Five or more land to be appointed by the cellor to fix a Scale of Fees, Lord Chan and to make Fees, &c. so fixed shall alone be allowed to be taken in any Proceeding Jurisdiction of the Civil Bill Courts in Ireland has been enlarged, and additional Jurisdiction has been given to the Chairmen of Quarter Sessions in Ireland, and it is necessary to make Provision for Payment of the Costs and Expenses in respect of such enlarged or additional Juris'diction: 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. It shall be lawful for any Five or more of the Chairmen of Quarter Sessions in Ireland, to be from Time to Time appointed by the Lord Chancellor of Ireland for the Purpose, to fix a Scale of Fees to be paid to the Process Server, Clerk of the Peace, Attorney, Counsel, Sheriff or other Officers, or Persons engaged in the Service, Conduct, and Execution of Proceedings, under the enlarged and additional Jurisdiction created by the said recited Act, and to be chargeable against any Plaintiff or Defendant, Appellant or Respondent, or other Person entitled to institute, intervene in, or become Party to any Proceeding in the Courts of such Chairmen under the enlarged or additional Jurisdiction created by the said recited Act; and such Chairmen so appointed shall make such Regulations as to the Taxation and Payment of such Costs, Fees, and Expenses as shall appear to them expedient, and shall from Time to Time, as Occasion may require, alter and amend the same: Provided always, that such Costs, Fees, Expenses, and Regulations shall not be of any Validity until the same shall have been sanctioned by the Chief Justice of Ireland, by the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland, and by the Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland, or by Two of such Judges. 2. The Scale of Fees, Costs, and Expenses which shall from Time to Time be fixed by the Chairmen of Quarter Sessions so appointed for the Purpose as the Fees, Costs, and Expenses payable under the enlarged or additional Jurisdiction given by the said recited Act shall be the Fees, Costs, and under the en- Expenses chargeable as between Party and Party against any Plaintiff or Defendant, Appellant or Respondent, or other Person instituting or intervening in any Proceeding under the said recited Act, and no other Fees or Charges shall be allowed in any Bill of Costs between Party and Party, or in any Decree or Dismiss, or in any Order for Payment of Costs, other than those which shall be so fixed by the said Chairmen named as aforesaid. larged Jurisdiction given by the said recited Act. 14 & 15 Vict. c. 57. and 21 & 22 Vict. c. 88. to be 3. The Act passed in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Fifty-seven, intituled An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Civil Bills and the Courts construed with of Quarter Sessions in Ireland, and to transfer to the Assistant Barristers certain Jurisdiction as to Insolvent Debtors, and the Act passed in the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Years of this Act as One Act. Her of Terms. Her Majesty, Chapter Eighty-eight, amending the said lastmentioned Act, shall be construed with this Act as One Act; and Words interpreted in the said Acts passed in the Four- Interpretation teenth and Fifteenth Years of Her Majesty, and in the Twentyfirst and Twenty-second Years of Her Majesty respectively, and in the Act passed in the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter One hundred and fifty-four, intituled An Act to consolidate and amend the Law of Landlord and Tenant in Ireland, shall, when used in this Act, have the same Meanings as are assigned to them respectively by the said herein-before mentioned Acts. 6 CAP. XLIX. An Act to enable Justices in Ireland to commit to local Bridewells Persons convicted of Drunkenness. [1st August 1861.] WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Law relating to the Imprisonment of Persons convicted of Drunkenness 'in Ireland: 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 for all Purposes be cited as "The Petty Short Title. Sessions, Ireland, Amendment Act, 1861." Drunkenness less than Fortyeight Hours, may be to a not a District for a Period not 2. In every Case in which any Justice of the Peace shall Committal for order any Person to be committed to Gaol for Drunkenness for a Period not exceeding Forty-eight Hours, such Committal may be to any local or neighbouring Bridewell, although the same may not be a District or certified Bridewell, any Act or Acts of Parliament or Law to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding. CAP. L. An Act for facilitating the Transfer of Mortgages and local although or certified Bridewell. WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Sixteenth and 16 & 17 Vict. Seventeenth Years of the Reign of Her present c. 59. Majesty Queen Victoria, (Chapter Fifty-nine,) it is provided that "where on the original making and issuing of any "Bond or Mortgage given by Public Companies under the "Provisions of Acts of Parliament, as Securities for Money "which such Companies are by the said Acts expressly em"powered or authorized to borrow, and before any Transfer "or Assignment thereof, such Bond or Mortgage shall be ""stamped with an Amount of Stamp Duty equal to Three "Times the Amount of the ad valorem Stamp Duty charge"able thereon by Law, and over and above the said ad "valorem Cc 3 Mortgages and way Com "valorem Duty, then every Transfer or Assignment there"after made of such Bond or Mortgage by Endorsement "thereon shall be deemed to be exempt from the Stamp Duty which would otherwise be payable in respect of such "Transfer or Assignment:" And whereas it is expedient to 'make Provision for regulating the Force and Effect of Bonds ' and Mortgages so stamped granted by Railway Companies in Scotland, and of the Transfer or Assignment thereof by Endorsement thereon:' 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: any 1. From and after the passing of this Act, any Person Bonds by Rail- entitled to any Mortgage or Bond granted by any Railway panies bearing Company in Scotland, under the Powers contained in Act certain Stamp of Parliament, may from Time to Time transfer his Right to Duty may be and Interest in such Mortgage or Bond to any other Person by transferred by Endorsement. signing on the Back of such Mortgage or Bond an Endorsement in the Form prescribed by the Schedule to this Act, or to the like Effect; provided always, that such Mortgage or Bond shall, on the original making and issuing thereof, and before any Transfer or Assignment thereof, have been stamped with an Amount of Stamp Duty equal to Three Times the Amount of the ad valorem Stamp Duty chargeable thereon by Law, and over and above the said ad valorem Duty, and have been duly registered in the Books of such Company, in Terms of the Companies Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act, 1845. Endorsements to be exempt from Stamp Duty and to have Effect of Assignments. "Person." Short Title. 