June last, and the judges unanimously set aside the the repeal of the corn laws) has raised the price of verdict, and granted a new trial. It was a specialty land most materially, and the system now so generally of the case that the purchasers of the meal knew that adopted by the larger landowners, of setting up their the tenants' rent was not paid, and so were not intended still more to raise rents-some landlords takfarms to competition, or, in short, to auction, has bona fides in making the purchase. The question raised ing the highest rent offered without much scrutiny in the case did not therefore come up pure-that into the character or ability of the tenant. If the question being whether meal, a product of the grain tenant's capital is limited, his power of pledging the grown on the farm, was liable to the hypothec; as if produce of his farm is almost entirely restricted. If, so, another product, however remote apparently from after a certain time, he could pledge or dispose of his the native grain, would be so to. Whisky, for in- crop or stock, and so tide over a difficulty, he might be able to retrieve himself, and carry on his operastance, would, it was argued, under the rule attempted tions beneficially to himself as well as his landlord. to be established, be also liable to the landlord's But he cannot do this. His landlord steps in, and hypothec. The case for the defenders was that a new by the rough and expensive process of sequestration product from the grain, made by the tenants, carried sweeps away all he has, as well as his character and off the farm by them, and sold in bulk, it mattered not standing as a farmer. where for it was not seriously maintained that the defenders' stores were a public market-was not subject to the landlord's hypothec. This is certainly a new point in the law of hypothec; and it was against the apparent hardship of a bona fide purchaser being subject to restitution or double payment that the meetings we have referred to were held. ant. years As regards the landlord. It is very natural that the law as it now stands should have been supported by the landed proprietors. It is a most beneficial law to them, and saves them from much inquiry about the character and solvency of any new tenWhatever the tenant's character may be, if he farms, even decently, the rent is always safe; and as farms are now generally let and worked on the strictest commercial principles, the highest bidder in general obtains the farm. One unfortunate result is, that though a high nominal rent is obtained, in numbers of instances the Gazette is reached by the unfortunate tenant in a few after obtaining his new lease, from the effects of high rents, and, it may be, bad harvests. But even bankruptcy does not alarm the landlord, because, by a special clause in the present Bankruptcy Act, the landlord's right of hypothec is preserved from the levelling effect that Act exercises over all other creditors. The landlord, therefore, exacts or accepts a rack-rent irrespective of the tenant's circumstances, and may be altogether heedless whether in the end the tenant prove profitable either to himself or his landlord. This is an evil for which some remedy should be sought; and we think some definite limitation to the exercise of the right would in some measure assist in checking the carelessness of landlords and the recklessness of tenants. The law of England, we understand, limits the landlord's claim for his rent to one year, and for that he must do diligence. We think some such restriction would work beneficially for both landlord, tenant, and purchaser. As regards the tenant. The competition for farms which has existed for some years (particularly since As regards the public. This is the chief grievance, and the one which has roused public feeling so highly; and it must be confessed the complainers have good grounds for many of their complaints. No precise time has been laid down where the right of hypothec expires; practically, it lasts as long as the grain is in existence-in one case the right was exercised after thirteen years. The only safety seems to be that the grain is sold in bulk and in open market; but as times have changed in the modes of doing business, as a rule grain is now never sold in bulk in open market. The landlord may therefore follow the grain ground by his tenant for the rent of the year wherever he can find it, however fair and honest the sale may have been on the part of the purchaser. The question of a purchaser who has tenant is in difficulties, we need not be in doubt about any suspicion would be, Is your rent paid? but if the the answer. Then what protection does an affirmative answer give which is untrue?