Provisional Order Confirmation (Glasgow). A.D. 1877. vouchers, and minutes of the magistrates and council and their committees, and shall receive effect in the same way, and to the same extent as they would have done in any question or proceeding to which the board of police of Glasgow might have been parties if the Act confirming this Order had not been passed: 5 (9.) The several accounts of the pecuniary transactions of the magistrates and council, as in place of the board of police, shall be kept distinct from those of the affairs of the corporation of the city and of the other trusts under the administration of the magistrates and council, and shall be closed, balanced, audited, reported on, inspected, and annually published in the way 10 and manner prescribed by "The Glasgow Police Act, 1866," as hereby amended: (10.) Nothing herein contained shall confer or impose upon the town-clerk of Glasgow the right, duty or obligation, to act as clerk or agent of the magistrates and council in relation to the administration of "The Glasgow 15 Police Acts, 1866, 1872, 1873, 1875, and 1877," nor affect in any respect (except in so far as is herein expressly authorised), the rights, duties, and obligations of the magistrates and council or of the town-clerk of Glasgow under "The Glasgow Municipal Act, 1872" and the existing arrangement between them. But the magistrates and council may, from time to time, 20 anything in "The Glasgow Police Act, 1866," and in "The Glasgow Municipal Act, 1872," to the contrary notwithstanding, enter into such arrangements with the present or any future town-clerk as they may think proper, under which the said town-clerk may by himself, or by his deputies or assistants, act as such clerk or agent, or perform such other business connected with the 25 police of the city, as the magistrates and council may intrust to him. (11.) Section 18 of the "Glasgow Police Act, 1866," is hereby amended to the effect of substituting for the word "seven " the word "fourteen." (12.) Section 67 of the "Glasgow Police Act, 1866," is hereby amended to the effect of substituting for the words "a procurator-fiscal, who may, if appointed 30 by the board, act as their clerk," the following words, "one or more pro"curators-fiscal of police, or one procurator-fiscal of police and one or more "assistant procurators-fiscal of police, and a procurator-fiscal of the Dean of "Guild Court which last named shall act exclusively in all cases before the "said court for the enforcement of the provisions of 'The Glasgow Police 35 Acts, 1866, 1872, 1873, 1875, and 1877,' and any Acts amending the same; "Provided always that one person may be appointed to the office of procurator-fiscal or assistant procurator-fiscal of police and also of procurator"fiscal of the Dean of Guild Court." And in construing The Glasgow Police Act, 1866," "The Glasgow Municipal Act, 1872," "The Glasgow Police Act, 40 1873," "The Glasgow Police Act, 1875," and "The Glasgow Police Act, 1877," the expression "the procurator-fiscal" wherever used therein shall mean the procurator-fiscal or any one of the procurators-fiscal or assistant procuratorsfiscal appointed under the provisions of "The Glasgow Police Act, 1866,” as hereby amended, and the expression "the fiscal" wherever used therein shall 45 mean any one of such procurators-fiscal or assistant procurators-fiscal or Provisional Order Confirmation (Glasgow). other persons authorised to act as procurator-fiscal in the absence of the A.D. 1877. procurator-fiscal, or of any procurator-fiscal, or assistant procurator-fiscal. (13.) In the event of more than one procurator-fiscal of police being appointed under the provisions of "The Glasgow Police Act, 1866," as hereby amended 5 or of one procurator-fiscal of police and one or more assistant procurators-fiscal of police being so appointed, the magistrates' committee appointed under the said Act may, from time to time, assign to each procurator-fiscal of police, or assistant procurator-fiscal of police, the police court or police courts in which he shall give ordinary attendance and perform the duties of the office: Pro10 vided always, that in the absence of the procurator-fiscal of police, or assistant procurator-fiscal of police from the court to which he may have been so assigned, his duties may be performed by any of the other procurators-fiscal of police or assistant procurators-fiscal of police. Any assistant procurator-fiscal of police so appointed may, in the absence of the procurator-fiscal of police, if only 15 one procurator-fiscal of police is appointed, or in the absence of any procuratorfiscal of police, if more than one is appointed, act in his stead and name: and in the absence of a procurator-fiscal of police or assistant procurator-fiscal of police, the