Issues of Fact or of Damages or taken before a Judge by Consent a Tenant of Lands over which a Receiver shall have been appointed by the Court of Chancery, without the Leave of the Court, where such is now required by the Practice of such Court. XII. And whereas it is expedient that Issues of Fact or Assessment of Damages may be tried or taken before a Judge by Consent 5 without the Intervention of a Jury: Be it therefore enacted, That where the Parties shall consent, in Writing signed by them or their Attornies, that the Issue or Issues of Fact shall be decided, and the Damages (if any) assessed by a Judge without the Intervention of a without the Jury, such Consent shall be annexed to the Abstract of the Pleadings 10 Intervention and of the Issues of Fact to be tried, and the Cause shall be tried of a Jury. accordingly by such Judge without the Intervention of a Jury, and such Decision and Assessment of Damages shall operate in every respect as if the same were the finding of a Jury duly empanelled and sworn to try the said Issue or Issues, or assess the said Damages; 15 Provided, that it shall be lawful for such Judge, if he shall think fit, to postpone the making of such Decision or Assessment of Damages, and to require the Parties or their Attornies to appear before him at such a Time and Place as he shall appoint them, and receive the Commence same. XIII. This Act shall commence and take effect from and after the ment of Act. First Day of December One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. Not to ex tend to England or cotland. XIV. Nothing in this Act shall extend to England or Scotland. 20 A BILL INTITULED 5 10 An Act to continue an Act of the Eleventh Year of Her present Majesty, for the better Prevention of Crime and Outrage in certain Parts of Ireland. W HEREAS an Act was passed in the Session of Parliament Preamble. held in the Eleventh and Twelfth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act for the better 11 & 12 Vict. "Prevention of Crime and Outrage in certain Parts of Ireland until the c. 2. "First Day of December One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, "and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament:" And whereas by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament held in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act to continue an Act of the Eleventh Year of Her present 15& 16 Vict Majesty, for the better Prevention of Crime and Outrage in certain c. 106. "Parts of Ireland," the said first-mentioned Act was continued until the Thirty-first Day of August One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three: And whereas by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament held in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Years of the Reign of 15 Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act to continue an Act of the "Eleventh Year of Her present Majesty, for the better Prevention "of Crime and Outrage in certain Parts of Ireland:" And whereas it Recited Act is expedient that Part of the said first-recited Act should be further continued for a limited Period: Be it therefore 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 Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: I. That the said first-recited Act shall, except the Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Nineteenth Sections thereof, be and continue in full Force and Effect until the Thirty-first Day of August One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five. 5 C |