented from taking and subscribing the declaration according to the directions of an Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the 2 Anne, intituled, An Act to prevent the further Growth of Popery' :

It is Enacted,

11. That all persons who have incurred any penalty or incapacity in the said recited Act mentioned, by neglecting to qualify themselves according to the said Act, shall be and are hereby indemnified, freed, and discharged from all incapacities, disabilities, penalties, and forfeitures incurred by reason of such omission or neglect as aforesaid; and that no act done by any of them, not yet avoided, shall be questioned or avoided by reason of such omission or neglect, but that all such acts shall be and are hereby declared to be as good and effectual as if such persons respectively had taken and subscribed the said oath, and made and repeated and subscribed the said declaration, at such time and place and manner as in the said Act is mentioned; any thing in the said Act to the contrary notwithstanding provided always, that such person or persons do and shall take and subscribe the said oaths, and make, repeat, and subscribe the said declaration, in such manner and form, and in such place or places respectively, as are directed and appointed by the said last-recited Act, on or before the 25th March 1833.

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III. Provided, That this Act, or any thing herein contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to indemnify any person against whom final judgment shall have been given in any action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record, for any penalty incurred by having neglected to qualify himself within the time limited by law.

IV. Provided, That nothing contained in this Act shall extend or be construed to extend to exempt any Justice of the Peace within Great Britain from the penalties to which he is subject for acting as such without being possessed of the qualification required by the laws now in force.

And stating that the appointment of divers clerks of the peace, town clerks, and other public officers, and the admission of divers members and officers of cities, corporations, and borough towns in Great Britain and Ireland, or the entries of such admissions in the court books, rolls, or records of such cities, corporations, and borough towns, which by several Acts are directed and required to be stamped, may not have been provided or the same not stamped, or may have been lost or mislaid :—

It is Enacted,

V. That for the relief of such persons whose appointments and admissions, or the entries of whose admissions as aforesaid, may not have been provided, or not duly stamped, or where the same have been lost or mislaid, it shall and may be lawful to and for such persons in Great Britain or Ireland, on or before the 25th March 1833, to provide or cause to be provided appointments and admissions, or entries of admissions as aforesaid, duly stamped; or in case where such appointment

admissions, or entries of admissions as aforesaid, have been made or provided, but have not been duly stamped, to produce such appointments, admissions, or entires of admissions as aforesaid, to the Commissioners appointed to inspect and manage the revenues of the stamp duties, to be duly stamped; which such Commissioners are hereby authorized and empowered and required to duly stamp, on payment of double the amount of the duties first payable, or to have been paid on such appointments, admissions, or entries of admissions as aforesaid, without any other fine or forfeiture thereon; and in order to denote the said duties, the said Commissioners are hereby authorized and empowered to use such stamps as shall have been heretofore provided to denote any former duties on stamped vellum, parchment, and paper, or to cause new stamps to be provided for that purpose, and to do all other things necessary for putting this Act in execution, in the like and in as full and ample manner as they or the major part of them are authorized to put in execution any former law concerning stamped vellum, parchment, and paper; and such persons so providing appointments, admissions, or entries of admissions as aforesaid, duly stamped, or procuring the same to be duly stamped in manner aforesaid, are and shall be hereby confirmed and qualified to act as clerk of the peace, town clerk, or other public officer, or member or members, officer or officers of such cities, corporations, and borough towns respectively, to all intents and purposes; and shall and may hold and enjoy and execute such offices, or any other office or offices into which he or they hath or have been elected, notwithstanding his or their omission, or the omission of any of their predecessors, in such cities, corporations, or borough towns as aforesaid; and shall be indemnified and discharged of and from all incapacities, disabilities, forfeitures, penalties, and damages by reason of any such omission; and none of his or their acts shall be questioned or avoided by reason of the same.

