Cockades and Penalty on Persons giving or allowing Ribbons or Cockades. Act not to extend to Scotland. Voters exempt from serving as Constables during Elec tions. before, during, or after such Election, accept or take from any such Candidate or Candidates, or from any Person whatsoever, for or in consideration of or with reference to such Employment, any Sumor Sums of Money, Retaining Fee, Office, Place, or Employment, or any Promise or Security for any Sum or Sums of Money, Retaining Fee, Office, Place or Employment, such Person shall be deemed incapable of voting at such Election, and his Vote if given shall be utterly void and of none Effect. II. And be it further enacted, That no Person to be hereafter elected to serve in Parliament shall, after the Teste of the Writ of Summons, or after such Place becomes vacant in Time of Parliament, before his Election, by himself or Agent, directly or indirectly give or allow to any Person having a Vote at such Election, or to any Inhabitant of the County, City, Town, Borough, Port, or Place, any Cockade, Ribbon, or other Mark of Distinction. III. And be it further enacted, That any Person so giving or allowing, shall for every such Offence forfeit the Sum of Ten Pounds to such Person as shall sue for the same, to be sued for and recovered in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record, by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information, wherein no Essoign, Protection, Privilege, Wager of Law, or more than One Imparlance, may be allowed. IV. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to that Part of the United Kingdom called Scotland. V. And be it further enacted, That no Person having a Right to vote at the Election for any County, County of a City, County of a Town, City, Borough, Cinque Port, or other Place, shail be liable or compelled to serve as a Special Constable at or during any Election for Members to serve in Parliament for such County, County of a City, County of a Town, City, Borough, Cinque Port, or other Place, unless he shall consent so to act; and that he shall not be liable to any Fine, Penalty, or Punishment whatever, for refusing so to act; any Statute, Law, or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding. CA P. XXXVIII. An Act for discontinuing certain Presentments by Constables. [21st June 1827.] WHEREAS in some Parts of England the Petty Constables of the several Parishes have, from a very remote Period, been required to appear at a Petty Session held previously to every General Gaol Delivery and Quarter Session for the County in which such Parishes are situate, and to make and sign before the Justice or Justices of the Peace attending such Petty Session certain Presentments of various indictable and other Offences: And Whereas the said Presentments are attended with considerable Expence and Loss of Time, and have, in consequence of modern legislative Provisions, become useless and improper;' 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, Presentments assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after No Constable the passing of this Act, no Petty Constable shall be required at shall be reany Petty Session or elsewhere to make, nor shall any High Con- quired to make stable be required at any General Gaol Delivery, Great Session, respecting the or General or Quarter Session of the Peace in England to deliver Offences herein any Presentment respecting Popish Recusants, Persons absenting mentioned. themselves from their Parish Church or any other Place of Religious Worship licensed by Authority, Rogues and Vagabonds, Inmates, Retailers of Brandy, Ingrossers, Forestallers, Regraters, Profane Swearers and Cursers, Servants out of Service, Felonies and Robberies, unlicensed or disorderly Alehouses, False Weights and Measures, Highways and Bridges, Riots, Routs, and unlawful Assemblies, and whether the Poor are well provided for, and the Constables are legally chosen and sworn. CA P. XXXIX. An Act to repeal such Parts of Two Acts of King William and Queen Mary and of King George the Second, as relate to the settling the Rates of the Carriage of Goods. [21st June 1827.] W HEREAS an Act was passed in the Third Year of the 3W.& M. c.12. Reign of King William and Queen Mary, intituled An Act for the better repairing and amending the Highways, and for 'settling the Rates of Carriage of Goods, whereby it was amongst other Things enacted, that the Justices of the Peace of every County and other Place within the Realm of England or • Dominion of Wales should have Power and Authority, and ⚫ were thereby enjoined and required at their then next respective 'Quarter or General Sessions after Easter Day yearly, to assess ' and rate the Prices of all Land Carriage of Goods whatsoever, 'to be brought into any Place or Places within their respective < Limits and Jurisdictions by any common Waggoner or Carrier, and the Rates and Assessments so made to certify to the 'several Mayors and other Chief Officers of each respective Market Town within the Limits and Jurisdictions of such Justices of the Peace, to be hung up in some public Place in every 'such Market Town, to which all Persons might resort for their Information; and that no such common Waggoner or Carrier 'should take for Carriage of such Goods and Merchandizes above * the Rates and Prices so set, upon pain to forfeit for every such Offence the Sum of Five Pounds, to be levied by Distress ' and Sale of his and their Goods, by Warrant of any Two Justices ⚫ of the Peace where such Waggoner or Carrier should reside, in • manner aforesaid, to the Use of the Party grieved: And Whereas ' another Act was passed in the Twenty first Year of the Reign of King George the Second, intituled An Act to explain and 21G.2. c. 28, amend an Act passed in the Fourteenth Year of His Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act for the Preservation of the Public Roads in that Part of Great Britain called England;' and so much of an Act passed in the Third Year of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary, intituled An Act for the better repairing and amending the Highways, and for settling the Rates 'of R 3 So much of recited Acts as relates to the settling the Rates for the Carriage of Goods, repealed. 