such officer, inspector, or constable, or charged with the execution of this Act, may procure at the place of delivery any sample of any milk in course of delivery to the purchaser or consignee in pursuance of any contract for the sale to such purchaser or consignee of such milk; and such officer, inspector, or constable, if he suspect the same to have been sold contrary to any of the provisions of the principal Act, shall submit the same to be analysed, and the same shall be analysed, and proceedings shall be taken, and penalties on conviction be enforced in like manner in all respects as if such officer, inspector, or constable had purchased the same from the seller or consignor under section thirteen of the principal Act.

4. PENALTY FOR REFUSAL TO GIVE MILK FOR ANALYSIS.-The seller or consignor or any person or persons entrusted by him for the time being with the charge of such milk, if he shall refuse to allow such officer, inspector, or constable to take the quantity which such officer, inspector, or constable shall require for the purpose of analysis, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.

5. SALE IN STREETS, &c.--Any street or open place of public resort shall be held to come within the meaning of section seventeen of the principal Act.

6. REDUCTION OF SPIRIT ALLOWED.-In determining whether an offence has been committed under section six of the said Act by selling, to the prejudice of the purchaser spirits not adulterated otherwise than by the admixture of water, it shall be a good defence to prove that such admixture has not reduced the spirit more than twenty-five degrees under proof for brandy, whisky, or rum, or thirty-five degrees under proof for gin.

7. EXTENSION OF MEANING OF COUNTY."-Every liberty having a separate court of quarter sessions, except a liberty of a cinque port, shall be deemed to be a county within. the meaning of the said Act.

[S. 8 rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 56 (S.L.R.).]

9. PROVISION FOR BOROUGHS WITH SEPARATE POLICE.-The town council of any borough having under any general or local Act of Parliament, or otherwise, a separate police establishment, and being liable to be assessed to the county rate of the county within which the borough is situate, shall be paid by the justices of such county the proportionate amount contributed towards the expenses incurred by the county in the execution of the principal Act by the several parishes and parts of parishes within such borough in respect of the rateable value of the property assessable therein, as ascertained by the valuation lists for the time being in force.

[S. 10 rep. 62 & 63 Vict. c. 51, s. 27.]

CHAPTER XXXII.

THE MILITARY PRISONS ACT, 1879 (Short Titles Act, 1896).

AN ACT to bring into force the Army Discipline and Regulation Act, 1879, and for other purposes.

[24th July 1879.]

[Whole Act except s. 6 rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 56 (S.L.R.).]

6. EXISTING MILITARY PRISONS.-Any building or part of a building which at the commencement of the Army Discipline and Regulation Act, 1879, is by law set apart as a military prison shall be deemed, until otherwise directed by a Secretary of State in pursuance of the said Act, to be a military prison set apart and declared under the Army Discipline and Regulation Act, 1879.

CHAPTER XXXIV.

THE CHILDREN'S DANGEROUS PERFORMANCES ACT, 1879. (Sect. 1.)

AN ACT to regulate the Employment of Children in places of public amusement in certain cases. [24th July 1879.]

[Preamble.]

1. SHORT TITLE.-This Act may be cited as the Children's Dangerous Performances Act, 1879.

[S. 2 rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 56 (S.L.R.).]

3. PENALTY FOR EMPLOYMENT OF ANY CHILD IN DANGEROUS PERFORMANCES--COMPENSATION FOR ACCIDENT TO ANY CHILD.-Any person who shall cause any child under the age of fourteen years to take part in any public exhibition or performance whereby, in the opinion of a court of summary jurisdiction, the life or limbs of such child shall be endangered, and the parent or guardian, or any person having the custody, of such child, who shall aid or abet the same, shall severally be guilty of an offence against this Act, and shall on summary conviction be liable for each offence to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.

And where in the course of a public exhibition or performance, which in its nature is dangerous to the life or limb of a child under such age as aforesaid taking part therein, any accident causing actual bodily harm occurs to any such child, the employer of such child shall be liable to be indicted as having committed an assault; and the court before whom such employer is convicted on indictment shall have the power of awarding compensation not exceeding twenty pounds, to be paid by such employer to the child, or to some person named by the court on behalf of the child, for the bodily harm so occasioned; provided that no person shall be punished twice for the same offence.

4. EVIDENCE OF AGE. Whenever any person is charged with an offence against this Act in respect of a child who in the opinion of the court trying the case is apparently of the age alleged by the informant, it shall lie on the person charged to prove that the child is not of that age.

5. RECOVERY OF PENALTIES.-Every offence against this Act in respect of which the person committing it is liable as above mentioned to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds shall be prosecuted and the penalty recovered with costs in a summary manner, as follows:

In England, in accordance with the provisions of the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1848, and of any Act or Acts amending the same; and the court of summary jurisdiction when hearing and determining an information in respect of any offence under this Act shall be constituted either of two or more justices of the peace in petty sessions, sitting at a place appointed for the holding of petty sessions, or some magistrate or officer sitting alone or with others at some court or other place appointed for the administration of justice for the time being empowered by law to do alone any Act authorised to be done by more than one justice of the peace;

In Scotland, in accordance with the provisions of the Summary Procedure Act, 1864, and of any Act or Acts amending the same; and

In Ireland, within the police district of Dublin metropolis in accordance with the provisions of the Acts regulating the powers and duties of justices of the peace for such district, or of the police of such district, and elsewhere in Ireland in accordance with the provisions of the Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851, and any Act amending or affecting the same.

