6 CAP. CXI. An Act to amend the Law relating to Bills of Lading. I. Every Consignee of Goods named in a Bill of Lading, and every Endorsee of a Bill of Lading to whom the Property in the Goods therein mentioned shall pass, upon or by reason of such Consignment or Endorsement, shall have transferred to and vested in him all Rights of Suit, and be subject to the same Liabilities in respect of such Goods as if the Contract contained in the Bill of Lading had been made with himself. Rights under to vest in transitu or II. Nothing herein contained shall prejudice or affect any Not to affect Right of Stoppage in transitu, or any Right to claim Freight Right of against the original Shipper or Owner, or any Liability of the Stoppage in Consignee or Endorsee by reason or in consequence of his Claims for being such Consignee or Endorsee, or of his Receipt of the Freight. Goods by reason or in consequence of such Consignment or Endorsement. III. Every Bill of Lading in the Hands of a Consignee or Bill of Lading Endorsee for valuable Consideration representing Goods to have in Hands of been shipped on board a Vessel shall be conclusive Evidence of conclusive Consignee, &c. such Shipment as against the Master or other Person signing Evidence of the same, notwithstanding that such Goods or some Part thereof the Shipment as against may not have been so shipped, unless such Holder of the Bill of Master, &c. Lading shall have had actual Notice at the Time of receiving the same that the Goods had not been in fact laden on board: Provided, that the Master or other Person so signing may Proviso. exonerate himself in respect of such Misrepresentation by showing that it was caused without any Default on his Part, and wholly by the Fraud of the Shipper, or of the Holder, or some Person under whom the Holder claims. CAP. CXII. 11 & 12 Vict. c. 2. 15 & 16 Vict. c. 66. 16 & 17 Vict. c. 72. 17 & 18 Vict. c. 92. Recited Act continued. 14 & 15 Vict. c. 66. An Act to continue an Act of the Eleventh Year of I. The said first-recited Act shall be and continue in full Force and Effect until the First Day of July One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. 6 CAP. CXIII. An Act to extend the Provisions of an Act of the 6 any any Part of the said Loan of Ten thousand seven hundred Pounds, be appropriated to the Repayment of the Sum advanced and Interest thereof such Parts of the Sums allotted to the Counties of Inverness, Ross, Sutherland, and Caithness, out of an annual Grant of Five thousand Pounds, in the said Act mentioned, as would produce an annual Payment at the 'Rate of Six Pounds Ten Shillings for every One hundred Pounds of the Sum so advanced, and so in proportion for any 'lesser Amount, and such annual Payment should be made for 'the Term of Twenty-two Years, to be computed from the Sixth Day of April or Tenth Day of October which should first happen after such Advance, and further Provisions are therein contained concerning such annual Payment, and for the Deduction thereof from the Sums allotted to the said Counties, and to provide for the Deficiency to arise by such Deductions: And whereas the Expense of erecting the said Bridge having exceeded the estimated Amount thereof it is expedient that 'further Public Assistance should be afforded towards defraying such Expense upon the Conditions herein-after expressed: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Tempora poral, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: Parliament. I. Any Monies to be provided by Parliament for that Purpose Application of shall be applied by the said Commissioners of Highland Roads Morries pro-> and Bridges, under the Direction of the Commissioners of Her vided by Majesty's Treasury, towards defraying the Expense of erecting the said new Bridge by the said Act authorized to be made and maintained. authorized II. It shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury Treasury to advance by way of Loan to the said Commissioners to advance of Highland Roads and Bridges, towards defraying the Expense 3,000l. by way of erecting the said Bridge, any further Sum not exceeding of Loan. Three thousand Pounds, out of the growing Produce of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and such Sum shall be repaid, with Interest, in the Manner herein-after provided. Sums advanced under this Act to be repaid, with Interest, from the Allotments. County III. Upon the Advance of the said Commissioners of the Treasury of all or any Part of the said Loan of Three thousand Pounds, there shall be appropriated to Repayment of the Sum advanced, and Interest thereof, such Parts of the Sums allotted as in the said Act mentioned to the said Counties of Inverness, Ross, Sutherland, and Caithness out of the said annual Grant of Five thousand Pounds, as will produce an annual Payment at