Preamble. 14 Gen. 3. c. Part of the . 24. [1785. not liable to the land tax. When annuitants die, other annuities may be purchased. Annuities may be affigned. As annuitants die, the rates to be lowered. Monies raifed vefted in the commiffioners. Expences of paffing this act to be first paid. Commiffioners may purchase lands, etc. Monies in the hands of the treasurers, receivers, or collectors, to be the first paid in cafe of death. Power to repair or rebuild certain bridges over the Mill pond, viz. Folly Bridge, Water-laue Bridge, London ftreet Bridge, and the bridges at the weft and eaft end of Jacobftreet. Provifo for excluding Five-foot Lane out of the act. Penalties, may be mitigated, but not to less than a moiety. Commiffioners to relay pavement taken up for repairing any vaults, drains, or pipes, and to be reimbursed by the party taking up fuch pavement. Power given to compound with commiffioners of fewers. Action to be brought for expences, of relaying any pavement. Penalty on neglect of giving notice of taking up the pavement for 24 hours, 208. Commiffioners to pay for altering pipes. Perfons aggrieved may appeal to the quarter feffions. Penalties and forfeitures to be recovered by diftrefs and fale of goods, and in default of goods, to be committed for three months, and not lefs than fourteen days, or till paid, and to be applied for the purposes of the act. Commiffioners may reward informers. Diftrefs not unlawful for want of form. Plaintiff not to recover if tender of amends hath been made. Minute book to be kept. Juftices impowered to adminifter oaths. Commiffioners who are juftices may act as fuch. Proceedings not to be quathed for want of form. Inhabitants may be witneffes. Limitation of actions, in fix months. General iffue. Treble cofts. Pub lick act. CA P. XXIV. An act to repeal so much of an act made in the last feffion of parlia ment, as impofes duties on all fluffs made of cotton and linen mixed, and stuffs wholly made of cotton wool wove in Great Britain, not heing printed, painted, or ftained; and on licences for bleaching or dying the fame. W HEREAS an act was made in the last feffion of parliament, (intituled, An act for granting to his Majefty additional duties on linens printed, painted, ftained, or dyed in Great Britain; and for granting certain duties on cotton stuffs bleached or dyed in Great Britain; and on licences for bleaching or dying the fame; and upon the importation of stuffs made of, or mixed with cotton, not painted, printed, stained, or dyed, in foreign parts): and whereas fo much of the faid recited act as imposes duties on all stuffs made of cotton and linen mixed, and ftuffs wholly made of cotton wool wove in Great Britain, not being printed, painted, or ftained, and an·licences for bleaching or dying the fame, has been found inconvenient; be it therefore enacted by the King's molt excellent majefty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords fpiritual and temporal, and commons, in this prefent parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, That, from and after the paffing of this act, fo much and fuch part of the faid recited act, as impofes duties on all cotton stuffs made of cotton and linen mixed, and stuffs wholly made of cotton wool wove in Great Britain, not being printed, painted, or ftained, and on licences for bleaching or dying the fame, fhall be, and the fame is hereby repealed, CAP CA P. XXV. An act for allowing further time for the importation of goods the produce or manufacture of the ifland of Tobago, upon payment of the British plantation duties. 23 Geo. 3. c. 14. recited. Goods, the produce of Tobago, may be im. ported before Dec. 31, 1785, upon payment of British plantation duties. Purport of the oath to be taken by the importer. CA P. XXVI. An act for the better preservation and improvement of the river Wear, A&t 3 Geo. 1. Private act No. 3. 13 Geo. I. c. of 4 1 Anno vicefimo quinto GEORGII III. c.26. [1785. of their chairman. No action or indictment to be brought or preferred, but by order of eleven commiffioners. To prevent skippers, etc. from Overloading their keels used for ballaft, to forfeit 408. Owners and skippers names to be on the keel. Keels for ballaft to be weighed, etc. Coal keels to be entered, and marked. Pitch, etc. fhall be boiled on board veffels, by an iron inftrument called a Loggerhead, on forfeiture of 51. Time allowed for weighing and raising veffels funk, twenty-four hours, or to pay damages. To prevent ballaf being caft into the river, penalty sl. To prevent cafting ballaft without a port fail, penalty sl. To prevent ballaft lying on the keys too near the edge, penalty 51. Power for the engineer to remove ballaft, etc. Penalty on taking coals, etc. on board of ships in the narrow, sl. or in the channel between the high ftairs, belonging to John Thornhill, efq; and the extreme east end of the pier; except between the faid ftairs and the coble flip, if but one ship in a tier, next to the key; or to the north fide of the channel, if but one fhip in a tier. Not to moor fhips in the narrow, except as aforefaid. No fhips to lie in the narrow, after being loaded or delivered, on penalty of 51. Stopping the paffage. or hindering the works, penalty 58. an hour. Proceedings against offenders withdrawing. Commiffioners may bring an action. Wilfully damaging the works, to answer damages. To prevent ships being milled by fire of limekilns, commiffioners to build walls, to be repaired by the owner. New duties on coals