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MUNICIPAL REFORM BILL.

(Cr:ntinued from The Sun of yesterday).

COLLUSIVE PURCHASES, SALES, AND DEMISES Ot triR-
FOR ATE PROPERTY SINCE THE .STH or ...11.) NE, 1835,

FOIL UNDUE CONSIDERATION, MAY BD SET ASIDE.

97. And be it enacted, that it be lawful for the
council first to be elected any borough under the
provisions of this Act, to tall in question all purchases,
sales, leases, and demises. not made in pursuance of some
such bonil fide covenP:mt, contract, agreement, or resolution
made or entered ir,to as aforesaid, before the said sth day of
June ; and all contracts for the purchase, sale, lease, or de-
mise of any lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and all
divisions and appropriations of the moneys, goods, and va-
luable securities, or any part of the real or personal estate,
of -which on or before the sth day of June in this present
year the body corporate of which they are the council,
whether in their own right or as trustees for charitable or
other purposes, was seized or possessed, which shall have
been made or contracted between the said sth day of June,
and the day of the declaration of their election ; and
for that purpose, if it shall appear to the said council
that there is ground for believing that any such pur-
chase, sale, lease, or demise, or such contract or .ech
division or appropriation of the premises, was collusively
made for no consideration, or for an inadequate con-
sideration, it shall be lawful for the co•ancil of such borough,
at any time within six calendar -months next after the first
election of councillors ur
.der this Act shall have been de-
clared in such boron on, upon notice of their intention
being first given in the London Gazette, and also
affixed on the outer door of the town-hall or in sonic
public ploc:: within the borough, or cause the value of
the laLas, tenements, hereditaments, and premises in
question to be inquired of. and found by a jury of 12
indifferent men of the county in which, or adjoining to
which in the case of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and of all
counties of cities and towns corporate, such lands, tene-
ments, hereditaments, or premises do lie ; and in order
thereto, the said council is empowered to summon and
call before such jury all persons having the custody and
possession of any deed or agreement concerning the said
lands, tenements, hereditaments, and premises made or
entered into since the said sth day of June, and to
cause all such deeds and agreements to be produced be-
fore the said jury, and examined by them, and to ex-
amine upon oath every person who shall be thought ne-
cessary to' be examined (which oath the mayor is hereby
empowered to administer) ; and the council shall, by or-
dering a view or otherwise, use all lawful means for the
information as well of themselves as of the said jury in
in the premises ; and the jury shall find the value of the
said lands, tenements, hereditaments and premises, and the
consideration which shall have been given, and also that
which ought of right to have been given, for the purchase,
sale, lease, demise, or appropriation thereof, according to fle
terms of such purchase, sale, lease, demise, contr-aet, or
appropriation, and taking into account all the circum-
stances under which the same shall have taken place ; and
if the jury by their oaths shall find that no consideration
or a consideration less than that which they shall have
so found to be the value which ought therefore to have
been given, shall have been collusively given or contracted
to be given by the terms of any such purchase, sale, lease,
demise, contract, or appropriation, the party to such pur-
chase, sale, lease, demise, contract, or appropriation, shall
have his option either to re-convey and restore the lands,
tenements, hereditaments, and premises in question, and to
abandon the contract to which he shall have been party,
upon receipt in each ease of the consideration, if any, which
he shall have given for the same, or to give therefore in each
case such additional consideration, so that the whole con-
sideration given shall be that which ought of right to have
been given, so found, by the jury as aforesaid ; and in every
such case as last aforesaid, the additional consideration given
or to be given shall be endorsed on the original deed or con-
veyance ; and unless he shall so do within one calendar
'month next after the finding of the jury, every such pur-
chase, sale, lease, demise, contract, and conveyance shall be
absolutely void and of none effect as agEtlnst the said body
corporate and their successors ; and ill every case in which
any such contract shall have been abandoned as aforesaid,
or in which any such purchase, sale!, lease, demise, contract,
or conveyance shall become veld and of none effect, under
the provisions of this Act, the party who would otherwise
have had the benefit of the same shall be remitted to his
former estate, title, and interest (if any) in the premises as
if no such contract, purchase, sale, lease, or demise bad been
made or entered into ; and for summoning and returning
such juries, and for imposing fines on the sheriff, his deputy,
bailiff, or agent, and on the persons summoned and returned
on the said jury, and on any person required to.give evi-
dence, who ;gall in this behalf contravene the provisions of
this Act,, the council of every such borough shall have
all tine powers given in that behalf to the trustees
or commissioners of any turnpike road by an Act
made in the third year of his late Majesty George
the Third, intituled, " An Act to Amend the General
Laws now in being for regulating Turnpike Roads in that
part of Great Britain called England ;" and all the costs
of the said jury, and of all witnesses tendered by the said
council to be examined before the said jury, shall in every
case be borne by the council, and paid out of the borough
fund : Provides, nevertheless,nevertheless, that it shall be lawful for his
Majesty, if Le shall think fit, by the advice of his Privy
Council, upon petition to him setting forth the special cir-
comstPcices under which any purchase, sale, lease, demise,
contract, or appropriation of any of the said lands, tene-
ments, hereditaments, and premises shall have been made
since the said sth day of June, to order that the same
shall not be called in question under the provisions of this
Act ; and in such case as last aforesaid the same shall not
be called in question, or set aside, or affected under the
provisions of this Act : Provided always, that in every case
in which such petition shall have been presented, it shall
be lawful for his Majesty, if he shall think fit, to enlarge
the time within which (in case his Majesty shall not think
fit to make such order as aforesaid) the council may have
power as aforesaid to call in question any purchase, sale,
lease, demise, contract, or appropriation referred to in such
petition.