And stating that many persons who may have paid the proper stamp duties, either before or within six months after the execution of the contracts in writing entered into by them to serve as clerks to attornies or solicitors, scriveners, or notaries public in Great Britain, have omitted to cause affidavits to be made, and afterwards to be filed in the proper office, of the actual execution of such contracts, and have also omitted to cause such contracts and the indentures thereof to be enrolled within the time in which the same ought to have been done; and many solicitors, attornies, notaries public, and others, have omitted to take out annual certificates, or to enter the same in the proper office, and many infants and others may thereby incur certain disabilities: for preventing thereof, and relieving such persons

It is Enacted,

VI. That every person who shall, either before or within six months after the execution of such contract or indenture, have paid the proper stamp duty in that behalf, and who at the passing of this Act shall have neglected or omitted to cause any such affidavit or affidavits as aforesaid to be made and filed, or such contract or indenture to be enrolled, and who, on or before the first day of Hilary Term, 1833, shall cause such contract or indenture to be enrolled with the proper officer in that behalf, and one or more affidavit or affidavits to be made, and afterwards to be filed in such manner as the same ought to have been made and filed, in due time, shall be and is hereby indemnified, freed, and discharged from and against all penalties, forfeitures, incapacities, and disabilities in or by any Act or Acts of Parliament mentioned, and incurred or to be incurred for or by reason of such neglect or omission; and every such affidavit and affidavits so to be made, and which shall be duly filed on or before the first day of Hilary Term, 1833, shall be as effectual to all intents and purposes as if the same bad been made and filed within the respective times the same ought, by the laws now in being for that purpose, to have been made and filed; and that the respective officer or officers who ought to receive, file, enter, or register such contract or indenture, or affidavit or affidavits, shall not refuse to receive, file, enter, or register the same, by reason that the attorney, solicitor, or notary public, to whom such infant or other person shall have been articled or have contracted to serve, shall have neglected to take out his annual certificate, or to register the same, but such officer or officers are hereby directed and empowered to receive, file, enter, or register the same, notwithstanding such omission; and that every person who shall have regularly served any attorney or attornies, solicitor or solicitors, notary public or notaries public, for the term of years required by law, shall not be prevented or disqualified from being admitted an attorney, solicitor, or notary public, by reason of any omission of the person or persons to whom he served for the same term, or for any part thereof, having so neglected to take out his annual certificate, or to register the same; provided that such person is otherwise entitled to be created and admitted to such office by the laws now in force relating thereto.

VII. Provided, That this Act or any thing herein contained shall not extend or be construed to extend to restore or entitle any person or persons to any office or employment, benefice, matter, or thing whatsoever, already actually avoided by judgment of any of His Majesty's Courts of Record, already legally filled up and enjoyed by any other person; but that such office or employment, benefice, matter, or thing so avoided or legally filled up and enjoyed, shall be and remain in and to the person or persons who is or are now or shall at the passing of this Act be legally entitled to the same, as if this

Act had never been made.

VIII. That in case any action, suit, bill of indictment, or information shall from and after the passing of this Act be brought, carried on, or prosecuted against any person or persons hereby meant or intended to be indemnified, recapacitated, or restored, for or on account of any forfeiture, penalty, incapacity. or disability whatsoever, incurred or to be incurred by any such neglect or omission, such person or persons may plead the general issue, and upon their defence give this Act and the special matter in evidence upon any trial to be had thereupon.

CAP. XXV.

AN ACT to extend and render more effectual Two Acts of the First and Second and Third Years of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, respecting the Estates thereby vested in the principal Officers of the Ordnance, and to facilitate the public Business in the Ordnance Department.

ABSTRACT OF THE ENACTMENTS.

(9th April 1832.)

1. All copyholds, &c. now holden for the Ordnance Service to be vested in the principal Officers of the Ordnance for the time being.

2. All copyholds, &c. to be purchased hereafter for the Ordnance to be vested in same officers on admittance of their Secretary or other officer.

3. All lands, &c. in Great Britain and Ireland mortgaged for securing any debt to the Ordnance to be vested in the same officers.

4. Terms assigned to attend the inheritance of lands, &c. holden for the Ordnance to remain in same Trustees on same terms. 5. On the death of any person now holding copyholds, &c. for the Ordnance, the Secretary to be admitted on payment of Customary fines, &c.

6. Power of selling, exchanging, &c. given by recited Act of 1 & 2 Geo. 4. to three officers, to be vested in two.

7. Ordnance may sue as "The principal officers of His Majesty's Ordnance," without naming them.—Suit not to abate by change of officers.

