4 G.4. c.33. Sched. (A.) 4 G.4. c.49. 5 G.4. c.93. § 1., in part repealed. ' . Grand Juries of Towns may ments for Trea- mentioned. < of Parliament, relating to Presentments by Grand Juries, for Payment of the Salaries of Public Officers of the several Counties of Ireland, it was amongst other Things enacted, that it should and might be lawful for any Grand Jury of any County of a Town or City to make Presentment for any Treasurer of such County of a Town or City, at the several Assizes to be held in any one Year in any such County of a Town or City, of any Sum or Sums, not exceeding in the whole the Amount of the Salary payable to any such Treasurer, as specified and set forth in the 'Schedule or Table annexed to an Act made in the Fourth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act to make more effectual Regulations for the Election, and to secure the Performances of the Duties of County Treasurers in Ireland; and that it should be lawful for any Grand Jury of any County of a Town or City in Ireland, to make Presentment of any Sum or Sums for any Officer mentioned and specified in an Act made in the said Fourth Year of His Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act to regu•late the Amount of Presentments by Grand Juries, for Payment of the Public Offices of the several Counties in Ireland, or the Schedule or Table thereto annexed, at the several Assizes to be held in any one Year in any such County of a Town or City, not exceeding the Amount of the Salary payable to any such Officer under the said last recited Act: And Whereas it is expedient that the said recited Clause should be repealed, so far as relates 'to Counties of Cities in Ireland;' Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the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of this Act the said recited Clause of the said Act of the last Session of Parliament shall be and the same is hereby repealed, so far as relates to Counties of Cities in Ireland. II. Provided always, and be it enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act it shall and may be lawful for any Grand Jury of any County of a Town in Ireland to make any Presentments for any Treasurer of any County of a Town, not exceeding the whole of the Amount of the Salary or Sums specified in the Schedule or Table annexed to the said recited Act of the Fourth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, for making more effectual Regulations for the Election, and for securing the Performances of the Duties, of County Treasurers in Ireland, as amended by an Act made in the last Session of Parliament; and also to make any Presentments of any Sum or Sums for any Public Officer mentioned and specified in the said recited Act of the Fourth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, for regulating the Amount of Presentments by Grand Juries for Payment of the Public Officers of the several Counties in Ireland, or in the Schedule or Table to the said Act annexed, not exceeding the Sums therein respectively mentioned; and also to make any Presentments for the Payment of Coroners, where more than One Coroner shall be appointed, according to the Directions of the said last recited Act, as amended by the said hereinbefore first recited Act of the last Session of Parliament. • III. And ' III. And Whereas it may have happened that in certain Counties of Cities Presentments may not have been duly made or fiated for the Payment of the Treasurers at the Summer Assizes in the Year One thousand eight hundred and twenty four, or at the Spring Assizes in the Year One thousand eight hundred and twenty five;' Be it therefore enacted, That in any Case where such Presentments shall not have been made by the Grand Jury of any County of a City, or shall not have been fiated by the Judge at the Summer Assizes in the Year One thousand eight hundred and twenty four, or at the Spring Assizes in the Year One thousand eight hundred and twenty five, or either of them, it shall and may be lawful for the Grand Jury of any such County of a City to make, and for the Judge to fiat, any Present. ment for all Arrears of any Salary or Poundage due to such Treasurer of such County of a City, at the Summer Assizes in this present Year One thousand eight hundred and twenty five, according to the Provisions of the several Acts passed in the Fourth and Fifth Years of His Majesty's Reign relating to such Trea surers. IV. And Whereas it is just and expedient that the same Clas'sification of Counties in Ireland should be adopted with respect to all the Public Officers of the said Counties;' Be it therefore enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act the several Counties in Ireland shall, in all that respects the Treasurers of the said Counties, be classed in like Manner as the said Counties are classed under and by virtue of an Act passed in the Fourth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act to regulate the Amount of Presentments by Grand Juries, for Payment of the Public Officers of the several Counties in Ireland. CA P. LIII. An Act for limiting the Time within which Inquisitions of Presentments may be made at Summer Assizes for Arrears of Salary, &c. to Treasurers, where not duly made at Summer Assizes in 1824, or Spring Assizes in 1825. Counties, in all that respects Treasurers, shall be classed in like Manner as Counties are classed under 4G. 4. c. 43. WH HEREAS by an Act passed in the Second and Third 2&3 E.6. c.8. Years