St. James's

Park.

of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues for the hereafter Time being, by any Writing under their Hands, or the Hands of formed in any Two of them, to direct and appoint that any Street or Streets, Square or Squares, Circus or Circuses, Terrace or Terraces, Way or Ways, Court or Courts, Passage or Passages, Place or Places, Road or Roads, Drive or Drives, Garden or Gardens, Shrubbery or Shrubberies, ornamental Inclosure or Inclosures, which may hereafter be built, formed, made, or set out on any Part of Saint James's Park, or on any other Land or Ground belonging to His Majesty, and adjoining or near thereto, shall be under the Jurisdiction of the Commissioners for executing this Act; and from and after the Time or Times specified for that Purpose in such Direction or Appointment, the Premises therein mentioned shall be under the Jurisdiction of the said Commissioners for executing this Act, and shall be paved, lighted, watched, watered, cleansed, and regulated, maintained, supported, and kept in order, according to the Subject Matter thereof, under the same Powers, Authorities, and Provisions, to all Intents and Purposes, as are contained in the said recited Acts of the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of His present Majesty, and in this Act, with respect to the several Streets and Places thereby placed under the Jurisdiction of the said Commissioners; and the said Commissioners shall and they are hereby authorized and empowered to exercise and put in force all the same Powers, Authorities, and Provisions, and to raise Rates, and do all other necessary Matters and Things for paving, lighting, watching, watering, cleansing, and regulating, maintaining, supporting, and keeping in order, all such Streets, Squares, Circuses, Terraces, Courts, Ways, Passages, and Places, Roads, Drives, Gardens, Shrubberies, and ornamental Inclosures, hereafter to be placed under their Jurisdiction as aforesaid, in the same Manner as is in the said Acts and in this Act directed with respect to Premises of the same Description, by such Acts placed under the Jurisdiction of the said Commissioners, as fully, amply, and effectually as if the Premises so to be placed under their Jurisdiction were already set out, formed, and established, and were delineated and described on the said Map or Plan marked No. 5.; and the said Lord High Treasurer or Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, or Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, as the Case may be, shall cause Three several Maps or Plans of any be deposited Premises which may be so placed by him or them under the Juris- with the Clerk diction of the Commissioners for executing this Act, to be made, of the Peace, and to be authenticated by the Signature of the said Lord High &c. and be Treasurer, or of the said Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, open to Inspecor of any Three of them, or of the said Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, or of any Two of them; and one of such Maps or Plans shall be deposited with and shall remain in the Custody of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, and one other of them shall be deposited in the Parliament Office, and the remaining one shall be deposited with the Clerk of the Peace for the County of Middlesex, within Three Calendar Months after the said Premises shall have been so placed under the Jurisdiction of the said Commissioners for executing this Act, to the end that all Persons

Plans of the Premises placed under their

Jurisdiction to

tion.

Chidley Court, in the Parish of St. James, shall

cease to be a

public Passage,

and the Freehold thereof vested in His Majesty.

may at all seasonable Times have Liberty to inspect the same, at their Will and Pleasure, paying the Sum of One Shilling for each Inspection, and to take Copies from the said Maps or Plans, or any of them, or from any Part or Parts thereof, paying the Sum of One Shilling for every Copy so taken; and the said Maps or Plans shall be received in Evidence in all Proceedings relating to the Jurisdiction of the said Commissioners, and the Execution and Provisions of this Act.

LVI. And Whereas a public Passage or Court called Chidley 'Court, running from the East End of Pall Mall, in the Parish ' of Saint James, within the said Liberty of Westminster, to Lower Warwick Street within the same Liberty, was, in or about the 'Year One thousand eight hundred and eight, by the Permission of the Committee for paving, cleansing, and lighting the said • Parish, stopped up, in consequence of various Nuisances having ⚫ been committed therein, and the same is continued to be stopped up to the present Time; but Doubts having arisen whether the 'said Committee had Power to permit the same to be continued to be so stopped up, and it being desirable that the said Court, ⚫ and the Soil and Freehold thereof, should be vested in His Majesty, freed and discharged from all public or other Rights of passing or repassing over the same; Be it therefore further enacted, That the said Court or Place called Chidley Court shall henceforth for ever hereafter cease to be a public Court, Way, or Passage, and that the Soil and Freehold of the said Court or Place shall remain and continue at all Times hereafter vested in

7 G.4. c.6.

His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, freed and discharged from all public and private Right of passing or repassing over and along the same.

