By this ACT, After reciting the passing of 9 & 10 Vict. c. 74, and that it is expedient to afford additional facilities for the establishment of public baths and wash-houses and open bathing-places, It is Enacted, 1. That the recited Act, as amended by this Act, and this Act shall be construed and be carried into execution as one Act. 11. That the following words and expressions in the recited Act shall have in the said Act and this Act the several meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction; (that is to say,) "Parish" shall mean not only every place having separate overseers of the poor and separately maintaining its own poor, but also every place maintaining its own poor and having a vestry: "Rate-payers" shall mean all persons for the time being assessed to and paying rates for the relief of the poor of the parish: "Vestry" shall mean not only a vestry as defined in the said Act, but also any body of persons, by whatever name distinguished, acting by virtue of any Act of Parliament, prescription, custom, or otherwise as or instead of a vestry or select vestry. III. That when any person shall have been appointed to the office of Commissioners of Public Baths and Wash-houses for any parish before the passing of this Act, the recited Act shall be deemed to have been duly adopted for such parish notwithstanding that there may have been any defect or irregularity in or in any way concerning such adoption; and all acts and proceedings of any person in possession of the office of such Commissioner, and acting in good faith as such Commissioner, whether appointed before or after the passing of this Act, shall, notwithstanding his disqualification or want of qualification for or any defect or irregularity in or in any way concerning his appointment to such office, be as valid and effectual as if he were duly qualified or there had not been any such defect or irregularity. IV. That the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, shall be incorporated with the recited Act and this Act: Provided always, that the Council and Commissioners respectively shall not purchase or take any lands otherwise than by agreement. v. That the number of washing tubs or troughs for the labouring classes in any building or buildings under the management of the same Council or Commissioners shall not be less than twice the number of the washing tubs or troughs of any higher class, if but one, or of all the higher classes if more than one, in the same building or buildings. VI. That so much of the recited Act as enacts that the Council and Commissioners respectively may make such reasonable charges for the use of the baths and wash-houses and open bathing-places as they think fit, not exceeding such charges as are mentioned in the Schedule (B.) to that Act, shall be repealed. VII. That the Council and the Commissioners respectively may from time to time make such reasonable charges for the use of the baths and wash-houses and open bathing-places provided under the recited Act and this Act respectively as they think fit, not exceeding the charges mentioned in the Schedule annexed to this Act. VIII. That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this session of Parliament. SCHEDULE to which this Act refers. Charges for the Baths and Wash-houses and open Bathing-Places. 1. BATHS FOR THE LABOURING CLASSES. Every Bath to be supplied with clean Water for every Person bathing alone, or for several Children bathing together, and in either Case with One clean Towel for every Bather. For One Person above Eight Years old: Cold Bath, or cold Shower Bath, any Sum not exceeding Warm Bath, or warm Shower Bath, or Vapour Bath, any Sum not exceeding For several Children, not above Eight Years old, nor exceeding Four, bathing together : Cold Bath, or cold Shower Bath, any Sum not exceeding Warm Bath, or warm Shower Bath, or Vapour Bath, any Sum not exceeding 2. BATHS OF ANY HIGHER CLASS. Such Charges as the Council and the Commissioners respectively think fit, not exceeding in any Case Three Times the Charges above mentioned for the several Kinds of Baths for the Labouring Classes. 3. WASH-HOUSES FOR THE LABOURING CLASSES. Every Wash-house to be supplied with Conveniences for washing and drying Clothes and other Articles. For the Use by One Person of One Washing Tub or Trough, and of a Copper or Boiler (if any), or, where One of the Washing Tubs or Troughs shall be used as a Copper or Boiler, for the Use of One Pair of Washing Tubs or Troughs, and for the Use of the Conveniences for drying: For One Hour only in any One Day, any Sum not exceeding For Two Hours together, in any One Day, any Sum not exceeding Any Time over the Hour or Two Hours respectively, if not exceeding Five Minutes, not to be reckoned. One Penny. Three-pence. For Two Hours not together, or for more than Two Hours in any One Day, such Charges as the Council and the Commissioners respectively think fit. For the Use of the Washing Conveniences alone, or of the drying Conveniences alone, such Charges as the Council and the Commissioners respectively think fit, but not exceeding in either Case the Charges for the Use for the same Time of both the washing and the drying Conveniences. VOL. XXV.