shall within forty-eight hours from the time of receiving such infant give notice of the fact to the local authority. If he does not give the notice required by this section, he shall be liable to forfeit the amount of any sum received by him in respect of such infant, or such less sum as the court having cognizance of the case shall deem just, and the court shall give directions as to the manner in which the sum forfeited shall be applied for the benefit of the infant, and shall, if necessary, cause the infant to be removed to a workhouse or place of safety, and the master of such workhouse shall receive such infant, which shall be maintained in the workhouse or place of safety until it can be otherwise lawfully disposed of.

6. NOTICE OF PROVISIONS OF ACT.-It shall be the duty of the local authority to give public notice of the provisions of this Act by the publication of an abstract thereof or otherwise as a Secretary of State may direct.

7. REMOVAL OF INFANT IMPROPERLY KEPT.-(1.) Should any infant, in respect of which notice is required to be given under this Act,

(a) be kept in any house or premises which are so unfit or so overcrowded as to endanger its health; or

(b) be retained or received by any person who, by reason of negligence, ignorance, or other cause, is so unfit to have its care and maintenance as to endanger its health;

any inspector or other person appointed for the purposes of this Act may apply to the local authority for an order in writing directing him to remove such infant to a workhouse or place of safety, until it can be restored to its relatives or guardians or be otherwise lawfully disposed of.

(2.) Any person refusing to comply with an order under this section upon the same being produced and read over to him, or obstructing the inspector or other authorised person in the execution thereof, shall be guilty of an offence under this Act, and the inspector may apply to any justice of the peace for an order directing the removal of the child, and such order may be enforced by any police constable.

(3.) The master of any workhouse shall receive into the workhouse any child brought there under such order, and such child shall be maintained in the workhouse until it can be otherwise disposed of.

(4.) No infant shall be retained or received for hire or reward by any person from whose care any infant has been removed under this section, or by any person convicted of any offence under the Prevention of Cruelty to and Protection of Children Acts, unless with the sanction in writing of the local authority; and any person retaining or receiving any infant contrary to this section shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.

8. NOTICE TO CORONER.-In case of the death of any infant respecting whom notice is required under this Act, the person having the care of such infant shall, within twenty-four hours of such death, cause notice thereof to be given to the coroner of the district within which the body of such infant lies, and the coroner shall hold an inquest thereon, unless a certificate under the hand of a registered medical practitioner shall be produced to him, certifying that such registered medical practitioner has personally attended or examined such infant, and specifying the cause of its death, and the coroner shall be satisfied by such certificate that there is no ground for holding such inquest. If the person having the care of such infant shall neglect to give the notice in this section mentioned he shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.

9. PENALTIES.-Every person guilty of an offence under this Act shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds, or to imprisonment for not more than six months, as a court of summary jurisdiction may award.

10. EXPENSES.-All expenses incurred by or on behalf of the local authority in and about the execution of this Act shall be defrayed out of the local rate.

11. PROSECUTIOn of Offences.-Any offence under this Act may be prosecuted and any forfeiture recoverable before a court of summary jurisdiction in manner provided by the Summary Jurisdiction Acts.

12. APPLICATION OF FINES.-Any moneys arising from penalties under this Act shall, notwithstanding any provision in any other Act, be paid to the local authority, and be applied to the purposes to which the local rate is applicable.

13. NOTICES TO LOCAL AUTHORITY.-Every notice by this Act required to be given

to the local authority shall be in writing, and shall be sent by post as a registered letter to the clerk of the local authority, or to such other person as the local authority may appoint, or be delivered at the office of the local authority.

14. EXEMPTIONS.-The provisions of this Act shall not extend to the relatives or guardians of any infant by them retained or received as aforesaid, or to any person receiving any infant for the purpose of nursing or maintaining such infant under the provisions of any Act for the relief of the poor or of any order of the Local Government Board made under such Act; or to hospitals, convalescent homes, or institutions established for the protection and care of infants and conducted in good faith for religious or charitable purposes.

15. DEFINITIONS.-The terms "local rate," "local jurisdiction," and "local authority," mean in reference to the districts mentioned in the first column of the schedule to this Act, the rate, jurisdiction, and authority mentioned in the second, third, and fourth columns of the said schedule, and such schedule shall be deemed to be part of this Act. The term "place of safety" shall mean any suitable place, the occupier of which is willing temporarily to receive such infant. The term "relatives" shall mean and include the parents, grandparents, and uncles, and aunts, by consanguinity or affinity, of the infant retained or received as aforesaid, and in the case of illegitimate infants the persons who would be so related if the infant were legitimate.

