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Local Government Supplemental (No. 2.)

and occupiers of the aforesaid land and buildings who have
assented, dissented, or are neuter in respect of the taking thereof,
or who have returned no answer to the notice issued by such
Board; and such Petition prayed that the said Board might, with
reference to such land and buildings, be allowed to put in force
the powers of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act aforesaid,
with respect to the purchase and taking of lands otherwise than
by agreement; and on the receipt of such Petition Her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department directed
Robert Morgan, Esquire, the Inspector appointed for the purpose,
to visit the said District, and the said Inspector has now inquired
in the District aforesaid into the subject-matter of such Petition,
and has duly reported thereon.

Now, therefore, I, as one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries
of State, do hereby, in pursuance of the powers vested in me by
the Local Government Act, 1858, make Order and direct,—

That from and after the passing of any Act of Parliament
confirming this Order-

The Local Board for the said District of Tormoham shall be
empowered to put in force, with reference to the land and
premises referred to and described in the Schedule to this
Order annexed, and in the Petition herein-before referred
to, the powers of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act,
1845, with respect to the purchase and taking of lands
otherwise than by agreement.

Given under my hand this Eleventh day of June in the
year One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
(Signed) G. GREY.

CA P. LXXXIV.

An Act for continuing various expiring Acts.

[29th July 1864.] WHEREAS the several Acts mentioned in the First Column

of the Schedule hereto are wholly, or as to certain Pro'visions thereof, limited to expire at the Times specified in respect of such Acts in the Fourth Column of the said Schedule: And whereas it is expedient to continue such Acts, in so far as they are temporary in their Duration, for the Times ' mentioned in respect of such Acts respectively in the Fifth • Column of the said Schedule: 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. This Act may be cited for all Purposes as the "Expiring Short Title. Laws Continuance Act, 1864."

2. The Acts mentioned in Column One of the said Schedule, Continuance and the Acts, if any, amending the same, shall, in so far as such of Acts in Acts or any Provisions thereof are temporary in their Duration, Schedule. be continued until the Times respectively specified in respect of such Acts in the Fifth Column of the said Schedule.

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7 & 8 Vict.

C. 47.

14 & 15 Vict.
c. 68.

20 & 21 Vict.
c. 7.

As to Appoint-
ment of Com.
missioners,
&c.

As to Provisions
continued by
21 & 22 Vict.
c. 50.
Whole Act

16 & 17 Vict. Whole Act
c. 82.

17 & 18 Vict. Whole Act
c. 116.

Capitular Es- 22 & 23 Vict.
tates Manage-
ment.

17 & 18 Vict. c. 117.
Incumbered Es-
tates (West
Indies).

24 & 25 Vict. c. 109.
Salmon Fishery
(England)
Act.

c. 46.

23 & 24 Vict.

c. 124.
21 & 22 Vict.

c. 96.
25 & 26 Vict.
c. 45.

As to Appoint-
ment of Com-
missioners.

As to Appoint-
ment of In-
spectors, s. 31.

4.

Time of Expiration

of temporary
Provisions.

5.

Continued until

22 & 23 Vict.c.25.,
i.e. 5 Years from
the 13th August
1859.

23d July 1864, and
End of then next
Session.

(26 & 27 Vict. c. 95.)
1st August 1863, and

End of then next
Session.

(26 & 27 Vict. c. 95.)
1st August 1864, and
End of then next
Session.

(26 & 27 Vict. c. 95.)
1st August 1864, and
End of then next
Session.

(26 & 27 Vict. c. 95.)
1st January 1864,
and End of then
next Session.

(26 & 27 Vict. c. 95.)

An Act for the Prevention of Contagious Diseases at certain
Naval and Military Stations.

[29th July 1864.] WHEREAS it is expedient to make Provisions calculated

to prevent the spreading of certain Contagious Diseases in the Places to which this Act applies:'

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. This Act may be cited as The Contagious Diseases Prevention Act, 1864.

2. In this Act

The Term "Contagious Disease means Venereal Disease, including Gonorrhoea :

The Term "Hospital' " includes Ward of a Hospital :

The Term " public Place" means a Thoroughfare or other public Street or Place, or a House or Room which is open to the Inspection of the Police.

Contagious Diseases.

