The Express.
London, England, 1848-07-26 00:00:00

NEW LAW

Yesterday the Queen's printer issued eight new
Acts of Parliament, all of which received the royal assent
on Saturday.
SUSPENSION OF HAREAS CORPUS (IRELAND).—
This mesaure, which pasted the legislature since Saturday,
and which receiving the royr' assent became law yester-
day, is entitled "An act to empower the Lord Lieutenant
or other chief governor or governors of Ireland to appre-
hend and detain until the In March, 1849, such persons as
he shall suspect of conspiring against her Majesty's person
and government." The first clause enacts that every
person who may now be in prison by virtue of warrant issued
by the Lord Lieutenant, or by the Irish Privy Council, on
suspicion of high troason or treasonable practices, shall
he detained in custody without hal or naainpriae until
Ist March, 1849." The second clause, after empowering
the keepers of all gaols in which prisoners for treason shall be
confined to detain them as aforesaid, provides that they shall
only be removed from one place of safe custody to another by
warrant from the Lord Lieutenant, &c. The third clause
orders that copies of all warrants be transmitted to the clerk
of the crown at Dublin.

KILLING HARES.—The new law on this subject
authorises any person, being in the actual occupation of .iny
inclosed lands, or for any owner thereof who has the right of
killing gsme thereon, by himself or by any person directed
or authorised by him in writing (according to a form in a
chedule to this act annexed, or to the like effect) so to do,
to take, kill, or destroy any hare then being in or upon any
such inclosed lands, without a game certificate. The autho-
rity to kill hares is t-i be limited to one person at the same
time in any one parish ; which authority shall be sent to the
clerk of the Petty Sessions, who shell register the same. If
authority revoked, notice to be given of the revocation.
Persons authorised to kiil hares not to be liable to tax on
gamekeepers. Hereafter it shall be lawful for any person to
pursue and kill or to joiii in the pursuit and killing of any
hare by coursing with greyhounds, or by hunting with
beagles or other hounds, without having obtained an annual
game certificate. This act is not to authorise the laying of
poison to kill game, nor to justify the shooting or killi• g
hares by night. Agreements reserving game are to be still
in force. A second act extends this new law to Scotland. _

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REMOVAL OF PAUPERS.—This act to amend the
procedure in respect of orders for the removal of the poor,
recites the notorious fact that the form heretofore required
by law has been found to produce much expensive and
useless litigation." To abate this evil, the new law repeal'
so much of the Poor Law Act (1 & 5 W. 4, e. 76) as provides
that certain notices shag be accompanied by a copy of the
examination upon which an order of removal is made.
Hereafter, the notices to be accompanied by a statement
of grounds of removal instead of copy of examination. A
copy of depositions is to be furnished on application. Upon
the hearing of any appeal against an order of removal no ob-
*ion whatever on account of any defect in the form of set-
ting forth any ground of removal or of appeal in any such
statement shall be allowed, and no objection to the recep-
tion
of legr' evidence offered in support of a ground of re-
moval
or appeal alleged to be set forth in any such statement
shall prevail, unless the court shall be of opinion that such
all-god ground is so imperfectly er incorrectly set forth as to
be intutlictent to enable the party receiving the same to in-
quire into the subject of such statement, and to prepare for
trial. Power is given to amend statement of grounds of re-
moval or appeal. Party making frivolous or vexatious state-
ment of grounds of removal or appeal is to be liable to pay
costs. Power is given for court to amend order of removal
on amount of omission or mistake. Decisions of courts upon
hearing of appeals to be final. Power is given for abandon-
ment of crdert of removal, the parish officers so abandoning
to pay costs. No appeal to be allowed if notice be not given
, within a certain time after notice of chargeability. All the
provisions which relate to the sending and service of copies of
orders of removal are to apply to such orders when sus-
pended, and to ell orders consequent upon such suspension,
and to all copies of charges arising thereon, and demands of
payment of such charges. This new law is to come into ope-
ration on the let of August.