16. APPLICATION TO SCOTLAND.-This Act in its application to Scotland shall be subject to the following provisions: The Secretary for Scotland shall be substituted for the Secretary of State; the Local Government Board for Scotland shall be substituted for the Local Government Board; the sheriff shall be substituted for a justice of the peace; the procurator fiscal shall be substituted for the coroner, and an inquiry by him into the cause of death for an inquest; the poorhouse shall be substituted for the workhouse; the inspector of poor shall be substituted for inspector; and the powers and duties which by section three hereof are conferred and imposed upon the inspector or other authorised person shall be conferred and imposed upon the inspector of poor.

[S. 17 applies to Ireland exclusively.]

18. REPEAL.-The Infant Life Protection Act, 1872, shall be repealed from the date of the commencement of this Act.

19. COMMENCEMENT OF ACT.-This Act shall commence on the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

CHAPTER LVIII.

THE COTTON CLOTH FACTORIES ACT, 1897. (Sect. 2.)

AN ACT to give power to make Regulations with respect to Cotton Cloth Factories. [6th August 1897.]

1. POWER TO MAKE REGULATIONS.-The Secretary of State may by order, subject to the conditions as to the making of an order under section six of the Cotton Cloth Factories Act, 1889, make regulations for the purpose of giving effect to such of the recommendations contained in the report, dated the seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, of the committee appointed by the Secretary of State on the twenty-eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, to inquire into the working of the Cotton Cloth Factories Act, 1889, as he may deem necessary for the protection of health in cotton cloth factories, and may thereby require any additional readings of the thermometers, and make any consequential alterations in the schedules to that Act, and the regulations when made shall have effect as if embodied in that Act.

2. SHORT TITLE AND CONSTRUCTION.-This Act may be cited as the Cotton Cloth Factories Act, 1897, and shall be read as part of the Cotton Cloth Factories Act, 1889, and that Act and this Act may be cited collectively as the Cotton Cloth Factories Acts, 1889 and 1897.

CHAPTER LIX.

THE MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT, 1897. (Sect. 2.)

AN ACT to amend the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, with respect to the Power of Detention for undermanning. [6th August 1897.]

1. EXTENSION OF POWERS OF DETENTION FOR UNSAFETY TO UNDERMANNING.-(1.) Section four hundred and fifty-nine of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (which gives power to detain unsafe ships), shall apply in the case of undermanning, and accordingly that section shall be construed as if the words "or by reason of undermanning" were inserted therein after the word "machinery," and as if the words "or for ascertaining "the sufficiency of her crew" were inserted after the word "surveyed," and as if the words "or the manning of the ship" were inserted therein after the words "reloading "of cargo," and the powers exerciseable under or for the purposes of that section shall include power to muster the crew.

(2.) Section four hundred and sixty-two of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (which relates to foreign ships), shall also apply in the case of undermanning, and accordingly that section shall be construed as if the words "or by reason of undermanning" were inserted therein after the words "improper loading."

2. SHORT TITLE.-This Act may be cited as the Merchant Shipping Act, 1897.

CHAPTER LX.

THE CHAFF-CUTTING MACHINES (ACCIDENTS) ACT, 1897. (Sect. 8.) AN ACT for the Prevention of Accidents by Chaff-Cutting Machines.

[6th August 1897.]

1. FEEDING MOUTH TO HAVE FITTINGS TO SECURE SAFETY.-The feeding mouth or box of every chaff-cutting machine which is worked by any motive power other than manual labour shall, so far as is reasonably practicable and consistent with the due and efficient working of the machine, be of such construction or fitted with such apparatus

or contrivance as to prevent the hand or arm of the person feeding the machine from being drawn between the rollers to the knives.

2. FLY-WHEEL AND KNIVES TO BE SECURELY FENCED.-The fly-wheel and knives of every chaff-cutting machine which is worked by any motive power other than manual labour, shall, so far as is reasonably practicable and consistent with the due and efficient working of the machine, be kept sufficiently and securely fenced at all times during the working thereof.

3. PENALTY FOR OFFENCES.-If any person permits to be worked any chaff-cutting machine belonging to him, or used for his service or benefit, which does not comply with the requirements of this Act,

or if any foreman or other person in charge of any chaff-cutting machine, which does not comply with the requirements of this Act, works it or permits it to be worked, or if any person, during the working of any chaff cutting machine, unnecessarily and without due cause removes any guard or thing provided in compliance with the requirements of this Act,

Every person so offending on any day shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

4. IN PROSECUTIONS, OWNER OF MACHINE TO PROVE HE HAS TAKEN PROPER PRECAUTIONS. If in the prosecution of any person to whom the chaff-cutting machine belongs, or for whose service or benefit it is used, it is shown that the machine did not during the working thereof comply with the requirements of this Act, such person shall be deemed to have permitted the same unless he satisfy the court that he took all reasonable precautions to ensure compliance with the requirements of this Act.

