'INCLOSURE, No. 2. [26 and 27 Victoriæ, cap. 39.-July 13, 1863.] An Act to authorise the Inclosure of certain Lands in pursuance of a Special Report of the Inclosure Commissioners. This second Inclosure Act of the Session, applies to the following twenty-one places:-viz. in Cardiganshire-Llandewi-hrefi. Cumberland-Mosser. Denbighshire-Bettws-gwerfil-goeh; Llangwm. Denbighshire and Merionethshire-Llanfihangel-glyn-Myfir. DurhamCockfield Fell. Gloucestershire-Bisley; Minsterworth; North Nibley. Herefordshire-Westhope Hill. Hertfordshire-Albury; Castle Mead or Causeway Mead; Rye Meads; Stanstead Marsh. Northumberland Akeld and Humbleton. Radnorshire-Rhysllyn; Ywchcoed. Somersetshire-North Moor and South Moor. Warwickshire-Baxterley Commons. Wiltshire-Holt. Yorkshire-Cotherstone Moor. BAKEHOUSES REGULATION. [26 and 27 Victoria, cap. 40.-July 13, 1863.] By this short Act it is provided that no person under the age of eighteen, whether receiving wages or not, shall be employed in any bakehouse between the hours of nine at night and five in the morning. A bakehouse is defined to be any place in which bread, biscuits, or confectionary are baked, from the selling of which a profit is derived; and the penalty for any infraction of this regulation is, for the first offence, a sum not exceeding 21.; for a second offence, not exceeding 5l.; and for a third and every subsequent offence, a sum not exceeding 17. per day, but not to exceed 101. In any town or place containing a population of more than 5,000 persons, the inside walls and ceiling of every bakehouse, and the passages and staircases leading thereto, are to be either painted or limewashed; if painted to have three coats of paint, to be renewed at least once in every seven years; and be washed with hot water and soap once at least in every six months; if limewashed it is to be repeated every six months. Every bakehouse, wherever situated, is to be kept in a cleanly state, properly ventilated, and kept free from effluvia arising from drains or other nuisance. The occupier of any bakehouse infringing these regulations incurs a penalty not exceeding 51.; or the magistrates may, instead of inflicting a penalty, order the occupier to take means for bringing, within a fixed time, his bakehouse into conformity with this section of the statute; a non-compliance with the order subjecting the occupier to a penalty not exceeding 11. for each day's neglect. No place on the same level as the bakehouse to be used as a sleeping-room unless separated from the bakehouse by a partition extending from the floor to the ceiling, with an external glazed window of at least nine superficial feet in area with an opening for ventilation of at least the half; the penalty for a first offence not exceeding 11., for a second and every subsequent offence, not exceeding 51. The Local Authority by any of their officers, who are to be the inspectors, are empowered to enforce the provisions of this Act, and a penalty, not exceeding 201., is imposed on any one obstructing or preventing the inspector in his examination. All penalties are to be recovered summarily before two or more justices in England, and by the usual process in Scotland and Ireland; and power of imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months is given in cases of non-payment of the penalties imposed together with the costs. INNKEEPERS' LIABILITY. [26 and 27 Victoriæ, cap. 41.-July 13, 1863.] An Act to amend the Law respecting the Liability of Innkeepers, and to prevent certain Frauds upon them. After the passing of this Act no innkeeper shall "be liable to make good to any guest of such innkeeper any loss of or injury to goods or property brought to his inn, not being a horse or other live animal, or any gear appertaining thereto, or any carriage, to a greater amount than the sum of 301., except in the following cases-1, where such goods or property shall have been stolen, lost, or injured through the wilful act, default, or neglect of such innkeeper or any servant in his employ 2, where such goods or property shall have been deposited expressly for safe custody with such innkeeper," but in case of such deposit the innkeeper may require that such property shall be deposited in a box or other receptacle fastened and sealed by the depositor. An innkeeper refusing to receive any such deposit from a guest is not entitled to the benefit of this Act in respect of such property. A copy of the first section of this Act must be conspicuously exhibited in the hall or entrance of every inn in order to entitle the innkeeper to its benefit. SECURITY FROM VIOLENCE. [26 and 27 Victoriæ, cap. 44.—July 13, 1863.] An Act for the further Security of the Persons of her Majesty's Subjects from personal Violence. The provisions of the 24 and 25 Vict. cap. 100 having been found insufficient to prevent attempts at robbery with violence, this Act supplements the punishments awarded in the previous Act, by enacting that the offender, if a male, may in addition be sentenced to be once, twice, or thrice privately whipped; but if under sixteen the instrument used is to be a birch-rod and the number of strokes at each whipping not to exceed twenty-five; if above that age the number of strokes not to exceed fifty; and in every case the sentence is to specify the number of strokes and the instrument to be used. The whippings must all be inflicted within six months from the passing of the sentence, and in cases of sentences of penal servitude before the prisoner is removed to a convict prison. PASSENGERS' ACT AMENDMENT. [26 and 27 Victoriæ, cap. 51.