3 & 4 Vict. c. 99. 3 & 4 Vict. c. 100. Census to be taken on 7th June and following days, instead of the 1st of July. Accounts to be verified in Scotland before 30th of June. How Age shall be reckoned. CAP. VI. An Act to continue until the Fourth Day of August CAP. VII. An Act to amend the Acts of the last Session for taking 2. And be it enacted, That the times to be appointed by the sheriff deputes or their substitutes, and the provosts or other chief Magistrates of the burghs, for the attendance of the schoolmasters and other persons with their returns, shall be not sooner than the fifteenth day of June and not later than the last day of June in this year, instead of the times by the first-recited Act limited ; and when such returns shall be verified before a Justice of the Peace, as by the said Act in certain cases is provided, the schedule shall be transmitted to the sheriff deputes or their substitutes before the last day of June. 3. And be it enacted, That the persons charged with taking the said accounts shall not be required to ascertain the age of any person above the age of fifteen years more nearly than is herein provided, nor shall any person be liable to any penalty for refusing to tell his or her age to any person so charged more nearly than is herein provided; and every person aged fifteen years and not aged twenty years may be set down as aged fifteen years, and every person aged twenty years and not aged twenty-five years may be set down as aged twenty years; and in like manner the age of every person may be set down as that multiple of five years which either expresses his or her real age, or is next below his or her real age. 4. And be it enacted, That the overseers of the poor in every Overseers, parish, township, and place in England and Wales and the consta- Relieving bles, tithingmen, headboroughs, or other peace officers for such Officers, and parishes, townships, and places, and the relieving officers in any bound to act Peace Officers as Enumera union formed under the Act for the Amendment and better Ad- Houses. 5. And be it enacted, That schedules shall be prepared, under Schedules may the direction of the said commissioners, for the purpose of being be left at filled up by the several Occupiers of Dwelling Houses as herein- Dwelling after provided; and the registrars in England and Wales, and the school-masters and other persons charged with taking the said account in Scotland, shall, in the course of the week ending on Saturday the fifth day of June in this year, leave or cause to be left at every dwelling house within their district one or more of the said schedules for the occupier or occupiers thereof or of any part thereof; and upon every such schedule shall be plainly expressed that it is to be filled up by the occupier of such dwelling house, (or where such dwelling house is let in different stories or apartments, and occupied distinctly by different persons or families, by the Occupier of each such distinct story or apartment,) and that the person charged with taking the said account will collect all such schedules within his district on the Monday then next following; and every occupier of any dwelling house, or of Occupiers to any distinct story or apartment in any dwelling house, with or for fill up the whom any such schedule shall have been left as aforesaid, shall Schedules, and fill up the said schedule to the best of his or her knowledge and sign and deliver them Penalty for when required belief, so far as relates to all persons dwelling in the house, story, or apartment occupied by him or her, and shall sign his or her name thereunto, and shall deliver the schedule so filled up, or cause the same to be delivered, to the person charged with taking the said account, when required so to do; and every such occupier who shall wilfully refuse, or without lawful excuse neglect, to fill up the said schedule to the best of his or her knowledge and belief, or to sign and deliver the same as herein required, or who shall wilfully make, sign, or deliver, or cause to be made, signed, or delivered, any false return of all or any of the matters specified in the said schedule, shall forfeit a sum not more than five pounds, or less than forty shillings, at the discretion of any Justice of the Peace or Magistrate before whom complaint thereof shall be made, to be recovered, in case of non-payment, by distress and sale of the goods of such offender. Schedules to be collected from House to House, and corrected if found to be erroneous. Account of 6. And be it enacted, That the persons charged with taking the said accounts in Great Britain shall collect all the schedules so left within their district from house to house, and, so far as may be possible, on the said Monday the seventh day of June, and shall complete such of the returns so made to them as upon delivery thereof to them shall appear to be defective, and correct such as they shall find to be erroneous, and shall copy the returns so made to them, when completed and corrected, into the account which, by the first-recited Act, they are required to take of the persons living within their several districts, and shall add thereunto the accounts which they shall have taken of all the other persons living within their district, in the manner prescribed by the said Act, who shall not be included in the returns so made to them. 7. And be it enacted, That all provisions in the first-recited Parliamentary Act contained with respect to the royal burghs in Scotland shall Burghs in apply to every burgh in Scotland, whether or not a royal burgh, which now returns or contributes to return a member or members Royal Burghs. to parliament, and in which there is a provost and Magistrates, and