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subscribed by the-Chief or Under. Secretary for Ireland, 1
empowering him or them to collect such rate, and specify-
ing the amount of money to be levied for the purpose of
this Act on each proclaimed district, and the portion thereof
to be paid by each occupier of rateable hereditaments, and
the person named in such warrant is hereby required and
authorised to levy the money therein mentioned according
thereto; and such money shall and may be collected and
levied, sued for and r.covered, by such and the same ways
and means, by distress or otherwise, as any rate made for
the relief of the destitnte poor in Ireland may be collected
and levied.
XI. And be it cnaated, that every rate made under the
authority of this Act shall be paid to the person authorised
to collect the same by the person in the actual occupation
of the rateable property of the time of the rate made, and on
his default then by the person subsequently in the occupation
of the rateable property from whom such rate shall be
demanded.
XII. And be it enacted, That every such`rate shall be a
poundage rate made upon an estimate of the net annual
value of the several hereditament within the proclaimed dis-
trict as the same shall have been rated under the then last
rate made under the said herein-before last-recited Acts for
the relief of the destitute poor, or any of them, and that the
particulars of every such rate shall be entered in a book, and
shall be in the form in which rates are made under the said
Acts, or any of them, or as near thereto as may be; and
the said book shall be signed by the persons or officers so to
be aypointed to make such rate as aforesaid, an : shall, after
such signature, be evidence of the truth of every particular
contained therein.
XIII. And be it enacted, That the said rate shall be pay-
able by and be levied from the actual occupiers, and no; by
or from the lessor or own 'is whether the hereditaments in
respect of which sit. h rate saal/ be payable sharl be under the
value of four pounds or net.
XIV. And be it enacted, that the occupier of heredita-
ments rated tinder the provisions of this Act shall not be
entitled to deduct from the rent which he may be liable to
pay any portion of the rate es hich he may have paid in
pursuance of this Act.
XV. And be it enacted, that any magistrate, inspector,
sub-inspector, head-constable, constable, or suboconstable
of police, or other peace officer' shall and may cause to
be apprehended and committed, any person who, within
any proclaimed district wherein the inhabitants have
been wa-ned as aforesaid to remain within their places
of abode as aforesaid, and under suspicious circum-
stances, shall be in the fields, streets, highways, or e'sewhere
out of his dwelling, home, or place of abode at any time
f om one hou after sunset until sunrise, and such person shall
and may be detained in custody until trial; provided always,
that the magistrate by whom any person so apprehended
shall be committed, shall without delay after committal
transmit to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland a true and faith-
ful report of such committal, and the grounds and reasons
thereof, with the examination of the prisoner, and the rea-
sons alleged by him or on his behalf why he should not be
committed, which said magistrate is required to take down
in writing, in order that such person may be detained, dis-
charged, or admitted to bail, as to the Lord-Lieutenant of
Ireland shall seem fit.
XVI. And be it enacted, that any person who shall, within
any district proclaimed under this Act, be found in any field,
street, highway, or other place out of his dwelling-house or
place of abode, at any time from one hour after sunset until
sunrise, except upon his lawful occasions, the proof whereof
shall be on the person accused, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor.
XVII. And be it enacted, That all persons ft and assembled
in any proclaimed district in any house, licensed or unli-
censed, in which malt liquors or spirituous liquors are sold
(not being inmates thereof or travellers), after one hour
after sunset and before sunrise, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor.
XVIII. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be
lawful for any justice of the peace, or any person thereto
authorised by the warrant of any justice of the peace, at
any time from one hour after sunset until sunrise,
to demand admission, and in case admission shall
XX. And be it enacted, that any person who shall, within
be refused, or net obtained within a reasonable time after it
shall have been first demanded, to enter by force into any
house in any proclaimed district, licensed or unlicensed, in
which malt liquors or spirituous liquors are sold.
XIX. And be it enacted, that any person who shall, within
any district proclaimed under this Act, knowingly have in
his dwelling house, place of abode, or possession any fire-
arms or ammunition, not being duly authorised to keep the
same, the proof whereof shall be on the person accused,
such be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
any district proclaimed under this Act, wilfully or malici-
ously injure either the person or property, real or personal,
of any person who has appeared or shall appear or be bound
to appear as a witness, prosecutor, or juror, or who shall by
threats or menaces, or otherwise howsoever, deter or inti-
midate or endeavour to deter or intimidate any person from
appearing or acting as a wittness, prosecutor, or juror, or
from discharging his or her duty in that behalf, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanour.
XXI. And be it enacted, that every person convicted of a
misdemeanour under this Act shall be liable to be transported
beyond the seas for any term not exceeding fifteen years nor
less than seven years, or to be imprisoned for any term not
exceeding three years.
XXII. And be it enacted, that when any person shall be
convicted of any offence punishable under this Act, for
which imprisonment may he awarded, it shall be lawful
for the Court ti sentence the offender to be imprisaz el
with or without hard labour to the common gaol r
Louse of correction, and also to direct that the offender
shall be srept in solitary confinement for any portion or por-
tions of such imprisonment, or of such imprisonment with
harp labour, not exceeding one month at any one time, and
not exceeding three months in one year, as to the court in
its discretion shall seem meet.
XXIII. And be it enacted, That when any person
shall be prosecuted by indictment for any misdemeanor
committed against the provisions of this Act, such
person shall plead to such indictment forthwith, so
that the trial thereof may not be delayed or postponed
to any subsequent commission of oyer and terminer, or ses-
sion of the court in which such trial is to take, unless the
court shall otherwise direct.
XXIV. And be it enacted, That no action, suit, or pro-
ceeding shall be commenced or prosecuted against any
person or persons for anything done in pursuance of this
Act until after thirty days' notice thereof shall be
given to such person or persons, nor after a sufficient sa-
tisfaction or tender thereof 'lath been made to the party
or parties aggrieved, nor after the expiration of three calen-
dar months next after the fact committed ; and every such
action, suit, or prosecution shall be laid or brought in the
county where the cause of action shall have arisen, and not
elsewhere; and the defendant or defendants in every such ac-
tion. suit, or prosecution shall and may plead generally not
guilty, and give this Act and the special mattor in evidence,
at any triall to be had thereupon, and that the same was done
in pursuance and by the authority of this Act; and if any
replevin shall be brought for any cattle, goods, or chattels
seized or taken by virtue or in pursuance of this Act, it shall
and may bdlawful and sufficient to and for the defendant or
defendants, or avowment or avowtnents, in any such replevin,
to avow, plead, or make cognizance generally that lie or they
took the same cattle, goods, or chattles as a distress, by force
of the statute in that case made and provided, without more
particularly setting forth this Act, or the cause of making
or detaining the said distress, or making any more
special plea, avowry, or cognizance, any thing herein con-
tained to the contrary notwithstanding; and if it shall ap-
pear that the matter on which the cause of action arose
was done, or the distress replevied made, in pursuance of
this Act, or that such action or suit shall have been brought
before the expiration of thirty days after notice thereof given
ail aforesaid, or after sufficient satisfaction made or tendered
as aforesaid, or after the time limited for bringing the same
as aforesaid, or shall be brought in any other county than as
aforesaid, then the jury shall find for the defendant or defen-
dants, avowant or avowants ; and upon such verdict, or if
the plaintiff or plaintiffs shall be nonsuited, or shall discon-
rime his or their action, suit, or prosecution after the de-
fendant or defendants shall have appeared, or upon demurrer
judgment shall be given against the plaintiff or plaintiffs,
the defendant or defendants, avowant or avowants, shall re-
covet double costs, and shall have such remedy for the same
ds any defendant or defendants hath or have in other cases of
costs given by law. _
XXV. And be ;it enacted, That the Lord. Lieutenant of
Ireland shall cause an abstract of the provisions of this Act
to be prepared, and shall, in such manner as lie or they
shall think convenient, cause such abstract to be printed,,
published, posted, or distributed for the information of all
persons in Ireland affected by by the enactments herein con-
tained.
XXVI. And be it enacted, That in the construction of this
Act the words " Lord Lieutenant" shall be construed to in-
clude Lords Justices or other Chief Governor or Governors of
Ireland.
IXUIL And be it enacted, that this Act may be amended
or repealed by any Act or Acts to be passed in this present
session of Parliament.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT
(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
Their Lordships met at Five o'clock.
CORN-LAWS.

