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CHARTERED COMPANIES ACT 1837

CHARTERED COMPANIES ACT 1837 - LONG TITLE

An Act for better enabling Her Majesty to confer certain Powers and
Immunities on trading and other Companies.{1}
[17th July 1837]
Preamble rep. by SLR 1890 (No. 2)

S.1 rep. by SLR 1874

CHARTERED COMPANIES ACT 1837 - SECT 2
Privileges may be granted by letters patent to persons associated
for trading or other purposes.

2. It shall and may be lawful for Her Majesty, by letters patent
to be from time to time for that purpose issued under the great
seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, ... to
grant to any company or body of persons associated together for any
trading or other purposes whatsoever, and to the heirs, executors,
administrators, and assigns of any such persons although not
incorporated by such letters patent, any privilege or privileges
which, according to the rules of the common law, it would be
competent to Her Majesty to grant to any such company or body of
persons in and by any charter of incorporation.

CHARTERED COMPANIES ACT 1837 - SECT 3
The letters patent so granted may provide that suits shall be
carried on in the name of one of the officers of any company
appointed for that purpose.

3. In any such letters patent so to be granted as aforesaid by
Her Majesty to any such company or body of persons so associated
together as aforesaid, but not incorporated, it shall and may be
lawful, in and by such letters patent, either expressly or by a
general or special reference to this Act, to provide and declare
that all suits and proceedings, whether at law, in equity, or in
bankruptcy or sequestration, or otherwise howsoever, as well in Great
Britain and Ireland as in the colonies and dependencies thereof, by
or on behalf of such company or body, or any person or persons as
trustee or trustees for such company or body, against any person or
persons, whether bodies politic or others, and whether members or
not of such company or body, shall be commenced and prosecuted in
the name of one of the two officers for the time being to be
appointed to sue and be sued on behalf of such company or body,
and registered in pursuance of the directions of such appointment
and registration respectively herein-after contained; and all suits
and proceedings, whether at law or in equity, by or on behalf of
any person or persons, whether bodies politic or others, and whether
or not members of such company or body, against such company or
body, shall be commenced and prosecuted against one of such
officers, or if there shall be no such officer for the time being,
then against any member of such company or body: Provided
nevertheless, that nothing in this Act or in such letters patent
contained or to be contained shall prevent the plaintiff from
joining any member of such company or body with such officer as a
defendant in equity, for the purpose of discovery, or in case of
fraud.

CHARTERED COMPANIES ACT 1837 - SECT 4
Individual liability of members of a company may be restricted by
letters patent.

4. It shall and may be lawful, in and by such letters patent so
to be granted to any such body or company as aforesaid to declare
and provide that the members of such company or body so associated
as aforesaid shall be individually liable in their persons and
property for the debts, contracts, engagements, and liabilities of
such company or body to such extent only per share as shall be
declared and limited in and by such letters patent; and the members
of such company or body shall accordingly be individually liable for
such debts, contracts, engagements, and liabilities respectively, to
such extent only per share as in such letters patent shall be
declared and limited; such liability nevertheless to be enforced in
such manner and subject to such provisions as are herein-after
contained.

CHARTERED COMPANIES ACT 1837 - SECT 5
Deed of partnership to be executed.

5. Every such company or body to which any such privileges or
powers as herein-before mentioned shall be granted under the
authority of this Act, shall be entered into or formed by a deed
of partnership or association, or an agreement in writing of that
nature; and the undertaking shall by such deed or agreement be
divided into a certain number of shares to be there specified; and
in such deed or agreement, or in some schedule thereto, there shall
be set forth the name or style of the said company or body, the
names or styles of the members of the said company or body, the
date of the commencement thereof, the business or purpose for which
the said company or body is formed, and the principal or only
place for carrying on such business; and in such deed or agreeement
there shall also be contained the appointment of two or more
officers to sue or be sued on behalf of such company or body in
manner herein-after mentioned.

