Loans may in the Univer sities of for increas ing the accommo dation of and the rents of the rooms or other rents shall be mort ment with 5 GEO. IV, Cap. XXXVI. An Act to amend and render more effectual the several Acts for the issuing of Exchequer Bills for Public Works. 4. And whereas applications have been made to the Commissioners for the execution of the said recited Acts, for manner to advances to be made to certain Colleges for the purpose of Colleges enabling them to increase the number of apartments for Students within such Colleges respectively, so as to avoid the Oxford or necessity of many Students having lodgings out of such Cambridge Colleges; but doubts are entertained whether the said Commissioners are authorized to make advances for such purposes, and whether such Colleges can give any adequate security Students, for the repayment of such advances under the provisions of the said recited Acts: be it therefore enacted, that from and after the passing of this Act, upon any application on behalf of any College or Hall in either of the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge, made in writing under the Common Seal of gaged for the repay such College or Hall, (duly affixed by the authority of such in 20 years person or persons as may for the time being be empowered, by the Statutes of any such College or Hall respectively, to use or affix such Common Seal to leases or other deeds or instruments in writing), it shall be lawful for the Commissioners for the execution of the said recited Acts, and such Commissioners are hereby authorized and empowered, to make any loan or advance, under the powers, authorities, provisions, and regulations of the said recited Acts, of any sum or sums, in Exchequer Bills or money, for the building, rebuilding, enlarging, improving, or fitting up any such additional or existing rooms, buildings, and offices as may by such Commissioners be deemed requisite and necessary for the purpose of increasing the accommodation of the Students of any such College or Hall respectively, in like manner in every respect as if such Colleges and Halls had been included in the provisions of the said recited Acts or any of them; and it shall be lawful for the Treasurer, Bursar, or other with In terest at Four per Cent. proper Officer of any such College or Hall to receive any sums so advanced for the purposes aforesaid; and it shall be lawful for the proper Officers or Members of any such College or Hall respectively, and they are hereby authorized and required, under the Common Seal of any such College or Hall respectively, to mortgage, assign, and make over the rents and profits which shall arise from such additional or existing rooms so to be built, rebuilt, enlarged, improved, and fitted up, or to mortgage, assign, and make over any other rents, revenues, or receipts which shall be payable and belonging to any such College or Hall respectively, or any part of the same, to such person or persons and in such manner and form as the said Commissioners shall direct and appoint, so as to secure the repayment of all sums so advanced for such purposes, with interest thereon at the rate of four pounds per centum per annum, by annual or half-yearly instalments on the principal money advanced, within the period of twenty years at farthest from the advancing thereof, or at such times not exceeding the said period of twenty years and in such manner as the said Commissioners shall think fit to appoint; and all such mortgages and assignments shall be good and effectual in the law, and binding on the said Colleges and Halls entering into the same, and their successors, as bodies corporate; any charter, statute, law, rule, or regulation of or relating to any such College, or any general or particular law, statute, usage, or custom to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding. gage their otherwise 5. Provided always, and be it enacted, that nothing in Act not to this Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend empower Colleges to grant to any College or Hall, to which any such advances to mortshall be made under the authority of this Act, any power revenues or authority whatsoever to mortgage or pledge the rents, revenues, or receipts of any such College or Hall otherwise the Comthan to the said Commissioners for the execution of the said recited Acts in the manner and for the purposes in this Act purposes mentioned and specified. than to missioners for the hereinmentioned. or Vice of Universities may ap stables. 