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JURISDICTION OF THE CINQUE PORTS PRESERVED.

134. And be it enacted, that the courts of quarter ses-
sions of the peace of the towns and ports of Hastings, Sand-
wich, and Dover, and Hythe, and of the ancient town of
Rye, or of such of the said towns and ports and ancient
town to which his Majesty shall grant a separate court of
quarter sessions of the peace, shall have jurisdiction over of-
fences and matters committed, arising, and happening as
well within the boundaries of such towns and ports and an-
cient town respectively, as within the ancient members and
liberties not being corporate of the same respectively, and
also within the towns named in the schedule to this Act
which are ancient corporate members and liberties of the
said towns and ports and ancient town respectively, and to
which his Majesty shall not grant a separate court of quar-
ter sessions of the peace ; and also any or either of the
said towns and ports of Hastings, Sandwich, Dovor, and
Hythe, and ancient towns of Rye, to which his Majesty
shall not grant a separate court of quarter session of the
peace, and their or its members and liberties, shall for all
purposes relating to the jurisdiction of courts of quarter
sessions of the peace be respectively within the juris-
diction of the courts of quarter sessions of the
peace of *the nearest other of the said towns and
ports or ancient ton to which his Majesty shall grant
a separate court of quarter sessions of the peace ; and the
recorders, clerks of the peace, and coroners of the said
towns and ports and ancient town respectively, or of such
of them to which his Majesty shall grant a separate court
of quarter sessions of the peace respectively, shall and may
have and exercise the same jurisdiction, powers, and autho-
rities within all places within or subject to the jurisdiction
of such courts respectively, as within the said ancient towns
and ports and ancient town respectively of which they are
or may be appointed recorders, clerks of the peace, or
coroners.

JURISDICTION OF THE CINQUE PORTS FURTHER PRESERVED.

135. And be it enacted, that the justices of the peace of
the towns and ports of Hastings, Sandwich, Dovor, and
Ilythe, and of the ancient town of Rye, or of such of the
said towns and ports and ancient town as shall have justices
of the peace assigned to them by virtue of this Act, shall
and may have and exercise the same jurisdiction, powers,
and authorities over offences and matters committed, aris-

ing, and happening within the ancient members and liber-
ties not being corporate of such towns, and ports and an-
cient town respectively, as such justices shall and may have
and. exercise within the towns and ports and ancient town
for which they are or may be respectively justices of the
peace ; and also his Majesty's justices of the peace, acting
under the authority of a Commission or Commissions, is-
sued by virtue of an Act passed in the fifty-firseyear of the
reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, intituled
an act to facilitate the execution of justice within the
Cinque Ports, shall and may have and exercise all the juris-
diction, powers, and authorities given to such justices by
such an Act of Parliament, as well within the members and
liberties not being corporate of the said towns and ports
and ancient town respectively as within the said towns
named in the schedules to this Act being corporate mem-
bers and liberties thereof, or any of them, or any of the
said towns and ports and ancient town which shall not have
justices of the peace assigned to them by virtue of this Act :
Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall affect
the liability of all inhabitant householders within any of the
members and liberties of the cinque ports and ancient towns
thereof, not being corporate, to serve on juries at quarter
sessions as heretofore.

ACT NOT TO AFFECT LETTERS PATENT FOUNDING A

GRAMMAR SCHOOL AT LOUTH.

136. Provided always, and be it enacted, that nothing
contained in this Act shall alter or affect certain letters
patent bearing date in the fifth year of the reign of his
Majesty King Edward the Sixth, founding a free grammar
school at Louth, in the county of Lincoln, and creating a
body corporate for the management and regulation th:,•reof;
and for the benefit of twelve poor persons mentioned in the
said letters patent, by the name of the " wardeli and six
assistants of the town of Louth and free sch:Jol of King
Edward the Sixth in Louth ;" but that t►le said warden
and assistants shall continue and be a body corporate with
perpetual succession under the provisions of the said letters
patent for the management and regulation of the said
school and the purposes aforesaid only, and shall remain
and be seised of and entitled to all lands, tolls, tenements,
and hcreditaments now vested in them for the purposes
therein mentioned, in the same manner to all intents and
purposes as if this Act had not been passed.

SAVING OF THE RIGHTS OF THE UNIVERSITIES OF OXFORD

AND CAMBRIDGE.

