OCT. 25, 1879.] GEORGE, SAMUEL GREGORY, of no occupation, Scarborough HOWARD, THOMAS, stationer, Manchester. Pet. Oct. 16. HIGGS, SARAH, Corn dealer, Bow-rd, Bow. Pet. Oct. 20. HAYTER, HARRY, bootmaker, Bradbury-st, Kingsland HOYLE, EZRA, painter, Bradford. Pet. Oct. 18. Nov. 8, at HOLROYD, BEN, handloom weaver, Lepton. Pet. Oct. 15. JEFFERIES, EVAN, grocer, St. George's. Pet. Oct. 30. Nov. JESSER, WILLIAM, coal haulier, Tytherington. Pet. Oct. 16. JACKSON, WILLIAM, farmer, West Hartlepool. Pet. Oct. 16. JONES, JOSEPH, farmer, Aberdauddwr. Pet. Oct. 16. Nov. LEWIS, JAMES, warehouseman, St. Paul's Churchyard. Pet. LIGHTFOOT, FREDERICK JAMES, manufacturer of chemical at the Inns of Court hotel, Lincoln's-inn-flds. Sols. Gill and Gill, Ludgate-hill LYSON, JAMES, porter, Manchester. Pet. Oct. 18. Nov. 3, at three, at office of Sol. Rawes, Salford LOCK, FRANK HENRY, grocer, Bridgwater. Pet. Oct. 17. Nov. 1, at three, at the George hotel, Temple-st, Bristol LILLEY, WILLIAM, out of business, Birmingham. Pet. Oct. 18. Nov. 3, at twelve, at offices of Sols. Hawkes and Weekes, Birmingham. ton LEE, WILLIAM SANDERSON, Out of business, Brotton. Pet. MOORE, JOHN GEORGE, mineral water manufacturer, MURRAY, ANDREW JOHN, gentleman, Ravendale, Macaulay- MURPHY, HENRY, hatter, Sowerby Bridge. Pet. Oct. 15. Moss, GEORGE SPARROW, butcher, Walsall. Pet. Oct. 17. MIDDLEMAS, WILLIAM, out of business, Monkseaton. Pet. MARSHALL, SOUTHWELL, draper, Grantham. Pet. Oct. 14. MACDONALD, DUNCAN GEORGE FORBES, author, Seaford. MORGAN, SARAH ANNE, grocer's assistant, Morristown. NORMAN, CHARLES BOSWELL, late Capt. in the Bengal Staff NEILL, FRANCIS AUGUSTUS, engineer, Bold. Pet. Oct. 16.. PRITCHARD, EDWARD, hay dealer, Bushey. Pet. Oct. 11. inn PARSONAGE, CHARLES, butcher, Birkenhead. Pet. Oct. 17. PARSLOW, JOHN, butcher, Aylesbury. Pet. Oct. 16. Nov. PRESTON, FRANCIS, farmer, Northborough. Pet. Oct. 16. Brixton Hill. Pet. Oct. 13. Nov. 1, at three, at office of RAPHAEL, WILLIAM, cap maker, Manchester. Pet. Oct. 16. ROWLAND, JANE, laundry woman, Clapham House Laundry, RICKARDS, EDWIN, innkeeper, Brierley Hill. Pet. Oct. 17. 445 18. Nov. 5, at twelve, at office of Sol. Foster, Aldershot ham Pet. WATSON, JAMES, cartwright, Castleton. Pet. Oct. 14. Oct. 30, at eleven, at office of Sol. Teale, Middlesbrough WOODDIN, JOHN, ironmonger, Lincoln. Pet. Oct. 17. Nov. 4, at eleven, at offices of Sols. Danby and Sons, Lincoln Dibidends. BANKRUPTS' ESTATES. ROCKEY, JOHN, farmer, Sheepstor. Pet. Oct. 18. Nov. 3. at The Official Assignees, &c., are given, to whom apply for tha at half-past eleven, at offices of Sols. Steavenson and 1, at twelve, at office of Sol. Foster, Birchin-la STEVENSON, GEORGE, tailor, Appleton-upon-Wiske. Pet. Clapham. Pet. Oct. 10. Oct. 30, at three, at offices of SPRAGUE, HENRY, cabinet maker, Hemel Hempstead. Pet. SLADEN, ELLIS GRINDOD, bootmaker, Swansea. Pet. Oct. ton-causeway TURNER, OLIVER, and MOORE, HENRY, stuff merchants, Pet. Oct. 17. Nov. 11, at three, at office of Sol. Burchall, TOTTY, JOHN, maltster, South Hendley. Pet. Oct. 16. Nov. TONKIN, SAMUEL 'GEORGE, tailor, Bristol. Pet. Oct. 17. THORNETT, WILLIAM, farmer, Baynhall. Pet. Oct. 15. Oct. Dividends. Gawne, W., draper, third, 18. At offices of Camm and Corbridge, Sheffiel-Harvey, H. woollen merchant, first and final, is. 8id. At Trust. T. Westerby and W. H. Phillips, offices of Hudson and Pybus, Stockton.-Hutchinson, W., Huddersfield.-Hodgson, J., builder, first and final, 6d. At and Lord, Hebden Bridge.-Reynolds, T. B., farmer, first Nottingham, second and final, 28. 2d. At office of Rogers, Nottingham-Michell, A., clothier, first, 4s. At Trust. Moss J. J., hosier, first, 3d. At offices of Yorke and Brewer, Conand final, 2s. At Trust. Titchmarsh, Ipswich.-Robinson, Waddell, Mansion House-chmbrs. Queen Victoria-st.duit-st. Bond-st.-Terrell, T. H., Ealing, first, 4d. At Trust. Williams, B., book-keeper, first and final, 3s. 2d. At offices of Welch and Parkinson, Liverpool Orders of Discharge. Gazette, Oct. 17. DAY, JAMES, jun, DAY, EDWARD, and DAY, SEPTIMUS, mercers, York BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. ter. BIRTHS. DEAN.-On the 14th inst., at Carlton Villas, Slough, Bucks, MARRIAGES. VALENTINE, THOMAS, broker, Manchester. Pet. Oct. 16. PAINLESS DENTISTRY. ARTIFICIAL TEETH Nov. 5, at three, at 35, Cannon-st, Manchester. Sol. WILKINSON, GEORGE NOBLE, shipowner, Mincing-la. Pet. WILSON, JAMES FRANCIS (trading under the style or firm of MR. G. H. JONES, 57, GREAT RUSSELL-STREET, LONDON, Has obtained HER MAJESTY'S ROYAL LETTERS WIDDOP, ALBERT HENRY, organ builder, Bradford. Pet. ARTIFICIAL TEETH BY ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE Pamphlet gratis and post free. LONDON: "THE FIELD" Office, 316, Strand, W.C. C. H. GRIFFITHS and CO. "COCKBURN" JUDICATURE CASE. 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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: 1. Short title.