CHARTERED COMPANIES ACT 1837 - SECT 6
Return to be made as hereinafter mentioned of the granting of
letters patent, and style of company.

6. Such company or body as aforesaid shall, within three calendar
months after the grant of such letters patent as aforesaid, make or
cause to be made a return to such one of the offices for
enrolment herein-after mentioned as shall be required under the
provisions of this Act, containing the date of the grant of such
letters patent as aforesaid, the name or style of the said company
or body, the business or purpose for which the said company or
body is formed, the principal or only place for carrying on such
business, the total number of shares in the said company or body
(and each of which shares is to be distinguished by a separate
number in regular succession), the amount to which each share shall
render the holder thereof liable, the names and (except as to
bodies politic) the places of abode of all the members thereof, and
the distinctive number or numbers of the share or respective shares
which each member holds; and such company or body shall also at
the same time make a return of the names and descriptions of the
officers appointed by such company or body to sue and be sued on
behalf thereof in manner aforesaid; such return to be made in the
form in the schedule (A) to this Act annexed.

CHARTERED COMPANIES ACT 1837 - SECT 7
Name of company not to be changed after registry. If place of
business is changed, return to be made.

7. During the continuance of any such company or body after it
shall have been so registered no change shall be made in the name
or style thereof; and if the principal or only place for carrying
on the business of the said company or body shall be changed, the
said company or body shall within three calendar months after such
change make or cause to be made a return to the said office as
aforesaid of such change in the form in schedule (B) to this Act
annexed.

CHARTERED COMPANIES ACT 1837 - SECT 8
When persons cease to be members of the company, except by transfer
of shares, &c., company to make return within three months.

8. In case any person shall cease to be a member of such company
or body (except by means of the transfer by deed or writing of
any share therein), or in case of the addition of any person
thereto (except by means of the transfer of any share as
aforesaid), or of the change of the name of any member thereof by
marriage or otherwise, the said company or body shall, within three
calendar months after information shall be received by the said
company or body of any person so ceasing as aforesaid, or of such
change or addition as aforesaid, make or cause to be made a return
to the said office as aforesaid, containing the names and places of
abode of all persons having ceased to be members thereof (except as
aforesaid), and the names and places of abode of all persons having
become members thereof (except as aforesaid), and specifying any
change in the name of any member thereof by marriage or otherwise;
such return to be made in one of the forms in the schedule (C)
to this Act annexed, as the case may be.

CHARTERED COMPANIES ACT 1837 - SECT 9
On transfer of shares, notice to be given to the company.

9. On the transfer by deed or writing of any share in any such
company or body as aforesaid, a notice in writing, specifying the
date of such transfer, the distinguishing number of the share
transferred, the name and (except in the case of a body politic)
the place of abode of the person by whom or on whose behalf, and
of the name and (except as aforesaid) the place of abode of the
person to whom such transfer is made, shall be given to the said
company or body, by leaving the transfer, when executed by both
parties, or some note or memorandum thereof signed by them, at the
principal or only office of the said company or body.

CHARTERED COMPANIES ACT 1837 - SECT 10
Company to make return within three months after receiving notice of
transfer.

10. In case of the transfer of any share in such company or body,
the said company or body shall, within three calendar months after
receiving such notice as aforesaid of such transfer, make or cause
to be made a return to the said office as aforesaid, containing
the date of such transfer, the distinguishing number of the share
transferred, the name and (except in the case of a body politic)
the place of abode of the person by whom or on whose behalf such
transfer is made, and of the person to whom such transfer is made,
in the form in Schedule (D) to this Act annexed; and such company
or body are hereby required, on the request in writing of either
of the parties, forthwith to make such return accordingly.

CHARTERED COMPANIES ACT 1837 - SECT 11
Any person having made payment in respect of a share in a limited
company under any judgment, &c. against such company to make a
return thereof.

