' Journal , 1. For purposes of Act Channel Islands and Isle of Man part of United Kingdom.] For the purposes of this Act the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man shall be deemed parts of the United Kingdom. 2. Repeal of part of sect. 6 of 33 & 34 Vict. c. 79.] From and after the thirtieth day of September one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, so much of section six of the Post Office Act, 1870, as requires that a publication, in order to be a newspaper for the purposes of that Act, shall be printed on a sheet or sheets unstitched, shall be repealed, but such repeal shall not extend to a supplement to a news 1. Short titles-1_Vict. c. 33, &c.-1 Vict. c. 36.] This Act may be cited as the Post Office (Land) Act, 1881. The Acts set forth in the Schedule to this Act are in this Act referred to and may be cited by the short title in the third column of that schedule mentioned, and the said Acts, acquisition of such lands. Be it therefore enacted as follows: (1.) The Postmaster-General, with the consent of the Treasury, may purchase lands for the purpose of the Post Office, and shall take and hold such land on behalf of Her Majesty for the service of the Post Office; and for the purposes of this Act the expression "land" shall include any right or easement in, over, or in respect of land. (2.) With respect to any such purchase of land the following provisions shall have effect; (that is to say,) (a.) The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and the Acts amending the same shall be incorporated with this Act, except the provisions relating to access to the special Act, and in construing those Acts for the purposes of this section "the special Act" shall be construed to mean this Act, and "the promoters of the undertaking" shall be construed to mean the Postmaster-General, and "land" shall be construed to have the same meaning as is given to it by this Act. (b.) The bond required by section eighty-five of the Lands Clauses Cousolidation Act, 1845, shall be under the seal of the Postmaster-General, and shall be sufficient without sureties. (c.) The provisions of the said incorporated Acts with respect to the purchase of land compulsorily shall not be put in force until the sanction of Parliament has been obtained in manner in this Act mentioned. e (a.) Three months at the least before an application is madf to Parliament for sanction to the compulsory purchase o land under this Act, the Postmaster-General with the consent of the Treasury shall serve, in manner provided by the said incorporated Acts, a notice on every owner or reputed owner, lessee or reputed lessee, and occupier of any land intended to be so purchased, describing the land intended to be taken and in general terms the purposes to which it is to be applied, and stating the intention of the Treasury to obtain the sanction of Parliament to the purchase thereof and inquiring whether the person so served assents or dissents to the taking of his land, and requesting him to forward to the Treasury any objections he may have to his land being taken. (e.) The Treasury shall, at some time after the service of such notice, make a local inquiry by a competent officer into the objections made by any persons whose land is required to be taken, and by other persons, if any, interested in the subject matter of such inquiry. (f) The Treasury, if satisfied after such inquiry has been made that the land ought to be taken, may submit a Bill to Parliament containing provisions authorising the Postmaster-General to take such land, and such Bill shall in all respects be deemed to be a Public Bill, and, if passed into an Act, to have conveyed the sanction of Parliament to the purchase compulsorily of the land therein mentioned or referred to, and the period for such compulsory purchase shall be three years after the passing of such Act. Provided that if while such Bill is pending in either House of Parliament a petition is presented against anything comprised therein, the Bill may be referred to a Select Committee, and the petitioner shall be allowed to appear and oppose as in the case of Private Bills. (3.) The Chancellor and Council for the time being of the together with this Act, may be cited together as the Post Duchy of Lancaster may, if they think fit, from time contract Office (Management) Acts, 1837 to 1881. This Act shall be deemed to be a Post Office Act within the meaning of the Post Office (Offences) Act, 1837. 2. Commencement of Act.] This Act shall come into operation on the first day of September one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one (which day is in this Act referred to as the commencement of this Act). Acquisition of Land. 3. Power of Postmaster-General for purchase of land—3 & 4 Vict. c. 96, s. 67.] Whereas by the Post Office Duties Act, 1840, the Postmaster-General is constituted & body corporate for the purpose of holding and taking conveyances and leases of lands for the service of the Post Office, and it is expedient to give further powers for the and agree with the Postmaster-General for the sale of, and may absolutely make sale and dispose of, for such sum or sums of money as to the said Chancellor and Council appear sufficient consideration for the same, any land belonging to Her Majesty, her heirs, or successors, in right of the said Duchy, which, for the purpose of the Post Office, the Postmaster-General may from time to time deem it expedient to purchase with the consent of the Treasury, and such land may be granted and assured to the Postmaster-General, and the said moneys shall be paid and dealt with as if the said and had been sold under the authority of the Duchy of Lancaster Lands Act, 1855. 