Allowances to Constables superannuated. direct, to order and direct that any such Magistrate, Inspector, Deputy Inspector, County Inspector, Sub-Inspector, Chief Constable or other Constable, or Sub-Constable, shall and may be superannuated, and shall and may receive such yearly Allowance, Remuneration, Superannuation, or Gratuity, and upon such Conditions, and not exceeding such Proportions as to Age, Length of Service, and other Circumstances, as herein-after mentioned and provided for, and thereupon such Person shall cease to hold such Office; and when such Person shall have served in more than One County it shall be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors, by Warrant under his or their Hand, to apportion on each County in which he may have served such Portion of the Superannuation Allowance as he may think should be borne by such County; and the yearly Sum to which any such Magistrate, County Inspector, Sub-Inspector, Chief or other Constable, or Sub-Constable, shall become so entitled, or the Portion thereof apportioned as aforesaid, shall be presented by the Grand Jury of the County on which it shall be chargeable in Two equal Sums, one at each Assize or Presenting Term, during his Life, on Proof to the Grand Jury from Time to Time that the Person so entitled to such Superannuation is living, unless such yearly Allowance, Superannuation, or Remuneration shall be by such Lord Lieutenant directed to be chargeable on the Police Superannuation Fund herein-before provided, which such Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors is and are hereby authorized and empowered to do: Provided nevertheless, that unless such Superannuation Fund shall be adequate to discharge such Allowance, Superannuation, or Remuneration, together with the several Allowances, Remunerations, or Superannuations previously charged upon and made payable thereout, it shall not be lawful for the said Lord Lieutenant to grant any such Allowance, Remuneration, or Superannuation so chargeable upon the said Superannuation Fund, without the Consent of the said Lord High Treasurer or Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, or any Three or more of them. Condition and XLVIII. Provided always, and be it enacted, That the Conditions Proportions of and Proportions of such Allowance, Remuneration, or Superannuation shall be as follows; (that is to say,) where any Person applying for the same shall be under Sixty Years of Age it shall not be lawful to grant any such Allowance, Compensation, Remuneration, or Superannuation, unless as herein-after provided, or upon Certificate from such Persons as may be appointed by the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors for the medical Inspection of Persons appointed under this Act or any of the said recited Acts, that such Person is incapable, from Infirmity of Mind or Body, to discharge the Duties of his Office, in which Case, if he shall have served with Diligence and Fidelity for Fifteen Years, it shall and may be lawful to grant to him by way of Superannuation an annual Sum not exceeding One Half of the Salary of his Office; if above Fifteen Years and less than Twenty, any Sum not exceeding Two Thirds of such Salary; if above Twenty Years, any such Sum not exceeding the whole of such Salary; and if such Person shall be above Sixty Years of Age, and he shall have served Fifteen Years or upwards, it shall and may be lawful, although there shall be no Certificate of Incapacity from Infirmity or Injury of &c. of Body or Mind, to grant him by way of Superannuation any annual Sum not exceeding Two Thirds of the Salary of his Office; if Sixtyfive Years of Age or upwards, and he shall have served Forty Years or upwards, any Sum not exceeding Three Fourths of such Salary; if Sixty-five Years of Age or upwards, and he shall have served Fifty Years or upwards, any such Sum not exceeding the whole of such Salary: Provided always, that if any such Person shall be disabled Allowances in by any Wound or Injury received in the actual Execution of the case of Wounds, Duty of his Office, it shall and may be lawful to grant to him such yearly Allowance or Remuneration as may, in the Opinion of the Lord Lieutenant or Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, be proportioned to the Nature of the Injury received, without reference to the Length of his Service, provided that such Allowance or Remuneration shall in no Case exceed the whole of such Salary, and that in calculating the Period for which any such Person has served, the Time he may have served under any of such recited Acts shall be reckoned: Provided also, that every such yearly Superannuation Allowance may, at the Time of its being granted, or at any Time afterwards, be commuted for a Gratuity, payable immediately, at such Rate as the Lord Lieutenant or the Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the Time being may approve of. of any Fines on Constables and Penalties pay able to the Police to form ward Fund." XLIX. And be it enacted, That all Fines imposed on any Chief or other Constable under this Act, and all Penalties or Proportions of Penalties and Damages awarded to any Chief or other Constable or other Person appointed under this Act by any Justice or Justices of the Peace, on any summary Conviction, as the Prosecutor a Fund to be Information or otherwise, shall be paid to the Paymaster of called the each County, County of a City, or County of a Town, in which "Police Resuch Fine shall be imposed or such Conviction shall be had, and shall be by such Paymaster paid to the said Receiver to be appointed under this Act in such Manner as the said Lords Commissioners of the Treasury shall from Time to Time