the said Reign, intituled An Act for preventing the cutting or destroying of plain, stained or printed Linens, Cottons, Lawns or Muslins, or any other manufactured Goods; also an Act passed in the said Parliament of Ireland, in the Twenty first and Twenty 21 & 22 G.3. second Year of the said Reign, intituled An Act for prohibiting e.35. (I.) the Use of Lime in bleaching, regulating Seal Masters of Linens, encouraging the Home Manufacture of Ashes for bleaching Use, enlarging and rendering more commodious the Linen Hall in the City of Dublin, and other Purposes therein mentioned; also an Act passed in the said Parliament of Ireland, in the Twenty third 23 & 24 G.3. and Twenty fourth Years of the said Reign, intituled An Act c.53. (I.) for further promoting the Linen and Hempen Manufactures; also an Act passed in the said Parliament of Ireland, in the Twenty 26 G.3. c.29. sixth Year of the said Reign, intituled An Act for granting the (I.) Sum of Four thousand Pounds to the Trustees of the Linen 27 G.3. c.18. Manufacture, and for the Purposes therein mentioned; also an (I.) Act passed in the said Parliament of Ireland, in the Twenty seventh Year of the said Reign, intituled An Act for granting the Sum of Four hundred thousand Pounds to the Trustees of the Linen Manufacture, and for the Purposes therein mentioned; also an Act passed in the said Parliament of Ireland in the Twenty 27 G.3. c.20. seventh Year of the said Reign, intituled An Act to extend the (I.) Powers given by Law to certain Persons of making Leases of Lands for the Purposes of building, and carrying on the Linen Manufacture; also an Act passed in the said Parliament of Ireland, in the Twenty eighth Year of the said Reign, intituled An 28 G.3. c.8. Act to promote the Linen and Hempen Manufacture by increasing (I.) the Supply of Irish Flax Seed, and encouraging the Export of Linens and Sail Cloth, and for granting to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, the Duties therein mentioned; also an Act passed in the said Parliament of Ireland, in the Twenty ninth 29 G.3. c.34. Year of the said Reign, intituled An Act for granting the Sum (I.) of Four thousand Pounds to the Trustees of the Linen Manufacture, and for other Purposes; also an Act passed in the said Parliament of Ireland, in the Thirtieth Year of the said Reign, so G.3, c.26. intituled An Act for granting the Sum of Four thousand Pounds (I.) to the Trustees of the Linen Manufacture, and for other Purposes; also an Act passed in the said Parliament of Ireland, in the Thirty first Year of the said Reign, intituled An Act for 31 G.3. c.14. amending the Laws respecting the Linen and Hempen Manufac- (I.) tures; also an Act passed in the said Parliament of Ireland, in the Thirty third Year of the said Reign, intituled An Act for 33 G.5. c.12. granting the Sum of Four thousand Pounds to the Trustees of the (I.) Linen and Hempen Manufactures, and for other Purposes; also an Act passed in the said Parliament of Ireland, in the Thirty 34 G.3. c.17. fourth Year of the said Reign, intituled An Act for a more effec- (I.) tual Redress in Cases of fraudulent or damaged Linens, and for enforcing County Inspectors to an effectual Execution of their Duty, and otherwise promoting the Linen and Hempen Manufactures; and also an Act passed in the said Parliament of Ireland, in the Thirty sixth Year of the said Reign, intituled An Act to 36 G.3. c.47. amend certain Parts of the Laws respecting the Linen and (I.) Hempen Manufactures; also an Act passed in the said Parlia ment of Ireland, in the Thirty seventh Year of the said Reign, 37 G.3. e.61. intituled (Is) 3 S 3 38 G.3. c.44. (I.) 44 G.3. c.69. 55 G.3. c.25. 4 G. 4. c.90. repealed. Former Trus intituled An Act for the further Regulations of the Linen and Hempen Manufactures; also an Act passed in the said Parliament of Ireland, in the Thirty eighth Year of the said Reign, intituled An Act to amend the Laws for promoting the Linen and Hempen Manufactures; also an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, in the Forty fourth Year of the said Reign, intituled An Act to amend the Laws for regulating the Linen Manufacture of Ireland; also an Act passed in the said Parliament, in the Fifty fifth Year of the said Reign, intituled An Act for the better Regulation of the Manufacture of Brown Linens in Ireland; also an Act passed in the said Parliament, in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty George the Fourth, intituled An Act to regulate the Linen and Hempen Manufactures of Ireland. • II. And to the end that the several Orders and Regulations hereinafter contained for the Government of the Linen Manufacture may be effectual, and carried into due Execution, and that the Funds appropriated and granted, and to be appropriated and granted, to the Uses of the said Manufacture, may be properly applied, it will be expedient to establish some superintending Authority for that Purpose;' Be it therefore enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That the several Persons hitherto tees to continue. appointed, for each of the Four Provinces of Ireland, Trustees for encouraging the said Manufacture, pursuant to the Powers in some of the said Acts contained, shall and may continue Trustees for encouraging the said Manufacture, with the Powers and Authorities hereinafter vested in them; and that when and as often as any of the said Trustees already nominated or appointed, or hereafter to be nominated or appointed, shall happen to die or resign, that in such and no other Case the Lord Lieutenant, or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the Time being, shall and may from time to time nominate and