For every gallon of liqueurs, cordials, mixtures and other preparations in bottle entered in such a manner as to indicate that the strength is not to be tested

£2 1 11

PART II. ADDITIONAL CUSTOMS DUTIES IN RESPECT OF IMMATURE SPIRITS.

PART III.—ADDITIONAL EXCISE DUTIES IN RESPECT OF IMMATURE SPIRITS.

Where the Spirits have
been warehoused for a
period of Two Years
and less than Three
Years.

Where the Spirits have not been warehoused,

or have been warehoused for a period of less than Two Years.

For every gallon of spirits computed at proof

s. d.
1 0

8. d.
1 6

NOTE. The additional duties under Part II. and Part III. of this Schedule shall, in the case of blended spirits, be subject to the modifications enacted by the provisions in Part III. of the Schedule to the Finance Act 1915 as though those provisions were herein re-enacted with the substitution for the reference to Parts I. and II. of that Schedule of a reference to Parts II. and III. of this Schedule.

[NOTE. The charge under this Schedule of a specified amount of duty on a specific weight of any article includes a charge of a proportionately less duty on any less weight of any article so charged.]

The substituted drawbacks and allowances shall only take effect where it is shewn that duty has been paid at the increased rate.

(3) ALLOWANCES ON MOLASSES USED SOLELY FOR THE PUrpose of
FOOD FOR STOCK.

SOLICITORS (ARTICLED CLERKS) ACT 1918.

CHAPTER XVI.

An Act to modify the requirements of the Solicitors Acts 1839 to 1917 with respect to Articled Clerks who have served in His Majesty's forces or in other public service, or have been Prisoners of War or interned in connection with the present War.

[30th July 1918.]

CHAPTER XVII.

An Act to amend the Land Drainage Act 1861 and to make further provision for the drainage of agricultural land. [30th July 1918.]

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 Parlia ment assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

PART I-AMENDMENTS OF PRINCIPAL ACT.

1. POWER TO MAKE ORDERS CONSTITUTING DRAINAGE DISTRICTS, &c.— (1) Subject in the case of opposed orders to confirmation by Parliament in manner provided by the First Schedule to this Act, the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries may by order

(a) constitute any area a separate drainage district for the purposes of Part II. of the Land Drainage Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 133) (in this Act referred to as the principal Act), and include therein the whole or any part of any existing drainage area, and provide for the constitution of the drainage board for the district and the appointment or election of the members thereof; (b) alter the boundaries of any drainage area;

(c) define the limits of any commission of sewers; (d) confer on any drainage authority such additional powers of levying drainage rates or borrowing powers as may be necessary or expedient, or alter or supplement in any other respect the provisions of any local Act or of any award made under any such Act where in the opinion of the Board such alterations or supplemental provisions are necessary or expedient for enabling the area for the benefit of which drainage works are authorised by the local Act or award to be drained effectually.

(2) Where the council of a county or county borough in which the drainage area. of any drainage authority is situate, or if such area is situated in more than one county or county_borough, the councils thereof present a petition to the Board for the purpose, the Board may by a like order, made after consultation with the Local Government Board, transfer to the council or councils the powers, duties, property, and obligations of the drainage authority, and thereupon the council or councils shall become the drainage authority for the area for the purposes of this Act, and any expenses incurred by the council or councils as such authority shall be defrayed under and in accordance with the powers so transferred and not in any other manner.

(3) Any order under this section may contain any incidental, consequential, or supplemental provisions which appear to be necessary or proper for the purposes of the order.

(4) An order under this section may make any river, canal, or inland navigation or the cuts, reservoirs, feeders, or other works belonging thereto liable to the control of a drainage authority, notwithstanding the provisions of any local Act exempting the same from such control and of section fifty-seven of the principal Act, subject. nevertheless to the provisions of section fifty-four of the principal Act.

(5) References in Part II. of the principal Act as amended by this Act to provisional orders shall be construed as including references to orders so made.

2. PROCEDURE FOR THE MAKING OF ORDERS.-(1) The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries may on the receipt of such a petition as is hereinafter mentioned, or, in the