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Jurisdiction over the whole Limits of the said Burgh, according to the Limits specified in the Third Section of the said Local Act as those over which the said Local Act extends :

And whereas certain Parts of the said Local Police Act ought to be repealed, and it is desirable that such Parts thereof should be specified and set forth, and that Provision should otherwise be made to regulate the future Application and Execution of the said Act:

And whereas due Inquiry has been directed and held in respect of the Matters mentioned in the said Petition:

Now, therefore, in pursuance of the Powers vested in me by the said General Police and Improvement (Scotland) Act, 1862, I, as One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, do, by this Provisional Order under my Hand, direct that from and after any Act of Parliament confirming the same

1. The Municipal and Police Government and Jurisdiction of the said Royal Burgh of Perth shall be united in the Magistrates and Council thereof.

2.-The Parts of the said Local Police Act, 2 Victoria c. xliii. mentioned in the Schedule hereunto annexed shall be repealed, and as regards the other Parts of the said Local Police Act not hereby repealed, the whole Powers and Jurisdictions of Police, Paving, Lighting, Watching and others, granted to the Commissioners of Police by the said Local Police Act, shall be transferred to the Magistrates and Council of the said Burgh.

3. The said Powers and Jurisdictions of the said Magistrates and Council shall be extended over the whole Limits of the said Burgh, according to the Limits or Boundaries specified in the Third Section of the said Local Act, as those over which the said Local Act extends.

4.—The Clerk, Inspector of Works, Collector, Surveyor, Superintendent, and all other Officers who have been appointed under and been employed in the Execution of the said Local Police Act, shall respectively continue to exercise their Offices until the First Ordinary Meeting of Council to be held after the passing of the Act confirming the present Provisional Order, or to be held on any other special Day to which such Ordinary Meeting may be adjourned.

5.-On any Application by Petition by the Magistrates and Council of the said Burgh to the Sheriff of the County, under the Provisions of the "General Police and Improvement (Scotland) Act, 1862," praying for the Extension of the Boundaries of the said Burgh, it shall be lawful for them to make Application in the same Petition, or separately, praying the said Sheriff to regulate the Wards of the said Burgh in manner after mentioned; and on such Application being made it shall be lawful to the Sheriff of the County, in the event of his extending the Boundaries of the said Burgh, to annex the Districts within such extended Boundaries to One or more of the existing Wards into which the said Burgh is at present divided, and to fix and rearrange the Limits of the said Wards, and the Number of Councillors to be elected for each Ward, and to take all Proceedings for these Purposes he may think necessary or expedient.

6.-On such Formation of Wards being made and completed, a Notice, signed by the said Sheriff, specifying the Limits of such re-arranged Wards, and the Number of Councillors to be elected for each Ward, shall be published once in the Edinburgh Gazette, and once in each of Two successive Weeks in One or more of the Newspapers then published in the said Burgh; and thereafter the qualified Electors of the said re-arranged Wards whose Names shall be on the List or Roll of Electors of the said Burgh in force for the Time being shall be entitled to vote in the Election of Councillors for the Burgh for as many qualified Persons to be Councillors in and for the said Wards respectively as are specified in such Notice, in the Manner provided by the Act 3 & 4 William the Fourth cap. 76.

7.-All Orders or Deliverances pronounced by the said Sheriff in the Premises shall be final and not subject to Appeal, Review, or Reduction in any Court or by any Process whatever.

Given under my Hand and Seal, this Nineteenth Day of December 1864.
(Signed) G. GREY.

28 VICT.

(L.S.)

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SCHEDULE to which this Order refers.

The Parts of the Local Police Act (2 Vict. cap. xliii.) referred to in this Order to be repealed are as follows; viz.,

So much of the herein-before mentioned Act of the Second Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty (cap. xliii.) as is included in the Sections thereof numbered respectively 4 and 5; 8 to 17, both inclusive; 20 to 26, both inclusive; 28 and 29; 33 and 34; and 45 and 46 and 47.

CA P. VIII.

11 & 12 Vict. c. 98.

