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and every proceeding relative thereto, shall be as valid as if such document had been properly stamped in the first instance.

6. The local authority may, by order under the hands of any Authority to two of their number, authorize any persons to sell or distribute sell stamps. stamps for the purpose of this Act upon such terms and subject to such conditions as such local authority may direct, and may

from time to time revoke any authority so granted. If any Penalty.
person not authorized as aforesaid sells or distributes any such
stamps as are authorized to be used for the purpose of this Act,
he shall upon summary conviction be liable to a penalty not
exceeding five pounds.

7. All expenses which may be incurred by any local authority Expenses of in or about the preparing or making of dies or stamps, or in or Act. about the carrying into execution of any of the powers given them by this Act, shall be defrayed out of and be a charge upon the county or borough rate respectively of such local authority. 8. If any person is guilty of any of the following offences,(1.) Forges or counterfeits, or causes or procures to be forged offences herein or counterfeited, any stamp or die, or any part of any stamp or die, provided, made, or used in pursuance of this Act; or,

(2.) Forges or counterfeits, or causes or procures to be forged or counterfeited, the impression, or any part of the impression, of any such stamp or die as aforesaid upon any document; or,

;

(3.) With intent to defraud the local authority, stamps or marks,
or causes or procures to be stamped or marked, any docu-
ment with any such forged or counterfeited stamp or die
(4.) Sells or exposes for sale any document having thereupon
the impression of any such forged or counterfeited stamp
or die, or part of any such stamp or die, or any such
forged or counterfeited impression or part of an impres-
sion, knowing the same to be forged or counterfeited; or,
(5.) Fraudulently cuts or gets off, or causes or procures to be
cut or got off, the impression of any such stamp or die
from any document, with intent to use the same for any
other document; or,

(6.) Knowingly and without lawful excuse (the proof whereof
lies on the person accused) has in his possession any false,
forged, or counterfeited die, plate, or other instrument,
or part of any such die, plate, or instrument, resembling
or intended to resemble, either wholly or in part, any
stamp or die which at any time whatever has been or
may be provided, made, or used by or under the direc-
tion of the local authority for the purposes of this Act;

or,

(7.) Knowingly and without lawful excuse (the proof whereof lies on the person accused) has in his possession any vellum, parchment, or paper having thereon the impression of any such false, forged, or counterfeit stamp or die, or having thereon any false, forged, or counterfeit stamp, mark, or impression resembling or representing,

Penalties for

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Fines and Fees Collection. Medical Officers Superan. (Ireland).

either wholly or in part, or intended or liable to pass or be mistaken for any such stamp or die;

(8.) With intent to defraud the local authority, forges or alters, or offers, utters, disposes of, or puts off, knowing the same to be forged or altered, any certificate of a justice of the peace under this Act, or any signature to any certificate purporting to be signed by a justice of the peace under this Act;

Every person so offending, and every person knowingly and wilfully aiding and abetting any person in committing any such offence, and being thereof lawfully convicted, shall be judged guilty of felony, and shall be liable, at the discretion of the court, to penal servitude for any term not less than five years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years.

CHAP. 50.

An Act to provide for Superannuation Allowances to Me-
dical Officers of poor law unions, and of dispensary districts
of such unions, in Ireland.
[2d August 1869.]
WHEREAS it is expedient that provision should be made to

enable superannuation allowances to be granted to medical officers of poor law unions in Ireland, and of dispensary districts of such unions, who become disabled, either by infirmity or age, to discharge the duties of their offices: Be it therefore 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, as follows:

Power to guar1. That the board of guardians of any union in Ireland may, at dians, with con- their discretion, with the consent of the commissioners for admisent of poor nistering the laws for relief of the poor in Ireland, grant to any law commissioners, to grant medical officer, including in that term a surgical officer, of such superannuation union, or of any dispensary district in such union, an annual allowallowance to ance, under and subject to the provisions of the Act to provide for medical officers superannuation allowances to officers of the unions in Ireland, passed in the twenty-eighth year of the reign of Her Majesty, notwithstanding such medical officer shall not have devoted his entire time to the services of the union, and such allowance shall be paid out of the rates of the union exclusively, and no contribution shall be made thereto out of any monies voted by Parliament. 2. This Act shall be called The Medical Officers Superannuation Act (Ireland), 1869.

in certain cases.