-none whatever. The manifest injury which such a state of matters does to trading, as between farmers and the public, must be obvious; and, on the whole, we trust that the Commission about to be issued may lead to some legislative measure just alike to the landlord, the tenant, and the public. STATUTE LAW OF THE LATE SESSION. MANY bills were introduced during the last session of Parliament, but from several causes they did not reach the maturity of Acts. The mode in which Scottish Parliamentary business was conducted was made a party question, and the ground for attack on the ministry, through Mr Moncrieff, the Lord Advocate. business is conducted can fairly deny that it might be No one who attends to the manner in which Scottish greatly improved; but as improvement was not the issue before the House of Commons, nobody cared for the motion or the eloquence of the members for Ayr and Dumbarton. The office of Lord Advocate has always been understood to be a profitless one, the salary not nearly covering the loss of fees in Edinburgh, and the expense of travelling and living in London. That the business is done by the present Lord Advocate as well as by the most eminent of his predecessors, is generally admitted; but the question is, could it not be something better done by some other official? and that is a question which will never be satisfactorily settled so long as it is made a mere theme for declamation and party attacks. The Acts which have been passed affecting the law of Scotland are not many in number, nor of much importance; but we mean in this, and perhaps a succeeding number, to give a summary of them, and such as may seem of sufficient importance we shall print at length. 27° AND 28° VICTORIA, CAP. 30. AN ACT to provide for the alteration of the Circuits of the Court of Justiciary in Scotland, and for holding additional Circuit Courts (23d June, 1864). "Whereas it is expedient to make provision for altering the Circuits of the Court of Justiciary in Scotland:" 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 authority of the same, as follows: Power to Her Majesty in council to alter Circuits of Justiciary in Scotland. 1. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty in council, from time to time as Her Majesty in council may think fit, to alter the Circuits of the Court of Justiciary in Scotland, or any of them, to form new Circuits, to fix and determine the limits of each existing or new Circuit, and the counties, or portions of counties, cities or burghs, and districts, which shall be included within the same, to detach any county or portion of a county from any Circuit, and to include the same in any other existing or new Circuit; and also to fix and determine the places at which the Circuit Courts shall be held within each such Circuit, and to alter such places, provided always that Circuit Courts shall continue to be held at such towns as are appointed for keeping and holding Circuit Courts by an Act of the Parliament of Scotland, number forty, made in the year one thousand six hundred and seventytwo, intituled, An Act concerning the regulation of Indicatories, and an Act passed in the twentieth year of His Majesty King George the Second, chapter forty-three, intituled, An Act for taking away and abolishing the Heritable Jurisdictions in Scotland. Orders in council to be published, and date of taking effect. 2. Every Order to be made by Her Majesty in council in pursuance of this Act shall be published in such manner as Her Majesty in council may direct, and shall take effect from the date thereof, or from such other date as may be specified therein; provided always that before any such Order shall be made for altering the present arrangement, notice thereof shall be published in the Edinburgh Gazette at least three months previously, and an opportunity given to be heard thereon to the LordLieutenants, the Sheriffs, Justices of Peace, Commissioners of Supply, and the Magistrates of burghs of the counties to be affected by the proposed change. Power to Court of Justiciary to make Orders and Regulations. 3. It shall be lawful for the Judges of the Court of Justiciary, and they are hereby required, from time to time to make such Orders and Regulations, and to pass such Acts of adjournal as may be necessary for carrying into effect the provisions of this Act, and of any Order to be made by Her Majesty in council in pursuance thereof. We would not like to seem wise above our neighbours-especially our official neighbours-but we would respectfully ask what was the use of such an Act as this? The very power here given to Her Majesty in council was possessed by the Sovereign before it became law. The Act for the abolition of heritable jurisdictions, 20 Geo. II., cap. 43, passed soon after the rebellion of 1745, specially empowered His Majesty to make new divisions and distribution of the Circuits by an order of the Privy Council. When such power was already possessed, it is inconceivable why the statute book should be loaded with another Act which seems to confer the same power which the Crown formerly possessed; and the 20 Geo. II. stands unrepealed. We much wonder the sharp folks of Greenock, who wanted their town made a circuit town, but who, it appeared, were disappointed, from the alleged want of power in the Crown, did not remember or discover the Heritable Jurisdiction Act, and attain their object sooner. CAP. 33. AN ACT to facilitate the commutation and sale of certain 2. Interpretation clause. 3. Repeals that part of 1690, c. 30, which prohibited the sale of Vicarage Teinds on Fish, which had been possessed by ministers for their stipends. 