3. The Places to which this Act applies shall be the Places Extent of Act. mentioned in the First Schedule hereto, the Limits of which

Places shall for the Purposes of this Act be such as are defined in

that Schedule.

Act.

4. Expenses incurred in the Execution of this Act shall be Provision as paid under the Direction of the Lord High Admiral of the United to Expenses of Kingdom or the Commissioners for executing his Office (hereafter in this Act styled the Admiralty), and of such One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State as Her Majesty thinks fit for the Time being to intrust with the Seals of the War Department (hereafter in this Act styled the Secretary of State for War), out of Money to be provided by Parliament for the Purpose.

5. The Admiralty and the Secretary of State for War shall, Appointment on the passing of this Act, appoint a Superior Medical Officer of of Inspector of Her Majesty's Navy or Army to be, during Pleasure, Inspector this Act. Hospitals under

of Hospitals certified under this Act, and may from Time to Time, on the Death, Resignation, or Removal from Office of any such Inspector, appoint another such Officer in his Stead.

6. On the Application of the Authorities having the Direc- Hospitals to be tion or Management of any Hospital desiring that such Hospital examined and should be certified under this Act, the Admiralty and the Secre- reported on. tary of State for War may direct the Inspector of Hospitals to examine and report to them on the Condition of that Hospital, and on the Regulations established for its Direction and Management.

port.

7. If on such Examination and Report the Hospital appears Power to certify to the Admiralty and the Secretary of State for War to be useful Hospitals on and efficient for the Purposes of this Act, and is certified in such ExaminaWriting to be so by the Admiralty and the Secretary of State for tion and ReWar, the same shall be deemed a Certified Hospital for the Purposes of this Act; and every such Hospital is in this Act referred to as a Certified Hospital; and the Admiralty and the Secretary of State for War shall state in their Certificate what Persons or Officers for the Time being are to be deemed the Authorities of the Hospital for the Purpose of exercising the Powers hereinafter given, and the Persons or Officers so stated shall be such Authorities accordingly.

8. The Inspector shall from Time to Time visit and inspect Inspection of every Certified Hospital. Hospital. 9. If on the Report of the Inspector respecting any Certified Power to withHospital the Admiralty and the Secretary of State for War think draw Certifiproper to withdraw their Certificate, that Hospital shall thereupon cate. cease to be a Certified Hospital for the Purposes of this Act.

of Certificate to
be published
in Gazette.

10. A Notice shall be published in the London or Dublin The Granting Gazette (as the Case may require) of the Granting or Withdrawal or Withdrawal of any Certificate relative to any Hospital under this Act; and a Copy of the Gazette containing any such Notice shall be sufficient Evidence of such Granting or Withdrawal; and any such Certificate shall be presumed to be in force until the Withdrawal thereof is proved.

11. Where an Information, in the Form given in the Second On InformaSchedule to this Act, or to the like Effect, is laid before a Justice tion, Justice

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may issue

Notice to

Contagious Diseases.

of the Peace by a Superintendent or Inspector of Metropolitan Woman named. Police, or by a Superintendent or Inspector of Police or Consta

Constable to serve Notice on Woman.

Justice may order Medical Examination at Certified Hospital.

Medical Ex

amination at Certified Hospital.

Power for

Woman to submit to Exami

nation voluntarily.

Under Order of Justice Woman may be detained for Medical Treatment in Hospital.

bulary authorized to act in any Place to which this Act applies, or by any Medical Practitioner duly registered as such, the Justice may, if he thinks fit, issue to the Woman named in the Information a Notice in the Form given in the same Schedule, or to the like Effect.

12. A Constable or other Peace Officer shall serve such Notice on the Woman to whom it is directed, by delivering the same to her personally, or by leaving the same with some Person for her at her last or usual Place of Abode.

13. In either of the following Cases; namely,

(1.) If the Woman on whom such Notice is served appears herself, or by some Person on her Behalf, at the Time and Place appointed in the Notice, or at some other Time and Place appointed by Adjournment :

(2.) If she does not so appear, and it is shown (on Oath) to the Justice present that the Notice was served on her a reasonable Time before the Time appointed for her Appearance, or that reasonable Notice of such Adjournment was given to her (as the Case may be):

the Justice present, on Oath being made before him substantiating the Matter of the Information to his Satisfaction, may, if he thinks fit, order such Woman to be taken to a Certified Hospital for Medical Examination.

