Sect. 1. Secretary of State to superintend census. ( 2. Copy of this act to be sent to every sheriff in Scotland. 3. Registrars' districts to be formed into enumerators' divisions.

4. Enumerators to be appointed.

5. Householders' schedules to be left at dwelling-houses. Occupiers to fill up the schedules, and sign and deliver them to the enumerator. Penalty for neglect.

6. Schedules to be collected from house to house, and corrected if found to be erroneous.

7. Enumerators to take an account of houses, &c., and to distinguish the boundaries of parishes, boroughs, &c. Enumerators to deliver their books, with, the householders' schedules, to the registrar.

8. Registrars to verify the enumerators' books, and deliver them to the sheriff, &c.

9. Returns to be given to the sheriffs of counties and chief magistrates of burghs.

10. Sheriffs of counties and chief magistrates of burghs to receive the returns, and transmit them to the RegistrarGeneral.

11. An abstract of returns to be printed, and laid before. .Parliament.

12. Masters, &c. of gaols, &c. to be appointed enumerators of the inmates thereof.

13. Returns of houseless poor, and of persons travelling or on shipboard.

14. Table of allowances to enumerators and other persons employed.

15. Payments to be certified to the Registrar-General. 16. Manner in which the payments shall be made to per

sons employed in execution of this act.

17.. Penalty for wilful default.

18. Penalty for refusing information or giving false answers. 19.. Recovery and application of penalties. 20. Interpretation of terms.

CAP. C.

An Act to repeal so much of the Act of the 22 & 23 Vict. c. 27, and of certain other Acts, as authorises the Secretary of State in Council to give Directions for raising European Forces for the Indian Army of Her Majesty.

[20th August, 1860.]

So much of stat. 22 & 23 Vict. c. 27, and of certain other acts, as authorises the Secretary of State in council to give directions for raising European forces for the Indian army of her Majesty, repealed. Provision as to certain persons who have served in India.

CAP. CI.

An Act to continue the Poor-law Board.

[20th August, 1860.]

The preamble recites stat 11 Vict. c. 109; and it is then enacted,

That the commissioners appointed by her Majesty the Queen, or to be appointed by her Majesty, ber heirs and successors, under the authority of the said act, together with every person by the said act constituted, in virtue of his office, such commissioner, and every officer and person appointed or to be appointed by the commissioners under the provisions of the said act, shall be empowered, unless he shall previously resign or be removed, to hold his office, and exercise the powers thereof, until the 23rd July, 1863; and until the expiration of the said last-mentioned period it shall be lawful for her Majesty, her heirs and successors, from time to time, at pleasure, to remove the commissioners for the time being appointed by her Majesty, or to be appointed by her Ma jesty, her heirs and successors, and upon every vacancy in the office of such commissioner, to appoint, as in the said act is described, some other fit person to the said office.

CAP. CII.

An Act to provide for the Management of East India Stock, and of the Debts and Obligations of the Government of India, at and by the Bank of England.

[20th August, 1860.]

Sect. 1. Arrangements for transfer of stock of the East India Company, and payment of dividends thereon at the Bank of England.

2. Secretary of State for India in council to pay to the East India Company the sum agreed to be paid to the Bank of England.

3. Powers of attorney existing previous to the 31st December, 1860, not to be defeated by the act; and the Bank of England authorised to act on any powers lodged with the East India Company. Evidence of the title to stock may be required by the

4.

directed to cause an accountant to keep a book or books in Whereas under their charter the East India Company are the public office or place of meeting of the same company, and therein to enter the amount of the capital stock of the same company; and it is by the charter directed that the method of making assignments and transfers of the said stock shall be by an entry in the said book or books in forms prescribed by the said charter, and that the entry signed as therein prescribed, and no other way or method, shall be the manner and method used in the passing, assigning, or transferring the interest or share in the said stock and fund: and whereas, by the act of the 3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 85, it is enacted, that out of the revenues of the British territories in India

there shall be paid to or retained by the said company a yearly dividend of 107. 10s. per centum on the capital stock of the said company and whereas it is expedient to empower the directors of the said company to make arrangements with the

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Governor and Company of the Bank of England for the management of the said capital stock by the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, and for the transfer thereof at the said Bank: and whereas it is expedient to enable the Secretary of State for India in council to defray the expenses incident to such arrangements: be it therefore enacted &c. as follows:

