riages; and all provisions whatsoever of this Act, as regards the procuring of the ordinary supply of carriages, and the duties of officers and non-commissioned officers, Justices, constables and owners of carriages, in that behalf, shall be to all intents and purposes applicable for the providing and payment, according to the rate of posting or of bire usually paid for such other description of carriages or vessels so required on emergency, according to the length of the journey or voyage in each case, but making no allowance for post-horse duty, or turnpike, canal, river, or lock tolls, which duty or tolls are hereby declared not to be demandable for such carriages and vessels while employed in such service or returning therefrom; and it shall be lawful to convey thereon, not only the baggage, provisions, and military stores of such regiment or detachment, but also the officers, soldiers, servants, women, children, and other persons of and belonging to the same.

LVIII. Reimbursement of Constables.-That it shall be lawful for the Justices of the Peace assembled at their quarter sessions to direct the treasurer to pay, without fee, out of the public stock of the county or riding, or if such public stock be insufficient, then out of the monies which the said Justices shall have power to raise for that purpose, in like manner as for county gaols and bridges, such reasonable sums as shall have been expended by the constables within their respective jurisdictions for carriages and vessels, over and above what was or ought to have been paid by the officer requiring the same, regard being bad to the season of the year and condition of the ways by which such carriages and vessels are to pass.

LIX. Routes in Ireland.

LX. Exemption from tolls. (Similar to that for Marines in sec. 49 of cap. 23.)

LXI. Ferries in Scotland.

LXII. Penalties upon civil subjects offending against the laws relating to billets and carriages. (Similar to sec. 50 of cap. 23, substituting soldier for marine.)

LXIII. Penalties upon military officers so offending. (Similar to sec. 51 of cap. 23, substituting soldiers for marines and the Judge Advocate for the Secretary to the Admiralty.)

LXIV. Penalty on purchasing Soldiers' Necessaries, Stores, Arms, Ammunition, &c.-That any person who shall unlawfully bave in his or her possession or keeping, or who shall knowingly detain, buy, exchange, or receive from any soldier or deserter, or any other person, on any pretence whatsoever, or shall solicit or entice any soldier, knowing him to be such, to sell any arms, ammunition, clothes, or military furniture, or any provisions, or any sheets or other articles used in barracks, provided under barrack regulations, or regimental necessaries, or any article of forage provided for any horses belonging to His Majesty's service, or shall change the colour of any clothes as aforesaid, shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of 10l. together with treble the value of all or any of the several articles of which such offender shall so become possessed; and if any credible person shall prove on oath before a Justice of the Peace a reasonable cause to suspect that any person has in his or her possession, or on his or her premises, any property of the description herein before described, on or with respect to which any such offence shall have been committed, the Justice may grant a warrant to search for such property, as in the case of stolen goods.

LXV. Penalty on unlawful recruiting.—That all the persons (except such recruiting parties as may be stationed under military command) who shall cause to be advertised, posted, or dispersed bills for the purpose of procuring recruits or substitutes for the Line, embodied Militia, or East India Company's service, or shall open or keep any house, place of rendezvous, or office, or receive any person therein under such bill or advertisement, as connected with the recruiting service, or shall directly or indirectly interfere therewith, without permission in writing from the Adjutant General, or from the Directors of the East India Company, (as the case may be,) shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of 201.

LXVI. Penalty on trafficking in Commissions.-That every person, not being an authorized army agent, who shall negotiate or act as agent for and in relation to the purchase, sale, or exchange of any commission in His Majesty's forces, shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of 1001.; and every person, whether authorized or not as an army agent, who shall receive any money or reward in respect of any such purchase, sale, or exchange, or shall negotiate or receive for any purpose whatsoever any money or consideration where no price is allowed by His Majesty's regulations, or any money or consideration exceeding the amount so allowed, shall forfeit 1007., and treble the value of the consideration where the commission is not allowed to be sold, or treble the excess of such consideration beyond the regular price.

LXVII. Penalty on killing game. (Similar to sec. 53 of cap. 23.)

LXVIII. Officers not liable to take parish apprentices. (Similar to sec. 54 of cap. 23.)

LXIX. Mode of recording a soldier's settlement. (Similar to sec. 55 of cap. 23 as to Marines.)

LXX. Notification to parishes of good or bad conduct of soldiers. (Similar to that as to Marines in sec. 62 of cap. 23.) LXXI. Wages of a Servant enlisting. That it shall be lawful for the Justice, before whom any recruit shall be attested before the expiration of the term of service for which he had been hired by his master, to adjudge to such recruit a reasonable proportion of his wages for the time he has actually served; and the said Justice shall make an order for the payment of the amount so awarded, and, in case of neglect or refusal to pay the same within four days, shall issue his warrant for levying the same by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the master.

