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THE
STATUTE S
OF
THE UNITED KINGDOM
OF
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND,
17 & 18 VICTORIA. 1854.
LONDON:
Printed by Her Majesty's Printers ;
1854.
(Price 1/. &r. in Boards.)
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A
TABLE
ContainiD^. thd TITIiBS of aU
THE STATUTES
Passed in the SECOND Session of the SIXTEENTH
Parliament
OF
The United Elingdom of Oreat Britain and Ireland; 17^ & 18^ VICTORIiE.
PUBLIC GENERAL ACTS.
1. AN Act to explain and amend an Act of the last Session
relating to the Duties of Assessed Taxes, and to authoriae Justices of the Peace in Ireland to administer Oaths required in Matters relating to Income Tax. Page 1
2. An Act to apply the Sum of Eight Millions out of the Con- solidated Fund to the Serrice of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty*four. S-
3. An Act for raising the Sum of One million seven hundred and fiftj thousand Pounds by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. Ibid.
4. An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better Payment of the Ajrmy and their Quarters. Ihid.
6. An Act to admit Foreign Ships to the Coasting Trade. 21
6. An Act for the Regulation of Her Majest/s Royal Marine Forces while on shore. 22
7. An Act for extending the Time limited for putting into exe- cution the Act of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Years of Her present Majesty, for the better Management and Control of Highways in South Wales. 86
8. An Act further to amend an Act relating to the Valuation of rateable Property in Ireland. 37
9. An Act to authorize the Inclosure of certain Lands in pur- suance of a Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Waiee. 39
10. An Act for granting to Her Majesty additional Duties on Profits arising from Property, Professions, Trades, and Offices. 40
11. An Act to amend the Laws relating to Ministers Money, and the Church Temporalities (Ireland) Act. 41
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IT The TITLES of the STATUTES,
12. An Act for raising the Sum of Sixteen millions twentj-foar thousand one hundred Pounds hj Exchequer Bills, for the Ser- vice of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fiftj- four. Page 46
13. An Act to amend the Acts relating to the Militia of the United Kingdom. Jhid.
14. An Act to continue Her Majesty's Commission for building new Churches. 47
15. An Act to empower the Commissioners of the Admiralty to construct a Tunnel between Her Majesty's Dockyard at Devon^ port and Her Majesty's Steam Factory Yard at Keif ham, and to acquire certain Property for Her Mjijesty's Service. 49
16. An Act to amend the Act of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Victoria^ Chapter Sixty-one, and the Act of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Victoria^ Chapter Fifty-four. 57
17. An Act to make further Provision for defining the Boundaries of Counties, Baronies, Half Baronies, Parishes, Town Lands, and other Divisions and Denominations of Land in Ireland for Public Purposes. 58
18. An Act for the Encouragement of Seamen and the more effectual Manning of Her Majesty's Navy during the present War. 64
19. An Act for facilitating the Payment of Her Majesty's Navy, and the Payment and Distribution of Prize, Bounty, Salvage, and other Monies to and amongst the Officers and Crews of Her Majesty's Ships and Vessels of War ; and for the better Regu- lation of the Accounts relating thereto. 79
20. An Act to repeal an Act of the Fifty-third Year of King George the Third, Chapter Seventy-two, and an Act of the Eighth Year of Her present Majesty, Chapter Twenty-one; and for making Provision for the Appointment and for Re- muneration of a Stipendiary Justice for the Division of Man- chester in the County of Lancaster^ and of Clerks to such Justice and the Justices for the Borough of Salford ; and for other Purposes. 83
21. An Act to apply the Sum of Eight Millions out of the Con- solidated Fund to the Service of tlie Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. 98
22. An Act to enable the Collector General of Dublin to levy Money to repay a certain Outlay by the Corporation for pre- serving and improving the Port of Dublin in and about repair- ing the Quay Wall of the River Liffet/, and for future Repairs thereof, and for repairing and rebuilding Bridges over the said River. Ibid.
23. An Act for raising the Sum of Six Millions by Exchequer Bonds and Exchequer Bills. 103
24. An Act for granting to Her Majesty an increased Rate of Duty on Profits arising from Property, Professions, Trades, and Offices. 104
25. An Act to amend the Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1852. 106
26. An Act to assimilate the Law and Practice existing in Cases of High Treason in Ireland to the Law and Practice existing in Cases of High Treason in England. 109
iPablie General) n** & 18« VlCTORIiE.
37. An Act for granting certain addiiional Rates and Duties of Excise. JPa(/e 110
28. An Act to alter and amend certain Duties of Customs. 122
29. An Act to alter the Duties of Customs on Sugar, Molasses, and Spirits. 124
30. An Act for granting certain Duties of Excise on Sugar made in the United Kingdom. 127
31. An Act for the better Regulation of the Traffic on Railways and Canals. 130
32. An Act to facilitate the Apportionment of the Rent when Parts of Lands in Lease are taken for the Purposes of the Church Building Acts. 134
33. An Act to place Public Statues within the Metropolitan Police District under the Control of the Commissioners of Her M^estj's Works and Public Buildings. 135
34. An Act to enable the Courts of Law in England^ Ireland^ and Scotland to issue Process to compel the Attendance of Witne&ses out of their Jurisdiction, and to give Effect to the Senrioe of such Process in any Part of the United King- dom. 137
3o. An Act to repeal certain Provisions of an Act of the Fifth and Sixth Years of Her present Majesty, concerning the holding of Assizes for the County of Warwick. 139
36. An Act for preventing Frauds upon Creditors by secret Bills of Sale of Personal Chattels. 140
37. An Act for establishing the Validity of certain Proceedings in Her Majesty's Court of Vice- Admiralty in Mauritius. 144
38. An Act for the Suppression of Gaming Houses. Ibid.
39. An Act to indemnify such Persons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments, and to extend the Time limited for those Purposes respec- tively. 149
40. An Act to continue an Act of the last Session of Parliament, for extending for a limited Time the Provision for Abatement of Income Tax in respect of Insurance on Lives. 163
41. An Act to continue the Poor Law Board. lo4
42. An Act to continue certain Acts for regulating Turnpike Roads in Ireland. Ibid.
43. An Act to continue an Act of the Seventeenth Year of Her present Majesty, for charging the Maintenance of certain poor Persons in Unions in England and fVales upon the Common Fund. 155
44. An Act for regulating and maintaining the Harbours of Holy- head^ and for vesting them in the Admiralty. 156
45. An Act to amend the Dublin Carriage Act, 1853. 162
46. An Act to continue certain Acts relating to Linen, Hempen, and other Manufactures in Ireland. 173
47. An Act to alter and improve the Mode of taking Evidence in the Ecclesiastical Courts o£ England B.nd Wa'es. 174
48. An Act to authorize the Inclosure of certain Lands in pur- suance of a Special Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England And ^f'ales. Ibid.
49. An Act for the Settlement of Claims upon and over the New Forest. 175
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ti Tfee TITLES of the STATUTES,
50. An Aot to continue an Act of the Twelfth Tear of Her' pre-: sent Majesty, for amending the Laws relating to Savings Banks in Ireland; and to authorize Friendly Societies to invest the whole of their Funds in Savings Banks. Pag^ 181
51. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made under an Act of the Fifteenth Tear of Her present Majesty, to facilitate Arrangements for the Relief of Turnpike Trusts, and to make certain Provisions respecting Exemptions from Tolls. 182
52. An Act to continue an Act for authorizing the Application of Highway Rates to Turnpike Roads. 184
58. An Act to confirm Provisional Orders of the General Board of Health for the Districts o^PiymotUh, Haworth^ Aberdare, Bishop Auckland, Willenhally and Over Darwen, Ibid.
^4. An Act to guarantee the Liquidation of a Loan or Loans for the Service of the Colony of Jamaica. 205
55. An Act for the Registration of Bills of Sale in Ireland. 208
56. An Act to make further Provisions in relation to certain Friendly Societies. 2 1 1
^7. An Act to amend the Law relating to the Appointment of Returning Officers in certain Cases. 214
58. An Act to continue certain Turnpike Acts, in Great Britain, and to make further Provisions concerning Turnpike Roads in England. 215
59. An Act to allow Verdicts on Trials by Jury in Civil Causes in Scotland to be returned although the Jury may not be unanimous. 220
60. An Act to amend an Act of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Tears of Her present Majesty, for the more effectual Prevention of
' Crneltv to Animals. J^fid.
61. An Act to authorize the Application of a Sura of Money out of the forfeited and unclaimed Army Prize Fund in enlarging and improving the Royal Military Asylum. 222
62. An Act to extend the Benefits of Two Acts of Her Majesty relating to the Constitution, Transmission, and Extinction of Heritable Securities in Scotland. 223
63. An Act to continue the Poor Law Commission for Ireland. 224
64. An Act to amend an Act of the last Session, for extending the Public Libraries Act, 1850, to Ireland bh^ Scotland. 225
65. An Act for further continuing certain temporary Provisions concerning Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in England. 229
66. An Act to continue the Exemption of Inhabitants from Lia- bility to be rated as such in respect of Stock in Trade or other Property to the Relief of the Poor. Ibid.
67. An Act to facilitate the Purchase of Common, Commonable, and other Rights by the Principal Officers of Her Majesty's Ordnance. 230
68. An Act to provide for the Application of certain Stock purchased with Monies which arose from the Sale of Pariof the Land Revenues of the Crown in Ireland. 231
69. An Act to indemnify Local Boards of Health as regards rating for the Repair of Highways under the Public Health Act, 1848. 232
70. An Act to enable the Trustees of Portland Chapel, Oxford Chapel, and Welbeck Chapel, in the Parish of Saini Maryle-
{Public .General^ 17 « & 18* VICTOBI^. vii
btmej io augment the Sftlanes of the Ministers of ^ said Glu^lfl. Pas^e 232
71. An Act to amend the Law concerning the making of Borough BateflinBozoughanotwithintheMnnicipalCorporationActs. 235.
72. An Act to provide for Payment of the Salaries of the Sheriff and Sheriff Clerk of Chancerf in Seodand. 287
73. An Act to amend the Acts for the Beguhition of Joint Stock Banks in ScoUand. 238
74. An Act to render Befonnatory and Indnstnal Schools in Scot' land more available for the Benefit of Vagrant Children. 239
75. An Act to remove Doubts concerning the due Acknowledg- ment of Deeds by Married Women in certain Cases. 242
76. An Act for the Formation, Begulationy and Government of Convict Prisons in Lrdand. 243
77. An Act to provide for the Mode of passing Letters Patent and olher Acts of the Crown relating to India^ and for vesting certain Powers in the Governor General of Ind^ in CounciL 251
7S. An Act to appoint Persons to administer Oaths taid.to substitute Stamps in lieu of Fees, and for other Purposes, in the High Court of Admiralty of England. 253
79«? An Act for further regulating the Sale of Beer and other
. liquors on tha Lord's Day. J257
W. An Act to provide for the better Begistration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in Scotland. 258
81. . An Act to make forthei^ Provision fSor the good Gk)vemment and Extension of the University of Oxford, of Ihe Colleges therein, and of the College of Saint Mary^ Winekesier. 286
92. An Act fortberto improve the Adminiatratian of Justice in the Court of Chancery of the County Palatine oS Lancaster. 297
S3. An Act to amend the Laws relatmg to the£tamp Duties. 303
S4a An Act to extend the Provisions of the Acts for the Augmenta- tion of Benefices. 314
BS. An Act for better securing the collecting and accounting for the Land Tax, Assessed Taxes, and Lioome Tax, by the Col* lectors thereof. 317
86u An Act for the better Care and Beformation of Youthful Offenders in Great Britain. 320
87. An Act to make fut'ther Provision for the Burial of the Dead in Snffland beyond the Limits of the Metropolis. 323
88. An Act to render valid certain Marriages of BriHsh Subjects in Mexico. 326
89. An Act to amend the Laws for the better Prevention of the Sale of Spirits by unlicensed Persons, and for the Suppression of Illicit Distillation, in Ireland. 327
90. An Act to repeal the Laws relating to Usury and to the Enrolment of Annuities. 334
91. An Act for the Valuation of Lands and Heritages in Scot- land. 337
92. An Act to continue an Act of the Eleventh Tear of Her present Majesty, for the better Prevention of Crime and Outrage in certain Parts of Ireland. 356
93. An Act for the Exchange of the Office in Somerset Bouse of the Duchy of Comwall for an Office to be erected in Pimlico on the Hereditary Possessions of the Crown. Ibid.
A 4
Tiu ^ The TITLES of the STATUTES,
94. An Act to alter' the Mode of providing for certain Expenses now charged upon certain Branches of the Public Revenues -and upon the Consolidated Fund. Page 360
95. An Act to make better Provision for the Administration of the Laws relating to the Public Health. 369
96. An Act for allowing Gold Wares to be manufactured at a lower Standard than that now allowed by Law, and to amend the Law relating to the assaying of Gold and Stiver Wares. 371
97. An Act to amend and extend the Acts for the Inclosure, Exchange, and Improvemenrof Land. 373
98. An Act to regulate the Salaries of the Parochial School- masters of Scotland. 378
99. An Act to provide for the Establishment of a National Gallery of Paintings, Sculpture, and the Fine Arts, for the Care of a Public Library, and the Erection of a Public Museum, in Dublin. IbkL
100. An Act to make further Provision for the more speedy and efficient Despatch of Business in the High Court of Chan- cery. 386
101. An Act to continue and amend the Acts now in force relating to Friendly Societies. 388
102. An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Bribery, Treating, and undue Influence at Elections of Members of Parliament. Ibid.
103. An Act to make better Provision for the paving, lighting, draining, cleansing, supplying with Water, and Regulation of Towns in Ireland. 402
104. An Act to amend and consolidate the Acts relating to Merchant Shipping. 44o
105. An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Militia in England and Wales. 641
106. An Act for amending the Laws relating to the Militia, and raising a Volunteeu Force, in Scotland. 659
107. An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Militia, and for raising a Volunteer Militia Force, in Ireland. 681
108. An Act to suspend the making of Lists and the Ballots for the Militia of the United Kingdom. 694
109. An Act to defray the Chnrge of the Pay, Clothing, and con- tingent and other Expenses of the Disembodied Militia in GrecU Britain and Ireland; to grant Allowances in certain Cases to Subaltern Officers, Adjutants, Paymasters, Quartermasters, Sur- geons, Assistant Surgeons, Surgeons Mates, and Sergeant Majors of the Militia ; and to authorize the Employment of the Non- commissioned Officers. 695
110. An Act to provide for the Repayment of Monies advanced from the Exchequer to the County of Mayo for Public Pur- poses. 715
111. An Act to continue and amend the Metropolitan Sewers Acts. 719
1 12. An Act to afford greater Facilities for the Establishment of Institutions for the Promotion of Literature and Science and the Fine Arts, and to provide for their better Regulation. 724
113. An Act to amend the Law relating to the Administration of the Estates of deceased Persons. 732
(Local ^ rersonal) 17*^ & 18° VICTORIiE.
1 14. An Act to extend the Rights enjoyed by the Graduates of the- Universities of Oxford and Cambridge in respect to the Pmetice of Physic to the Graduates of the University of Zomhm. Page 733
115. An Act to amend the Law relative to the Removal of PHaoners in Custody. 734
116. An Act to continue and amend an Act to facilitate the Management and Improvement of Episcopal and Capitular Estates in England. 736
117. An Act to facilitate the Sale and Transfer of Incumbered Estates in the We9t Indies. 741
118. An Act to empower the Legislature of Canada to alter the Constitution of the Legislative Council for that Province, and for other Purposes. 757
1 19. Ab Act for regulating Appointments to Offices in the Court of Bankruptcy, and for amending the Laws relating to Bank- rupts. 759
120. An Act to repeal certain Acts and Parts of Acts relating to Merchant Shipping, and to continue certain Provisions in the said Acts. 765
121. An Act to apply a Sum out of the Consolidated Fund and certain other Sums to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, and to appropriate the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament. 773
122. An Act for the further Alteration and Amendment of the Laws and Duties of Customs. 783
123. An Act to render any Dealing with Securities issued during the present War between Russia and England by the Russian Government a Misdemeanor. 789
124. An Act to settle the Contribution to be made by certain Baronips in Roscotnmon and Galwat/ and the County of the Town of Galway to the Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland Company. 790
\25. An Act for the further Amendment of the Process, Practice, and Mode uf Pleading in and enlarging the Jurisdiction of the Superior Courts of Common Law at Westminster^ and of the Superior Courts of Common Law of the Counties Palatine of lutneaster and Durham. 794
LOCAL AND PERSONAL ACTS,
DECLARED PUBLIC, AND TO BE JUDICIALLY NOTICED.
LAN Act for better supplying with G and the Neighbourhood thereof
i Gas the Town of Middleton
in the County Palatine of
Lancaster. 814
ii. An Act to enable the London Life Association to increase the
Amount authorized by their Deed of Settlement to be assured
upon a single Life in the said Society. Ibid.
. . The TITLES of the STATUTES, .
iii. An Act. for granting further Powers to '' The Radcliffe and PUkington Gas Company.'* Page 814
iv. An Act to enable the Leeds New Gas Company to raise a further Sum of Money ; to consolidate and amend the Acts relating to the Company ; and for other Purposes. Ibid^
V. An Act for enabling the Brighton^ Hove^ a»d Preiton Constant Service Waterworks Company to purchase the Undertaking of the Brighton^ JTovey and Presttm Waterworks Company ; and for granting to the first-named Company all necessary Powers for supplying with Water the Parishes of Brighton^ H^ve^ and Preston in the County of Sussex. * Ibid.
vi. An Act for incorporating and extending the Powers of the Hastings and Saint Leonards Gas Company. Ibid.
vii. An Act for enabling the Norwich Equitable Fire Assurance Company to sue and be sued in that Name, and for other Purposes. 815
viii. An Act for the Improvement of the Borough of Warrington ; and for enabling the Council thereof to erect a covered Market ; and for other Purposes. Ibid
ix. An Act to warp and improve certain Lands in the Level of Hatfield Chase. Ibid
X. An Act for enabling the Nottingham Waterworks Company, to raise a further Sum of Money ; and for amending some of the Provisions of the Act relating to such Company. Ibid.
xi. An Act to consolidate the Stock and Powers of the Corpora- tion of '' The Royal Exchange Assurance of Houses and Goods from Fire " with the Stock and Powers of the Corporation of ^' The Royal Exchange Assurance," and to confer on the last- named Corporation the Powers of '^ The Royal Exchange Assur- ance Annuity Company " and '* The Royal Exchange Assurance Loan Company,*' and to give additional Powers to ^ The Royal Exchange Assurance." Ibid.
x\L An Act to confer additional Powers upon the Corporation of the Amicable Society for a perpetual Assurance Office, for. the Purposes of Investment. Ibid.
xiii. An Act to enable the Dock Company at Kingston-upon'HuU to raise a further Sum of Money, and to convert the Mortgage and Bond Debt of the Company into Debenture Stock and Per- petual Annuities ; and for other Purposes. Ibid.
xiv. An Act for establishing a Police Superannuation Fund in the Boruogh of Liverpool. 816
XV. An Act to make further Provision for the Sewerage, Sanitary Regulation, and Improvement of the Borough of Liverpool. Ibid
xvi. An Act for better supplying with Water the Town of South- port in the County Palatine of Lancaster^ and the Neighbour- hood thereof. Ibid.
xvii. An Act for supplying with Gas Ramsbottom and other Places in the Parish oiBury in the County Palatine of Lancaster. Ibid.
xviii. An Act to enable the Rossendale Waterworks Company to raise a further Sum of Money. Ibid.
xix. An Act for enabling the Scarborough Public Market C(mi- pany to raise a further' Sum of Money, and for amending and consolidating the Provisions of the Act relating to such Com- pany. Ibid.
{Local tf Personal) 47 « & 18'» -VICTORIJE.
An Act for lighting with Gas the Borough of Bolton and Places near thereto, and for other Purposes, and of which the Short Title is ''The BoUon Gas Company's Act, 1854." jPo^eSie
xxi. An Act for continuing the Term and amending and extend- ing the Provisions of the Act relating to the Kmgswood District of Turnpike Roads in the County of Gloucester. Ibid.
xxii. An Act for repealing *' The Stafford Gas Act, 1846;" and for re-constituting the Stafford Gas Company, with additional Powers ; and for other Purposes. 817
xxiii. An Act to enable *' The Burry Port Company " to raise additional Capital, and to make Arrangements for the Satisfac* tion of the Mortgage and other Debts due from the Company ; Mid to amend the Acts relating to the Company ; and for other - Purposes. Ibid.
xxiv. An Act to enable the Whitehaven Junction Railway Com- pany to raise a further Sum of Money, and to amend the Acts relating to the said Railway. ^ Ibid.
An Act for improving and maintaining the Harbour or Port of Port Gordon in the (>>unty of Banff, Ibid,
An Act for lighting with Gas Bacup, Waterfooty Newckurchy BawtensUdlj Crawshaio Boothy and other Places in the Forest of Botsendale in, Lancashire. Ibid.
zzviL An Act for suppljring with Water the Town and Municipal Borough of Clitheroe, in the County of Lancaster. Ibid^
zxviii. An Act for enabling the Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens ' of the City of Manchester to widen certain Streets in and other- wise improve the said City ; to raise a further Sum of Money ; and for other Purposes. 818
sdx. An Act to amend ah Agt intituled An Act for incorporating the Madras RaUway Companyy and for other Purposes connect^ therewith. Ibid.
xxx. An Act for better supplying the Inhabitants of the Parish of Marrow in the County of Middksex with Water. Bnd.
zxxi. An Act for the Improvement of the City of Herefordy and for other Purposes, and of which the Short Title is ''The Hereford Improvement Act, 1854." Rid,
xxxii. An Act for building a Bridge over the River Tamcy to
• connect the Borough of Ashton-umier'Lyne with the Township 9f Dukmfield. Ibid.