4. The minister, Presbytery, and parties liable in payment of the Fish Teinds, may make agreements for their commutation or redemption, and to substitute a capital sum to be raised and invested. 5. Any ten persons liable to pay Fish Teind may apply to the Sheriff to call a meeting of the whole parties in the parish liable to pay, to consider as to the commutation of the Teinds. 6. A roll of parties liable, to be made up; and 7. Meeting of parties named in the roll to be called by the Sheriff, and the vote of the majority to bind the minority. 8. The majority of the meeting may resolve to approve of deed of agreement, or it may resolve to enter into a deed of submission, and to elect three of their number to sign such deed, and their subscription to bind all who are liable in all time coming. If one of the three so elected to sign shall be unable, the subscriptions of the remaining two shall be valid and binding. to one sole arbiter, and the minister, the Presbytery, and 9. The meeting may resolve to enter into a submission the three elected subscribers, to be the parties; the minister, the Presbytery, and the three persons, to have one vote, that is, three votes in all. their moderator and clerk, with the authority of the 10. The Presbytery to be bound by the signature of Presbytery. decern for a capital sum and for expenses, and his decree 11. General clause empowering arbiter to act and to be binding on all parties. 12. At the end of three weeks the arbiter's award or deed of agreement to be recorded in the Sheriff-Clerk's books. 13. The capital sum paid to be raised by the parties liable in Fish Teind resident in the parish, and under the direction of the Sheriff and procurator of the church, be invested in approved heritable security, in the names of the moderator and clerk of the Presbytery and the procurator of the church, and their successors in office as trustees. 14. Where capital sum raised and invested, Fish Teinds to cease to be collected and paid. Fish Teind have entered into a submission for their com15. Where minister, Presbytery, and parties liable in mutation, before the passing of this Act, the awards of the arbiter shall be binding on all parties. THE history of an Act of Parliament, from its first conception-passing through the hands of the draftsman, the Lord Advocate, the Chairmen of Committees, the Committee of the Houses-till the royal sceptre has touched it, or the antique Norman-French pronounced over it, would in many cases be as curious as instructive; and most assuredly no Act regarding Scotland, at least passed this Session, has such a peculiar history as the Summary Procedure Act. Those who know anything of it, know that, as a Bill, it was introduced into the House of Commons very much in the state it now appears as an Act, but between its first reading and its committal, about fifteen clauses were introduced, substituting a totally novel mode of appealing in every case brought under the bill. This at one sweep cut away every mode of appeal which at present exists, substituting a stated case to the Court of Session or Justiciary Court. It was said, how truly we know not, that this was another attempt by the Edinburgh bar to draw business thitherward. But whether or not, it was felt by many to be an unwarrantable interference with a mode of appeal with which the country seemed well satisfied, because it was near at hand, cheap, and speedy. Means were therefore adopted in various parts of the country, but more especially in Glasgow, whereby these obnoxious appeal clauses were struck out in Committee, but this was only attained after a great amount of resolute perseverance and watchfulness, and great expense; and more than once these labours seemed to have been on the point of being thrown away, by the strong and interested influence near, and brought to bear on, the Advocate. The secret of all this determination in the advisers or influencers of the Lord Advocate may not be known to many, and it may now be of no importance to find it out, but it could be no common motive which nearly defeated every contrary influence brought against it. The practical lesson to be learned from the history of this Bill, which we have here only indicated, is— that influences exist in Edinburgh to accomplish certain objects in which the country generally does not acquiesce; and that unless the country is watchful and vigilant, Edinburgh will sooner or later carry its object, regardless of the opinion and interests of the country. The importance of this measure, as now passed, induces us to give it in full, with all its forms and schedules: ACT. An Act to make Provision for uniformity of Process in summary Criminal Prosecutions and Prosecutions for Penalties in the Inferior Courts in Scotland.