3 G. 4. c. 72.

5 G. 4. c. 103.

A.D. 1827. 'missioners for carrying into Execution the Purposes of the said 'Act, and that the said Commission should continue in force for

the Term of Ten Years from the Date thereof, unless His Majesty 59 G. 3. c. 134. should think fit sooner to revoke the same: And Whereas ano'ther Act was passed in the Fifty ninth Year of the Reign of His 'late Majesty King George the Third, for the Purpose of amending and rendering more effectual the said Act, whereby it was enacted, that it should be lawful for His Majesty, His Heirs and 'Successors, when and so often as any Vacancy should arise of any of the Commissioners appointed under the Provisions of the 'said recited Act, or the Act now in Recital, to supply any such Vacancy or Vacancies, by the Appointment of any other Person or Persons, and also from time to time to appoint additional Com'missioners, who, together with the Persons before appointed, 'should be the Commissioners for carrying into Execution the Purposes of the said Act and the Act now reciting; and the 'Commissioners so appointed by His Majesty were thereby declared to be a Body Corporate, by the Style of His Majesty's 'Commissioners for building New Churches,' and should have a Common Seal: And Whereas another Act was passed in the Third Year of His present Majesty, for the Purpose of amending and rendering more effectual the said Two Acts so passed as aforesaid: And Whereas another Act was passed in the Fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for amending and rendering more effectual the said Three Acts so passed as afore 'said: And Whereas Commissioners for the Purpose of carrying into effect the aforesaid Acts have been duly appointed, and they have proceeded in the Execution of the Powers so vested in them: And Whereas it is expedient that the Time for the Ex'ecution of the Commission granted by His Majesty in pursuance of the said Acts, and which is limited to the Term of Ten Years by the said first-mentioned Act, should be extended, and that the Powers contained in the aforesaid Acts should be altered and enlarged;' 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 the Persons now or hereafter to be appointed to be His Majesty's Commissioners for building New Churches, and for the carrying into Effect the aforesaid Acts and this Act, shall continue to be such Commissioners, and the said Commission shall continue in force for the Term of Ten Years from the Twentieth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty eight, instead of the said Term of Ten Years so fixed as aforesaid, unless His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, shall think fit sooner to revoke the said Commission.

Term of Com

missioners'

Powers further

continued.

Commissioners

rishes under

certain Restrictions.

II. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the may divide Pa- said Commissioners to divide any Parish or Extra-parochial Place into such Ecclesiastical Districts in manner provided by the said Act passed in the Fifty eighth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third; and if there shall not be any Burial Ground within such District, then and in every such Case, until a Burial Ground shall be provided, the Bodies of Persons dying within such District may be interred in the Cemetery of the Parish Church, in all respects as if such Division had not taken place.

III. And

mination of

III. And be it further enacted, That when any Person or Per- Persons endowsons shall, to the Satisfaction of the said Commissioners, endow ing Chapels to any Chapel built or hereafter to be built by such Person or Persons, have the Nowith some permanent Provision in Land or Monies in the Funds Minister. exclusively, or in addition to the Pew Rents or other Profits arising from the said Chapel, such Endowment to be settled and assured as the said Commissioners shall authorize and direct, it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners to declare that the Right of nominating a Minister to the said Chapel shall for ever thereafter be in the Person or Persons building and endowing the said Chapel, his, her, or their Heirs and Assigns, or in such Person or Persons as he, she, or they shall appoint, and notwithstanding no Compensation or Endowment may be made to or for the Benefit of the Minister of the Church of the Parish within which such Chapel may be built.

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CA P. LXXIII.

An Act to continue, until the Thirty first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and twenty nine, an Act of the Fourth Year of His present Majesty, for the better Administration of Justice in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land. [2d July 1827.] WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act to provide 4 G. 4. c. 96. ' until the First Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty seven, and until the End of the next Session of Parliament, for the better Administration of Justice in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, and for the more effectual • Government thereof, and for other Purposes relating thereto : And Whereas the said Act will expire at the End of the Session of Parliament next following the First Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty seven; and it is expedient to continue the said Act for a limited Time;' 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 the said Act shall be and the same Recited Act is hereby continued until the Thirty first Day of December One continued. thousand eight hundred and twenty nine.

CAP. LXXIV.

An Act to carry into Execution a Convention between His Majesty and the Emperor of Brazil, for the Regulation and final Abolition of the African Slave Trade. [2d July 1827.]

