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other expenses occasioned by their being kept and detained in such gaol, or by the consequent and necessary increase of turnkeys and other attendants, or the alteration or enlargement of the said gaol, and also a due proportion of the expenses of the necessary repairs of the said gaol, and of the general expenses of the establishment thereof for the time being, shall be paid and satisfied out of the said rates for the said Isle of Ely; and (notice in writing of the amount of such expenses being given or transmitted by post by the clerk of the peace for the said county to the clerk of the peace for the said isle half-yearly, specifying the time at which the same are required be paid), the justices of the peace for the said isle shall from time to time assess and levy the amount of such expenses, and use and exercise all powers, authorities, and methods in regard thereto, in the same manner as they are and shall be empowered by law to assess and levy county rates, or rates in the nature of a county rate, within the said isle for other purposes; and the amount of such expenses shall from time to time be paid by the treasurers for the said isle, or one of them, to the treasurer for the said county, to be applied to the satisfaction of all such expenses accordingly; and such last mentioned treasurer shall be accountable for the same in the same manner as for other county rates received by him: provided always, that no enlargement of the said gaol shall be made until notice of such proposed enlargement shall be given by the clerk of peace for the said county to the clerk of the peace for the said isle, nor until the expediency of such enlargement shall have been submitted to the consideration of and shall have been agreed to by a joint committee of six justices of the peace for the said county and isle, to be appointed at the general or quarter sessions of the peace to be holden for the said county and isle respectively next after such notice in the manner provided.

the

of expenses.

IV. And be it enacted, that if at any time hereafter the justices of settlement the peace for the said isle shall refuse to make, assess, and levy a rate for defraying any such expenses as aforesaid, (and the nonpayment thereof by the time to be specified in such notice shall be construed to be a refusal to make, assess, and levy such rate), the justices of the peace for the said county and isle respectively shall, at the respective general or quarter sessions which shall be holden in and for the county and in and for the isle next after such refusal respectively, appoint six justices of the peace for the county and for the isle in manner hereinafter mentioned, that is to say, the justices of the peace for the said county shall at such sessions appoint three justices of the peace for the said county, and the justices of the peace for the said isle shall at such sessions appoint three justices of the peace for the said isle; which justices of the peace so to be respectively appointed as aforesaid are hereby required to meet, at such time as shall be fixed for the purpose by the chairman of such general or quarter sessions for the said county, at the gaol for the said county, and of which time of meeting notice in writing shall be given or transmitted by post by the clerk of the peace for the said county to the county justices so to be appointed, and by the same clerk of the peace to the clerk of the peace for the said isle, who shall give or transmit the same by post to the isle justices so to be

Justices of

the Isle of

Ely to pos

appointed; and the justices of the peace so to be appointed as aforesaid, or the major part of them then and there assembled (such major part not being less than five in number), shall hold a special sessions at the said gaol for the purpose of ascertaining and settling whether any and what expenses are chargeable in respect of any of the matters aforesaid on the rates of the said isle, and the proportion of expenses in respect of any of the said matters which ought to be borne by the said county and isle respectively; and the clerk of the peace for the said county shall attend such special sessions, and keep a record of the proceedings there, which record shall be evidence thereof; and the sum or sums which at any such special sessions as aforesaid shall be declared to be chargeable on the said isle under this act shall be levied and raised in manner aforesaid.

V. And be it enacted, that all justices of the peace acting in and the peace for for the said Isle of Ely shall from and after the passing of this act have and possess and may exercise all such and the same rights, privileges, powers, and authorities whatsoever within the said Isle of Ely as any justice of the peace acting in and for any county, riding, or division now hath or possesses or may exercise in such county, riding, or division.

sess the same powers as

justices for

counties.

Mutual pow.

ers given to

the county

hend offend

their respec

VI. And be it enacted, that it shall and may be lawful from and justices of after the passing of this act for any justice of the peace acting in and the peace for for the said county of Cambridge, and he is hereby authorized, to and for the issue under his hand and seal any warrant or warrants for the appreisle to apprehension of any person or persons residing or being within the said ers out of Isle of Ely, charged on oath before him the said justice with any tive limits. felony or misdemeanor committed in the said county of Cambridge, and in like manner for any justice of the peace acting in and for the said Isle of Ely, and he is hereby authorized, to issue under his hand and seal any warrant or warrants for the apprehension of any person or persons residing or being within the said county of Cambridge charged on oath before him the said last mentioned justice with any felony or misdemeanor committed in the said Isle of Ely; and the constables or constable or other person to whom any such warrant or warrants shall or may be addressed or directed are and is hereby authorized to apprehend and take any such person or persons so charged on oath as aforesaid (and whose name or names shall be inserted in such warrant or warrants) with any such felony or misdemeanor committed in the said county of Cambridge or in the said Isle of Ely, without indorsement of such warrant or warrants by any justice of the peace of the said county of Cambridge or of the said Isle of Ely.

