Navigations in Scotland, and in the Dublin Gazette in respect of Canals or Navigations in Ireland, and in some Newspaper circulating in the County or Counties wherein such Canal or Navigation, or some Part thereof, shall pass, One Month at the least previously to the Exercise of such Powers, whereupon, or immediately after the Expiration of such Notice, every such Company, and all such Commissioners, Trustees, or Lessees, Owners and Proprietors, or their respective Committees, Directors, or Managers, or their Agents by them duly authorized in manner aforesaid, may from Time to Time put in force and exercise the said Powers or any of them in the Manner by this Act authorized. served to Canal Companies and others by existing Acts of Parliament. IV. Provided always, and be it enacted, That nothing in this Saving Rights Act contained shall be deemed or construed to deprive any Canal specifically reor Navigation Company, or the Commissioners, Trustees, Undertakers, or Proprietors of any Canal, River, or Navigation, or the Owners, Lessees, or Occupiers of any Lands, Collieries, Quarries, or other Hereditaments adjoining or near to any of such Canals or Navigations, or the Overseers or Surveyors of the Roads of any Parish, Township, or Hamlet through which any such Canal or Navigation may pass, of any Powers, Rights, Privileges, Exemptions, or Advantages specifically and expressly secured to them by any existing Act of Parliament: Provided also, that where by any Canal or Navigation Act or Acts now passed the Tolls, Rates, Or Duties (whether Tolls per Mile or Tolls in gross) upon any Description of Goods, Animals, Articles, or Things, or upon any Boats, Barges, or other Vessels which shall be navigated, carried, or conveyed along any Canal or Navigation, or any Portion thereof, and which shall pass into, out of, or along any such Canal or Navigation, or any Portion thereof, from, into, or along any other Canal or Navigation, Canals or Navigations, adjoining or communicating therewith, or any Portion thereof, or from or to the Junction or Junctions with any such adjoining or communicating Canal or Navigation, Canals or Navigations, are or shall be specially fixed, determined, or limited, either absolutely, or with reference to the Tolls, Rates, or Duties to be levied or received from Time to Time on Goods, Animals, Articles, or Things, Boats, Barges, or other Vessels passing into, out of, or along such Canal or Navigation, or any Portion or Portions thereof respectively, from, into, or along any other adjoining or communicating Canal or Navigation, Canals or Navigations, or from or to the Junction or Junctions with such other adjoining or communicating Canal or Navigation, Canals or Navigations; or where in any such Act or Acts any special Enactment or Provision shall have been inserted for securing a rateable Reduction or Advance of the respective Tolls, Rates, or Duties to be levied or received from Time to Time on Goods, Animals, Articles, or Things, Boats, Barges, or other Vessels, or on Goods, Animals, Articles, or Things of the same Description, passing over, along, into, or from any Canal or Navigation, or several and distinct Portions of any Canal or Navigation, into or along Two or more adjoining or communicating Canals or Navigations, or from or to the respective Junctions of Two or more adjoining or communicating Canals or Navigations, no Alteration or Variation of the Tolls, Rates, and Duties so specially fixed, determined, or limited, or any or either of them, other Canal Companies subject to a Limitation of Profits not to raise their Dues so as to exceed the Maximum of Profits. Nothing herein to exempt any Canal, &c. from any general Act. Alteration of Act. other than such Alterations or Variations as are respectively authorized to be made under the several Acts for regulating such Canals or Navigations, shall be made under the Authority of this Act without the previous Consent in Writing of the Proprietors, Trustees, Undertakers, or Commissioners of the Canal or Navigation, or of all the several Canals or Navigations, who are expressly mentioned in such special Enactments or Provisions, or of the Committee, Directors, or Managers of the Company, Trustees, Undertakers, or Commissioners, or respective Companies, Trustees, Undertakers, or Commissioners of such Canal or Navigation, Canals or Navigations, which Consents such Companies, Trustees, Undertakers, and Commissioners, or their respective Committees, Directors, or Managers, are hereby authorized to give, either under their Common Seals respectively, or under the Hand of their respective Clerks or Secretaries, although any such Companies, Trustees, or Undertakers so consenting may not have adopted the other Powers of this Act. V. Provided also, and be it enacted, That where in any Canal or Navigation Act there shall have been inserted any special Provision, which shall be still in force and unrepealed, whereby the Amount of the annual Dividends, Interest, or Profits to be shared or divided amongst the Proprietors or Shareholders of such Canal or Navigation shall have been limited not to exceed a certain Per-centage or Amount, and the Maximum of such Percentage or Amount shall have been attained at the Time of the passing of this Act, it shall not be lawful for the Company of Proprietors, Trustees, or Undertakers of any such Canal or Navigation to avail themselves of any of the Powers of this Act for the Purpose of raising or increasing the Tonnage Rates, Tolls, or Duties which on the First Day of January immediately before the passing of this Act were charged or levied upon any Boats, Barges, or other Vessels carried upon or passing along such Canal or Navigation, or any Part thereof. VI. And be it enacted, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to exempt any Canal or Navigation Company who shall adopt the Powers of this Act from the Operation of any general Act regulating the Manner of charging Tolls and other Charges upon Canals and Navigations in respect of Passengers, Goods, Animals, Articles, and Things of a like Description, which may be passed in the course of any future Session of Parliament. VII. