* 34 MINUTES OF EVIDENCE BEFORE SELECT COMMITTEE " THAT FROM THESE FOUR CAUSES THE ENLARGEMENT OF JURISDICTION, THE VIGILANCE OF AN- MolESWORth GrEENe, IMPROVED POLICE, THE GREAT INCREASE OF CRIME, AND THE UTTER INADEQUACY OF THIS SINGLE v ' „ AOL OF Newgate FOR THE METROPOLIS, THE BUSINESS OF THIS COURT AND ITS OFFICE HAS INCREASED TO AN EXTENT TO WHICH NO OTHER SIMILAR OFFICE IN THIS COUNTRY CAN MAKE ANY OTHER THAN A DISTANT RESEMBLANCE. " THAT ADDED TO THESE CAUSES, THE PREVAILING ANXIETY TO SHORTEN IMPRISONMENT BY AN EARLY TRIAL, HAS CONSIDERABLY MERGED THE BUSINESS OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF OYER AND TERMINER AND GENERAL GAOL DELIVERY, IN THE EARLIER SESSIONS OF THIS COURT, OF NEARLV co- ORDINATE JURISDICTION. « THAT THE RESULT OF THESE CAUSES IS, THAT THIS COURT AND THE OFFICE OF THE TOWN CLERKS OF DUBLIN, NOW COMPREHEND A CONSIDERABLE PORTION OF THE CRIMINAL BUSINESS OF IRELAND, AND THE INCREASE AND EXTENT OF THIS BUSINESS WILL APPEAR FROM THESE FACTS, THAT THE NUMBER OF PERSONS COMMITTED TO NEWGATE, FOR TRIAL AT THE QUARTER SESSIONS OF DUBLIN, IN THE YEAR 1819, AMOUNTED TO 1,529, THOSE IN 1820, TO 1,733, AND THOSE IN 1821, TO 1,756. " THAT THE TOWN CLERKS OF DUBLIN ARE THEREFORE OBLIGED TO KEEP THEIR OFFICE OPEN FOR THE PUBLIC, NOT ONLY DURING ALL THESE ADJOURNED SESSIONS, WITH A SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF COMPETENT PERSONS TO ASSIST THEM, BUT FOR THE NECESSARY PREPARATORY BUSINESS, TO KEEP THIS OFFICE OPEN DURING THE ENTIRE YEAR; THE HOURS OF ATTENDANCE THEREIN BEING FROM TEN O'CLOCK IN THE FORENOON UNTIL FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON, AND FROM SEVEN AND HALF- PAST IN THE EVENING UNTIL NINE. " THAT THE ABSOLUTE NECESSITY OF SUCH ATTENDANCE, MUST CLEARLY APPEAR FROM A SIMPLE DETAIL OF THE URGENT RESPONSIBLE AND MULTITUDINOUS DUTIES OF THE CLERKS OF THE PEACE FOR THE CITY OF DUBLIN; TO DRAW AND GIVE RECEIPTS FOR ALL RECOGNIZANCES; TO RECEIVE, COLLECT, AND GIVE RECEIPTS FOR ALL INFORMATIONS RETURNED TO THEM BY THE POLICE AND OTHER MAGISTRATES OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN; TO FILE ALL INFORMATIONS SWORN AGAINST PERSONS FOR BREACHES OF THE PEACE, TOGETHER WITH THEIR RECOGNIZANCES ENTERED INTO BY THEM FOR THEIR FUTURE GOOD BEHAVIOUR; TO READ AND CONSIDER ALL OTHER INFORMATIONS; TO FRAME AND DRAW INDICTMENTS THEREON ; TO ENGROSS SUCH INDICTMENTS; TO FILE THE RECOGNIZANCES GIVEN FOR PERSONS TO BE TRIED; TO SUMMON THE PROSECUTORS FOR THE PURPOSE OF BEING SWORN TO THE INDICTMENTS, PREVIOUS