Act not to extend to Bethlehem Hospital or to Lunatic AsyJums established under 48 G. 3. c. 96. or 9 G. 4. c. 40. Nothing herein to extend to public Hospitals or Institutions; except as to to the Trans mission of Names of Patients. Interpretation of Act. Action, Bill, Plaint, Information, or Indictment shall be c menced, entered, filed, or preferred by or in the Name of Person whatsoever, except upon such Order as aforesaid, the s and all Proceedings thereupon had, shall be null and void, the Court or Courts, Justice or Justices of the Peace, where before whom such Action, Bill, Plaint, Information, or Ind ment is or shall be, or commenced, prosecuted, entered, filed preferred, shall not permit or suffer any Proceeding or Proce ings to be had; and no Commissioner or Justice shall in any be liable to any Criminal Proceeding or Civil Action for Reasons to be given in the Execution of this Act. L. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That noth in this Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend the Royal Hospital of Bethlehem, or to any Building erected a jacent thereto for the Confinement of Criminal Lunatics, orte Royal Military or Naval Hospitals, or to any Lunatic As already erected and established under an Act passed in the For eighth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George Third, intituled An Act for the better Care and Maintenanc Lunatics, being Paupers or Criminals, in England, or hereaf to be erected and established under the Provisions of an A passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of His present Majest intituled An Act to amend and consolidate the Laws relating to Erection, Maintenance, and Regulation of County Lunatic Asyl and to the Care and Maintenance of Lunatics, being Pauper Criminals, in England. LI. Provided also, and be it further enacted, That nothing this Act contained shall extend to any public Hospital or Parts i public Hospitals, or other charitable Institutions, supported whey or partly by voluntary Contributions, in which Lunatics are re ceived, or to any Lunatic Asylum built and established by voi tary Contributions, and supported by applying the Excess a Payments of the more affluent in reduction of the Payment by Persons in more limited Circumstances, excepting in as far a relates to Certificates of Admission, and Visitations appointed the Lord Chancellor, or Lord Keeper or Commissioners of th Great Seal, or the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King Bench, or the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas or His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home De partment, and the Transmission to the Clerk of the Commissiones Annual Report, as herein before directed. LII. And, in order to remove Doubts as to the Meaning certain Words in this Act, be it enacted, That the Word "County shall be deemed to include any County, Riding, Division of the County of Lincoln, Liberty, County of a City, County of a Tow City, Cinque Port, or Town Corporate; that the Word "Parish shall be deemed to include any Township, Hamlet, Vill, Tithing extra-parochial Place or Place maintaining its own Poor; tha the Words "County Rate" shall be deemed to include any Funds assessed upon or raised in or belonging to any County, Riding Division of the County of Lincoln, Liberty, County of a City County of a Town, Cinque Port, or Town Corporate, in the Nature of County Rates, and applicable to the Purposes to which County Rates are applicable; that the Word "Visitor" shall all be deemed to include all Justices, Physicians, Surgeons, Apothecaries, appointed at a General or Adjourned Quarter ssions to visit Houses of Reception for Two or more Insane rsons; that the Words "Insane Persons" shall be deemed to clude any Lunatic or dangerous Idiot; that the Words "Parish Patient" shall be deemed to include any Person sent to and aintained at any House licensed for the Reception of Insane ersons wholly or in part at the Expence of any Parish; that e Words "Clerk of the Peace" shall be deemed to include y Person acting as such, or any Deputy duly appointed; that Word "Apothecary "shall be deemed to include any Person thorized to practise as such under the Act passed in the Fifty h Year of King George the Third, intituled An Act for the 55 G. 3. c.194. ter regulating the Practice of Apothecaries throughout England d Wales, or under an Act passed in the Sixth Year of George e Fourth, intituled An Act to amend and explain the said Act of 6G. 4. c. 183. e Fifty-fifth Year of His late Majesty; and the Words "Trearer of the County" shall be deemed to include any Officer ho has the Custody of any Funds assessed upon or raised in or elonging to any County, Riding, Division of the County of Linln, Liberty, County of a City, County of a Town, Cinque Port, Town Corporate, in the Nature of County Rates, and appliable to the Purposes to which County Rates are applicable; and at the Word "Person" shall be deemed to include any Number f Persons; and that the Meaning of the aforesaid Words shall ot be restricted, although the same may be subsequently referred › in the singular Number and masculine Gender only. LIII. And be it enacted, That the Powers and Authorities Public Act. ranted by this Act shall be deemed and taken to be a Public Act†, and shall be judicially taken notice of as such by all udges, Justices, and others, without being specially pleaded. LIV. And be it further enacted, That this Act, and the several Matters and Things therein contained, shall commence and take effect from and after the First Day of August, and not sooner, and shall continue in force for the Term of Three Years, and from thence to the End of the next Session of Parliament. + Sic. Commence ment and Con tinuance of Act. 1 9 3 &c. SCHEDULE (B.) WEEKLY REGISTER to be kept in each House for the Inspec of Commissioners or Visitors. In Cases of Restraint, the Necessity to be certified by the Physica 4 Ann. c. 14. Repeal of recited Act, except as to Briefs in progress. Surgeon, or Apothecary. CA P. XLII. An Act to abolish Church Briefs, and to provide for t WH HEREAS an Act was passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne, intituled An Act for the better o lecting Charity Money on Briefs by Letters Patent, and pre venting Abuses in relation to such Charities; and it is expe dient to repeal the said Act, and to provide for the better Collection and Application of voluntary Contributions for e larging, building, rebuilding, and repairing Churches and Chapels in England and Wales: And Whereas in the Year Ot thousand eight hundred and eighteen a Society was instituted by the Name of "The Society for promoting the Enlargeme ' and Building of Churches and Chapels," consisting of Persons who