Penalty on commissioners, or officers taking fees beyond salaries, or being interested in contracts, &c. LI. THAT if any clerk or other officer or any servant who shall be in council, board, anywise employed by any council or board or commissioners in pursuance of this Act shall exact or accept any fee or reward whatsoever for or on account of anything done or forborne, or to be done or forborne, in pursuance of this Act, or on any account whatsoever relative to putting this Act into execution, other than such salaries, wages, or allowances as shall have been appointed by the council or board or commissioners, or shall in anywise be concerned or interested in any bargain or contract made by the council or board or commissioners for or on account of anything done or forborne, or to be done or forborne, in pursuance of this Act, or on any account whatsoever relative to the putting of this Act into execution; or if any person during the time he holds the office of member of the council, or member of the board, or commissioner, shall exact or accept any such fee or reward, or shall accept or hold any office or place of trust created by virtue of this Act, or be concerned directly or indirectly in any such bargain or contract; every such person so offending shall be incapable of ever serving or being employed under this Act, and shall for every such offence also forfeit not exceeding the sum of fifty pounds. Application of penalties. Extent of Act. LII. THAT such part of any penalty recovered under this Act as shall not be awarded to the informer, shall be paid to the credit, as regards a borough, of the borough fund, and, as regards a district, of the general district rate thereof or the improvement rate thereof, and, as regards a parish, of the rate for the relief of the poor thereof. LIII. THAT nothing in this Act shall extend to Scotland. SCHEDULE referred to by the foregoing Act. 1. BYELAWS to be made in all cases. For securing that the lodging houses shall be under the management and control of the officers, servants, or others appointed or employed in that behalf by the council or board or commissioners. For securing the due separation at night of men and boys above eight years old from women and girls. For preventing damage, disturbance, interruption, and indecent and offensive language and behaviour, and nuisances. For determining the duties of the officers, servants, and others appointed by the council or board or commissioners. 2. BYELAWS to be made in boroughs, districts, and parishes wholly or partially within the districts of local boards of health. For carrying out the regulations of the local boards of health. 3. BYELAWS to be made in parishes. For regulating the procedure of the commissioners. WH o. 112. s. 32. AN ACT to extend the Benefits of certain Provisions of the General Merchant Seamen's Act relating to Apprentices bound to the Sea Service to Apprentices bound to the Sea Service by Boards of Guardians of the Poor in Ireland, and to enable such Guardians to place out Boys in the Naval Service. [24th July 1851.] HEREAS by an Act passed in the eighth year of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled "An Act to amend and consolidate the laws 7 & 8 Vict. relating to merchant seamen, and for keeping a register of seamen," power was given to the overseers of the poor or other persons having the authority of overseers in any district, union, parish, township, or place in the United Kingdom, in the manner and subject to the conditions in the said Act mentioned, to bind and put out as an apprentice in the sea service any boy having attained the age of twelve years, of sufficient health and strength, who or whose parents was or were chargeable to such district, union, parish, township, or place, with his consent, but not otherwise: And whereas it is expedient to confer upon the several boards of guardians in Ireland like powers in this behalf, (subject to the provisions herein contained,) as are by the said recited Act given and conferred upon such overseers of the poor: 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 X. IF any boy, not already an apprentice in the Merchant Service, who, or whose parent or parents, shall be receiving relief in any union in Ireland, be desirous of serving in the Naval Service of her Majesty, and be accepted or approved and received by competent authority in such service, the guardians of the poor of such union, or the persons duly appointed and having authority as such therein, may and they are hereby empowered, with the consent of the Commissioners for Administering the Laws for Relief of the Poor in Ireland, to allow any such boy, with his consent, to enter into such Naval Service, and to pay, out of the rates of the union or electoral division, as the case may be, to which such boy may at the time be chargeable, such sum as may be required by the regulations of such service for providing outfit or otherwise, and also expenses as may be necessary to be incurred for the conveyance of such boy in charge of a proper person to the port or place in the United Kingdom at which he may be required to attend for entry into such service. such Boys, who or whose parents relief, may be allowed by the are in receipt of guardians to enter the Naval Service, &c. 48 Geo. 3. c, 55. Duties set forth in the annexed schedules to be paid on inhabited houses. taxes and sioners of In Powers and provisions of former Acts to be in force; AN ACT to repeal the Duties Payable on Dwelling Houses according to the Number of Windows or Lights, and to grant in lieu thereof other Duties on Inhabited Houses according to their annual Value. [*] [24th July 1851.] WHEREAS under and by virtue of an Act of the forty eighth year of King George the Third, chapter fifty-five, certain duties are now payable in England, Wales, and Berwick-upon-Tweed and in Scotland respectively upon dwelling houses, and are assessed and levied according to the number of windows or lights therein as set forth in the schedule marked (A.) to the said Act annexed; and it is expedient that in lieu thereof the duties on inhabited dwelling houses set forth in the schedule to this Act annexed should be assessed and levied according to the annual value of such dwelling houses: 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: in lieu and instead of the said duties so payable I... as aforesaid, there shall be assessed, raised, levied, collected, and paid unto and for the use of her Majesty, her heirs and successors, upon inhabited dwelling houses in and throughout Great Britain, the several duties set forth in the schedule to this Act annexed, payable according to the annual value of such dwelling houses, which said schedule shall be deemed and taken to be part of this Act. Duties granted II. THE said duties shall be denominated and deemed to be duties of to be assessed assessed taxes, and shall be under the care and management of the Commisunder Commissioners of Inland Revenue for the time being; and all powers, provisions, land Revenue. rules, regulations, and directions, fines, forfeitures, pains, and penalties now in force, contained in or enacted by any Act or Acts relating to the duties of assessed taxes, and also all powers, provisions, rules, regulations, directions, and