the Rate of Six Pounds Ten Shillings for every One hundred Pounds of the Sum so advanced, and so in proportion for any lesser Amount, such annual Payment to be made for the Term of Twenty-two Years; and all the Provisions of the said Act Provisions of of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Years of Her Majesty with 14 & 15 Vict. reference to the said Sum of Ten thousand seven hundred cerning former Pounds, and the Charges of the annual Payments in respect Loan extended thereof, to the Loan to S$ 4 c. 66. con be advanced thereof, and the Deduction of such annual Payments from the under this Act. Sums allotted to the said Counties, and for supplying the Deficiency to arise by such Deductions, shall be extended and shall be applicable to the said Sum of Three thousand Pounds to be advanced by way of Loan under this Act, and the Charges of the annual Payments in respect thereof, and the Deduction of such annual Payments from he Sums allotted to the said Counties, and for supplying the Deficiency to arise from such last mentioned Deductions. Justices at Petty Sessions empowered to transfer Licences on the Death or Removal of the Parties licensed. CAP. CXIV. An Act for the Transfer of Licences of Public Houses WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the Transfer in certain Cases of Licences of Inns, Alehouses, and Victualling Houses in Ireland: 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: I. Upon the Death of any Person duly licensed to carry on the Business of a Licensed Victualler, and to sell Exciseable Liquors by Retail, to be consumed on the Premises, in Ireland, or upon the Removal of any such Person from the House or Premises at which he is authorized by any such Licence to carry on such Business as aforesaid in Ireland or the Sale of or Assignment of his Interest therein by Operation of Law or otherwise, it shall be lawful for the Justices of the Peace of the District within which any such licensed House or Premises shall be situated, assembled at Petty Sessions, or the Justices in any Liberty, City, Town, or Place within which any such licensed House or Premises shall be situated assembled at Petty Sessions, at any Time when no Quarter Sessions shall be holden for any such County, Riding, Division, Liberty, City, Town, or Place, (if they shall think proper so to do, after examining upon Oath all necessary Parties,) to transfer, by Endorsement thereon, any and every such Licence as aforesaid then in force, to any Person, not disqualified by Law, to whom it shall be proposed at the Time of such Application to transfer any such Licence, to use, exercise, and carry on the Business of a Licensed Victualler at the same House and on the same Premises, and there to sell such Exciscable Liquors as might theretofore have been lawfully sold and retailed therein; and thereupon it shall be lawful for such Person so to use, exercise, and carry on the said Business at such House and Premises, until the Quarter Sessions of the Peace which shall be holden for the same County, Riding, Division, Liberty, City, Town, or Place next after the Expiration of One Calendar Month from the Time of such Transfer, and no longer. II. Provided Transfer within the District of II. Provided always, That nothing herein contained shall be Nothing to construed to empower any Justices at Petty Sessions to make empower any Justice at Petty any such Transfer as aforesaid, within any of the Divisions Sessions to assigned or to be assigned to any of the Police Courts already make any established or to be established within the District of Dublin Metropolis, but that any such Application as is herein-before the Dublin authorized to be made at Petty Sessions shall, when the licensed Metropolis. House and Premises shall be situated within any of the said Divisions of the Police District of Dublin Metropolis, be made to One of the Police Magistrates sitting at any of the said Courts, and such Magistrate shall, in his Discretion, make any such Transfer as aforesaid, in the Manner and for the Time herein-before mentioned: Provided also, that any Person who shall be authorized under the Provisions of this Act to continue to carry on the Business of a Licensed Victualler shall, after the obtaining such Authority, and so long as the same shall continue in force, be subject to all the Powers, Regulations, Proceedings, Penaltics, and Provisions declared by or contained in any Act or Acts in force touching the Regulation, Government, or Control of Licensed Keepers of Inns, Alehouses, and Victualling Houses, in like Manner as if the same had been repeated and re-enacted in this Act, and that all Penalties and Forfeitures imposed by any such Act or Acts shall be applied as directed by the same respectively. 6 6 W CAP. CXV. An Act to continue and amend the Public Health Act 6 |