-STAT. 2 C 4. WASH-HOUSES OF ANY HIGHER CLASS. Such Charges as the Council and the Commissioners respectively shall think fit. 5. OPEN BATHING PLACES, where several Persons bathe in the same Water, for One Person, One Halfpenny. CAP. LXII. AN ACT for the Establishment of Naval Prisons, and for the Prevention of Desertion from Her Majesty's Navy. (2nd July 1847.) ABSTRACT OF THE ENACTMENTS. 1. In cases where officers commanding ships are empowered to order courts-martial, they may inflict corporal punishment or imprisonment instead.-Order for imprisonment to be approved of by commander-in-chief. 2. Gaolers to receive and confine offenders. 3. Order for discharge or removal of prisoners. 4. Subsistence of prisoners. 5. Prisoners not to be entitled to pay or to reckon time while in confinement. 6. Admiralty may set apart buildings and ships as naval prisons, and appoint officers and make rules and regulations for the government of the same. 7. Offenders under sentence of courts-martial may be confined in naval prisons. 8. Penalties on aiding escape or attempt to escape of prisoners, and on breach of prison regulations. 9. Apprehension of deserters. 10. Fraudulent confession of desertion. 11. Penalty for persuading persons to desert or absent themselves from duty. 12. Penalty as regard gaolers, &c. 13. Recovery and application of penalties. 14. Power to summon witnesses. 15. Form of conviction, 16. No certiorari, &c. 17. Act may be amended, &c. By this ACT, After reciting that by the laws and customs of Her Majesty's navy officers commanding Her Majesty's ships and vessels are empowered to order corporal punishment to be inflicted on men in Her Majesty's service for various offences, for the purpose of preserving and enforcing discipline, without the offenders being tried by court-martial: And that it is expedient that officers commanding Her Majesty's ships and vessels should have the power of inflicting summary punishment by imprisonment; and it is also expedient that the Lord High Admiral, and the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral, shall have power to establish and regulate naval prisons, and that further provision shall be made for the apprehension of deserters, and for checking desertion from Her Majesty's navy:— It is Enacted, 1. That in all cases in which officers commanding Her Majesty's ships and vessels are empowered to order corporal punishment without the offender being tried by court-martial it shall be lawful for such officers commanding any ship or vessel of Her Majesty within the limits of any port, if they think fit, and without the offender being tried by court-martial, to order such corporal punishment to be inflicted according to the laws and customs of Her Majesty's navy, or to order the offender to be imprisoned for any period not exceeding twenty-eight days, to be computed from the date of the order, in any place, ship, or vessel, either afloat or on shore, which the Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, may at any time or times appoint for the purpose, and where no such place, ship, or vessel shall have been so appointed, in any public prison, gaol, or house of correction in Her Majesty's dominions, and such imprisonment may be with or without hard labour, and the offender shall be kept in solitary confinement for any portion of such imprisonment, not exceeding ten days in the whole, or not, as any such order shall direct; but any such order for imprisonment shall not have any force or effect until the same shall have been approved of by writing under the hand of the naval officer commanding at the port where the vessel to which the offender belongs may be. II. That every governor, gaoler, or keeper of any public prison, gaol, or house of correction, and every officer having the charge or command of any place, ship, or vessel for imprisonment as aforesaid, shall receive into his custody any person so ordered to be imprisoned as aforesaid, upon delivery to him of an order in writing in that behalf from the officer commanding the ship or vessel to which the offender belongs, approved of as aforesaid, and which order shall specify the period of imprisonment which the prisoner is to undergo, and the day and hour of the day when he is to be released, and the prisoner shall be confined, with or without hard labour, and in solitary confinement or not, as such order shall direct. III. That it shall be lawful for the said Lord High Admiral, and also for the said Commissioners, or for the said officer commanding in chief, or for the officer commanding the ship or vessel to which the prisoner belongs, to give at any period of any such imprisonment an order in writing directing that the prisoner may be discharged or be removed by the person having charge of him, or in naval custody, to some other prison or place of confinement, there to undergo the remainder of his imprisonment, or for the purpose of being