chant or other Person; or shall assist, hire or command any Person or Persons to commit such Offence or Offences, being 'thereof convicted or attainted by Verdict or Confession, or being indicted thereof shall stand mute, or will not directly answer to the Indictment, or shall peremptorily challenge above 'the Number of Twenty Persons returned to be of the Jury, 'shall be absolutely debarred and excluded of and from the 'Benefit of Clergy, or of any Statute: And Whereas the said Acts have not been found effectual for the preventing of the • Crimes therein mentioned, and it is therefore expedient that so much of the said Acts as is bereinbefore recited, should be repealed in Manner hereinafter mentioned: And Whereas it might tend more effectually to prevent the Crime of Larceny in any Shop, or in any Tan Yard or Tanner's Drying House, or in any Booth in any Fair or Market, or in any Warehouse or Cellar, or in any Coach House, Stable or other Outhouse, or on any Quay or Wharf, if every such Offence were punished more severely than Simple Larceny;' 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 Expiration of Thirty one Days next after the passing of this Act, so much and such Parts of the said several Acts, as is and are hereinbefore recited, shall be, and the same is and are hereby repealed, as to privately and feloniously stealing any Goods, Wares or Merchandize, under the Value of Fifteen Pounds, out of any Shop or Warehouse, or in any Tan Yard, or out of any Drying House belonging to any Tanner, or out of any Booth in any Fair or Market, or out of any Cellar, or out of any Coach House, Stable, or other Outhouse, not adjoining to or being Part of the Dwelling House, and as to privately and feloniously stealing any Goods, Wares or Merchandize of the Value of Forty Shillings from any Wharf or Quay in Ireland. repealed as to privately stealing under a from the Places herein mentioned. certain Value Persons privately stealing Shops, Tan Goods from II. And be it further enacted, That from and after the Expiration of Thirty one Days next after the passing of this Act, every Person who shall privately and feloniously steal any Goods, Wares or Merchandizes of the Value of Five Shillings or more, Yards, Booths, being under the Value of Fifteen Pounds, out of any Shop, Ware- Outhouses, &c. house, Tan Yard, Drying House, Booth, Cellar, Coach House, value 5s. and Stable, or other Outhouse in Ireland, not adjoining to or being under 151. or Part of a Dwelling House, or who shall privately and feloniously. from Quays, under 40s. may steal any Goods, Wares or Merchandize, of the Value of Five be transported Shillings or more, being under the Value of Forty Shillings, from or imprisoned, any Quay or Wharf in Ireland, or who shall aid or assist any Per- &c. son to commit any such Offence, shall be liable to be transported beyond the Seas for Life, or for such Term not less than Seven Years, as the Court before which any such Person shall be convicted shall adjudge; or such Offender shall be liable, in case the said Court shall think fit, to be imprisoned only, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard Labour in the Common Gaol, House of Correction, or Penitentiary, for any Term not exceeding Seven Years. 54 C. 35. 1° & 2° GEO. IV. A.D. 1821. Additional Rate of Postage to be paid. CAP. XXXV. An Act for applying a certain Sum of Money out of the Con- “ 55 G. 3. c. 152. recited. Treasury empowered to advance Writing by Commissioners' Clerk, to treat, &c., or being disabled "by Absence, Non Age, Coverture or other Impediment, or not "disclosing Title within Twenty one Days. Sheriff or Coroner, "not interested, or other Persons as herein mentioned, to impannel a Jury. Twelve Jurymen. Counsel may attend. Chal"lenge. Sheriff, &c., may summon and examine Witnesses. View by Jury. Money assessed to be paid by Commissioners. Ver"dict of Jury binding, signed by Sheriff. No Certiorari, &c. § 7. "Sheriff or other Officers neglecting Duty. Penalty 201. Persons "summoned on Juries not attending. Penalty as if impannelled "for Trial at Assizes. Witnesses not attending, &c. Penalty "not exceeding 101. § 8. False Oath under this Act punished as "Perjury. § 9. In what Cases Expence of impannelling, &c. Jury "to be settled by Sheriffs, &c., and paid by Commissioners. In "what Cases paid by the Persons disputing with the Commis"sioners. § 10. Verdicts of Juries to be recorded in Quarter "Sessions. Copies Evidence. Fee for Inspection 1s.; Copies at "6d. for every 100 Words, and so in Proportion. § 11. Appli"cation of Purchase Money when amounting to or exceeding "2001. § 12. Application when Purchase Money is less than "2001. and 201. or above. § 13. Application when Purchase "Money is less than 201. § 14. In default of Title, Money to be "paid into the Bank in the Name of the Accountant General of "the Court of Chancery; which Court, upon Motion or Petition, "may make Order concerning the same. § 15. When any "Question shall arise as to the Title to Money, the Person in "Possession of the Premises shall be deemed entitled, until the "contrary be shown. § 16. Commissioners to pay Purchase "Money for Ferry, &c. within Thirty Days after Bridge com"pleted. § 17. No Person to pass the River Conway by the "Bridge, or otherwise than in the Ferry Boats, until Bridge completed. § 18. XIX. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Postmaster General for the Time being, and he is 3 hereby hereby required, from and after the passing of this Act, to charge and levy on all Letters and Packets conveyed by Post, to and from any Part of Great Britain or Ireland, by way of Conway and Chester, in addition to the Rates and Duties now payable by Law for the Conveyance by the Post of such Letters and Packets, the Rates and Duties following; (that is to say), for a single Letter and Packet, the additional Sum of One Penny; for a double Letter and Packet, the additional Sum of Two Pence; for a treble Letter and Packet, the additional Sum of Three Pence; and so in Proportion, an additional Sum of One Penny, according to the Rate of Increase of the Postage of Letters now established by an Act passed in the Fifty second Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for grant- 52 G.3. c. 88. ing to His Majesty certain additional Rates of Postage in Great Britain; and all the Powers and Authorities given by Law for the Recovery of the Postage of Letters shall be in force and applicable to such additional Duty hereby imposed; and the same shall be charged, paid and regulated by, and be subject to the same Rules, Regulations and Exemptions, as are now by Law in force as to the Rates and Duties payable on such Letters. XX. And be it further enacted, That the Sum or Sums of Application of Money arising from the said additional Rate of Postage by this additional PostAct imposed, shall be paid over from Time to Time to the Re- age. ceiver General for the Time being of the Revenue of the Post Office, in the same Manner and at the same Time as other Sums are directed to be paid over to him by the said Act of the Fifty second Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third; and the said Receiver General shall, at the Times when he shall pay the other Rates and Duties by him received into the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer, pay over also into the said Receipt all such Sum and Sums of Money as shall be received by him for or on account of the said additional Rate of Postage hereby imposed, (the necessary Charges for paying, collecting and accounting for the same being first deducted), distinguishing the same in his Accounts, and paying such Sum and Sums of Money for and on account of the Commissioners appointed by the said recited Act of the Fifty fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third; and the said Sum and Sums of Money so paid shall be carried to the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and shall be applied in the Payment of the Interest of the Money to be advanced out of the said Fund, under the Provisions of this Act, until the said principal Sum of Forty thousand Pounds by this Act directed to be advanced shall be paid off; and in case there shall be any Surplus arising from such additional Postage hereby imposed, after Payment of such Interest as last aforesaid, then the same Surplus shall from time to time be applied, as far as the same will extend, in Payment of the said principal Sum of Forty vanced. thousand Pounds, or so much thereof as shall have been advanced under the Powers in this Act contained. Destroying Works. Punishment, as in Cases of Felony;-may "be mitigated to Punishment of Petit Larceny. § 21. Materials "vested in Commissioners; who may bring Actions or prefer Bills E 4 "of Application of Interest of Public Notaries to be duly sworn and admitted. No Person ad shall have served as an Apprentice for Seven Years; and if bound after July 1, unless Affidavit of certain Particulars be made, which the proper Court. “ § 22. "of Indictment against Persons stealing, injuring, &c. the same. CA P. XXXVI. An Act for the better Regulation of the Public Notaries in WHEREAS it is expedient to prevent illiterate and in experienced Persons being admitted or acting as Public • Notaries in 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 First Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty one, no Person in Ireland shall act as a