4. Power to sell, exchange, or lease land purchased-26 & 27 Vict. c. 43.] All the provisions of the Post Office Lands Act, 1863, with respect to the sale, exchange, leasing, or surrender of any lands vested in the Postmaster-General shall apply to any land purchased by the Postmaster- General under the powers of this Act. Execution of Instruments. 5. Exemption of Postmaster-General from stamp duty-32 & 33 Vict. c. 73-31 & 32 Vict. c. 110.] Every deed, instrument, receipt, or document made or executed for the purpose of the Post Office, by, to, or with Her Majesty or any officer of the Post Office, shall be exempt from any stamp duty imposed by any Act, past or future, except where such duty is declared by the deed, instrument, receipt, or document, or by some memorandum endorsed thereon, to be payable by some person other than the Postmaster-General, and except so far as any future Act specifically charges the same. Section twenty-two of the Telegraph Act, 1869, except so far as it amends section five of the Telegraph Act, 1868, is hereby repealed, without prejudice nevertheless to anything already done in pursuance of the said section. 6. Power of deputy of Postmaster-General to give notice, or make claim, distress, &c.] Any person having authority in that behalf, either general or special, under the seal of the Postmaster-General, may, on behalf of the PostmasterGeneral, give any notice and make any claim, demand, entry, or distress which the Postmaster-General in his corporate capacity or otherwise might give or make, and every such notice, claim, demand, entry, and distress shall be deemed to have been given and made by the PostmasterGeneral on behalf of Her Majesty. 7. Execution of instrument under seal of PostmasterGeneral.] An instrument under the seal of the PostmasterGeneral may be signed by any of the secretaries to the Post Office, and shall be as valid as if the same were signed by the Postmaster-General. Any instrument purporting to be under the seal of the Postmaster-General, and to be signed by the PostmasterGeneral or one of the secretaries to the Post Office, shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to have been so sealed and signed without proof of the official character of the person appearing to have signed the same. Supplemental. 8. Definitions-1 Vict. c. 36.] In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, The expression "the Treasury" means the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury. The expression "the purpose of the Post Office" means any purpose of any of the Post Office Acts or of any Acts for the time being in force relating to Post Office money orders, Post Office telegraphs, or Post Office savings banks, and includes any purpose relating to or ia connection with the execution of the duties for the time being undertaken by the Postmaster-General or any of his officers. Other expressions shall have the same meaning as in the Post Office (Offences) Act, 1837. Application to Scotland and Ireland. 9. Application to Scotland-8 & 9 Vict. c. 19.] In the application of this Act to Scotland the expression" Lanis Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," shall mean the Lands Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act, 1845, and the reference to the bond required by section eighty-five of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, shall be deemed to refer to the bond required by section eighty-four of the Lands Causes Consolidation (Scotland) Act, 1845. 10. Application to Ireland-8 & 9 Vict. e. 18-23 & 21 Vict. c. 106-14 & 15 Vict. c. 70-23 & 24 Vict, e. 97-27 & 28 Vict. c. 71-31 & 32 Vict. c. 70.] In the application of this Act to Ireland the expression Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and the Acts amending the same," shall mean the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, as amended by the Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts Amerdment Act, 1860, the Railways Act (Ireland), 1851, the Railways Act (Ireland), 1860, the Railways Act (Ireland), 1864, and the Railway Traverse Act. Be it enacted, &c. : 1. Short title.] This Act may be cited as the Summary Jurisdiction (Process) Act, 1881. This Act shall be deemed to be included in the expres sions "Summary Jurisdiction Acts" and "Summary Juradiction (English) Acts." 2. Extent of Act.] This Act shall not apply to Ireland. 3. Commencement of Act.] This Act shall come into operation on the first day of October one thousand eight hundred a ́d eighty-one (which day is in this Act referred to as the commencement of this Act). 