Officers of Excise may take Samples from the Soap. What Soap shall not be deemed Mottled Soap, and entitled to the Allowance. So much of 59 G. 3. c. 90. as relates to Soap Certificates repealed. Act not to interfere with any legal Proceedings now pending. Act to be in force until 11 Oct. 1840. Maker of Soap who shall make any false or untrue Declaration in such respect shall forfeit One hundred Pounds. VI. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for any Officer of Excise who shall have gauged or taken account of any Hard Soap to take from each Frame thereof, when cutting up, a Cake or Bar thereof as a Sample or Samples of the Soap in such Frame or Frames, paying for the same, if demanded, Sixpence per Pound; and if any Officer of Excise shall be hindered or obstructed in taking any such Sample the Maker of such Soap shall forfeit One hundred Pounds; and if any Hard Soap shall be found, on Examination of the Sample thereof so taken, to be of a greater Specific Gravity than the Gravity of 1.05 within Fortyeight Hours after being cut up, Water being taken as Unity at a Temperature of Sixty-two Degrees, such Soap shall be deemed and taken to be Soap made with or to which has been added silicious or earthy Matter, and liable to be charged with Duty according to the Calculation for the Gauge of such Soap. VII. And be it enacted, That no Soap shall be deemed or allowed to be Mottled Soap, and entitled to the said Allowance of One Pound in Ten hereby revived, which shall have remained in the Copper more than Six Hours after the same shall have ceased to boil, or which shall not be cleansed into the Frame within Six Hours after the Delivery of the Declaration hereinbefore required to be given, or which during the Cleanse or when cleansed shall be crutched or have any Liquor or Matter added thereto in the Frame, or which shall not be in all respects such Soap as was commonly known as Mottled Soap before the passing of this Act. VIII. And be it enacted, That so much of an Act passed in the Fifty-ninth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for the Prevention of Frauds in the Duties on Soap; for preserving the Books or Papers called Specimens left by Officers of Excise on the Premises of Traders; and for requiring more speedy Payment of the Excise Duties on printed Calicoes, as requires Makers of Soap to keep Books with printed Forms, and all Soap exceeding Twenty-eight Pounds sent out by any Maker of Soap to be accompanied by a Certificate cut out from such printed Forms, and signed by such Maker of Soap, and all Provisions and Regulations in the said Act contained relating to Soap Certificates, shall be and the same is hereby repealed. IX. Provided always, and be it enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be deemed or construed to extend to any Suit, Action, Information, or other Proceeding commenced in any Court before the passing of this Act, and pending and undetermined, but that every such Suit, Action, Information, or Proceeding, and the Matters and Questions in dispute therein, may be proceeded with, determined, and adjudged in the same Manner as if this Act had not been passed. X. And be it enacted, That this Act shall continue and be in force until the Eleventh Day of October One thousand eight hundred and forty, unless the same shall be sooner altered or repealed. XI. And XI. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or Act may be repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of amended, &c. Parliament. CA P. LXIV. An Act to defray the Charge of the Pay, Clothing, and contingent and other Expences of the Disembodied Militia in Great Britain and Ireland; and to grant Allowances in certain Cases to Subaltern Officers, Adjutants, Paymasters, Quartermasters, Surgeons, Assistant Surgeons, Surgeons Mates, and Serjeant Majors of the Militia, until the First Day of July One thousand eight hundred and forty. [24th August 1839.] [This Act is the same, except as to Dates, as 1 & 2 Vict. c. 91.] CA P. LXV. An Act to amend the Mode of assessing the Rogue Money in Scotland, and to extend the Purposes of such Assessment. [24th August 1839.] WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the First, intituled An Act for more effectual disarming the Highlands in that Part 11 G. 1. c. 26. of Great Britain called Scotland, and for the better securing the Peace and Quiet of that Part of the Kingdom, whereby the 'Freeholders of every Shire, County, or District in Scotland were authorized to assess the several Shires or Stewartries for raising a sufficient Fund to defray the Charges of apprehending, subsisting, and prosecuting Criminals: And whereas the Collection and Application of the Fund thereby authorized to be raised, 'commonly called the "Rogue Money," was, by an Act passed in the Second and Third Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act to amend the Repre- 2&3W.4.c.65. sentation of the People in Scotland, transferred from the Free'holders to the Commissioners of Supply: And whereas such Fund ' has heretofore been raised by Assessment on the valued Rent ' of Lands and Heritages: And whereas it is expedient to autho'rize the Commissioners of Supply of the several Counties, if they 'should think fit, to extend