Isle of Ely to be a division of a county.

Certain

townships to be separated from the

liberty of

VII. And whereas doubts have arisen whether the Isle of Ely is included in enactments made in several statutes respecting counties, ridings, or divisions; be it therefore enacted, that under such statutes heretofore passed or hereafter to be passed the Isle of Ely shall be deemed and taken to be a division of a county.

VIII. And whereas the townships of Feliskirk and Sutton-underWhitestonecliffe, in the parish of Feliskirk and townships of Kilburn and Marton Lordship, in the county of York, are locally situated become parts within the north riding of the said county, and yet for certain purriding. poses are esteemed to be within the liberty of Ripon in the said

Ripon and

of the north

county, heretofore part of the secular jurisdiction of the archbishop of York: and whereas by the said act of the last session of parliament it was amongst other things enacted, that all the secular jurisdiction of the said archbishop of York in the said liberty of Ripon should from and after the passing of the said act cease and determine, and should become and be transferred to and vested in his said late majesty, his heirs and successors: and whereas the said townships are distant upwards of fourteen miles from Ripon aforesaid, and it is highly expedient that the said townships should be entirely separate and distinct from the said liberty of Ripon; be it therefore enacted, that from and after the passing of this act, the said townships of Feliskirk and Sutton-under-Whitestonecliffe, and the said townships of Kilburn and Marton Lordship, be absolutely removed and separated out of and from the said liberty of Ripon, and out of and from the jurisdiction thereof, and become parts of the said north riding, to all intents and purposes whatsoever, and be solely within the jurisdiction of the said north riding; any custom or usage to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.

IX. And be it enacted, that this act may be repealed or altered Act may be by any other act in this present session of parliament.

repealed or altered.

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SEE OF DURHAM.

7 GEORGE 4, CAP. 17.-An act for remedying inconveniences in the administration of justice, arising from the present vacancy of the see of Durham, and for preventing the like in future.-Whereas the office of sheriff in the county palatine of Durham is held by grant of the bishop of Durham for the time being, during the pleasure of the same bishop, and the see of Durham is now vacant by the decease of the late bishop thereof; and by reason of his decease the said office of sheriff hath also become vacant, and there was no officer legally authorized to return jurors or to execute writs at the general quarter session of the peace for the said county palatine in the week after the clause of Easter; and it is necessary to provide a remedy for the inconveniences which may ensue therefrom, and in other respects from the vacancy of the said office of sheriff; be it therefore 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 the last sheriff of the said county palatine, his deputy or deputies, and all other officers and ministers of justice within the to continue same, whose offices determined on the decease of the late bishop of in office for the said see, shall be and they are hereby continued in their respecfrom decease tive offices from the decease of the said late bishop for the term of bishop, un- six calendar months thence next ensuing, in as full and ample manner less succeed to all intents and purposes as if the said see had not become vacant, shall sooner unless the succeeding bishop of the said see shall sooner determine

The last sheriff, &c.

of Durham

six months

of the late

ing bishop

determine same.

at the last

Easter quar ter session valid.

the same or any of them; and that the said sheriff, officers and minister respectively, shall have the like power and authority of executing and returning all writs and precepts to him or them directed or to be directed, and of doing all other acts to their respective offices appertaining, as fully and effectually as if the said see Proceedings had not become vacant; and that all trials and other proceedings had and taken, or to be had and taken, in the court of quarter session holden for the said county palatine in the week after the clause of Easter, or at any adjournment thereof, and all judgments and or ders there pronounced and made, and all sentences and punishments there passed and awarded, shall be good, valid and effectual to all intents and purposes whatsoever, any law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding: provided always, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to legalise or render valid any act which would not have been legal or valid if the said see had not become vacant. II. And, for preventing the like inconveniences in future, be it tion of grants further enacted, that no grant or appointment of or to any office or hereafter to employment concerning the administration of justice in the said any bishop county palatine, hereafter to be made by any bishop of the said see, of Durham. shall cease, determine or be void by reason of the death of any such

Determina

of office

be made by

bishop, but every such grant and appointment shall continue in full force for the term of six calendar months after any such death, unless

in the mean time determined by any succeeding bishop of the said

see.

III. And be it further enacted, that this act shall be deemed and Public act. taken to be a public act, and shall be judicially taken notice of as such by all judges, justices and others, without being specially pleaded.

6 & 7 WILLIAM 4, CAP. 19.-An act for separating the palatine jurisdiction of the county palatine of Durham from the bishopric of Durham.-See Title-" BISHOPRIC OF DURHAM," vol. i. p. 335.

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