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jurisdiction to try the case, and shall proceed with all convenient despatch to the hearing and determining of the complaint against such offender.

SYNOPSIS OF OFFENCES.

MERCHANT SHIPPING-continued.

V. OFFENCES BY OTHER PERSONS-continued.

157. Finding wreck, and not giving notice thereof to receiver.

Statute.

17 & 18 Vict.

c. 104, s. 450.

158. Plundering wreck,- -or obstructing the saving of shipwrecked property, or secreting the same,-or endeavouring to board vessel without leave of master.

159. Marine Store Dealers.] Every person dealing in, buying and selling anchors, cables, sails, or old junk, old iron or marine stores of any description, not having his name and the words "dealer in marine stores" painted on warehouse,

or

Id. s. 478.

Id. s. 480, sub-s. 1.

160. Not keeping book and entering therein an account of purchases Id. sub-s. 2. with times and names of persons,

or

161. Purchasing marine stores from persons apparently under 16 years Id. sub-s. 3.

of age,

or

162. Cutting up cable, or any similar article, exceeding 5 fathoms in Id. sub-s.
length, without permit of receiver and publishing notice re-
quired by ss. 481, 482.

[See tit. "Dealers in Old Metals," Note 116, ante, p. 389.]

163. Refusing inspection of cable or books on justice's warrant.

164. Manufacturers of anchors not placing names and numbers on them.

MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT, 1876 (Note 307).
1. Offences as to Marks on Ships.] “Any owner or master of a British
ship who neglects to cause his ship to be marked as by this act
required, or to keep her so marked, or who allows the ship to
be so loaded as to submerge in salt water the centre of the disc,
and any person who conceals, removes, alters, defaces or ob-
literates, or suffers any person under his control to conceal,
remove, alter, deface or obliterate any of the said marks, except
in the event of the particulars thereby denoted being lawfully
altered, except for the purpose of escaping capture by an
enemy, shall for each offence incur a penalty not exceeding
4100.

2. Penalty for carrying Deckloads of Timber in Winter.] The offence
of improperly deck-loading vessels while at any port in the
United Kingdom for any port out of the United Kingdom,
between the last day of October and the 16th day of April.

Id. s. 482.

Id. s. 483.

39 & 40 Vict.

c. 80, s. 28.

Id. s. 24.

307 MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT, 1876."] By sect. 2, this act is to be construed as one with "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854,' ," and the acts amending the same. The enforcement of the provisions of this statute is chiefly confided to the Board of Trade, and

it will be unnecessary therefore to refer to any other provisions than those which apply to the duties of justices.

308 By sect. 40, it is enacted, that "For the purposes of punishment, jurisdiction

SYNOPSIS OF OFFENCES.

Statute.

METAL TRADES. See tit. "Factories and Workshops."

METALS. See tit. "Dealers in Old Metals."

METROPOLITAN RACECOURSES LICENSING ACT, 1879. To be
cited as "The Racecourses Licensing Act, 1879."
"Any person who,
Persons taking part in unlicensed horse-races.]
after the said 25th day of March, 1880, shall take part in any
horse-race in any open or enclosed land or place for which a
licence is required under this act, and for which a licence has
not been obtained, shall, upon summary conviction, be liable to
a penalty of 107., or an imprisonment not exceeding two
months." (Note 309.)

[MEM. By sect. 1 "A horse-race within the meaning of this act
shall mean any race in which any horse, mare, or gelding shall
run or be made to run in competition with any other horse,
mare, or gelding, or against time for any prize of what nature
or kind soever, or for any bet or wager made or to be made in
respect of any such horse, mare, or gelding or the riders thereof,
and at which more than twenty persons shall be present."]

(Note 310.)

MILITARY LAW. ("Army Discipline and Regulation Act, 1879.")
(This statute is a substitute for the Annual Mutiny Act, and is
brought into operation each year by an annual act, such act|
for the present year being the 42 & 43 Vict. c. 32.)

1. Recruits improperly obtaining Enlisting Money, giving false Answers,
&c.] If any person, previously to his being attested or enrolled
under any Reserve Force Act, shall by means of any false
answer [whether he belongs to any and what force in H. M.'s
service, or such other questions as the military authorities
may direct to be put to recruits], obtain enlistment or other
money, or shall make any false statement in his declaration
[made before a justice on being attested], or shall refuse
to answer any question duly authorized to be put to him for the
purpose of filling up such declaration, or shall refuse or
neglect to go before a justice [for attestation],—or having, in
the case of a recruit, dissented from his enlistment, shall
wilfully omit to return and pay [the smart money, &c.].

2. Person who has been attested or enrolled in the regular army or
reserves, and who afterwards is discovered to have given any
wilfully false answer to any question directed to be put,-or
have made any wilfully false statement in the declaration
[before a justice].

42 & 43 Vict.
c. 18, s. 5.

c. 33, s. 95.

42 & 43 Vict.

Id.

and legal proceedings, an offence under this act shall be deemed to be an offence und "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854.'"

309"RACECOURSES LICENSING."] By section 2 it is enacted, that "from and s the 25th day of March, 1880, it shall not be lawful that any horse-race be held or place on any pretext whatever within a radius of ten miles from Charing Cross in

city of Westminster, unless in a place for which a licence for horse-racing has been obtained pursuant to the provisions hereinafter contained." (Sections 3 and 4 contain provisions for applying for and obtaining licences.)

310 By section 6, the owner or lessee in possession or occupation who permits an unauthorized horse-race is liable to be indicted as for a misdemeanor.