" Registry. Coasts of the United Kingdom or of the British Possessions abroad, and not proceeding over Sea, except within the Limits of the respective Colonial Governments within which the managing Owners of such Vessels respectively reside; and that all Boats or Vessels wholly owned and navigated by British Subs jects, not exceeding the Burthen of Thirty Tons, and not having a whole or fixed Deck, and being employed solely in fishing on the Banks and Shores of Newfoundland and of the Parts adjacent, or on the Banks and Shores of the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, or New Brunswick adjacent to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, or on the North of Cape Canso, or of the Islands within the same, or in trading Coastwise within the said Limits, shall be admitted to be British Boats or Vessels, although not regis tered, so long as such Boats or Vessels shall be solely so employed.' Act to take effect on 1st Jan. 1850. Act may be amended, &c. Power to Constables to search suspected Houses for Sheep, &c. supposed to have. been stolen, and apprehend Parties, &c. * 1 XXI. And be it enacted, That this Act shall come into operation on the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and fifty. ↑ XXII. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in the present Session of Parliament. וי CAP XXX...... 1 An Act for the better Preservation of Sheep, and more that casses, &c. not that he may be brought forward for Trial at the next Court of Petty, Sessions, unless he enter into such Bail, with One or more solvent or sufficient Securities, as may be required for his Appearance before such Court; and if such Person so Penalty on apprehended, after Proof upon Oath of such finding of such Persons appreCarcass, Mutton, Mutton Fat, Skin, or Fleece, as aforesaid, hended if Carshall not satisfy the Justices sitting at Petty Sessions that he proved to have came lawfully thereby, he shall be held guilty of a Misdemeanor, been lawfully and shall forfeit and pay any Sum, not exceeding Five Pounds, come by. which to such Justices shall seem fit, together with the Charges previous to and attending his Conviction, which such Justices are hereby authorized to award; and upon Nonpayment thereof, On Nonpayeither immediately after the Conviction or within such Period ment of Penalty, as such Justices at the Time of such Conviction shall appoint, Time therein (which they are hereby empowered to appoint,) such Justices specified. Committal for shall commit such Offender to the Common Gaol or House of Correction of the County in which such Offence shall have been committed, by Warrant under their Hands and Seals, there to remain without Bail or Mainprize, with or without hard Labour, as the said Justices may see fit, for any Time not exceeding Three Calendar Months, unless the Penalty and such Charges, if so awarded, shall be sooner paid; such pecu Application of niary Penalty to be divided, by the Justices before whom such Penalty. Conviction has been made, into equal Portions, one Portion to be given to the nearest Dispensary, and the other to be paid and applied according to the Provisions of an Act passed in the Session held in the First and Second Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for the more effectual levying 1&2 Vict. c. 99. of Fines, Penalties, Issues, Deodands, and Amerciaments, and of forfeited Recognizances estreated, in Ireland, and for the Application and Distribution thereof, or of any Act or Acts amend ing the said Act 1 II. Provided always, and be it enacted, That if the Justices If Case appears before whom such Person shall be so brought or shall so appear fit for Indictment for Feshall find the Evidence given against such Person before such lony, Justice Justices to be such that in the Opinion of such Justices the to abstain from Case is one in which there ought to be a Prosecution by Indict, adjudicating in ment for Felony, it shall be lawful for such Justices to abstain a summary Way. from adjudicating in a summary Manner thereon, and to deal with the Case as one to be prosecuted at the Assizes or Quarter Sessions. Act not to be proceeded against a Se ed under this III. And be it enacted, That in case any Person convicted Parties punish. under this Act shall have paid the Sum adjudged to be paid, together with Costs, if awarded under such Conviction, or shall have received a Remission thereof from the Crown, or shall have suffered the Imprisonment awarded for Nonpayment thereof, in every such Case he shall be released from all further or other Proceedings for the same Cause. cond Time for same Offence. IV. Provided always, and be it enacted, That the Prosecu- Limitation of tion for every Offence punishable on summary Conviction by Prosecution. virtue of this Act shall be commenced within Two Months after the Commitment of the Offence, and not otherwise. Interpretation of Terms. Act may be amended, &c. V. And be it enacted, That in the Construction of this Act every Word importing the Singular Number only shall extend and be applied to several Persons or Things as well as one Person or Thing; and every Word importing the Masculine Gender only shall extend and be applied to a Female as well as a Male; and the Word " County" shall extend to and include County of a City, County of a Town or City, or Town and County. VI. