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RATES of POSTAGE to be taken in the Currency of the United Kingdom for the Port and Conveyance of Letters by the Post to and from Places within Ireland, instead of the Rates in Irish Currency under 54 Geo. 3. c. 119.

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An Act to continue for One Year, and until the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Acts for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors in Ireland. [14th June 1827.]

[1 & 2 G. 4. c. 59. as amended by 3 G. 4. c. 124. continued as above.]

CAP. XXIII.

An Act to continue for One Year, and until the End of the then next Session of Parliament, an Act of the Sixth Year of His present Majesty, for providing for the repairing, maintaining, and keeping in repair certain Roads and Bridges in Ireland. [14th June 1827.]

[6 G. 4. c. 101. continued as above.]

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CA P. XXIV.

An Act to amend the Acts for regulating Turnpike Roads in
England.

[14th June 1827.]

HEREAS an Act was passed in the Third Year of the

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Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act to amend S G.4. c.126.

< the General Laws now in being for regulating Turnpike Roads in

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Act was passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present

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Majesty, intituled An Act to explain and amend an Act passed in 4 G.4. c.95. the Third Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, to amend 'the General Laws now in being for regulating Turnpike Roads in that Part of Great Britain called England; and which said Acts ' require to be further explained and amended: And Whereas by 'the said first-recited Act it is among other Things provided and ' enacted, that no Person appointed as Trustee in or by virtue of any Act for repairing Turnpike Roads shall be capable of acting as such in the Execution of any such Act in any Case where he 'shall be personally interested; and Doubts have arisen with regard to such Person's Liability; 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 no Trustee of any Turnpike Road shall be deemed or Owners of Estaken to be personally interested, by reason of his having acted as tates, &c. not a Trustee in ordering the making, altering, or diverting any Turn- to be disqualipike Road over or contiguous to any Lands, Tenements, or Here-fied as interditaments in his Possession or Occupancy, or by reason of his having received any Sum or Sums of Money out of the Tolls of any such Road as or by way of Purchase Money, Damages, Rent, Recompence, or Satisfaction, agreed upon or awarded to such Trustee for any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or any Timber or Wood, or Materials, purchased or taken for the Purpose of making, diverting, or altering, or for the Use of the Road for which he shall act as a Trustee, or for a Repository for Materials to be used thereon, or for the Damage done to any inclosed or private Lands or Grounds of any such Trustee, in taking Materials therefrom, or in carrying or conveying them over the same. II. And be it further enacted, That every Trustee who shall order or direct the Expenditure of any Money for or towards the making, repairing, or altering any Road not comprehended within the Act in the Execution of which he may be acting, or for or towards the Performance of any Act, Matter, or Thing not authorized by such Act or by the said recited Acts, such Trustee shall be personally liable to the Trust for the Repayment of the Money so expended, at the Suit of any Person, or any one Trustee, or of the Clerk to such Trustees, on behalf of such Trust; and that all the Costs and Charges of such Suit, over and above any Costs and Charges recovered from the Defendant in such Suit, shall be paid and borne by such Trust.

Trustees personally liable for Money expended on Roads not in

Trust.

III. And be it further enacted, That no Trustee shall be per- No Trustee to sonally subject or liable to be charged (except as next herein- be personally before

liable as such,

Treasurer and
Clerk not to be

the same
Person.

Power to remove Toll

Gates, &c.

before mentioned) with the Payment of any Sum or Sums of Money laid out or expended in or towards the making, repairing, or altering any Turnpike Road, nor shall Execution issue against the Goods and Chattels of any Trustee, by reason of his having acted as such Trustee, or having signed or authorized or directed any Contract or Security to be entered into relating to any such Road, unless in such Contract or Security such Trustee shall have in express Words rendered himself so personally liable.

