case of any mine, by any person whomsoever, the owner and agent of such mine shall each be guilty of an offence against this Act, unless he prove that he had taken all reasonable means by publishing, and to the best of his power enforcing, the provisions of this section to prevent such contravention or non-compliance.

XXXI. Penalty for offences against Act.-Every person employed in or about a mine, other than an owner or agent, who is guilty of any act or omission which in the case of an owner or agent would be an offence against this Act, shall be deemed to be guilty of an offence against this Act.

Every person who is guilty of an offence against this Act shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding, if he is an owner or agent, twenty pounds, and if he is any other person two pounds for each offence; and if an inspector has given written notice of any such offence, to a further penalty not exceeding one pound for every day after such notice that such offence continues to be committed.

XII. THE TIPPLING ACT, 1751.

24 GEO. II. CAP. 40.

XII. No debt under twenty shillings for spirituous liquors, contracted at one time, recoverable, etc.-Retailer taking a pledge for liquors to forfeit forty shillings—Application of the penalty— Owner may recover his pledge.-And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that from and after the said first day of July 1751, no person or persons whatsoever shall be intitled unto or maintain any cause, action, or suit for, or recover either in law or equity, any sum or sums of money,

on account of any

debt or demands whatsoever, for or
spirituous liquors, unless such debt shall have really been and
bona fide contracted at one time, to the amount of twenty
shillings or upwards, nor shall any particular article or item
in any account or demand for distilled spirituous liquors be
allowed or maintained, where the liquors delivered at one
time, and mentioned in such article or item, shall not amount
to the full value of twenty shillings at the least, and that with-
out fraud or covin, and where no part of the liquors so sold or
delivered shall have been returned, or agreed to be returned,
directly or indirectly; and in case any retailer of spirituous
liquors, with or without a licence, shall take or receive any
pawn or pledge from any person or persons whatsoever by
way of security for the payment of any sum or sums of
money owing by such person or persons for such spirituous
liquors or strong waters, every such person or persons
offending herein shall forfeit and lose the sum of forty
shillings for each and every pawn or pledge so taken in or
received by him or them, to be levied and recovered by
warrant, under the hand and seal of one Justice of the Peace
where the offence is committed; and that one moiety thereof
shall be to the use of the poor of the parish where such
offence is committed, and the other moiety to the informer
or informers; and the person or persons to whom any such
pawn or pledge doth or shall belong, shall have the same
remedy for recovering such pawn, or the value thereof, as if
it had never been pledged.

Note.-Part of this section has been repealed by the
Amendment Act, which follows. (See next page.)

XIII. AMENDMENT OF TIPPLING ACT.

25 AND 26 VICT. CAP. 38.

An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Sale of Spirits.[17th July 1862.]

Recital of section 12 of 24 Geo. II. cap. 40, enacting that no action should be brought to recover any debt for spirituous liquors, unless contracted at one time to the amount of twenty shillings— Recited enactment repealed.-Whereas by the twelfth section of an Act passed in the twenty-fourth year of the reign of King George the Second, chapter forty, intituled An Act for granting to His Majesty an additional Duty upon Spirituous Liquors, and upon Licences for retailing the same; and for repealing the Act of the twentieth year of His present Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act for granting a Duty to His Majesty to be paid by Distillers upon Licences to be taken out by them for retailing Spirituous Liquors," and for the more effectually restraining the retailing of distilled Spirituous Liquors, and for allowing a drawback upon the exportation of British-made Spirits; and that the parish of St. Mary-le-bone, in the county of Middlesex, shall be under the inspection of the Head Office of Excise,' it is amongst other things enacted that no person or persons whatsoever shall be entitled unto, or maintain any cause, action, or suit for, or recover either in law or equity, any sum or sums of money, debt or demands whatsoever, for or on account of any spirituous liquors, unless such debt shall have really been and bona fide contracted at one time to the amount of twenty shillings or upwards, nor shall any particular article or item in any account or demand for distilled spirituous liquors be

allowed or maintained where the liquors delivered at one time, and mentioned in such article or item, shall not amount to the full value of twenty shillings at the least and whereas it is expedient that the said recited enactment should be repealed so far as is 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, that so much of the said enactment as is herein before recited shall be, and the same is hereby repealed, so far only as relates to spirituous liquors sold to be consumed elsewhere than on the premises where sold, and delivered at the residence of the purchaser thereof in quantities not less at any one time than a reputed quart.

XIV. ARMY ACT, 1881.

44 AND 45 VICT. CAP. 58.

CIII. Obligation of constable to provide billets for officers, soldiers, and horses.—(1.) Every constable for the time being in charge at any place in the United Kingdom mentioned in the route issued to the commanding officer of any portion of Her Majesty's regular forces shall, on the demand of such commanding officer, or of an officer or soldier authorized by him, and on production of such route, billet on the occupiers of victualling houses and other premises specified in this Act as victualling houses in that place such number of officers, soldiers, and horses entitled under this Act to be billeted as are mentioned in the route and stated to require quarters.

CIV. Liability to provide billets.-(1.) The provisions of this part of this Act with respect to victualling houses shall extend to all inns, hotels, livery stables, or alehouses, also to the houses of sellers of wine by retail, whether British or Foreign, to be drunk in their own houses or places thereunto belonging, and to all houses of persons selling brandy, spirits, strong waters, cider, or metheglin by retail; and the occupier of a victualling house, inn, hotel, livery stable, alehouse, or any such house as aforesaid, shall be subject to billets under this Act, and is in this Act included under the expression 'keeper of a victualling house,' and the inn, hotel, house, stables, and premises of such occupier are in this Act included under the expression 'victualling house.'

(2.) Provided that an officer or soldier shall not be billeted--(a) In any private house; nor

(b) In any canteen held or occupied under the authority of a Secretary of State; nor

(c) On persons who keep taverns only, being vintners of the city of London admitted to their freedom of the said company in right of patrimony or apprenticeship, notwithstanding the persons who keep such taverns have taken out licences for the sale of any intoxicating liquor; nor

(d) In the house of any distiller kept for distilling brandy and strong waters, so as such distiller does not permit tippling in such house; nor

(e) In the house of any shopkeeper whose principal deal-
ing is more in other goods and merchandise than in
brandy and strong waters, so as such shopkeeper
does not permit tippling in such house; nor

(ƒ) In a house of a person licensed only to sell beer or
cider not to be consumed on the premises; nor
(g) In the house of residence of any foreign consul duly
accredited as such.