Fourthly. Shackles, bolts, or handcuffs. Fifthly. A larger quantity of water in casks or in tanks than is requisite for the consumption of the crew of the vessel as a merchant vessel. Sixthly. An extraordinary number of water casks or of other vessels for holding liquid, unless the master shall produce a certificate from the custom house at the place from which he cleared outwards, stating that a sufficient security had been given by the owners of such vessel that such extra quantity of casks or of other vessels should only be used for the reception of palm oil, or for other purposes of lawful commerce. Seventhly. A greater quantity of mess tubs or kids than are requisite for the use of the crew of the vessel as a merchant vessel. Eighthly. A boiler or other cooking apparatus of an unusual size, and larger or fitted for being or capable of being made larger than requisite for the use of the crew of the vessel as a merchant vessel, or more than one boiler or other cooking apparatus of the ordinary size. Ninthly.—An extraordinary quantity either of rice or of the flour of Brazil, manioc, or cassada, commonly called farinha, of maize or of Indian corn, or of any other article of food whatever, beyond what might probably be requisite for the use of the crew, such rice, flour, maize, Indian corn, or other article of food not being entered on the manifest as part of the cargo for trade. Tenthly. A quantity of mats or matting larger than is necessary for the use of the crew of the vessel as a merchant vessel. Eleventhly. Any other equipment, article, or thing, which is declared by any existing slave trade treaty to be primâ facie evidence of a vessel being engaged in the slave trade. CHAPTER 89. AN ACT to extend and amend the provisions of the Gas and Water Works BE E 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: 1. THIS Act may be cited for all purposes as the Gas and Water Works Short title. Facilities Act, 1870, Amendment Act, 1873. Board of Trade to revoke, 12. WHERE under the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act, 1870, or this Power of Act, the Board of Trade have made any Provisional Order, they may from time to time revoke, amend, extend, or vary such Provisional Order by a amend, extend, further Provisional Order. Every application for such further Provisional Order shall be made in like manner and subject to the like conditions as the application for the former Provisional Order. Every such further Provisional Order shall be made and confirmed in like manner in every respect as the former Provisional Order. 13. WHERE, in relation to any application for a Provisional Order under the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act, 1870, or under this Act, it is in the opinion of the Board of Trade expedient that an inquiry should be held, they or vary Provisional Order. 33 & 34 Vict. c. 70. Authorising inquiries by the and regulating Board of Trade for purposes of 33 & 34 Vict. c. 70. and this Act. Rules for carrying Acts into effect. Act not to extend to Metropolis. 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120. Act (1870) Amendment. may order and direct such inquiry to be held at such time and place as they may think proper, subject to the provisions following: 1. The inquiry shall be held in public before an officer or officers to be appointed in that behalf by the Board of Trade, herein-after called the Commissioner or Commissioners: 2. Ten days notice at the least shall be given by the Commissioner or Commissioners of the time and place at which the inquiry is to be commenced: 3. The inquiry shall be commenced at the time and place so appointed, and the Commissioner or Commissioners may adjourn the inquiry from time to time as may be necessary to such time and place as he or they may think fit: 4. The Commissioner or Commissioners by summons shall, on the application of any party interested in the inquiry, require the attendance before him or them, at a place and time to be mentioned in the summons, of any person to be examined as a witness before him or them, and every person summoned shall attend the Commissioner or Commissioners, and answer all questions touching the matter to be inquired into, and any person who wilfully disobeys any such summons or refuses to answer any question put to him by the Commissioner or one of the Commissioners for the purposes of the said inquiry shall, on summary conviction before two justices, or in Scotland before any sheriff or sheriff substitute, be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds: Provided always, that no person shall be required to attend in obedience to any such summons unless the reasonable charges of his attendance shall have been paid or tendered to him, and no person shall be required in any case in obedience to any such summons to travel more than ten miles from his place of abode : 5. The Commissioner or Commissioners shall make a report to the Board of Trade in writing, and shall deliver copies of the report upon request to all or any of the parties to the inquiry. 14. THE Board of Trade may from time to time make, and, when made, may rescind, annul, or add to, rules with respect to the following matters: The proceedings to be had before the Board under the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act, 1870, or this Act; and As to any other matter or thing in respect of which it may be expedient to make rules for the purpose of carrying the said Act or this Act into execution. Any rules made in pursuance of this section shall be deemed to be within the powers conferred by the said Act or this Act, and shall be of the same force as if enacted in the said Act or this Act, and shall be judicially noticed. Any rules made in pursuance of this section shall be laid before Parliament within three weeks after they are made, if Parliament be then sitting, and if Parliament be not then sitting, within three weeks after the beginning of the then next session of Parliament. 15. THIS Act shall not apply to any place within the Metropolis as the same is defined in the Metropolis Management Act, 1855. CHAPTER 90. AN ACT to continue certain Turnpike Acts in Great Britain, to repeal certain other Turnpike Acts, and for other purposes connected therewith. [5th August 1873.] 