The Sun.
London, England, 1835-06-11 00:00:00

• have delivered up such books, papers, and writings, or have
given satisfaction in respect thereof to the said council, or to
such other person as aforesaid, as the case may be : provided
always, that no person so committed shall be detained in pri-
son, for want of sufficient distress only, for a longer space of
time than three calendar months : provided also, that nothing
in this Act contained, shall prevent or abridge any remedy by
action against such officer so offending as aforesaid, or against
any surety for any such officer, but such officer shall not be
sued by action and also proceeded against in a summary man-
ner by virtue of this Act, for the same cause.
And be it enacted, that in the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
and in the counties of the cities of Bristol, Canterbury, Chester,
Coventry, Exeter, Gloucester, Lichfield, Lincoln, Norwich,
Worcester, and York, and in the counties of towns of Caer-
marthen, Haverfordwest, Kingston-upon-Hull, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, Nottingham, Poolc, and Southampton, the coun-
cil shall, on the first day of November in this and every sue,-
ceeding year name a fit person to execute the office of sheriff,
with the like duties and powers as the sheriff, or the person
filling the office of sheriff in the said town and counties respec-
tively would have had if this Act had not passed.
And be it enacted that the council of every borough in which
a separate court of sessions of the peace shall be holden, as is
hereinafter provided, shall, within ten days next after the
grant of the said court shall have been signified to the council
of such borough appoint a fit person to be coroner of such bo-
rough, so long as he shall well behave himself in his office of
coroner, and shall fill up every vacancy of the office of coroner
of the borough, by death, resignation, or removal, within ten
days next after such vacancy shall have occurred, and none
thereafter shall take any inquisition which belongs to the office
of coroner within such borough, save only the coroner so from
time to time to be appointed ; and every such coroner for every
inquisition which he shall duly take within such borough, shall
be entitled to have the sum of twenty shillings, and also the
sum of ninepence for every mile which he shall be compelled
to travel from his usual place of abode to take such inquisition
to be paid by the council out of the borough fund of such
borough, by order of the justices acting in and for such
borough. _ _

And be it enacted, that in every borough in and for which
no separate Court of Sessions of the peace shall be holden, no
person, after, the twenty-fifth day of October in this present
year, shall take any inquisition which belongs to the office of
coroner within such borough, save only the coroner for the
county in which such borough is situated; and the coroner of
such county for every inquisition which he shall duly take within
any place or precinct within any such boiough, shall be en-
titled to have the sum of twenty shillings, and also the sum of
ninepence for every mile which he shall be compelled to travel
from his usual place of abode to take such inquisition, to be
paid by the council out of the borough fund, by order of the
justices acting in and for the borough.

And be it-enacted, that the council elected under this Act
in- any borough shall have power to remove from his office
every sheriff and bailiff, coroner, town-clerk, treasurer or
chamberlain, and every ministerial or executive officer of such
borough and body corporate, who shall be in office at the
time of the first election of councillors under this Act, and
every officer in such borough shall continue to act in the
same capacity as heretofore, and to execute all the duties
heretofore belonging to his office, and be entitled to have the
same salaries, fees and emoluments as he would have had if
this Act bad not passed until he shall be removed from his
office, and no longer, unless be shall be re-appointed accord-
ing to the provisions of this Act ; and every officer who shall
be in possession or receipt of any monies, goods, valuable se-
curities, books and papers belonging to or concerning the
body corporate whose officer he is, shall account for the same
to the council of such body corporate appointed under this
Act, as is hereinbefore provided in the case of officers ap-
pointed by such council.
And be it enacted, that every officer of any borough who
shall be in office at the time of the first election of councillors
under this Act in such borough, and who shall be removed
from his office as aforesaid, shall be entitled to have an ade-
quate compensation, to be assessed by the council, and paid
out of the borough fund, for the salary, fees, and emoluments
of the office which he shall so cease to hold, regard6being had
to the manner of his appointment to the said office, and his
term or interest therein, and all other circumstances of the
ease ; and in case any such officer shall think himself ag-
grie7ed by the amount at which the council shall have assessed
the compensation so to be paid to him, or in case one-third of
the members of the council shall subscribe a protest against
the amount of such compensation as excessive, it shall be law-
ful for such officer, or any councillor who shall have subscribed
such protest, to appeal to the Lords Commissioners of his
Majesty's Treasury, who shall thereupon make such order as
to them shall seem expedient; and such order, signed by three
or more of the said Lorils Commissioners, shall be binding
upon all parties.
And be it enacted, that all acts whatsoever authorized or
required by virtue of this Act to be done by the council of
any borough, and all questions of adjournment, or others
that may come before such council, may be done and decided
by the majority of the councillors who shall be present at any
meeting held in pursuance of this Act, the whole number pre-
sent at such meeting not being less than one-third part of the
number of the whole council, and at all such meetings the
mayor shall preside, and the mayor, or in the absence of
the mayor, such councillor as the councillors then assembled
shall choose to be the chairman of that meetieg, shall have
a second or casting vote in all cases of equality of votes :
provided always, that previous to any meeting of the coun•
cil held by virtue of this Act, a notice of the time and
place of such intended meeting shall be given three clear
days at least before such meeting, by fixing the said notice
on or near the door of the town-hall of the borough ; and
such notice shall be signed by the mayor, who shall have
power to call a meeting of the council as often as he shall
think proper ; and in case the mayor shall refuse to call
any such meeting after a requisition for that purpose, signed
by five councillors at the least, shall have been presented to
him, it shall be lawful for the said five councillors to call a
meeting of the council by giving such notice as is hereinbefore
required in that behalf, such notice to be signed by the said
councillors instead of the mayor ; and in every case a sum-
mons to attend the council, specifying the business proposed to
be transacted at such meeting, signed by the town-clerk, shall
be left at the usual place of abode of every member of the
council three clear days at least before such meeting.
And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for the council of
any b(zough to appoint out of their own body, from time to
time, such and so many
C.m committees, either of a general or spe-
cial nature, and dslsting of such number of persons, as they
may think fit for any purposes which, in the discretion of such
council, would be better regulated and managed by means of
such committees, and to make such by-laws and regulations for
the direction and government of such committees as to such
council shall seem meet.

