then and there to answer to your names severally, and to present all public nuisances and annoyances which you shall know within your said parish; all and every person who profanes the Lord's day, either by gaming, sporting, or tippling in public houses, or by using and exercising their several and respective trades or ordinary callings, or any other act, matter and thing, tending to encourage vice, lewdness, profaneness and immorality on that day. And for that purpose you are to make strict and diligent search throughout your said parish, on the Sunday immediately preceding the said petty sessions, and at all other proper and convenient times and seasons whereby offenders may be discovered, and your best endeavours use to discountenance and prevent the growing evil of profaning the Lord's day, which is now so much practised, and that day abused. And you are to return to the said justices at their petty sessions the names of all the persons keeping disorderly houses or common lodging-houses for lewd persons in your parish; and all persons making, encouraging, or occasioning any riots, routs, or unlawful assemblies, whereby his majesty's peace or the public tranquillity may be broken or disturbed and all other matters or things punishable at this petty sessions which shall come to your knowledge, information, or belief, to the end that the said justices may take such method and means in the premises as to law doth appertain; and hereof you or any of you are not to fail, on pain of being returned to the said quarter sessions for a contempt and misdemeanor. Given under our hands and seals at a public meeting of the justices, held at in the division and county aforesaid, this one thousand eight hundred and day of The like, for using a gun and sporting on the Lord's day, see title "GAME," ante. LOTTERY. No. 1. Conviction of an Offender apprehended and brought before a Justice for insuring Tickets in a Little Goe, under 42 Geo. 3. c. 119. s. 5 & 6. County of to wit. Be it remembered, that after the twenty-eighth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and two, to wit, late of thousand eight hundred and of in the year of our Lord one in the county at labourer, was apprehended and brought before me W. R. one of the justices of our lord the king, assigned to keep the peace of our said lord the king, in and for the said county of residing near the place where the offence hereinafter mentioned was committed by and was then and there charged before me by the information , for that the said at of one day of of said of on the said aforesaid, in consideration that one had then and there paid to the said the sum the sum of lawful money of Great Britain, promised the and agreed to pay him the said of like lawful money, if a certain ticket numbered {lot, number, or figure, as the case may be] in a certain illegal game and lottery called a Little Goe, being a lottery not authorised by parliament, then and there, to wit, at aforesaid, in the county aforesaid, kept to be played and drawn at with numbers and figures [or by dice, lots, cards, balls, as the case may be] should be drawn fortunate, [or otherwise, as the contingency in such agreement was] and afterwards, to wit, on the same day and year aforesaid, at aforesaid, the said being then present, and having heard the said information and charge, and being asked what he had to say in his defence, why he should not be convicted of the said offence so charged as aforesaid, saith, that he is not guilty of the same offence; nevertheless, thereupon, on the same day and at the place aforesaid, one credible witness in this behalf, to wit, being duly sworn in the presence of the said deposeth as follows in the presence and hearing of the said that is to say, [state the evidence as fully as given by the witness]. And the said being now present, and having heard the whole of the evidence now produced against him, and being asked by me the said justice what he had to say, why he should not be convicted of the said offence contained in the said information and evidence, maketh no defence, nor doth he now offer or produce before me the said justice any evidence to contradict the testimony so given to me in support of the said information, [if the defendant produces any evidence it should be stated]. Whereupon all and singular the premises being considered and mature deliberation See sect. 2. of the act. ; it is being thereupon had, it manifestly appears to me the said justice, that the said is guilty of the offence charged upon him in and by the said information of the said therefore adjudged by me the said justice, that the said be convicted, and he is hereby convicted of the offence charged upon him in and by the said information, according to the form of the statute in that case made and provided; and I do award and adjudge that the said hath for his said offence forfeited, and that the said pay the sum of of lawful money of Great Britain to be