No. 6. crease the such Houses of Correction, that greater and more frequent PART I. attention should be paid to their moral and religious in- CLASS I. struction than is provided for by the said Act: may it Stat. 55 therefore please your Majesty that it may be enacted; and G. 3. c. 48. 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 Quarter after the twenty-fourth day of June one thousand eight Sessions hundred and fifteen, it shall and may be lawful to and for may inthe Justices of the Peace, or the major part of them, assem- salaries of bled at the Quarter Sessions to be holden for any county, Clergymen riding, or division, within that part of the United Kingdom in Gaols. called England, and the Principality of Wales, and at the annual General Session in the County Palatine of Lancaster, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, to increase the salaries granted by the said first recited Act, to be paid to the Clergymen therein mentioned, to any sum not exceeding one hundred pounds, yearly and every year, under the Regulations and Provisions contained in the said recited Act. officiating Correction. II. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Provisions all the provisions of the said recited Act of the thirteenth of 13 G.3. c. 58. appliyear of his present Majesty's reign, intituled An Act for pro- cable to viding Clergymen to officiate in Gaols within that part of Houses of Great Britain called England, shall be applicable to Houses of Correction, in as full and ample a manner as if they had been specifically named therein: Provided always nevertheless, that no salary to be assigned to any Clergyman for officiating in any such House of Correction shall exceed fifty pounds a year. III. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That Clergymen every Clergyman who shall be employed with a salary un- to keep a der this Act, or either of the Acts above recited, in order journal. to entitle himself to receive the same, shall keep a journal in a book to be provided for that purpose, in the Gaol or House of Correction in which he shall be so employed, in which journal he shall enter the times of his attendance at such Gaol or House of Correction on the performance of his duty, with any observations which may occur to him in the execution thereof; and such journal shall regularly be laid before the Justices of the Peace having jurisdiction over the said Gaol or House of Correction, for their in * By Stat. 58 Geo. 3. c. 32. post. Part I. Class I. No. 7. the salary may be increased. No. 6. PART I. spection at every Quarter Sessions at which such Justices CLASS I. shall be assembled, and shall be signed by the Chairman of the said Sessions, in proof of the same having been there G. 3. c. 48. produced. Stat. 55 Offices of of Correc IV. And be it further enacted, That the said Justices of Clergymen the Peace, or the major part of them, so assembled at their to Gaols General Quarter Sessions, may, if they should see fit, unite and Houses the offices of Clergymen to Gaols and Houses of Correction, tion may be by appointing one Clergyman to the performance of the united. religious duties of both: Provided always, that the amount to be paid out of the county rates or other public money shall not in such case exceed the sum of one hundred and twenty pounds. Clergymen licence from the V. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That to have a from and after the said twenty-fourth day of June one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, no Clergyman, who Bishop of shall be appointed to officiate in any Gaol or House of Corthe diocese. rection under the authority of the said Acts or of this Act, shall so officiate until he shall have obtained a licence for that purpose from the Bishop of the diocese wherein such Gaol or House of Correction shall be situate, and during so long time only as such licence shall remain in force; and when any Clergyman shall be so appointed, the Clerk of the Peace for the county, riding, or division, wherein any such appointment shall be made, shall, within one month after such appointment shall have been made, transmit a copy thereof to the Bishop of such diocese. No. 7. 55 G. 3. c. 48. Anno 58 GEO. III. Cap. 32. An Act to amend so much of an Act of the fifty-fifth year of WHEREAS by an Act passed in the fifty-fifth year of his present Majesty's reign, intituled An Act for enlarging the powers of two Acts of his present Majesty, for providing Clergymen to officiate as Chaplains in Gaols and Houses of Correction within England and Wales, it was enacted, that no salary to be assigned to any Clergyman for officiating in any House of Correction should exceed fifty pounds a year: and whereas it has been found impossible, in divers cases, to provide Clergymen who are fit and willing to undertake the duties of the said office of Chaplain to Houses of Cor I. No. 7. rection for so small a salary: and whereas it is therefore PART I. expedient that powers should be given to the Justices of CLASS L the Peace in their Quarter Sessions to assign a larger salary Stat. 58 to Clergymen officiating in such capacity: Be it enacted by G. 3. c. 32. 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 it shall and may be lawful Justices in for the Justices of the Peace of the several counties of Eng-Sessions land and Wales, in their Quarter Sessions respectively, to a larger samay assign assign any larger salary than the said salary of fifty pounds lary, not to a year, to Clergymen officiating as Chaplains in Houses of exceed Correction: Provided always, that in no case such salary shall exceed the sum of one hundred pounds a year. 1007. a and Houses II. And be it further enacted, That should the said and not exceeding Justices of the Peace, or the major part of them, assembled 150%. to at their General Quarter Sessions, think proper, in pur- Chaplains suance of the Act of the fifty-fifth year of his present Ma- of Gaols jesty, to appoint one person to officiate as Chaplain to the of Correc Gaol and House of Correction, that they be authorized to tion. allow such Chaplain a salary not exceeding one hundred and fifty pounds. Anno 1 GEO. IV. cap. 106. An Act to enable Chaplains in the Navy, presented to either of the Livings of Simonburn, Wark, Bellingham, Thorneyburn, Fallstone, or Greystead, in the county of Northumberland, to receive