their Guardian or Guardians, Committee or Committees, to and respectively. XVI. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That where Provifo refpectany Question shall arife touching the Title of any Corporation, or ing disputed any Perfon or Perfons, to any Money to be paid into the Bank of Titles. England, in the Name and with the Privity of the Accountant General of the Court of Chancery, in pursuance of this Act, for the Purchase of any Tenements or Hereditaments, or of any Estate, Right or Intereft in any Tenements or Hereditaments as aforefaid, or to any Bank Annuities to be purchased with any fuch Money, or the Dividends or Intereft of any fuch Bank Annuities, the Perfon or Perfons who fhall have been in Poffeffion of fuch Tenements or Hereditaments at the time of fuch Purchase, and all Perfons claiming under fuch Perfon or Perfons, or under the Poffeffion of fuch Perfon or Perfons, fhall be deemed and taken to have been lawfully entitled to fuch Tenements or Hereditaments, according to fuch Poffeffion, until the contrary shall be fhewn to the Satisfaction of the faid Court of Chancery; and the Dividends or Interest of the Bank Annuities to be purchased with fuch Money, and alfo the Capital of fuch Bank Annuities, fhall be paid, applied and difpofed of accordingly, unless it fhall be made appear to the faid Court that such Poffeffion was a wrongful Poffeffion, and that fome other Person or Perfons was or were lawfully entitled to fuch Tenements or Hereditaments, or to fome Eftate or Intereft therein. XVII. And be it further enacted, That when and so foon as full Satisfaction fhall have been made by any of the Means aforefaid to all Perfons interested in fuch Houfes, Buildings and Ground, it fhall and may be lawful for the faid Chancellor, Mafters and Scholars, and they are hereby empowered to caufe the fame to be taken down, and to add fo much of the Site or Ground thereof to the Site of the faid diffolved College as may be neceffary for the intended Improvements of the fame, for the Ufe and Benefit of the Principal and other Members of Magdalen Hall, and fhall and may fell and difpofe of the Remainder thereof, with the Materials of the faid Houfes and Buildings, in fuch manner as the faid Chancellor, Matters and Scholars, or the faid Delegates of Eftates, fhall think proper, and apply the Produce thereof in the making the faid Improvements or Repayment of any Money expended therein. Satisfaction being made, Houfes, &c. to be taken down. XVIII. Provided alfo, and be it further enacted, That nothing Provifo for Priin this Act shall extend or be deemed or conftrued to extend to take vileges of Uniaway, diminish or impede the Exercife of any Privilege or Right versity. whatsoever of the faid Univerfity, or of any of the Magiftrates, Officers, Minifters or Servants thereunto belonging. XIX. Saving always to The King's Most Excellent Majefty, his General Saving, Heirs and Succeffors, and to all and every other Perfon and Perfons, Bodies Politic, Corporate or Collegiate, and his and their Heirs, Succeffors, Executors and Adminiftrators, (other than and except the faid Chancellor, Mafters and Scholars of the faid Univerfity, and the faid Prefident and Scholars of Saint Mary Magdalen College, and the Principal and other Members of Magdalen Hall,) all fuch Eftate, Right, Title and Intereft, as they, every or any of them, could or ought to have had or enjoyed, in cafe this Act had not been made. The 1 Jac. I. c. 15. § 14. Perfons not endangered by Delivery of Goods or Effects to Bankrupts, not having a Knowledge of fuch Bankruptcy. fmall Court Yard Ditto A Dwelling Houfe, Shop A fmall Public House, and OWNERS. Thomas Prefton, under a beneficial Lease from the Cityof Oxford. Edward Hutton, under a fimilar Leafe. Jane Vowles. Ditto. James Stone. The Reverend Mr. Dere. Edward Michlem, under a beneficial Leafe from the City of Oxford. CA P. CXXXVII. An Act to extend the Provifions of an Act of the First Year WHEREAS in and by an Act paffed in the First Year of the Reign of His late Majefty King James the Firft, intituled An Aa for the better Relief of the Creditors against fuch as feall • become Bankrupt, it was amongst other things enacted, that no • Debtor of a Bankrupt should be thereby endangered for the Payment of his or her Debt truly and bona fide to any fuch Bankrupt, before fuch time as he should understand or know that