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and the appointment of new trustees, from time to time, shall apply in every case in which such money has, before the passing of this Act, been laid out in the purchase of land.

5. Deposit of orders.] Copies of all orders made by the Commissioners under this Act shall be deposited and kept in like manner as copies of an award are by the Inclosure Act, 1845, directed to be deposited and kept.

6. Exception of the New Forest.] This Act shall not extend to the New Forest.

Within the Metropolis Not within the Metropolis, but within the district of an urban sanitary authority, as defined by the Public Health Act, 1875, or any Act amending the

same.

Elsewhere than within the Metropolis or the district of an urban sanitary authority as above defined.

Local Authority.

rites of Christian burial on the interment of the remains of any such person as aforesaid, or be taken to alter the laws or usages relating to the burial of such persons.

5. Extent of Act.] This Act shall extend to the Channel Islands, but shall not apply to Scotland or to Ireland.

6. Short title.] This Act may be cited as the Interments (felo de se) Act, 1882.

CAP. XX.

An Act to amend the Poor Rate Assessment and Collection Act, 1869. [3rd July 1882.

Be it enacted, &c. :

The urban sanitary authority.

The churchwardens and

CAP. XVI. An Act to amend the Irish Reproductive Loan Fund Act, 1874. [19th June 1882.

CAP. XVII. An Act for the transfer of Property in Ireland held for the service of Her Majesty's Customs and of the Inland Revenue to the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland; and for other purposes relating thereto. [3rd July 1882.

CAP. XVIII. An Act to regulate the procedure of School Boards in Scotland in the dismissal of Teachers. [3rd July 1882.

CAP. XIX. An Act to amend the Law relating to the interment of any person found felo de se. [3rd July 1882. Whereas it is expedient that the laws and usages relating to the interment of the remains of persons against whom a finding of felo de se shall be had should be further altered and amended:

Be it therefore enacted, &c. :

1. Repeal of 4 Geo. 4, c. 52.] The Act of the fourth year of George the Fourth, chapter fifty-two, intituled "An Act to alter and amend the law relating to the interment of the remains of any person found felo de se," shall be and the same is hereby repealed.

2. Coroner to give directions for interment.] From and after the passing of this Act it shall not be lawful for any coroner or other officer having authority to hold inquests to issue any warrant or other process directing the interment of the remains of persons against whom a finding of felo de se shall be had in any public highway, or with any stake being driven through the body of such person, but such coroner or other officer shall give directions for the interment of the remains of such person felo de se in the churchyard or other burial ground of the parish or place in which the remains of such person might by the laws or custom of England be interred if the verdict of felo de se had not been found against such person.

3. Interment.] The interment of any such person as aforesaid may be made in any of the ways prescribed or authorised by the Burial Laws Amendment Act, 1880.

4. Rites of Christian burial not to be performed on interment.] Save as aforesaid, nothing herein contained shall authorise the performing of any of the

tenant.

And whereas cases have arisen in which tenants

for life are unable to make conveyances under the said Act by reason that the person next entitled to the manor or lands for a beneficial interest in fee simple or fee tail is unborn or unascertained; and it is expedient to grant increased facilities for making such conveyances:

Be it therefore enacted, &c. :

1. Conveyance of lands by corporations and other public bodies.] The Places of Worship Sites Act, 1873, shall be construed as extending to authorise any corporation, ecclesiastical or lay, whether sole or aggregate, and any officers, justices of the peace, trustees, or commissioners holding land for public, ecclesiastical, parochial, charitable, or other purposes or objects, to grant, convey, or enfranchise for the purposes of the Act such quantity of land as therein mentioned: Provided as follows:

(a.) An ecclesiastical corporation sole, being below the dignity of a Bishop, shall not make any such grant without the consent in writing of the Bishop of the diocese to whose jurisdiction he is subject:

(b.) A municipal corporation shall not make any such grant without the consent in writing of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury: (c.) Parochial property shall not be so granted without the consent of a majority of the ratepayers and owners of property in the parish to which the property belongs, assembled at a meeting to be convened according to the mode pointed out in the Act of the session held in the fifth and sixth years of the reign of King William the Fourth, chapter 69, intituled "An Act to

facilitate the conveyance of workhouses and other property of parishes, and of incorpora tions or unions of parishes in England and Wales," and of the Local Government Board and of the guardians of the poor of the parish or of the union comprising the parish, testified by their being parties to the conveyance: (d.) Property held on trust for charitable purposes shall not be so granted without the consent of the Charity Commissioners for England and Wales.

2. Power for limited owner in case of unborn or unascertained remainderman to convey, &c.] The said Act shall be construed as extending to authorise any person seised or entitled only for life or lives of or to any manor or lands of freehold tenure to make such grant, conveyance, or enfranchisement as is mentioned in the said Act in cases where the person next entitled to the same for a beneficial interest in remainder in fee simple or fee tail is unborn or unascertained: chisement made by any such person seised only for a Provided that no such grant, conveyance, or enfranlife or lives shall be valid unless the person seised or entitled for a beneficial interest for life or lives, or for an estate in fee simple or fee tail (as the case may be) in remainder immediately expectant on the estate of such unborn or unascertained person of or to such manor or lands (if any, and if legally competent) shall be a party to and shall join in the same; and if there be no such person, or if such person be not legally competent, unless the trustees or trustee (if any) of such manor or lands during the suspense or contingency of the then immediate or expectant estate in fee simple or fee tail in such manor or lands shall

in like manner concur.