-This Act may be cited as "The Spring Assizes Act, 1879." 2. Extension to spring assizes of power of Her Majesty as to winter assizes-39 & 40 Vict. c. 57-39 & 40 Vict. c. 57-39 & 40 Vict. c. 57-40 & 41 Vict. c. 46.-Whereas it is expedient to enable Her Majesty to unite counties for the purpose of holding spring assizes in the manner in which Her Majesty is authorised to unite counties for the purpose of holding winter assizes, and to make similar provision in relation to the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court over offences committed in the neigh. bouring counties to that which Her Majesty is able to make under the Winter Assizes Act, 1876: Be it therefore enacted as follows: All the provisions of the Winter Assizes Act, 1876, shall be deemed to be herein enacted, with the substitution of "spring assizes" for "winter assizes," and of the months of March, April, and May for the months of November, December, and January respectively; provided that nothing in this Act, or the Winter Assizes Acts, 1876 and 1877, shall affect the custom of holding separate assizes in and for each county twice a year. constituted by Order in Council under the Act of the 42 VICT. CAP. 2. An Act to apply the sum of Four milion two hundred and fifty 42 VICT. CAP. 3. An Act to raise the sum of Four million two hundred and fifty 42 VICT. CAP. 4. An Act to continue for Three Months the Act of the Session of 42 VICT. CAP. 5. An Act to continue for three months the Act of the Session of 3. Execution of sentence of death-40 & 41 Vict. c. 21-28 & 29 Vict. c. 126-40 & 41 Vict. c. 21-31 & 32 Vict. c. 24-39 & 40 Vict. c. 57.-Notwithstanding anything in the Prison Act, 1877, or anything done in pursuance of that Act, where judgment of death has been passed upon a convict at any assizes held after the passing of this Act, the judgment may be carried into execution in any prison in which the convict was confined for the purpose of safe custody prior to his removal to the place where the assizes were held, and the sheriff of the county for which such assizes were held shall be charged with the execution of that judgment, and shall for that purpose have the same jurisdiction and powers, and be subject to the same duties in the prison in which the judgment is to be carried into execution, although such prison is not situate within his county, as he has by law with respect to the common gaol of An Act to amend the Law with respect to District Auditors.— his county, or would have had if the Prison Act, 1865, and the Prison Act, 1877, had not passed. The coroner, whose duty it is to hold an inquest on the bodies of prisoners dying in any prison shall hold an inquest in accordance with the Capital Punishment Amendment Act, 1868, on the body of any convict executed in that prison. Nothing in this section shall affect any power authorised to be exercised by Order in Council under the Winter Assizes Act, 1876, and this Act. 4. Definitions.-In this ActThe expression "assizes" means any court of assize or any sessions of oyer and terminer or gaol delivery: The expression "county" includes a county of a city and a county of a town, and any such division of a county as is DISTRICT AUDITORS ACT, 1879. 42 VICT. CAP 6. [28th March, 1879] 31 & 32 Vict. c. 122, s. 24-22 Vict. c. 26.-Whereas the auditors of the accounts relating to the relief of the poor (in this Act referred to as district auditors) are under the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1868, appointed by the Local Govern. ment Board, and are by that Act declared to be civil servants of the State within the operation of the Superannuation Act, 1859, but the remuneration and expenses of such auditors which are by law payable out of local rates are in fact paid partly out of moneys annually provided by Parliament, and partly out of local rates; and whereas it is expedient that in future the whole of such remuneration and expenses should be paid out of moneys voted by Parliament, and that in lieu of the amount now so paid out of local rates an equivalent sum should α "Wh of worl agricul elabora have te whom in putt with w take a other t will he self for and o keen abande all nee ont-oflife of its ohi obtain Secti Sect Sect: Secti Secti cattle. Sect · Sect! tion, T Sect: Propa Sect Sect Secti Secti Sect: ment. Sect Сн Сп Rule СНАРТ Secti Secti Сн L A FR with Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent 1. Short title.-This Act may be cited as "The District Auditors Act, 1879." be examined by the local authority, the mode in which, if it 18 so prescribed, they are to be certified by the local authority or any officer of that authority, the mode of publishing the time and place of holding the audit, the persons by whom such 2. Provision as to contribution by Treasury and out of local rate accounts are to be produced for audit, and the mode of confor payment of district auditors.