Short Title. Act to apply to all Gaols, &c. Power to appoint additional Metropolis Turnpike Roads Acts Amendment. For every Score of Calves, Sheep, Lambs, or s. d. Swine (and so in proportion for any greater or less Number) 0 21 N.B.-Payment of Toll on any Two of the First, Second, and Third Districts clears the other of those Districts, and Payment of Toll on any Two of the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Districts clears the other of those Districts. The FIFTH SCHEDULE to which the aforegoing Act refers. Sections of Acts repealed. Act of 1826. Sections 37 and 38, relating to Roads which under the Act of 1829 have ceased to be maintainable by the Commissioners. Section 71, relating to the lighting of Roads. Sections 72 to 76, both inclusive, relating to the watching of Sections 88 and 89, relating to Exemptions from Tolls. Sections 92 and 93 and 94, relating to Overweight. Sections 117 and 118, relating to Annuities which have ceased to be payable. Act of 1829. Section 15, relating to the Rents of Lyon's Estates. Sections 19 to 31, both inclusive, relating to Tolls. CA P. LXXIX. An Act for the Amendment of the Law relating to the [28th July 1863.] WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Law relating to Prisons in England and Scotland with respect to the 'Religious Instruction of the Prisoners confined therein:' 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: 1. This Act may be cited for all Purposes as "The Prison "Ministers Act, 1863." 2. This Act shall apply in England to all Gaols, Prisons, and Houses of Correction (herein-after included under the Term "Prisons") that are maintained at the Expense of any County, Riding, Division, or Liberty of a County, or of any County of a City, County of a Town or Borough, and in Scotland to all Local Prisons as defined by "The Prisons (Scotland) Administration Act, 1860." 3. Where the Number of Prisoners confined in any Prison to which this Act applies, and belonging to some Church or Reli Prison Ministers. gious Persuasion differing, if in England, from the Church of Ministers to England, and if in Scotland, from the Church of Scotland, is so Prisons. great as, in the Opinion of the Justices, County Board, or other Persons having the Appointment of Chaplain in the said Prison, to require the Ministrations of a Minister of their own Church or Persuasion, the said Justices, County Board, or other Persons may appoint a Minister of such last-mentioned Church or Persuasion to attend at the said Prison on the Prisoners of his own Church or Persuasion, and they may, if they think fit, award to him a reasonable Sum as a Recompence for his Services, such Sum to be deemed a Part of the Expenses of the Prison to which he is appointed, and to be paid out of the Funds legally applicable to the Payment of such Expenses. of Ministers. The Visiting Justices of any Prison may, if they think fit, Regulation as without a special Request being made by, but not against the to Admission Will of, any Prisoner of a Church or Religious Persuasion differing from that of the Established Church, permit a Minister of the Church or Persuasion to which such Prisoner belongs (if no Appointment of such a Minister has been made under this Act) to visit such Prisoner at proper and reasonable Times, under such Restrictions imposed by them as may guard against the Introduction of improper Persons, and may prevent improper Communications; provided that any Prisoner shall, on Request, be allowed, subject to the Rules of the Gaol, to attend the Chapel or to be visited by the Chaplain of the Gaol. Every Minister appointed or permitted to visit Prisoners under this Act shall hold his Appointment or Permission to visit during the Pleasure of the Authority by whom he was appointed or permitted to visit, and shall conform in all respects to the Regulations of the Prison at which he attends. No Minister shall be appointed under this Act for any Prison in which there is not a Chaplain of the Established Church. Prisons to 4. The Keeper or other Person performing the Duties of Keepers of Keeper of a Prison on receiving into his Custody any Prisoner shall enter his Name in a Book to be provided for the Purpose, gion of register Reliwith the Addition of the Church or Religious Persuasion to Prisoners. which the Prisoner shall declare himself to belong, and the said Keeper or other Person shall from Time to Time give to any Minister appointed or permitted to visit Prisoners in the Prison a List of the Prisoners so declared to belong to the Church or Persuasion of such Minister, and no such Minister shall be permitted to attend or visit any Prisoner belonging to any Religious Persuasion differing from that to which such Minister belongs. 