board ship, without due notice, fine not exceeding £100; s. 329. Pilotage.] Master, &c. of any pilot boat not properly painting his vessel, fine not exceeding £20; s. 346, or not keeping flag at masthead, &c. or concealing the name or number painted on pilot ship; id. Qualified pilot, when not in pilot-boat, failing to display flag or owner, &c.; displaying pilot flag when pilot not on board, fine not exceeding £50; ss. 347, 348. Qualified pilot not producing copies of regulations, &c. to persons employing him, or not producing licence to employer, or not delivering up licence, penalty not exceeding £5 and £10; ss. 350, 351, & 352.

Compulsory pilotage, &c.] Master of unexempted ship navigating without certificate or pilot, &c. fine double amount of pilot's dues; s. 353. Master of home-trade ship not employing pilot, fine not exceeding £100; s. 354. Pilot demanding improper rates or master paying them, fine not exceeding £10; s. 358. Master refusing to declare draught of water to pilot, or making false statement about it, fine not exceeding double the amount of pilot dues; s. 359. Unqualified persons acting as pilots or using a licence as if qualified, fine not exceeding £50; s. 361. Qualified pilot keeping a public-house, or committing fraud on revenue, or being concerned in corrupt practices relating to any ship, &c. or lending his licence, or acting as pilot whilst suspended, or acting whilst drunk, or employing any boat, &c. to enhance pilotage expenses, or refusing to take charge of ship, or unnecessarily cutting or slipping cable, or refusing to conduct ship into port, or quitting ship before performance of service for which he was hired, or aiding or abetting in the above offences, fine not exceeding £100; s. 365. Pilot wilfully endangering ship or persons on board, same fine or imprisonment, not exceeding six months; s. 366. Wilfully refusing to do any proper act for preserving ship or life, &c. ; id. s. 366. Any person by fraud obtaining or aiding in obtaining charge of ship, fine not exceeding £100; s. 367. Pilot giving false account of earnings, or not paying money due to pilot fund, forfeits double amount payable; s. 385.

Light houses.] Wilfully injuring lighthouse, fine not exceeding £50; s. 414. Removing, &c. light-ship, &c. making fast to light-ship; id. Exhibiting false lights, fine not exceeding £100; s. 415.

Wreck and salvage] Master or mate failing to deliver certificate in inquiries respecting wrecks, &c. to J. P. when required, fine not exceeding £50, s. 438. Wilfully disobeying directions of receivers of wrecks, id. s. 441. Not complying with receiver's summons for aid of men, fine not exceeding £100; s. 442. Secreting cargo, &c. washed on shore from wreck, same penalty;

s. 443. See ante, p. 434, for offence of persons in possession of shipwrecked goods not accounting for same, or offering them for sale;] or refusing to give same to receiver, &c. ; id. Owner or occupier of land hindering any person crossing his land to assist ship in distress, fine not exceeding £100; s. 447. Impeding the recovery of cargo, &c. or preventing same from being landed; id. Owner, &c. finding wreck and not giving notice to receiver, fine not exceeding £100; s. 450. Wrongfully carrying away wreck, fine not exceeding £53; s. 478; impeding saving of wreck; id. Secreting wreck or obliterating marks thereon; id. Without leave of master endeavouring to board ship in distress; id.

Marine stores.] Marine store dealer not having name on warehouse; not keeping account of stores bought; purchasing marine stores (e) from persons under 16; cutting up cables without a permit, fineable; s. 480. Not advertising before cable cut; not producing or allowing inspection of book or other articles, fine not exceeding £20; s. 480. Manufacturer not placing marks on anchors, fine not exceeding £5; s. 482. Forging, &c. any document in proceedings relating to salvage by H. M. ships, imprisonment not exceeding 6 months; s. 496.

Merchant seamen's fund.] Forging, &c. any certificate or making use of the same, &c. to obtain pension, &c. from fund, imprisonment not exceeding 6 months; 14 & 15 Vic. c. 102, s. 55. Knowingly giving false evidence; id.

Foreign deserters.] Harbouring deserters from Portuguese vessels, fine £10; 12 & 13 Vic. c. 26, s. 2. All J.P.'s shall on application of Portuguese consul aid in apprehending such seamen or apprentices; s. 1. Harbouring deserters from foreign ships, same penalty; 15 Vic. c. 25, s. 3.

