Ditto, for roofing, per 1,000 8. 0 0 0 10 0 0 04 0 0 Timber, unwrought, of all kinds, per load of 50 cubic feet Spars or poles, 22 feet in length and under, per 120 Ditto, 22 feet in length and upwards, and not exceeding 6 inches in diameter, per 120 Tobacco, per roll 0 1 20000 Wine in cask, per hogshead Ditto in bottle, per barrel bulk Wool, per cwt. Yarn, per ton All other unenumerated articles to pay at landing or shipping: If by weight, per ton 0 2 0 1 DOTOO 0 1 Articles which can be measured to pay by barrel bulk, all others by weight. In charging the rates on goods the gross weight or measurement of all goods to be taken, and for any less weights, measures, and quantities than those above specified a proportion of the respective rate shall be charged. Five cubic feet, not exceeding two and half hundredweight, to be rated as a barrel bulk; but when the weight of five cubic feet is greater than two and a half hundredweight, then two and a half hundredweight to be rated as a barrel bulk. Exemptions from above-mentioned Rates. 1. All vessels mooring or using the anchorage ground within the limits of the harbour for refuge or waiting a wind, and all yachts and pleasure vessels, and all open boats other than the boats above specified. 2. Goods, articles, effects, materials, matters, and things bonâ fide the property of the Superior of the burgh of Stornoway for the time, his family, or visitors at Lews Castle, or for their use or for the use of the Lews estate, landed or loaded at the shores of any part of the west side of the bay of Stornoway between Arnish Point and the water of Bayhead. 3. All returned empty boxes, barrels, sacks, and packages. 4. Passengers luggage not exceeding 2 barrels bulk; all above to pay the ordinary rates. 5. The furniture and luggage of fishermen coming to or returning from the herring fishery at the commencement or end of the fishing season. 6. Dogs used by servants in charge of live stock. IV. RATES FOR THE USE OF SHEDS, CRANES, AND WEIGHING MACHINES. For each ton of goods of eight barrels bulk, or for each ton of goods An Act to amend the Act of the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Victoria, WE WHEREAS it is expedient to amend "The Public House Closing Act, 1864:' 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: Short Title. 1. This Act may be cited for all Purposes as the " Public House Closing Act, 1865." 2. It shall be lawful for the licensing Justices at the Time of granting or renewing any Power to JusLicence, upon the Production of such Evidence as they shall deem sufficient to show that tices to grant it is necessary or desirable, for the Accommodation of any considerable Number of Persons Licensed attending any Public Market, or following any lawful Trade or Calling, if, in the Discretion Victuallers and of such Justices, they shall think fit, to grant to any Licensed Victualler or Keeper of a Refreshment Refreshment House whose Place of Business is in the immediate Neighbourhood of such House Keepers suspending Market, or of the Place where the Persons follow such lawful Trade or Calling, a Licence Operation of exempting him from the Provisions of the herein-before mentioned Act between the Hours recited Act. of Two and Four o'clock in the Morning, or any Part of such Hours, during such Days, Times, or Hours as shall be specified in such Licence; and no Licensed Victualler or Keeper of a Refreshment House to whom such Licence has been granted under this Act shall be subject to any Penalty for a Contravention of the herein-before mentioned Act during the Days or Times to which such Licence extends, but he shall not be exempted by such Licence from any Penalty to which he may be subject under any other Act of Parliament; provided that a printed Notice stating the Days and special Hours during which and the Class of Persons for whom the House is open under such Licence shall be affixed in a conspicuous Position outside the House. 3. It shall be lawful for such Justices, from Time to Time, as and when it may seem fit Power to to them, either to withdraw such Licence altogether, or to alter, vary, or amend the same in such Manner as such Justices may deem necessary or expedient. withdraw such Licence. 4. The said Act, as herein amended, shall be in force in such Districts under the Act to be in Operation of the Public Health Act, 1848, or the Local Government Act, 1858, as adopt force in certain the same; and Local Boards of Health established under or by virtue of the said Public Districts, &c. Health Act, 1848, and Local Boards established under or by virtue of the said Local Government Justices of the Government Act, 1858, may adopt the said Public House Closing Act, 1864, in the same Manner; and the same shall come into operation at the same Time as is provided for the Adoption and coming into operation of that Act by Corporate Boroughs, or Boards of Improvement Commissioners; provided that this Section shall not apply to any District which is a Corporate Borough, or within the Jurisdiction of a Board of Improvement Commissioners. 5. So much of the Eighth Clause of the said recited Act as defines the Local Authority Peace to grant to be a Commissioner, Superintendent, or other Chief Officer of Police shall be repealed, Licences. Act to be construed with recited Act. and instead thereof the Local Authority shall be, in any District, City, or Town where Petty Sessions are held, except in the Metropolitan Police District, Two Justices of the Peace sitting in Petty Sessions, and in any other District, City, or Town, Two Justices of the Peace acting in the District, City, or Town. 6. This Act shall be deemed, construed, and taken as Part of the said herein-before mentioned Act. CA P. LXXVIII. Short Title. Extent of Act. No Company An Act to enable certain Companies to issue Mortgage Debentures founded on are herein-after defined may be enabled to issue Mortgage Debentures founded upon the Security of certain Descriptions of Property as herein-after defined, and for the Regis'tration in the Office of Land Registry of such Mortgage Debentures and Securities :' 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: 1. This Act may be cited for all Purposes as "The Mortgage Debenture Act, 1865." 