THEREAS a Convention was concluded between His Majesty and His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, for the Regulation and final Abolition of the African Slave Trade, so far as relates to the Dominions and Subjects of the Brazilian Empire, and signed at Rio de Janeiro on the Twenty third Day of November in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty six: And Whereas by the First Article of

the

5 G. 4. c. 113.

58 G. 3 c. 85.

'

< the said Convention it was agreed upon and concluded between
the High Contracting Parties, that at the Expiration of Three
Years, to be reckoned from the Exchange of the Ratifications
of the present Treaty, it should not be lawful for the Subjects
of the Emperor of Brazil to be concerned in the carrying on of
the African Slave Trade, under any Pretext or in any Manner
'whatever, and that the carrying on such Trade after that, by
any Person Subject of His Imperial Majesty, should be deemed
' and treated as Piracy: And Whereas by the Second Article of
the said Convention His Majesty and His Majesty the Emperor
of Brazil, deeming it necessary to declare the Engagements
by which they hold themselves bound to provide for the Re-
gulation of the said Trade till the Time of its final Abolition,
did mutually agree to adopt and renew, as effectually as if the
6 same were inserted Word for Word in the said Convention, the
'several Articles and Provisions of the Treaties concluded
between His Majesty and the King of Portugal on this Subject
on the Twenty second of January One thousand eight hundred
and fifteen, and on the Twenty eighth of July One thousand
eight hundred and seventeen, and the several explanatory
Articles which have been added thereto; and by the Third
Article of the said Convention the High Contracting Parties
further agreed, that all the Matters and Things contained in
those Treaties, together with the Instructions and Regulations
and Forms of Instruments annexed to the Treaty of the Twenty
eighth July One thousand eight hundred and seventeen, should
be applied mutatis mutandis to the said Contracting Parties
and their Subjects, as effectually as if they were recited Word
for Word therein, confirming and approving thereby all Matters
and Things done by their respective Subjects under the said
Treaties and in Execution thereof; and by the Fourth Article
of the said Convention, for the Execution of the Purposes of
the said Convention, the said High Contracting Parties further
agreed to appoint forthwith Mixed Commissions, after the
Form of those already established on the Part of His Britannic
Majesty and the King of Portugal under the Convention of the
Twenty eighth of July One thousand eight hundred and seven-
teen And Whereas by the Fifth Article of the said Con-
vention it is agreed, that the said Convention should be
' ratified, and the Ratifications should be exchanged at London
within Four Months from the Date thereof, or sooner if possible;
and the same has been done accordingly: And Whereas it is
'expedient and necessary that effectual Provision should be made
for carrying into Execution the Provisions of the said Con-
vention: And Whereas the several Articles and Provisions of
the Treaties, and the several explanatory Articles which have
been added thereto, mentioned in the said Second Article, and
the Instructions and Regulations and Forms of Instruments
'annexed to the Treaty mentioned in the said Third Article,
are fully set forth in an Act made and passed in the Fifth
Year of His present Majesty, intituled An Act to amend and
'consolidate the Laws relating to the Abolition of the Slave Trade,
reciting and confirming an Act made and passed in the Fifty-
eighth Year of His late Majesty King George the Third, in-
tituled

• tituled An Act to carry into Execution a Convention made between His Majesty and the King of Portugal, for the preventing Traffic in Slaves, and an Act made and passed in the Fifty-ninth Year

the Convention
between His

Majesty and the
Emperor of

Brazil.

No Claims or Suits for Ships captured, &c.

