c. 82. After Nov.1, 1773, no hos pital to be established for the re women, un 13 Geo. III. places as to give a seasonable relief to such parishes, if a law was made to regulate the settlement of such bastard children; may it please your majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the king'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, from and after the first day of November, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-three, no hospital or place shall be established, used or appropriated, or continue to be used or appropriated, for the public recepception of tion of pregnant women, under public or private support, pregnant regulation and management, in any parish within that part of less a license Great Britain called England, unless a license shall be first be obtained; had and obtained, in manner hereafter mentioned, from the justices of the peace, at some one of their general quarter sessions to be held for the county, riding, division, city, or corporation, wherein such hospital or place shall be situated; and such justices are hereby authorised and required to grant justices, at such license to any person or persons who shall apply for the their quarter same, such person or persons paying the sum of forty shilempowered lings for every such license to the clerk of the peace of such county, riding, or division, or to the town clerk of such city or corporation, as a perquisite for his trouble, and as a fund to defray the expense of the stamp and parchment that shall be used for the grant of such license. which license the sessions are to grant. Every license to be stamped with a 5s. II. And be it further enacted, that every such license shall be written on parchment, and stamped with a five shilling stamp, and stamp; and a copy thereof shall be entered in a book to be signed by kept for that purpose by such clerk of the peace, or town the justices. clerk, and preserved as a public register amongst the records of the county, riding, division, or of such city or corporation, as the case may be, to be inspected by any person or persons on payment of one shilling; and every such license shall be signed by two or more such justices of the peace at their general quarter sessions, and shall entitle the person or persons to whom such license shall be granted to keep one hospital, house, or place, and no more, for the public or charitable reception of pregnant women. Hospitals now or here after to be established for the reception of pregnant women, deemed III. And be it further enacted, that as well all hospitals, houses, and places already established, used or appropriated for the public reception of pregnant women, and supported by charitable contributions, or otherwise, for the purposes of the delivery or lying-in of such pregnant women, as all other within the hospitals, houses, or places, that may hereafter be established, used, and appropriated, in like manner, for the like purposes, shall be deemed and taken to be hospitals and places within the true intent and meaning of this act. intent of this act. IV. And, that it may be the more easily known what hos c. 82. Inscription door of all pitals, houses, or places, shall have been licensed pursuant to 13 Geo. III. this act, be it enacted, that there shall be fixed and kept up over the door or public entrance of every such hospital, to be affixed house, or place, an inscription, in large letters, in the follow- over the ing words; videlicet, Licensed for the public reception of hospitals. pregnant women, pursuant to an act of parliament passed in the thirteenth year of the reign of King George the Third, and the affixing and keeping such inscription shall be a condition in every such license; and in case such inscription shall not be fixed and kept over the door or public entrance of such hospital, house or place, such license shall become null and void. The substance only of the following sections of this act is stated : V. Bastard children born in such hospitals not to be entitled to relief as a parishioner (x). VI. On the removal of the mother or child, the churchwardens of the parish are to pay all expenses. VII. Appeal may be made to quarter sessions by persons aggrieved, giving fourteen days' notice. VIII. Parish officers are impowered to apprehend the fathers of any bastard. IX. Proviso, that act shall not alter the law of settlement of bastards where mothers' settlements are unknown. X. Owners or masters of hospitals to take the woman, before admitted, to be examined before a justice. XI. If the woman produce an affidavit that she is married or single, she is not liable to go before the justice. XII. When any woman shall be delivered of a bastard, the owner of the hospital is to give four days' notice before she is discharged to the overseers. XIII. Överseer attending, and being informed that such woman is not sufficiently recovered, shall wait till a further notice be given. XIV. Every woman may be kept in the hospital till she be in a fit condition to be discharged, &c. XV. But not to extend to keep any woman longer than six weeks, without her consent. XVI. Owners, governors, &c. not complying with the directions of this act to forfeit 501.; and overseers, &c. neglecting or refusing, to forfeit 107. Penalties may be recovered by action in the courts of record at Westminster, or by information; half penalty to be applied for use of poor, other half to go to the informer. XVII. General issue may be pleaded, and defendant to have treble costs in case of non-suit, &c. (x) See Poor Law Amendment Act, 4 & 5 Will. IV. c. 76, ss. 69–76. 