2 & 3 Vict. c. 47. Repeal of recited Provision, and Substitution of amended Provision. Treatment of while shut. 6 Street Music (Metropolis). CA P. LV. An Act for the better Regulation of Street Music within the 6 1. Section Fifty-seven of the said Act is hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof the following Provision shall take effect as Part of the said Act; namely, any Householder within the Metropolitan Police District, personally, or by his Servant, or by any Police Constable, may require any Street Musician or Street Singer to depart from the Neighbourhood of the House of such Householder, on account of the Illness, or on account of the Interruption of the ordinary Occupations or Pursuits of any Inmate of such House, or for other reasonable or sufficient Cause; and every Person who shall sound or play upon any Musical Instrument or shall sing in any Thoroughfare or public Place near any such House after being so required to depart, shall be liable to a Penalty not more than Forty Shillings, or, in the Discretion of the Magistrate before whom he shall be convicted, may be imprisoned for any Time not more than Three Days, and it shall be lawful for any Constable belonging to the Metropolitan Police Force to take into Custody without Warrant any Person who shall offend as aforesaid: Provided always, he shall be given into Custody by the Person making the Charge: Provided also, that the Person making a Charge for an Offence against this Act shall accompany the Constable who shall take into Custody any Person offending as aforesaid to the nearest Police Station House, and there sign the Charge Sheet kept for such Purpose. 2. Whenever any Person charged with an Offence under this Charge brought Act shall be brought to any Station House during the Time when to Police Court the Police Court shall be shut, it shall be lawful for the Constable in charge of the Station House to require the Person making the Charge to enter into a Recognizance, conditioned as is provided by the Act passed in the Second and Third Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Forty-seven, Section Seventy-two; and upon the Refusal of such Person to do so it shall be lawful for such Constable to discharge from Custody the Person so charged. СА Р. Inland Revenue (Stamp Duties). CA P. LVI. An Act for granting to Her Majesty certain Stamp Duties; BE E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and 1. Whereas an Act was passed in the Nineteenth Year of made. On Termina of Great Britain, and on Merchandises or Effects laden thereon; sec. one and by Section Four of the same Act it is prohibited to make called Re-assurance except in the Cases therein mentioned: And 76229.96. 'whereas it is expedient to remove such Restriction:' Be it Re-assurances enacted, That, notwithstanding anything contained in the said of Sea Risks Act, it shall be lawful to make Re-assurance upon any Ship or may lawfully be Vessel, or upon any Goods, Merchandise, or other Property on board of any Ship or Vessel, or upon the Freight of any Ship or Jod 31 Vessel, or upon any other Interest in or relating to any Ship or rel. Vessel which may lawfully be insured, and such Re-assurances C. 23 shall be deemed to be the Insurance of Interests which may lawfully be insured within the Meaning of the Acts imposing Stamp Duties on Policies of Sea Insurance: Provided always, that if within Three Calendar Months next after the Termination of the Risk on any Policy of Re-assurance Application shall be made to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, and it shall be proved to their Satisfaction that any such Re-assurance as aforesaid has been made on the same Property or Interest and Risk which shall have been previously assured to the same or some greater Amount by One or more lawful and valid Policy or Policies existing at the Time of making such Re-assurance, and duly stamped for denoting the full and proper Duties chargeable thereon, it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners to make Allowance for the Stamp Duty impressed on the Policy of Reassurance in like Manner as in the Case of spoiled Stamps on Policies of Insurance under the Act passed in the Fifty-fourth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, Chapter One hundred and thirty-three; and the several Provisions of the said Act, so far as they are applicable or can be applied, shall be observed and put in force with respect to the Allowance of the Stamps on the said Policies of Re-assurance. tion of Risk and Proof of prior Assurance duly stamped, Allowance to be made for Stamp Duty on Policy of Re-assurance. on Demand 2. Any Bill of Exchange payable on Demand, which shall be Bills of Exendorsed out of the United Kingdom, or purport to be so endorsed, change payable wheresoever the same may have been drawn, shall, for the Purpose and endorsed of charging the Stamp Duty thereon, be deemed to be a Foreign abroad to be Bill of Exchange, but shall be chargeable with the same Amount deemed Foreign of Stamp Duty as an Inland Bill of Exchange for the Payment of Bills. Money otherwise than on Demand, according to the Amount thereby made payable; and the Provisions, Regulations, and Penalties contained in the Fifth Section of the Act passed in the Seventeenth Stamp Duties on Letters of Attorney for the Receipt of Dividends or Interest of Inland Revenue (Stamp Duties). Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of Her Majesty's Reigu, Chapter Eighty-three, shall be deemed to apply to any such Bill so endorsed or purporting to be endorsed as aforesaid as if the same were a Bill drawn out of the United Kingdom. 3. In lieu of the Stamp Duties now payable for or upon any Letter or Power of Attorney for the Receipt of Dividends or Interest of any of the Government or Parliamentary Stocks or Funds, or of the Stocks or Funds of the Secretary of State in Council of India, or of India Promissory Notes, or registered Stocks, Funds, Promissory Notes, the Interest of which is payable by Bills of Exchange on the Governments of India, Madras, and Bombay respectively, or of the Stocks, Funds, or Shares of or in any Joint Stock Company or other Company or Society whose Stocks or Funds are divided into Shares and transferable, there shall be charged and paid for or upon such Letter or Power of Attorney as aforesaid the following Stamp Duties; (that is to say,) &c. Stamp Duties on Probates, Letters of Administration, and Inventories to extend to British Ships at Sea. Probates, &c. exempted from Stamp Duty where the Effects do not exceed 100%. Stamp Duties on certain Licences to be for the future Excise Duties. Where such Letter or Power of Attorney shall be for the 6 4. And whereas certain ad valorem Stamp Duties are by 'several Statutes in that Behalf granted and imposed upon or in respect of the following Instruments; (that is to say,) Probate of a Will and Letters of Administration, with or without a Will annexed, to be granted in England or • Ireland; Inventory to be exhibited and recorded in any Commissary 'Court in Scotland of the Estate and Effects of any Person ' deceased :' Be it enacted, That the said Stamp Duties shall be charged and paid in respect of the Value of any Ship or any Share of a Ship belonging to any deceased Person which shall be registered at any Port in the United Kingdom, notwithstanding such Ship at the Time of the Death of the Testator or Intestate may have been at Sea or elsewhere out of the United Kingdom; and for the Purpose of charging the said Duties, such Ship shall be deemed to have been at the Time aforesaid in the Port at which she may be registered. 5. No Stamp Duty shall be chargeable on any such Probate, Letters of Administration, or Inventory as aforesaid in any Case where the whole Estate and Effects of the deceased Person dying after the passing of this Act (exclusive of what he shall have been possessed of or entitled to as a Trustee for any other Person or Persons, and not beneficially,) shall be sworn not to exceed and shall not actually exceed in Value the Sum of One hundred Pounds. 6. Whereas it is expedient that the Duties now payable as Stamp Duties upon the Licences herein-after mentioned should for the future be and become payable as Duties of Excise :' Be it enacted, That on and from and after the First Day of July One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four the Duties now pay able Inland Revenue (Stamp Duties). able by Law upon or in respect of the Licences to be taken out in the United Kingdom by Persons carrying on the Trades and Businesses herein-after mentioned, as described and defined by the several Statutes relating to such Licences and Trades or Businesses respectively, (that is to say,) Appraisers, Dealers in Gold and Silver Plate, Owners, Proprietors, Makers and Compounders of, and Persons uttering, vending, or exposing to Sale, or keeping ready for Sale, any Medicine liable to Stamp Duty, Hawkers and Pedlars, House Agents, Sellers of Playing Cards (being Makers thereof), And Sellers of Playing Cards (not being Makers thereof), Shall respectively be denominated and be deemed to be Duties of Excise, and the said Licences respectively shall be granted by such Officer or Officers of Excise and shall be in such Form as the Commissioners of Inland Revenue shall direct in that Behalf; and all Powers and Directions granted to or to be observed by any Officer of Stamps, and now in force, contained in any Act relating to the said Duties or Licences, or to the said Trades and Businesses, or any of them, may be executed and enforced and shall be observed by any Officer of Excise; and all such Duties and all Fines, Penalties, and Forfeitures imposed by any Act or Acts of Parliament upon any Person who shall carry on any of the said Trades or Businesses without being duly licensed, or who shall do or omit to do any Act or Thing in any Manner contrary to the Provisions of any Act of Parliament relating to the said Licences, or to the said Duties, or any of them, may be