Jtxxiii. An Act for more effectually lighting with Gas the Town
• of Cardiff and certain Parishes adjacent thereto in the County of Glamorgan. Ibid.
xxxiv. An Act ibr making and maintaining Docks in the Borough and County of Newcasde^upon-Tyne. 819
zzxv. An Act to enable the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis in the County of Dorset to provide Market Houses for the Sale of certain marketable Commodities, and to erect and maintain an im- proved Pier or Landing Place within the Borough, and for other Purposes. Ibid.
sxzvi. An Act to i-epeal the Act relating to the RidghOl and
; Lanes and Holehouse Turnpike Road, and to make other Pro*
• visions in lieu thereof. Ibid.
xii The TITLES of the STATUTES^
xxxvii. An Act to enable the Company of Proprietors of the Birmingham Waterworks to raise further Monej. Page 819
xxxviii. An Act for the Extension of the Manchester Corporation Waterworks, and for other Purposes, and of which the Short Title is " The Manchester Corporation Waterworks Act» 1854." Ibid.
xxxix. An Act to enable the New River Company to construct certain Sewers, Drains, and other Works in and near the Town of Hertford; and for other Purposes. Ibid.
xl. An Act for the Improvement of the Town of WellingUm in the County of Salop. 830
xli. An Act for paving, lighting, watching, draining, cleansing, regulating, and otherwise itaproving the Town of West Hart* lepool and Part of the Township of Stranton in the County of Durham; for providing a Cemetery; and for other Pur- poses. ' Ibid.
xlii. An Act to enable the Brighton and Hove General Gas Company to raise a further Sum of Money; and for other Purposes. Ibid.
xliii. An Act for granting certain Powers to "The National Assurance and Investment Association." Ibid.
xliv. An Act to amend the Act incorporating the Chreat Indian Peninsula Railway Company, and for other Purposes connected therewith. Ibid
xlv. An Act for making new Docks and other Works at Belfast^ and for other Purposes, and of which the Short Title is '' The Belfast Dock Act, 1854." Ibid.
xlvi. An Act for more effectually protecting certain Lands, form- ing Part of the Rossall Estate in the Township of Tliornton in the Parish of Poulton le Fylde in the County of Lancaster from Inundation by the Sea. Ibid.
xlvii. An Act to renew the Term and continue certain of the Powers of an Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His Majo^ty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for making and maintaining a Turnpike Road from South Shields to White Mere Pool, and from thence to join the Durham and Newcastle Turnpike Road at Vigo Lane, with a Branch from J hv^ row Slake to East Boldon, a// in the County <2^ Durham. Ibid.
xlviii. An Act to renew the Term and continue the Powers of an Act passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for more effectually repairing and improving the Roads from Kippings Cross to Wilsley Green, and from a Place near Goudhurst Gore to Stilebridge, and from Underden Green to Wanshutts Green, all in the County of Kent. 831
xlix. An Act for more effectually paving, lighting, and improving the Town of Abergavenny in the County of Monmouth^ for mnintatning the Markets within such Town, and for supplying the same with Water. . Ibid.
1. An Act to create a further Term in the Buckingham and Towcester Road, and to amend and extend the Act relating thereto ; and for other Purposes. Ibid.
li. An Act for better supplying with Water the Parish and Envi- rons of Louth in the County of Lincoln. Ibid.
{Locai ^ Ph-sanal) 17^ & IS** VICTORIA. iiU
lii. An Act for making a Street from Boihwell Sireei to Saint Vmeent Street in the City of Glasgow. Page 831
liii. An Act for enabling the South Staffordshire Railway Com- pany to make Branch Railways to Cannock and Norton^ to acquire additional Lands in the Parish of Wednedmryy and fov other Purposes. 832
liT. An Act to incorporate the Guild of Literature and Art^ and to enable it to hold Land. Ibid.
Iv. An Act to consolidate and amend tlie Acts relating to the Imperial Gaslight and Coke Company, and to increase the Capital of the Company. Ibid.
Ivi. An Act for improving the Harbour, reconstructing the Pier, and defining the Limits of the Port and Harbour of Saint Mawes in the County of Cornwall. Ibid.
Ivii. An Act for authorizing the Newcasde-upon- Tyne and Carlisle Railway Company to raise further Monies for the Purposes of their Undertaking ; and for other Purposes. Ibid.
Iviii. An Act for enabling the Lanccuhire and Yorkshire Rail- way Company to construct a Railway from Kirkdale to the Liverpool Docks, with connecting Lines there ; and for other Purposes. Ibid.
iix. An Act to enable the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Com- pany to construct a Branch Railway to near Middleton in the County of Lancaster; and for other Purposes. 833
Ix. An Act for enabling the Whittle Dean Water Company to ex- tend their Works, and to obtain a further Supply of Water from certain Rivers and Streams in the County of Northumberland^ in order to afford a better Supply of Water to the Inhabitants at Newcastle-upon-Tyne^ Gateshead, and other Places in the Counties of Northumberland BXi^ Durham; and for consolidating and amending the Acts relating to such Company. Ibid.
Ixi. An Act to enable the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company to enlarge their Stations at Neio Cross, the Bricklayers Arms, and Nortcood; to widen the Branch Railway called " The Thames Junction Railway," and their Main Line of Railway in the Neighbourhood of such Branch ; to increase their Capital, and to establish a Provident Institution for their Servants and Workmen ; and for other Purposes. Ibid.
Ixii. An Act to authorize the Parliamentary Trustees on the River Clyde and Harbour of Glasgow to raise a further Sum of Money, and to fund the Debt of the Trust; and for other Pur- poses. - Ibid.
Ixiii. An Act for repealing an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourtli, for esta- blishing a Market for the Sale of Cattle in the Parish of Saint Mary Islington in the County of Middlesex. Ibid.
Ixiv. An Act for making a Railway from the Whitehaven and Fumess Junction Railway near Whitehaven to Egremont in the County of Cumberland, with a Branch therefrom to Frizington in the same County, to be called the Whitehaven^ Cleator, and Egremont Railway ; and for other Purposes. 834
Ixv. An Act for amending " The East London Waterworks Act, 1853." Ibid.
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IzvL An Act for better supplying with Water the Towa of Padiham and the Nttghboorhood thereof, and the Villtges of Habergham or Cheapside and Lower ffmtseg or ThonMU Holmey all in the Parish of Whalley in the Conotj of Lan* caster. Page 835
Ixvii. An Act for the Improvement of the Town of Burtiley and Parts of the Neighbourhood thereof, and ft>r other Purposes, and of which the Short Title is '* The Burnley Improvement Act, 1854." Ibid.
Izviii. An Act for making a Railway from the London^ Brighton^ and South Coast Railway to Caterham in the County of Surrey,
886
Ixix. An Act for granting further Powers to the Eastern Union Railway Company with respect to the Extension to Wood- bridge, Ibid*,
Ixx. An Act to enable the Stockton^ Middlesbrough, and Yarm Water Company to supply with Water the Township of Norton in the County of Durham^ and the Townships of Coatham and Redcar in the North Riding of the County of Yorki and other Places on the Line of the Mains and Pipes of the Company ;
* and to enable the Company to raise a further Sum of Money ; and to amend the Act relating to the Company ; and for other Purposes. Ibid,
Ixxi. An Act to repeal certain Acts relating to the Petworth Turnpike Roads, and to make other Provisions in lieu thereof!
Ibid.
Ixxii. An Act enable the New River Company to construct new Reservoirs and other Works in the County of Middlesex, Ibid,
Ixxiii. An Act for enabling the York, Newcasde, and Berwick Railway Company to purchase all or any Estates, Rights, and Interests existing in the Lands or Grounds upon or adjoining to which the Railway of the said Company, called '* The PonUip and South Shields Railway," has been formed*, or otherwise to occupy such Lands or Grounds. 845
Ixxiv. An Act for maintaining the Turnpike Road from Green- heady through Haltwhistle^ Hexhaniy and Corbridge^ to the Mili- tary Road near Shildon Bar^ and the Branch Road from Cor- bridge to Heddon-on-the- fVally all in the County of Northumber- land, Ibid.
Ixxv. An Act to create a further Term in the Trowbridge Roads, to add other Roads to the Trust, to amend and extend the Act relating to the said Roads, and for other Purposes. Ibid,
Ixxvi. An Act to enable the Fumess Railway Company to raise a further Sum of Money ; and for the Amendment of the Acts relating to the said Company. Ibid.
Ixxvil. An Act to make Provision with resi>ect to Water Supply and Police for Shipley, BaHdon^ and WindliiU in the West Riding of the County of York, Ibid,
Ixxviii. An Act to incorporate '^ The Kingston-upon- Thames Gas Company," and to enable them to light with Gas the Parishes of Kifigston, Long Ditton, and Thames Ditton in the County of Surrey. Ibid^
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Ixxiz. An Act for enabHng the Bfyih and Tyne Bailwaj Compfuiy to constract Railways to T^ynemauUi, and the Longhirst Station of the Vorkf Neweastk^ and Berwick Railway in the County of Narthuinberland; and for consolidating and amending the Acts relating to such Company. Poge 846
Ixxx. Ati Act to enable the North London Railway Company to construct a Station or Depot near to the new Metropolitan Cattlo Market; to raise additional Capital; and for other Fur^ poses. Ibid.
Ixxxi. An Act to repeal an Act for inclosing the Marsh in the Township of Newport in the County of Salcpy and to vest the same and other Property in Trustees for paving, draining, cleansing, and otherwise improving the Town of Newport; and for other Purposes. lidd,
Ixxxii An Act to amend ** The Nene Valley Drainage and Na- vigation Impovement Act, 1852," and to provide additional Funds for carrying out certain of the Improvements authorized by such Act. Ibid.
Ixxxiii. An Act for regulating and improving the Town of Ryde in the Ide of Wightj and providing a Supply of Gas and Water thereto, and for other Purposes. 847
Ixxxiv. An Act to repeal an Act passed in the Ninth Tear of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for more effectually constituting and regulating the Court of Mecord within the Borough of Manchester and for extending the Jurisdiction of the said Courts and to extend the Powers and Jurisdiction of the said Court, and to simplify and other- wise improve its Practice and Proceedings ; and for other Purposes. Ihid,
Ixxxv. An Act for enabling the Cornwall Railway Company to make certain Modifications in their Share Capital; and for other Purposes. 874
Ixxxvi. An Act for making a Turnpike Road from Chester by Famdon to Worthenhury^ with a Branch therefrom to the Village of /amdbn. Ibid.
Izxxvii. An Act to consolidate and extend the Powers of the AceringtoH Gas and Water Works Company, and to enable them Uie better to supply with Gas and Water the Town- ships and Places of Old Accringtony New Accrington^ Church, Lower Booths^ and ffuneoat, in the Parish of WhaUey, and the £xtra-parochial Place of HenheadSy all in the County of Lancaster^ and to sell or lease their Undertaking to the Local Board of Health for the District of Accrington; and for other Purposes. Ibid.
Ixxxviii. An Act to establish a General Cemetery for the Borough of DonciuteTy and for other Purposes. Ibid.
Izxxix. An Act to extend the Powers of the Commissioners of Sewers for the Levels of Haveringy Detgenhamy and other Places, and to enable them to construct Sewers in the Parishes of West Hamj East HatOy and North Woolwich. 875
xc An Act for the better supplying with Water the Parlia- mentary Burgb or Town of HamUton and Suburbs thereof. Ibid.
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xci. An Act to incorporate the Birmingham and BEdland Institute, to define its Constitution, and to enable the Council of the Borough of Birmingham 'to grant a Site for the Institute Buildings. Page 875
xcii. An Act for improving the Harbour of Blgth in the County of Northumberland^ and for constructing Docks there ; and for other Purposes. Ibid,
xciii. An Act to enable the Crystal Palace Company to divert certain Roads, and to take and let Land on Lease ; and for other Purposes. Ibid.
xciv. An Act to incorporate " The Surrey Consumers Gaslight and Coke Association," and to enable them to raise further Sums of Money ; and for other Purposes. Ibid,
xcv. An Act to repeal the Acts relating to the Turnpike Eoad from Gloucester through Painswich to Stroudy and make other Provisions in lieu thereof. 876
xcvi. An Act to enable the Cork and Bandon Railway Company to make a Bi-anch Railway to Skibbereen, and to raise further Capital for the Cork and Bandon Railway; and for other Purposes. - Ibid.
xcvii. An Act to amend an Act passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for more effectually repairing the Wadsley and Langset Turnpike Road, and extending the same in Two Lints to join the Huddersfield and Woodhead Turnpike Road in the Town- ships of Upperthong and Honley in the West Riding of tlie County of Yorky and to continue the Term thei-eby granted, so far as the said Act and the Term thereby granted relate to the Neto Mill District of Road therein mentioned. Ibid.
xvciii. An Act to alter the Site of the new Bridge authorized to be erected over the River Foyle at Londonderry, and to make Approaches thereto. Ibid.
xcix. An Act for providing Waterworks, Gasworks, and public Baths and Wash-houses for the Town and Borough of Beccles in the County of Suffolk. Ibid.
c. An Act to incorporate the Hull General Cemetery Company, and to enlarge and improve their Cemetery; and for other Purposes. Ibid.
ci. An Act for the further Improvement of Kingston-upon-IIul/y and for other Purposes. 877
cii. An Act for paving, lighting, watching, draining, supplying with Water, watering, cleansing, regulating, and otherwise im- proving the Town of Llandudno in the County of Carnarvon^ for making a Cemetery, and for establishing and regulating a Market and Market Places therein ; and for other Purposes. Ibid.
ciii. An Act for more effectually repairing several Roads adjoining or near to the Town of Bideford, and for making several Lines of Road connected with the same, all in the County of Devon. Ibid.
civ. An Act for regulating the Police of the Royal Bui*gh of Lanark, and for paving, draining, cleansing, lighting, watch- ing, and improving the same, for regulating the Markets thereof; and for other Purposes* Ibid.
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CF. An Act for more effectuftlly repairing the Eoads in the Counties of Worcester and Stafford known as the Dudley, Hales- owen^ and Bromsgrore District of Roads. Page 877
cTi. An Act to embank and reclaim from the Sea certain Waste Lands subject to be overflowed by the Tide, called Tacumshin Lake in the County of Wexford. 878
evil. An Act to authorize the making certain Roads and stop- ping up certain Lanes and Footways between Kensington Gore and Brompton in the County of Middlesex^ and for otherwise facilitating the Formation of a Site for Institutions connected with Science and the Arts. Ibid.
cviiL An Act for enabling theGreeU Western Roilway Company to provide additional Station Accommodation at Birmingham^ Wol^ verhamptoUf and Bushhury; and for other Purposes. Ibid»
cix. An Act to repeal an Act for enlarging the Term and Powers of an Act of His late Majesty George the Third, for repairing the Road from Saint Martin Stainford Baron to Kettering, and from Oundle to Middleton Lane, in the County of Northampton, and to make other Provisions in lieu thereof. Ibid.
ex. An Act for supplying with Water the Parishes of Bangor, Uandegal, and LlanUechidy and with Gas the Parish of Bangor, Ibid,
cxL An Act for the Lnprovement of the Town of Bethesda and Neighbourhood in the County of Carnarvon. 879
cxii. An Act for enabling the Company of Proprietors of the Birmingham Canal Navigations to make new Canals and other Works ; and for other Purposes. Ibid.
cxm. An Act for establishing Parks in or near to the Borough of Birmingham, Ibid.
cxiT. An Act for constructing a Market House and other Build- ings for Public Accommodation at ChesterfiM in the County of Derby, and for the better Regulation and Maintenance of the 3Iarket there. Ibid.
cxv. An Act for making a Railway from the Stockton and Dar* lingion Railway near Darlington to or near to Barnard Castle, both in the County of Dierhatn, and for making Arrangements with the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company ; and for other Purposes. Ibid.
cxYi. An Act for making a Railway from the Dotclais Railway to the •Vale of Neath Railway at J/(pr^%r Tydfil, and for other Purposes, and of which the Short Title is " The Dowlais Rail- way Act, 1854." Ibid.
exFii. An Act for Testing in the East Lancashire Railway Com- pany jointly with the Lancashire ami Yorkshire Railway Com- pany certain Parts of the Manchester and Southport Railway and of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway ; and for other Parposes. Ibid.
cxTiii. An Act to amend " The Edinburgh Police Act, 1848," and to make further Provision for Sewerage, Drainage, and Im- provement of the City of Edinburgh, for deepening and cleansing the Water of i>i</i, and for other Purposes. Ibid
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cxix. An Act for making a Railway in Deviation and Extengion of the HcUesworthf Beccles^ and Haddueoe Railway from West- haU Low Common to Wbodbridge, and oert<ain Branches there- from, and for changing the Name of the Company to the East Suffolk Railway Company Page 880
cxx. An Act to amend the Provisions of certain Acts relating to the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Company^ and for other Purposes. Ibid.
cxxi. An Act to enable the South Sea Company to i^alize and divide their Capital Stock and Assets. Ibid.
cxxii. An Act for enabling the South Devon Railway Company to improve their Sutton Harbour Branch, and for other Pur- poses, and of which the Short Title is ** The South Devon H air- way (Sutton Harbour Branch) Act, 1854." Ibid
cxxiii. An Act to continue the Term and to amend and extend the Provisions of the Act relating to the Winchester and Peter9^ Jidd Turnpike Road ; and for other Purposes^ Ibid.
cxxiv. An Act to make further Provision for supplying with Water the Borough of Bradford and certain Places in the Neighbourhood thereof. Ibid.
cxxv. An Act for the Regulation of the Municipal Corporation of the Borough of YeovU in the County of Somerset^ and for the Extension of the Boundaries of the said Borough, and for the Improvement of the said Borong]u 881
exxvi. An Act for the Conservancy and Improvement of Swansea Harbour, and for other Purposes, and of which the Short Title is << The Swansea Harbour Act, 1854." Ibid.
cxxvii. An Act for making a Railway from the Great Northern Railway at or near Welwyn in the County of Hertford to Her^ ford in the same County, to be called the " Hertford and Welwyn Junction Railway ;" and for other Purposes. Ibid.
cxxviii. An Act for authorizing the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company to make new Works, and for other Purposes, and of which the Short Title is <' The Stockton and Darlington Railway Act, 1854.'' Ibid.
.cxxix. An Act fbr better supplying witli Water the Borough of Bradford in the County of York. Ibid*
cxxx. An Act to authorize certain Improvements in or in con- nexion with the Lowestoft Harbour, and for other Pur- poses. Ibid.
cxxxi. An Act for constructing a Bridge for Foot Passengers across the River Clyde opposite to the North End o^ Mac Neil Street in the City of Glasgow. 882
cxxxii. An Act for making a Railway from the Great Sottthem
•■ and fVestem Railway near Mallow to Fermog^ to be called <^ The MaUow and Fermoy Railway ;" and for other Pur- poses.
cxxxiii. An Act to alter the Line of the London^ TiUnarg^ and Southend Extension Railway, to authorize the Lease thereof, and the Purchase of the Railway and certain Parts of the Works belonging to the Thames Haven Dock and Railway Company ; and for other Purposes. Bnd.
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cxzxiv. An Act for Bemoval of Toll Bars beyond the Farli^ mentarj Boandariee of the City of Edinburgh^ and for other Purposes. Page 882
cxxxr. An Act to enable the Londonderry and Enniskillen Rail- waj Company to make a Branch Railway to Ftntona^ and to ex- tend their Line at Londonderry; and for other Purposes. PM,
exxxvi. An Act for making a Railway from the Irish South- etuiem Railway at BagenaUiown to Wexford^ to be called '' The Bagenalstown and Wexford Railway." Snd.
cxxxvii. An Act for continuing the Term and amending and extending the Provisions of the Act relating to the Brighton^ Cuchfield, and Lovell Heathy and Cuehfield and West Grinsted Turnpike Roads. Ibid,
cxxxviii. An Act to authorize the Extension by the Ambergatef Nottingham^ and Boston and Eastern Junction Railway Com- pany of their Line of Railway into the ,Town of Nottingham^ the Formation of a Station there ; and for other Purposes. 883
cxxxix. An Act to give further Powers to the Law Life As- surance Society with respect to the Investment of the Funds of the Society. Ihid,
cxL An Act to anthorize the Trustees of the Rockdale and Bum* ley Turnpike Roads to take Toll in respect of the Carriages of certain Stones. Und.
cxli. An Act for enabling the North and South Western Junction Railway Company to ndse additional Capital ; and for other Purposes. ♦ Ibid,
cxlii. An Act to amend the Tralee and KiUamey Railway Act, 1953. Ibid.
cxliiL An Act for making a Railway from HomeasUe in Im" cdudkire to the Kirkstewi ^Ution of the Great Northern Rail- way. Ibid
cxliv. An Act for making a Railway from the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway at Leominster to Kington in Hereford- shire. Ibid,
cxlv. An Act for more effectually repairing the Road from the
' Toll House Bech in the Township of Ireby in the County of Zait- easter to Kifhby Lonsdale and Kirhby Kendal in the County of Wtstmordandj and through Kirkby Lonsdale to Milnthorpe in the said County. 884
cxlvi. An Act for making a Railway from the Ayr and Dalmel- Ungfton Railway near the Cothouseson the Farm of Pleasantfield to the Town of Afaybole, to be called " The Ayr and Maybole Junction Railway."^ Ibid,
cxlvii. An Act for supplying the Township of Stourbridge and the Neighbourhood therebf with Water. Ibid,
cxlviiL An Act for making a Railway from the Scottish Midland Junction Railway near Stanley to jBimam near Dunkeld in the County of Perth, Ibid.
czUz. An Act to authorize the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway Company to provide Station Accommodation in Shrewsbury and Herefordj aftd to enter into Arrangements and Agreements with
• the Juerefordy Ross^ and Gloucester Railway Company. Ibid.
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cl. An Act for making a Railway frbm the Town of Uandavery in the County of Carmarthen to join the Lldneliy Railway at LlandUofawr in the same County, and for other Purposes.
Page 884
cli. An Act to incorporate a Company for making a Railway from near the Pieton Station on the Leeds Northern Railway to near the Grostnoni Station on the fVhitby and Pkhering Branch of the York and North Midland Railway, and for other Pur- poses. 880
clii. An Act to repeal the Act relating to the Thirsk and Varm Turnpike Road, and to make other Provisions in lieu thereof, and to grant a further Term in the said Road ; and for other Purposes. ' Ibid.
cliii. An Act to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Campany to enlargeand improve their Goods Station j^in the Parish of Saint Matthew Bethnal Green in the County of Middlesex, Ibid.
cliv. An Act to enable the granting Building Leases of Parts of the Camden Taion Cemetery belonging to the Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields not heretofore used for the Purpose of Interment, and for other Purposes. Ibid.
civ. An Act to enable the Caledonian Railway Company to make certain Branch Railways and other Works in the County of iMnarh ; and for other Purposes. Ibid,
clvi. An Act for altering the Lines authorized by the Caledonian Railway {Lesmahagaw Branches) Act, 1851, and for otherwise amending that Act. • Ibid.
clvii. An Act to confer further Powers on the Dukinfield Gas Company. 886
clviii. An Act for enabling the South ffales Railway Company to acquire additional Land at Swansea, and for enlarging the Powers of Lease or Sale to and Contribution by the Great Western Railway Company, and for authorizing Arrangements between the South Wales Railway Company and the Vale of Neath Railway Company, and for other Purposes. Ibid,
clix. An Act for the Improvement of the Borough of Bolion, and for other Purposes, and of which the Short Title is " Bolton Improvement Act, 1854." Ibid.
clx. An Act for making a Railway from the Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax Junction Railway near Leeds to Wakejfield, all in the West Riding of the County of York, to be called " The Brad- ford, Wahcfield, and Leeds Railway;" and for other Pur- poses. Ibid.
clxi. An Act for the Improvement and Regulation of the Town of Lowestoft, and the Parishes of Lowestoft and Kirkley other- wise Kirtiey, in the County of Suffolk, and for other Pur- poses. Ibid.
clxii. An Act to enable the Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax Junc^ tion Railway Company to construct a Railway in extension of and to alter the Levels of Part of their Railway from Gilder^ some Street to East Ardsley in the West Riding of the County of York ; and for other Purposes. Ibid.
