Chancery (Ireland) Act, 1835

CHANCERY (IRELAND) ACT 1835

C A P. XVI.

An Act for altering and amending the Law regarding Commitments by Courts of Equity for Contempts, and the taking Bills pro Confesso, in Ireland. [30th July 1835.]

Marshal of the Four Courts Prison to keep a Register of Persons committed for Contempts, and report Four Times a Year to the Lord Chancellor.

Whereas it is expedient to amend the Law regarding Commitments by Courts of Equity for Contempts, and the taking Bills pro Confesso, in Ireland;’ 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 the Marshal of the Marshalsea of the Four Courts Prison shall keep a Register of the Names of all Persons committed by the Courts of Equity for Contempts, stating the Dates and the Grounds of their several Commitments, and the Dates of their respective Discharges, and shall, on the Twentieth Day of January, the Twentieth Day of April, the Twentieth Day of July, and the Twentieth Day of October in every Year, make a Report to the Lord Chancellor of the Names and Descriptions of such Prisoners in his Custody on each of such Days respectively, with the Causes and Dates of their respective Commitments,