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of Parliament. CA P. XXIX. An Act to regulate the Labour of Children, young Persons, WHEREAS it is expedient to regulate the Labour of Chil dren, young Persons, and Women, in Print Works: 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 10 Authority Authority of the same, That this Act shall take effect from and Commenceafter the First Day of January in the Year One thousand eight ment of Act. hundred and forty-six, except any Provisions for the taking effect of which any other Time shall be herein-after specially limited; all which last-mentioned Provisions shall take effect from and after such Time as shall be herein-after specially mentioned in that Behalf. II. And be it enacted, That in this Act, unless another Sense Interpretation shall be plainly shown by the Context, or by some positive Enact- of Act. ment to the contrary, the Words "Print Work" shall be taken "Print Work:" to mean any Building or Shed, and any Part thereof, within which any Persons are employed to print Figures, Patterns, or Designs, by means of Blocks or Cylinders, or by means of any other Tool, Instrument, or Mechanism, upon any woven Fabric of Cotton, Wool, Hair, Fur, Silk, Flax, Hemp, or Jute, either separately or mixed together, or mixed with any other Material; or upon any felted Fabric of Wool or Fur, either separately or mixed with any other Material; or upon any Cotton, Linen, Woollen, Worsted, or Silken Yarn; and the Words "incidental " Incidental 7. printing Process" shall be taken to mean any Process of preparing, printing Prodyeing, bleaching, cleaning, calendering, dressing, or finishing incident or necessary to the Completion of the chief Process of printing Figures, Patterns, or Designs upon any of the aforesaid Materials, and carried on within Buildings, Sheds, Fields, or Portions of Ground lying adjacent to each other, or forming a Part or Parts of the Establishment where the chief Process of printing as aforesaid is carried on; and the Word "Child" shall be taken to mean a Child under the Age of Thirteen Years; and the "Young PerWords "young Person" shall be taken to mean a Person of the son:" cess:" "Child:" Age of Thirteen Years and under the Age of Sixteen Years; and "Parent:" the Word "Parent" shall be taken to mean Parent, Guardian, or Person having the legal Custody of any such Child; and any "Masculine Word denoting the "Masculine Gender" and "Singular Number" Gender," &c. : shall be taken to include a Female as well as a Male, and any Number of Persons; and any Person who shall work in any Print " EmployWork, whether for Wages or not, or as a Learner or otherwise, ment:" either in printing or in any incidental printing Process, or in cleaning any Part of the Print Work, or in cleaning any Block, Cylinder, Tool, or Machine used therein, or in any other Kind of Work whatsoever, save in the Cases herein-after excepted, shall be deemed to be employed therein within the Meaning of this Act; and the Word "Inspector" and "Sub-Inspector" shall be "Inspector," taken to mean respectively an Inspector and Sub-Inspector of &c.: Print Works; and the Word "Agent" shall be taken to mean any Person having on behalf of the Occupier of any Print Work the Care or Direction thereof or of any Part thereof, or of any Person employed therein; and the Word "Month" shall be taken "Month:" to mean a Calendar Month; and the Word "Day" shall be taken "Day:” to mean from Six of the Clock in the Morning until Ten of the Clock in the Evening of the same Day; and the Word "Night" shall be taken to mean from Ten of the Clock in the Evening of any one Day until Six of the Clock of the next following Morning; and any Part of such Print Work may be taken to be Exception to a Print Work within the Meaning of this Act; but this Enactment the Term shall Agent:" Night:" "Print Work." Exception in favour of Mechanics. 3&4W.4. c. 103. shall not extend to any Part of such Buildings used solely for the Purposes of a Dwelling House; and nothing in this Act contained shall extend to any Person, being a Mechanic, Artisan, or Labourer, working only in making or repairing the Machinery or any Part of the Print Work. Inspectors and III. And be it enacted, That the Inspectors and Sub-Inspectors Sub-Inspectors. of Factories appointed or to be appointed by virtue of an Act passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, intituled An Act to regulate the Labour of Children and young Persons in the Mills and Factories of the United Kingdom, and of another Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of Her 7 & 8 Vict. c. 15. Majesty, intituled An Act to amend the Laws relating to Labour in Factories, shall respectively be Inspectors and Sub-Inspectors for carrying into effect the Powers, Authorities, and Provisions of this Act. Power of IV. And be it enacted, That every Inspector and Sub-Inspector Inspectors and shall have Power to enter every Part of any Print Work at any Sub-Inspectors. Time, by Day or by Night, when any Person shall be employed therein, and to enter by Day any Place which he shall have Reason to believe to be a Print Work, and to enter any School in which Children employed in Print Works are educated, and at all Times to take with him into any Print Work the certifying