3. Short title.] This Act may be cited as the Places of Worship Sites Amendment Act, 1882.

CAP. XXII.

An Act to make better provision for Inquiries with regard to Boiler Explosions.

[12th July 1882. Whereas special provision has been made by law for making inquiry into the causes and circumstances and it is expedient that like provision be made for of boiler explosions on board ships and on railways, making inquiries with respect to boiler explosions in other cases:

Be it therefore enacted, &c. :

1. Short title.] This Act may be cited as the Boiler Explosions Act, 1882.

2. Extent of Act.] This Act shall extend to the whole of the United Kingdom.

3. Interpretation of terms.] In this Act the term "boiler" means any closed vessel used for generating steam, or for heating water, or for heating other liquids, or into which steam is admitted for heating, steaming, boiling, or other similar purposes.

The term "court of summary jurisdiction" means any justices of the peace, metropolitan police magistrate, stipendiary magistrate, sheriff, sheriff substitute, or other magistrate or officer, by whatever name called, who is capable of exercising jurisdiction in summary proceedings for the recovery of penalties.

4. Application of Act.] This Act shall not apply to any boiler used exclusively for domestic purposes, or to any boiler used in the service of Her Majesty, or to any boiler on board a steamship having a certificate from the Board of Trade, or to any boiler explosion into which an inquiry may be held under the provisions of the Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1872, and the Metalliferous Mines Regulation Act, 1872, or either of them.

4. Notice of boiler explosion to be sent to the Board of Trade.] (1.) On the occurrence of an explosion from any boiler to which this Act applies, notice thereof shall, within twenty-four hours thereafter, be sent to the Board of Trade by the owner or user, or by the person acting on behalf of the owner or user. (2.) The notice shall state the precise locality as well as the day and hour of the explosion, the number of persons injured or killed, in addition to the purposes for which the boiler was used, and, generally, the part of the boiler that failed, and the extent of the failure, and such other particulars, if any, as the Board of Trade by notice inserted in the London Gazette may require, and shall be in the form printed in the schedule to this Act, or in such

other form as the Board of Trade may from time to time approve for the purpose.

(3.) If default is made in complying with the requirements of this section, the person in default shall, on summary conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.

6. Power for Board of Trade to direct inquiry as to boiler explosion.] (1.) On receiving notice of a boiler explosion the Board of Trade may, if it thinks fit, appoint one or more competent and independent engineer or engineers, practically conversant with the manufacture and working of boilers, to make a preliminary inquiry with respect to the explosion, and the persons so appointed shall have the powers conferred on the court by sub-section (4) of this section. If it appears to the Board of Trade, either upon or without such preliminary inquiry, that a formal investigation of the causes and circumstances attending the explosion is expedient, the Board of Trade may direct a formal investigation to be held; and with respect to such investigation the following provisions shall have effect:

(2.) Formal investigations of boiler explosions shall be made at or near the place of such explosion by a court consisting of not less than two commissioners appointed by the Board of Trade, of whom one at least shall be a competent and practical engineer specially conversant with the manufacture and work ing of steam boilers, and one a competent lawyer. The court shall be presided over by one of the commissioners, the selection being made by the

Board of Trade.

(3.) Any such formal investigation shall be held in open court, in such manner, and under such conditions, as the commissioners may think most effectual for ascertaining the causes and circumstances of the explosion, and for enabling them to make the report herein-after mentioned in this section.

(4.) The court shall have, for the purpose of its investigations, all the powers of a court of summary jurisdiction when acting as a court in the exercise of its ordinary jurisdiction, and shall in addition have the following powers; viz.,

(a.) The court, or any one appointed by it, may enter and inspect any place or building, the entry or inspection whereof appears to the court requisite for the said purpose: (b.) It may by summons under its hand require the attendance of all such persons as it thinks fit to call before it, and examine for the said purpose, and may for such purpose require answers or returns to such inquiries as it thinks fit to make :

(c.) It may require and enforce the production of

all books, papers, and documents which it considers important for the said purpose: (d.) It may administer an oath, and require any

person examined to make and sign a declaration of the truth of the statements made by him in his examination:

(e.) Every person so summoned, not being the

owner or user of the boiler, or in the service or employment of the owner or user, or in any way connected with the working or management of the boiler, shall be allowed by the Board of Trade such expenses as would be allowed to a witness attending on subpoena before a court of record, and in Scotland to a witness attending a criminal trial by jury in the sheriff court; and in case of dispute as to the amount to be allowed, the same shall be referred by the court to a master of one of the superior courts, and in Scotland to the auditor of the Court of Session, who, on request under the hands of the members of the court, shall ascertain and certify the proper amount of such expenses.

