If Two Chief Constables last preceding XXII. Provided further, That in case Two Chief Constables shall appointed in be appointed for the said County of Chester under Section Four of the Cheshire, said Act of the Second and Third Years of Her Majesty, the last preceding Section of this Act shall be read and construed as applicable to the separate District of each of such Two Chief Constables, and as 5 applicable to if the same had been specially enacted with reference to such separate District instead of the whole County. Section to be read as District of each Chief Constable. Provision as nuation Cheshire Constabulary Act, 1852. XXIII. The Superannuation Fund formed under "The Cheshire to Superan- Constabulary Act, 1852," shall (after Repayment thereout to such Fund under Officers of the said Cheshire Constabulary Force who may not be 10 appointed Officers under this Act, and the said Acts of the Second and Third and Third and Fourth Years of Her Majesty, of such Sums of Money as shall have been deducted from their respective Salaries or contributed by them respectively to such Superannuation Fund, which Repayments shall be made by the Treasurer of such 15 Fund accordingly,) form Part of the Superannuation Fund to be formed in the said County of Chester under the Provisions of the said Act of the Third and Fourth Years of Her Majesty; and any Allowance which the Justices of the said County of Chester have, by virtue of the said Cheshire Constabulary Act, 1852, ordered to be 20 paid out of the Superannuation Fund under that Act, shall thereafter be paid out of the Superannuation Fund to be formed under the Provisions of the said Act of the Third and Fourth Years of Her Majesty. Service of Cheshire lary Act, XXIV. The Service of any Officer in the said Cheshire Constabulary 25 Police under Force who shall be appointed an Officer under this Act and the said Acts of the Second and Third and Third and Fourth Years of Her Majesty, shall be considered an Equivalent to a Service under such Acts, for the Purpose of estimating the Allowance to be paid to any such Officer out of the Superannuation Fund to be formed 30 in the said County of Chester under the said Act of the Third and Fourth Years of Her Majesty. Police Rates of Chester made liable to Annuity XXV. An Allowance which the Justices of the said County of in the County Chester have, by virtue of "The Cheshire Constabulary Act, 1852," ordered to be paid to the Widow of a Constable who died in the 35 Execution of his Duty, out of the Rates to be levied and made on the Hundred of Wirral under that Act, shall be paid out of and be chargeable on the Rates to be levied within the said County of Chester by virtue of this Act and the said Act of the Third and Fourth Years of Her Majesty, or on such One of the said 40 Rates, if such there are, as the Justices of the said Courts County in to Widow of a deceased Officer. General General Quarter Sessions assembled shall from Time to Time order and direct. Terms. XXVI. The Word "County" shall in this Act have the same InterpretaMeaning as is assigned to such Word in the said Act of the Third tion of 5 and Fourth Years of Her Majesty, except as to the Soke or Liberty of Peterborough in the County of Northampton, which for all Purposes of this and the several recited Acts shall be deemed and taken to be a County of itself; and the several Provisions in this Act and the said recited Acts shall apply and operate in, for, and 10 concerning the said Soke or Liberty accordingly; and the Word "Borough" shall mean any City, Borough, or Place incorporated under the Provisions of the said Act of the Fifth and Sixth Years of King William the Fourth, or which has otherwise become subject to the Provisions of the same Act; and every Part of the Cinque 15 Ports, Two ancient Towns of Winchelsea and Rye, and their several Members and Liberties, which is not within the Municipal Boundaries of a Place named in One of the Schedules (A.) and (B.) to the lastmentioned Act, shall for the Purposes of the said Acts of Her Majesty and this Act, save for any Purpose of Rating or Charge, be deemed 20 to form Part of the County in which the same is situate, and shall be, Added by the Lords except as aforesaid, dealt with, under the said Acts of Her Majesty and this Act, as a Liberty which, under the said Acts of Her Majesty, forms Part of a County, notwithstanding it may be a Member or Liberty of a Place named in One of the said Schedules. The said Acts of the Second and Third and of the Third and Fourth Years of Her Majesty and this Act shall be construed together as One Act. CLAUSE F. 2 & 3 Vict. c. 93. and 3 & 4 Vict. c. 88. to be construed with this Act. XXVII. Nothing in this Act shall extend to any Part of the Act not to Metropolitan Police District or to the City of London. extend to Metropolitan Police District or City of London. ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES. Certain Extra-parochial Places to be added to adjoining Parishes; Sect. 1. Certain others to become Parishes; 2. Poor Law Board may divide such Places; 3. Certain Places excepted; 5. Consent of Guardians not required in certain Cases; 6. 4 & 5 W. 4. c. 76. s. 39. to apply to single Parishes; 7. Poor Law Board may alter Number of District School Managers; 8. Evidence of Consent of Poor Law Board; 9. Repeal of 4 & 5 W. 4. c. 76. s. 18. requiring Copies of Poor Law Boards Orders to be sent to Clerks of the Petty Sessions; Copies of certain Orders to be sent to the Clerk of the Peace; 10. Remission of Surcharges and Disallowances need not be made by Order under Seal; 11. Guardians may release Claims; 12. Penalty on Outdoor Poor refusing to perform Task of Work; 13. Overseers and Vestry may purchase Parish Offices; 15. Fire Engine may be purchased; 16. Emigration Money how disposed of; 17. Recovery of Costs of Maintenance under suspended Orders of Removal; 18. No Order of Justices for such Order to be obtained, and Limitation of Time; 19. Settlement by Estate of a married Woman; 20. Settlement of illegitimate Children; 21. Demand of Poor Rate may be made on the Premises; 22. Demand of Rate from a Corporation or a Company; 23. Settlement need not be proved in certain Cases; 24. Chargeability of Wayfarers; 25. Chargeability of sick Persons; 26. Private Rates to be estimated in the Calculation of Averages in Unions; 27. Poor Law Board to appoint Auditors; 28. Notice of Appointment of Auditor to be inserted in London Gazette; 29. Districts may be varied; 30. Overseers not qualified to be Assistant Overseers; 31. Repeal of 6 & 7 W. 4. c. 86. s. 10. requiring the Poor Law Commissioners to appoint Registrars in certain Places; 32. Interpretation of Terms, and Consolidation of the Acts; 33. |