་ CXL An Act to amend the Law relating to Bills of Lading. 641 CXII. An Act to continue an Act of the Eleventh Year of Her present Majesty, for the better Prevention of Crime and Outrage in certain Parts of Ireland. 642 CXIII. An Act to extend the Provisions of an Act of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Years of Her present Majesty, for rebuilding the Bridge over the River Ness at Inverness. 642 CXIV. An Act for the Transfer of Licences of Public Houses in Ireland. 644 CXV. An Act to continue and amend the Public Health Act (1854). 645 CXVI. An Act for the better Prevention of Diseases. 646 CXVII. An Act for transferring to One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State the Powers and Estates vested in the Principal Officers of the Ordnance. 649 CXVIII An Act to repeal the Act of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty for further regulating the Sale of Beer and other Liquors on the Lord's Day, and to substitute other Provisions in lieu thereof. 653 CXIX. An Act to amend the Law relating to the Carriage of Passengers by Sea. 654 CXX. An Act for the better Local Management of the Metropolis. 833 706 CXXI. An Act to consolidate and amend the Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Acts, 1848 and 1849. 808 CXXII. An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Construction of Buildings in the Metropolis and its Neighbourhood. CXXIII. An Act to defray the Charge of the Pay, Clothing, and contingent and other Expenses of the Disembodied Militia in Great Britain and Ireland; to grant Allowances in certain Cases to Subaltern Officers, Adjutants, Paymasters, Quartermasters, Surgeons, Assistant Surgeons, Surgeons Mates, and Serjeant Majors of the Militia; and to authorize the Employment of the Non-commissioned Officers. 874 CXXIV. An Act to amend the Charitable Trusts Act, 1853. 891 CXXV. An Act to confirm Provisional Orders of the General Board of Health, applying the Public Health Act (1848) to the Districts of Middlesbrough, Windhill, Christchurch, Keighley, Tunstall, and Toxteth Park, and for Alteration of the Boundaries of the District of Romford. 901 CXXVI. An Act for diminishing Expense and Delay in the Administration of Criminal Justice in certain Cases. 927 CXXVII. An CXXVII. An Act to make better Provision for the Union of contiguous Benefices, and to facilitate the building and endowing of new Churches in spiritually destitute Districts. 936 943 CXXVIII. An Act further to amend the Laws concerning Parliament. 950 CXXX. An Act for raising the Sum of Seven Millions by Exchequer Bills and Exchequer Bonds, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five. 984 CXXXI. An Act to render more secure the Conditions upon which Money is advanced out of the Parliamentary Grant for the Purposes of Education. 987 CXXXII. An Act for facilitating the Erection of Dwelling Houses for the Labouring Classes. 988 CXXXIII. An Act for limiting the Liability of Members of certain Joint Stock Companies. 993 CXXXIV. An Act to make further Provision for the more speedy and efficient Despatch of Business in the High Court of Chancery, and to vest in the Lord Chancellor the Ground and Buildings of the said Court situate in Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, with Powers of leasing and Sale thereof. 998 THE PUBLIC GENERAL STATUTES, 18 VICTORIA. CAP. I. An Act to enable Her Majesty to accept the Services of the Militia out of the United Kingdom, for the vigorous Prosecution of the War. [23d December 1854.] WH HEREAS it is important that effectual Measures should be adopted for the vigorous Prosecution of the War, and it is therefore expedient that Her Majesty should be empowered to accept any Offers of a Proportion of the Officers, Non-commissioned Officers, Drummers, and Private Men of the Militia of the United Kingdom for such extended Service as herein-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, as follows: 6 United I. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty to accept the Services, Power to Her voluntary and to employ in any Parts or Places out of the United King- Majesty to dom, under the Regulations and Restrictions specified in this accept the Act, such Part of the Militia raised or to be raised in any Part Offers of the of the United Kingdom, not exceeding in any Case Three Militia to serve Fourths of the actual Establishment of any Regiment, Bat- out of the talion, or Corps of any such Militia, as may make a voluntary Kingdom. Offer, duly certified by their respective Commanding Officers, so to extend their Services, and as Her Majesty may think proper to permit to extend their Services in consequence of such voluntary Offers as aforesaid; and it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by any Order signed by One of Her Principal Secretaries of State, or by the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, or by his or their Chief Secretary, directed to the Cominanding Officer of any Regiment, Battalion, or Corps of such Militia, to propose to such Regiment, Battalion, or Corps, or any Part or Parts thereof, to extend their Services to any Parts or Places out of the United Kingdom to be specified in such Order, under such Rules and Regulations as Her Majesty may think fit to appoint. [No. 1. Price 2d.] A 2 II. It Power to allow Oath. Enrolment. Commanding Officers shall II. