All Acts of · executed dur- Oaths to be taken by the Regent. VI. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all Acts of Regal Power, Prerogative, Government, or Administration of Government, of what Nature or Kind soever, which shall be done or executed during the Regency established by this Act, otherwise than by and with the Consent and Authority of the said Regent for the Time being, in the Manner and according to the Directions of this Act set forth and prescribed, shall be absolutely null and void to all Intents and Purposes. VII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Regent, before she shall act or enter upon her said Office of Regent, or within One Calendar Month after, shall take the following Oaths; (that is to say,) I A. B. do solemnly promise and swear, That I will truly and faithfully execute the Office of Regent of the United King'dom of Great Britain and Ireland, according to an Act of Parliament made in the First Year of His Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act to provide for the Administration of the Government in case the Crown should descend to Her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandrina Victoria, Daughter of His late Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, being under the Age of Eighteen Years, and for the Care and Guardianship of Her • Person; and that I will administer the Government of this ‹ Realm, and of all the Dominions thereunto belonging, according to the Laws, Customs, and Statutes thereof; and will in all Things, to the utmost of My Power and Ability, consult and maintain the Safety, Honour, and Dignity of His or Her (as the • Case shall require) Majesty, and the Welfare of His or Her (as the Case shall require) People. So help me GOD.' DO faithfully promise and swear, That I will inviolably maintain and preserve the Settlement of the true Protestant Religion, with the Government, Discipline, Rights, and Privileges of the Church of Scotland, as established by Law. So help me GOD.' Privy Council Which Oaths shall be taken before the Privy Council then in being, who are hereby required and empowered to administer the same, and to enter the same in the Council Books. to administer the same. The Regent to make the Declaration required by 30 Car. 2. st.2. and produce a Certificate of having received the Sacrament. Prohibiting the Marriage of such King or Queen before 18 Years of VIII. And be it further enacted, That the said Regent shall, at the Time of Her taking such Oaths as aforesaid, and before the Members of the Privy Council administering the same, make, subscribe, and audibly repeat the Declaration mentioned in an Act made in the Thirtieth Year of King Charles the Second, intituled An Act for the more effectual preserving the King's Person and Government, by disabling Papists from sitting in either House of Parliament, and shall produce a Certificate of Her having received the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper in any of the Royal Chapels, signed by the Persons administering the same, which Certificate shall be sufficient Evidence of the said Regent's having received the Sacrament; and such Declaration and Certificate shall respectively be registered in the Books of the Privy Council. IX. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That it shall not be lawful for the King or Queen of this Realm, for whom a Regent is hereby appointed, to intermarry before His or Her Age of Eighteen Years with any Person whomsoever, without without the Consent in Writing of the Regent; and every Mar- Age without X. Provided always, and be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Regent shall not give or have Power to give the Royal Assent to any Bill or Bills in Parliament for repealing, changing, or in any respect varying from the Order and Course of Succession to the Crown of this Realm as the same stands now established in the illustrious House of Hanover by the Act of the Twelfth Year of the Reign of King William the Third, intituled An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject; or to any Act for repealing or altering the Act made in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, intituled An Act for the Uniformity of Public Prayers, and Administration of Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies; and for establishing the Form of making, ordaining, and consecrating Bishops, Priests, and Deacons in the Church of England; or one Act of the Fifth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne, made in Scotland, intituled An Act for securing the Protestant Religion and Presbyterian Church Go vernment. sent to any Restraining c. 4. Provision in case be Guardian and Regent tholic or a XI. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That if either of the Persons by this Act nominated to be Guardian and Regent as aforesaid shall at any Time marry a Person professing the Roman Catholic Religion, or if Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent shall during the Lifetime of His Majesty marry, without His said Majesty's Consent, any Person other than a natural-born Subject of this Realm, She shall be and become, from and immediately after such Marriage, absolutely incapable of holding or exercising such Office of Guardian and Regent; and that if either of such Persons shall, at any Time after becoming such Guardian and Regent, marry a Person professing the Roman dom. Catholic Religion, or, without the Consent of the Two Houses of Parliament, marry any Person other than a natural-born Subject of this Realm, or shall cease to reside in or absent Herself from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, then and in either of such Cases such Person shall no longer be Guardian and Regent, and all the Powers and Authorities which She may have derived under and by virtue of this Act shall thenceforth cease and determine. pre in the King In case of the XII. Provided always, That in case of the Death of Her sent Majesty, and of the subsequent Marriage of His Majesty, Majesty and a this Act, and all the Powers, Provisions, and Enactments thereof, shall cease and be void. subsequent -- 1 W. 4. c. 70 Repeal of so much of recited Act as relates to Appointment of Essoign Days. When Writs are to be returnable. For removing Doubts as to CAP. III. An Act to amend an Act of the last Session, for the better II. And be it further enacted, That all Writs now usually returnable before any of His Majesty's Courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas, or Exchequer respectively, on General Return Days, that shall be made returnable after the First Day of January in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirtyone, may be made returnable on the Third Day exclusive before the Commencement of each Term, or on any Day, not being Sunday, between that Day and the Third Day exclusive before the last Day of the Term; and the Day for Appearance shall, as heretofore, be the Third Day after such Return, exclusive of the Day of the Return, or in case such Third Day shall fall on a Sunday, then on the Fourth Day after such Return, exclusive of such Day of Return. 