IV. No. 3. PART II. said sum so forfeited by him, any such Justice or Justices CLASS shall, by warrant under his hand or their hands, commit every such offender to the House of Correction, or some Stat. 30 other prison, of the county, riding, division, city, liberty or G. 2. c. 24. place, in which he shall be apprehended; there to remain and be kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding the space of one month, or until he shall pay the sum of money Justice, upon complaint, to issue his the offend ers before him, so forfeited. XVI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful to and for any Justice or Justices of the Peace of any county, riding, division, warrant for city, liberty, town or place, and he and they is and are herebringing by required, upon complaint made to him upon oath of any offence committed against this Act, within the same county, riding, division, city, liberty, town or place, to issue his warrant for bringing before him, or some other Justice or Justices of the Peace of any county, riding, division, city, liberty, town or place, the person or persons charged with such offence; and the Justice or Justices before whom such person or persons shall be brought, is hereby authorized and required to hear and determine the matter of every such complaint, and to proceed to judgment and conviction thereupon, as by this Act is directed; and if it shall appear by oath of any credible person or persons, to the satisfaction of any such Justice or Justices, that any person or persons, within the jurisdiction of such Justice or Justices, can give or offer material evidence on behalf of the prosecutor, against any offender or offenders against the true intent and meaning of this Act, or on behalf of the person accused, and who will not voluntarily appear before such Justice or Justices to be examined, and give his, her, or their evidence, conand may cerning the premisses; every such Justice or Justices is and are hereby authorized and required to issue his or their summons to convene every such person or persons within his or their jurisdiction before him or them, to be examined upon oath concerning the premisses; and if any person so summoned shall neglect or refuse to appear on such summons, and no just excuse shall be offered for such neglect or refusal, then (after proof by oath of such summons having been duly served upon him, her, or them for that purpose) any such Justice or Justices is and are hereby authorized and required to issue his or their warrant to bring every such witness and witnesses, within his or their jurisdiction, before him or them; and on the appearance of any such witness before any such Justice or Justices, any such Justice or Justices is and are hereby authorized and empowered to summon witnesses. CLASS IV. No. 3. Stat. 30 2. c. 24. examine upon oath every such witness; and if any such PART II. witness, on his or her appearance, or being brought before any such Justice or Justices, shall refuse to be examined on oath concerning the premisses, without offering any just cause for such refusal, it shall be lawful for any such Jus- G. tice or Justices, by warrant under his or their hand and seal, or hands and seals, to commit every person so refusing to the public prison of the county, riding, division, city or place, in which the person or persons so refusing to be examined on oath, shall be brought before any such Justice or Justices, there to remain for any time not exceeding three months, as any such Justice or Justices shall direct; and if, Material on such examination, any such Justice or Justices shall witness deem the evidence of any such witness or witnesses to be may be material, any such Justice or Justices may bind over any such witness, unless a feme-covert, or one under the age of twenty-one years, by recognizance, in a reasonable penalty, to appear and give evidence at the next General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace, or Sessions of Oyer and Terminer, as in such recognizance shall be mentioned. Anno 3 GEO. IV. Cap. 77. An Act for amending the Laws for regulating the Manner of licensing Alehouses in that part of the United Kingdom called England, and for the more effectually preventing Disorders therein. [26th July 1822.] bound over. No. 4. conduct, a II. AND for the better preventing the granting of licences or authorities to unfit and improper persons, to keep alehouses or victualling houses, or to sell ale, beer, or other exciseable liquors by retail, and the occurrence of disorderly conduct in such houses; Be it further enacted, Certificate That no licence or authority for such purposes shall be of good granted to any person not thereunto licensed or authorized &c. to be the year preceding, unless such person shall produce, at produced the general annual meeting of the Justices or Magistrates by persons applying to be held for that purpose, a certificate under the hands for licences. of the Parson, Vicar or Curate, or of the major part of the Church-wardens, Chapel-wardens and Overseers of the poor, and of four reputable and substantial householders and inhabitants, or under the hands of eight respectable and substantial householders and inhabitants of the parish or • The other sections of this statute, which is very long, regulate the manner of licensing alehouses in general. The second section has been inserted as more particularly interesting the Clergy. Continued by stat. 7 and 8 Geo. 4. c. 48. No. 4. What cer PART II. place where the person applying for such licence or authorCLASS ity shall have last inhabited or dwelt for a space of six IV. months; which certificate shall set forth the number of the Stat. 3 house, and the name of the street, or other true description G. 4. c. 77. of the house where such person so dwelt, and also whether he or she was there a housekeeper or an inmate, and whether tificate is such person, in such last mentioned parish or place, kept an to contain. alehouse or victualling house, and if so, the sign of such house; and shall also set forth, that such person is of good fame, sober life and conversation, and a fit and proper person to be entrusted with a licence for the purposes aforesaid; and it shall be mentioned in every such licence or authority to be granted to any person not licensed at the last general licensing day, that such certificate was proIf certifi. duced; and in case such certificate, in the form and signed cate not in the manner aforesaid, shall not, on the occasions aforeproduced, &c. licence said, be produced, or the licence to be granted in such last mentioned