direct, so as that the same may form a Fund to be called the "Police Reward Fund," to be invested in Government Stock by and in the Name of such Receiver for the Time being, and accumulate for the Payment of such Rewards, Gratuities, Bounties, Pensions, or other Allowances as the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland may from Time to Time award or direct to be paid to any Person or Persons appointed under this Act, or to the Widows and Families of any such Person on his Death; and that it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland to direct, if he or they shall think fit, that any Proportion not exceeding Ten Shillings in the Year for every One hundred Pounds of the Salary of every Person appointed under this Act, and so in proportion for any Salary less than One hundred Pounds, shall, in addition to the Deduction herein-before mentioned of Two Pounds per Centum per Annum towards the Formation of the said Superannuation Fund, be deducted yearly from such Salaries, and added to the said Reward Fund, and form Part thereof. L. Provided always, and be it enacted, That when any Action For Protection shall be brought against any Constable for any Act done in of Constables in obedience to the Warrant of any Magistrate, such Constable shall executing not be responsible for any Irregularity in the issuing of such F 3 Warrant, Warrants. Each Paymaster to keep Accounts of Receipts and Payments, to be submitted halfyearly to the special Road Sessions; Warrant, or for any Want of Jurisdiction in the Magistrate issuing the same, and such Constable may plead the General Issue and give such Warrant in Evidence; and upon producing such Warrant, and proving that the Signature thereto is the Handwriting of the Person whose Name shall appear subscribed thereto, and that such Person is reputed to be and acts as a Magistrate of such County or District (as the Case may be), and that the Act or Acts complained of were done in obedience to such Warrant, the Jury who shall try the said Issue shall find a Verdict for such Constable, and such Constable shall recover his Costs of Suit. LI. And be it enacted, That each Paymaster appointed under this Act shall keep Accounts of all Sums received and of all Payments and Disbursements made on account of the Constabulary Force in each County or District for which he shall act; and that such Accounts shall be made up on the First Day of every Month, and transmitted to the said Receiver; and a Copy of each such monthly Account shall on the same Day be transmitted to the Secretary of the Grand Jury of the County, County of a City, or County of a Town to which the same shall relate, and be by him laid before the Magistrates at the special Road Sessions next preceding the next General Assizes, who shall inspect the same, and, if they shall so think fit, examine the said Paymaster on Oath as to any Matter or Thing contained in such Account, and each such Paymaster shall for that Purpose attend such special Road Sessions, if so required, and submit to such Examination; and the Chairman of such special Road Sessions shall transmit each such spector General. monthly Account to the said Inspector General, with such Remarks thereon as such special Road Sessions shall think fit to make. to be trans mitted to In Sub-Inspectors Disposition and The Certificate of Charge to be prepared by the Inspector Gene ral upon the monthly Returns. LII. And be it further enacted, That every Sub-Inspector appointed under this 'Act shall on the First Day of every Month transmit to the said Inspector General a Return, showing the actual Disposition and Number of the Constabulary Force of the County for which such Sub-Inspector shall act during the preceding Month, which Return shall specify the Changes made from Time to Time therein, as well in Number as by Name, and shall distinguish by Number and Name the Members of the Police Force of other Counties serving within any such County, County of a City, or County of a Town, and shall also on the same Day transmit to the Secretary of the Grand Jury of the County, County of a City, or County of a Town to which such Return shall relate, a Copy of the said Return, to be laid before the Magistrates at their special Road Sessions next preceding the next General Assizes, for Examination. LIII. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That the Inspector General to be appointed under this Act shall, in making out his Certificate as herein-before provided of the Monies chargeable under the Provisions of this Act on each County, County of a City, County of a Town, or Part of a County, have regard to such monthly Returns as aforesaid, and shall not include in his Certificate the Amount of any Charge with respect to which any Objection shall have been raised by the special Road Sessions of any County, County of a City, or County of a Town, until, upon Inquiry made by such Inspector General, he shall be satisfied that such Charge is not only reasonable, but has been properly made against the particular County, County of a City, or County of a Town, the special Road Sessions of which shall have raised Objection thereto. Certificate. LIV. Provided further, and be it enacted, That the Inspector Certain Charges General shall not include in his Certificate any Charge which not to be inshall have accrued subsequently to the Date of the last monthly cluded in the Account which shall have been submitted to the Magistrates of the County, County of a City, or County of a Town to which such Demand shall relate, at their General Special Road Sessions next preceding the Date of such Certificate. LV. Provided always, and be it enacted, That only so much of the County of Dublin as is not comprised within the Police District of Dublin Metropolis, as the same may be defined by any Act passed or to be passed, shall, for the Purposes of this Act, be deemed to be the County of Dublin. LVI. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to and for all and every Person or Persons and Corporations Aggregate or Sole, having any Estate of Freehold in Possession in any Lands or Houses, and not otherwise by Law enabled so to do, from Time to Time to grant or demise to the Receiver to be appointed under this Act, or to any Person or Persons to be nominated by him for the Purpose, but in Trust for His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and for any Term of Years whatsoever, any House or Houses, not being the Mansion House or belonging thereto, or any Portion of Ground, not being the Garden, Lawn, or Park, not exceeding One Acre, for the Purpose of the same being occupied, used, or built upon for the Accommodation of the Constabulary Force to be appointed under this Act; every such Grant or Demise to be made at such annual Rent as may be agreed upon by or on behalf of such Inspector General, to be reserved to the Owner of the immediate Reversion in such Houses or Land for the Time being expectant on the Determination of such Term. LVII. And be it enacted, That there shall be laid annually before both Houses of Parliament, during their Sitting, a Statement of the Amount of Constabulary Force employed in each County, County of a City, and County of a Town in Ireland, in which Statement shall be particularly distinguished the Number of Persons in each Class or Rank of the Constabulary Force so employed, with the Salaries and Allowances actually enjoyed by each Class, and that such Statement shall be accompanied by an Account of the whole Expenditure upon the Police Constabulary in each County, County of a City, or County of a Town, together with a Summary of the total Amount of Force employed, and of the total Expenditure upon the Constabulary Force in Ireland; such Statements and Accounts to refer to the Year ended on the First of January of the Year on which they are hereby directed to be laid before Parliament. LVIII. And be it further enacted, That this Act may be amended, altered, or repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of Parliament. What to be deemed the County of Dublin. Grant of Lands for the Statement of annually before Act may be altered this Session. CA P. XIV. An Act to amend the Laws relating to Bankrupts in Ireland. [20th May 1836.] WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Laws relating to Bankrupts, and to consolidate the same so amended in One Act, and to provide Means of administering and distributing the Estate and Effects of Bankrupts other than are now provided by Law: 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 Authority of the same, That an Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the Eleventh and Twelfth Years of the Reign 11&12G.3.(I.) of King George the Third, intituled An Act to prevent Frauds com Statutes repealed: mitted by Bankrupts; and also so much of an Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of 17&18G.3.(I.) the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act for the Amendment of the Law with respect to Outlawrys, returning Special Juries, and the future Effects of Bankrupts, in certain Cases, as relates to the Property of Bankrupts; and also an Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years 17 & 18G.3.(I.) of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act to exclude Traders from the Benefit of an Act, intituled An Act to prevent 'Frauds committed by Bankrupts,' who do not keep regular Books of Account; and for continuing the said Law, and other Purposes; and also an Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Years of the Reign of King George the 19 & 20 G.3.(I.) Third, intituled An Act to explain an Act, intituled An Act to 'prevent Frauds committed by Bankrupts;' and also so much of an Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Years of the Reign of King George the Third, 21 & 22G.3.(I.) intituled An Act for reviving, continuing, and amending several temporary Statutes, as relates to Acts relating to Bankrupts; and also so much of an Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Years of King George the 21& 22G.3.(I.) Third, intituled An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Persons under a certain Description, as relates to Bankrupts; and also an Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the Twenty-sixth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act for the Relief of uncertificated Bankrupts; and also so much of an Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the Twenty-eighth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act for continuing the Acts relative to Bankrupts, and for reviving, continuing, and amending certain temporary Statutes, as relates to Acts relative to Bankrupts; and also an Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the Thirtieth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act to repeal certain Clauses in an Act passed in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of His Majesty's Reign, intituled · An Act to 'exclude Traders from the Benefit of an Act, intituled “ An Act to prevent Frauds committed by Bankrupts," who do not keep regular Books of Account; and for continuing the said Law, and, other Purposes;' and also so much of an Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the Thirty-sixth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act to make perpetual the Laws for preventing 26 G. 3. (I.) 28 G. 3. (I.) 30 G. 3. (I.) 36 G. 3. (I.) 14 |