An Act to amend the Law as to Qualifications for Elections to Parish Councils and as to the Annual Assembly of the Parish Meeting.

[16th February 1897.]

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. Any person who has entered into residence on or before the twenty-fifth day of March in any year shall, if otherwise qualified

for election as a parish councillor, be eligible for election at the parish council elections of the succeeding year, notwithstanding that the period of his residence shall be under one year.

2. The annual assembly of the parish meet- Date of ing shall be held on some day between the assembly. first day of March and the first day of April, both inclusive, in each year.

3. Rule (1) in Part One of the First Schedule Repeal. to the Local Government Act, 1894, is hereby 56 & 57 Vict. repealed.

c. 73.

4. This Act may be cited as the Local Short title. Government Act, 1897.

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Appoint.

district surveyor for whole

An Act to amend the Law relating to the appointment of Surveyors in the County of Dublin. [29th March 1897.]

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. On and after the passing of this Act, ment of one it shall be lawful for the grand jury of the county of Dublin to appoint one and the same person to hold the office of county or district surveyor for both the road districts in said county.

county.

of any other county in Ireland have at the passing of this Act, and each such assistant shall obey the order of the district surveyor and be removable in the same manner as the district surveyors are in other counties at the passing of this Act, and the salaries of the said assistants may be presented for in the same way as the salaries of the district surveyors.

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district and

3. The annual salary to be paid to any Provision as person holding the office of district surveyor to salaries of shall be such as the grand jury may by resolu- assistant tion from time to time, with the approval of surveyors. the Lord Lieutenant, determine. Provided always, that such salary, together with the salaries of the assistant or assistants to the county survey or appointed under the provisions of this Act, shall not exceed in any year the amount of the combined salaries payable before the passing of this Act to district surveyors in the county of Dublin pursuant to the provisions of the Order in Council dated fifth May one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

4. This Act may be cited as the County Short title. Dublin Surveyors Act, 1897.

A.D. 1897. and that the whole number of such forces should consist of one hundred and fifty-eight thousand seven hundred and seventy-four, including those to be employed at the depôts in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the training of recruits for service at home and abroad, but exclusive of the numbers actually serving within Her Majesty's Indian possessions:

44 & 45 Vict. c. 58.

And whereas it is also judged necessary for the safety of the United Kingdom, and the defence of the possessions of this realm, that a body of Royal Marine forces should be employed in Her Majesty's fleet and naval service, under the direction of the Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom, or the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral aforesaid:

And whereas the said marine forces may frequently be quartered or be on shore, or sent to do duty or be on board transport ships or vessels, merchant ships or vessels, or other ships or vessels, or they may be under other circumstances in which they will not be subject to the laws relating to the government of Her Majesty's forces by

sea:

And whereas no man can be forejudged of life or limb, or subjected in time of peace to any kind of punishment within this realm by martial law, or in any other manner than by the judgment of his peers and according to the known and established laws of this realm; yet nevertheless it being requisite, for the retaining all the before-mentioned forces, and other persons subject to military law, in their duty, that an exact discipline be observed, and that persons belonging to the said forces who mutiny or stir up sedition, or desert Her Majesty's service, or are guilty of crimes and offences to the prejudice of good order and military discipline, be brought to a more exemplary and speedy punishment than the usual forms of the law will allow :

And whereas the Army Act will expire in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven on the following days:

(a.) In the United Kingdom, the Channel

Islands, and the Isle of Man, on the thirtieth day of April; and

(b.) Elsewhere in Europe, inclusive of Malta, also in the West Indies and America, on the thirty-first day of July; and (c.) Elsewhere, whether within or without Her Majesty's dominions, on the thirtyfirst day of December:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most A.D. 1897. 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 as the Army Short title. (Annual) Act, 1897.

