lic Stocks Act in respect of any Share in the Public Stocks is out- as to Pubstanding, the Stock represented thereby shall cease to be outstandtransferable in the Books of the Bank: Save in so far as relates to the Mode of Transfer and Payment of Dividends thereon, any Stock described in a Stock Certificate issued under this Act shall be deemed to be charged on the same Securities, and to be subject to the same powers of Redemption, and to the same Incidents, in all respects, including the Remuneration payable to the Bank, as if it had continued registered in the Books of the Bank as Stock transferable therein: Any Stock described in a Stock Certificate in respect of which no Coupons have been presented for Payment for a Period of Ten Years may in all respects be dealt with as if it were Stock upon which no Dividends had been demanded for a Period of Ten Years, and be transferred accordingly to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, and shall be subject to the Rights of the Parties proving themselves entitled to such Stock in pursuance of the Act passed in the Fifty-sixth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, Chapter Sixty, or the Act passed in the Session held in the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter Seventy-one; and the Provisions of those Acts and of all other Acts relating to Stock transferred to the aforesaid Commissioners shall apply to Stock in respect of which Certificates shall have been issued in pursuance of this Act. ing. on Persons XIV. Whosoever shall forge or alter, or offer, utter, Penalties dispose of, or put off, knowing the same to be forged or committing altered, any Stock Certificate or Coupon or any Document Forgery. purporting to be a Stock Certificate or Coupon issued in pursuance of this Act, or shall demand or endeavour to obtain or receive any Share or Interest of or in the Public Stocks, or to receive any Dividend or Money payable in respect thereof, by virtue of any such forged or altered Certificate or Coupon or Document purporting as aforesaid, knowing the same to be forged or altered, with Intent in any of the Cases aforesaid to defraud, shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for Life or for any Term not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour, and with or without Solitary Confinement. on Persons XV. Whosoever shall falsely and deceitfully personate any Owner of any Share or Interest of or in any of the falsely per sonating Owners of Stock. Penalties on Persons engraving Public Stocks, or of any Stock Certificate or Coupon issued in pursuance of this Act, and shall thereby obtain or endeavour to obtain any such Stock Certificate or Coupon, or receive or endeavour to receive any Money due to any such Owner, as if such Offender were the true and lawful Owner, shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for Life or for any Term not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour, and with or without Solitary Confinement. XVI. Whosoever, without lawful Authority or Excuse, the Proof whereof shall lie on the Party accused, shall enPlates, etc. grave or make, upon any Plate, Wood, Stone, or other Material, any Stock Certificate or Coupon, purporting to be a Stock Certificate or Coupon issued or made under and in pursuance of this Act, or to be a blank Stock Certificate or Coupon issued or made as aforesaid, or to be a Part of such a Stock Certificate or Coupon, or shall use any such Plate, Wood, Stone, or other Material for the making or printing any such Stock Certificate or Coupon, or any such blank Stock Certificate or Coupon, or any part thereof respectively, or knowingly have in his Custody or Possession any such Plate, Wood, Stone, or other Material, or shall knowingly offer, utter, dispose of, or put off, or have in his Custody or Possession, any Paper upon which any such blank Stock Certificate or Coupon, or Part of any such Stock Certificate or Coupon, shall be made or printed, shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for any term not exceeding Fourteen Years and not less than Three years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour, and without or without Solitary Confinement. SCHEDULE. SCHEDULE OF FEES. On the Issue of a Stock Certificate, a Fee not exceeding Five Shillings on every Hundred Pounds of Stock included in the Certificate, and a proportional Sum for any less Sum. If the Applicant is the registered Holder of an Amount of Stock divisible into several Sums of Fifty Pounds or Multiples of Fifty Pounds, he may require such Sums of Fifty Pounds or such Multiples of Fifty Pounds to be distributed amongst different Certificates, as he thinks fit; subject to this Priviso, that if the Number of Certificates re quired by him exceed the Proportion of Five to a Thousand Pounds he shall, in respect of each Certificate constituting that Excess, pay a Sum of Sixpence in addition to the Percentage Fee. On the Change of a Nominal Certificate for a Certificate to Bearer, or on the Registration in the Books of the Bank of the Stock included in a Nominal Certificate, there shall be charged a Fee not exceeding One Half the Fee that would be chargeable on the Issue of a new Certificate to Bearer. On the Registration in the Books of the Bank of the Stock included in a Stock Certificate to Bearer there shall be charged a Fee not exceeding Five Shillings. CAP. XXXVIII. An Act to amend the Act for placing the Employment of 'WHEREAS it is expedient that the Employment