7. As to costs and expenses of inquiry.] The court may order the costs and expenses of a preliminary inquiry or formal investigation or any part thereof, including therein the remuneration of persons holding such inquiry or investigation, to be paid by any per son summoned before it, or by the Board of Trade; and such order shall, on the application of any party entitled to the benefit of the same, be enforced by any court of summary jurisdiction as if such costs and expenses were a penalty imposed by such court. the persons holding any inquiry or investigation The Board of Trade may, if they think fit, pay to the consent of the Treasury appoint. under this Act such remuneration as they may with

If and so far as not otherwise provided for, all costs and expenses incurred by the Board of Trade, including any remuneration paid under this section, and any costs and expenses ordered by the court to be paid by the Board of Trade, shall be paid out of moneys to be provided by Parliament.

8. Recovery of fines.] Any fine payable under this Act shall be recoverable in England in the manner provided by the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, in ScotJurisdiction Acts, 1864 and 1881, and of any Act or land in the manner provided by the Summary Acts amending the same, and in Ireland within the police district of Dublin metropolis, in accordance with the provisions of the Acts regulating the powers and duties of justices of the peace for such district, or of the police of such district elsewhere in Ireland in accordance with the provisions of the Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851 (14 & 15 Vict. c. 93), any Act amending or affecting the same.

and

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REPORT of EXPLOSION of a STEAM BOILER to be sent to the BOARD of TRADE within twenty-four hours after the occurrence of an EXPLOSION.

See Section 5.

1. Name of premises or works on which the boiler exploded.

2. Address by the post.

3. Day and hour of explosion. 4. Number of persons killed.

5. Number of persons injured.

6. General description of the boiler.

7. Purposes for which the boiler was used.

8. Part of the boiler which failed, and the extent of failure generally.

9. Pressure at which the boiler was worked. 10. Name and address of any society or association by whom the boiler was last inspected or insured. Signature of person responsible for the accuracy of the particulars contained in, this form.

Address Date

CAP. XXIII.

An Act to extend the Public Health Act, 1875, to the making of Byelaws for Fruit Pickers. [12th July 1882.

Be it enacted, &c. :

1. Short title and construction of Act.] This Act may be cited as the Public Health (Fruit Pickers Lodgings) Act, 1882, and shall be construed as one with the Public Health Act, 1875.

2. Power to make bye-laws for fruit pickers.] Section three hundred and fourteen of the Public Health Act, 1875, which enables any local authority to make bye-laws for securing the decent lodging and accommodation of persons engaged in hop picking within the district of such authority, shall be deemed to extend to and authorise the making of bye-laws for securing the decent lodging and accommodation of persons engaged in the picking of fruit and vegetables.

When no

Act, 1851.

CAP. XXIV.

CAP. XXV.

[12th July 1882.

Trade thinks fit.

[12th July 1882.

3. Power to rate and compound with owners of small tenements.] Where in any parish the vestry have, under section four of the Poor Rate Ass-ssment and Collection Act, 1869, ordered or shall ber-after order that the owners of all rateable hereditaments to to the poor rate in respect of sach hereditaments instead of the occupiers, such order shall be deemed to extend to and include the highway rate, and whilst such order is in force the respective owners of such hereditaments shall be rated and assessed instead of the occupiers thereof to the highway rates made after the passing of this Act for any highway parish which is co-extensive with such parish or with any part thereof, and to which otherwise such occupiers might by law be rated; subject nevertheless to the abatements or deductions and to the conditions specified in sections four and five of the said Act; and for the purposes of this section the term "overseers" in section four of the said Act shall be construed to mean "surveyor of highways or other person authorised by law to make and levy a highway rate."

which section three of that Act extends shall be rated

The surveyor of highways, or other person authorised by law to make and levy a highway rate, shall have the same powers, remedies, and privileges for recovering the rates made under this Act upon owner, as the overseers of the poor have under the said Poor Rate Assessment and Collection Act, 1863, for the recovery of a poor rate, and when the overseers rate applies to the whole parish, they may levy the are required by law to levy the highway rate, and such same as part of the poor rate.

Section thirty of the Highway Act, 1835, relating to the composition for rates in certain cases under local Acts is hereby repealed.

4. Valuation lists conclusive for highway rate.] In every bighway rate made after the passing of this Act the several hereditaments include therein and assessable to the poor rate shall be rated according to the annual rateable value there of appearing in the valuation list for the time being in force in the parish which is co-extensive with or includes the highway parish to which the highway rate relates, and where any valuation list has been amended on objection_pur. suant to section one of the Union Assessment Com. mittee Amendment Act, 1864, the assessment com. nittee shall give notice of such amendment to the surveyor of highways or other person authorised to make and levy the highway rate, who shall thereupon alter the then current highway rate accordingly.

5. Provision for balances of outgoing surveyors.] Ii the rates levied by a surveyor of highways, together with any other sums received by him during his term of office, prove insufficient to meet the whole of the expenditure lawfully incurred by him, and such defciency has not arisen from any neglect or default on his part, his successor in office may reimburse to him the amount of such deficiency.

