Of the King's Prerogative. P. 160. l. 5. The 52 Geo. 3. c. 78. I. which is an act Commissioners to make better provision for the commissioners of appeals of appeals to hold their offiin revenue causes in Ireland, provides (s. 4) that every ces during good behaviour. U. K. E. augmented. commission which shall be issued, after the passing of this 52 Geo. 3. c.78. act, for the appointment of any such commissioner, shall s. 4. I. be made to continue during the good behaviour of the person so to be appointed. The 50 Geo.3. c.31. U.K. has 50 Geo.3. c.31. augmented the salaries of the lords of session, lords commissioners of justiciary, and barons of exchequer in Scotland, and judges in Ireland. And the 53 Geo. 3. c. 153. E. 53 Geo.3c.153. is an act to enable the king to grant additional annuities to Judges' salaries the judges of the courts of Westminster-Hall, on their resignation of their offices. And the 54 Geo. 3. c. 95. I. 54 Geo.3. c.95. also enables the king to grant additional annuities to the judges of the courts of king's bench, common pleas, and Annuities to reexchequer in Ireland, on the resignation of their offices. And the following statutes 52 Geo. 3. c. 11. and c. 40. 54 Geo. 3. c. 83. 57 Geo. 3. c. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. ed, &c. 67. and 84. which abolish some offices, and provide for the more effectual and economical execution of the duties of others, may be here also noticed, as concerning the king's prerogative of erecting and disposing of offices. I. tiring judges augmented. Offices abolish previous notice P. 160. l. 29. The 46 Geo. 3. c. 153. U. K. should No pier, &c. to, have been here referred to, which provides, that it shall be constructed not be lawful for any person to make, construct, or erect to any public in or adjoining any pier, quay, wharf, jetty, breast, or embankment, in or harbour,without adjoining to any public harbour in the united kingdom, to the admiralty. or any river immediately communicating therewith, so far 46 Geo.3.c.155. as the tide flows up the same, without giving at least one month's previous notice of his intention so to do to the secretary of the admiralty, who is to lay the same before the lord high admiral or commissioners of the admiralty; (the receipt of which notice the secretary is required to acknowledge) upon pain of forfeiting £200. to be recovered by U. K. Penalty. s, 2. Proviso. 54 Geo.3.c.159. U. K. the king's moor action of debt, &c. But this act (s. 2.) contains a saving for the privileges of the mayor and commonalty, and citizens of the city of London. So much of the 9 Geo. 3. c. 30. Admiralty may Eng. as relates to the harbour moorings of the royal navy, establish regu- and so much of the 10 Ann. c. 17. Eng. as relates to the lations for the preservation of said harbour moorings, are repealed by the 54 Geò. 3. c. 159. U. K. which also repeals the 51 Geo. 3. c. 73. E. ings, and for mooring private intitled "an act for the better security of his majesty's ships, &c. "naval arsenals in the river Medway, and Portsmouth, * and Hamoaze harbours, and of his majesty's ships and "vessels lying at, and resorting to the same;" and this statute provides (s. 2.) that it shall be lawful for the lord high admiral, or 3 or more of the commissioners for executing the office of lord high admiral of the united kingdom, from time to time as occasion shall require, to make such rules and orders in writing, under his or their hand or hands, or the hand of his or their secretary, as he or they shall think proper, for the preservation of his majesty's moorings, and for the mooring, anchoring, and placing of all private ships of war, transports, and other private and merchant ships and vessels, lighters, barges, boats, and other craft whatsoever, in all the ports, harbours, havens, roads, road-stéads, sounds, channels, creeks, bays, and navigable rivers of the united kingdom, so far as the tide flows and reflows, where or near to which his majesty now hath, or where his majesty, his heirs or successors, may hereafter have any docks, dock-yards, arsenals, wharfs or moorings; and harbour-masters, to be appointed as hereinafter mentioned, for superintending the same, for the purpose of insuring free and safe ingress, egress, and regress unto, into, to and from the said ports, &c. and to and from his majesty's said docks, &c. and for that purpose to direct such spaces along the sides, over, against, or near to such docks, &c. as they shall judge necessary, to be kept free and open, and to cause the same to be marked out by piles, buoys, or other sufficient marks, and to direct what spaces shall be appropriated for the sole purpose of moorings for his majesty's ships and vessels of war, and hired armed ships or vessels in his majesty's service; and also 'to to specify the distances from his majesty's docks, dockyards, arsenals, wharfs, moorings, ships,' and hulks, within which no private ship of war, transport, or any other private or merchant ship or vessel, &c. or other craft, shall be moored, anchored or placed, and for any other the purposes herein-after mentioned; and from time to time to vary such rules; and also from time to time to appoint proper persons, to be called "the king's harbour-masters,” to superintend such ports, &c. for the purposes aforesaid, and to enforce obedience to all such rules, &c; all which said rules, &c. shall, upon the making thereof, and also from time to time whenever the same shall be varied, be forthwith printed and published in the London Gazette, and being also printed and put upon pasteboard, shall be constantly kept hung up in some conspicuous part of the custom house, or other place of public resort for business, in the port, &c. for which the same shall be made, or where the same shall be directed to be in force, to the intent that the same may be seen and read, and copies or extracts taken