4. Service of process of English court in Scotland am? A Scotch court in England.] Subject to the provisions of this Act, any process issued under the Summary Jurisdiction Arts may, if issued by a court of summary jurisdiction in Engli and endorsed by a court of summary jurisdiction in Scotland, or issued by a court of summary jurisdiction in Seetlint, and endorsed by a court of summary juris fiction in Eng Ò, be served and executed within the jurisdiction of the endorsing court in like manner as it may be served ari executed within the jurisdiction of the issuing court, and "Solicitors' Journal," Sept. 10, 1881. that by an officer either of the issuing or of the endo ing court. For the purposes of this Act (1.) Any process may be issued and endorsed under the hand of any such person as is declared by this Act to be a court of summary jurisdiction, and may be endorsed upon proof alone of the handwriting of the person issuing it, and such proof may be either on oath or by such solemn declaration as is mentioned in section forty-one of the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879, or by any like declaration taken in Scotland before a sheriff, justice of the peace, or other magistrate having the authority of a justice of the peace. Such indorsement may be in the form contained in the schedule to this Act annexed, or in a form to the like effect: (2.) Where any process requiring the appearance of a person to answer any information or complaint has been served in pursuance of this section, the court, before issuing a warrant for the apprehension of such person for failure so to appear, shall be satisfied on oath that there is sufficient primâ facie evidence in support of such information or complaint: (3.) If the process is to procure the attendance of a witness, the court issuing the process shall be satisfied on oath of the probability that the evidence of such witness will be material, and that the witness will not appear voluntarily without such process, and the witness shall not be subject to any liability for not obeying the process, unless a reasonable amount for his expenses has been paid or tendered to him: (4.) This Act shall not apply to any process requiring the appearance of a person to answer a complaint it issued by an English court of summary jurisdiction for the recovery of a sum of money which is a civil debt within the meaning of the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879, or if issued by a Scotch court in a case which falls within the definition of "civil jurisdiction" contained in the Summary Procedure Act, 1864. 5. Provision as to execution of process.] Where a person is apprehended under any process executed in pursuance of this Aet, such person shall be forthwith taken to some place within the jurisdiction of the court issuing the process, and be there dealt with as if he had been there apprehended. A warrant of distress issued in England when endorsed in pursuance of this Act shall be executed in Scotland as if it were a Scotch warrant of poinding and sale, and a Scotch warrant of poinding and sale when endorsed in pursuance of this Act shall be executed in England as if it were an English warrant of distress, and the enactments relating to the said warrants respectively shall apply accordingly, except that any account of the costs and charges in connection with the execution, or of the money levied thereby or otherwise relating to the execution, shall be made, and any money raised by the execution shall be dealt with in like manner as if the warrant had been executed within the jurisdiction of the court issuing the warrant. 6. Provision as to bastardy proceedings in England and Scotland.] A court of summary jurisdiction in England and a sheriff court in Scotland shall respectively have jurisdiction by order or decree to adjudge a person within the jurisdiction of the court to pay for the maintenance and education of a bastard child of which he is the putative father, and for the expenses incidental to the birth of such child, and for the funeral expenses of such child, notwithstanding that such person ordinarily resides, or the child has been born, or the mother of it ordinarily resides, where tho court is English, in Scotland, or where the court is Scotch, in England, in like manner as the court has jurisdiction in any other case. Any process issued in England or Scotland to enforce obedience to such order or decree may be endorsed and executed in Scotland and England respectively in manner provided by this Act with respect to process of a court of summary jurisdiction. Any bastardy order of a court of summary jurisdiction in England may be registered in the books of a sheriff court in Scotland, and thereupon a warrant of arrestment may be issued in like manner as if such order were a decree of the said sheriff court. 7. Saving.] This Act shall be in addition to and not in derogation of any power existing under any other Act relating to the execution of any warrant or other process in England and Scotland respectively. 8. Definitions-42 & 43 Vict. c. 49-27 & 28 Vict. c. 53.] In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— The expression "process" includes any summons or warrant of citation to appear either to answer any information or complaint, or as a witness; also any warrant of commitment, any warrant of imprisonment, any warrant of distress, any warrant of poinding and sale, also any order or minute of a court of summary jurisdiction or copy of such order or minute, also an extract decree, and any other document or process, other than a warrant of arrestment, required for any purpose connected with a court of summary jurisdiction to be served or executed. The expression Summary Jurisdiction Acts" as regards England has the same meaning as in the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879, and as regards Scotland, means the Summary Procedure Act, 