Offences relating to passenger ships.] A passenger ship signifies every description of ship carrying more than thirty passengers, &c.; see 18 & 19 Vic. c. 119, s. 4. Master not allowing emigration officer to inspect passenger ship, fine not exceeding £50; id., s. 10. Master carrying passengers on more than two decks, or carrying too many on poop, fine not exceeding £50, nor less than £30; id., s. 13. Master of sailing ship carrying too many persons on upper or lower deck, fine not exceeding £20; s. 14. Masters not signing lists before demanding clearance of ship, or not delivering to officer of customs, fine not exceeding £100 ; s. 16. Not noting date of birth, &c. of child born on voyage, or making false lists; id. Not adding additional passengers to masters' lists, or delivering same to proper officer, fine not exceeding £50; s. 17. Owner of ship, &c. going to sea without being surold metals does not apply to Ireland.

(e) The 24 & 25 Vic. c. 110, which regulates the business of dealers in

veyed, fine not exceeding £100; s. 19. Owner, &c. of passenger ship not properly constructed, fine not exceeding £50; s. 20. Where berths and deck not of sufficient space apart, or too near water closet, id.; s. 21. Where single men not berthed in separate compartments, fine not exceeding £50; s. 22. Removing berths before passengers landed, id.; s. 23. Where proper space not fitted as an hospital, or not properly fitted, id.; s. 24. Not providing proper privy, id. ; s. 25. Where insufficient provision for light and air, or ventilating apparatus or hatchway insufficient, id.; s. 26. Master of passenger ship not properly supplied with boats, or where they are not kept ready for use; or not sufficient chronometers, &c., or insufficient crew, fine not exceeding £50; ss. 27, 28. Owner, &c. of ship carrying prohibited cargo, &c., or not properly stored with water, &c., fine not exceeding £300; ss. 29, 31. Not landing provisions rejected by emigration officer, or reshipping them, fine not exceeding £100; s. 32. Not carrying water in approved tanks, &c., fine not exceeding £50; s. 32. Master not issuing provisions according to scale, or where messes of improper sizes, or not issuing provisions properly cooked; id., s. 36. Not carrying passengers' steward on board; not carrying cook, or having proper cooking places, id.; s. 89. Master of foreign ship not having interpreters on board, id.; s. 40. Not carrying medical man, fine not exceeding £100; s. 41. Master going to sea without proper medcines, or inspection of them, fine not exceeding £100; s. 44. Masters embarking persons prohibited by reason of sickness, and not relanding passengers when ship requires purifying, fine not exceeding £200; s. 35. Master not taking in fresh supply of water, putting to sea before damage repaired, or without having obtained certificate of clearance, fine not exceeding £100; s. 50. Wrongfully landing passengers, fine not exceeding £50; s. 56. Not allowing passengers sleeping on board, &c. after arrival, fine not exceeding £5; s. 57. Not posting on board abstract of act, fine not exceeding £2; s. 61. Not delivering list of passengers to emigration officer, or giving false list, fine £50; s. 100. Not issuing proper provisions to passengers, id.; s. 102.

Offences by passengers on board.] Persons found on board without consent of owner, fine £5; s. 18. Medical practioner proceeding on board without being properly supplied with instruments, fine not exceeding £100; s. 42. Passengers embarking after prohibition, or refusing to leave ship to be landed, or refusing to obey rules and regulations, or obstructing medical man, or being guilty of insubordination, &c. fine not exceeding £2; ss. 45 to 61. Selling spirits to passengers, fine not exceeding £20; s. 62. Passenger refusing to produce contract ticket to emigration officer, fine not exceeding £10; s. 74.

Offences by brokers, &c.] Acting without entering into brokers' bond, or selling passages without a licence; agent not producing appointment; fraudulently inducing persons to engage a passage; not giving contract ticket to person engaging passage; not complying with directions on ticket, fine not exceeding £50; ss. 69 to 71. Altering contract ticket, fine not exceeding £20; s. 72. Not wearing badge, &c. fine not exceeding £5; s. 75. Offences by emigrant runner; ss. 75 to 80. Passage broker not exhibiting in his office list of agents, fine not exceeding £5; s. 81.