5. So much of the Thirtieth Section of the said Act passed in So much of the Fourth Year of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, Sect. 30. of Chapter Sixty-four, as provides "that the Chaplain shall fre- 4 G. 4. c. 64. as provides for "quently visit every Room and Cell in the Prison occupied by Visits of ChapPrisoners, and shall direct such Books to be distributed and lains not to read, and such Lessons to be taught, in such Prison, as he may apply to deem proper for the Religious and Moral Instruction of the Prisoners "Prisoners therein, and that he shall visit those who are in visited by 66 "Solitary other Ministers. The Sum of 650,000l. to be issued out of the Consolidated Fund towards Expenses after mentioned. Appropriation of the Money so issued to the Expenses of constructing Fortifications, Prison Ministers. Fortifications (Provision for Expenses). "Solitary Confinement," shall not apply to any Prisoner who is attended or visited by a Minister of a Church or Persuasion differing from the Church of England, except when the Visits of any such Minister shall have been discontinued for the Period of Fourteen Days; and no Prisoner belonging to any Church or Religious Persuasion shall be compelled to attend any Religious Service held or performed by any Chaplain, Minister, or Religious Instructor of a Church or Religious Persuasion to which the said Prisoner does not belong. CA P. LXXX. An Act for providing a further Sum towards defraying the W Most Gracious Sovereign, VE, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, having further considered the State, Condition, and Sufficiency of the Fortifications existing for the Defence of the United Kingdom, and being desirous to provide forthwith for the Construction of certain Works for the Defence of Your Royal Arsenals and Dockyards and the Ports of Dover and Portland, and for the Creation of a Central Arsenal, have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty the further Sum of Six hundred and fifty thousand Pounds, to be paid out of the Consolidated Fund, towards defraying the Expenses incurred or to be incurred for those Purposes, and we have resolved that a Sum not exceeding the said Sum of Six hundred and fifty thousand Pounds be raised by such Terminable Annuities as herein-after mentioned, and we do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and 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: 1. Towards defraying the Expenses herein-after mentioned any Sum or Sums, not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Six hundred and fifty thousand Pounds, shall be issued and applied out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or the growing Produce thereof, and it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury from Time to Time to issue and apply the same accordingly. 2. Such Sum or Sums as may be issued out of the Consolidated Fund, or the growing Produce thereof as aforesaid, shall be applied as mentioned in the Schedule to this Act towards defraying the Expenses incurred or to be incurred in constructing the aforesaid Fortifications and Works for the Defence of the Royal Arsenals and providing and Dockyards of the United Kingdom (including the Naval Establishment at Haulbowline), and the Fortifications at Dover a Central Arsenal. and Fortifications (Provision for Expenses). and Portland, and in providing a Central Arsenal, and in purchasing the Land and Rights in Land that may be required for the Purposes of such Fortifications, Works, and Arsenal; and the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall from Time to Time apply such Sum or Sums accordingly: Provided always, that it shall not be lawful to apply any of such Sums to any Work not specifically named in the Schedule, nor to apply to any Work any greater Sum than that which is set down in the Schedule as the total estimated Cost of the Work. raise 650,000l. Annuities for a Term not ex ceeding Thirty Treasury to fix Amount of 3. To provide for the Issues to be made out of the Consoli- Treasury to dated Fund or the growing Produce thereof, and to repay to the Consolidated Fund the Amount which may have been previously by creating so issued under this Act, or for either of those Purposes, it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury at any Time or from Time to Time, after the passing of this Act, to Years. raise any Sum or Sums not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Six hundred and fifty thousand Pounds as herein-after mentioned; and for raising all or any Portions which may be so raised from Time to Time of the said Sum of Six hundred and fifty thousand Pounds it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of the Treasury to cause to be created, and vested in the Contributors to the said Sum or to the respective Portions thereof, Annuities for such Term not exceeding the Term of Thirty Years as the Commissioners of the Treasury may think fit to fix in the Contract with such Contributors, and to be payable half-yearly by equal Payments on the Fifth Day of April and the Tenth Day of October. 