1864, and any Act, past or future, amending that Act. The expression" sheriff" shall include sheriff substitute. The expression "court of summary jurisdiction" means any justice of the peace, also any officer or other magistrate having the authority in England or Scotland of a justice of the peace, also in Scotland the sheriff. The expression "officer of a court of summary jurisdiction means the constable, officer, or person to whom any process issued by the court is directed, or who is by law required or authorised to serve or execute any process issued by the court. SCHEDULE. INDORSEMENT IN BACKING A PROCESS. WHEREAS proof hath this day been made before me, one of Her Majesty's justices of the peace [sheriff or other magistrate] for the [county or burgh] of that the name of A.B. to the within warrant [or summons or order or minute, or copy of order or minute or other document] subscribed is of the bandwriting of the justice of the peace [sheriff or other magistrate] within mentioned, I do therefore hereby authorise C.D. who bringeth to me this warrant [or summons or order or minute, or copy of order or minute or other document,] and all other persons by whom the same may be lawfully served [or executed], and also all constables and other peace officers of the said [county or burgh] of to serve and execute the same within the last-mentioned [county or burgh]. Given under ny hand this CAP. XXV. day of 18 · 1. Power to Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty to extend period for repayment of loans, &c.] The Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the Poor Clergy (herein-after called the "Governors ") may by resolution passed by them at a board meeting, from time to time extend for a period not exceeding three years the term fixed for the repayment of any money lent by them to or for the incumbent of any benefice under the powers of one or more of the Acts enumerated in the Schedule hereto, such extension of terms to be accompanied, at the discretion of the Governors, by the suspension for one, two, or three years of the payment of the annual instalment of principal due or to become due from the incumbent; such suspended annual instalments to be subsequently payable by the incumbent for the time being in respect of the year or years which by the aforesaid extension shall have been added to the term created by the mortgage affected thereby, and begin to accrue due as soon as the residue of the principal money shall have become repayable. 2. Limitation of duration of discretionary powers.] The discretionary powers given by this Act shall not be exerciseable beyond three years from the passing hereof, and the 1. Title of Act.] This Act may be cited as the Stratified Ironstone Mines (Gunpowder) Act, 1881. 2. Power to exempt ironstone mines from regulation as to cartridges under 35 & 36 Vict. c. 76, s. 51.] (1.) It shall be lawful for one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, if he shall think fit, on the application of the owner, agent, or manager of any stratified ironstone mine in the lias formation, to exempt such mine from so much of the general rule eight in the Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1872, as forbids gunpowder or other explosives or inflammable substance from being taken into or being in the possession of any person in any mine except in cartridges. (2.) The application shall be transmitted by the owner, agent, or manager to the inspector of the district, and the requirements of sections fifty-three and fifty-seven of the Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1872, as to the posting of any proposed special rule, shall extend to any such application Provided that the exemption shall not come into force until granted by the Secretary of State. (3.) The Secretary of State may at any time revoke such exemption, but such revocation shall not come into force until written or printed notice thereof has been posted up at the mine for twenty-four hours. (4.) A list of the exemptions granted or revoked under this Act shall be set forth by the inspector of the district in his annual report. CAP. XXVIII. An Act to make provision for the payment by reduced Instalments of Loans under the Seed Supply (Ireland) Act, 1880; and to amend and explain the Relief of Distress (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1880, and the Local Government Board (Ireland) Act, 1872. [11th August 1881. CAP. XXIX. An Act further to facilitate the building, enlargement, and maintenance of Reformatory Institutions in Ireland. [11th August 1881. CAP. XXX. An Act to provide for the employment of certain Officers and Clerks by the Commissioners of Customs. [11th August 1881. CAP. XXXI. An Act to continue certain Turnpike Acts, and to repeal certain other Turnpike Acts; and for cther purposes connected therewith. [11th August 1881. CAP. XXXII. An Act to remit certain Loans formerly made out of the Consolidated Fund. [11th August 1881. CAP. XXXIII. An Act to amend the Summary Procedure Act, 1861. [11th August 1881. Whereas, by an Act passed in the ninth year of King George the Fourth, chapter t enty-nine, intituled an Act to authorise additional Circuit Courts of Justiciary to be held and to facilitate criminal trials in Scotland, provision was made for the summary prosecution of offences before sheriffs of counties in certain cases : And whereas by an Act passed in the