Journal 56. Stamp on letter of renunciation may be adhesive.] The stamp duty of one penny on a letter of renunciation may be denoted by an adhesive stamp, which is to be cancelled by the person by whom the letter of renunciation is executed. 57. The returns of certain banking companies need not be advertised.] It shall not after the passing of this Act be obligatory on the Commissioners to publish in any newspaper any return made to them by any banking company which is duly registered under the provisions of the several Acts specified in the Third Schedule to this Act, or any of them. SCHEDULES. FIRST SCHEDULE. [Containing a Table to be usel in determining the original specific Gravity of Worts of Beer.] SECOND SCHEDULE. [ENACTMENTS REPEALED.] THIRD SCHEDULE. 6th Geo. 4, cap. 42. 7th Geo. 4, cap. 46. 7th Geo. 4, cap. 67. The Companies Acts, 1862 to 1880. CAP. XXI. An Act to raise the sum of One million five hundred thousand pounds by Exchequer Bonds, Exchequer Bills, or Treasury Bills, for the service of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one. [12th August 1880. CAP. XXII. An Act to amend the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, so far as regards certain Fees and Expenses and Sums receivable and payable by the Board of Trade. [12th August 1880. Be it enacted, &c. : 1. Short title and construction of Act-17 & 18 Vict. c. 104.] This Act may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Fees and Expenses) Act, 1880. This Act shall be construed as one with the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, and the Acts amending the same, and together with those Acts may be cited as the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1854 to 1880. 2. Application of proceeds of unclaimed wreck towards payment of expenses connected with wreck-17 & 18 Vict. c. 104.] Whereas under section four hundred and seventy-five of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, a receiver of wreck appointed under that Act is required to pay into the Exchequer the net proceeds of the sale of unclaimed wreck : And whereas in pursuance of section four hundred and fifty-seven of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, the fees received by such receiver of wreck are carried to the Mercantile Marine Fund, and applied in defraying any expenses duly incurred in carrying into effect the purposes of the eighth part of that Act, in such manner as the Board of Trade direct: And whereas the fees have been insufficient to defray such expenses, and the deficiency has been paid out of the said proceeds of unclaimed wreck, and the balance alone of such proceeds has been paid into the Exchequer, and it is expedient to sanction the payment of the said deficiency; be it therefore enacted as follows: Any deficiency so paid as aforesaid, before the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighty, out of the proceeds of unclaimed wreck, shall be deemed to have been properly paid. 3. Explanation of 14 & 15 Vict. c. 102, s. 43.] Whereas by section forty-three of the Seamen's Fund Winding-up Act, 1851, it is provided that a seaman who ceases altogether for a continuous period of three years to pay his contribution to the fund shall forfeit all claim to any relief for himself, his widow, and children; and it is expedient to amend the said enactment; be it therefore enacted as follows: The Board of Trade may remit the said forfeiture in the case of any seaman if he satisfies them that during the said continuous period of three years he had not served at sea or any time or for such time as to render it just for him to pay his contribution, and that such non-service at sea did not arise from his having left the sea service when still of age and strength to continue in it and with the intention of not returning to the same. 14 & 15 Vict. e. 102.] Section forty-three of the Seamen's Fund Winding-up Act, 1851, as amended by this section, shall apply to masters as if they were mentioned therein in addition to seamen. 4. Provision as to fees on examination of engineers-25 & 26 Vict. c. 63, s. 7-39 & 40 Vict. c. 80-25 & 26 Viot. c. 63.] Whereas by section seven of the Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862, it is provided that the fees payable by applicants for examination for certificates of competency as engineers shall be carried to the account of the Mercantile Marine Fund, and at the time of the passing of that Act the salaries of the surveyors, by whom the examinations are conducted, were paid out of the Mercantile Marine Fund. And whereas under section thirty-nine of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1876, the salaries of the said surveyors are paid out of moneys provided by Parliament; and it is expedient that the fees should be paid into the Exchequer; be it therefore enacted as follows: The fees paid in pursuance of section seven of the Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862, shall cease to be carried to the account of the Mercantile Marine Fuud and shall be paid into the Exchequer. 5. Provision as to expenses incurred in removing wrecks—40 & 41 Vict. c. 16.] All experses incurred by general lighthouse authorities in pursuance of the Removal of Wrecks Act, 1877, shall be subject to the provisions contained in sections four hundred and twenty-two, four hundred and twenty-three,. and four hundred and twenty-seven of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854. 