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clxiii. An Act for the better paving, draining, lighting, cleansing, and otherwise improving the Parish of ff'esi Bromwich in the Conntj of Stafford^ apd for constructing Cemeteries there, and for makings maintaining, and regulating Markets and Market Places therein ; and for other Purposes. Page 887
(!lxiv. An Act to confer additional Powers on the Yorky Newcastle^ and Berwick Railway Company for constructing Docks at Jarrow Slake^ and a Branch Railway thereto ; and to enable the Dean and Chapter of Durham to appropriate a Portion of the Money payable to them for the Purchase of Lands for the same to the Endowment of a Church ; and for other Purposes. Ibid.
clxY. An Act to repeal the Act for more effectually repairing and maintaining the Turnpike Road from CkapeUen-le- Frith to or near to Enierclcugh Bridge in the County of Derby^ and other Roads therein mentioned, in the County of Derby and in the County Palatine of Chester; and to make other Provisions in lieu thereof. Ibid.
clxvi. An Act to re-incorporate the Patent Solid Sewage Manure Company, and to extend its Powers. Ibid.
dxvii. An Act for supplying with Gas the Townships of Fam- worth and Kearsley in the County Palatine of Lancaster. Ibid.
dxviii. An Act to enable the Bangor and Caernarvon Railway Company to raise additional Capital, and to authorize the Sale or Lease of the said Company's Railway to the Chester and Holyhead Railway Company. 888
clxix. An Act for the Provision, Regulation, and Maintenance of County Industrial Schools in Middlesex. Ibid.
clxx. An Act for the Embankment, Reclamation, and Drainage of Lands in the Bay ofBannow in the County of Wexford 889 clxxi. An Act to amend the Acts relating to the Ambergate^ Not" tingham^ and Boston and Eastern Junction Railway Company, and to authorize the Reduction and Regulation of and certain Arrangements as to the Capital of the said Company ; and for other Purposes. Ibid.
clxxii. An Act for more effectually draining certain Fen Lands and Wet Grounds called " The Great West Feny"* in the Parish of IlUgay in the County of Norfolk. Ibid.
clxxiii. An Act for more effectually repairing the Road from Stourbridge in the County of Worcester to Bridgnorth in the County of Salop. Ibid,
clxxiv. An Act to enable the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway Company to lease their Undertaking. Ibid.
clxxY. An Act to enable the Dublin and Wichloto and the Dublin and Kingstown Railway Companies to alter certain existing Contracts therein mentioned ; and for other Purposes. Ibid.
clxxvi. An Act for making a Railway from the Town of Inverness to the Town of Nairn. 890
clxxvii An Act to consolidate the several Acts relating to the Port and Harbour of Londonderry; for the Improvement of the Navigation of the Lough and River of Lough Foyle; and to authorize the Construction of a uniform Line of Quays, Docks, and other Works. i*w/.
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clxxviii. An Act for the more effectual Drainage and Improve- ^ ment of certain Lands in the Wapentake of Ouse and Derwent in the East Riding of the Countj of Vorky and for other Pur- poses. Page 890
clxxix. An Act to reduce the Capital and define the Undertaking of the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company. Ibid.
olxzx. An Act for making a Railway from the Town of ft^ells to
join the Norfolk Railway at Fakenham^ to bo called *' The
Wells andFakenham Rwlway." Ibid.
clxxxi. An Act to enable the Local Board of Health for the Township of Darlington to supply Gas and Water within their District, and to purchase the Works of the Darlington Gas and Water Company ; to establish and regulate Markets and Slaughter-houses, and a Public Park ; to construct Sewage Works, and raise Money ; and for other Purposes. Ibid.
clxxxii. An Act for vesting the Ardrossan Railway in the Glae- gotD and South-^westem Railway Company, and for other Pur- poses. 891
clxxxiii. An Act for transferring to the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of Blackburn all the Powers sad Property now vested in ** The Blackburn Improvement Com« missioners," and certain Powers and Property by the Private Act of the Fourth and Fifth Yeare of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter Forty-six, vested in the Overseers of the Poor of the Township pf Blackburn^ authorizing the Corporation to purchase the Property of the Blackburn Waterworks Company, 4ind conferring on them further Powers for the Improvement and Regulation of the Borough ; and for other Purposes. Ibid^ clxxxi V. An Act for vesting in the Caledonian Railway Company certain Portions of the Undertaking of the General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway Company. Itid.
clxxxv. An Act to enable the Newport Dock Company to con- struct a new Dock and other Works ; and for other Pur- poses. Ibid. clxxxvi. An Act to enable the Portsmouth Railway Compatiy to make certain Alterations in the Line and Levels of their Rail- way, and to extend their said -Line from Godalming to Shalford; and for other Purposes. Ibid.
clxxxvii. An Act to authorize the Great North of Scotland Rail- way Company to divert their Railway, to make a short Branch to the Victoria Docks at Aberdeen^ to enter into Arrangements' with the Aberdeen Harbour Commissioners and the Aberdeen Railway Company with respect to a Tramway to connect the Two Railways ; and for other Purposes. Ibid.
clxxxviii. An Act for the more effectual Drainage and Improve- ment of certain Lands in the Parish of Methwold in the County of Norfolk^ and for other Purposes. 892
clxxxix. An Act for making a Railway from the South Devon Railway near Plymouth to Tavistock^ with a Branch, to be called **The South Devon and Tavistock Railway," and for other Purposes. Ibid.
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cxc An Act for incorporating and regulating a Company to be caUed ^The Rojal Conical Flour MiU Company," and to enable the said Company to purchase, work, and use certain Letters Patent; and for other Purposes. Poge 892
czd. An Act to enable the JVewport and PiUgwenUy Waterworks Company to increase and extend their Supply of Water, and to construct new Works ; and for other Purposes. Ihid>
excii. An Act for authorizing Arrancfements with respect to the Souih Reterve at Birkenhead^ and for other Purposes, and of which the Short Title is '' The Birkenhead Dock Trustees Act, 1854." Ibid.
cxciii. An Act for making a Railway from Rhymney to a Point of Junction with the Newport^ Abergavenny^ and Hereford Bailway near Bediiewyn^ with a Branch up the Bargoed Rumney VaUt^y to be called *'The Rhymney Railway," and for other Purposes. Ibid,
cxciv. An Act to enable the North Staffordshire Railway Com- piiny to make a Railway from Sloke-npon- Trent to Cotigleton, with Branches therefrom. 893
cxev. An Act to repeal, alter, amend, and extend some of the Powers and Provisions of '* The Teee Conservancy and Stockton Bock Act, 18o2," and for other Purposes relating to the Con- servancy of the Tees, Ibid.
cxcvi. An Act for making a Turnpike Road from Garth -Penbryn to Adwyddu in the County of Merioneth^ with a Bridge over the Estuary of TraetJiback in the said County. Ibid.
cxcvii. An Act to incorporate a Company for the Purpose of lighting with Gas the Parishes of Tormoham and Saint Mary Church in the County of Devon, Ibid,
cxcviii. An Act for transferring to a Company the Powers vested in the Commissioners under " The North Shields Quay Act, 1851." Ibid.
cxcix. An Act for making a Railway from the Town and Royal Burgh of Selkirk to the Haioick Branch of the North British Railway, about a Mile Southwards from the Galashiels Station of the said Branch ; and for other Purposes. Ibid.
cc. An Act for making a Railway from the London and North" western Railway near Stockport to Disley and fVhaley Bridge, all in the County of Chester ; and for other Purposes. Ibid,
ecu An Act for authorizing the Transfer to the London and North-western Railway Company of the Haydon Square Branch of the London and Blackwall Railway, and for other Purposes; and of which the Short Title is "The London and North- . fpestem Railway Act, 1854." 894
ccii. An Act for enabling The Great Western Railway Company to make a Branch Railway to connect The Berks and Hants Railway with the Main Line of The Great IVestem Railway near Reading ; for extending the Time for Completion of Parts of ITie fViltSy Somerset, and Weymouth Railway, and for re- viving the Powers for Purchase of Land for, and for completing other Portions of that Railway ; and for other Purposes. Ibid,
cciii. An Act for limiting the Liability of the Shareholders in the Electric Telegraph Company, and for granting additional Powers to such Company. Ibid.
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cciv. An Act for determining the existing; Lease of the West London Railway to the London and North-western Railway Company, and for enabling the last-mentioned Company and the fVest London Railway Company to enter into fresh Arrange- ments for the Sale or Lease of the Undertaking of the West TA)ndon Railway Company to the Lofidon and North-western Railway Company, and for the Settlement of all Disputes between the said Companies ; and for other Purposes. PageS9-i
ccv. An Act for making a Railway from the Parish of Saint John the Evangelist iathe City and Liberty of Westminster to Claphani in the County of Surrey^ with rt Branch from such Railway to join the authorized Line of the West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway at Long Hedge Farm in the Parish of Saint Mary Battersea in the County of Surrey* Ibid,
ccvi. An Act to extend the Powers of the Cork and Waterford Railway Company, and to enable them to abandon Part of their Railway to fraterfordy and the Branch to Tran more; and for other Purposes. 895
ccvii. An Act to alter the Lines and Levels of the Stratford-upon- Avon and Stourbridge Branches of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway ; to construct certain Branch Railways and Works connected therewitli ; to amend the Acts relating to the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Com- pany ; and for other Purposes. Ibid,
ccviii. An Act to authorize Agreements between the Direct London and Portsmouth Railway Company and tlie Portsnu)utk Railway Company, and for winding up the Affairs of the Direct Tendon and Portsmouth Railway Company. Ibid,
ccix. An Act for enabling the Oxford^ Worcester, and Wolver- hampton Railway Company to construct a Branch Lino of Railway to the Town of Chipping Norton in the County of Oxford, and for regulating the Working and Use of the same by such Company. Ibid,
c?x. An Act to enable the West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway Company to make a Railway from Norwood to Bromley and Famborough, and for other Purposes. Ibid,
ccxi. An Act to dissolve the York and North Midland and Leeds Northern Railway Companies, and to vest their Undertaku^s in the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway Company, to bo thenceforth called " The North-eastern Railway Company,'' and to alter the Constitution of that Company, and to autho* rize working Arrangements with the Malton and Driffield Junction Railway Company, and the Amalgamation of that Company with such United Company; and for other Pur- ])oses. Ibid,
ccxii. An Act for making a Railway from the Newcastle-upon- Tyne and Carlisle Railway, at or near Hexham in the County of Northumberland, to or near the Belling in the Parish of Fcdstone in the same County, to be called " The harder Counties Railway {North Tyne Section) ;" and for other Purposes. 896
ccxiii. An Act for relieving the /?a/c/i/f* Gaslight and Coke Com- pany, and their Servants and Agents, from certain Penalties and Penal Actions. Ibid*
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ccxiv. An Act to aathorize workiog Arrangements between the Ambetyatey Nottingham, and Boston^ and Eastern Junction Bailwftj Company and the Great Northern Railway Company, OP Lease or Sale to t^e last-named Company, Page 896
ccxr. An Act for making a Railway from the London and South- western Railway at SaUsbury to Veotnlj and to form a Junction with the Railways at Yeovil of the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway Companies respectively; and for other Purposes. Ibid,
ccxvi. An Act to rcpeal and amend the Act for incorporating the British Guarantee Association, and to make further Provisions as to the Mimagemcnt and Regulation thereof. Ibid»
ccxviL An Act to transfer the Paisley Waterworks to the ' Ma- gbtrates and Council of Paisley^ and to enable them to construct additional Works for supplying Paisley, Johnstone, and Places adjacent, with Water. Ibid,
ccxviii. AnAjct for making a Railway from the SotiUi Wales Railway at or near the Borough of Carmarthen to the Town of Newcasde Emlyn, with a view of being hereafter ex- tended to the Town and Harbour of Cardigan ; and for othei> Purposes. 897
ccxix. An Act to repeal an *' Act for better regulating the Poor within the City of Oxford/* and to grant further and more eficctual Powers in lieu thereof; and also to provide for rating to the Relief of the Poor certain Hereditaments within the University of Oxford. Ibid,
ccxx. An Act for authorizing and confirming Arrangements and Agreements between the Eastern Counties Railway Company and all or any of the Norfolk, the Eastern Union, the East Anglian, and the Newmarket Railway Companies, and for other Purposes ; and of which the Short Title is " The Eastern Conn- tieSf and the Norfolk, the Eastern Union, the East Anglian, and the Newmarket Railways Act, 1854." Ibid,
ccxxi. An Act to alter and extend the North Metropolitan Rail- way, and to consolidate and amend the Provisions relating thereto. Ibid,
ccxxii. An Act to authorize the Consolidation into One Under- taking of the Great Western, the Shrewsbury and Birmingham, and the Skrew^mry and Chester Railways, and the Union into One Company of the Three several Companies to whom the said Railways respectively belong. 898
xxvi The TITLES of the STATUTES,
PRIVATE ACTS,
PAINTED BY THE QUEEn's PRINTER,
AND WHEREOF THE PRINTED COPIES MAY BE GIVEN IN EVIDENCE.
1. A^ '^^^ ^ authorize Sir William Milborne MUbome Swinner-
ton Baronet, and his Issue, to resume and bear .the Sur- name of PUkington jointly with the Surnames of MUbome and Swinnerton and to be called by the Surnames of JkKibome SwinnerUm PUkington^ and for such Purposes to repeal in part an Act of the Sixth and Seventh Years of the Reign of His late Migesty King WiUiam the Fourth, Page 899
2. An Act to amend « Fleming"^ Estate Act, 1852." Ibid.
3. An Act for effecting an Extinguishment of the Life Estate and Interest of Mistress Violetta Masters, and the Trustee of her Marriage Settlement; of and in a Freehold Close or Parcel of Land situate in the Parish of Saint Margaret, Leicester, Ibid,
4. An Act to enable the Trustees of the Estates of Henry Smith Esquire, deceased, or any Seven or more of them, to grant Building Leases of an Estate in the Parishes of Kensingt&n, Ck^eOf and Saint Martin in the Fields in the tlounty of Mi^diesex, and for the Confirmation of certain Leases, and to enable Seven or more of the said Trustees to make Leases and Estates, pursuant to the Deed of Uses of the said Henry Smith; and.for other Purposes. Ibid,
5. A,n Act for enlarging the Powers contained in " Thomhilis Estate Act, 1852," and for granting further Powers in respect
. of the ThornhiU Estate. Ibid.
6. An Act for authorizing the granting of Building Leases of Lands held under the Will of WUUam Green decoMed, situate
at RuntDorth in the Counly of Laficaster. 900
7. An Act for granting Powers of Leasing, Sale, and Exchange and other Powers, for the Management of Freehold, Copyhold, and Leasehold Estates devised by or which now stand limited to the Uses of the Will of the Eight Honourable George Obrien Earl of Egremont deceased. Ibid.
8. An Act for authorizing the Sale of Estates devised by the Will of John Fowler deceased, and for other Purposes ; and of which the Short Title is ''Fowler's Estate Act, 1854." Ibid.
9. An Act for the Distribution of the Compensation paid under the London Necropolis and National Mau^deum Act, 1852, for the Extinction of the Commonable or other Bights over and in Woking Common ; and whereof the Short Title is " Woking Commoners Act, 1854.'* Ibid.
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10. An Act to enable certain Persons to grant Leases for Bnild* ing and Minkig Parposes of the Estates in the Parishes of f^denyn and YUradf elite in the County of Brecon^ devised by the Will of the Reverend Reynold Davies Clerk, deceased.
Page 900
jl. An Act for enabling Sales to be made of Estates 9Lt Manning- kam in the Parish of Bradford^ and at Idle in the Parish of Caherley^ both in the West Biding of the County of Yorky devised by the Will of WtUiam Sndl;. and for other Par- poses. Ibid,
12. An Act to incorporate the Craft of Shoemakers of the Burgh of Aberdeen ; to confirm the Titles and Conyeyancesy and to regulate the Administration of the Estates and Affairs^ of the said Crafl ; and for other Purposes relating to the Society. 901
13. An Act for enabling Leases, Sales, and Exchanges to be made of Lands subject to the Will of George Ward deceased, and for other Purposes, and of which the Short Title is " Ward's Estate Act, 1854.'* Ibid.
14. An Act for the better Division and Management of certain Estates in the County of Lancaster, the Property of Abraham and (the late) Alfre^Darby Esc^uires. Ibid.
15. An Act for authorizing the granting of Leases of Mines in Estates in the County of Glamorgany devised by the Will of the Reverend Reynold Davies deceased, and for other Purposes^ and
. of which the Short Title is ''Jenhin^% Estate Act, 1854." Ibid.
16. An Act to enable the Trustees of the Will of Anthony Wilkm- son Esquire, deceased, to grant Leases. Ibid.
17. An Act to empower the Warden and Scholars of the House or CoUege of Scholara of Merton in the University of Oxford to sell cert^n Lands situate in the Parish of Holywell otherwise Saint Crou in the City of Oxford, and to lay out the Moniea to arise from such Sales in the Purchase of other Heredita- ments. Ibid.
18. An Act to authorise the Sale of certain Messuages, Lands, and Hereditaments in the East Riding of the County of York, Part of the Estates deviled and settled by .the Will of Bertram OsbaldesUm Mitford Esqttire, deceased, and for laying out the Money produoed by such Sale in the Purchase of other Estates. Ibid.
19. An Act to enable the Trustees of the Right Honourable Jan^s Earl of Fife deceased to complete the Sale of the outlying Estate of Blervie in the County of Moray, and to reinvest the Sale Monies in the Purchase of more convenient Estates, to be settled upon the same Trusts ; and for other Purposes. 902
20. An Act for vesting in Trustees for Sale the settled and devised Estates oi Richard Terrick Stainforth Esquire, deceased; and for other Purposes. Ibid.
31* An Act to extend the Time during which the Trustees of the late Sir Gilbert Stirling of Mansfield Baronet were authorized to purchase Lands to be entailed in the Terms declared by certain Trust Deeds executed by him ; to enable the Trustees to purchase within any Part of Scotland; to regulate the Powers of borrowing conferred by ihe said Deeds ; and for other Pur- poses relating thereto. ^bid.
xxvUi The TITLES of the STATUTES,
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22. An Act to enable the Trustees .of a Settlement executed prior to the MaiTiage of Thomas ThamfiUly late of Fixhy in the County of York^ Esquire, deceased, with Honoria Forrester Spinster, to grant Building i^nd other Leases of the Estates subjpct to the Trusts of the said Settlement, and to sell and exchange the same ; and for other Purposes. Page 902
23. An Act for incorporating the Trustees of the School and . Charity Estates and Property belonging to the Parish of Saint
Catherine in the County and County of the City of Dublin^ for the better Management of such Estates and Property, and for the due and careful Application of the Income of the same. Ibid.
24. An Act to ascertain the Periods when the Division, under the Church Building Acts, of the Parish of Stockport in the County Palatine of Chester into the Two distinct and separate Parishes of Saint Mary in Stockport and Saint Thomas in Stockport shall take complete Effect, and the Exercise of the Rights of Presentation to the Rectories or Churches of the same Parishes respectively shall commence ; and for other Purposes. Ibid,
2o. An Act to extend the Power to lease the Settled Estates of the Earl of Harrington^ situate in the Parishes of Sl Margaret Westminster and St, Mary Abbotts Kensington in the County of Middlesex^ and for other Purposes ; and to be entitled '* The Earl o^ Harrington'^ Estate Act, 1854." 903
96. An Act for vesting certain Estates in the County of IJncoln^ entailed by an Act of Parliament of the Twenty-seventh Year
. of the Reign of His Majesty King Henry the Eighth, in Trustees, upon trust to sell the same, and to lay out the Monies thence arising in the Purchase of other Estates, to be settled to the same Uses as the Estates so sold. Ibid.
27. An Act for vesting in Trustees, for Sale, under the Authority of the Court of Chancery, an Estate in the County of Surrey^ acquired by Partition under the Decree of that Court in lieu of those undivided Shares of Freehold Property devised by the Will of T/tomas Bailey Heath Seweil Esquire, deceased, Trusts of which are declared by that Will for the Benefit of the Testator's Son and his Issue therein described ; and for invest- ing the Monies to arise from such Sale for the Benefit of the Parties beneficially interested in the same Estate. Ibid,
28. An Act to provide for the Winding-up of the Trust Affairs' of the late Hugh Earl of Eglinton^ and to amend the Acts relative to Ardrossan Hai*bour in the County of Ayr; and for other Purposes. Jbid,
29. An Act to authorize the granting of Mining and Farming Leases of Estates subject to the Uses of the Will of Miks Staveley Esquire. Ibid.
30. An Act to authorize the granting of Building Leases for long Terms of Years of Parts of the Estates devised by the Will of Joseph Peel Esquire, deceased. 904
31. An Act to authorize the granting of Building and other Leases of the Settled Estates of Thomas Charles Homyold Esquire in the Counties of Worcester and Hereford; and for other Purposes. Ibid.
(IMvafey printed) 17** & 18° VICTORIA . xxix
92. An Act for authorizing tbe granting of Building, Improving, and Mining Leases by the Reverend James AUan Park Clerk, as Tenant for Life in possession, and other Persons in succession after his Death, of Settled Estates at Marion in the County of Yorkj comprised in an Indenture of Settlement dated the Six- teenth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two ; and for other Purposes. Page 904
33. An Act for authorizing the gran ting, of Building Leases and Leases for working Brick Earth, of Settled Estates in the County of Essex, of the Right Honourable William Bernard Lord Petre Baron of Writde in the County of Essex, and of which Act the Short Title is "The Petre Estate Act, 1854." Ibid.