5. DEFENDANT AND HUSBAND OR WIFE TO BE COMPETENT WITNESSES.-Every person charged with an offence under this Act before any court of criminal jurisdiction, and the husband or wife of the person so charged, shall be competent but not compellable witnesses on every hearing at every stage of such charge.

6. CONSTABLE MAY ENTER PREMISES FOR INSPECting Machine.—-Any constable acting upon the instruction of an officer of police not below the grade of inspector may at any time enter on any premises on which he has reasonable cause to believe that a chaffcutting machine which does not comply with the requirements of this Act is being worked, for the purpose of inspecting such machine.

7. COMMENCEMENT OF ACT.-This Act shall not come into operation until the first day of August one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

8. SHORT TITLE.-This Act may be cited as the Chaff-Cutting Machines (Accidents) Act, 1897.

CHAPTER LXII.

THE EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) ACT, 1897. (Sect. 4.)

AN ACT to amend the provisions of Section Sixty-seven of the Education (Scotland) Act, 1872, in regard to the additional grant to School Boards, and to provide out of the Exchequer an aid grant for Voluntary Schools in Scotland, and for the Exemption from Rates of those Schools. [6th August 1897.] Whereas by section sixty-seven of the Education (Scotland) Act, 1872, it is enacted as follows:

"Where in any parish or burgh a school rate of not less than threepence in the "pound on the rateable value of such parish or burgh shall be levied, and the whole produce of such rate is less than twenty pounds or than seven shillings and sixpence per "child of the number of children in average attendance at the public schools provided "by the school boards in such parish or burgh, such school board shall be entitled, in " addition to the parliamentary grant in aid of the public schools provided by them, to "such further sum out of moneys provided by Parliament as will, together with the produce of the rate, make up the sum of twenty pounds or seven shillings and sixpence "for each such child":

1. ALTERATION OF LIMIT OF 7s. 6D. IN REGARD TO ADDITIONAL GRANT TO SCHOOL

BOARDS.-Section sixty-seven of the Education (Scotland) Act, 1872, shall have effect as if the sum of seven shillings and sixpence therein mentioned were increased by the sum of fourpence for every complete penny by which the school rate exceeded threepence, but not beyond a maximum of sixteen shillings and sixpence. Provided always that during the year ending the fifteenth day of May one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight the increased additional grant payable to any school board under this section shall suffer abatement to the extent of one third in respect of the period between the fifteenth day of May one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven and the twenty-ninth day of September one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

2. AID GRANT OF 3s. PER CHILD TO VOLUNTARY SCHOOLS.-For aiding voluntary schools there shall be annually paid out of moneys provided by Parliament an aid grant equal to three shillings per child for the whole number of children in average attendance in those schools, and that grant shall be distributed in such manner and in accordance with such conditions as may be set forth in the Scotch Education Code annually submitted to Parliament. The Code may require, as a condition of a school receiving a share of the aid grant, that the accounts of the receipts and expenditure of the school shall be annually audited in accordance with the regulations of the Department.

For the purpose of section nineteen of the Elementary Education Act, 1876, in so far as it relates to Scotland, the aid grant paid or payable to a voluntary school shall be deemed to be income derived from a source other than the parliamentary grant.

The expression "voluntary school" means a state aided day school not provided by a school board.

3. EXEMPTION from Rates OF VOLUNTARY SCHOOLS.-No assessment or rate under any general or local Act of Parliament for any county, burgh, parish, parochial or other local purpose whatsoever shall be assessed or levied upon or in respect of any land or buildings used exclusively or mainly for the purposes of the schoolrooms, offices, or playground of a voluntary school except to the extent of any profit derived by the managers of the school from the letting thereof.

4. EXTENT AND SHORT TITLE.-This Act shall extend to Scotland only, and may be cited as the Education (Scotland) Act, 1897.

CHAPTER LXIII.

THE FOREIGN PRISON-MADE GOODS ACT, 1897. (Sect. 2.)

AN ACT to prohibit the Importation of Foreign Prison-made Goods.

[6th August 1897.]

1. PROHIBITION OF IMPORTATION OF FOREIGN PRISON-MADE GOODS.-There shall be added to the table of prohibitions and restrictions contained in section forty-two of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876, the following, that is to say;

Goods proved to the satisfaction of the Commissioners of Customs by evidence tendered to them to have been made or produced wholly or in part in any foreign prison, gaol, house of correction, or penitentiary, except goods in transit or not imported for the purposes of trade, or of a description not manufactured in the United Kingdom.

2. SHORT TITLE.-This Act may be cited as the Foreign Prison-made Goods Act, 1897.