therefrom by all persons interested therein. This statute provides that no private ship, &c. shall be fastened to any of his majesty's moorings, &c. Penalties for unless forced thereto by stress of weather, &c. under a private ships, &c. fastening to penalty of £10 for every tide which such ship, &c. shall his majesty's moorings, &c. remain so moored; and empowers the harbour-master or and for other any officer belonging to any of his majesty's ships or ves obstructions,&c. sels of war, &c. to remove the same to some proper place beyond such distances as aforesaid; and also provides for the appointing of proper places for breaming ships and leaving and receiving gunpowder; and imposes penalties on the offences of breaming ships except at appointed places, and on keeping guns shotted, &c. in any of such ports, &c. and authorizes the harbour-master, &c. to enter private ships to search for gunpowder, guns shotted, &c; and, further, imposes a penalty of £10 upon persons throwing, &c. ballast or rubbish, &c. into any of such ports, &c. and prescribes the manner in which ships may unlade their ballast, or take it in from the shore, in such port, &c. and contains provisions respecting the sweeping s. 3. to 28. for S. 28. rights of corpo rations, &c. for anchors, &c. and raising of ships, &c. sunk or stranded in such ports, &c: and this act regulates the form of proceeding for the recovery of the penalties hereby imposed; and lastly provides (s. 28.) that nothing in this act Proviso as to shall prejudice, alter, &c. any right of property, privilege, or jurisdiction, or any powers of conservancy held or enjoyed by any body corporate, or by any person, in, to, upon, or over any of the ports, &c. or navigable rivers of the united kingdom, or to the banks, shores, or sides thereof; or to repeal any of the provisions contained in any act which may have been passed for the regulation of any river, port, or harbour, in the united kingdom, or the shipping frequenting the same, except such acts or provisions as are expressly repealed by this act. Weights and measures. 55 Geo.3.c.43. E. W. Prerogative of coining. The 55 Geo. 3. c. 43. E. & W. which also respects the king's prerogative as the arbiter of domestic commerce, and which provides for the purchasing of proper measures, duly marked according to the standard of the exchequer, for the use of the respective counties, &c. and towns corporate of England and Wales, will be found in another part in this supplement., I shall also reserve for another place, the 56 Geo. 3. c. 68.U.K. which provides for a new silver coinage,and re56 Geo.3.c.68. gulates the currency of the gold and silver coin of this U. K, realm, which might be referred to this head" of the king's prerogative." Hismajestyem mise crown Of the King's Revenue. P. 175. l. 39. The 52 Geo. 3. c. 161. U. K. is an act powered to de- enabling the king to demise or grant any land or ground lands for build. belonging to the crown, within the ordering or survey of ing on, &c. the duchy of Lancaster, for the erection of houses or other 52 Geo.3.c.161. buildings, and for gardens, yards, &c. to be used there U. K. with, as also any tenements or hereditaments the greatest part of the yearly value whereof shall consist of any building or buildings thereon, under the seal of the duchy of Lancaster, Lancaster, for such term and at such rent as herein mentioned. And this act also empowers the king to demise or grant any land or ground within the ordering and survey of the exchequer, and of the duchy of Lancaster, fit for gardens, yards, &c. to be occupied with any houses or buildings erected upon ground belonging to the crown. And this act empowers the lord high treasurer or commissioners of the treasury to authorize the commissioners of his majesty's woods, forests, and land revenues, or the surveyor general of his majesty's woods and forests, on the behalf of the king, to grant any of the waste or other lands within any of said forests, in exchange for any other lands in or Or exchange adjoining to the same forest, being fit and proper for the lands, in or adgrowth of timber, and conveniently situated for that pur-joining forests, pose; and the lord high treasurer, or commissioners of the duals. U. K. Monies arising treasury, are hereby also empowered to authorize the sale or sell small of small parcels of land within any of the royal forests, mixed, &c. with parcels interwhich are intermixed with, adjoining, contiguous or con- lands of indivivenient to, or surrounded by the lands of individuals, and which are of little or no value to the crown for the growth of timber. And for the further improvement of the land revenue of the crown, the 54 Geo. 3. c. 70. U. K. provides, 54 Geo.3.c.70. that the monies arising from the sale of any manors or lordships belonging to the crown, which consist of mano- from sale of rial rights and quit rents, without any lands, or with very placed to credit crown lands,&c. small quantities of land belonging to them, and of manors of "Navy timber or lands of which his majesty is not the sole proprietor, nursery fund." but is entitled to an undivided share jointly with individuals, and of lands dispersed in small quantities and intermixed with the property of individuals, and lying remote from other property belonging to the crown, and any other hereditaments authorized by the 48 Geo. 3. c. 73. s. 11. E. to be sold, shall be paid into the bank, and placed to the account of the "Navy timber nursery fund." And this act empowers bodies corporate, tenants for life, committees, guardians, and trustees, &c. to convey lands to his. majesty, to be appropriated to the growth of timber, &c• And the 55 Geo. 3. c. 55. U. K. is an act to enable the 55 Geo.3. c.55. commissioners of his majesty's woods, forests, and land revenues, to contract for the purchase and surrender of the der crown pur U. K. chased, &c. |