'but the same cannot be proceeded with without the Authority of 'Parliament :' Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Inclosures menMajesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spi- tioned in the ritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament Schedule to be assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the said several proceeded with. proposed Inclosures mentioned in the Schedule to this Act be proceeded with. II. And be it enacted, That in citing this Act in other Acts of Short Title of Parliament and in legal Instruments it shall be sufficient to use the the Act. Expression "The Annual Inclosure Act, 1846." . CA P. XVII. An Act for the Abolition of the exclusive Privilege of trading in Burghs in Scotland. [14th May 1846.] WHEREAS in certain Royal and other Burghs in Scotland the Members of certain Guilds, Crafts, or Incorporations 'possess exclusive Privileges of carrying on or dealing in Merchandize, and of carrying on or exercising certain Trades or 'Handicrafts, within their respective Burghs; and such Guilds, Crafts, or Incorporations have corresponding Rights, entitling 'them to prevent Persons not being Members thereof from carry'ing on or dealing in Merchandize, or from carrying on or exer'cising such Trades or Handicrafts, within such Burghs: And whereas it has become expedient that such exclusive Privileges ' and Rights should be abolished:' 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, That from and after the passing of this Act all such exclu- After the passsive Privileges and Rights shall cease, and it shall be lawful for ing of this Act any Person to carry on or deal in Merchandize, and to carry on leges and Rights or exercise any Trade or Handicraft, in any Burgh and elsewhere in Burghs to in Scotland, without being a Burgess of such Burgh, or a Guild cease; and in Brother, or a Member of any Guild, Craft, or Incorporation: Pro- lieu of Stamp vided always, that in lieu of the Stamp Duties of One Pound and Duties now payThree Pounds now payable on the Admission of any Person as a sion a Duty of Burgess 5s. shall be paid. exclusive Privi able on Admis Incorporations still to retain their Corporate Character, and their Names and Titles. Incorporations may make Bye Laws relative to Application of its Funds, &c. subject to the Approbation of the Court of Session. Such Bye Laws, when sanctioned by Court of Session, to be valid. Act may be amended, &c. Burgess or into any Corporation or Company in any Burgh in Scotland, for the Enrolment, Entry, or Memorandum thereof in the Court Books, Roll, or Record of such Corporation or Company, there shall from and after the passing of this Act be paid on every such Admission a Stamp Duty of Five Shillings. II. And be it enacted, That notwithstanding the Abolition of the said exclusive Privileges and Rights all such Incorporations as aforesaid shall retain their Corporate Character, and shall continue to be Incorporations, with the same Names and Titles as heretofore; and nothing herein contained shall anywise affect the Rights and Privileges of such Incorporations, or of the Office Bearers or Members thereof, except as herein-before enacted. III. And whereas the Revenues of such Incorporations as aforesaid may in some Instances be affected, and the Number of the Members of such Incorporations may in some Instances diminish, by reason of the Abolition of the said exclusive 'Privileges and Rights, and it is expedient that Provision should be made for facilitating Arrangements suitable to such Occurrences;' be it therefore enacted, That it shall be lawful for every such Incorporation from Time to Time to make all Bye Laws, Regulations, and Resolutions relative to the Management and Application of its Funds and Property, and relative to the Qualification and Admission of Members, in reference to its altered Circumstances under this Act, as may be considered expedient, and to apply to the Court of Session, by summary Petition, for the Sanction of the said Court to such Bye Laws, Regulations, or Resolutions; and the said Court, after due Intimation of such Application, shall determine upon the same, and upon any Objections that may be made thereto by Parties having Interest, and shall interpone the Sanction of the said Court to such Bye Laws, Regulations, or Resolutions, or disallow the same in whole or in part, or make thereon such Alterations, or adject thereto such Conditions or Qualifications, as the said Court may think fit, and generally shall pronounce such Order in the whole Matter as may to the said Court seem just and expedient; and such Bye Laws, Regulations, or Resolutions, subject to such Alterations and Conditions as aforesaid, shall be, when the Sanction of the said Court shall have been interponed thereto, valid and effectual and binding on such Incorporations: Provided always, that nothing therein contained shall affect the Validity of any Bye Laws, Regulations, or Resolutions that may be made by any such Incorporation without the Sanction of the said Court, which it would have been heretofore competent for such Incorporation to have made of its own Authority or without such Sanction. IV. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in the present Session of Parliament. CAP. CA P. XVIII. An Act to amend Two clerical Errors in an Act of the last W recited Act as requires Cerhaving attended School for 50 Days repealed. tificate of Child ' in referring to the Time of such Attendance:' Be it enacted by So much of 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, That so much of the said Act as requires the Occupier of any Print Work, before employing any Child therein, to obtain a Certificate that such Child had attended School for at least Fifty Days as therein specified, shall be repealed. After 1st July 1846 Occupiers of Print Works to obtain Certi II. And be it enacted, That after the First Day of July One thousand eight hundred and forty-six the Occupier of every Print Work shall, before employing any Child therein, obtain from a Schoolmaster a Certificate, according to the Form and Directions ficate of Chilgiven in Schedule (A.) to the said recited Act annexed, that such dren having Child had attended School for at least Thirty Days, as required attended School by the said Act, during the Half Year ending the Thirtieth Day 30 Days, and of June or Thirty-first Day of December next before the Beginning produce same when required. of such Employment, and the like Certificate at the Beginning of each following Period of Six Months during which the Employment of such Child shall be continued in that Print Work; and such Occupier shall keep every such Certificate, so long as such Child shall continue in his Employment, for Twelve Months after the Date thereof, and shall produce the same to any Inspector or Sub-Inspector when required during such Period. เ Rectifying Mistake in a Proviso in recited Act which in. flicts a Penalty III. And whereas that Part of the said Act which enacts the 'Penalties for illegally employing Children, young Persons, and 'Women contains the following Proviso; that is to say, Provided 'always, that if the Offence shall be the Employment of any such Child, young Person, or Woman during the Night, the Penalty for illegally 'shall be not less than Forty Shillings nor more than Five Pounds employing Chil'for each Child, young Person, or Woman so illegally employed: dren, &c. during 'And whereas the Words "young Person" have been so twice the Night. 