Committee to adjourn to Day after the Meeting of the

House when

An Act to amend "The Election Petitions Act, 1848," in certain Particulars.
[7th April 1865.]
WHEREAS it is expedient to amend "The Election Petitions Act, 1848," (herein-
after called the Principal Act,) in certain Particulars hereafter mentioned:' 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:

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1. If any Select Committee appointed under the Principal Act have Occasion to apply to or report to the House, and the House be adjourned for more than Twenty-four Hours, such Committee shall adjourn to the Day immediately following that on which the House House not sit shall be appointed to meet for the Despatch of Business, unless that Day shall happen to be a Sunday, Christmas Day, or Good Friday, and in that Case the Committee shall adjourn to the next following Day.

ting, and Committee has Occasion to report.

In case the

House shall not sit Committee adjourn.

further to

In certain Cases

direct a Com

2. In case the House from any Cause shall happen not to sit for the Despatch of Business on the Day appointed for that Purpose, the Committee shall again, and so from Time to Time, adjourn till after the House shall sit for the Despatch of Business; but no Adjournment shall be made for any longer Period than to the Day next after the Day the House shall actually sit for the Despatch of Business, unless such Day shall happen to be a Sunday, Christmas Day, or Good Friday, and in that Case the Adjournment shall be to the next following Day.

3. In case it shall become necessary to adjourn the Consideration of any Application or the House may Report made by any Committee to the House, the House may, if it shall so think fit, direct the Committee to adjourn their Sitting again, and from Time to Time, and for such reasonable Time as shall be sufficient to enable the House to decide on such Application and Report, and such Committee shall adjourn accordingly.

mittee to ad

journ for a reasonable Period.

If Committee dissolved by

any Error, &c.,

a new Com

mittee shall be

struck, unless the House shall

otherwise order.

House may

order a dissolved Com

4. If at any Time after the Appointment of a Committee under the Principal Act it shall appear to the House that, from any Error, Irregularity of Proceeding, Oversight, or other Cause, such Committee has become dissolved, or unable to continue its Sittings for any Cause not provided for by the Principal Act, another Committee shall be appointed to decide on the Petition referred to such Committee, unless the House shall otherwise order, within Three sitting Days, as herein-after provided; and for the Purpose of appointing such other Committee the General Committee and the Members of the Chairmen's Panel shall meet as soon as conveniently can be after the Expiration of Three sitting Days from the Time the Occasion for such new Committee shall be reported to or brought under the Notice of the House by any Member, at a Day and Hour to be appointed by the General Committee; and Notice of such Meeting shall be published with the Votes, and all the Proceedings of such former Committee shall be of no Effect.

5. In all Cases where a Committee shall have become dissolved by any Error, Irregularity of Proceeding, Oversight, or other Cause, not involving the Death or permanent Illness of

any

revived, and to

any of its Members, the House may, if it shall so think fit, within Three sitting Days after mittee to be such Event shall have been reported to or brought under the Notice of the House by any re-assemble Member, order such Committee to stand revived, and to meet, and continue its Sittings; and act. and in such Case no new Committee shall be appointed, unless for any subsequent Cause; and the Proceedings of such new Committee shall have the same Force and Effect and be as valid as if no such Dissolution thereof had taken place.

6. A Committee ordered to stand revived shall meet at the Time mentioned in such As to Sittings Order, and shall in its subsequent Sittings and Adjournments be regulated by all the of revived Provisions of the Principal Act and of this Act.

Committee.

CA P. IX.

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An Act to allow Affirmations or Declarations to be made instead of Oaths in all Civil and Criminal Proceedings in Scotland.

[7th April 1865.]

