Grand Juries (Metropolitan Police District).

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SCHEDULE to which this Act refers.

Venue.

FORM OF INFORMATION by Clerk or Officer of Court.

A.B., Clerk [or other proper Officer of the Court], who pro secutes for our Lady the Queen in this Behalf, gives the Court here to understand and be informed that [then proceed to set forth the Offence charged in the usual Form of an Indictment].

Second Count.

The said Clerk [or Officer] further gives the Court to understand and be informed that, &c.

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BILL

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Amend the Charter of Incorporation granted to the Borough of Hanley in the County of Stafford.

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c. lxiv.

(Local.)

HEREAS by an Act passed in the Session holden in the Preamble. Second and Third Years of Her Majesty, intituled "An 2 & 3 Vict. "Act for establishing an effective Police in Places within or adjoining to the District called the Staffordshire Potteries, and 5" for improving and cleansing the same, and better lighting Parts thereof," it was enacted that the Third District, for the Purposes of that Act, should comprise, among other Places, such Part of the Township of Shelton as comprised any Part of the Glebe Lands then belonging to the Rector of Stoke-upon-Trent, or any Lands which, on 10 the Twentieth day of May One thousand eight hundred and twentyfive, were Parcel of the Glebe Lands of the Rector of Stokeupon-Trent aforesaid, and the Powers of the said Act extend over the said Part of the Township of Shelton: And whereas the Inhabitant Householders of Hanley and Shelton in the 15 County of Stafford, did petition Her Majesty to grant to the Inhabitants of the said Towns, under the Name of Hanley, a Charter of Incorporation, and such Petition was taken into consideration by the Privy Council; and in pursuance of the Advice of the said Privy Council it was intended that a Charter of Incorporation should be 20 granted, which should include the whole of the Townships of Hanley

The Incor

poration of Hanley to take effect

as if Part of the Township of

Shelton had been duly

excepted

therefrom.

Postpone

ment of Time for completing Revision of Burgess Lists, and for subse

quent Proceedings.

and Shelton, with the Exception of that Portion of the Township
of Shelton which is included in the District over which the Powers
of the said Act of the Second and Third Years of Her Majesty
extend (videlicet, the Part of the Township of Shelton comprised
in the said Third District for the Purposes of that Act), which 5
Portion is commonly known by the Name of the Glebe Lands:
And whereas a Charter of Incorporation has been granted by Her
Majesty, and bears Date the Twenty-second Day of May last past,
by which the Inhabitants of the District comprised within the Town
of Hanley and Shelton, and comprising the whole of the said Town- 10
ships of Hanley and Shelton, are expressed to be incorporated by the
Name of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of
Hanley, and, through Inadvertence no Exception has been made in the
said Charter of the said Part of the Township of Shelton over which
the Powers of the said Act of the Second and Third Years of Her 15
Majesty extend: And whereas it is expedient that the Error in the
said Charter should be corrected, and that the Charter, as so
amended, should be confirmed: Be it enacted by the Queen's most
Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the
Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Par- 20
liament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:

I. The said Charter of Incorporation shall be read and shall take effect as if the said Part of the Township of Shelton over which the Powers of the said Act of the Second and Third Years of Her Majesty extend had been duly excepted from the District comprised 25 in such Charter, and had been therein also excepted from the Wards or Ward of the said Borough of Hanley, as described in the said Charter, in which it may now be comprised..

II. And whereas under the said Charter the Revision of the Burgess List cannot be continued after the Sixth Day of July One 30 thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven: The Burgess Roll is to be completed on or before the Thirteenth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven; the First Election of Councillors is to be holden on the Twentieth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven; the First Aldermen are to be elected and assigned to 35 their respective Wards on the Twenty-ninth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven; and the First Election of Auditors and Assessors is to take place on the Tenth Day of August One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven; the several Days limited and appointed for the Purposes aforesaid by the said Charter shall be 40 postponed for the Space of One Calendar Month as if the Month of August had been mentioned in the said Charter instead of the Month

of

of July, and the Month of September had been mentioned therein instead of the Month of August.

sion of Bur

passing of

III. Provided always, That in case the Revision of the Burgess Proviso in List for the said Borough have been completed before the passing of case Revi5 this Act, the Names of the Persons therein appearing to be rated in gess List be respect of Property within that Part of the Township of Shelton completed, &c., before which by this Act is excepted from the District comprised in the said Charter shall be omitted from the Burgess Roll to be made out for Act. the said Borough in like Manner as if their Names had been 10 expunged from the said Burgess List by the Barrister who revised the same; and in case such Burgess Roll have been made out before the passing of this Act, then the same shall be amended by One of the Persons by the said Charter authorized to make out such Roll, by expunging therefrom the Names of the Persons therein appearing 15 to be rated as aforesaid; and such Burgess Roll made out or amended as aforesaid shall be valid for the Purposes of the said Charter as amended by this Act.

IV. The said Charter, as amended by this Act, shall be deemed Charter as

good and lawful.

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amended confirmed.