Corn Accounts and Returns.

named shall be

Sections Seven, Ten, and Eleven :
So much as relates to the making, collecting, or transmitting repealed.
of Returns of the Purchases and Sales of Rye, Pease, or
Beans, or to the making up or computing of any average
Prices of Rye, Pease, or Beans, or as provides or implies
that, with reference to any Returns or average Prices, Rye,
Pease, and Beans are comprised in the Term Corn as therein
used:

So much as relates to Returns of Purchases and Sales of Corn
in and from the Cities and Towns named in the Schedule to
this Act:
And from and after the same Day, notwithstanding anything in
the said Act, there shall be published weekly in the London
Gazette only the aggregate weekly Sales and Averages of Prices
of Corn, and not any Returns received from particular Cities and
Towns.

2. For the Purposes of the said Act, and of every other Enactment now in force relative to the Comptroller of Corn Returns, and for all other Purposes, such Person employed in the Office of the Lords of the Committee of Her Majesty's Privy Council appointed for the Consideration of Matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations as shall be from Time to Time nominated in this Behalf by the Lords of the said Committee shall be the Comptroller of Corn Returns.

Officer of Board of Trade nominated by the Comptroller of Corn Returns.

Board to be

SCHEDULE of CITIES and TOWNS to which this Act refers.

Westminster Bridge Traffic.

Defence Act Amendment.

CA P. LXXXVIII.

An Act for the better Regulation of the Traffic on West-
minster Bridge, and for the Prevention of Obstructions
thereon.
[29th July 1864.]
WHEREAS it is expedient that better Provision should be
made for the Regulation of private and public Carriages,
'Carts, Drays, Waggons, and other Vehicles passing over West-
'minster Bridge and its Approaches:' 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:

.

Power to Commissioners of Her Majesty's

Works to make Byelaws, &c. for Purposes herein named.

1. It shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings for the Time being to make from Time to Time such Byelaws, Rules, Orders, and Regulations as they may think necessary or expedient for all or any of the Purposes following; (that is to say,) For regulating the particular Portions of Westminster Bridge and its Approaches to be used by all or any public or private Carriages, Carts, Drays, Waggons, or other Vehicles, or for preventing Obstructions on the said Bridge or its Approaches. 2. Such Byelaws, Rules, Orders, and Regulations may at any Byelaws may Time be varied, altered, or repealed as may be considered ex- be varied or pedient by the Authority aforesaid; and the said Commissioners repealed. shall not be in any Manner liable for any Loss, Costs, Damage, or Expense that may accrue or arise, or be alleged to have accrued or arisen to any Person or Vehicle by reason or in consequence of any such Byelaw, Rule, Order, or Regulation, or of any Act done in accordance with or in obedience to any Byelaw, Rule, Order, or Regulation, provided such Byelaws, Rules, Orders, or Regulations be not repugnant to the Provisions of this Act.

3. Every Person who shall offend against any of such Byelaws, Penalties for Rules, Orders, and Regulations shall be liable to a Penalty of not Breach of Byemore than Forty Shillings for every such Offence.

4. The Penalties imposed by this Act shall be recoverable in the same Manner and subject to the same Provisions as Penalties imposed by the Act of the Second and Third Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Forty-seven, "for further improving the Police "in and near the Metropolis.'

laws,

and to be recovered as

2 & 3 Vict. c. 47.

5. No Byelaw, Rule, Order, or Regulation, or any Alteration Publication of thereof, shall come into force until Fourteen Days after the same Byelaws. shall have been advertised in the London Gazette, and in One or

more of the London daily Newspapers.

CA P. LXXXIX.

An Act to amend The Defence Act, 1842. [29th July 1864.]

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:

27 & 28 VICT.

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1. Where

Effect of past
Orders in

Defence Act Amendment.

1. Where, under Section Five of The Defence Act, 1842, any Order in Council has been made before the passing of this Act transferring to any Body or Persons, for any Public Service, 5 & 6 Vict. c. 94. the Management, Control, and Use of any Land, the Land in the

Council under
Sect. 5. of

27 & 28 Vict. c. 18.

Order comprised, with the Appurtenances, shall, from the passing of this Act, be vested in the Body or Persons in the Order described for an absolute Estate in Fee Simple, in trust for Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, for the Public Service in the Order mentioned.