6. Costs of advertising notices of foreign sea marks-17 & 18 Vict. c. 104] Such reasonable costs as the Board of Trade from time to time allow of advertising or otherwise making known the establishment of or alterations in foreign lighthouses, buoys, and beacons to Owners and masters of and other persons interested in British ships shall be paid out of the Mercantile Marine Fund. 7. Application of Act to past payments.] Any payment made or forfeiture remitted or thing done before the passing of this Act which, if this Act had passed, would be legal, shall be deemed to have been legally made, remitted, or done CAP. XXIII. re An Act to make further provision as to Byelaws specting the attendance of Children at School under the Elementary Education Acts. [26th August 1880. Whereas a school attendance committee within the meaning of the Elementary Education Act, 1876, are authorized to make byelaws respecting the attendance of children at school under section seventy-four of the Elementary Eucation Act, 1870, as if such school attendance committee were a school board, but a school attendance committee for a union cannot make byelaws respecting any parish in their union, except on the requisition of the parish; and it is expedient to make further provision for the making of byelaws respecting the attendance of children at school. And whereas it is expedient otherwise to amend the Elementary Education Act, 1976, in respect of byelaws: Be it therefore enactsd, &c. : 1. Short title and construction-39 & 40 Vict. c. 79.] This Act may be cited as the Elementary Education Act, 1880, and shall be construed as one with the Elementary Education Act, 1876, and that Act and this Act may be cited together as the Elementary Education Acts, 1876 and 1880. 2. Obligation to make byelaws as to the attendance of chil(within the meaning of the Elementary Education Act, dren at school.] It shall be the duty of the local authority 1876) of every school district in which byelaws respecting the attendance of children at school under section seventyfour of the Elementary Education Act, 1870, are not at the passing of this Act in force, forthwith to make byelaws under that section for such district. If at any time after the thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and eighty it appears to the Educa tion Department that in any school district there are no byelaws under that section in force, the Education Department may either proceed under section twenty-seven of the Elementary Education Act, 1876 (which relates to a local authority who fail to fulfil their duty under that Act), or may make byelaws respecting the attendance of children at school in that district, and the byelaws so made shall have effect and be enforced and be subject to revocation and alteration as if they had been made by the local authority for that district and sanctioned by the Education Department in pursuance of section seventy-four of the Elementary Education Act, 1870: Provided that where in a school district in which byelaws are not in force a byelaw is made in pursuance of this section, that byelaw shall not prevent a child who, at the date of the byelaw taking effect, is employed in accordance with the Elementary Education Act, 1876, from continuing to be so employed. 3. Power of school attendance committee to make byelaws.] The school attendance committee for a union comprising a parish may, in pursuance of section twenty-one of the Elementary Education Act, 1876, without the requisition of the parish, make byelaws under section seventy-four of the Elementary Education Act, 1870, respecting the attendance of children at school. 4. Enforcing of byelaws.] Every person who takes into his employment a child of the age of ten and under the age of thirteen years resident in a school district, before that child has obtained a certificate of having reached the standard of education fixed by a byelaw in force in the district for the total or partial exemption of children of the like age from the obligation to attend school, shall be deemed to take such child into his employment in contravention of the Elementary Education Act, 1876, and shall be liable to a penalty accordingly. Proceedings may, in the discretion of the local authority or person instituting the same, be taken for punishing the contravention of a byelaw, notwithstanding that the act or neglect or default alleged as such contravention constitutes habitual neglect to provide efficient elementary education for a child within the meaning of section eleven of the Elementary Education Act, 1876: Provided that nothing in this section shall prevent an employer from employing any child who is employed by him or by any other person at the time of the passing of this Act, and who attends school in accordance with the provisions of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1878. 5. Amendment of 39 & 40 Vict. c. 79, s. 40, as to education being condition of relief to parents of children] Notwithstanding anything contained in section forty of the Elementary Education Act, 1876, a child shall not, as a condition of the continuance of relief out of the workhonse being continued to him or his parent, be required to attend school further or otherwise than he is required to attend by a byelaw in force under section seventy-four of the Elementary Education Act, 1870, as amended by the Elementary Education Act, 1876, and this Act, in the school district in which he is resident: Provided that this section shall not apply where there is no sach byelaw in force in the school district. 