Pensions. nuation before affected. 6. Nothing in this Act contained shall restrict, abridge, or qualify Officers entitled the Right of any Officer who shall have entered the Public Service to Superanbefore the passing of this Act to any Superannuation Allowance passing of this which, under the Provisions of any Act or Acts now in force, such Act not to be Officer might have been entitled to if this Act had not passed; nor shall any such Officer as last aforesaid be subject, after any Superannuation Allowance shall have been awarded to him, except by his own Consent in Writing for that Purpose given, to any of the Provisions contained in the said Act of the Fourth and Fifth Years of King William the Fourth, as amended by the said "Superannuation Act, 1859," to which he would not have been subject if this Act had not passed. affect Power 7. Nothing in this Act contained shall affect the Power conferred Act not to upon the Lord Chancellor by the Forty-seventh Section of the Act of Lord Chanpassed in the Session of Parliament held in the Fifteenth and Six- cellor as conferred by teenth Years of the Reign of Her Majesty, intituled An Act for the Sect. 47 of Relief of the Suitors of the High Court of Chancery, so far as it 15 & 16 Vict. empowers the Lord Chancellor to remove any Officer or Person who shall be afflicted with any Infirmity which shall disable him from the due Execution of his Office, and who shall refuse to resign or shall become incapable of resigning the same. c. 87. affect Power c. 70. 8. Nothing in this Act contained shall affect the Power conferred Act not to on the Lord Chancellor by the Thirteenth Section of the Act passed of Lord Chanin the Session of Parliament holden in the Sixteenth and Seven- cellor as conferred by teenth Years of the Reign of Her Majesty, intituled An Act for the Sect. 13 of Regulation of Proceedings under Commissions of Lunacy, and the 16 & 17 Vict. Consolidation and Amendment of the Acts respecting Lunatics so found by Inquisition, and their Estates, so far as it empowers the Lord Chancellor to remove any Master in Lunacy who shall be afflicted with any permanent Infirmity disabling him from the due Execution of his Office, and who shall refuse to resign or shall be incapable of resigning the same. apply to pre 9. Save as herein-before provided, this Act shall apply as well to Save as aforeall Officers who have already entered the Public Service as to those said, Act to who may hereafter enter the Public Service; and all Acts of Par- sent and future liament now in force, by virtue of which any such Superannuation Allowances as aforesaid may be granted, shall henceforth be construed and take effect subject to the Provisions of this Act. Officers. 10. This Act may for all Purposes be cited as "The Superan- Short Title. nuation Act, 1866." CAP. LXIX. Carriage and Deposit of dangerous Goods. Nitro-Glycerine to be deemed dangerous. Other Goods may be declared so by Order in Council. Such Goods to be marked, and Notice to be given of their Character. CA P. LXIX. An Act for the Amendment of the Law with respect B E 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: 1. The Goods or Article commonly known as Nitro-Glycerine or Glonoine Oil shall be deemed to be specially dangerous within the Meaning of this Act. 2. Her Majesty may from Time to Time, by Order in Council, declare that any Goods named in any such Order (other than NitroGlycerine or Glonoine Oil) are to be deemed specially dangerous within the Meaning of this Act; and may from Time to Time amend or repeal any such Order; and any Goods which are by any such Order declared to be specially dangerous shall, so long as such Order is in force, be deemed to be specially dangerous within the Meaning of this Act. 3. No Person shall deliver any Goods which are specially dangerous to any Warehouse Owner or Carrier, or send or carry or cause to be sent or carried any such Goods upon any Railway or in any Ship to or from any Part of the United Kingdom, or in any other public Conveyance, or deposit any such Goods in or on any Warehouse or Quay, unless the true Name or Description of such Goods, with the Addition of the Words specially dangerous, is distinctly written, printed, or marked on the Outside of the Package, nor in the Case of Delivery to or Deposit with any Warehouse Owner or Carrier, without also giving Notice in Writing to him of the Name or Description of such Goods, and of their being specially dangerous. And any Person who commits a Breach of this Enactment shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Five hundred Pounds, or at the Discretion of the Court to Imprisonment, with or without Hard Labour, for any Term not exceeding Two Years. 4. Provided Carriage and Deposit of dangerous Goods. 