Sect. 1. From and after the 31st August, 1860, the provisions contained in the said charter which require the East India Company to keep books in the public office or place of meeting of the company for the entry of the capital stock of the company, and which relate to the method and form of making assignments and transfers of the said stock in the said books, shall cease to be of force; and the directors of the East India Company are hereby empowered to make arrangements with the Governor and Company of the Bank of England for the management of the said capital stock by the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, and for the transfer thereof, and the payment of the dividends thereon at the said Bank on and after the 1st September, 1860, or so soon afterwards as may be found convenient, in such manner and form, and upon such terms and conditions, and for such remuneration, as may appear to the said directors expedient and equitable, and be mutually agreed upon by them and the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, subject to the consent of the Secretary of State for India in council, so far as relates to the amount of such remuneration.

2. The Secretary of State for India in council shall halfyearly, at the same time that he shall pay to the East India Company the dividend on the capital stock of the said company due and payable to the said company under the act of the 3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 85, pay also to the said company, out of the revenues of India, such further sum as may have been mutually agreed upon by the directors of the said company and the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, with such consent as aforesaid, as the remuneration to be paid by the said company for the expenses incurred and the duties undertaken by the Governor and Company of the Bank of England under this act.

3. In the event of such arrangements as aforesaid being made with the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, all powers of attorney for transfer of any share in the said capital stock, or for receipt of the dividends thereon, made or executed at any time before the 31st December, 1860, shall be as valid and effectual as if this act had not passed, and the Governor and Company of the Bank of England are hereby authorised and required to give effect thereto in the same way as the East India Company would have been authorised and compellable so to do if this act had not passed; and the said Governor and Company shall be and they are hereby indemnified from any act done by them in reliance on, or on the authority of, any such power, or of any power of attorney which may, previously to the taking effect of such arrangements, have been lodged at the office of the East India Company.

4. In the event of such arrangements as aforesaid being made, the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, before allowing any transfer of any part of the said stock, or the receipt of any dividends thereon, shall be at liberty to require evidence of the title of any proprietor to any of the said stock or the dividends thereof, and such evidence shall be the declaration of competent persons, to be made in pursuance of the act of the 6 Will. 4, c. 62, or of such other nature as the Governor and Company of the Bank of England shall require.

5. In the event of such arrangements as aforesaid being made, the Secretary of State for India in council shall, in the month of December, 1860, and in every subsequent year, so long as the dividends on the said capital stock shall continue to be payable, fifteen days at the least before each of the half-yearly days on which a dividend on the said capital stock becomes payable, out of such monies as may be applicable to the payment of the dividends, cause to be paid to the chief cashier for the time being of the Bank of England, to the credit of the East India Company, the amount of the dividend payable to the said company under the act 3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 85.

6. The Secretary of State for India in council shall be and he is hereby authorised from time to time to make such arrangements with the Governor and Company of the Bank

of England as shall be deemed expedient for the payment at the Bank of England of the debts and obligations contracted by or on behalf of the East India Company, and by or on behalf of the Secretary of State for India in council, both in India and Great Britain, and of the interest to accrue thereon, and for the creation and registration, and for the transfer of, and the payment of interest on, any stock into which any such obligations may be convertible, and for the appointment of one or more person or persons for the purpose of drawing bills, on behalf of the Secretary of State in council of India, upon the Governor-General, and the governors of the several presidencies of India respectively, and otherwise in relation to the management of such debts and obligations. 7. It shall be lawful for the Secretary of State for India in council from time to time to open at the Bank of England such account or accounts for the payment of current demands as he may deem expedient, such account or accounts to be kept in such name or names, and drawn upon by such person or persons, and in such manner, as may from time to time be directed by the said Secretary of State in council, which accounts shall be deemed public accounts.

CAP. CIII.

An Act to apply the Sum of Ten Millions out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year 1860. [20th August, 1860.]

1860 the sum of 10,000,000l. out of the Consolidated Fund. Sect. 1. There shall be applied for the service or the year 2. The Treasury may cause 10,000,000l. of Exchequer bills to be made out in manner prescribed by stats. 48 Geo. 3, c. 1; 4 & 5 Will. 4, c. 15; and 5 & 6 Vict. c. 66.

