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his agent, to enter into agreements with Lascars or natives of the territories of the East India Company, binding them to proceed to any port or ports in the United Kingdom, either as seamen or as passengers, and there to enter into a further agreement to serve as seamen in any ship which may happen to be there, and to be bound to any port in the territories of the East India Company: provided, that every such original agreement shall be made in such form, and shall contain such provisions, and shall be executed in such manner, and under such conditions for securing the return of such Lascars or natives to their own country, and for other purposes, as the Governor-General of India in council, or the governors of the respective presidencies in which the original agreement is made, in council, may direct; and if any Lascar or other person who has bound himself by any such original agreement is, on arriving in the United Kingdom, required to enter into a further agreement to serve as a seaman in any ship bound to any port in the territories of the East India Company, and if it is certified by some officer appointed for that purpose by the East India Company that such further agreement is a proper agreement in all respects for such Lascar or other person to enter into, and is in accordance with the original agreement, and that the ship to which such further agreement relates is in all respects a proper ship for such Lascar or other person to serve in, and that there is not, in the opinion of such officer, any objection to the full performance of the said original agreement, such Lascar or other person shall be deemed to be engaged under such further agreement, and to serve as a seaman in the ship to which it relates, and shall thereupon be deemed to be for all purposes one of the crew of the ship; and for every Lascar or other person in respect of whom such certificate is applied for, the person applying for the same shall pay to such officer as aforesaid such fee as the East India Company may appoint, not exceeding 108.

24. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to repeal or affect any provisions contained in the 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st, or 34th sections of the act of the 4 Geo. 4, c. 80, or in the 16th section of the act of the 17 & 18 Vict. c. 120.

CAP. XCII.

An Act for appropriating the Corps of the Prebend or Portion of Netherhall Ledbury, in the Diocese and County of Hereford, and for constituting the Living of Ledbury a Rectory with Cure of Souls, and for augmenting the Endowments thereof. [14th August, 1855.]

CAP. XCIII. An Act to amend certain Acts relating to the Court of Judicature of Prince of Wales Island, Singapore, and Malacca, and to the Supreme Courts of Judicature in India. [14th August, 1855.]

CAP. XCIV.

2. Duties to be under the management of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, and to be collected under the provisions of acts in force relating to excise.

3. Allowances on spirits in distillers' stock or in warehouse. 4. Former allowances in respect of malt, and on sugar used in distilling, to cease.

5. Malt may be made and used free from dut in distilling spirits.

6. Special entry to be made of malt-house.

7. Persons other than distillers making duty-free malt to give security against frauds.

8. Malt may be removed for exportation.

9. Distillers on giving security to have duty-free sugar and molasses delivered to them, to be used in the distilling of spirits.

10. Distiller to give bond, with sureties, conditioned to secure the due consumption of duty-free sugar and molasses in the distilling of spirits.

11. Distiller and maltster to make entry of his malt-house, and to provide a kiln adapted for securing the malt whilst drying.

12. Distillers to make entry of kilns used for drying barley or other corn or grain.

13. If malt-house more than a mile from a market town, distiller or maltster to provide lodgings for the officer.

14. Secure rooms to be provided for the purposes herein expressed, viz. a store-room at the malt-house for the deposit of malt on removal from the kiln; a store-room at the distillery for malt on removal from the malt-house; also a mill-room at the distillery for grinding malt; all such rooms to be properly secured.

15. All fastenings (except locks) for the security of kilns and other rooms to be provided at the expense of the distiller. Penalty for refusing to defray such expense, or for removing or damaging locks or fastenings.

16. Commissioners may revoke approval of malt-house, kiln, or store-rooms, and require alterations or additional fastenings. 17. Allowance on cistern or couch gauges to be 17 per cent. 18. Distiller, &c. to give notice to officer to attend, when it is intended to load the kiln.

19. Officer to admit the workmen into the kiln to stir the grain from time to time, pursuant to notice.

20. Notice to be given for removal of malt from the kiln. Malt to be measured, and deficiency charged with duty. 21. Removal of malt from the store-room at the malt-house to the store-room at the distillery.