and cinders, brought to the faid river, between South Biddick or Biddick Ford, and the port of Sunderland, 3d. per chaldron by owners, and id. per chaldron by fitters. Commiffioners may collect duties already due. For ascertaining the quantities of coals liable to duty, may examine on oath perfons belonging to colliers. Exemption from duties; if coals be loft or used in making falt and glass, glafs bottles, vitriol, copperas, earthen ware, bricks, tiles or lime, in limits of the faid port, to be proved on oath. If the ftaithmen do not appear to be examined, owners may be charged with 8d, per chaldron, and fitters with 4d. per chaldron, for not above 25,0co chaldrons in a year, as the commiffioners think fit. Commiffioners may borrow money, and affign the tolls as a fecurity. Form of affignment. Affignments may be transferred. Form of transfer. The manner of levying penalties, by diftrefs and fale of goods. For rewarding informers. The money to be applied to pay the expences of act, and paying charge of feveral works done in purfu ance of the act, and paying money borrowed and intereft. Informa. tion to be given in fix months, and profecution in twelve months. Offenders not to be punished twice. Commiffioner not to fit or vote in his own cafe. Proceedings to be entered in books, and to be evidence. No order to be quashed for want of form. No order to be repealed, unless eleven commiffioners prefent. Commiffioner being a juftice may act as fuch. Power to make bye-laws; and notice thereof to be given by advertisement. Commiffioners may adminifter an oath to prove ferving of procefs, etc. Perfons giving falfe evidence, to be deemed guilty of perjury. Quakers affirmation to be taken, under like paina and penalties. Officers to account. Penalty on default. For want of diftrefs by commitment till account, &c. or by action. Officers to deJiver up books, etc. when required fo to do by the commiffioners, or to be committed. Perfone aggrieved may appeal to the quarter feffions. For preferving the keys, etc. ufed at the time of paffing this act. Al lowing the building of new keys, wharts, and faiths. Nuifances may be punished at common law. Commiffioners to fatisfy damages occafioned by carrying on any new works; and keys, etc. to be rebuilt: damages to be affeffed by a jury. Saving of rights to the lord bishop of Durham, and others. Navigation to be free. Limitation of actions. General iffue. Treble costs. Publick act. CA P. XXVII. An act for the better relief and employment of the poor within the hun dreds of Tunftead and Happing, in the county of Norfolk. Perfons feized of estates in their own right, or in right of their wives, of 30l. per ann. in the faid hundreds of Tunftead and Happing, and justices of the peace refiding therein, and all rectors and vicars, ufually refident therein for 6 months, and occupiers of land, etc. of 100l. per ann. refident there, to be guardians of the poor, within the hundreds of Tunftead and Happing, in the county of Norfolk, and incorporated. Women to act by proxy. Corporation not to hold lands for more than five years. Poor to continue under the law of the churchwardens and overseers as they now are, until a house be provided for their reception. Children may be apprenticed by the guardians. Juftices may grant redress to children misused. Children may be difmiffed to their parents and friends. First meeting to be four weeks after the paffing of the act, and to choose by ballot twenty-four directors. Qualifications of directors; 80l. per ann. in one of the said hundreds, or 6ol. there, and 401. in fome other hundred. Persons seised of 300l. per ann. or heirs apparent to 600l. to act as directors. Officers to continue in office only during pleasure. Directors and guardians, at the first meeting, to deliver in their qualifications. Penalty on directors acting, not being qualified, sol. Power to elect three directors not qualified. Officers to account, and pay the balance. Officer not accounting to be committed. Balance of money in hand at receiver's death, to be paid by his executors, etc. Directors may contract for lands and buildings. Incapacitated perfons impowered to fell lands, etc. Directors may inclose thirty acres of waste; and, if no agreement can be made, may caufe the value to be afcertained by a jury. Penalty on fheriff, jurymen, etc. making default, Iol. Directors impowered to exchange lands in certain cafes, but not more than fifty acres; and those taken in exchange to be deemed freehold, and those given in exchange according to their former tenure. Accounts to be delivered to the directors of lands and tenements given for the benefit of the poor. Such lands and tenements may be let, etc. by the directors and guardians, with consent of the churchwardens, etc. May be let or fold by five directors, on four weeks notice in the Norwich newspapers. No director concerned in the letting or felling fuch lands, etc. fhall be interested in any leafe or contract. Monies arifing by letting or sale, to be paid to the treasurer, and to be applied according to the direction of the donor of the lands, and the furplus distributed to the most meritorious poor. After purchase compleated, poffeffion fhall be delivered to purchasers, Directing an allowance to be made to the parishes for town houfes let or fold, at 5 per cent. per ann. for future rates. Money hereafter left for the poor, without any particular direction, is to be diftributed to the poor of the parish; and overfeers to forfeit treble