hereditaments now or may be or but for this present exchange would have been subject or liable to. In witness whereof the said A. B. and C. D. have hereunto set their hands and seals. Witness E. F. (SEAL.) A. B. (L. s.) Approved and registered the day of Form of Security. day of by This deed, made the virtue of an Act passed in the fifth and sixth years of the reign of King William the fourth, intituled [the title of this Act], and under the direction [or with the approbation] of the Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales (testified by their seal being hereunto affixed,) witnesseth, That A. B. C. D. E. F., and G. H., being the majority of the guardians of the poor for the union, [or the parish of in consideration of the sum of to them in hand paid by Y. Z. of for the purpose of purchasing, building, erecting, repairing, fitting up, or furnishing a workhouse for the union [or parish], and for providing suitable stock and utensils for that purpose, [or in consideration of the conveyance or assurance of, &c., as the case may be,] do hereby charge the poor rates of the parishes of the said union [or parish] with the payment of the principal sum of pounds, by the instalments following [naming them], together with interest on the principal which shall from time to time remain due, after the rate of per centum, to be payable halfyearly to the said Y. Z., his executors, administrators, and assigns. Witness L. M. (SEAL.) A. B. day of This deed, made the by virtue of the Act passed in the fifth and sixth years of the reign of King William the fourth, intituled [the title of this Act], and [if the guardians or overseers of any parish or union are the parties transferring or accepting the security, then add [under the direction [or with the approbation of the Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales (testified by their seal being hereunto affixed), witnesseth, That Y. Z. of doth transfer the security, [describing it] with all right and title to the principal money thereby secured, and to all the interest now due or hereafter to be due thereon, unto V. W. of executors, administrators, and assigns. Witness E. F. (SEAL.) his Y. Z. V. W. Approved and registered the day of 6 WILL. IV. CAP. 12. An Act for amending an Act of the Ninth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for the better Regulation of Divisions in the several Counties of England and Wales. [20th May 1836.] WHEREAS by an Act passed in the ninth year of His late 9 G. 4, c. 43. Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for the better Regulation of Divisions in the several Counties of England and Wales, it is amongst other things enacted, that such Divisions, when severally constituted in the manner directed by the said Act, shall be subject to no alteration or revision for the several terms of twenty-one and ten years respectively, and until further order of sessions after the expiration of such terms of twenty-one years and ten years respectively: And whereas it may be expedient that such Divisions should have the same limits as Unions of Parishes formed under the Act of the fourth and fifth years of His present Majesty, intituled An Act for the Amendment and 3 & 4 W. 4, better Administration of the Laws relating to the Poor in England c. 76. and Wales; and for this and other reasons it may be expedient to alter such divisions within shorter periods of time than are now fixed by the herein recited Act: 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 Justices at it shall be lawful for the Justices of the Peace for any county, Quarter Sesriding, or division having a separate commission of the peace, in sions may alter divisons after any court of quarter sessions, to alter and revise such divisions in three years the manner and according to the forms required by the said herein from the conrecited Act on the expiration of three years from the constituting stituting thereof, any thing in such Act contained to the contrary notwith- thereof. standing. Justices are 2. And be it further Enacted, That it shall be lawful for the New divisions Justices as aforesaid at such quarter sessions to make any order may be consticonstituting any new division, upon due proof before them made tuted if five in open court on oath, that at the time of making the same there resident or are at the least five Justices of the Peace residing or usually acting acting therein. within the boundary line proposed to be the limit of any such new division, but not otherwise. those in 9 G. 3. And be it further Enacted, That all matters and things by Forms, &c. to the said herein recited Act required to be done by and with regard be similar to to the Clerk of the Peace shall be done by and with regard to that officer with respect to the new divisions to be formed by virtue of this Act. 4, c. 43. 4. Provided always, and be it further Enacted, That every such Reservation of order shall be made subject to such power of petitioning against right of appeal. the same as is given by the said herein recited Act with respect to any order made by virtue thereof. Proceedings not to be quashed for want of form. Not to extend to Middlesex, Scotland, or Ireland. 5. And be it further Enacted, That no order to be made nor any proceedings to be had or taken in pursuance of this Act shall be quashed or vacated for want of form, or to be removed by certiorari, or any other writ or process whatever, into any of His Majesty's courts of record at Westminster; any law or statute to the contrary notwithstanding. 6. And be it further Enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be construed or taken to extend to the county of Middlesex in England, or to Scotland or to Ireland. 6 & 7 WILL. IV. CAP. 65. An Act for granting Relief from the Duties of Assessed Taxes, and on Stage Carriages, in certain Cases, and to regulate the charging of the Duty payable for taking or killing Game, in Great Britain, and to provide for the Collection of certain Local Taxes in Scotland. [13th August, 1836.] Carriages, &c. 3. AND be it Enacted, That no carriage of any description conveying pri- whatsoever, nor any horse or horses drawing the same, nor any soners or pau- person employed to drive such horse or horses, shall be charged pers exempted from duties of or chargeable with any of the duties of assessed taxes on account assessed taxes. or by reason of such carriage being used for hire or profit, or otherwise, in conveying any prisoner or prisoners to or from any prison, or in conveying any pauper or paupers at the expense of any parish, township, or union, or of any person who may have contracted with any parish, township or union, for the conveyance of paupers. 