Fradulently using certificate of exemption of mail steamer, fine not exceeding £500; s. 5. Reshipping into another passenger ship provisions, &c. fine not exceeding £100; s. 32. Breach of bye laws by any person, fine not exceeding £5, s. 82. Selling forms of application for the use of persons desiring to emigrate, fine not exceeding £50; s. 83. Not obeying directions contained in the schedule of the act, fine not exceeding £10; s. 103.

Chinese passengers.] Obstructing search, &c. of Chinese passenger ship, fine not exceeding £100; 18 & 19 Vic. c. 104, 8. 6. Masters not producing to emigrant, papers of ship, and not complying with provisions of act or regulations, or not performing contract with passengers, id.; ss. 6, 7. Doing any act whereby Chinese passenger ship is forfeited, fine not exceeding £100; s. 9.

METAL fixed to any building, &c. stealing, a felony, 24 & 25 Vic. c. 96, s. 31; from mines, stealing, felony; id., s. 38.

MILITIA. By 17 & 18 Vic. c. 107, s. 28, militia men not attending, or absenting themselves during training, are liable to a penalty not exceeding £10, or imprisonment in default for not exceeding 3 months. Inducing militia man to absent himself, or concealing or employing him, knowing the person to be improperly absent, penalty not exceeding £20; s. 30 (f). Knowingly buying, concealing, or receiving militia clothes, &c. penalty not exceeding £10, or in default of payment, imprisonment not exceeding 6 months; s. 31. 22 & 23 Vic. c. 38, amends the laws relating to the militia, and the acts therein referred to.

By this statute it is provided that any militia volunteer who, before the expiration of his engagement, enrols or offers himself in any other regiment or corps of the militia, whether by the same or by different names, shall be deemed a deserter; s. 10. If he commits the offence in the preceding section mentioned, he shall be liable to serve in such regiment or corps as if his enrol

(f) The penalties are, of course, to be recovered as provided by the Petty Sessions Act, notwithstanding

the wording of the 32nd section, which from an oversight refers to a repealed act.

ment had been lawful; and such order may be made upon any such volunteer in lieu of or in addition to any punishment awarded by court martial, or before a J.P., and every such offender shall forfeit all bounty due, and shall be subject to such stoppages as the secretary at war may direct; s. 12. Every deserter, whether his period of service has or has not determined, may be tried by court martial, or such deserter may, whenever he is apprehended as aforesaid, or within one month thereafter, be tried summarily by any justice or justices, and liable to forfeit and pay any sum not less than 40s. or more than £20, and in default committed to the common gaol or house of correction, to be imprisoned with or without hard labour for any time not less than 2 months and not exceeding 6 months, and it shall be lawful for the secretary at war to direct in which of the aforesaid modes any such deserter may be tried (g); s. 12. All penalties under this act are to be paid to the commanding officer of such regiment, corps of militia, &c. By 23 & 24 Vic. c. 94, s. 15, so much of the 12th section above mentioned as provides that it shall be lawful for the secretary at war to direct in which of the aforesaid modes a deserter is to be tried, is repealed, and it is provided that the deserter shall be tried by the J.P. having jurisdiction under the said section, unless it shall be shown to such J.P. that the secretary at war has directed the accused to be tried by court martial.

MILL, setting fire to, a felony, 24 & 25 Vic. c. 97, s. 3; riotously demolishing, a felony, id.; s. 11; destroying dam of, a misdemeanour. id.; s. 32.

which

MINES AND COLLIERIES. By 5 & 6 Vic. c. 99, is an act to prohibit the employment of women and girls in mines and collieries, to regulate the employment of boys, and to make other provisions relating to persons working therein, it is enacted that no female shall be employed in any mine or colliery; s. 1. And no male under the age of ten; s. 2. All penalties under this act to be recovered before two J. P.s; s. 17. Where there are vertical or other shafts, or steam or other engines, they are not to be put under the care of a person under the age of 15 years, under a penalty not exceeding £50, nor less than £20; s. 8. The proprietors are not to pay the wages due by them at any public house, tavern, beer shop, &c., and if so paid, wages may again be recovered; s. 10. Agents may be punished instead of the owners if they have offended without their knowledge; s. 13. Stealing, &c. ore, lead, coal, &c. or miners removing ore with intent to defraud, a felony; 24 & 25 Vic. c. 96, ss. 38, 39.

(9) The latter portion of this sec- quoted.

tion is repealed by the statute next