appoint such other Person or Persons as he or they shall think fit, to be a Trustee or Trustees for encouraging the said Manufacture in the Place and Room of such of the said Trustees as shall happen to die or to resign, to be always nominated and appointed as aforesaid, for the same Province for which the respective Person or Persons so dying or resigning was or were formerly appointed; and that the said Trustees for the Time being, or any Five or more of them, shall and may from time to time, and as often as they shall think fit, meet and assemble together in some convenient Place within the City of Dublin, to settle and adjust such Matters as they shall think most expedient for the establishing and carrying on the said Manufacture, and for preventing all Frauds and Abuses that may happen in the same, or any Branch thereof. Trustees to apply Money. III. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the said Trustees to apply any Part of the Sums which shall or may be appropriated or granted to the said Trustees for the Use of the Linen Manufacture, in such Manner as they shall think proper and most conducive to the Interest of the said Manufacture, subject however to the Limitations hereinafter mentioned in respect to the Appointment and Payment of their Officers and and Servants, or other Persons to be employed by them for any temporary Purposes. titled to Bounty. IV. Provided always, and be it enacted, That no Part of the No Premium said Sums shall be applied in the Payment of any Premium, on Linen enBounty or Allowance on any Fabric of the Linen Manufacture, which is or shall be entitled to any Bounty upon the Exportation thereof from any Part of the United Kingdom. Trustees. V. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for Appointment the said Trustees, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, of Officers by subject however to the Conditions and Restrictions and Regulations hereinafter mentioned, to appoint from time to time and at all Times, in any Mode or Manner they may think fit, all such Officers, Servants and Persons as shall appear to the said Trustees to be necessary or expedient for the Purpose of carrying into effectual Execution the Trusts committed to the Charge of the said Trustees, with such Salaries and Allowances as to the said Trustees shall seem suitable. of Trustees. ment of Officers not valid without Approbation of Lord Lieutenant. VI. Provided always, and be it enacted, That any Appointment Appointments or Appointments of any such Officer or Officers, Servant or Ser- not valid, unvants, Person or Persons as aforesaid, or of the Salary or Salaries, less at Meeting Allowance or Allowances to be paid to them, or any of them, shall not be valid and effectual, unless such Appointment or - Appointments shall be made at a Meeting to be held pursuant to Notice for that Purpose, at which Five or more of the said Trustees shall be present. VII. Provided also, and be it enacted, That any Appointment Such Appointor Appointments of any Officer or Officers, Person or Persons as aforesaid, or of the Salary or Salaries, Allowance or Allow. ances to be paid to them or any of them, made by the said Trustees at any Meeting to be held for that Purpose, at which Five or more Trustees shall be present, shall not be valid and effectual, unless a Return in Writing of such Appointment or Appointments, Salary or Salaries, Allowance or Allowances as aforesaid, signed by the major Part in Number of the said Trustees present at such Meeting, shall be laid before the Lord Lieutenant, or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, and Privy Council of Ireland, for the Time being, by delivering the same at the Office of the Clerk of the Privy Council, Thirty one Days at the least before such Appointment or Appointments shall be intended to take effect; and if the said Lord Lieutenant, or other Chief Governor or Governors, and Privy Council, shall, within the said Thirty one Days, signify to the said Trustees in Writing their Disapprobation of such Appointment or Appointments respectively, or any of them, such Appointment or Appointments so objected to shall be of no Force or Effect. not object. VIII. Provided also, and be it enacted, that if the Lord Lieu- Appointment tenant, or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, and of such Officers Privy Council for the Time being, shall not within Thirty one valid, if Lord Days, to be computed from the Day of Delivery at the Office Lieutenant do of the Clerk of the Council in manner aforesaid, of such Return as aforesaid, signify to the said Trustees their Disapprobation. of such Appointment or Appointments, the same shall, from the Time of the Expiration of the said Thirty one Days, stand in full Force and Effect, notwithstanding that such Lord Lieutenant, 3 S 4 Trustees may tenant, or other Chief Governor or Governors, and Privy Council, shall not have signified any express Approbation thereof. IX. Provided also, and be it enacted, That nothing herein dismiss Officers, contained shall abridge or restrain, or be construed to abridge or restrain the Power and Discretion of the said Trustees to dismiss from their Service any Officer, Servant or other Person appointed and approved of in manner aforesaid, who shall afterwards appear to have been guilty of any Neglect or improper Conduct in their Employment, and to nominate such others in their Stead as they shall think fit, subject nevertheless to the Provisions aforesaid. Five Trustees must be pre'sent. Majority of may make Rules for May take Security for Observance of Rules. Acts heretofore done and Appointments made by Trustees valid. X. And be it