Appendix Days may sell such Clothes, Goods, and Chattels, or any of them, re- c. 74. Council, Com Officers taking Salaries, or being Contracts. XXXIX. And be it enacted, That if any Clerk or other Officer, or Penalty for any Servant who shall be in anywise employed by any Council or missioners, or Commissioners in pursuance of this Act, shall exact or accept any Fee Fees beyond or Reward whatsoever for or on account of any thing done or forborne interested in or to be done or forborne in pursuance of this Act, or on any account whatsoever relative to putting this Act into execution, other than such Salaries, Wages, or Allowances as shall have been appointed by the Council or Commissioners, or shall in anywise be concerned or interested in any Bargain or Contract made by the Council or Commissioners for or on account of any thing done or forborne or to be done or forborne in pursuance of this Act, or on any account whatsoever relative to the putting this Act into execution, or if any Person during the Time he holds the Office of Member of the Council or Commissioner shall exact or accept any such Fee or Reward, or shall accept or hold any Office or Place of Trust created by virtue of this Act, or be concerned directly or indirectly in any such Bargain or Contract, every such Person so offending shall be incapable of ever serving or being employed under this Act, and shall for every such Offence also forfeit the Sum of Fifty Pounds. Penalties, XL. And be it enacted, That such Part of any Penalty recovered Application of under this Act as shall not be awarded to the Informer shall be paid to the Credit as regards a Borough of the Borough Fund, and as regards a Parish of the Rate for the Relief of the Poor thereof. XLI. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed Act may be by any Act to be passed in this Session of Parliament. amended, &c. SCHEDULES referred to by the foregoing Act. SCHEDULE (A.) Bye Laws to be made in all Cases. For securing that the Baths and Wash-houses and open Bathing Places shall be under the due Management and Control of the Officers, Servants, or others appointed or employed in that Behalf by the Council or Commissioners. For securing adequate Privacy to Persons using the Baths and Wash-houses and open Bathing Places, and Security against Accidents to Persons using the open Bathing Places. Appendix 9 & 10 Vic. c. 74. For securing that Men and Boys above Eight Years old shall bathe separately from Women and Girls and Children under Eight Years old. For preventing Damage, Disturbance, Interruption, and indecent and offensive Language and Behaviour, and Nuisances. For determining the Duties of the Officers, Servants, and others appointed by the Council or Commissioners. In Parishes. For regulating the Procedure of the Commissioners. SCHEDULE (B.) (a.) Maximum Charges during the First Seven Years after the Establishments are opened for public Use; and after such Seven Years, except only so long after such Seven Years as higher Charges may be necessary for defraying the current Expences of the Establishments. Baths for the labouring Classes, supplied with clean Water for every For One Person above Eight Years old, in- Wash-houses for the labouring Classes, supplied with Conveniences for washing and drying Clothes and other Articles : For the Use by One Person of One Washing Tub or Trough, or One Pair of Washing For One Hour only in any One Day One Day One Penny. Three-pence. any Open Bathing Places where several Persons bathe in the same Water: For One Person - One Halfpenny. (a.) This schedule is repealed see note (a.) ante, page 210, appendix, and a new scale of charges provided, see post, next Act. ANNO DECIMO & UNDECIMO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ. Appendix 10 & 11 Vic. c. 61. CAP. LXI. AN ACT TO AMEND THE ACT FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PUBLIC W! [2d July 1847.] HEREAS an Act was passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled An Act to encourage the Establishment of public Baths 9 & 10 Vict. c. 74. and Wash-houses: And whereas it is expedient to afford additional Facilities for the Establishment of public Baths and Wash-houses and open Bathing Places; 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, That the recited Act, as amended Recited Act and by this Act, and this Act shall be construed and be carried into execu- construed as One, tion as One Act. this Act to be Expressions in recited Act and this Act. II. And be it enacted and declared, That the following Words and Interpretation of 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 : Baths, &c. to be standing Infor III. And be it enacted, That when any Person shall have been ap- Acts of Commispointed to the Office of Commissioners of Public Baths and Wash- sioners of Public houses for any Parish before the passing of this Act, the recited Act valid, notwithshall be deemed to have been duly adopted for such Parish notwith-malities. standing 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. Appendix No. 1. IV. And be it enacted, that the Lands (a.) Clauses Consolidation 10 & 11 Vic. Act, 1845, shall be incorporated with the recited Act and this Act: c. 61. Provided always, that the Council and Commissioners respectively shall not purchase or take any Lands otherwise than by Agreement. Incorporation of Proportion of Washing accommodation for Labouring Classes. So much of recited Act as re gulates Charges for Use of Baths, &c. repealed. Power to make Charges for Use exceeding those in the Schedule. V. And be it enacted, 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. And be it enacted, 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. And be it enacted, That the Council and the Commissioners of Baths, &c. not 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. Act may be VIII. And be it enacted, 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 One Penny. (a) "The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," is set forth in full see post appendix No. 6. 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, For One Hour only in any One Day, any - One Penny. For Two Hours together, in any One Day, Three-pence. Any Time over the Hour or Two Hours respectively, if not exceeding Five Minutes, not to be reckoned. 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. 4. WASH-HOUSES OF ANY HIGHER CLASS. Such Charges as the Council and the Commissioners respectively think fit. 5. OPEN BATHING PLACES, where several Persons bathe in the same Water, for One Person One Halfpenny. c. 28. APPENDIX. No. 2. LODGING HOUSES ACTS. As the Commissioners have powers and duties conferred and imposed upon them by the two following Acts, "for the well ordering of Com |