he was become Bankrupt: And Whereas the Provisions of the faid Statute have been found to be beneficial, and it is alfo expedient to make fuch Provifions refpecting the Delivery of Goods, Wares, Merchandizes and Effects as are hereinafter contained: May it therefore please Your Majefty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by The King's Moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That no Perfon or Perfons, Body Politic or Corporate, Joint Stock or other Company, having in his, her or their Poffeffion or Cuftody any Goods, Wares, Merchandizes or Effects belonging to any Perfon or Perfons who fhall be or become Bankrupt, fhall be endangered for or by reafon of the Delivery of any fuch Goods, Wares, Merchandizes or Effects truly and bona fide to fuch Perfon or Perfons, or to his, her or their Order, before fuch time as the Perfon or Perfons, Body Politic or Corporate, Joint Stock or or other Company, having fuch Goods, Wares, Merchandizes or Effects in his or their Poffeffion or Cuftody, fhall underftand or know that the Person or Persons to whom such Goods, Wares, Merchandizes or Effects do or fhall belong, is or are become Bankrupt. II. Provided nevertheless, and be it enacted, That in all cafes in which it shall be proved that the Perfon or Perfons acting on the behalf of any Body Politic or Corporate, Joint Stock or other Company, in the paying or caufing or directing the Payment of any Debt, or in the delivering or caufing or directing the Delivery of any Goods, Wares, Merchandizes or Effects, to any Perfon or Perfons, understood or knew that the Perfon or Perfons or any of them to whom fuch Debt was paid, or fuch Goods, Wares, Merchandizes or Effects were delivered, was or were or had become Bankrupt, fuch Body Politic or Corporation, Joint Stock or other Company, fhall be deemed and taken to have understood and known the fame. CA P. CXXXVIII. An Act to abolish the Punishment of the Pillory, except in W been Bodies Politic, &c. deemed to know Bankruptcy if Person behalf knew it. acting on their tain Offences been found inexpedient and not fully to anfwer the Purpose for which it was intended;' Be it therefore enacted by The King's Moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That from Judgment of and after the paffing of this A&t Judgment shall not be given and Pillory to be awarded against any Perfon or Perfons convicted of any Offence, awarded for cer that fuch Perfon or Perfons do ftand in or upon the Pillory, except only. for the Offences hereinafter mentioned; any Law, Statute or Ufage to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided that all Laws now in force whereby any Perfon is fubject to Punishment for the taking any falfe Oath, or for committing any manner of wilful and corrupt Perjury, or for the procuring or fuborning any other Person so to do, or for wilfully, falfely and corruptly affirming or declaring, or procuring or fuborning any other Perfon fo to affirm and declare, in any matter or thing, which if the fame had been depofed in the ufual Form would have amounted to wilful and corrupt Perjury, shall continue and be in full Force and Effect; and that all Perfons guilty of any of the faid feveral Offences fhall incur and fuffer the fame Punishment, Penalties and Forfeitures as fuch Perfons were subjec to by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm, or any of them, before the paffing of this Act and as if this Act had not been made. II. And be it further enacted, That in all cafes where the Punish. ment of the Pillory has hitherto formed the whole or a Part of the Judgment to be pronounced, it fhall and may be lawful for the Court before whom fuch Offence is tried, to pafs fuch Sentence of Fine or Imprisonment, or of both, in lieu of the Sentence of Pillory, as to the faid Court fhall feem moft proper: Provided that nothing herein contained shall extend or be conftrued to extend in any manner to change, alter or affect any Punishment whatsoever which may now be by Law inflicted in refpect of any Offence, except only the Punishment of Pillory, in manner as herein above is enacted. CAP. Court may fine or imprison Offenders. Not to change any Punishment for Offences, except the Pillory. How Parish fhall be bound. Juftices to enquire into certain Matters, CA P. CXXXIX. An Act to regulate the binding of Parish Apprentices. WHEREAS of HEREAS many Grievances have