22. Malt to be removed from malt-house to distillery in sacks containing four bushels or 168lbs. each.

23. Twelve hours' notice to be given for removal of malt from the store-room to the mill-room. Four hours' notice for

removal of malt to the mash tun.

24. Distiller and maltster to enter in books particulars of malt received into and removed from their store-rooms.

25. Malt remaining in store-room to be measured, and a if a deficiency, duty to be charged on the quantity; if an exbalance to be struck of account of malt received and delivered;

An Act to impose increased Rates of Duty of Excise on Spirits distilled in the United Kingdom; to allow Malt, Sugar, and Molasses to be used Duty free in the distilling of Spirits, incess, lieu of Allowances and Drawbacks on such Spirits, Sugar, and Molasses respectively; and to amend the Laws relating to the Duties of Excise. [14th August, 1855.]

Whereas it is expedient to impose increased rates of duty of excise on spirits distilled in the United Kingdom, and to allow malt, sugar, and molasses to be used duty free in the distilling of spirits, in lieu of allowances and drawbacks of excise now payable on such spirits and sugar and molasses respectively: be it therefore enacted &c. as follows:

Sect. 1. There shall be charged, collected, and paid, for the use of her Majesty, her heirs and successors, for and upon every gallon of spirits of the strength of hydrometer proof which, on or after the 1st October, 1855, shall be distilled within the United Kingdom, or be in the stock, custody, or possession of any distiller, or of any person in trust for him, or for his use, benefit, or account, or which, having been distilled within the United Kingdom, shall on or after the said day be in warehouse, and be taken out of warehouse for consumption within the United Kingdom, the respective rates and duties following that is to say, in Great Britain 88.; in Ireland 68. 2d.; and so in proportion for any greater or less degree of strength, or any greater or less quantity, in lieu of all other duties of excise on such spirits chargeable under any act in force.

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the same to be forfeited.

26. Malt to be either measured or weighed, or both, as the commissioners may order.

27. Distiller and maltster to provide a correct bushel measure and scales and weights, and assist officer in measuring and weighing malt.

28. Distiller to deliver an account of the malt, sugar, and molasses used in every distilling period, verified by decla

ration.

29. Distillers and maltsters to designate their malt-houses by painting certain words on the principal entrance. Penalty on neglect.

30. Distillers prohibited from selling malt, sugar, or molasses. Penalty.

31. Commissioners may revoke the license of a distiller or maltster on a second conviction of certain specified offences. 32. Persons found unlawfully removing malt from a distiller's malt-house or a distillery may be arrested and taken before a justice, and summarily dealt with.

33. No abatement for deficiencies on spirits deposited in warehouse less than three days.

34. Rectifiers may send out compounded spirits at certain additional strengths.

35. Malting barley or other corn, how long to be kept in operation.

36. Brewer not to have raw or unmalted grain in his brewery, or in premises adjacent.

37. Malt used by brewers to be ground by metal rollers only.

CAP. XCV.

An Act to enable the Commissioners of her Majesty's Works
and Public Buildings to provide additional Offices for the
Public Service in or near Downing-street, Westminster.
[14th August, 1855.]

CAP. XCVI.

An Act to consolidate certain Acts, and otherwise amend the
Laws of the Customs, and an Act to regulate the Office of
the Receipt of her Majesty's Exchequer at Westminster.
[14th August, 1855.]

Sect. 1. Customs duties, &c. payable to Exchequer account of Bank of England to be received under such regulations as the Treasury shall prescribe.

2. Importation of tobacco in packages of less than eighty pounds prohibited.

3. Goods not reported may be detained till requisites complied with.

4. Time for perfecting entries by bills of sight may be extended.

5. Commissioners of Customs may permit special entries in particular cases.

6. Goods not worth the duty, &c. in the Queen's warehouse may be destroyed.

7. Combustibles not to be deposited in the Queen's warehouse.

8. Power to dispense with the re-weighing, &c. of goods on quinquennial re-warehousing, in certain cases.

9. Goods not to be shipped except on proper days and places, nor until entry and clearance. Searcher may open packages and examine goods.

10. Penalty on failing to deliver shipping bill. 11. Penalty on departing without being cleared.

12. As to exportation of British and Irish spirits to the Isle

of Man, &c.

