SYNOPSIS OF OFFENCES. Statute. AIDERS AND ABETTORS. Every person who shall aid, abet, counsel or procure the commission of any offence which is or hereafter shall be punishable on summary conviction [see the section and cases ante, pp. 145, 146.] ALEHOUSES. See "Intoxicating Liquors," post, and "Alehouses," ALIENS. 1. Master of a vessel arriving in this realm from foreign parts not immediately making declaration to officer of customs of the number of aliens, &c. on board or landed, &c. [Vide title "Aliens," in Vol. II. Chap. II. of Part III. for 2. Alien neglecting or refusing to present and show passport to officer 3. Any person wilfully making or transmitting any false declaration, or 4. Obtaining a certificate from the officer of customs under a false name;-or personating an alien. ALKALI WORKS. 1. Any workmen employed in any process causing the evolution of muriatic acid gas, or whose duty it is to attend to the apparatus used in the condensation of that gas, violating any of the special rules made by the owner of any alkali work with the sanction of the Board of Trade (Note 15). ANIMALS, CRUELTY TO. See "Cruelty to Animals," "Contagious APOTHECARY. See 55 Geo. 3, c. 194, "Medical Practitioners," post. 11 & 12 Vict. c. 43, s. 5. 6 & 7 Will 4, s. 11, s. 2. Id. s. 3. Id. s. 9. 26 & 27 Vict. c. 124, s. 13. 15 "ALKALI WORKS: " Operation of "The Alkali Act, 1863"-Definition of Terms, &c. The 26 & 27 Vict. c. 124, which was originally in force for a limited period, is now made perpetual by 31 & 32 Vict. c. 36. The term "alkali work" is to mean every work for the manufacture of alkali, sulphate of soda or sulphate of potash in which muriatic acid gas is evolved; and "owner" the lessee or occupier or any other person carrying on any alkali work (26 & 27 Vict. c. 124, s. 3). By sect. 3 of "The Alkali Act, 18741 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 43), it is enacted that the formation of any sulphate in the treatment of copper ores by common salt or other chlorides, shall be deemed to be a manufacturo of sulphate of soda within the meaning of the 3rd section of the Alkali Act, 1863 (26 & 27 Vict. c. 124). A printed copy of the special rules in force in any alkali work is to be given by the owner of the work to every person working or employed in or about that work affected thereby (sect. 13). There are various penalties imposed by the act on owners, which are recoverable in the county court (sect. 14). I. AS TO APPRENTICES IN GENERAL, infra. II. AS TO PARISH APPRENTICES, infra. III. AS TO APPRENTICES UNDER THE EMPLOYERS AND WORKMEN ACT, 1875, p. 300. [See Note 22.] Statute. I. AS TO APPRENTICES IN GENERAL. (See Note 17.) II. AS TO PARISH APPRENTICES. 1. Parish apprentice discharged by two justices under the statute 32 Geo. 3, c. 57, 20 Geo. 2, c. 19, for misdemeanor, miscarriage, or ill-behaviour on his part. [MEM. A felonious act would not be punishable under these [The apprentice, under the terms of the indenture, is liable to s. 13. 16 "APPRENTICES:" All Trades within the Apprenticeship Acts-Stannaries.] The statutes as to apprentices extend to all trades (10 Geo. 4, c. 52) where no premium is paid (5 & 6 Vict. c. 7), and where the premium is not more than £25 (4 Geo. 4, c. 29, s. 1). The 6 Geo. 3, c. 25, s. 6, contains a proviso that that act shall "not extend to the stannaries in the counties of Devon and Cornwall." This does not, it is contended, take away the jurisdiction of justices in those counties over apprentices in other trades than those connected with mining (see 27 Geo. 2, c. 6, s. 3, which seems to contain the proper intent of this proviso, and see the acts 6 & 7 Will. 4, c. 106; 2 & 3 Vict. c. 58, and 18 & 19 Vict. c. 32, as to the Stannary Court jurisdiction). "The Master and Servant Act, 1867" (30 & 31 Vict. c. 141), does not take away or abridge any local or special jurisdiction touching apprentices" (sect. 24), i. e. that of the chamberlain of London. If a person be apprenticed to learn three trades, and the master gives up one, he cannot recover damages for the refusal of the apprentice to serve, and, by parity of reasoning, the apprentice cannot be punished by justices (Ellen v. Topp, 20 Law J., Ex. 241). If he be apprenticed to partners who subsequently dissolve, he cannot be punished for refusing to serve the continuing partner (Brook v. Dawson, 20 Law T., N. S. 611). As to apprentices in the sea service, see now 17 & 18 Vict. c. 104, titles "Merchant Shipping" and "Seamen," post, for offences by seamen and masters. 