cause such dog to be sold or destroyed. Any money arising from the sale of any dogs in pursuance of this section shall be paid to the account of the local rate, and be applied to the purposes to which that rate is applicable. All dogs detained under this section shall be properly fed and maintained at the expense of the local rate.

S. 2. Dangerous dogs.-Any court of summary jurisdiction may take cognizance of a complaint that a dog is dangerous, and not kept under proper control, and if it appears to the court having cognizance of such complaint that such dog is dangerous, the court may make an order in a summary way directing the dog to be kept by the owner under proper control or destroyed, and any person failing to comply with such order, P. not ex. 20s. for day during which he fails to comply with such order.

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S. 3. Restriction may he placed upon dogs at large.-The Local Authority may, if a mad dog, or a dog suspected of being mad, is found within their jurisdiction, make, and when made vary or revoke, an order placing such restrictions as they think expedient on all dogs not being under the control of any person during such period as may be prescribed in such order throughout the whole of their jurisdiction, or such part thereof as may be prescribed in such order. Any person who acts in contravention of any order made in pursuance of this section, F. 20s. Due notice of such order shall be published at the expense of the local rate. The provisions in this Act contained as to the deten tion and sale or destruction of dogs found straying on the highway shall apply to dogs found at large in contraven tion of any order made in pursuance of this section.

S. 5. " Court of Summary Jurisdiction" means any two Justices of the Peace, or any Stipendiary Magistrate. Penalties recoverable under Petty Sessions Act, 1851. "Chief Officer of Police" means in Dublin metropolis--the Commissioner of Police, and elsewhere in Ireland--the District Inspector of R. I. C.

Any act or thing by this Act authorized to be done by the Chief Officer of Police may be done by any person authorized by him in that behalf.

Highway" includes any street or any place of public

resort.

Schedule. "Local Authority" means, in towns-Mayor and Corporation, or Town Commissioners; in townships, the Township Commissioners; and elsewhere, the Justices of the Peace for the Petty Sessions of the district in which such place is situate.

[Canine Rabies.-The Dogs Act, 1871, vests in the Local Authority the power-if a dog even suspected of being mad in a district-of making an order placing restrictions on all dogs in that district not being under the control of a person, and provides for the payment from the local rate of any expense incurred, such as posting or publishing notice of such order. The Constabulary should at once bring under the notice of the Local Authority and report to the Inspector-General the occurrence if any case of rabies, and should use their most strenuous exertions in tracing and destroying any rabid dog, and in enforcing the orders made by Local Authorities. It is not necessary that an order under the Act should be made in Petty Sessions (see section 3 of Act, definition of Local Authority), and as immediate action in such cases is the most likely to prove efficacious, the Constabulary should at once communicate with the Magistrates of the district. Before summoning an Officer or Soldier for being in possession of unlicensed dogs, the Constabulary are to place themselves in communication with the Officer Commanding the Corps or Detachment to which such Officer or Soldier belongs.]

Drilling and Training to Arms, 60 George III., and 1 George IV., c. 1, s. 1.--All meetings and assemblies of persons for the purpose of training or drilling themselves, or of being trained or drilled to the use of arms, or for the purpose of practising military exercise, movements, or evolutions, without any lawful authority from His Majesty, or the Lieutenant or two Justices of the Peace of any county or riding for so doing shall be and the same are hereby prohibited, as dangerous to the peace and security of His Majesty's liege subjects and of his government, and every person who shall be present at or attend any such meeting or assembly, for the purpose of training and drilling any other person or persons to the use of arms, or the practice of military exercise, movements, or evolutions, or who shall train or drill any other person or persons to the use of arms, or the practice of military exercise, movements, or evolutions, or who shall aid or assist therein, shall be liable to be kept in P. S. for not exc. seven years or two years imp., M.; and every person who shall attend or be present at any such meeting or assembly as aforesaid for the purpose of being, or who shall at any such meeting or assembly be trained or drilled to the use of arms, or the practice of military exercise, movements, or evolutions, shall be liable to fine and imp. not exc. two years, M.

S. 2. It shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace, or for any Constable or peace officer, or for any other person acting in their aid or assistance, to disperse any such unlawful meeting or assembly as aforesaid, and to arrest and detain any person present at, or aiding, assisting, or abetting

any such assembly or meeting as aforesaid; and it shall be lawful for the Justice of the Peace who shall arrest any such person, or before whom any person so arrested shall be brought, to commit such person for trial for such offence, unless such person can and shall give sufficient bail for his appearance at the next assizes or quarter sessions, &c.

S. 5. Any action or suit which shall be brought against any Justice or Constable for anything done in pursuance of this Act shall be commenced within six months next after the fact committed, &c.

S. 7. Prosecution shall be commenced within six months after offence committed.

Embezzlement, F., 24 & 25 Vic., c. 96, s. 68.— Whosoever, being a clerk or servant, or being employed for the purpose or in the capacity of a clerk or servant, shall steal any chattel money, or valuable security belonging to, or in the possession or power of his master or employer, shall be guilty of felony (see also 31 & 32 Vic., c. 116, p. 177.)

