56 G.3. c.73. 1 G.4. c.102. CA P. LVI. An Act to amend Two Acts for removing Difficulties in the WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Fifty sixth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, for removing Difficulties in the Conviction of Offenders stealing Property in Mines: And Whereas another Act was passed in the First Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for making general the Provisions of the said Act of the Fifty sixth Year ‹ of His late Majesty: And Whereas the Enactments of the said ‹ Acts have been found to facilitate the Conviction of Offenders, · and to promote the due Administration of Justice, without depriving Persons accused of any fair or just Means of Defence ; • but such Acts have been found not to extend to other Cases • within 6 ' within the same Principle, and in which it is fit and expedient that a similar Remedy should be applied;' 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 Pro- Provisions of visions of the said Acts, with respect to Offenders charged as in recited Acts to the said Acts is mentioned, shall be deemed and taken to extend extend to Offenders indicted to all Cases of Offenders charged in any Indictment with Forgery, for Forgery, or obtaining Money by False Tokens or Pretences, and that in &c. such Indictments it shall be sufficient to allege and aver that the Act was done with Intent to defraud any one or more of any Partners, Coadventurers, Trustees, Commissioners, Feoffees, Governors or Directors, or any one by Name of any Body Corporate; any Law, Custom or Usage to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding. CA P. LVII. An Act for the Amendment of the Law respecting the Settle- WH HEREAS the Settlement of the Poor has been made, in some Instances, to depend upon the annual Value of Tenements which they may have rented, or upon the annual Va'lue of Tenements in virtue of which they have paid Parochial Rates And Whereas the ascertaining such Value, in such respective Cases, has given rise to very expensive Litigation: And 'Whereas doubts have been entertained, whether an Act made in the Fifty ninth Year of King George the Third, intituled An 59 G.3. c.50. • Act to amend the Laws respecting the Settlement of the Poor, as 'far as regards renting Tenements, has been effectual for the Purpose of altering the Law in respect of the Necessity of proving the annual Value of Tenements so rented; and it is expedient that further Provision be made relating thereto;' 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 Act of the Fifty ninth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act to amend the Laws respecting the Settlement of the Poor, so far as regards renting Tenements, shall be and the same is hereby repealed. repealed. ment. II. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That What shall be no Person shall acquire a Settlement in any Parish or Township deemed acquir maintaining its own Poor, by or by Reason of settling upon, rent- ing a Settleing or paying Parochial Rates for any Tenement, not being his or her own Property, unless such Tenement shall consist of a separate and distinct Dwelling House or Building, or of Land, or of both, bona fide rented by such Person, in such Parish or Township, at and for the Sum of Ten Pounds a Year at the least, for the Term of One whole Year; nor unless such House or Building, or Land, shall be occupied under such Yearly Hiring, and the Rent for the same, to the Amount of Ten Pounds, actually paid, for the Term of One whole Year at the least: Pro Tenancy notice, at 3 mon the to be deter good. 7B.IC 551. Proviso. vided always, That it shall not be necessary to prove the actual Not necefang und Value of such Tenement; any Thing in any Act or Acts, or any Construction of or Implication from any Act or Acts, or any 9.G.959 Usage or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding. former 5 G.4. c. 74. § 6. § 20. c. 12. ante, § 1. CA P. LVIII. An Act for providing equivalent Rates of Excise Duties, Allowances and Drawbacks on Beer and Malt, and on Spirits, made in Scotland or Ireland, according to the Measure of the newImperial Standard Gallon. < 6 6 WHEREAS [22d June 1825.] HEREAS by an Act passed in the Fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for ascertaining and establishing Uniformity of Weights and Measures, it is enacted, 'that from and after the First Day of May One thousand eight ' hundred and twenty five the Standard Measure of Capacity, as well for Liquids as for dry Goods not measured by heaped Measure, shall be the Gallon therein described and declared to be the Imperial Standard Gallon, being in Bulk equal to Two hundred and seventy seven Cubic Inches and Two hundred and seventy four One thousandth Parts of a Cubic Inch; and after reciting that the Measures by which the Rates and Duties of 'Excise have been heretofore collected, being different from the Gallon Measure directed by the said Act to be universally used, the Alteration of such Measure may, without due Care had therein, greatly affect His Majesty's Revenue, and tend to 'the diminishing of the same, it is further enacted, that accurate 'Tables shall be prepared and published, under the Direction ' of the Commissioners of the Treasury, in order that the several Rates and Duties of Excise may be adjusted and made payable according to the respective Quantities of the legal Standards 'directed by the said Act to be universally used; and that from and after the said First Day of May One thousand eight hundred and twenty five, and the Publication of such Tables, the several Rates and Duties thereafter to be collected shall be col'lected and taken according to the Calculations in the Tables to be prepared as aforesaid: And Whereas by another Act made in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, to prolong the Time of the Commencement of and to amend the aforesaid Act, it is enacted, that the several Clauses contained in the said