11. Where the extent per share of the liability of the individual
members of any such company or body shall have been limited by
letters patent as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for any person who
shall or may from time to time have advanced or paid any sum in
consequence or by virtue of any execution or diligence issued
against him in respect of any share in such company or body, under
any judgment, decree, interlocutor, or order to be obtained against
any officer of the said company or body, or any member thereof, in
manner herein-after mentioned, to make a return thereof to such
office as aforesaid in the form in schedule (E) to this Act
annexed; and every such return shall be accompanied with a proper
voucher or vouchers of the fact of such payment, without which the
same shall not be registered as herein-after mentioned.

CHARTERED COMPANIES ACT 1837 - SECT 12
Company to make return when repayment is made of money so advanced
by any person.

12. If any sum or sums shall at any time be repaid by any such
company or body as last aforesaid in respect of any such sum which
may have been so advanced or paid by virtue of such execution or
diligence, the said company or body shall forthwith make or cause
to be made a return to such office as aforesaid, specifying the
amount of such repayment, in the form in schedule (F) to this Act
annexed.

CHARTERED COMPANIES ACT 1837 - SECT 13
On death, resignation, or removal of officer appointed to sue and
be sued on behalf of company or body, another to be appointed and
return made.

13. In case of the death or resignation or removal of any officer
appointed to sue and be sued on behalf of any company or body to
be formed in pursuance of any of the provisions of this Act, the
said company or body shall forthwith appoint in his stead another
officer to sue and be sued on behalf of such company or body, and
shall, within three calendar months after the death, resignation, or
removal of such officer as aforesaid, make or cause to be made a
return to the said office as aforesaid, containing as well the name
and description of the person who has ceased to be such officer in
manner aforesaid as the name and description of the officer who has
been appointed to sue and be sued on behalf of such company or
body; such return to be made in the form in schedule (G) to this
Act annexed.

CHARTERED COMPANIES ACT 1837 - SECT 14
Returns how to be signed and verified.

14. All returns to be made in manner aforesaid by such company or
body shall be signed by one of such officers, and shall be
verified by a declaration of such officer made pursuant to the
provisions of the Statutory Declarations Act, 1835, except that if
there shall be no such officer, or such officer shall refuse to
act, then such return shall be signed and verified as aforesaid by
some member of the said company or body.

CHARTERED COMPANIES ACT 1837 - SECT 15
Return of names of members, &c. not to be rendered invalid by
unintentional error.

15. Any return to be made in manner aforesaid of the name or
place of abode of any original member of such company or body, or
of any person to or in whom any share in such company or body
shall be transferred or become vested, shall not be rendered invalid
for the purposes of this Act by any error or omission in the
same, if the said company or body shall, within one calendar month
after information of such error or omission shall be received by
such company or body, cause a correct return to be made to the
said office as aforesaid in the form in schedule (F) to this Act
annexed: Provided always, that this clause shall not invalidate or
prejudice any intermediate transaction or matter whatsoever which
shall have bona8 fide taken place or proceeded upon the faith of
such erroneous or defective return, nor shall the benefit of this
clause extend to any error or omission which shall be fraudulent.

CHARTERED COMPANIES ACT 1837 - SECT 16
Office to which returns shall be made.

16. Where the principal or only place for carrying on the business
of any such company or body as aforesaid ... shall be situated in
any part of Ireland, such returns shall be made to the enrolment
office of the Court of Chancery in Ireland.

CHARTERED COMPANIES ACT 1837 - SECT 17
By whom returns are to be registered.

17. All such returns as are herein-before directed to be made ...
to the enrolment office of the Court of Chancery in Ireland shall
be registered by the clerks of enrolments in Chancery in Ireland,
or their deputy, in books to be by them ... kept for that
purpose; and an alphabetical index shall be kept of the names of
such companies or bodies, with references to such returns; and there
shall be paid for the registering of each return a fee of [2p]
per folio, and no more; and any person shall be at liberty to
inspect such books and index, and there shall be paid for such
inspection a fee of [5p], and no more; and any person shall be at
liberty to require a copy of any such return, to be certified by
the said clerks or their deputy, and there shall be paid for such
certificate a fee of [7p] for each folio of such copy, and no
more; and the day of the registration of every return to be made
in pursuance of this Act shall be written on such return by the
said clerks or their deputy.

