Enlisting for Service in Her Majesty's Colonies. Question 8. is to be put by the Justice as follows: 8. Are you willing to be attested to serve in Her Majesty's Colony of for the Term of [this Blank to be filled up by the Justices with Ten Years for Infantry, and Twelve for Cavalry or Artillery or other Ordnance Corps, if the Person enlisted is of the Age of Eighteen Years or upwards; but if under that Age, then the Difference between his Age and Eighteen is to be added to such Ten or Twelve Years (as the Case may be)], provided Her Majesty should so long require your Services, and also for such further Term, not exceeding Two Years, as shall be directed by the Commanding Officer on any Foreign Station? Enlisting for either Her Majesty's or the East India Company's Service. Question 8. is to be put by the Justice as follows: 8. Are you willing to be attested to serve in Her Majesty's Army, or in the Forces of the East India Company, according as Her Majesty shall think fit to order, for the Term of [this Blank to be filled up by the Justices with Ten Years for Infantry, and Twelve for Cavalry or Artillery or other Ordnance Corps, if the Person enlisted is of the Age of Eighteen Years or upwards; but if under that Age, then the Difference between his Age and Eighteen is to be added to such Ten or Twelve Years (as the Case may be)], provided your Services should so long be required, and also for such further Term, not exceeding Two Years, as shall be directed by the Commanding Officer on any Foreign Station? Enlisting for the East India Company's Service. Question 8. to be put by the Justice as follows: 8. Are you willing to be attested to serve in the East India Company's for the Term of [this Blank to be filled up by the Justices with Ten Years for Infantry, and Twelve for Cavalry or Artillery or other Ordnance Corps, if the Person enlisted is of the Age of Eighteen Years or upwards; but if under that Age, then the Difference between his Age and Eighteen is to be added to such Ten or Twelve Years (as the Case may be)], provided the said Company should so long require your Services, and also for such further Term, not exceeding Two Years, as shall be directed by the Commanding Officer on any Foreign Station? * The Blank to be filled up with the Words Infantry or Artillery, as the Case may be. SCHE Company in the do declare, That I am Regiment; that I enlisted for a Term of Years; that I am of the Age of Declared before me, Signature of Soldier. CAP. XXXVIII. sioners to carry An Act to facilitate the Drainage of Lands in England and Wales. [21st June 1847.] WHEREAS it is expedient that Provision should be made for promoting the Drainage of Lands in England and Wales: 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 this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the Inclosure ComInclosure Commissioners for England and Wales shall be the missioners to Commissioners to carry this Act into execution, and that the be the CommisAssistant Commissioners, Secretary, Clerks, Messengers, and this Act into Officers who may be from Time to Time appointed under execution, and the Provisions of an Act passed in the Session of Parliament Officers, &c. appointed under held in the Eighth and Ninth Years of the Reign of Her present 8&9 Vict. Majesty, intituled An Act to facilitate the Inclosure and Improve- c. 118. to assist ment of Commons and Lands held in common, the Exchange of Lands and the Division of intermixed Lands, to provide Remedies for defective or incomplete Executions, and for the Non-execution of the Powers of general and local Inclosure Acts, and to provide for the Revival of such Powers in certain Cases, shall assist in carrying this Act into execution, in like Manner as if the Matters and Proceedings by this Act directed or authorized were Matters and Proceedings directed or authorized by the said recited Act. in the same. II. And be it enacted, That all the Powers by the said Powers of recited Act given to the Assistant Commissioners to require the recited Act to extend to this Attendance Act. Commissioners to make Re ports to Secre tary of State, and to both Houses of Par liament. Persons de sirous of drain ing Land may memorialize Commissioners for Authority to effect the same under Provisions of this Act. Map or Plan, annexed to 10 & 11 VICT. Attendance of Witnesses, to administer or receive Declarations and examine Witnesses, and to cause to be produced before them Writings and Documents, and the Power given to the said Commissioners to delegate to the Assistant Commissioners, or to any One or more of them, the Powers given to such Commissioners, except the Power to do any Act required to be done under the Seal of the Commissioners, shall be applicable to and may be exercised for the Purposes of this Act as fully and effectually as if the Matters and Proceedings hereby authorized or directed to be done and taken by the Commissioners, or by any Assistant Commissioner, were Matters and Proceedings authorized or directed to be done and taken under the said recited Act. III. And be it enacted, That the said Commissioners shall from Time to Time give to any one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State such Information respecting their Proceedings under this Act as such Principal Secretary of State shall require, and shall once in every Year send to one of the Principal Secretaries of State a general Report of such Proceedings, and every Year such general Report shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within Six Weeks after the Receipt of the same by such Principal Secretary of State if Parliament be sitting, or if Parliament be not sitting then in Six Weeks after the next Meeting thereof. IV. And be it enacted, That where any Land shall be capable of being drained or improved by Drainage or Warping, by means of Works to be executed on the same and other Lands, for obtaining or improving the Outfall or otherwise, it shall be lawful for any Persons interested in the Land so capable of being drained or improved, and who shall be desirous for that Purpose to execute all or any of the Works herein-after mentioned, and shall be unable to execute such Works by reason of the Objection or Disability of any Person whose Land would be entered upon, cut through, or interfered with by or for the Purpose of such Works, to apply by Memorial to the Commissioners, showing the Means by which such Land may be drained or such Improvement may be effected, and praying for Authority to effect such Drainage or Improvement under the Provisions of this Act; and to such Memorial shall be annexed a Map or Plan showing the Land to which such Application shall relate, and the Land and Property required to be entered upon, cut through, or interfered with for the Purposes of such Drainage or Improvement, or likely to be affected by the proposed Works, and also the Rivers, Watercourses, Ditches, and Drains intended to be cleared, scoured, deepened, or