34. An Act for the Partition of the Mmcbriek otlierwise Mowhreck Estate in the County of Lancaster. Ibid,
35. An Act to authorize the Sale or Exchange of the Glebe Land of the Vicarage of the Parish of Bradford in the West Riding of the County of York, and of other Land in the said Parish of Bradford, held in trust for and to be henceforth vested in the Vicar of Bradford; and to authorize Leases of the said Lands respectively ; and for other Purposes. Ibid.
36. An Act for enabling the granting of Leases for- Mining and other Purposes, and the making of Sales and Exchanges, of certain Part of the Estates devised by the Will and Codicils of Sir William Fmdis Baronet, deceased. UOo
37. An Act for authorizing the granting of Building, Improving, and Mining Leases of Estates in the Parish of BocMnle in the County of Lancaster, comprised, as to certain undivided Shares, in the Marriage Settlement of Marcus Worsley and Harriet his Wife, and devised, as to the other undivided Shares, by the Will of Sarak Hamer deceased. Ibid.
38. Ad Act to authorize Conveyances in Fee or Demises for long Terms of Years, under reserved Rents, of certain Parts of the Settled Estates of Charles Richard Banasire Legh Esquire. Ibid.
XXX The TITLES of the STATUTES, &c
PRIVATE ACTS, *
NOT PRINTED.
99, An Act to relieve T%om€is AUxdnder Lord LovcU Baron Lovat of Lovat in the County of Inverness from the Effect of the Attainder of Simon Lord Lovat,
40. An Act to dissolve the Marriage of Siehard Redmond Caion Esquire widi Anna Maria his now Wife, and to enahle him to marry again ; and for other Purposes.
41. An Act to dissolve the Marriage of Henry Stacker School- master with Sarah Slacker his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again ; and for other Purposes.
THE
STATUTES AT LARGE.
Anno Regni VICTORIA, Britannianim Keginse^ Decimo Septimo & Decimo Octavo.
* A T the ParKament began and holden at Westmitister, the
* xV. Fourth Day of November, Anno Domini 1852, in the
* Sixteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Ladj
* VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, Queen of the United King-
* dom of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faith : and ' from thence continued, bj several Prorogations, to the Thirty-
* first Day of January 1854 ; being the Second Session of the Six-
* teenth Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
* and Ireland^
CAP. I.
An Act to explain and amend an Act of the last Session relating to the Duties of Assessed Taxes ; and to authorize Justices of the Peace in Ireland to administer Oatha required in Matters relating to Income Tax.
[17th February 1864.]
* Tl/^IIEREAS an Act was passed in the last Session of Par- le & 17 Vict
* ^^ liament. Chapter Ninety, to repeal certain Duties of c 90, ' Assessed Taxes, and to grant other Duties of the same Descrip-
* tion : And whereas by reason of certain Errors and Omissions
* in the said Act Doubts have arisen as to the Construction and ' Meaning thereof in some Particulars, -and it is expedient to
* remove such Doubts, and to amend the said Act : And whereas ' it is also expedient to amend the Act passed in the last Session,
* Chapter Thirty-four :' Be it enacted and declared by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Conmions, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows :
I. The Duties described or mentioned and set forth in the Dntieeoon- Sehedule marked (F.) to the said Act annexed as Duties payable tuned in annually for all Horses and Mules not charged with Duty under ^^**?H^;2 Schedule (E.) of the said Act shaU be deemed and are hereby tohTdeSi^ to declared to be and to have been granted and made payable by the baye been said Act from and after the Fifth Day of ^ril One thousand granted and eight hundred and fifty-four in England and A^aUs and Bertoick" "Mde payable
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upan-Tweedj and from and' after the Twenty-fourth Day of May in Scotland, notwithstanding the Omission to mention the said Schedule (F.) in Section 2. of the said Act, purporting to enume- rate the several Schedules containing the Duties intended to be thereby granted and made payable ; and the said Schedule (F.)» and the Duties, Rules, Regulations, and Exemptions therein set forth or contained, shall have effect and be in f<Hree aa if the said Schedule {F.) had been enumerated in the said Section along with the several other Schedules therein mentioned. Exemption 11. The Exemption No. 2., under the Head or Title of ^' Ex-
Na 2. in tl^p " emptions from the Duties contained in Schedules (E.) and (F.),** *"*^^^*? in the said Act, shall be deemed and construed and is hereby to^Se I^tf declared to extend only to exempt any Person from the Duties contained in contained in Schedule (E.) of the said Act for One such Horse as Schedule (£.) in the said Exemption No. 2. is described, used for riding on in certain the Occasions and in manner therein mentioned ; and nothing in
^^*'^' the said Exemption shall be deemed or construed to extend to
exempt any Person from the Duties contained in Schedule (F.) of the said Act, for any such Horse as aforesaid, except where the same shall be kept for the Purpose of Husbandry, and used only for such Purpose, and for riding on the Occasions and in manner in the said Exemption No. 2. mentioned. Hones used by UDL For any Horse^used by any Common Carrier in drawing Common Car- ^ny Carriage used by him principally and hand fide for and in p*" nTOTB^"*^ *^® carrying of Goods, and occasionally only in conveying Pas- p^JJ^f^^g, sengers for Hire, in the Manner mentioned with respect to such Schedule (F.) Carriage in Schedule (D.) of the said Act, there shall not by reason of such using be charged any other or higher Duty than the Duty contained in the said Schedule (F.) Time forgiving IV. The Time limited by Section Six of the said Act for the Notice to deter- giving of Notice to determine any Contract of Composition for mine Compod- the Duties of Assessed Taxes shall be and is hereby extended to UonB extended. ^^ ^lith Day of AprU One thousand eight hundred and fifty- four ; and any such Notice as in the said Section Six is mentioned, given on or before the said last-mentioned Day, shall have the same Force and Effect as it would have had if it had been given within the Time limited by the said Section. Justices of the Y. ' Aiid whereas by tne several Acts in force relating to the Peace in Ireland < Duties granted by an Act passed in the last Session of Pariia- ^y adm^rter < ^^^ Chapter Thirty-four, on Profits arising from Property, by the Acts * Professions, Trades, and Offices, divers Oaths are required to be relating to the ' taken by||Persons appointed Assessors and Collectors of the said Income Tax. ' Duties, and by Persons claiming Exemption from or a Return
* or Repayment of the said Duties under the several Provisions < of the said Acts, and by other Persons in relation to the Execu- ' tion of the said Acts, which said Oaths the Commissioners for
* Special Purposes and other Commissioners in the said Acts mentioned are respectively authorized to administer ; and it is
* expedient to authorize Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace in
* Ireland^ as well as the said Commissioners, to administer the same :* Be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace in Ireland respectively within their respec- tive Jurisdictions, and any One of them is hereby authorized and empowered, to administer to any such Assessor or Collector or t9
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any oHier Person any Oath required or authorized by the said several Acts or any of them to be taken in any Matter relating to the Execution of the said Acts.
CAP. IL
An Act to apply tiie Sum of Eight MiUions out of the Con- solidated Fund to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. [23d March 1854.]
CAP. III.
An Act for raising the Sum of One million seven hundred and fifty thousand Pounds by Exchequer Bills^ for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty- four. [23d March 1854.]
CAP. IV.
An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion^ and for the better Pajrment of the Army and their Quarters.
[23d March 1854.]
[^Tkis Act is the same^ except as to Dates and the Parts here insert^ as 16 ^ VJ Vict. c. 9.]
* VI/'HEfiEAS the raising or keeping a Standing Army within
* ^^ the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in
* Time of Peace, unless it be with the Consent of Parliament, is ' against Law : And whereas it is adjudged necessary by Her ' Majesty and this present Parliament that a Body of Forces ' should be continued for the Safety of the United Kingdom, the ' Defence of the Possessions of Her Majesty's Crown, and the ' Preservation of the Balance of Power in Europe^ and that the
' whole Number of such Forces should consist of One hundred Ifmnbers. ' and twenty-seven thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven
* Men, exclusive of the Officers and Men belonging to the Regi* ' ments employed in the Territorial Possessions of the East India
* Company, but including the Officers and Men of the Troops and
* Companies recruiting for those Regiments : And whereas no
* Man can be forejudged of Life or Limb, or subjected in Time of
* Peace to any Kind of Punishment within this Realm, by Mar- ' tial Law, or in any other Manner than by Judgment of his
* Peers, and according to the known and established Laws of this
* Realm ; yet nevertheless it being requisite, for the retaining all
* the before-mentioned Forces in their Duty, that an exact Disci- ' pline be observed, and that Soldiers who shall mutiny or stir up ' Sedition, or shall desert Her Majesty's Service, or be guilty a£
* Crimes and Offisnces to the Prejudice of good Order and Military ' Discipline, be brought to a more exemplary and speedy Punish-
* meat than the usual Forms of the Law will allow :' Be it there- fixre enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Mi^esty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the AnthoritT of the same. That—
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Power to constitute Coorts-martiaL
President of Conit-martiaL
Swearing and
summoning
Witnessea.
VL For the Purpose of bringing Offenders against this Act and the Articles of War to Justice, Her Majesty may from Time to Time, in like Manner as has been heretofore used, grant Com- missions under the Royal Sign Manual for the holding Courts- martial within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland^ and may grant Commissions or Warrants under the said Royal Sign Manual to the Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland^ the Commander of the Forces, or the Person or Persons commanding in chief, or commanding for the Time being, any Body of Her Majesty's Forces, as well within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the British Jsles, as in any of Her Majesty's Garrisons and Dominions or elsewhere beyond Seas, for convening Courts*roartial, and for authorizing any Officer under their respective Commands to convene Courts-martial, as Occasion may require, for the Trial of Offences committed by any of the Forces under the Command of any such last-mentioned Officer, whether the same shall have been committed before or after such Officer shall have taken upon him such Command ; the Officer so authorized not being, however, below the Degree of a Field Officer, except in the Settlements on the Western Coast of Africa, where a Captain mny be authorized to convene District or Garrison Courts- martial ; and any Person subject to this Act who shall, in any Part of Her Majesty's Dominions or elsewhere, commit any of the Offences for which he may be liable to be tried by Court-martial by virtue of this Act or of the Articles of War, may be tried and punished for the same in any Part of Her Majesty's Dominions or elsewhere where he may have come or be after the Commission of the Offence, as if the Offence had been committed where such Trial shall take place.
Xni. The President of every Court-martial shall be appointed by the Authority convening such Court, and shall in no Case be the confirming Officer or the Officer whose Duty it has been to investigate the Charges on which the Prisoner is to be arraigned ; nor in the Case of a General Court-martial under the Degree of a Field Officer,- unless a Field Officer cannot be had ; nor in any Case whatever under the Degree of a Captain, save in the Case of a Detachment General Court-martial holden out of Her Majesty's Dominions, or of a Regimental or Detachment Court-martial holden on the Line of March, or on board any Transport Ship, Convict Ship, Merchant Vessel, or Troop Ship not in Commission, or on «ny Foreign Station where a Captain cannot be had : Provided always, that in the Case of a Detachment General Court-martial holden out of Her Majesty's Dominions, the Officer convening such Court may be the President thereof.
XV. All General and other Courts-martial shall have Power and Authority, and are hereby required, to administer an Oath to every Witness or other Person who shall be examined before such Court in any Matter relating to any Proceeding before the same.; and every Person, as well Civil as Military, who may be required to give or produce Evidence before a Court-martial, shall, in the Case ot General Courts-martial, bo summoned by the Judge Advocate General, or his Deputy, or the Person officiating as Judge Advocate, and in the Case of all other Courts-martial, by the President of the Court ; and all Persons so summoned and
attending
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attending as Witnesses before any Court-martial shall, during their necessary Attendance in or on such Courts, and in going to and returning from the same, be privileged from Arrest, and shall, if unduly arrested, be discharged by the Court out of which the Writ or Process issued by which such Witness was arrested, or if such Court be not sitting, then by any Judge of the Superior Courts of Westminster or Dublin, or of the Court of Session in Scotland, ot of the Courts of Law in the East or West Indies, or elsewhere, according as the Case shall require, upon its being made to appear to such Court or Judge, by any Affidavit in a summary Way, that such Witness was arrested in going to or attending upon or returning from such Court-martial; and all Witnesses so duly summoned as aforesaid who shall not attend on such Courts, or attending shall refuse to be sworn, or being sworn shall refuse to give Evidence or not produce the Documents under their Power or Control required to be produced by them, or to answer all such Questions as the Court may legaUy demand of them, shall be liable to be attached in the Court of Queen's Bench in London or Dublin, or in the Court of Session, or Sheriff Depute or Stewards Depute, or their respective Substitutes, within their several Shires and Stewastries in Scotland, or in Courts of Law in the East or West Indies, or in any of Her Majesty's Colonies, Garrisons, or Dominions, in Europe or elsewhere respectively, upon Complaint made, in like Manner as if such Witness, after having b^n duly summoned or subposnaed, had neglected to attend upon a Trial in any Proceeding in the Court in which such Complaint shall be made : Provided always, that nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to render an Oath necessary in iny Case where by Law a solemn Affirmation may be made instead thereof.
XYL After a Prisoner has been found guilty of any Charge or Jh^ioas Ck>xi« Charges, the Court before which any such Prisoner shall have rictioM to be been tried may, before passing Sentence on such Prisoner, and for patmEvidenee. the Purpose only of affixing Punishment, receive in Evidence against him any previous Convictions by Courts martial, and in like Manner and for the like Purpose the Court shall receive in Evidence any previous Conviction of such Prisoner by a Court of ordinary Criminal Jurisdiction, where the Offence charged in the Indictment was of a felonious, fraudulent, or unnatural Nature ; and in the Case of Convictions by Courtsrmartial, duly confirmed, the Coart-martial Book or the Regimental or Company's Defaul- ters Book, and when none of those Books can conveniently be prodaced, a Certificate, which shall purport to contain a Copy of the Entiy of such Convictions in such Books or any of them, and which shall be signed by the Adjutant, or other Officer having the Custody of the Court-martial Book or of the Defaulters Book of the Regiment or Company to which the Prisoner belongs, shall be snfficient Evidence of such Conviction ; and it shall not be oecesaarj to prove the Signature or official Character of the Per- lon appearing to have signed such Certificate, nor, if the Court be satiafied from all the Circumstances of the Case that the Prisoner under Trial is the Person mentioned in any such Certificate, shall it be necessary to give other Proofs of the Identity of the Person of the Offender; and in the Case of a Conviction by a Court of
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ordinarj Criminal Jurisdiction, any Certificate transmitted as herein-after provided to the Officer commanding a Regiment by the Clerk of any such Court, or other Officer having Custody of the Records of such Court, or the Deputy of such Clerk, con- taining the Substance and Effect of any Indictment, omitting the formal Fart, together with the Judgment of the Court thereon^ and purporting to be signed by such Clerk or other Officer, or by the Deputy of such Clerk, or if such Certificate 6annot con- veniently be obtained, a Copy thereof, duly certified by the Officer producing it, shall be sufficient Evidence of such last-mentioned Conviction ; and it shall not be necessary to prove the Signature or official Character of the Person appearing to have signed such last-mentioned Certificate, nor, if the Court be satisfied from all the Circumstances of the Case that the Prisoner under Trial is the Person mentioned in such Certificate, shall it be necessary to give other Proofe of the Identity of the Person of the Offender: Provided always, that before any such Evidence shall be received it shall be proved to the Satis&ction of the Court that the said Prisoner had previousW^ to his Trial received Notice of the Inten- tion to produce such Evidence against him ; provided also^ that the Court shall in no Case award to him any other Punishinent or Punishments than may by this Act and by the Articles of War be awarded for the Offence of which he shall have been so found guilty. Crimes ponish- XIX. If any Person subject to this Act shall at any Time able wiui during the Continuance of this Act begin, excite, cause, or join
^^^^^ in any Mutiny or Sedition in Her Majesty's Land or Marine
Forces, or shall not use his utmost Endeavoura to suppress the same, or coming to the Knowledge of any Mutiny or intended Mutiny shall not, without Delay, give Information thereof to his Commanding Officer ; or shall hold Correspondence with or give Advice or Intelligence to any Rebel or Enemy of Her Majesty, either by Letters, Messages, Signs, or Tokens, in any Manner or Way whatsoever ; or shall treat or enter into any Terms with such Rebel or Enemy without Her Majesty's Licence or Licence of the General or Chief Commander ; or shall misbehave himself before the Enemy ; or shall shamefully abandon or deliver up any Garrison, Fortress, Post, or Guard committed to his Charge, or which he shall have been commanded to defend ; or shall compel the Governor or Commanding Officer of any Garrison, Fortress^ or Post to deliver up to the Enemy or to abandon the same; or shall speak Words or use any other Means to induce such Governor or Commanding Officer, or others, to misbehave before the Enemy, or shamefully to abandon or deliver up any Garrison, Fortress, Post, or Guard committed to their respective Charge, or which he or they shall be commanded to defend ; or shall desert Her Majesty's Service ; or shall leave his Post before being regu* larly relieved ; or shall be found sleeping on his Post ; or shall strike or shall use or offer any Violence against his Superior Officer, being in the Execution of his Office, or shall disobey any lawful Command of his Superior Officer ; or who being con- fined in a Military Prison shall offer any Violence against a Visitor or other his Superior Military^Officer, being in the Execu- tion of his Office ; ail and every Person and Persons so offending
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in any of the Matters before mentioned, whether such Offence shall be eommiited within this Bealm, or in any other of Her Majesty's Dominions, or in F<Mreign Farts, upon Land or upon the Sea, shall snffer Death or such other Punishment as by a Coart- mardal shall be awarded : Provided always, that any Non-<som- misBioaed Officer or Soldier enlisted or in pay in any Regiment, IVoop^ or Company, who shall, without having first obtained a regular Discharge therefrom, enlist himself in any other Begi* ment. Troop, or Company, may be deemed to have deserted Her Maj^ty's Service, and shall be liable to be punished accordingly.
XXL Whensoever any General Court-martial by which any Commntatum Soldier shall have been tried and convicted of any Offence punish- of Death for able witb Death shall not think the Offence deserving of Capital Transportatioii* Punishment^ such Court-martial may adjudge the Offender, accord* ing to the D^ree of the Offence, to Peoal Servitude, or to be transported as a Felon for Life, or for a certain Term of Years, • not less than Fourteen, or may sentence him to general Service as a Soldier in any Corps and in any Country or Place which Her Mi^esty shall thereupon direct, or may, if such Offender shall have eniislied &r a limited Term of Years, sentence him to serve for Life as a Soldier in any Corps which Her Majesty shall please io direct: Provided always, that in all Cases where a Capital Ponishment shall have been awarded by a General Court-martial or Detachment General Court-martial it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, or, if in the JEast Indies^ for the Officer commanding in diief the Forces in India^ or if out of Her Mnjesty's Dominions (the Jiomkui Islauds excepted) for the Officer commanding in chief Her Majesty's Forces there serving, instead of causing such Sentence to be carried into execution, to order the Offender to be kept to Penal Servitude or to be transported as a Felon, either for life or for a certain Ternl of Years not less than Fourteen, or to Penal Servitude, or to suffer such Term of Imprisonment, either witb or without Hard Labour, as shall seem meet to Her Majesty, or, if in the East IndieSj or out of Her Majesty's Domi- nioDs (the Lndan Islands excepted), to the Officers commanding as aforesaid.
XXTI. Every Paymaster or other Commissioned Officer of Her Embezzlemeat Majesty's Forces, or any Person employed in the Ordnance or ponisbable by Commissariat Department, or in any Manner in the Care or Transportation. Distribution of any Money, Provisions, Forage, or Stores, who shall embezzle or fraudulently misapply, wilfully damage, steal, or be concerned in or connive at the Embezzlement, fraudulent Misapplication, wilful Damsge, or Theft of any Money, Pro- visions, Forage, Arms, Clothing, Anmiunition, or other Militarv Stores belonging to Her Majesty's Forces or for Her Majesty^ Use, may be tried for the same by a Greneral Court-martial, which may adjudge any such Offender to Penal Servitude or to be transported as a Felon for Life or for any certain Tenn of Years not less than Fourteen, or to suffer such Punishment of Fine^ Lnprisonment, Dismissal from Her Majesty's Service, and Ineapacity of serving Her Migesty in any Office, Civil or Mili- tary, as snch Court shall think fit, according to the feature and Degree of the Offence ; and every such Offender shall, in addition to any other Punishment, make good at his own Expense the Loss
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Execution of ' Sentences of Transportation in the United
and Damage suBtained» which shall have been ascertained bj such Court-martial ; and in every such Case the Court is required to ascertain by Evidence the Amount of the Loss or Damage in- curred, and to declare by their Sentence that such Amount shall be made good by such Offender ; and the Loss and Damage so ascertained as aforesaid shall be a Debt to Her Majesty, and may be recovered in any of Her Majesty's Courts at Westminster or in Dublin, or the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, or in any Court in Her Majesty's Colonies where the Person sentenced by such Court-martial shall be resident, after the said Judgment shall be confirmed and made known ; and every Commissioned Officer sentenced to Penal Servitude or to be transported as a Felon, when such Sentence shall be confirmed, shall thereupon cease to belong to Her Majesty's Service, and for ever be incapable of serving Her Majesty in any Military Capacity.
