new Regulations. + Sic. Grand Juries (except in City and lin) may ap point not less than Six nor more than Twelve Persons, One Third being Justices or Grand Jurymen, to be a Board of Super intendance shall be given + charge to the Grand Jury at such Assizes; and that 'XXIX. And Whereas it may often happen that Grand Juries ' and Jurymen will be necessarily occupied with public Business ' of great Importance, both of a local and general Nature, so as to be thereby prevented from giving the requisite Attention to the • Exercise of all the Powers vested in them, or the effectual Per'formance of the Duties required of them under the said recited 'Act of the Fiftieth Year of His late Majesty's Reign, and under this present Act;' Be it therefore enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act it shall and may be lawful for the Grand County of Dub- Jury of any County, County of a City or County of a Town, in Ireland (save and except the Grand Juries of the County of Dublin and the County of the City of Dublin), and any such Grand Jury are hereby authorized and empowered, if they shall think proper so to do, at each and every or any Assizes, with the Consent and Approbation of the Court or Judge at such Assizes, to appoint not less than Six nor more than Twelve Persons, One Third of whom at least shall be Justices of the Peace for the County, County of the City or County of a Town, wherein such Appointment shall take place, or Members of the said Grand Jury, to be a Board of Superintendance of every Gaol, Bridewell, House of Correction or other Prison within such County, County of a City or County of a Town &c. within the respectively, and being a Prison of such County, County of a City County. or Town; and that it shall and may be lawful for the Grand Jury, at any subsequent Assizes for any such County, County of a City or County of a Town, to appoint other Persons to compose a new Board of Superintendance, as the case may require, or to remove any Member or Members of the existing Board, or to appoint so many new Members of any such existing Board as they shall think proper, but so as that there shall not at any time be more than Twelve Members of any such Board; and any Three or more of such Board of Superintendance, One of whom at the least shall be a Justice of the Peace, shall be in all cases competent to do and perform any matter or thing whatsoever, in execution of any Duty required by this Act to be done and performed by the Grand Jury of such County, or County of a City or Town, or by any Three or more of such Grand Jury, in the visiting, superintending and directing of any Gaol, Bridewell or House of Correction, or any other County Prison within such County, or County of a City or County of a Town, and in all other respects whatever relating to any such Gaol, House of Correction or County Prison, and to the Gaoler and Officers thereof, and to the Prisoners therein, as such Grand Jury, or any Three of them, could or might lawfully do; and every Three to be a Quorum, One being a Justice; their Acts to be as valid as if done by Grand Jury or Three Grand Jury men. such ! tenant may make Orders for the Regu Smithfield and Richmond Bridewell, and within the Prisons herein mentioned. such Act shall be deemed and taken to be, and shall be described and expressed as the Act of the whole Board of Superintendance, and shall be as valid and effectual to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever, as if the same had been done by such Grand Jury, or any Three of them, under the express Provisions of this Act. XXX. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be law- Lord Lieu-` ful to and for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, by and with the Advice and Consent of His Majesty's Privy Council in Ireland, from time to time to make such lation of the Rules, Orders and Regulations as shall appear to the said Lord Lieutenant and the Privy Council to be requisite and necessary Penitentiary for the Management and Regulation of the Smithfield Penitentiary and of the Richmond Bridewell in Dublin, and for the Appoint ment of the Gaolers, Keepers and all other Officers of the said Penitentiary and Bridewell respectively; and such Prisoners only shall be committed to and confined in the said Penitentiary and Bridewell respectively as shall be specified and directed in and by such Rules, Orders and Regulations; and such Rules, Orders and Regulations may be, from time to time, altered and amended in like manner; and also that it shall and may be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, by and with the Advice and Consent of the said Privy Council, to make and give such Rules, Orders and Regulations as shall appear to the said Lord Lieutenant and the Privy Council to be requisite and necessary for the Classification of Prisoners within the Gaol of Newgate, in the City of Dublin, and also within the said Penitentiary and Bridewell respectively; and for the Separation of Male from Female Prisoners, and of Prisoners labouring under any Sickness, Disorders or Diseases, from such Prisoners