embanked, and the proposed Variations, Diversions, Abridgments, or Enlargements of the same, and the new Cuts, Embankments, Drains, Watercourses, and other Works proposed to be made, and the Engines and Machinery proposed to be erected for the Purposes of such Drainage or Improvement, and also Schedules showing the reputed Proprietors, Lessees, and Occupiers of the Lands proposed to be drained and improved, and the the Lands and Property required to be entered upon, cut through, or interfered with respectively for the Purposes of such Drainage or Improvement, and also an Estimate of the Expence of the proposed Works, Engines, and Machinery, including the probable Amount of Money payable as Purchase and Compensation Money in respect of the Land and Property required to be entered upon, cut through, or interfered with, and also a Statement of the actual Condition of the Lands proposed to be drained or improved, and of the probable increased Value of the Land consequent upon the proposed Works; or in case it shall appear to the Commissioners that a correct Judgment can be formed on the proposed Means of Drainage or Improvement without a Map or Plan and Estimates, including the whole of the Land to which such Memorial shall relate, then a Map or Plan showing only the proposed Works, or such other Map or Plan as the Commissioners shall think necessary, and such Memorial, or some Schedule thereto, shall also show the Persons by whom the Works are proposed to be executed; and the Persons by whom such Application shall be made shall, upon the Request of the Commissioners, furnish such further Details in respect of the said Map or Plan, Schedules, Estimates, and Statements, or any of them, as the Commissioners shall think Inspection. fit for their Guidance in the Matter of the Memorial; and the Memorial, &c. Persons by whom such Application shall be made shall cause to be deposited, Copies of the said Memorial, Map, or Plan, Schedules, Esti- and open to mates, and Statements, or of such of them as shall have been furnished to the Commissioners under the Provisions hereinbefore contained, to be deposited in such convenient Place or Places as the Commissioners shall approve within or near the Parish or One of the Parishes in which the Land to which such Application shall relate shall be situate, there to remain open for public Inspection for a Period of One Month; and the Deposit of such Copies shall be certified to the Commissioners in such Manner as they shall require; and all Persons shall be at liberty to inspect and make Copies of or Extracts from the said Memorial, Map, or Plan, Schedules, Estimates, and Statement, or any of them, and Copies thereof or Extracts therefrom shall be made by such Person as the Commissioners shall direct for any Person who shall require the same, on Payment of the Costs of making such Copies or Extracts. Memorial, &c. V. And be it enacted, That the Commissioners shall require Notices to be the Persons making such Application as aforesaid to cause a given that Notice of such Memorial having been presented, and of the has been depoParishes in which Works are by such Memorial proposed to sited. be executed, and of the Places in which Copies of the said Memorial, Map, or Plan, Schedules, Estimates, and Statements, have been deposited as aforesaid, to be given by Advertisement Twice in One or more Newspapers circulated in the County in which such Works are proposed to be executed, and to cause a like Notice to be served on all Persons not Parties to the said Application whose Lands are proposed to be entered upon, cut through, or interfered with; and such Service 10 & 11 VICT. Service shall be either personally on the Lessee or Occupier of such Land, or by leaving such Notice at the usual or last known Place of Abode of such Lessee or Occupier, and also cause a like Notice to be served on the Proprietor or reputed Proprietor of such Land, or his Agent, either personally or by leaving the same at his usual or last known Place of Abode; Notices of Ob- and by such Notice all Parties interested or in any way affected jections to be by the proposed Works shall be required, on or before a Day sent to Com. missioners in to be therein named, not sooner than Six Weeks from such Writing. Publication and Service as aforesaid of such Notice, to transmit in Writing to the Commissioners all Objections which such Parties shall think fit to make with respect to any thing by the said Memorial proposed to be done under the Provisions of this Act. Commissioners may require Security for Payment of Costs of Inquiries. Commissioners to appoint an Assistant Commissioner to examine and VI. And be it enacted, That the Commissioners may in every Case, before they shall proceed to act or inquire on or in relation to any such Memorial as aforesaid, require such Provision or Security to be made or given as they shall think fit for the Payment by the Parties making the Application of all Costs incident to or to be occasioned by the Inquiries and Proceedings in relation thereto. VII. And be it enacted, That in every Case in which there shall have been transmitted to the Commissioners Objections to any thing by the said Memorial proposed to be done the Commissioners shall appoint an Assistant Commissioner to inspect hear Objections, the Lands proposed to be drained or improved, and the Lands intended to be entered upon, cut through, interfered with, or affected by the Works in such Memorial mentioned; and the Commissioners shall, if they shall think necessary, call One or more public Meetings, of which Twenty-one Days Notice at the least shall be given to any Person who may have notified his Objection to the Commissioners, and by Advertisement in One or more Newspapers circulated in the County in which such Works are proposed to be executed, of all Persons likely to be affected by any of the Works proposed to be executed for such Drainage or Improvement, to be held on such Day or Days subsequent to the Expiration of such Period of Six Weeks, and at such convenient Place or Places within the Parish or One of the Parishes wherein such Land so to be drained or improved shall be situate, or in the Vicinity thereof, as the said Commissioners shall specify in such Notice; and at the Time and Place named in such Notice as aforesaid the Assistant Commissioner, so appointed as aforesaid, shall attend and shall have Power to adjourn any Meeting from Time to Time, or hold any new Meeting, as he may find necessary, and shall inquire into the Correctness of the Schedules containing the Names of such reputed Proprietors, Lessees, and Occupiers as aforesaid, and shall inquire whether the Notices by the Act required shall have been duly given and served, and shall hear and inquire into all such Objections as shall have been or shall be then and there made by any Person or Persons interested in any Land likely to be affected by any thing by such Memorial proposed to |