Inland Revenue. without Licence in the United King dom. Driver or other Person for the Recovery of the said Penalties respectively, and the same Directions shall be observed with respect to such Carriage, and the Horse or Horses harnessed thereto or drawing the same, and the Harness used therewith, and generally as are given and contained in the said Section with respect to the Carriage, Horse or Horses, and Harness therein mentioned, and otherwise. · Penalty on 11. Whereas it is expedient to impose an uniform Penalty Persons hawk-throughout the United Kingdom upon Persons hawking Goods ing Goods ' without Licence: Be it enacted, That if any Person shall, in the United Kingdom, trade or do any other Act for which such Person is required by the Acts in force in Great Britain and Ireland respectively to be licensed as a Hawker, Pedlar, or Petty Chapman, without having a proper Licence in that Behalf, or if any Person who shall trade or do any such other Act as aforesaid shall neglect or refuse to produce to any Person who shall demand the same a proper Licence granted to him as a Hawker, Pedlar, or Petty Chapman, and then in force, he shall forfeit the Penalty of Ten Pounds, which shall be an Excise Penalty, and be over and above any other Penalty to which such Person may be liable to under any Act now in force; and it shall be lawful for any Person to seize and detain the Offender, and to deliver him to any Officer of Excise, or to any Constable or Police Officer, who is hereby required to take such Offender before a Justice of the Peace for the County or Place wherein the Offence shall have been committed, and such Justice shall, on the Confession of the Party, or upon due Proof on Oath made of the Offence, convict such Offender in the Penalty aforesaid, or in some mitigated Amount not less than One Fourth Part thereof; and if the Penalty imposed be not immediately paid the Justice shall, by Warrant under his Hand, commit the Offender to Hard Labour in the House of Correction for the said County or Place for the Space of One Calendar Month (to be reckoned from the Day of the Commitment), unless the Penalty shall be sooner paid: Provided always, that where the Person offending shall not be detained and proceeded against in the Manner herein directed the said Penalty of Ten Pounds may be recovered by Information in the same Manner as any other Excise Penalty. Sect. 7. of 50 G. 3. c. 41. prohibiting Hawkers from selling Goods by Auction repealed. 6 12. Whereas by the Seventh Section of an Act passed in the Fiftieth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, Chapter Forty-one, Hawkers, Pedlars, Petty Chapmen, and other trading • Persons therein mentioned are prohibited from selling Goods, 'Wares, or Merchandise by any Mode of Sale by Auction at any 'Place in which they are not Householders, or which is not an 'usual Place of their Abode, and it is expedient to remove such 'Restriction: Be it enacted, That the said Prohibition shall be and the same is hereby repealed, so far as regards the selling by Auction by any trading or other Person duly licensed as an Auctioneer. 13. From and after the Thirtieth Day of September One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, every Licence which shall be granted in the United Kingdom to a Hawker, Pedlar, and Petty Chapman Inland Revenue. Chapman shall expire on the Thirty-first Day of March next following the Grant of such Licence; provided that it shall be lawful to grant a Licence to a Hawker, Pedlar, and Petty Chapman after the Thirtieth Day of September One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six for a Period not exceeding Six Months, on Payment of One Half only of the Amount payable for a yearly Licence, and such half-yearly Licence shall continue in force until the Thirty-first Day of March or the Thirtieth Day of September, whichever shall next follow the Day of granting the same. 14. It shall be lawful to grant to any Person who shall be the Holder of a Hawker's Licence expiring on the Thirty-first Day of January in the Year One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven a renewed Licence, to expire on the Thirty-first Day of March or the Thirtieth Day of September then next following, upon Payment of a proportionate Part of the Duty payable upon a yearly Licence for Two Months or Eight Months, as the Case may be; and it shall also be lawful to grant to any Person who shall be the Holder of a Hawker's Licence expiring on the Thirty-first Day of July in the Year One thousand eight hundred and sixtyseven a renewed Licence, which shall be made to expire on the Thirty-first Day of March then next following, upon Payment of a proportionate Part of the Duty payable upon a yearly Licence for Eight Months; and it shall also be lawful to grant to any Person who shall be the Holder of a Hawker's Licence in Ireland expiring on the Fifth Day of January in the Year One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven a renewed Licence, to expire on the Thirty-first Day of March then next following, on Payment of a proportionate Part of the Duty upon a yearly Licence for Three Months. 