value, if misapplied. Houses, etc. to be purchased, to be free of all parochial, county, or parliamentary taxes, except fuch as they were affeffed at before the act. Directors to erect or provide neceffary buildings for the reception of aged or infirm perfons; another for children unable to work; another separate for the poor that are able to work, and working rooms; another for an infirmary for the fick; another separate for lunaticks; alfo a chapel, and other neceffary buildings; to be called. The Houfe for the Poor of the Hundreds of Tunftead and Happing; and also to inclofe a burial ground, and may alter and enlarge the fame, and to keep them in repair: the expences to be defrayed by money arifing by virtue of the act. Perfons obftructing the erection of fuch buildings, deemed guilty of felony. Seven directors to fuperintend the buildings, Power to get materials for building. For obtaining a fupply of water, may enter any lands adjoining; but not to deprive any other house or lands of their water. Penalty of injuring the drains, etc. 1ol, and not less than 408. Recompence thall be made for 2. i : for damages. Directors to furnish the house, and provide materials for employment of the poor, etc. The houfe to be built and furnished by contract. When the house is finished, a general meeting to be called, and the vacancy of directors filled up. Acting guardians to be appointtd yearly, on the first Tuesday after the fifth of July. Power to make bye-laws. Bye-laws to be approved at the quarter feffions. Meetings annually on the first Tüelday after the sth. of July, 10th. of October, 5th. of January, and the gth. of April, at the house for the poor. Choice of new directors, guardians, and treasurer. At other quarterly meetings may fill up vacancies of directors and guardians. Divifion of directors and guardians in quarterly committees. That the weekly or quarterly meetings.may be altered, and they may divide themfelves into committees for each month. Penalty of 20s. for non-attendance of director, and 108. for a guardian. Power to relieve occafional poor. Poor not having a legal féttlément within the faid hundreds, to be relieved by a juftice, or guardian, till able to be removed, and to be reimHuffed by the directors, or guardians, and they by the overfeers of the parish where such person settled; and if the poor perfon die before examination, touching fettlement, to be buried at the expence of the guardians and directors. Children becoming chargeable to the parishes, shall be received into the house, nurtured, and put out by the guardians. Not to affect the fettlement of any perfon, &c. For punishing idle and disorderly perfons, able but unwilling to work, as by the act of 17 Geo. Churchwardens or overfeers neglecting to make complaint thereof, to be fined. The husband or father of poor persons to affist in maintaining them. Guardians may apprehend idle perfons refusing to work. Accounts to be fettled and allowed at each quarterly meeting. Nine to conftitute a quarterly meeting; four of which fhall be directors. Directors may borrow money, but not more that 15,000l. in feveral fums of rool. each, and affign the rates as a fecurity. Affignments transferrable. Power to raise 6,000l. by annuities. Annuities may be transferred. Power to raise money by a scheme of furvivorship, at not more than 5 per cent. No contributor to advance lefs than 5ol. Affeffinents to be made at yearly and general quarterly meetings. Deficiencies to be made good by a re-affessment. Affeffments not to exceed the poor rates on an average of seven years. Churchwardens and overseers may make affeffments for other purposes. Houses and lands usually rated to continue chargeable. Churchwardens and overféers to attend firft meeting, bring their books, and leave them with directors. For want of books and rates, to affsess at their discretion. Churchwardens and overfeers to aid and affift directors and guardians in execution of this act. Penalty on default, 51. Every director and acting guardian, failing in his duty of holding quarterly meeting, to forfeit jl. Directors and acting guardians may grant certificates with the perfons who fhall remove. All certificates to be delivered to the directors. Penalty of 408. on överseers, &c. suffering perfons to refide without certificate, or not informing directors of fingle women suspected to be with child. Parishes liable to maintain fuch paupers as fhall, by fuch neglect, gain fettlements. Bonds of indemnity ägainst bastards, already given to parish officers, to be delivered to the officers of the directors, and acting guardians; and the corporation may fue thereon in their own name; and all future bonds to be their propěřtý. Churchwardens and overfeers, to be ordered by a juftice to find work for the poor, or make them a weekly allowance in the mean time; which is to be reimbursed out of the parish rates, over and above the money to be raised by this act. A governor and matron to be appointed; a furgeon or apothecary; a clergymen, and schoolmafter. Such poor as fhall misbehave, or be guilty of any vice or immorality, may be inflicted by order of the directors and acting guardians, at weekly meetings, viz. if a child under r years of age, by moderate correction, or abatement of diet, or diftinction in drefs and diet; above that age, by folitary confinement, abatement of diet, or diftinction in drefs or diet, or by putting in the ftocks, for not more than two hours for one offence, or to be fed with bread 1 |