said A. B. [or, of C. D. as the case may be] was [or, were] then and there feloniously stolen, and that he hath just cause to suspect, and doth suspect, that E. F., late of aforesaid, labourer, did commit the said felony [or, as the case may be], and that G. H., late of aforesaid, labourer, did counsel, hire, procure, or command the said E. F. to commit the said felony [or, as the case may be.] These are therefore in his majesty's name, to charge and command you forthwith to apprehend and bring before me, the said E. F. and G. H. to answer the said complaint, and to be further dealt with according to law. Given under my hand and seal this _ one thousand eight hundred and day of Commitment thereupon. J. P. (L. S.) To the keeper of his Majesty's gaol at Stafford, for the county of Staffordshire, to wit. } Stafford, or his deputy. the RECEIVE into your custody the bodies of E. F. and G. H. herewith sent you, brought before me J. P. esq., one of his majesty's justices of the peace in and for the said county, by A. C., constable of the parish of - in the said county, the said E. F. being charged upon the oath of A. В. with having on day of- - last, feloniously and burglariously broken and entered his dwelling-house, situate in the parish of in the said county [or, as the case may be] and feloniously stolen, taken, and carried away [describe the property stolen] the property of the said A. B. [or, C. D. as the case may be] and the said G. H. being also charged upon the oath of the said A. B. with having counselled, hired, procured, or commanded the said E. F. to commit the said felony and burglary [or, as the case may be, and them safely keep in your custody until they shall be discharged by due course of law. Given under my hand and seal at in the said county, this thousand eight hundred and To prosecute at the next assizes [or, sessions, as the case may require.] day of J. P. (L.S.) Acquittal. Form of the Record of an Acquittal on an Information on a penal Statute, before a Justice of the Peace out of Sessions. From Wms. Prec. 7. and Y.C.P. 53. Staffordshire, BE it remembered, that on the day of - in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and, at the town of Stone, in the parish of Stone, in the said county of Stafford, A. I., of the said town of Stone, labourer, in his proper person, came before me J. P. esq., one of his majesty's justices of the peace in and for the said county, , and gave me, the said justice, to understand and be informed, that day of - in the said year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and , at Stone aforesaid, in the said county, personally appeared before me, the said justice, as well the said A. I. to prosecute his said information in this behalf, as the said A. O. (having been first duly summoned) to make defence thereto. And the said A. O. having heard the said information read, is asked by me, the said justice, if he can say any thing for himself why he should not be convicted of the offence therein charged against him; whereupon the said A. O. pleadeth and saith, that he is not guilty of the said offence [or, if he pleads any special matter, it must be correctly stated]. Therefore I, the said justice, did proceed to examine into the truth of the said information and complaint, and upon due consideration had of the premises, and upon hearing the proofs and allegations as well of the said A. Ο. as of the the said A. I. it is hereby considered and adjudged by me, the said justice, that the said A. O. be acquitted of the said charge and offence in the said information above contained, and that he do go thereof quit without day. And it is hereby also further ordered and adjudged by me, the said justice, that the said A. I. the informant, do forthwith pay to the said A. O. the defendant the sum of - which I do hereby settle and ascertain as and for the reasonable costs and charges 18 G. 3. c. 19. which the said A. O. hath been put to in making defence to the said §1. 1 Burn, information. In witness whereof I have to this record of acquittal 645. set my hand and seal, at Stone, in the said county, this day of hundred and in the said year of our Lord one thousand eight See Rex v. Reason. 6 T. R. 375. Et per Ld. Ellenborough C. J. in Taylor v. Shapland, 3 M. & S. 330. Alehouses (Licensing.) [3 G. 4. c. 77.] - Vide 1 Burn, 31. et seq. BY stat. 3 Geo. 4. c. 77. intituled An act for amending the laws 3 G. 4. c. 77. for regulating the manner of licensing alehouses in that part of the U. K. called England, and for the more effectually preventing disorders therein. §1. After reciting that "whereas the several statutes now in force for regulating the manner of licensing persons to keep ale S G. 4. c. 77. Requiring per sons to whom any licence shall be granted to enter into re cognizances in the form pre scribed by sche dule (A.) In case persons applying for licences shall be prevented by sickness, &c. from attending the justices, then justices may grant same on taking security. Penalty for granting licence without recog nizance. Licence to be in the form in schedule (B.) No police officer, constable, &c. shall be surety. Certificate of good conduct, &c. to be produced by persons applying for licences. houses, or to sell ale, beer, and other liquors by retail therein, in that part of the U. K. called England, are found to be defective and insufficient, and it is expedient that the laws concerning such alehouses, inns, and victualling houses, and