brought before a court-martial either as a witness or for trial; and such prisoner shall on the production of such order be discharged or removed accordingly; and when any prisoner shall be removed by any governor, gaoler, or keeper in pursuance of any such order such governor, gaoler, or keeper shall be allowed for the charge of the removal and conveyance a sum not exceeding 1s. per mile; and every governor, gaoler, keeper, and officer having the charge or command of any prison, gaol, house of correction, place, ship, or vessel of imprisonment in which the prisoner is to undergo the remainder of his imprisonment shall, upon being furnished with a duplicate of the order of imprisonment, and of the order of removal, receive into his custody and confine the prisoner pursuant thereto. IV. That the same amount shall be paid by the naval department to any governor, gaoler, or keeper towards the subsistence of any prisoner whatever confined under the provisions of this Act as is or may be payable towards the subsistence of prisoners confined under sentence of naval courts-martial. v. That every person belonging to Her Majesty's navy who shall be summarily imprisoned under the provisions of this Act shall not be entitled to any pay or wages, or to reckon service for or towards pay, wages, or pension, for any period during which he shall be so imprisoned. VI. That it shall be lawful for the Lord High Admiral, and also for the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral or any two of them, if he or they think fit, to set apart any building or buildings, or ship or vessel, or ships or vessels, or any part or parts thereof, as naval prisons, and to declare that any building or buildings, or any ship or vessel, or ships or vessels, shall be, and thenceforth such building or buildings, ship or vessel, or ships or vessels shall be deemed and taken to be a naval prison and naval prisons, and every such naval prison shall be deemed to be a public prison within the meaning of this Act; and all and every the powers and authorities with respect to county gaols or houses of correction which now are or which may hereafter be vested in any of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State shall, with respect to all such naval prisons, belong to and may be exercised by the Lord High Admiral, and also by the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral, or any two of them; and it shall be lawful for the Lord High Admiral, and also for the said Commissioners, or any two of them, at any time or times, and from time to time, to make, alter, and repeal rules and regulations for the government and superintendence of any such naval prison, and of the officers and servants thereof, and of offenders confined therein, and the same shall be observed and enforced within such prisons; and it shall be lawful for the Lord High Admiral, and also for the said Commissioners, or any two of them, from time to time to appoint inspectors and all other necessary officers and servants, for any such naval prison, and, as occasion may arise, to remove the inspectors, officers, or servants of any such naval prison; and the officer commanding in chief at any port or place or on any station where there may be any such naval prison, or such officer commanding in chief, and such other person and persons as the Lord High Admiral or the said Commissioners may from time to time appoint, shall be a visitor or visitors of such prison; and every inspector, visitor, or officer having the charge or command of any such naval prison respectively shall, subject to such rules and regulations as may from time to time be made as aforesaid, have and exercise in respect of such prison, and of the officers and servants thereof, and of the prisoners confined therein, all the powers and authorities, as well in respect of administering oaths as otherwise, which any inspector, visiting Justice, or governor of a county gaol or house of correction may respectively exercise as such. VII. That it shall be lawful, when the Lord High Admiral or the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral or any two of them, shall at any time or times think proper, to confine in any such naval prison not only the offenders thereinbefore mentioned, but also any person who shall have been tried by a naval court-martial and sentenced to imprisonment, or whose sentence by a naval court-martial shall have been commuted to imprisonment, or who, in consequence of his sentence or of his commuted punishment, shall be liable to be detained until his sentence or commuted punishment be carried into effect. VIII. That if any person shall convey or cause to be conveyed into any such naval prison any arms, tools, or instruments, or any mask or other disguise to facilitate the escape of any prisoner, or shall by any means whatever aid and assist any prisoner to escape or in attempting to escape from such prison, whether an escape be actually made or not, such person shall be deemed guilty of felony, and, upon being convicted thereof, shall be