Costs may be awarded by the Judicial Committee, and taxed. Appointment of Assistant Regis- siastical and Maritime Causes. 3&4 Vict. c. 66. Custody of Records, &e. of the Court of Delegates and Appeals. Registry of the High Court of Admiralty and Appeals within Twelve Calendar Months from the giving or pronouncing of any Order, Decree, or Sentence appealed from, and all Causes of Appeal from Vice Admiralty Courts to the Eastward of the Cape of Good Hope, in which the Appeal and Petition of Reference to Her Majesty shall have been lodged in the Registry of the High Court of Admiralty and Appeals within Eighteen Calendar Months from the giving or pronouncing any Order, Decree, or Sentence appealed from, shall be referred to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and the said Judicial Committee and their Surrogates shall have full Power forthwith to proceed in the said Appeals, and the usual Inhibition and Citation shall be decreed and issued, and all usual Proceedings taken, as if the same had been referred to the said Judicial Committee by a special Order of Her Majesty in Council in each Cause respectively. XII. And be it declared and enacted, That as well the Costs of defending any Decree or Sentence appealed from as of prosecuting any Appeal, or in any Manner intervening in any Cause of Appeal, and the Costs on either Side, or of any Party, in the Court below, and the Costs of opposing any Matter which shall be referred to the said Judicial Committee, and the Costs of all such Issues as shall be tried by Direction of the said Judicial Committee respecting any such Appeal or Matter, shall be paid by such Party or Parties, Person or Persons, as the said Judicial Committee shall order, and that such Costs shall be taxed as in and by the said Act for the better Administration of Justice in the Privy Council is directed respecting the Costs of prosecuting any Appeal or Matter referred by Her Majesty under the Authority of the said Act, save the Costs arising out of any Ecclesiastical or Maritime Cause of Appeal, which shall be taxed by the Registrar hereinafter named, or his Assistant Registrar. XIII. And be it enacted, That the Registrar of the High Court of Admiralty of England for the Time being may be appointed by Her Majesty to be Registrar of Her Majesty in Ecclesiastical and Maritime Causes, and shall have Power to appoint an Assistant Registrar, as provided by an Act passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty, intituled An Act to make Provision for the Judge, Registrar, and Marshal of the High Court of Admiralty of England, and shall during his good Behaviour, and while he shall be Registrar of the said High Court of Admiralty, hold his Office of Registrar of Her Majesty in Ecclesiastical and Maritime Causes, and shall do all such Things, and shall have the same Powers and Privileges in respect to the same, as belong to his Predecessors in the Office of Registrar of His Majesty in Ecclesiastical and Maritime Causes. XIV. And be it enacted, That all Records, Muniments, Books, Papers, Wills, and other Documents remaining in the Registry of the High Court of Admiralty and Appeals, appertaining to the late High Court of Delegates and Appeals for Prizes, Prizes, shall be and remain in the Custody and Possession of the said Registrar of Her Majesty in Ecclesiastical and Maritime Causes. XV. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Judicial ComJudicial Committee from Time to Time to make such Rules mittee empowered to make Orders, and Regulations respecting the Practice and Mode of Rules, &c. reproceeding in all Appeals from Ecclesiastical and Admiralty specting Pracand Vice Admiralty Courts, and the Conduct and Duties of the tice and Mode Officers and Practitioners therein, and to appoint such Officer in Appeals, &c. of proceeding or Officers as may be necessary for the Execution of Processes under the said Seal of Her Majesty, and in respect to all Appeals and other Matters referred to them, as to them shall seem fit, and from Time to Time to repeal or alter such Rules, Orders, or Regulations: Provided always, that no such Rules, Proviso. Orders, or Regulations shall be of any Force or Effect until the same shall have been approved by Her Majesty in Council. Court of Dele gates. XVI. And whereas, in certain Causes which were depend- Judicial Coming before the late High Court of Delegates, certain Decrees mittee of Privy Council to proor Orders were made and interposed, and are not yet fully ceed with Causes ⚫ carried into effect: And whereas, in consequence of the Death depending of the Judges Delegate, or some of them, named in the before late High ⚫ several Commissions under the Great Seal, such Decrees or • Orders cannot be carried into effect;' be it enacted, That all such Causes of Appeal and Complaint which were depending before the High Court of Delegates, and in which any Decree, Order, or Thing, for the Reason lastly herein-before mentioned, is outstanding