Cinque Ports Act 1811

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1811 c. 36
Anno Regni GEORGII III. Britanniarum Regis, Quinquagesimo Primo. An Act to facilitate the Execution of Justice withinThe Cinque Ports.

(51 Geo. 3) C A P. XXXVI.

[25th May 1811]

'WHEREAS different Parishes, Hamlets, Districts or Vills, form Part of the Liberties of the Cinque Ports, some whereof are situate at a considerable Distance from the Port or Town of the Liberty whereof they respectively form Part: And whereas the Mayor or Bailiff, and Jurats, or by whatsoever Name or Names they are or have been called, of each of the said Cinque Ports, have from the time whereof the Memory of Man is not to the contrary, held, exercised and enjoyed Jurisdiction in all Matters relating to the Office and Duty of Justice of the Peace within and throughout the Liberties of the respective Port or Town whereof they are or have been Mayor, Bailiff or Jurat, or by whatsoever Name or Names they are or have been called: And whereas such Mayors, Bailiffs and Jurats, or by whatsoever Name or Names they are or may have been called, are and have been generally resident in the respective Town or Port whereof they are or have been Mayors, Bailiffs or Jurats respectively, and none, or an insufficient Number of them, within or near unto the Parishes, Hamlets, Districts or Vills, forming Part of the Liberties of such Ports: And whereas the Number of Jurats, or by whatever Name or Names they are or may have been called, is in each of the said Towns and Ports limited and insufficient to afford a competent Number of them to be resident at various Places within and throughout the Whole of the Liberties of their respective Ports, to act as Justices of the Peace therein, by reason whereof great Inconveniences, and many Defects of Justice have frequently arisen, and are likely hereafter to arise to His Majesty's Subjects residing within and frequenting such Parishes, Hamlets, District or Vills, unless Provision be made for Remedy thereof: And whereas it would tend to the Redress of such Inconveniences and Defects, and would greatly conduce to the due, prompt and effectual Administration of Justice, and Execution of divers Acts of Parliament passed and hereafter to be passed, and to the better Preservation of the Peace within and throughout the said Parishes, Hamlets, Districts and Vills, if proper Persons resident within or near unto the said Parishes, Hamlets, Districts and Vills, were constituted Justices of the Peace within and throughout the same, and invested with the same Power and Authority within the same as doth now or at any time did appertain or belong to any Mayors, Bailiffs or Jurats, or by whatsoever other Name or Names they are or may have been called, of any Cinque Port, to exercise within the same;' 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, from and after the Fifth Day ofJuly One thousand eight hundred and eleven, it shall and may be lawful for His Majesty and His Successors, Kings and Queens of this Realm, from time to time, and as often as Occasion shall require, to direct a Commission or Commissions to be prepared and issued under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland , to be directed to certain Persons to be named in such Commission or Commissions, constituting them to be Justices of the Peace, and each of them to be a Justice of the Peace within and throughout the Liberties of the Cinque Ports, and investing them and each of them with the same Power and Authority as doth now or at any Time did appertain or belong to any Mayor, Bailiff or Jurat, or by whatsoever other Name or Names they are or may have been called, to exercise within the Liberties of the Port or Town whereof they were or are Mayor, Bailiff or Jurat, or by whatsoever other Name or Names they are or may have been called; and that from and after such Commission or Commissions shall have so issued, all Persons and every Person named in any such Commission or Commissions, shall be, and they and each of them are and is hereby declared to be Justices and a Justice of the Peace within and throughout the Liberties of the Cinque Ports, and invested with the same Power and Authority within and throughout the same, as doth now or at any time did appertain or belong to any Mayor, Bailiff or Jurat, or by whatsoever other Name or Names they are or may have been called, to exercise within the Liberties of the Port or Town whereof they are or were Mayor, Bailiff or Jurat, or by whatsoever other Name or Names they are or may have been called; any Prescription, Usage, Charter or Charters, Law or Laws to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.

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