Short title.

CHAP. 51.

An Act to amend the County Courts (Admiralty Jurisdic-
tion) Act, 1868, and to give Jurisdiction in certain Mari-
time Causes.
[2d August 1869.]

BE

E 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, as follows:

County Courts (Admiralty Jurisdiction) Act (1868) Amendment.

1. This Act may be cited as The County Courts Admiralty Short title. Jurisdiction Amendment Act, 1869, and shall be read and interpreted as one Act with the County Courts Admiralty Jurisdiction Act, 1868.

2. Any county court appointed or to be appointed to have Ad- Extension of miralty jurisdiction shall have jurisdiction, and all powers and jurisdiction authorities relating thereto, to try and determine the following over ships and goods.

causes:

(1.) As to any claim arising out of any agreement made in relation to the use or hire of any ship, or in relation to the carriage of goods in any ship, and also as to any claim in tort in respect of goods carried in any ship, provided the amount claimed does not exceed three hundred pounds : (2.) As to any cause in respect of any such claim or claims as aforesaid, but in which the amount claimed is beyond the amount limited as above mentioned, when the parties agree, by a memorandum signed by them or by their attorneys or agents, that any county court having Admi- determined by ralty jurisdiction, and specified in the memorandum, shall county court. have jurisdiction.

If parties agree, causes in respect of claims

of higher amount may be

3. The jurisdiction conferred by this Act and by the County Proceedings in Courts Admiralty Jurisdiction Act, 1868, may be exercised either rem or in perby proceedings in rem or by proceedings in personam.

sonam.

31 & 32 Vict.

4. The third section of the County Courts Admiralty Jurisdic- Amendment of tion Act, 1868, shall extend and apply to all claims for damage to ships, whether by collision or otherwise, when the amount claimed does not exceed three hundred pounds.

c. 71. s. 3.

5. In any Admiralty or maritime cause the judge may, if he As to appointthink fit, or on the request of either party, be assisted by two mer- ment of mercantile assessors; and all the provisions of the County Courts cantile assesAdmiralty Jurisdiction Act, 1868, with reference to nautical assessors, shall apply to the appointment, approval, summoning, and remuneration of such mercantile assessors.

sors.

6. The assessor of the Court of Passage of the borough of Power of assesLiverpool shall have power from time to time to make general sor of Court of rules and orders for regulating the practise and procedure of the Passage to make general Admiralty and maritime jurisdiction in the said court, and for rules and other purposes mentioned in section thirty-five of the County orders. Courts Admiralty Jurisdiction Act, 1868; and any general rules and orders already made or hereafter to be made by the said assessor for any of the purposes aforesaid shall be of full force and effect as if the same had been made under this or the aforesaid Act. 7. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of Sep- Commencetember one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

CHAP. 52.

An Act for the Amendment of The Shipping Dues Exemp

tion Act, 1867.

[2d August 1869.]

ment of Act.

WHEREAS by The Shipping Dues Exemption Act, 1867, 30 & 31 Vict. provision is made for the abolition of certain exemptions c. 15,

from local dues on shipping and on goods carried in ships, and for

payment of compensation for such abolition:

Certain agreements for compensation may

be sent in to

Shipping Dues Exemption Act (1867) Amendment.

And whereas the said Act contains the following provision; that is to say,

"With respect to determining the amount of compensation to "be paid under this Act, the following rules shall be observed: "(1.) The claimant shall send to the receiver of dues, and to "the Board of Trade, in writing, his claim to compen"sation, stating the amount and grounds of his claim, "and shall give such evidence in support of his claim as the Board of Trade may require:

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(2.) This claim shall be sent in to the Board of Trade within "three months after the commencement of this Act, and "if it is not sent in within that time the claimant shall "not be entitled to any compensation in respect of the "time prior to the date of the receipt of such claim by "the Board of Trade; and if it is not sent in within one year after the passing of this Act the claimant "shall not be entitled to any compensation:

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(3.) As soon as may be after receiving such claim, the "receiver of dues shall agree with the claimant on the "amount of the compensation to be paid, and the times " and mode of such payment, but such agreement shall "be subject to the approval of the Board of Trade:" And whereas in certain cases agreements for compensation have been made between the claimant and the receiver of dues within one year from the passing of the said Act, but the claims have by inadvertence not been subinitted to the Board of Trade within that time:

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, as follows:

1. That in any case in which any agreement for compensation under the said Act has been made within one year from the passing thereof, the same may be sent in to the Board of Trade Board of Trade within one year from the passing of this Act, and the Board of within one year Trade may, if satisfied that the omission to send in the same to from passing of them has arisen from inadvertence, approve the same, and compensation shall thereupon be paid according to the terms of such agreement: Provided that no such compensation shall be paid in respect of any time prior to the date of such approval as aforesaid. 2. This Act shall be construed with and as part of The Shipping Dues Exemption Act, 1867, and may be cited as The Shipping Dues Exemption Act Amendment Act, 1869.

this Act.

Construction

and short title

of Act.

18 & 19 Vict. c. 48.

CHAP. 53.

An Act to amend the Cinque Ports Act.

[2d August 1869.] WHEREAS by the Act of the session of the eighteenth and nineteenth years of Her Majesty's reign (chapter fortyeight) "for the better administration of justice in the Cinque "Ports" (in this Act called the Cinque Ports Act) provision is made (sections five to eight) for the severance from the town and

Cinque Ports Act Amendment.

port of Dover of any district forming part of the members or liberties of that town and port, on the grant of a charter of incorporation to such district; which enactments are amended by the 20 & 21 Vict. Act of the session of the twentieth and twenty-first years of Her c. 1. Majesty's reign (chapter one) so that such severance takes effect not immediately on the grant of a charter of incorporation but only on the grant of a court of quarter sessions for the district comprised in any such charter; and it is expedient that the enactments aforesaid be further amended:

Be it therefore 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, as follows:

1. On section five of the Cinque Ports Act coming into force with respect to any district comprised in a charter of incorporation, sections six, seven, and eight of that Act shall in relation to that district have effect as if the grant of a court of quarter sessions had been therein referred to instead of the grant of a charter of incorporation.

Amendment

of sections 6, 7, & 8 of Cinque

Ports Act.

2. On a grant of a court of quarter sessions for the borough of Ascertainment Margate, the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall (not- and discharge withstanding anything in the Cinque Ports Act) ascertain and of liabilities of determine the capital amount that ought to be paid by the borough Margate. of Margate in discharge of the liability of the borough continued or created by the Cinque Ports Act, as amended by this Act, and what other expenses (if any) the borough of Margate will become liable on the severance thereof from Dover to pay to the borough of Dover, and the amount thereof, unless the councils of those boroughs agree on the matters so to be ascertained and determined (which they are hereby empowered to do); and the council of the borough of Margate shall, within such time as the councils agree or (in default of their agreement) the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury direct, pay out of the borough fund of that borough the amounts so agreed or ascertained and determined; and on payment thereof that borough shall be by virtue of this Act absolutely discharged from all such liability and the council of that borough may, with the approval of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury (subject and according to the provisions of The Municipal Corporations Mortgages, &c., Act, 1860), raise 23 & 24 Vict. any money requisite in that behalf by borrowing the same at c. 16. interest on the security of the borough fund.

3. All rates which on a grant of a court of quarter sessions for Recovery of the borough of Margate are due and payable by the church- rates due to wardens and overseers of the poor of the parish of St. John the Dover. Baptist, in the Isle of Thanet, to the treasurer of the town and port of Dover shall be paid to the deputy or high constable of the liberty wherein that parish is situate, and shall be recoverable as if this Act had not been passed.

4. That portion of the parish of Saint John the Baptist, in the Continuance of Isle of Thanet, which is not comprised within the borough of Mar. liability of nongate, shall (notwithstanding the grant of a court of quarter sessions corporate porto that borough or this Act) remain and be subject to the provi- tion of parish,

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