6. Repeal 39 & 40 Vict. c. 79.] The Elementary Education Act, 1876, shall be repealed to the extent and from the times in the third column of the schedule to this Act mentioned, without prejudice to anything previously done or suffered, or any order previously made, or any right or title or liability acquired, accrued, or incurred in pursuance of any enactment hereby repealed; and any such thing, order, right, and title and liability may be enforced, and any proceeding then pending for such enforcement may be carried on, as if such enactment had not been repealed. ' Journal , 1880. Extent of Repeal. Section twenty-two, as from the passing of this Act. Sections fifty-one and fifty-two, as from the passing of this Act. First Schedule, as from the first of January one thous and eight hundred and eighty-one, from "During the four years next after down to "higher standard required for that year," both inclusive (being paragraph (3)), and from "Provided that in each of the four years next after" down to the end of the table, both inclusive (being paragraph 6). An Act to amend the Courts of Justice Building Act, 1865. [26th August 1880. Whereas by the Courts of Justice Building Act, 1865, it was, among other things, provided that certain buildings erected on land formerly part of the gardens of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn, under the authority of two statutes (local and personal) passed in the fifteenth year of the reign of King George the Third, chapters twenty-two and fifty-six, might, after they should have ceased to be used by the Society of Lincoln's Inn upon the terms therein for the purposes authorised by the said Acts, be repurchased mentioned, and that a certain court erected in Lincoln's Inn for the sittings of the Vice-Chancellor of England, under the authority of another Act (local and personal) passed in the fifty-sixth year of the reign of King George the Third, chapter eighty-four, should be discharged of the trusts declared by the said last-mentioned Act, and become the exclusive property of the said Society without any payment, and that the said Society should be repaid certain principal sums from time to time since the year one thousand eight hundred and forty expended out of their funds in the erection and fitting up of courts for the use of the judges of the Court of Chancery, and otherwise for the benefit of the said court; and that it should be lawful for the Lord Chancellor to settle an account with the said Society, and to order the balance of such account to be paid in the manner therein mentioned, and thereupon to make sa order that the said land and buildings do vest in the ' Jourral trustees for the time being of the real estates of the said 'Society; but that this enactment should not take effect until after the Lord Chancellor should certify under his hand to the Treasury that the business conducted in the said buildings and courts, or any part thereof, had been transferred to the buildings authorised to be erected under the Courts of Justice Concentration (Site) Act, 1865, and such certificate should have been filed in the Report 'Office of the Court of Chancery; and that the option of repurchasing the said sites, and purchasing the said erections and buildings respectively, might be exercised by the said Society at any time within two years after notice to the treasurer of the said Society of the filing of such certificate: And whereas the buildings erected under the said Acts of the fifteenth year of the reign of King George the Third have ceased to be required or used for any of the purposes authorised by the said Acts, but the courts mentioned in the said Courts of Justice Building Act, 1865, are still required and used for the purposes therein mentioned: And whereas it may be doubtful whether, under the said Courts of Justice Building Act, 1865, the certificate thereby required can be given by the Lord Chancellor until the whole of the business transacted in the buildings and courts therein mentioned has been transferred to the buildings authorised to be erected under the Courts of Justice Concentration (Site) Act, 1865, and it is expedient that such doubts should be removed: Be it enacted, &c. : 1. As to certificate by Lord Chancellor for payment of balance, &c., on transference of business-28 & 29 Vict. c. 48, 28 & 29 Vict. c. 49-28 & 29 Vict. c. 48.