15. The Drawback now payable on Gold Plate and Silver Plate of British Manufacture exported from Great Britain, or of Irish Manufacture exported from Ireland, shall, in like Manner and upon the same Terms and Conditions, be paid on Gold Plate and Silver Plate of British Manufacture exported from Ireland or of Irish Manufacture exported from England; and the Bond or Security required by Law to be given by the Exporter of any. such Plate from Great Britain or Ireland shall contain a Condition that the Plate so exported shall not be relanded or brought again into any Part of the United Kingdom. Provision for Hawker's As to Drawback on Exportation of Plate from the United Kingdom. 16. Whereas by the Acts of Parliament establishing the 20 & 21 Vict. 'Courts of Probate in England and Ireland respectively the cc. 77, 79. Jurisdiction and Authority of all Ecclesiastical Courts in 'Matters and Causes Testamentary were vested in Her Majesty, 'to be exercised in Her Name in the said Courts of Probate: ' And whereas before and at the Time appointed for the Com'mencement of the said Acts respectively all Letters or Powers of Attorney and Proxies filed in any Ecclesiastical Court in England or Ireland were by Law exempt from Stamp Duty: And whereas Doubts have arisen whether the said Exemption from Stamp Duty extends to Letters or Powers of Attorney or 'Proxies filed in the said Courts of Probate:' Be it enacted and declared, That all Letters or Powers of Attorney and Proxies filed Letters of Attorney and Proxies filed in the Probate Courts declared exempt from Stamp Duty. Inland Revenue. After Assessments allowed Surveyor to certify Increases thereto. A Penalty for Neglect in delivering List or Declaration may be im. posed by Com missioners. 56 G. 3. c. 68. Colonial Branch Mints. filed or to be filed in the said Courts of Probate respectively shall be deemed to have been and to be exempt from all Stamp Duty. 17. If after the Commissioners executing the Acts relating to the Duties of Assessed Taxes have signed and allowed any Assessments of the said Duties for any Year, the Surveyor or Inspector shall discover upon his Survey or Examination, or otherwise, that any Assessment is not such as to charge or to fully charge any House, Person, Article, Matter, or Thing with the Duty which ought to be charged in respect thereof under the said Acts, it shall be lawful for the said Surveyor or Inspector at any Time within the Year to which the Assessment relates to charge in respect of such House, Person, Article, Matter, or Thing the full Amount of single Duty by which the Assessment ought to be increased; and such Charge shall be certified, determined, and recovered in the Manner provided by the said Acts in relation to Surcharges. 18. If any Person who, under the Provisions of the Acts relating to the Duties of Assessed Taxes, ought to deliver any List or Declaration, shall refuse or neglect so to do within the Time limited by any general or particular Notice affixed or delivered in pursuance of the said Acts, or shall under any Pretence wilfully delay the Delivery thereof, and if Information thereof shall be given and Proceedings thereupon shall be had before the Commissioners for executing the said Acts, such Person shall forfeit any Sum not exceeding Twenty Pounds, and treble the Duty at which he ought to be charged by virtue of the said Acts, such Penalty and Duties to be recovered as any like Penalty and Duties are recoverable under the said Acts. CA P. LXV. An Act to enable Her Majesty to declare Gold Coins to be W1 6 Colonial Branch Mints. in use at the Time of the passing of the said Act, and specified in the said Indenture: 'And whereas Gold Coins of the Weight and Fineness and of 'the Denominations mentioned in the said Act, and specified in 'the said Indenture, have from the Date of the said Act up to 'the present Time continued to be issued from Her Majesty's 'Mint in London, and to be a legal Tender for Payments as well ' in the United Kingdom as in divers of Her Majesty's Possessions ' abroad: 'And whereas Her Majesty by Proclamation hath established or may hereafter establish in divers of Her Majesty's said Pos'sessions Branches of the Royal Mint, for making Gold Coins of 'the same Weight and Fineness and of the same Denominations ' as the Gold Coin issued by Her Majesty's Mint in London, and 'it is expedient that Power should be given to Her Majesty to 'declare the Gold Coin so made and issued by such Colonial 'Branch Mints a legal Tender for Payments in any Part of Her Majesty's Dominions in which Gold Coin issued from Her Majesty's Mint in London may from Time to Time be a legal 'Tender :' 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: 1. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty, from Time to Time, by Proclamation issued with the Advice of Her Privy Council, to declare that for such Period and subject to such Conditions as may be specified in such Proclamation, Gold Coins made at any such Colonial Branch Mint, of Designs approved by Her Majesty, and being of the same Weight and Fineness as are required by Law with respect to Gold Coins of the same Denominations made at Her Majesty's Mint in London, are to be a legal Tender for Payments within any Part of Her Majesty's Dominions to be specified in such Proclamation in which Gold Coins issued from Her Majesty's Mint in London shall at the Date of the Issue of such Proclamation be a legal Tender, and upon such Proclamation being issued Gold Coins made of such Designs, and being of such Weight and Fineness as aforesaid, shall be a legal Tender for Payments accordingly. Power to made at the Colonies. coining Gold. 2. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by Proclamation issued Her Majesty with such Advice as aforesaid, from Time to Time to impose on may impose a the Coinage of Gold at any such Branch Colonial Mint as aforesaid Charge on a Charge sufficient to defray the Expenses of Coinage over and above the Expenses of Assay and Refining; and it shall be incumbent on the Deputy Master of any such Mint to coin Gold at the Charge so imposed. 3. Any Proclamation issued under Authority of this Act may Power to be revoked by Her Majesty, with the Advice of Her Privy revoke ProCouncil. clamation. 4. This Act may be cited for all Purposes as "The Colonial Short Title. Branch Mint Act, 1866." CA P. The Poor Law No Man's The Poor Law Board may, with Consent, &c., divide the Extra-parochial Lands into Townships. The Poor Law Board may, with the Consent of Her 6 An Act to provide for the Relief of the Poor in the New W 1. The Poor Law Board may, as and when they shall think fit, ascertain and by Order under their Seal set out and fix the Boundaries of the Extra-parochial or reputed Extra-parochial Lands within Her Majesty's New Forest aforesaid, and of certain other Extra-parochial or reputed Extra-parochial Lands called No Man's Land, and of any Parish or Place heretofore maintaining its own Poor, which may be situated within the said Lands or may adjoin or abut on the same or any Part thereof, or such Part of the said Boundaries as the Poor Law Board shall think fit, so far as such Boundaries fall within or abut upon the said Forest only; and after the said Boundaries shall have been so ascertained, set out, and fixed the same shall be and be deemed to be the Boundaries of the said Lands and the said Parishes and Places. 2. The Poor Law Board may, if they think fit, divide the said Lands or Parts thereof into Portions or Districts of such Extent respectively and bounded in such Manner as they shall deem most convenient, and, with the Consent of the Commissioner of Her Majesty's Woods and Forests and Land Revenues for the Time being in charge of the said Forest, by their Order declare that each of such Portions or Districts shall thenceforth for all the Purposes mentioned in the First Section of the said Act be a Township, and shall be designated by such Name as the Poor Law Board shall in such Order direct, and the same shall thenceforth be a Township separately maintaining its own Poor, and shall be designated by such Name as aforesaid; and the Justices of the Peace having Jurisdiction over such Portion or District or over the greater Part thereof shall appoint Overseers of the Poor therein. 3. The Poor Law Board may, if they think fit, with such Consent as aforesaid, by Order under their Seal direct that such Part of the said Lands as shall not be included in any such Majesty's Com- Townships shall be annexed for the Purposes aforesaid to any existing Parish or Place for which a separate Poor Rate shall or missioners of can |