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auy such office, he shall for every such offence; forfeit the
sum of 501., such sum to be recovered, with full costs of
suit, by any person who will sue for the same wirhin three
calendar months after the cos-mission of such offence, by
action of debt or on the sue in any of his Majesty's supe-
riot courts of record ; and evsiy- person so sued by reason
of not being so qualified in respect of estate shall prove
that he was at the time of so acting qualified as aforesaid,
or otherwise shall pay the said penalty, without any fur-
ther evidence being given on the part of the plaintiff than
that such person has acted as the mayor, or as alderman,
councillor, auditor, or assessor (as the case may be) of such
borough : Provided always, that it shall be lawful for any
defendant, by judge's order to be obtained within fourteen
days after he shall have been served with process in any such
action, to require the plaintiff to give security for costs ; and
in such case all further proceedings in the said cause shall
be stayed until the plaintiff shall give security to the satisfac-
tion of the proper officer of the Court for the costs of such
action in case a verdict shall pass for the defendant, or the
plaintiff shall become nonsnit, or discontinue such action,
or if upon demurrer or otherwise judgment shall be given
against the plaintiff ; and the defendant shall in either of
such cases recover his full costs as between attorney and
client : Provided also, that no such action shall be brought
except by a burgess of such borough, nor unless the bur-
gess bringing the same shall, within fourteen days after the
commission of the offence, have served a notice in writing
personally upon the party committing such offence of his
intention to bring such action ; and in case the plaintiff in
any such action shall obtain a verdict, the money so to be
recoved shall, after payment of the costs and expenses at-
tending the recovery thereof, be paid and apportioned as
follows (that is to say) : one moiety thereof to the person
so suing, and the other moiety thereof to the treasurer to
be appointed by virtue of this Act, to be by him applied in
aid of the borough fund : Provided always, that all Acts
and proceedings of any person in possession of the office of
mayor, alderman, councillor, auditor, or assessor, and acting
as a mayor, alderman, councillor, auditor, or assessor, shall,
notwithstanding such disqualification or want of qualifica-
tion, be as valid and effectual as if such person had been
duly qualified.

PERSONS CONVICTED OF BRIBERY DISQUALIFIED FROM
VOTING AT ANY ELECTION IN THE BOROUGH.

54. And be it enacted, that if any person who shall have
or claim to have any right to vote in any election of mayor,
or of a councillor, auditor, or assessor of any borough, shall,
after the passing of this Act, ask or take any money or
other reward by way of gift, loan, or other device, or agree
or contract for any money, gift, office, employment, or other
reward whatsoever, to give or forbear to give his vote it
any such election, or if any person, by himself or any persm
employed by him, shall, by any gift or reward, or by aty
promise, agreement, or security for any gift or reward, cor-
rupt or procure, or offer to corrupt or procure, any person
to give or forbear to give his vote in any such election, stub
person so offending in any of the cases aforesaid shall Or
every such offence forfeit the sum of fifty pounds of lawful
money of Great Britain, to be recovered, with full cost: of
suit, by any one who shall sue for the same by actiox of
debt, bill, plaint, or information in any of his Majesty's
Courts of Record at Westminster ; and any person offind-
ing in any of the cases aforesaid, being lawfully convbted
thereof, shall for ever be disabled to vote in any electim in
such borough, or in any municipal or parliamentary elution
hatever, in any part of the United Kingdom, and also
shall for ever be disabled to hold, exercise, or enjoy any
office or franchise to which he then shall or at any time
afterwards may be entitled as a burgess of such borough, as
if such person was naturally dead.
PERSONS OFFENDING IN ANY OF THE CASES AFORESAID
DISCOVERING OTHERS SO OFFENDING TO BE DISCEARGED
FROM ALL PENALTIES.
55. And be it enacted, that if any person offending in
any of the cases aforesaid shall, within the space of twelve
months next after such election as aforesaid, discover any
other person offending in any of the cases aforesaid, so that
such other person be thereon convicted, such person so dis-
covering, and not having been before that time convicted of
any such offence, shall be indemnified and discharged from
all penalties and disabilities which ho shall then base in-
curred by any such offence.
NO PERSON LIABLE TO INCAPACITY, PENALTY, &C., UNLESS
PROSECUTED WITHIN TWO YEARS.

