common inn, ale house, or victualling house, and who shall have taken out the proper licenses to sell beer, spirits, wine, or tobacco, an occasional license under this act, empowering him to sell the like articles for which he shall have taken out such licenses as aforesaid, at any such other place and for such period of time, not exceeding three consecutive days at any one time, as the said commissioners shall approve, and as shall be specified in such occasional license; provided that no such occasional license shall authorise the sale of any beer, spirits, or wine, except during the hours after sunrise and before sunset; and provided that the said license shall not protect any such person in the sale of any of the articles herein-mentioned, unless he shall at the time of such sale produce such license when requested to do so by any officer of excise or by any constable or police officer; nor shall any such license be granted for the sale of any of the articles herein-mentioned on any Sunday, Christmas-day, or Good Friday, or on any day appointed for a public fast or thanksgiving (r). MERCHANDISE MARKS. The 25 & 26 V. c. 88, amends the law relating to the fraudulent marking of merchandise, and makes by s. 2 the forging of a trade mark, or falsely applying any trade mark with intent to defraud, a misdemeanor; applying a forged trade mark to any vessel, case, wrapper, &c., in or with which any article is sold or intended to be sold, a misdemeanor, s. 3. There are also several offences against this act made punishable on summary conviction before J. Ps. in England, but the remedy for the same offence in Ireland is by civil bill process at quarter sessions, vide s. 15. MERCHANT SHIPPING (8). By 25 & 26 Vic. c. 63, the merchant shipping acts are amended, and by s. 2 it is provided that this act is to be incorporated with the 17 & 18 Vic. c. 104. By the 16th sec. it is provided that clerks or servants to local marine boards embezzling in shipping offices shall be guilty of embezzlement within the meaning of 25 Vic. c. 96, s. 68. Section 21 provides for the recovery by the Board of Trade of wages, &c., of seamen lost with their ship. 25. [Penalties on drunken or disorderly passengers.] The following offenders, that is to say: 1. Any person who, being drunken or disorderly, has been on that account refused admission into any duly surveyed passenger steamer by the owner or any person in his employ, and who, after having had the amount of his fare (if he has paid the same) returned or tendered to him, nevertheless persists in attempting to enter such steamer. 2. Any person who being drunken or disorderly on board any (r) Vide ante, pp. 626, 662, 681. (s) See ante, p. 633, for the acts relating to merchant shipping. such steamer is requested by the owner or any person in his employ to leave the same at any place in the United Kingdom at which he can conveniently so do, and who, having had the amount of his fare (if he has paid the same) returned or tendered to him, refuses to comply with such request. 3. Any person on board any such steamer who, after warning by the master or any other officer of the steamer, molests or continues to molest any passenger. 4. Any person who, after having been refused admission into any such steamer by the owner or any person in his employ on account of such steamer being full, and who after having had the full amount of his fare (if he has paid the same) returned or tendered to him, nevertheless persists in attempting to enter the same. 5. Any person, having got on board any such steamer, who, upon being requested on the like account by the owner or any person in his employ to leave such steamer before the same has quitted the place at which such person got on board, and who upon having the full amount of his fare (if he has paid the same) returned or tendered to him, refuses to comply with such request. 6. Any person who travels or attempts to travel in any such steamer without having previously paid his fare, and with intent to avoid payment thereof. 7. Any person who, having paid his fare for a certain distance, knowingly and wilfully proceeds in any such steamer beyond such distance without previously paying the additional fare for the additional distance, and with intent to avoid payment thereof. 8. Any person who knowingly and wilfully refuses or neglects, on arriving at the point to which he has paid his fare, to quit any such steamer and, 9. Any person on board any such steamer who does not when required by the master or other officer of such steamer either pay his fare or exhibit such ticket or other receipt (if any) showing the payment of his fare as is usually given to persons travelling by and paying their fare for such steamer shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding 40s. ; but such liability shall not prejudice the recovery of any fare payable by him. 36. [Penalty for injuring steamer or molesting crew.] Any person on board any such steamer who wilfully does or causes to be done anything in such a manner as to obstruct or injure any part of the machinery or tackle of such steamer, or to obstruct, impede, or molest the crew of any of them in the navigation or management of such steamer, or otherwise, in the execution of their duty upon or about such steamer, shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding £20. 37. Manner of apprehending offenders.] It shall be lawful for the master or other officer of any duly surveyed passenger steamer, and for all persons called by him to his assistance, to detain any person who has committed any offence against any of the provisions of the two last preceding sections of this act, and whose name and address are unknown to such officer, and to convey such offender with all convenient despatch before some justice without any warrant or other authority than this act; and such justice shall have jurisdiction to try the case, and shall proceed with all convenient despatch to the hearing and deterinining of the complaint against such offender. This statute also amends the summary jurisdiction given to justices in salvage cases, for which see tit. WRECK, and SALVAGE post. OATHS. The act 2 & 3 Vic. c. 74, for preventing the administering of unlawful oaths in Ireland, as amended by the 11 & 12 Vic. c. 89, further continued by 25 Vic. c. 32 for the period of five years from the passing of that act, and until the end of the then next sessions of parliament (t). PEACE PRESERVATION ACT, continued by 25 Vic. c. 24, to the 1st July, 1864, and until the end of the then next sessions of parliament (u). PETROLEUM. 