imprisoned, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding two years, or transported beyond the seas for any term not exceeding fourteen years; and if any person shall bring or attempt to bring into such prison, in contravention of the rules, any spirituous or fermented liquor, he shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding 201. and not less than 107.; and if any person shall bring into such prison, or to or for any prisoner, without the knowledge of the officer having the charge of command thereof, any money, clothing, provisions, tobacco, letters, papers, or other articles not allowed by the rules of the prison to be in the possession of a prisoner, or shall throw into the said prison any such articles, or shall by desire of any prisoner, without the sanction of the said officer, carry out of the prison any of the articles aforesaid, he shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding 51.; and if any person shall assault or violently resist any officer of such prison in the execution of his duty, or shall aid or excite any person so to assault or resist any such officer, he shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding 51., or if the offender be a prisoner, he shall upon conviction thereof, by a board of not less than three of the prison, be liable to be sentenced for every such offence to be imprisoned, either with or without hard labour, and with or without solitary confinement, for any time not exceeding six calendar months, in addition to so much of the time for which he was originally sentenced as may be then unexpired. IX. That it shall be lawful for the constable of any place where any person reasonably suspected to belong to Her Majesty's navy, and to be a deserter or improperly absent from his duty, shall be found, or of any adjoining place, and if no such constable can be immediately met with to secure him then for any person in Her Majesty's service, to apprehend or cause such suspected person to be apprehended, and cause him to be brought before any Justice in the United Kingdom, or in any of Her Majesty's domi nions or territories, or in the territories under the government of the East India Company in or near such place, who shall examine such suspected person, and if by his confession, or the testimony of one or more witness or witnesses upon oath, or by the knowledge of such Justice it shall appear that any person brought before him is a person belonging to Her Majesty's navy, improperly absent from his duty, such Justice shall forthwith cause him to be conveyed to the nearest or most convenient public prison, and shall transmit an account thereof to the Secretary of the Admiralty, or to any commander-in-chief or officer commanding any one of Her Majesty'sships or vessels, with a description of such person and the name of the ship or vessel to which he shall or may be suspected to belong, or if any such offender shall be apprehended by any person in Her Majesty's service, or shall be apprehended in the vicinity of any one of Her Majesty's ships or vessels in commission, then such Justice shall order him to be taken on board any such ship or vessel, instead of committing him to prison; and in all cases the Justice shall certify the name of the person by whom the offender was apprehended, and such last-mentioned person shall be entitled to a reward for such apprehension, according to the amount which is or may be established by the naval regulations or instructions for the time being in that behalf, or in case the apprehension shall be under circumstances for which no reward is or may be established, the amount of such reward shall be any sum in the discretion of the Lord High Admiral, or the said Commissioners, or of the officer commanding the vessel to which the deserter or person who shall have been improperly absent shall belong, not exceeding 31., and the reward shall in every case be paid and charged against the wages or pay of any such offender, and stopped out of the same; and for every such information, commitment, or order and account as aforesaid the clerk of the said Justice may be entitled to a fee of 2s. and no more, and every gaoler and other person into whose custody any such offender is committed shall immediately upon the receipt of him pay such fee of 2s., and also upon the produc tion of a receipt from the medical practitioner who may have been required to examine such suspected person a fee of 2s. 6d., and such sums shall be repaid to such gaoler or other person, and the same, together with 6d. for every day the offender shall be in his custody, which shall be paid to such gaoler or other person, shall be charged againt the pay or wages of the offender, and every gaoler or other person having the custody of any such offender shall deliver him up to any person authorized to take charge of him by the Lord High Admiral, or the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral, or by any naval commander-in-chief or the officer commanding any one of Her Majesty's ships or vessels, and any person so authorized shall convey him in