LXXII. Licences of Canteens.—That when any persons shall hold any canteens under proper authority of the Board of Ordnance, it shall be lawful for any two Justices, within their respective jurisdictions, to grant or transfer any beer, wine, or spirit licence to such persons, without regard to time of year, or to the notices or certificates required by any Act in respect of such licences; and the Commissioners of Excise or their proper officers within their respective districts, shall also grant such licences as aforesaid; and such persons so holding canteens, and having such licences, may sell therein victuals and exciseable liquors, as empowered by such Excise licence, without being subject to any penalty or forfeiture.

LXXIII. Attestation of Accounts.-That all muster rolls and pay lists which are required to be verified upon oath shall be sworn before and attested by any Justice, without fee or reward to himself or to his clerk.

LXXIV. Forms of Actions at Law.-That any action which shall be brought against any person for anything to be done in pursuance of this Act shall be brought within six months; and it shall be lawful for every such person to plead thereunto the general issue of not guilty, and to give all special matter in evidence to the jury which shall try the issue; and if the verdict shall be for the defendant in any such action, or the plaintiff therein become nonsuit, or suffer any discontinuance thereof, the court in which the said matter shall be tried shall allow unto the defendants treble costs, for which the said defendant shall bave the like remedy as in other cases where costs by the laws of this realm are given to defendants; and that every action against any person for anything to be done in pursuance of this Act, shall be brought in some of the Courts of Record at Westminster or in Dublin, or the Court of Session in Scotland, and in no other court whatsoever.

LXXV. Recovery of penalties. (Similar to sec. 59 of cap. 23.)

LXXVI. Appropriation of Penalties.-That one moiety of every penalty, not including any treble value of any articles, adjudged or recovered under the provisions of this Act, shall go to the person who shall inform or sue for the same, and the remainder of the penalty, or, where the offence shall be proved by the person who shall inform, the whole of the penalty, shall be paid to the general agent for the recruiting service in London or Dublin as the case may be, to be at the disposal of the Secretary at War; and every Justice who shall adjudge any penalty under this Act shall, within four days at the farthest, report the same to the Secretary at War.

LXXVII. Administration of Oaths.-Perjury. (Similar to sec. 56 of cap. 25.)

LXXVIII. Duration of Act within Great Britain, 25th of April 1832 to 25th of April 1833, both inclusive.

LXXIX. That this Act may be altered, varied or repealed in this session.

CAP. XXIX.

AN ACT to reduce the Allowance on Spirits made from Malt only, in Scotland and Ireland.

CAP. XXX.

(9th April 1832.)

AN ACT to apply the sum of Three Millions, out of the Consolidated Fund, to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.

By this Act the Commons Granted, and It is Enacted,

(9th April 1832.)

1. That there shall be applied, for the service of the year 1832, 3,000,0001. out of the Consolidated Fund.

II. The Treasury may cause 3,000,0001, of Exchequer Bills to be made out in manner prescribed by 48 Geo. 3. c. 1. III. The clauses, &c. in that Act extended to this Act.

IV. Interest on Exchequer Bills, threepence halfpenny per cent. per diem.

v. Bills to be placed as so much cash in the Exchequer.

vi. And may be applied by the Treasury.

VII. Exchequer Bills made chargeable upon the growing produce of the Consolidated Fund.

VIII. Bank of England may advance 3,000,000%. on the credit of this Act, notwithstanding 5 & 6 W. & M. c. 20.

CAP. XXXI.-IRELAND.

AN ACT to regulate the Baking Trade in Ireland.

(23rd May 1832.)

CAP. XXXII.—IRELAND.

AN ACT for the Erection of a Nisi Prius Court House in Dublin.

(23rd May 1832.)

CAP. XXXIII.

AN ACT to effectuate the Service of Process issuing from the Courts of Chancery and Exchequer in England and Ireland respectively.

(23rd May 1832.)

ABSTRACT OF THE ENACTMENTS.

1. Courts of Chancery and Exchequer of England, in Suits concerning Lands, &c. in England, empowered to direct Process to be served in other Parts of the United Kingdom, and Isle of Man.

2. Courts of Chancery and Exchequer of Ireland, in Suits concerning Lands, &c. in Ireland, empowered to direct Process to be served in other parts of the United Kingdom, and Isle of Man.

3. With Subpoena served under this Act a Copy of Prayer of the Bill to be served; and no Process of Contempt to be entered without special Order.