CHARTERED COMPANIES ACT 1837 - SECT 18
Certified copy of such return, &c. to be received in evidence.

18. A copy, so certified as aforesaid, of such return, including
the date to be marked on such return, shall be received in
evidence in all proceedings, whether civil or criminal, and shall
also be received as evidence of the day of the registering thereof.

CHARTERED COMPANIES ACT 1837 - SECT 19
Regulations as to forms of returns and mode of keeping the
register, &c. by whom to be made.

19. Such orders and directions as to the forms of the returns to
be made in pursuance of this Act, and the mode of keeping the
register, and of making the index thereof, and of any other matters
incidental thereto, as may be deemed expedient, may from time to
time be made, altered, or varied as follows; that is to say, ...
as regards the registration to be made in the Court of Chancery in
Ireland, by the [Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland] and master
of the rolls in Ireland jointly.

CHARTERED COMPANIES ACT 1837 - SECT 20
No person entitled to share in profits till registered as a member.

20. No person becoming a member of any such company or body by
the transfer of any share therein, or otherwise, shall be entitled
to sue for or recover any share of the profits thereof, unless and
until a return of the transfer or other fact whereby he shall so
become a member shall be registered pursuant to the provisions
herein-before contained.

CHARTERED COMPANIES ACT 1837 - SECT 21
Person ceasing to be a member to continue liable till transfer, &c.
is registered.

21. Any person ceasing to be a member of any such company or
body, whether by the transfer of any share therein, or by death or
otherwise, shall be considered for all purposes of liability as
continuing a member of such company or body until a return of the
transfer or other fact whereby he shall have so ceased to be a
member shall be registered pursuant to the provisions herein-before
contained.

CHARTERED COMPANIES ACT 1837 - SECT 22
Proceedings commenced in the name of officer, &c. not to be abated
by his death, &c. or by change of members of company.

22. No action, suit, or proceeding, whether civil or criminal,
commenced either by or against any such company or body (whether in
the name of one of the officers appointed to sue and be sued as
aforesaid, or of some member of such company or body, in the case
and in manner aforesaid), shall be abated or prejudiced by the
death or by any act of such officer or person, or by the
resignation or removal of such officer, either before or after the
commencement of such action, suit, or proceeding, or by any change
in the members of such company or body by the transfer of shares
or otherwise, but the same shall be continued in the name of such
officer or member (as the case may be) notwithstanding such death
or act, or such resignation or removal, and notwithstanding such
change in the members of such company or body.

CHARTERED COMPANIES ACT 1837 - SECT 23
Evidence of officer or of member of company admissible.

23. In all such actions, suits, and other proceedings, whether civil
or criminal, the evidence of any such officer as aforesaid, or of
any member of such company or body, shall be admissible in the
like manner as if such officer or member were not an officer or
member of such company or body.

CHARTERED COMPANIES ACT 1837 - SECT 24
Effect of judgments against officers, &c. of company.