XXIIL Whenever Her Majesty shall intend that any Sentence of Penal Servitude or of Transportation heretofore or hereafter passed upon any Offender by any Court-martial shall be carried into execution for the Term specified in such Sentence or for any shorter Term, or shall be graciously pleased to commute as afore- said to Penal Servitude or to Transportation, any Sentence of Death passed by any such Court, the Sentence, together with Her Majesty's Pleasure thereupon, shall be notified in Writing by the Officer commanding in chief Her Majesty's Forces in Great Britain and Ireland, or in the temporary Absence of such Officer by the Adjutant General, or when there shall not be any Com- mander-in-Chief of Her Majesty's Forces in Great Britain and Ireland, then by the Secretary-at-War or his Deputy, to any Judge of the Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, or Exchequer in England or Ireland, and thereupon such Judge shall make an Order for the Penal Servitude or Transportation of such Offender in conformity with such Notification, and shall also do all such other Acts consequent upon such Notification as such Judge is authorized to do by any Act in force touching the Penal Servitude or Transportation of other Offenders ; and the Person in whose Custody such Offender shall at that Time be, and all other Persons whatsoever whom the said Order may concern, shall be bound to obey and shall be assistant in the Execution thereof, and shall be liable to the same Punishment for Disobedience, or for inter- rupting the Execution of such Order> as if the Order had been made under the Authority of any such Act as aforesaid ; and every Person so ordered to Penal Servitude or to be transported shall be subject to every Provision made by Law and in force concerning Persons convicted of any Crime and under Sentence of Penal Servitude or of Transportation ; and from the Time when such Order of Penal Servitude or of Transportation shall be made every Act in force touching the Escape of Felons, or their after- wards returning, or their being at large without Leave, shall apply to such Offender, and to all Persons aiding and abetting, contriving or assisting in any Escape or intended Escape, or returning without Leave, of any such Offender ; and the Judge who shiOl make any Order of Penal Servitude or of Transporta- tion as aforesaid shall direct the Notification of Her Majesty's Pleasure, and his own Order made thereupon, to be filed and kept
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of Record in the Office of the Clerk of the Crown of the Court of Queen's Bench ; and the said Clerk shall have a Fee of Two Shillings and Sixpence only for filing the same, and shall, on Application, deliver a Certificate in Writing (not taking more than Two Shillings and Sixpence for the same) to such Offender, or to anj Person applying in his or Her Majesty's Behalf, showing the Christian and Surname of such Offender, his Offence, the Place where the Court was held before whom he was convicted, and the Conditions on which the Order of Penal Sevitude or of Transportation was given ; which Certificate shall be sufficient Proof of the Conviction and Sentence of such Offender^ and also of the Terms on which such Order for his Penal Servitude or Transportation was given, in any Court and in any Proceeding wherein it may be necessary to inquire into the same.
XXIV. Whenever any Sentence of Penal Servitude or of Trans- In the Colonies. portation heretofoi-e or hereafter passed upon any Offender by any Court-martial holden in the East Indies, or in any Part of Her Majesty's Foreign Dominions, or elsewhere beyond the Seas, is to be carried into execution for the Term specified in such Sentence or for any shorter Term, or when Sentence of Death has been or shall as aforesaid be commuted to Penal Servitude or to Trans- portation, the same shall be notified by the Officer commanding Her Majesty's Forces at the Presidency or Station where the Offender may come or be, or in his Absence by the Adjutant General for the Time being, to some Judge of One of the Supreme Courts of Judicature in the East Indies^ or Chief Justice, or some other Judge, as the Case may be, in any Part of Her Majesty's Foreign Dominions, who shall make Order for the Penal Servi- tude or Transportation or intermediate Custody of such Offender, in like Manner as for the Penal Servitude or Transportation or intermediate Custody of any other Convict ; and upon any such Order being made it shall be duly notified to the Governor of the Presidency if in the East Indies, or to the Governor of the Colony if in any of Her Majesty's Colonies, or to the Person who shall for the Time being be exercising the Office of Governor of sach Presidency, or Colony, who, on Receipt of such Notification, ahaU cause such Offender to be removed to some Colony or Place in obedience to the Directions for the itemoval of Convicts which ahall &om Time to Time be transmitted from Her Majesty through One of Her Principal Secretaries of State to such Presidency or Colony ; and such Offender on being so removed shall undergo the Sentence of Penal Servitude or of Transportation which has been passed upon him in the Colony or Place to which he has been so removed or sent, and whibt such Sentence shall remain in force shall be liable to be there imprisoned, and kept to Hard Labour, and otherwise dealt with under such Sentence in the same Manner as if he had been sentenced to be imprisoned, with Hard Labour, during the Term of his Penal Servitude or of his Transportation, by the Judgment of a Court of competent Jurisdiction in the Colony or i^ace to which he has been so removed or sent : Pro- vided alwayS} that in any Case where a Sentence of Penal Servi- tude or of Transportation shall have been awarded by a General or Detaehment General Court-martial it shall be lawful for Her If^esfyf or, if in the Ea$t Indies, for the Officer commanding in
chief
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Power to ooni'- mate Corporal Puushment
Forfeitiire of Paj and Pen- sion hj Sen- tence of Cooit-
IHlfftSlJ.
chief the Forces in Indict instead of causing such Sentence to be carried into execution, to order that the Offender be imprisoned for a Term not exceeding Two Years, either with or without Hard Labour, and Solitary Confinement not exceeding the Period herein- after prescribed.
XX Vn. In all Cases in which Corporal Punishment shall form the whole or any Part of the Sentence awarded by anj Court- martial it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, or for the General or other Officer authorized to confirm the Sentences of Courts- martial, to commute such Corporal Punishment to Imprisonment, either solitary or with or without Hard Labour, for any Period not exceeding Forty-two Days, or to mitigate such Sentence, or instead of such Sentence to award Imprisonment, either solitary or with or without Hard Labour, for any Period not exceeding Twenty Days, and Corporal Punishment, to be inflicted in the Prison, not exceeding Twenty-five Lashes ; provided that such Commutation of Punishment to Solitary Confinement shall in no Case exceed the Period herein-after prescribed.
XXV HL Any General Court-martial may, in addition to any other Punishment which it may be competent to award, sentence any Offender to Forfeiture of all Advantage as to additional Pay, Good-conduct Pay, and to Pension on Discharge, which might have otherwise accrued from the Length of his former Service^ or to Forfeiture of such Advantage absolutely, whether it might have accrued from past Service or might accrue from future Service^ according to the Nature of the Case ; and any District or Garrison Court-martial may also, in addition to any Sentence which such Court may award, sentence any Offender to such Forfeiture for Desertion or for disgraceful Conduct^— <-
In wilfully maiming or injuring himself or any other Soldier, whether at the Instance of such other Soldier or not, or of causing himself to be maimed or mutilated by any other Person, with Intent thereby to render himself or such other Soldier unfit for Service :
In wilfully doing any Act, or wilfully disobeying any Orders, whether in Hospital or otherwise, thereby producing or aggra- vating Disease or Infismity, or delaying his Cure :
In malingering or feigning Disease :
In stealing or embezzling Grovernment Property or Stores, or in receiving the same knowing the same to have been stolen :
In stealing any Money or Goods, the Property of a Comrade, of a Military Officer, or of any Military or Regimental Mesa or Band, or in receiving any such Money or Goods knowing the same to have been stolen :
In making any false or fraudulent Accounts, Ketums, Matters, or Entries, or assisting or conniving at the same being made^ or producing the same as true, knowing the same to be false or fraudulent :
In stealing or embezzling or fraudulently misapplying Public Money intrusted to him :
Or in committing any other Offence of a felonious or firaudulent l^ature, to the Injury of or with Intent to injure any Person, Civil or Military :
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Or for anj other disgracefal Condact, being of a crael* indeoent, or unnatural Kind.
XXTY. ETerj Soldier who shall be found guiltj by a Court- Forfeiton of martial of Deflertion, of wilfully maiming or injuring himself or P^y on Connie any other Soldier, whether at the Instance of such other Soldier ^^ of D«er- or not, or of causing himself to bo maimed or mutilated by any ****^ or Felony, other Person, with Intent thereby to render himself or such other Soldier unfit for Service, of tampering with his Eyes with Intent thereby to render himself unfit for Service, such Finding having been confirmed, or of Felony in any Court of ordinary Criminal Jurisdiction in England or Ireland^ or of any Crime or Ofience in any Court of Criminal Judicature in any Part of the United Kingdom, or in any Dominion, Territory, Colony, Settlement, or Island belonging to or occupied by Her Majesty out of the United Kingdom, which would, if committed therein, amount to Felony, shall thereupon forfeit all Advantage as to additional Pay, Grood- eondnct Pay, and to Pension on Discharge, which might have otherwise accrued from the Length of his former SOTvice, in addition to any Punishment which such Court may award.
AJfULLY. Whenever any Soldier shall have been convicted of Diflchai^ged^ any such disgraceful Conduct herein-before described, or of Deser- ^th Igoommy. lion, and the Court in respect thereof shall have made the Forfei* tore of all Claim to Pension on Discharge a Part of the Sentence passed on such Soldier, such Court may further recommend that he be disduuqged with Ignominy from Her Majesty's Service.
XXX\^. Whenever Sentence shall be passed by a Court- Lnpruonmeitt martial on an Qflfender already imprisoned under Sentence of a of OffenderB Court-martial for any Offence of which he has been before con- ^^^^ nnder victed, it shall be lawful for the Court to award Imprisonment for ^^^ ^ the Offence for which he is under Trial, upon Conviction thereof, Ofienee. to commence at the Expiration of the Imprisonment to which such Offender shall have been previously sentenced ; and where such Offender shall be already under Sentence, either of Imprisonment, of Penal Servitude, or of Transportation, the Court, if empowered to pass Sentence of Penal Servitude or of Transportation, may award such Sentence for the Offence for which he is under Trifd to commence at the Expiration of the Imprisonment, Penal Servi- tude, or Transportation to which such Offender shall have been previoosly sentenced, although the Aggregate of the Terms of Imprisonment, Penal Servitude, or Transportation respectively may exceed the Term for which either of those Punishments would be otherwise awarded.
XXXYm. Save as herein-before specially provided, every Tennand Term of Penal Servitude, Transportation, or of Imprisonment Place of under the Sentence of a Court-martial, whether original or revised, hmprisonmcnt shall be reckoned as commencing on the Day on which the original Sentence and Prooeedings shall have been signed by the Presi- dent; and the Place of Imprisonment under the Sentences of Gencnral Courts-martial shaU be appointed by the Officer com- manding the Diatrict, Garrison, Island, or Colony, and under the Senteooe* of jmy other Court-martial shall be appointed by ihe Oflieer confirming the Proceedings of such Court-martial, and in definh of 80ch Appointment then the Place of Impxiaonment
shall
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A.D.1854.
Trials for Dtf ertion after subfiequent Be-enlistment
Soldiers liable to be taken out ofHer Majesty's Service only for Felony, Misde- meanor, or for Debts amount- ing to 30Z. and npirards.
Soldiers not liable to be taken ont of Her Mi\jesty's Service for Debts nnder sol, or fi>r not
their Families, or for BreaclT of Contract
sball be appointed by tbe Officer commanding tbe Regiment or Corps to which the Offender belongs or is attached.
XLV. Every Soldier shall be liable to be tried and punished for Desertion from any Corps into which he may have unlawfully enlisted, although he may of right belong to another Corps and be a Deserter therefrom, and whether such Soldier shall be tried for Desertion from the Corps to which he may of right belong, or whether such Soldier shall be tried for deserting from the Corps to which he may of right belong, or from the Corps into which he may have unlawfully enlisted, or for any other Desertion, every Desertion previous or subsequent to that for which he may at the Time be taking liis Trial may, if duly stated in the Charges, be given in Evidence against him on such Trial.
LII. Any Person enlisted into Her Majesty's Service as a Soldier, or serving as a Non-commissioned Officer or Drummer on the permanent Staff of the Disembodied Militia, shall be liable to be taken out of Her Majesty's Service only by Process or Execution on account of any Charge of Felony or of Misde- meanor, other than the Misdemeanor of refusing to comply with an Order of Justices for the Payment of Money, or on account of an original Debt proved by Affidavit of the Plaintiff or of some one on his Behalf to amount to the Yalue of Thirty Pounds at the least, over and above all Costs of Suit in the Action or Actions, such Affidavit to be sworn, without Payment of any Fee, before some Judge of the Court out of which Process or Execution shall issue, or before some Person authorized to take Affidavits in such Court, of which Affidavit, when duly filed in such Court, a Memorandum shall, without Fee, be endorsed upon the Back of such Process, stating tlte Facts sworn to, and the Day of filing such Affidavit ; but no Soldier or other Person as aforesaid shall be liable to be summoned before any Justice of the Peace or other Authority whatever, or to be taken out of Her Majesty's Service, by any Capias, Writ, Summons, Order, Judgment, Pro- cess, or Execution issued by or by the Authority of any Court or Inferior Court for any original Debt not amounting to Thirty Pounds, or for not supporting or maintaining, or for not having supported or maintained, or for deserting or having deserted, or for leaving or having left chargeable to any Parish, Township, or Union, any Wife, or any Child or Children, legitimate or illegiti- mate, or other Relation, which such Soldier or Person would, if not in Her Majesty's Service, be liable by Law to support or maintain, or for the Breach of any Contract, Covenant, Agree- ment, or other Engagement whatever, by Parol or in Writing, or for having left or deserted his Employer or Master, or his Contract, Work, or Labour, except in the Case of an Apprentice, or of an indentured Labourer, as herein-after described ; and all Sum- monses, Warrants, Commitments, Indictments, Convictions, Judg- ments, and Sentences, on account of any of the Matters for whidi it is herein declared that a Soldier or other Person as aforesaid is not liable to be taken out of Her Majesty's Service, shall be utterly illegal, and null and void, to all Intents and Purposes ; and any Judge of any such Court may examine into any Complaints made by a Soldier or by his Superior Officer, and by Warrant under his Hand diacharge such Soldier, without Fee, he being shown to have
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been arrested contrary to the Intent of this Act, and shall award reasonable Costs to such Complainant, who shall have for the Recovery thereof the like Remedy as would have been applicable to the Kecotery of any Costs which might have been awarded against the Complainant in any Judgment or Execution as afore- said, or a Writ of Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum shall be awarded or issued, and the Discharge of any such Soldier out of Custody shall be ordered thereupon ; provided that any Plaintiff, upon Notice of the Cause of Action first given in Writing to any Soldier, or left at his last Quarters, may proceed in any Action or Suit to Judgment, and have Execution other than against the Body ; provided also, that nothing herein contained, relating to the leaving or deserting a Master or Employer, or to the Breach of any Contract, Agreement^ or Engagement, shall apply to Per- sons who shall be really and hondjide Apprentices, duly bound, under the Age of Twenty-one Years, or to indentured Labourers, as herein-after prescribed.
LVII. If any Recruit shall receive the Enlisting Money from Offences con- any Person employed in the Recruiting Service (knowing it to be nected with such), and shall abscond or refuse to go before such Justice, or Enlistment. shall thereafter absent liimself from the Recruiting Party or Person with whom he enlisted, and shall not voluntarily return to go before some Justice within such Period of Ninety-six Hours as aforesaid, such Recruit shall be deemed to be enlisted and a Soldier in Her Majesty's Service, or in the Service of the East India Company, as fully to all Intents and Purposes as if he had been duly attested, and may be apprehended and punished as a Deserter, or for being absent without Leave, under any Articles of W^ar made for Punishment of Mutiny and Desertion ; and such Recruit shall not be discharged by any Justice of the Peace after the Expiration of such Ninety-six Hours as aforesaid, unless it shall be proved to the Satisfaction of such Justice that the true Name and Residence of the Recruit were disclosed and known to the Recruiting Party, and that no Notice was given to the Recruit, or left at his usual Place of Abode, of his having so enlisted, or that the true Name and Residence of the Recruit were not taken down in Writing : Provided always, that in every Case wherein any Recruit shall have received Enlisting Money, and shall have absconded from the Party, so that it shall not be possible immediately to apprehend and bring him before a Justice, the Officer or Non-commissioned Officer commanding the Party shall produce to the Justice before whom the Recruit ought regularly to have been brought for Attestation a Certificate of the Name and Place of Residence of such Recruit ; and the Justice to whom such Certificate shall be produced shall, after satisfying himself that the Recruit who had absconded cannot be found and appre- hended, transmit a Duplicate thereof to Her Majesty's Secretary- at-War, in order that, in the event of such Recruit being afterwards apprehended and reported as a Deserter, the Facts of his having received Enlisting Money, and having absconded after having been enlisted, may be ascertained before he be finally adjudged to be a Deserter ; and any Recruit who shall have enlisted into and been attested for Her Majesty's Forces, and who shall be discovered to be incapable of active Service by reason of any Infirmity con- cealed
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cealed or not declared by such Recruit before the Justice at the Time of his Attestation, may be transferred to any Grarrison or Veteran or Invalid Battalion or Company, notwithstanding he shall have enlisted for any particular Regiment, tmd shall be entitled to receive such Proportion or Residue of Bounty only as Her Majesty may allow in that Behalf, instead of the Bounty upon which such Man shall have been enlisted, anything in any Act or Acts, or any Rules and Regulations relating to Soldiers, to the contrary notwithstanding ; and it shall be lawful for any Two Justices acting for the County, District, City, Burgh, or Place where any such Recruit shall ^t any Time happen to be when any such Recruit shall be brought, and shall be proved upon Oath before them upon being attested to have concealed his having been a Soldier and discharged, or to have concealed his having been discharged upon any prior Enlistment, or to have wilfully con- cealed any such Infirmity, or to have designedh^ made any fiUse Representation, to adjudge such Recruit, if in Engiandy to be a Rogue and Vagabond^ and to sentence him to such Punishment as by any Law in force may be inflicted upon Rogues and Vaga- bonds, and to adjudge such Person, if in Scadand or Irdand, to be imprisoned, with Hard Labour, in any Prison or House of Correction for any Period not exceeding Three Months ; and any Recruit who shall designedly make any false Representation of any Particular contained in the Oaths and Certificates in the Schedule to this Act annexed, before the Justice, at the Time of his Attestation, and shall obtain any Enlisting Money or Bounty for entering into Her Majesty's Service, or into the Service of the East India Company, or any other Money, shall be deemed guilty of obtaining Money under false Pretences, within the true Intent and Meaning, if in England, of an Act passed in the Seventh and Eighth Years of His Majesty King Crearge the Fourth, intituled
7&8G.4.C29. An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws in England relative to Larceny and other Offences connected therewith^ and if in Ireland^ of an Act passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of
9 Q. 4. c 65. His Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for con-- solidating and amending the Laws in Ireland relative to Larceny and other Offences connected therewith, and such Recruit, if in Scotlandj shall be deemed guilty of Falsehood, Fraud, and wilful Imposition ; and any attested Recruit who shall in any Part of Her Majes^s Dominions or elsewhere have committed any of the before-mentioned Offences regarding Enlistment may be summa- rily punished or prosecuted, tried and convicted, for any such Offence, at any Time during the Continuance of the Service for which he shall have enlisted, and in any County or Place where he may happen to be when such summary Proceeding or Prose- cution shall be instituted ; and the Production of the Oath in the Schedule to this Act annexed, taken by the Recruit on his Attes- tation, and the Certificate then signed by the Justice before whom the Recruit was attested, certifying that the Questions and Answers contained in the Attestation were in his Presence put to and given by such Recruit, shall, in the Absence of Proof to the contrary, be deemed and taken to be sufficient Evidence of such Recruit having represented the several Particulars as in the Oath sworn by him ; and Proof by the Oath of One or more credible Witnesses that
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the Penon so prosecuted hath voluntarilj acknowledged that at the Time of his Enlistment he belonged to any Regiment in Her Majesty's Serrice, or to Her Majesty's Ordnance, Navy, or Marines, or to the Forces of the Eeui India Company, shall be deemed and taken as Evidence of the Fact so by him acknowledged, without Prodoction of any Boll or other Document to prove the same ; and SDcii Proof of such Acknowledgment shall be certified to the Secretary-at-War by the Justice before whom such Proof shall have been given ; and any Man having been enrolled as a Volunteer under the Act Fifteenth and Sixteenth Ftctorto, Chapter Fifty, or any subsequent Acts, to serve in the Militia, who at the Time of oTOring to enlist into Her Mi\jesty*s Forces, Army, Ordnance, or Marines, or into the Forces of the Eiut India Company, or to enter into Her Majesty's Navy shall deny that he is a Militia Man then actually enrolled and engaged to serve in the Militia, and who shall not have completed his Engagement by Attestation or by being entered on the Books of the Navy, shall, upon Conviction thereof before any One Justice of the Peace in the Tnited King- dom, either upon the Oath of One Witness or upon his own Con- fession, be committed to the Common Gaol or House of Correction for any Tune not exceeding Fourteen Days ; and any Man enrolled as aforesaid who may have denied or shall hereafter deny, or who may have confessed or shall hereafter confess, to the Justice before whom he shall have been or shall be attested for the Army, Ordnance, or Marine Forces, or for the Forces of the East India Company, or who may have denied or shall hereafter deny, or who may have confessed or shall hereafter confess, on the Completion of his Engagement to enter the Navy, that he belongs to the Militia, shall not be liable to Imprisonment for such Offence, but shall, upon Conviction thereof before any One Justice in the United Kingdom, or before a Regimental or Naval Court of Inquiry, either upon bis own Confession or upon the Oath of One Witness, forfeit all Militia Bounty which would have become ])ayable to him during the Period of his belonging to Her Majesty's Eegular Forces, or to the Forces of the East India Company, or to the Roynl Navy, if be had not therein enlisted or entered, and be f^ubjerted to a Stoppage of One Penny a Day from his Pay for Eighteen Calendar Months, to be applied as the Secretary-at-War shall direct ; or if enrolled in the Militia as a balloted Man or Substitute nhall, if convicted before any One Justice as aforesaid, be committed to the Common Gaol or House of Correction, there to remain with- out Bail or Mainprise for and during any Time not exceeding Six Calendar Months, over and above any Penalty or Punishment to which such Person so offending may be othf rwise liable ; and such Person, whether he shall have been enrolled as a Volunteer or as a balloted Man or Substitute, shall, from the 1 )ay on which his Eng^ement to serve in the Militia shall end, and not sooner, belong as a Soldier to the Corps of Her Majesty's Beerular Forces, or of the East India Company's Forces into which \w nhall have so enlisted : Provided always, that every such Person shall be liable to serve within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Irdand in any Regiment, Battalion, or Corps of Her Majesty's Regular Forces, or of the East India Company's Forces, in which he has so enlisted, during all the Time Uie Militia to v^ hich he shall
belong
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Enlistment and'
Re-enlistment
abroad.
Apprentioe en- listing to be liable to serve after the Expi- ration of his Apjlrenticeship.
belong shall rcmaiD disembodied, or shall not be called oat for Training or Exercise, and shall during all such Time be subject to all the Provisions of this Act, and liable to be apprehended and dealt with and punished as a Deserter from the Corps in which he shall have so enlisted if he shall neglect or refuse to join and serve in such Corps as aforesaid.
