The Name of the Sove reign for the Time being shall be used in the Oath. Provision &c. stituted for the Oaths of Allegiance, Supremacy, and Abjuration is now required to be taken, or taken and subscribed, as a Qualification for the Exercise or Enjoyment of any Office, Franchise, or Civil Right, the following Oath shall be taken, or taken and subscribed, as the Case may be, in lieu and instead of such substituted Oath: "I A.B. do swear, That I will be faithful and bear true Allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Victoria; and I do faithfully promise to maintain and support the Succession "to the Crown, as the same stands limited and settled by "virtue of the Act passed in the Reign of King William "the Third, intituled An Act for the further Limitation "of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liber"ties of the Subject,' and of the subsequent Acts of Union "with Scotland and Ireland. So help me God." VI. Where in the Oath hereby appointed the Name of Her present Majesty is expressed, the Name of the Sovereign of this Kingdom for the Time being, by virtue of the Act "for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject," shall be substituted from Time to Time, with proper words of Reference thereto. VII. Every Person of the Persuasion of the People called in favour of Quakers, and every other Person for the Time being by Quakers, Law permitted to make a solemn Affirmation or Declaration instead of taking an Oath, may, instead of taking and subscribing the Oath hereby appointed, make and subscribe a solemn Affirmation in the Form of the Oath hereby appointed, substituting the Words " solemnly, sincerely, and truly declare and affirm," for the Word "swear," and omitting the Words "So help me God;" and the making and subscribing such Affirmation with such Substitution as aforesaid by a Person hereby authorized to make and subsbrice the same shall have the same Effect as the making and subscribing by other Persons of the Oath hereby appointed. Short Title. VIII. This Act may be cited for all Purposes as "The Office and Oath Act, 1867." CAP. LXXX. An Act to define the Duties of the Assessor of Railways in WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Seventeenth and Vict. c. 91. Eighteenth Years of Her Majesty's Reign, Chapter Ninety- And whereas it is expedient to farther define the Duties of the Assessor of Railways in Scotland in making up the Valuation Rolls of Railways under the first-recited Act, and to amend in certain other respects the Provisions of both the recited Acts : Vict. c. 58. 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: I. This Act shall be cited for all Purposes as "The Short Valuation of Lands (Scotland) Amendment Act, 1867." Title. II. The term 66 permanent Way" in this Act shall mean Definition and include the Line or Lines of Railway, Bridges under of Term. and over the same, Viaducts, Tunnels, Fences, and Ditches along the said Lines, Signals and Apparatus connected therewith. ducted by and Canals III. In ascertaining the yearly Rent or Value in Terms One Half of the first-recited Act of the Lands and Heritages in of Expense any of mainParish, County, or Burgh belonging to or leased by any taining Railway Company, and forming Part of the Undertaking permanent Way of of such Company, One Half of the Expenses incurred in Railways maintaining or repairing the permanent Way of Railways, to be deand charged to Revenue in the published Accounts of such Assessor of Railway Company for the Year preceding that for which Railways the Valuation is made, shall be allowed by the Assessor of before fix. Railways and Canals as a Deduction before the cumulo ing cumulo yearly Rent or Value of each Railway is fixed, provided Railway. that such Assessor is satisfied that such Expenses have been truly expended in maintaining or repairing the permanent Way of each such Railway: Provided always, that the Cost of Repairs of Stations, Engine Houses, Workshops, Wharfs, Docks, Depôts, Counting Houses, and other Houses and Places of Business belonging to or leased by any Railway Company, and forming Part of the Undertaking of such Company, shall not be deemed to be Expenses to be allowed by the said Assessor in Terms of this Section. IV. Whereas the Twenty-second Section of the firstrecited Act, in providing the Mode of ascertaining the yearly Value or Rent of the Lands and Heritages in any Parish, County, or Burgh belonging to or leased by any Railway or Canal Company, and forming Part of the Value of Amend ment of Sec. 22 of 17 & 18 Vict. c. 91, as to Stations, &c. Separate to be as- each Year, to Towns General or Local is in force. Undertaking of such Company, fixed the Deduction to be made from the cumulo yearly Value or Rent of the whole. Lands and Heritages in Scotland as aforesaid of each such Railway or Canal Company in respect of the Cost of the Stations, Wharfs, Docks, Depôts, Counting Houses, and other Houses and Places of Business in Scotland, of and connected with the Undertaking of such Company, at a Sum equal to Three Pounds per centum of the whole Cost thereof: And whereas such Deduction was fixed at too small a Sum, and should for the future be increased: Be it enacted as follows: The Twenty-second Section of the first-recited Act shall be read and construed as if the Words "Five Pounds per Centum" were substituted for the Words Three Pounds per Centum" wherever these latter Words occur in the said Section of the said first-recited Act. V. The Assessor of Railways and Canals shall, if required as herein-after provided, specify and assign separately the Value of those portions of Railways included. within the Limits of Burghs, Towns, or populous Places (not being Burghs in the Sense of the Twenty-seventh Section of the first-recited Act, which Section shall remain in full Force and Effect) which have adopted or shall hereand populous Places after adopt the Provisions of the Acts of the Thirteenth in which a and Fourteenth Victoria, Chapter Thirty-three, or of the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Victoria, Chapter One Police Act hundred and one, or in which any Local Police Act is or may hereafter be in force: Provided always, that it shall not be necessary for the said Assessor to assign separately the Value of the Portions of Railways included within the Limits of any Burgh, Town, or populous Place, in Terms of this Section, unless on