28 Vict. c. 27, same, and in the event of the bill passing the company thereby ss. 10, 11. incorporated, shall be deemed to be promoters of such bill for all the purposes of this Act.

Meaning of private bill.

Commence

10. For the purposes of this Act the expression private bill shall extend to and include any bill for a local and personal Act.

11. That this Act shall not take effect before the first day of ment of Act. November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.

THE TELEGRAPH ACT AMENDMENT
ACT, 1866.

29 VICT. c. 3.

An Act to amend the Telegraph Act, 1863.

[6th March, 1866.]

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:

29 Vict. c. 3,

Ss. 1-4.

sect. 52 of

1. The powers vested in one of her Majesty's principal Secre- Powers vested taries of State by section fifty-two of "The Telegraph Act, 1863," in Secretary may be exercised in Ireland by the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief of State under Governor or Governors of Ireland for the time being, as well as by 26 & 27 Vict. one of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, subject, with c. 112, may, respect to compensation, and in all other respects, to the provisions by Lord

in that section contained.

be exercised

Lieutenant of

Ireland.

2. Where the powers of section fifty-two of the said Act are Where such exercised by the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governor or powers are Governors of Ireland, then and in every such case, in section fifty- sect. 51 of exercised, one of the same Act, the Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court above-recited of Common Pleas in Dublin shall be deemed to be substituted for Act to be altered as to the Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas at Ireland. Westminster.

recited Act to

3. The provisions of the following sections of the said Act, Extension of namely, sections forty-eight to fifty-one (both inclusive), section sects. 48 to 53 fifty-two as amended by this Act, and section fifty-three, shall of aboveextend and apply to all incorporated companies, existing or future, all companies. constituted with the object or carrying on the business of constructing, maintaining, or working telegraphs, and to the works of those companies.

4. This Act may be cited as "The Telegraph Act Amendment Short title. Act, 1866."

THE LABOURING CLASSES DWELLING
HOUSES ACT, 1866.

29 VICT. c. 28.

29 Vict. c. 28, An Act to enable the Public Works Loan Commissioners to ss. 1, 4. make advances towards the erection of Dwellings for the Labouring Classes. [18th May, 1866.]

Short title.

Authorities

whom loans

may be made.

WHEREAS by "The Labouring Classes Lodging Houses Act, 1851," powers were vested in certain local authorities for the purpose of facilitating the erection of lodging houses for the labouring classes:

And whereas it is desirable that further provision should be made for facilitating and encouraging the erection of dwellings for the labouring classes in populous places:

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:

1. This Act may be cited as "The Labouring Classes Dwelling Houses Act, 1866."

4. For the purpose hereinafter mentioned, the Public Works and persons to Loan Commissioners, as defined by the said Act of the twentyfourth and twenty-fifth years of her Majesty, may out of the funds for the time being at their disposal from time to time advance on loan to any such local or other authority as hereinafter mentioned, namely (among others)

Objects of loans.

Any railway company, or dock or harbour company, or any other company, society, or association established for the purposes of this Act or for trading or manufacturing

purposes;

Any private person entitled to any land for an estate in fee simple, or for any term of years absolute, whereof not less than fifty years shall for the time being remain unexpired; And any such local or other authority, or any such body or proprietor, may from time to time borrow from the Public Works Loan Commissioners such money as may be required for the purpose of this Act, subject and according to the following provisions:

1. Such advance on loan shall be made for the purpose of assisting in the purchase of land and buildings, or in the

8. 4.

erection, alteration, and adaptation of buildings to be used 29 Vict. c. 28,
as dwellings for the labouring classes, and in providing all
conveniences which may be deemed proper in connexion
with such dwellings:

2. Any such advance may be made whether the local or other
authority or body or proprietor receiving the same has or
has not power to borrow on mortgage or otherwise, inde-
pendently of this Act; but nothing in this Act contained
shall repeal or alter any regulation, statutory or otherwise,
whereby any company may be restricted from borrowing
until a definite portion of capital is subscribed for, taken, or
paid up:

3. No sum shall be advanced without the approval of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury of the borrowing thereof, signified by some writing under the hand of one of their secretaries or assistant-secretaries :

4. It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of her Majesty's Rules and Treasury to make such rules and regulations as they shall regulations. from time to time think proper with respect to applications for advances under this Act, and the terms and conditions upon which such advances are to be made, and to issue such instructions and forms as they may think proper for the guidance of and observance of by persons applying for or receiving loans, or executing works, or rendering accounts of monies expended under this Act; or regarding the class of dwellings towards the providing of which such loans may 'be made, and the adaptation thereof to the purposes intended, and as to the mode of providing for their maintenance, repair, and insurance:

5. The period for the repayment of the sums advanced shall not Currency of exceed forty years:

loans.

6. The repayment of the money advanced, with interest thereon at such rate as shall be agreed upon, but not at a less rate than four pounds per centum per annum, shall be secured as follows; namely, in the case of an advance to any such local or other authority as aforesaid, either by a mortgage solely of the rates leviable by such authority, or by such other mortgage as hereinafter mentioned, or by both; and in any other case by a mortgage of the estate or interest of any such local or other authority, or of any such body or proprietor as aforesaid, in the land or dwellings for the [Defined by purposes of which the advance is made; and in the case of 30 & 31 Vict. c. 28, s. 2.] an advance to a company any part of whose capital remains uncalled up or unpaid, by a mortgage also of all capital so remaining uncalled up or unpaid; and any such mortgage as aforesaid may be taken either alone or together with any other security which may be agreed upon; but it shall not be incumbent on the Public Works Loan Commissioners to require any other security:

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7. No money shall be advanced on mortgage of any land or dwellings solely, unless the estate therein proposed to be

29 Vict. c. 28, ss. 5, 8, 10.

Incorporation of 8 & 9 Vict. with this Act.

cc. 18 & 19,

Powers to companies.

Extent of Act.

mortgaged shall be either an estate in fee simple or an estate for a term of years absolute, whereof not less than fifty years shall be unexpired at the date of the advance: 8. The money advanced on the security of a mortgage of any land or dwellings solely shall not exceed one moiety of the value, to be ascertained to the satisfaction of the Public Works Loan Commissioners, of the estate or interest in such land or dwellings proposed to be mortgaged; but advances may be made by instalments from time to time as the building of the dwellings on the land mortgaged progresses, so that the total advance do not at any time exceed the amount aforesaid; and a mortgage may be accordingly made to secure such advances so to be made from time to time:

9. For the purposes of this Act, every such local or other authority or body as aforesaid is hereby authorised to purchase, take, and hold land, and if not already a body corporate shall, for the purpose of holding such land under this Act, and of suing and being sued in respect thereof, be nevertheless deemed a body corporate with perpetual

succession.

5. "The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," and "The Lands Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act, 1845," and any Act amending the same, except the clauses in the said Acts respectively with respect to the purchase and taking of lands otherwise than by agreement, shall be incorporated with this Act, and for the purposes of those Acts this Act shall be deemed the special Act; and any such local or other authority or body or proprietor as aforesaid exercising the powers of this Act shall be deemed the promoters of the undertaking.

8. Any railway company, or dock or harbour company, or any other company, society, or association, established for trading or manufacturing purposes in the course of whose business or in the discharge of whose duties persons of the labouring class are employed, may and are hereby (notwithstanding any Act of Parliament, or charter, or any rule of law or equity to the contrary), authorised at any time or from time to time to erect, either on their own land or on any other land (which they are hereby authorised to purchase and hold for the purpose, and to pay for out of any funds at their disposal), dwellings for the accommodation of all or any of the persons of the labouring class employed by them, and shall have all the like powers of borrowing and other powers which are herein before conferred on any such body or proprietor as herein before mentioned.

10. This Act shall not extend to Ireland.