Parliament held in the seventh year of King William the Fourth and the first year of Her present Majesty, chapter forty-o, intituled "An Act for the more effectual recovery of small debts in the sheriff courts and for regulating the establishment of circuit courts for the trial of small debt causes by the sheriffs in Scotland," herein-after called the Small Debt Act, 1837, provision was made for the recovery of statutory penalties by way of action in the sheriff court and a scale of fees was nixed for such prosecations : And whereas by the Summary Procedure Act, 1854, further provision was made for the trial of offences punishable on summary conviction, and for the summary recovery of penalties: And whereas by the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879, additional powers were conferred upon courts of summary jurisdiction in England to mitigate and modify punishments in summary proceedings: And whereas it is expedient to amend the Summary Procedure Act, 1864, to extend certain of the provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879, to Scotland, and also to regulate the costs and expenses of summary procedure in Scotland: Be it enacted, &c. : 1. Short title.] This Act may be cited as the Summary Jurisdiction (Scotland) Act, 1881, and shall be construed as one with the Summary Procedure Act, 1864, so far as consistent with the tenour of these Acts respectively, and these Acts may be cited together as the Summary Jurisdiction (Scotland) Acts, 1864 and 1881, and shall apply to Scotland only. 2. Commencement of Act.] This Act shall commence on the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two. 3. Application-38 & 39 Vict. e. 62-31 & 32 Vict. c. 123.] The provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction (Scotland) Acts, 1864 and 1881, berein-after called the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, shall apply to all summary proceedings as enumerated and described in the third section of the Summary Procedure Act, 1864, and to all proceedings of the like nature which by any future Act are directed or authorised to be taken summarily, or under the provisions of the Summary Jarisdiction Acts, and the thirty-second section of the Summary Procedure Act, 1864, is hereby repealed: And it shall not be necessary in any case to keep a record of the evidence, except so far as may be required by the Act conferring jurisdiction in the matter of the prosecution, or by the sixth section of the Summary Prosecutions Appeals (Scotland) Act, 1875. Whereas doubts have arisen whether the third section of the Sammary Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1864, includes and applies to prosecutions under the twenty-third and twenty-fourth sections of the Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act, 1855, be it enacted, that the provisions of the Sammary Jurisdic tion Acts shall apply to such prosecutions, and in all similar cases when in addition to a penalty a forfeiture is provided by statute. The provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction Acts shall also apply to prosecutions under the Twend Fisheries Acts: Provided always, that it shall be in the option of the prosecutor to proceed either under the forms of the Tweed Fisheries Acts, or under the forms of the Sammary Jurisdiction Acts: Provided also, that where there is a general or local Police Act in force, it shall be optional in police prosecutions either to use the forms prescribed by sara Act, or the forms provided by the Summary Juri-diction Acts. 4. R-gulation of expenses.] The costs and expenses of all complaints and proceedings instituted under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts shall be regulated by the table of fes entained in the Schedule A. to this Act annexed, and no other Sept. 17, 1881. or higher fees shall be allowed on taxation, and where expenses shall be awarded against a respondent the decree shall be subject to the following limitations : (a.) Where the penalty or penalties imposed shall not exceed twelve pounds the total expenses decerned for shall not exceed three pounds. (b.) Where the penalty or penalties imposed shall not exceed twelve pounds but it appears to the Court that the reasonable expenses of the complainer's witnesses, together with the other expenses, exceed the sums herein-before allowed, the Court may direct the expenses of such witnesses to be paid in whole or in part out of the penalty. The directions contained in the schedule shall be deemed to be part of this enactment. 5. Amount of expenses to be stated in conviction or decree.] In all proceedings under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts in every conviction, order, decree of absolvitor, decree dismissing the complaint, or other decree disposing of the complaint, and not at any subsequent time, the Court may, subject to the foregoing provisions, when a finding of expenses is competent, find such sum to be due in name of expenses, if any, as it considers reasonable. Expenses shall in all cases be recovered as if they formed part of the penalty, and the same diligence shall follow in case of default in payment. 