LIX. * And whereas it is expedient that Provision should be ' made for enlisting and attesting of Soldiers desirous of re- ' enlisting and others desirous of enlisting abroad f Be it there- fore enacted, That it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by any Warrant signed by the Secretary-at-War in that Behalf, to autho- rize the Governors of Colonies, and of the several Presidencies in India, ^o appoint any Person, not being a General Officer nor holding any Regimental Commission, to enlist or attest, or for any Justice of the Peace or Magistrate acting for the Place of such Re-enlistment or Enlistment, and not being a General Officer nor holding any Regimental Commission, to enlist and attest, out of Great Britain or Ireland, any Soldiers or Persons desirous of enlisting or re-enlisting into Her Majesty's Service ; and any Person so appointed shall have the same Powers in that Behalf as are given to Justices in the United Kingdom for all such Pur- poses of Enlistment and Attestation ; and all such Appointments,, past, and future, and everything done or to bo done under them, shall be valid and of full Effect, notwithstanding the Expiration of this Act or of any other Act of Parliament ; and any Person BO enlisted or re-enlisted shall be deemed to be an attested Soldier ; and as often as any Corps shall be relieved or disbanded at any Station beyond the Seas it shall be lawful for any Officers thereunto authorized by the Officer commanding in chief at such Station to receive as Transfers as many of the Soldiers belonging to the Corps leaving the Station as shall be willing and lit for Service for any Corps appointed to remain ; and every Soldier so- transferred is hereby deemed to be discharged from his former Corps, and an attested Certificate of Transfer shall be delivered to the Soldier ; and every Infantry Soldier consenting to be trans- ferred to the Cavalry or Artillery shall upon such Transfer become liable to serve the limited Period prescribed for the Cavalry or Artillery, as the Case may bo, notwithstanding his original Engagement to serve in the Infantry for a shorter Period.
LXI. Any Person duly bound as an Apprentice in Great Britain or Ireland, or as an indentured Labourer in any of Her Majesty's Colonies or Possessions abroad, who shall enlist as a Soldier in Her Majesty's or the East India Company's Service, and shall state to the Magistrate before whom he shall be carried and attested that he is not an Apprentice or indentured Labourer as aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of obtaining Money under false Pretences within the true Intent and Meaning of the before-recited Acts, if in England or in Ireland, or in the Colonies or Posses- sions aforesaid, and of Falsehood, Fraud, and wilful Imposition^ if in Scotland, and shall after the Expiration of his Apprentice- ship, or of his Indenture as a Labourer, whether he shall have been so convicted and punisl\ed or not, be liable to serve as a Soldier in any of Her Mtgesty's Regular Forces, or in the Forces of the East India Company, according to the Terms of the Enlist-
ment.
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ment, and if on the Expiration of his Apprenticeship, or of his Indenture as a Labourer, he shall not deliver himself up to some Officer authorized to receive Recruits, may be taken as a Deserter from Her Majesty's Forces.
LXn. No Master shall be entitled to claim an Apprentice or Claims of an indentured Labourer as aforesaid who shall enlist as a Soldier Masters to in Her Majesty's or the East India Company's Service, unless he -^PP^^ticcs, shall, within One Calendar Month after such Apprentice or inden- tured Labourer shall have left his Service, go before some Justice, and take the Oath mentioned in the Schedule to. this Act annexed, and produce the Certificate of such Justice of his having taken such Oath, which Certificate such Justice is required to give in the Form in the Schedule to this Act annexed, and unless such Apprentice shall hare been bound, if in England^ for thcf full Term of Seven Yearsy not having been above the Age of Fourteen when so bound, and if in Ireland or in the British Isles^ for the full Term of Five Years at the least<, not having been above the Age of Sixteen when so bound, and if in Scotland for the fulP Term at least of Four Years, by a regular Contract or Indenture of Apprenticeship, duly extended, signed, and tested, and binding on both Parties by the Law of Scotland, prior to the Period of Enlistment, and unless such Contract or Indenture in Scotland shall, within Three Months after the Commencement of the Appren- dceship, and before the Period of Enlistment, have been produced to a Justice of the Peace of the County in Scotland wherein the Parties reside, and there shall have been endorsed thereon by such Justice a Certificate or Declaration signed by him, specifying the Date when and the Person by whom such Contract or Inden- tare shall have been so produced, which Certificate or Declara- tion such Justice of the Peace is hereby required to endorse and sign, and unless such Apprentice shall, when claimed by such lister, be under Twenty-one Years of Age : Provided always, that any Master of an Apprentice indentured for the Sea Service, ofT of any indentured Labourer in Her Majesty's Colonies or Pos- sessions abroad, shall be entitled to claim and recover him in the Form and Manncr*above directed, notwithstanding such Appren- tice or indentured Labourer may have been bound for a less Term than Seven, Five, or Four Years as aforesaid : Provided also, that any Master who shall give up the Indentures of his Apprentice or of his Labourer as aforesaid within One Month after the enlisting of such Apprentice . or indentured Labourer shall be entitled to receive to his own Use so much of the Bounty payable to such Becruit, after deducting therefrom Two Guineas to provide him with Necessaries, as shall not have been paid to such Recruit before Notice given of his being an Apprentice or an indentured Labooren
LXIU. No Apprentice or indentured Labourer as aforesaid PaDisbincnt of claimed by his Master shall be taken from any Corps or Recruiting Apprentices Pkrty but under a Warrant of a Justice residing near, and within «°l»^fr whose Jurisdiction such Apprentice or indentured Labourer shall then happen to be» before whom he shall be carried ; and such Justice shall inquire into the Matter upon Oath, which Oath he is hereby empowered to administer, and shall require the Production and l^-oof of the Indenture, and that Notice of the said Warrant . 17 * 18 Vict. C has
18
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17^ & 18» VICTORIiE.
A.D.1864-
Sapply of Car- riages in Cases of Emergency.
has beea given to the Commanding Officer, and a Copy thereof left with some Officer or Non-conmiissioned Officer of the Party, and that such Person so enlisted declared that he was no Appren- tice or indentured Labourer ; and such Justice, if requii-ed by such Officer or Non-commissioned Officer, shall commit the Offiander to the Common Gaol of the said Place, and shall keep the Indenture to be produced when required, and shall bind over such Person as he may think proper to give Evidence against the Offender, who shall be tried at the next or at the Sessions immediately succeeding the next General or Quarter Sessions of the County, Division, or Place, unless the Court shall on just Cause put off the Trial ; and the Production of the Indenture, with the Certificate of the Justices that the same was proved, shall be sufficient Evidence of the «aid Indenture ; and every such Offender, in Scotland, may be tried by the Judge Ordinary in the County or Stewartry, in such and the like Manner as any Person may be tried in Scodand for any Offence not inferring a Capital Punishment : Provided Always, that any Justice not required as aforesaid to commit such Apprentice or indentured Labourer may deliver him to his Master.
LXXV. It shall be lawful for Her Msgesty, or the Lord lieu- tenant or Chief Governors of Ireland by Her or their Order, dis- tinctly stating that a Case of Emergency doth exist, signified by the Secretary-at-War, or if in Ireland by the Chief Secretary or Under Secretary, or the First Clerk in the Military Department, to authorize any General or Field Officer commanding Her Majesty's Forces in any District or Place, or to the Chief Acting Agent for the Supply of Stores and Provisions, by Writing under his Hand reciting such Order of Her Majesty or Lord Lieutenant or Chief Governor aforesaid, to require all Justices within their several Jurisdictions in England and Ireland to issue their War- rants for the Provision, not only of Waggons, Wains, Carts, and Cars kept by or belonging to any Person and for any Use what- soever, but also of Saddle Horses, Coaches, Postchaises, Chaiaesy and other Four-wheeled Carriages, kept for Hire, and of all Horses kept to draw Carriages licensed to carry Passengers, and also of Boats, Barges, and other Vessels used for the Transport of any Commodities whatsoever upon any Canal or navigable River, as shall be mentioned in the said Warrants, therein speci- fying the Place and Distance to which such Carriages or YesseU shall go ; and on the Production of such Requisition, or a Copy thereof certified by the Commanding Officer, to such Justice, by any Officer of the Corps ordered to bd conveyed, or by any Officer of the Commissariat or Ordnance Department, such Justice shall take all the same Proceedings in regard to such additional Supply so required on the said Emergency as he is by this Act required to take for the ordinary Provision of Carriages ; and all Provisions whatsoever of this Act, as regards the procuring of the ordinary Supply of Carriages, and the Duties of Officers and Non-commia- sioned Officers, Justices, Constables, and Owners of Carriages in that Behalf shall be to all Intents and Purposes applicable for the providing and Payment, according to the Rates of Posting or of Hire usually paid for such other Descjiption of Carriages or Vessels so required on Emergency, according to the Length of the,
. . Jooiney
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Joarnej or Yojage in each Case, but making no Allowance for Post Horse Datj, or Turnpike, Canal, River, or Lock Tolls, which Duty or Tolls are hereby declared not to be demandable for such Carriages and Vessels while employed in such Service or returning therefrom ; and it shall be lawful to convey thereon, not only the Baggage, Provisions, and Military Stores of such Regiment or BBtachment, but also the Officers, Soldiers, Servants, Women, Children, and other Persons of and belonging to the same.
LXXVIII. All Her Majesty's Officers and Soldiers, being in Tolls, proper Staff or Regimental or Military Uniform, Dress or Undress, and their Horses, (but not when passing in any hired or private Vehicle,) and all Recruits, marching by Route, and all Prisoners ^ under Military £scort, and all . enrolled Pensioners in Uniform ' when called out for Training or in aid of the Civil Power, and all Carriages and Horses belonging to Her Majesty or employed in Her Service under the Provisions of this Act, or in any of Her Majesty's Colonies, when conveying Persons or Baggage going thereto or returning therefrom, shall be exempted from Payment of any Duties and Tolls on embarking or disembarking from or opon any Pier, Wbari^ Quay, or I^inding Place, or passing Turnpike or other Roads or Bridges, otherwise demand- able by virtue of any Act already passed or hereafter to be passed, or by virtue of any Act or Ordinance, Order or Direction of any Colonial Legislature or other Authority in any of Her Majesty's Colonics; provided that nothing herein contained shall exempt any Boats, Barges, or other Vessels employed in conveying the said P^sons, Horses, Baggage, or Stores along any Canal from Payment of Tolls, in like Manner as other Boats, Barges, and Vesseb ai-e liable thereto, except when employed in Cases of Emergency as herein-before enacted.
CIV. This Act shall be and continue in force within Great Duration of Britain from the Twenty-fifth Day of April One thousand eight this Act hundred and fifty-ibur inclusive until the Twenty -fifth Day of AprUOoA thousand eight hundred and fifty-five; and shaU be and continoe in force within Ireland^ and m Jersey^ Guernsey^ Aldemofy Sark^ and Ide of Man, and the Islands thereto belong- ing, from the First Day of May One thousand eight hundred and fii^-four inclusive until the First Day of May One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five ; and shall be and continue in force within the Grarrison of Gibraltar^ the Mediterranean^ and in Spain and P&rtugaly from the First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four inclusive until the First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five ; and shall be and con- tinue in force in all other Parts of Europe where Her Majesty's Forces may be serving, and in the West Indies and Americay from the First Vaj of September One thousand eight hundred and fifty- four inclusive to the First Day of September One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five ; and shall be and continue in force within the Cape of Good Hope^ the IsU of France or Mauritius and its Dependencies, Scant Hdenoy and the Settlements on the Western Coast of Africa^ from the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five inclusive until the First Day of Jamtary One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six ; and shall be
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and continue in force in all other Places from tbe First Day of February One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six inclusive until the First Day of February One thousand eight hundred and fifty- seven : Provided always, that this Act shall, from and after the Receipt and Promulgation thereof in Greneral Orders in any Part of Her Majesty's Dominions or elsewhere beyond the Seas, be- come and be in full Force, anything herein stated to the con- trary notwithstanding.
SCHEDULE referred to by the foregoing Act Questions to be put separately by the Justice to a Recruit on
ENLISTING.
^Q^€Stions 1 to 11 and 13 to 15 inclusive remain unaltered from 16 4- 17 Vict. c. 10.]
12. Do you now belong to the Militia^ or to the Naval Coast Volunteers ?
^ofe, — The Justice is directed in putting the Twelfth Question to the Recruit) and before he receives his Answer, dis- tinctly to apprize the Recruit that if ho belongs to the Militia, and denies the Fact, he is liable to forfeit One Penny a Day of his Pay for Eighteen Months if attested, and to Fourteen Days Imprisonment if he is not attested, and if ho belong to the Naval Coast Volunteers he is liable under the Act 16 and 17 Victoria c. 73. to Impri- sonment for Six Months, and his Enlistment will be null and void.
Form of Oath to be taken by a Master whose indentured Labourer in any of Her Majesty's Colonies or Possessions has absconded.
T of do make Oath, That
was bound to me to serve as an indentured Labourer by Indenture dated the Day of
for the Term of Years, and that the said
did on or about the Day of abscond and
quit my Service without my Consent. Witness, Sfc. [a* for Apprentice."]
Form of Justice's Certificate to be given to the Master of an indentured Labourer.
\ T . One of Her Majesty's Justices of the
to wit J* Peace of certify, That of
came before me at the
Day of and made Oftth that was
boiipd to serve as an indentured Labourer to him by Indenture dated the Day of for the Term
of Years, and that the said indentured Labourer
did on or about the Day of abscond
and quit the Service of the said without his Consent.
CAP.
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CAP. V.
An Act to admit Foreign Ships to the Coasting Trade.
[23d March 1854.]
* "Il^HEREAS by the One hundred and fifty-second Section of Recital of
' ^* the Customs Consolidation Act, 1853, it is enacted, that 16 & 17 Vict. ' no Goods or Passengers shall be carried Coastwise from one Part ^ ^^7. as. 162.
* of the United Kingdom to another, except in British Ships : And * *^*' ' whereas by the One hundred and ninety-first Section of the same
' Act it is enacted, that no Goods or Passengers shall be imported ' into the United Kingdom from the Channel Islands or exported ' from the United Kingdom to the said Islands, or carried from
* one of the said Islands to another, or from one Part of any of
* the said Islands to another Part thereof, except in British Ships: ' And whereas it is expedient to remove the Restrictions contained
* in the said recited Enactments :' Be it enacted by the Queen'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, as follows :
I. The Enactments herein-before recited, that is to say, the Repeal of the One hundred and fifty-second and the One hundred and ninety- recited Bnact- first Sections of the said Customs Consolidation Act, 1853, shall m^i^ts. . be repealed from the passing of this Act : Provided, that it shall ^f,^***^ *?" be lawful for Her Majesty to exercise, in respect of Foreign Ships JetaUatOTT*"^**^ employed in the Coasting Trade as aforesaid, and of Goods carried Powers aa in Coastwise in such Ships, such or the like Powers as are conferred 16 & 17 Vict on Her Majesty by the Three hundred and twenty-fourth. Three c. 107. as. 824, hundred and twenty-fifth, and Three hundred and twenty-sixth ^2*» * ®2^* Sections of the said Customs Consolidation Act, 1853,. in respect of Foreign Ships employed in the Oversea Trade, and of Goods exported or imported in such Ships.
XI. Every Foreign Ship which after the passing of this Act Foreign Ships IB employed in carrying Goods or Passengers Coastwise from one in the Coasting Part of the United Kingdom to another, or from the Islands of T™de to be Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man, to the United King- ^f5^^„ ^ dom, or from the United Kingdom to any of the said Islands, or British Ships. from any of the said Islands to any other of them, or from any Part of any one of the said Islands to any other Part of the same, shall be subject, as to Stores for the Use of the Crew, and in all other respects, to the same Laws, Rules, and Regulations to which British Ships when so employed are now subject.
in. No Foreign Ship which after the passing of this Act is Foreign Ships employed in the Coasting Trade as aforesaid, nor any Goods employed in carried in any such Ship, shall, during the Time such Ship is 5*9*^®*^^ so employed, be subject to any higher or other Rate of Dock, ^^^^J^ Pier, Harbour, Light, Pilotage, Tonnage, or other Dues, Duties, higher Bates Tolls, Rates, or other Charges whatsoever, or to any other Rules than British as to the Employment of Pilots, or any other Rules or Restrictions Ships. whatsoever, than British Ships employed in like Manner, or Goods carried in such Ships, any Law, Charter, special Privi- lege, or Grant to the contrary notwithstanding ; nor shall any Body Corporate or Person having or claiming any Right or Title
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Foreign Steam Yessdt carry* ing Paaaengeri Coaitwiaeto be aajbgect to ProTisionsof 14 & 15 Tict c. 79.
Fresident of ConrtpiiiartiaL
and
Witnesaea.
to any such higher or other Bates, Dues, Duties, Tolls, or other Charges as aforesaid be entitled to any Compensation in respect thereof under any Law or Statute relating thereto, or otherwise howsoever.
IV. * And whereas it is expedient to provide for the Safety of ' Passenger Steamers :* Be it enacted, That every Foreign Steam Vessel carrying Passengers from one Place to another on the Coasts of the United Kingdom of Ch-eai Britain and Ireland and the Channel Islands shall be subject to the Pi-ovisions of the Steam Navigation Act, 1851.
C A P. VL
An Act for the Begolation of Her Majesty's Royal Marine Forces while on shore. [23d March 1864-2
[T^ir Act is the same^ except as to Dates and the Parts here inserted, as IS 8f 11 Vict e. 10.]
XV. The President of every Court-martial shall be appointed by the Authority convening such Courts, and shall in no Case be the confirming Officer, or the Officer whose Duty it has been to investigate the Charges on which the Prisoner is to be arraigned, nor, in the Case of a G-eneral Court-martial, under the Degree of a Field Officer, unless where a Field Officer cannot be had, nor in any Case whatsoever under the Degree of a Captain, save in the Case of a Detachment General Court-martial holden out of Her Majesty's Dominions, or of a Divisional or Detachment Court-martial holden on the Line of March, or on board a Trans- port Ship, Convict Ship, Merchant Vessel, or Troop Ship not in Commission, or on any Foreign Station where a Captain cannot be had : Provided always, that in the Case of a Detachment General Court-martial holden out of Her Majesty's Dominions the Officer convening such Court may be the President thereof.
XVll. All General and other Courts-martial shall have Power and Authority and are hereby required to administer an Oath to every Witness or other Person who shall be examined before such Coart in any Matter relating to any Proceeding before the same ; and every Person, as well Civil as Military, who may be required to give or produce Evidence before a Court-martial, shall, in the Case of General Courts-martial, be summoned by the Judge Advocate, or the Person officiating as such, and in the Case of all other Courts-martial by the President of the Court ; and all Per- sons so summoned and attending as Witnesses before any Court- martial shall, during their necessary Attendance in or on such Courts, and in going to and returning from the same, be privi- leged from Arrest, and shall, if unduly arrested, be discharged by the Court out of which the* Writ or Process issued by wluch such Witness was arrested, or if such Court be not sitting, then by any Judge of the Superior Courts of Westminster or DubUn, or of the Court of Session in Scotlandj or of the Courts of Law in the East or West Indies, or elsewhere, according as the Case shall require, upon its being made to appear to such Court or Judge by any Affidavit in a summary Way that such Witness was arrested in going to, attending upon, or returning from or
attending
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atten^ng upon such Coart-martial ; and all Witnesses so duly sammoned u aforesaid who shall not attend on such Courts, of attending shall refuse to he sworn, or not produce the Documents being under their Power or Control required to he produced by theniy or, heing sworn, shall refuse to give Evidence or to answer an sodi Questions as the Court may legally demand of them, afaafl he liable to he attached in the Court of Queen's Bench in Lomdan or DubUfh or in the Court of Session, or Sheriff Depute or Stewarts Depute or their respective Substitutes within their aeveral Shires and Stewartries, in Scotland^ or in the Courts of Law in the East or fFe$t Indies^ or in any of Her Majesty's Colcmies, Garrisons, or Dominions in Europe or elsewhere, re- spectively, upon Complaint made, in like Manner as if such Witness had, after being duly summoned or subpoenaed, neglected to attend on a Trial in any Proceeding in the Court in which aoch Complaint shall he made : Provided always, that nothing in liiia Act contained shall be construed to render an Oath neces- sary in any Case where by Law a solemn Affirmation may be made instead thereof.
XVm. After a Prisoner has been found guilty of any Charge Fkyioiu Can* or Charges the Court before which any such Prisoner shall have victions to be been tried may, before passing Sentence on such Prisomer, and for P^* ^ ^'^* tiie Purpose only of affixing Punishment, receive in Evidence ^'***" aoinst him any previous Convictions by Courts-martial ; and in UKB Manner and for the like Purpose the Court shall receive in Evidence any previous Conviction of such Prisoner by a Court of ordinary Criminal Jurisdiction, where the Offence charged in the Indictment was of a felonious, fraudulent, or unnatural Nature ; and in the Case of Convictions by Courts-martial, duly confirmed, Ae Court-martial Book or the Divisional or Company's Defaulters Book, and when none of those Books can conveniently be pro- dnced, a Certificate, which shall purport to contain a Copy of the £ntry of such Convictions in such Books or any of them, and wMch shall be signed by the Adjutant or other Officer having the Custody of the (5)urt-martial Book or of the Defaulters Book of the Division or Company to which the Prisoner belongs, shall be aoficient Evidence of such Conviction ; and it shall not be neces- aary to prove the Signature or official Character of the Person appearing to have signed such Certificate, nor, if the Court be satisfied from all the Circumstances of the Case that the Prisoner under Trial is the Person mentioned in any such Certificate, shall it he necessary to give other Proofs of the Identity of the Person of Ae Offender ; and in the Case of a Conviction by a Court of ordinary Criminal Jurisdiction, any Certificate transmitted as lierein provided to the Officer commanding by the Clerk of any such Court or other Officer having Custody of the Records of soeh Courts, or the Deputy of such Clerk, containing the Sub- stance and Effect of any Indictment, omitting the formal Part, together with the Judgment of the Court thereon, and purporting to he signed by such Clerk or other Officer, or by the Deputy of such &erk, or if such Certificate cannot conveniently be ob- tained, a Copy thereof duly certified by the Officer producing it, shall be sufficient Evidence of such last-mentioned Conviction i and it shall not he necessary to prove the Signature or official
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24 C.6. 17" & 18« VICTORIiE. A.D.1854.