6. Power to maintain mile stones and to fence.] The expenses incurred by a highway authority in maintaining, replacing, or setting up mile stones on Any highway, and in fencing by posts and rails or otherwise a highway where such fencing is required for the protection of persons travelling thereon against danger, shall be a lawful charge upon the highway rate.

7. Waywardens' rate accounts.] The provisions of section nine of the Highways and Locomotives(Amendment) Act, 1878, as amended by the District Auditors Act, 1879, in relation to the audit of the accounts of

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highway authorities and their officers shall extend to the accounts of a waywarden of any highway parish within a highway district with respect to the high-shall way rates levied by him.

8. Recovery and payment of certified balances.] Moneys, goods, or chattels certified by an auditor at a bighway audit to be due from any person shall be recoverable by the like process and with the like powers as in the case of moneys, goods, or chattels certified at the audit of the poor rate accounts, and where an auditor shall take proceedings for the recovery of any moneys, goods, or chattels certified at a highway audit or shall lay any information for a penalty in consequence of the default of any officer or other person to attend any such audit or to produce the proper accounts or vouchers, or to make or sign the proper declaration before him, the costs incurred by the auditor, when not recovered from the defendant, shall, if the Local Government Board consent thereto, be paid to the auditor by the highway authority, and may be recovered from such authority in a summary manner.

The moneys certified at a highway audit shall, where there is a treasurer of the highway authority, be paid to such treasurer, and where there is no such officer to the highway authority for the time being; and the goods or chattels so certified shall be delivered over to the person authorised to receive the

same.

1. Short title.] This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Baths and Wash Houses Act, 1882, and be read as one with the Act of the ninth and tenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter seventy-four, in this Act called "the prin cipal Act."

2. Amendment of 9 & 10 Vict. c. 74, s. 27.] Section twenty-seven of the principal Act shall be amended by the addition of the words "or in the immediate neighbourhood of such borough or parish" to the words "in any such borough or parish" wherever such last-mentioned words occur in the said section.

3. Amendment of 9 & 10 Vict. c. 74, 8. 24.] The power conferred by section twenty-four of the principal Act to purchase or rent lands for the purposes of that Act shall extend to lands in the immediate neighbourhood of such borough or parish as is

therein referred to.

CAP. XXXI.

An Act to render Judgments obtained in certain Inferior Courts in Eugland, Scotland, and Ireland respectively, effectual in any other part of the United Kingdom.

[24th July 1882. Whereas it is expedient to extend the principle of the Judgments Extension Act, 1868, to the judgments of certain inferior courts of Great Britain and

Ireland:

Be it therefore enac'ed, &c. :

1. Short title.] This Act may be cited for all pur. poses as the Inferior Courts Judgments Extension Act, 1882.

9. Provision as to excluded parts of parishes.] Where at the time of the passing of this Act part of a parish is excluded from an urban sanitary district, but such excluded part is for purposes connected with the repairs of highways and the payment of highway rates treated as forming part of the district, the owners and ratepayers of the excluded part may by resolution passed at a meeting to be convened and conducted in manner provided by Schedule Three of the Public Health Act, 1875, decide that such parting shall be a highway parish, and if the resolution is approved by an order of the Local Government Board the excluded part shall from a date to be fixed by the said order be for all purposes connected with highways, surveyors of highways, and highway rates, considered and treated as a separate highway parish. 10. Interpretation.] In this Act

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Highway audit means the audit of the accounts of a highway authority or their officers or of any way warden:

"Highway authority" means as respects a high

way district, the highway board, and as respects a highway parish not included in a highway district, the surveyor or surveyors or other officers performing similar duties: "Highway rate means a rate made for the repairs of the highways and includes any separate rate made to meet the orders or precepts of a highway authority:

"Parish" means a place for which a separate poor rate can be made : "Highway parish means a place separately maintaining its own highways, and, in a highway district, a place for which a waywarden may be elected or a separate highway rate be made.

2. Interpretation of terms.] In this Act the followwords and expressions shall have the interpretations and meanings in this section assigned to them respectively, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction; (that is to say,)

The expression "judgment" shall include decreet, civil bill decree, dismiss, or order : The expression "inferior courts" shall include County Courts, Civil Bill Courts, and all Courts in England and Ireland having jurisdiction to hear and determine civil causes, other than the High Courts of Justice; and in Ireland, Courts of Petty Sessions and the Court of Bankruptcy; and in Scotland shall include the Sheriffs Courts and the Courts held under the Small Debts and Debts Recovery Acts:

The expression "registrar of an inferior court"
shall include the sheriff clerk of a Sheriff's
Court in Scotland, and any officer fulfilling
the duties of a registrar in an inferior court in
England; and in Ireland shall include the
clerk of the peace or other officer whose duty
it is to enter the judgment, decree, or order
of the court:
"Prescribed" means prescribed by rules made
under the provisions of this Act:
The expression "person" shall include any party
or parties to a cause in any inferior court in
England, Scotland, or Ireland:
The expression "plaintiff " shall include pursuer,
complainer, or any person at whose instance
any action or proceeding in an inferior court
is instituted; and the expression defend-
ant" shall include defender, respondent, or
other person against whom any such action
or proceeding is directed:
The expression "action shall mean the action
or other proceeding in which any judgment
was pronounced; and the expression 8am-
shall mean the summons or other

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3. Registrar of Inferior Court to grant certificate of judgment.] Where judgment shall hereafter be obtained or entered up in any of the inferior courts of England, Scotland, or Ireland respectively for any debt, damages, or costs, the registrar of such inferior court or other proper officer shall after the elapsed, and in the event of such judgment not being time for appealing against such judgment shall have

reversed upon appeal or of execution thereunder not being stayed, upon the application of the party who has recovered such judgment, and upon proof that

the same has not been satisfied, and payment of the prescribed fee, grant a certificate in the form in the schedule to this Aot annexed.

4. Registration of certificate shall have the effect of a judgment of the court in which it is registered.] On the production to the registrar or other proper officer of a county court, or, in the City of London, of the City of London Court, in England where a judg ment has been obtained in Scotland or Ireland, or to the registrar or other proper officer of a Sheriff's Court in Scotland where a judgment has been obtained in England or Ireland, or to the registrar or other proper officer of a Civil Bill Court in Ireland where a judgment has been obtained in England or Scotland of a certificate under this Act purporting to be signed by the registrar or other proper officer of the inferior court where such judgment was obtained, such certificate shall, on payment of the prescribed fee, be registered in the prescribed form by such registrar or other proper officer to whom the same shall be produced for that purpose; and all reasonable costs and charges attendant upon the obtaining and registering such certificate shall be added to and recovered in like manner as if the same were part of the original judgment. No certificate of any such judgment shall be registered as aforesaid in any inferior court in the United Kingdom more than twelve months after the date of such judgment.

5. Execution of judgments.] Where a certificate of a judgment of any of the inferior courts aforesaid has been registered under this Act, process of execution may issue thereon out of the court in which the same shall have been so registered against any goods or chattels of the person against whom such judgment shall have been obtained, which are within the jurisdiction of such last-mentioned Court, in the same or the like manner as if the judgment to be executed had been obtained in the Court in which such certificate shall be so registered as aforesaid.

6. Jurisdiction over registered judgments limited to execution.] The courts of Great Britain and Ireland to which this Act applies shall, in so far as relates to execution under this Act, have and exercise the same control and jurisdiction over and with respect to the execution of any judgment, a certificate of which shall be registered under this Aot, as they now have and exercise over and with respect to the execution of any judgment in their own courts.

7. Cancellation of registry.] On proof of the setting aside, or satisfaction, of any judgment of which a certificate shall have been registered under this Act, the Court in which such certificate is so regis tered may order the registration thereof to be cancelled.

8. Costs not to be allowed in actions on judgments unless by order of Court.] In any action brought in any of the inferior courts aforesaid for the purpose of enforcing any judgment which might be registered under this Act in the country in which such action is brought, the party bringing such action shall not recover or be entitled to any costs or expenses, unless the Court in which such action shall be brought shall otherwise other.

9. Existing limits of local jurisdiction shall not be exceeded.] Nothing contained in this Act shall authorise the registration in an inferior court of the certificate of any judgment for a greater amount than might have been recovered if the action or proceeding had been originally commenced in such

inferior court.

Provided that where a judgment obtained in an inferior court in Scotland cannot be registered in an inferior court in England or Ireland, by reason of its being for a greater amount than might have been recovered if the action or proceeding had been originally commenced in such inferior court, it shall be competent to register a certificate of such judgment in the register directed to be kept in the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster and Dublin respectively, to be called "The Register of Scotch Judgments," by section three of the Judgments Extension Act, 1868, in the same manner, to the same effect, and subject to the same provisions, as if the said certifi cate had been a certificate of an extracted deoreet of

under the said Act. the Court of Session, registered in the said register

10. Act not to apply in certain cases] This Aot shall not apply to any judgment pronounced by any inferior court in England against any person domiciled

in Scotland or Ireland at the time of the commencement of any action, unless the whole cause of action shall have arisen, or the obligation to which the judgment relates ought to have been fulfilled, within the dis trict of such inferior court, and the summons was served upon the defendant personally within the said district, nor to any judgment pronounced by any inferior court in Scotland against any person domiciled in England or Ireland at the time of the commencement of any action, unless the whole cause of action shall have arisen, or the obligation to which

CAP. XXXIV.