-[20th July, 1864.] WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, intituled An Act to authorize additional Circuit Courts of Justiciary to be held, and to facilitate Criminal Trials in Scotland, Provision was made for the summary Prosecution of Offences before Sheriffs of Counties in certain Cases; which Act was amended by an Act passed in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth and the First Year of the Reign of King William the Fourth, intituled An Act to amend an Act of the Ninth Year of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, to facilitate Criminal Trials in Scotland, and to abridge the Period now required between the pronouncing of Sentence and Execution thereof, in Cases importing a Capital Punishment: And whereas by an Act passed in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for amending the Procedure before Magistrates and Justices of Peace in Scotland, the Provisions of the recited Acts with respect to Summary Prosecutions were in certain Cases made applicable to Prosecutions before Justices of the Peace in Scotland: And whereas by an Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of King William the Fourth and the First Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for the more effectual Recovery of Small Debts in the Sheriff Conrts, and for regulating the Establishment of Circuit Courts for the Trial of Small Debt Causes by the Sheriffs in Scotland, Provision was made for the Recovery of statutory Penalties by way of Action in the Sheriff Court in certain Cases: And whereas it is expedient to make further and more effectual Provision for the Trial of Offences punishable on Summary Conviction, and for the Summary Recovery of Penalties in the Inferior Courts in Scotland: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present same, as follows: I. This Act may be cited for all Purposes as "The Summary Procedure Act, 1864." Meanings hereby assigned to them, unless such MeanII. The following Words in this Act shall have the ings shall be excluded by the Subject or Context: "Act of Parliament" and "Act" shall mean any Public General or Local and Personal Act of Parliament now in force or hereafter to be passed: I "Court" shall mean any Sheriff Court or Burgh Court, or any Court of Justices of the Peace for any County or City in Scotland, whether in Quarter or Petty Session, any Police Court having Jurisdiction, or any Sheriff, Magistrate of any Burgh, or Justice or Justices of the Peace for any County or City in Scotland, exercising Jurisdiction, under the Authority of any Act of Parliament, in any Matter which may lawfully be brought before him or them in the Manner provided by this Act: "Judge" shall mean any Sheriff, or any Magistrate of any Burgh, or any Justice of the Peace, whether acting alone or in conjunction with any other Justice or Justices of the Peace for the same County or City in Scotland: "Magistrate" shall mean any Magistrate of any Burgh in Scotland having Jurisdiction: "Sheriff" shall include Sheriff-Substitute: "Justice" shall mean any of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for any County or City in Scotland acting within such County or City: "Clerk of Court" shall include Depute-Clerk or other Person acting as such: "Witness" shall include Haver: "Oath" shall include Affirmation in Cases where Affirmations may lawfully be taken in place of Oaths: "Penalty" shall mean any Sum of Money which may, under the Authority of any Act of Parliament, be recoverable from any Person in respect of the Contravention of any statutory Requirement or Prohibition, and also any Sum which may, under the Provision of any Act of Parliament, be recoverable as a Penalty or Forfeiture, whether such Sum shall be payable to the Party complaining, prosecuting, or suing for the same, or shall be payable in whole or in part to any other Person, or be applicable to any other Use, and whether the Amount thereof is fixed by such statutory Frovision, or is so fixed subject to a Power to modify or mitigate, or is in the Nature of a Penalty not exceeding a certain Sum, to be awarded by the Court or Judge who may take cognisance thereof: "Administrators of Police" shall mean any Commissioners, Town Council, or other Body having the Charge or Management of the Police of a Town under the Powers created by any Act of Parliament. III. The Provisions of this Act may be applied to(1.) All Proceedings before any Sheriff, Justices or Justice, or Magistrate in Scotland in virtue of the summary Jurisdiction conferred upon them, or any of them, in relation to the Trial of Offences and Recovery of Penalties, by the recited Acts, or any of them: (2.) All Proceedings to be taken before any Sheriff, Justices or Justice, or Magistrate in Scotland for the Prosecution of any Person who has committed, or is charged with having committed, any Offence or Act for which, under the Provisions of any Act of Parliament, he is liable, upon Summary Conviction before any Sheriff, Magistrate, Justices or Justice, to be imprisoned or fined, or otherwise punished, or to be ordered to do or perform any Act, and to be imprisoned in default of Performance: (3.) All Proceedings for the Recovery of any Penalty, or Sum of Money in the Nature of a Penalty, which, under the Provisions of any Act of Parliament, may be recovered by summary Complaint or Information, or by Poinding or Distress and Sale, or other summary Process or Diligence of the like Nature, before any Sheriff, Justices or Justice, or Magistrate: (4.) All Proceedings for the Trial or Prosecution