-It shall be lawful for the Lord Chancellor to give a separate certificate, pursuant to the Courts of Justice Building Act, 1865, as to each and every part of the buildings and courts therein mentioned from which the business conducted therein before the passing of that Act has been now or shall be from time to time transferred to the buildings authorised to be erected under the Courts of Justice Concentration (Site) Act, 1865; and the settlement of the account and the payment of the balance provided for by the said Courts of Justice Building Act, 1865, and the order to be made by the Lord Chancellor after such payment, shall be deferred until such certificates or certificate shall have been given as to the whole of such buildings and courts, unless the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury and the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn shall otherwise agree as to any part of the said buildings and courts, or of the accounts relating thereto, which they shall have power and are hereby authorised to do. 2. Vesting order.] If the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury and the said Society of Lincoln's Inn shall so agree, the Lord Chancellor may from time to time make a separate vesting order as to any parts or part of the said buildings and courts which shall no longer be required for any of the purposes aforesaid; and every such vesting order shall, as to such parts or part of the said buildings and courts, have the same operation and effect as the vesting order provided for by the said Act would have had as to all the said buildings and courts. 3. Short title.] This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Courts of Justice Building Amendment Act, 1880. issue such new or altered forms of proceedings in matters, of bastardy as they should deem necessary or expedient for giving effect to the provisions of that Act and the Bastardy Laws Amendment Act, 1872; and the said Board issued certain forms accordingly: And whereas many orders in bastardy have been made which are not in accordance with the forms so issued, or to the like tenor or effect, and in particular the words "for the maintenance and education of the said child" have been omitted from the said orders, and questions have in consequence arisen as to the validity of the same: 1. Power to the Postmaster General to issue money orders in form in schedule for the purpose of the transmission of small sums.] Subject to the Post Office regulations as defined by this Act, the Postmaster General, with the consent of the Treasury, may, for the purpose of the transmi-sion of small sums through the Post Office, authorise his officers or any of them to issue, in addition to the money orders already authorised by law, orders in the form set forth in the schedule to this Act, and such orders shall be paid in the manner and subject to the conditions prescribed by the said regulations, and shall be deemed to be money orders within the meaning of the said regulations, and shall, like other money orders, be exempt from stamp duty. Twelve shillings and sixpence Seventeen shillings and sixpence. Poundage. One halfpenny. One halfpenny. Оne penny. Twopence. One penny. One penny. (2.) Any such order shall not be issued until the amount of the order and the poundage have been paid to the officer issuing the same: (3.) After the expiration of three months from the last day of the month in which any such order is issued by the Post Office, the order shall be payable only on payment in the prescribed manner of a commission equal to the amount of the original poundage, with the addition (if more than three months have elapsed since the said expiration) of the amount of the original poundage for every further period of three months which has so elapsed, and for every portion of any such period of three months over and above every complete period: (4.) No interest shall be payable in respect of an order issued under this Act. 2. Application of 11 & 12 Vict. c. 88, and laying of regulations before Parliament.] Subject to any Post Office regulations, the Post Office Money Order Act, 1848, shall apply as well to orders issued under this Act as to all other money orders issued in pursuance of the said Act of 1848, with this addition, that all Post Office regulations in relation to orders issued under this Act shall be published in the London Gazette, and shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within fourteen days after they are made if Parliament be then in session, and if not, within fourteen days after the commencement of the then next session of Parliament. 3. Forgery of crossing of order.] Any person who, with intent to defraud, obliterates, adds to, or alters any such lines or words on an order issued under this Act, as would, in the case of a cheque, be a crossing of that cheque, or know. ingly offers, ntters, or disposes of any order, with such fraudulent obliteration, addition, or alteration, shall be guilty of felony, and be liable to the like punishment as if such order were a cheque: Provided always, that any banker or corporation or company acting as bankers in the United Kingdom who, in collecting in such capacity for any principal, shall have received payment or been allowed by the Postmaster General in account in respect of any money order issued under this Act, or of any document purporting to be such a money order, shall not incur liability to any. one except such principal by reason of having received such payment or allowance, or having held or presented such order or document for payment; but this section shall rot relieve any principal for whom such order or document shall have been so held or presented of any liability in respect of his possession of the same or of the proceeds thereof. 