17 Master and Servant Act, 1867, applicable to Apprentices in general.] From the 20th August, 1867 [until the "20th August, 1872, and end of then next session," 34 & 35 Vict. c. 95], the enactments in the Master and Servant Act, 1867, 30 & 31 Vict. c. 141, ss. 4, 14, are substituted by sect. 3 for the offences by apprentices and masters in the acts of 20 Geo. 2, c. 19; Geo. 3, c. 25, and 4 Geo. 4, c. 34,-the other provisions of these and other acts in relation to the cases, contracts and persons within these acts remaining untouched. As the new act applies to other servants than apprentices, the new enactments are set out under tit. "Master and Servant," post, with the punishment and other terms of adjudication authorized. In this title are retained the unrepealed enactments and a few others in the Note 16, which are still of use in connection with the title "Master and Servant." 18 Appeal.] By 32 Geo. 3, c. 57, s. 12,-"if any person shall be aggrieved by any matter or thing done, or omitted to be done by any churchwarden or overseer of the poor, or by any of his majesty's justices of the peace, or by any other person or persons whomsoever, under and by virtue of this act (besides such matters or things for which an appeal is herein before specially given, i. e. sect. 12 in Note 19), it shall and may be lawful for such person or persons to appeal to the next general quarter sessions of the peace, where the same shall be heard and finally determined:-and such court may award reasonable costs and expenses to either party before them. SYNOPSIS CF OFFENCES. Statate. APPRENTICES-continued. IL AS TO PARISH APPRENTICES—continued. 2. For misusage, refusal of necessary provisions, cruelty, or other - 20 Geo. 2, e. 19, treatment of parish apprentice by master. Ma. A master is bound to provide medical attendance for his [See further, title “Servants,” Vol. II. Chap. II. of Part II. 8. 3, and 32 Geo. 3, c. 57, s. 11. 3. Wilfully abandoning a parish apprentice, or removing above forty miles, without giving notice to church- 56 Geo. 3, c. 139, s. 8. 4. Any person putting away or transferring any parish apprentice to another, or in any way discharging or dismissing him from his or her ser- Id. s. 10. 19 Appeal.] By 32 Geo. 3, c. 57, s. 12,-"it shall and may be lawful for such master or mistress, from whom any parish apprentice shall be discharged under and by virtue of the act 20 Geo. 2, c. 19, to appeal against the order made for such discharge, and also against any other such order made for his or her payment of any such sum or sums of money in consequence thereof, or for his or her payment of any sum or sums of money in lieu of a subsequent binding, under and by virtue of the provisions of this act, to the next general quarter sessions of the peace for the county, city, riding, division, or place where such orders, any or either of them, shall be made ;—and upon such appeal the said court of general quarter sessions shall finally determine the same, and allow to all parties their reasonable costs;-and no such distress for enforcing the payment of any such sum or sums of money as are last mentioned shall be taken until after the general quarter sessions of the peace to be holden next after any such order as aforesaid shall be made, in case the person who is ordered to pay the same shall, within seven days after notice given to him or her of such order being made, give notice to such churchwardens and overseers of the poor, some or one of them, of such intended appeal;--and in case such person shall fail to appear in support of his appeal at such general quarter sessions, then the sum of 40s. shall be added to the expenses of the distress before directed to be taken and levied accordingly. See also 42 & 43 Vict. c. 49, ss. 31, 32, ante, pp. 233-5. |