2. Where, under the said Section, any Order in Council is made after the passing of this Act, whereby any Hereditaments are expressed to be transferred to any Body or Persons for any Public Service, the Hereditaments in the Order comprised shall by virtue of the Order and of this Act be vested, to all Intents, at Law and in Equity, in the Body or Persons to whom the Transfer is expressed to be made, for the Estate or Interest for which the same are in the Order expressed to be transferred, to be held by the Body or Persons aforesaid in trust for Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, for the Public Service in the Order mentioned.

3. Nothing in this Act shall affect any Estate, Interest, Right, or Claim in or to any Land or Hereditaments comprised in any such Order, made or to be made, other than such Estate, Interest, Right, or Claim as at the Time of the making of the Order was or is had therein or thereto by or in trust for Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors.

4. Any Land or Hereditaments vested under this Act in the Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom, or the Commissioners for executing his Office, shall so vest and shall be held and used subject and according to the Provisions of The Admiralty Lands and Works Act, 1864, as if the same had been purchased or taken by Agreement under that Act.

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5. This Act may be cited as The Defence Act Amendment Act, 1864."

CA P. XC.

An Act to amend an Act of the present Session, Chapter
Eighteen, as to the Stamp Duties on certain Letters or
Powers of Attorney.
[29th July 1864.]
WHEREAS by an Act passed in the present Session of

Parliament, Chapter Eighteen, certain Stamp Duties are 'granted and imposed for and upon any Letter or Power of Attorney for the Sale, Transfer, or Acceptance of any of the 'Government or Parliamentary Stocks or Funds, and also for and upon any Letter or Power of Attorney for the Receipt of 'Dividends of any such Stocks or Funds; and Doubts have arisen whether both the said Duties may not be chargeable upon one and the same Instrument:' 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

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Parliament

Stamp Duties Act (1864) Amendment.

Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:

1. No Letter or Power of Attorney made for the Sale, Trans- Letters of fer, or Acceptance of any of the Government or Parliamentary Attorney, &c. Stocks or Funds, and duly stamped in that Behalf, shall be how to be chargeable with any further or other Stamp Duty by reason of its containing therein any Authority for the Receipt of Dividends on any such Stocks or Funds.

2. And whereas Doubts have arisen as to whether certain 'Letters or Writings herein-after described are chargeable with Stamp Duty as Letters or Powers of Attorney:' Be it enacted, That no Letter or other Writing under Hand only containing any Request or Direction to any Joint Stock or other Company or Society, or to any Secretary, Treasurer, or other Officer thereof, or to any Banker, by the Owner or Proprietor of any Stocks, Funds, or Shares of or in any such Company or Society, to pay the Dividends or Interest arising from any such Stocks, Funds, or Shares to any Person named in such Order, Request, or Direction, shall be chargeable with Stamp Duty as a Letter or Power of Attorney.

CA P. XCI.

An Act for the more effectual Protection of Her Majesty's
Naval and Victualling Stores.
[29th July 1864.]

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:

charged with Stamp Duty.

As to Letters requesting that Interest of Stocks, &c. may be paid to Nominees.

Dividends or

1. This Act may be cited as The Naval and Victualling Stores Short Title. Act, 1864.

2. This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland.
3. In this Act-

The Term "the Admiralty" means the Lord High Admiral
of the United Kingdom, or the Commissioners for executing
the Office of Lord High Admiral :

The Term "Dealer in Marine Stores" means a Person bound
to conform to the Regulations of The Merchant Shipping
Act, 1854, Section Four hundred and eighty :

The Term "Dealer in old Metals" has the same Meaning as
in The Old Metal Dealers Act, 1861:

The Term "in Her Majesty's Service," when applied to
Persons, applies also to Persons in the Employment of the
Admiralty:

The Term "Stores" includes any single Store or Article.

Extent of Act.

Interpretation of Terms.

4. The Naval and Victualling Stores Act, 1862, is hereby 25 & 26 Vict. repealed; but this Repeal or anything in this Act shall not apply c. 64. repealed to or in respect of any Offence, Act, or Thing committed or done as to future before the passing of this Act.

5. The Marks described in the Schedule to this Act may be applied in or on Her Majesty's Naval and Victualling Stores to denote Her Majesty's Property in Stores so marked,

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Offences.

Marks appropriated for Her Majesty's Naval and Victualling It Stores.