13. Foreign ships in the coasting trade to be subject to the same rules as British ships.

14. Foreign ships employed in the coasting trade not to be subject to higher rates than British ships.

15. Her Majesty may exercise such powers as conferred by sects. 324, 325, and 326 of the 16 & 17 Vict. c. 107.

16. Powers of Commissioners of Customs as to the colonies extended to governors, &c.

17. The Bay Islands to be placed on the same footing as the

Bermudas.

18. Provision as to importation of tobacco, &c. into the Channel Islands.

19. As to importing and exporting spirits from and to the Channel Islands in ships of fifty tons and casks of twenty gallons. Not to extend to spirits in glass bottles, or to stores; nor to certain warehoused goods exported; nor to licensed boats of ten tons supplying the Island of Sark.

20. Prohibited goods not to be shipped from the Channel Islands to the United Kingdom.

21. Reward to officers for seizures in the Channel Islands. 22. The terms "governor," &c. in the Channel Islands to include jurats, who are to have the same power.

29. Notice of seizure of goods.

30. Where persons are taken before a justice for any offence under any act relating to the Customs, or likely to abscond, such justice may order them to be detained a reasonable time, or admit to bail.

31. Penalty and costs to be stated in convictions, &c.
32. Execution may issue after trial, out of term.

33. Defendant's option to remove case to superior court to be exercised before the hearing commences.

34. Count for harbouring &c. smuggled goods.
35. Evidence of condemnation of forfeiture.

36. Sect. 2 of stat. 14 & 15 Vict. c. 99, not to extend to re

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An Act for the Amendment and Consolidation of the Customs
Tariff Acts.
[14th August, 1855.]

Sect. 1. Instead of all other duties and drawbacks of cus

toms, there shall be paid and allowed the duties and drawbacks
Duties in Table B. to be levied on goods im-
in Table A.
ported into the Isle of Man. As to free goods in Tables A.
and B.

2. Power to the Treasury to remit and re-impose the duties Orders to be published in the Gazette, and laid before Parlialevied on unenumerated articles imported into the Isle of Man.

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[14th August, 1855.]

23. Goods the growth or manufacture of the Isle of Man may An Act to continue certain Turnpike Acts in Great Britain. be imported into Great Britain or Ireland on certificate, &c. 24. Isle of Man to be part of the United Kingdom for Customs purposes.

25. Certain vessels belonging to her Majesty's subjects, or whereof half the persons on board are subjects of her Majesty, and foreign vessels, found within certain distances of the coast of the United Kingdom or Channel Islands with certain goods on board, forfeited, with the goods.

26. Any vessel or boat arriving within any port of the United Kingdom or of the Channel Islands having prohibited goods on board, or attached thereto, forfeited. Power to commissioners to waive forfeiture.

27. Forfeiture not to extend to ships and goods in certain

cases.

28. Persons on board vessels within ports of the United Kingdom or the Channel Islands, with contraband articles, subject to penalty of 1007. and detention.

Sect. 1. All Turnpike Acts which will expire on or before the end of next session continued to the 1st October, 1856, &c., with certain exceptions.

2. Acts in schedule to this act continued till the 1st November, 1856.

3. Short title.
4. Extent of act.

CAP. XCIX.

An Act to enable her Majesty to carry into Effect a Convention made between her Majesty, his Majesty the Emperor of the French, and his Imperial Majesty the Sultan.

[14th August, 1855.]

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CAP. CI.

An Act for the more effectual Execution of the Convention between her Majesty and the French Government concerning the Fisheries in the Seas between the British Islands and France. [14th August, 1855.]

Sect. 1. Oysters and dredges found on board fishing vessels from the 1st May to the 31st August may be seized.

2. Oysters landed between the 1st May and the 31st August may be seized.

3. Penalties on persons in charge of British vessels for offending.

4. British consuls may take depositions on oath concerning offences against the fishery regulations.

5. Depositions admissible in evidence.

8. Powers given by sect. 77 of Lunatic Asylums Act, 1853, to visitors of an asylum to order removal of pauper lunatics,

extended.

cable to a house which has been licensed after expiration of 9. Powers of commissioners and visitors to continue applilicense, while any patients are therein.