-July 13, 1863.] By this Act, which came into operation on Oct. 1, 1863, a passenger ship is to signify every description of sea-going vessel, whether British or foreign, carrying upon any voyage to which the Passenger Act of 1855 extends more than 50 passengers, or a greater number of pas sengers than in the proportion of one statute adult to every 33 tons of the registered tonnage of such ships, if propelled by sails, or than one statute adult to every 20 tons if propelled by steam. Horses and cattle may be carried in passenger ships under the conditions now prescribed. In case of a wreck or damage in or near the United Kingdom, passengers are to be provided with a passage by some other vessel, and are to be maintained in the mean time. Passengers can be removed from a damaged ship, and if they refuse to leave are to be liable to a penalty of 40s. or to one month's imprisonment. Governors or consuls may send on passengers if masters fail, and the expense to be recovered as a debt due to the Crown. VACCINATION, IRELAND. [26 and 27 Victoria, cap. 52.-July 13, 1863.] An Act to further extend and make compulsory the Practice of Vaccination in Ireland. After Jan. 1, 1864, any child born is within six months at most to be taken by the father, mother, or person having the care of such child to the medical officer of the Dispensary District, for the purpose of being vaccinated, unless previously vaccinated by some duly qualified medical practitioner; if the child be in the workhouse or any charitable institution the proper steps are to be taken by the master, matron, or chief officer. On the eighth day after vaccination the child is to be taken to be inspected by the medical officer, who, if the operation has been successful, is to give a certificate to that effect in a form provided in a schedule, and transmit a duplicate to the Registrar of Births and Deaths of the district; the certificate, without further proof, is to be admissible as evidence in case of complaint against the father, mother, or guardian of non-compliance with the regulations of this Act. If the child be not in a fit state for vaccination, the medical officer is to give a certificate to that effect, which is to be in force for two calendar months, when the child is again to be taken, and if not then in a fit state the certificate to be renewed, till the child shall have been successfully vaccinated. The rate of payment to the medical officer after the commencement of this Act, is to be one shilling for every successful case; and if a child be found insusceptible of the vaccine disease, a certificate to that effect is to save the parents or guardians from the penalties for non-compliance. The Registrar of Births and Deaths is to keep a register of cases of successful vaccination, which is to be open for search on payment of one shilling and sixpence for each certificated copy. The Registrar is to give notice in writing, at or immediately after the registration of birth, of the requirements of this Act, and on failure of compliance, without reasonable excuse, the offender is to be fined in a sum not exceeding 10s. The Registrar is to receive a fee of 3d. for each child vaccinated in respect of whom he shall have performed the duties required by this Act, and a penalty not exceeding 20s. is imposed on his neglecting to register the vaccination. The Registrar-General is to provide books and forms; the penalties are to be recovered by summary process, and the Guardians of the Poor may direct proceedings to be instituted. WAYWARDENS' CONTRACTS. [26 and 27 Victoriæ, cap. 61.—July 21, 1863.] An Act to prevent Waywardens contracting for Works within their own Districts. No waywarden, either directly or indirectly, is to be concerned in any contract for the repair of a road within his own district, under the penalty of forfeiting 101., with costs of suit, recoverable in the County Court; and Highway Boards are declared to be not liable to pay for any work so contracted for, and if paid shall be recoverable with costs in any of the superior Courts of Law, or if below 501. in the County Court; sums so recovered to be paid after defraying expenses to the credit of the District Fund. GROWING CROPS, IRELAND. [26 and 27 Victoriæ, cap. 62.-July 21, 1863.] An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Seizure of growing Crops in Ireland. This Act, which extends to Ireland only, declares it to be "not lawful to seize or take in execution under any civil bill, decree, or order of the civil court, or under any decree, order, or warrant of a justice of the peace, any growing crops, trees, shrubs, plants, or vegetable matters which are not severed from the land and soil," save only when such decree or warrant shall have been issued before the passing of this Act. VOLUNTEERS. [26 and 27 Victoriæ, cap. 65.