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ove in town, and the other in ‘the coun- 
- fry; norae e the stages to reinain longer 
thian twenty minutes at ether, en pain 
of for'eiting not exceeding 40s. nor less 
than 20s. 
‘Couchinen refusing to go on, or ex- 
torting ihore then the fares, are to forfeit 
_ hot exceeding 3/. nor less than 10s. 
se 48 Geo. If. ¢.88.. An Act ro restrain. the 
* negociation of Promissory Notes, and In- 
fand Bills of Exchange, under a limited 
Sum.”— Passed 25d Jane, 1803. 
By this Act, all promissory or other 
notes, bills of ‘excliange, or draughts, or 
undertakings in writing for payment of 
amoney, or fur delivery of goods, less'than 
20s. in the whole, heretofore made,° or 
which shall hereafter be made, shall, 
‘after the 1st of October, 1808, be ‘whiolly 
void. 
And persons uttering such notes or 
bills fur Jess than 20s. shall forfeit net 
_ exceeding 902. nor less than 5f. to be re- 
“ covered in a summary way before any 
justice of the peace, haif to the informer, 
and halfto the poor, and the parishion- 
_ @1s where the offence is committed may 
be witnesses, 
By 48 Geo. III. c. 98, so much of the 
Act 2 Jac. I. ec. 27, as relates to ithe 
shooting of bares, and $ Geo. L. c. 14, as 
to the appoinunent of game-keepers, are 
repealed; and lords of manors may ap- 
poit any person, whether aeting as a 
gamekeeper or not, or whether returned 
-and paid for as a male servant, or whe- 
ther qualified or ict, to kill game within 
ethe manor for his own use, or the use of 
any other person, who shail have the same 
rivlits, as if appointed to kill game for the 
use of the lord of the manor, and shall 
not be liable to the duty*on servants. 
6 48 Geo, IIT. <. 96. 
+ Care and Maintenance of Lunatics, being 
~Paupers or Criminals, in England.—Pas- 
sed 3d June, 1808. ; 
The practice of confining lunatics, 
ehargable to ticir respective parishes, 
in gaols, hotses of correction, poor. 
houses, and houses of industry, having, 
as the preamble of this Act expresses, 
been found to be highly dangerous and 
incoavement, the following salutary pro- 
ae have been made to remedy the 
=, this Act, the justices of the. peace, 
t their-severul quarter Sessions, are au- 
rized to erect lunatic | asylums 1 ny the 
ferent. counties, under divers special 
Bae the expence of which erec- 
tions is to be charged upon, and to be 
y paid out of, the county rates, 
Aud so soon as any tunatic asylum so 
~ Monrurx Mas. Nv. 175. 
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An.Act for the better 
ad 
erected shall ‘be-declared by the visitin 
justices of the county, and thrice adver 
tized, to be fit fur the reception of luna=* 
tics, thé justices May Issue their warrants 
for the committal of dangerous lunatics 
ta. such places; and any overseer neg~ 
lecting to give information to a justice of 
the peace of any lunatic pauper, is to for- 
feit not exceeding 10/. nor tess than 40%. 
On the committal of lunatics under the 
Vagrant Act, if there be a iunatic asyr 
lum established, the warrant shall direct 
the lunatic to be confined therein, and 
not elsewhere; or if there be-no-such 
asylum, the justice may order the lunane 
to be confined in a licensed mad-house. 
When the legal settlement of lunatics 
cannot be discovered, the justices shall 
direct that they shall be sent to the iu- 
natic asylum, or some other place of 
confinement. 
But no Junatic asylum shall be lable 
to the reception of lunatics chargeable to 
any city, town, or place, which is exempt 
fromthe county rates, 
Persons haviyg lunatics in their care 
at such asyluins, suffering them to ga 
at large without an order “froin two jus- 
tices, are. to forfeit not exceeding 10/, 
nor less than 40s. 
The buildings are to be exempted from 
the window duty, 
And when persons charged with mur- 
der are found to be insane, and ordered 
to be confined atcording to an Act of 39 
and 40, Geo. IIL. c. 94, two justices are to 
enquire into their settlement, and make 
an order an the parish for their mainte- 
nance. : 
«48 Geo: III. . 104. An-Act for the bet- 
ter Regulation of Pilots, and of ‘the Pi- 
lotage of Ships and Vessels navigating a 
British Seas.”—-Passed 25th June, 1808. 
This is a very important Act, and cons 
tains many judicious provisions, to pre- 
vent in future, as far as possible, the 
wreck of ships and vessels, and the loss 
of lives and property, from the ignorance 
and misconduct of persons taking charge 
of such ships or vessels as pilots; bat the 
clauses are too voluminous to be particus 
Jarized in this place. 
*€ 48 Geo. ITE. c. 106. An Act, to remedy 
the Inconvenience which has arisen, and 
may arise, from the expiration of Acts, 
before the passing of Acts to continue the 
same.” —Passed 25th June, 1808. 
It i provided that when Bills for con- 
tinuing expiring-Acts shall not pass be= 
fore the Acts expire, such continuing 
Acts skull have effect from the date of 
the expiration of the tic intended to be 
continued, 
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