-After the twenty-fifth day of ducting the audit, and an order under this section shall be March one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine all pay-deemed to be an order within the meaning of section ninetyments to district auditors out of any local rate shall cease, and eight of the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834. the whole of the salaries or remuneration and of the expenses 6. Stamp duties under Inland Revenue.-The duties charged of district auditors, to such amount as may be sanctioned by under this Act shall be deemed to be stamp duties under the the Treasury, shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parlia-management of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, and ment; and for the purpose of contributing to the amount all the Acts relating to stamp duties, particularly those relating required for the payment of such salaries, remuneration, and to forgery, fraudulent dies, and other offences in connexion expenses, there shall be charged on every local authority whose with stamp duties, shall apply accordingly; and such duties accounts are audited by a district auditor a stamp duty for the may, if the Commissioners so direct, be denoted by adhesive use of Her Majesty, according to the scale contained in the stamps, to be cancelled by the auditor as provided by this First Schedule to this Act, and such duty shall be levied by a stamp on the certificate of the auditor hereinafter mentioned. 3. Financial statement with stamped certificate of district auditor-29 & 30 Vict. c. 113, s. 6-23 & 24 Vict. c. 51-40 & 41 Vict. c. 66. Where the accounts of the receipts and expenditure of a local authority are audited by a district auditor, the local authority shall prepare and submit to the district auditor at every audit (other than an extraordinary audit held in pursuance of section six of the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1866), a financial statement in duplicate in the prescribed form and containing the prescribed particulars; one of such duplicates shall have the stamp charged under this Act affixed thereon, and the auditor at the conclusion of the audit shall cancel that stamp, and certify on each duplicate, in the prescribed form, the amount in words at length of the expenditure so audited and allowed, and further, that the regulations with respect to such statement have been duly complied with, and that he has ascertained by the audit the correctness of the statement. He shall forthwith send the duplicate so stamped and certified by him to the Local Government Board; and in such case a return of the receipts or expenditure comprised in such statement need not, unless the Local Government Board so require, be send to the Board in pursuance of the Local Taxation Returns Acts, 1860 and 1877. 4. Appointment and districts of district auditors.-The Local Government Board may from time to time appoint such number of district auditors as they may, with the sanction of the Treasury, think necessary for the performance of the duties of auditing the accounts which are for the time being by law subject to be audited by district auditors, and may from time to time remove such auditors. The Board may from time to time assign to district auditors their duties, and the districts in which such auditors respectively are to act, and may from time to time change wholly or in part such duties or districts; and every district so assigned to a district auditor, whether originally or upon any change, shall be deemed to be an audit district within the meaning of any enactment relating to district auditors or their districts, and the auditor to whom any district is assigned shall be deemed to be the district auditor for that district. Act. 7. Failure to submit financial statement.-If a local authority fail to comply with the provisions of this Act with respect to a financial statement, such local authority, or if a clerk to the local authority is appointed, that clerk, and if no clerk is ap pointed, but there is a treasurer or other officer keeping the accounts which should be comprised in such financial statement, that treasurer or other officer shall be liable to a fine not ex ceeding twenty pounds for each offence, to be recovered by action on behalf of Her Majesty in the High Court of Justice 8. Definitions. In this Act, The expression "local authority means any person or body of persons who receive and expend any local rate, but does not include overseers of the poor. The expression "prescribed" means prescribed from time to The expression "Treasury" means the Commissioners of 9. Provision for existing auditors.