SCHEDULE C.

PIERS and Quays maintained by County Assessments.

1. Invergordon and Inverbrakie Ferry Piers, in the county of Ross.

2. Chanonry Ferry Pier, in the county of Ross.

3. Keills and Lagg Ferry Piers, in the county of Argyll.

4. St. Catherine's Ferry Pier, in the county of Argyll.

5. Kylerhead Ferry Piers, in the county of Inverness.

6. Corran Ferry Piers, in the counties of Inverness and Argyll.

7. Kylehakin Ferry Piers, in the counties of Inverness and Ross.

8. Dornie Ferry Pier, in the county of Ross.

9. Strome Ferry Piers, in the county of Ross.

10. Feoline Ferry Pier, in Jura, in the county of Argyll.

11. Brodick Pier, in Arran, in the county of Bute.

12. Black water-foot, in the county of Argyll.

SCHEDULE (D.)

HARBOURS maintained by Rates.

1. Avoch, in the county of Ross.
2. Ballintraid, in the county of Ross.
3. Portree, in the county of Inverness.

4. Portmahomack, in the county of Ross.

SCHEDULE (E.)

RATES on Vessels using the Harbours.

For every decked or partly decked vessel:

Sect. 20.

Sect. 19.

Sect. 20.

Under the burden of 20 tons

8. d.

Of the burden of 20 tons and not exceeding 100 tons
Of the burden of 100 tons and upwards.

RATES on Herring Boats, &c.

For every herring boat and every undecked boat coming to the said piers with herrings or fresh fish, on landing or taking on board goods or dried or salt fish

. each 0 6

RATES on Passengers.

For every person landing from or embarking in any vessel

. 0 3

RATES on Animals and Goods shipped or unshipped in the Harbours.

Dogs (sporting only)

each 0 8

each 0 6

each 1 0

each 1 0

each 0 01

each 0 0

per pair 0 3

per ton 0 5

per cwt.

0 3

per cwt.

03

each 0 2

Timber, unwrought, of all kinds

Wheat, barley, bear, peas, beans, oats, and all other descriptions of grain; grass

and turnip seeds

per

1000 0 8

per 1000

0

9

per load of 50 cubic feet

0 10

per quarter 0 per hogshead

per cwt.

0

per barrel bulk

Wine in cask

Wool

All other articles not enumerated to pay at landing or shipping:
If by measurement.

If by weight

per ton

Articles which can be measured to pay by barrel bulk, all others by weight. In charging the rates on goods the gross weight or measurement of all goods to be taken; and for any less weights, measures, and quantities than those above specified a proportion of the respective rates shall be charged.

Five cubic feet, not exceeding two and a half hundredweight, to be rated as a barrel bulk; but when the weight of five cubic feet is greater than two and a half hundredweight, then two and a half hundredweight to be rated as a barrel bulk.

RATES for the use of Sheds, Cranes, and Weighing Machines.
1. Sheds.

For each ton of goods of eight barrels bulk, or for each ton of goods of twenty hundredweight, which shall remain in any shed or on any pier in the harbours for a longer time than forty-eight hours, the sum of threepence, and the sum of one penny per ton for each day during which such goods shall remain after the first forty-eight

For goods weighed, one penny for each ton or part of a ton.

CHAPTER CXIII.

THE POOR REMOVAL ACT, 1862 (Short Titles Act, 1896).

AN ACT to amend the Law relating to the Removal of poor Persons from England to Scotland, and from Scotland to England and Ireland.

[7th August 1862.] [Preamble refers to powers of removal of poor persons under 8 & 9 Vict. cc. 83, 117; 10 & 11 Vict. c. 33.]

1. WARRANT OF REMOVAL FROM ENGLAND TO SCOTLAND TO BE GRANTED BY TWO JUSTICES OR A MAGISTRATE, AND FROM SCOTLAND TO ENGLAND OR IRELAND BY THE SHERIFF OR TWO JUSTICES.-No application for a warrant ordering the removal from any place in England to Scotland, or in Scotland to England or Ireland, of any poor person who shall have become chargeable in such place shall be heard and determined in England, except by two or more justices in petty sessions assembled, or by a stipendiary magistrate or metropolitan police magistrate sitting in his court; and in Scotland, except by the sheriff or any two justices of the peace of the county in which the parish is situated to which such poor person may have become chargeable; which justices or magistrate, and sheriff or justices, (as the case may be), shall see such poor person, or the person who is the head of the family proposed to be removed, and shall be satisfied that every person who is proposed to be removed by the warrant is in such a state of health as not to be liable to suffer bodily or mental injury by the removal.