WHEREAS Doubts have arisen whether the Provisions of the Eighteenth and

Nineteenth of Victoria, Chapter Twenty-five, intituled An Act to allow Affirmations 18 & 19 Viet. or Declarations to be made instead of Oaths in certain Cases in Scotland, be applicable to c. 25.

all Courts of Civil Judicature, and to all Civil Proceedings: And whereas the Relief afforded by that Act to Persons refusing or being unwilling from conscientious Motives to

be sworn in Courts of Civil Judicature has since been extended to all Courts of Criminal

Jurisdiction, and to all Criminal Proceedings, by the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh 26 & 27 Vict. of Victoria, Chapter Eighty-five; and it is desirable to remove such Doubts, and to make c. 85. the Law as to Affirmations uniform for all Courts and for all Proceedings, whether Civil or Criminal: 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:

1. The said recited Acts shall be and the same are hereby repealed.

2. If any Person called as a Witness in any Court of Civil or Criminal Jurisdiction in Scotland, or required or desiring to make an Affidavit or Deposition in the Course of any Proceeding, or in any Matter, whether Civil or Criminal, shall refuse or be unwilling from alleged conscientious Motives to be sworn, it shall be lawful for the Court or Judge, or other presiding Officer or Person qualified to take Affidavits or Depositions, upon being satisfied of the Sincerity of such Objection, to permit such Person, instead of being sworn, to make his or her solemn Affirmation or Declaration in the Words following:

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A.B. do solemnly, sincerely, and truly affirm and declare, That the taking of any Oath is, according to my Religious Belief, unlawful; and I do also solemnly, sincerely, and truly affirm and declare, &c.'

Which solemn Affirmation and Declaration shall be of the same Force and Effect as if such
Person had taken an Oath in the usual Form.

Recited Acts repealed.

Power to

Persons ob

jecting to be sworn from

alleged con

scientious Motives to

make Affirma

tion, &c.

to incur

3. If any Person making such solemn Affirmation or Declaration shall wilfully, falsely, Persons falsely and corruptly affirm or declare any Matter or Thing which, if the same had been sworn in affirming, &c. the usual Form, would have amounted to wilful and corrupt Perjury, every such Person so offending shall incur the same Penalties as by the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom are wilful Perjury. or may be enacted or provided against Persons convicted of wilful and corrupt Perjury.

Penalties of

4. This Act may be cited for all Purposes as " The Affirmations (Scotland) Act, 1865." Short Title.

There shall be applied for the Service of the

Year 1865 the Sum of 15,000,000l.

out of the Con

solidated Fund.

The Treasury may cause

15,000,000l.

of Exchequer
Bills to be
made out in
manner pre-
scribed by
48 G. 3. c. 1.,

4 & 5 W. 4.
c. 15., and

5 & 6 Vict. c. 66.

The Clauses,

CA P. X.

An Act to apply the Sum of Fifteen Millions out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.

Most Gracious Sovereign,

[7th April 1865.]

W VE, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled, towards making good the Supply which we have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty in this Session of Parliament, have resolved to grant unto Your Majesty the Sum herein-after mentioned; and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and 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. There shall and may be issued and applied, for or towards making good the Supply granted to Her Majesty for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and sixtyfive, the Sum of Fifteen Millions out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or the Lord High Treasurer of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for the Time being, are or is hereby authorized and empowered to issue and apply the same accordingly.

2. It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, from Time to Time, by Warrant under their Hands, to cause or direct any Number of Exchequer Bills to be made out at the Receipt of Her Majesty's Exchequer at Westminster for any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Fifteen Millions; and such Exchequer Bills shall be made out in the same or like Manner, Form, and Order, and according to the same or like Rules and Directions, as are directed and prescribed in an Act passed in the Forty-eighth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, Chapter One, and in another Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Fourth and Fifth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, Chapter Fifteen, and in another Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter Sixty-six.

3. All and every the Clauses, Provisoes, Powers, Privileges, Advantages, Penalties, &c. in recited Forfeitures, and Disabilities contained in the said Act shall be applied and extended to the Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act, as fully and effectually, to all Intents and Purposes, as if particularly repeated and re-enacted in this Act.

Acts extended to this Act.

Interest on
Exchequer
Bills.

Bank of England may advance

15,000,000l. on

4. The Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act shall and may bear an Interest not exceeding the Rate of Threepence Halfpenny per Centum per Diem upon or in respect of the whole of the Monies respectively contained therein.

