Matters of Pulice. company, or for any special constable duly appointed, and Regulations as to all such persons as they may call to their assistance, to seize and detain any engine driver, waggon driver, guard, porter, servant, or other person employed by such or by any other railway company, or by any other company or person, in conducting traffic upon the railway belonging to the said company, or in repairing and maintaining the works of the said railway, who shall be found drunk while so employed upon the railway, or who shall commit any offence against any of the bye-laws, rules, or regulations of the company, or shall wilfully, maliciously, or negligently do or omit to do any act whereby the life or limb of any person passing along or being upon the railway, or the works thereof, shall or might be injured or endangered, or where by the passage of any of the engines, carriages, or trains shall be or might be obstructed or impeded, and to convey such offender, or any person counselling, aiding, or assisting in such offence, with all convenient despatch, before some justice of the peace for the place within which such offence was committed (s), without any other warrant or authority than that act (5 & 6 Vict. c. 55); and every person so offending, and every person counselling, aiding, or assisting therein as aforesaid, when convicted before such justice as aforesaid, is liable to two months' imprisonment, with or without hard labour, or to pay a fine of 107. (t), or the justice may commit the person so charged for trial to the quarter sessions, and, on conviction, he may be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour (u). And every person who shall wilfully do, or cause to be (8) If the offence is committed in Scotland, see 5 & 6 Vict. c. 55, s. 18, post, App., 26. (1) 5 & 6 Vict. c. 55, s. 17, post, App., 26, extending 3 & 4 Vict. c. 97, s. 13, post, App., 17. (u) 3 & 4 Vict. c. 97, s. 14, post, offences under 5 & 6 Vict. c. 55, s. Obligation to make certain Returns. Regulations as to matters of police. every officer of a company wilfully making a false return is guilty of a misdemeanour (n). And within forty-eight hours after the occurrence of an accident, attended with serious personal injury to the public using a railway, the company are required to give notice thereof to the Commissioners of Railways, under a penalty of 5l. for every day during neglect to give notice (o). The Commissioners of Railways are also empowered to order any railway company to make a return of serious accidents occurring in the course of public traffic on a railway, whether attended with personal injury or not, in such form as they may require; and a like penalty of 51. a day is incurred for neglect in making the return (p). And, by a recent statute, the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury may revise the scale of tolls or purchase certain railways at the end of twenty-one years after the date of their acts of incorporation; and the directors of such companies are required, during the last three years of the said term, to keep certain accounts (q). And, lastly, by the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, railway companies subject to that act are required to send an annual account of their total receipts and expenditure of all funds levied by them, with a statement of the balance of such account, duly audited; and shall, if required, transmit a copy of such account to the clerks of the peace, and also to the overseers of the poor of the parishes through which the railway passes (r). XI. It is lawful for any officer or agent of a railway (n) 3 & 4 Vict. c. 97, s. 4, post, App., 15. (0) 5 & 6 Vict. c. 55, s. 7, post, App., 21. (p) Id., s. 8, post, App., 22; and see further on this subject, ante, 99. (g) 7 & 8 Vict. c. 85, s. 5, post, App., 29; and see ante, 420. (r) 8 Vict. c. 20, s. 107, post, App., 186. Matters of Pulice, company, or for any special constable duly appointed, and Regulations as to all such persons as they may call to their assistance, to seize and detain any engine driver, waggon driver, guard, porter, servant, or other person employed by such or by any other railway company, or by any other company or person, in conducting traffic upon the railway belonging to the said company, or in repairing and maintaining the works of the said railway, who shall be found drunk while so employed upon the railway, or who shall commit any offence against any of the bye-laws, rules, or regulations of the company, or shall wilfully, maliciously, or negligently do or omit to do any act whereby the life or limb of any person passing along or being upon the railway, or the works thereof, shall or might be injured or endangered, or whereby the passage of any of the engines, carriages, or trains shall be or might be obstructed or impeded, and to convey such offender, or any person counselling, aiding, or assisting in such offence, with