56. Provided always, and be it enacted, that no person
be made liable to any incapacity, disability, forfeiture,
or penalty by this Act imposed in any of the cases aforesaid,
unless prosecution be commenced within two years after
such incapacity, disability, forfeiture, or penalty shall be in-
curred, anything herein contained to the contrary notwith-
standing.

THE MAYOR TO BE A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE FOR THE
BOROUGH AND RETURNING OFFICER AT ELECTIONS OF
MEMBERS TO SERVE IN PARLIAMENT.
57. And be it enacted, that the mayor for the time being
of every borough shall be a justice of the peace of and for
such borough, and shall continue to be such justice of the
peace during the next succeeding year after be shall cease
to be mayor, unless disqualified as aforesaid ; and such
mayor shall, during the time of his mayoralty, have prece-
dence in all places within the borough, and in boroughs
which return a Member or Members to serve in Parliament,
other than the tost•n of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and other
than cities and towns which are counties of themselves,
shall be the returning officer at Ell such elections ; and in
case the mayor shall, at the time when he shall be required
to perform the duties of such returning officer, be dead,
absent, or otherwise incapable of acting, or in case there
shall be no mayor, the council of such borough shall forth-
with elect one of the aldermen to be the returning officer
for such borough in the place of the mayor being so dead,
absent, or otherwise incapable : Provided always, that m
every case where there shall be more than one mayor
within the boundaries of any borough as the same are or
shall at any future time be settled in so far as respects the
election of Members to serve in Parliament, the mayor of
that borough to which the writ of election shall be directed
shall be the returning officer.
POWER TO COUNCIL TO APPOINT TOWN-CLERK, TREA-
SURER, AND OTHER OFFICERS ; AND TO TAKE SECU-
RITY FOR DUE DISCHARGE OF THEIR OFFICIAL DUTIES.

SALARIES.
58. And be it enacted, that the council of every borough,
on the ninth of November in this present year, shall ap-
point a fit person, not being a member of the council, to be
the town clerk of such borough, who shall hold his office
during pleasure ; and in any borough may be an attorney
of one of his Majesty's superior courts at 'Westminster, any
law, statute, charter, or nsage to the contrary notwithstand-
ing ; and the council of every borough shall in every year
appoint another fit person, not being a member of the coun-
cil, to be the treasurer of the borough, and also such other
officers as have been usually appointed in such borough, or
as they shall think necessary for enabling them to carry into
execution the various powers and duties vested in them by
virtue of this Act, and may from time to time discontinue
the appointment of such officers as shall appear to them
not necessary to be re-appointed ; and shall take such se-
curity for the due execution of his office by any such town-
clerk, treasurer, or other officer, as the said council shall
think proper ; and shall order to be paid tb the mayor,
and to the town-clerk and treasurer, and to every such other
officer to be employed as aforesaid, such salary or allow-
ance as the said council shall think reasonable ; and in case
of a vacancy in any such office as aforesaid by death, resig-
nation, removal, or otherwise, the council of such borough
may appoint another fit person in the place of the person
so making such vacancy ; provided that the town-clerk and
treasurer shall not be the same person.
TREASURER TO PAY NO MONEY BUT BY ORDER OF COUNCIL.
59. And be it enacted, that the treasurer of any borough
shall pay no money on account of the mayor, aldermen, and
burgesses of such borough, save only in such case as is pro-
vided by this Act, or upon the order in writing of the coun-
cil, signed by three or more members of the council, and
countersigned by the town-clerk of such borough, or by or-
der of the court of sessions of the peace for the borough, or
of a justice of the peace acting in and for the borough in
the discharge of his judicial duty, in such case as is provided
by this Act, or in such case as a court of sessions of the
peace for any county, or a justice of the peace acting in and
for a county, in the discharge of his judicial duty, may make
an order for the payment of money on the treasurer of such
county, or for the payment of the salaries granted to any
recorder or police-magistrate as hereinafter provided.
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MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.-It is with deep regret
that we record the particulars of a lamentable occurrence,
which took place on Wednesday last, at Morley Park, in
the liberties of Belper, Derbyshire. Mr. Frederick Carey,
third son of Mr. G. Carey, hatter and lace manufacturer,
Clumber-street, in this town, left home about seven o'clock
in the morning, and with two young friends proceeded in a
gig for a day's shooting at Morley Park. At one o'clock
they were in a field about a mile from the village of Heage,
but could not find any game, when Mr. F. Carey got upon
a bank, intending to shoot at a bird. As he was descend-
ing the bank again, he unfortunately took hold of the gun
about the middle of the barrel, and turned the muzzle
towards his person. By some means the thorns in the
hedge caught the trigger (the piece being upon full cock),
and suddenly caused it to go off, and the contents were
lodged in his bowels. Assistance was almost immediately
obtained, and four surgeons attended him. The wound was
fatal, and he died in about an hour and a half after. The
melancholy intelligence reached Nottingham soon after two
o'clock, when Mr. and Mrs. Carey set out, in the greatest
distress, to Heage. A Coroner's inquest was held yester-
day (Thursday), when the Jury returned a verdict of
" Accidental Death." The deceased was in his 2'2d year,
and was not only highly esteemed, but was much beloved
by his family and friends.—Nottingham Journal.