24. All judgments, decrees, interlocutors, and orders obtained in any
such actions, suits, or other proceedings as aforesaid against such
officer or member in manner aforesaid, whether such member or
officer respectively be party to such actions, suits, or proceedings
as plaintiff, pursuer, petitioner, or defendant or defender, shall
have the same effect against the property and effects of such
company or body, and also (to the extent herein-after mentioned)
against the persons, property, and effects of the individual existing
or former members thereof respectively, as if such judgments,
decrees, interlocutors, or orders had been obtained against such
company or body in suits or proceedings to which all the persons
liable as existing or former members of such company or body had
been parties; and execution or diligence, or executions or
diligences, shall be issued thereon accordingly: Provided nevertheless,
that where the extent per share of the liability of the individual
members shall have been limited by any letters patent as aforesaid,
no such execution or diligence shall be issued against any such
individual existing and former member of such company or body as
aforesaid for a greater sum than the residue, if any, of the
amount for which, by virtue of such letters patent as aforesaid,
such individual member shall be liable in respect of the share or
shares then or theretofore held by him in the said company or body
after deducting therefrom the amount, if any, which shall appear by
such register as aforesaid to have been advanced and paid in
respect of such shares or any of them by himself or herself, or
any previous or subsequent holder of the same shares or any of
them, or the representatives of any such holder, under or by virtue
of any former execution or diligence, and not repaid at the time
of issuing such subsequent execution or diligence.

CHARTERED COMPANIES ACT 1837 - SECT 25
Bankruptcy of officer, &c. of company not to affect company or
liabilities of members.

25. The bankruptcy, ..., or stopping payment of any officer or
member of such company or body in his individual capacity shall not
be construed to be the bankruptcy, ..., or stopping payment of such
company or body; and the property and effects of such company or
body, and the persons, property, and effects of the individual
members or other individual members thereof (as the case may be,)
shall, notwithstanding such bankruptcy, ..., or stopping payment, be
liable to execution or diligence in the same manner as if such
bankruptcy, ..., or stopping payment had not taken place.

CHARTERED COMPANIES ACT 1837 - SECT 26
Service of notices, &c. on the company.

26. In all cases wherein it may be necessary for any person to
serve any summons, demand, or notice, or any writ or other
proceeding at law or in equity, or otherwise, upon the said company
or body, service thereof respectively on the clerk of the said
company or body, or by leaving the same at the head office for
the time being of the said company or body, or in case such clerk
of the said office shall not be found or known, then service
thereof on any agent or officer employed by the said company or
body, or by leaving the same at the usual place of abode of such
agent or officer, shall be deemed good and sufficient service of
the same respectively on the said company or body.

CHARTERED COMPANIES ACT 1837 - SECT 27
Service of notices, &c. by the company.

27. In all cases wherein it may be necessary for the said company
or body to give any summons, demand, or notice of any kind
whatsoever to any person or corporation, under the provisions or
directions contained in this Act, such summons, demand, or notice
may be given in writing, signed by the clerk, ... or solicitor for
the time being of the said company or body, without being required
to be under the common seal of the said company or body.

CHARTERED COMPANIES ACT 1837 - SECT 28
Determination of company not to prevent the winding up of their
affairs.

28. In case of the determination of such company or body such
company or body shall nevertheless be considered as subsisting, and
to be in all respects subject to the provisions of this Act, so
long and so far as any matters relating to such company or body
shall remain unsettled, to the end and intent that such company or
body may do all things necessary to the winding-up of the concerns
thereof, and that it may be sued and sue under the provisions of
this Act in respect of all matters relating to such company or
body.

CHARTERED COMPANIES ACT 1837 - SECT 29
Duration of charters of incorporation may be limited.

29. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty, in any charter of
incorporation to be hereafter granted, to limit the duration thereof
for any term or number of years, or for any other period
whatsoever; and also in any charter of incorporation (whether in
perpetuity or for any term or period), either by reference to this
Act or otherwise, to make the corporation thereby formed, and the
officers and members thereof, subject to all of the provisions,
liabilities and directions herein-before authorized to be imposed on
or required from any unincorporated company or body, or its officers
or members, and also to confer on such corporation or its members
and officers all the powers or privileges herein-before authorized to
be conferred on any unincorporated company or body, or its officers
or members; and all the powers, provisions, clauses, matters, and
things herein-before contained in reference to unincorporated companies
or bodies shall accordingly in such case, and so far as the same
may be applicable, be considered to belong and apply to such
corporation.