distributed, and go and be applied one-third thereof to the use of our sovereign lord the king, and one-third thereof to the use of the said do 1. the said informer, and one-third thereof to him by whom the said offender was apprehended and secured, according to the form of the statute in such case made and provided. In witness whereof, I the said justice to this present record of conviction have put my hand and seal at aforesaid, in the county aforesaid, the day of thousand eight hundred and in the year of our Lord one LUNATICS. No. 1. Form of Warrant for the Conveyance of a Lunatic Pauper to an Asylum, and for his Maintenance there, under the stat. 59 Geo. 3. c. 127. Sch. (A.) County of to wit. Whereas it appears to us, two of his majesty's justices of the peace for the county of having called to our assistance medical person, that chargeable to the parish of a in the said county, is [lunatic, insane, or a dangerous idiot, as it may be] you are hereby directed to cause the said to be conveyed to the lunatic asylum at established under an act passed in the forty-eighth year of George the third, intituled "An Act for the better care and maintenance of lunatics being paupers or criminals in England," in order that proper means may be there used for the cure of the said ; and you are hereby ordered to pay to the treasurer A conviction directing the penalty to be distributed as the law directs, without ascertaining to whom the last third is to be paid (the person being uncertain) is bad.-Rex v. Seul, 8 E. R. 568. of the said asylum such weekly sum for the maintenance and care of the said as shall be from time to time fixed upon by the visiting justices of the said asylum, under the authority of the said act; or to the house of in the county of situate at the said house being a house duly licensed for the reception of lunatics; and you are hereby ordered to pay to the said the [weekly or monthly] sum of for the maintenance, medicine, clothing, and which sum the said care of the said is willing to accept, and which appears to us to be a reasonable charge in that behalf. Given under our hands and seals, this day of No. 2. Information of an Overseer of the Poor in order to obtain the Warrant of Two Justices, to authorize the seizing and selling so much of the Goods and Chattels, and to receive so much of the Annual Rents of the Lands and Tenements of a Lunatic, as shall be necessary to pay the Expences, &c. County of this to wit. The information and complaint of overseer of the poor of the parish of day of sand eight hundred and and on oath before us W. R. and E. R. M. esquires, two of his majesty's justices of the peace, &c. in and for the said county, in the year of our Lord one thou: who says, that by a warrant under the hands and seals of esquires, two of his majesty's justices of the peace for the county aforesaid, of in the said county, being a person so far disordered in his senses, that he was and is dangerous to be permitted to go abroad, that he the said was and is (according to the direction of the said warrant) safely confined in the house of in the said county, the said house being a secure and proper place for that purpose; and that he the said overseer of the poor has reasonably expended the sum of in maintaining and securing the said therefore he prays the warrant of us the two justices put before mentioned, to seize and sell so much of the goods and chattels, and to receive so much of the annual rents of the lands and at and tenements of him the said within the said parish of necessary to pay the same. as shall be Before us. No. 3. Form of Certificate, under 59 Geo. 3. c. 127. Sch. (B.) I do hereby certify, that by the directions of esquires, justices of the peace for the county of I have personally examined appears to me to be of insane mind. Dated this day of and that the said and [Physician, surgeon, or apothecary, as it may be] resident at No. 4. Warrant to secure a Lunatic, under 59 Geo. 3. County of to wit. c. 127. Sch. (A.) To the constables, churchwardens, and overseers of the poor of Whereas it hath been proved before us two of the jus tices of our lord the king, assigned to keep the peace within the said county, upon the oaths of of the parish or that late of said parish of in the county aforesaid, gentlemen, frequently goeth at large in the and that he the said is by lunacy so far disordered in his senses, that he is dangerous to be permitted to go abroad; and that his legal settlement is in These are therefore to authorize and the parish of to be apprehended and kept safely locked up in the house of in the said county, the said at for a being willing to keep and entertain him the said reasonable allowance in that behalf, and the said house being a secure place: And the said is to be kept so locked up only so long as such lunacy or disorder shall continue, and no longer. Given under our hands and seals at said county, this hundred and day of in the one thousand eight |