59 G. 3. c. 104. of the Carriage of Goods,' as relates to the settling the Rates of the Carriage of Goods, whereby, after reciting the hereinbefore recited Act, it was enacted, that if any common Waggoner 'or Carrier should, after the Tenth Day of June One thousand seven hundred and forty eight, demand and take any greater 'Price for the bringing of Goods to the City of London, or to 'any Place within the Bills of Mortality, than was allowed and 'settled by the Justices of the Peace for the County or Place 'from whence such Goods were brought for the carrying of Goods 'from London to the said County or Place, every such Carrier or Waggoner should for every such Offence forfeit and pay the Sum of Five Pounds to the Use of the Party grieved, to be recovered and levied in the Manner by the said recited Act directed, or by Distress and Sale of his Goods, by Warrant ' under the Hands and Seals of any Two Justices of the Peace for the Counties of Middlesex or Surry, or City of London, or City and Liberty of Westminster; and the Clerk of the Peace for every County and Place should immediately after Easter 'Session yearly certify to the Lord Mayor of the City of London, and also to the respective Clerks of the Peace for the Counties ' of Middlesex and Surry and City and Liberty of Westminster, the Rates and Assessments made for the Carriage of Goods, in pursuance of the said Act, in their respective Counties and Places, which Certificate, or an attested Copy thereof, signed by the Officer to whom the same should be so transmitted, should be taken and deemed sufficient Evidence of the Rates and Price set for the carrying of Goods to any County or Place: And • Whereas the Provisions hereinbefore recited are at present ' inoperative, and inapplicable to the present Times, and it is 'expedient that the same should be repealed;' 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, the Provisions hereinbefore set forth, and any other Powers or Provisions in the said recited Acts contained, which relate to the settling the Rates of the Carriage of Goods, shall be and the same are hereby severally declared to be repealed. CA P. XL. An Act to continue, until the Tenth Day of October One THEREAS an Act was passed in the Fifty ninth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to continue, until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty, certain Laws of Excise with regard to Crown Glass, and Flint and Phial Glass, and to alter 'certain Law swith regard to Flint Glass, which said Act was continued by an Act passed in the Fifth Year of the Reign of His present ⚫ present Majesty until the Tenth Day of October One thousand eight hundred and twenty seven: And Whereas it is expedient that the said Act should be further continued as hereinafter mentioned;' Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excel'lent 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 the said Recited Act recited Act, passed in the Fifty ninth Year aforesaid, shall be and further conthe same is hereby further continued until the Tenth Day of Oc- tinued. tober One thousand eight hundred and thirty, save and except so far as the said Act passed in the Fifty ninth Year aforesaid, and also another Act therein mentioned and thereby continued, passed in the Fifty first Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, are repealed or altered by an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for repealing the Excise Duties and Drawbacks on Flint Glass in Great Britain, and imposing other Duties and another Drawback in lieu thereof throughout the United Kingdom. CA P. XLI. An Act for raising the Sum of Thirteen millions eight hundred thousand Pounds by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and twenty seven. [21st June 1827.] CA P. XLII. An Act for granting and applying certain Sums of Money CA P. XLIII. An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws in force in HEREAS several Acts have been passed in the Parlia and for uniting or disappropriating Appropriate Parishes or 'Parts of Parishes; and it is desirable that the Provisions con'tained in such Acts of Parliament should be consolidated ' and R 4 Certain Irish Acts or Parts of Acts repealed; viz. 2 G. 1. c. 14. in part. 8 G. 1. c. 12. in part. 10 G. 1. c. 7. in part. 7 G. 2. c.7. in part. 9 G. 2. c. 12. 7 G. 3. c. 9. in part. 11 & 12 G. 3. c. 16. in part. 13 & 14 G. 3. c. 27. in part, and amended;' 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 Parlia-, ment assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this Act the several Acts hereinafter mentioned, or so much of such Acts as is hereinafter specified or referred to, shall be repealed; that is to say, so much and such Part only of an Act passed in the Second Year of the Reign of King George the First, intituled An Act for real Union and Division of Parishes, as relates to the real Union and Division of Parishes; and also so much of an Act passed in the Eighth Year of the Reign of the said King, intituled An Act for the better enabling the Clergy having Cure of Souls to reside upon their respective Benefices, and for the Encouragement of Protestant Schools within this Kingdom of Ireland, as relates to the endowing of Churches with Glebes in the Case of Unions of Parishes; and also so much of an Act passed in the Tenth Year of the Reign of the said King, intituled An Act for confirming the several Grants made by Her late Majesty of the First Fruits and Twentieth Parts payable out of Ecclesiastical Benefices in this Kingdom, and also for giving the Archbishops and other Ecclesiastical Persons Four Years Time for the Payment of First Fruits, for incorporating the Trustees and Commissioners of the said First Fruits, as relates to the Payment of First Fruits by divided Parishes; and also so much of an Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of King George the Second, intituled An Act for continuing several temporary Statutes, and for other Purposes therein mentioned, as relates to the separating or uniting Glebes belonging to Parishes; and also the whole of an Act passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of the said King George the Second, for explaining and amending the said first recited Act of the Second Year of King George the First; and also so much of an Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, for explaining and amending the said first recited Act of the Second Year of King George the First, and for other Purposes, as relates to the Payment of Money for Buildings or Improvements made in Glebes in the Case of real Union and Division of Parishes; and also so much of an Act passed in the Eleventh and Twelfth Years of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled 'An Act for erecting Parochial Chapels of Ease in Parishes of large Extent, and making such Chapels, and those that are already erected, Perpetual Cures, and for making a proper Provision for the Maintenance of Perpetual Curates to officiate in the same; and also in like Manner for making Appropriate Parishes Perpetual Cures, as relates to the uniting or disappropriating Appropriate Parishes; and also so much of an Act passed in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Years of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act to amend an Act passed in the Eighth Year of His present Majesty intituled, An Act for erecting Two Chapels of Ease in the Parish of Armagh, and making such Chapels and those that are already in said Parish, Perpetual Cures, and for making a proper Provision for the Maintenance of Perpetual Curates to officiate in the same, and for other Purposes, as relates to the uniting or disappropriating Appropriate Parishes; and also so much of an Act passed |