the licensing thereof, should be amended, and some further provisions made as to the mode of granting such licences;" it is enacted " that from and after the passing of this act (viz. 26th July 1822), every person to whom the justices of the peace or magistrates shall grant a licence or authority to keep a common inn, alehouse, or victualling house, or to sell ale, beer, cyder, perry, or other exciseable liquors by retail, within that part of the U. K. called England, shall upon such licence or authority being granted or issued, enter into a recognizance to the king's majesty, his heirs and successors, in the sum of 30l., with one sufficient surety in the sum of 20l., or two sufficient sureties in the sum of 10i. each, which recognizance, with the condition thereof, shall be in the form prescribed by the schedule to this act marked (A.); and in case the person applying for such licence shall be hindered through sickness or infirmity, or any other reasonable cause, to attend in person at the meeting of the same justices or magistrates for granting the said licences or authorities, that then it shall be lawful for them to grant such licence or authority upon two sufficient sureties entering into such recognizance, each surety in the penalty of 30l., for performance of the condition of the said recognizance, and which said recognizance shall be acknowledged in the presence of the majority, and signed by at least two of the justices or magistrates present at any such meetings for granting licences or authorities, and the same, with the condition thereof fairly written or printed, shall forthwith, or at the next general or quarter sessions of the peace at farthest, after granting such licence or authority, be sent or returned to the clerk of the peace, or person acting as such, for every county, riding, city, liberty, town corporate, or place in that part of the U. K. called England, wherein such licences or authorities shall be granted, to be by the said clerk of the peace, or such other person acting as such, duly entered or filed amongst the records of the sessions of the peace; and that for every such licence or authority granted without taking such recognizance, and for every such recognizance taken and not sent or returned as aforesaid, every justice of the peace or magistrate signing such licence or authority shall forfeit and pay the sum of 3l. 6s. 8d.; and every such licence or authority to be granted by justices of the peace or magistrates after the passing of this act, shall be in the form prescribed by the schedule to this act marked (B.): provided always, that no police officer, patrole, constable, or headborough shall be surety for any innkeeper, alehouse keeper, or victualler under this act." § 2. And for the better preventing the granting of licences or authorities to unfit and improper persons, to keep alehouses or victualling houses, or to sell ale, beer, or other exciseable liquors by retail, and the occurrence of disorderly conduct in such houses; it is enacted, "that no licence or authority for such purposes shall be granted to any person not thereunto licensed or authorized the year preceding, unless such person shall produce, at the general annual meeting of the justices or magistrates to be held for that purpose, a certificate under the hands of the parson, vicar, or curate, or of the major part of the churchwardens, chapelwar- 3 G. 4. c.77. dens, and overseers of the poor, and of four reputable and substan- $2. tial householders and inhabitants, or under the hands of eight respectable and substantial householders and inhabitants of the parish or place where the person applying for such licence or authority shall have last inhabited or dwelt for a space of six months; which certificate shall set forth the number of the house, and the name of the street, or other true description of the house, where such person so dwelt, and also whether he or she was there a housekeeper or an inmate, and whether such person, in such last-mentioned parish or place, kept an alehouse or victualling house, and if so, the sign of such house; and shall also set forth, that such person is of good fame, sober life and conversation, and a fit and proper person to be intrusted with a licence for the purposes aforesaid; and it shall be mentioned in every such licence or authority, To be mentionto be granted to any person not licensed at the last general li- ed in licence censing day, that such certificate was produced: and in case such that certificate was produced. certificate, in the form and signed in the manner aforesaid, shall not, on the occasions aforesaid, be produced, or the licence to be granted in such last-mentioned cases shall omit to state that such certificate was so produced, such licence or authority shall be null and void; and every such certificate so required to be produced on such occasions as aforesaid, shall be annexed to the recognizance to be entered into by the person receiving or obtaining such licence or authority as aforesaid, and shall with such recognizance be sent or returned to the clerk of the peace, or person acting as such as aforesaid: Provided always, that if any person shall forge or coun- Persons forging terfeit any certificate, or write any name on any such certificate, or receiving to resemble, imitate, or represent the name of any parson, vicar, money for ceror curate, or any churchwarden, chapelwarden, overseer of the tificates to be poor, or other