Public Notary, or use and exercise the Office of a Notary, or do any Notarial Act, unless such Person shall have been duly sworn, admitted and enrolled, in manner hereinafter directed, in the Court wherein Notaries have been accustomarily sworn, admitted and enrolled. II. And be it further enacted, That from and after the said mitted unless he First Day of July, no Person shall be sworn, admitted and enrolled as a Public Notary, unless such Person shall have been bound by Contract in Writing, or by Indenture of Apprenticeship, to serve as a Clerk or Apprentice for and during the Space of not less than Seven Years to a Public Notary duly sworn, admitted and enrolled, and for and during the said Term of Seven Years shall have continued in such Service; and also unless every such Person, who shall from and after the said First Day of July be bound by Contract in Writing, or Indenture of Apprenticeshall be filed in ship, to serve as a Clerk or Apprentice to any Public Notary, shall within Three Months next after the Date of every such Contract or Indenture of Apprenticeship, cause an Affidavit to be made and duly sworn by One of the subscribing Witnesses, of the actual Execution of every such Contract or Indenture of Apprenticeship by such Public Notary, and by the Person so to be bound to serve as a Clerk or Apprentice as aforesaid; and in every such Affidavit shall be specified the Names of such Public Notary, and of such Person so bound, and their Places of Abode respectively, together with the Day of the Date of such Contract or Indenture of Apprenticeship; and every such Affidavit shall be sworn and filed within the time aforesaid, in the Court where the Public Notary to whom every such Person respectively shall be bound as aforesaid, shall have been enrolled as a Notary, with the proper Officer or Officers, or his or their respective Deputy or Deputies, who shall make or sign a Memorandum of the Day of filing every such Affidavit on the Back or at the Bottom of such Contract or Indenture. Such Affidavit openly read in Court. III. And be it further enacted, That no Person who shall after the said First Day of July become bound as aforesaid, shall be admitted or enrolled a Public Notary in the Court of Faculties for admitting admitting and enrolling Public Notaries, before such Affidavit for a less Term than Seven Years, another IV. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That if any If Party bound Person shall have been before the said First Day of July bound before July 1, by Contract in Writing, or Indenture of Apprenticeship, to serve as a Clerk or Apprentice to a Public Notary, duly sworn, admitted and enrolled, for a Term less than Seven Years, it shall Contract may be lawful for the Parties to such Contract, by a further Con- be entered into tract in Writing duly executed by them, to enlarge the time of for enlarging such Service, and extend the same to the full Term of Seven the Time to Years from the time of the original Contract; and such Person having actually served during the full Term of Seven Years shall be entitled to be admitted and enrolled a Public Notary, in the same Manner as he would have been entitled if the original Contract had been for the Term of Seven Years; the Facts of such Contracts, and of such Service for the full Term of Seven Years, being proved by Affidavit to the Satisfaction of the said Court of Faculties. Seven Years. Officers for taking and filing Affidavits. Officers filing enter the Sub- V. And be it further enacted, That the following Persons shall be deemed and taken to be the proper Officers for taking and filing such Affidavits; (that is to say), the Lord Archbishop of Armagh, his Commissary or Commissioners for the time being. VI. And be it further enacted, That the Officer filing such Affidavits as aforesaid shall keep a Book wherein shall be entered the Substance of such Affidavit, specifying the Names and Places of Abode of every such Public Notary and Clerk, or Ferson bound as aforesaid, and of the Person making such Affidavit, with the Date of the Contract or Indenture of Apprenticeship in such Affidavit to be mentioned, and the Days of swearing and filing every such Affidavit respectively; and such Officers shall be at liberty to take, at the time of filing every such Affidavit, Fee for filing. the Sum of Five Shillings, and no more, as a Recompence for Book. Fee. but while he shall actually practise. his Trouble in filing such Affidavit; and which Book shall and Book may be Apprentice to ployed Seven Years in the IX. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That if any Service of Resisuch Public Notary, to or with whom any such Person shall be due of Seven فر bound, |