13. So much of the thirty-ninth section of the Act of the session of the fourth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, chapter ninety-five, as requires that no order or determination at a meeting of the trustees or commissioners of any turnpike road once made, agreed upon, or entered into shall be revoked or altered at any subsequent meeting, unless such revocation or alteration shall be agreed to be made by a greater number of trustees or commissioners than concurred in the making of any such order or determination, is hereby repealed. Provided that no such order or determination shall be revoked or altered at any subsequent meeting unless notice in writing, signed by the clerk to the trustees or commissioners, of the intention to make such revocation or alteration has been sent by post or delivered to all the trustees or commissioners at least seven days before the meeting at which such revocation or alteration is made. Repeal (in part) of 4 G. 4. c. 95. s. 39. 3 G. 4. c. 126. 8. 55. 14. WHERE a turnpike trust is about to expire, and the tolls are let for a Amendment of term which will expire before the termination of the trust, it shall be lawful for the trustees of such turnpike trust to arrange with the lessee of the tolls for an extension of the term for which such tolls have been let, until the period appointed for the expiration of the trust, not exceeding twelve months, notwithstanding the provision of the fifty-fifth section of the Act passed in the third year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, chapter one hundred and twenty-six, limiting the lease of such tolls to three years. Government Board to assess value of debts (turnpike trusts). 15. IF any highway board or other local authority shall be desirous of Power to Local taking upon themselves the maintenance and repair of the roads of any turnpike trusts within or passing through their districts, such highway board or other local authority may, if not less than one half in length of such road is within the district, apply to the Local Government Board to determine the value of the existing debt and other liabilities of such turnpike trust, and the Local Government Board may, by order made after such inquiry and the publication of such notice as they may think sufficient, determine the value of such debt and liabilities; and the trustees and other persons interested in such debt and liabilities shall accept a sum equivalent to the value so determined as a full and complete discharge of such debt and liabilities; and, from and after a day to be fixed by the said Local Government Board, no tolls shall be levied on the roads theretofore included within the district of such turnpike trust; and in case the said turnpike trust shall extend beyond the district of the highway board or local authority making the application as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the said Local Government Board to apportion. the value of the debts and liabilities of such turnpike trust, so determined as aforesaid, between the several local authorities through whose districts the roads of such turnpike trust extend, and each such local authority shall raise and pay to the trustees the amount apportioned to such authority. VOL. XVII, M Power to raise money for abolition of tolls. c. 101. Provided that an order made under this section shall not take effect until the expiration of one calendar month after the same has been published in the London Gazette and some local newspaper circulating in the locality of the turnpike trust affected thereby; and if two-thirds in number and value of the creditors of the trust shall give notice in writing to the Local Government Board, before such order takes effect, that they object to the same, the order shall be provisional only, and shall not come into operation until it has been confirmed by Parliament. 16. THE abolition of the tolls on a turnpike road in consequence of any such order as aforesaid, shall in the case of a highway district be deemed to be an improvement of highways within the meaning of sections forty-seven, 27 & 28 Vict. forty-eight, and fifty of the Highway Act, 1864, and for such purpose the highway board may borrow money in accordance with the provisions of those sections, subject to the following provisions, viz.: That the improvements shall be deemed to be on behalf of all the parishes within the district, and each parish shall contribute thereto in the same proportion as it contributes to the district fund. Short title. 17. THIS Act may be cited for all purposes as the Annual Turnpike Acts Continuance Act, 1873. 37 & 38 VICTORIA. A.D. 1874. STATUTES MADE AT THE PARLIAMENT BEGUN AND HOLDEN AT WESTMINSTER, THE FIFTH DAY OF IN THE THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA, CHAPTER 3. AN ACT to enable the Secretary of State in Council of India to raise Money WE HEREAS the exigencies of the public service in India require that the Secretary of State in Council of India should be enabled to raise money in the United Kingdom on the credit of the revenues of India : 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, as follows: Power to the State in India to raise any sum not 1. It shall be lawful for the Secretary of State in Council of India, at any time or times before the thirtieth day of April one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, or, if Parliament be then sitting, before the end of the then session of Parliament, to raise in the United Kingdom, for the service of the Government of India, any sum or sums of money not exceeding in the whole exceeding 10,000,000l. ten millions of pounds sterling, and such sum or sums may be raised by the creation and issue of bonds or debentures, or capital stock bearing interest, or annuities, or partly by one of such modes and partly by another or others. 2. ALL bonds issued under the authority of this Act may be issued under the hands of two members of the Council of India, and countersigned by the Secretary of State for India, or one of his under secretaries, or his assistant under secretary, and shall be for such respective amounts, payable after such notice, and at such rate or rates of interest as the said Secretary of State in Council may think fit. Bonds may be issued under the hands of two members of the Council, and countersigned by Secretary of State. 3. ALL debentures issued under the authority of this Act may be issued Debentures under the hands of two members of the Council, and countersigned as afore- may be issued. said, for such respective amounts, and at such rate or rates of interest, as the Secretary of State in Council may think fit, and shall be issued at or for such prices and on such terms as may be determined by the Secretary of State in Council, 4. ALL debentures issued under the authority of this Act shall be paid off at par at a time or times to be mentioned in such debentures respectively; and the interest on all such debentures shall be paid half-yearly on such days As to payment of principal and interest on debentures. |