-The Local Government Board, with the approval of the Treasury, shall as soon as may be after the passing of this Act determine the salary or rema neration to be paid to the district auditors holding office at the passing of this Act, and the amount to be allowed for their expenses, regard being had to the sums which such officers have heretofore received out of local rates, as well as out of moneys provided by Parliament, and to any change of their duties which may be made in pursuance of this Act. 10. Provision for first year.-If in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine the audit of the accounts of the receipts and expenditure of any local authority for aty period ending on some day of the month of March has been The Board may also, with the consent of the Treasury, completed before the expiration of two months after the pass appoint from time to time a person or persons, either tem-ing of this Act, the local authority shall submit the financial porarily or otherwise, to assist a district auditor in the per- statement required by this Act to the auditor within the said formance of his duties, and any person so appointed shall, two months. subject to any exceptions made by the terms of his appointment, have the same powers and duties and be subject to the same obligations as the district auditor whom he is appointed to assist. The Board, with the like consent, may assign to a person so appointed such salary or remuneration and such sum for his expenses as may seem fit, and such salary, remuneration, and expenses shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament. 5. Regulations as to audit-4 & 5 W. 4 c. 76.-Where any accounts of the receipts and expenditure of a local authority are subject by law to be audited by a district auditor, the Copy sent by post, on receiving Fost Umice order for 108., payable to пURAUE UUA, or may de vormen vi any VVASENET. 12. Saving of certain fees and expenses.-Nothing in this Act shall prevent a district auditor from recovering any sum in respect of an audit held by him prior to the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, or in resTect of an audit of accounts made up to some day prior to that day, and the audit of which might have been held before the aid day, or from recovering any expenses incurred, or which he may hereafter incur, in any proceedings which he is authorised ur required to take or defend under the statutes in that behalf. FIRST SCHEDULE. SCALE OF STAMP DUTIES PAYABLE BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES. STATUTES.-iii 42 VICT. CAP. 7. An Act apply to certain sums out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the years ending on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, and one thousand eight huudred and eighty.-[28th March, 1879.] 20.0007. and under 50,000Z. 50,0002 and under 100,000. 100,000l. and upwards : For the purpose of this schedule the expenditure comprised in the financial statement shall be exclusive of any sum paid to another local authority in pursuance of a precept. 42 VICT. Cap. 8. An Act to make further provision for the Registration of Deaths, Marriages, and Births occurring out of the United Kingdom among officers and soldiers of Her Majesty's Forces, and their families.[23rd May, 1879.] SECOND SCHEDULE. ACTS REPEALED. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES ACT (1875) AMENDMENT. 42 VICT. CAP. 9. Friendly Societies Act, 1875.-[23rd May, 1879.] A description or citation of a portion of a Statute is inclusive of An Act to declare the true meaning of Section Thirty of the the words, section, or other part first and last mentioned or otherwise referred to as forming the beginning or as forming the end of the portion comprised in the description or citation. Be it declared aad 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. Interpretations of s. 30 of 38 & 39 Vict. c. 60.-Section thirty of the Friendly Societies Act, 1875, applies only to such friendly societies, whether registered or unregistered, and industrial assurance companies as receive contributions by means of collectors at a greater distance than ten miles from the registered office or principal place of business of the society or company. 2. Act to be construed with 38 & 39 Vict. c. 60 and 39 & 40 Vict. c. 32.-This Act shall be construed as one with the Friendly Societies Act, 1875, and the Friendly Societies Amendment Act, 1876, and may be cited together with the same as "the Friendly Societies Acts." ASSESSED RATES ACT, 1879. 42 VICT. CAP. 10. An Act to amend the Poor Rate Assessment and Collection Act, 1869. [23rd May, 1879.] 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: 1. Short title and construction-32 & 33 Vict. c. 41.-This Act may be cited as the Assessed Rates Act, 1879, and shall be construed as one with the Poor Rate Assessment and Collection Act, 1869, in this Act called the principal Act. 2. Effect of allowance or deduction as regards qualification or franchise.-Where by way of commission or abatement or deduction under the principal Act, or purporting or assumed to be under the principal Act, an allowance or deduction hos, |