had contributed or should contribute Twenty Guineas one Donation, or Two Guineas annually; which Society, go verned under certain Rules and Regulations, has tended great to promote the good and laudable Objects for which it was instituted, and would be enabled to promote the same still more effectually, if the said Society were incorporated, with such Powers and Privileges as are hereinafter mentioned:' Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Tem poral, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the said Act of Queen Anne shall be and the same is hereby repealed, except as to such Briets issued before the passing of this Act as are now in progress, respect to which the said Act shall remain in force. with II. And [I. And be it enacted, That from and after the passing of this The Churchet all such Persons as now are or hereafter may become Mem- building rs of the said Society shall be and are hereby declared to be Society to be Body Corporate, by the Name of "The Incorporated Society incorporated. for promoting the Enlargement, Building, and Repairing of Churches and Chapels." III. And be it enacted, That the Archbishop of Canterbury for Presidency, &c. e Time being shall be the President of the said Society, and of the Society. at the Archbishop of York for the Time being, and the Bishops the Two Provinces for the Time being, shall be Vice Presidents ereof, together with such Lay Peers and Commoners, being venty-five in Number, as now are Vice Presidents of the said ciety; and that all Vacancies which shall from time to time cur in that Number of the Vice Presidents shall be filled up om the Lay Members of the Society by the Committee thereof. IV. And be it enacted, That the said Society shall be governed Constitution of V. And be it enacted, That all Persons who shall contribute Qualification General Court, when to be holden; Business to VI. And be it enacted, That a General Court shall be holden nnually in May, and oftener if the Committee shall think it exedient; and that at the General Court Three Auditors shall be ppointed for the Year ensuing, a Treasurer elected, and the Va cancies in the Committee filled up from a Double List prepared transacted. by the President and Vice Presidents, and that all such Elections and Appointments shall be by Ballot. be there Committee; their Powers and Duties. VII. And be it enacted, That every Order to be made and Act Number of to be done by the Committee for the Time being of the said the acting Society shall be made and done with the Consent of the Majority of the Members present at any Meeting of the Committee, such Meeting to consist of not less than Five; and the Committee, or the major Part of them at any such Meeting, shall have full Power and Authority to make all such Laws and Regulations, not being repugnant to the Laws of this Kingdom, or to the express Provisions of this Act, as to them shall from time to time seem expedient, for the Management and Government of the said Society, and for carrying its Designs into Effect; and shall have the sole Management, Control, and Disposition of the Estates, Funds, Revenues, and other Property which now or may hereafter belong to the said Society; and shall have the Power of affixing the Common Proviso as to Rules to be observed by the Society in selecting Parishes for Grants, &c. Further Rules for the like Purpose. All Sums col- ' lected under Royal Letters for aiding the building, &c. of Churches, shall be applied by the Society. Accounts of the Society to be laid annually before Parliament. Common Seal of the said Society, or directing it to be affixed such Instruments as the said Committee or such major Par them shall think fit; and shall have the sole Control over Appointment of all Officers, Agents, or Servants whom it be thought expedient to employ in the Service of the said Soc or in any of the Concerns relating thereto : Provided always, t such Laws and Regulations so to be made as aforesaid shall be of any Force or Effect unless the same shall be confirmed the Members of the Committee, or the major Part of them. shall be present at the next Meeting of the said Committee the same shall have been first made, such next Meeting to com of not less than Five. VIII. Provided always, and be it enacted, That the Commit of the said Society, in the Selection of Parishes and Extra-pe chial Places to which they shall grant any Part of their F towards the enlarging or building of any Churches or Cha shall have regard to the Amount of the Population, and als the Disproportion between the Number of Inhabitants and present Accommodation for Attendance upon Divine Service & cording to the Rites of the United Church of England and Irelan and in giving Preference among such Parishes and Extra-parocia Places, shall have regard to the Proportion of the Expence whic shall be offered to be contributed or raised by such respect Parishes or Places, towards the Enlargement or Building Churches or Chapels therein, and to the pecuniary Ability of Inhabitants thereof. IX. Provided also, and be it enacted, That in granting Ar towards the Repairs of Churches and Chapels which have faa into a State of great Dilapidation without Neglect or Faut the existing Parishioners, and the entire Expence of repair which the Parishioners shall be proved, to the Satisfaction of the Committee of the said Society, to be unable to defray, Referen shall be had to the Amount of Money raised by the Parishioner by Rates or Subscription, and to the Improvement which it may be proposed to effect in the Accommodation for the Poor. X. And be it enacted, That as often as His Majesty shall b graciously pleased to issue his Royal Letters, directed respect ively to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, authorizing th Collection of voluntary Contributions within their several Pro vinces, for the Purpose of aiding the enlarging, building, rebui ing, or repairing of Churches and Chapels in England and Wein or in any Part thereof, in every such Case all the Contribution so collected shall be paid over to the Treasurer of the said Society, or his Order, and shall be employed by the said Society in carrying its Designs into Effect. XI. And be it enacted, That Accounts shall annually be presented to His Majesty, of the Progress made by the said Society in the Execution of its Designs, stating the Number of Churches or Chapels enlarged, built, rebuilt, or repaired, or in the Course of being so, the Money expended, and for what Purposes, and al such other Particulars as shall be necessary for explaining the Progress made by the said Society, together with a List of a Officers, Agents, and Servants employed by the said Society, and a Statement of their respective Salaries. XII. And |