CHAPTER 38. AN ACT to amend an Act passed in the fifth year of the reign of His WHEREAS it is expedient to amend an Act passed in the fifth year of the 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: 1. THIS Act may be cited for all purposes as the Vagrant Act Amendment Short title. Act, 1873. 2. THIS Act and the recited Act shall be construed as one Act. Construction of provisions to gaming with coin, &c. 3. EVERY person playing or betting by way of wagering or gaming in any Extending street, road, highway, or other open and public place, or in any open place to which the public have or are permitted to have access, at or with any table or instrument of gaming, or any coin, card, token, or other article used as an instrument or means of such wagering or gaming, at any game or pretended game of chance, shall be deemed a rogue and vagabond within the true intent and meaning of the recited Act, and as such may be convicted and punished under the provisions of that Act, or, in the discretion of the justice or justices trying the case, in lieu of such punishment, by a penalty for the first offence not exceeding forty shillings, and for the second or any subsequent offence not exceeding five pounds. 4. THIS Act shall commence and take effect on and after the first day of CommenceOctober one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three. ment of Act. CHAPTER 39. AN ACT to amend the Act of the third and fourth years of Victoria, chapter one hundred and thirteen, for the Regulation of Cathedrals, and to facilitate the Endowment of Canonries by private benefaction. [21st July 1873.] c. 113. WHEREAS by the Act of the third and fourth years of the reign of Her 3 & 4 Vict. Majesty, chapter one hundred and thirteen, intituled "An Act to carry "into effect with certain modifications the fourth Report of the Commissioners "of Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues," and in the twentieth section it was enacted as follows: "A plan may from time to time be laid before the Ecclesiastical Commissioners "for England by any of the said chapters of the several cathedral and collegiate churches, with the sanction of the visitors of the said churches 6 & 7 Vict. c. 77. Plans for reestablishing suspended canonries laid before Eccle missioners need not pro respectively, for removing the suspension from and re-establishing any canonry or canonries which shall have been suspended by or under the provisions of this Act by assigning towards the re-endowment of any such canonry or canonries a portion of the divisible corporate revenues remaining "to the said chapters respectively, after paying to the said Ecclesiastical "Commissioners the profits or emoluments accruing to the said Commissioners "from the suspended canonry or canonries, so that the profits and emoluments "of such suspended canonry or canonries be not diminished by the removal "of such suspension, and also by accepting and assigning for the same purpose "any further endowment in money, or in lands, tithes, or other hereditaments, "such lands, tithes, or other hereditaments not exceeding in yearly value the "sum of two hundred pounds for each canonry from which the suspension "shall have been so removed, and also by annexing to any such canonry from. which the suspension shall have been so removed any suitable benefice or "other preferment in the patronage of the said chapters respectively, or of "any other patron with the consent of such patron, and where any Bishop is patron, with the consent of the Archbishop, and any such plan may be "carried into effect by the authority herein-after provided, and such alterations may be made in the existing statutes and rules of the said chapters respectively, as the case may require, under the authority herein provided for making alterations in existing statutes:" " And whereas an Act was passed in the sixth and seventh years of the reign of Her Majesty, chapter seventy-seven, intituled "An Act for regulating the "Cathedral Churches of Wales: " 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: 1. In any plan that may from time to time be laid before the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England by any of the chapters of the several cathedral and collegiate churches mentioned in the said recited Acts, with the sanction siastical Com- of the visitors of the said churches respectively, for removing the suspension from and re-establishing any canonry or canonries which shall have been suspended by or under the provisions of the said recited Acts, it shall not be necessary to have any proposal for assigning towards the re-endowment of any such canonry or canonries a portion of the divisible corporate revenues remaining to the said chapters respectively, and any plan not containing any such proposal may be carried into effect by the authority in the said firstrecited Act provided. pose to appro priate any portion of corporate revenues of chapter. Plans may be laid before the said Commis establishment of additional canonries. 2. WHEN in any of the cathedral and collegiate churches mentioned in the said recited Acts there are no suspended canonries, or the suspended sioners for the canonries have been re-established, a plan may from time to time be laid before the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners by the chapter, with the sanction of the visitor, for the establishment therein of an additional canonry or canonries, or for the conversion of a non-residentiary prebend or nonresidentiary prebends into a canonry or canonries, and for accepting and assigning for the endowment of the same any endowment in money or land given by a private person or persons, and any such plan may be carried into effect by the authority in the said first-recited Act provided. 3. ANY plan laid before the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners under this Plans may conAct may contain proposals for assigning to the holder or holders of the canonry for assigning tain proposals or canonries so re-established, additionally established, or converted from a duties, fixing residence, &c. non-residentiary prebend or non-residentiary prebends, any spiritual, ecclesiastical, eleemosynary, or educational duties for the benefit of the Church of England and in connexion with the diocese in which the cathedral or collegiate church is situate, and for fixing the residence of such holder or holders and his or their participation in the conduct of divine service, and in preaching in the said cathedral or collegiate church, and for limiting the tenure of the canonry or canonries to a term or terms of years and for making this tenure dependent upon the performance of the duties assigned to the holder or holders, and for determining the patronage of the canonry or canonries, or for any one or more of the above-mentioned objects; provided always, that the patronage shall vest in Her Majesty or the Bishop of the diocese, unless in the case of a canonry which is attached to some already existing ecclesiastical or spiritual office. Where the patronage is not determined, or in so far as it is not determined in the plan, it shall vest in the Bishop of the diocese in which the said cathedral or collegiate church is locally situate. No holder of any canonry under this Act shall be bound to any other or further residence than is prescribed in the plan. canonries. 