upon being convicted thereof, be fined and imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, at the Discretion of the Court before which such Conviction shall be had: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall extend, or be construed to extend, to any Justice of the Peace, Sheriff, Under Sheriff, Mayor or other Head Officer aforesaid, or to any Peace Officer, or to any other Person or Persons acting in their Aid or Assistance, who shall attend, proceed to or be present at any such Meeting as aforesaid. XIX. And be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any Person to attend, proceed to or be present at, or return from any Meeting whatever, which shall be holden for the Purpose or on the Pretext of deliberating upon, or proceeding to deliberate upon any Public Grievance, or upon any Matter or Thing relating to any Trade, Manufacture, Business or Profession, or upon any Matter in Church or State, or of considering, proposing or agreeing to any Petition, Complaint, Remonstrance, Declaration, Resolution or Address, on the Subject thereof, with any Flag, Banner or Ensign, or displaying or exhibiting any Device, Badge or Emblem, or with any Drum or Military or other Music, or in Military Array or Order; and that every Person who shall offend in the Premises, shall, upon being convicted thereof, be fined and imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, at the Discretion of the Court before which such Conviction shall be had.

XX. And be it further enacted, That the Sheriff's Depute and their Substitutes, Stewards Depute and their Substitutes, Justices of the Peace, Magistrates of Royal Burghs, and all other inferior Judges and Magistrates, and also all High and Petty Constables, or other Peace Officers of any County, Stewartry, City or Town, within that Part of the United Kingdom called Scotland, shall have such and the same Powers and Authorities for putting this present Act in Execution within Scotland, as the Justices of the Peace, and Peace Officers and Constables aforesaid, respectively have, by virtue of this Act, within and for other Parts of the United Kingdom.

XXI. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Justices of the Peace, assembled at any Quarter or General Sessions of the Peace, in any case in which they shall deem it expedient for the Purpose of preventing tumultuous Meetings, to divide any Parish or Township within their Jurisdiction, having a Population exceeding, in the Judgment of the said Justices, Twenty thousand Inhabitants, into Two or more Divisions, for all the Purposes of this Act, and to assign the Boundaries of such Divisions; and that a Registry of such Divisions so made, specifying and describing the Boundaries so assigned, shall be entered with the Clerk of the Peace of the County, Riding or Division within which such Parish or Township is situate, and a Duplicate thereof shall be transmitted to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor, or to the Minister and Elders, or to the Kirk Session of the Parish or Township so divided, to be by them preserved and kept with the Books of such Parish or Township, and Copies thereof shall be put up, and from time to time (in case of the Removal) replaced upon the Doors of the Church of such Parish or Township; and when any such Parish or Township shall be so divided, each of such separate Divisions shall, for all the Purposes

of

of this Act, be deemed a separate Parish or Township; and all the Clauses, Provisions, Regulations, Matters and Things in this Act contained, relating to any Assemblies or Meetings in Parishes or Townships, shall apply and be enforced, as to all such separate Division of Parishes or Townships, as fully and effectually as if the same were severally and separately repeated and re-enacted in relation thereto: Provided always, that no such Division shall Proviso as to contain a Population, which in the Judgment of the said Justices Population. shall consist of less than Ten thousand Persons.

Places to be deemed PaPurposes of this

rishes for the

XXII. And be it further enacted, That every Extraparochial Extraparochial Place shall be deemed and taken to be a Parish or Township, for all the Purposes of this Act; and all the Clauses, Provisions, Regulations, Matters and Things in this Act contained, relating to any Assemblies or Meetings in Parishes or Townships, shall apply and be enforced as to all Extraparochial Places, as fully and effectually as if the same were severally and separately repeated and re-enacted in relation thereto.

• XXIII. And Whereas by an Act passed in the Fifty seventh "Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act for the more effectually preventing Seditious Meetings and Assemblies, 'certain Regulations are enacted in relation to Meetings in the 'City or Liberties of Westminster, or County of Middlesex, which 'might prevent any Meeting under the Provisions of this Act in 'the Parishes of Saint John and Saint Margaret Westminster;' Be it therefore enacted, That it shall be lawful to hold any Meetings in such Parishes respectively, which may be held under the Provisions of this Act, within the Distance of One Mile from the Gate of Westminster Hall, provided that the same shall not be held in Old or New Palace Yard at any time during the Sitting of Parliament; any thing in the said recited Act to the contrary notwithstanding.

Act.

Recital of 57 G. 3. c. 19. $23. Proviso

for Meetings in certain Parishes in Westminster, within One Mile of Westminster Hall

Gate.

Act not to le

galise Notices, Meetings, &c.

now contrary to Law.

XXIV. Provided always, and be it enacted and declared, That nothing herein contained shall be deemed or construed to render lawful any Notice, or any Assembly or Meeting, or any Act or Thing which may be done at any Assembly or Meeting in pursuance of any such Notice, or the Attendance of any Person or Persons, which Notice, Assembly, Meeting, Act or Attendance, would have been contrary to Law if this Act had not been made. XXV. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this Act con- Proviso for Protained shall extend to prevent any Prosecution by Indictment or otherwise, for any thing which may be an Offence within the Intent and Meaning of this Act, and which might have been so prosecuted if this Act had not been made, unless the Offender shall have been prosecuted for such Offence under this Act, and convicted or acquitted of such Offence.

secutions otherwise than under this Act.