[Embezzlement is only a species of larceny. It is a question for a jury whether a person accused of embezzlement is a clerk or servant. A clerk or servant is a person bound either by an express contract of service, or by conduct implying such a contract to obey the orders and submit to the control of his master in the transaction of the business which it is his duty as such clerk or servant to transact. The distinction between embezzlement by a clerk or servant and other kinds of theft is, that in other kinds of theft the property stolen is taken out of the possession of the owner, whereas in embezzlement by a clerk or servant, the property embezzled is converted by the offender whilst it is in the offender's possession on account of his master, and before that possession has been changed into a mere custody.

Evidence.-The inference that the accused has embezzled property by fraudulently converting it to his own use may be drawn from the fact that he has not paid the money or delivered the property in due course to the owner; or that he has not accounted for the money or other property which he has received; or that he has falsely accounted for it; or that he has absconded; or that upon examination of his accounts there appeared a general deficiency unaccounted for. But none of these facts constitutes in itself the offence of embezzlement, nor is the fact that the alleged offender rendered a correct account of the money or other property entrusted to him inconsistent with his having embezzled it.]

Embracery-Everyone commits the misdemeanor called embracery, who by any means whatever except the production of evidence and argument in open

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court, attempts to influence or instruct any juryman, or to incline him to be more favourable to the one side than to the other in any judicial proceeding, whether any verdict is given or not, and whether such verdict given is true or false. (Stephens' D. C. L.)

Escape of Prisoner.-Any gaoler, Constable, or other officer negligently permitting the escape of a prisoner in his custody for a criminal matter is guilty of a misdemeanor at common law. A negligent escape has been defined to be when the party arrested or imprisoned escapes against the will of him in whose custody he is, and is not briskly pursued and taken again before he has been lost sight of. A voluntary escape by consent or connivance of the Constable, amounts to the same kind of offence, and is punishable in the same degree as that of which the prisoner is guilty, and for which he is in custody, whether treason, felony, or misdemeanor. An escape permitted by a private person is an offence of the same description as one permitted by the Constable, as the private person is bound to hold the prisoner and deliver him up to the proper authority. It is a misdemeanor at common law for any prisoner to escape from the custody of a Constable. The person escaping is deemed to have regained his liberty as soon as he gets out of sight of the person from whom he escapes, and not before.

Explosives Act, 1875-38 Vic., c. 17.-ABSTRACT OF PRINCIPAL PROVISIONS OF ACT AND OF ORDERS IN COUNCIL.

The object of the Explosives Act, 1875, is to subject to observation and efficient control, the manufacture, keeping, selling, carrying, and importing of all explosives. (For further information on this subject see the Guide Book to the Explosives Act sup plied to the Officers of R. I. C.)

1. The term "Explosive" in this Act-
(1) Means gunpowder, nitro-glycerine, dynamite,
gun cotton, blasting powders, fulminate of
mercury or of other metals, coloured fires, and
every other substance, whether similar to

those above mentioned or not, used or manufactured with a view to produce a practical effect by explosion or a pyrotechnic effect. (2.) Includes fog signals, fireworks, fuses, rockets, per. cussion caps, detonators, cartridges, ammunition of all descriptions, and every adaptation or preparation of an explosive as above defined (S. 3). 2. The "local authority" for the purposes of this Act shall be, in Ireland :-(1) In the city of Dublin, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses acting by the Town Council. (2) In any urban sanitary district in which the powers, jurisdictions, and authorities of the Grand Jury of the county in which such district is situate are vested and exerciseable by the urban sanitary authority, except as hereafter mentioned, the urban sanitary authority. (3) In any harbour within the jurisdiction of a harbour authority-the harbour authority to the exclusion of any other local authority. (4) In any place in which there is no local authority as before defined the Justices in Petty Sessions assembled (S. 116).

The Local Authority are required to appoint com petent officers to carry out the Act within their jurisdiction.

3. The expression "police district" means :--(1) The Police District of Dublin metropolis, and (2) the town of Belfast, and (3) elsewhere in Ireland, any district whether city, town, or part of a county over which is appointed a District Inspector of R.I.C.

The expression "Chief Officer of Police" means:(1) In the Police District of Dublin metropolis, the Chief Commissioner of Police, and (2) in the town of Belfast, the Town Inspector, and in his absence the District Inspector of R.I.C., acting for him; and (3) elsewhere in Ireland, the District Inspector of R.I.C., and in his absence the Head Constable acting for him (S. 120).

4. Classification of Explosives.-For the purposes of this Act the various explosives are divided into seven classes as follows:-Class 1, gunpowder; Class 2, nitrate mixture (pyrolithe, pudrolithe, &c.); Class 3, nitro compound (nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gun cotton,