arifen from the binding of poor Children as Apprentices by Parish Officers to improper Perfons, and to Perfons, refiding at a Diftance from the Parishes to which fuch Poor Children belong, whereby the faid • Parish Officers, and the Parents of fuch Children, are deprived of the Opportunity of knowing the manner in which such Children are treated, and the Parents and Children have, in many Inftances, 'become eftranged from each other; and alfo from the Permiffion given to Apprentices, by the Perfons to whom fuch Apprentices have been bound, to ferve others without a formal Affignment, whereby the Difcretion to be exercifed by Magiftrates in placing out Apprentices to fuitable Perfons, is frequently rendered of no avail: For Remedy whereof, be it enacted by The King's Moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That from and after the First Day of October in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fixteen, before any Child fhall be bound Apprentice by the Overseers of the Poor of any Parish, Township or Place, fuch Child shall be carried before Two Juftices of the Peace of the County, Riding, Divifion or Place wherein fuch Parish, Township or Place shall be fituate, who fhall enquire into the Propriety of binding fuch Child Apprentice to the Perfon or Perfons to whom it fhall be proposed by fuch Overfeers to bind fuch Child; and fuch Juftices fhall particularly enquire and confider whether fuch Perfon or Perfons refide, or have his, her or their Place or Places of Bufinefs within a reasonable Distance from the Place to which fuch Child fhall belong, having regard to the Means of Communication between fuch Places, or whether any Circumftances fhall make it fit, in the Judgement of such Juftices, that fuch Child should be may examine the placed. Apprentice at a greater Distance; and if the Father or Mother of fuch Child shall be living, and fhall refide in or near the Place to which fuch Child fhall belong, fuch Juftices fhall (if they fee fit) examine fuch Father or Mother, or either of them, and fhall particularly enquire as to the Distance of the Refidence or Place of Business of the Perfon or Perfons to whom it fhall be proposed to place fuch Child, and the Means of Communication therewith; and fuch Juftices fhall alfo enquire into the Circumftances and Character of fuch Perfon or Perfons; and if fuch Juftices fhall, upon fuch Juftices to make Examination and Enquiry, think it proper that fuch Child should be bound Apprentice to fuch Perfon or Perfons, fuch Juftices shall make an Order, declaring that fuch Perfon or Persons is or are fit Perfon or Perfons to whom fuch Child may be properly bound as Apprentice, and fhall thereupon order that the Overfeer or Overfeers of the Place to which fuch Child fhall belong, fhall be at liberty to bind fuch Child Apprentice accordingly; which Order fhall be delivered to fuch Overseer or Overféers, as the Warrant for binding fuch Child Apprentice as aforefaid, and fuch Order fhall be referred to by the Date thereof, and the Names of the faid Parents. In what cafe an Order that Overfeers bind the Child Apprentice. Juftices Juftices in the Indenture of Apprenticeship of fuch Child; and after allowed by Two II. And be it further enacted, That in all cafes where the Refi- Indenture to be dence or Establishment of Business of the Perfon or Perfons to whom any Child shall be bound, fhall be within a different County or Jurifdiction of the Peace, from that within which the Place by the Officers whereof fuch Child fhall be bound fhall be fituated, and tice is to be in all other cafes where the Juftices of the Peace for the District bound, as well as or Place within which the Place by the Officers whereof fuch Child by Two Juftices shall be bound shall be fituated, and who fhall fign the Allowance of of the County the Indenture by which fuch Child fhall be bound, fhall not have bound Jurifdiction, every Indenture by which fuch Child shall be bound at any time after the faid First Day of October fhall be allowed as well deal, not nepag by Two Juftices of the Peace for the County or District within from which he is which the Place by the Officers of which fuch Child fhall be bound 10 B. 16.12 fuch Child fhall be bound is engaged; and Notice fhall be given to Notice to Over- • IV. And Whereas there are several Cities and Boroughs which Allowance by County Magif Places having ex- tion. |