duly demanded of the said A.B., and that he hath refused and neglected to pay the same [or, as the Case may be, to pay the Sum of Part of the said Sum of 1, by the Space of Ten Days after such Demand as aforesaid; and it further appears by the Oath aforesaid that the said Sum of for the Duties charged and assessed as aforesaid now remains due and unpaid, and that no sufficient Distress can or may be found whereby the same may be levied :

Now therefore we the said Commissioners whose Hands and Seals are hereunto subscribed and set do hereby command you the above-named Collectors of the said Duties, or either of you [or you the above-named Constable, Headborough, Tythingman, or other Officer as the Case may be], to apprehend the saidA.B., and to take him to the Common Gaol of the said County of

at

in the said County, and to deliver him to the Keeper thereof, together with this Warrant; and we do hereby command you the said Keeper to receive him the said A.B. into your Custody in the said Common Gaol, there to be kept, without Bail or Mainprize, until Payment shall be made of the said Sum of remaining due and unpaid as aforesaid, and also the further Sum of which we the said Commissioners do adjudge to be reasonable for the Costs and Expences of appre hending the said A.B., and conveying him to Prison.

Given under our Hands and Seals at

the said District, the

the Year of our Lord 18

Day of

within

in

Commissioners of Assessed Taxes [or of the Property and Income Tax].

No 80.

Form of a Warrant of Commitment under the Act 5 and 6 Will. 4. c. 20. s. 16. for Want of sufficient Distress for the Duties of Assessed Taxes in arrear.

Το

and

Collectors of the Duties

in the

in the County of

of Assessed Taxes for the Parish of
District of

For to

Constable, Headborough, Tythingman,

or other Officer, as the Case may be, of the Parish

in the County of

of ], and to the Keeper of the Common Gaol of the said County. WHEREAS in and by a certain Certificate, bearing Date the in the Year of our Lord 18 under the Hands and Seals of Two of the Commissioners of Assessed Taxes acting within and for the Parish of

Day of

in the County of

in the District of the said Commissioners did certify to the Commissioners of Assessed Taxes acting within and for the Parish of

in the County of

they

in the

that in

District of and by the First [or Additional First or Supplementary] Assessments of the Duties of Assessed Taxes for the Parish of aforesaid for the Year ending the Fifth Day of April 18 residing in the Parish of

charged and assessed in the Sum of

A.B.,

aforesaid, had been duly

for the Duties of

Day of

of Assessed Taxes in the said Certificate mentioned, and that the said A. B. had left unpaid the Sum of in respect of the said Duties so charged and assessed as aforesaid, which had become due and payable on the and that the said last-mentioned Sum was then in arrear; and the said Commissioners acting within and for the said Parish of did request the said Commissioners acting within and for the said Parish of to raise and levy the said Sum of so charged and assessed upon and left unpaid by the said A.B., and then in arrear as aforesaid: And whereas in pursuance of the said Certificate and Request the Commissioners of Assessed Taxes acting within and for the said Parish of did, by a Warrant in that Behalf under the Hands and Seals of Two of the said last-mentioned Commissioners, duly authorize and require the Collectors of the Duties of Assessed Taxes for the said Parish of

to make due Demand of and from the said A.B. of the said Sum of mentioned in the said Certificate, and for Nonpayment thereof to distrain for the same, according to the Directions of the Statute in that Behalf:

Collector

And whereas it appears by the Oath of of the said Duties for the said last-mentioned Parish, taken before us whose Hands and Seals are hereunto subscribed and set, being Two of the Commissioners of Assessed Taxes acting within and for the said Parish of in the District of that the said Sum of

in the County of
mentioned in the said Certificate to be in arrear and unpaid hath
been duly demanded of the said A.B., and that he hath refused
and neglected to pay the same [or, as the Case may be, to pay the
Sum of
Part of the said Sum of
];
and it further appears by the Oath aforesaid that the said Sum
of
now remains due and unpaid, and that no
sufficient Distress can or may be found within the District or
Division of the said Commissioners acting within and for the said
Parish of
whereby the same may be levied.

Now therefore, &c. [Proceed as in the Form No 79, from the
Words "Now therefore" to the End thereof.]

