to issue his Warrant for levying the Amount or so much thereof as may be in arrear by Distress and Sale of the Goods of all or any of the said Overseers, and in case the Goods of all the Overseers be not sufficient to pay the same, the Arrears thereof shall be added to the Amount of the next Levy which is directed to be made in such Parish or Place for the Purposes of this Act, and shall be collected by the like Methods.

Consent of

21. The Board may, with the Consent of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, Power to borrow any Sum not exceeding Forty thousand Pounds, and apply the same for the Purposes Board, with of this Act, and all Powers contained in the Metropolis Local Management Acts authorizing Treasury, to the Board to borrow Money, or any Commissioners or Persons to lend Money to the Board, borrow not and all other Provisions as to the Mode of borrowing, the Repayment of Principal or exceeding Interest, or in anywise relating to borrowing by the Board, shall be deemed to apply and 40,000l. to extend to this Act in the same Manner as if the Monies borrowed in pursuance of this Act were Monies borrowed for the Purpose of defraying the Expenses of the Metropolis Local Management Acts, or One or more of those Acts. The Board shall apply the Monies received by them under this Act in liquidation of the Principal and Interest of the Monies so borrowed, but no Creditor shall be concerned to see to such Application, or be liable for any Misapplication of the Monies received or borrowed by the Board in pursuance of this Act.

Miscellaneous.

Power to turn officers or Men discharged

out of Houses

provided for

22. Where any Chief Officer, or other Person who has been employed by the Board in any Capacity under this Act and has been discharged therefrom, continues to occupy any House or Building that may be provided for his Use, or any Part thereof, after One Week's Notice in Writing from the Board to deliver up Possession thereof, it shall be lawful for any Police Magistrate, on the Oath of One Witness, stating such Notice to have been them. given, by Warrant under his Hand to order any Constable to enter into the House or Building occupied by such discharged Chief Officer or other Person as aforesaid, and to remove him and his Family and Servants therefrom, and afterwards to deliver the Possession thereof to the Board, as effectually, to all Intents and Purposes, as the Sheriff having Jurisdiction within the Place where such House or Building is situate might lawfully do by virtue of a Writ of Possession or a Judgment at Law.

on fire.

23. If the Chimney of any House or other Building within the Metropolis is on fire, Penalty where the Occupier of such House or Building shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Twenty Chimneys are Shillings; but if such Occupier proves that he has incurred such Penalty by reason of the Neglect or wilful Default of any other Person, he may recover summarily from such Person the whole or any Part of the Penalty he may have incurred as Occupier.

24. All Penalties imposed by this Act, or by any Byelaw made in pursuance thereof, Recovery of and all Expenses and other Sums due to the Board in pursuance of this Act, in respect of Penalties. which no Mode of Recovery is prescribed, may be recovered summarily before Two Justices in manner directed by the Act of the Session holden in the Eleventh and Twelfth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter Forty-three, or any Act amending the same, and when so recovered shall be paid to the Treasurer of the Board, notwithstanding any Police Act or other Act of Parliament directing a different Appropriation of such

Monies.

25. Any Dispute or other Matter which is by this Act directed to be determined sum- Summary Promarily by Two Justices shall be deemed to be a Matter in respect of which a Complaint is ceedings for made upon which they have Authority by Law to make an Order for Payment of Money certain determining within the Meaning of the said Act of the Session holden in the Eleventh and Twelfth Matters. Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter Forty-three, or any Act amending the

same.

to Two Jus

26. Any Act, Power, or Jurisdiction hereby authorized to be done or exercised by Two Extension of Justices may be done or exercised by the following Magistrates within their respective Powers given Jurisdictions; that is to say, by any Metropolitan Police Magistrate sitting alone at a tices. Police Court or other appointed Place, or by the Lord Mayor of the City of London, or any Alderman of the said City, sitting alone or with others at the Mansion House or Guildhall. 3 I

28 & 29 VICT.

27. The

Audit of

Accounts and

Report by
Board.

Power to dele

27. The Accounts of the Board in respect of Expenses incurred by them under this Act shall be audited in the same Manner as if they were Expenses incurred under the said Metropolis Local Management Acts, and the Board shall in each Year make a Report to One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State of all Acts done and Expenditure incurred by them in pursuance of this Act, and that Report shall be laid before Parliament within One Month after the Commencement of the Session.

28. The Board may delegate any Powers conferred on them by this Act to a Committee gate Powers of of their Body; and such Committee shall, to the Extent to which such Powers are delegated, be deemed to be the Board within the Meaning of this Act.

Board to a

Committee.

Establishment of Salvage Force by In

29. If the Companies insuring Property within the Metropolis, or any such Number of them as may in the Opinion of the said Board be sufficient, establish a Force of Men surance Offices. charged with the Duty of attending at Fires and saving insured Property, it shall be the Duty of the Fire Brigade, with the Sanction of the Board, and subject to any Regulations that may be made by the Board, to afford the necessary Assistance to that Force in the Performance of their Duties, and, upon the Application of any Officer of that Force, to hand over to their Custody Property that may be saved from Fire; and no Charge shall be made by the said Board for the Services thus rendered by the Fire Brigade.

Brigade when employed beyond the

Metropolis, or on special Services,

Board to send

Fires to Offices.