to none others. Scotland to be taken as of So much of first-recited Act as autho rizes the Commissioners to prepare a 8. And be it enacted, That so much of the first-recited Act as provides that the commissioners shall prepare a table of allowances to any parish clerk or other person who shall have assisted the rector, vicar, curate, or other officiating minister in England, or to any sheriff clerk, town clerk, or schoolmaster in Scotland, or to any person employed in the execution of the said Act, other than the enumerators, registrars, and superintendent registrars &c. repealed. employed in England and Wales in the execution of the said Act, shall be repealed. Table of Allowances to Enumerators, Justices in sation to 9. And be it enacted, That the Justices of the Peace in special or petty session assembled, having jurisdiction in any allow compen- parish, township, chapelry, or place in England and Wales, shall Enumerators, allow to the several overseers, constables and other peace officers, &c. and order and relieving officers, who shall be required to act as enumerapayment tors under this Act, a reasonable compensation, instead of the Rates. allowance to enumerators as fixed by the said commissioners, for thereof out of their labour and trouble necessarily undertaken, and also for the Poor their expenses (if any) necessarily incurred by them in the execution of the first-recited Act and this Act; and shall also allow to the parish clerk or other person who shall have assisted the rector, vicar, curate, or other officiating minister in the execution of the first-recited Act, a reasonable compensation for so doing, upon his producing a certificate from the said officiating minister to that effect; and shall order payment thereof to be made out of the poor rates of such parish, township, or place, and such payments shall be paid by the overseers, and shall be allowed in their accounts. allow compen 10. And be it enacted, That the sheriff deputes or their sub- Sheriff destitutes and provosts of the royal burghs and other burghs in putes, &c. in Scotland herein specified shall allow to the schoolmasters and Scotland to others a reasonable compensation for the trouble by them neces- sation to sarily taken, and also for the expences (if any) by them Schoolmasters necessarily incurred in the execution of this Act, and shall order and others. payment thereof, and also of the sums respectively payable to the sheriff's clerk or town clerk, and to the sheriff's officer or town officer, to be made by the collector of the land tax of and for the shire or other place (as the case shall require) out of any money in his hands, and such collector shall pay the same accordingly. 11. And be it enacted, That the two recited Acts, as amended Recited Acts by this Act, shall be construed with and as part of this Act. 12. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this session of parliament. amended. CAP. VIII. An Act to reduce the Duty on Rum and Rum Shrub, the Produce of and imported from certain British Possessions in the East Indies into the United Kingdom. CAP. IX. [6th April 1841.] [6th April, 1841.] to be construed with this Act. Act may be An Act for removing Doubts as to the continuance of certain Local Turnpike Acts.* WHEREAS sundry Acts were passed in the fourth, sixth, and 4 & 5 W. 4, seventh years of the reign of His late Majesty, and in the first, c. 10. second, third, and fourth years of the reign of Her present 5 & 6 W. 4, Majesty, for continuing, for the times therein respectively specified, certain Acts for regulating Turnpike Roads, which, but for the passing of such first-mentioned Acts, with the exceptions in 7 W. 4 & all or some of such Acts mentioned, would have expired: And 1 Vict. c. 18. See Burn's Justice, tit. HIGHWAYS (Turnpike). c. 49. c. 62. 1 & 2 Vict. c. 68. 2 & 3 Vict. c. 31. 3 & 4 Vict. c. 45. Certain Local Acts declared to have been and to be in force until 1st of June, 1842. whereas it was intended that by the first-mentioned Acts all local Acts for regulating turnpike roads in Great Britain, which, but for the said first-mentioned Acts, would have expired with the session of parliament in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, or at any time since, or will expire at or before the end of the session of parliament in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty one, should (with the exceptions in the first-mentioned Acts specified) be continued until the first day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, and, if parliament shall then be sitting, until the end of that session; but by reason of the differences in the words used in the titles and in the enactments of some of the said first-mentioned Acts, doubts have arisen whether such intention has been duly carried into effect, and it is expedient that such doubts be removed: Be it therefore declared and 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 all the local Acts for regulating, making, amending, or repairing turnpike roads in Great Britain (except as above excepted) which, unless continued by some public general Act, would have expired with the session of parliament in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, or at any time since, or will expire at or before the end of the session of the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, have continually been, and now are and shall continue to be, in full force and effect until the first day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and fortytwo, and, if parliament shall then be sitting, until the end of that session of parliament. CAP. X. An Act for extending to the County of the City of Dublin CAP. XI. An Act to indemnify such Persons in the United Kingdom |