And be it enacted, that the council of every borough to
which a separate commission of the peace shall have been
granted as hereinafter mentioned, or a committee of the coun-
cil to be specially appointed by the council in that behalf, shall
hold a special meeting in the month of September in every
year, for granting licences to persons to keep victualling houses,
alehouses, and canteens, and to sell ale, beer, and other ex-
ciseable liquors by retail within such borough ; and after the
first day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty-
six, all such licences within any such borough, granted other-
wise than by the oouncil of such borough, or such committee of
the council as last aforesaid, shall be null and void.
And be it enacted, that after the said first day of Septem-
ber, the councillors of every such borough as last aforesaid
shall act with all the powers, and subject to all the disquali-
fications and penalties in the matter of granting such licenses
enacted concerning justices of peace, in a certain Act passed
in the third year of the reign of his late Majesty King George
the Fourth, intituled " An Act for amending the laws for re-
gulating the manner of licensing alehouses in that part of the
United Kingdom called England, and for the more effectually
preventing disorders therein ;" and the town clerk of every
such borough respectively shall act as therein is enacted,
concerning the clerks to the justices, and shall be entitled,
and none other, to take the fees therein made payable to the
clerks to the justices, and be subject in like manner to the
like pseialty for taking more than such fees; and all provisions
of the last-named Act, except as herein excepted, shall apply
to the licenses to be granted to the persons unto whom such
licenses shall be granted by the councils of such boroughs or
committees of such councils respectively.
And be it enacted, that the time and place for granting
such licenses shall be appointed by the council, at least ten
days before such meeting; and the town-clerk shall cause
notice thereof to be affixed on the outer door of the town-hall,
and in some conspicuous place of the police office hereinafter
mentioned, and shall give notice thereof to the several inn-
keepers and alehouse-keepers within the borough.
And be it enacted, that the recognizances to be entered into
on occasion of granting such licenses shall be acknowledged
before the council or committee as aforesaid, and signed by
the mayor, or, in the absence of the mayor, by two of the
councillors of such borough.
And whereas divers bodies corporate now stand seised or
possessed of sundry hereditamcnts arid personal estate, in trust
in whole or in part for certain charitable trusts, and it is ex-
pedient that the administration thereof be kept distinct from
that of the public stock and borough fund ; be it enacted, that
in every borough in which the body corporate, or any one or
more of the members of such body corporate, in his or their
corporate capacity, now stands or stand solely seised er pos-
sessed, for any estate or interest whatsoever, of any heredita-
ments or any sums of money, chattels, securities for money,
or any other personal estate whatsoever, in whole or in part, in
trust or for the benefit of any charitable uses or trusts what-
soever, the council of such borough shall, on the Ist day of
November in this and every succeeding year, nominate from
among the burgesses of such borough a fit number of persons,
not less than fifteen persons, of whom the mayor for the time
being shall be one, who shall be charitable trustees for such
borough, and the said trustees and their successors shall be
one body corporate, by the name of The Charitable Trustees
of the Borough of (as the case may be), and by that
name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be enabled
to sue and be sued in all Courts and places of judicature
within these realms, and shall stand seised and possessed
of the said hereditaments, turns of money, chattels, securi-
ties for money and other personal estate, for such uses
and trusts respectively as they were subject to before the
passing of this Act, and shall have all the powers and lia-
bilities heretofore vested in or belonging to such body eon.
porate or in such member or members of such body corporate
in respect of the said uses and trusts, and all the estate, right,
interest aini tile, and all the powers of such body corporate
or of such member or mesebers of such body corporate other
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