-July 21, 1863.] An Act to consolidate and amend the Acts relating to the Volunteer Force of Great Britain. Thirteen Acts or sections of Acts are repealed by the present Act, which (§ 1) may be cited as The Volunteer Act, 1863. By § 2 power is given to the Crown to accept the services of any persons desirous of forming themselves into a volunteer corps, and offering their services through the Lieutenant of a county; and on such acceptance they are to be deemed lawfully formed as a corps of that county. By § 3 the Crown is empowered to constitute a permanent staff for any volunteer corps, consisting of an adjutant commissioned by her Majesty, and of so many serjeant-instructors as may seem fit, engaged for a period not exceeding five years; such adjutants to be deemed officers and the serjeant-instructors non-commissioned officers of the permanent staff, but subject to the orders of the officers of the corps according to their rank and the laws and usages of her Majesty's forces; any non-commissioned officer on the permanent staff enrolling himself in the militia or enlisting in the army may be tried and punished as a deserter; or if he confesses his desertion, may be returned to his service at the discretion of a Secretary of State, and put under stoppages until any bounty he may have received be repaid; or if enlisting in the army, may cause him to remain there, his time of service not to be reckoned for a pension until the time when his engagement in the volunteers may have ceased; such enlistment in no case to prevent his delivering up in good order all arms, clothing, and appointments issued to him as a member of the volunteer permanent staff, and may be put under stoppages until the value be repaid of all such things not delivered up. All officers, except those of the permanent staff (§ 4) are, with her Majesty's approval, to be appointed and commissioned by the Lieutenants of counties; the commission not to be vacated by the death or change of the Lieutenant. The officers (§ 5) are to rank with those of her Majesty's regular and militia forces as the youngest of their respective ranks, and with those of the yeomanry force according to the rank and date of their commissions; they are not entitled to exercise any command over any other of her Majesty's military forces, and when in actual military service no otherwise than as prescribed by the Articles of War, and the Mutiny Act; the acceptance of a commission is not to vacate a seat in the House of Commons. Every officer (§ 6) on receiving his commission is to take the oath of allegiance in the form set forth in a schedule. Any volunteer (§ 7) may quit his corps on giving the commanding officer fourteen days' notice in writing; delivering up his arms, accoutrements, and all property issued to him by the corps; and paying all sums due or becoming due by him; on which he is to be struck out of the muster-roll: if any volunteer gives such notice, and the commanding officer refuse to strike him out of the muster-roll, he may appeal to two justices of the peace, who, if it appear that he has fulfilled the required conditions, shall forthwith order the commanding officer to strike out the name, and the order shall be binding. If any volunteer (§ 8) enlist in the militia or the army he shall be deemed discharged from the volunteer corps, but must deliver up the arms, &c., or be put under stoppage for the repayment of their value. Volunteers (§ 9) on actual military service, or undergoing inspection, or voluntarily doing any military duty, may be placed by her Majesty under the command of a general or field-officer of her Majesty's army, senior in rank to every officer of the volunteer force, but the volunteers are to be led by their own officers, under such command. An annual inspection (§ 10) is to be held by a general or field-officer of her Majesty's army. Her Majesty in Council (§ 11) may declare what is requisite to entitle a volunteer to be deemed efficient, defining the extent of attendance at drill, the course of instruction, and the degree of proficiency attained by him and his corps, to be judged of at the annual inspection, or otherwise as the order in council may direct; the draft of any scheme for the purpose to be submitted to parliament two months before receiving the approval of her Majesty. Whenever it seems fit (§ 12) her Majesty may disband any volunteer corps or any part thereof. Corps formed before the passing of this Act (§ 13) are to be continued in service, unless her Majesty disband them. Where two or more volunteer corps are formed, by the authority of a Secretary of State, into a body to be called an Administrative Regiment (§ 14), the permanent staff are to be appointed as in § 3. The Lieutenant of the county to which a corps belongs, or the commanding officer of a corps or regiment, may (§ 15) assemble a Court of Inquiry to inquire into any matter relative to the corps or regiment, or to any officer or volunteer or non-commissioned officer of the permanent staff, to record the facts, and, if required, to report on the same for the information of the Lieutenant or commanding officer. The Secretary of State (§ 16) may make regulations for the government of the Volunteer Force, not being inconsistent with this Act, respecting the appointment and promotion of officers, the assembling and proceedings of Courts of Inquiry, and the general government and discipline of the Volunteer Force. In case of actual or apprehended invasion of any part of the United Kingdom (§ 17), the |