purpose, sections one hundred and thirty-three and one hundred and thirty-seven of the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, shall apply.

(2.) The decision of the arbitrator as to the right of the claimant to compensation on such claim, and the amount thereof (if any) shall be final, and the amount (if any) awarded may, if the appeal succeeds, be increased by such reasonable sum for costs as the arbitrator thinks just. But if the appeal fails, the arbi trator shall award to the police receiver such sum as he thinks just for costs and for the trouble caused by the appeal, and for the costs of arbitration; and the sum so awarded shall be deducted from the compensation, if any, payable to the claimant, but if no compensation is so payable, the award of the said sum may be made a rule of the High Court of Justice and be enforced accordingly.

(3.) The arbitrator under this Act shall be appointed by the Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works, with the approval of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and may be paid such remuneration as the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury may fix. And in case of such arbitrator dying or becoming incapable to act before he has made an award upon all appeals under this Act, another arbitrator shall be appointed in manner aforesaid, and the appeals shall be determined in the same manner as if he had been the arbitrator originally appointed, and so on as often as occasion requires.

5.-(1.) The police receiver shall pay out of moneys in his hands on account of the metropolitan police all compensation payable under this Act, and the remuneration of the arbitrator and the costs of arbitration, and all costs and expenses payable by him in or incidental to the execution of this Act, and the amount required to meet such payments shall be raised as part of the metropolitan police rate and of

the City of London police rate respectively in the proportions herein-before mentioned, notwithstanding the limits otherwise authorised for such rates, and no portion of the said amount shall be contributed by the Treasury.

(2.) All sums awarded by the arbitrator to the police receiver under this Act shall be applied in reduction of the amount required to meet the said payments.

6. No proceeding before justices nor any action or other legal proceeding shall, after the passing of this Act, be instituted, nor, if commenced before the passing of this Act, be continned against the authorities of the hundred or any other public authority for the purpose of recovering compensation for any damage for which compensation can be awarded under this Act, and any order made before the passing of this Act for payment of any such compensation shall be cancelled.

7. In this Act-

The expression "person" includes a body of persons, corporate or unincorporate: The expression "police receiver" means the receiver for the metropolitan police district:

The expression "metropolitan police rate" means the rate authorised to be levied for raising that proportion of the sum required for defraying the expenses of the metropolitan police force which can be raised by a rate:

An empty house or shop shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act to have been occupied by the owner:

The expression "City of London police rate means the rate authorised to be levied for defraying that proportion of the sum required for defraying the expenses of the City of London police force which can be raised by a rate.

An Act to amend the Bankruptcy (Office Accommodation) Act, 1885. (16th April 1886.)

WHEREAS by the Bankruptcy (Office Accommodation) Act, 1885, the Treasury are empowered to defray, out of the surplus therein mentioned, the expense of providing office accommodation for officers appointed by the Board of Trade under the Bankruptcy Act, 1883:

And whereas it is expedient that the Treasury should be empowered to defray the expenses of providing office accommodation for any officers performing duties under the Bankruptcy Act, 1883, whether such officers are appointed by the Board of Trade or not:

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 Bankruptcy (Office Accommodation) Act, 1885, shall extend to enable the Treasury, subject to the provisions of the said Act, from time to time to pay such sums as they consider necessary for defraying the expenses of providing office accommodation for any officer or officers performing duties under the Bankruptcy Act, 1883, whether appointed or not by the Board of Trade, and section two of the said first-mentioned Act shall be construed and have effect accordingly.

2. This Act may be cited as the Bankruptcy (Office Accommodation) Act, 1886.

An Act to provide for the transfer to the Dominion of Canada of the Lighthouse at Cape Race, Newfoundland, and its appurtenances, and for other purposes connected therewith. (10th May 1886.)

WHEREAS with the consent of the Legislative Authority of the Colony of Newfoundland, a lighthouse was erected in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six at Cape Race, in that colony, and a fog signal and dwellings, buildings, ponds, apparatus, and other appurtenances have been constructed there, and certain rights of water and other rights and the land described in the schedule to this Act containing about three hundred acres have been used and enjoyed in connexion with such lighthouse, and the cost incurred in respect of such lighthouse and the other matters aforesaid was paid out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom:

And whereas in pursuance of an Order in Council made under the Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1855, dues have been

levied in respect of the said lighthouse, and such dues have been applied under the direction of the Board of Trade in maintaining the lighthouse and its appurtenances, and in repaying to the Consolidated Fund the cost incurred in respect thereof:

And whereas the whole of the said cost has been so repaid and there remains a balance arising from the said dues, and it is estimated that such balance will on the thirtieth day of June one thousand eight hundred and eightysix, amount to twenty thousand pounds or thereabouts:

And whereas in pursuance of an Order in Council made under the recited Act on the twelfth day of December one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, the dues leviable in respect of the said lighthouse will, on and after the first day of July one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, cease to be levied :

And whereas the Government of the Colony of Newfoundland have declined to undertake the maintenance of the said lighthouse :

And whereas the Government of the Dominion of Canada are willing to accept a

transfer of the said lighthouse and its appurtenances, and to maintain the same for all time at the expense of the revenues of Canada, without any dues being in future charged in respect thereof:

And whereas it is expedient to authorise such transfer:

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. This Act may be cited as the Cape Race Lighthouse Act, 1886.