An Act to amend "The Beer Dealers' Retail Licences Act, 1880." [10th August 1882. Whereas by the Beer Dealers' Retail Licences Act, 1880, it is provided that the licensing justices shall be at liberty to exercise their discretion respecting the grant of certificates for such additional licences for sale of beer by retail off the premises as are therein referred to, and that certificates for such additional

3. Extent of Act.] This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland.

4. Discharge of paupers.] Section five of the Pauper Inmates Discharge and Regulation Act, 1871, is hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof it is hereby enacted as follows:

A casual pauper shall not be entitled to discharge himself from a casual ward before nine o'clock in the morning of the second day following his admission, him as in the said Act mentioned; and where a nor before he has performed the work prescribed for

within the district of such inferior court, and the summons was served upon the defendant personally within the said district, nor to any judgment pronounced by any inferior court in Ireland against any person domiciled in England or Scotland at the time of the commencement of any action, unless the whole cause of action shall have arisen, or the obligation to which the judgment relates ought to have been fulfilled, within the district of such inferior court, and the summons was served upon the defendant personally within the said district.

meetings, and not at any other time:

And whereas it is expedient to extend the provisions of the said Act to the granting of certificates for all licences for sale of beer by retail for consumption off the premises :

Be it therefore enacted, &c. :

Provided that it shall be competent to any person against whom any judgment to which this Act does not apply, as aforesaid, is sought to be enforced by registration in the register of an inferior court England or Ireland, to apply for and obtain from one of the superior courts of England or Ireland a prohibition or injunction against the enforcement of such judgment, and of any execution thereupon; and that it shall be competent to any person against whom any judgment to which this Act does not apply, as afore. said, is sought to be enforced by registration in the register of an inferior court in Scotland, to apply for and obtain from the Bill Chamber or Court of Session in Scotland suspension or suspension and interdict of or against the enforcement of such judgment and any diligence thereon, and in any such proceeding as aforesaid the unsuccessful party may be found liable in costs.

11. Rules.] Rules for the purposes of this Act may be made and altered from time to time by the like persons and in the like manner in which rules and regulations may be respectively made under and for the purposes of the County Courts Acts in England; of the Sheriffs Courts Acts in Scotland, and of the Civil Bill Courts Acts in Ireland; provided that the said rules and regulations shall not extend the jurisdiction of any inferior court.

SCHEDULE.

2. Certificates at annual licensing meetings only.] Certificates for any such licences as aforesaid shall, notwithstanding anything in any Act now in force, be granted at general annual licensing meetings, and not at any other time.

3. Short title; extent; and construction of Act.] This Act may be cited as the Beer Dealers' Retail Licences (Amendment) Act, 1882; and shall not extend to Scotland; and words therein have the same meaning as in the Licensing Act, 1872.

CAP. XXXV.

An Act to amend so much of "The Friendly Societies Act, 1875," as relates to quinquennial returns of sickness and mortality.

same union, he shall not be entitled to discharge himcasion during one month into any casual ward of the day after his admission, and he may at any time self before nine o'clock in the morning of the fourth during that interval be removed by any officer of the guardians, or by a police constable, to the workhouse of the union, and be required to remain in such workhouse for the remainder of the period of his detention.

Provided that in computing the number of days daring which a casual pauper may be detained under this section Sunday shall not be included.

Provided also, with respect to the metropolis, as follows:

(1.) In determining the number of admissions of a casual pauper every casual ward in the metropolis shall be deemed to be a casual ward of the same union.

(2.) The expressions "workhouse of the union" in this section shall include any workhouse and any asylum provided under the Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867, for the reception and setting to work of the casual poor, to which the casual poor of the union can be sent.

5. Penalty for obtaining poor relief by false staterelief from the rates raised for the relief of the poor, ment.] (1.) If any person for the purpose of obtaining for himself or for any other person, wilfully gives a false name, or makes or uses a false statement to the guardians of any union or any of their officers, be shall be deemed an idle and disorderly person within the meaning of section three of the Act of the fifth year of King George the Fourth, chapter eighty-three, "for the punishment of idle and disorderly persons, and rogues and vagabonds, in that part of Great Britain called England."

[10th August 1882. Whereas by section fourteen of the Friendly Socie. ties Act, 1875, every registered society is required, within six months after the expiration of every five years, to send to the registrar a return to be called the An Act to amend the Law respecting the obtaining quinquennial return of the sickness and mortality

I certify that [here state name, business, or occupation, and address of person obtaining judgment, and whether Plaintiff or Defendant] on the day of 18 obtained judgment against [here state name, business, or occupation and address of person against whom judgment was obtained, and whether Plaintiff or Defendant] in the Court of for payment of the sum of on account of [here state shortly the nature of the claim with the amount of costs (if any) for which judgment was obtained.]

[To be signed by the Registrar or other proper

Officer of the Inferior Court from which the certificate issues, and to be sealed with the Seal of the Court.]

NOTE of PRESENTATION to be appended to above Form.

And whereas the returns sent in pursuance of the said section have furnished materials for the construc tion of tables of sickness and mortality for the guidance of friendly societies, and it is inexpedient to impose any longer on friendly societies the burden of sending the said returns:

And whereas it is expedient to repeal the said requirement :

Be it therefore enacted, &c. :

1. Short title.] This Act may be cited as the Friendly Societies (Quinquennial Returns) Act,

1882.

