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 any wise notwithstanding. CA P. LXXV. An Act to appoint Commissioners for carrying into Execution W THEREAS 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 Personal 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. Shire, Riding, Division, or District within England and Wales, and also the several and respective Persons hereinafter specially mentioned, named, and designated, all such Justices of the Peace and other Persons being respectively duly qualified to act as Commissioners of the Land Tax in Manner hereinafter directed, shall be and are hereby declared to be Commissioners within their respective Counties, Shires, Ridings, Divisions, and Districts, for putting into Execution the said recited Act passed in this present Session of Parliament, and any Act which shall or may be passed in any Session of Parliament after the passing of this Act, for continuing the Duties on Personal Estates, Offices, and Pensions in England, and also for putting in Execution such of the Powers, Provisions, Clauses, Matters, and Things contained in the said first hereinbefore recited Act of the Thirty-eighth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty as are continued for ever by the said second hereinbefore recited Act made in the same Year, in and for the several Counties, Ridings, Cities, Boroughs, Cinque Ports, Towns, and Places respectively in England and Wales hereinafter mentioned, and within and for the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed; (that is to say), [Here follow the Names of the Commissioners for England and Wales.] II. And be it further enacted, That all,Persons who shall act as Commissioners Justices of the Peace for any County, Shire, or Stewartry in Scot- appointed for land, and also the several and respective Persons hereinafter Scotland. specially mentioned, named, and designated, all such Justices of the Peace and other Persons being respectively duly qualified to act as Commissioners of the Land Tax within their respective Counties, Shires, or Stewartries, shall be and they are hereby declared to be Commissioners for putting into Execution such of the Powers, Provisions, Clauses, Matters, and Things of the said first hereinbefore recited Act, made in the Thirty eighth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, as are continued for ever by the said second hereinbefore recited Act of the same Year, in and for the several Shires, Stewartries, and Places respectively, in Scotland, hereinafter mentioned; (that is to say), [Here follow the Names of the Commissioners for Scotland.] III. Provided also, and be it enacted, That the several and respective Justices of Peace, and other Persons, hereby appointed Commissioners, shall have such and the same Qualifications as are required by the said first hereinbefore recited Act made in the Thirty-eighth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, and also by an Act made in the same Session of Parliament, for altering and amending so much of the said first hereinbefore recited Act as relates to the Qualification of Commissioners; and shall be subject to the same Penalties and Forfeitures as are contained in the said recited Acts respectively. IV. Provided also, and be it enacted, That any Sheriff Depute or Sheriff Substitute for the Time being of any County or Stewartry in Scotland, who is or shall be named or appointed to be a Commissioner for the Execution of the said Acts, shall be capable of acting as a Commissioner for such County or Stewartry; any Qualifications to be the same as required by recited Acts of 38 G. 3. Proviso as to Sheriff's Depute or Substitute in Scotland. Mistakes in Names not to vitiate Appointments. No Person who has been In thing in this Act, or in any of the said recited Acts, to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding. V. Provided always, and be it enacted, That no Mistake in the Spelling of the Christian Name or Surname of any Person, or the Name of any Place mentioned in this Act, shall be construed to vitiate the Appointment of any such Person to be a Commissioner, so that the Person or Place mentioned be designated therein to common Intent and Understanding, nor to subject any Person so designated to any Pain, Penalty, or Forfeiture for his acting in the Execution of the Acts herein mentioned. VI. Provided also, and be it enacted, That no Person who shall have held the Office of Inspector or Surveyor of Assessed Taxes spector or Sur- shall, from and after the passing of this Act, be capable of acting as such Commissioner, although such Person may be named in this Act as such Commissioner. veyor of Taxes to act. Persons in Cities, &c. having Qualification may act as Commissioners. VII. Provided also, and be it further enacted, That where in any City, Liberty, or Place, the Qualification of a Commissioner to act therein shall consist of Personal Estate, it shall be lawful for any Person having a Personal Estate of the Value required by the said Acts, or either of them, to act as such Commissioner in all Cases where such Person shall have been taxed, and shall have paid for such Personal Estate, by and upon the last Assessment then made for such City, Liberty, or Place, by virtue of any Act for continuing and granting to His Majesty a Duty on Personal Estates, Offices, and Pensions in England, passed before the making of such Assessment; any thing in any such Act, or in this Act, or in the hereinbefore recited Acts, or either of them, contained to the contrary notwithstanding. LOCAL LOCAL AND PERSONAL ACTS, DECLARED PUBLICK, AND TO BE JUDICIALLY NOTICED. N.B.. The Continuance of such of the following Acts as are Temporary will be known (where it is not expressly stated) by referring to the following List, according to the corresponding Letter at the End of the Title. (a) For 21 Years, &c. [i. e. to the End of the next Session] from a Day named in the Act. (b) For 21 Years, &c. from the passing of the Act. (c) For 21 Years, &c. after the End of the Term under former Acts. The following are all PUBLIC ACTS; to each of which is annexed a Clause in the Form following. "And be it further enacted, That this Act shall be deemed " and taken to be a Public Act, and shall be judicially taken "notice of as such by all Judges, Justices, and others, with"out being specially pleaded.'" Cap. i. An Act for building a Church or Chapel of Ease within the Township of Oulton-cum-Woodlesford, in the Parish of Rothwell, in the West Riding of the County of York. [21st March 1827.] [Townships within the Parish of Rothwell not to be liable to the Repairs of the Church, $ 25. Saving the Rights of the Vicar of Rothwell, and of the King, and all other Persons, &c. § 26, 27.] Cap. ii. An Act to enable the Company of Proprietors of the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal Navigation to alter the Line of the said Navigation, and to make certain Branches therefrom, in the Counties of Stafford and Salop. [21st March 1827.] [Powers, &c. of 7 G.4. c.xcv. extended to this Act.] Cap. iii. An Act for enabling the Company of Proprietors of the Nantille Railway to raise a further Sum of Money for completing the said Railway and other Works. [21st March 1827.] [See 6 G. 4. c. lxiii.] Cap. iv. 1 & 2 G. 4. c. cii. An Act for making and maintaining a Turnpike Road from Temple Cap. v. An Act for making and maintaining a Road from Chappel's Corner, Cap. vi. An Act for making and maintaining a Turnpike Road from Godley Lane Head, near Halifax, to Northowram Green, in the West Riding of the County of York. (b) [21st March 1827.] [5 G. 4. c.cvi. repealed.] Cap. vii. An Act for more effectually repairing and improving the Roads [46 G. 3. c.lxx. repealed.] Cap. viii. An Act for more effectually repairing, widening, and improving [46 G. 3. c. xlvi. repealed.] Cap. ix. An Act for more effectually repairing and maintaining the Road [46 G.3.c.ii. repealed.] Cap. x. An Act for enabling the Justices of the Peace for the County of [See 4 G. 4.c.64. Powers of 1 & 2 G. 4. c. cii. as to Purchase of |