2. When the Parliament of Canada have passed an Act providing to the satisfaction of the Board of Trade for the maintenance of Cape Race lighthouse and the appurtenances thereof for all future time at the expense of the revenues of Canada, and without any charge of dues in respect thereof, the Board of Trade may in such manner as they think expedient transfer Cape Race lighthouse and its appurtenances to the Dominion of Canada, as from the date named in the transfer (hereafter referred to as the date of the transfer).

(2.) Such transfer shall be effectual to vest as from the date of the transfer in Her Majesty, her heirs, and successors, for the public service of the Government of Canada, in relation to lighthouses and signals, the said lighthouse and the land described in the schedule to this Act, and all dwellings, buildings, ponds, signals, and apparatus connected therewith,

and all other land and all rights of water and other rights heretofore used and enjoyed therewith and all the other appurtenances thereof, for all the estate and interest therein, either of the Board of Trade or of Her Majesty, or any body corporate, person or persons in trust for Her Majesty, or for the Board of Trade, or for any public service.

(3.) Upon such transfer Her Majesty's Paymaster General shall pay to or for the use of the Government of Canada, in such manner as the Board of Trade may direct, such portion of the moneys held by him on account of dues levied in respect of the said lighthouse as the Board of Trade may certify to be the net balance after payment of all expenses of maintaining the said lighthouse and the appurtenances thereof up to the date of the transfer, and of such gratuities to the existing lighthouse and fog-signal staff as the Board of Trade may direct, in the event of the services of such staff not being required by the Government of Canada after the date of the transfer.

(4.) From and after the date of the transfer all liability of the Board of Trade to maintain the said lighthouse or signals or other appurtenances thereof shall cease.

3. Any Bill passed by the Houses of the Parliament of Canada which in any way impairs the obligation of the Government of Canada to maintain the said lighthouse and appurtenances, or impairs the validity of the charge on the revenues of Canada for that maintenance, shall be reserved for the signification of the Queen's pleasure.

An Act to amend the Law as to the

1. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of January one thousand eight hunScotland only.

(10th May 1886.)

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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The expression "the Poor Law Act" shall mean the Act eighth and ninth Victoria, chapter eighty-three.

3. This Act shall be read and construed along with the Valuation Acts and the Poor Law Act.

4. The forty-second section of the Act seventeenth and eighteenth Victoria, chapter ninetyone, shall be read and construed as if the words "where such shootings or deer forests arc actually let" were not therein contained.

5. The first section of the Poor Law Act shall be read and construed as if the definition of "lands and heritages" therein expressly referred to and included shootings and deer forests.

6. In order to ascertain and assess under the Valuation Acts the yearly value of shootings and deer forests in Scotland, it shall be the duty of the assessor to enter separately for each parish, and in respect of

each proprietor therein, the yearly value of the shootings over the lands and of the deer forests belonging to him in so far as situated within such parish.

7. All county, parochial, or other public assessments, and all assessments, rates, or taxes, under any Act of Parliament, authorised to be imposed or made upon or according to the annual value of lands and heritages ascertained under the Valuation Acts, or upon or according to the annual value of lands and heritages ascertained under the Poor Law Act, shall be imposed or made upon or according to the annual value of shootings and deer forests ascertained under the Valuation Acts, as amended by this Act, or upon the annual value thereof ascertained under the Poor Law Act, as amended by this Act, as the case may be.

8. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Sporting Lands Rating (Scotland) Act, 1886.

1. Short title of Act.

3. Penalty.

An Act to amend the Law in regard to the Vacating of Seats in the House of Commons. (10th May 1886.)

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 the present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. This Act may for all purposes be cited as the Lunacy (Vacating of Seats) Act, 1886.

2. From and after the passing of this Act, if a member of the House of Commons is received, or committed into, or detained in any asylum, house, or other place as a lunatic

the following provisions shall have effect; that is to say,

(i.) It shall be the duty of the court, judge, magistrate, or person under or upon whose order, and of every medical person or practitioner upon whose certificate, such member has been so received, committed, or detained, and of every superintendent, officer, proprietor, or other person having the chief charge of such asylum, house, or other place as aforesaid, as soon as may be, to certify such reception, committal, or detention to the Speaker of the House of Commons.

(ii.) It shall be lawful for any two members of the House of Commons to certify to the Speaker that they are credibly informed of such reception, committal, or detention.