for any Offence, or for the Recovery of any Penalty, under any Act of Parliament by which it shall be provided that Offences committed in contravention thereof or Penalties thereby imposed shall be prosecuted or recovered under the Provisions of this Act. IV. All Proceedings for summary Conviction for any Offence, whether at Common Law or under any Act of Parliament, and all Proceedings for the Recovery of any Penalty which may be sued for or recovered in a summary Form, whether such Proceedings are at the Instance of a public or private Prosecutor or Complainer, may be instituted by way of Complaint in one or other of the Forms set forth in the Schedule (A.) to this Act annexed; and it shall not be necessary to mention in any Complaint any Act of Parliament other than the Act declaring the Offence for which a Conviction is sought, or imposing the Penalty or Forfeiture which is claimed; and it shall be sufficient to refer to the Act or Section of the Act founded on, without setting forth the Enactment in Words at Length; and where it is necessary that any such Complaint should be made upon Oath of the Complainer, or of a credible Witness, such Oath may be in the Form of Schedule (B.) to this Act annexed; and all Penalties for the Recovery of which in Scotland no Special Provision has been made by Act of Parliament may be sued for by the Procurator Fiscal of the Jurisdiction. V. No Objection shall be allowed by the Court to any Complaint under this Act for any alleged Defect therein in Substance or in Form, or for any Variance between any such Complaint and the Evidence adduced on the Part of the Prosecutor or Complainer at the Hearing thereof, not changing the Character of the Offence charged; but if any such Objection or Variance shall appear to the Court to be such that the Respondent has been thereby deceived or misled, it shall be lawful for the Court to adjourn the Hearing to some future Day, and at the same Time, or at any Stage of the Proceedings, to direct such Amendment to be made upon the Complaint as may appear to be requisite, not changing the Character of the Offence, and such Amendment shall be authenticated by the Signature or Initials of the Judge or Clerk of Court. VI. On such Complaint being laid before the Court it shall be lawful for the Court to grant Warrant to cite the Respondent, by delivering a Copy of the Complaint with Warrant of Citation to him personally, or, if he cannot on Search be found personally, leaving such Copy at his usual Place of Abode, to appear before the Court on Induciæ of not less than Forty-eight Hours, or (where Apprehension is competent) to grant a Warrant for the Apprehension and interim Detention of the Respondent: Provided that where the Complaint shall pray for a Warrant of Apprehension, the Court may in its Discretion grant, in place of such Warrant, a Warrant for the Citation of the Respondent as aforesaid; and it shall be lawful to annex to such Warrant of Citation or Apprehension, a Warrant to cite Witnesses and Havers for both Parties, and also (where such procedure is otherwise competent) a Warrant to search for, seize, remove, and secure all Goods, Documents, or other Articles mentioned or referred to in the Complaint. VII. If the Respondent after being cited shall fail to appear at the Time and Place mentioned in the Warrant of Citation, it shall be lawful for the Court, upon Proof that the Respondent has been duly cited, to issue a Warrant in the Second Instance for his Apprehension and interim Detention, or the Court may adjourn the Hearing to a future Diet, with Liberty to the Respondent to appear at such adjourned Diet, and may in its Discretion appoint Intimation of such adjourned Diet to be made to the Respondent; and in Cases where the Complaint concludes for a pecuniary Penalty only in the First Instance, or where the Act of Parliament founded on authorizes Procedure without the Presence of the Respondent, the Court may, without adjourning, proceed to hear and dispose of the Complaint in the Absence of the Respondent. VIII. Every Warrant granted under the Authority of this Act for the Citation or Apprehension of a Respondent, or for the Citation of Witnesses, or for the Apprehension of a Witness, as herein-after provided, may be lawfully and competently executed at any Place within the County in which it is granted, and that either by an Officer of the Court or Magistrate granting the Warrant, or by a Constable acting under the Authority of any Act of Parliament, although addressed to Officers of the Court issuing the Warrant, and at any Place within Scotland by any Constable or other Officer of the Law, or by an Officer of the Court or Magistrate granting the same; and all such Warrants and Citations may be in the Forms contained in the Schedules (C.), (D.), (E.), and (F.) to this Act annexed. IX. The Provisions of the second-recited Act relative to the Execution of Sentences and of Decrees for Penalties and Expenses beyond the Jurisdiction of the Court or Judge by whom the same have been granted, shall be applicable to the Execution of Convictions and Judgments pronounced under the Authority of this Act; and the Provisions