as are in Health, and of Prisoners committed for Trial only from such Prisoners as shall have been convicted of any Crime or Offence, and shall be under Sentence of Punishment; and generally to make such Rules, Orders and Regulations for the Classification and Distribution of the Prisoners hereinbefore mentioned, and in all other Respects, as may conduce to the safe Custody, Health and moral Reformation of the Prisoners, as well in the said Gaol of Newgate as in the said Two Penitentiaries; and all such Rules, Orders and Regulations as shall be made with respect to the said Gaol of Newgate, shall be transmitted to the Sheriffs of Dublin, and shall be carried into Execution under the Superintendance of the said Sheriffs, who are hereby required to obey and to cause Obedience to be paid to all such Rules, Orders and Regulations as shall be so from time to time made by the said Lord Lieutenant and Privy Council. pass any Offence, XXXI. And be it further enacted, That from and after the · XXXII. And Whereas by the said hereinbefore recited Act of Offenders punishable by Imprisonment may be commit ted to any Penitentiary House within the County. § 18. Title to Lands heretofore pur chased under Valuations by Turies summoned under Warrants, though improperly directed, &c. 50 G. S. c. 103. the Fiftieth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, it is among other Things provided, that it shall be lawful for the Commissioners for building or enlarging Gaols or other Prisons 'therein mentioned, or any three or more of them, to issue their · Warrants or Precepts for impannelling Juries for the Valuation ' of Lands or Tenements necessary for such Purpose, to the Sheriff of the County, County of a City or County of a Town, to return < a sufficient Pannel: And Whereas Lands and Tenements have 'been from time to time purchased under Valuations made by such Juries, but doubts have in some Instances arisen as to the Sheriff 'to whom such Precept ought to have been directed; and it is expedient that such Valuations and Purchases should be establish'ed, and such Doubts prevented for the future;' Be it therefore enacted, That the Title to any Lands, Grounds, Houses, Tenements or Buildings heretofore purchased under the Provisions of the said recited Act, for any of the Purposes therein mentioned, shall be and be considered good, valid and effectual to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever, notwithstanding any Objection that may arise or be made thereto on account of any Warrant or Precept of any such Commissioners having been directed to a Sheriff to whom any such Warrant or Precept ought not to have been directed, and notwithstanding any Error that may have arisen from or by reason of such Misdirection in any of the subsequent Proceedings; and that from and after the passing of this Act, in all cases wherein any such Commissioners shall proceed to require a Jury to be impannelled under the said recited Act for any of the Purposes therein mentioned, the Warrant or Precept for that Purpose shall be directed to the Sheriff of the County, County of a City or County of a Town, wherein the Land, Ground, Tenements or Hereditaments so to be purchased respectively shall be situate: Provided always, certain Prisons that if such Prison shall belong to a County at large, and shall be situate or intended to be built within any County, County of a City or County of a Town, and the Lands, Ground, Tenements or Hereditaments to be purchased, shall be the Estate of or belong to the Corporation of such County of a City or County of a Town, or to any Corporation within the same, then and in every such case such Precept shall be directed to the Sheriff of such County at large. declared valid. Such Warrants in future di rected to Sheriff Proviso as to and Lands herein described. Presentments may be made enlarging Gaols. XXXIII. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act, it shall and may be lawful for the Grand Jury for repairing or of any County, County of a City or County of a Town, in Ireland, to present any Sum or Sums of Money to be raised for the repairing or enlarging of, or for the making any Addition to any Gaol, Bridewell, House of Correction or other Prison in Ireland, and to direct that such Presentment shall be raised by Half Yearly or Yearly Sums or Instalments, in like manner as Grand Juries are, by the said recited Act of the Fiftieth Year of His late Majesty's Reign, authorized to do for the building of any new Gaol, Bridewell, House of Correction or other Prison; and that as soon as any nant may order such Presentment shall be made, or at any time after the making Advances to be of such Presentment, and before the Completion of such Work, it made out of the shall and may be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the time being, if he or they think proper so to do, to cause such Advances to be made out of Lord Lieute Consolidated Treasurer of the County. the How Monies advanced, ap the Consolidated Fund to the Treasurer of such County, County of Notice to be put up in every Prison that Fees are abolished. Proviso as to Dublin; and for XXXV. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That all the Acts and Duties to be performed by the several Grand Juries at the Assizes, under this Act, may, in the County of Dublin, be performed by the Grand Juries at the presenting Terms, duly met and impannelled. XXXVI. Provided always, and be it enacted, That nothing in this Act before contained shall extend to the Marshalsea of the Marshalsea Four Courts of the City of Dublin, nor to the Marshalsea of the City of Dublin. XXXVII. And be it further enacted, That this Act may be altered, amended or repealed, within this present Session of Parliament. CA P. LVIII. An Act to regulate the Expences of Elections of Members to WHEREAS it is expedient to regulate the Expences of Elec Courts. Act may be this Session. No Charges for tions of Members to serve in Parliament for Ireland;' 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, no other Charges shall be made, for any thing performed or done in the Execution of any Writ or Precept for holding an Election in Ireland, besides the Charges set forth in the Schedule (A.) to this Act annexed, any Act to the contrary notwithstanding. II. And be it further enacted, That no other Person, besides Persons in the Persons mentioned in the said Schedule, shall be entitled to Schedule (A.) receive any Fee or Reward for any thing performed or done in the only, entitled to Execution of any Writ or Precept for holding an Election, any Act to the contrary notwithstanding. N 3 III. And Fees. No Rewards, &c. to Returning Officers. Persons giving such, incapaci tated. 35 G.3. (I.) Agents, &c. to be paid as in Schedule (B.) No Rewards, Schedule (B.) 1 G. 4. c. 11. III. And be it further enacted, That no Person to be hereafter elected to serve in Parliament for any County, City, Town or Borough, shall, by himself, his Friends or Agents, or by any Person or Persons employed in his Behalf, directly or indirectly give any Fee or Reward of any Kind, or make any Payment of Money by way of Compliment or Gratuity, or upon any Account whatever, to any Sheriff, Under Sheriff, Deputy Sheriff, Returning Officer or Deputy Returning Officer, Clerk of the Peace or Deputy Clerk of the Peace; and that every such Person or Persons, who shall so give any Fee or Reward of any Kind, or make any Payment of Money by way of Compliment or Gratuity, or upon any Account whatever, to any Sheriff or Under Sheriff, Deputy, Deputy Sheriff, Returning Officer, Deputy Returning Officer, Clerk of the Peace or Deputy Clerk of the Peace, shall be and is and are hereby declared to be disabled and incapacitated to serve in Parliament upon such Election for such County, City, Town or Borough. IV. And be it further enacted, That so much of an Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland, in the Thirty fifth Year of His late Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act for regulating the Election of Members to serve in Parliament, and for repealing the several Acts therein mentioned, as provides that no Candidate for any County shall employ at or for any Election for the said County more hired Agents or hired Clerks than after the Rate of One Agent and One Clerk for each Barony or Half Barony in said County, shall be and the same is hereby repealed. V. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act, no Candidate at an Election for any County, City, Town or Borough, shall pay to any Barrister, Agent, Inspector or Clerk, any Sum or Sums of Money, for his Attendance or Trouble at any such Election, which shall exceed the Sum or Sums set forth in the Schedule (B.) to this Act annexed. VI. And be it further enacted, That if any such Candidate shall give, by himself, his Friends or his Agents, or by any Person or Persons employed by him or them, any Sum or Sums of Money, Fee, retaining Fee, Office, Place or Employment, Gift or Reward, or any Promise or Security for any Money, Fee, retaining Fee, Office, Place or Employment, to any Barrister, Agent, Inspector or Clerk, for doing any thing of and concerning any Matter relating to any such Election, directly or indirectly, over and above the Sum or Sums set forth to be paid in the said Schedule to any Barrister, Agent, Inspector or Clerk, he shall be and he is hereby declared to be disabled and incapacitated to serve in Parliament upon such Election for such County, City, Town or Borough. VII. And be it further enacted, That so much of an Act passed § 27. repealed. in the First Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act for the better Regulation of Polls, and for making further Provisions touching the Election of Members to serve in Parliament for Ireland, as provides that it shall and may be lawful for the Grand Jury of any County, County of a Town or County of a City, to present at the next Assizes after any Election for a County, City or Borough, such Sum or Sums of Money as shall be necessary to reimburse the Person or Persons acting as Returning Officer or Officers at suchElections, shall be and the same is hereby repealed. VIII. And |