6 & 7 WILL. IV. CAP. 70. An Act to facilitate the Conveyance of Sites for School 6 & 7 WILL. IV. CAP. 89. An Act to provide for the Attendance and Remuneration of Medical Witnesses at Coroners' Inquests. [17th August, 1836.] WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the attendance of medical witnesses at coroners' inquests, also remuneration for (a) Repealed by 4 & 5 Vict. c. 38, post, p. 520. summon me examination. such attendance, and for the performance of post-mortem examinations at such inquests; 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 Coroner emand after the passing of this Act, whenever upon the summoning powered to or holding of any coroner's inquest it shall appear to the coroner dical witnesthat the deceased person was attended at his death or during his ses, and to last illness by any legally qualified medical practitioner, it shall be direct the perlawful for the coroner to issue his order, in the form marked (A.) formance of a in the schedule hereunto annexed, for the attendance of such post-mortem practitioner as a witness at such inquest; and if it shall appear to the coroner that the deceased person was not attended at or immediately before his death by any legally qualified medical practitioner, it shall be lawful for the coroner to issue such order for the attendance of any legally qualified medical practitioner being at the time in actual practice in or near the place where the death has happened; and it shall be lawful for the coroner, either in his order for the attendance of the medical witness, or at any time between the issuing of such order and the termination of the inquest, to direct the performance of a post-mortem examination, with or without an analysis of the contents of the stomach or intestines, by the medical witness or witnesses who may be summoned to attend at any inquest; provided that if any person shall state upon oath before the coroner that in his or her belief the death of the deceased individual was caused partly or entirely by the improper or negligent treatment of any medical practitioner or other person, such medical practitioner or other person shall not be allowed to perform or assist at the post-mortem examination of the deceased. require the dence if the 2. And be it further enacted, That whenever it shall appear to A majority of the jury may the greater number of the jurymen sitting at any coroner's inquest, that the cause of death has not been satisfactorily coroner to explained by the evidence of the medical practitioner or other summon witness or witnesses who may be examined in the first instance, additional such greater number of the jurymen are hereby authorized and medical eviempowered to name to the coroner in writing any other legally first be not qualified medical practitioner or practitioners, and to require the satisfactory. coroner to issue his order, in the form herein-before mentioned, for the attendance of such last-mentioned medical practitioner or practitioners as a witness or witnesses, and for the performance of a post-mortem examination, with or without an analysis of the contents of the stomach or intestines, whether such an examination has been performed before or not; and if the coroner, having been thereunto required, shall refuse to issue such order, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punishable in like manner as if the same were a misdemeanor at common law. the said Fees to medical witnesses to be paid out of funds col 3. And be it further enacted, That when any legally qualified medical practitioner has attended upon any coroner's inquest in obedience to any such order as aforesaid of the coroner, practitioner shall for such attendance at any inquest in Great Britain be entitled to receive such remuneration or fee as is men- relief of the lected for poor. No fee for a post-mortem examinationin stituted with out order from the coroner. Inquests on bodies of persons dying in public institutions. Penalty on medical practitioner for neglecting to attend. Act not to extend to Scotland. tioned in the table marked (B.) in the schedule hereunto annexed; and for any inquest held in Ireland, the said practitioner shall be paid in the manner provided by the laws in force in that part of the United Kingdom, and the coroner is hereby required and commanded to make, according to the form marked (C.) in the schedule hereunto annexed, his order for the payment of such remuneration or fee, when the inquest shall be held in Great Britain, and such order may be addressed and directed to the churchwardens and overseers of the parish or place in which the death has happened; and such churchwardens and overseers, or any one of them, is and are hereby required and commanded to pay the sum of money mentioned in such order of the coroner to the medical witness therein mentioned, out of the funds collected for the relief of the poor of the said place. 4. Provided nevertheless, and be it further enacted, That no order of payment shall be given, or fee or remuneration paid, to any medical practitioner for the performance of any post-mortem examination which may be instituted without the previous direction of the coroner. 5. Provided also, and be it further enacted, That when any inquest shall be holden on the body of any person who has died in any public hospital or infirmary, or in any building or place belonging thereto, or used for the reception of the patients thereof, or who has died in any county or other lunatic asylum, or in any public infirmary or other public medical institution, whether the same be supported by endowments or by voluntary subscriptions, then and in such case nothing herein contained shall be construed to entitle the medical officer whose duty it may have been to attend the deceased person as a medical officer of such institution as aforesaid, to the fees or remuneration herein provided. 6. And be it further enacted, That where any order for the attendance of any medical practitioner as aforesaid shall have been personally served upon such practitioner, or where any such order not personally served shall have been received by any medical practitioner in sufficient time for him to have obeyed such order, or where any such order has been served at the residence of any medical practitioner, and in every case where any medical practitioner has not obeyed such order, he shall for such neglect or disobedience forfeit the sum of five pounds sterling, upon complaint thereof made by the coroner or any two of the jury before any two justices having jurisdiction in the parish or place where the inquest under which the order issued was held, or in the parish where such medical practitioner resides; and such two justices are hereby required, upon such complaint, to proceed to the hearing and adjudication of such complaint, and, if such medical practitioner shall not shew to the said justices a good and sufficient cause for not having obeyed such order, to enforce the said penalty by distress and sale of the offender's goods, as they are empowered to proceed by any Act of Parliament for any other penalty or forfeiture. 7. And be it enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall extend to Scotland. |