CAP. XXXVII.

of Corn Returns. Be it enacted, &o.:

[10th August 1882.

1. Short title.] This Act may be cited as the Corn Returns Act, 1882.

2. Extent of Act.] This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland.

3. Commencement of Act.] This Act shall come into operation on the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, which day is in this Act referred to as the commencement of this Act.

4. Return from towns of purchases of British corn 14, s. 19, and Schedule-27 & 28 Vict. c. 87.] Weekly and publication of average price-See 5 & 6 Viet. c. returns of the purchases of British corn shall be made, under the direction of the Board of Trade, in manner provided by this Act from such towns, not less than one hundred and fifty and not more than two hundred in number, as may be from time to time fixed by Her Majesty in Council, and the average price of British corn shall be from time to time ascertained from those returns, and published by the Board of Trade in manner provided by this Act.

5. Weekly returns of purchases of British_corn.] Every such buyer of corn as is herein-after mentioned in any town from which corn returns are for the time being required by this Act to be made, shall, weekly, on the last market day in the week in that town, or on such other day as may be from time to time fixed

by Her Majesty in Council, make to the inspector of corn returns for that town, at the place fixed, as in this Act mentioned, a return in writing signed by him, specifying, with respect to the seven days ending on and including the day on which the return is made, the amount of every parcel of each sort of British corn bought by him in the town, whether from the producer or otherwise, and the price thereof, and the weight or measure by which the same was bought,

the name of the seller, and if the same was sold or bought on account of any other person the name of that person, and if an inspector of corn returns delivers to a buyer of corn required under this Act to make returns a notice in writing requiring him to declare where an by whom ani in what manner any British corn was delivered to him, such buyer shall make a return of the particulars o required in a separate statement in writing signed by him.

6. Buyers of corn bound to make returns of purchases of corn-See 5 & 6 Vict. c. 14, ss. 17, 18, 23, 25.] The following persons shall make the returns required by this Act, and are in this Act referred to as buyers of corn in a town; that is to say,

(1.) Every person who deals in British corn in such town; also

(2) Every person who in any such town engages in or carries on the trade of a corn factor, miller, maltster, brewer, or distiller; also (3.) Every person who is the owner or part owner of any carriages carrying goods or passengers for hire to and from or within any such town; also

(4.) Every person who as a merchant, clerk, agent, or otherwise purchases in any such town any British corn for sale, or for the sale of meal, flour, malt, or bread made or to be made thereof.

7. Weekly summary of quantities and prices by inspectors to the Board of Trade.] Every in spector of corn returns shall record in the preEcribed manner the returns made to him under this Act in any town, and in every week shall ascertain from those returns the total quantity with the total and average price of each sort of British corn returned to him in that town during that week, and shall on the next Monday, or such other day as may be prescribed, send to the Board of Trade in the prescribed manner and form a summary of such total quantities and total and average prices for the said

week.

A copy of the weekly summary from any town shall, together with the prescribed details (exclusive of the names of persons), be made public there in the prescribed manner.

8. Computing of corn according to the bushel-41 & 42 Vict. c. 49.] In the weekly summary of quantities and prices each sort of British corn shall be computed with reference to the imperial bushel. An inspector of corn returns shall convert into such imperial bushel all returns made to him in any other measure or by weight or by a weighed measure, and in the case of weight or weighed measure shall convert the same at the rate of sixty imperial pounds for every bushel of wheat, fifty imperial pounds for every bushel of barley, and thirty-nine imperial pounds for every bushel of oats.

9. Computation and publication of averages by Bourd of Trade.] The Board of Trade shall cause the average prices of each sort of British corn to be computed from the summaries sent by the inspectors of corn returns in pursuance of this Act as follows: (1. In each week the average price during the next preceding week of each sort of British corn for the whole of the towns and for each town from which a summary is obtained, shall be computed, and shall be published in

the London Gazette:

(2.) After each of the quarter-days, the twentyfifth day of March, the twenty-fourth day of Jane, the twenty-ninth day of September, and the twenty-fifth day of December, the average price of each sort of British corn daring the quarter ending on that quarter day shall be forthwith computed and published in the London Gazette:

(3.) After the twenty-fifth day of December in every year the average price of each sort of British corn shall be computed for the year, and the seven years ending on that day, and shall be published in the London Gazette in the month of January next following: (4.) The average price of any sort of British corn for any week shall be ascertained by adding together the total quantities of that sort of British corn appearing from the summaries of the inspectors of corn returns to have been bought during such week, and the total prices for those quantities as appearing from the said summaries, and by dividing the total prices

by the total quantities as so ascertained. The quarterly or yearly average prices shall be ascertained by adding together the weekly averages of the weeks included in such quarter or year, and dividing the total by the number of weeks in such quarter or year respectively: (5.) The septennial average price shall be ascertained by adding together the average annua! prices for the seven years, and dividing the total by seven :

(6.) The annual and septennial average shall state the average for the imperial bushel.