No 81.

Form of Warrant of Commitment under the Act 5 and 6 Will. 4. c. 20. s. 16. for Want of a sufficient Distress for the Duties on Profits arising from Property, Professions, Trades, and Offices.

To

and

Collectors of the Duties

in

herein-after mentioned for the Parish of

the District of

[or to

in the County of Constable, Headborough, Tything

man, or other Officer, as the Case may be, of the Parish

of

in the County of

], and to the Keeper of the Common Gaol of the said County. WHEREAS in and by a certain Certificate, bearing Date the in the Year of our Lord 18 Dd 4 under

Day of

under the Hands and Seals of Two of the Commissioners of the Property and Income Tax acting within and for the District of in the County of they the said Commissioners did certify to the Commissioners of the Property and Income Tax acting within and for the District of in the County of

that in and by the First [or Additional First or Supplementary] Assessments of the Duties payable under the Schedule [or respective Schedules]

in

of the Act 5 and 6 Vict. c. 35. for the Parish of the said District of for the Year ending the Fifth Day of April 18 , A.B., residing in the Parish of aforesaid, had been duly charged and assessed in the Sum of for the said Duties, in the said Certificate mentioned, and that the said A.B. had left unpaid the Sum of in respect of the said Duties so charged and assessed as aforesaid, which had become due and payable on the Day of [or that the said A.B. did not at the Time of his being so charged and assessed as aforesaid, or at the Time of the granting of the said Certificate, reside in the said Parish of and that the Sum of in respect of the said Duties so charged and assessed as aforesaid became due and payable on the Day of ], and that the said last-mentioned Sum was then in arrear; and the said Commissioners acting within and for the said District of did request the said Commissioners acting within and for the said District of to raise and levy the said Sum of charged and assessed upon the said A.B., and then in arrear as aforesaid:

SO

And whereas in pursuance of the said Certificate and Request the Commissioners of the Property and Income Tax acting within and for the said District of

did,

by a Warrant in that Behalf under the Hands and Seals of Two of the said last-mentioned Commissioners, duly authorize and require the Collectors of the said Duties for the Parish of aforesaid to make due Demand of and from the said A.B. of the said Sum of mentioned in the said Certificate, and for Nonpayment thereof to distrain for the same, according to Directions of the Statute in that Behalf:

And whereas it appears by the Oath of

Collector

of the said Duties for the last-mentioned Parish, taken before us whose Hands and Seals are hereunto subscribed and set, being Two of the Commissioners of the Property and Income Tax acting within and for the said District of that the said Sum of mentioned in the said Certificate to be in arrear and unpaid hath been duly demanded of the said A.B., and that he hath refused and neglected to pay the same [or, as the Case may be, to pay the Sum of Sum of

Part of the said

]; and it further appears by the Oath aforenow remains due and

said that the said Sum of unpaid, and that no suflicient Distress can or may be found within

the

the said District of

levied :

whereby the same may be

Now therefore, &c. [Proceed as in Form N° 79, from the Words
"Now therefore" to the End.]

Note. The several Forms herein-before provided to be used
by or under the Direction of the Commissioners of the
Property and Income Tax may, in all Cases in which the
same are or may be applicable, and where no other Form
is specially provided for the Occasion, be adapted and
applied, mutatis mutandis, to the Execution of the Acts
relating to the Duties on Profits arising from Property,
Professions, Trades, and Offices, by or under the Direction
of the Commissioners for Offices, in relation to the Duties
chargeable under Schedule E. of the Act 5 and 6 Vict.
c. 35.

CA P. LVII.

An Act for regulating the Gauge of Railways.

[18th August 1846.]

WHEREAS it is expedient to define the Gauge on which

Railways shall be constructed:' 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, That On what Gauge after the passing of this Act it shall not be lawful (except as Railways shall herein-after excepted) to construct any Railway for the Con- be made. veyance of Passengers on any Gauge other than Four Feet Eight Inches and Half an Inch in Great Britain, and Five Feet Three Inches in Ireland: Provided always, that nothing herein-before contained shall be deemed to forbid the Maintenance and Repair of any Railway constructed before the passing of this Act on any Gauge other than those herein-before specified, or to forbid the laying of new Rails on the same Gauge on which such Railway is constructed within the Limits of Deviation authorized by the several Acts under the Authority of which such Railways are severally constructed.