137. And be it enacted that nothing in this Act con-
tained shall be construed to alter or affect the rights or pri-
vileges, duties or liabilities of the Chancellor, Master, and
Scholars of the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge re-
spectively, as by law possessed under the respective char-
ters of the said Universities or otherwise, or to entitle any
person to be enrolled a citizen of the city of Oxford, or
burgess of the borough of Cambridge, by reason of his oc-
cupation of any rooms, chambers, or premises in any of the
colleges or halls of the Universities of Oxford or Cam-
bridge, or either of them, or to compel any resiclent mem-
cer of either of the said Universities to accept any office
in or under the body corporate of the mayor and citizens
of the city of Oxford, or of the mayor and burgesses of
the borough of Cambridge, or to authorise the levy of any
rate vv.:thin the precincts of fne said Universities, or of any
of the colleges or balls of the same, which now by taw can
not be levied therein.
NOT TO AFFECT JURISDICTION OVER PRECINCTS OF CATHE-

DRALS, NOR RIGHTS OF UNIVERSITY OF'D.(TRIIANI.
158. And be it enacted, that all the jurisd'Actions and au-

ifiorities now exercised in and over the precinct or close of
any cathedral, shall be continued, as if this Act had not
been passed, concurrently with the jurisdiction and autho-
rity of the justices of the peace of the borough, within
which such close is situated ; and that nothing herein con-
tained shall affect or interfere with the rights and privileges
granted by the Charter or Act of Parliament of tho Uni-
versity of Durham.

IN CASES WHERE BODIES CORPORATE ARE SEISED IN THEIR
CORPORATE CAPACITY OF ADVOWSONS, &C., THE SAME
MAY BE SOLD AS ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS MAY
DIRECT:-.-VACANCY ARISING BEFORE SALE TO BE SUP-
PLIED BY BISHOP OF THE DIOCESE.

139. And be it enacted, that in every case in which any
body corporate, or any particular class, number, or descrip-
tion of members, or the governing body of any body cor-
porate, now is or are in their corporate capacity, and not as
charitable trustees, according to the meaning and provisions
of this Act, seised or possessed of any manors, lands, tene-
ments, or hereditaments whereunto any advowson or right
of nomination or presentation to any benefice or ecclesias-
tical prefernlent is appendent or appurtenant, or of any ad-
♦owson in gross, or hath or have any right or title to nomi-
nate or present to any benefice or ecclesiastical preferment,
every such advowson and every such right of nomination
and presentation shall be sold at such time and in such
manner as the commissioners appointed by his Majesty to
consider the state of the Established Church in England
and Wales with reference to ecclesiastical duties and reve-
nues may direct, so that the best price may be obtained
for the same ; and it shall be lawful for the council of such
body corporate, and they are hereby authorized and re-
quired, with the consent of the said commissioners or
any three or more of them, in writing under their hands,
to convey and assure under the common seal of such
body corporate such advowson or such right of nomina-
tion or presentation as aforesaid to the purchaser or
purchasers thereof respectively, his or their heirs, exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, or to such uses as
he or they shall direct ; and the proceeds of every such sale
shall be paid to the treasurer of the borough, whose re-
ceipt shall be a sufficient and effectual discharge to the pur-
chaser or purchasers to whom the same shall be given for
the amount of his or their purchase money, and shall be by
him invested in. Government Securities for the use of the
body corporate, and the annual interest payable thereon
shall be carried to the account of the borough fund : Pro-
vided always, that in any case of vacancy arising before any
such sale shall have taken place and been completed, such
vacancy shall be supplied by the presentation or nomination
of the bishop or ordinary of the diocese in which such be-
nefice or ecclesiastical preferment is situated.

FERIODS CONNECTED WITH FIRST REGISTRATION AND

ELECTION MAY BE DETERRED BY ORDER IN COUNCIL.

140. And whereas it may happen that the several pro-
visions of this Act cannot be carried into effect within the
several periods in the present year hereinbefore specified
and limited in that behalf ; be it therefore enacted, that it
shall be lawful for his Majesty, if he shall think fit, by the
advice of his Privy Council, to order any days and times
before the Ist day of February next, for doing the several
matters required or authorised by this Act to be done, in
lieu of the several days and times for the present year here-
inbefore specified, or any of them ; and in such case and
matters mentioned in such order shall be done on and within
such days and times as shall be mentioned respectively in
that behalf in such order, as if the days and times men-
tioned in such order had in every instance been mentioned
in this Act, instead of the days and times hereinbefore
respectively mentioned in that behalf, and not otherwise :
Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall au-
thorise his Majesty to appoint any days or times other than
are hereinbefore specified, for any matters required or au-
thorised by this Act to be done after the expiration of this
present year : Provided also, that no person shall be en-
titled to be enrolled in the burgess-roll of any borough in
this present year, unless he would have been entitled on the
last day of August in this year to have his name included in
some overseers' list, if such list had been made out on the
sth day of September in this year.

THE KING EMPOWERED TO GRANT CHARTERS OF INCORPO

RATION,

141. And whereas sundry towns ant boroughs of Eng-
land and WTales are not towns corporate, and it is expe-
dient that several of them should be incorporated ; be it
enacted, that if the inhabitant householders of any town or
borough in England and Wales shall petition his Majesty
to grant to them a charter of incorporation, it shall be law-
ful for his Majesty, by any such charter, if he shall think fit,
by advice of his privy council, to grant the same, to extend
to the inhabitants of any such town or boaough, within
.the
district to be set forth in such charter the powers and pro-
visions in this Act contained : Provided, nevertheless, that
notice of every such petition, and of the time when it shall
please his Majesty to order that the same be taken into con-
sideration by his privy council, shall be published by royal
proclamation in The London Gazette, one month at least
before such petition shall be so considered.