10. Contracts under 42nd section of Lunatic Asylums Act, 1853, may be renewed.

11. Provision for burial of pauper lunatics.

12. Power to enter into agreements with cemetery company or burial board.

13. Committee of visitors may convey land for burial ground for lunatics, &c. dying in the asylum.

14. Pauper lunatics whose settlements cannot be ascertained, where found in a borough which does not contribute to the county expenditure, to be chargeable to such borough.

15. Seals of commissioners, visitors, and justices, to orders, &c., dispensed with.

16. So much of sect. 6 of the 16 & 17 Vict. c. 96, as requires personal examination of patients repealed.

17. Consent of committee of management of any hospital sufficient to authorise a patient being sent to any place for health.

18. Detention of lunatics after expiration of or revocation of license a misdemeanour.

19. Act to be read with the acts amended as one act.

CAP. CVI.

6. Penalties and proceeds of sales, &c. to be paid into Ex. An Act to suspend the making of Lists and the Ballots for the chequer.

7. As to the term "British consul."

8. Recited act and this act to be read together.

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An Act to amend the Lunatic Asylums Act, 1853, and the Acts passed in the Ninth and Seventeenth Years of her Majesty for the Regulation of the Care and Treatment of Lunatics. [14th August, 1855.]

Sect. 1. Any single county or borough may unite with the subscribers to a hospital, and any committee of visitors of an existing asylum may so unite.

2. The proportion of expenses between any county and borough may be fixed with reference to accommodation likely to be required.

3. Agreements for uniting to be hereafter entered into to stipulate for contribution by counties and boroughs according to their relative populations for the time being, where not fixed according to foregoing provision.

4. Where expenses are to be contributed in proportion to population, the same to be ascertained by last census for the time being.

5. Where there is a dissolution of a union, a new asylum to be provided.

6. Provisions to apply to councils of boroughs where they have taken upon themselves the execution of the Lunatic Asylums Act, 1853.

7. Places becoming boroughs after the commencement of the Lunatic Asylums Act, 1853, to be deemed boroughs annexed to the counties in which they are situate.

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Militia of the United Kingdom.

[14th August, 1855.] Sect. 1. Meetings relating to the militia of the United Kingdom, and ballots for such militia, suspended.

2. Proceedings may be had during such suspension by Order in Council.

3. Not to extend to prevent the holding of certain meetings relating to the militia.

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Sect. 1. The said act of the 13 & 14 Vict. [c. 100], shall be repealed: provided always, that the inspectors of coal mines appointed under such act shall continue to be such inspectors under this act, subject nevertheless to removal by one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State: provided also, that all penalties incurred under the said act before the repeal thereof may be proceeded for and applied as if this act had not been passed.

2. It shall be lawful for one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State from time to time to appoint any fit person or persons to be an inspector or inspectors of coal mines, and from time to time to remove any such inspector or in spectors; and notice of the appointment of every such inspector shall be published in the London Gazette.

3. No person who shall act or practise as a land agent, or as a manager, viewer, or agent, or mining engineer, or valuer of mines, or arbitrator in any matters of dispute arising between owners of mines, or be otherwise employed in any coal mine or colliery, shall act as an inspector of coal mines under this act.

4. The following rules (hereinafter referred to as the general rules) shall be observed in every coal mine and colliery by the owner and agent thereof:

(1). An adequate amount of ventilation shall be constantly produced at all collieries to dilute and render harmless noxious gases, to such an extent as that the working places of the pits and levels of such collieries shall under ordinary circumstances be in a fit state for working:

(2). Every shaft or pit which is out of use, or used only as an air pit, shall be securely fenced :

(3). Every working and pumping pit or shaft shall be properly fenced when not at work:

(4). Every working and pumping pit or shaft, where the natural strata under ordinary circumstances are not safe, shall be securely cased or lined: (5). Every working pit or shaft shall be provided with some proper means of signalling from the bottom of the shaft to the surface, and from the surface to the bottom of the shaft.

