shall be in covers, with the words "Office of Poor Law Commissioners, pursuant to Act of Parliament passed in the fifth year of the reign of his Majesty King William the Fourth," printed on the same, and be signed on the outside thereof, under such words, with the name of such person as the said commissioners, with the consent of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, or any three or more of them, shall authorize and appoint, in his own handwriting, (such name to be from time to time transmitted to the secretaries of the General Post-office in London and Dublin,) and be sealed with the seal of the said commissioners, and under such other regulations and restrictions as the said Lords Commissioners, or any three or more of them, shall think proper and direct: and the person so to be authorized is hereby strictly forbidden so to subscribe or seal any letter or packet whatever, except such only concerning which he shall receive the special direction of his superior officer, or which he shall himself know to relate solely and exclusively to the execution of this act; and if the person so to be authorized, or any other person, shall send or cause or permit to be sent under any such cover, any letter, paper, or writing, or any enclosure, other than what shall relate to the execution of this act, every person so offending shall forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred pounds, and be dismissed from his office; one moiety of the said penalty to the use of his Majesty, his heirs and successors, and the other moiety to the use of the person who shall inform or sue for the same, to be sued for and recovered in any of his Majesty's courts of record at Westminster for offences committed in England, and in any of his Majesty's courts of record in Dublin for offences committed in Ireland, and before the sheriff or stewartry court of the shire or stewartry within which the party offending shall reside, or the offence shall be committed, for offences committed in Scotland; and if any letter, paper, or writing, or other enclosure, shall be sent under cover to the said commistransmitted to sioners, the same not relating solely and exclusively to the execution of this act, they are hereby strictly required and enjoined to transmit the same forthwith to the secretary of the Postoffice in London, with the covers under which the same shall be sent, in order that the contents thereof may be charged with the full rates of postage. Letters sent under cover not relating solely to the business of the act to be Post-office to be charged. Payments contrary to disallowed. LXXXIX. And be it further enacted, that all this act to be payments, charges, and allowances made by any overseer or guardian, and charged upon the rates for the relief of the poor, contrary to the provisions of this act, or at variance with any rule, order, or regulation of the said commissioners made under the authority of this act, shall be and the same are hereby declared to be illegal, any law, custom, or usage to the contrary not withstanding; and every justice of the peace is hereby required to disallow as illegal and unfounded all payments, charges, or allowances contrary to the provisions of this act, or to any such rule, order, or regulation of the said commissioners, which shall be contained in any account of any overseer of the poor or guardian which shall be presented for the purpose of being passed or allowed: provided always, that no allowance by any justice shall exonerate or discharge such overseer or guardian from any penalty or legal proceeding to which he may have rendered himself liable by having acted contrary to the rules, orders, and regulations of the said commissioners, or to the provisions of this act. (74) summons. XC. And be it further enacted, that the leav- Service of ing of any summons authorized to be issued by any commissioner, assistant commissioner, or justice of the peace, under this act, at the usual or last known place of abode of the party to whom such summons shall be directed, shall in every case be deemed good and sufficient service of such summons. (74) There are other modes of relief, established by law, besides those by" payments, charge or allowances," as here mentioned, and which are not affected by the act. See 1 Arch. P. L. 6, 7, and the statutes there referred to; see also in the Appendix to this Volume. Those, no doubt, must hereafter be exercised under the control and direction of the commissioners. *》 1 1 Repeal of so much of as relates to of spirituous liquors in workhouses. VOXCI. And be it further enacted, that so much 6 G. 4, c. 80, of an act made and passed in the sixth year of prohibition the reign of his late majesty king George the Fourth, intituled "An Act to repeal the Duties payable in respect of the Spirits distilled in England, and of Licenses for distilling, rectifying, or compounding such Spirits, and for the Sale of Spirits, and to impose other Duties in lieu thereof, and to pisvide other Regulations for the Collection of the said Duties, and for the Sale of Spirits, and for the warehousing of such Spirits without Payment of Duty for Exportation," as provides that if any master or officer of any workhouse shall sell, use, lend, or give away, or knowingly permit or suffer any spirits to be sold, used, lent, or given away, in any such workhouse, or brought into the same, other than and except such spirits as shall be prescribed or given by the prescription and direction of a physician, surgeon, or apothecary, and to be supplied in pursuance of such prescriptions from the shop of some apothecary, every such master or such other officer shall for every such offence forfeit one hundred pounds, and for the second like offence lose his office; and so much of the said last-mentioned act as provides that no person shall carry or bring, or attempt to endeavour to carry or bring, any spirits, except to be used in the way of medicine, into any workhouse, under the pain of being imprisoned for every such offence for any time not exceeding three months; and also so much of the said last-mentioned act as provides that every master and chief officer of every workhouse shall procure one or more copy or copies of the clauses in the said act mentioned to be printed or fairly written and hung up in one of the most public places in the workhouse, and renew the same from time to time, so that it may be always kept fair and legible, on pain of forfeiting the sum of ten pounds for every wilful default; or as enables any justice of the peace to demand a sight of such copy so hung up in some public place, to convict such master or officer of such default; shall be and the same is hereby repealed. XCII. And be it further enacted, that if any Penalty on persons introtuous liquors houses. person shall carry, bring, or introduce, or attempt ducing spirior endeavour to carry, bring, or introduce, into into workany workhouse now or hereafter to be established, any spirituous or fermented liquor, without the order in writing of the master of such workhouse, it shall be lawful for the master of such workhouse, or any officer of the same acting under his direction, to apprehend or cause to be apprehended such offender, and to carry him or her before a justice of the peace, who is hereby empowered to hear and determine such offence in a summary way; (75) and upon conviction thereof (75) The following may be the form of the conviction: Berkshire: Be it remembered, that on the day of in the year of our Lord ——, at ——, in the said county, A. B. of- in the said county, master of the workhouse there situate, personally came before me, J. P. one of his Majesty's justices |