IV. And be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any Trustees to continue or appoint the Person who has been or may be appointed their Clerk in the Execution of any Act for repairing or maintaining any Turnpike Road, or the Partner of any such Clerk, or the Clerk or other Person in the Service or Employ of any such Clerk or of his Partner, the Treasurer for the Purposes of such Act, or to continue or appoint any Person who has been or may be appointed Treasurer, or the Partner of any such Treasurer, or the Clerk or other Person in the Service or Employ of any such Treasurer or of his Partner, the Clerk for the Purposes of such Act; and if any Person shall accept both the Offices of Clerk and Treasurer for the Purposes of such Act, or if any Person being the Partner of any such Clerk, or the Clerk or other Person in the Service or Employ of any such Clerk or of his Partner, shall accept the Office of Treasurer, or shall act as Deputy of the Treasurer, or in any Manner officiate for the Treasurer, or being the Partner of any such Treasurer, or the Clerk or other Person in the Service or Employ of any such Treasurer or of his Partner, shall accept the Office of Clerk in the Execution of such Act, or shall act as Deputy of such Clerk, or in any Manner officiate for such Clerk, or if any such Treasurer shall hold any Place of Profit or Trust under the said Trustees other than that of Treasurer, every such Person so offending shall for every such Offence forfeit and pay the Sum of One hundred Pounds to any Person who shall sue for the same, to be recovered, with full Costs of Suit, in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, by Action of Debt or on the Case, or by Bill, Suit, or Information, wherein no Essoign, Protection, Wager of Law, nor more than One Imparlance, shall be allowed.

V. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Trustees of any Turnpike Road, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, from time to time, at any Special Meeting to be holden for that Purpose, of which Meeting public Notice, specifying the Time and Place for holding such Meeting and the Purpose thereof shall have been given in some Newspaper, published or circulated in the County or Counties through which such Turnpike Road passes, and also by affixing a Copy of such Notice on all the Turnpikes, Toll Gates, and Side Bars which shall be then standing on such Road, Fourteen Days previously to such Meeting, to order and direct any of such Turnpikes, Toll Gates, or Side Bars to be removed and placed elsewhere, upon, across, or by or on the Sides of such Road, in such Situations as to themn the said Trustees may appear fit or eligible; subject always to the Provisoes and Restrictions contained in any Act for making or maintaining any such Turnpike Road.

VI. And

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Houses.

VI. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Lamps to be Trustees to order and direct One or more Lamp or Lamps to be lighted at Toll placed and erected on or against or in front of each and every the Toll Houses on the Road, and also to order and direct at what Times of the Year and during what Hours such Lamp or Lamps, or any of them, shall be kept lighted; and all and every the Collector and Collectors of the Tolls on such Road, and also all and every the Lessees or Lessee thereof, who shall neglect or omit to observe and fulfil the Order of the said Trustees in respect to the keeping and lighting of such Lamp or Lamps, shall forfeit and pay any Sum not exceeding Twenty Shillings for every such Neglect or Omission; and in case any Person shall damage or injure any Lamp or Lamps to be placed and set up as aforesaid, or extinguish the Lights therein, such Person shall forfeit and pay any Sum not exceeding Forty Shillings for every such Offence.

VII. And be it further enacted, That if any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments which shall be purchased for the Purposes of any Act for making or maintaining Turnpike Roads, shall be in Mortgage to any Person, then and in such Case the Trustees shall and they are hereby required to pay or cause to be paid to the Mortgagee or Mortgagees, his, her, or their Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, upon Application in Writing made to the Trustees or their Clerk, signed by such Mortgagee or Mortgagees, his, her, or their Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, such Sum or Sums of Money as shall be agreed for, ascertained, and determined, for the Purchase of such Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or a competent Part thereof; and such Sum or Sums of Money, when so paid, shall be and be deemed to be in discharge of the Principal Money, or Part thereof, due on such Mortgage or Mortgages, and Acknowledgment of the Receipt thereof shall be made by Endorsement on the Mortgage Deed or Deeds, signed by such Mortgagee or Mortgagees, his, her, or their Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, in the Presence of One or more credible Witness or Witnesses; and such Endorsement shall be and be deemed to be a full and sufficient Discharge to the Trustees from the Mortgagee or Mortgagees, his, her, or their Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, and also a full and sufficient Discharge to the Mortgagor or Mortgagors, his, her, or their Heirs, Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, from the Mortgagee or Mortgagees, his, her, or their Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, for so much Money as shall be expressed in such Endorse

ment.