HIS MAJESTY'S COMMISSION MAY BE ISSUED FOR CERTAIN

PERSONS TO ACT AS JUSTICES IN ANY OF SUCH BO-

ROUGHS.

98. And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for his Ma-
jesty from time to time to assign to so many persons as he
shall think proper his M ajesty's commission to act asjus-
tices of the peace in and for each borough, and in and for
each of the counties of cities and towns respectively named
in the said schedule (A), and in and for such of the bo-
roughs in the said schedule (B), to which his Majesty ma:-
be pleased upon the petition of the council thereof to grant
a commission of the peace : Provided nevertheless, that
every person so to be assigned shall reside within the bo-
rough for which he shall be so assigned, or within seven
miles of such borough, or of some part thereof, during such
time as he shall act as a
,i'astice of the peace in and for such
borough.

COUNCILS MAY MAIOE BYE-LAWS, ON WHICH THE CROWN

MAY APPOINT SALARIED JUSTICES.

99. And h'e it enacted, that if the council of any bo-
rough shall think it requisite that a salaried police magis-
trate or Inagistrates be appointed within such borough, such
council is -hereby empowered to make a bye-law, fixing the
amount of the salary which he or they are to receive in
that brehalf; and such bye-law, so made by any council as
aforesaid, shall be transmitted to one of his Majesty's
r'rincipal Secretaries of State ; and it shall be lawful there-
upon for his Majesty, if he shall think fit, to appoint one
or more fit persons, according to the number fixed in the
said bye-law (being barristers-at-law of not‘less than five
years' standing), to be, during his Majesty's pleasure, po-
lice magistrate or magistrates and a justice or justices of
the peace for such borough, and to direct that such sum
shall be paid quo: teriy out of the borough fund of such
borough as will be sufficient to pay such yearly salary to
each of the justices so assigned as last aforesaid, not ex-
ceeding in the whole the salary mentioned in the prayer of
such petition, clear of all fees or deductions, as to his Ma-
jesty shall seem fit ; and the treasurer of such borough
shall thereupon pay to each justice so assigned as last afore-
said, out of the borough fund of such borough, the salary
so directed to be paid, by four equal quarterly payments,
and in the same proportion up to the time of the death of
such justice or his ceasing to act under such assignment as
aforesaid : Provided that in every case of vacancy of the
office of police magistrate in any borough aforesaid no new
appointment of police magistrate in such borough shall be
made until the council shall again make application to one
of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State in that be-
half, and as in the case of the first appointment of a police
magistrate in such borough.

COUNCIL TO PROVIDE A POLICE OFFICE.
100. And be it enacted, that the council of every bo-
rough to which a separate commission of the peace shall
be granted under the provisions of this Act, shall be autho-
rized and required to provide and furnish one or more fit
and suitable office or offices, to be called " The Police-
office" or " Offices" of the borough, for the purpose of
transacting the business of the justices of such borough,
and to pay from time to time out of the borough fund su,h
sums as may be necessary for providing, uphold;nif4ol
furnishing, and for the necessary expenses of sucl'`f,olice-
office or offices : Provided that, no room in any house li
censed as a victualling house or alehouse shall be used for
h e purposes of any such police-office.
(To BE CONTINUED.)