8. Such officers not to be personally liable.

9. All powers given by 1 & 2 Geo. 4. to three officers may be executed by two.

10. Same style to be adopted in deeds, &c.

By this ACT,

After stating that an Act was passed, 1 & 2 Geo. 4. c. 69, intituled, An Act for vesting all Estates and Property occupied for the Ordnance Service in the principal Officers of the Ordnance, and for granting certain Powers to the said principal Officers: And that another Act was passed, 3 Geo. 4. c. 108, intituled, An Act for vesting all Estates and Property occupied for the Barrack Service in any Part of the United Kingdom in the principal Officers of His Majesty's Ordnance, and for granting certain Powers to the said principal Officers in relation thereto :' And that divers messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, of copyhold, customary, or ancient demesne tenure, are now beld, and may hereafter be purchased and taken for the service of the said Ordnance Department, and much inconvenience has arisen and may arise by reason of copyhold estates and hereditaments having been excepted out of the provisions and operation of the said recited Acts, and also by reason of the said Acts not extending to lands and hereditaments which have been or may be taken or limited by way of mortgage, or for securing money, or by way of indemnity for the use of the Ordnance Service, or objects connected therewith: And that the covenants and contracts made by and with the said principal officers, as well with respect to their estates, as with respect to other matters and things relating to the service of the Ordnance department, are numerous and important: And that many of such covenants and contracts cannot be enforced by law by the officers for the time being, who were not or may not be parties thereto, and it is expedient that the power to sue upon all manner of such covenants and contracts, as well as upon other causes of action relating to the said service, should be vested in the officers of His Majesty's Ordnance for the time being: And that His Majesty has been pleased to reduce the number of the principal officers of the Ordnance, and it is expedient that two or more of such officers should be enabled to exercise and execute the respective powers, authorities, and duties, and to perform and execute all such contracts, conveyances, deases, and other deeds and instruments relating to the public service of the said department, and to do and execute all such deeds, matters, and things as by any Act or Acts, or otherwise, might or ought to be exercised, performed, done, or executed by three or more of such principal officers :

It is Enacted,

1. That immediately from and after the passing of this Act all messuages, buildings, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, in Great Britain or Ireland, of copyhold or customary or ancient demesue tenure, which have been heretofore purchased or taken by or in the name of any person or persons in trust for His Majesty or his royal predecessors, and his or their heirs and successors, for the use or service of the said Ordnance department, or for the use and service of the said Barrack department, either in fee or for any life or lives, or otherwise howsoever, and the appurtenances to the same respectively belonging, shall be and become and continue vested in the principal officers of His Majesty's Ordnance for the time being, and their successors in the said office, according to the nature and quality of and the respective estates and interest in such hereditaments and premises, for the use and service of the said Ordnance department, and upon and for such trusts, intents, or purposes as are, in and by the said recited Act, 1 & 2 Geo. 4, expressed and declared or referred unto of and concerning the estates and property thereby vested in the said principal officers and their successors in the said office.

11. That all other messuages, buildings, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, in Great Britain or Ireland, of copyhold or customary or ancient demesne tenure, which shall at any time or times hereafter be purchased or taken by the principal officers of His Majesty's Ordnance for the time being, or by any other person or persons by their order, for the service of the said Ordnance department, and the appurtenances to the same respectively belonging, shall be granted, surrendered, conveyed, and assured unto, and shall thereupon, and upon the admittance of the Secretary or other person hereinafter directed to be admitted, be and become and continue vested in the principal officers of His Majesty's Ordnance for the time being, and their

successors in the said office, according to the nature and quality of and the respective estates and interests in such hereditaments and premises, and without any words of limitation whatsoever, for the use and service of the said Ordnance department, and upon and for such trusts, intents, and purposes as aforesaid.

III. That all messuages, buildings, lands, tenements, and hereditaments of every description, and whether in Great Britain or Ireland, which before the passing of this Act shall have been taken or conveyed or surrendered and are now held by way of mortgage, or for securing any sum or sums of money for the use of the Ordnance service or Barrack service, shall from and after the passing of this Act be and become and continue, and all messuages, buildings, lands, tenements, and hereditaments of every description, and whether in Great Britain or Ireland, which shall hereafter be taken or limited by way of mortgage, or for securing any sum or sums of money, or by way of indemnity, or for any other purpose or purposes, for the use of the Ordnance service or any objects connected therewith, shall be taken and conveyed and surrendered, and shall thereupon, and when any admittance is necessary, upon any such admittance as hereinafter mentioned, shall be and become and continue, vested in the principal officers of His Majesty's Ordnance for the time being, and their successors in the said office, according to the nature and quality of and the respective estates and interests in such hereditaments and premises respectively, and without any words of limitation whatsoever, upon and for the trusts, intents, and purposes to which the same are or shall be subject or made liable.