chief constable, or any superintendent or lieutenant, may act in the stead and name of the procurator-fiscal of police, either at the first or at any 20 adjourned diet, but the procurator-fiscal of police shall not be responsible for his acts. (14.) The provisions of "The Petroleum Act, 1871," (34 & 35 Vict., c. 104), and of "The Explosives Act, 1875" (38 Vict. c. 17), in so far as they confer on the town council of the city and royal burgh of Glasgow the 25 power to grant licenses, and otherwise to carry into effect the provisions of the said Acts, shall be exercised by the magistrates' committee appointed under "The Glasgow Police Act, 1866," as hereby amended, and the said committee shall also have and possess as regards the said Acts all the powers conferred upon them by "The Glasgow Police Act, 1866," with reference to 30 the Act 23 & 24 Vict. c. 139. (15.) Sections 275, 276, 295, 303, 309, 322, 325, 341, 380, 381, 382, and 383 of "The Glasgow Police Act, 1866," shall hereafter be read as if the words "the procurator-fiscal of the Dean of Guild Court appointed by the magistrates and council" were substituted for the words, "the procurator35 fiscal," wherever the latter words are used therein. 40 (16.) For the purpose of executing the provisions of "The Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1875," within the city and royal burgh of Glasgow, the term "sheriff" in the 33rd Section of the said Act shall include the "police "magistrate of the city and royal burgh appointed under the provisions of "the Act 38 & 39 Vict. c. 81." (17.) Section 8. of "The Glasgow Corporation Waterworks Act, 1855," (18 & 19 Vict. c. 118), is hereby repealed, and from and after the passing of the Act confirming this Order, the magistrates and council of the city of Glasgow, as commissioners appointed under the said Act, shall have power Provisional Order Confirmation (Glasgow). A.D. 1877. at any meeting, from time to time, to appoint a committee of their own number for transacting the business of the commissioners, or such portion thereof as they may specially define; and the commissioners may name a convener, and sub-convener, and fix the quorum of such committee, and may continue, alter, or discontinue such committee. And the committee so 5 appointed may appoint sub-committees of their number. And the minutes and proceedings of such committee or sub-committees shall be reported to the commissioners at such time and in such manner as the commissioners may from time to time direct. And wherever the expression "water committee," or "the committee," is used in "The Glasgow Corporation Waterworks Act, 10 1855," "The Glasgow Corporation Waterworks Amendment Act, 1859," "The Glasgow Corporation Waterworks Amendment Act, 1860," "The Glasgow Corporation Waterworks Amendment Act, 1865," "The Glasgow Corporation Waterworks Amendment Act, 1866," "The Glasgow Corporation Waterworks Amendment Act, 1873," and "The Glasgow Corporation Water- 15 works Amendment Act, 1877," the same shall be held to mean the committee appointed under the provisions hereof. (18.) Notwithstanding the provisions of the Act passed in the third and fourth years of the reign of King William the Fourth, chapter seventy-six, and the other Acts relating to municipal elections in burghs in Scotland, it shall be 20 sufficient that the notices of the annual municipal elections in the burgh of Glasgow shall be affixed to or near the door of the cathedral church of St. Mungo within the said burgh, and that they be also inserted at least once in one of the newspapers published in Glasgow; and the appointment by the Lord Provost or senior magistrate for the time being of the said burgh of 25 Glasgow immediately before any annual municipal election therein of legal substitutes to preside at the polling places, and of persons to officiate as poll clerks in the several wards at such elections shall be valid, notwithstanding such Lord Provost or senior magistrate shall have respectively ceased to hold office after the making of such appointments, and before the elections in respect of which 30 such appointments were made. SCHEDULE referred to in SECTION 2 of this ORDER. The Glasgow Police Act, 1866. (29 & 30 Vict. cap. 273.) Section 4, in so far as it defines the meaning of the expressions "the procurator- 35 Section 6, in so far as it vests the general power and duty of carrying into effect the Sections 7, 8, 9, and 10. Provisional Order Confirmation (Glasgow). Section 12, the words "provided one of the magistrates be a member of each such A.D. 1877. committee." Section 13, the words, "as ex officiis members of the board." Section 19. 5 Section 27, the words "and to each member of the town council of Glasgow." Given under my hand and Seal at Whitehall, this fourteenth day of |