CHARTERED COMPANIES ACT 1837 - SECT 30
Limitation as to exemptions to be granted to companies by letters
patent.

30. Provided always, that nothing in this Act contained shall
authorize or be construed to authorize Her Majesty, by any such
letters patent, to exempt any company or body of persons associated
as aforesaid from the necessity of entering into a deed of
partnership, from making the return of the patent to the enrolment
office of the Court of Chancery, from the necessity of carrying
into execution the provisions of this Act in respect to change of
name or style of the company or body associated, in respect to the
cessation or to the addition or to the change of name of any of
the individuals of the company, or to the transfer of shares and
to the notices to be given thereof, or to the payment of any sum
by any shareholder on account of any preferment against such company
or body, or to the returns to be made to the enrolment office of
such payment, or of the repayment thereof, or from making a return
to the said office of the name of the officer appointed by said
company to sue and be sued on its behalf, in case of the death,
resignation, or removal of the one registered, or to exempt any
company or body so associated from the provisions of this Act in
relation to the period at which its several members shall become
entitled or shall cease to share in the profits thereof, the whole
as required by the provisions of this Act.

CHARTERED COMPANIES ACT 1837 - SECT 31
Act not to affect existing privileges.

31. Provided always, that nothing in this Act contained shall
authorize or be construed to authorize the grant to any company or
body of persons of any privilege in derogation of any exclusive
privileges now enjoyed by any company or corporation under any Act
or Acts of Parliament.

CHARTERED COMPANIES ACT 1837 - SECT 32
Notice of application for letters patent to be inserted in the
London Gazette, &c.

32. Whenever an application shall be made to Her Majesty to grant
letters patent or a charter of incorporation to any company or body
of persons associated together for any purpose of trade, and such
application shall have been referred by Her Majesty to the [Board
of Trade], then, before any report shall be made to Her Majesty,
and before any such letters patent or charter shall be granted,
notice of such application shall be inserted by the parties applying
three several times in the London Gazette and in one or more of
the newspapers circulating within the county in which it is proposed
that the principal place of business of such company shall be
established, at intervals of not less than one week.

Vict.

[Names and places of abode of all the members, and the distinctive
numbers of the shares which each of them holds.]I (one of the
above-named officers) do solemnly and sincerely declare that the
above is a true return; and I make this solemn declaration
conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the
provisions of an Act made and passed in the fifth year of the
reign of his late Majesty, intituled "An Act," &c.[Declared, &c.] < [Signature.]

Vict.CHANGE of Place of Business

I[&c. as before.]

Vict.CHANGE of Members

[Names and places of abode of all persons having ceased to be
members (except by transfer of shares) since the last return. Dated
the day of .][Former names and places of abode of persons whose
names have been changed.]I[&c. as before.]

Vict.TRANSFER of Shares

I[&c. as before.]

Vict.PAYMENT by Individual Member

I[&c. as before.]

Vict.PAYMENT to Individual Members

I[&c. as before.]

Vict.CHANGE of Officer

[Name and description of the person who has ceased to be an
officer to sue and be sued on behalf of the company or body since
the last return. Dated .]I[&c. as before.]

Vict.CORRECTED Return[Copy of former incorrect Return](Copy)Amended
Return with correct Names and Descriptions [in such of the preceding
Forms as are applicable to the Case under the provisions of the
foregoing Act.]$$#

