excepting the procurator-fiscal for the public interest, may appear and oppose the confirmation of such grant by the confirming authority in counties or burghs.

XIII. Deliverances to be entered in book or register. — All deliverances or applications for the confirmation of new certificates shall be entered in the book or register appointed to be kept in terms of the schedule annexed to the Act passed in the sixteenth and seventeenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter sixty-seven.

XIV. Fees. The fees demandable in respect of proceedings under this Act shall be as nearly as may be the same as those payable under the 'Public Houses Acts Amendment (Scotland) Act, 1862,' for the like proceedings under that Act.

XV. Certificate holders need not attend licensing meeting unless required to do so.-Where a person holding a certificate applies for the renewal of his certificate, he need not attend in person at the meeting for granting and renewing certificates, unless he is required by the Justices of Peace of the county or Magistrates of the burgh, as the case may be, so to attend.

XVI. Renewal and transfer of certificates.-Subject to the provisions of this Act, certificates shall be renewed and transferred, and the powers and discretion of Justices or Magistrates and the rights of appeal relative to such renewal and transfer shall be exercised as heretofore.

XVII. Table beer licences not to be granted without certificates. -No licence in the terms of the Act passed in the twentyfourth and twenty-fifth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter twenty-one, for the sale in any house, shop, or premises of table beer at a price not exceeding one penny halfpenny the quart, and not to be drunk on the premises, shall be granted by the Commissioners or by any officer of Inland Revenue to any person in Scotland who shall not produce to the said Commissioners or officer a certificate in terms of 'The Public Houses Acts Amendment (Scotland)

F

Act, 1862,' and the Acts therein recited, or of this Act, and such certificate shall be applied for, granted, confirmed, transferred, and renewed in the manner, and subject to all the provisions applicable to other certificates in the like circumstances granted, confirmed, transferred, and renewed in terms of the foresaid Acts, and, mutatis mutandis, may be in the form (so far as the same is applicable) of Schedule A, No. 3, of the Public Houses Acts Amendment (Scotland) Act, 1862.'

SCHEDULE.

(1.) APPLICATION FOR CONFIRMATION OF NEW CERTIFICATE.

To the County Licensing Committee for the County of

or

To the Joint Committee for the Burgh of

County of

and the

I, A. B., hereby apply for confirmation of the grant made to me of the certificate herewith produced by the [Justices of the Peace of the county of

of

or Magistrates of the burgh

as the case may be] on [give date].

(Signed)

[A. B.]

or

[C. D., law agent of A. B.]

(2.) CONFIRMATION OF NEW CERTIFICATE.

This certificate was confirmed by the licensing committee of

the said county of

of the said county of

of

day of

[or by the joint committee and the said burgh

], at a meeting holden on the

in the year

The above confirmation is made out according to the deliverance in the book or register appointed to be kept in terms of the Act of Parliament.

G. H., Clerk.

An Act to amend the Publicans' Certificates (Scotland) Act, 1876. -[23rd March 1877.]

WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Publicans' Certificates (Scotland) Act, 1876: be it enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :

1. Short title.-This Act may be cited as 'The Publicans' Certificates (Scotland) Act (1876) Amendment Act, 1877.'

II. Subsection 1 of section 7 of recited Act repealed.-Subsection 1 of section 7 of the recited Act is hereby repealed, and in place thereof it is enacted that the following words shall be deemed and be taken to be the first subsection of the seventh section of the recited Act, and the recited Act shall be read and construed as if the first subsection of the seventh section thereof had been originally expressed in the following words, viz. :

The Justices of the Peace in Quarter Sessions assembled
for each county, except the county of the city of Edin-
burgh, shall at the meeting of Quarter Sessions directed
by law to be held in August of the year One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-six, or at any adjournment
thereof, and annually in every subsequent year, except
the year One thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven,

during which year no such appointment shall be made, at the meeting of Quarter Sessions to be held in March, or any adjournment thereof, appoint from among themselves, for the purposes of this Act, a county licensing committee, or they may appoint more than one such committee, and assign to any such committee such area of jurisdiction as they may think expedient.

III. As to county licensing committees already appointed.Every county licensing committee already appointed under the provisions of the said Act shall continue in office until another such committee is appointed, in manner in the said Act provided, at the meeting of Quarter Sessions to be held in March One thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, or any adjournment thereof.

Note.-By the Statute Law Revision Act, 1883, this Act has been in part repealed, viz.: Section 2 to 'enacted that,' from at the meeting' to 'thereof,' and from 'in every subsequent' to 'shall be made.'

VI.—LIABILITY OF INNKEEPERS ACT.

26 AND 27 VICT. CAP. 41.

An Act to amend the Law respecting the Liability of Innkeepers, and to prevent certain Frauds upon them.-[13th July 1863.]

WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the law concerning the liability of innkeepers in respect of the goods of their guests in manner hereinafter mentioned be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons,

:

in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows (that is to say),—

I. Innkeeper not to be liable for loss, etc., beyond £30, except in certain cases. No innkeeper shall, after the passing of this Act, be liable to make good to any guest of such innkeeper any loss of or injury to goods or property brought to his inn, not being a horse or other live animal, or any gear appertaining thereto, or any carriage, to a greater amount than the sum of thirty pounds, except in the following cases (that is to say),(1.) Where such goods or property shall have been stolen,

lost, or injured through the wilful act, default, or neglect of such innkeeper or any servant in his employ :

(2.) Where such goods or property shall have been deposited expressly for safe custody with such innkeeper: Provided always, that in the case of such deposit it shall be lawful for such innkeeper, if he think fit, to require, as a condition of his liability, that such goods or property shall be deposited in a box or other receptacle, fastened and sealed by the person depositing the same.

II. Obligation to receive property of guests for safe custody.—If any innkeeper shall refuse to receive for safe custody, as before mentioned, any goods or property of his guest, or if any such guest shall, through any default of such innkeeper, be unable to deposit such goods or property as aforesaid, such innkeeper shall not be entitled to the benefit of this Act in respect of such goods or property.

III. Notice of law, etc., to be conspicuously exhibited.-Every innkeeper shall cause at least one copy of the first section of this Act, printed in plain type, to be exhibited in a conspicuous part of the hall or entrance to his inn, and he shall be entitled to the benefit of this Act in respect of such goods or property only as shall be brought to his inn while such copy shall be so exhibited.