'introduced into the said Proviso by Mistake, inasmuch as, ac'cording to the said Act, it is no Offence to employ Male young 'Persons, as defined in the said Act, during the Night:' Be it declared and enacted, That the said Act shall be construed as if in the Proviso herein-before recited the Words " young Person" had not been inserted. САР. An Act to amend an Act of the Second and Third Years of His late Majesty, by providing additional Booths or Polling Places at Elections in Ireland where the Number of Electors whose Names shall begin with the same Letter of the Alphabet shall exceed a certain Number. 6 [18th June 1846.] WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Second and Third Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, 2&3 W. 4. c.88. intituled An Act to amend the Representation of the People of Ireland, it is enacted, that whenever in any one Barony or Half Barony of the County, or in any County of a City or County of a Town, or in any Borough, the Number of registered Voters appearing upon the Books of the Clerk of the Peace capable of voting at any Election for the same shall exceed Six hundred Voters, it shall and may be lawful for the Returning Officer or 'Officers and he and they are thereby required to provide Two or more Polling Places for such Barony or Half Barony, or for such County of a City or County of a Town, or Borough, and 'to make such a Division or Divisions of the Voters according to the first Letter of their Names, that it shall not be necessary for more than Six hundred Voters to poll in any one Place of polling, but so as not to divide the Names beginning with the same Letter of the Alphabet, and that it shall and may be lawful for the Returning Officer or Officers and he and they are thereby ' required to provide as many new Places of polling as may be necessary for the Purpose, and to appoint as many additional Deputies and Poll Clerks as shall be necessary to take the Poll in such additional Places of polling (not exceeding One Deputy and One Poll Clerk for each such Place of polling); and it is by the said Act provided, that in case the Number of Voters in any Two or more Baronies or Half Baronies in any County shall not exceed the Number of Six hundred Voters, it shall and C may be lawful for the Returning Officer or Officers and he and they are thereby required to provide that the Poll for such Baronies and Half Baronies shall be taken in One Place of 'polling only: And whereas it has been found that great Inconvenience has arisen, and many Persons are wholly prevented 'from voting at Elections, in consequence of a greater Number ' of Voters being assigned to vote in the Booth or Polling Place 'beginning with the first Letter of their Names than possibly can 'do so within the Time prescribed by Law for holding of such Elections: 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, That at all future Elections in Ireland for Members to serve in the Imperial Parliament it shall and may be lawful for the Returning Officer or Officers and he and they are hereby required, when it appears by the Clerk of the Peace's Book of any County, County of a City, County of a Town, or Borough in Ireland, that the Number of registered Electors for any such County, County of a City, When Names of Electors commencing with the same Letter of the Alphabet amount to 500 or more the Returning County more than 500 County of a Town, or Borough, whose Names shall begin with Officer to prothe same Letter of the Alphabet, shall amount to Five hundred vide so many or more, to provide, as nearly as may be in alphabetical Order Booths that not according to the Second Letter of their Names, Two or more Voters shall be Polling Places for such Voters in any such County, City, Town, obliged to poll or Borough in Ireland returning Members to serve in the Imperial at One Booth. Parliament, so that it shall not be necessary for more than Five hundred Voters to poll at any One Place of voting, notwithstanding that their Names may begin with the same Letter of the Alphabet; and it shall and may be lawful for the Returning Officer or Officers and he and they are hereby required to provide as many convenient and commodious Places as may be necessary for the Purpose, and to appoint as many additional Deputies and Poll Clerks as shall be necessary to take the Poll in such additional Places of polling, not exceeding One Deputy and One Poll Clerk for each Place of polling. II. And be it enacted, That in making any Division of the Voters under any One Letter as aforesaid such Division shall be so made that all Voters who shall have the same Surname shall be obliged to poll in the same Place of polling. All Persons of the same Surname must poll at same Place. III. And be it enacted, That if any Returning Officer or Officers Penalty if Reshall refuse or neglect to carry out the Provisions of this Act, he turning Officer or they shall be liable to all the Penalties which are imposed by does not comply the said Act of the Second and Third Years of the Reign of King visions of Act. William the Fourth on any Officer or Officers upon a Breach or Neglect of his or their Duty or Duties. IV. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this Session of Parliament. CA P. XX. An Act to amend an Act of the Second Year of Her present HEREAS an Act was passed in the Second Year of the with the Pro Act may be amended, &c. Reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled An Act to provide for the Custody of certain Monies paid, in 1&2 Vict. c.117. pursuance of the Standing Orders of either House of Parliament, by Subscribers to Works or Undertakings to be effected ' under the Authority of Parliament: And whereas it is expedient 'that the said Act should be repealed, and should be re-enacted, 'with such Modifications, Extensions, and Alterations as after mentioned:' 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, That the said Act shall be and is hereby repealed: Provided always, that all Acts done under the Provisions of the said Act shall be good, valid, and effectual to all Intents and Purposes, and that all Sums 9 & 10 VICT. K of Recited Act repealed, but Acts already done under |