3. The clauses, &c. in recited acts extended to this act. 4. Interest on Exchequer bills.

5. Bank of England may advance 10,000,0007. on the credit of this act, notwithstanding the 5 & 6 Will. & M.

c. 20.

Bank as security for such advances. 6. Bills prepared by virtue of this act to be delivered to the

7. Monies raised by bills to be applied to the services voted by the Commons.

8. Exchequer Bills made chargeable upon the growing produce of the Consolidated Fund.

14. Lists of county boards to be transmitted to Secretary of State.

15. Powers and duties of county boards. 16. Appointment of clerks and treasurer.

17. Offices under county boards to be held at pleasure. 18. Power to county boards to grant retiring allowances, as prescribed in the 22 Vict. c. 26.

19. Secretary of State may dismiss persons employed by county boards, or in prisons.

20. Prisons and other property of existing boards vested in county boards under this act.

21. County boards may acquire property, sue and be sued &c.

22. Members of county boards to derive no profit from office. Sheriffs, &c. not disqualified.

23. Power to supply vacancies in county boards from time to time.

24. Provision for refusal or neglect by commissioners of supply, town councils, &c., and failure of county board.

Local Prisons.

25. Legal prisons to continue for the purposes for which they were legalised.

26. No material alteration to be made without consent of Secretary of State.

27. Secretary of State may alter legal condition of a prison, or legalise new prison.

28. Procedure when there is no prison for all descriptions of prisoners in any county.

29. Procedure when prisoners are committed to prisons legalised for short periods.

30. Procedure where there is no prison, or only a prison for limited purposes, within a burgh or other jurisdiction. 31. Disposal of premises ceasing to be prisons, or not necessary for prison purposes.

Assessments.

32. Assessment for current expenses.

33. Building assessment.

34. Clerk of the peace to apportion the total amount of assessment between the landward part of the county and the burghs therein.

35. Court of Session to order a building assessment to be raised when the county board fails to impose it.

36. Assessment to be levied on lands and heritages according to yearly value, as established by stats. 17 & 18 Vict. c. 91, and 20 & 21 Vict. c. 58.

37. Assessments payable for the period from Whitsunday to Whitsunday.

38. Assessments to be remitted to county boards. 39. Commissioners of supply to levy assessments in landward part of county.

40. Assessments may be levied on proprietor or tenant, and when of small amount may be postponed for two or more years.

41. Magistrates to levy assessments in burghs.

42. Common good property and revenues of burghs may be applied in payment of assessments.

43. Assessment within burghs to be divided between proprietor and tenant.

44. Warrants and proceedings for recovery of land and assessed taxes applicable to assessments under this act.

45. Boundaries of burghs for purposes of this act shall be as fixed by stats. 17 & 18 Vict. c. 91; 20 & 21 Vict. c. 58; and 20 & 21 Vict. c. 70.

46. Disputes arising as to assessment may be summarily settled by the sheriff.

Managers of the General Prison.

55. General prison at Perth, and rights, &c. belonging thereto, vested in the Commissioners of Works and Public Buildings.

56. Managers to complete matters left unfinished by general board, and transmit balances of assessments to county boards.

57. Provision for collecting, arranging, and reporting prison statistics.

58. Provision for inquiries into condition and management of prisons.

59. Return of sentences of imprisonment to be made to managers as in Schedule (B.)

60. Annual report to be made to Secretary of State by managers. General Prison and Custody of Convicts.

61. Managers, subject to instructions of Secretary of State, to have the administration of the general prison.

62. Rules to be made for the staff of the general prison. 63. Classes of prisoners to be confined in the general prison.

64. Sentences of nine months and upwards to be carried out in the general prison.

65. Provisions for the administration of convict establishments appointed under existing statutes.

5. If lands purchased by way of rent-charge, borrowing powers to be reduced proportionally.

6. Certain clauses in the 8 § 9 Vict. c. 18, extended to purchases of land, &c. for public purposes.

7. Power to Secretary for War to use the powers given to promoters of undertakings by the 8 & 9 Vict. c. 18.

8. This act and the 8 & 9 Vict. cc. 18 and 19, to be construed together.

Whereas it is expedient to extend the provisions of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts, 1845, in regard to sales of land, or compensation for damages, in consideration of an annual rent-charge, annual feu duty, or ground annual, and

53. Office accommodation of managers.

3. The power to sell and convey lands in consideration of an annual feu duty or ground annual, under the 10th section of the Lands Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act, 1845, and the power to recover such annual feu duty or ground annual, are hereby extended to all cases of sale or purchase, or compensation, under the said act, where the parties interested in such sale are under any disability or incapacity, and have no power to sell or convey such lands, or to receive such compensation, except under the provisions of the said act.