exemptions, fines, forfeitures, pains and penalties, contained in or enacted by any such Act or Acts as aforesaid, with reference to the duties on inhabited dwelling houses, according to the value thereof as set forth in the schedule marked (B.) annexed to the said Act of the forty-eighth year of King George the Third, and which were in force in regard to the said lastmentioned duties at the time of the repeal of such duties by an Act of the session holden in the fourth and fifth years of King William the Fourth, chapter nineteen, except as here in-after excepted, shall severally and respectively be and become in full force and effect with respect to the duties hereby granted, and shall be severally and respectively duly observed, applied, practised, and put in execution in the respective parts of Great Britain, for assessing, raising, levying, collecting, receiving, accounting for, and securing the said duties hereby granted, and otherwise in relation thereto, so far as the same are or shall be applicable, and are not repealed or superseded by and are consistent with the express provisions of this Act, as fully and effectually, [a So much of this Act as relates to the mode of ascertaining the value of houses with respect to the value of which the valuation list is conclusive, rep. 32 & 33 Vict. c. 67. s. 77., so far as relates to the Metropolis as defined by that Act.] to all intents and purposes, as if the same powers, provisions, rules, regulations, directions, and exemptions, fines, forfeitures, pains, and penalties, were particularly repeated and re-enacted in this Act with reference to the said duties hereby granted: Excepting always out of this enactment any provisions except as here for or in relation to compositions for the said duties set forth in the said in provided. schedule marked (B.), the exemption in case II. of exemptions contained in the same schedule, and all the provisions of an Act of the session holden in the third and fourth years of King William the Fourth, chapter thirty-nine, and of an Act of the session holden in the third and fourth years of her Majesty, chapter seventeen. and nursery III. PROVIDED always, that no market garden or nursery ground occupied Market gardens by a market gardener or nurseryman bonâ fide for the sale of the produce grounds not thereof, in the way of his trade or business, shall be included in the valuation of any dwelling house and premises in charging the duties made payable by this Act. to be included of houses. in valuation The SCHEDULE referred to; CONTAINING THE Duties by this Act made payable upon Inhabited Dwelling Houses in and throughout Great Britain, according to the annual Value thereof; that is to say, For every inhabited dwelling house which, with the household and other offices, yards, and gardens therewith occupied and charged, is or shall be worth the rent of twenty pounds or upwards, by the year, Where any such dwelling house shall be occupied by any person in trade who shall expose to sale and sell any goods, wares, or merchandise in any shop or warehouse, being part of the same dwelling house, and in the front and on the ground or basement story thereof; And also where any such dwelling house shall be occupied by any person who shall be duly licensed by the laws in force to sell therein by retail beer, ale, wine, or other liquors, although the room or rooms thereof in which any such liquors shall be exposed to sale, sold, drunk, or consumed shall not be such shop or warehouse as aforesaid; And also where any such dwelling house shall be a farmhouse occupied by a There shall be charged for every twenty shillings of such annual value of any And where any such dwelling house shall not be occupied and used for any such VOL. XI. C Trustees of insolvent turnpike trusts, with consent of two thirds in value of the creditors, may apply for a provisional order for reduction of rate of arrears. CHAPTER XXXVIII. AN ACT to facilitate Arrangements for the Relief of Turnpike Trusts, and to make certain Provisions respecting Exemptions from Tolls. [*] [24th July 1851.] HEREAS it is expedient to facilitate arrangements with the creditors of turnpike trusts where the revenues are insufficient to keep down the interest on the debts charged thereon: 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: I. WHERE the revenues of any turnpike road in England applicable to the payment of the interest upon the principal money for the time being charged or secured on the tolls or revenues of such road are insufficient for the payment in full of such interest, it shall be lawful for the trustees or commissioners of such road, at any general annual or other meeting, notice being given of such meeting twenty-one days at the least before holding the same, and of the purpose thereof (so far as the same relates to the powers of this Act), in some of interest, or newspaper usually circulated in the county or counties in which such road is extinguishment situate, to resolve that in case such consents as herein-after mentioned of the mortgagees be obtained, an application be made to one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for a provisional order to reduce the rate of interest on the mortgage debts charged or secured on the tolls or revenues of such road, to such amount as may be resolved on at such meeting, and for extinguishing in whole or in part the arrears of the interest on such debts, or for either of such purposes; and where any such resolution as aforesaid is made, such trustees or commissioners shall cause notice to be given, by advertisement or otherwise, of such resolution, with such information in relation to the matter of the proposed application, and the consents required by this Act, as such trustees or commissioners may think fit; and in case it appear to such trustees or commissioners at any general annual or other meeting, that the persons entitled to two thirds of the money charged or secured on the tolls or revenues of such road, and remaining unpaid, have signified in writing under their hands their consent to the proposed application, it shall be lawful for such trustees or commissioners to make an application accordingly to one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for a provisional order for such reduction as aforesaid of the rate of interest on the said debts, and for extinguishing in whole or in part the arrears of interest thereon, or for either of such purposes; and such application shall be signed by three or more of such trustees or commissioners, who shall therein certify that the consents required by this Act to such application have been given. Power to executors, &c. to consent. II. ALL executors, administrators, guardians, trustees, and all committees of the estates of idiots and lunatics, who, as such, are for the time being entitled to any money charged or secured on the tolls or revenues of any such road, [a So much of this Act as confines the operation thereof to cases where the revenues of a turnpike road are insufficient for the payment in full of the interest charged on such revenues, rep., 24 & 25 Vict. c. 46, s. 2., so far only as relates to any turnpike road in England, the Act in relation to which is continued by any annual Turnpike Acts Continuance Act.] |