TO THEIR GOING BEFORE THE GRAND JURY; TO SUMMON THE GRAND JURIES FOR THEIR DIFFERENT ADJOURNMENTS ; TO SUMMON THE MAGISTRATES; TO SWEAR THE PROSECUTORS; TO SEND THEM BEFORE THE GRAND JURIES; TO ENTER IN A BOOK THE MANNER IN WHICH THE GRAND JURIES DISPOSE OF THE INDICTMENTS; TO FILE THE SAME ON SUNDRY FILES KEPT FOR THAT PURPOSE; TO ENTER IN A LIST BOOK THE NAMES OF THE PERSONS READY FOR TRIAL ON EACH DAY; TO ENTER IN THE CROWN BOOK THE DATES OF THE SITTINGS OF THE COURT, TOGETHER WITH THE NAMES OF THE MAGISTRATES PRESIDING; TO ENTER IN THE CROWN BOOK, AND ALSO IN A BOOK KEPT FOR THE COURT, THE INDICTMENTS FOUND AGAINST PERSONS IN CUSTODY; TO ENTER IN A BOOK, CALLED THE TRAVERSE BOOK, THE INDICTMENTS FOUND AGAINST PERSONS OUT ON BAIL, OR NOT IN CUSTODY, WITH THE RESIDENCES OF THE TRAVERSERS, AND THE NAMES AND RESIDENCES OF THEIR RESPECTIVE SURETIES, AND THE SUMS IN WHICH THEY ARE SEVERALLY BOUND ; TO SUMMON FOR THE DIFFERENT COURT DAYS THE PERSONS WHO HAD PREVIOUSLY ATTENDED BEFORE THE GRAND JURIES; TO PROSECUTE THOSE AGAINST WHOM BILLS ARE FOUND; TO SUMMON THE TRAVERSERS, THEIR BAIL AND PROSECUTORS, AS THE COURT MAY ORDER THEM TO BE BROUGHT UP FOR TRIAL ON ANY DAY NOT BEING A TRAVERSE DAY, OF WHICH THE CLERKS OF THE PEACE GIVE NOTICE THROUGH THE NEWSPAPERS; AND TO HAVE THESE SUMMONSES PERSONALLY SERVED ON EACH TRAVERSER, EACH OF HIS BAIL, AND EACH OF THOSE BOUND TO PROSECUTE; TO ATTEND THE COURT ON THE SITTING DAYS; TO ARRAIGN THE SEVERAL PERSONS INDICTED; TO ENTER AND RECORD THEIR PLEAS ; TO JOIN ISSUE ON THE PART OF THE CROWN; TO SWEAR PETIT JURIES; TO ATTEND THE TRIALS FROM THE SITTING OF THE COURT TO THE RISING THEREOF; TO PREPARE THE ISSUES ; TO SWEAR THE WITNESSES; TO RECEIVE THE VERDICTS; TO RECORD THE JUDGMENTS AND DIFFERENT ORDERS BY THE COURT, AND ISSUE SUCH WARRANTS AS MAY BE NECESSARY TO CARRY ITS SENTENCES INTO EFFECT, & C. & C. " THAT THE RECEIPTS FIRST MENTIONED IS THE SOLE RENUMERATION TO THESE JOINT CLERKS 0, THE PEACE FOR ALL THESE SERVICES, AND THAT SUCH RECEIPTS ARE NOT NOW GREATER, NOR HAVE THEY BEEN TOR THE LAST THREE YEARS, THAN THEY WERE IN THE YEAR 1815, NOTWITH- STANDING THE INCREASE OT DUTIES IN THAT INTERVAL. " THAT THESE RECEIPTS ARE SMALL IN THEIR BEING PARTS MADE UP OF SPECIFIC AND DE- FIED FEES AND CONSIDERATIONS DIRECTED BY VARIOUS ACTS OF PARLIAMENT, ENACTED AT DIFFERENT PERIODS, [ VIDE APPENDIX]; AND ALL OF THESE fines and CONSIDERATIONS PRE- CR BED AND ASCERTAINED IN THEIR SMALLEST MINUTIAE, BY THE ENACTMENTS OR SCHEDULES MAKING PART OF THESE STATUTES. " That