6 GEO. IV, Cap. XCVII. An Act for the better preservation of the peace W and HEREAS it is expedient to add to the means anciently provided for maintaining peace and good order in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; be it 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 Chancellor authority of the same, that it shall be lawful for the Chancellor Chancellor or Vice-Chancellor of the said Universities respectively to appoint such number of able men as he shall think fit to be Constables in and for the said Universities respectively, point Con- who shall continue in office either during good behaviour, or during pleasure, or for such period of time, either defined or dependant on future circumstances, as such Chancellor or Vice-Chancellor shall direct; and to every man so appointed such Chancellor or Vice-Chancellor shall administer an oath well and faithfully to execute the office of Constable, within the precincts of the University for which he shall be appointed, during his continuance in office, and shall deliver to every such man a certificate of his having been so sworn, expressing the duration of his continuance in office, which certificate shall be evidence of his having been duly appointed; and every man so sworn shall have full power to act as a Constable within the precincts of the University for which he shall be appointed, and four miles of the same University, for the time expressed in the certificate, unless he shall be sooner dismissed therefrom by the Chancellor or the ViceChancellor for the time being; and shall, within the precincts of the University and four miles of the same, and during his continuance in office, be subject to the like powers and authorities of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace within the limits of their respective jurisdictions, as other Constables are subject to, and have and enjoy all such powers and authorities, privileges, immunities, and advantages as any * So in orig. Constables hath or shall have within his constablewick : provided always, that every such Constable, for any act done by him in the execution of his office, shall be liable to be sued or indicted in the Courts of Common Law, notwithstanding such Constable may be a Member of the University, and notwithstanding any claim of cognizance or privilege whatsoever. sence of 2. And be it further enacted, that in the absence of the In abChancellor and Vice-Chancellor it shall be lawful for any Chancellor Pro-Vice-Chancellor or Deputy Vice-Chancellor to execute and Vicethe powers given by this Act. Chancellor, Deputy 3. And be it further enacted, that every common pro- may act. stitute and night-walker, found wandering in any public ProstiPunishing walk, street, or highway within the precincts of the said tutes. University of Oxford, and not giving a satisfactory account of herself, shall be deemed an idle and disorderly person, within the true intent and meaning of an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled An Act for the Punish- 5 Geo. 4, ment of idle and disorderly Persons and Rogues and Vagac. 83. bonds in that part of Great Britain called England, and shall and may be apprehended and dealt with accordingly 1. 4. And be it further enacted, that this Act shall be deemed Public to be a public Act, and shall be judicially taken notice of as such by all Judges, Justices, and other persons whomsoever, without being specially pleaded. 1 By 5 Geo. 4, c. 83, s. 3, any Justice of the Peace may commit any " idle and disorderly person" (being "convicted before him by his own view, or by the confession of such offender, or by the evidence on oath of one or more credible witness or witnesses) to the House of Correction, there to be kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding one calendar month." Act. 7 & 8 GEO. IV, Cap. LXXV. An Act to appoint Commissioners for carrying into execution several Acts granting an Aid to His Majesty by a Land Tax to be raised in Great Britain, and continuing to His Majesty certain Duties on Personal Estates Offices and Pensions in England. [Among the Commissioners appointed by this Act are the following.] For the University of Cambridge. The Vice-Chancellor for the time being, the Representatives in Parliament for the time being, the Heads and Presidents of all Colleges and Halls for the time being, all Doctors in Divinity, all Doctors of Laws and Physic resident in the University and the Liberties thereof, the Proctors and Bedels for the time being". For the University of Oxford. The Vice-Chancellor, Heads of Houses, all Professors and Proctors for the time being, the Keeper of Bodleian and Keeper of Radclivian Libraries for the time being. 7 & 8 GEO. IV, Cap. xlvii. An Act for improving the Drainage of part of the South Level of the Fens within the Great Level commonly called the Bedford Level, and the Navigation of the Rivers passing through the same, in the Counties of Cambridge, Suffolk, and Norfolk, and in the Isle of Ely. [By Section 2 "The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge for the time being or a Deputy to be appointed m By 5 & 6 Vict. c. 35, s. 4, the Commissioners of Income Tax in any district are to be appointed from and amongst the Commissioners of Land Tax for the same district. " The same persons are again appointed Commissioners for the University of Cambridge by 6 & 7 W. 4, c. 80. • See also 29 & 30 Vict. c. 59. |