6 III. And whereas it is expedient to remove all Doubts that may exist as to the Duration of the Terms in any Case that may occur;' Be it therefore declared and enacted, That in case the Day of the Month on which any Term according to the Act aforesaid is to end shall fall to be on a Sunday, then the Monday next after after such Day shall be deemed and taken to be the last Day of the Term; and that in case any of the Days between the Thursday before and the Wednesday next after Easter shall fall within Easter Term, then such Days shall be deemed and taken to be a Part of such Term, although there shall be no Sittings in Banc on any of such intervening Days. of dictments, &c. which may have been depending in any of the Courts the recited Act; abolished by IV. And whereas it is expedient to provide for the Continu- For Continuance and Determination of all such Real Actions, Indictments, ance and Deand Informations for Criminal Offences, and Informations in the termination of Nature of Quo warranto, as may have been depending in any Actions, Inthe Courts abolished by the said Act;' Be it therefore enacted, That all Indictments and Informations for Criminal Offences, and Proceedings had thereon, depending in any of the said Courts, shall, at the next General Assize and Oyer and Terminer to be holden in and for the County in the Court whereof the same may be depending, be, by the late Prothonotary of the same Court, or other Officer or Person having the Custody thereof, delivered to the Clerk of Assize of the same County, and shall be proceeded with and heard and determined in the same Manner as if the same had been commenced at an Assizes or Oyer and Terminer holden in the same County by or before any Judges of Assize or Oyer and Terminer in and for such County; and that all Writs of Right as also of Writs and other Real Actions depending in any of the said Courts, and of Right. all Pleas and Proceedings thereon, shall, at the Request either of the Demandant or Tenant, be forthwith transmitted by such Prothonotary, or other Officer or Person having the Custody thereof, into the Office of the Prothonotaries of His Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, and shall be proceeded with and heard and determined in the said Court of Common Pleas in the same Manner as if the same Actions had been commenced in that Court; and that all Informations in the Nature of Quo warranto, and Pleas and Proceedings thereon, depending in any of the said abolished Courts, shall, at the Request either of the Relator or Defendant, be transmitted by such Prothonotary, or other Officer or Person having the Custody thereof, into the Crown Office of His Majesty's Court of King's Bench, and be proceeded with and heard and determined in the said Court of King's Bench as if the same had been commenced in that Court; and every such Delivery and Transmission shall be made, certified, and signed, without Fee or Reward, by the Officer or Person delivering or transmitting the same. Recoveries of Lands may be suffered in the V. And whereas it was not intended by the said Act to abridge the Jurisdiction of the Courts of the Mayor and Citizens of 'Chester within the County of the same City, but Doubts may be entertained whether Fines and Recoveries may be levied and Courts of the Mayor of Ches'suffered in the same Courts since the Commencement of the said ter, as hereto Act, and it is expedient to remove such Doubts, and to provide fore; more distinctly for the levying of such Fines;' Be it therefore. enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That Recoveries of Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments within the County of the same City may be levied and suffered as heretofore hath been accustomed in the said Courts, or such of them as had Authority and Jurisdiction in that Behalf, in like Manner and to the same Pur, pose and Effect as if the said Act had not passed; and that Fines of such Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments may be levied on Writs of Covenant and other Writs necessary and usual in that Behalf to be issued out of the High Court of Chancery, instead of the Court of Exchequer of the County Palatine of Chester, and shall be of the same Force and Effect as Fines levied before the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas. VI. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That all such Fines shall be subject to be reversed, and may be reversed upon Writs of Error to be sued and proceeded before the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, if any Error shall be found therein. CA P. IV. An Act to render valid Acts done by the Governor of any of His Majesty's Plantations after the Expiration of his Commission by the Demise of His late Majesty, and to extend the Period within which the Patents of Governors of Colonies shall on any future Demise of the Crown become vacant, and to provide for the longer Duration of the Patents of Governors after the Demise of the Crown. W [23d December 1830.] WHEREAS on the Demise of His late Majesty King George the Fourth divers Persons were in the Exercise of Offices and Employments, Civil and Military, within His Majesty's Plantations, Colonies, and Possessions Abroad, holden under and by virtue of divers Patents, Commissions, Warrants, or other Authorities determinable at His said late Majesty's Pleasure: And whereas at the Expiration of Six Calendar Months next after the Demise of His said Majesty such Offices and Employ'ments as aforesaid will by Law cease and determine, and such Patents, Commissions, Warrants, and other Authorities as afore'said will by Law be vacated and become void: And whereas, by reason of the Remoteness of divers of such Plantations, Colonies, and Possessions, it hath been found and is impracti'cable to renew such Patents, Commissions, Warrants, and Authorities, so as that the Renewal thereof should within the Period 'aforesaid be signified and take effect within the said Plantations, Colonies, and Possessions, and the Governors and Officers ad'ministering the Government thereof, and other His Majesty's Officers therein, must, notwithstanding the Expiration of such their Commissions, continue in the Exercise of the Powers and 'Authorities thereby in them vested, in the same Manner as if 'such Commissions had not determined;' 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 Authority of the same, That Powers and Authorities, whether vested in any Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Officer administering the Government of any of His Majesty's Plantations, Colonies, or Possessions Abroad, or in any Officer or Officers within Commission of Plantation, Colony, or Possession, by any Patent, Commission, or Warrant which hath determined or will determine by the Demise of His said late Majesty, shall continue in full force and virtue All Powers vested in Governors of Colonies, &c. by Patent or His late Ma jesty to con any such |