safe custody on board any one of Her Majesty's ships or vessels in commission. x. That any person who shall voluntarily deliver himself up as and confess himself to be a deserter from any one of Her Majesty's ships or vessels, or improperly absent from such ship or vessel, or who while serving in any of Her Majesty's forces, or the embodied militia, or the forces of the East India Company, shall to any officer or non-commissioned officer thereof confess himself to be a deserter as aforesaid, or improperly absent as aforesaid, or who, upon being apprehended for any offence, shall in the presence of the Justice confess himself to be a deserter, or improperly absent from his ship or vessel as aforesaid, and his statement shall not be true, he shall, if received into Her Majesty's naval service, be deemed in Her Majesty's navy, and be liable to serve and be detained therein as if he had voluntarily entered, or in case such person shall not be received into Her Majesty's navy, he shall, on conviction thereof before two Justices of the Peace, at or near the place where he shall deliver himself up or confess or where he may at any time happen to be, be adjudged to be punished, if in England, as a rogue and a vagabond, and if in Scotland or Ireland, by commitment to some prison or house of correction, there to be kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding three months. XI. That every person who, by words or any other means whatsoever, shall persuade any person in Her Majesty's navy to desert or improperly absent himself from his duty shall forfeit and pay the sum of 201. for every such act; and every person who shall assist or procure any person in Her Majesty's navy to desert or improperly absent himself from his duty, or shall conceal, employ, or continue to employ any person belonging to Her Majesty's navy who shall be a deserter, or improperly absent from his duty, knowing him to be such a deserter or so improperly absent, shall forfeit and pay the sum of 301. for every such assistance, procurement, concealment, employment, or continuing of employment as aforesaid. XII. That every governor, gaoler, and keeper of any prison, gaol, or house of correction, and every officer having the charge or command of any place, ship, or vessel for imprisonment, who shall refuse or neglect to receive or confine, remove, discharge, or deliver up any prisoner or offender as herein prescribed, shall forfeit for every such refusal or neglect the sum of 100%. XIII. That all penalties and forfeitures imposed by this Act shall and may be recovered with costs, either by information or complaint, by summary proceedings before any Justice or Justices of the Peace residing in or near to the place where the offence shall be committed, or where the offender shall at any time happen to be, and whether the offence be committed in or out of Her Majesty's dominions, or within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England or not; and if the sum imposed as a penalty by any such Justice or Justices shall not be paid, either immediately after the conviction or within such reasonable time as such Justice or Justices shall at the time of the conviction appoint, it shall be lawful for the Justice or Justices to commit the offender or offenders to the common gaol or house of correction, there to be imprisoned only, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour, according to the discretion of such Justice or Justices, for any term not exceeding six calendar months, the commitment to be determinable upon payment of the amount and costs; and all penalties and forfeitures recoverable under this Act shall be paid and applied in manner following; (that is to say) one moiety of such penalty shall be paid to the informer or complainant, and the residue thereof shall be paid to the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital, anything in an Act, 5 & 6 Will. 4. c. 76, intituled 'An Act to provide for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales,' or in any other Act or Acts of Parliament, to the contrary notwithstanding. XIV. That any Justice or Justices of the Peace may summon any witness to appear and give evidence before him or them upon any matter cognizable under this Act, at a time and place appointed for hearing the information or complaint, and by warrant under his hand and seal or their hands and seals may require any person to be brought before him or them, who shall neglect or refuse to appear to give evidence at the time or place appointed in such summons, proof upon oath being first given of personal service of the summons upon the person against whom such warrant shall be granted; and such Justice or Justices may commit any person coming or brought before him or them, who shall refuse to give evidence, to any common gaol or house of correction, there to remain without bail or mainprize for any time not exceeding six calendar months, or until such person shall sooner submit himself to be examined, and in case of such submission the order of any such Justice or Justices shall be