person directed by this act to sign such certificate, demeanor. with an intent to deceive the justices of the peace granting or having power to grant such licences or authorities, or shall tender or produce any paper with such counterfeit name or writing thereupon, knowing such name or writing to be counterfeit, with intent to deceive the said justices, or shall take or receive any sum or sums of money for signing or procuring signatures to any such certificate, every person so offending, being thereof lawfully convicted, shall be adjudged to be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall suffer punishment accordingly." guilty of a mis special meetings that purpose. to be held for § 3. Enacts, "that the recognizance, in the form and with the Recognizances surety or sureties hereby required to be entered into on granting to be presented to justices at licences or authorities to persons to keep alehouses or victualling houses, or to sell ale, beer, or other exciseable liquors by retail, and the certificate in the form and with the signatures hereby required to be produced, by persons not licensed for those purposes the preceding year, shall also be entered into and produced by persons applying for and obtaining such licences or authorities, at any special meetings of the justices to be holden for those purposes, pursuant to the directions of the statute made and passed in the 32d year of the reign of his late majesty king George the 3d, intituled An Act to amend so much of two acts, made in the 26th 32 G. 3. c. 59. and 29th years of the reign of his late majesty king George the 2d, 1 Burn, 37. as relates to the licensing of alehouse keepers and victuallers, and for better regulating alehouses, and the manner of granting such 3 G.4. c.77. Names of sureties to be en licences in future; and also of granting licences to persons selling wines to be drank in their houses." § 4. Enacts, "that the register or calendar required by law to be kept by clerks of the peace, of recognizances to be taken and tered in a book. returned by justices of the peace, on granting such licences as aforesaid, shall contain the names and places of abode of the several sureties who shall so enter into such recognizances; and that as well the entries of the names of such sureties, as of the other particulars of such recognizances already required to be registered, shall and they are hereby required to be entered by the respective clerks of the peace, or other persons acting as such, to whom such recognizances shall be returned; and that for every recognizance there shall be paid, by the clerk or clerks to the justices taking such recognizances, to the said clerk of the peace, as their fee for filing or recording the said recognizances and for making such entry thereof, and of the names or name of the sureties or surety to be thereby bound, and for making and delivering copies of the said register, as by law required, the sum of 2s. and no more, which shall be paid to the clerks of the said justices by the persons licensed, over and above the fees payable by law to the said justices' clerks; and it shall be lawful for any person or persons on application, at all seasonable times, to see, inspect and examine every such register, so to be kept by the said clerks of the peace, on payment or tender made by the person or persons requiring the same, to such clerks of the peace, of the sum of 1s. for every such inspection or examination." Fee 28. Registers of sureties open to public inspec tion. Fees to be paid for licenses. § 5. Enacts, "that from and after the passing of this act it shall and may be lawful to and for the clerks to the several justices of the peace, to be assembled at any general annual meeting for the purpose of granting licences or authorities to persons to keep alehouses, or to sell ale, beer, or other exciseable liquors by retail, in that part of the U. K. called England, and also at any special meeting for the like purposes, to be held pursuant to the directions of the said act of the 32d year of the reign of his said late majesty, to ask, demand, and receive of and from every person to whom a licence or authority, for the purposes aforesaid, shall be granted, renewed, or continued, as and for the trouble of such clerks in filling up such licence or authority, and taking and returning the recognizance to be so entered into, the sum of 5s. and no more, over and above the fees directed to be paid to the several clerks of the peace, for filing such recognizPenalty on tak-ances; and in case any clerk to such justices, or other person ing more than acting as such, shall demand, or take, or receive of or from any regular fees, 54 person to whom such licence or authority as aforesaid shall hereafter be granted, or renewed, or continued, as and for his fee or reward for the trouble of preparing the same, and taking and returning such recognizance as aforesaid, any further or greater fee or reward or recompence than the said sum of 5s.; every person so offending shall, for every such offence, and on conviction on the oath of one credible witness, forfeit and pay the sum of 5l., to be sued for, recovered, levied and applied in the same manner as any other pecuniary penalty imposed by this act may be sued for, recovered, levied and applied." Executors, &c. §6. Enacts, "that from and after the passing of this act, if of licensed per- any person duly licensed to keep an alehouse or victualling house, |