CA P. XXI. An Act for granting to His Majesty several Duties therein [Repealed, 52 G. 3. c. 126. § 1.] CA P. XXII. An Act for granting to His Majesty certain Duties on Licences [Repealed, 51 G. 3. c. 60.] CA P. XXIII. An Act for granting to His Majesty certain Duties upon Certificates with respect to the killing of Game in Ireland. [24th March 1803.] [Repealed, 52 G. 3. c. 126. § 1.] CA P. XXIV. An Act for continuing, until the Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and four, several Acts for granting and continuing Duties to His Majesty in Ireland. [24th March 1803.] "Recital of Irish Acts of 40 G. 3. viz. c. 4.; c. 14.; c. 38.; c. 45.; 25.; c. 62.; and also of Acts, 41 G. 3. (U.K.) c. 33.; c. 93.; "and c. 100; and 42 G. 3. c. 103. Duties granted by recited Irish "Act 40 G. 3. c. 4. which were continued till March 25, 1803, "and not since repealed, and also the Duties granted by the "other above recited Acts (except the Excise Duties on Wines "in Store, under 40 G. 3. (I.) c. 45.), further continued till March "25, 1804. -§ 1. Produce shall be carried to Consolidated Fund "of Ireland. § 2. Act may be altered or repealed this Session. § 3. CA P. XXV. An Act for better securing the Freedom of Elections of Members to serve in Parliament for any Place in Ireland, by disabling certain Officers employed in the Collection or Management of His Majesty's Revenues in Ireland, from giving their Votes at such Elections. [24th March 1803.] OR the better securing the Freedom of Elections of Members to serve in Parliament;' 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 from and after the first Day of June One thousand eight hundred and three, no Commissioner, Collector, Surveyor, Supervisor, Gauger or other Officer or Person whatsoever, concerned or employed in the B 4 charging, EXP. Officers of Revenue in Ireland, rendered incapable of voting in any Election of Members to serve in Parliament for Ireland. Vote of such Officers, and for Twelve Months after holding such Offices, void; and Penalty, 1001, and incapacity. Not to extend to Patent Offices: charging, collecting, levying or managing the Duties of Excise in Ireland, or any Branch or Part thereof; nor any Commissioner, Collector, Surveyor, Comptroller, Searcher or other Officer or Person whatsoever, concerned or employed in the charging, collecting, levying or managing the Duties of Customs in Ireland, or any Branch or Part thereof; nor any Surveyor, Collector, Comptroller, Inspector or other Officer or Person whatsoever concerned, engaged or employed, by or under the Commissioners of his Majesty's Revenue in Ireland, in the charging, collecting, levying or managing any of the Duties, Taxes or Impositions in Ireland, paid or levied under the Direction of such Commissioners, or any of them; nor any Commissioner, Officer or other Person, concerned or employed in collecting, receiving or managing any of the Duties on stamped Vellum, Parchment and Paper, in Ireland; nor any Person appointed, by the said last mentioned Commissioners, for distributing of Stamps in Ireland; nor any Postmaster or Postmasters General, or his or their Deputy or Deputies; nor any Person employed by or under him or them in receiving, collecting or managing the Revenue of the Post Office in Ireland, or any Part thereof; nor any Captain, Master or Mate of any Ship, Packet or other Vessel, employed by or under the Postmaster or Postmasters General in Ireland, in conveying the Mail from and to Ireland, to or from Great Britain, or to or from any other Place whatever; shall be capable of giving his Vote in any Election for the Choice of any Representative in Parliament for any County, City, County of a City, Borough, Town Corporate, University or other Place whatever in Ireland; and if any Person hereby made incapable of voting as aforesaid, shall nevertheless presume to give. his Vote during the Time he shall hold, or within Twelve Calendar Months after he shall cease to hold or execute any of the Offices aforesaid, contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, such Votes so given shall be held null and void to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever; and every Person so offending shall forfeit the Sum of One hundred Pounds Irish Currency, one Moiety thereof to the Informer, and the other Moiety thereof to be paid into the Hands of the Treasurer of the County, City, Town or Place in Ireland, within which such Offence shall have been committed, to be applied and disposed of to the Use of some public charitable Institution, or to such other charitable Purposes, within the said County, City, Town or Place, as the Justices at the next General Quarter Session of the Peace to be held for such County, City, Town or Place in Ireland, shall think fit, and to be recovered by any Person that will sue for the same by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information, in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record in Dublin, in which no Essoign, Protection, Privilege or Wager of Law, nor more