1. Appropriation of fund to Charing Cross and other improvements. An Act to authorise the appropriation Parliament to, the execution of improvements Be it therefore enacted by the King's most tion of fund provements 1. The said fund may be applied by the Appropria Commissioners of Works towards the opening to Charing of the Mall into Charing Cross and other works Cross and connected therewith, and if any residue remains other imit may be applied by the Commissioners, with the sanction of the Treasury, to such other improvements in the metropolis or its neighbourhood as they may think fit. 2. This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Short titles, Improvements (Funds) Act, 1904, and the above recited Act may be cited as the Battersea Park Act, 1851. CHAP. 3. Telegraph (Money) Act, 1904. ABSTRACT OF THE ENACTMENTS. 1. Grant of 3,000,000l. for the purpose of the Telegraph Acts. An Act to provide for raising further [29th March 1904.] BE it enacted by the King'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: An Act to amend the Wild Birds Protection Acts. [28th April 1904.] BE it enacted by the King'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:and 1. From and after the passing of this Act every person who, on any pole, tree, or cairn of stones or earth, shall affix, place, or set any spring, trap, gin, or other similar instrument calculated to cause bodily injury to any wild bird coming in contact therewith, and every person who shall knowingly permit or suffer or Amendments of Army Act. 4. Amendment of 44 & 45 Vict. c. 58. 8. 46, as to appeals from commanding officers. 5. Amendment of 44 & 45 Vict. c. 58. 8. 83, as to commutation of punishments. 6. Amendment of 44 & 45 Vict. c. 58. 88. 95 and 190, as to enlistment of aliens, &c. 7. Amendment of 44 & 45 Vict. c. 58. 8. 137, as to stoppages from pay of officers. 8. Amendment of 44 & 45 Vict. c. 58. 8. 145 (2) as to compulsory stoppage of pay for maintenance orders. 1. Appropriation of fund to Charing Cross and other improvements. An Act to authorise the appropriation Parliament to, the execution of improvements Be it therefore enacted by the King's most tion of fund provements 1. The said fund may be applied by the Appropria Commissioners of Works towards the opening to Charing of the Mall into Charing Cross and other works Cross and connected therewith, and if any residue remains other imit may be applied by the Commissioners, with the sanction of the Treasury, to such other im. provements in the metropolis or its neighbourhood as they may think fit. 2. This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Short titles, Improvements (Funds) Act, 1904, and the above recited Act may be cited as the Battersea Park Act, 1851. СНАР. 3. Telegraph (Money) Act, 1904. ABSTRACT OF THE ENACTMENTS. 1. Grant of 3,000,000l. for the purpose of the Telegraph Acts. An Act to provide for raising further [29th March 1904.] BE it enacted by the King'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: An Act to amend the Wild Birds Protection Acts. [28th April 1904.] BE it enacted by the King'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:ces and 1. From and after the passing of this Act every person who, on any pole, tree, or cairn of stones or earth, shall affix, place, or set any spring, trap, gin, or other similar instrument calculated to cause bodily injury to any wild bird coming in contact therewith, and every person who shall knowingly permit or suffer or Amendments of Army Act. 4. Amendment of 44 & 45 Vict. c. 58. s. 46, as to appeals from commanding officers. 5. Amendment of 44 & 45 Vict. c. 58. 8. 83, as to commutation of punishments. 6. Amendment of 44 & 45 Vict. c. 58. 88. 95 and 190, as to enlistment of aliens, &c. 7. Amendment of 44 & 45 Vict. c. 58. 8. 137, as to stoppages from pay of officers. 8. Amendment of 44 & 45 Vict. c. 58. 8. 145 (2) as to compulsory stoppage of pay for maintenance orders. A.D. 1904. 9. Extension of 44 & 45 Vict. c. 58. s. 156 (9) to bounties. 12. Amendment of 44 & 45 Vict. c. 58. s. 182_2), as to sentences on warrant officers. 14. Date on which amendments to Army Act are to come into operation. An Act to provide, during Twelve WHEREAS the raising or keeping of a stand- And whereas it is adjudged necessary by His Majesty and this present Parliament that a body of forces should be continued for the safety of the United Kingdom and the defence of the possessions of His Majesty's Crown, and that the whole number of such forces should consist of two hundred and twentyseven thousand including those to be employed at the depôts in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the training of recruits for service at home and abroad, but exclusive of the numbers actually serving within His Majesty's Indian possessions: And whereas it is also judged necessary for the safety of the United Kingdom, and the defence of the possessions of this realm, that a body of Royal Marine forces should be employed in His Majesty's fleet and naval service, under the direction of the Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom, or the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral aforesaid: And whereas the said marine forces may frequently be quartered or be on shore, or sent to do duty or be on board transport ships or vessels, merchant ships or vessels, or other ships or vessels, or they may be under other circumstances in which they will not be subject to the laws relating to the government of His Majesty's forces by sea: And whereas no man can be forejudged of life or limb, or subjected in time of peace to any kind of punishment within this realm, by martial law, or in any other manner than by the judgment of his peers and according to the known and established laws of this realm; yet nevertheless, it being requisite, for the retaining all the before-mentioned forces, and other persons subject to military law, in their duty, that an exact discipline be observed, and that persons belonging to the said forces who mutiny or stir up sedition, or desert His usual forms of the law will allow : A.D. 1904. And whereas the Army Act will expire in 44 & 45 Vict. (a) In the United Kingdom, the Channel (b) Elsewhere in Europe, inclusive of Malta, (c) Elsewhere, whether within or without Be it therefore enacted by the King's most 1. This Act may be cited as the Army Short title. (Annual) Act, 1904. to be in 2.-(1) The Army Act shall be and remain Army Act in force during the periods herein-after men- force for tioned, and no longer, unless otherwise pro- specified vided by Parliament (that is to say) : (a) Within the United Kingdom, the (2) The Army Act, while in force, shall ap- times. |