and not fully ended and determined, shall be transferred to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council'; and the said Judicial Committee shall take up and proceed with the said Causes in the same Manner as if the same had been originally Causes of Appeal and Complaint depending before the said Judicial Committee. Terms. XVII. And be it enacted, That in this Act all Words de- Definition of noting a Male Person shall be taken to include a Female also, and all Words denoting one Person or Thing shall be taken to include also several Persons or Things, unless a contrary Sense shall clearly appear from the Context; and that the Words "Arches Court of Canterbury," used in this Act, shall be construed to extend to such Court as shall exercise the Jurisdiction of the said Court or be substituted for the same; and that wherever the Words "Ecclesiastical Court" have been used in this Act the same shall be construed to extend to such Court as shall exercise the Jurisdiction or any Part of the Jurisdiction exercised by any Ecclesiastical Court or be substituted for the same; and the Words "Ecclesiastical and Maritime Cause of Appeal" shall be construed to extend to Causes appealed from Ecclesiastical Courts and such Court as shall exercise the Jurisdiction or any Part of the Jurisdiction exercised by any Ecclesiastical Court or be substituted for the same." CAP. XXXIX. An Act for Confirmation of certain Marriages in Ire- and celebrated in Ireland, by Presbyterian and other 'Protestant Dissenting Ministers or Teachers, or those who at the Time of such Marriages had been such, between Per'sons being of the same or different religious Persuasions; and it is expedient to confirm such Marriages:' Be it therefore 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 Marriages had and celebrated in Ireland since the passing of an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled An Act for Confirmation of certain Marriages in Ireland, and before the passing of this Act, by Presbyterian or other Protestant Dissenting Ministers or Teachers, or those who at the Time of such Marriages had been such, shall be, and shall be adjudged and taken to have been and to be, of the same Force and Effect in Law as if such Marriages had been had and solemnized by Clergymen of the United Church of England and Ireland, and of no other Force nor Effect whatsoever. II. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended, altered, or repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of Parliament. CAP. XL. An Act to amend the Laws for the Prevention of 6 [1st August 1843.] WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Session of Parliament held in the Eighth and Ninth Years of King 8 & 9 W. 3. c.36. William the Third, intituled An Act for the further Encouragement of the Manufacture of Lustrings and Alamodes within this Realm, and for the better preventing the Importation of the same, whereby (amongst other Matters therein contained) certain Penalties, Forfeitures, and Punishments therein referred to ' were imposed upon Persons embezzling or otherwise unlawfully selling or receiving, as therein is mentioned, Silk delivered by the Silk Manufacturers to be worked up: And whereas an Act was passed in the First Year of the Reign ་ · of ' of Her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled An Act for the more 1 Anne, s. 2. 'effectual preventing the Abuses and Frauds of Persons employed c. 18. in working up the Woollen, Linen, Fustian, Cotton, and Iron Manufactures of this Kingdom: And whereas the said Act was made perpetual by an Act passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of Her said late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled An 9 Anne, c. 30. Act for reviving and continuing an Act made in the First Year of Her Majesty's Reign, for the more effectual preventing Abuses and Frauds of Persons employed in the working up the Woollen, Linen, Fustian, Cotton, and Iron Manufactures of this Kingdom: And whereas an Act was passed in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the First, intituled • An Act to prevent unlawful Combination of Workmen employed 12 G. 1. c. 34. in the Woollen Manufactures, and for better Payment of their Wages: And whereas an Act was passed in the Thirteenth Year of His late Majesty King George the Second, intituled 'An Act to explain and amend an Act made in the First Year 13 G. 2. c. 8. of the Reign of Her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled “ An "Act for the more effectual preventing the Abuses and Frauds ""of Persons employed in the working up the Woollen, Linen, "Fustian, Cotton, and Iron Manufactures of this Kingdom;" and also for extending the said Act to the Manufacture of Leather: And whereas an Act was passed in the Twenty-second Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, intituled An Act for the more effectual preventing of 22 G. 2. c. 27. • Frauds and Abuses committed by Persons employed in