contained in an Act passed in the Eleventh and Twelfth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to facilitate the Performance of the Duties of Justices of the Peace out of Sessions within England and Wales with respect to Persons charged with indictable Offences, for the Enforcement of Warrants granted by Sheriffs and Justices in Scotland by Endorsation in England and Ireland, shall be applicable to Warrants granted by Magistrates of Burghs in Scotland; and the said Provisions are also hereby extended and made applicable to all Warrants issued in Scotland under the Authority of this Act. X. If any Person cited as a Witness by a Warrant under the Authority of this Act shall neglect or refuse to appear at the Time and Place appointed by the Warrant, and no just Excuse shall be offered in his Behalf, it shall be lawful for the Court before whom such Person has been cited to appear to issue a Warrant for his Apprehension; or, if the Court shall be satisfied by Evidence upon Oath that it is probable that such Person will not attend without being compelled so to do, it shall be lawful for the Court to issue a Warrant in the first instance for the Apprehension of such Person; and any Witness who shall wilfully fail to attend after being duly cited, or who shall refuse to be sworn or to be examined on Affirmation, or who after the Oath or Affirmation has been administered to him shall refuse to answer any Question which the Court shall allow, or to produce Documents in his Possession when required by the Court, may be summarily punished for his Contempt by Imprisonment or Fine, such Punishment not exceeding that which the Court would be entitled to award in case of Conviction upon the Complaint. (To be continued.) An first noticeable point in the Bill is that all Complaints are to be tried by the Sheriff, and not by the Justices, as at present. We are doubtful if this is a desirable change for the workmen themselves. equitable tribunal, rather than a technical legal one, is more suited, as it seems to us, for the disposal of disputes between masters and workmen. The great difficulty felt in adjudicating on breaches of contract between masters and workmen is, that on a breach being proved against a workman, he has generally no means from which to satisfy his breach except the punishment of his person. Masters are generally monied persons, and can make up any default by a payment. The moral inequality of these modes of compensation has long ago struck Judges and Magistrates, but the great difficulty This Bill proposes has been to find any substitute. one; but we have great doubts if it will be found adequate to its purpose. Damages are proposed to be awarded against a workman in place of imprisonment. In very many cases such a decree will be of no avail, as there is nothing on which to recover damages, and if the sum assessed be above £8 6s 8d, and the workman imprisoned, he must be maintained by his master, which is only an additional loss to him, but is of no avail as a deterrent, at least it is just a return to the present mode of compensation, against which chiefly this Bill has been introduced, the only difference being the character in which the defaulter has been imprisoned. At present he is considered and treated as a criminal; under the Bill he will only be a debtor. We have no substitute to propose ourselves, but before such a change of the law be made as the Bill proposes, the promoters should endeavour to substitute some other mode of enforcing civil contracts as against workmen. The 9th clause is now rendered unnecessary in consequence of the enactment of the Summary Procedure Act of last Session, 27 and 28 Vict., cap. 53. Does the 8th clause intend to apply when the accused may be absent? See sec. 15 of the Summary Procedure Act. That some alteration of the law is necessary all must confess who have any experience in connection with the questions arising between masters and workmen, and the present Bill is a fair attempt in that direction. It will require considerable improvement before it passes into law; but it will only be simple justice to the workman to see that a measure calculated to remove his just complaint, while the masters are not prejudiced, is made part of our statute law. A BILL to alter and amend the Law relating to Contracts of Service between Master and Servant. Preamble. WHEREAS it is expedient that the Law relating to the THE MASTERS AND SERVANTS AMENDMENT determining of Complaints between Masters and their АСТ, 1864. AMONG the last days of the last Session of Parliament the following Bill was introduced and ordered to be printed. It bears on the back to have been prepared and brought in by Mr Cobbett and Mr Cox. Of course it is intended to be re-introduced early next Session. The Bill is the result of a combined movement of various trades in England and Scotland. The Servants arising under their Contract of Service should be amended, and that further Provision should be made for the determining of such Complaints: 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 the 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 Masters and Servants Amendment Act, 1864." |