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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1835

The Duchess of KENT and the Princess VICTORIA
arrived at Ramsgate at twelve o'clock yesterday, and
were followed by the King and Queen of the BEI,
GIANS, who arrived there at five o'clock. Their Ma-
jesties had a rough passage, but looked in excellent
health and spirits.

At a Protestant Meeting which was held on Tues-
day last at Paisley, those twin-bigots, Captain GOR-
DON and the Rev. MORTIMER O'SULLIVAN—We
wonder, by-the-bye, what has induced this last gentle-
man to adopt an alias, his real name being MURTOCH
OriVl ULLAGHAN—again indulged in the most ribald
abuse of Catholicism. Captain GORDON, in parti-
cular, carried away by the fury of his indignation,
actually talked of Popery as being " the Devil's master-
piece," and then wandered into a long and rambling
dissertation on the Council of Trent and the Nicene
Creed, which, we will venture to say, not one
out of the two dozen who composed his au-
dience, either understood or cared about. Doubt-
less the gallant Missionary thinks his phrase " the
Devil's master-piece," a most felicitous hit, as applied
to the Catholics ; but if he will look at home, instead
of abroad, he may possibly find some one to whom it
will apply with far more appositeness. Not the quiet,
enduring Catholic, but the meddlesome, mischief-mak-
ing Protestant, is the " Devil's master-piece ;" he
who, in direct contradiction to the first principles of
Christianity, endeavours to stir up strife, promote in-
tolerance, and keep those apart and aliens, whom the
common sympathies of humanity should bind in closest
affinity to each other. When we compare the conduct
of such notorious Protestant agitators as Messrs.
GORDON and O'SULLIVAN, with that of the vast
majority of the Catholics, who, when reviled,
as they have daily been for the last six months, have
reviled not again, the latter rise in our estimation—as
they must do in that of every dispassionate man who
has two ideas in his head—just in the same propor-
tion that the former sink in it. There is nothing so
sure to defeat its own end as bigotry, as the Exeter
Hall fanatics found to their cost last Spring, in Lon-
don, and as the rump of their squad must ere this have
found in Scotland. Not the slightest effect have the
ravings of Captain GORDON or the preachings of
O'SULLIVAN yet produced in that country—a truth
which none know better than themselves, and which
ought therefore to induce them to husband their lungs,
till some more favourable opportunity of making an
Tession presents itself.

Lord MULGRAVE, we understand, is winning
,c golden opinions " from all classes of Irishmen.
Even the Orangemen, who were at first so adverse to
his appointment, are now beginning to find out that

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