II. And be it enacted, That nothing herein-before contained Exception of shall apply to any Railway constructed or to be constructed under certain Railthe Provisions of any present or future Act containing any special ways. Enactment defining the Gauge or Gauges of such Railway, or any Part thereof, or to any Railway which is in its whole Length Southward of the Great Western Railway, or to any Railway in any of the Counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, or Somerset, for which any Act has been or shall be passed in this Session of Parliament, or to any Railway in any of the last-mentioned Counties now in course of Construction, or to the Two Railways severally to be constructed under the Authority of Two Acts passed in this Session of Parliament, severally intituled An Act for making a 9 & 10 Vict. Railway from the Great Western Railway at West Drayton to c. clxvi. Uxbridge in Middlesex, and An Act for making a Railway from 9 & 10 Vict. the Great Western Railway at Maidenhead in Berkshire to the c. ccxxxvi. Town of High Wycombe in the County of Buckingham; or to so much of an Act passed in this Session, intituled An Act to 9 & 10 Vict. authorize c. cclxxviii.

Railways on
Broad Gauge.

8 & 9 Vict.
c. cxc.

8 & 9 Vict. с. сксі.

9 & 10 Vict.

authorize certain Extensions of the Line of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, and to amend the Act relating thereto, as authorizes the Construction of a Branch Railway from the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway to the Town of Witney in the County of Oxford; or to an Act passed or which may be passed in this Session of Parliament, to authorize the Construction of a Railway from Melin-y-Manach to Rhydydefydd in the County of Glamorgan."

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III. And be it enacted, That the several Railways authorized to be constructed by an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled An Act for making a Railway, to be called "The South Wales Railway," and by an Act also passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled An Act for making a Railway from Monmouth to Hereford, with Branches therefrom to Westbury and to join the Forest of Dean Railway, and by Two Acts passed in this Session of Parliament, severally intituled An Act for completing the Line of the South Wales Railway, and to authorize the Construction of an Extension and certain Alterations of the said Railway, and certain Branch Railways in con9 & 10 Vict. c.cv. nexion therewith, and An Act for making a Railway Communication between the City of Bristol and the proposed South Wales Railway in the County of Monmouth, with a Branch Railway therefrom, shall be constructed on the Gauge of Seven Feet.

Gauge not to be altered.

Provision as to certain Two Railways.

8 & 9 Vict. c. clxxxviii. 8 & 9 Vict. c. clxxxiv.

Penalty on Company for constructing Railways contrary to this Act.

Railways constructed contrary to this

Act may be abated.

IV. And be it enacted, That it shall not be lawful after the passing of this Act to alter the Gauge of any Railway used for the Conveyance of Passengers.

V. And be it enacted, That nothing herein-before contained shall be deemed to affect the Provisions of Two Acts passed in the last Session of Parliament, respectively intituled An Act for making a Railway from the City of Oxford to the Town of Rugby, and An Act for making a Railway from Oxford to Worcester and Wolverhampton, with respect to the Gauge on which they are to be formed, or the additional Rails which according to the several Provisions of the last Two recited Acts are to be or may be laid down and maintained on the Railways thereby authorized, or with respect to the Powers thereby conferred on the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Privy Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations concerning the Construction and Use of the Railways thereby authorized.

VI. And be it enacted, That if any Railway used for the Conveyance of Passengers shall be constructed or altered contrary to the Provisions of this Act, the Company authorized to construct the Railway, or, in the Case of any Demise or Lease of such Railway, the Company for the Time being having the Control of the Works of such Railway, shall forfeit Ten Pounds for every Mile of such Railway which shall be so unlawfully constructed or altered, during every Day that the same shall continue so unlawfully constructed or altered; and in estimating the Amount of any such Penalty any Distance less than One Mile shall be estimated as a Mile.

VII. And be it enacted, That, over and above the Penalty herein-before provided, if any Railway used for the Conveyance of Passengers shall be constructed or altered contrary to the Provisions of this Act, it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of