(6). A proper indicator to shew the position of the load in the pit or shaft, and also an adequate break, shall be attached to every machine worked by steam or water power used for lowering or raising persons: (7). Every steam boiler shall be provided with a proper steam gauge, water gauge, and safety valve.

5. In addition to the general rules there shall be established and observed in every coal mine or colliery such other rules (hereinafter referred to as special rules) for the conduct and guidance of the persons acting in the management of such coal mine or colliery, and of all persons employed in or about the same, as under the particular state and circumstances of such coal mine or colliery may appear best calculated to prevent dangerous accidents; and such special rules for each coal mine or colliery shall be framed by the owner thereof, and forthwith transmitted to one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State; and such rules, if not objected to by such Secretary of State within forty days from the day upon which they are received by him, shall be esta blished; and in case such Secretary of State shall be of opinion that such rules, or any of them, do not sufficiently provide for the safety of the person or persons employed in or about such coal mine or colliery, it shall be lawful for such Secretary of State, within the forty days aforesaid, to propose any alterations in or additions to such special rules; and in case such owner shall not, within twenty days from the day on which such alterations or additions are proposed to him, object to the same, the special rules shall be established with such alterations and additions; and in case such owner shall, within the said twenty days, object to such alterations or additions, or any of them, it shall be lawful for such owner, within seven days after he shall have so objected, to nominate three or more practical mining engineers or other competent persons of experience in the district within which such coal mine or colliery is situate, and who shall not be interested in or employed in the management of such coal mine or colliery, of whom such Secretary of State may appoint one or more, to determine the matter in difference, and to decide what special rules shall be established in such coal mine or colliery; and if such owner shall not within such seven days nominate such mining engineers as aforesaid, or if such Secretary of State shall not within

one month from the time of such nomination appoint one or more of the persons so nominated by the owner as aforesaid, then and in such case two such mining engineers or other competent persons as aforesaid shall be appointed, one of whom shall be named by the owner of such coal mine or colliery, and one by the Secretary of State; and the said persons so appointed shall, before they proceed to determine the matters in difference, and to decide what special rules shall be established in such coal mine or colliery, appoint a third person, being such mining engineer or such other competent person as aforesaid, to be their umpire in case of difference of opinion between them; and the determination of such persons and the said umpire, or of any two of them, shall be final, and the special rules shall be established accordingly: provided, that after such rules are established it shall be lawful for the owner of any coal mine or colliery (or for the Secretary of State) to propose from time to time any amendments of such rules, which amendments, if not objected to by the Secretary of State within the time aforesaid, or owners, as the case may be, shall be established; and in case of objection being made to any of them, and of a difference arising out of such objection, the same proceedings shall be had respecting them as hereinbefore provided in reference to the special rules when originally submitted to such Secretary of State, and objected to: provided also, that the amount of payment to be made to all such persons, and to such umpire so nominated or appointed as aforesaid, for their services, shall be fixed by such Secretary of State, and paid in equal moieties by such owner and the Com. missioners of her Majesty's Treasury, who are hereby authorised to make such payment accordingly.

6. For the purpose of making known the general rules and special rules to all persons employed in or about each coal mine or colliery, the owner thereof shall cause the general rules and the special rules for such coal mine or colliery to be painted on a board or printed upon paper to be pasted thereon, and shall cause such board to be hung up or affixed on some conspicuous part of the principal office or place of business of the coal mine or colliery; and the general rules and special rules so painted or printed and hung up shall be renewed and restored with all reasonable dispatch as often as the same, or any part thereof, may be defaced, obliterated, or destroyed; and a printed copy of such general and special rules shall be supplied to all persons employed in and about the same. 7. It shall be lawful for any inspector to enter, inspect, and examine any coal mine or colliery, and the works and machinery belonging thereto, at all reasonable times and seasons, by day or night, but so as not to impede or obstruct the working of the said coal mine or colliery, and to make inquiry into and touching the state and condition of such coal mine or colliery, works, and machinery, and the ventilation of such mine or colliery, and the mode of lighting or using lights in the same, and into all matters and things connected with or relating to the safety of the persons employed in or about the same, and especially to make inquiry whether the provisions of this act are complied with in relation to such coal mine or colliery; and the owner or agent of such coal mine or colliery is hereby required to furnish the means necessary for such entry, inspec tion, examination, and inquiry; and if such inspector find any of the general rules or any of the special rules established for such coal mine or colliery to be neglected or wilfully violated, such inspector shall forthwith give notice in writing thereof to the owner or agent of such coal mine or colliery; and if such inspector find any part of such coal mine or colliery, works or machinery, or any aircourses, airdoors, waterways, drains, pits, levels, shafts, or other matter or thing in or connected with such coal mine or colliery, or the mode of lighting or using lights in the same, to be otherwise dangerous or defective, so as in his opinion to threaten or tend to the bodily injury of any person employed in or about such coal mine or colliery. such inspector shall thereupon, by notice in writing, summon before him at the colliery office the manager or principal colliery viewer or agent having charge of the said coal mine or colliery, in order to his being heard upon the matter giving rise to such finding as aforesaid; and if such manager or principal colliery viewer or agent do not attend after reason. able notice, or having attended fail to satisfy such inspector, then such inspector shall serve notice in writing of the particular grounds on which he is of opinion that the said coal mine or colliery, or any part thereof, or any other of the particulars above mentioned, is dangerous or defective, on the owner or agent thereof, and shall also report the same to one

