tion of the court that he had used due diligence to enforce the execution of the Act, and that the other person had committed the offence in question without the owner's knowledge, consent, or connivance, that other person shall be summarily convicted of the offence, and the owner shall be exempt from any fine. 14. For the purposes of this Act the council of a county Action of or borough may act through their surveyor or other county authorised officer. councils. 15.-(1.) The Local Government Board may direct any Inquiries by inquiries to be held by their inspectors which they may of Local inspectors deem necessary in regard to the exercise of any of their Government powers under this Act, and the Board and their inspectors Board. shall for the purposes of any such inquiry have the same powers as they respectively have for the purpose of an inquiry under the Public Health Act, 1875. (2.) The expenses incurred by the Local Government Board in respect of inquiries under this Act shall be paid by such authorities and persons, and out of such funds and rates as the Board may by order direct, and the Board may certify the amount of the expenses so incurred, and any sum so certified and directed by the Board to be paid by any authority or person shall be a debt from that authority or person to the Crown. (3.) Such expenses may include the salary of any inspector or officer of the Board engaged in the inquiry, not exceeding three guineas a day. the Menai 16. No locomotive to which this Act applies shall be For the driven over the Menai Bridge when prohibited by notice protection of exhibited thereon by the authority of the Commissioners Bridge. of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings, and nothing in section seven of this Act shall have any application to such bridge. If any person in charge of a locomotive acts in contravention of this section, he shall be liable for each offence, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding five pounds. 17.—(1.) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,The expression county means an administrative county, and includes a county borough; The expressions "council of a county" and "county council" include the council of a county borough; In the case of a county borough the expression "chair 66 Interpreta tion and saving. man" includes the mayor, and the expression "county fund" includes borough fund; The expression "locomotive" means a locomotive propelled by steam or other than animal power; The expression "waggon" includes any truck, cart, The expression " agricultural locomotive" includes- (2.) Nothing in this Act shall affect light locomotives 59 & 60 Vict. within the meaning of the Locomotives on Highways Act, 1896. c. 36. Repeal. Short title. Application of Act. Commence (3.) The mayor, aldermen, and commons of the city of London shall have the same powers with regard to the licensing and registration of locomotives in the city of London as the council of a county have in their county, and shall apply as part of their income any fees or other money received in connection with such powers. 18.-(1.) The Acts mentioned in the schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the third column of that schedule. (2.) Provided that such repeal shall not affect any byelaws made under any enactment mentioned in the said schedule, so far as the same relate to preventing the use of locomotives upon bridges, or for a period of twelve months from the passing of this Act any other byelaws made under any such enactment, except so far as the same may be repealed or altered by byelaws made under this Act. (3.) Nothing in this Act shall affect or derogate from the provisions of any local Act dealing with the licensing of locomotives (whatever the payments in respect of the licence may be) or otherwise relating to locomotives in any borough or other area. 19. This Act may be cited as the Locomotives Act, 1898. 20. This Act shall not apply to Scotland or Ireland. 21. This Act shall not, except so far as regards the ment of Act. making and confirming of byelaws hereunder, come into operation until the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine. Statutes relating to Bridges. MAGNA CHARTA. (25 Edw. I. c. 15.) The Great Charter of the Liberties of England and of the Liberties of the Forest. [12th October, 1297.] 15. No town nor freeman shall be distrained to make bridges nor banks, but such as of old time and of right have been accustomed to make them in the time of King Henry our grandfather. 16. No banks shall be defended from henceforth, but such as were in defence in the time of King Henry our grandfather, by the same places and the same bounds, as they were wont to be in his time. 187 STATUTE OF BRIDGES. (22 HEN. 8, c. 5.) An Acte concerning the Amendment of Bridges in Highe Wayes. [A.D. 1530.] That the justices of peace in every shire of this realm, Justices may franchise, city, or borough, or four of them at the least, award process whereof one to be the quorum, shall have power and who ought against them authority to inquire, hear, and determine in the king's to repair general sessions of peace, of all manner of annoyances of bridges. bridges broken in the highways, to the damage of the |