· XXVI. And Whereas it is expedient that Houses and Places Places for Lecused for the Purpose of publicly delivering Lectures, or of tures or Deholding Debates, should be regulated;' Be it therefore enacted, bates, unless That every House, Room, Field or other Place, at or in which previously liany Person shall publicly read, or at or in which any Lecture or Discourse shall be publicly delivered, or any public Debate shall be had, on any Subject whatever, for the Purpose of raising or collecting Money, or any other valuable Thing, from the Persons admitted, or to which any Person shall be admitted by Payment of

C 4

Money,

censed, deemed to be disorderly Places; and Persons punishable for paying or receiving

Money.

Opening such
Places;

Penalty 1001. on each Offence.

Collecting or giving Money for Admission;

Penalty 201.

Persons acting as Masters of such Places liable to Prosccution.

Magistrates may demand Admission to unlicensed Places :

Refusing Admission, Penalty, 201.

Money, or by any Ticket or Token of any kind delivered in consideration of Money, or any other valuable Thing, or in conse quence of paying or giving, or having paid or given, or having agreed to pay or give, in any manner, any Money or other valuable Thing, or where any Money or other valuable Thing shall be received from any Person admitted, either under Pretence of paying for any Refreshment or other Thing, or under any other Pretence, or for any other Cause, or by means of any Device or Contrivance whatever, shall be deemed a disorderly House or Place, unless the same shall have been previously licensed in manrer herein-after mentioned; and the Person by whom such House, Room, Field or Place shall be opened or used, for any of the Purpo es aforesaid, shall forfeit the Sum of One hundred Pounds for every Day or Time that such House, Room, Field or Place shall be opened or used as aforesaid, to such Person as will sue for the same, and be otherwise punished as the Law directs in Cases of disorderly Houses; and every Person managing or conducting the Proceedings, or acting as Moderator, President or Chairman, at such House, Room, Field or Place, so opened or used as aforesaid, or therein debating, publicly reading or delivering any Discourse or Lecture; and also every Person who shall pay, give, collect or receive, or agree to pay, give or receive, any Money or Thing for or in respect of the Admission of any Person into any such House, Room, Field or Place, or shall deliver out, distribute or receive any such Ticket or Tickets, or Token or Tokens as aforesaid, knowing such House, Room, Field or Place to be opened or used any such Purpose as aforesaid, shall for every such Offence forfeit the Sum of Twenty Pounds.

for

XXVII. And be it further enacted, That every Person who shall at any time hereafter appear, act or behave him or herself as Master or Mistress, or as the Person having the Command, Government, or Management of any such House, Room, Field or Place as aforesaid, shall be deemed and taken to be a Person by whom the same is opened or used as aforesaid, and shall be liable to be sued or prosecuted, and punished as such, notwithstanding he or she be not in fact the real Owner or Occupier thereof.

XXVIII. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for any Justice or Justices of the Peace of any County, Stewartry, City, Borough, Town or Place, who shall by Information upon Oath have Reason to suspect that any House, Room, Field or Place, or any Parts or Part thereof, are or is opened or used for the Purpose of publicly reading or delivering Lectures or Discourses, or for public Debate, contrary to the Provisions of this Act, to go to such House, Room, Field or Place, and demand to be admitted therein; and in case such Justice or Justices shall be refused Admittance to such House, Room, Field or Place, or any Part thereof, the same shall be deemed a disorderly House or Place within the Intent and Meaning of this Act, and all and every the Provisions hereinbefore contained respecting any House, Room, Field or Place hereinbefore declared to be a disorderly House or Place, shall be applied to such House, Room, Field or Place, where such Admittance shall have been refused as aforesaid; and every Person refusing such Admittance shall forfeit the Sum of Twenty Pounds.

XXIX. Pro

Two Justices may license

Places for Lec

tures, &c.

XXIX. Provided nevertheless, and be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for Two or more Justices of the Peace for the County, Riding, Division, Stewartry, City, Borough, Town or Place, where any House, Room or other Buildings shall be intended to be opened for any of the Purposes aforesaid, by Writing under their Hands and Seals, at the Quarter or General Sessions of the Peace, or at any Special Session to be held for the particular Purpose, to grant a Licence to any Person or Persons desiring the same to open such House, Room or other Building for the Purpose of delivering, for Money, any such public Reading, Lectures or Discourses as aforesaid, or for the Purpose of holding Debates on any Subjects, the same being clearly expressed in such Licence, for which Licence a Fee of One Shil- Fee for Licence. ling and no more shall be paid; and the same shall be in force for the Space of One Year and no longer, or for any less Space

of Time therein to be specified; and which Licence it shall be law- Sessions may ful for the Justices of the Peace of the same County, Stewartry, revoke the City, Borough, Town or Place, at any General Quarter or Gene- same. ral Sessions of the Peace, to revoke and declare void and no longer in force, by any Order of such Justices, a Copy whereof shall be delivered to or served upon the Person to whom the said Licence so revoked shall have been granted, or shall be left at the House, Room or Building for which such Licence shall have been granted; and thereupon such Licence shall cease and determine, and be thenceforth utterly void and of no effect.

