The Sun. — 1846-02-18 (London, England)

IRISH PACIFICATION BILL.  A Bill intituled an Act for the Better Protection of Life, and to Facilitate the Apprehension and Detection of Persons Guilty of Offences in Ireland.  I. For the more easy apprehension and detection of persons who shall commit or shall attempt to commit murder, or who shall do grievous bodily harm to any of her Majesty's subjects, in Ireland, be it enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the , same, That if any person or persons shall murder or feloniously slay any of her Majesty's subjects in Ireland, or shall shoot at, stab, cut, or wound any of said suljects, or shall by any means whatsoever cause to any of said subjects any, bodily injury dangerous to life, with intent in any of the cases aforesaid to commit murder, or to maim or disable or to do some other grievous bodily harm to any of said subjects, it shall and may be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, with the advice and assent of her Majesty's Privy Council ia Ireland, to declare by proclamation that any county or part of a county in which any of the offences aforesaid shall have been committed, as also such part as he and they shall think proper of any adjoining county, requires an additional establishment of police, and thereupon it shall and may be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to appoint such and so many resident magistrate or magistrates, subin=pectors of constabulary, head constables, constables, and sub-canqables as he shall think proper to be stationed and reside within the district specified in such proclamation, until the Lord Lieutenant shall, by proclamation in that behalf issued, otherwise direct; and such additional force of constabulary shall form part of the general constabulary force, And be in all respects subject to the same rules and discipline as the residue of the said force.  11. Ard be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, with the advice of her Majesty's Privy Council in Ireland, if he and they shall so think fit, in and by any such proclamation so to be made as aforesaid, or by a distinct proclamation, to warn the inhabitants of the district specified in such proclamation to be and remain within their respective places of abode at all hours between sunset and sunrise, from and after such day as shall be named therein for that purpose. HI. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, by a new proclamation to be made by and with the advice of her Majesty's Privy Council in Ireland, to revoke any proclamation issued in .pursuance of this Act as to the whole or any part of the district thereby proclaimed, and thereupon the original proclamation mentioned therein shall, upon a day to be specified in such now proclamation, stand and be revoked so far as such new proclamation shall purport to revoke the same. IV. And be it enacted, That copies of every proclamation made under the provisions of this Act shall be posted on or near to the doors tf all places of public worship within the district specified in such proclamation, and on or immediately adjacent to the doors of eaeh police station or barrack within the same, and at the places (if any) appointed by the grand jury for posting road notices within the same. V. And be it enacted, That the production of the Dublin Gazette, containing the publication ofany proclamation under this Act, shall be deemed and taken to be and shall be conclusive evidence in all courtsa civil and criminal jurisdiction in Ireland of all such facts as were or shall be necessary to authorise the issuing of such proclamation as aforesaid ; and every such proclamation shall be deemed and taken in all such courts respectively to .all intents and purposes whatsoever, to have been issued in conformity to the several provisions of this Act.  VI. And be enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to pay such reward or rewards as to him shall seem tit for the discovery or apprehension of any person or persons who shall be convicted of any of the offences aforesaid committed within the district specified in any such proclamation.