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this Session of Parliament. CAP. XXXI. An Act for requiring the Transmission of the annual [26th June 1849.] WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Session of Par liament holden in the First and Second Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled 1&2W.4.c.49. An Act for amending and making more effectual the Laws concerning Turnpike Roads in Scotland, by which it was enacted, that the Trustees of every Turnpike Road should and they were thereby required, either by themselves or some Committee of their Number, annually to examine the Vouchers and audit and settle the Accounts of the respective Clerks and Treasurers appointed by them, and to examine into the State of the Revenues and Debts, distinguishing bonded from floating Debts, of the several Roads for which they should act as Trustees, and to make up Abstracts of such Accounts, *** which Abstracts should contain a Statement of the Revenues and Debts of the Trust, and also an Account of all Bonds 'given by the Trustees, and the Dates thereof, and which said Abstracts of Accounts and Statements should be signed by not less than Three of the Trustees; and it is expedient that such "annual Accounts and Statements, and also similar annual "Accounts and Statements of Bridge Trusts, should be trans"mitted to One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for the Purpose of being revised and afterwards laid before both Houses of Parliament: 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 Clerks of Road the same, That the several and respective Clerks to such Trustees, by whom or by whose Committees such Abstracts of Accounts and Statements of Revenues and Debts of the respective Turnpike Trusts under the Charge of such Trustees are directed to be made and signed as aforesaid, and also the several and respective Clerks to the Trustees acting under any Act or Acts of Parliament for building or maintaining any Bridge in Scotland, shall, on or before the First Day of Octo Trusts, &c. to transmit to Secretary of State Abstracts of Accounts and Statements of Revenues and Debts. ber ber/One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, transmit to One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State Abstracts and Statements made up and signed as in the said recited Act prescribed, and according to the Form contained in the Schedule (A.) annexed to this Act, or as nearly in the said Form as Circumstances will permit, for the Period of a Year preceding the Term of Whitsunday One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and shall in like Manner upon the First Day of October in all future Years transmit to One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State the like Abstracts and Statements made up and signed in the Manner directed by the said recited Act, and in the Form of the said Schedule (A.), or as nearly in the said Form as Circumstances will permit, for the Year ending at the preceding Term of Whitsunday; and if any Clerk to such Trustees shall refuse or neglect to transmit such annual Abstracts and Statements within the Time herein-before prescribed, then and in every such Case every Clerk so offending shall for every such Offence forfeit and pay any Sum not exceeding Ten Pounds nor less than Five Pounds, at the Discretion of the Sheriff of the County within which the larger Proportion of the Turnpike Roads comprehended within such Turnpike Trust are situated or within which such Clerk resides. Abstracts to be 1 II. And be it enacted, That the Secretary of State to whom Secretary of such annual Abstracts and Statements shall be transmitted State to cause shall cause the same to be revised, abstracted, and arranged, and laid before laid before both Houses of Parliament, together with any Ob- Parliament. servations which he may think proper to make respecting the State, Condition, and Repair of the Roads and Bridges or any of them, or respecting the Debts, Revenues, Expenditure, and Management of any such Turnpike and Bridge Trusts. amended Clerk Particulars to State. III. And be it enacted, That when and as often as the Trus- If Road Acts tees of any Turnpike Road or Bridge shall have entered into proposed to be a Resolution to apply to Parliament for any new Turnpike to transmit ReRoad or Bridge Act, or for the Continuation of the Term solution and and Powers of the Act under which any Turnpike Road or Bridge is regulated, or for the Alteration or Enlargement of the Powers and Provisions of such Act, or any of them, or for an Alteration of the Tolls or Pontages to be levied on such Turnpike Road or Bridge, the Clerk of such Trustees shall immediately thereupon transmit a Copy of such Resolution to One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, together with a Copy of any special Clauses proposed to be inserted in the intended Act, and also a Statement of the Alteration of Tolls or Pontages intended to be made. IV. And be it enacted, That the Penalties hereby imposed Penalties how shall be recovered and applied in such and the like Manner as to be recovered the Penalties imposed by the said recited Act are directed to be recovered and applied. and applied. V. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or Act may be repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of amended, &c. Parliament. SCHE SCHEDULE (A.) GENERAL STATEMENT of the INCOME and EXPENDITURE of the TURNPIKE [or BRIDGE] TRUST in the County of between the Term of Whitsunday and the INCOME. Term of Whitsunday Balance in Treasurer's Hands brought forward Revenue received from Tolls Revenue from Fines from inciden. tal Receipt Amount of Money borrowed on the Secu⚫ rity of the Tolls |