collected, sued for, recovered, levied, mitigated, paid, and applied by the same Means and Methods, and in like Manner, and under the same general or special Powers, Provisions, Regulations, and Directions as to Appeal, and in all other respects, as any other Duties of Excise, or any Fines, Penalties, or Forfeitures, are directed to be collected, sued for, recovered, levied, mitigated, paid, and applied under any Act relating to the Excise Revenue, as well as by the Means and Methods and in the Manner directed by the said Act or Acts relating to the said Duties or Licences, or to the said Trades or Businesses, and in force at the Time of the passing of this Act. the Certificate 7. Any Licence to a Hawker, Pedlar, and Petty Chapman in A Licence may Great Britain may be granted by any authorized Officer of Ex- be granted to a cise upon the Person applying for it producing the Certificate Hawker upon described in the Sixth Section of the Act passed in the Twenty- required by fourth and Twenty-fifth Years of the Reign of Her present Ma- Law, and may jesty, Chapter Twenty-one, or in any former Act: Provided be renewed on always, that it shall be lawful to grant to any Person who shall the Production have taken out a Licence as a Hawker, Pedlar, and Petty Chap- of a previous man a renewed Licence upon the Production and Surrender of the Licence last previously issued to him as such Hawker, Pedlar, and Petty Chapman, and without the Production of any further Licence. or Brewers Li cences to expire on the 30th of September in each Year. Sects. 54. to 65. of 7 & 8 Vict. c. 52., and so much of Sect. 13. of 3 & 4 W. 4. c. 68. as relates to Brewers in Ireland, repealed. Extension to Ireland of certain Provisions of Acts relating to Brewers in Great Britain. Couch Frames not to be altered after Entry, unless upon Notice to Supervisor. Inland Revenue (Stamp Duties). or other Certificate, so long as he shall continue to renew his Licence immediately upon the Expiration thereof. 8. All Licences granted to Brewers of Beer for Sale after the Thirtieth Day of September in the Year One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four shall continue and be in force from the Day of the Date of such Licences respectively until and upon the Thirtieth Day of September next after the granting thereof, on which last-mentioned Day all such Licences shall expire. 9. 'Whereas it is expedient that the Laws relating to Brewer's ' of Beer for Sale should be made uniform throughout the United 'Kingdom' Be it enacted, That Sections Fifty-four to Sixtyfive inclusive (relating to Brewers of Beer in Ireland) of the Act passed in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of King George the Fourth, Chapter Fifty-two, and so much of Section Thirteen of the Act passed in the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of King William the Fourth, Chapter Sixty-eight, as prohibits any Brewer from receiving or holding a Licence to sell Beer, Cider, or Spirits by Retail, to be drunk or consumed on the Premises, shall be and the same are hereby repealed, except as to anything done or omitted to be done, or as to any Penalty or Forfeiture which shall respectively have been incurred, before the passing of this Act. 10. Sections Two and Three of the Act passed in the Fiftysixth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, Chapter Fifty-eight, (as amended and altered by Section Twenty of the Act passed in the Twenty-fifth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter Twenty-two,) and Sections One, Two, and Three of the Act passed in the First and Second Years of the Reign of King George the Fourth, Chapter Twenty-two, and also Sections Fifteen and Sixteen of the Act passed in the First Year of the Reign of King William the Fourth, Chapter Fifty-one, shall extend to and be in force in Ireland, and shall apply to Brewers of Beer in Ireland, and to all Acts, Matters, and Things done or to be done in Ireland, in like Manner as at the Time of the passing of this Act the said Sections of the several Acts aforesaid do apply to the like Acts, Matters, and Things done or to be done in Great Britain. 11. And whereas by an Act passed in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of King George the Fourth, Chapter Fiftytwo, Couch Frames to be used by Maltsters in the making of Malt are required to be made and constructed in the Manner and Form thereby prescribed, and it is fit and proper, in order to prevent Fraud or Error in the gauging of the Corn or Grain, that no Alteration should be made in such Couch Frames without previous Notice to the Officers of Excise: Be it enacted, That if any Alteration shall be made in the Dimensions, Size, or Capacity of any Couch Frame in the Malthouse of any Maltster after Entry thereof made by him with the Officer of Excise without Four Days Notice in Writing having been previously given by such Maltster of the intended Alteration to the Supervisor of Excise of the District in which such Malthouse is situate, the |