sufficient warrant for the discharge of such person. at xv. That the Justice or Justices before or by whom any person or persons shall be summarily convicted of any offence against this Act, may cause the conviction to be drawn up in the following form of words, or in any other form of words to the same effect, as the case shall require; (that is to say,) 'Be it remembered, That on the Day of in the Year of our Lord in the County • of [or, Riding, Division, Liberty, City, et cætera, as the Case may be,] 4.0. is convicted before me [or us, naming 'the Justice or Justices,] One [or Two] of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said County [or Riding, et cætera], for that 'he the said 4.0. did [specify the Offence and the Time and Place when and where the same was committed, as the Case may be] and I '[or we] the said Justice [or Justices] do adjudge the said A.O., for his said Offence, to forfeit and pay the Sum of [here state the Amount of Fine imposed,] and I [or we] the said Justice [or Justices] do also adjudge the said 4.0. to pay the Sum of for Costs; and in default of immediate Payment of the said Sums of and 'Payment of the said Sums of and Day of ]I [or we] the said 'Justice [or Justices] do adjudge the said 4.0. to be imprisoned [or to be imprisoned and kept to hard Labour] in the 'for the Space of unless the said Sums shall be sooner paid; and I [or we] direct that the Sum of ' of the said Penalty, together with the said Sum of for Costs, shall be paid to C.D. [the Party informing or complaining,] and the Residue of the said Penalty shall be paid to the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital. 'Given under my Hand [or our Hands] the Day and Year first above written.' on or before the [or in default of Part XVI. That no conviction under this Act shall be quashed for want of form, or be removed by certiorari or otherwise, into any of Her Majesty's superior courts of record, and no warrant, commitment, or order for imprisonment shall be held void by reason of any defect therein, provided it be therein alleged that the person has been convicted or ordered to be imprisoned, and there be a good and valid conviction or an offence to sustain the same. XVII. That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed during this present session of Parliament. CAP. LXIII. AN ACT for limiting the Time of Service in the Royal Marine Forces. ABSTRACT OF THE ENACTMENTS. (2nd July 1847.) 1. After passing of this Act the period of enlistment for a marine limited. 2. Repealing certain questions in Schedule to 10 & 11 Vict. c. 13, and substituting those contained in Schedule (A.) to this Act annexed. 3. Marines on completion of term of limited service may be re-engaged. 4. As to the enlistment of marines ordered on foreign service. 5. If terms of limited service expire while marines are on any foreign station, they may be prolonged for a further time. 6. If at the expiration of such terms of service marines are unwilling to re-engage themselves, they shall be conveyed home.—If marines desire to remain in the colony, governor, &c. may permit them to do so. 7. If term of enlistment of marine expire after any offence committed, &c., he shall be deemed to be in the service till after trial, &c. for the same. 8. If marines are absent from duty by reason of imprisonment, &c., such portion of time not to be reckoned as part of limited enlistment. 9. Period at which Act to take effect. 10. Act may be amended, &c. By this ACT, After reciting that it is expedient to amend the system of enlistment now in use in the Royal marine forces:— It is Enacted, 1. That after the passing of this Act no person shall be enlisted to serve in the royal marine forces as a marine for a longer term than twelve years, to be reckoned from the day on which the recruit shall have been attested, if he shall have stated himself to be then of the age of eighteen years, or if not, then from the day on which he will complete the age of eighteen years, to be reckoned according to the age stated in his attestation. ་ 11. That such of the questions relative to enlistment as are contained in the Schedule of an Act, 10 & 11 Vict. c. 13, intituled An Act for the Regulation of Her Majesty's Royal Marine Forces while on Shore,' as relates to the enlisting and attesting of marines shall be repealed, and that in all cases of enlistment to serve in the royal marine forces the questions directed to be put on the attestation of recruits as to their willingness to serve shall be in the form contained in Schedule (A.) hereto annexed. III. That any marine at any time during the last six months of the term of limited service for which he shall have first engaged, or after the completion of such term, may, if approved by his commanding officer or other competent authority as a fit person to continue in Her Majesty's service as a marine, be re-engaged to serve for the further term of twelve years in the royal marine forces, upon making a declaration in the form given in the Schedule marked (B.), and annexed to this Act, before any |