than one Imparlance shall be allowed; and the Person against whom any such Penalty shall be recovered, shall become and is hereby declared disabled and incapable of ever bearing or executing any Office or Place of Trust whatsoever under His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors. II. Provided always, and be it enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall extend, or be construed to extend, to any Office in Ireland now held or usually granted to be held by Letters Patent for any Estate of Inheritance or Freehold. III. Pro nor to Persons III. Provided also, and be it enacted, That nothing herein contained shall extend to any Person who shall resign his Office or resigning before Employment on or before the said first Day of June One thousand eight hundred and three. IV. Provided also, and be it enacted, That no Person shall be liable to any Forfeiture or Penalty by this Act laid or imposed, unless Prosecution for the same be commenced within Twelve Calendar Months next after such Penalty or Forfeiture shall be incurred. CA P. XXVI. An Act for enabling His Majesty to settle an Annuity (a) on His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, to continue until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and six; and for repealiug so much of an Act, made in the Thirty fifth Year of the Reign of His Majesty, as directs the Annual Payment of Thirteen thousand Pounds out of the Revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall to the Commissioners appointed by the said Act. [24th March 1803.] (a) [60,000l.] CA P. XXVII. An Act for the Regulation of His Majesty's Royal Marine June 1, 1803. Limitation of Twelve Months. EXP. [24th March 1803.] ! CA P. XXVIII. An Act for granting to His Majesty certain Rates and Duties upon Letters and Packets sent by the Post within [25th March 1803.] ८ Ireland. WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland Irish Act, in the Fortieth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, 40 G.3. c.8. intituled An Act for granting to His Majesty, His Heirs and • Successors, certain Duties and Rates upon the Portage and Conveyance of all Letters and Packets within this Kingdom, certain Duties of Postage were imposed within Ireland, for a Time therein limited; which Act has been by several Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom continued until the Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and three; and it is expedient that the said Rates and Duties should be further continued, and that certain Regulations should be made for the collecting and levying the same: 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 Authority of the same, That, from and after the Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and three, it shall and may be lawful to and for the Postmaster or Postmasters General of Ireland, for the time being, and his or their Deputy or Deputies, Servants and Agents, to and for the Use of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, to demand, have, receive and take, for the Portage and Conveyance of all Letters From March in Ireland the age herein mentioned. Ship Letters. British Postage may be received in addition to Rates, and ac Great Britain. Letters and Packets, which he or they shall convey, carry or send Post to and from Places within Ireland, according to the several Rates and Sums of Money, Irish Currency, hereinafter mentioned; that is to say, For the Port and Conveyance of every Single Letter or Piece of Paper from the Office in Ireland, where such Letter or Piece of Paper shall be put in, to any Distance within the same, not exceeding Fifteen Miles Irish Measure, the Sum of Two Pence; and to any Distance exceeding Fifteen Miles, and not exceeding Thirty Miles, the Sum of Three Pence; and to any Distance exceeding Thirty Miles, and not exceeding Fifty Miles, the Sum of Four Pence; and to any Distance exceeding Fifty Miles, and not exceeding Eighty Miles, the Sum of Five Pence; and to any Distance exceeding Eighty Miles the Sum of Six Pence; and for the Port or Conveyance of every Double Letter, Double the said Sums respectively; and for every Treble Letter, Treble the said Sums respectively; and for every Ounce Weight, Four Times the said Sums respectively; and so in Proportion for any greater Weight than an Ounce, reckoning every Quarter of an Ounce equal to a Single Letter; and that all Letters and Packets, directed from any Place in Ireland to any Part or Parts in Great Britain, or beyond the Seas, or received in Ireland from Great Britain, or any Part or Parts beyond the Seas, shall be charged and pay for their Portage and Conveyance within Ireland from or to Dublin, Waterford or Donaghadee, or any other Port where Packet Boats for the Conveyance of Letters to and from Ireland are or may be established, as they shall respectively be shipped from or landed in any of the said Places, according to the Rates aforesaid; and that every Letter or Packet passing through the General Post Office in the City of Dublin from any Place within Ireland, not less distant than Four Miles from the General Post Office in the said City, to any Place within Ireland, not less distant than Four Miles from the General Post Office in the said City, shall be charged and pay according to the Distances hereinbefore mentioned to Dublin, and be further charged and pay according to the same Rates from Dublin; and that for every Letter or Packet, directed on board or brought or sent from on board any Ship or Vessel riding or stopping in any Port within Ireland, there shall be charged and paid to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, over and above the Rates aforesaid, the Sum of One Penny. II. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to and for His Majesty's Postmaster General, or Postmasters General of Ireland, and his or their Deputies, and he and they are counted for to hereby required to demand and receive for the Port and Conveyance of all Letters and Packets for Ireland from Great Britain or Foreign Parts, in addition to the Rates of Postage hereby reserved, such further Rates of Postage as now are, or hereafter shall be charged for the Conveyance of such Letters and Packets by any Act or Acts now made, or hereafter to be made, for charging Postage thereon in Great Britain; and that His Majesty's Postmaster or Postmasters General of Ireland, shall, and he and they is and are hereby authorized and required to account for and pay the same quarterly, to the Revenue of the Post Office of Great Britain. III. And III. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Postmaster or Postmasters General of Ireland, for the time being, and his and their Deputies, from and after the Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and three, to demand, have, receive and take for the Portage and Conveyance of all Letters and Packets conveyed by the Penny Post in Ireland, according to the several Rates hereinafter mentioned, (that is to say), that for the Port and Conveyance of any Letter or Packet not being more than Four Ounces in Weight, from and to any Place within the Limits of the Circular Road about the City of Dublin, there shall be paid at the Time of putting such Letter or Packet into the Penny Post Office, the Sum of One Penny; and for the Port and Conveyance of every Letter or Packet not exceeding the like Weight, from or to any Place beyond the said Limits so ascertained as aforesaid, from or to any Place within the Circuit of the Penny Post Office, there shall be paid at the Time of putting in such Letter or Packet, the Sum of One Penny, and a further Sum of One Penny on the Delivery thereof; and that for every Letter or Packet of any Weight, which shall be sent to or delivered from the General Penny Post Office by the Penny Post, from or to any Place not being within the said Limits as before ascertained, there shall be paid the Sum of One Penny over and above, and exclusive of the several Rates chargeable thereon. IV. And be it further enacted, That every Bill of Exchange, Merchant's Account, Invoice or Bill of Lading, Writ, Process or Proceeding at Law, written upon the same Sheet or Piece of Paper, with a Letter, and every Letter to or from several or distinct Persons, written upon the same Sheet or Piece of Paper, shall be rated, taxed and paid for, as so many several or distinct Letters, according to the several Rates established by this Act, or hereafter to be established by any Act to be passed relative to the Portage of Letters within Ireland. Rates of Post- Bills of Exchange, &c. charged as dis tinct Letters. pay as Double 'V. And Whereas Patterns of Cloth, Silk, Stuff and small Samples of other Sorts of Goods, are frequently enclosed in a single Letter or Piece of Paper, and sent by the Post;' Be it further Letters with enacted, That for every single Letter or Cover endorsed on the Patterns shall Outside,"Patterns," containing One or more Paper or Papers Letters. with Patterns, or containing One or more Pattern or Patterns of Cloth, Silk or Stuff, or One or more Sample or Samples of any other Sort of Goods, and containing no other Writing, Matter or Thing, save only what appertains to such Patterns or Samples, if the same together do not exceed One Ounce Weight, the Rates payable for a Double Letter by this Act, or by any Act to be passed relative to the Portage of Letters in Ireland, shall be paid, and no more. VI. And be it further enacted, That the Postmaster or Post- Account kept masters General of Ireland for the time being, shall cause an of Produce of Account to be kept of all Monies arising to His Majesty, His Duties. Heirs and Successors, by Virtue of this Act. VII. And be it further enacted, That the net Revenue and Duties paid Monies arising by the Rates and Duties hereby granted to His into Excheque Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, after paying all Charges, of Ireland and Outgoings, Disbursements, Law Proceedings, Expences, and all Salaries necessary for the Receipt and Management of the same, and carried to Irish Consolidated Fund. |