cases shall omit to state that such certificate was so produced, such licence or authority shall be null and Certificate void; and every such certificate so required to be produced annexed to on such occasions as aforesaid, shall be annexed to the rerecogni- cognizance, to be entered into by the person receiving or void. zance. Forging or certificates. obtaining such licence or authority as aforesaid, and shall with such recognizance be sent or returned to the Clerk of the Peace, or person acting as such as aforesaid: Provided receiving always, that if any person shall forge or counterfeit any money for certificate, or write any name on any such certificate, to resemble, imitate or represent the name of any Parson, Vicar or Curate, or any Church-warden, Chapel-warden, Overseer of the poor or other person directed by this Act to sign such certificate, with an intent to deceive the Justices of the Peace granting or having power to grant such licences or authorities, or shall tender or produce any paper with such counterfeit name or writing thereupon, knowing such name or writing to be counterfeit, with intent to deceive the said Justices, or shall take or receive any sum or sums of money for signing or procuring signatures to any such certificate, every person so offending, being thereof lawfully convicted, shall be adjudged to be guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall meanour. suffer punishment accordingly. Misde CLASS V. STATUTES RELATIVE TO PLAYERS AND PERSONS COMING Anno 3 JAC. I. Cap. 21. An Act to restrain the Abuses of Players. PART II. No. 1. Stat. 3 Jac. 1. c. 21. stage, &c. name of God. FOR the preventing and avoiding of the great abuse of The penalthe holy name of God in stage-plays, interludes, May-games, ty of playshows, and such like; be it enacted by our Sovereign Lord era on the the King's Majesty, and by the Lords Spiritual and Tem- profanely poral, and the Commons, in this present Parliament assem- abusing the bled, and by the authority of the same, That if at any time or times after the end of this present session of Parliament, any person or persons do or shall in any stage-play, interlude, show, May-game, or pageant, jestingly or profanely speak or use the holy name of God, or of Christ Jesus, or of the Holy Ghost, or of the Trinity, which are not to be spoken but with fear and reverence, shall forfeit for every such offence by him or them committed ten pounds: the one moiety thereof to the King's Majesty, his heirs and successors, the other moiety thereof to him or them that will sue for the same in any Court of Record at Westminster, wherein no essoin, protection, or wager of law shall be allowed. Anno 28 GEO. III. Cap. 30. An Act to enable Justices of the Peace to license Theatrical Representations occasionally, under the restrictions therein contained. 28. No. 2. WHEREAS by an Act passed in the tenth year of the Preamble. reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, certain 10 G. 2. c. penalties and punishments were inflicted on every person who should, for hire, gain, or reward, act, represent, or perform, or cause to be acted, represented, or performed, any interlude, tragedy, comedy, opera, play, farce, or other entertainment of the stage, or any part or parts therein, except as in the said Act is excepted: and whereas divers Acts of Parliament have since been solicited and obtained for divers cities, towns, and places, for exempting them respectively from the provisions of the said law: and whereas it may be expedient to permit and suffer, in towns of considerable resort, theatrical representations for a limited time, and PART II. under regulations; in which, nevertheless, it would be highly CLASS V. impolitic, inexpedient, and unreasonable, to permit the estaNo. 2. blishment of a constant and regular theatre: May it thereG. 3. c. 30. fore please your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it Stat. 28 may, at the General or grant licences for the per &c. under 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 Justices of the authority of the same, That it shall and may be lawful the Peace to and for the Justices of the Peace of any county, riding, or liberty, in General or Quarter Sessions assembled, at their Quarter discretion, to grant a licence to any person or persons, making Sessions, application for the same by petition, for the performance of such tragedies, comedies, interludes, operas, plays, or farces, as now are, or hereafter shall be acted, performed, or repreformance sented at either of the patent or licensed theatres in the city of plays, of Westminster, or as shall, in the manner prescribed by the restric- law, have been submitted to the inspection of the Lord tions here- Chamberlain of the King's Household for the time being, at in specified. any place within their jurisdictions, or within any city, town, or place, situate within the limits of the same, for any number of days, not exceeding sixty days, to commence within the then next six months, and to be within the space of such four months as shall be specified in the said licence, so as there be only one licence in use at the same time within the jurisdiction so given, and so as such place be not within twenty miles of the cities of London, Westminster, or Edinburgh, or eight miles of any patent or licensed theatre, or ten miles of the residence of his Majesty, his heirs or successors, or of any place within the same jurisdiction, at which, within six months preceding, a licence under this Act shall have been had and exercised, or within fourteen miles of either of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, or within two miles of the outward limits of any city, town, or place, having peculiar jurisdiction; and so also as no licence under this Act shall have been had and exercised at the same place within eight months then next preceding; any law or statute for the punishment of persons employed in theatrical representations to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. Licences not to be grauted within any II. Provided always, That no such licence shall be granted by the Justices as aforesaid, to be exercised within any city, town, or place, having peculiar jurisdiction, unless proof place hav- shall be made that the majority of the Justices acting for ing peculiar such peculiar jurisdiction, have, at a public meeting, signed jurisdiction, their consent and approbation to the said application, or unconsent of less an express condition shall be therein inserted, that the the majority of the Justices acting for such jurisdiction. without the |