5. It shall and may be lawful for the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, and they are hereby empowered, to take, accept, and receive the Exchequer Bills authorized to be made out in pursuance of this Act, and to advance or lend to Her Majesty, at the Receipt of the Exchequer at Westminster, upon the Credit of the Sum granted by this Act, out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, any 5 & 6 W. & M. Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Fifteen Millions, anything in an Act passed in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary, Chapter Twenty, or in any other Act or Acts, to the contrary notwithstanding.

the Credit of this Act, notwithstanding

c. 20.

Bills prepared by virtue of

this Act to be

delivered to

the Bank as Security for such Advances.

6. It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, to cause such Exchequer Bills as shall be prepared by virtue of this Act to be delivered from Time to Time to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, in such Proportions as the Public Service may require, as Security for any Advance or Advances which may be made to Her Majesty by the said Governor and Company of the Bank of England, under the Authority of this Act.

7. It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to issue and Monies raised apply, from Time to Time, all such Sums of Money as shall be raised by Exchequer Bills to by Bills to be applied to the be made out in pursuance of this Act, to such Services as shall then have been voted by the Services voted Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in this present Session of by the ComParliament.

mons.

dated Fund.

8. The Principal Sum or Sums of Money to be contained in all such Exchequer Bills to Exchequer be made forth by virtue of this Act, together with the Interest that may become due thereon, Bills made chargeable shall be and the same are hereby made chargeable and charged upon the growing Produce of upon the grow. the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, at any Period ing Produce of not later than the next succeeding Quarter to that in which the said Exchequer Bills have the Consolibeen issued; and it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury for the Time being, and they are hereby authorized, from Time to Time, by Warrant under their Hands, to direct the Comptroller General of the Receipt of the Exchequer at Westminster, in such Manner as they shall think necessary, to grant a Credit on the Exchequer Funds in the Bank of England unto such Person or Persons as shall be named in the said Warrant, for any Sum or Sumns of Money not exceeding in the whole a Sum sufficient to discharge and pay off the Principal Sum or Sums of Money contained in such Exchequer Bills then outstanding, and which may have been made out and issued by virtue of this Act, together with all such Interest as may be due thereupon.

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CA P. XI.

An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better Payment of
the Army and their Quarters.
[7th April 1865.]
WHEREAS the raising or keeping a Standing Army within the United Kingdom

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of Great Britain and Ireland in Time of Peace, unless it be with the Consent of Parliament, is against Law: And whereas it is adjudged necessary by Her Majesty and this present Parliament that a Body of Forces should be continued for the Safety of the United Kingdom, the Defence of the Possessions of Her Majesty's Crown, and the Preservation of the Balance of Power in Europe, and that the whole Number of such Number of Men • Forces should consist of One hundred and forty-two thousand four hundred and seventy- to consist of 142,477, inseven Men, including Nine thousand one hundred and nine, all Ranks, to be employed cluding those with the Depôts in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland of Regiments employed at serving in Her Majesty's Indian Possessions, but exclusive of the Numbers actually Depôts of Regiments serving serving within Her Majesty's Indian Possessions: And whereas no Man can be forejudged in India, but of Life or Limb, or subjected in Time of Peace to any Kind of Punishment within this Realm by Martial Law, or in any other Manner than by Judgment of his Peers, and according to the known and established Laws of this Realm; yet nevertheless it being requisite, for the retaining all the before-mentioned Forces in their Duty, that an exact Discipline be observed, and that Soldiers who shall mutiny or stir up Sedition, or shall desert Her Majesty's Service, or be guilty of Crimes and Offences to the Prejudice of good Order and Military Discipline, be brought to a more exemplary and speedy Punishment than the usual Forms of the Law will allow :' 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:

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exclusive of those actually serving in

India.

1. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty to make Articles of War for the better Govern- Articles of War ment of Her Majesty's Army, which Articles shall be judicially taken Notice of by all made by Her Majesty to be Judges and in all Courts whatsoever; and Copies of the same, printed by the Queen's Printer, judicially taken shall, as soon as may be after the same shall have been made and established by Her notice of, and Majesty, be transmitted by Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the War Department to Copies printed by the Queen's the

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