Forms of Name or Description of the Race Horse, and the Name of Books of the Owner of such Horse, or the Name of the Person paying printed the Duty, and also the Date of the actual Payment of the Receipts said Duty; and the said Commissioners shall supply a and Counproper and sufficient Number of such Forms to the said Receiver of Race-horse Duty, from Time to Time, whenever he shall apply for the same. terfoils. Race-horse Duty on Form, and III. Whenever the said Duty for any Race Horse shall Receiver of be paid to the said Receiver of Race-horse Duty, or to any Duty to Person employed or authorized by him to receive the same give Re(and for such Person the said Receiver shall be answerable), ceipt for the said Receiver shall give or cause to be given to the printed Person paying the said Duty a Receipt for the same upon form, One of such printed Forms, properly filled up with all the Counterseveral Particulars for which the same shall be adapted, and foil. signed by the said Receiver with his own Hand, and he shall also properly fill up with all the like Particulars the Counterfoil of such Receipt, and keep the same remaining in the said Book. supplied IV. The Receiver of Race-horse Duty shall be chargeable To be acwith and accountable in manner herein-after mentioned for countable for Forms every such Book of printed Forms of Receipts and Counter- of Receipts foils with which he shall have been supplied, and shall, upon and Counevery Request of any Officer of Inland Revenue authorized by the said Commissioners in this Behalf, produce and show to him. to such Officer all such Books and Forms as may from Time to Time be in the Possession of the said Receiver, and shall account with such Officer for all such Forms of Receipts and Counterfoils respectively as shall have been cut out of or separated from any such Book; and for and in respect of each and every such Form which shall have been so cut out or separated as aforesaid, and for and in respect also of each and every such Form of Receipt and Counterfoil respectively contained in any Book of such Forms delivered to such Receiver, and not produced by him to such Officer, the said Receiver shall be deemed to have received the Amount of the said Duty of Three Pounds Seventeen Shillings, and shall be charged with the same accordingly, as so much Money had and received by him for the Use of Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors. pay over V. The Receiver of Race-horse Duty shall give such Se- To give Security, by Bond, with Sureties or otherwise, as the Commis- curity, and sioners of Inland Revenue may deem sufficient and require Monies to for duly accounting for and paying over the said Duties, Receiver and shall pay over all Monies received by him or for which Inland he shall be chargeable under this Act to the Receiver Gene- Revenue; ral of Inland Revenue, or to such other Officer as the said Commissioners may direct, and under such Regulations as General of an Allow the said Commissioners may make in that Behalf; and upon the due Payment of all such Monies, and on the Performance by the said Receiver of Race-horse Duty, to the Satisand to have faction of the said Commissioners, of all Matters and Things required of him by or under the Authority of this Act, he shall have and be entitled to an Allowance at the Rate of One Shilling in the Pound on all such Monies paid over by him as aforesaid; and such Allowance shall be paid to him by the said Receiver General or other Officer by Warrant of the said Commissioners. ance for due Payment and Performance of Duty. Penalty on VI. If the Receiver of Race-horse Duty shall neglect or Receiver of omit to do or perform any Act, Matter, or Thing required Race-horse of him by or under the Authority of this Act, or shall do Duty for Neglect of or permit or suffer to be done any Act, Matter, or Thing contrary in any respect to any Injunction or Direction herein contained, he shall for every such Offence forfeit the Sum of Fifty Pounds. Duty. Certain 19 & 20 VII. Sections Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Sections of and Eleven of the said Act, and so much of Section Twelve Vict. c. 82. as enacts that the Person by whom or in whose Name any repealed. Race Horse shall be entered to start or run at any Race shall be deemed to be the Owner of such Race Horse, shall be and the same are hereby repealed. ANNO VICESIMO ET VICESIMO PRIMO VICTORIE REGINE. CAP. III. An Act to amend the Act of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Years of Her Majesty, to substitute in certain Cases other Punishment in lieu of Transportation.-[26th June 1857.] WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Session holden in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Years of the Reign of Her 16 & 17 Majesty, Chapter Ninety-nine, to substitute in certain Vict. c. 99. Cases other Punishment in lieu of Transportation; and it is expedient that such Act should be amended: 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, as follows: I. Sections One, Two, Three, and Four of the said Act Sections 1, shall be repealed. 