IV. Provided, That any term or terms of years which shall have been or may be assigned to attend the inheritance in any of the hereditaments and premises which shall be or become vested by virtue of this Act in the said principal officers of His Majesty's said Ordnance, shall remain and be vested in the trustee or trustees to whom the same have been or shall be respectively assigned; and that it shall be lawful for the said principal officers for the time being to convey, surrender, or assign all or any of the hereditaments and premises which now are or hereafter shall be vested in them, and to direct all or any of the hereditaments and premises which shall hereafter be agreed to be purchased or taken by them, to be conveyed, surrendered, or assigned to a trustee or trustees for the use of the Ordnance service, or upon the trusts to which the same shall or ought to be subject, in case, from any circumstance whatsoever, it shall, in the judgment of the said principal officers for the time being, be expedient so to do.

v. Provided, That when and as the person, or, in those cases where there shall be more than one, the survivor of the persons, in whom any messuages, buildings, lands, tenements, and hereditaments of copyhold, customary, or ancient demesue tenure, heretofore purchased or taken as aforesaid, are now respectively vested, shall die, and when any messuages, buildings, lands, tenements, and hereditaments of any such tenure shall hereafter be purchased or taken as aforesaid, the Secretary for the time being of the principal officers of His Majesty's Ordnance, or any other officer of the Ordnance department, or other person whom the said principal officers, or any two or more of them, shall from time to time appoint, shall be admitted to such hereditaments and premises, except that in the case of any mortgage or security such admittance shall be at the option of the said principal officers; and that on the death of any person filling or who shall have filled the office of such Secretary or the office of such officer as shall be so appointed, and who shall have been admitted, or of the person who shall have been admitted to any such hereditaments and premises, the Secretary for the time being of the said principal officers who shall succeed or then be in office, or any other officer of the Ordnance department, or other person who shall be from time to time appointed as aforesaid (as the case may be), shall be admitted to such hereditaments and premises; and that on the respective deaths of the person or persons in whom the hereditaments and premises herembefore in that behalf mentioned are now vested, and on whose death or deaths a beriot, fine, or any other sum or due would be due or payable, and on the death of the Secretary or other officer or other person who shall be admitted as aforesaid, the lords and ladies of the manor of which the said premises are respectively holden, and their stewards, shall be entitled (in case no alienation shall have previously taken place) to such beriots, fines, and fees, and sums of money and other dues, as shall be due and payable and of right accustomed upon the death of a tenant and the admission of a new tenant, and as they would have been entitled to in case this Act had not been passed; but nevertheless that such person or persons shall only continue tenant or tenants, and such Secretary or officer or other person as aforesaid shall only be admitted, for the purpose of ascertaining and preserving to the lord or lady of the manor the right of escheat and all other rights, and for the purpose of performing such services (if any) as ought to be performed, and of determining when the heriots, fines, fees, and sums of money and dues, due or payable on the death of a tenant and the admission of a new tenant, shall become due and payable; and the said hereditaments and premises, as regards the legal estate, and for all purposes of alienation and all other purposes, save as aforesaid, shall be and become and continue vested in the said principal officers for the time being.

VI. That all the powers and authorities of selling, exchanging, letting, conveying, and surrendering, bringing and defending actions and suits, and distraining, and all other powers and authorities whatsoever given to the said principal officers for the time being, or any three or more of them, by the said recited Act, 1 & 2 Geo. 4, with respect to the estates and property thereby respectively vested in them respectively, shall apply to the hereditaments and premises which shall be or become vested in the said principal officers by virtue of this Act, except so far as the same may be inapplicable to any hereditaments vested in them by way of mortgage or security, while the same shall continue to be so held; and all the powers and autho rities by the said last-mentioned Act given to bodies politic or corporate, and others, of contracting, and of conveying and surrendering lands and hereditaments, and otherwise, shall apply to messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments of copyhold, customary, and ancient demesne tenure, and to the purchase monies for the same; and all powers and authorities by the same Act given to the Barons or Judges of His Majesty's Courts of Exchequer relating to the purchase monies therein mentioned, and all other clauses, matters, and things whatsoever therein contained relating thereto, whether arising from the sale or purchase of lands or hereditaments or otherwise howsoever, shall apply to the monies which shall arise or become payable under this Act; and all other clauses, matters, and things in the said recited Acts or either of them contained, as far as the same shall be applicable to and not inconsistent with this Act, shall apply to this Act as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes as if all such powers, authorities, clauses, matters, and things were respectively, severally, and separately repeated and re-enacted in and made part of this Act.