Character of the Person appearing to have signed such last- mentioned CertiAcate, nor, if the Court be satisfied from all the Circumstances of the Case that the Prisoner under Trial is the Person mentioned in such Certificate, shall it be necessary to give other Proofs of the Identity of the Person of the Offender : Pro- vided always, that before any such Evidence shall be received it shall be proved to the Satisfaction of the Court that the said Prisoner had previously to his Trial received Notice of the Inten- tion to produce such Evidence against him ; and provided also, that the Court shall in no Case award to him any other Punish- ment or Punishments than may by this Act and by the Articles of War be awarded for the Offence of which he shall have been so found guilty. Crimes punish- XXI. If any Person who is or shall be conmiissioned or in able with Pay as an Officer of Royal Marines^ or who is or shall be listed
^^*^ or in Pay as a Non-commissioned Officer, Drummer, or Private
Man in Her Majesty's Royal Marine Forces, shall at any Time during the Continuance of this Act, while on shore in any Place within the said Kingdom, or in any other of Her Majesty's Do- minions, or in any Foreign Parts out of such Dominions, or on board any Transport Ship, or Merchant Ship or Vessel, or any Ship or Vessel of Her Majesty, or on board any Convict Hulk or Ship, or any other Ship or Vessel, or in any Place whatever, where or while being in any Circumstances in which he shall not be subject to, or not be liable to or punishable by, the Laws re^ lating to the Government of Her Majesty's Forces by Sea, begin, excite, cause, or join in any Mutiny or Sedition in Her Majesty's Marine or other Forces, or shall not use his utmost Endeavours to suppress any such Mutiny or Sedition, or coming to the Know- ledge of any Mutiny or intended Mutiny shall not without Delay give Information thereof to his Commanding Officer; or shidl misbehave himself before the Enemy ; or shall shamefully abandon or deliver up any Garrison, Fortress, Post, or Guard committed to his Charge, or which he shall have been commanded to defend ; or shall compel the Governor or Commanding Officer of any Garrison, Fortress, or Post to deliver up to the Enemy or to abandon the same ; or shall speak Words or use any other Means to induce such Governor or Commanding Officer or any other to misbehave before the Enemy, or shamefully to abandon or deliver up any Garrison, Fortress, Post, or Guard committed to theii- respective Charge, or which he or they shall be commanded to defend ; or shall leave his Post before being regularly relieved, or shall be found sleeping on his Post; or shall hold Corres* pondence with or give Advice or Intelligence to any Rebel, Pirate, or Enemy of Her Majesty, either by Letters, Messages, Signs, Tokens, or any other Ways or Means whatever ; or shall treat or enter into any Terms with any such Rebel, Pirate, or Enemy, without the Licence of the Lord High Admiral of the said United Kingdom, or the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral aforesaid, for the Time being ; or shall strike or use or offer any Violence against his Superior Officer being in the Execution of his Office, or shall disobey any lawful Command of his Superior Officer; or who being confined in a Military Prison shall offer any Violence against a Visitor or other Officer
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being in the Execution of his Office, or shall violate any Law or Regulation of or relating to any Military Prison ; or shall desert Her Mi^esfty's Service ; every Person so offending in any of the Matters before menlioned shall suffer Death or such other Punish- ment as by a Court-martial shall be awarded : Provided always, diat any Non-commissioned Officer or Marine enlisted or in Pay in any Division or Company who shall, without having first ob- tained a regular Discharge therefrom, enlist himself in any other DiTision or Company, may be deemed to have deserted Her Majesty's Service, and shall be liable to be punished accordingly.
XXIII. Whensoever any General Court-martial by which any CommiiCatioQ Marine shall have been tried and convicted of any Offence of Death for poniahable with Death shall not think the Offence deserving of Tranaportation. Capital Puoidmient, such Court-martial may adjudge the Offender, according to the Decree of the Offence, to Penal Servitude or to
be transported as a Felon for Life or for a certain Term of Years not less than Fourteen Years, or may sentence him to general Service as a Marino or as a Soldier in any Corps and in any Country or Place which Her Majesty shall thereupon direct, or majy if such Offender shall have enlisted for a limited Term of Years, sentence him to serve for Life as a Marine or as a Soldier in any Corps which Her Majesty shall please to direct : Provided always, that in all Cases where a Capital Punishment shall have been awarded by a General Court-martial or by a Detachment Greneral Court-martial it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, or, if in the Eiui IndieSj for the Officer commanding in chief the Forces in India^ or if out of Her Majesty's Dominions (the Ionian Islands excepted) for the Officer commanding in chief Her Majesty's Forces there serving, instead of causing such Sentence to be carried into execution, to order the Offender to be kept to Penal Servitude or to be transported as a Felon either for Life or for a certain Term of Years not less than Fourteen, or to Penal Servitude or to suffer such Term of Imprisonment^ either with or without Hard Labour, as shall seem meet to Her Majesty, or, if in the East Indies, or out of Her Majesty's Dominions (the Ionian Islands excepted), to the Officers commanding as aforesaid.
XXIV. Every Officer and other Person employed in any Embeszlement Manner in the Care or Distribution of any Money, Provisions, punishable by Forage, or Stores belonging to Her Majesty's Royal Marine Forces Transportation.- or for their Use, who shall embezzle or fraudulently misapply,
wilfully damage, steal, or be concerned in or connive at the Embezzlement, fraudulent Misapplication, wilful Damage, or Theft of any Money, Provisions, Forage, Arms, Clothing, Ammu- nition, or other Military or Royal Marine Stores, may bo tried for the same by a General Court-martial, which may adjudge any ^ such Offender to Penal Servitude or to be transported as a Felon for lAfej or for any certain Term of Years not less than Four- teen, or to suffer such Punishment of Fine, Imprisonment, Dis- missal from Her Majesty's Service, and Incapacity of serving Her Majesty in any Office, Civil or Military, as such Court shall think fit, according to the Natui^e and Degree of the Offence ; and every such Offender shall, in addition to any other Punishment, make good at his own Expense the Loss and Damage sustained, which shall have been ascertained by such Court-martial ; and
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in everj such Case the Court is required to ascertain hy Evidence the Amount of the Loss or Damage incurred, and to declare by their Sentence that such Amount shall be made good by such Offender ; and the Loss and Damage so ascertained as aforesaid shall be a Debt to Her Majesty, and may be recovered in any of Her Majesty's Courts at Westminster or in DubUn^ or the Court of Exchequer in Scotlandj or in any Court in Her Majesty's Colonies where the Person sentenced by such Court-martial shall be resident after the said Judgment shall be confirmed and made known ; and every Commissioned Officer sentenced to Penal Ser- vitude or to be transported as a Felon, when such Sentence shall be duly confirmed, shall thereupon cease to belong to Her Majes^s Service, and for ever be incapable of serving Her Majesty in any Military Capacity. Transportatioii XXV. Whenever Her Majesty shall intend that any Sentence of Offender!. of Penal Servitude or of Transportation heretofore or hereafter to be passed upon any Offender by any Court-martial shall be carried into execution for the Term specified in 'such Sentence, or for any shorter Term, or shall be graciously pleased to commute, as herein provided, any Sentence of Death which shall have been passed br any such Court, such Sentence, together with Her Majesty^ Pleasure upon the same, shall be notified in Writing by the Lord High Admiral, or by any Two or more of the Commissioners for executing the said Office of Lord High Admiral for the l^me being, to any Justice of the Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, or Baron of the Exchequer, and thereupon such Justice or Baron shall make an Order for the Pbnal Servitude or Transportation of such Offender upon the Terms and for the Time which shall be specified in such Notification, and shall also do all such other Acts consequent upon such Notification as any such Justice or Baron is authorized to make or do by any Statute or Statutes in force at the Time of making any such Ch'ders in relation to the Penal Servitude or Transportation of Offenders ; and such Order, and other Acts to be so made and done as aforesaid, shall be obeyed . and executed by such Person in whose Custody such Offender shall at that Time be, and by all other Persons whom it may concern, and shall be as effectual, and have all the same Conse- quences, as any Order made under the Authority of any Statute with respect to any Offender in such Statute mentioned; and every Sheriff, Craoler, Keeper, Governor, or Superintendent whom it may concern, and all Constables and other Persons, shall be bound to obey the aforesaid Order and Orders, be assistant in the Execution thereof, and be liable to the same Punishment for Dis- obedience or interrupting the Execution of such Order, as thej • would be if the same had been made under the Authority of any such Act of Parliament ; and every Person so ordered to PeniJ Servitude or to be transported as aforesaid shall be subject re- spectively to all and every the Penalties and Provisions made bj Law and in force concerning Persons convicted of any Crime and sentenced to Penal Servitude or to be transported, or receiving Her Majesty's Pardon on Condition of Penal Servitude or Trans- portation ; and from the Time when such Order of Penal Servitude or Transportation shall be made every Law and Statute in force touching the Escape of Felons, or their afterwards returning or
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dieir being at large without Leave, shall applj to such Offender, and to all Persons aiding, abetting, contriving, or assisting in any Escape or intended Escape, or the returning without I^ave, of any such Offender ; and the Judge who shall make any Order of Fnsal Servitude or Transportation as aforesaid shall direct the Notification of Her Majesty's Pleasure, and his own Order made thereupon, to be filed and kept of Record in the Office of the Clerk of the Crown of the Court of Queen's Bench ; and the said Clerk shall have a Fee of Two Shillings and Sixpence only for filing the same, and shall, on Application, d^ver a Certificate in Writing (not taking more than Two Shillings and Sixpence for the same) to such Ofiender, or to any Person applying in his or Her Majesty's Behalf showing the Christian and Surname of such Offender, Ids Qfl!aDoe^ the Place where the Court was held before which he was convicted, the Sentence, and the Conditions on which the Older of Penal Servitude or Transportation was given ; which Certifi-* cate shall be sufficient Proof of the Convicti<m and of the Sen* tenoe of such Offender, and also of the Terms in which such Order for his Penal Servitude or Transportation was given, in any Court and in any Proceeding wherein it may be necessary to inquire into the same.
XXYL Whenev^ any Sentence of Penal Servitude or Trans- In the Colonies. portati(Mi heretofore or hereafter passed upon any Offender by any Court-martial holden in the JEtui Indies^ or in any Part of Her Majesty's Foreign Dominions, or elsewhere beyond the Seas, is to be carried into execution for the Term specified in such Sentence, or for any shorter Term, or when Sentence of Death has been or shall as i^oresaid be commuted to Penal Servitude or Transporta- tion, the same shall be notified by the Officer commanding Her MigeBty's Forces at the Presidency or Station where the Offender may come or be to some Judge of One of the Supreme Courts of Judicature in the Eiui Indtesy or Chief Justice or some other Judge, as the Case may be, in any Part of Her Majesty's Foreign Dominioiis, who shall make Order for the Penal Servitude or Transportation or intermediate Custody of such Offender in like Manner as for the Penal Servitude or Transportation or inter- mediate Custody of any other Convict ; and upon any such Order being made it shall be duly notified to the Governor of the Presi- dency if in the East Indies^ or to the Governor of the Colony if in any of Her Majesty's Colonies, or to the Person who shall for the Time being be^ exercising the Office of Grovemor of such Presidency or Colony, who on Receipt of such Notification shall cause such Offender to be removed to some Colony or Place in obedience to the Directions for the Removal of Convicts which shall from Time to Time be transmitted from Her Majesty through One of Her Principal Secretaries of State to such Presidency or Colony ; and such Offender on being so removed shall undergo the Sentence of Penal Servitude or "l^ansportation which has been passed upon him in the Colony or Place to which he has been so removed or sent, and whilst such Sentence shall remain in force shall be liable to be there imprisoned and kept to Hard Labour, and otherwise dealt with under such Sentence, in the same Manner as if he had been sentenced to be imprisoned with Hard Labour during the Term of his Penal Servitude or Transportation by the
Judgment
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Judgment of a Court of competent Jurisdiction in the Colony or Place to which he has been so removed or sent : Provided alwajs, that in any Case where a Sentence of Penal Servitude or Trans- portation shall have been awarded by a General Court-martial or Detachment General Court-martial, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, or, if in the East IndieSy for the Officer commanding in chief the Forces in Indta, instead of causing such Sentence to be carried into execution, to order that the Offender be imprisoned for a Term not exceeding Two Years, either with or without Hard Labour and Solitary Confinement not exceeding the Period herein-after prescribed.
Convict after XXYH. When any Sentence of Death shall be commuted for
Sentence of Penal Servitude or Transportation, or when any Marine shall by Transportation. Court-martial be adjudged to Penal Servitude or to be transported a« authorized by this Act^ it shall be lawful for the Commanding Officer of the Division to which such Marine shall have belonged or may belong to cause him to be detained and conveyed to any Gaol or Prison, there to remain in safe Custody until he shall be removed therefrom by due Authority under an Order for his Penal Servitude or Transportation to be made by some Justice of the Queen's Bench or Common Pleas or Baron of the Exchequer as aforesaid ; and that a Certificate of his Sentence, after the same shall have been approved by the Lord High Admiral, or the Com- missioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral, (such Certificate to be signed by the Commanding Officer of the Division from which he shall be sent,) shall be a sufficient Order, Requisition, and Authority to the Grovemor, Keeper, or Superintendent of the Gaol or Prison to receive and detain him : Provided always, that in case of any such Offender being so conveyed to Gaol or Prison the usual Allowance of Sixpence per Diem shall be made to the Keeper of the Gaol or Prison for the Subsistence of such Offender during his Detention therein, which Allowance shall be paid by the Paymaster of the Division, upon Production to him, by the said Governor, Keeper, or Superintendent, of a Declaration, to be made by him before One of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace of such County, of the Number of Days during which the Offender shall have been so detained and subsisted in such Gaol or Prison.
Power to com- XXX. In all Cases in which Corporal Punishment shall form mate Corporal the whole or any Part of the Sentence awarded by any Court- Punishment, martial, it shall be lawful for the Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United King- dom of Great Britain and Irelarid, or for the Officer authorized to confirm the Sentences of Courts-martial, to commute such Corporal Punishment to Imprisonment, either solitary or with or without Hard Labour, for any Period not exceeding Forty-two Days, or to mitigate such Sentence, or instead of such Sentence to award Imprisonment, either solitary or with or without Hard Labour, for any Period not exceeding Twenty Days, and Corporal Punish- ment, to be inflicted in the Prison, not exceeding Twenty-five Lashes ; provided that such Commutation of Punishment to Solitary Confinement shall in no Case exceed the Period herein-after pre- scribed.
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XXXI. Anj General Court-martial maj, in addition to any Forfettare of otber Punishment which it maj be competent to award, sentence ^7 *>^d Pen- any Offender to Forfeiture of aU Advantage as to additional Pay, "**'* ^^^ Grood-conduct Pay, and to Pension on Discharge, which might ^^^ hare otherwise accrued from the Length of his former Service, or to Forfeiture of such Advantage absolutely, whether it might have accrued from past Service, or might accrue from future Service, according to the Nature of the Case ; and any District or Garrison Court-martial may also, in addition to any Sentence which such Court may award, sentence any Offender to such Forfeiture for Desertion, or for disgraceful Conduct^
In wilfully maiming or injuring himself or any other Marine, whether at the Instance of such other Marine or not, or of causing himself to be maimed or mutilated bv any other Per- son, with Intent thereby to render himself or such other Marine unfit for Service : In wilfully doing any Act, or wilfully disobeying any Orders, whether in Hospital or otherwise, thereby producing or aggra- vating Disease or Infirmity, or delaying his Cure : In malingering or feigning Disease :
In stealing or embezzling Government Property or Stores, or
in receiving the same knowing the same to have been stolen :
In stealing any Money or Goods the Property of a Comrade,
of a Marine Officer, or of any Marine Mess or Band, or in
receiving any such Money or Groods knowing the same to
have been stolen :
In making any false or fraudulent Accounts, Returns, Matters,
or Entries, or assisting or conniving at the same being made,
or producing the same as true, knowing the same to be false or
fraudulent :
In stealing or embezzling or fraudulently misappljing Public
Money intrusted to him : Or in committing any other Offence of a felonious or fraudu- lent Nature, to the Injunr of, or with Intent to injure, any Person, Civil, Marine, or Military : Or for any other disgraceful Conduct, being of a cruel, indecent,
or unnatural Kind. XXXIL Every Marine who shall be found guilty by a Court- Forfeiture of martial of Desertion, of wilfully maiming or injuring himself or 1^7 ^ ^^* any otber Marine, whether at the Instance of such other Marine ^J^^ " or not, or of causing himself to be maimed or mutilated by any p^jgny, ' other Person, with Intent thereby to render himself or such other Marine unfit for Service, of tampering with his Eyes with Intent - thereby to render himself unfit for Service, such Finding having been confirmed, or of Felony in anv Court of ordinary Criminid Jurisdiction in England or Ireland^ or of any Crime or Offence in any Court of Criminal Judicature in any Part of the United Kingdom, or in any Dominion, Territory, Colony, Settlement, or Ishmd belonging to or occupied b^ Her Majesty out of the United Kngdom, which would, if committ^ therein, amount to Felony, shall thereupon forfeit all Advantage as to additional Pay, Good- conduct Pay, and to Pension on Discharge, which might have otherwise accrued from the Length of his former Service in ad- dition to any Punishment which such Court may award.
XXXVIL When-
se
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Discharge iritfa Ignominy.
Impriflonnient of Ofienden alreadj under Sentence ibr previons Offence.
Tenn and Place of Imprison- ment
Trials for De- sertion after subsequent Re-
enlistment.
Offences con- nected with Enlistment.
XXXVIL Whenever any Marine shall have been convicted of any such disgraceful Conduct herein-before described, or of Deser- tion, and the Court in respect thereof shall have made the Forfeiture of all Claim to Pension on Discharge a Part of the Sentence passed on such Marine, such Court may further recommend that he be discharged with Ignominy from Her Majesty's Service.
XL. Whenever Sentence shall be passed by a Court-martial on an Offender already under Sentence of a Court-martial for any Offence of which he has/been before convicted, it shall be lawful for the Court to award Imprisonment for the Offence for which he is under Trial» upon Conviction thereof, to commence at the Expiration of the Imprisonment to which such Offender shall have been previously sentenced ; and where such Offender shall be already under Sentence, either of Imprisonment, of Penal Servitude, or Transportation, the Court, if empowered to pass Sentence of Penal Servitude or of Transportation, may award such Sentence for the Offence for which he is under Trial to commence at the Expiration of the Imprisonment or Penal Servi- tude or Transportation to which such Offender shall have been previously sentenced, although the aggregate of the Terms of Im- prisonment, Penal Servitudci or Transportation respectively may exceed the Term for which either of those Punishments would be otherwise awarded
XLL Save as herein specially provided, every Term of Penal Servitude, Transportation, or Imprisonment under the Sentence of a Court-martial, whether original or revised, shall be reckoned as commencing on the Day on which the original Sentence and Proceeding shall have been signed by the President ; and the Place of Imprisonment under the Sentences of Courts-martial shall be appointed by the Court or the Lord High Admiral, or the Commissioners for ezeenting the Office of Lord High Admiral, or the Commanding Officer of the Division to which the Offender belongs or is attadied, <« the Officer commanding the District, Garrison, Island, or Colony.
XLIX. Every Marine shall be liable to be tried and punished for Desertion from any Corps into which he may have unlawfully enlisted, although he may of right belong to another Corps, and be a Deserter therefrt>m ; and whether such Marine shall be tried for deserting from the Corps to which he may of right belong, or frt)m the &>rps into which he may have unlawnilly enlisted, or for any other Desertion, every Desertion previous or subse- quent to tiiat for which he may at the Time be taking his Trial may, if duly stated in the Charges, be given in Evidence against him on such TriaL
LXL If any Becruit shall receive the Enlisting Money frt>m any Person employed in the Becruiting Service (knowing it to be such), and shidl abscond or refuse to go before such Justice, or shall thereafter absent himself from the Recruiting Party or Person with whom he enlisted, and shall not voluntarily return to go before some Justice within such Period of Ninety-six Hoars as aforesaid, such Becruit sfiall be deemed to be enlisted and a Private in Her Majesty's Boyal Marine Forces as fully to all Intents and Purposes as if he had been duly attested, and may be apprehended and punished as a Deserter, or for being absent
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wiihont Leave, under any Articles of W&r made for the Punish- ment of Mating and Desertion ; and such Becruit shall not be diftchafged by any Justice of the Peace after the Expiration of such Ninetj-six Hours as aforesaid, unless it shall be proved to the Satis&ction of such Justice that the true Name and Resi- dence a£ the Becruit were disclosed and known to the RecruitiDg Partj, and that no Notice was given to the Recruit, or left at his usual Place of Abode, of his having so enlisted, or that the trjie Name and Residence of the Recruit were not taken down in Writing : Provided always, that in every Case wherein any Re- cruit shall have received Enlisting Money, and shall have ab- sconded from the Party, so that it shall not be possible immediately to apprehend and bring him before a Justice, the Officer or Non- oommissioned Officer commanding the Party shall produce to the Justice before whom the Recruit ought regularly to have been brought for Attestation a Certificate of the Name and Place of Residenoe of such Recruit ; and the Justice to whom such Cer- tificate shall be produced shall, after satisfying ^himself that the Becruit who had absconded cannot be found and apprehended, transmit a Duplicate thereof to the Secretary of the Admiralty, in order that, in the event of such Recruit being afterwards apprehended and reported as a Deserter, the Facts of his having received Enlisting Money, and having absconded after having been enlisted, may be ascertained before he shall be finally adjudged to be a Deserter ; and it shall be lawful for any Two Justices acting for the Coonty, Division, District, or Place where any such Re- cruit shall at any Time happen to be when any such Recruit skall be brought, and shall be proved upon Oath before them to have concealed his belonging or having belonged to any Regiment, or to the Marines, Ordnance, or Navy, or the Forces of the JSasi India Company, and discharged, or to have deserted therefrom, or to have concealed his having been discharged on any prior EnUstment, or to have wilfully concealed any Infirmity, or de- signedly made any false Representation at or previously to the Tune of receiving Enlisting Money or upon being attested, to ai4Joc^ such Recruit, if in England, to be a Rogue and Vagabond, au^ to sentence him to such Punishment as by any Law may be inflicted on Rogues and Yagabondsi and to adjudge such Person, if in Scotland or Irelandy to be imprisoned with Hard Labour in any Prison or House of Correction for any Period not exceeding Three Months ; and any Recruit who shall designedly make any false Representation of any Particular contained in the Oaths and Certificates in the Schedule to this Act annexed before the Justice at the Time of his Attestation, and shall obtain any Enlisting Money, or any Bounty for entering inio Her Majesty's Service, or any other Money, shall be deemed guilty of obtaining Money under false Pretences, within the true Litent and Meaning, if in England, of an Act passed in the Session holden in the Seventh . and Eighth Years of His Majesty King George the Fourth, in- tituled An Act for consolidating and amending the Latos in 7 & 8 G. 4. Evland rtlaiitfe to Larceny and other Offences connected there' 0. 29. 10M, and if in Irdand, of an Act passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of Hia Miyesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for coumMdaOng and amending the Laws in Ireland relative 9 0. 4. c. 55.