2. This Act shall extend and apply to, and the Powers hereby conferred may be exercised by, all such Companies incorporated and carrying on Business under "The Companies Act, 1862," or under any Act of Parliament, as now or hereafter may be entitled to advance Money on the Security of Land; and in the Construction of this Act the Expression "the Company" means any Company to which this Act applies, and which shall for the Time being be availing itself of the Provisions of this Act. 3. No Company shall be entitled to avail itself of this Act, unless it shall comply with to avail them the following Provisions : selves of Act unless it shall comply with Provisions herein named. First. The Company must, under its Act of Parliament or Memorandum of Association, 1. The making of Advances of Money upon any of the following Securities :- (b.) Rates, Dues, Assessments, and Impositions upon the Owners or Occupiers of (c.) Charges and Securities upon or affecting Lands, Messuages, Hereditaments, and Real Property executed, made, given, or issued under the Authority of any Act of Parliament, Public or Private: 2. The borrowing of Money on transferable Mortgage Debentures, or on One or more of the Securities above mentioned: Provided Provided that any Company already constituted under "The Companies Act, 1862," for the Purpose of making Advances on Real Securities, and whose Memorandum of Association includes but is not limited to the Objects herein-before specified, may, by special Resolution in accordance with the Provisions of that Act, alter its Memorandum for the Purpose of limiting and so as to limit its Objects and Business to those so specified; and such Company shall thereupon be and become a Company constituting and carrying on Business under such altered Memorandum, and on its being shown to the Satisfaction of the Registrar herein-after mentioned that such Alteration has been made, and that all Obligations, if any, entered into by the Company in respect of the Business which prior to such special Resolution it was empowered to transact, other than the Business to which it will be limited after the passing of such special Resolution, have been discharged, and that the Articles of Association of the Company are in accordance with the altered Memorandum, such Company shall be deemed to be a Company within this Act and entitled to the Benefits thereof: Second. The Company must have a paid-up Capital of not less than One hundred thousand Pounds: Third. Each Share must be of the nominal Value of not less than Fifty Pounds, of which not less than One Tenth nor more than One Half must have been paid up. 4. Subject to the Provisions and Restrictions of this Act, the Company may from Time to Time borrow Money upon Mortgage Debentures to be issued by it under the Authority of this Act. Power to Company to borrow Money on Mortgage Debentures. 5. The Securities upon and in respect of which such Mortgage Debentures may be founded Nature of and issued shall be Securities affecting Property in England or Wales of the following Securities on Descriptions: (a.) Lands, Messuages, Hereditaments, or Real Property, or some Estate or Interests therein: (b.) Rates, Dues, Assessments, or Impositions upon the Owners or Occupiers of Lands, Messuages, Hereditaments, or Real Property, imposed by or under the Authority of any Act of Parliament, Public or Private, Royal Charter, Commission of Sewers or Drainage, or other sufficient legal Authority: (c) Charges upon or affecting Lands, Messuages, Hereditaments, or Real Property executed, made, given, or issued under the Authority of any Act of Parliament, Public or Private: But, from the Securities described in Paragraph (a.) shall be excepted Securities upon Mines or Mineral Property, Quarries, Brickfields, and Factories, Mills, and other Buildings or Works for Manufacturing Purposes, and also Securities upon Leasehold Estates, determinable upon a Life or Lives, and not renewable or held for a Term, of which, at the Date of the Security, less than Fifty Years shall be unexpired, or which are subject to any Rent beyond a nominal Rent or a Ground Rent. In construing this Act the Word" Securities" shall be deemed to mean such Securities as above defined and restricted, and no others. which Debentures may be founded. Securities on which Companies wish to issue Debentures to be pro 6. When and from Time to Time as the Company may desire to use any Securities in their Possession for the Purpose of founding and issuing Mortgage Debentures thereon, they shall produce the Deeds or Instruments creating such Securities, duly executed and stamped, to the Office of Land Registry established by the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Victoria, Chapter Fifty-three, in order to the same being duly registered in such Office of Land duced for Registry, in accordance with the Provisions of this Act. 7. For the Purposes of such Registration there shall be established in such Office of Land Registry, in respect of every Company issuing Mortgage Debentures under this Act, a Register, with the Name of the Company attached, which shall be called a Register of Securities under the Mortgage Debentures Act, 1865. Registry. Register of Securities to be established in Office of Land Registry. 8. The Business of the Registration shall be conducted in such Office in accordance with Where such Rules and Regulations as the Registrar, with the Sanction of the Lord Chancellor, from Business to be Time to Time shall prescribe. conducted. 9. Upon Production to and Deposit with the Registrar of the Deeds or Instruments pur- Upon Deposit porting to be duly executed and stamped as aforesaid, together with a Certificate under the with Registrar 28 & 29 VICT. 3 B Common of Securities |