Surgeons of the District herein-after mentioned, and any Constable or other Peace Officer whom he may need to assist him, and shall have Power to examine, either alone or in the Presence of any other Person, as he shall think fit, every Person whom he shall find in a Print Work or in such a School, or whom he shall have Reason to believe to be or to have been employed in a Print Work within Twelve Months next preceding the Time when he shall require him to be examined touching any Matter within the Provisions of this Act; and the Inspector or Sub-Inspector may, if he shall see fit, require such Person to make and sign a Declara tion of the Truth of the Matters respecting which he shall have been or shall be so examined; and every Inspector and SubInspector shall have Power to examine the Registers, Certificates, Notices, and other Documents kept in pursuance of this Act; and every Person who shall refuse to be examined as aforesaid, or who shall refuse to sign his Name or affix his Mark to a Declaration of the Truth of the Matters respecting which he shall have been examined, or who shall in any Manner attempt to conceal or otherwise prevent any Child or other Person from appearing before or being examined by an Inspector Inspector, or who shall prevent or knowingly delay the Admission of an Inspector or Sub-Inspector to any Part of a Print Work or School, or shall prevent an Inspector or Sub-Inspector from examining any Register, Certificate, Notice, or other Document kept in pursuance of this Act, shall be deemed guilty of wilfully obstructing the Inspector or Sub-Inspector in the Execution of the Inspectors to report. Powers intrusted to him. or Sub V. And be it enacted, That every Inspector shall keep full Minutes of all his Visits and Proceedings, and shall report the same to One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State twice in every Year, and oftener if required, and shall report the State and Condition of the Print Works, and of the Persons employed therein therein whose Labour is regulated by this Act, and whether such Print Works are conducted according to the Provisions of this Act. connected VI. And be it enacted, That every Person carrying on Business Owners of Print at any Print Work shall, within One Month next after the passing Works to send of this Act, or within One Month after beginning to carry on such Particulars Business, send a written Notice, addressed to the Office of the therewith to Factory Inspectors, London, containing the Name of such Print Inspectors of Work, together with the Place, Township, or Parish, and County, Factories. where the same is situated, the Post Town to which he desires his Letters to be addressed, the Nature of the Work, and the Name of the Firm under which such Business is or is to be carried on. VII. And be it enacted, That the certifying Surgeons appointed Appointment or to be appointed by virtue of the said Act of the Seventh Year of certifying of the Reign of Her Majesty shall be certifying Surgeons for Surgeons. carrying into effect the Powers, Authorities, and Provisions of this Act. VIII. And be it enacted, That the Certificates of Age required Form of Surby this Act, herein called Surgical Certificates, shall be given gical Certificate. according to the Form and Directions contained in the Schedule (A.) annexed to this Act; and the Name of every Person for whom a Surgical Certificate is required by this Act, and the Date of the First Day of Employment or Re-employment of such Person, shall be registered in the Form and according to the Directions given in the Schedule (B.) annexed to this Act, before it shall be lawful to employ such Person in a Print Work. IX. And be it enacted, That no such Surgical Certificate given Certificates not by any Person who is not an appointed certifying Surgeon shall be given by cerof any Force unless it is given by a Person duly authorized by an tifying Surgeon University or College, or other public Body having Authority in must be by Persons duly that Behalf to practise Surgery or Medicine, and countersigned, authorized, and according to the Form and Directions given in the Schedule (A.) countersigned to this Act annexed, by some Justice of the Peace, not being the by a Magistrate. Occupier of a Print Work, and not being the Father, Son, or Brother of the Occupier of a Print Work; and no Person shall countersign any such Surgical Certificate in the Absence of the Person named therein, or without Proof that the Person brought before him is the same to whom the Certificate was granted. Print Work. X. And be it enacted, That no Person shall grant any Surgical Surgical CerCertificate required by this Act, except upon personal Inspection tificates to be of the Person named therein; and no certifying Surgeon shall given at the examine any Person for the Purposes of this Act, or sign or issue any such Surgical Certificate, elsewhere than at the Print Work where such Person is to be employed, unless for special Cause, to be allowed by an Inspector; and if a certifying Surgeon shall refuse to grant a Certificate of Age to any Person presented to him for such Examination, he shall give, when required, instead of such Certificate, a Paper specifying under his Hand the Reasons for such Refusal, in the Form and Directions given in the Schedule (A.) to this Act annexed. XI. And be it enacted, That if the Occupier of a Print Work Agreement shall agree in Writing with the certifying Surgeon of a District between Occufor the Payment to be made by the Occupier of the Print Work pier of a Print to the certifying Surgeon for the Examination of Persons for whom Surgical Certificates are required by this Act, and if the tifying Surgeon. Terms Work and cer |