4. In every case of such sale or compensation by any parties other than parties seised in fee or entitled to dispose absolutely of the lands so sold or damaged, the amount of such rent-charge, annual feu duty, or ground annual, hereinbefore mentioned, shall be settled in the manner directed in the 9th section of each of the said acts respectively: provided that the amount of such annual rent-charge, annual feu duty, or ground annual shall in no case be less than one-fourth part greater than the net annual rent received by the parties beneficially interested in such lands, upon an average of the last seven years; and that a charge of 51. per cent. on the gross sum estimated or fixed as aforesaid, by way of compensation for any damage that may be done to the said lands, shall in all such cases be added to and shall form a part of the said rent-charge, annual feu duty, or ground annual; and that no fine, foregift, grassum, premium, or other consideration in the nature thereof, shall be paid or taken in respect of the lands so sold or damaged, other than the annual rentcharge, annual feu duty, or ground annual made payable for such lands: provided also, that such rent-charge shall be and remain upon and for the same uses, trusts, and purposes as those upon which the rents and profits of the land so conveyed stood settled or assured at or immediately before the conveyance thereof, and shall be a first charge on the tolls and rates, if any, payable under the special act.

5. In case the promoters of the undertaking shall be empowered, by any act or acts relating thereto, to be passed after the passing of this act, to borrow money to an amount not exceeding a prescribed sum, then in the event of the promoters of the undertaking agreeing, at any time after the passing of this act, with any person, under the powers of this act, and of either of the acts hereinbefore mentioned, or of either of the said acts, only, for the purchase of any lands in consideration of the payment of a rent-charge, annual feu duty, or ground annual, the powers of the promoters of the undertaking for borrowing money shall be reduced by an amount equal to twenty years' purchase of any rent-charge, annual feu duty, or ground annual so for the time being payable.

6. The clauses contained in the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, relating to the purchase of lands by agreement, and to agreements for sale, and conveyances, sales, and releases of any lands or hereditaments, or any estate or interest therein, by parties under disability, shall extend and be applicable to all purchases of land and hereditaments for public purposes which shall be hereafter made by the council of any city or borough, with the sanction of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, under the powers for that purpose contained in the Municipal Corporation Mortgages, &c. Act, 1860.

7. For the purchase or acquisition of any messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments wanted for the service of the Admiralty or of the War Department, or for the defence of the realm, it shall be lawful for her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the War Department for the time being to use all or any of the powers and provisions by the Lands

8. This act shall be read and construed as part of the said Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, or of the Lands Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act, 1845, in all matters in which it relates to the said acts respectively; and in citing this act in other acts of Parliament, and in legal instruments, it shall be sufficient to use the expression of "The Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts Amendment Act, 1860."

CAP. CVII.

An Act for granting to Her Majesty certain Duties on Wine Licenses and Refreshment Houses, and for regulating the licensing of Refreshment Houses and the granting of Wine Licenses in Ireland. [28th August, 1860.]

Sect. 1. From and after the 1st July, 1860, certain duties to be charged for licenses herein mentioned.

2. Powers and provisions of excise acts to apply to the duties granted by this act.

3. Every person keeping a shop entitled to take out a license to retail wine not to be consumed on the premises. 4. What shall be deemed selling by retail.

5. Permitting drinking wine in a neighbouring house, shed, &c., with intent to evade the provisions of the act, to be deemed drinking on the premises. Penalty.

6. Persons keeping houses, &c. herein named required to take out licenses. Licenses not required for refreshment houses in small towns and places.

7. Confectioners and eating-house keepers entitled to take out licenses to sell wine to be drunk on the premises.

8. Wine licenses not to be granted for refreshment houses under a certain annual value. Persons disqualified to hold wine licenses.

