No. XXV. 6 Geo. IV. c. 129. No. XXVI. 10 Geo. IV. c. 51. 6 G. 4. c. 63. is convicted before us (naming the justices) two of his Majesty's justices of or to be committed to the house of correction at within the said county, [er riding, division, city, liberty, town, or place,] there to be kept to hard labour for the space of Given under our hands, the day and year above written. at Form of Commitment of a person summoned as a Witness. WHEREAS C. D. hath been duly summoned to appear and give evidence before us [naming the justices who issued the summons] two of his Majesty's justices of the peace for the county [or riding, division, city, liberty, town, or place,] of on this day of being the time and place appointed for hearing and determining the complaint made by [the informer or prosecutor] before us, against A. B. of having [stating the offence as laid in the information] contrary to the Act maile in the sixth year of the reign of King George the Fourth, intituled An Act [here insert the title of this Act]: And whereas the said C. D. hath not appeared before us, at the time and place aforesaid, specified for that purpose, or offered any reasonable excuse for his [or her] default, [or And whereas the said C. D. having appeared before us, at the time and place aforesaid, specified for that purpose, hath not submitted to be examined as a witness and give his [or her] evidence before us touching the matter of the said complaint, but hath refused so to do]; therefore we, the said jus tices, do hereby in pursuance of the said statute commit the said C. D. to the [describing the prison], there to remain without bail or mainprize, for his or her] contempt aforesaid, for three calendar months, or until he [or she] shall submit himself [or herself ] to be examined, and give his [or her] evidence before us, touching the matter of the said complaint, or shall otherwise be discharged by due course of law: And you the [constable or other peace officer or officers to whom the warrant is directed] are hereby authorized and required to take into your custody the body of the said Č. D. and him [or her] safely to convey to the said prison, and him [or her] there to deliver to the gaoler or keeper thereof, who is hereby authorized and required to receive into his custody the body of the said C. D. and him [or her] safely to detain and keep, pursuant to this commitment. Given under our hands, this in the year of our Lord [This commitment to be directed to the proper peace officer, and the gaoler or keeper of the prison.] day of [No. XXVI.] 10 George IV. c. 51.—An Act to amend the Law relating to the Employment of Children in Cotton Mills and Factories.-[19th June 1829.] WHEREAS an Act was passed in the sixth year of his present Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act to make further provisions for the Regulation of Colton Mills and Factories, and for the better Preservation of the Health of young Persons employed therein: And whereas the provisions of the said Act have been defeated and set aside for want of form; 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 In Informa- of the same, That from and after the passing of this Act it shall not be tions under recited Act the Names of all the Partners not required to be inserted. deemed necessary in any information summons or warrant issued in pursuance of the said recited Act, to set forth the name or other designation of each and every the partners in any cotton mill or factory, but that it shall be lawful to insert in such information, summons, or warrant, the name of the ostensible proprietor or title of the firm by which the proprietor or proprietors of any such mill or factory are usually designated and known. II. And be it further enacted, That the service of such summons or warrant on any principal manager, conductor, or clerk of any cotton mill or factory, during the usual hours of working such cotton mill or factory, shall be good and lawful service. III. And be it further enacted, That that no information filed, nor any summons or warrant served, as directed by the said recited Act or by this Act, shall be quashed for informality or want of form. No. XXVI. 10 Geo. IV. c. 51. Service of Summons. Not to be quashed for Informality. 10 Geo. IV. c. 52. 4 G. 4. c. 34. [No. XXVII.] 10 George IV. c. 52.-An Act to extend the Powers of an Act of the Fourth Year of His present Majesty, for enlarging the Powers of Justices in determining Complaints between Masters and Servants, to Persons engaged in the Manufacture of Silk.-[19th June 1829.] WHEREAS an Act was passed in the fourth year of the reign of his No. XXVII. present Majesty, intituled An Act to enlarge the Power of Justices in determining Complaints between Masters and Servants, and between Musters, Apprentices, Artificers, and others: And whereas it is expedient to extend the operation of the said Act; 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 authority of the same, That all the provisions of the said Act shall be extended to all persons engaged, whether as masters, servants, apprentices, or otherwise, in the several manufactures trades and occupations mentioned in an Act passed in the seventeenth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for amending and render ing more effectual the several Laws now in being for the more effectual preventing of Frauds and Abuses by Persons employed in the Manufacture of Hats, and in the Woollen, Linen, Fustian, Cotton, Iron, Leather, Fur, Hemp, Flax, Mohair, and Silk Manufactures, and also for making provisions to prevent Frauds by Journeymen Dyers, in the same Mauner as if such persons had been specially mentioned therein. Recited Act extended to all Persons engaged in the Manufactures mentioned in 17 G. 3. c. 56. PART VI.-CLASS XXXII. SESSIONS. [No. I.] 2 Henry V. stat. 1. c. 4.