SCHEDULE (A.) RATES of POSTAGE to be taken in the Currency of the United Kingdom for the Port and Conveyance of Letters and Packets by the Post from any Place in Great Britain to any Place in Ireland, or from any Place in Ireland to any Place in Great Britain. Letters and Packets conveyed by Packet Boats Letters and Packets conveyed by Packet Boats Provided that no Letter sent by way of Letters and Packets to and from any Part of Letters and Packets to and from any Part of Great Britain or Ireland, by way of Conway and Chester, in addition to all other Rates (Conway Bridge) And so in proportion in all the aforesaid SCHEDULE (B.) RATES of POSTAGE to be taken in the Currency of the United For every Single Letter or Piece of Paper, To any Distance within Ireland not exceeding Į To any Distance exceeding S. d. every Distance of 100 Miles, Irish Measure, CA P. XXII. 0 1 An Act to continue for One Year, and until the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Acts for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors in Ireland. [14th June 1827.] [1 & 2 G. 4. c. 59. as amended by 3 G. 4. c. 124. continued as above.] CA P. XXIII. An Act to continue for One Year, and until the End of the then next Session of Parliament, an Act of the Sixth Year of His present Majesty, for providing for the repairing, maintaining, and keeping in repair certain Roads and Bridges in Ireland. [14th June 1827.] [6 G. 4. c. 101. continued as above.] CAP. CA P. XXIV. An Act to amend the Acts for regulating Turnpike Roads in HEREAS an Act was passed in the Third Year of the WReign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act to amend 3 G.4. c.126. ested Persons. "the General Laws now in being for regulating Turnpike Roads in 'that Part of Great Britain called England: And Whereas another Act was passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act to explain and amend an Act passed in 4 G.4. c.95. the Third Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, to amend the General Laws, now in being for regulating Turnpike Roads in 'that Part of Great Britain called England; and which said Acts require to be further explained and amended: And Whereas by the said first-recited Act it is among other Things provided and ' enacted, that no Person appointed as Trustee in or by virtue of any Act for repairing Turnpike Roads shall be capable of acting as such in the Execution of any such Act in any Case where he 'shall be personally interested; and Doubts have arisen with regard to such Person's Liability; 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 no Trustee of any Turnpike Road shall be deemed or Owners of Estaken to be personally interested, by reason of his having acted as tates, &c. not a Trustee in ordering the making, altering, or diverting any Turn- to be disqualipike Road over or contiguous to any Lands, Tenements, or Here- fied as interditaments in his Possession or Occupancy, or by reason of his having received any Sum or Sums of Money out of the Tolls of any such Road as or by way of Purchase Money, Damages, Rent, Recompence, or Satisfaction, agreed upon or awarded to such Trustee for any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or any Timber or Wood, or Materials, purchased or taken for the Purpose of making, diverting, or altering, or for the Use of the Road for which he shall act as a Trustee, or for a Repository for Materials to be used thereon, or for the Damage done to any inclosed or private Lands or Grounds of any such Trustee, in taking Materials therefrom, or in carrying or conveying them over the same. II. And be it further enacted, That every Trustee who shall order or direct the Expenditure of any Money for or towards the making, repairing, or altering any Road not comprehended within the Act in the Execution of which he may be acting, or for or towards the Performance of any Act, Matter, or Thing not authorized by such Act or by the said recited Acts, such Trustee shall be personally liable to the Trust for the Repayment of the Money so expended, at the Suit of any Person, or any one Trustee, or of the Clerk to such Trustees, on behalf of such Trust; and that all the Costs and Charges of such Suit, over and above any Costs and Charges recovered from the Defendant in such Suit, shall be paid and borne by such Trust. Trustees personally liable for Money expended on Roads not in Trust. III. And be it further enacted, That no Trustee shall be per- No Trustee to sonally subject or liable to be charged (except as next herein- be personally liable as such, before Treasurer and the same Power to remove Toll Gates, &c. before mentioned) with the Payment of any Sum or Sums of Money laid out or expended in or towards the making, repairing, or altering any Turnpike Road, nor shall Execution issue against the Goods and Chattels of any Trustee, by reason of his having acted as such Trustee, or having signed or authorized or directed any Contract or Security to be entered into relating to any such Road, unless in such Contract or Security such Trustee shall have in express Words rendered himself so personally liable. IV. And be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any Trustees to continue or appoint the Person who has been or may be appointed their Clerk in the Execution of any Act for repairing or maintaining any Turnpike Road, or the Partner of any such Clerk, or the Clerk or other Person in the Service or Employ of any such Clerk or of his Partner, the Treasurer for the Purposes of such Act, or to continue or appoint any Person who has been or may be appointed Treasurer, or the Partner of any such Treasurer, or the Clerk or other Person in the Service or Employ of any such Treasurer or of his Partner, the Clerk for the