4. Fraud or forgery.] (1.) The enactments providing for the punishment of offences relating to stamp duties shall apply in like manner as if the poundage under this Act were a stamp duty. (2.) Sections nineteen, twenty-two, twenty-three, twentysix, twenty-nine, and thirty of the Post Office Duties Act, 1840 (which relate to dies and paper, and to plates and instruments, and to moulds, frames, instruments, and machinery for the making of paper, and to the punishing of fraud), shall apply as if herein re-enacted, with the substitution of poundage under this Act for the duties therein mentioned, and of orders under this Act for the envelopes therein mentioned. (3.) An officer of the Post Office who re-issues an order previously paid shall be deemed to have issued the order with a fraudulent intent within the meaning of section foar of the Post Office (Money Orders) Act, 1848, and shall be punished accordingly, and that section as amended by this Act shall extend to an offence when committed in the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man in like manner as if they were mentioned in that section after Ireland, and penal servitude were substituted for transportation. (4.) An order under this Act shall be deemed to be an order for the payment of money and a valuable security within the meaning of the Post Office Acts and of the Forgery Act, 1861 (that is to say, the Act of the twentyfourth and twenty-fifth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter ninety-eight), and of section one of the Larceny Act, 1861, and of any other law relating to forgery or stealing, which is for the time being in force in any part of the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, or Isle of Man. 5. Definitions.] For the purposes of this Act, unless the context otherwise requires The expression "Post Office regulations" means regulations or restrictions from time to time made in pursuance of the Post Office (Money Orders) Act, 1848, as amended by this Act: The expression prescribed" means prescribed by the Post Office regulations for the time being in force. 6. Extension of Acts to Channel Islands and Isle of Man.] The Post Office (Money Orders) Acts, 1848 and 1880, shall extend to the Channel Islands and the I-le of Man, and the Royal Courts of the Channel Islands shall register the same accordingly. 7. Short title and construction] This Act may be cited as the Post Office (Money Orders) Act, 1880. The Act of the session of the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter eighty-eight. intituled An Act for further regulating the Money Order Department of the Post Office," is in this Act referred to and may be cited as the Post Office (Money Orders) Act, 1848. This Act shall be construed as one with the Post Office (Money Orders) Act, 1848, and the two Acts may be cited together as the Post Office (Money Orders) Acts, 1848 and 1880. & Co." pay ment will only be made through a banker, and if the name of a banker is added payment will only be made through that banker. 2. After this order has once been paid, to whomsoever it is paid, the Postmaster General will not be liable for any further claim. 3. If any erasure or alteration be made, or if this order is cat, defaced, or mutilated, payment may be refused. 4. The regulations under which this order is issued allow the postmaster to refuse or delay the payment of this order, but be must at once report his reasons for so doing to the Postmaster General. 5. After the expiration of three months from the last day of the month of issue this Order will be payable only on payment of a commission equal to the amount of the original poundage, with the addition (if more than three months have elapsed since the said expiration) of the amount of the original poundage for every further period of three months which has so elapsed, and for every portion of any such period of three months over and above every complete period. Solicitors' Journal, Oct. 2, 1880. 1. Short title.] This Act may for all purposes be cited as the Wild Birds Protection Act, 1880. 2. Definition of terms.] The words "wild birds" shall for all the purposes of this Act be deemed to mean all wild birds. The word "sheriff" shall include steward and also sheriff substitute and steward substitute. 3. Penalties for shooting or taking wild birds.] Any person who between the first day of March and the first day of August in any year after the passing of this Act shall knowingly and wilfully shoot or attempt to shoot, or shall use any boat for the purpose of shooting or causing to be shot, any wild bird, or shall use any lime, trap, snare, net, or other instrument for the purpose of taking any wild bird, or shall expose or offer for sale, or shall have in his control or possession after the fifteenth day of March, any wild bird recently killed or taken, shall, on conviction of any such offence before any two justices of the peace in England and Wales or Ireland, or before the sheriff in Scotland, in the case of any wild bird which is included in the schedule hereunto annexed, forfeit and pay for every such bird in respect of which an offence has been committed a sum not exceeding one pound, and, in the case of any other wild bird, shall for a first offence be reprimanded and discharged on payment of costs, and for every subsequent offence forfeit and pay for every such wild bird in respect of which an offence is committed a sum of money not exceeding five shillings, in addition to the costs, unless such person shall prove that the said wild bird was either killed or taken or bought or received during the period in which such wild bird could be legally killed or taken, or from some person residing out of the United Kingdom. This section shall not apply to the owner or occupier of any land, or to any person authorised by the owner or occupier of any land, killing or taking any wild bird on such land not included in the schedule hereto annexed. 