30. It shall be lawful for the Board, when Occasion requires, to permit any Part of the Fire Brigade Establishment, with their Engines, Escapes, and other Implements, to proceed beyond the Limits of the Metropolis for the Purpose of extinguishing Fires. In such Case the Owner and Occupier of the Property where the Fire has occurred shall be jointly and severally liable to defray all the Expenses that may be incurred by the Fire Brigade in attending the Fire, and shall pay to the Board a reasonable Charge for the Attendance of the Fire Brigade, and the Use of their Engines, Escapes, and other Implements. In case of Difference between the Board and the Owner and Occupier of such Property, or either of them, the Amount of the Expenses, as well as the Propriety of the Fire Brigade attending such Fire (if the Propriety thereof be disputed), shall be summarily determined by Two Justices. In default of Payment, any Expenses under this Section may be recovered by the Board in a summary Manner.

The Board may also permit any Part of the Fire Brigade Establishment to be employed on special Services upon such Terms of Remuneration as the said Board may think just.

31. The Metropolitan Fire Brigade shall in the Morning of each Day, with the Information of Exception of Sundays, send Information, by Post or otherwise, to all the Insurance Offices contributing for the Purposes of this Act, of all Fires which have taken place within the Metropolis since the preceding Return, in such Form as may be agreed upon between the Board and the said Companies.

Transfer to
Board of
Powers of

Parishes as to
Fireplugs.

Definition of "Owner."

32. All the Powers now exercised by any Local Body or Officer within the Metropolis as respects Fireplugs shall henceforth be exercised by the Board, and the Board shall be entitled to receive Copies or Extracts of all Plans kept by any Water Company under the Provision of the Act of the Session of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Eighty-four; and every such Water Company shall provide at the Expense of the Board in any Mains or Pipes within the Metropolis Plugs for the Supply of Water in case of Fire at such Places, of such Dimensions, and in such Form as the Board may require, and the Fire Brigade shall be at liberty to make such Use thereof as they may deem necessary for the Purpose of extinguishing any Fire; and every such Company shall deposit Keys of all their Fireplugs at such Places as may be appointed by the Board, and the Board may put up on any House or Building a public Notice in some conspicuous Place in each Street in which a Fireplug is situated, showing its Situation.

33. "Owner" in this Act shall mean the Person for the Time being receiving the Rackrent of the Premises in connexion with which the Word is used, either on his own Account or as Agent or Trustee for some other Person, or who would receive the same if the Premises were let at Rackrent.

Repeal.

Repeal

Sections of

34. On and after the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six Partial Repeal there shall be repealed so much as is unrepealed of an Act passed in the Fourteenth Year of unrepealed of His late Majesty King George the Third, Chapter Seventy-eight, and intituled An Act 14 G. 3. c. 78. for the further and better Regulation of Buildings and Party Walls, and for the more effectually preventing Mischief by Fire, within the Cities of London and Westminster and the Liberties thereof, and other the Parishes, Precincts, and Places within the Weekly Bills of Mortality, the Parishes of St. Marylebone, Paddington, St. Pancras, and St. Luke at Chelsea, in the County of Middlesex, and for indemnifying, under certain Conditions, Builders and other Persons against the Penalties to which they are or may be liable for erecting Buildings within the Limits aforesaid contrary to Law, with the Exception of Sections Eighty-three and Eighty-six which shall remain in full Force, but such Repeal shall not affect any Penalty or Liability incurred under the repealed Sections.

c. 90.

35. On and after the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six Partial Repeal Section Forty-four of an Act passed in the Session holden in the Third and Fourth Years of 3 & 4 W. 4. of the Reign of King William the Fourth, Chapter Ninety, shall be repealed so far as respects any Parish or Place within the Limits of the Metropolis as defined by this Act; provided that the Repeal of the said Section shall not affect the Power of the Churchwardens and Overseers of any Parish or Place to contribute to the Funds of any Society that at the Time of the passing of this Act maintains Fire Escapes in such Parish or Place, unless and until the Board purchases the Property of such Society, or otherwise provides Fire Escapes in such Parish or Place.

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С А Р. ХСІ.
CAP.

An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made under an Act of the
Fifteenth Year of Her present Majesty, to facilitate Arrangements for the
Relief of Turnpike Trusts.
[5th July 1865.]

WHEREAS by an Act of the Fifteenth Year of Her Majesty, Chapter Thirty-eight, 14 & 15 Vict.

"to facilitate Arrangements for the Relief of Turnpike Trusts, and to make certain c. 38. "Provisions respecting Exemptions from Tolls," herein-after referred to as the Principal Act, Power is given to One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State to make Provisional Orders for reducing the Rate of Interest and for extinguishing the Arrears of Interest on Mortgage Debts charged or secured on the Revenues of Turnpike Roads, in

• Cases where such Revenues are insufficient for the Payment in full of the Interest charged

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thereon: And whereas by the Act of the Session of the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth 24 & 25 Vict. Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter Forty-six, the Principal Act is c. 46.

extended to Turnpike Roads, the Acts relating to which are continued by any Annual

Turnpike Acts Continuance Act, although their Revenues are not insufficient for such Payments as aforesaid: And whereas, in pursuance of the Principal Act, and the said Act extending the same, the several Provisional Orders referred to in the Schedule hereto have been made by Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, and there are stated in the said Schedule the Dates of such Orders, and such Particulars relating thereto as are therein specified: And whereas it is expedient that the said Provisional Orders should be confirmed and made absolute:' 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. The several Provisional Orders, the Dates of which are set forth in the First Column Provisional of the said Schedule, are hereby confirmed, and the Provisions thereof shall be of the like Orders conForce and Effect as if they had been expressly enacted by Parliament.

firmed.