4. It shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury from Time to Time to contract, in such Manner and under such Regulations as they may deem advisable, with any Person or Persons, Body or Bodies Politic or Corporate, who may granted to be willing to advance the whole or any Part of the said Sum of Contributors Six hundred and fifty thousand Pounds, or of the Portion thereof for every 100l. which the said Commissioners may at any Time think it requisite to raise, and to appoint and fix the Amount and Times of Payment of Deposits and Instalments of or in respect of the Sums contracted to be advanced, and to declare and fix the Term and the Amount of Annuity to be created under this Act to which the several Persons and Corporations advancing such Sums (who are herein referred to as the Contributors), their respective Executors or Administrators, Successors or Assigns, shall be entitled in respect of each One hundred Pounds contributed and paid, and to appoint on which of the half-yearly Days hereinbefore mentioned the First Half Year's Payment of Annuity shall become due, and the Time or Times at which the said Annuities or proportional Amounts thereof shall be placed in the Books of the Bank of England to the Credit of the respective Contributors, their Executors, Administrators, Successors, and Assigns, and to fix the Time during which Receipts for such Deposits or Instalments as aforesaid shall be assignable; and the several Contributors, their Executors, Administrators, Successors, or Assigns, shall be entitled for every One hundred Pounds by them respectively advanced and paid to an Annuity for such Term and and Terms of Payment of Subscriptions. Fortifications (Provision for Expenses). and of such Amount as shall be so fixed by the Commissioners of the Treasury, to be payable during the Term so fixed by half-yearly Payments as aforesaid, the first half-yearly Payment to be due as the said Commissioners may have appointed as aforesaid. 5. It shall and may be lawful for any Guardian or Trustee having the Disposition of the Money of any Infant to contribute and pay for or towards advancing any Part of any Sum to be raised by Annuities in manner aforesaid; and such Infant, upon the Payment of such Sum or Sums subscribed by such Guardian or Trustee, shall become a Contributor within the Meaning of this Act, and be entitled to have and receive the Annuities, Advantages, and Payments in respect thereof in such and the like Manner as any other Contributor; and such Guardian or Trustee, as to the said Sum or Sums so advanced, is hereby discharged, so as the Name of such Infant be expressed in the Receipt or Receipts for such Money. 6. All Deposits, Instalments, and Sums to be paid by the Contributors, their Executors or Administrators, Successors or Assigns, in respect of any Portion of the said Sum of Six hundred and fifty thousand Pounds, shall be paid to the Cashier or Cashiers of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England; and as soon as any Contributors, their Executors, Administrators, Succes. sors, or Assigns, shall, after Payment of the required Deposit, have made due Payment of any subsequent Instalment payable by them respectively on the Days appointed by the said Commissioners of the Treasury towards a Sum raised under this Act, such Contributors may have a proportional Amount of the Annuities to which they may be entitled in respect of such Instalment forthwith placed in the Books of the Bank of England to the Credit of such respective Contributors, their Executors, Administrators, Successors, or Assigns, and on Payment of the last Instalment such Contributors, their Executors, Administrators, Successors, or Assigns, shall have a proportional Amount of like Annuities placed to their respective Credits corresponding, at the Rate aforesaid, to the aggregate Amount of the Deposit and of such last Instalment; and the Persons to whose Credit such Annuities, or such proportional Parts thereof, shall be so placed, their respective Executors, Administrators, Successors, and Assigns, shall have Power to assign and transfer the same, or any Part, Share, or Proportion thereof, to any other Person or Persons, Body or Bodies Politic or Corporate whatsoever, in the Books of the Bank of England (in such Manner as is herein-after directed); and the said Governor and Company of the Bank of England are hereby required, as soon as conveniently may be after Notice from the Commissioners of the Treasury for the Purpose, to prepare proper Books for the Purpose of entering the Names of all such Contributors, and of placing to their Credit the Annuities to which they will be entitled under this Act. 7. All such Contributors, their Executors, Administrators, Successors, or Assigns, who shall pay into the Hands of the said Cashier or Cashiers the whole of their respective Contribution Money, |