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10. Every coroner holding an inquest upon the body of any person whose death may have been caused by any such accident as aforesaid shall (unless some person be present on behalf of one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State to watch the proceedings at such inquest, or notice of such accident shall have been sent, four clear days at the least previously thereto, through the post-office, by letter addressed to one of such Secretaries of State, and the sending of the same be proved to the satisfaction of the coroner) adjourn such inquest, and by letter sent two days at the least before holding such adjourned inquest, through the post-office, addressed to one of such Secretaries of State, give notice to such Secretary of State of the time and place of holding the same: provided always, that it shall be lawful for such coroner, before the adjourn. ment of any such inquest, to take evidence to identify the body, and to order the interment thereof.

of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State; and in case of or cause to be sent such notice as aforesaid within the time any difference arising thereupon the same shall be determined | aforesaid shall for such offence be liable to a penalty of not less in the manner hereinbefore provided with respect to proposed than 107. and not exceeding 201. alterations or additions to the special rules, and a copy of such notice, in case of no such difference as aforesaid, or of the determination in case of such difference, arising, shall, if the said danger or defect be not forthwith removed or remedied, and if the Secretary of State shall so direct, be hung up or affixed on some conspicuous part of the principal office or place of business of the coal mine or colliery, and a copy supplied to every workman to whom such notice or determination shall apply, such copy so to be hung up or affixed as aforesaid to be removed on the certificate of the inspector of the district, or of the persons by whom such determination shall have been made, that such danger or defect has been removed or remedied: provided always, that so long as any copy of such notice or determination, purporting that the coal mine or colliery, or any part thereof, or any other of the particulars above mentioned, is dangerous or defective, shall remain so hung up or affixed, and the danger or defect notified therein shall not be removed or remedied, it shall be lawful for any person employed in or about such coal mine or colliery to discontinue his service in any part of such coal mine or colliery to which part the said notice or determination shall apply, without being therefore liable to be proceeded against under the act passed in the 4 Geo. 4, c. 34, as for absence from his service, or misconduct in the execution thereof: provided also, that unless the owner or agent on whom the notice is served as aforesaid shall within seven days of such service signify to the said inspector his objections to the same, and at the same time nominate three competent persons, as hereinbefore provided in the 5th section, with a view to the determination of such objection, such notice shall be considered good and valid, and shall be hung up or affixed as hereinbefore provided.