PARLIAMENTARY DOCUMENTS DEPOSIT ACT 1837

PARLIAMENTARY DOCUMENTS DEPOSIT ACT 1837 - LONG TITLE

An Act to compel Clerks of the Peace for Counties and other
Persons to take the Custody of such Documents as shall be directed
to be deposited with them under the Standing Orders of either House
of Parliament.{1}
[17th July 1837]
WHEREAS the Houses of Parliament are in the habit of requiring
that, previous to the introduction of any Bill into Parliament for
making certain bridges, turnpike roads, cuts, canals, reservoirs,
aqueducts, waterworks, navigations, tunnels, archways, railways, piers,
ports, harbours, ferries, docks, and other works, to be made under
the authority of Parliament, certain maps or plans and sections, and
books and writings, or extracts or copies of or from certain maps,
plans, or sections, books and writings, shall be deposited in the
office of the [clerk of the district council] for [every district]
in ... Ireland, ... in which such work is proposed to be made,
and also with ..., other persons: And whereas it is expedient that
such maps, plans, sections, books, writings, and copies or extracts
of and from the same, should be received by the said [clerks of
district councils] ..., and other persons, and should remain in
their custody for the purposes hereinafter mentioned:[

PARLIAMENTARY DOCUMENTS DEPOSIT ACT 1837 - SECT 1
Clerks of district councils, &c. to receive the documents herein
mentioned, and retain them for the purposes directed by the standing
orders of the Houses of Parliament.

1.] Whenever either of the Houses of Parliament shall, by its
standing orders already made or hereafter to be made, require that
any such maps, plans, sections, books, or writings, or extracts or
copies of the same, or any of them shall be deposited as
aforesaid, such maps, plans, sections, books, writings, copies, and
extracts shall be received by and shall remain with the [clerks of
district councils], ..., and other persons with whom the same shall
be directed by such standing orders to be deposited, and they are
hereby respectively directed to receive and to retain the custody of
all such documents and writings so directed to be deposited with
them respectively, in the manner, and for the purposes, and under
the rules and regulations concerning the same respectively directed
by such standing orders, and shall make such memorials and
endorsements on and give such acknowledgments and receipts in respect
of the same respectively as shall be thereby directed.

PARLIAMENTARY DOCUMENTS DEPOSIT ACT 1837 - SECT 2
Clerks of district councils, &c., to permit such documents to be
inspected or copied by persons interested.

2. All persons interested shall have liberty to, and the said
[clerks of district councils], ..., and every of them, are and is
hereby required, at all reasonable hours of the day, to permit all
persons interested to inspect during a reasonable time and make
extracts from or copies of the said maps, plans, sections, books,
writings, extracts and copies of or from the same, so deposited
with them respectively, on payment by each person to the [clerk of
the district council], ... having the custody of any such map,
plan, section, book, writing, extract, or copy, [5p] for every such
inspection, and the further sum of [5p] for every hour during which
such inspection shall continue after the first hour, and after the
rate of [2p] for every one hundred words copied therefrom.

PARLIAMENTARY DOCUMENTS DEPOSIT ACT 1837 - SECT 3
Clerks of district councils &c. for every omission to comply with
the provisions of this Act, shall be liable to a penalty of #5 to
be recovered in a summary way.

3. In case any [clerk of a district council], ..., or other person
shall in any matter or thing refuse or neglect to comply with any
of the provisions herein-before contained, every [clerk], ..., or
other person shall for every such offence forfeit and pay any sum
not exceeding the sum of five pounds; and every such penalty shall,
upon proof of the offence before any justice of the peace for the
county within which such offence shall be committed, or by the
confession of the party offending, or by the oath of any credible
witness, be levied and recovered, together with the costs of the
proceedings for the recovery thereof, by distress and sale of the
goods and effects of the party offending, by warrant under the hand
of such justice, which warrant such justice is hereby empowered to
grant, and shall be paid to the person or persons making such
complaint; and it shall be lawful for any such justice of the
peace, to whom any complaint shall be made of any offence committed
against this Act, to summon the party complained of before him, and
on such summons to hear and determine the matter of such complaint
in a summary way, and on proof of the offence to convict the
offender, and to adjudge him to pay the penalty or forfeiture
incurred, and to proceed to recover the same, although no
information in writing or in print shall have been exhibited or
taken by or before such justice; and all such proceedings by
summons without information shall be as good, valid, and effectual
to all intents and purposes, as if an information in writing had
been exhibited.