6. Power to mitigate penalties.] In all proceedings under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts- (a.) Where the punishment of imprisonment is imposed by Act of Parliament, the Court may, if it thinks the justice of the case demands it, substitute for imprisonment a fine not exceeding twenty-five pounds or reduce the amount of imprisonment, and notwithstanding any enactment to the contrary impose the same without hard labour, and when the punishment of a penalty or fine is imposed it may reduce the amount of such fine, and when in the case either of imprisonment or a fine the respondent is required to come under his own obligation or to find caution or security for keeping the peace and observing some other condition, or to do any of such things, the Court may dispense with any such requirement or any part thereof: Provided that nothing in this Act shall authorise the Court to reduce the amount of a fine when the Act prescribing such amount carries into effect a treaty, convention, or agreement with a foreign state, and such treaty, convention, or agreement stipulates for a fine of minimum amount : Provided further, that this section shall not apply to proceedings taken under any Act relating to any of Her Majesty's regular or auxiliary forces: (b.) Where a warrant of imprisonment is granted, whether in default of payment of a penalty or expenses, or for failure to find caution or security, or in default of recovery of suffi ient goods by poinding and sale, when the amount adjudged to be paid, or for which security is to be found (c.) Where any sum is adjudged to be paid, the Cur: may do any or all of the following things: (1.) A low time for payment: (2.) Direct payment to be made by instalments: (3.) Require security or caution to be found for the payment of such sums or instalments at such time or times as the Court may prescribe: Where a sum is directed to be paid by instalments and default is made in the payment of any one instalment, the same proceedings may be taken as if default had been made in payment of all the instalments then remaining unpaid. The Court directing payment of a sum or of an instalment may direct the payment to be made at such times and places and to such person as the Court may specify, and every person to whom such sum or instalment is paid, where not the clerk of Court, shall as soon as may be pay over or account for the same to the clerk, to be applied by him in manner provided by the special Act. In complaints not founded on any special Act the maximum sentence shall continue to be as defined by the first recited Act. 7. Powers of sherif.] In all prosecutions which might competently have been instituted by summary complaint and under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, but which shall be instituted by criminal libel and shall be tried by the sheriff and a jury, the sheriff or his substitute shall have all the powers conferred by the preceding section upon the Court in proceedings under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts. 8. Imprisonment competent in default of recovery by poinding Execution of warrants of poinding and sale -7 Will. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 41.] (1.) Subject to the provisions of section six, in all proceedings under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts where a warrant of poinding and sale is competent, a warrant of imprisonment in default of recovery of sufficient goods shall likewise be competent for a period not exceeding three montbs, and the court shall specify the term of imprisonment in the warrant. (2.) All warrants of poinding and sale under the Summary Jurisd ction Acts shall be executed in manner provided by the Small Debt Act, 1837, provided that in place of the customary notice of sale, notice of every sale under such warrants shall be given by adverti-ement in some newspaper circulating in the place of sale on the day of sale or within three days preceding the same. 9. Procedure.] (1.) Every complaint at the instance of a private prosecutor or complainer under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts may be signed either by such private prosecutor or complainer, or by a duly qualified law agent on his behalf, and such law agent may, in the absence of the priv te prosecutor or complainer, appear in Court, and conduct the prosecution on his behalf. (2.) In all cases where a warrant of citation or apprehension is to be granted on sworn information, such information may be sword to before any justice of the peace or magistrate of a burgh, although the prosecution is to be before the sheriff. (3.) Where an adjournment is granted on the respondent's application, the court may, instead of rdaining the respond ent to find security to appear, appoint the respondent to attend the sitting of the court to which the case is adj urned under a suitable penalty in case he shall fail to appear . (4.) In all cases where an appeal is competent, it shall be in the power of the Court of Appeal, on the application of either party and on such terms as to the Court shall seem fit, to amend the case, and all appeals from proceedings under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts shall be taken to the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh or on circuit. (5.) A warrant of imprisonment may be in the form con. tained in the Schedule B. to this Act annexed. 10. Boundaries of jurisdiction.] In all proceedings for the trial of offences under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts (1.) Where the offence is committed in any harbour, (2.) Where the offence is committed on the boundary of |