THE PRACTICE OF liable to be proceeded against and convicted sum- ACT TO PREVENT marily before a High Bailiff, or before any Two or INOCULATION. more Justices of the Peace; and for every such Offence shall, upon Conviction, be imprisoned in the Common Gaol, or House of Correction, for any Term not exceeding Three Months. exposing any with any conta Places of public summarily pro. and on Convic. tion imprisoned II. And be it further enacted, That if any Person Parties wilfully shall unlawfully, injuriously, and with full Knowledge Person infected of the Fact, expose in a public Highway or other gious Disease in Place of public Resort, any Person infected with Resort, may be Small Pox, or any other contagious or infectious ceeded against, Disease, he or she shall, in like Manner, be liable to be proceeded against summarily before a High Bailiff, or before Two or more Justices of the Peace, and being thereof convicted, shall be imprisoned in the Common Gaol, or House of Correction, for any Term not exceeding One Month. for any Term not exceeding One Month. ACT TO PREVENT At the Court at Windsor, the 10th Day of January, THE PRACTICE OF INOCULATION. Royal Assent, Whereas there was this Day read at the Board, a Your Majesty having been pleased, by your Order in Council of the 26th Day of December last, to refer unto this Committee, an Act of Tynwald, passed by the Legislature of the Isle of Man, on the 11th of that Month, intituled "An Act to prevent the Practice of Inoculation:" The Lords of the Committee, in Obedience to Your Majesty's said Order of Reference, have this Day taken the said Act into Consideration, and do agree humbly to report as their Opinion, to Your Majesty, that it may be adviseable for Your Majesty to approve of and ratify the said Act. Her Majesty having taken the said Report into Consideration, was pleased, by and with the Advice of Her Privy Council, to approve thereof, and to order, as it is hereby ordered, that the said Act (which is hereunto annexed) be, and the same is hereby confirmed, finally enacted, and ratified accordingly: and the Right Honorable Sir George Grey, Bart., One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, is to take ACT TO PREVENT the necessary Measures herein accordingly. Wm. L. Bathurst. THE PRACTICE OF At a Tynwald Court holden at St. John's Promulgation The before-written Act of Tynwald, intituled "An 16° VICT. 1852. ACT TO AMEND THE INSOLVENT DEBTORS' ACT, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. 1, Geo. IV., 1820. ISLE OF MAN TO WIT. At a Tynwald Court holden at St. John's Chapel, the Thirtieth Day of January, in the Fifteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady VICTORIA, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, and in the Year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, Before His Excellency the Honorable Charles Hope, Lieutenant-Governor, the Council, Deemsters, and Keys. An Act to alter and amend the Law relative to Insolvent Act of Tynwald, WHEREAS an Act of Tynwald was promulgated on the First Day of November, in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty, intituled "An Act for the better enforcing of common Judgments and Executions, and for altering and amending the Law relative to Bail to Actions of Debt or Damage, and for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors in the said Isle."** And whereas it is expedient to repeal such Parts of the said Act as authorize and empower the Governor or Lieutenant-Governor, Council, and Keys of the said Isle, in Tynwald assembled, to exercise the Powers, Authorities, and Functions provided in and by the said Act. We, therefore, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Lieutenant-Governor, Council, Deemsters, and Keys of the said Isle, do humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lieutenant-Governor, Council, Deem * Mills's Statute Laws, page 493. the ACT TO AMEND the DEBTORS' ACT, THE INSOLVENT AND FOR OTHER Act PURPOSES. authorizing Tyn sters, and Keys, in Tynwald assembled, and by Authority of the same, That from and after Promulgation of this Act, such Part of the said as authorizes and empowers the Governor or Lieu- Part of said Act tenant-Governor, Council, and Keys of this Isle, in wald Court to Tynwald assembled, to exercise the Powers and Powers, repealed Authorities in and by the said Act provided, be, and the same is hereby repealed. exercise certain vested in the cery. II. And whereas it is necessary to make other Such Powers Provision in that behalf: Be it therefore further Court of Chanenacted by the Authority aforesaid, and it is hereby enacted, That from and after the Promulgation of this Act, the Powers and Authorities which, by the said Act, were vested in the Governor or LieutenantGovernor, Council, and Keys of the said Isle, in Tynwald assembled, shall be vested in and may be exercised by the Court of Chancery of this Isle. ant duly sum Deemster or who avoided Sum not appear, or ap. the Debt and re upon his Defence Cause, the Coro of the Plaintiff as to the Debt due, and Service III. And be it enacted, That from and after the When a DefendPromulgation of this Act, if any Debtor, having been moned before a summoned as a Defendant to any Deemster's Court has willingly shall not appear in Answer to such Summons, and if mons does it shall appear to the Satisfaction of the Deemster pearing, denies that personal Summons has been given to the Defend- fuses to enter ant, or that the Summons has come to his Knowledge, without shewing or that such Defendant is keeping out of the Way to ner, on the Oath avoid such Summons, or having appeared, shall neither admit the Debt nor be prepared to enter of the Account, upon his Defence to the Suit, nor shew to the Satis- may be ordered faction of the Deemster any sufficient Cause for not Goods as Secubeing so prepared, then and in either of such Cases, rity for the Debt if the Plaintiff or some Person in his behalf shall Costs, unless the appear before the Deemster in open Court, and make Security for such Oath that the Debt for which the said Suit is brought is justly due to the Plaintiff, and that an Account or Statement of the said Claim in Writing has, at least Three Days previous thereto, been delivered to the Defendant, or left at his Place of Abode and the Amount thereof demanded, the Deemster shall, if he to arrest a Sufficiency of his Defendant gives Amount to the Satisfaction of the Coroner. |