the Purposes for which such Assess'ment may be made, and to adopt other Means of assessing the same: 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, That it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Supply of any County, if they shall so determine, at any Meeting, due Notice having been given by Advertisement in some Newspaper published or usually circulated in such County at least One Month previous to such Meeting by the Clerk of Supply, on Requisition to him to that Effect (stating the Purpose of such Meeting) by not less than Ten of such Commissioners, to make an additional Assessment for estab Commissioners of Supply may tional Assess make an addi ment for main taining a Constabulary Force; to be collected Rogue Money. may be assessed as the Assessment on land ward Parts of Counties under the Prisons Bill. 2 & 3 Vict. c.42. Burghs having to be assessed. establishing and maintaining an efficient Constabulary or Police Force in the County for the Prevention of Crime, including any Charge for Special Constables who may have been duly appointed for the Preservation of the Peace in such County; and such additional Assessment shall be deemed and taken to be and shall be levied and collected as Part of the Rogue Money. II. Provided always, and be it enacted, That it shall be in the Power of the said Commissioners, and they are hereby authorized, if they shall so determine, instead of assessing and collecting the Rogue Money and additional Assessment hereby authorized to be levied in the Way and Manner in which the Rogue Money has heretofore been assessed and collected, to assess and collect the same, and also such additional Assessment, in the Manner in which the Assessment upon the landward Parts of Counties (including Orkney and Shetland, and Cromarty and Ross) is authorized to be assessed and collected by an Act passed in the present Session of Parliament, intituled An Act to improve Prisons and Prison Discipline in Scotland; and the Rogue Money and additional Assessment to be so assessed and collected shall be applied for the Purposes of the said herein recited Act of His Majesty King George the First, and of this Act, and to no other Purpose. III. Provided also, and be it enacted, That the said Commissioners shall not be entitled, for the Purposes of this Act, to assess any Lands, Houses, or other Heritages situated within the Boundaries of any Royal Burgh, or to assess any Lands, Houses, or other Heritages situated within the Boundaries of any Burgh or Town which either has a Police Act, or which has taken the Benefit of an Act passed in the Third and Fourth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled 3&4W.4.c.46. An Act to enable Burghs in Scotland to establish a general System of Police. Counties may unite for the of a Police. IV. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful to Two or more Counties to unite in taking Measures for establishing such ConEstablishment stabulary or Police Force, for the common Protection and Benefit or Advantage of such Counties, and to defray the Expence attending the same in such Manner as shall be agreed upon between the Commissioners of Supply for such Counties respectively, and to hold all necessary Meetings for such Purpose, due Notice having been given of such Meetings as aforesaid. Accounts of Summary Mode of recovering Assessments. V. And be it enacted, That the Commissioners of Supply shall publish Accounts of their Revenue and Expenditure under and for the Purposes of this Act, annually at Whitsunday, specifying the separate Particulars of Receipt and Expenditure, which shall be printed, and a Copy be furnished to every Commissioner who shall apply therefor, and a Copy thereof shall be transmitted to the Queen's Remembrancer, to be preserved in the Court of Exchequer in Edinburgh. VI. And be it enacted, That the Rogue Money and additional Assessment, if both shall be assessed together, under the Provisions of the said recited Act of the present Session of Parliament, may be levied from the Proprietor and Tenant in manner therein directed; and the whole Powers and Right of issuing summary Warrants for Recovery of the Land and Assessed Taxes shall be applicable to the Rogue Money and additional Assessment hereby authorized to be assessed and levied, and Sheriffs, Magistrates, Justices of the Peace, and other Judges shall grant like Warrants for the Recovery thereof, in the Form and under the same Penalties as is provided in regard to such Land and Assessed Taxes and other public Taxes; and all Assessments imposed in virtue of this Act shall, in the Case of Bankruptcy or Insolvency, be paid out of the first Proceeds of the Estate, and shall be preferable to all other Debts of a private Nature due by the Parties assessed. VII. And be it enacted, That any Dispute which may arise between the Commissioners of Supply of any County and any Person or Persons acting under them on the one Part, and any Person aggrieved on the other Part, which it may not be convenient to try and determine in the Sheriff's Small Debt Court, shall be determined in a summary Manner by the Sheriff of the Sheriffdom in which such Dispute shall arise, who shall, on a written Petition being presented to him by either of the said Parties, appoint them to appear before him, when he shall investigate the Matter in dispute in such Way as he may think proper, and decide the same summarily; and such Decision shall be final, and shall not be liable to Appeal, or to Suspension, Advocation, or Reduction, or any other Form of Review, except in the Case of any Canal or Railway situated in more than One County where the Proprietors, feeling themselves aggrieved by any Decision of the Sheriff, may appeal from the same to the Court of Session. VIII. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or Act may be repealed by any Act to be passed in the present Session of Par- amended, &c. liament. CA P. LXVI. An Act to reduce certain of the Duties now payable on Stage [24th August 1839.] HEREAS by an Act passed in the Second and Third Years WE of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act to repeal the Duties, under the Ma- 2&3W.4.c.120. nagement of the Commissioners of Stamps, on Stage Carriages and on Horses let for Hire in Great Britain, and to grant other • Duties in lieu thereof, and also to consolidate and amend the 'Laws relating thereto, certain Duties contained in Schedule (A.) to the said Act annexed were granted and imposed and are now payable for and in respect of every Mile which a Stage Carriage shall be licensed to travel: And whereas it is expedient to sub'stitute the reduced Duties contained in the Schedule hereunto 'annexed for and in lieu of the Duties so granted by the said Act ' as aforesaid :' 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, That from and after the Sixth Day of October One thousand eight hundred and thirtynine the aforesaid Duties granted by the said recited Act shall be and the same are hereby repealed; and in lieu thereof there shall be raised, levied, and paid, unto and for the Use of Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, in and throughout Great Britain, for and Recited Duties on Stage Carriages repealed, and reduced Duties granted in lieu thereof. lations and Penalties respecting the Duties imposed by the recited Act shall apply in respect of every Mile which any Stage Carriage shall be licensed to travel, the reduced Duties contained in the Schedule to this Act annexed; which said Duties hereby granted shall be under the Care and Management of the Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes for the Time being, and shall be denominated and deemed to be All the Regu- Stamp Duties; and all the Powers, Provisions, Clauses, Regulations, and Directions, Fines, Forfeitures, Pains, and Penalties, contained in or imposed by the said recited Act or the Schedule (A.) annexed thereto, or any other Act or Acts relating to Duties of the like Kind, so far as the same are now in force, shall be of full Force and Effect with respect to the Duties by this Act imposed, and shall be observed, applied, enforced, and put in execution for the raising, levying, collecting, and securing of the said Duties, and otherwise relating thereto, as fully and effectually to all Intents and Purposes as if the same had been herein repeated and specially enacted with reference to the said Duties by this Act imposed: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall extend to repeal any Duties granted by the said recited Act which shall have accrued or been incurred before the Commencement of this Act, but that all such Duties shall be recoverable in like Manner as if this Act had not been passed. to the Duties hereby imposed. Penalty for II. And whereas by the said recited Act it is required that there shall be painted in manner therein mentioned upon every Stage Carriage the greatest Number of Passengers allowed to be 'carried in or by such Carriage, and also, when such Carriage shall be licensed to carry both Inside and Outside Passengers, the greatest Number of Passengers allowed to be taken in the Inside and on the Outside thereof respectively: And whereas upon some 'Stage Carriages there are painted several Inscriptions differing 'from each other as to the Number of Passengers which such Stage Carriage is licensed to carry, and One or more of them differing in that respect from the Licence granted for such Stage Carriage, whereby the Object and Intention of the said last-recited Enactment are defeated, and it is expedient to provide a Remedy for the same;' be it therefore enacted, That if any Stage Carriage shall be used having any Inscription written, painted, or marked thereon importing or signifying, or intended to import or signify, that such Carriage is licensed or authorized to carry or convey thereby, either in the whole or in the Inside or on or about the Outside thereof, any Number of Passengers other than the actual Number which such Carriage is by the Licence relating to the numbered Plate or Plates which shall be fixed or placed upon such Carriage expressly authorized to carry either in the whole or in the Inside or on or about the Outside thereof respectively, the Proprietor of such Carriage shall forfeit for every such Offence the Sum of Five Pounds, to be recovered and applied in like Manner as any Penalty incurred under the said recited Act may be recovered and applied. 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