Guardians of the several Out-Relief Unions, in granting to persons in receipt of outdoor relief such reasonable additions to the relief as the said Boards of Guardians may, by general or special Resolution, direct to be given in respect of the week in the course of which such celebration as aforesaid takes place. Given under the Seal of Office of the Local Government Board, this Twenty-fourth day of June, in the year One thousand nine hundred and nineteen. (L.S.) H. C. MONRO, CHRISTOPHER ADDISON, President. Secretary. CIRCULAR OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD. CELEBRATION OF PEACE. Local Government Board, Whitehall, S.W.1. 25th June, 1919. Sir, In view of the general desire to celebrate the declaration of Peace which marks the termination of the War, the Local Government Board have issued an Order sanctioning any reasonable expenses which may be incurred by County Councils, Metropolitan Borough Councils, Councils of Boroughs and Urban Districts, Rural District Councils, and Parish Councils, in connection with any public local celebration of Peace, in so far as those expenses are charged in Accounts subject to audit by a District Auditor. In many localities the funds for the public celebration will be obtained by means of voluntary subscriptions and the issue of the Order is not intended in any way to discourage subscriptions of this character or other private beneficence. The Board consider that the powers conferred by the Order should be used where necessary to supplement funds otherwise contributed for public local celebrations rather than to supersede such funds. The Board cannot undertake to advise individual authorities or persons as to whether any particular kind of expenditure might be incurred or as to the amount which might properly be expended by any particular authority. The effect of the sanction will be that expenses duly incurred under the terms of the Order will not be liable to disallowance by the District Auditor, but if questions should be raised hereafter as to whether any expenditure is or is not covered by the Order the questions will in the first instance be for the Auditor to consider. I am, Sir, Your obedient Servant, H. C. MONRO, The Clerk to the Local Authority. ORDER OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD. CELEBRATION OF PEACE. COUNCILS. TO THE COUNTY COUNCILS of the several Administrative Counties in England and Wales;- To the Council of the Isles of Scilly ; To the Councils of the several Metropolitan Boroughs; To the Councils of the several Municipal Boroughs and Urban Districts in England and Wales; To the Councils of the several Rural Districts in England and Wales ; To the Parish Councils of the several Rural Parishes in England and Wales having Parish Councils and of the several areas comprising groups of Rural Parishes; And to all others whom it may concern. WHEREAS local authorities in England and Wales are desirous of incurring expenditure in connection with public local celebrations on the occasion of the termination of the present War, and it is expedient that provision should be made as herein-after mentioned: NOW THEREFORE, We, the Local Government Board, in pursuance of the powers given to Us by the Statutes in that behalf, hereby Sanction any reasonable expenses in connection with any such public local celebration as aforesaid which may be incurred by any of the under-mentioned Local Authorities in England and Wales, that is to say, the County Councils of the several Administrative Counties, the Council of the Isles of Scilly, the Councils of the several Metropolitan Boroughs, the Councils of the several Municipal Boroughs and Urban Districts, the Councils of the several Rural Districts, and the Parish Councils of the several Rural Parishes having Parish Councils and of the several areas comprising groups of Rural Parishes, in so far as such expenses are charged in accounts subject to audit by a District Auditor. Given under the Seal of Office of the Local Government Board, this Twenty-fourth day of June, in the year One thousand nine hundred and nineteen. (L.S.) H. C. MONRO, Secretary. CHRISTOPHER ADDISON, President. CIRCULAR OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD. JURIES ACT, 1918. Local Government Board, Whitehall, S.W.1. 30th June, 1919. Sir, I am directed to refer to the circular letter of the Local Government Board of 23rd August last, calling the attention of those Overseers whose duty it is to prepare the jury lists to the changes in relation to the preparation of such lists that were effected by the Juries Act, 1918, which has effect until the expiration of a period of six months after the termination of the war. Under the provisions of Section 5 of the Act, sixty-five years is to be substituted in Section 1 of the Juries Act, 1825, for sixty years as the age at which liability to serve upon a jury is to cease, and consequently every man not otherwise exempted from service. on juries, between the ages of twenty-one years and sixty-five years who is qualified and liable to serve upon juries must be placed on the jury list. Section 6 of the Act empowers His Majesty by Order in Council to modify in such manner as he thinks advisable for the purpose of avoiding unnecessary expense and labour any of the provisions of the Juries Act, 1825, or the Juries Act, 1862, as to the preparation of the lists of men qualified and liable to serve on juries, so as to provide that any such list may be prepared by altering or supplementing the last previous list and as to the place and manner of publication of the list. An Order in Council was made under the Act on the 25th inst., which is to have effect in substitution for the Jury List Order, 1918, with respect to the preparation of the jury list for the current year. The Order prescribes a form of precept relative to the preparation of the list for the present year. The precept, which you will receive in due course, will give you detailed instructions as to the manner in which the list is to be made out, deposited and exhibited, notified and made available for inspection; but it may be noted that the principal change which is made in the method of preparing the list is as follows: as The list may be made out in either of the following ways, may seem best to you for avoiding unnecessary labour and expense, viz.: (1) In the manner directed by Section 8 of the Juries Act, 1825, or (2) By taking copies of the list in force for the year 1917 and the supplemental list for 1918 made in pursuance of the Jury List Order, 1918, and striking out the names of all such persons appearing therein as are dead or have removed from your parish or township or have attained the age of 65 years or are otherwise not qualified and liable to be included in the list for your parish or township, and then proceeding to make out a second supplemental list (in the form prescribed by Section 8 of the Juries Act, 1825, as amended by any subsequent enactment) in which shall be included the names of all persons qualified and liable to be included in the jury list for your parish or township, whose names are not included in the list in force for the year 1917 or the supplemental list for 1918. Where the list is made out as authorised by the latter of the two alternatives set out above, the jury list in force for the year 1917 and the supplemental list made in pursuance of the Jury List Order, 1918, revised as required by the new precept, and the second supplemental list made out as indicated above are to be read together as if the names in the 1918 list and in the second supplemental list were inserted in proper alphabetical order in their proper places in the 1917 list, and are together to constitute the jury list for your parish or township. If you find that the second supplemental list contains less than thirty names, you should make it out in writing and should not have it printed, but if it contains thirty names or more you are at liberty to have a sufficient number of copies printed, and the expense will be allowed you. In estimating the number (if any) of the copies of the second supplemental list that it will be necessary to have printed, you should bear in mind the limitation in the number of copies that you will have to deposit or exhibit as subsequently mentioned, after reserving such number as may be necessary for future reference. In revising the 1917 list and the 1918 supplemental list and preparing the second supplemental list, or in making out a new list, you should bear in mind that the age at which liability to serve on a jury ceases has been raised to sixty-five years. You will observe from the precept that you are required to specify in the list or lists (as the case may be) which of the persons named therein are, in your judgment, qualified as special jurors, and to specify in every case the nature of the qualification and the occupation of the man, and the rating or assessment of every such person. Instead of fixing a copy of the jury list upon the principal door of every church, chapel and other public place of religious worship in manner required by Section 9 of the Juries Act, 1825, the new precept requires you before the first Sunday in September to deposit or exhibit a copy of the new list or the list constituted as abovementioned, as the case may be, at such place in the parish as you think most suitable for the purpose of enabling persons desirous of |