2. Every such Endorsement shall be exempt from Stamp Duty, and shall have the same Force and Effect in all respects as the Transfer of any Mortgage or Bond by Deed executed according to the Form and registered in Terms of the Provisions prescribed by the said Companies Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act, 1845. 3. In this Act the Expression "Person" shall include Company, Firms, and Incorporations. 4. In citing this Act, it shall be sufficient for all Purposes to use the Expression "The Railway Companies Mortgage Transfer (Scotland) Act, 1861.” 6 CAP. LI. An Act for granting Pensions to some Officers and W HEREAS in the Session of Parliament holden in the 23 & 24 Vict. Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Years of Her Ma- c. 135. jesty's Reign an Act was passed for the Employment of the Metropolitan Police Force in Her Majesty's Yards and Military Stations: And whereas some of the Officers and Men who formerly acted as the Police in Her Majesty's Yards were permitted to join the Metropolitan Police Force, and it is necessary to make Provision for Pensions for such Officers and Men who would or might have been entitled to Pensions had they continued to act as Police in Her Majesty's Yards without being appointed Constables in the Metropolitan Police Force; and it is also expedient to give further Protection to the Metropolitan Police Force employed in Her Majesty's • Yards and Military Stations when in the Execution of their Duty: 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: 6 Pensions. 1. There shall be paid to the Receiver of the Metropolitan Provision for Police District or other proper Officer, out of such Monies as may at any Time or from Time to Time be provided by Parliament for the Purpose, such Sum and Sums of Money as shall be sufficient to pay to such Officers and Men who formerly acted as the Police in Her Majesty's Yards, and who joined the Metropolitan Police Force, such Amount of Pensions as the said Officers and Men would or might have become entitled to had they continued to act as Police in Her Majesty's Yards without being appointed Constables in the Metropolitan Police Force. 2. The Officers and Men who formerly acted as the Police in Her Majesty's Yards, and who joined the Metropolitan Police Force as aforesaid, are hereby exempted from the yearly Rate of Deduction from their Pay which by the Twenty-second Section of the Act passed in the Session holden during the Second and Third Years of Her Majesty's Reign is authorized to be deducted from the Pay of every Constable belonging to the Metropolitan Police Force. Exemption from Deduction from Pay authorized by Sect. 22. of 2 & 3 Viet. c. 74. Penalty for assaulting, &c. Police when in execution of 3. If any Person shall assault or resist any Constable belonging to the Metropolitan Police Force acting in the Execution of his Duty, or shall aid or incite any Person so to assault or resist, every such Offender, being summarily convicted thereof their Duty. before any Two Justices of the Peace, shall for every such Offence forfeit and pay such Sum, not exceeding Five Pounds, as the said Justices shall think meet, or, in the Discretion of the Justices before whom he is convicted, may be imprisoned for any any Term not exceeding One Calendar Month; and the said Justices are hereby authorized to issue Warrants of Distress to levy any such Sum or Sums by Distress and Sale of the Offender's Goods; and every such Sum which shall be so paid or levied shall be applied as the Lord High Admiral or the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral, or the Principal Secretary of State for the War Department, shall direct, any Law, Statute, Charter, or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding. CAP. LII. An Act to empower the Governors of the several Ports in those Colonies. HEREAS by the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Sections of the Passengers Act, 1855, certain Rules are prescribed 'for determining the Number of Passengers to be carried in Passenger Ships, and the Decks on which Passengers may be carried: And whereas it is expedient to empower the Governor of any of Her Majesty's Colonies in Australasia to substitute, if he shall think fit, other Rules on these Points for Vessels carrying Passengers from any such Possession to any other of Her Majesty's Possessions in Australasia: 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. It shall be lawful for the Governor of each of Her Majesty's Colonies already or hereafter to be established in Australasia, by any Proclamation to be by him from Time to Time issued for the Purpose (which Proclamation shall take effect from the issuing thereof, if no Day shall be named therein for the Purpose), to prescribe such Rules as he shall think proper for determining the Number of Passengers to be carried in any Passenger Ship which shall proceed from any such Colony to any other of Her Majesty's Possessions for the Time being in Australasia, and for determining on what Deck or Decks, and subject to what Reservations or Conditions, Passengers may be carried, and also to prescribe such Penalties for the Infraction or Nonobservance of such Rules as to such Governor may seem proper. 2. From the Time when any such Proclamation shall take effect, and so long as the same shall continue in force, the Rules and Enactments contained in the said Passengers Act, 1855, relating to the Number of Passengers to be carried in any "Passenger Ship," and the Deck or Decks whereon they are to be carried, shall cease to apply to any Vessel to which such Proclamation shall be applicable, save only as to the Recovery and |