W

CAP. LXV.

An Act to restrain the Negotiation, in England, of Promissory Notes and Bills under a limited Sum, issued in Scotland or Ireland. [15th July 1828.] HEREAS an Act was passed in the Seventh Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act to limit, and after a certain Period to prohibit, the issuing of Promissory Notes ' under a limited Sum in England; and Doubts may arise how far 'the Provisions of the said Act may be effectual to restrain the circulating in England of certain Notes, Drafts, or Undertakings made or issued in Scotland or Ireland: 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 if any Body Politic or Corporate, or Person or Persons, shall, after the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, by any Art, Device, or Means whatsoever, publish, utter, negotiate, or transfer, in any Part of England, any Promissory or other Note, Draft. EngageBills under 51. ment, or Undertaking in Writing, made payable on Demand to the Bearer thereof, and being negotiable or transferrable, for the Payment of any Sum of Money less than Five Pounds, or on which less than the Sum of Five Pounds shall remain undis

After 5th April 1829, no Cor

poration or Person shall

utter in Eng

land Notes or

which have

been made or issued in Scotland or Ireland,

charged,

charged, which shall have been made or issued, or shall purport under Penalty to have been made or issued, in Scotland or Ireland, or elsewhere of 201. out of England, wheresoever the same shall or may be payable, every such Body Politic or Corporate, or Person or Persons, so publishing, uttering, negotiating, or transferring any such Note, Bill, Draft, Engagement, or Undertaking, in any Part of England, shall forfeit and pay for every such Offence any Sum not exceeding Twenty Pounds nor less than Five Pounds, at the Discretion of the Justice of the Peace who shall hear and determine such Offence.

II. And be it further enacted, That the Penalties which may Mode of rebe incurred under the Provisions of this Act shall and may be covering Perecovered in a summary Way, by Information on Complaint, nalties. before a Justice or Justices of the Peace, and shall be levied and applied in the Manner directed by an Act passed in the Fortyeighth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to restrain the Negotiation of Promissory 48 G.3. c.88. Notes and Inland Bills of Exchange under a limited Sum in England, with respect to the Penalties by the said last-mentioned Act imposed; and all and every the Clauses and Provisions in the said last-mentioned Act contained, relating to the Recovery and Application of the Penalties thereby imposed, shall be applied and put in execution for the Recovery and Application of the Penalties by this Act imposed, as fully and effectually, to all Intents and Purposes, as if such Clauses and Provisions had been herein repeated and expressly re-enacted.

III. Provided always, and be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Lord High Treasurer, or for the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, or any Three or more of them, to order and direct that the Whole or any Part of any Penalty which shall be incurred under this Act shall and may be remitted, or mitigated or abated to such Amount, and in such Manner and upon such Conditions as to such Lord High Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury may seem fit and proper. IV. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That nothing herein contained shall extend to any Draft or Order drawn by any Person or Persons on his, her, or their Banker or Bankers, or on any Person or Persons acting as such Banker or Bankers, for the Payment of Money held by such Banker or Bankers, Person or Persons, to the Use of the Person or Persons by whom such Draft or Order shall be drawn.

CAP. LXVI.

An Act for repealing the Laws now in force relating to the
Discovery of the Longitude at Sea. [15th July 1828.]

The Treasury may order a Remission or Mitigation of

Penalties.

Not to extend to Drafts on Bankers for the Use of the

Drawer.

HEREAS by an Act made in the Fifty-eighth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled 'An Act for more effectually discovering the Longitude at Sea, and 58 G. 3. c. 20. encouraging Attempts to find a Northern Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and to approach the Northern Pole, divers Acts therein recited, and Parts of other Acts therein mentioned, are repealed, and various other Regulations and • Provisions are enacted, for the Appointment of Commissioners

and all other
Acts relating
to rewards for
Discovery of
the Longitude
at Sea, repealed.

for the Discovery of the Longitude, and for other Purposes therein specified: And Whereas another Act was passed in the Second Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for amending the said Act of the Fifty-eighth Year of His late Majesty: And Whereas it is deemed expedient to annul and repeal all the Powers and Authorities given by the said Acts; 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 AuRecited Acts, thority of the same, That the said Two recited Acts, and all other Acts now in force relating to the Appointment or to the Authorities and Powers of Commissioners, or to the Payment of any Reward, for the Discovery of the Longitude at Sea, or for any Invention or Proposal relating to the same, except so far as hereinafter is provided, shall be and the same are hereby repealed: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall extend, or be held or deemed to extend, to revive any former Acts or Parts of Acts which by the said recited Act of the Fiftyeighth Year of His late Majesty are repealed: Provided also, that nothing herein contained shall extend to abrogate or make void any Enactment now in force for the Payment to the Commander or Commanders, Officers, Seamen, and Marines, of any Ship or Ships of His Majesty, or to the Owner or Owners of any Ship or Vessel belonging to His Majesty's Subjects, of any Reward or Rewards for the Discovery of a Northern Passage, or for approaching or attempting to approach the North Pole; provided such Ships shall have sailed from any Part of the United Kingdom before the passing of this Act.