Places:

XXX. Provided always, and be it enacted, That it shall be Justices may lawful for any Justice or Justices of the Peace of any County, inspect licensed Stewartry, City, Borough, Town or Place, where any such House, Room or other Building shall be licensed as herein provided, to go to such House, Room or Building so licensed, at the time of any such public Reading or delivering any such Lecture or Discourse, or of holding any Debate therein as aforesaid, or at the Time appointed for any such public Reading, or delivering any such Lecture or Discourse, or of holding any Debate, and demand to be admitted therein; and in case such Justice or Justices Refusing Adshall be refused Admittance to such House, Room or Building, the same shall be deemed, notwithstanding any such Licence as aforesaid, a disorderly House or Place within the Meaning of this Act, and all and every the Provisions hereinbefore contained respecting any House, Room, Field or Place hereinbefore declared to be a disorderly House or Place, shall be applied to such House, Room or Building so licensed as aforesaid, where such Admittance shall have been refused as aforesaid; and every Person refusing such Admittance shall forfeit the Sum of Twenty Pounds to any Person who shall sue for the same.

XXXI. Provided always, and be it enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to any Lecture or Discourses to be delivered in any of the Universities of the United Kingdom, by any Member thereof, or any Person authorised by the Chancellor, Vice Chancellor or other proper Officers of such Universities respectively; or to any public Reading or Lecture or Discourse, to be delivered in the Public Hall of any of the Inns of Court or Chancery, by any Person authorised by the Benchers of the Inns of Court; or by the Pro

fessors

mittance,

Penalty 201.

Proviso for Lectures at the Universities, Inns of Court, Gresham College, &c.

And for Pay

ments to

fessors of Gresham College; or to the Professors in the College established for the Education of the Civil Servants of the East India Company, or the Seminaries established for the Education of their Military Service; or to any Society or Body of Men incorporated or established by Royal Charter or by Authority of Parliament; and that no Payment made to any Schoolmaster, or other Person by Law allowed to teach and instruct Youth, in Schoolmasters, &c. in respect respect of any public Readings, or Lectures or Discourses, deof Public Read-livered by such Schoolmaster or other Person, for the Instruction ings, &c. only of such Youth as shall be committed to his Instruction, shall be deemed a Payment of Money for Admission to public Readings or such Lectures or Discourses, within the Intent and Meaning of this Act.

Forfeiture of

of seditious or immoral Lec

tures.,

XXXII. Provided also, and be it enacted, That it shall be lawLicense in case ful for any Two Justices of the Peace, acting for any County, Stewartry, Riding, Division, City, Town or Place, upon Evidence on Oath that any House, Room or Place, so licensed and opened as aforesaid, is commonly used for the Purpose of public reading or delivering Lectures or Discourses of a seditious, irreligious or immoral Tendency, to adjudge and declare the Licence for opening the same to have been forfeited; and such Licence shall thereupon cease and determine, and shall thenceforth be utterly void and of no effect.

Recovery of
Penalties ex-

ceeding 201.

201.

XXXIII. And be it further enacted, That all or any of the pecuniary Fines, Penalties or Forfeitures, exceeding the Sum of Twenty Pounds, incurred under this Act in that Part of Great Britain called England, or in Ireland, may be recovered by Action of Debt in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster and Dublin respectively, and in Scotland in the Court of Session there; and it shall be sufficient to declare in that Part of Great Britain called England, and in Ireland, or conclude in Scotland, that the Defendant or Defender is indebted to the Plaintiff or Pursuer in the Sum of

(being the Sum demanded by the said Action), being forfeited by an Act made in the Sixtieth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act [here insert the Title of this Act]; and the Plaintiff or Pursuer, if he shall recover in such Action, shall not exceeding have his full Costs or Expences; and any pecuniary Penalty imposed by this Act, not exceeding the Sum of Twenty Pounds, and for the Recovery whereof no Provision is hereinbefore contained, shall and may be recovered before any Justice or Justices of the Peace for the County, Stewartry, Riding, Division, City, Town or Place, in which the same shall be incurred, or the Person having incurred the same shall happen to be, in a summary Way; If Penalty not and in case such last mentioned Penalty shall not be forthwith paid,

Distress, &c.

paid, such Justice or Justices shall, by Warrant under his or their Hand and Seal or Hands and Seals, and directed to any Constable or other Peace Officer, cause the same to be levied by Distress and Sale of the Offender's Goods and Chattels, together with all Costs and Charges attending such Distress and Sale; and in case no sufficient Distress can be had or made, such Justice or Justices shall commit the Offender to the Common Imprisonment. Gaol or House of Correction for such County, Stewartry, Riding, Division, City, Borough, Town or Place, there to remain without

If no Distress,