The Eari of STRADBROKE presented 20,petitions from
various places in Essex against any alteration in the corn-laws.
The Duke of RICHMOND presented petitions from
parishes in Devon to the same effect.
PARISH CLERKS.

'„Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition from the Rey.
W. A. Lern, incumbent of a pariah in Cork, stating
that he had been for many years incumbent of the
parish that recently. the parish had refused a
church rate, and in consequence of there being
no funds available for the payment of the parish-clerk, that
personage bad refused to perform his duties, and since the 3lst
of August there has been no person to make the responses
during the time of worship. The petitioner prayed that their
Lordships would adopt some measure to obviate their present
difficulties.

Lord BEAUMONT read ever the names of the Committee
which was appointed last night to consider the peculiar burdens
on land.

Lord BROUGHAM had no sanguine hope of the Commit-
tee being able to come to any instructive result on the sub-
ject. It was rather a question for discussion than of fact.
The LORD CHANCELLOR—Can you persuade the Com-
mittee that no good result will come of their labours

(Laughter.)
The Duke of RICHMOND said that the object of the Com-
mittee was to call farmers, manufacturers, and tradesmen be-
fore them to investigate the subject in all its bearings, and he
considered that the result would prove whether money would
be more profitable if invested in lands or in the funds.
After a few wrirds from the Earl of MALMESBURY,
Lord GREY said that in the other House of Parliament a
great number of individuals were sometimes appointed upon
Committees, but very frequently only a very small number of
those attended. To prevent that a regular minute was
kept of the attendance of the Committee, and to the report
was annexed the names of those who sanctioned and those
who objected to it. He considered that the same course
should be adopted with the report of the present Com-
mittee, in order that when it is laid on the table it may
be arm-rained what degree of value is to be attached to it.
to The LORD CHANCELLOR said it would be necessary
ne.aorr n:deliitio utt:Aera;oopfrded hew long the Members remained in the
BpEarLliLamsaeindt, whichthatanohthad another practice existedsalu tsalutary
iny otnhee,
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name
roofreoasicnhg Peerastanding order on proved
tion at the commencement of the question in the r The Duke of WELLINGTON suggested
tooe
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Noble
Earl (Grey) the propriety of
the üblj eeGREY would adopt the suggestion, and give notice of
s
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member who atutended in a Committee. es were taken of every
The LORD CHANCELLOR—But the names of those who
put questions are not given.
Earl GREY suggested that it wruld be better to defer their
discussion until ---ther - matter came formally before their
Lordships.
The subject then dropped.