the Manufacture of Hats, and in the Woollen, Linen, Fustian, Cotton, Iron, Leather, Fur, Hemp, Flax, Mohair, and Silk Manufactures; and for preventing unlawful Combinations of Journeymen Dyers and Journeymen Hotpressers, and of all Persons employed in the said several Manufactures, and for the better Payment of their Wages: And whereas another Act was passed in the • Seventeenth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King 6 • George the Third, intituled An Act for amending and rendering 17 G. 3. c. 56. more effectual the several Laws now in being for the more effec tual preventing of Frauds and Abuses by Persons employed in the Manufacture of Hats, and in the Woollen, Linen, Fustian, • Cotton, Iron, Leather, Fur, Hemp, Flax, Mohair, and Silk • Manufactures; and also for making Provisions to prevent Frauds by Journeymen Dyers: And whereas an Act was passed in the Thirty-second Year of His late Majesty King George the • Third, intituled An Act for extending the Provisions of an Act 32 G. 3. c. 44. made in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of His present Ma jesty, intituled "An Act to empower the Magistrates therein "mentioned to settle and regulate the Wages of Persons employed "in the Silk Manufactures within their respective Jurisdictions," to Manufactures of Silk mixed with other Materials; and for the more effectual Punishment of Buyers and Receivers of Silk purloined and embezzled by Persons employed in the Manufacture thereof: And whereas the Provisions of the said Acts have 'not been effectual to prevent Frauds, Embezzlements, and Abuses by Persons employed in the Woollen, Linen, Cotton, [No. 22. Price 2d.] Y Flax, 6 & 7 VICT. Flax, Mohair, and Silk Hosiery Manufactures; and it is 6 expedient to repeal so much of the said recited Acts as relates to the said Manufactures, and to make further Provisions in lieu thereof, as well for the Benefit and Encouragement of Trade and Manufactures as for the Security of the Property of Manufacturers and the Wages of the Workmen engaged in the said Manufactures: Be it therefore 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 So much of the the same, That from and after the Commencement of this Act so much of the said recited Acts or any of them as relates to Woollen, Linen, the Woollen, Linen, Cotton, Flax, Mohair, and Silk Manu said Acts as relates to the Cotton, Flax, Persons con victed of pawn ing or embez zling any of the particularized to forfeit the Value of the same, and Costs. factures, or any of them, or any Manufactures whatsoever made of Wool, Cotton, Flax, Mohair, or Silk Materials, whether the same be or be not mixed with each other or with any other Materials, shall, so far as respects the Manufactures, Trades, Occupations, and Employments herein-after mentioned, be and the same are hereby repealed, save and except so far as the same may have repealed any former Acts or Enactments. II. And be it enacted, That if any Person whosoever intrusted with any Woollen, Worsted, Linen, Cotton, Flax, Mohair, or Silk Materials, for the Purpose of being prepared, worked up, Materialsherein or manufactured, either by himself or by any Person or Persons to be employed by or under him, or by himself jointly with any Person or Persons to be employed with, by, or under with Penalty, him, or for any Purpose or Work connected with Manufacture, or incidental thereto, or any Parts, Branches, or Processes thereof, or any Tools or Apparatus for manufacturing the said Materials, shall sell, pawn, purloin, embezzle, secrete, exchange, or otherwise fraudulently dispose of the same Materials, Tools, or Apparatus, or any Part thereof, he shall upon being thereof lawfully convicted by the Oath of the Owner of such Materials, Tools, or Apparatus, or any Part thereof, or of any other credible Witness or Witnesses, before Two or more Justices of the Peace, forfeit the full Value of the same, and also forfeit such Penalty, not exceeding Ten Pounds, together with Costs, as to the said Justices shall seem meet; and every such Forfeiture and Penalty shall be applied under the Direction of the convicting Justices, in manner following; (that is to say,) in the first place, in making such Satisfaction to the Party injured as the said Justices shall think proper; and the Remainder, if any, shall be applied in the same Manner as is herein-after directed for the Disposal of any other Penalty under this Act; and in default of Payment of such Forfeiture and Penalty, with Costs, immediately on Conviction, or within such Period as the Justices so convicting may direct, the said Justices may issue their Warrant to distrain and sell the Goods and Chattels of the Person so convicted, for the Amount thereof, and Costs; and the Proceeds of any Distress, after paying the Penalty, Forfeiture, and Costs, and also the Costs of such Distress, shall be paid over to the Person convicted; but if no sufficient Dis Application of Penalty and Distress Warrant on Nonpayment. |