of Women, young Persons, and Children in Calendering Works and Finishing Works should be regulated in the same Manner as their Employment is regulated in Bleaching Works and Dyeing Works by the Provisions of the Act of the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Years of Victoria, Chapter 23 & 24 Seventy-eight: And whereas such was the Intention of Vict. c. 78. Parliament in passing that Act:' 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: Meaning of the Words • Bleaching Works' and Dyeing, recited Act. Works in I. That the Words Bleaching Works' and 'Dyeing Works' in the said recited Act shall be further understood to mean any Building, Buildings, or Premises in which Females, young Persons, and Children are employed, and in any Part of which Buildings or Premises any Process previous to packing is carried on in the Occupation of calendering or finishing of any Yarn or Cloth of Cotton, Wool, Silk, or Flax, or any of them, or any Mixture of them, or any Yarn or Cloth of any other Material or Materials, or in any Process incident to such calendering or finishing, and in One or more of which Processes Steam, Water, or other mechanical Power is used or employed: Provided always, that nothing in this Act contained shall Not to ex tend to Buildings defined by extend to any Building, Buildings, or Premises defined to be a Factory' by the Act of the Seventh Year of Her pre7 & 8 Vict. sent Majesty, intituled An Act to amend the Laws relating to Labour in Factories. c. 15. Short Title. Interpretation of Terms. CAP. XL. An Act for the Regulation of Bakehouses.- WHEREAS it is expedient to limit the Hours of Labour of young Persons employed in Bakehouses, and to make Regulations with respect to Cleanliness and Ventilation in Bakehouses: 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. This Act may be cited as 'The Bakehouse Regulation Act, 1863.' II. For the Purposes of this Act the words herein-after mentioned shall be construed as follows; that is to say, 'Local Authority' shall, as respects any Place, mean the Persons or Bodies of Persons defined to be the Local Authority in that Place by the One hundred and thirty-fourth Section of the Act passed in the Session holden in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter One hundred and twenty, or by the Nuisances Removal Acts hereinafter mentioned; that, is to say, as to England, by the Act passed in the Session holden in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter One hundred and twenty-one, as amended by the Act passed in the Session holden in the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter Seventy-seven; as to Scotland, by the Act passed in the Session holden in the Nineteeth and Twentieth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter One hundred and three; and as to Ireland, by the Acts passed, the one in the Session holden in the Eleventh and Twelfth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter One hun dred and twenty-three, and the other in the Session holden in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter One hundred and eleven: 'Bakehouse' shall mean any Place in which are baked Bread, Biscuits, or Confectionery, from the baking or 'Employed,' as applied to any Person, shall include any 'Occupier' shall include any Person in possession: 'The Court' shall include any Justice or Justices, Sheriff or Sheriff Substitute, Magistrate or Magistrates, to whom Jurisdiction is given by this Act. III. No person under the Age of Eighteen Years shall be employed in any Bakehouse between the Hours of Nine of the Clock at Night and Five of the Clock in the Morning. If any Person is employed in contravention of this Section the Occupier of the Bakehouse in which he is employed shall incur the following Penalties in respect of each Person so employed; that is to say, Cleanliness For the First Offence, a Sum not exceeding Two Pounds: For a Second Offence, a Sum not exceeding Five Pounds: For a Third and every subsequent Offence, a Sum not exceeding One Pound for each Day of the Continuance of the Employment in contravention of this Act, so that no greater Penalty be imposed than Ten Pounds. IV. The inside Walls and Ceiling or Top of every RegulaBakehouse situate in any City, Town, or Place containing tions as to according to the last Census a Population of more than of BakeFive thousand Persons, and the Passages and Staircase house. leading thereto, shall either be painted with Oil or be limewashed, or partly painted and partly limewashed: Where painted with Oil there shall be Three Coats of Paint, and the painting shall be renewed once at least in every Seven Years, and shall be washed with hot Water and Soap once at least in every Six Months: Where limewashed the limewashing shall be renewed once at least in every Six Months. Every Bakehouse wherever situate shall be kept in a cleanly State, and shall be provided with proper Means for effectual Ventilation, and be free from Effluvia arising from any Drain, Privy, or other Nuisance. If the Occupier of any Bakehouse fails to keep the same in conformity with this Section he shall be deemed to be guilty of an Offence against this Act, and to be subject in respect of such Offence to a Penalty not exceeding Five Pounds. The Court having Jurisdiction under this Act may, in addition to or instead of inflicting any Penalty in respect of an Offence under this Section, make an Order directing that within a certain Time to be named in such Order |