4. Provided always, as follows: Provision for Case of Ab sence of Know (1.) Any Person convicted of a Breach of the last foregoing Enactment shall not be liable to Imprisonment, or to a ledge of Nature Penalty of more than Two hundred Pounds, if he shows of Goods. to the Satisfaction of the Court and Jury before whom he is convicted that he did not know the Nature of the Goods to which the Indictment relates: (2.) Any Person accused of having committed a Breach of the said Enactment shall not be liable to be convicted thereof if he shows to the Satisfaction of the Court and Jury before whom he is tried that he did not know the Nature of the Goods to which the Indictment relates, and that he could not, with reasonable Diligence, have obtained such Knowledge. feiture of such 5. Where Goods are delivered, sent, carried, or deposited in As to Forcontravention of the said Enactment, the same shall be forfeited, and shall be disposed of in such Manner as the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury or (in case of Importation) the Commissioners of Customs direct, whether any Person is liable to be convicted of a Breach of the said Enactment or not. Warehouse Owners, &c. 6. No Warehouse Owner or Carrier shall be bound to receive or not bound to receive such carry any Goods which are specially dangerous. Goods. of "Owner" 7. In construing this Act the Term Warehouse Owner shall Interpretation include all Persons or Bodies of Persons owning or managing any and "Carrier." Warehouse, Store, Quay, or other Premises in which Goods are deposited; and the Word Carrier shall include all Persons or Bodies of Persons carrying Goods or Passengers for Hire by Land or Water. c. 66. to Nitro 8. The Act of the Session of the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Application of Years of Her Majesty's Reign, Chapter Sixty-six, "for the safe 25 & 26 Vict. keeping of Petroleum," is hereby extended and applied to Nitro- Glycerine. Glycerine, and that Act shall be read and have effect as if throughout its Provisions Nitro-Glycerine had been mentioned in addition to Petroleum; save that so much of the said Act as specifies the maximum Quantity of Petroleum to be kept as therein. mentioned without a Licence shall not apply in the Case of NitroGlycerine, and any Quantity whatever of Nitro-Glycerine shall be deemed to be subject to the Provisions of the said Act. 9. The said Act of the Session of the Twenty-fifth and Twenty- Application of sixth Years of Her Majesty's Reign is also hereby extended and the same Act to other applied Substances. Short Title. Carriage and Deposit of dangerous Goods. applied to any Substance for the Time being declared by any Order in Council under this Act to be specially dangerous, and that Act shall be read and have Effect as if throughout its Provisions the Substance to which such Order in Council relates had been mentioned in addition to Petroleum; save that the Quantity of such Substance which it shall not be lawful to keep as in the said Act mentioned without a Licence shall, instead of the Quantity specified in relation to Petroleum in the said Act, be such Quantity as is specified in that Behalf in relation to any such Substance in any such Order in Council. 10. This Act may be cited as The Carriage and Deposit of dangerous Goods Act, 1866. CAP. LXX. Dean Forest (Walmore and The Bearce Commons). CA P. LXX. An Act to extend the Provisions of the Acts for W HEREAS by the Thirteenth Section of the Act of the c. 118. Eighth and Ninth Years of the Reign of Her present 8 & 9 Vict. Majesty, Chapter One hundred and eighteen, commonly called The General Inclosure Act of 1845, it was enacted that no Part of the New Forest in the County of Southampton or of the Forest of Dean in the County of Gloucester should be Land subject to be inclosed thereunder: And whereas it is expedient that the said Section, so far as regards certain Portions of the said Forest of Dean called Walmore Common in the Parish of Westbury on Severn, and The Bearce Common in the Parish of Saint Briavels, should be repealed, and that the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales should be empowered to make such Allotment or Inclosure of the same Commons as is herein-after mentioned: 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: c. 118. re as relates to 1. The said Thirteenth Section of the said General Inclosure Act Sect. 13 of of 1845 shall, so far as relates to the said Walmore Common and 8 & 9 Vict. Bearce Common, be repealed; and the said General Inclosure Act pealed so far and all the other Acts for the Inclosure, Exchange, and Improve- walmore and. ment of Land, and all other Acts of Parliament whatsoever, shall Bearce Comand may be read and acted on as though the said Commons had mons. not been included in the said Thirteenth Section of the said firstmentioned Act. 2. With |