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty to direct that such Bounty as shall from Time to Time be fixed by the Secretary at War shall be allowed to every Non-commissioned Officer, Drummer, and Private Man who shall make such voluntary Offer as aforesaid; and every Non-commissioned Officer, Drummer, and Private Man making such voluntary Offer as aforesaid shall take the following Oath; videlicet, 6 I And every Non-commissioned Officer, Drummer, and Private III. No Person serving in the Militia shall be compelled to make such Offer, nor be engaged to serve out of the United the Offer is to Kingdom, except by his own Consent; and no Commanding Officer shall certify, according to this Act, any voluntary Offer, before he has explained to each Person offering to serve that the Offer is to be purely voluntary. be voluntary. The Services of Three Field Officers may be accepted with 900 Men. Two Field Officers IV. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty to accept the Services of Three Field Officers of any Regiment of Militia, in which Nine hundred Private Men shall offer to extend their Services under this Act; and of Two Field Officers of any Regiment, Battalion, or Corp of Militia, in which Six hundred Private with 600 Men, and One with Men shall so offer to extend their Services; and of One Field 300, &c., and Officer of any Regiment, Battalion, or Corps of Militia, in Proportion of which Three hundred Private Men, or any smaller Number other Officers according to not being less than Three Fourths of the Number of Private Establishment Men actually serving in such Regiment, Battalion, or Corps, of Regiment. shall so offer to extend their Services; and in the Cases in which such Proportion of Field Officers of any Regiments, Battalions, or Corps of Militia, from which such Numbers of Men respectively shall so volunteer as aforesaid, shall not offer to to extend their Services with such Men, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty to give the Rank of Field Officers to any Captains in such Regiments, Battalions, or Corps of Militia respectively, who may offer to extend their Services with such Men; and it shall also be lawful for Her Majesty to accept the Services of such Proportion of other Officers, Non-commissioned Officers, and Drummers, with any such Numbers of Private Men, as shall be allowed to such Numbers of Men respectively in the Establishment of the Regiment, Battalion, or Corps to which they respectively belong. form the Provisional V. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty from Time to Time Power to Her to form the Officers, Non-commissioned Officers, Drummers, Majesty to and Private Men who shall so extend their Services from the Militia for Regiments, Battalions, or Corps of Militia, into such Provisional extended SerRegiments or Battalions as may be deemed most expedient for vice into such Her Majesty's Service; and it shall be lawful for Her Majesty Regiments or to appoint any such Number of Officers of Her Regular Battalions, and Forces or Militia as Her Majesty may think fit to serve during to appoint any Period of extended Service of the Militia out of the United Kingdom as Field Officers in such Provisional Regiments or Provisional Battalions of Militia, in addition to the Officers of the Militia Regiments. allowed to volunteer for extended Service, in proportion to the Number of Men who shall extend their Service; and all Persons so appointed to serve as Field Officers in any such Provisional Regiments or Battalions shall rank as Field Officers therein, in such Manner as Her Majesty shall direct. Field Officers Field Officers VI. Provided always, That in every Case in which a Field Provisions for Officer of Militia shall have volunteered for extended Service, Cases where the Officer having the Chief Command in the Provisional Bat- volunteer and talion shall be a Field Officer of Militia: Provided also, Militia Officers that all Officers of Militia appointed by Her Majesty to serve are appointed in any Provisional Battalion with higher Rank than that which Ranks, they previously held in the Militia shall be deemed and taken to be Militia Officers of such higher Rank for the Purposes of this Act, and as such shall be capable of commanding such Provisional Battalion. to higher Colonel. volunteer, Her VII. Provided also, That no Officer of the Militia shall, No Militia while out of the United Kingdom upon any such extended Officer to rank higher than Service, rank with the Officers of Her Majesty's Regular Forces Lieutenant higher than as a Lieutenant-Colonel of the Militia. VIII. In any Case in which the Number of Officers of each In case suffiRank so volunteering to extend their Services, and accepted by cient Officers Her Majesty, shall not be in due Proportion to the Number of do not Men so volunteering, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty to Majesty may appoint any fit Persons to be Officers in such Provisional appoint Officers. Battalions of Militia, without regard to the Qualifications required by Law for such Officers in the Militia; but no Person so appointed by Her Majesty shall hold a Commission in any such Provisional Battalion of higher Rank than that of a Subaltern, unless he shall at the Time of such Appointment have been an Officer in Her Majesty's Regular Forces or Militia. IX. It A 3 |