See 61 & 62 Vict. c. 21, s. 6.

2. WARRANT TO BE GRANTED ON APPLICATION OF CERTAIN Officers, and to CONTAIN CERTAIN PARTICULARS-ORDERS FOR REMOVAL WHEN PLACE OF BIRTH, &C. CANNOT BE ASCERTAINED.—Such warrant of removal shall be granted in England only on the application of the relieving officer or other officer of the guardians of the union or parish, and in Scotland only on the application of the inspector of the poor of the parish or combination, or other officer appointed by the parochial board of such parish or combination, where such poor person shall have become chargeable, and shall contain the name and reputed age of every person ordered to be removed by virtue of the same, and the name of the place in Scotland or England or Ireland (as the case may be) where the justices or magistrate, or sheriff or justices shall find such person to have been born, or to have last resided for the space of five years in the case of a poor person to be removed to Scotland, and three years in the case of a poor person to be removed to England or Ireland, and a statement of such examination having been made as to the state of health of every person ordered to be removed as aforesaid; and such warrant shall be addressed to the party applying for the same, and, in the case of a removal to Scotland, to the parochial board or inspector of the poor of the parish or combination to which such poor person is to be removed, and, in the case of a removal to England or Ireland (as the case may be), to the guardians of the union or parish to which such person is to be removed; and a copy shall be given by and at the cost of the person applying for such warrant to the person or the head of the family about to be removed by virtue of it: Provided, that in the case of any native of England, Ireland, or Scotland, where the

justices or magistrate, or sheriff or justices (as the case may be,) shall not be able to ascertain, upon the evidence before them, the place of birth or of such continued residence as aforesaid, they shall order the pauper to be removed to the port or union or parish in England or Ireland (as the case may be), or port or parish in Scotland, which shall, in the judgment of such justices or magistrate, or sheriff or justices, (as the case may be,) under the circumstances of the case be most expedient.

See 61 & 62 Vict. c. 21, s. 6.

3. COPY OF WARRANT TO BE SENT TO PAROCHIAL BOARD, OR CLERK OF GUARDIANS OF UNION OR PARISH, TO WHICH REMOVAL IS TO BE MADE, &C.-The person obtaining the warrant shall, at least twelve hours before the removal, send a copy of it by post to the inspector of the poor of the parish or combination in Scotland, and to the clerk of the board of guardians of the union or parish in England or Ireland (as the case may be), to which such poor person shall be ordered to be removed, and also a copy of the depositions taken in the case, if the same shall, at any time within three months from the date of the warrant, be required by any such board of guardians or parochial board. 4. WARRANTS SHALL ORDER POOR PERSONS TO BE CONVEYED TO THE PLACE MENTIONED IN THE WARRANTS, &c.-Such warrant shall order the removal of the poor person to be made to the place mentioned therein as aforesaid, and shall order the persons charged with the execution thereof to cause such poor person with his family (if any) to be safely conveyed to such place in England, Ireland, or Scotland (as the case may be), to be delivered, in the case of a removal to Scotland, to the inspector of the poor of the parish or combination, and in the case of a removal to England or Ireland, at the workhouse of such place or of the union or parish containing the port or place nearest to the place mentioned in the warrant as the place of the pauper's ultimate destination. 5. MASTER OF WORKHOUSES AND INSPECTORS OF POOR TO RECEIVE POOR PERSONS NAMED IN WARRANTS, UNDER PENALTY OF L.10.-The master of the workhouse of the union or parish in England or Ireland and the inspector of the poor of the parish or combination in Scotland, to which (as the case may be) such warrant is addressed, shall be bound to receive delivery of the poor person named in such warrant, under a penalty of ten pounds for each case of refusal; which penalty may be recovered by the person applying for such warrant by an action in any county court in England, or court of quarter sessions in Ireland, or sheriff court in Scotland, or other competent court having jurisdiction in the place where such master or inspector is resident at the time when such action is brought.

6. PAROCHIAL BOARDS AND GUARDIANS MAY FORWARD THE PAUPER TO THE PLACE of DESTINATION, AND RECOVER THE COSTS.-If by reason of default of the guardians. inspector of the poor, or other person having charge of such warrant, or otherwise, the poor person named therein shall not be removed to the place of ultimate destination, the guardians of the union or parish in England or Ireland, or parochial board of the parish or combination in Scotland, (as the case may be,) to which he has been removed, may, if they think fit, cause the pauper to be removed forthwith to the place mentioned in the warrant and shall be entitled to be reimbursed the costs incurred in such removal by the guardians or parochial board (as the case may be,) or other person on whose application the warrant was obtained, such costs being the actual expense incurred in and about the conveyance and maintenance of each person so removed; which costs may, if not paid on demand, be recovered by an action in any county court in England or Ireland, or sheriff court in Scotland, or other competent court having jurisdiction in the place from whence the removal shall have taken place.