to be brought, except before Mixed Courts

' of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to 59 G. 3. c. 17.. ' amend an Act of last Session of Parliament, for carrying into Ex'ecution a Convention made between His Majesty and the King of ، Portugal, for the preventing the Traffic in Slaves; 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 the several Treaties, Powers, &c. of Articles, Matters and Things aforesaid, as the same are set forth recited Acts in the said Acts, and the several Powers, Penalties, Provisions, shall apply to Enactments, and Clauses in the same Acts relating thereto, shall be applied mutatis mutandis to His Majesty and the Emperor of Brazil, and their respective Subjects; and that all Matters and Things done or to be done in pursuance thereof, so far as they are applicable to the said Convention between His Majesty and His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, shall be deemed lawful, and authorized by this Act, in like Manner, Form, and Effect as if all the said several Treaties, Articles, Matters and Things, and all the said Powers, Penalties, Provisions, Enactments, and Clauses, were repeated and set forth mutatis mutandis in this Act; and that from and after the passing of this Act it shall not be lawful for any Person to commence, prosecute, or proceed in any Claim, Action, or Suit whatever, in the High Court of Admiralty or in any other Court, or before any Judges or Persons whomsoever, other than the several Mixed Courts of Justice appointed under and by virtue of the said Convention between His appointed purMajesty and His Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, and the In- suant to Constructions and Regulations therein mentioned or referred to, and this Act, for the Condemnation or Restitution of any Ship or Cargo or Slaves, or for any Compensation or Indemnification for any Loss or Damage or for any Injury sustained by such Ship, Cargo, or Slaves, or by any Person on board any such Ship, in consequence of any Capture, Seizure, or Detention under the Authority or in pursuance of the Provisions of the said last-mentioned Convention, or of the Instructions and Regulations therein mentioned or referred to, or of this Act; and that the Pendency of any Claim, Suit, or Proceeding instituted or which may be instituted before any of the said Mixed Courts so to be appointed under the Authority of the said last-mentioned Convention, and the -Instructions and Regulations therein mentioned or referred to, and this Act, for the Condemnation or Restitution of any Ship or Cargo or Slaves, taken, seized, or detained by virtue of the said last-mentioned Convention, or of the Instructions and Regulations therein mentioned or referred to, or for any Compensation or Indemnification for any Loss or Damage in consequence of the taking, seizing, or detaining any such Ship, or the final Adjudication, Condemnation, Judgment, or Determination of any such Mixed Court, as the Case shall require, may be pleaded in Bar or given in Evidence under the General Issue; or in case no such Claim, Suit, or Proceeding shall have been instituted before any such Mixed Court, then the said last-mentioned Convention, and the

Instruc

vention.

38 G. S. c. 5.

Instructions and Regulations therein mentioned or referred to in this Act, may in like Manner be pleaded in Bar or given in Evidence under the General Issue; and every such Plea in Bar or Evidence so given under the General Issue shall be deemed and adjudged to be a good and complete Bar to any such Claim, Action, Suit, or Proceeding in the said High Court of Admiralty, or in any Court or Place other than such Mixed Courts; any thing in any Act or Acts, or Law or Laws, to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.

CA P. LXXV.

An Act to appoint Commissioners for carrying into Execution
several Acts granting an Aid to His Majesty by a Land
Tax to be raised in Great Britain, and continuing to His
Majesty certain Duties on Personal Estates, Offices, and
Pensions, in England.
[23d June 1827.]

WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Thirty eighth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, 'intituled An Act for granting an Aid to His Majesty by a Land Tax to be raised in Great Britain, for the Service of the Year One thousand seven hundred and ninety eight: And Whereas by another Act passed in the said Thirty eighth Year of His said late Majesty's Reign, for making perpetual, subject to Redemption and Purchase in the Manner therein stated, the several Sums of Money charged in Great Britain under the said first-recited Act, it is among other Things provided, that the several Sums of Money charged upon Estates in ready Money, Debts, Goods, 'Wares, Merchandize, or Personal Estates, or upon any Person or Persons in respect of any Public Office or Employment of Profit, any Salaries, Gratuities, Bounty Monies, Rewards, Fees, Profits, Perquisites, Advantages, Pensions, Annuities, Stipends, or yearly Payments in the said Act mentioned, should, after the Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand seven hundred and ninety nine, be ascertained, raised, levied, collected, and 'paid according to the Directions of any Act or Acts to be passed for that Purpose: And Whereas the Sums of Money and Duties last mentioned have been from time to time continued by divers Acts of Parliament; and under and by virtue of an Act passed in this present Session of Parliament, intituled An Act for continuing to His Majesty for One Year certain Duties on Per'sonal Estates, Offices, and Pensions, in England, and also certain • Duties on Sugar imported into the United Kingdom, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and twenty seven, the said Sums of Money and Duties are in force until the Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and twenty eight: And Whereas it is expedient that Commissioners should be appointed for carrying the said several Acts into Execution;' May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it 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 AuCommissioners thority of the same, That from and after the passing of this Act, appointed. all Persons who shall act as Justices of the Peace for any County,

7&8 G. 4 c.7.