Act, which by the aforesaid Act were directed and appointed to commence and take Effect from and after the First Day of May One thousand eight hundred and twenty five, shall commence and take Effect on the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and twenty six, and not sooner: And Whereas such Tables as aforesaid, by reason of the Difference between the Measure of the aforesaid Imperial Standard Gallon and the Measure of the respective Gallons by which the Duties, Allowances and Drawbacks of Excise for and upon or in respect of Beer and Malt, and of Spirits distilled or made in • Scotland and Ireland respectively, are charged or made, would, by the fractional Amount of precisely equivalent Duties, Allowances and Drawbacks respectively, occasion great inconve ' < ‹nience, 'nience, and much impede and confuse the Public Accounts, and II. And be it further enacted, That from and after the Fifth Day of January One thousand eight hundred and twenty six, in lieu and instead of the said Duties, Allowances and Drawbacks of Excise respectively by this Act repealed, there shall be raised, levied, collected, allowed and paid the following Duties, Allowances and Drawbacks of Excise; that is to say, BEER DUTIES: From Jan. 5, Drawbacks of Other Duties of Excise to be levied in lieu, viz. For and upon every Barrel of Thirty six Gallons, Imperial Stan- Duties on Beer. dard Gallon Measure, and so in proportion for any greater or less Quantity of Strong Beer, or Beer above Sixteen Shillings the Barrel, exclusive of the Duty hereby imposed on such Beer, and not being Twopenny Ale mentioned and described in the Seventh Article of the Treaty of Union with Scotland, brewed in Great Britain by any Brewer for Sale, or other Person or Persons who shall sell or tap out Beer publicly or privately, Nine Shillings and Ten Pence; for and upon every Barrel of Thirty six Gallons, Imperial Standard Gallon Measure, and so in proportion for any greater or less Quantity of Table Beer, or Beer of Sixteen Shillings the Barrel or under, exclusive of the Duty hereby imposed thereon, brewed in Great Britain by any Brewer for Sale, or other Person or Persons who shall sell or tap out Beer publicly or privately, One Shilling and Eleven Pence Halfpenny; for and upon every Barrel of Thirty six Gallons, Imperial Standard Gallon Measure, and so in proportion for any greater or less Quantity of Twopenny Ale, mentioned and described in the Seventh Article of the Treaty of Union with Scotland, Four Shillings and One Penny; for and upon every Barrel of Thirty six Gallons, Imperial Standard Gallon Measure, and so in proportion for any greater or less Quantity of Beer brewed or made in Great Britain, in the Proportion of not less than Five such Barrels, or more than Five and a Half of such Barrels, for and from each and every Quarter consisting of Sixty four Gallons, Imperial Standard Gallon Measure, of Malt, used in the brewing thereof, under the Provisions Allowances on Drawbacks on Beer. Bounty on Strong Beer exported. Duties on Malt. Provisions of an Act made in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for encouraging the Consumption of Beer, Four Shillings and Eleven Pence; for and upon every Barrel of Thirty six Gallons, Imperial Standard Gallon Measure, and so in proportion for any greater or less Quantity of Beer or Mum brought into Great Britain directly from Ireland, Nine Shillings. ALLOWANCES: For and upon every Barrel of Thirty six Gallons, Imperial Standard Gallon Measure, and so in proportion for any greater or less Quantity of Strong Beer brewed or made in Great Britain, and upon which the Duty payable upon Strong Beer shall be duly charged upon any Brewer of Beer for Sale, not being a Retailer thereof, or selling Beer in any less Quantity at One Time than Four such Gallons and a Half contained in a Cask, there shall be allowed for Waste to every such Brewer, out of the Duty with which he shall be charged for such Strong Beer, Ten Pence; and for and upon the like Quantity respectively of Table Beer, out of the Duty charged in respect thereof, Two Pence. DRAWBACKS: For and upon every Barrel of Thirty six Gallons, Imperial Standard Galion Measure, and so in proportion for any greater or less Quantity of Beer brewed or made in Great Britain, or brewed or made in Ireland and brought from thence direct into Great Britain, for which the Duty payable upon Strong Beer shall have been paid, and which shall be duly exported from Great Britain to Foreign Parts as Merchandize, Fourteen Shillings and Four Pence; for and upon every Barrel of Thirty Six Gallons, Imperial Standard Gallon Measure, of Beer brewed or made in Great Britain, for which the Duty on Strong Beer shall be paid, and which shall be duly removed from Great Britain to Ireland, Nine Shillings; for and upon every Barrel of Thirty six Gallons, Imperial Standard Gallon Measure, and so in proportion for any greater or less Quantity of Beer brewed or made in Ireland, or brewed or made in Great Britain and removed from thence directly into Ireland, and which shall be duly exported from Ireland to Foreign Parts as Merchandize, Five Shillings and Four Pence. BOUNTY: For and upon every Barrel of Thirty six Gallons, Imperial Standard Gallon Measure, and so in proportion for any greater or less Quantity of Strong Beer brewed or made in Great Britain, or brewed or made in Ireland and brought from thence directly into Great Britain, and upon which the Duty payable upon Strong Beer shall have been paid, and which shall be duly exported to Foreign Parts as Merchandize, when Barley is at Twenty four Shillings per Quarter or under, One Shilling. MALT DUTIES: For and upon every One hundred Gallons, Imperial Standard Gallon Measure, and so in proportion for any greater or less Quantity of Malt made in any Part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from Barley or any other Corn or Grain, (except Malt made for Home Consumption in Scotland from |