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or other place, or any servant or other person having the charge thereof,

shall not admit such superintendent or constable when required, such person shall for every such offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding five pounds.

CCCXXXIX. Penalty for purchasing wearing apparel or taking pawn for spirituous liquors, or supplying liquors to persons under fourteen years of age.-Any person licensed to sell wine, spirits, beer, cider, or other fermented or distilled liquors by retail who shall purchase or receive in pawn any article of wearing apparel, or bed clothes, or any goods, as the price or as security for the price of any fermented or distilled liquors, shall be liable in a penalty not exceeding five pounds, and in the case of such pawn the article so received shall be restored to the owner; and any person licensed as aforesaid who shall supply any sort of fermented or distilled liquors to and for the use on the premises of such person of any boy or girl apparently under fourteen years of age, shall be liable for the first offence to a penalty not exceeding one pound, for the second offence to a penalty not exceeding two pounds, and for a third offence to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

LOCAL STATUTES.

XXI. THE GLASGOW POLICE ACT, 1866.

29 AND 30 VICT. CAP. 273.

CXVI. Procedure in cases under Acts relating to publicans and weights and measures.-Every proceeding or trial before the Magistrate in pursuance of the Acts relating to publicans and retailers of ale, beer, spirits, wine, and other exciseable liquors, hereinafter enumerated under the head of Offences against the Acts relating to Public Houses,' and in pursuance of the Acts relating to weights and measures, hereinafter enumerated under the head of 'Special Provisions-Weights and Measures, Sale of Coal,' shall be conducted according to the provisions of the said Acts, and every order or sentence of the Magistrate therein may be enforced, and shall only be subject to review to the extent provided by the said Acts respectively; and all penalties awarded or forfeitures made in pursuance of the said Acts shall be disposed of and applied in the way thereby required, or, in so far as not thereby required, in the same way as penalties awarded and forfeitures made in pursuance of this Act.

CXXXV. Offences against the rules of good conduct.-(16.) Every person who occupies a building or part of a building or other place of public resort for the sale or consumption of provisions or refreshments of any kind, who knowingly suffers to remain

in his premises any constable on duty, unless for the purpose of quelling any disturbance or restoring order, or who directly or indirectly supplies such constable with liquor, shall be liable to a penalty of five pounds, or in default of payment to imprisonment for thirty days.

CL. Offences against the Acts relating to public houses to be tried as police offences.-All offences committed within the city against the Acts relating to publicans and retailers of ale, beer, spirits, wine, and other exciseable liquors, passed in the ninth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, chapter fifty-eight, and in the eleventh and twelfth year of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter forty-nine, and in the sixteenth and seventeenth year of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter sixty-seven, and the Act passed in the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth year of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter thirty-five, may be tried by the Magistrate as police offences.

XXII.-THE EDINBURGH MUNICIPAL AND POLICE ACT, 1879.

42 AND 43 VICT. CAP. 132.

CVII. Water-closets and urinals in public houses, etc.—The Magistrates and Council may make an order on the owner or occupier of any hotel, public house, beerhouse, eating house, or other place of public entertainment or resort, to provide and maintain, within or adjoining to his premises, waterclosets and urinals to their satisfaction, and every such order shall specify the time within which it shall be incumbent on such owner or occupier to provide such water-closets and urinals; and every person who shall fail to comply with such

order shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five shillings for every day during which such failure continues after the expiration of the period specified in such order; and the Magistrates and Council may order any owner or occupier as aforesaid to remove any water-closet or urinal in or adjoining such place of entertainment or resort if it appear to them to be so situated or constructed, or to be in such a state as to be a nuisance or offensive to public decency or otherwise objectionable, and may order the substitution of such other convenience as they may deem proper; and all such urinals shall be cleansed once in twenty-four hours, by or under the direction of the occupier of the house or place to which they belong, to the satisfaction of the inspector of cleansing, and in default thereof such occupier shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings.

CCXVII. Penalty on letting without disinfection houses in which infected persons have been lodging.-Every person who knowingly lets for hire any house, room or part of a house in which any person has been suffering from any infectious or contagious disease aforesaid without having such house, room or part of a house, and all articles therein liable to retain infection, disinfected to the satisfaction of the medical officer of health, as testified by a certificate signed by him, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds. For the purposes of this section the keeper of an hotel, inn, or public house for reception of guests shall be deemed to let for hire part of a house to any person admitted as a guest.

CCLXXXII. Constables may enter certain premises.-Any constable shall have power, by virtue of his office, at any time to enter any premises or other place of the following description, viz. :

(4.) Any victualling house, public house, house or building in which wine, spirits, beer, cider, or other exciseable or fermented or distilled liquors are sold or suspected to be sold, whether licensed or not:

And every occupier or keeper of any such premises or other place, or other person having the charge thereof, who shall not admit such constable when required, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.

CCCXIX. Prosecutions under Public Houses Acts.-Every person who shall commit any offence against the provisions of the Acts passed in the ninth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, chapter fifty-eight, and in the sixteenth and seventeenth year of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter sixty-seven, and of the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth year of the reign of Her said Majesty, chapter thirty-five, or any breach of the regulations of the certificates granted by virtue thereof, may be prosecuted before the judge of police; and every such offence or breach shall be proceeded with, tried, and determined, and all penalties incurred shall be recovered and applied by the judge of police in the manner and subject to the conditions provided in the said Acts.

XXIII. EDINBURGH MUNICIPAL AND POLICE EXTENSION ACT, 1882.

45 AND 46 VICT. CAP. 161.

XXII. Public Houses and Licensing Acts, 25 and 26 Vict. cap. 35; 39 and 40 Vict. cap. 26; 40 and 41 Vict. cap. 3.—All applications for certificates under the Public General Acts,

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