SYNOPSIS OF OFFENCES. Statute. BREAD AND FLOUR-continued. OFFENCES BEYOND THE BILLS OF MORTALITY, &c.—continued. 15. Offences by Journeymen.] If offence, for which master convicted and paid, occasioned by or through the wilful act, neglect or default of his journeyman or other servant, proceeding against such person, by this section. [See tit. "Bakehouses," ante.] BRICKS AND TILES. See title "Factories and Workshops,” post. BROTHELS. 1. Every person who occupies or keeps a brothel, and knowingly lodges or knowingly harbours thieves or reputed thieves, or 2. Knowingly permits or knowingly suffers them to meet or assemble therein [see Marshall v. Fox, 40 L. J., M. C. 142; 24 Law T. 751, or 3. Knowingly allows the deposit of goods therein, having reasonable [* The full section 17 as to procedure will be found in tit. 6 & 7 Will. 4, c. 37, s. 13. 34 & 35 Vict. c. 112 (Preven tion of Crimes Act, 1871), s. 11. BUILDING SOCIETIES. 1. Fraudulently obtaining Money, &c. or withholding, &c. same of a Building Society.] Obtaining by false representations, &c. moneys, securities, papers, &c., or having same in his possession, withholds or misapplies same, or wilfully applies any part thereof to illegal purposes. 37 & 38 Vict. c. 42, s. 31. 2. Commencing Business without obtaining Certificate-Making Default in forwarding to Registrar Returns-Making False Returns.] Any society representing themselves to be such commencing business without first obtaining certificate of incorporation, or any society making default in making returns, &c. or making a return wilfully false. Id. s. 43. 50 Information.] The information must be laid by the master 15 On oath, and within 6 cal. m. (11 & 12 Vict. 1) Within 3) 6 cal. m. (11 & 12 Vict. c. 43, s. 11). [See 8. 17.*] Two. Not exc. £20 with costs not exc. 208. To be ordered to deliver up all such money, securities, &c.;-in default to be impr. with or without h. 1. not exc. 3 cal. m. [Nothing to prevent defendant being proceeded against by indictment if not summarily convicted (s. 31).] Not exc. £5 for every day business carried on; not exc. £5 for every default or false return [If any society under this act receives loans or deposits in excess of the limits prescribed by this act, the directors or committee of management of such society receiving such loans or deposits on its behalf will be personally liable for the amount so received in excess.] on the oath of a witness (6 & 7 Will. 4, c. 37, s. 13). SYNOPSIS OF OFFENCES. BURIALS. 1. Member of burial board, or their officer or servant, on request, refusing to permit or not permitting a churchwarden, overseer, or ratepayer to examine the books containing the minutes of proceedings or accounts of the board. [The Local Board may be the Burial Board, 21 § 22 Vict. c. 98, c. 128 2. Any person after the time mentioned in any order in council for the 18 & 1 discontinuance of burials, knowingly and wilfully burying any body,- -or in anywise acting or assisting in the burial of any body,-in any church, chapel, burial ground, or place of burial, or (as the case may be) within the limits in which burials have by such order been ordered to be discontinued, in violation of the provisions of any such order. 3. Violating or wilfully neglecting to observe any of the regulations made in council for the protection of the public health and for the maintenance of public decency in respect of burials in common graves in cemeteries established in the Metropolis or under local acts. 20 & 21 c. 81, 4. Any person removing any body, or the remains of any body (ex- Id. s. cept bodies removed from one consecrated place of burial to another by faculty), interred in any place of burial, without licence from the secretary of state, or 5. Who shall neglect to observe the precautions prescribed as the condition of the licence for removal. 6. Any company, body, or persons to whom a burial ground (in which 27 & 28 burials are not now by law required to be registered),,-or the c. 97, officer or person appointed by such company, &c.,-failing to comply with the provisions of the act, i. e. to register burials in register books (s. 1); to keep books by officer (s. 2); to send copies of register books to registrar of diocese (s. 3). [See further, title “Cemeteries.”] BURNING, BY SERVANTS. 8. 84. If any menial, or other servant or servants, through negligence or 14 Geo. 3, *[MEM. This is repealed as regards the Metropolitan Police Dis- SYNOPSIS OF OFFENCES. BUTTONS. As to false marks on, see 36 Geo. 3, c. 60; 1 Burn's Jus. 29th ed. Statute. BYE-LAWS OF BOROUGHS. Offending against bye-laws of council of boroughs, made by the council for the good rule and government of the borough, and for the prevention and suppression of all such nuisances as are not already punishable in a summary manner by virtue of any act in force throughout such borough (Note 51). [As to Bye-laws of Railway and other Companies, Local CALENDERING WORKS. See title "Factories and Workshops," post. CANAL BOATS ACT, 1877. 5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 76, s. 90. I ("An Act to provide for the Registration and Regulation of Canal 40 & 41 Vict. Boats used as Dwellings." 1. Using an unregistered Boat.] "After the expiration of twelve months a canal boat shall not be used as a dwelling unless it has been registered in accordance with this act. "The owner of a canal boat may register that boat with the registration authority hereinafter mentioned as a dwelling for such number of persons of the specified age and sex as may be allowed under the provisions of this act, and the boat shall be used as a dwelling only for the number of persons of the age and sex for which it is registered. If a canal boat is used as a dwelling in contravention of this act, the master of the boat and also the owner of the boat (if he is in fault) shall each be liable to a fine not exceeding 20s. for each occasion on which the boat is so used (Note 58). 2. Vostructing an Offcer) “If such person is obstructed in the performance of his duty under this act in the case of any boat, the person so obstructing shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 40s.” 3. Illegal Detention of Certiñcate of Registration.] "If a master of any canal boat illegally detains the certificate of registry of such buat," No. c. 60. Id. s. 1. Id. s. 5. Id s. 19. By-Laws or BOROUGHS:“ A'lowance of Bie-LancsJustices to moure wo addity or The 5 & 5 Wall. & c. 76, s. 90, provides that no such bye-law shall be it any force until the expiration of forty days after the same, or a copy thereof, shall have boou sout, sealed with the seal of the borough, to one of her Majesty's principal sere Bazies of States and shall have been adixed on the outer door of the town anil in some other public place within such borough. Doug of Bus-wies. By the Municipal Corporation Evidence Act, 1873" 36 & 17 Vice. c. 38), it is quicted by set. 3, that the production of a written or printed copy of any bye-laws made by the council of a borough, either under the Municipal Corporation of cho 5 x 5 Will, &, 9. 76, or under any present or future general or local act of pardament, authenticated by the common seal of the borough, sinil be WRIENCE, |