10. Application of septennial average to Tithe Commutation Acts.] The statement of the septennial average price referring to the imperial bushel published under this Act in the London Gazette shall be substituted for the advertisement referred to in such portion of the Act of the session of the sixth and seventh years of the reign of King William the Fourth, chapter seventy-one, intituled “An Act for the Commutation of Tithes in England and Wale s," as is repealed by this Act, and shall be deemed for the purposes of the Acts relating to the commutation of tithes to be an advertisement of the average price published under the said Act.

11. Penalty for failure to make return-5 & 6 Vict. c. 11, s. 39.] Every person who fails to make to an inspector of corn returns any return which he is required by this Act to make, or to include in any such return any purchase of British corn or any material particular, shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.

12. Penalty for false return.] Any person who in any return made in pursuance of this Act to an inspector of corn returns makes any false or fraudu lent statement, also any person who includes or procares to be included in any such return any British corn not bor â fide bought as specified in the return, or any corn which is not British corn, shall be guilty of misdemeanour.

Where the Board of Trade have reason to believe

that a return or any particular in a return is false in any particular, they may cause that return, or so much as relates to that particular, to be omitted in the computation of the average prices in pursu. ance of this Act.

13. Inspectors of corn returns.] Such officers of Inland Revenue as the Commissioners of Inland Revenue from time to time appoint shall be inspectors of corn returns.

In every town from which corn returns are required for the time being under this Act to be made, a proper place shall be fixed for the deliver y of those returns, and an inspector of oorn returns shall attend there to receive the returns on the days on which the returns are required to be made; and the Commissioners of Inland Revenue shall from time to time provide the said place and publicly notify it in such manner as they think sufficient for giving notice thereof to all persons interested.

14. Regulations as to execution of Act and supply of books, &c.] The Board of Trade may from time to time make, and when made revoke, vary, and add to, regulations respecting the execution of this Act and the duties of inspectors of corn returns, and such regulations shall be duly observed by all persons to whom they relate, and such regulations may refer to all the inspectors or all the towns from which returns are required, or to some one or more of them.

The Board of Trade shall supply inspectors of corn returns with proper books, forms, and documents for the performance of their duties, which shall be the property of the Board of Trade.

order of the Board of Trade, and under proper control, The regulations may provide for the inspection, by returns for the purposes of this Act. of the books and papers kept by inspectors of corn

every week or on such other day as may be prescribed:

(2.) The buyers of corn required to make the return shall be every person who within the said city and area deals in British corn, or carries on business as a cornfactor, or who buys any British corn within the Cora Exchange in Mark-lane in the said city, or within any other building or place which is or may hereafter be used within the said city or area for the like purposes as the said Corn Exchange, and not any other person: (3.) The inspector of corn returns, when any vacancy takes place in the office, shall be appointed by the Board of Trade, at such salary or remuneration, payable out of moneys provided by Parliament, as they may with the approval of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury from time to time determine, and the place for the delivery of the returns shall be provided and notified either by the inspec tor or the Board of Trade, as determined by the Board of Trade.

17. Recovery of fines.] Any fine under this Act may be recovered in manner provided by the Suminto Her Majesty's Exchequer in such manner as the mary Jurisdiction (England) Acts, and shall be paid Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury may direct.

18. Definitions.] In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,The expresssion "British corn" meins wheat, barley, and oats, the produce of the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, or the Isle of Man, and such wheat, barley, or oats is in this Act referred to as a sort of British corn: The expression "prescribed" means prescribed by regulations of the Board of Trade under this Act for the time being in force: The expression person" includes a body of persons, corporate or unincorporate: The expression "bought" means the agreement to buy, whether made by sale-note, or otherwise, and irrespective of actual delivery in pursuance thereof.

19. Repeal of Acts.] The Acts set forth in the schedule to this Act are hereby repealed as from the commencement of this Act to the extent in the third column of that schedule mentioned; provided that(1.) This repeal shall not affect anything duly done or suffered in pursuance of the Acts hereby repealed;

(2.) This repeal shall not affect any returns made

or average of prices published before the commencement of this Act, and such returas and average prices shall be dealt with in like manner as if they had been made and published in pursuance of this Act.

(2.) This repeal shall not affect the persons who at the commencement of this Act hold the offices of inspectors of corn returns mentioned in sec. tions twelve, fourteen, and twenty-two of the first Act mentioned in the said schedule, and those persons, while they continue to hold office, shall be inspectors of corn returns under this Act; and the above-mentioned sections, and also sections thirteen, thirty-six, thirtyseven, and thirty-eight of the said Act, shall continue in force so far as regards the persons aforesaid respectively.

Session and Chapter.

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for the importation of Act.

corn.

16. Application of Act to London.] This Act shall apply to the City of London and the area within five miles from the Royal Exchange in that city in like manner as it applies to a town, subject to the following modifications; that is to say,

(1.) The return shall be made on Wednesday in

c. 87.

relating to publication of Act.
accounts of corn imported,
and to returns of pur-
chases and sales of corn.

6 & 7 Will. 4, An Act for the Commuta- Section
c. 71.
tion of Tithes in England fifty-six.
and Wales.