Acceptors or Acceptor supra Protest for Honour, or to the Referees or Referee in case of Need, Bills of Exchange which had been dishonoured,' having reference to days appointed by Royal proclamation as days of solemn fast or days of thanksgiving, shall, as respects all bills of exchange and promissory notes payable in the metropolis, or which may be presented for payment in the metropolis, extend and be applicable to the 7th of March 1863, as if the said 7th of March were a day appointed by Her Majesty's proclamation for a day of thanksgiving.

note shall by virtue of this Act be presented for payment on the day preceding the said 7th of March, and the same shall be paid before two of the clock in the afternoon of the 9th of March, no notarial or other charges by reason of nonpayment of such bill or note shall be payable by or chargeable against the person paying such bill

or note.

3. For the purposes of this Act the metropolis shall mean the metropolis as defined by an Act, 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120, intituled 'An Act for the better Local Government of the

By this Act,

After reciting that the time for payment of the duty of Excise on malt made by makers of malt who have given security in that behalf is limited by law to six weeks after the making up of the account or return of the duty chargeable, and it is expedient to alter and extend the time for payment of a portion of the said duty as hereinafter mentioned:

It therefore is Enacted as follows:

1. It shall be lawful for any maker of malt who has or shall have given such security as aforesaid, if he shall think fit, and upon giving such notice as hereinafter mentioned, to defer payment of one moiety of the duty of Excise on all malt made or to be made by him on or after the 1st of January and before the 1st of April, and of the whole of the duty of Excise on all malt made or to be made by him on or after the 1st of April and before the 16th of May in this present year, or in any subsequent year, for the period of three months next after the respective times at which the same would become payable under the law in force immediately before the passing of this Act: Provided, that such maker of malt shall give notice in writing signed by him, of his intention so to defer such payment to the proper collector of Excise, on or before the 1st of April in this or any subsequent year; and thereupon there shall be charged and paid, for the use of Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, interest at the rate of 31. 5s. per 100l. per annum, computed for the period of three

months on the respective amounts of duty the payment whereof shall be so deferred as aforesaid.

2. Every bond or other security which has or shall have been given or entered into by any maker of malt for securing the payment of the duty of Excise on malt under any former Act, and now in force, shall remain and continue in force against the principal and sureties who shall have made or entered into the same, as a security for payment as well of the said duty according to the directions of any former Act now in force as of the said duty and interest according to the terms and conditions of this Act, as if the said terms and conditions had been inserted in and made part of the condition of such bond or security, unless the said parties or some one of them shall, before the 1st of April next after the passing of this Act, give notice to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue of his desire to withdraw from such bond or security, in which case the maltster shall not be entitled to any credit for payment of the duty of Excise on any malt made by him until he shall have given fresh security in that behalf to the satisfaction of the said Commissioners.

3. Provided always, That nothing herein contained shall be deemed to prejudice or affect the right or power of the said Commissioners, whenever they shall deem any of the said duties to be in danger, to require immediate payment thereof, and in default of payment the same shall be recoverable forthwith as duties of Excise due and in

arrear.

(27th March 1863.)

By this Act,

After reciting that by an Act of the last session of Parliament provisions were made to enable the boards of guardians of certain unions situate wholly or in part within the counties of Lancaster, Chester, or Derby, to obtain temporary aid to meet the extraordinary demands for relief therein, which provisions applied to the expenditure during the quarters of the year ending at Michaelmas and Christmas last only, and it is necessary that such provisions should be extended for a further period:

It is therefore Enacted :

1. That all the provisions of the said Act which apply to the expenditure during the quarters of the year ending as aforesaid shall be extended and apply to the expenditure for the quarters ending respectively at Lady-day and Midsummer-day

next

union required to contribute shall be situate in two or more counties, it shall contribute upon the annual rateable value of so many of the parishes of the union as shall be wholly within the county or counties within which the union applying for aid is situate, and the contribution shall be borne exclusively by such parishes, and shall be apportioned by the guardians between such parishes according to their rateable values respectively, in exoneration of the common fund of the union, anything in the said first-mentioned Act to the contrary notwithstanding.

5. The parishes comprised within the Mansfield Union in the county of Nottingham shall be exempted from the operation of section 1. of the said Act of the last session.

6. The powers to borrow conferred by section 3. of the said Act of the last session, and by this Act, shall extend to the overseers of any parish under a separate board of guardians in either of the said counties.

7. The several parishes in the said counties not in union, and not under a separate board of guardians, shall contribute in aid according to their annual rateable value.

8. The power of the Poor-Law Board to issue their orders under this Act shall determine on the 1st of September next.

9. This Act shall be construed, except as herein provided, in the same manner as the Act herein referred to, and all the provisions and enactments therein contained shall be applicable to orders to be issued under the authority of this Act.