their half pay; and for other pur poses relating to the said Livings. [24th July, 1820.] No. 8. WHEREAS by an Act passed in the fifty-first year of 51 G. 3. the reign of his late Majesty king George the Third, inti- c. 194. tuled An Act for erecting Five distinct Rectories and Parishes within the Rectory and Parish of Simonburn, in the county of Northumberland, and for separating the same from the Rectory and Parish Church of Simonburn; and for providing Parish Churches, Church-yards, and Parsonage Houses for the same; and for restraining the Commissioners and Governors of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, in the County of Kent, from presenting to the Rectory of Simonburn, or the said new Rectories, any other Persons than Chaplains in the Royal Navy, it was enacted, that so soon as any Chaplain of the Royal Navy No. 8. PART I. should be presented to either of the Rectories in the said CLASS I. Act named, such Chaplain should no longer receive or be Stat. 1 entitled to half pay, or any other bounty or allowances G.4.c. 106. payable by Government to Chaplains in the Royal Navy: And whereas it is expedient to alter and amend the said Act in manner hereinafter mentioned: Be it therefore 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 So much of authority of the same, That so much of the said Act as as excludes extends to prevent Chaplains of the Royal Navy, appointed to the said Rectories, or either of them, from receiving half pay or any other bounty or allowances payable by Government to Chaplains in the Royal Navy, be and the same is hereby repealed. recited Act pay repealed. Chaplains II. And be it further enacted, That from and after the of the Royal passing of this Act, it shall and may be lawful to and for Navy pre- any Chaplain in the Royal Navy, who shall be presented to sented to either of the Rectories of Simonburn, Wark, Bellingham, burn, &c. Thorneyburn, Fallstone, or Greystead, in the said county of entitled to Northumberland, or to the Chapelry of Humshaugh, to rereceive half ceive during the time he shall hold either of the said Rec Simon pay, &c. Land Tax chargeable on the Rec be re deemed. tories respectively, such half pay, or any other bounty or allowances payable by Government to Chaplains in the Royal Navy, to which he may be entitled by virtue of his services performed in his Majesty's Navy, as the Lord High Admiral or the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the time being may direct. III. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Commissioners and Governors of the Royal tories may Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, in the county of Kent, to apply so much of the general funds of the said Royal Hospital as may be necessary for the purpose in the redemption of the Land Tax chargeable upon all or any of the said Rectories of Simonburn, Wark, Bellingham, Thorneyburn, Fallstone, or Greystead, and upon the Chapelries to either of the said Rectories belonging. as First Fruits upon Sums here- IV. And whereas the amount of the First Fruits, tofore paid Tenths, and other Ecclesiastical Dues chargeable upon the ancient undivided living of Simonburn has not been divided Simon- and apportioned upon the said several Rectories, but is burn to be wholly charged upon the Rector of Simonburn for the time apportion- being; Be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for ed by the Bishop of the Lord Bishop of Durham for the time being, by writing Durham. under his hand and seal, to declare what proportion of the CLASS I. Stat. 1 said First Fruits, Tenths, and other Ecclesiastical Dues now PART I. charged or chargeable upon the said Living or Rectory of Simonburn, shall hereafter be paid and payable by the respective Rectors of Simonburn, Wark, Bellingham, Thorney- G. 4. c. 106. burn, Fallstone, and Greystead, which said several sums so apportioned upon the said several Rectors shall henceforth be paid by them respectively; and the said Lord Bishop of Durham shall in manner aforesaid, and he is hereby authorized to divide and apportion the sum heretofore payable as First Fruits upon the said living of Simonburn, amongst the said several Rectories aforesaid, and the same shall hereafter be so set, divided, and apportioned in the proper books or records of the said First Fruits, and payable accordingly. to the cha V. And be it further enacted, That from and after the Right of passing of this Act, it shall not be lawful for the Rector for nomination the time being of the Parish of Simonburn, to nominate or pel of present to the Lord Bishop of Durham for the time being Humany person to be licensed to the perpetual curacy of the vested in shaugh Chapel of Humshaugh, but the right of nomination shall Greenwich henceforth be vested in the Commissioners and Governors Hospital. of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, in the county of Kent, and the said Commissioners and Governors shall in such nomination be subject to the same restrictions, and have the same powers, as the Rector of Simonburn would have had or been subject to in case this Act had not been made. presen Presentation to the case of Durham, VI. And be it further enacted, That in case the tation to the said Rectories of Simonburn, Wark, Belling- said Recham, Thorneyburn, Fallstone, or Greystead, shall lapse tories regueither to the Lord Bishop of Durham for the time being, or lated in to the Metropolitan, or to the Crown, no spiritual person or lapse either persons whomsoever shall be capable of being presented, to the Biinstituted, and inducted to the said Rectories of Simonburn, shop of Wark, Bellingham, Thorneyburn, Fallstone, or Greystead, the Metrosave and except only such Clerk or Clerks, (being in politan, or Priest's Orders, who shall have taken a Degree in one of the the Crown. Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, or Dublin,) as shall have been rated and served as Chaplains of the said Royal Navy for seven years at the least, on board any of his Majesty's ships actually employed in service at sea, and who shall be on the list of Chaplains of the Royal Navy; and in case no such sufficient Clerk who shall have served as aforesaid shall be found, then a sufficient Clerk, who shall have been rated and shall have served for ten years on board any ship or ships in his Majesty's Navy, and who shall be on the list |