4. Penalty for refusing to give name and place of abode.] Where any person shall be found offending against this Act it shall be lawful for any person to require the person so offending to give his Christian name, surname, and place of abode, and in case the person so offending shall, after being so required, refuse to give his real name or place of abode, or give an untrue name or place of above, he shall be liable on being convicted of any such offence to forfeit and pay, in addition to the penalties imposed by section three, such sum of money not exceeding ten shillings sterling as to the justices or sheriff shall seem meet. 5. Prosecution of offences.] All offences under this Act may be prosecuted, and penalties and forfeitures under this Act recovered, (1.) In England in marner provided by the Summary Jurisdiction (England) Acts; and (2.) In Scotland before the sheriff in manner provided by the Summary Procedure Act, 1864, and any Acts amending the same; and (3.) In Ireland within the police district of Dublin metropolis, in manner provided by the Acts regulating the powers and duties of justices of the peace for such district, or of the police of such district, and elsewhere in Ireland before two justices in manner provided by the Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851, and any Act amending the same. 6. As to trial of offences committed within the Admiralty urisdiction.] All offences mentioned in this Act which shall be committed within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty shall be deemed to be offences of the same nature and liable to the same punishments as if they had been committed upon any land in the United Kingdom, and may be dealt with, inquired of, tried, and determined in any county or place in the United Kingdom in which the offender shall be apprehended or be in custody or be summoned, in the same manner in all respects as if such offences had been actually committed in that county or place; and in any information or conviction for any such offence the offence may be averred to have been committed "on the high seas." And in Scotland any offence committed against this Act on the sea coast or at sea beyond the ordinary jurisdiction of any sheriff, justice or justices of the peace, shall be held to have been committed in any county abutting on such sea coast or adjoining such sea, and may be tried and punished accordingly. Where any offence under this Act is committed in or upon any waters forming the boundary between any two counties, districts of quarter sessions, or petty sessions, such offence may be prosecuted before any justices of the peace or sheriff in either of such counties or districts. 7. Commencement of Act-Repeal of Acts-32 & 33 Vict. c. 17-35 & 36 Vict. c. 78-39 & 40 Vict. c. 29.] This Act shall come into operation on the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, and on the same day the Act passed in the session of Parliament holden in the thirty-second and thirty-third years of the reign of Her present Majesty, entitled "An Act for the preservation of Sea Birds," and the Act passed in the Session of Parliameut holden in the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, entitled "An Act for the protection of certain wild birds during the breeding season,' and the Act passed in the session of Parliament holden in the thirtyninth and fortieth years of the reign of Her present Maje-ty, entitled "An Act for the preservation of Wild Fowl,' shall be repealed. 8. Extension or variation of close time.] One of Her Majesty's Pincipal Secretaries of State as to Great Britain, and the Lord Lieutenant as to Ireland, mav, upon application of the justices in quarter sessions assembled of any county, by order extend or vary the time during which the killing and taking of wild birds or any of them is prohibited by this Act; after the making of which order the penalties imposed by this Act in respect of such wild birds shall in such county apply only to offences committed during the time specified in such order; and the order for the extension or variation of such time shall be published, if made by the Secretary of State, in the London Gazette, or if made by the Lord Lieutenant, in the Dublin G zette, and a copy of the London Gazette or Dublin Gaze te cont iaing any order made under this Act shall be evidence of the same having been made. 9. Extent of Act.] The operation of this Act shall not extend to the Island of Saint Kilda, and it shall be lawful for one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State as to Great Britain, and for the Lord Lieutenant as to Ireland, where it shall appear desirable, from time to time, upon the application of the justices in quarter sessions assembled in any county to exempt any such county or part or parts thereof, as to all or any wild birds, from the operation of this Act, and every such order shall be published and may be proved in the manner provided in the preceding |