-What Justices of the Peace must be resident in the same Shire; and at what Times they must hold their Quarter Sessions. No. I. 2 Henry V. stat. 1. c. 4. What justices II. AND that the justices of the peace in every shire named of the Quorum, be resiant within the same shire, except lords nanied in the commission of the peace; and also except justices of the one bench, and of the other, the Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Serjeants at the law, and the King's Attorney, for the time that the same justices, Chief Baron, Serjeants at the law, and the King's Attorney, be intending and occupied in the King's Courts, or otherwise in some other place occupied in the King's service; and make their sessions four times by the year, that is to say, In the first week after the Feast of Saint Michael, and in the first week after the Epiphany, and in the first week after the 'clause of Easter, and in the first week after the Translation of Saint Thomas the Martyr, and more often, if need be. And that the same 'justices hold their sessions throughout the realm of England in the same 'weeks every year from henceforth. And also that the justices of peace 'from henceforth have power to examine as well all manner of labourers, Twice in the servants, and their masters, as artificers, by their oaths, of all things by year sufficient 'them done contrary to the said ordinances and statutes, and upon that in Middlesex to punish them upon their confession, after the effect of the statutes and by 14 H. 6. ' ordinances aforesaid, as though they were convict by inquest. And that the sheriff in every shire of the realm of England shall do well and duly his office in this behalf, upon pain to lose and to forfeit to our Lord the 'King twenty pounds.' [No. II. ] 54 George III. c. 84.—An Act for regulating the Time of holding the Michaelmas Quarter Sessions in England. [1st July 1814.] sions. c. 4. Justices of peace may examine labourers. No. II. 54 Geo. III. c. 84. WHEREAS the time now appointed for holding the quarter sessions for the Michaelmas quarter might be altered, so as to render the 'attendance at the same more generally convenient than it is at present;' 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, the quarter sessions for When the Michaelmas quarter shall in every year be holden, for every county, Michaelmas riding, division, city, borough and place, within England and Wales, and quarter sesfor Berwick-upon-Tweed, in the first week after the eleventh day of October, sions shall be instead of at the time now appointed for holding the same: And that held, in counall acts, matters and things, done, performed and transacted, at the time ties in Engappointed by this Act for holding the said Michaelmas quarter sessions, shall be as valid and binding to all intents and purposes as if the same had land. No. II. 54 Geo. III. c. 84. Except Lon don and Middlesex. No. III. 59 Geo. III. c. 28. Courts of quarter sessions or general sessions of the peace may appoint two or more justices to form a court to sit apart from them. Regulations made for the apportionment of business need not be renewed at each succeeding session. Clerk of the peace to appoint a person to record the proceedings of such separate court. been done, performed and transacted, at the time heretofore appointed for the holding of such sessions; any former Act or Acts to the contrary notwithstanding. II. Provided always, That nothing in this Act shall extend or be construed to extend, so as to alter or vary the time at which the sessions for London or Middlesex are now holden. [No. III.] 59 George III. c. 28.-An Act to empower Magistrates to divide the Court of Quarter Sessions.[19th May 1819.] WHEREAS the courts of quarter session, by reason of the great increase of business therein, have of late been occupied during many days, to the great delay of suitors, to the inconvenience of witnesses and jurors, and to the increase of the county rates; and such inconvenience is likely to continue unless some remedy be provided for the same: And whereas it would tend materially to remedy this inconvenience, if two or more of the justices attending the quarter sessions, should be enabled to sit and proceed, when occasion should so require, while other justices should proceed in the dispatch of the other business of the same court: Be it therefore declared and 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 whenever and as often as any court of quarter session or general session of the peace shall be assembled for the dispatch of business thereunto belonging, the justices then present may on the first day of their being so assembled, take into their consideration the state of the business likely to be brought before them at such quarter session or general session; and if it shall appear to them that such business, if heard and determined by the whole court, is likely to occupy more than three days, including the day of their being so assembled, it shall and may be lawful for the said justices to appoint two or more justices, one of whom shall be of the quorum, to sit apart from themselves in some place in or near the court, there to hear and determine such business as shall be referred to them, whilst others of the justices are at the same time proceeding in the dispatch of the other business of the same court; and that the proceedings so had by and before such two or more justices so sitting apart shall be as good and effectual in the law to all intents and purposes as if the same were had before the court assembled and sitting as usual in its ordinary place of sitting, and shall be inrolled and recorded accordingly. II. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That when two or more justices shall have sat apart in manner before directed by this Act, and orders, rules, and regulations shall have been made for the apportionment of business, such orders, rules, and regulations shall remain and continue in force as long as shall be thought expedient without the necessity of renewing such orders, rules, and regulations at each succeeding session, to the intent that the same may become public and better known to all professional and other persons engaged in or in any manner interested in the business of such quarter session. III. And be it further enacted, That the clerk of the peace or his deputy (wherever two or more justices shall sit apart at any quarter session) shall be authorized and required to appoint a fit and sufficient person to record the proceedings so had before the justices sitting apart; and such proceedings shall be delivered over to the clerk of the peace, or his deputy, and shall be equally deemed to be a part of the records of such session, as if the same proceedings had been recorded by the clerk of the peace himself; and it shall be lawful for the justices assembled at the quarter session to make an order upon the treasurer of the county to pay to the clerk of the peace such sum or sums of money as they shall deem a fit and reasonable remuneration to the clerk of the peace for such purpose as aforesaid; and ii shall be lawful for such justices to appoint an additional cryer, and to grant him such remuneration for his care and pains as they shall deem reasonable, which shall in like manner be paid by the treasurer of the county, |