AN ACT for the transfer of property held for the service of Her Majesty's Customs to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings; and for other purposes. [11th August 1879.]

1. SHORT TITLE.--This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Customs Buildings Act, 1879.

2. LANDS, &C. IN GREAT BRITAIN, THE ISLE OF MAN, AND THE CHANNEL ISLANDS, FOR SERVICE OF THE CUSTOMS, TO VEST IN COMMISSIONERS OF WORKS, &C.-All lands and hereditaments of freehold or leasehold tenure in Great Britain, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands, which are now vested in the Secretary to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Customs (herein-after called the Commissioners of Customs), or any other person in trust for the same Commissioners or for the service of Her Majesty's Customs, shall become and are hereby vested in the Commissioners of Works for the public service, and shall be subject to the provisions of the Commissioners of Works Act, 1852, in all respects as if the same had been acquired under the provisions of that Act.

3. COPYHOLDS NOW VESTED IN CUSTOMS TO REMAIN SO, BUT IN TRUST FOR COMMISSIONERS OF WORKS.-All lands of copyhold or customary tenure which are now vested in the Secretary to the Commissioners of Customs, or any other person in trust for the same Commissioners or for the service of Her Majesty's Customs, shall remain vested in such secretary or other person, but in trust for the Commissioners of Works for the public service, and shall be subject to the provisions of the Commissioners of Works Act, 1852, in all respects as if the same had been acquired under the provisions of that Act.

4. AS TO COMPLETION of existing CONTRACTS.-All contracts entered into by or on behalf of the Commissioners of Customs in respect of any lands or hereditaments in Great Britain, the Isle of Man, or the Channel Islands for the service of Her Majesty's Customs, and not at the passing of this Act fully performed and completed, may be enforced and shall be performed and completed for the public service in like manner as if the Commissioners of Works had been parties thereto instead of the Commissioners of Customs.

5. COMMISSIONERS OF WORKS EMPOWERED TO PURCHASE LANDS, &c.-The Commissioners of Works shall, under and subject to the provisions of the Commissioners of Works Act, 1852, from time to time purchase, hire, or otherwise acquire such buildings, lands, or other hereditaments as may be necessary for the service of Her Majesty's Customs within Great Britain, the Isle of Man, or the Channel Islands; and for the purposes of any such purchase the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and the Lands Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act, 1845, and the Acts amending the same respectively, except so much thereof as relates to the purchase of land otherwise than by agreement, are hereby incorporated with this Act, the special Act being construed to mean this Act, and the promoters of the undertaking being construed to mean the Commissioners of Works.

6. PROVISIONS OF ss. 335 to 341, BOTH INCLUSIVE, AND 345 OF 16 & 17 VICT. c. 107, AND SS. 275, 276 of 39 & 40 Vicт. c. 36, TO CONTINUE IN FORCE WITH VARIATIONS.The powers and provisions of sections three hundred and thirty-five to three hundred and forty-one, both inclusive, and section three hundred and forty-five of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1853, and of sections two hundred and seventy-five and two hundred and seventy-six of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876, shall continue in force as if this Act had not been passed (if the Treasury shall think fit to exercise the same), except that the moneys referred to in the two hundred and seventy-fifth section of the said Act of 1876, arising from or paid in respect of lands or hereditaments in Great Britain, or the Isle of Man, or the Channel Islands, shall be paid into the Bank of England to the account of the Commissioners of Works instead of to the Commissioners of Customs, and that lands which under the two hundred and seventy-sixth section of the said Act of 1876 would have vested in Her Majesty, shall vest in like manner in the Commissioners of Works

[S. 7 rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 56 (S.L.R.).]

8. ACT TO BE REGISTERED IN CHANNEL ISLANDS.-This Act shall be registered in the Royal Courts of the Islands of Guernsey and Jersey respectively, and the said Royal Courts respectively shall have full power and authority and are hereby required to register the same.

CHAPTER XL.

THE CONVEYANCING (SCOTLAND) ACT, 1874, AMENDMENT ACT, 1879. (Sect. 1.) AN ACT to amend the Conveyancing and Land Transfer (Scotland) Act, 1874. [11th August 1879.]

[Preamble.]

1. SHORT TITLE.-This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Conveyancing (Scotland) Act, 1874, Amendment Act, 1879.

[S. 2 rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 56 (S.L.R.).]

