LONDON COAL AND WINE DUTIES CON- 24 & 25 Vict. Cap. 42. An Act to continue the Duties levied on Coal and Wine by the Corporation of London, (so far as relates to Rail[22nd July, 1861.] ways.) THE preamble recites (inter alia) the acts 1 & 2 Will. Preamble. 4, c. 76 (local); 1 & 2 Vict. c. 101 (local); 8 & 9 Vict. c. 101; and 14 & 15 Vict. c. 146 (local); and that by some or one of such acts, two several duties of one penny and twelvepence per ton are authorized to be levied by the corporation of London upon all coals, culm, and cinders brought to any place within the port of London, or within the cities of London and Westminster and the borough of Southwark, or to any place within the distance of twenty miles from the general post office in the city of London, by any railway already constructed or hereafter to be constructed, or by inland navigation, or by any other means of conveyance. district 3. After the passing of this act the expression " London Metropodistrict" used in the said recited act of the fourteenth litan police and fifteenth Victoria, chapter one hundred and forty- substituted six, shall no longer have the meaning assigned to it by for the that act, but shall mean so much of the several counties London of Middlesex, Surrey, Kent, Herts, Essex, Bucks, and Berks as shall be situate within the metropolitan police district, and shall include the cities of London and Westminster. district. metropo be marked 4. All the directions, powers, and provisions in the Commencesaid recited act of the fourteenth and fifteenth Victoria, ment of chapter one hundred and forty-six, with respect to re-litan police turns, certificates, and accounts, and to the erection of district to boxes and stations and boundary stones or permanent in railways, marks on the point of any canal, inland navigation, or &c. railway, or any turnpike or public road which shall be distant twenty miles from the general post office, and all other matters and things relating thereto, shall apply to returns, certificates, and accounts, and to the erection of boxes and stations and boundary stones or permanent marks on the point where any canal, inland navigation, or railway, or any turnpike or public road, first enters or comes within the metropolitan police district. HARBOURS AND PASSING TOLLS, &c., 1801. 24 & 25 Vict. Cap. 47. An Act to facilitate the Construction and Improvement of Harbours by authorizing Loans to Harbour Authorities; to abolish Passing Tolls; and for other Purposes, (so far as relates to Railways.) [1st August, 1861.] to be levied 38. No dues shall be levied by the commissioners for Town dues paving, lighting, watching, and improving the town of on coal not Ramsgate on coal, culm, and coke imported, landed, or in certain shipped within the parish or harbour of Ramsgate in the cases. following cases; that is to say, (1.) When the same are wholly and in good faith con sumed in and for the purposes of the said harbour cess to bar (2.) When the same are wholly and in good faith con- Railways sumed by the engines or on the premises of any rail- having acway company having access by means of a con- bour. tinuous line of railway or tramway to the said har bour: (3.) When the same are conveyed on any such railway Conveyed by to and delivered from the same at any place beyond railway beyond Ramsthe parish of Ramsgate, and the adjoining parish of gate and St. Saint Lawrence, and are not thereafter delivered Lawrence. within either of those parishes: And if, in any of such cases, dues have in the first instance been paid to the said commissioners, the parties who have paid them shall be allowed a drawback or return thereof, to be paid by the said commissioners out of any funds under their control; but if any person fraudulently obtains or endeavours to obtain the said drawback without being legally entitled to the same, he shall be liable for every such offence to a penalty not exceeding fifty shillings; and such penalty may be recovered and shall be applied in the same manner as penalties are recovered and applied under the act (local and personal) 1 & 2 Viet. of the first and second years of the reign of her present c. 70 (local.) majesty, intituled "An Act for better Paving, Lighting, Watching, and Improving the Parish of Ramsgate in the County of Kent, and for regulating the Police thereof." 47. The said Dover harbour board shall consist of Constitution seven members, four of whom shall form a quorum; the of Dover said seven members shall be the lord warden for the time board. harbour CAP. 47. Appoint ment of south-east ern railway company, and by London, Chatham, A 24 & 25 VICT. being of the cinque ports, two burgesses of the borough of Dover elected by the town council every three years, and to be eligible for re-election, a member to be from time to time appointed by the president of the board of trade for the time being, a member to be from time to time appointed by the first lord of the admiralty for the time being, a member to be from time to time appointed members by by the south-eastern railway company under their common seal, and a member to be from time to time appointed by the London, Chatham and Dover railway company, under their common seal: Provided, that in the event of either or both of the said railway companies and Dover failing or declining to appoint a member of the said harbour board within one calendar month after having been required so to do by the president of the board of trade, then such president shall, from and after such default, be entitled thereafter to appoint from time to time another member or members in lieu thereof, as the case may be; and the said lord warden shall ex officio be chairman of the said harbour board; and the said lord warden, shall also from time to time nominate under his hand one of the members of the said harbour board to be his deputy, to preside at all meetings at which the said lord warden shall not be present; and in the event of an equality of votes at any meeting of the said board the chairman of such meeting shall be entitled to a casting vote in addition to his ordinary vote. railway company. 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 (so far as relates to Railways). A [1st August, 1861.] other bridges. 6. IT shall not be lawful for the owner or driver of Use of any locomotive to drive it over any suspension bridge locomotives nor over any bridge on which a conspicuous notice has restricted been placed, by the authority of the surveyor or persons over susliable to the repair of the bridge, that the bridge is in- pension and sufficient to carry weights beyond the ordinary traffic of the district, without previously obtaining the consent of the surveyor of the road or bridgemaster under whose charge such bridge shall be for the time being, or of the persons liable to the repair of such bridge; and in case such owner of the locomotive and surveyor of the road or bridge, or bridgemaster, shall differ in opinion as to the sufficiency of any bridge to sustain the transit of the locomotive, then the question shall be determined by an officer to be appointed, on the application of either party, by one of her majesty's principal secretaries of state, whose certificate of sufficiency of such bridge shall entitle the owner of the locomotive to take the same over such bridge. caused by locomotives to bridges over rail ways, &c.. 7. Where any turnpike or other roads, upon which Damage locomotives are or hereafter may be used, pass or are or shall be carried over or across any stream or watercourse, navigable river, canal or railway, by means of any bridge or arch (whether stationary or moveable), and such bridge or arch, or any of the walls, buttresses, or sup- to be made ports thereof, shall be damaged by reason of any loco- good by motive or any waggon or carriage drawn or propelled by owners. or together with a locomotive passing over the same or coming into contact therewith, none of the proprietors, undertakers, directors, conservators, trustees, commissioners, or other person interested in or having the charge Company of such navigable river, canal, or railway, or the tolls not liable thereof, or of such bridge or arch, shall be liable to refor damage pair or make good any damage so to be occasioned, or sioned. to make compensation to any person for any obstruction, interruption, or delay which may arise therefrom to the so occa |