2, 3, and 4, of recited tation abo lished, and Penal Ser II. After the Commencement of this Act, no person Act reshall be sentenced to Transportation; and any Person who, pealed. if this Act and the said Act had not been passed, might Sentence of have been sentenced to Transportation, shall, after the TransporCommencement of this Act, be liable to be sentenced to be kept in Penal Servitude for a Term of the same Duration Sentence of as the Term of Transportation to which such Person would vitude subhave been liable if the said Act and this Act had not been stituted. passed; and in every Case where, at the Discretion of the Court, One of any Two or more Terms of Transportation might have been awarded, the Court shall have the like Discretion to award One of any Two or more of the Terms of Penal Servitude which are hereby authorized to be awarded instead of such Terms of Transportation: Provided always, that any Person who might at the Discretion of the Court have been sentenced either to Transportation for any Term or to any Period of Imprisonment, shall be liable at the discretion of the Court to be sentenced either to Penal Servitude for the same Term or to the same Period of Imprisonment; and in any Case in which before the passing of the said Act Sentence of Seven Years Transportation might have been passed, it shall be lawful for the Court in its Discretion to pass a Sentence of Penal Servitude of not less than Three Years. III. And whereas the Provisions applicable to Persons Provisions under Sentence of Transportation extend to Persons under of Acts b concerning Offenders transported Sentence of Penal Servitude conveyed to Parts beyond the to apply to Seas in those Cases only where they are conveyed to and Offenders kept in Places of Confinement appointed under the said Act or the Act of the Fifth Year of King George the Fourth, Chapter Eighty-four, and it is expedient to extend the said Provisions to other Cases: under Sen tence of Penal Servitude. Existing appoint tation to be poses of Any Person now or hereafter under Sentence or Order of Penal Servitude may, during the term of the Sentence or Order, be conveyed to any Place or Places beyond the Seas to which Offenders under Sentence or Order of Transportation may be conveyed, or to any Place or Places beyond the Seas which may be hereafter appointed as herein mentioned; and all Acts and Provisions now applicable to and for the Removal and Transportation of Offenders under Sentence or Order of Transportation to and from any Places beyond the Seas, and concerning their Custody, Management, and Control, and the Property in their Services, and the Punishment of such Offenders if at large without lawful Cause before the Expiration of their Sentence, and all other Provisions now applicable to and in the Case of Persons under Sentence or Order of Transportation, shall apply to and in the Case of Persons under Sentence or Order of Penal Servitude, as if they were Persons under Sentence or Order of Transportation. IV. The Provisions and Powers of the said Act of the Power to Fifth Year of King George the Fourth, authorizing the Places of Appointment (by Her Majesty, with the Advice of Her Transpor Privy Council) of any Place or Places beyond the Seas to applicable which Felons and other Offenders under Sentence or Order for the Pur- of Transportation shall be conveyed, and all other Powers of Her Majesty, or the Lord Lieutenant or Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, for the like Purpose, shall extend and be applicable to and for the Appointment of any Place or Places beyond the Seas to which Offenders under Sentence or Order of Penal Servitude may be conveyed, as herein provided. this Act. Magistrates may recommit Convicts cences are V. And whereas by the said Act of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Years of Her Majesty it is provided, that any Convict whose Licence is revoked shall be recommitted to whose Li- the Prison or Place of Confinement from which he was revoked to released by virtue of the said Licence: Be it enacted, That Penal Ser- from and after the passing of this Act any such convict may vitude in be recommitted by the Magistrate issuing his Warrant in vict Prison. that Behalf, either to the Prison from which he was released by virtue of his Licence, or to any other Prison in which Convicts under Sentence of Penal Servitude may be lawfully confined. any Con All Enact VI. Where in any Enactment now in force the Expres sion " any any ferring to Crime punishable with Transportation," or ments reCrime punishable by Law with Transportation," or any TransporExpression of the like Import, is used, the Enactment shall tation to be construed and take effect as applicable also to any Crime ence to punishable with Penal Servitude. have refer Penal Recited VII. The said Act of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Servitude. Years of Her Majesty and this Act shall be read and con- Act and strued together as One Act. this to be read as one. VIII. This Act shall commence on the First Day of CommenceJuly One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven. CAP. XIV. An Act to amend the Joint Stock Companies Act, 1856. [13th July 1857.] WHEREAS it is expedient that further Provision should be made for the Incorporation and Regulation of Joint Stock Companies, and that for that purpose the Joint Stock Companies Act, 1856, should be amended: 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, as follows: Preliminary. I. This Act may be cited for all purposes as Stock Companies Act, 1857." ment of Act. "The Joint Short Title of Act. pal Act and II. "The Joint Stock Companies Act, 1856," herein-Definition after called the "the Principal Act," and this Act, shall, so of Princifar as is consistent with the Context and Objects of such Joint Stock Acts, be construed as One Act, and this Act and the Princi- Companies pal Act may be cited together for all Purposes as "The Joint Stock Companies Acts, 1856, 1857." Acts. Partner Registry (Part I. of Principal Act). III. The Fourth Section of the Principal Act shall be Penalty on repealed, and in lieu thereof be it enacted as follows: ships exIf after the passing of this Act more than Twenty Per-ceeding a sons carry on, in Partnership, any Trade or Business, certain having for its Object the Procurement of Gain to the Partnership, then, unless such Persons are included within One or more of the Classes following (that is to say), 1. Are registered as a Company under the Principal 2. Are a Company incorporated or otherwise le- Number. |