7. WOMEN AND CHILDREN NOT TO BE REMOVED AS DECK PASSENGERS DURING THE WINTER. It shall be unlawful to remove any woman, or any child under the age of fourteen, as a deck passenger in any vessel from England to Scotland, or from Scotland to England or Ireland, during the period from the first of October to the thirty-first of March following; and no regulation of any sheriff, magistrate, or justices authorizing such removal shall be henceforth legal.

[S. 8 rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66 (S.L.R.).]

9. CONSTRUCTION.-Except so far as this Act shall alter the provisions of the said Acts, this Act shall be construed as part of the same.

CHAPTER CXIV.

THE POACHING PREVENTION ACT, 1862 (Short Titles Act, 1896).

AN ACT for the Prevention of Poaching.

[Preamble.]

[7th August 1862.]

1. INTERPRETATION OF TERMS.-The word "game" in this Act shall for all the purposes of this Act be deemed to include any one or more hares, pheasants, partridges, eggs of pheasants and partridges, woodcocks, snipes, rabbits, grouse, black or moor game, and eggs of grouse, black or moor game; and the words "justice" and "justices" in this Act shall, unless otherwise provided for, mean respectively a justice and justices of the peace respectively of or for the county, riding, division, liberty, city, borough, or place in which any game, gun, part of gun, net, snare, or engine after mentioned shall

be found.

2. POWER TO CONSTABLES TO SEARCH PERSONS, &C. IN CERTAIN CASES-PROCEEDINGS In case of Game, &c. being founD.-It shall be lawful for any constable or peace officer in any county, borough, or place in Great Britain and Ireland, in any highway, street, or public place, to search any person whom he may have good cause to suspect of coming from any land where he shall have been unlawfully in search or pursuit of game, or any person aiding or abetting such person, and having in his possession any game unlawfully obtained, or any gun, part of gun, or nets or engines used for the killing or taking game, and also to stop and search any cart or other conveyance in or upon which such constable or peace officer shall have good cause to suspect that any such game or any such article or thing is being carried by any such person, and should there be found any game or any such article or thing as aforesaid upon such person, cart, or other conveyance, to seize and detain such game, article, or thing; and such constable or peace officer shall in such case apply to some justice of the peace for a summons citing such person to appear before two justices of the peace assembled in petty sessions, as provided in the eighteenth and nineteenth of Her present Majesty, chapter one hundred and twenty-six, section nine, as far as regards England and Ireland, and before a sheriff

in Scotland; and if such person shall have obtained such game by unlawfully going on any land in search or pursuit of game, or shall have used any such article or thing as aforesaid for unlawfully killing or taking game, or shall have been accessory thereto, such person shall, on being convicted thereof, forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding five pounds, and shall forfeit such game, guns, parts of guns, nets, and engines; and the justices shall direct the same to be sold or destroyed, and the proceeds of such sale, with the amount of the penalty, to be paid to the treasurer of the county or borough where the conviction takes place; and no person who, by direction of a justice in writing, shall sell any game so seized shall be liable to any penalty for such sale; and if no conviction takes place, the game or any such article or thing as aforesaid, or the value thereof, shall be restored to the person from whom it had been seized.

S. 2 in part rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 14 (S. L.R.).

3. RECOVERY OF PENALTIES.-Any penalty under this Act shall be recovered and enforced in England in the same manner as penalties under the Game Act, 1831, and in Scotland under the Game (Scotland) Act, 1832, and in Ireland under the Petty Sessions, Ireland, Act, 1851, when not otherwise directed in this Act.

4. PROVISIONS OF 11 & 12 VICT. c. 43, EXTENDED TO THIS ACT.-The powers and provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1848, shall extend and apply to this Act, and to all proceedings, matters, and things to be taken, had, and done, and to all persons to be proceeded against or taking proceedings under this Act.

5. NO CONVICTION SHALL BE QUASHED FOR WANT OF FORM OR REMOVED BY CERTIORARI, &C.-No conviction or order made under this Act, or adjudication made. on appeal therefrom, shall be quashed for want of form, or be removed by certiorari or otherwise into any of Her Majesty's Superior Courts of Record; .

S. 5 in part rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 14 (S.L.R.).

6. APPEAL. Any person who shall think himself aggrieved by any such summary conviction may appeal to the next court of general or quarter sessions

S. 6 in part rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 14 (S. L.R.).