or before the First Day of April in each Year the Town Clerk or Clerk of the Commissioners or Trustees of Police thereof, as the Case may be, shall have required him so to assign the same; and such Town Clerk or Clerk of the Commissioners or Trustees of Police, when making such Requisition, shall be bound to state the lineal Measurement of the Portions of the Railway or Railways belonging to or leased by any Railway Company, and forming Part of the Undertaking thereof, situated within the Limits of such Burgh, Town, or populous Place, and the Assessor shall satisfy himself as to the Correctness of such Measurement; and the said Assessor, immediately on the Completion of the Valuation Roll made up by him under the recited Acts and this Act, shall transmit to each Town Clerk or Clerk of the Commissioners or Trustees of Police so requiring him as aforesaid a certified Copy of the Valuation, taken from such Valuation Roll, of the Lands and Heritages within such Burgh, Town, or populous Place, as the Case may be, belonging to or leased by and forming Part of the Undertaking of such Company; and such Valuation relating to such Company shall be engrossed by such Town Clerk or Clerk of the Commissioners or Trustees of Police, as the Case may be, in the Roll or Book of Assessment of such Burgh, Town, or populous Place made up in Terms of the Acts of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Victoria, Chapter Thirty-three, or of the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Victoria, Chapter One hundred and one, or of the Local Act in force in such Burgh, Town, or populous Place; and such Valuation shall be authenticated by the Signature of such Town Clerk or Clerk of the Commissioners or Trustees of Police, as the Case may be, and shall be thenceforward deemed and taken to be a Part of such Roll or Book of Assessment of such Burgh, Town, or populous Place, as the Case may be. VI. The Valuation Roll to be made up by the Assessor of Railways and Canals, while in the Hands of such Assessor, shall be patent and accessible to all Persons having Interest therein, and the Assessor shall, when required by any such Person, exhibit to him a Statement showing the Principles and Calculations on which the Valuation of such Assessor is founded, without Payment of any Fee; and pending the Consideration of any Appeal against the Valuation of such Assessor, he shall, if required, be bound to lodge the said Statement in Court Six Days before such Appeal is to be heard. Appeals against As Entries in VII. All Appeals or Complaints against any Entry in Time for the Valuation Rolls made up in Terms of the said recited lodging Acts and of this Act, either by the Assessors appointed by the Commissioners of Supply of any County, or by the sessor's Magistrates of any Burgh, or by the Assessor of Railways Valuation and Canals, shall, except as after provided, be lodged not later than the Tenth Day of September in each Year, and every such Appeal or Complaint shall, except as aforesaid, be heard and determined not later than the Thirtieth Day of September in each Year. VIII. The Second Section of the second-recited Act is hereby amended to the Effect of providing that hereafter the Judges to whom the Case therein referred to shall be submitted, instead of being the Senior Lord Ordinary and the Lord Ordinary officiating in Exchequer Causes in the Court of Session, shall be any Two Judges in the said Court, who shall be named for that Purpose from Time to Time by Act of Sederunt of the said Court: Provided always, that any Valuation which shall have been confirmed or altered in conformity with the Opinion of said F Roll. Sec. 2 of 20 & 21 Vict. c. 58 amended as herein stated. Liability to Assess ment not to be altered by this Act. Printing of Roll. Partial Commencement of Act. Judges shall thereafter be final and not subject to Review in any manner of way. IX. Nothing contained in this Act shall alter or affect any Classification or Power of Classification, or any Deduction or Allowances, or Power of making Deductions or Allowances from gross Rental or annual Value, made or possessed by any Body, Persons or Person, entitled to impose or levy Assessments, except that in estimating the Amount of such Deductions or Allowances there shall not be allowed or included therein the Proportion of the Expenses of maintaining or repairing the permanent Way of Railways to be allowed by the Assessor of Railways and Canals in Terms of Section Third of this Act; and nothing contained in this Section shall affect the Value to be inserted in the Valuation Roll of Railways and Canals in Terms of this Act; and nothing contained in this Act shall exempt from or render liable to Assessment any Person or Property not previously exempt from or liable to Assess ment. X. It shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Supply of any County, or the Magistrates of any Burgh to resolve at any Meeting of their Number, ordinary or special, duly called, and by a Majority of those attending and voting, that the Valuation Roll of such County or Burgh for the current Year shall be printed; and the Expenses of such Printing shall be deemed to be Part of the Expenses of making up such Roll in Terms of the Eighteenth Section of the first-recited Act, and shall be assessed for and levied accordingly: Provided always, that Notice of the Intention to move such Resolution shall be inserted in the Notice calling the Meeting at which it is to be moved. XI. The recited Acts, and all other Laws, Statutes, and Usages, shall be and the same are hereby repealed, in so far as necessary to give Effect to the Provisions of this Act, but in all other respects they shall remain in full Force and Effect. XII. The First Valuation Rolls made up under the said recited Acts and this Act shall be for the Year from Whit Sunday One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven to Whit Sunday One thousand eight hundred and sixtyeight Provided always, that for such Year only the Time allowed to the Assessor of Railways and Canals for making up his Valuation Roll, and transmitting Copies thereof to each Railway, Canal, and other Company, shall be and is hereby extended to the Fifteenth Day of September next; the Time for complaining to the said Assessor, or lodging a Note of Appeal to the Lord Ordinary officiating on the Bills, or to the Sheriff, as the Case may be, against any |