to
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to Larceny and other Offences connected therewiihy and such Becruity if in Scotland, shall be deemed goiltj of Falsehood, Fraud, and wilful Imposition ; and anj attested Recruit who shall in any Fart of Her Majesty's Dominions or elsewhere have committed any of the before-mentioned Offences regarding En- listment may be summarily punished, or prosecuted, tried, and convicted, for any such Offence, at any Time during the Continu* ance of the Service for which he shall have enlisted, and in any County or Place where he may happen to be when such summary Proceeding or Prosecution shall be instituted ; and the Production of the Oath in the Schedule to this Act annexed taken by the Becruit on his Attestation, and the Certificate signed by the Jus- tice before whom the Recruit was attested, certifying that the Questions and Answers contained in the Attestation were in hid Presence put to and given by such Recruit^ shall, in the Absence of Proof to the contrary, be deemed and taken to be sufficient Evidence of such Recruit having represented the several Par- ticulars as in the Oath sworn by him ; and Proof by the Oath of One or more credible Witnesses that the Person so prosecuted hath voluntarily acknowledged that at the Time of his Enlistment he belonged to the Militia, or to any Regiment in Her Majesty's Service, or to Her Majesty's Navy or Marine or Ordnance, or to the Forces of the East India Company, or that he designedly made any false Representation of any Particular contained in the said Oaths and Certificates or either of them before the Justice at the Time of the Attestation of the Person being prosecuted, shall be deemed and taken as Evidence of the Fact so by him acknow- ledgedy without Production of any Roll or other Document to prove the same ; and such Proof of such Acknowledgment shall be certified to the Secretary of the Admiralty by the Justice before whom such Proof shall have been given ; and any Man having been enrolled as a Volunteer under the Act Fifteenth and Sixteenth Victoria, Chapter Fifty, or any subsequent Acts, to serve in the Militia, who at the Time of offering to enlist into Her Majesty's Forces, Army, Ordnance, or Marines, or into the Forces of the East India Company, or to enter into Her Migesty's Navy, shaU deny that he is a Militia Man then actually enrolled and engaged to serve in the Militia^ and who shall not have completed his Engagement by Attestation or by being entered on the Books of the Navy, shall upon Conviction thereof before any One Justice of the Peace in the United Kingdom, either upon the Oath of One Witness or upon his own Confession, be com- mitted to the Common Gaol or House of Correction for any Time not exceeding Fourteen Days ; and any Man enrolled as aforesaid who may have denied or shall hereafter deny, or who may have confessed or shall hereafter confess, to the Justice before whom he shall have been or shall be attested for the Army, Ordnance, or Marine Forces, or for the Forces of the East India Company, or who may have denied or shall hereafter deny, or who may have confessed or shall hereafter confess, on the Completion • of his Engagement to enter the Navy, that he belongs to the Militia, shall not be liable to Imprisonment for such Offence^ but shall, upon Conviction thereof before any One Justice of the United kingdomy or before a Divisional or Naval Court of
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Inquiry, either upon his own Confession or upon the Oath of One Witness, forfeit all Militia Bounty which would have become payable to him during the Period of his belonging to Her M^esty's Forces, Army, Ordnance, or Marines, or to the Forces of the £aMi India Company, or to the Royal Navy, if he had not therein enlisted or entered, and be subjected to a Stoppage of One Peony a Day from his Pay for Eighteen Calendar Months, to be applied as the Secretary of the Admiralty shall direct, or if enrolled in the Militia as a balloted Man or a Substitute shall, if oonyicted before any One Justice as aforesaid, be conunitted to the Common Gaol or House of Correction, there to remain without Bail or Mainprise for and during any Time not exceeding Six Calendar Months, over and above any Penalty or Punishment to which such Person so offending may be otherwise liable, and sach Peraon, whether he shall have been enrolled as a Volunteer or as a balloted Man or Substitute, shall from the Day on which his Elngagement to serve in the Militia shall end be and serve as a Marine of the Division of Her Majesty's Royal Marine Forces into which he has so enlisted : Provided also, that every such Person shall be liable to serve in Her Majesty's Royal Marine Forces in which he has so enlisted during all the Time the Militia to which he shall belong shall remain disembodied, or shall not be called out for Training or Exercise, and shall during all such Time be subject to all the Provisions of this Act, and be liable to be apprehended and dealt with and punished as a Deserter from the Marines if he shall neglect or refuse to join and serve therein.
LXXTTT. It shall be lawful for the Lord High Admiral, or the Proriding for Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral, Supply of Car-. or the Lord lieutenant or Chief Governors of Ireland^ by their ^^&^ ^^ or his Orders distinctly stating that a Case of Emergency doth ^ ^"®* ^ exist, signified by the Secretary of the Admiralty, or, if in Ire- ^^^^i^^* land, by the Chief Secretary or Under Secretary, or the First Clerk in the Military Department to authorize any Commanding Officer of Her Majesty's Royal Marine Forces in any District or Place, or to the chief acting Agents for the Supply of Stores and Provisions, by Writing under his Hand, reciting such Order of the Lord High Admrnd, or the said Commissioners, or Lord Lieutenant or Chief Governors aforesaid, to require fdl Justices within their severalJurisdictions vi England and Ireland to issue their Warrants for the Provision, not only of Waggons, Wains^. Carts, and Cars kept by or belonging to any Person and for any Use whatsoever, but also of Saddle Horses, Coaches, Postchaises, Chaises, and other Four-wheeled Carriages kept for Hire, and of all Horses kept to draw Carriages licensed to carry Passengers, and also of Boats, Barges, and other Vessels used for the Trans- port of any Commodities whatsoever upon any Canal or navigable Biver as shall be mentioned in the said Warrants, therein specify- ing the Place and Distance to which such Carriages or Vessels shall go ; and on the Production of such Requisition, or a Copy thereof certified by the Commanding Officer, to such Justice, by any Officer of the Corps ordered to be conveyed, such Justice shall take all the same Proceedings in regard to such additional Supply so required on the said Emergency as he is by this Act reqnirod to take for the ordinary Provision of Carriages ; and 17 & 18 Vicr. D an
34 C. 6. 1 7^ & 18 « VICTORIiE, A.D. 1854.
all Ftovisions whatsoever of this Act as regards the procaring of the ordinary Supply of Carriages, and the Duties of Officers and Non-commissioned Officers, Justices, Constables, and Owners of Carriages in tiiat Behalf, shall be to all Intents and Purposes applicable for the providing and Payment aecording to the Rates of Posting or of Hire usually paid for such other Description of Carriages or Vessels so required on Emergency, according to the Length of the Journey or Voyage in each Case, but making no Allowance for Post Horse Duty, or Turnpike, Canal, River^ or Lock Tolls, which Duty or Tolls ace hereby declared not to be demandable for such Carriages and Vessels while employed in such Service or returning therefrom ; and it shall be lawfol to eonvey thereon not only the Baggage, Provioons, and Military Stores of such Detadiment, but also ^e Officers^ Marines^ Sermnts, Women, Children^ and other Persons of and belonging to the same.
Exemption LXXVL All Officers and Marines, being in proper ITnifomty
from Tolls. Dress or Undress, and their Horses, (but not when passing in any private or hired Vehicle,) and all Recruits, marching by Route, and all Prisoners under I^litary Escort, and all Carrii^es and Horses belonging to Her Majesty or employed in Her Service under the Provisions of this Act^ or in any of Her Majesty's Colonies, when employed in conveying Persons or Baggage goings thereto or returning therefrom, shall be exempted from the Pay- ment of any Duties and Tolls on embarking or disembarking from or upon any Pier, Wharf, Quay, or Landing Place, or passing Turnpike or other Roads or Bridges, otherwise demandable by virtue of any Act already passed or hereafter to be passed, or by virtue of any Act or Ordinance, Order, or Direction, of any Colonial Legislature or other Authority in any of Her Majesty^ Colonies ; and if any Toll Collector shall demand or receive Toll from any Marine Officer or Marine who shall be in proper Uni- form, Dress or Undress, or for their Horses, and who by this Act is exempted from Pa3rment thereof, or from any Recruits marching^ by Route, or from any Prisoners under Military Escort^ or for any Carriages or Horses belonging to Her Majesty or employed in Her Service under the Provisions of this Act, wh^i conveying" Persons or Baggage, or returning therefrom, every such Collector ;shall for every such Offence be liable to a Penalty not exceeding- Five Pounds ; providied that nothing herein contained shall exempt any Boats, Barges, or other Vessels employed in convepng the said Persons, Horses, Baggage, or l^res along any Canal from Payment of Tolls in like Manner as other Boats, Barges, and Vessels are liable thereto, except when employed in Cases of Emergency as herein mentioned ; and that when any Officers or Marines on Service shall have Occasion in the March by Route to pass regular Ferries in Scoiiand, the Officer commanding shall be at Hberty to pass over with his Marines as Plussengers^ PAjiiig^ for himself and each Marine One Half only of the ordinary Rsto payable by Passengers, or he shall be at liberty to hire the Ferry Boat for himself and his Pftrtj, debarring all others for that Time^ and shall in such Case pay only Half the ordinaiy Rate fat sodt Boat.
JJCCBLJUj
A.D.1854. IV 8c 18*> VICTORIA- C. 6. 35
LXXXIL Any Person who shall detain, buy, or exchange, or Penalty for otherwise receive from any Marine or Marine Deserter, or any purchasing other Peraon* apoo any Account or Pretence whatsoever, or shall ^lothes, &c. soUcii or entice any Marine, or shall be employed by any Marine, j^rf,^^ knowing him to be such, to sell any Arms, Aimnuiiition, Marine Clothes, or Military Furniture, or any other Articles which, accord- ing to the Custom of the Marine Corps, are generally deemed Begimental or Divisional Necessaries, or any Provisions, Sheets^ or other Articles used in Barracks or provided under Barrack Regulations, whether on shore or afloat, and whether the Marine or Manne lleserter or other Person be or be not borne on the Books of any One of Her Majesty's Ships, or be or be not embarked, or who sliaU have in his or her Possession or Keeping any Arms, AmnnHiition, Marine Clothes, or Military Sbmiture, or any other Articles^ which, according to the Custom of the Marine Corps, are generally deemed Regimental or Divisional Necessaries, or any Provisions, Sheets, or other Articles used in Barracks or piovided under Barrack Regulations^ and shall not give a satis- factory Account how he or she came by the same, or shall change or cause the Colour or Mark of any such Clothes, Appointments, or Necessaries to be changed or defaced, shall forfeit for every such Offence any Sum not exceeding Twenty Pounds, together with Treble the Value of all or any of the several Articles of which such Offender shall so become possessed ; and if any Person havii^ been so convicted shall afterwards be guilty of any such Offence, and shall be convicted thereof by One or more Justices of the Peace, every such Offender shall for every such Offence forfeit any Sum not exceeding Twenty Pounds but not less than Eire Porads^ mad the Treble Value of all or any of the several Artiekis of winch such Oflfender shall have so become possessed, and shall, in addition to soeh Forfeiture, be committed to the Common Gaol or House of Correction^ there to be imprisoned only, or to be impmoned and kept to Hard Labour, for such Term not excae^Bg Six Calendar Months as the convicting Justice or JustiflBa shall think fit ; and. upon any Information against any Bersoo for a^ Second or any subsequent Offence, a Copy of the OmvictioB, certified by the proper Officer having the Care or. Gnalody of such Conviction, or any Copy of the same proved to be a troe Copy, diall he sufficient Evidence to prove a Convic- tion fi)r tiie fonnffl* Offence; and if any crediUe Person shall prave, ofD Oath before a Justice of the Peaoe or Person ezer- ciung UIbb Authority aeeording to the Laws of that Part of Her Majnty's Domiiiions in which the Offence shaHl be committed, a raaimnahlf Cause to suapeet that any Person has in his or her Poa- aeaaiaaa or on his or her Premises any Property of the Descriptiom herai»-befare deaeribed, on or with respect to which any such Qfiaoa shall huve been committed, the Justice may and he is hflvefaj required to grant a Warrant to search for such Property as ia tiie Case of stolen €roods ; and if upon Search any such IVaperty shall be foiuid, the same shall and may be seised by the Offieor diarged with the Exeeutioa of such Warranty who shall bring tibe OflSsnder in whose Posseflsaon the aaaae shall be found bifae audi Jvstiee^ to be dealt with according to Law.
D S SCHE-
36
C.6,7.
17°&18« VICTORIJE.
A.D.1854-
14 & 15 Vict Cl6.
County Boadfl Boards shall, at First Meet- ing after pass- ing of this Act, proceed to put recited Act into mention.
SCHEDULE referred to by this Act Questions to be separately put by the Justice to a Beobuit.
[^Questions I to S inclusive^ and 10, 11, 13, 14, and 15 remain unaltered from 16 Vict, c. 10.]
9. At what Place, on what Day, at what Hour of the Day, and by whom, were you enlisted?
*12. Do you now belong to the Militia^ or to the Naval Coast Volunteers ?
♦ The Justice is directed, in putting the Twelfth Question to the Recruit, and before he receiyes his Answer, distinctly to apprize the Recruit that if he belongs to the Militia, ^jjd denies the Fact, he is liable to forfeit One Penny a Day of his Pay for Eighteen Calendar Months, and to Fourteen. Days Imprisonment if he is not attested ; and if he belongs to the Naval Coast Volunteers he is liable, under the Act Sixteenth and Seventeenth Victoria, Chapter Seventy-three, to Impri- sonment for Six Months, and his Enlistment will be null and void.
CAP. VIL
An Act for extending the Time limited for putting into execution the Act of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Years of Her present Majesty, for the better Management and Control of Highways in South Wales. [12th May 1854.]
' TI/^HEREAS by an Act passed in the Fourteenth and Fif^^
* ^^ teenth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty,
* intituled An Act for the better Management and Control cf
* ihe Highways in South Wales, it was enacted that the County ^ Roads Board of each County in South WaleSy constituted as ^ therein recited, should, at their First General Meeting after ' the passing of the said Act^ or at some Adjournment thereof ' proceed to divide the County into so many Districts for the ' separate Management of the several Highways therein as should
* in their Judgment be most convenient, in manner therein ^ provided, and that such Board should make an Order for the ' Formation of such Districts, and should cai^se such Order, ' together with a Description or Statement of the Boundaries of ^ such Districts, to be published, as therein mentioned, One ' Month at least before the Twenty-fifth Day of March then next :
* And whereas it is expedient to enlarge the Time for carrying
* the said Act into execution as to some of the said Counties :' Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Migesty, 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 County Roads Board of each County in South Wales in which the said recited Act has not already been put in execution shall at their First General Annual Meeting after the passing of this Act, or at some Adjourn- ment thereof, proceed in manner in the said recited Act provided to divide the County into so many Districts for the separate
Management
A.D. 1854. 17<» & 18° VICTORUE. C. 7, 8. 37
Management of the several Highways therein respectively as shall in their Judgment be most convenient; and that the said Board shall make an Order for the Formation of such Districte, and shall cause such Order, together with a Description or Statement of the Boondaries of such Districts, or of the Parishes comprised therein respectively, to be published by Advertisement in One or more of the Newspapers circulating in their County One Month at least before the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five; and thereupon all Quch Proceedings as were required or authorized by the said recited Act after the Publication of such Notice as is therein required shall be had and take place as if the Time hereby authorized for the making of the said Order and the Publication thereof, with such Descrip- tion^or Statement of the Boundaries as aforesaid, had been inserted in the said recited Act ; and that all the Powers and Provisions, Matters and Things, contained in the said recited Act> shall, so fiu> as the same are not varied by this Act, extend to this Act as fuUj and efiectually as if the same had been expressly repeated and re-enacted in and by this Act
CAP. vm.
An Act further to amend an Act relating to the Valuation of rateable Property in Ireland. [12th May 1864.]
' T^HEREAS an Act was passed in the Session holden in
* *" the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Years of Her Majesty is&ieViot. ' (Chapter Sixty-three), '^ to amend the Laws relating to the c 63.
* ** Valuation of rateable Property in Irdand^ and such Act was
' amended by an Act of the last Session of Parliament, Chapter i6 & 17 Vict *■ Seven : And whereas it is expedient further to amend the said e. 7.
* Act of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Years of Her Majesty :* Be it therefore enacted by the Queen'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, as follows :
L The said Act of the last Session of Parliament, and Sections le & 17 Tlct fifteen. Twenty-nine, and Thirty of the firstly herein -before c 7., and Sec- mentioned Act, and so much of Section Twenty-five of the same ^^"^ ^^'t 2*» Act as enacts that on the Receipt by the Treasurer of any County SJt^'sSt 25 of such final Lists as therein mentioned of any Barony or of the of 15 & 16 Vict whole Number of Baronies in such County such Treasurer shall c. 63., repealed. strike out from the Columns in such final Lists relating to Build- ings the Valuations of each and every House in each Tenement and Townland the net annual Value of which House as therein stated shall not exceed Five Pounds, and shall deduct the Sum of such Valuations of Houses valued under Five Pounds and so struck out from the total Amount of the Valuation of such re- spective Tenement and Townland, and that the Valuation of each Tenement and Townland after such Deduction shall be deemed to be the Value thereof for the Purposes of County AssessmentSi flbsQ be repealed.
IL In makinff out the Lists or Tables of Valuation mentioned Comaliiioner ifl the said firstW herein-before mentioned Act, the Commissioner ihaUdiatingQish ' J) 3 of aUHoMetuaed
38
C.8.
17*^ & 18«> VICTORLffi.
A.D.1854.
for a public Na- ture, &c. which shall be exempt- ed from Assess- ment
Half of Bent derived by Owner, &c. to be entered in Valuation Lists.
Grand Jury may direct lists to be acted upon at the First As- sises after their Receipt, al- though the Spring Assizes.
Bevisionof the Valuation of Tenements liable to fre- quent Altera- tion.
Penalty on Collector for not returning List for Reri- ttcrn.
of Valuation shall distinguish all Hereditaments and Tenements, or Portions of the same, of a public Nature, or used for charitaUe Purposes, or for the Purposes of Science, Literature, and the Fine Arts, as specified in an Act of the Sixth and Seventh Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Thirty-six; and all ^nch Hereditaments or Tenements, or Portions of the same, so distinguished, shall, so long as they shall continue to be of a public Nature, and occupied for the public Service, or used for the Purposes aforesaid, be deemed exempt from all Assessment for the Belief of the destitute Poor in Ireland and for Grand Jury and County Rates : Provided always, that Half the annual Ttent derived by the Owner or other Person interested in any Tenements or Hereditaments so distin- guished shall be included in such List or Tables, so far as the same can or may be ascertained by the said Commissioner of Valuation.
lU. Where the Assizes for any County next ensuing the Day on which any final Lists of Valuation mentioned in Section Twenty-six of the firstly herein-before mentioned Act shall be received by the Treasurer of such County happen to be the Spring Assizes, it shall be lawful for the Grand Jury of such County at such Assizes, if they so think fit, to direct that the Valuations contained in such final Lists shall, from and after the Commencement of such Assizes, be in force and be acted upon for the Purposes mentioned in the said Section as if such Assizes were the Summer Assizes next ensuing tlie Day of such Receipt of such final Lists respectively, and such Lists shall be so acted upon accordingly.
IV. And for the Purpose of providing for the necessary Revi- sion of the Valuation of the rateable Tenements and Hereditaments the Limits whereof shall become altered, and also of rateable Tenements or Hereditaments the annual Value of which is liable to frequent Alteration, such as Fisheries, Railways, Canals, Tolls of Roads, Bridpfcs, Mines, Gas and Water Works, and Buildings, be it enacted, That on the Fifteenth Day of November in each Year every Collector of Poor Rates within each Poor Law Union within which the Valuation of the rateable Hereditaments and Tenements has been or shall have been completed and shall be in operation shall make out and deliver to the Clerk of such Union, to be by him laid before the Board of Guardians of such Union, a List of all the Tenements or Hereditaments situate within every Townland in the said Union and within his District the Valuation of which Tenements shall require Revision for any of the Reasons aforesaid, or in respect of any Property the annual Value of which is liable to frequent Alteration as aforesaid ; and if any such Collector shall fail or neglect to make out such List according to the best of his Ability, and deliver the same to the Clerk of the Union as aforesaid, within the Period aforesaid, Jie shall for every such Neglect or Defanlt be liable to a Penahy not exceeding Five Pounds ; and anj Ratepayer within any Poor Law Union may within the same Period make out and deliver to the Clerk of the Union, to be by him laid before the Board of Guardians thereof, a List of any Tenements the Vaiuation of which shall in his Opinion require Revision ; and the Clerk ixf each Poor Law Union shall for Ten Days afltor reeeiviiig any «ach List
leave
AJ>.1854. IJ^ & 18^ VICTORIiE. CS, 9. 3»
Jfisre the ame open for public Znspection at tfao Workhouse of such Umon, and p^ mit Extracts to be made therefrom, and shall on or before the Twentj-flerenth Day of November in each Year laake out a fofl and complete List of all Tenements and Property mentioBed in such Lists delivei«d to him as aforesaid on or before the fifteenth Day of the same Month, and transmit the List so made oat by hun to the Commisaioner of Valoation, with the OpimoQ of the said Board of Guardians whether such Beyision is necessary on account of such Changes or Alterations.
V. On or before the First Day of Summer Assizes to be held Ck>mmi88i«n«r far any County next after the Receipt of such Lists for the several of Vaimrtioa Poor Law Unions in such County, the Commissioner of Valuation shall cause a shall cause a Revision to be made of the Valuation of the Tene- ?!^*7 ^^ menu in the several Townlands and Parishes within such County, TenmenSI^and or any Barony or Poor Law Union therein, and appoint fit and transmit a List proper Persons to revise the Valuation of the Tenements so re- to the Guardians quiiing Bevision, and the Person making such Revision shall have ^^ ^® TJnion, re^urd to the total Valuation of the Lands, independently of ^^^^^^' Buildings, within each respective Townland or other Denomina- (^^^^ &c. tion, as finally decided on by the Commissioner of Valuation, or by the Court at any General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace, under the Proviaiims of the firstly her^in-before mentioned Act, and Bhall not lacreaae or lessen such total Valuation, except in Cases in which a clerical Eiror shall have been discovered, when the same may be rectified ; and as soon as the said Revision shall have been completed the Commissioner of Valuation shall maice out and prepare a revised List or Lists of the Valuation of the rateable Hereditaments and Tenements within such Coonty or any Barony thereof^ or within such Poor Law Union, or a List of the Tenements, so revised as aforesaid, and shall sign the same, and tmnsHBt printed or written Copies of such List or Lasts, so signed by faim, in the Form set fiortfa in the Schedule to the firstly herein-beibre mentioned Act annexed, to the Guardians of eacli Union, and to the Town Council of any Borough within which any Tenements contained in any such List are situate, and like« wise to the Treasurer of the County ; and the Clerk of such Union shall