9. Penalty for keeping a refreshment house without license, 201. 10. By whom licenses under this act shall be granted. Forms of licenses as in schedules to this act.

11. Licenses; date, expiration, and renewal thereof. 12. On the death of a licensed person, his representative, or widow or child, may be authorised to continue the business for which the license was granted, for the remainder of the term thereof.

13. Notice of first application for a wine license for a refreshment house to be given to justices, who may object to the granting thereof on grounds to be stated.

14. Sub-constabulary officer or superintendent of police may object to the granting of such wine license. 15. Persons aggrieved may appeal to quarter sessions. 16. If order of refusal reversed supervisor to grant such license.

17. Justices may object to the renewal or transfer of a wine license if they shall see just cause of objection.

18. A list of licenses to be kept by collectors and supervisors for inspection of the justices, and copies of the list to be transmitted to the justices' clerk.

19. In case of complaint licensed retailers of wine to produce their licenses on requisition of justice.

20. Constables and police officers empowered to visit licensed refreshment houses. Penalty for refusing them admittance. License to be forfeited on second conviction if justices think fit.

21. Penalty for selling wine by retail without license. 22. Additional penalty on unlicensed persons selling wine.

23. What shall be deemed foreign wine and what be deemed spirits.

24. Licenses to be void on conviction of felony or selling spirits without license.

25. Licensed retailers of wine to make entry of houses, &c. with the excise.

26. Excise officers, &c. empowered to enter the premises

of licensed retailers of wine.

27. Penalty on persons licensed to retail wine having spirits in their used premises.

28. Standard measures to be used in the sale of wine.

29. Limitation of hours for opening and closing houses licensed for the sale of wine by retail. Exception in favour of lodgers.

30. Houses licensed for the sale of wine to be closed by order of justices in cases of riot, &c.

31. Penalty on retailers of wine permitting drunkenness, &c. in their houses. First offence. Second offence. Third offence. Penalty for mixing spirits or drugs in wine, or adulterating wine. First offence. Second offence. Penalty on selling wine after conviction of second offence.

32. Penalties other than excise penalties recoverable before a justice or justices in petty sessions, &c. within three months after offence committed. Second offence. Third offence.

33. Justices may adjudge premises disqualified for sale of wine on proof that within two years last preceding such third conviction two convictions have taken place.

34. Penalties for offences in refreshment houses. 35. Power to justices to mitigate penalties.

36. Appeal to the sessions against a second or third conviction.

37. Court to adjudge costs of appeal in certain cases.

38. Proceedings on appeal to be carried on by the constable, and the expenses of prosecution to be charged on the county.

39. Justice or justices empowered to summon witnesses, and examine them on oath.

40. Penalty on witnesses refusing to attend or to give evidence.

41. Penalty for harbouring constables while on duty. 42. Penalty on drunken and disorderly persons refusing to quit licensed houses on request. Constables required to assist in expelling them.

43. Hours for keeping open premises occupied by persons licensed to sell beer, &c. to be consumed on the premises. 44. Proceedings under this act for the recovery of penalties, &c.

45. How excise penalties under this act are to be recovered &c.

46. Covenants against houses, &c. being used as public houses to extend to persons licensed to sell wine under this

act.

47. Interpretation of terms.

48. To extend to Ireland only.

CAP. CVIII.

An Act to amend the Industrial Schools Act, 1857.

[28th August, 1860.]

Sect. 1. Powers of the Committee of Council on Education, under the 20 & 21 Vict. c. 48, transferred to the Secretary of State,

2. The application which, by the 15th and 16th sections of the said act, is directed to be made by the school manager, may be made by any person authorised by the Secretary of State.

САР. СІХ.

An Act for defraying the Expenses of constructing Fortifications for the Protection of the Royal Arsenals and Dockyards, and the Ports of Dover and Portland, and of creating a Centrai Arsenal. [28th August, 1860.]

CAP. CX.

An Act to consolidate the Duties of Customs.

[28th August, 1860.]

Sect. 1. In lieu of the duties, &c. now payable, the duties,

rates, &c. to be charged as herein mentioned.

2. Repeal of prohibition of malt.

3. Prohibition of extracts of malt, &c.