By this ACT,

After noticing that great inconvenience and delays of justice arise from the defect of jurisdiction in Courts of Equity to effectuate the service of their process in such parts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland as are not within the jurisdiction of the said respective courts; for remedy whereof

It is Enacted,

1. That from and after the passing of this Act it shall and may be lawful for the Courts of Chancery and of Exchequer in England respectively, if they shall so think fit, upon special motion of the complainant or complainants in any suit which has been or shall be instituted in such courts respectively, concerning lands or tenements or hereditaments situate or being within that part of the United Kingdom called England and Wales, to order and direct that service in any part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and in the Isle of Man respectively, of any subpoena or subpoenas, letter missive or letters missive, and of all subsequent process to be had thereon, upon any defendant or defendants in such suit then residing in such part of the said United Kingdom or Isle of Man in which he, she, or they shall be so served, shall be deemed good service of or be made upon such defendant or defendants, upon such terms and in such manner and at such time as to such Courts respectively shall seem reasonable; and that thereupon it shall and may be lawful for such Courts respectively to proceed upon such service so made as aforesaid as fully and as effectually as if the same had been duly made within the jurisdictions of such Courts respectively.

II. That it shall and may be lawful for the Courts of Chancery and of Exchequer in Ireland respectively, if they shall so think fit, upon special motion of the complainant or complainants in any suit which has been or shall be instituted in such courts respectively, concerning lands or tenements or hereditaments situate or being within that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland, to order and direct that service in any part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and in the Isle of Man respectively, of any subpoena or subpoenas, letter missive or letters missive, and of all subsequent process to be had thereupon, upon any defendant or defendants in such suit then residing in such part of the said United Kingdom or Isle of Man in which he, she, or they shall be so served, shall be deemed good service of or be made upon such defendant or defendants, upon such terms and in such manner and at such time as to such Courts respectively shall seem reasonable; and that thereupon it shall and may be lawful for such Courts respectively to proceed upon such service so made as aforesaid as fully and as effectually as if the same had been duly made within the jurisdiction of such Courts respectively.

III. Provided always, that along with such subpoena or letter missive served under any such order as aforesaid of the said Courts of Chancery and of Exchequer of England and of Ireland respectively, a copy of the prayer of such complainant's bill shall be served upon every such defendant; and provided also, that no process of contempt shall be entered upon any such proceedings as hereinbefore mentioned, nor any decree made absolute in any of the said Courts in England or Ireland respectively, without the special order of such Court, upon special motion made for such purpose: Provided also, that nothing in this Act shall be held to make it compulsory upon the complainant or complainants in any suit in any of the said respective Courts to serve with process or bring before such Courts respectively any party or parties, person or persons, further or otherwise than such complainant or complainants are now by law or the practice of such Courts respectively required to do.

CAP. XXXIV.

AN ACT for consolidating and amending the Laws against Offences relating to the Coin.

(23rd May 1832.)

ABSTRACT OF THE ENACTMENTS.

1. Repeal of various Statutes of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, as from the 30th April 1832.-Offences committed previous to the repeal may be tried under the old Acts after the repeal: but the punishment not to be capital.

2. Commencement of this Act 1st of May 1832.

3. Counterfeiting the gold or silver coin; transportation for life.—Offence when deemed complete.

4. Colouring counterfeit coin or any pieces of metal with intent to make them pass for gold or silver coin ;-colouring or altering genuine coin, with intent to make it pass for a higher coin; transportation for life, &c.

5. Impairing the gold or silver coin, with intent, &c.; transportation for 14 years, &c.

6. Buying or selling, &c. counterfeit gold or silver coin for lower value than its denomination; importing counterfeit coin from beyond seas; transportation for life, &c.

7. Uttering counterfeit gold or silver coin; imprisonment.-Uttering, accompanied by possession of other counterfeit coin, or followed by a second uttering; imprisonment.—Every second offence of uttering, after a previous conviction, shall be felony ; transportation for life, &c.

8. Having three or more pieces of counterfeit gold or silver coin in possession, knowing it to be false, and with intent to utter or put off the same; imprisonment.-Second offence, felony and transportation.

9. What shall be sufficient evidence of a conviction for a previous offence against this Act.

10. Making, mending, or having possession of any coining tools, felony; transportation for life, &c.

11. Conveying tools or monies out of the Mint without authority, felony; transportation for life, &c.

12. Various offences relating to the copper coin.

13. Coin suspected to be diminished or counterfeit may be cut by any person to whom it is tendered.-Who shall bear the loss.

14. Provision for the discovery and seizure of counterfeit coin and coining tools, for securing them as evidence and for ultimately disposing of them.