4. ANY plan laid before the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners under this Provision to Act for the establishment of an additional canonry, or for the conversion of rights of membership of a non-residentiary prebend into a canonry, may contain proposals for giving holders of such to the holder of such canonry such rights of membership of the chapter of the said cathedral or collegiate church as may be thought advisable, or the position in the said chapter of an honorary canon only; or, in the case of cathedral or collegiate churches having non-residentiary prebends, may contain proposals for constituting such holder a non-residentiary prebendary, and in all cases such holder shall be visitable by the visitor of the chapter. 5. THIS Act shall be construed with and as part of the said first-recited Construction of Act, and may be cited as the Cathedral Acts Amendment Act, 1873. Act. Short title. CHAPTER 41. AN ACT to amend the Public Schools Act, 1868, as to the Property of [21st July 1873.] WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Public Schools Act, 1868, and 31 & 32 Vict. Acts amending the same, as to Shrewsbury and Harrow Schools: 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: c. 118. 1. THIS Act may be cited for all purposes as the Public Schools (Shrewsbury Short title. and Harrow Schools Property) Act, 1873. 2. THE term "old corporation" shall mean, with Interpretation reference to Harrow School the corporate body entitled "The Keepers and Governors of the Possessions, Revenues, and Goods of the Free Grammar School of John Lyon, within the town of Harrow-on-the-Hill." of terms. Incorporation of new governing body of Harrow School. 5. THE new governing body of Harrow School shall from and after the dissolution of the old corporation be deemed to be incorporated by the name of "The Keepers and Governors of the Possessions, Revenues, and Goods of "the Free Grammar School of John Lyon, within the town of Harrow-onthe-Hill in the county of Middlesex," and shall be entitled to use as their common seal the seal of the old corporation. Restriction of provisions re CHAPTER 42. AN ACT for amending the Tithe Commutation Acts with respect to Market WHEREAS by the Tithe Commutation Acts (described in the Schedule to this Act) provision is made for the commutation into a permanent rentcharge of the tithes leviable in the several parishes in England and Wales: And whereas it is expedient to amend the said Acts in respect of the sections of such Acts in the said Schedule particularly mentioned: 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: 1. So much of such sections, and of the powers therein contained conferred specting market on the Tithe Commissioners, as provide for the charging of an additional gardens newly rentcharge by way of extraordinary charge on market gardens newly cultivated as such, shall extend and apply only to a parish in which an extraordinary charge for market gardens was distinguished at the time of commutation. cultivated. Construction of 3. THIS Act shall be construed and have effect as one Act with the Tithe Commutation Acts, and may be cited as the Tithe Commutation Acts. Amendment Act, 1873. The SCHEDULE. THE TITHE COMMUTATION ACTS. Session, Chapter, and Title. Sections relating specially to Market Gardens. 6 & 7 Will. 4. c. 71. An Act for the Commutation of Tithes 7 Will. 4. & 1 Vict. c. 69. An Act to amend an Act for the 2 & 3 Vict. c. 62. An Act to explain and amend the Acts for Sections forty and forty-two. Sections twenty-six to thirty-three, inclusive. Sections eighteen and nineteen. Sections relating specially Session, Chapter, and Title. 9 & 10 Vict. c. 73. An Act further to amend the Acts for 14 & 15 Vict. c. 53. An Act to consolidate and continue the 23 & 24 Vict. c. 93. An Act to amend and further extend the Acts for the Commutation of Tithes in England and Wales. to Market Gardens. Section forty-two. CHAPTER 43. AN ACT to enable Indian Railway Companies to issue and register Shares and 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; (that is to say,) pany may estaRailway Comblish offices in India for the issue and regis tration of shares. 1. EVERY Company now formed, or which shall hereafter be formed, whether Every Indian by amalgamation or otherwise, for constructing, maintaining, and working railways in India, may establish at such places in India as they think fit an office for the issue, registration, and transfer of shares, stock, bonds, and securities of the Company, and the registration of transfers of shares, stock, bonds, and securities, and the registration of shareholders, and may from time to time remove or alter the place of any such office, and may make such regulations, consistent with the provisions of this Act, as they think fit, for enabling and facilitating the issue, registration, and transfer of shares, stock, bonds, and securities, and the registration of transfers of shares, stock, bonds, and securities, and the registration of shareholders at such office, and all and every the powers and provisions in relation to the issue, transfer, and registration of shares, stock, bonds, and securities, and the registration of transfers of shares, stock, bonds, and securities, and the registration of shareholders in Great Britain, contained in any deed of settlement or Act of Parliament under or by which the Company shall be constituted or governed, shall apply and be in force as to the shares, stock, bonds, and securities, and the registration of transfers thereof, and the registration of shareholders, to be issued, transferred, registered and made at such office in India, except so far as the same are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act. 2. EVERY such Company may keep at their office in India books to be Registers to be called respectively "The India Register of Shareholders," "The India Register kept in India. "of Holders of Consolidated Stock," "The India Shareholders Address Book," "The India Register of Transfers," and also books for the registration of |