8. The owner or agent of every coal mine or colliery shall, on the occasion and for the purpose of the inspec. tion and examination thereof, produce and submit for examination to any such inspector as aforesaid a map or plan of the workings of such coal mine or colliery, upon which map or plan shall be delineated the several parts, aircourses, airdoors, waterways, drains, pits, levels, and shafts in and connected with such coal mine or colliery; and if such owner or agent do not produce and submit for examination as aforesaid such a map or plan as aforesaid, or if any such inspector as aforesaid find that any portion of any map or plan is withheld, or any part of the workings of any such mine or colliery is concealed from his inspection, or if he find, on examining and verifying any map or plan, that the same is imperfect or inaccurate, he is hereby empowered to require that an accurate map or plan of the actual workings of such coal mine or colliery, and the works thereto belonging, clearly delineating such matters and things as aforesaid, be made within a reasonable time, by and at the expense of the owner of such mine, on a scale of not less than two chains to one inch, or on such other scale as the plan then used in the colliery is constructed on; and every such map or plan as aforesaid shall shew the work. ings of the mine up to within six months of the time of inspection; and the owner or agent of the coal mine or colliery shall, if required so to do by any such inspector as aforesaid, mark or cause to be marked on such map or plan the progress of the workings of the coal mine or colliery up to the time of his inspection thereof: provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorise any inspector to make a copy of the whole or any part of a map or plan which shall be produced or made.

9. If and when loss of life to any person employed in or about any coal mine or colliery occurs by reason of any accident within such coal mine or colliery, or any pits or shafts thereof, or any works or machinery connected with such pits or shafts, or if any serious personal injury arises from explosion therein, the owner or agent of such mine or colliery shall, within twenty-four hours next after such loss of life, send notice of such accident, under the hand of such owner or agent, to one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and in Scotland to the Lord Advocate, and in all cases to the inspector of the district within which such loss of life shall occur, and shall specify in such notice the probable cause of such accident, and such notice may be sent through the postoffice, by letter addressed to such Secretary of State or Lord Advocate, and to the inspector of the district at his usual place of residence; and every owner or agent who neglects to send

11. If after the 31st December, 1855, any coal mine or colliery be worked, and, through the default of the owner thereof, special rules have not been established for the same, according to the provisions of this act, or the general rules or the special rules for such coal mine or colliery, by this act required to be established, have not been hung up or affixed, or have not, after obliteration or destruction, been renewed or restored, as required by this act, or any of such general rules or special rules which ought to be observed by the owner and principal agent or viewer of such coal mine or colliery be neglected or wilfully violated by any such owner, agent, or viewer, such person shall be liable to a penalty of not exceeding 57., and also, in case the default or neglect be not remedied with all reasonable dispatch, after notice in writing thereof given by an inspector to the owner or agent of such coal mine or colliery, to a further penalty of not exceeding 17. for every day during which the offence continues after such notice; and every person other than aforesaid employed in or about a coal mine or colliery, who neglects or wilfully violates any of the special rules established for such coal mine or colliery, shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding 21., or to be imprisoned, with or without hard labour, in the common gaol or house of correction, for any period not exceeding three calendar months, or to be proceeded against and punished according to the provisions of the act 4 Geo. 4, c. 34, intituled "An Act to enlarge the Power of Justices in determining Complaints between Masters and Servants."

12. Every owner or principal agent of any coal mine or colliery who refuses or neglects to produce, as hereinbefore required, a map or plan of the workings of a colliery to any inspector, or to furnish to the said inspector the means necessary for making any entry, inspection, examination, or inquiry under this act, and every person who wilfully obstructs any inspector in the execution of this act, shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty of not less than 57. and not exceeding 107.

13. Every person who pulls down, injures, or defaces any notice hung up or affixed, as required by this act, shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty of not exceeding 40s.

14. All penalties imposed by this act may be recovered in a summary manner before two justices of the peace, or in Scotland before the sheriff having jurisdiction in the county or place where the offence is committed, within three months of the commission of the same, in the manner prescribed by the law in that behalf; and it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, upon the recommendation of one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, to direct that any penalty imposed for neglecting to send or cause to be sent notice of any accident, as required by this act, shall be paid to or among any of the family or relatives of any person or persons killed by such accident, as he may think fit; and, save as aforesaid, all penalties imposed by this act shall, when recovered, be paid, for the use of her Majesty, to the sheriff or other proper officer of the county, riding, division, or place for which the justices or other competent authority before whom the penalty is recovered shall have acted.

15. A copy of the special rules for the time being established in any coal mine or colliery, certified under the hands of one of the inspectors to be a copy of the special rules established in such coal mine or colliery, shall be evidence of such special rules, and of their being duly established under this act, without further proof.

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