31. When any person against whom a warrant of distress shall have been issued as directed in the preceding section shall be or shall have become bankrupt, so that a levy upon his goods and chattels cannot be made, the . person in whom the estate of the said bankrupt shall be vested by operation of law, shall, out of any moneys that may be in or come to his hands in respect of the bankrupt's estate, pay to the said Commissioners, for the use of her Majesty, the amount of duties for which the said warrant of distress shall have been issued. 32. Every notice to be served under the provisions of this Act, and every summons upon any information for recovery of a penalty imposed by this Act, may be served personally or left at the usual or last known place of abode of the person to be served. 33. If any person who shall have taken out a licence or licences under this Act shall not produce and deliver such licence or licences to be examined and read by any officer of inland revenue within a reasonable time after such officer shall request the production of the same, he shall forfeit the penalty of five pounds. INLAND REVENUE ACT, 1876. (38 & 39 VICT. c. 23.) An Act to grant certain Duties of Customs and Inland Revenue, 11. From and after the 31st day of December next the provision numbered seven of section nineteen of the Act of the thirty-second and thirty-third years of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter fourteen, shall be repealed, and in lieu thereof it is enacted as follows: Every person who shall let any carriage for hire for any period less than one year shall for the purposes of the said Act be deemed to be the person keeping such carriage, and every person who shall hire any carriage for a year or any longer period shall for the purpose of the said Act be deemed to be the person keeping such carriage. INLAND REVENUE ACT, 1888. (51 VICT. c. 8.) An Act to grant certain Duties of Customs and Inland Revenue, to alter other Duties, and to amend the Laws relating to Customs and Inland Revenue. [16th May, 1888.] PART II. 4.-(1.) The duties of excise for carriages now payable in Great Alteration of Britain shall cease to be payable on and after the first day of duties upon January one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, and on and carriages. after that day there shall be granted, charged, and paid in Great Britain the following duties of excise, that is to say :For every carriage as herein-after defined If such carriage shall have four or more wheels, and shall be drawn, or be adapted or fitted to be drawn, by two or more horses or mules, or shall be drawn or propelled by mechanical power If such carriage shall have four or more wheels, and shall be drawn or be adapted or fitted to be drawn by one horse or mule only If such carriage shall have less than four wheels For every hackney carriage as herein-after defined £ s. d. 2 2 0 1 1 0 0 15 0 0 15 0 and such duties shall be paid annually upon licences to be taken out under the provisions of the Act of the thirty-second and thirty- 32 & 33 Vict. third years of her Majesty's reign, chapter fourteen, as amended by c. 14. any enactment; and in the construction of that Act as applicable to a licence for a carriage or hackney carriage under this Act, the term "carriage," as therein used, shall embrace a "hackney carriage" as well as a carriage" as herein defined. 66 (2.) Where a person commences to keep or use a carriage or a hackney carriage on or after the first day of October in any year, he shall, upon delivering a declaration in writing signed by him to that effect, be entitled to take out a licence for such carriage or hackney carriage upon payment of one-half of the amount of the duty which would otherwise be payable in respect thereof. (3.) In the construction of this section, each of the following terms has the meaning hereby assigned to it: Carriage" means and includes any carriage (except a hackney carriage) drawn by a horse or mule, or horses or mules, or drawn or propelled upon a road or tramway, or elsewhere than upon a railway by steam or electricity or any other mechanical power, but shall not include a waggon, cart, or other such vehicle, which is constructed or adapted for use, and is used, solely for the conveyance of any goods or burden in the course of trade or husbandry, and whereon the christian name and surname, and place of abode, or place of business of the person, or the name or style and principal or only place of business of 66 the company or firm, keeping the same, shall be visibly and legibly painted in letters of not less than one inch in length. Hackney carriage" means any carriage standing or plying for hire, and includes any carriage let for hire by a coachmaker or other person whose trade or business it is to sell carriages or to let carriages for hire, provided that such carriage is not let for a period amounting to three months or more. Penalty on failing to pro vide for disinfection of public conveyance. THE PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1875. (38 & 39 VICT. c. 55.) 126. Any person who (1.) While suffering from any dangerous infectious disorder wilfully exposes himself without proper precautions against spreading the said disorder in any street, or enters any public conveyance without previously notifying to the owner, conductor, or driver thereof, that he is so suffering; or (2.) Being in charge of any person so suffering, so exposes such sufferer; or (3.) Gives, lends, sells, transmits, or exposes, without previous disinfection, any bedding, clothing, rags, or other things which have been exposed to infection from any such disorder, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds; and a person who, while suffering from any such disorder, enters any public conveyance without previously notifying to the owner or driver that he is so suffering, shall in addition be ordered by the Court to pay such owner and driver the amount of any loss and expense they may incur in carrying into effect the provisions of this Act with respect to disinfection of the conveyance. Provided that no proceedings under this section shall be taken against persons transmitting with proper precautions any bedding, clothing, rags, or other things for the purpose of having the same disinfected. 