all convenient despatch, before some justice of the peace for the place within which such offence was committed (s), without any other warrant or authority than that act (5 & 6 Vict. c. 55); and every person so offending, and every person counselling, aiding, or assisting therein as aforesaid, when convicted before such justice as aforesaid, is liable to two months' imprisonment, with or without hard labour, or to pay a fine of 107. (t), or the justice may commit the person so charged for trial to the quarter sessions, and, on conviction, he may be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour (u). And every person who shall wilfully do, or cause to be (s) If the offence is committed in Scotland, see 5 & 6 Vict. c. 55, s. 18, post, App., 26. (t) 5 & 6 Vict. c. 55, s. 17, post, App., 26, extending 3 & 4 Vict. c. 97, s. 13, post, App., 17. (u) 3 & 4 Vict. c. 97, s. 14, post, App., 18. Parties charged with offences under 5 & 6 Vict. c. 55, s. 17, may also be tried at the sessions. See 5 & 6 Vict. c. 55, s. 2, post, App., 20. Obligation to make certain Returns. Regulations as to matters of police. every officer of a company wilfully making a false return is guilty of a misdemeanour (n). And within forty-eight hours after the occurrence of an accident, attended with serious personal injury to the public using a railway, the company are required to give notice thereof to the Commissioners of Railways, under a penalty of 51. for every day during neglect to give notice (o). The Commissioners of Railways are also empowered to order any railway company to make a return of serious accidents occurring in the course of public traffic on a railway, whether attended with personal injury or not, in such form as they may require; and a like penalty of 5l. a day is incurred for neglect in making the return (p). And, by a recent statute, the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury may revise the scale of tolls or purchase certain railways at the end of twenty-one years after the date of their acts of incorporation; and the directors of such companies are required, during the last three years of the said term, to keep certain accounts (g). And, lastly, by the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, railway companies subject to that act are required to send an annual account of their total receipts and expenditure of all funds levied by them, with a statement of the balance of such account, duly audited; and shall, if required, transmit a copy of such account to the clerks of the peace, and also to the overseers of the poor of the parishes through which the railway passes (r). XI. It is lawful for any officer or agent of a railway (n) 3 & 4 Vict. c. 97, s. 4, post, App., 15. (0) 5 & 6 Vict. c. 55, s. 7, post, App., 21. (p) Id., s. 8, post, App., 22; and see further on this subject, ante, 99. (q) 7 & 8 Vict. c. 85, s. 5, post, App., 29; and see ante, 420. (r) 8 Vict. c. 20, s. 107, App., 186. post, Matters of Pulice, company, or for any special constable duly appointed, and Regulations as to all such persons as they may call to their assistance, to seize and detain any engine driver, waggon driver, guard, porter, servant, or other person employed by such or by any other railway company, or by any other company or person, in conducting traffic upon the railway belonging to the said company, or in repairing and maintaining the works of the said railway, who shall be found drunk while so employed upon the railway, or who shall commit any offence against any of the bye-laws, rules, or regulations of the company, or shall wilfully, maliciously, or negligently do or omit to do any act whereby the life or limb of any person passing along or being upon the railway, or the works thereof, shall or might be injured or endangered, or whereby the passage of any of the engines, carriages, or trains shall be or might be obstructed or impeded, and to convey such offender, or any person counselling, aiding, or assisting in such offence, with all convenient despatch, before some justice of the peace for the place within which such offence was committed (s), without any other warrant or authority than that act (5 & 6 Vict. c. 55); and every person so offending, and every person counselling, aiding, or assisting therein as aforesaid, when convicted before such justice as aforesaid, is liable to two months' imprisonment, with or without hard labour, or to pay a fine of 107. (t), or the justice may commit the person so charged for trial to the quarter sessions, and, on conviction, he may be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour (u). And every person who shall wilfully do, or cause to be (8) If the offence is committed in Scotland, see 5 & 6 Vict. c. 55, s. 18, post, App., 26. (t) 5 & 6 Vict. c. 55, s. 17, post, App., 26, extending 3 & 4 Vict. c. 97, s. 13, post, App., 17. (u) 3 & 4 Vict. c. 97, s. 14, post, offences under 5 & 6 Vict. c. 55, s. |