14. Such Order shall be a sufficient Warrant for any Constable or Peace Officer to whom the Order is delivered, to apprehend such Woman, and to convey her with all practicable Speed to the Hospital therein named, and for the Authorities of the Hospital to cause her to be examined by some Medical Officer of such Hospital, for the Purpose of ascertaining whether or not she has a Contagious Disease, and in case, on such Examination, it is ascertained that she has a Contagious Disease, then to detain her in the Hospital for Twenty-four Hours from the Time of her being brought there.

15. Any Woman on whom Notice is served by any Constable or Peace Officer, in pursuance of this Act, may signify to him her Willingness to submit herself voluntarily for Examination to the Medical Officers of the nearest Certified Hospital; and in that Case it shall be the Duty of such Constable or Peace Officer to accompany her to such Hospital, and her Examination shall then be made in the same Manner and with the same Consequences as if she had been brought to that Hospital to be examined in pursuance of the Order of a Justice.

16. Within the said Period of Twenty-four Hours the Authorities of such Hospital shall cause a Certificate, signed by the Medical Officer who has made such Examination, stating (if the Fact be so) that on such Examination it has been ascertained that such Woman has a Contagious Disease, to be made out and laid before the Justice by whom the Order was made, or some other Justice having the like Jurisdiction; and thereupon such Justice may, if he thinks fit, order the Authorities of such Hos

Contagious Diseases.

pital to detain such Woman in the Hospital for Medical Treat-
ment until discharged by such Authorities, and such Order shall
be a sufficient Warrant to such Authorities to detain such Woman,
and such Authorities shall detain her accordingly; provided that
no Woman shall be detained under any such Order for a longer
Period than Three Months.

Rules, or quitting Hospital.

17. If any Woman ordered as aforesaid to be taken to a Certi- Penalty for
fied Hospital for Medical Examination refuses to submit to such refusing to be
examined or to
Examination, or if any Woman ordered to be detained in a Certi-
conform to
fied Hospital for Medical Treatment refuses or wilfully neglects
while in the Hospital to conform to the Regulations thereof, or
quits the Hospital without being discharged from the same as
aforesaid, every such Woman shall be guilty of an Offence against
this Act, and on summary Conviction thereof before Two or more
Justices of the Peace shall be liable to Imprisonment in the Case
of a First Offence, for any Term not exceeding One Month and in
the Case of a Second or any subsequent Offence for any Term not
exceeding Two Months.

18. If any Person, being the Owner or Occupier of any House,
Room, or Place within the Limits of any Place to which this
Act applies, or being a Manager or Assistant in the Management
thereof, knowing or having reasonable Cause to believe
any com-
mon Prostitute to have a Contagious Disease, induces or suffers
such common Prostitute to resort to or be in such House, Room,
or Place for the Purpose of Prostitution, every such Person shall
be guilty of an Offence against this Act, and on summary Con-

viction thereof before Two or more Justices of the Peace shall
be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds, or, at the
Discretion of the Justices, to be imprisoned for any Term not
exceeding Three Months, with or without Hard Labour.

Provided that a Conviction under this Enactment shall not
exempt the Offender from any penal or other Consequences to
which he or she may be liable for keeping or being concerned in
keeping a Bawdy House or Disorderly House, or for the Nuisance
thereby occasioned.

Penalty for
permitting

Prostitute
having Conta-
gious Disease
to resort to
any House, &c.
for Prostitu-

tion.

c. 93.

19. All Proceedings under this Act before and by Justices Application of shall be had, in England according to the Provisions of the 11 & 12 Vict. Act of the Session of the Eleventh and Twelfth Years of Her c. 43. and Majesty (Chapter Forty-three), "to facilitate the Performance of 14 & 15 Vict. "the Duties of Justices of the Peace out of Sessions within Eng"land and Wales, with respect to summary Convictions and "Orders," and in Ireland according to the Provisions of The Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851, save so far as those Provisions respectively are inconsistent with any Provision of this Act, and save also that, except where the Woman concerning whom an Information is laid under this Act in the Form given in the Second Schedule desires the contrary, the Room or Place in which a Justice sits to inquire into the Truth of the Statements contained in any such Information shall not be deemed an open Court for that Purpose, and, except in the Case aforesaid, such Justice may in his Discretion order that no Person have Access to or be or remain in that Room without his Consent or Permission.

20. The