127. Every owner or driver of a public conveyance shall immediately provide for the disinfection of such conveyance after it has to his knowledge conveyed any person suffering from a dangerous infectious disorder; And if he fails to do so he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 57.; But no such owner or driver shall be required to convey any person so suffering until he has been paid a sum sufficient to cover any loss or expense incurred by him in carrying into effect the provisions of this section. INFECTIOUS DISEASES ACT, 1890. (53 & 54 VICT. c. 34.) An Act to prevent the spread of Infectious Disease. [1890.] 11. Any person who hires or uses a public conveyance other than a hearse for the conveyance of the body of a person who has died from any infectious disease, without previously notifying to the owner or driver of such public conveyance that the person whose body is, or is intended to be, so conveyed has died from infectious disease, and after any such notification as aforesaid, any owner or driver of a public conveyance, other than a hearse, which has been used for conveying the body of a person who has died from infectious disease, who shall not immediately afterwards provide for the disinfection of such conveyance, shall be guilty of an offence under this Act. 16. Every person who shall offend against any enactment of this Act, for the time being in force in any district, by which no penalty is specifically imposed, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 51. 18. Every penalty imposed by this Act shall be recoverable in a Court of summary jurisdiction on the information or complaint of the local authority, or of their duly authorized officer, but not otherwise, and shall be paid to the local authority. [NOTE.-By section 3, the provisions of this Act are extended (a) to every London district; and (b) to any urban or rural sanitary district, after adoption thereof. Such urban or rural sanitary district may adopt all or any sections, but before adoption fourteen clear days' notice must be given to every member of the local authority. See also sect. 74 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891.] THE PUBLIC HEALTH (LONDON) ACT, 1891. (54 & 55 VICT. c. 76.) 70. It shall not be lawful for any owner or driver of a public Prohibition conveyance knowingly to convey, or for any other person knowingly of conveyance to place, in any public conveyance, a person suffering from any of infected dangerous infectious disease, or for a person suffering from any person in such disease to enter any public conveyance, and if he does so he public shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 107.; and if any person so conveyance. suffering is conveyed in any public conveyance, the owner or driver thereof, as soon as it comes to his knowledge, shall give notice to the sanitary authority, and shall cause such conveyance to be disinfected, and if he fails so to do he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 57., and the owner or driver of such conveyance shall be entitled to recover in a summary manner from the person so conveyed by him, or from the person causing that person to be so conveyed, a sum sufficient to cover any loss or expense incurred by him in connection with such disinfection. It shall be the duty of the sanitary authority, when so requested by the owner or driver of such public conveyance, to provide for the disinfection of the same, and they may do so free of charge. 74. If (a) a person uses a public conveyance other than a hearse for conveying the body of a person who has died from any dangerous infectious disease, without first notifying to the owner or driver of the conveyance that such person died from infectious disease; or (b) the owner or driver does not, immediately after the conveyance has to his knowledge been used for conveying such body, provide for the disinfection of the conveyance, he shall, on the information of the sanitary authority, be liable to a fine not exceeding 57., and if the offence continues, to a further fine not exceeding forty shillings for every day during which the offence continues. [The mode of procedure for offences is laid down by sections 117 to 128 inclusive.] LOCOMOTIVE ACT, 1861. (24 & 25 VICT. c. 70.) An Act for regulating the use of Locomotives on Turnpike and other Roads, and the Tolls to be levied on such Locomotives and on the Waggons and Carriages drawn or propelled by the same. [1st August, 1861.] WHEREAS the use of locomotives is likely to become common on turnpike and other roads: And whereas the General Turnpike and Highway Acts and many of the Local Turnpike Acts do not contain any provisions for regulating the use of locomotives on the roads to which they respectively apply, nor do they authorize the levying of tolls upon or in respect of any locomotive using the roads, or upon or in respect of any waggon or carriage drawn by locomotives: And whereas under and by virtue of certain Local Turnpike Acts tolls may be levied upon locomotives and other engines drawing or propelling waggons or carriages, or upon the waggons or carriages so drawn or propelled, which are or may be prohibitory of the use of locomotives on the roads to which the said Acts respectively apply : And whereas the weighing clauses in the General Turnpike Acts have not been framed in anticipation of traffic by locomotives, and are in many respects ill adapted to the profitable carrying of goods, or to the levying of just and adequate tolls upon waggons or carriages drawn by locomotives: And whereas it is desirable that the use of locomotives on turnpike and other roads should be regulated by uniform general provisions, and that toll should |