Purposes of such Act; and if any Person shall accept both the Offices of Clerk and Treasurer for the Purposes of such Act, or if any Person being the Partner of any such Clerk, or the Clerk or other Person in the Service or Employ of any such Clerk or of his Partner, shall accept the Office of Treasurer, or shall act as Deputy of the Treasurer, or in any Manner officiate for the Treasurer, or being the Partner of any such Treasurer, or the Clerk or other Person in the Service or Employ of any such Treasurer or of his Partner, shall accept the Office of Clerk in the Execution of such Act, or shall act as Deputy of such Clerk, or in any Manner officiate for such Clerk, or if any such Treasurer shall hold any Place of Profit or Trust under the said Trustees other than that of Treasurer, every such Person so offending shall for every such Offence forfeit and pay the Sum of One hundred Pounds to any Person who shall sue for the same, to be recovered, with full Costs of Suit, in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, by Action of Debt or on the Case, or by Bill, Suit, or Information, wherein no Essoign, Protection, Wager of Law, nor more than One Imparlance, shall be allowed. V. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Trustees of any Turnpike Road, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, from time to time, at any Special Meeting to be holden for that Purpose, of which Meeting public Notice, specifying the Time and Place for holding such Meeting and the Purpose thereof shall have been given in some Newspaper, published or circulated in the County or Counties through which such Turnpike Road passes, and also by affixing a Copy of such Notice on all the Turnpikes, Toll Gates, and Side Bars which shall be then standing on such Road, Fourteen Days previously to such Meeting, to order and direct any of such Turnpikes, Toll Gates, or Side Bars to be removed and placed elsewhere, upon, across, or by or on the Sides of such Road, in such Situations as to them the said Trustees may appear fit or eligible; subject always to the Provisoes and Restrictions contained in any Act for making or maintaining any such Turnpike Road. VI. And Houses. VI. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Lamps to be Trustees to order and direct One or more Lamp or Lamps to be lighted at Toll placed and erected on or against or in front of each and of every the Toll Houses on the Road, and also to order and direct at what Times of the Year and during what Hours such Lamp or Lamps, or any of them, shall be kept lighted; and all and every the Collector and Collectors of the Tolls on such Road, and also all and every the Lessees or Lessee thereof, who shall neglect or omit to observe and fulfil the Order of the said Trustees in respect to the keeping and lighting of such Lamp or Lamps, shall forfeit and pay any Sum not exceeding Twenty Shillings for every such Neglect or Omission; and in case any Person shall damage or injure any Lamp or Lamps to be placed and set up as aforesaid, or extinguish the Lights therein, such Person shall forfeit and pay any Sum not exceeding Forty Shillings for every such Offence. VII. And be it further enacted, That if any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments which shall be purchased for the Purposes of any Act for making or maintaining Turnpike Roads, shall be in Mortgage to any Person, then and in such Case the Trustees shall and they are hereby required to pay or cause to be paid to the Mortgagee or Mortgagees, his, her, or their Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, upon Application in Writing made to the Trustees or their Clerk, signed by such Mortgagee or Mortgagees, his, her, or their Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, such Sum or Sums of Money as shall be agreed for, ascertained, and determined, for the Purchase of such Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or a competent Part thereof; and such Sum or Sums of Money, when so paid, shall be and be deemed to be in discharge of the Principal Money, or Part thereof, due on such Mortgage or Mortgages, and Acknowledgment of the Receipt thereof shall be made by Endorsement on the Mortgage Deed or Deeds, signed by such Mortgagee or Mortgagees, his, her, or their Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, in the Presence of One or more credible Witness or Witnesses; and such Endorsement shall be and be deemed to be a full and sufficient Discharge to the Trustees from the Mortgagee or Mortgagees, his, her, or their Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, and also a full and sufficient Discharge to the Mortgagor or Mortgagors, his, her, or their Heirs, Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, from the Mortgagee or Mortgagees, his, her, or their Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, for so much Money as shall be expressed in such Endorse ment. VIII. And be it further enacted, That so much of the said Act of the Third Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, as directs the Application of Compensation Money for Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments purchased for the Purposes of any Act for making or maintaining Turnpike Roads, shall be and the same is hereby repealed. For Payment of Mortgages on Land purchased. Repeal of Provisions respect tion of Compensation Money. IX. And be it further enacted, That if any Money shall be Application of agreed or awarded to be paid for any Lands, Tenements, or He- Compensation reditaments, purchased, taken, or used by the Trustees, which when amountshall belong to any Body Politic, Corporate, or Collegiate, Corpo- ing to 2007. ration Aggregate or Sole, Infant, Lunatic, Tenant for Life or in |