15. Venue.

19. The Court may order hard labour or solitary confinement.

20. As to offences committed at sea.

21. Rules of interpretation as to current coin, counterfeit coin, and criminal possession.

22. Venue in proceedings against persons acting under this Act.-Notice of action.-General issue.—Tender of amends, &c.

By this ACT,

After noticing that the offence of counterfeiting the coin, as well as certain other offences relating to the coin, are now by virtue of several statutes punishable with death: and the expediency of abolishing the punishment of death in all such cases, and of repealing the several statutes against offences relating to the coin, in order that the provisions thereof may be amended and consolidated into one Act :

It is Enacted,

1. That the following Statutes and parts of Statutes made in the parliament of England, that is to say,

The statutes concerning money, commonly cited as of the 20 Ed. 1. st. 4, 5, & 6, and respectively intituled, 'Statutum de Moneta, Statutum de Moneta parvum,' and Articuli de Moneta ;' and

A statute made in the 27 Ed. 1. st. 1, intituled, Statutum de falsa Moneta;' and

A statute, 9 Ed. 3. st. 2, commonly intituled, 'The Statute of Money;' and

The statute 17 Ed. 3; and

So much of a statute, 18 Ed. 3. st. 1, as relates to false money; and

So much of a statute, 25 Ed. 3. st. 5. c. 2, as relates to counterfeiting the King's money, and to bringing false money into this realm; and

So much of the same statute, c. 12, 13, as relates to taking profit by exchange of gold and silver, and to the impairing the money of gold and silver; and

So much of a statute, 27 Ed. 3. st. 2. c. 14, intituled, Ordinatio Stapularum,' as relates to the forfeiture of false money; and So much of a statute, 3 Hen. 5. st. 2. c. 6 & 7, as relates to clipping, washing, and filing of the money of the land, and to the persons who shall have power to hear, determine, or inquire of the counterfeiting and of the bringing of false money into the realm, and of clipping, washing, and every other falsity of the said money; and

An Act, 19 Hen. 7. c. 5, intituled, Pro reformacione Pecuniarum ;' and

An Act, 5 & 6 Ed. 6. c. 19, intituled, An Act touching the Exchange of Gold and Silver;' and

An Act, 1 Mary, st. 2. c. 6, intituled, 'An Act against counterfeiting of strange Coins being current within this Realm, or of the Queen's Highness' Sign Manual, Signet, or Privy Seal;' and

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An Act, 1 & 2 Ph. & M. c. 11, intituled, An Act for the Punishment of bringing in of counterfeit Coins of Foreign Realms being current within this Realm;' and

An Act, 5 Eliz. c. 11, intituled, An Act against clipping, washing, rounding, or filing of Coins;' and

An Act passed in the fourteenth year of the same reign, intituled, An Act against the forging and counterfeiting of Foreign Coin being not current within this Realm;' and

An Act passed in the eighteenth year of the same reign, intituled, 'An Act against the diminishing and impairing of the Queen's Majesty's Coin, and other Coins lawfully current within this Realm;' and

So much of an Act, 6 & 7 W. 3. c. 17. s. 2, 4, & 12, intituled, An Act to prevent counterfeiting and clipping the Coin of this Kingdom,' as relates to any person who shall exchange, lend, sell, borrow, buy, receive, or pay any broad silver money, or silver money unclipped, for more than the same was coined for or ought by law to go for, or who shall buy or sell or knowingly have in his custody or possession any clipping or filings of the current coin, and so much of the said Act as relates to the discovery of any offences touching the coin of the realm; and

An Act passed in the eighth and ninth years of the same reign, intituled, An Act for the better preventing the counterfeiting the current Coin of this Kingdom;' and

An Act passed in the ninth and tenth years of the same reign, intituled, An Act for the better preventing the counterfeiting, clipping, and other diminishing the Coin of this Kingdom;' and

So much of an Act, 1 Ann. st. 1. c. 9, intituled, 'An Act for continuing the Act made in the Eighth Year of His late Majesty's Reign, for better preventing the counterfeiting the current Coin of this Kingdom,' as relates to continuing the said lastmentioned Act, and to the periods for commencing prosecutions for certain offences against the said last-mentioned Act; and The following Acts and parts of Acts passed in the Parliament of Great Britain; that is to say,

So much of 7 Ann. c. 24. s. 4, intituled, An Act for continuing the former Act for the Encouragement of the Coinage, and to encourage the bringing Foreign Coins, and British or Foreign Plate to be coined, and for making Provision for the Mints in Scotland, and for the prosecuting Offences concerning the Coin in England,' as relates to the expenses of prosecuting offences in counterfeiting, diminishing, or otherwise concerning the current coins of Great Britain, in that part thereof called England;' and