enacted, That no Act shall be deemed an Act of the said Trustees, unless there shall be at least Five of the said Trustees, duly assembled by previous Summons, present at such Act, unless otherwise herein particularly provided; and that the Act of the Majority of the Trustees present at any Meeting so assembled shall be and be considered as the Act of the said Trustees, and be good and sufficient for all Purposes whatsoever, save and except as herein otherwise particularly mentioned; any Law to the contrary notwithstanding. XI. And be it enacted, That any Five Trustees, or the major Part of them, present at any such Meeting, shall and may, from time to time and at all Times hereafter, make, constitute and appoint such Rules, Orders and Directions (provided the same be not contrary to this Act), for regulating, governing and directing the Conduct of all Inspectors, Seal Masters, Officers, Servants or other Persons, that are or shall be appointed by them as aforesaid, as they the said Trustees, or such major Part of them, shall think proper; and that all such Persons so appointed, or to be appointed as aforesaid, shall be subject to and observo all such Rules, Orders and Directions, and under such Fines .. Penalties, as any Five of the said Trustees for the Time being, or such major Part of them, shall make, constitute or appoint; and that the said Trustees for the Time being may and they are hereby authorized and empowered to take Security or Securities, by Bond or otherwise, in the Name or Names of any One or more of them, or in the Name of their Secretary for the Time being, for the due Observance of all such Rules, Orders and Directions as aforesaid; and that if any Complaints shall be made against any such Person or Persons as aforesaid, for any Fraud, Misbehaviour or Neglect in his or their said Office, that it shall be lawful to and for the said Trustees for the Time being, or any of them, on Examination upon Oath of the Parties, and of such Witnesses as shall appear or be produced before them (which Oath the said Trustees for the Time being, or any of them, are hereby empowered to administer), finally to hear and determine the same by dismissing such Persons, or by imposing upon any such Persons as aforesaid any such Fines as the said Trustees, or any Five of them, shall judge proper: Provided always, that this Act, or any Thing herein contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to render null and void, interfere with, or affect any Act, Matter or Thing, heretofore done by the said Trustees in pursuance of any Authority vested in them, or to take away or interfere with any Remedy they may have or might have had in respect of the same before the passing of this Act, General; their Powers. XII. And be it enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, that the Inspectors different Persons appointed Inspectors General shall from time to time, and as often as thereunto required by the said Trustees, go through the several Parts of their Inspection, where the said Manufacture is carried on, and that they shall inspect into such Matters relative to the said Manufactures as shall be directed by the said Trustees, from the growing of the Seed to the most finished State of the Linen, and likewise into the State of the Markets, the Conduct of all Seal Masters and Inspectors, the Application of Utensils granted from time to time by the Trustees, the Expenditure of the Money by them granted for Bleach Greens, Mills, Buildings or other Purposes, the Situation and State of such Bleach Greens, Mills and Buildings, and whether any and what Frauds have been committed in claiming any Premjums, or distributing any Utensils granted by the said Trustees; and the said Inspectors General are hereby authorized to suspend from Office any Local Inspectors or Seal Masters that shall appear to them to have been guilty of any Fraud or Neglect in their Offices, and to make Complaint thereof to the said Trustees, and to appoint any other Person or Persons to be Inspector or Inspectors, Seal Master or Seal Masters, in their Stead, with full Powers to act as such Inspector or Seal Master, until the Determination of the said Trustees shall be had on such Complaint; and that each such Inspector General shall always return upon To account to Oath to the said Trustees a full and true Account of the said Trustees upon several Matters, and of his Progress in the Execution of their Oath. Orders, and of every Fraud, Neglect or Misconduct which he shall have observed or found out in any Inspector or Seal Master, or in the Application of any Utensil, or Claim or Payment of any Premium granted by the Trustees, and for that Purpose to use and exercise, and he is hereby authorized to use and exercise every Power, and to do every Act which any One Trustee is in himself by this Act vested with or authorized to do, to all Intents and Purposes, as fully and effectually as if he were himself a Trustee, and the said Powers were herein specifically enacted. . XIII. And be it enacted, That the several Inspectors of Linen and Yarn, to be appointed by the said Trustees for any County or District, shall be so appointed on the Recommendation of the Linen Bleachers, or a Majority of them, resident within such County or District, to the said Trustees, provided there shall be Six Bleachers resident therein; and in case there shall not be Six Bleachers therein, then such Persons shall be appointed on the Recommendation of Persons resident within such County or District, and dealing in Linen or Yarn to the Amount of One thousand Pounds Inspectors to be appointed on Recommendation of Bleachers; if no Bleachers, then of Dealers; |