of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth, it was § 6. enacted, that if any Person should be untruly founden Lunatic, Idiot or Dead, every Person and Persons grieved by any such Office or Inquisition, should and might have his or their Traverse to the same immediately, or after, at his or their Pleasure, and proceed to Trial therein, and have like Remedy and Advantage as in other Cases of Traverse upon untrue Inquisitions or Offices founden: And Whereas great Inconvenience ‹ hath arisen from there being no Time limited within which Inquisitions or Offices finding Persons Lunatic, Idiot or of unsound Mind, must be traversed; and it is expedient that some Time should be limited for that Purpose: And Whereas the Care and Commitment of the Custody of the Persons and Es'tates of Persons found Lunatic, Idiot or of unsound Mind, have been usually entrusted, by virtue of the King's Sign Manual, to 'the Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper or Lords Commissioners for the Custody of the Great Seal of the United Kingdom and of 6 GEO.IV. • Ireland T Petitions to traverse Inquisitions to be pre sented within a limited Time. Order to be made thereon. Security for Persons not petitioning within limited Time, barred; • Ireland respectively;' 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 where any Inquisition has, before the passing of this Act, been returned into the High Court of Chancery, by which any Person hath been found Lunatic, Idiot or of unsound Mind, it shall be lawful for any Person or Persons desiring to traverse such Inquisition, or for any Person or Persons desiring to oppose such Traverse, to present a Petition to the Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper or Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal of the United Kingdom and of Ireland respectively, or other Person or Persons entrusted as aforesaid, by virtue of the King's Sign Manual, before the End of Michaelmas Term next after the passing of this Act, praying that such Traverse may be proceeded in and brought to Trial; and where any Person or Persons shall be desirous of traversing any such Inquisition as aforesaid, which shall be returned into the said Court of Chancery after the passing of this Act, a Petition for that Purpose shall be presented to the Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper, or Lords Commissioners, or other the Person or Persons entrusted as aforesaid, within Three Calendar Months, to be computed from the Day of the Return of such Inquisition; and the said Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper or Lords. Commissioners, or other the Person or Persons entrusted as aforesaid, is or are hereby directed and required to hear and determine such Petition; and the said Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper or Lords Commissioners, or other the Person or Persons entrusted as aforesaid respectively, shall, in every Order to be made upon any such Petition as aforesaid, limit a Time, not exceeding Six Calendar Months from the Date of such Order, within which the Person or Persons desiring to traverse as aforesaid, and all other proper Parties, are to proceed to Trial of the Traverse to which such Petition shall relate; and it shall also be lawful for the said Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper or Lords Commissioners, entrusted as aforesaid, in the Case of every such Traverse as aforesaid, upon the Petition of any such Person or Persons as aforesaid, to make an Order that the Person or Persons desiring to traverse as aforesaid, not being the Party who has upon such Inquisition been found Lunatic, Idiot or of unsound Mind, shall, within Three Weeks after the Date of such Order, give sufficient Security to One of the Masters in Ordinary of the said Court of Chancery, and to the Satisfaction of the same Master, for all proper Parties proceeding to the Trial of such Traverse as aforesaid, within the Time to be for that Purpose limited as aforesaid. II. And be it further enacted, That every Person having or who shall hereafter have Right to traverse any such Inquisition as aforesaid, who shall not present his or her Petition for that Purpose to the Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper or Lords Commissioners, or other the Person or Persons entrusted as aforesaid, within the Time hereinbefore limited and applicable to his or her Case, or who shall refuse or neglect to give such Security as aforesaid, or who shall not proceed to the Trial of such Traverse within such Time as shall be in that Behalf limited or directed as aforesaid, and the Heirs, Executors and Administrators of every such Person, and all others claiming or to claim by, through or under him or her, shall be and are hereby absolutely barred of such Right of Traverse, unless the Lord Chancellor, unless Lord Lord Keeper or Lords Commissioners, or other the Person or Chancellor see Persons entrusted as aforesaid, shall under the special Circum- Cause to the stances of any particular Case think fit, upon a Petition being contrary. presented to him or them for that Purpose, to allow such Traverse to be had or tried after the Time by this Act limited; in all which special Cases it shall be lawful for the said Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper or Lords Commissioners, or other the Person or Persons entrusted as aforesaid, to make such Orders as to him or them shall seem just. III. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper and Lords Commissioners, or other the Person or Persons entrusted as aforesaid, if he or they shall be dissatisfied with any Verdict to be returned upon any such Traverse as aforesaid, to order One or more new Trial or Trials thereon, as to him or them shall seem meet, and as is usual in Cases of Issues directed by the Court of Chancery; any Thing hereinbefore contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. IV. Provided also, and be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper or Lords Commissioners, or other the Person or Persons entrusted as aforesaid, from time to time after the Return of any such Inquisition as aforesaid, and notwithstanding any Petition or Order which may be depending relating to a Traverse of such Inquisition, to make such Orders relative to the Custody and Commitment of the Person or Persons, and the Commitment, Management and Application of the Estates and Effects of any Person or Persons who shall or may have been found- Lunatic, Idiot or of unsound Mind, by any such Inquisition or Inquisitions as he or they shall think necessary or proper; and all Acts, Matters and Things which shall have been done by any Person or Persons appointed Committee or Committees of the Persons or Estates of such Persons found or to be found Lunatic, Idiot or of unsound Mind as aforesaid, or by any other Person or Persons, shall be and are hereby declared to be as valid and effectual; and such Committees and other Persons respectively, their Heirs, Executors and Administrators, are hereby indemnified in respect of such Acts, Matters and Things, from and against all Actions, Suits and Proceedings, Damages, Costs, Charges and Expences, to be brought, commenced, had or recovered by the Person or Persons so found Lunatic, Idiot or of unsound Mind, his, her or their Heirs, Executors or Administrators, or any other Person or Persons whomsoever, as fully and effectually as if such Inquisition had not been traversable, but no further or otherwise. CA P. LIV. An Act to amend an Act of the First and Second Years of HEREAS an Act was made in the Session of Parliament WHEREAS an Act and Second Years of the Reign of His T 2 present Lord Chancellor may direct new Trials. And may make Estate of Lunatics. 1&2 G.4. c.33. After Asylum shall be fit for Reception of Lord Lieu tenant may direct Money as herein mentioned, to be present Majesty, intituled An Act to make more effectual Provision for the Establishment of Asylums for the Lunatic Poor, and for the Custody of Insane Persons charged with Offences in Ireland and it is expedient that further Provision should be made for the opening, carrying on, maintaining and supporting of such Asylums; 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, it shall and may be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Lunatic Poor, Ireland, by and with the Advice of His Majesty's Privy Council in Ireland, from time to time and at any Time or Times after any Asylum erected or to be erected in pursuance of the said recited Act shall be fit for the Reception of Lunatic Poor, to order and direct that any Sum or Sums of Money, not exceeding the Sum of Ten thousand Pounds in any One Quarter of a Year, shall be advanced and issued and paid out of the growing Produce of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom arising in Ireland, to such Person or Persons as shall be named in any such Order of Council, or into the Bank of Ireland, in the Name or Names of any such Person or Persons, to be from time to time paid and applied for the Purpose of opening and carrying on, and of maintaining and supporting any such Asylum from time to time any District in Ireland, to such Amount, and at such Times, and in such Manner and Proportions, and upon such Estimates, and under such Rules, Regulations, Terms and Conditions, and with such Penalties for Breach of such Rules, Regulations, Terms and Conditions, as to such Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors, and Privy Council, shall seem best suited for promoting the beneficial Purposes of any such Asylum, ac.. cording to the said recited Act and this Act. issued out of Consolidated Fund for Sup port of such Establishments. Grand Jury of the County to make Presentment for Repayment of Money so advanced. in II. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Grand Jury of any and every County, County of a City or County of a Town in Ireland, in or for which, either wholly or in Part, any such Asylum hath been or shall be erected, and such Grand Jury are hereby required, at the Assizes next after the Date of such Order for the Advance of Money for the opening, carany rying on or maintaining any such Asylum, or as soon after as they shall be thereto required, and from time to time whenever the Case shall happen, to make a Presentment for the raising off any such County, County of a City or County of a Town, such Sum or Sums of Money as shall be necessary for the Repayment of any such Sum or Sums so advanced, or any Part thereof, at such Times, and in such Proportions as shall be directed and ascertained by any Order or Orders to be made by the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland in CounOn neglect, &c. cil as aforesaid; and if any such Grand Jury shall neglect or refuse to make any such Presentment, the Court shall order the Sum or Sums which ought to be so presented to be raised, as if the same had been so presented, and the same shall be raised and paid accordingly. Court may order. CAP. |