For Payment of Mortgages on Land pur

chased.

VIII. And be it further enacted, That so much of the said Act Repeal of Proof the Third Year of the Reign of His present. Majesty, as directs visions respectthe Application of Compensation Money for Lands, Tenements, or ing ApplicaHereditaments purchased for the Purposes of any Act for making or maintaining Turnpike Roads, shall be and the same is hereby Money. repealed.

tion of Compensation

IX. And be it further enacted, That if any Money shall be Application of agreed or awarded to be paid for any Lands, Tenements, or He- Compensation reditaments, purchased, taken, or used by the Trustees, which when amountshall belong to any Body Politic, Corporate, or Collegiate, Corpo- ing to 2007. ration Aggregate or Sole, Infant, Lunatic, Tenant for Life or in

I G. 4. c. 35.

Application when under 2001. and

above 201.

Tail, General or Special, Feoffee in Trust, Guardian, Committee, Trustee, Feme Covert, or other incapacitated Person, such Monies shall, if the same amount to the Sum of Two hundred Pounds, with all convenient Speed be paid into the Bank of England, in the Name and with the Privity of the Accountant General of the Court of Exchequer, to be placed to his Account ex parte the Trustees for executing such Act, pursuant to the Method prescribed by an Act passed in the First Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for the better securing the Monies and Effects paid into the Court of Exchequer at Westminster on account of the Suitors of the said Court, and for the Appointment of an Accountant General and Two Masters of the said Court, and for other Purposes, and the General Orders of the said Court, and without Fee or Reward; and such Money, when so paid in, shall be applied, under the Direction and with the Approbation of the said Court, to be signified by an Order to be made upon a Petition to be preferred in a summary Way by the Person who would have been entitled to the Rents and Profits of the said Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, in the Purchase of the Land Tax, or the Discharge of any Debt or Debts, or such other Incumbrances, or Part thereof, as the said Court shall authorize to be paid, affecting the same Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or affecting other Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments standing settled therewith to the same or the like Uses, Intents, or Purposes; or where such Money shall not be so applied, then the same shall be laid out and invested, under the Direction and Approbation of the said Court, in the Purchase of other Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, which shall be conveyed and settled to, for, and upon such and the like Uses, Trusts, Intents, and Purposes, and in the same Manner as the Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, which shall be so purchased, taken, or used as aforesaid, stood settled or limited, or such of them as at the Time of making such Conveyance and Settlement shall be existing undetermined and capable of taking effect; and in the meantime, and until such Purchase shall be made, the said Money shall, by Order of the said Court upon Application thereto, be invested by the said Accountant General, in his Name, in the Purchase of Three Pounds per Centum Consolidated or Three Pounds per Centum Reduced Bank Annuities; and in the meantime, and until the said Bank Annuities shall be ordered by the said Court to be sold for the Purposes aforesaid, the Dividends and Annual Produce of the said Consolidated or Reduced Bank Annuities shall from time to time be paid, by Order of the said Court, to the Person who would for the Time being have been entitled to the Rents and Profits of the said Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments so purchased, in case such Purchase or Settlement were made.

X. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That if any Money so agreed or awarded to be paid for any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, purchased, taken or used, and belonging to any Person under any Disability or Incapacity as aforesaid, shall be less than the Sum of Two hundred Pounds, and shall exceed the Sum of Twenty Pounds, then and in all such Cases the same shall, at the Option of the Person for the Time being entitled to the Rents and Profits of the Lands, Tenements, and Heredi

taments

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