City of Waterford Act 1783
CITY OF WATERFORD ACT 1783 | ||
CHAP. LII. | ||
An Act for better Regulating the Police of the City of Waterford. | ||
Mayor of Waterford exonerated from attending court of Conscience, | ||
last mayor president one year, for causes under 40s. | ||
with like powers as mayor bad. | ||
WHEREAS the Court of Conscience held before the mayor of the county of the city of Waterford, for determining causes in all small debts between party and party, under the value of ten shillings, has been of great use, and will be of still greater advantage to the inhabitants thereof, if the jurisdiction of said court be extended to the determination of causes in all small debts between party and party, under the value of forty shillings: and whereas the mayor of the said city of Waterford cannot attend the holding of the said Court of Conscience as regularly as the same might be held for the benefit of the suitors therein, by reason of his necessary attendance which he is obliged to give to the other duties of his office: be it 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 in all times hereafter, from and after the twenty ninth day of September in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty four, the mayor of the said city of Waterford for the time being may, and shall be hereby exonerated from attending upon the said Court of Conscience, during the year in which he shall serve in the office of mayor of the said city, and the person who shall have served in the office of mayor of the said city for the next preceding year, shall preside in the said Court of Conscience for the space of one year next after he shall have served in the office of mayor of said city; and that the person who by virtue of this act shall preside in the said court of conscience, shall for ever hereafter have full power and authority to hear and finally determine causes in all small debts between party and party, under the value of forty shillings, and moreover shall for ever hereafter have and exercise all the powers, authorities, and jurisdictions, and have and enjoy all the pre-eminences, emoluments, and advantages during the time he shall preside therein, which the mayor of the said city hath heretofore had, exercised, or enjoyed in the said Court of Conscience, having first taken his corporal oath before the mayor of said city for the time being, or his deputy, rightly, truly, and faithfully to execute all and singular the things which belong to the office of president of the said Court of Conscience. |