13 Geo. III. c. 82. XVIII. Actions to be commenced within six months after offence. XIX. This act to be deemed a public act. 43 Geo. III. c. 107. empowered to grant in their own governors of the bounty Anne, to augmenta tion of the of the clergy. GIFTS TO QUEEN ANNE'S BOUNTY, 43 GEORGE III. c. 107, An Act for effectuating certain parts of an Act, passed in the WHEREAS by an act, made in the second and third years 2 & 3 Anne, of the reign of her late majesty Queen Anne, intituled, An c. 11, Act for the making more effectual her majesty's gracious reciting that persons were intentions for the augmentation of the maintenance of the poor Clergy, by enabling her majesty to grant, in perpetuity, estates, &c. the revenues of the first fruits and tenths; and also for enright to the abling any other persons to make grants for the same purpose; after reciting, amongst other things, that for the enof Queen couragement of such well disposed persons as should, by her wards the majesty's royal example, be moved to contribute to so pious and charitable a purpose, and that such their charity might maintenance be rightly applied, it was amongst other things enacted, that all and every person and persons having in his or their own right any estate or interest, in possession, reversion, or contingency, of or in any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any property of or in any goods or chattels, should have full power, license, and authority, at his, her, and their will and pleasure, by deed enrolled in such manner and within such time as is directed by the statute made in the twenty-seventh year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, for enrolment. of bargains and sales, or by his, her, or their last will or testament in writing, duly executed according to law, to give and grant to and vest in the corporation thereby authorised, and since erected under the name of The Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne, and their successors, all such his, her, c. 107. or their estate, interest, or property in such lands, tenements, 43 Geo. III. and hereditaments, goods, and chattels, or any part or parts thereof, for and towards the augmentation of the maintenance of such ministers officiating in such church or chapel where the liturgy and rites of the said church were or should be so used or observed, as in the same act were mentioned, and having no settled competent provision belonging to the same, and to be for that purpose applied according to the will of the said benefactor, in and by such deed enrolled, or by such will or testament executed as aforesaid expressed, and in default of such direction, limitation, or appointment, in such manner as by her majesty's letters patent should be directed or appointed as aforesaid, and such corporation and their successors, should have full capacity and ability to purchase, receive, take, hold, and enjoy for the purposes aforesaid, from such persons as should be so charitably disposed to give the same, any manors, lands, tenements, goods, or chattels, without any license or writ of ad quod damnum, the statute of mortmain or any other statute or law to the contrary notwithstanding. And it was by the same act provided, that that act, or any thing therein contained, shall not extend to enable any person or persons being within age, or of non-sane memory, or women covert without their husbands, to make any such gift, grant, or alienation, any thing in that act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. And whereas the beneficial effect and operation of the said act have been considerably obstructed and retarded by an act, passed in the ninth year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, intituled, An Act to restrain the Disposi- 9 Geo. II. tion of Lands, whereby the same become unalienable: For remedy thereof, be it enacted by the king's most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords So much of spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present parlia- act of 2 & 3 ment assembled, and by the authority of the same, that so Anne shall much of the said act of her late majesty Queen Anne, as is force, notherein recited, shall be and remain in full force and effect, the withstandsaid act of his late majesty King George the Second, or any II. c. 36. other act or law to the contrary notwithstanding (y). c. 36. the recited remain in ing 9 Geo. c. 10, power &c. thereby II. And whereas by an act, passed in the first year of the 1 Geo. I. reign of his late majesty King George the First, intituled, An of exchangAct for making more effectual her late majesty's gracious in- ing lands, tentions for augmenting the maintenance of the poor Clergy, it granted, exwas amongst other things enacted, that it should be lawful, with tended to the concurrence of the said governors of the Bounty of Queen mented living. Anne, and the incumbent, patron, and ordinary of any augmented living or cure to exchange all or any part of the (y) See ante, pp. 51, 52, 171,172. every aug c. 107. 43 Geo. III estate settled for the augmentation thereof, for any other estate in lands or tithes of equal or greater value, to be conveyed to the same uses; be it also enacted, that the said power shall be, and the same is hereby extended to all the messuages, buildings, and lands belonging to every such augmented living or cure. Where there is no suita ble parson age house, the governors may provide one. III. And be it further enacted, that where a living shall have been or shall be augmented by the said governors, either by way of lot or benefaction, and there is no parsonage house suitable for the residence of the minister, it shall and may be lawful for the said governors, and they are hereby empowered, from time to time, in order to promote the residence of the clergy on their benefices, to apply and dispose of the money appropriated for such augmentation, and remaining in their hands, or any part thereof, in such manner as they shall deem most advisable, in or towards the building, re-building, or purchasing a house, and other proper erections within the parish, convenient and suitable for the residence of the minister thereof, which house shall for ever thereafter be deemed the parsonage house appertaining to such living, to all intents and purposes whatsoever: any thing in any act or acts, or the rules of the said governors contained to the contrary notwithstanding. 43 Geo. III. c. 108. BUILDING OF NEW CHURCHES, 43 GEORGE III. c. 108, 27 July, 1803. An Act to promote the Building, Repairing, or otherwise WHEREAS a sufficient number of churches and chapels for the celebration of divine service, according to the rites and ceremonies of the united church of England and Ireland, and of mansion houses with competent glebes for the residence of ministers officiating in such churches and chapels, is necessary towards the promotion of religion and morality and whereas the same are either wholly wanting or materially deficient in many parts of England and Ireland: and whereas many well-disposed persons would be desirous of contributing towards the supply of such defects, if they were enabled so to do in the manner hereinafter directed: may it therefore please your majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the king's most excellent majesty, by and with the (z) Ante, pp. 53-55. |