So much of 7 Aun. c. 25. s. 1 & 2, intituled, 'An Act for making perpetual an Act for the better preventing the counterfeiting the current Coin of this Kingdom, as also an Act for giving like Remedy upon Promissory Notes as is used upon Bills of Exchange, and for the better Payment of Inland Bills of Exchange, and also for continuing several Acts made in the Fourth and Fifth Years of Her Majesty's Reign, for preventing Frauds committed by Bankrupts,' as relates to making perpetual 8 W. 3. therein mentioned, and to the period for commencing prosecutions for certain offences against the said Act of King William; and

An Act, 15 Geo. 2. c. 28, intituled, An Act for the more effectual preventing the counterfeiting of the current Coin of this Kingdom, and the uttering or paying false or counterfeit Coin;' and

An Act, 11 Geo. 3. c. 40, intituled, Ăn Act for the more effectually preventing the counterfeiting the Copper Coin of this Realm;' and

An Act, 13 Geo. 3. c. 71, intituled, An Act for the better preventing the counterfeiting, clipping, and other diminishing the Gold Coin in this Kingdom;' and

So much of an Act, 37 Geo. 3. c. 126. s. 1, intituled ‹ An Act to prevent the counterfeiting any Copper Coin in this Realm made or to be made current by Proclamation, or any Foreign Gold or Silver Coin, and to prevent the bringing into this Realm or uttering any counterfeit Foreign Gold or Silver Coin,' as relates to copper money; and

Certain parts of the following Acts passed in the parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; that is to say,

So much of an Act, 56 Geo.3.c. 68. s. 13 to 16, intituled, ' An Act to provide for a new Silver Coinage, and to regulate the Currency of the Gold and Silver Coin of this Realm,' as relates to any person who shall receive or pay for any gold coin any more or less than the true value which such gold coin shall by its denomination import, or who shall utter or receive any gold coin at any greater or less rate or value than the same shall be current for as therein mentioned; and So much of an Act, 3 Geo. 4. c. 114, intituled, An Act to provide for the more effectual Punishment of certain Offences, by Imprisonment with hard Labour,' as relates to any person convicted of being an utterer of counterfeit money; and So much of an Act, 7 Geo. 4. c. 9, intituled, An Act to provide for the more effectual Punishment of certain Offences in Ireland, by Imprisonment with hard Labour,' as relates to any person convicted of being an utterer of counterfeit money; and The following Acts passed in the parliament of Scotland; that is to say, an Act, 6 Parl. Jac. 2, concerning money and false coin; and an Act, 5 Parl. Jac. 3, concerning black money of other realms, and counterfeits of the King's black money; and an Act, 8 Parl. Jac. 3, ordaining, that neither silver nor gold coin be molten or put to the fire without licence of the King; and an Act, 7 Parl. Jac. 5, intituled, Tuiching the Croun of Wecht;' and another Act, 7 Parl. Jac. 5, intituled, Of them that counterfeit the King's Money;' and an Act, 9 Parl. Mary, intituled, Anentis the carrying and having of Gold and Silver furth of the Realm;' and another Act, 9 Parl. Mary, intituled, Anentis the Hamebringing of False Cuinzie, and using of the samin within this Realm, and als anentis Forgers and Markers thereof within the samin;' and an Act, 1 Parl. Jac. 6, intituled, Anent Cunzie;' and another Act, 1 Parl. Jac. 6, intituled, 'Anent fals Cunzie;' and an Act, 1 Parl. W. (S.), intituled Act against false coining and clipping of Money;' and

The following Acts and parts of Acts passed in the parliament of Ireland; that is to say, an Act, 3 Ed. 4. c. 3, intituled, ‘An Act against Clipped Money;' and

An Act, 28 Eliz. c. 6, intituled, An Act against forging and counterfeiting of Foreign Coin;' and

An Act, 8 Ann. c. 6, intituled, An Act for the better preventing the counterfeiting the current Coin of this Kingdom;' and So much of an Act, 4 Geo. 1. c. 9. s. 5, intituled, An Act for continuing, reviving, and amending several Statutes made in this Kingdom heretofore temporary,' as relates to the said last-mentioned Act of Queen Anne; and

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An Act, 23 & 24 Geo. 3. c. 50, intituled, An Act for more effectually preventing the counterfeiting of the current Coin of this Kingdom, and the uttering or paying of false or counterfeit coin

and

An Act, 26 Geo. 3. c. 39, intituled, "An Act to prevent the Practice of fraudulently buying and selling of light Coin in this Kingdom;'