(44 & 45

force for specified

2.-(1.) The Army Act shall be and remain Army Act in force during the periods herein-after men- Vict. c. 58.) tioned, and no longer, unless otherwise pro- to be in vided by Parliament; that is to say, (a.) Within the United Kingdom, the times. Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man, from the thirtieth day of April one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven to the thirtieth day of April one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, both inclusive; and

(b.) Elsewhere in Europe, inclusive of Malta, also in the West Indies and America, from the thirty-first day of July one thousand eight hundred and ninetyseven to the thirty-first day of July one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, both inclusive; and

(c.) Elsewhere, whether within or without Her Majesty's dominions, from the thirtyfirst day of December one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven to the thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, both inclusive;

and the day from which the Army Act is continued in any place by this Act is in relation to that place referred to in this Act as the commencement of this Act.

(2.) The Army Act, while in force, shall apply to persons subject to military law, whether within or without Her Majesty's dominions.

(3.) A person subject to military law shall not be exempted from the provisions of the Army Act by reason only that the number of the forces for the time being in the service of Her Majesty, exclusive of the marine forces, is either greater or less than the number herein-before mentioned.

3. There shall be paid to the keeper of Prices in a victualling house for the accommodation respect of billeting. provided by him in pursuance of the Army Act the prices specified in the schedule to this Act.

3. Power to the Treasury to borrow.

4. Short title.

An Act to apply certain sums out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the years ending on the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, and one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight. [29th March 1897.]

Most Gracious Sovereign, WE, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled, towards making good the supply which we have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty in this session of Parliament, have resolved to grant unto Your Majesty the sums herein-after mentioned; and 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

2.230,8351.

17s. 1d. out

Fund for

1. The Treasury may issue out of the Con- Issue of solidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and apply towards of the Conmaking good the supply granted to Her solidated Majesty for the service of the years ending on the service the thirty-first day of March one thousand of the years eight hundred and ninety-six and one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, the sum 1896 and of two million two hundred and thirty thou- 1897. sand eight hundred and thirty-five pounds, seventeen shillings, and one penny.

ending 31st March

pounds per centum per annum, out of the .D. 1897. growing produce of the Consolidated Fund at any period not later than the next succeeding quarter to that in which the said moneys were borrowed.

Any moneys so borrowed shall be placed to the credit of the account of the Exchequer, and shall form part of the said Consolidated Fund, and be available in any manner in which such Fund is available.

4. This Act may be cited as the Consolidated Short title. Fund (No. 1) Act, 1897.

Aid grant to voluntary

elementary

schools.

1. Aid grant to voluntary elementary schools.

4. Definitions.

5. Extent of Act and short title.

An Act to provide for a Grant out of the Exchequer in Aid of Voluntary Elementary Schools, and for the Exemption from Rates of those Schools, and to repeal part of Section Nineteen of the Elementary Education Act, 1876. [8th April 1897.]

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.-(1.) For aiding voluntary schools there shall be annually paid out of moneys provided by Parliament an aid grant, not exceeding in the aggregate five shillings per scholar for the whole number of scholars in those schools.

(2.) The aid grant shall be distributed by the Education Department to such voluntary schools and in such manner and amounts, as the Department think best for the purpose of helping necessitous schools and increasing their efficiency, due regard being had to the maintenance of voluntary subscriptions.

(3.) If associations of schools are constituted in such manner in such areas and with such governing bodies representative of the managers as are approved by the Education Department, there shall be allotted to each association while so approved,

(a) a share of the aid grant to be computed according to the number of scholars in the schools of the association at the rate of five shillings per scholar, or, if the Department fix different rates for town and country schools respectively (which they are hereby empowered to do) then at those rates; and

(b) a corresponding share of any sum which may be available out of the aid grant after distribution has been made to unassociated schools.

(4.) The share so allotted to each such association shall be distributed as aforesaid by the Education Department after consulting the governing body of the association, and in accordance with any scheme prepared by that body which the Department for the time being approve.

(5.) The Education Department may exclude a school from any share of the aid grant which it might otherwise receive, if, in the opinion