3. AS TO REPEAL OF 19 & 20 VICT. c. 79, s. 118, BY 37 & 38 VICT. c. 94, s. 55.— Notwithstanding the repeal of section one hundred and eighteen of the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act, 1856, by section fifty-five of the Conveyancing (Scotland) Act, 1874, it is provided that no poinding of the ground which has not been carried into execution by sale of the effects sixty days before the date of the sequestration shall (except to the extent herein-after provided) be available in any question with the trustee : Provided that no creditor who holds a security over the heritable estate preferable to the right of the trustee shall be prevented from executing a poinding of the ground after the sequestration, but such poinding shall in competition with the trustee be available only for the interest on the debt for the current half-yearly term, and for the arrears of interest for one year immediately before the commencement of such term.

See 50 & 51 Vict. c. 69, s. 2.

[S. 4 rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 56 (S.L.R.).]

5. ACT TO BE CONSTRUED WITH 19 & 20 VICT. c. 79.-This Act shall be read as part of and construed along with the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act, 1856.

CHAPTER XLII.

THE VALUATION OF LANDS (SCOTLAND) AMENDMENT ACT, 1879. (Sect. 1.) AN ACT to amend the Acts relating to the Valuation of Lands and Heritages in Scotland. [11th August 1879.]

[Preamble recites 17 & 18 Vict. c. 91; 20 & 21 Vict. c. 58; 30 & 31 Vict. c. 80.] 1. SHORT TITLE and Extent.-This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Valuation of Lands (Scotland) Amendment Act, 1879, and shall extend to Scotland only.

[S. 2 rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 56 (S.L.R.).]

3. CONSTRUCTION.-The recited Acts and this Act shall be read and construed together, and may together be referred to as the Valuation of Lands (Scotland) Acts. 4. COUNTY VALUATION COMMITTEE TO BE APPOINTED.-Appeals and complaints under the Valuation of Lands (Scotland) Acts shall be heard and determined by the county valuation committee. The determination of a county valuation S.S.R. VII. 2 17

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committee shall, for all purposes, be deemed to be the determination of the commissioners of supply by whom it is appointed.

S. 4 in part rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 56 (S. L.R.)

5. PROVISIONS IN REGARD TO A COUNTY VALUATION COMMITTEE.-The following provisions shall have effect with respect to the appointment and proceedings of a county valuation committee; that is to say,

(1.) The commissioners of supply shall annually

appoint from among

themselves a county valuation committee, or they may appoint more than one such committee, and assign to any such committee such area of jurisdiction as they may think expedient:

(2.) A county valuation committee shall consist of not less than five nor more than twenty members.

(3.) A county valuation committee may from time to time fix the times and places of their meetings, of which notice shall be given by the clerk of supply of the county, in the same manner as notice is for the time given of meetings of the commissioners of supply:

(5.) Any vacancy arising in any such committee from death, resignation, or other cause, may be from time to time filled up by the committee:

Any such committee may, if a quorum exists, act, notwithstanding vacancies therein :

(8.) The clerk of supply of the county shall be the clerk of the county valuation committee, or of each such committee if there be more than one, and shall perform all such duties in relation to any such committee or committees as he is required by law to perform in relation to the commissioners of supply in general meeting assembled.

S. 5 in part rep. 57 & 58 Vict. c. 56 (S.L.R.).

6. AS TO COMPLAINTS MADE WITH REGARD TO ENTRIES OTHER THAN STATEMENT OF VALUE IN VALUATION ROLLS.-It shall be lawful for any person interested to complain to the commissioners of supply of any county or to the magistrates of any burgh under the Valuation of Lands (Scotland) Acts, to the effect that any particular set forth in any entry in the valuation roll for such county or burgh, as the case may be, other than the yearly rent or value of the lands and heritages to which such entry refers, has been set forth erroneously therein; and such complaint shall be made and disposed of in the same manner and subject to the same conditions and provisions (except in regard to the right of requiring a case to be stated) in and under which complaints that such yearly rent or value has been stated by the assessor in such valuation roll at other than the just and true amount thereof may be made and disposed of.

7. WHERE ASSESSORS NOT OFFICERS OF INLAND REVENUE, CASE MAY BE DEMANDED FOR OPINION OF TWO JUDGES OF COURT OF SESSION.-In the case of persons entitled to appeal against valuations made by assessors under the Valuation of Lands (Scotland) Acts, who are not officers of Inland Revenue appointed under the second recited Act, it shall be lawful for such person appealing, or for such assessor, if he shall apprehend the determination of the commissioners of supply in any county, or the magistrates of any burgh, upon such appeal as to the yearly rent or value of the lands and heritages to which such appeal relates, to be contrary to the true intent of the said Acts, and shall then declare himself dissatisfied with such determination, to require the said commissioners or magistrates to state specially and to sign the case upon which the question arose, setting forth the facts proved, together with the determination thereupon, and to transmit such case to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, to the end that the same may be submitted to any two judges in the Court of Session, who shall be named for that purpose from time to time by Act of Sederunt of the said Court, for their opinion thereon; and such judges to whom such case may be submitted, shall with all convenient speed, give and subscribe their opinion thereon, and, according to such opinion, the valuation or assessment which shall have been the cause of the appeal shall be altered or confirmed.

The cases under this section, and also under the recited Acts, may be disposed of by