Proviso as to Rewards for the Discovery of a Northern Passage.

II.' And Whereas the Publication of the Nautical Almanack, constructed by proper Persons for the finding of the Longitude at Sea, is of great Importance to the Safety of Ships and Persons, and highly conducive to the general Interests of Commerce and Navigation;' Be it therefore enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord High Admiral, or the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral Publication of of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for the

Lord High

Admiral may authorize the

the Nautical

Almanack.

Penalty for
publishing
said Almanack

without such
Authority.

Time being, to cause such Nautical Almanacks, or other useful Table or Tables, which he or they shall from time to time judge necessary and useful in order to facilitate the Method of discovering the Longitude at Sea, to be constructed, printed, published, and vended, free of all Stamp Duty whatever, in the same Manner as the Commissioners under the said Act of the Fiftyeighth Year of His late Majesty's Reign might or could do; and that every Person who, without the special Licence and Authority of the Lord High Admiral or Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral aforesaid for the Time being, to be signified under the Hand of the Secretary of the Admiralty for the Time being, shall print, publish, or vend, or cause to be printed, published, or vended, any such Almanack or Almanacks, or other Table or Tables, shall, for every Copy of such Almanack or Table so printed, published, or vended, forfeit and pay the Sum of Twenty Pounds, to be recovered, with Costs of Suit, by any Person to be authorized for that Purpose by the Lord High Admiral or Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High

Admiral

Admiral aforesaid (such Authority to be signified under the Hand of the Secretary of the Admiralty as aforesaid), by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information, in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster; and that the Proceeds of the said Penalty, when recovered, shall be paid and applied to the Use of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich.

CAP. LXVII.

An Act to defray the Charge of the Pay, Clothing, and contingent and other Expences of the Disembodied Militia in Great Britain and Ireland; and to grant Allowances in certain Cases to Subaltern Officers, Adjutants, Quartermasters, Surgeons, Assistant Surgeons, Surgeons Mates, and Serjeant Majors of the Militia, until the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and twenty[19th July 1828.]

nine.

[This Act is the same (except as to Dates) as 7 & 8 G. 4. c.50.]

CAP. LXVIII.

An Act to amend an Act of the Fifth Year of His present
Majesty, for amending the Laws of Excise relating to Re-
tail Brewers.
[19th July 1828.]

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Fifth Year of the Reign

of His present Majesty, intituled An Act to repeal the 5G.4. c. 54. • Duties on Licences to brew and to retail Beer, Spirituous Liquors, and Foreign Wine, and to grant other Duties in lieu thereof, and amend the Laws of Excise relating to such Duties, and to Brewers and Retailers of Beer, it is enacted, that no licensed Brewer of Beer for Sale, who shall also be duly licensed to retail such Beer under this Act, shall sell, deliver, or send out at or from his, her, or their Brewery, or the Premises belonging thereto, or entered as aforesaid in the said Act, or to any of his, her, or their Customers, any Beer in any Quantity less than a whole Barrel, except between the Hours of Six of the Clock in the Morning and Nine of the Clock in the Evening, or shall sell, deliver, or send out any Beer during the usual Hours of Divine Service on Sundays, upon pain of forfeiting for each and every such Offence the Sum of Twenty Pounds: And Whereas it is expedient that the Time during which such Brewers shall be allowed to sell Beer should be extended;' 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 from and after the passing of this Act Brewers it shall be lawful for any such Brewer as in the said Act is in licensed under that Behalf mentioned to sell Beer by Retail as aforesaid, at or the recited Act from his, her, or their Brewery, or other Premises entered by may sell Beer such Brewer for that Purpose as in the said Act is provided, Hours of Four between the Hours of Four of the Clock in the Morning and in the Morning Ten of the Clock in the Evening, subject nevertheless in all other and Ten in the respects Evening.

between the