25 & 26 Vic. c. 66 has been passed to provide for the safe keeping of Petroleum, and in certain cases authorizes the justices in petty sessions assembled to grant licences to keep Petroleum, under the statute, and directs that any forfeiture under the act may be enforced on summary conviction before any two J.Ps. and directs that the one moiety of penalty shall belong to the crown, and the other moiety to the informer, unless he shall be a servant of the person informed against, in which case such moiety shall be applied in such manner as the justices shall think fit. POOR. By 25 & 26 Vic. c. 83, s. 10. it is enacted that from and after the passing of this act, when oath shall have been made before any two J.Ps. sitting in petty sessions (which oath the said justices are hereby empowered to administer) by the mother of any illegitimate child, and the same shall have been supported by corroborative evidence (v), it shall be lawful for the boards of guardians to recover from the putative father the cost (t) Vide p. 646. (u) Vide ante, p. 69, n. q. (r) The construction given to this section by the authorities is that the justices are to receive the declaration of the mother, without requiring any corroborative evidence, and that it is for the court of quarter sessions to determine whether the mother's claim is supported by corroborative evi dence. The statute does not direct that the statement is to be reduced to writing; it would therefore appear optional with the justices whether they should require a written declaration from the mother. It is to be presumed that instructions will be issued to the magistrates for their guidance under this section. of the maintenance of such illegitimate child during the time. that he is in receipt of relief from the poor rates, and while under the age of 14; and such cost of maintenance, and the costs of suit, shall be recoverable by process in the name of the guardians before the barrister at quarter sessions, from the person who shall have been adjudged to be the father of the child. WAR DEPARTMENT-RECOVERY OF LAND. It is provided by the 22 Vic. c. 12, s. 6 (w) that when any lease or agreement of or concerning land in Ireland, vested in the said secretary of state on behalf of Her Majesty is determined by expiration, notice, or forfeiture [except for non-payment of rent], possession of such land may be recovered by or on behalf of the said secretary of state, either as provided by section 72 of 11 & 12 Vic. c. 57, in case of lands holden by a tenant at a rent not exceeding £50 per annum, and the tenant's interest wherein is determined, notwithstanding the rent payable under such lease or agreement may exceed that amount, and the provisions of the said act shall be applicable accordingly, or as provided by sec. 15 of "The Summary Jurisdiction (Ireland) Act, 1851" (x), for the recovery of the possession of houses in certain towns and villages, and such last mentioned provision shall be applicable in all cases to the recovery of land in Ireland holden under any such lease or agreement as aforesaid, wherever such land may be situate, and at and for whatever rent and term the same may be holden; and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the said provision, the justices authorized to issue a warrant for giving possession may by such warrant authorize such possession to be given forthwith, or on or before such day as the justices may think fit to name, and may, if they think fit, issue such warrant, notwithstanding the tenant may be willing to give such undertaking as therein mentioned. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES (y). By 25 & 26 Vic. c. 76, being an act to amend "The Weights and Measures (Ireland) Act, 1860;" to abolish local and customary denominations of weights, and to regulate the mode of weighing articles sold in Ireland, it is enacted as follows :— PART I.-1. This act shall commence and take effect on the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. 2. This act may for all purposes be cited as "The Weights and Measures (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1862." 3. The 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th, '11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th sections of the 23 & 24 Vic. c. 119 (except so much of the said (w) Reference to the provisions of this statute was accidentally omitted in the preceding publication. (x) See ante, p. 407. 4th section as repeals the 18th section of "The Summary Jurisdiction (Ireland) Act, 1851,") shall be and are hereby repealed: provided always, that notwithstanding such repeal of the said 11th and 12th sections, all such expenses as are mentioned in the said sections respectively which shall have been incurred, and shall not have been paid before the commencement of this act, shall be presented, raised, and levied in the manner directed by the said sections respectively. 4. This act shall be deemed to be incorporated with the said recited act, and shall be as if the said recited act (except such parts thereof as have been repealed or amended by this act) and this act were one act. 5. [Certain head and other constables to be ex officio inspectors of weights and measures.] From and after the commencement of this act, such head or other constables only in each petty sessions district as shall be selected under this act by the Inspector General of Constabulary in Ireland, with the approval of the Lord Lieutenant, shall be ex-officio inspectors of weights and measures within such district, and shall possess and exercise all the powers and authorities, and be subject to the like penalties for any neglect or offence in the discharge of such duties, which any inspector of weights and measures heretofore possessed or exercised or had been liable to under and by virtue of the 5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 63, or any other act now in force, and shall perform such duties, under the direction of the justices at petty sessions, without fee or reward, and notwithstanding any manorial jurisdiction or claim of jurisdiction within such district provided that if within one month from the date of such selection the justices shall signify their disapproval of the selection of any head or other constable, another selection shall be made by the same authority, subject to the same conditions, and the Inspector General of Constabulary shall give notice, or cause notice to be given, to the clerk of the petty sessions district, within three days of any such selection having been made in his district, who shall immediately make known the said selection to the justices of the district. 6. [Inspector General to appoint one officer in each county, &c., to have custody of imperial standards, &c.] The Inspector General of Constabulary shall, with the approval of the Lord Lieutenant, also appoint some sub-inspector of constabulary in every county or borough in Ireland to have the charge of such copy or copies of the imperial standard weights and measures as shall have been provided for such county or borough under the provisions of the said first-recited act, or may be so provided under this act; and such sub-inspector shall duly stamp or cause to be duly stamped from time to time such sub-standard weights |