3 days after the final clearance outwards of the ship in which such goods were in such Shipping Bill entered to be shipped, to attend the proper Officer of Customs, either by himself or his agent, and correct and make perfect such Shipping Bill, by striking out of the same such of the goods entered therein as shall not have been shipped in pursuance thereof, shall forfeit the sum of £20.

VII. Whereas by section 43 of "The Customs Consolidation Act, 1853," it is enacted, "that no goods shall be deemed to be imported from any particular place unless they be imported direct from such place, and shall have been there laden on board the importing ship either as the first shipment of such goods or after the same shall have been actually landed at such place;" and by section 77 of the same Act it is further enacted, "that no goods shall be entered as being of or from any British possession abroad (if any benefit attach to such distinction), (except as therein excepted), unless the master of the ship importing the same shall have delivered to the Collector or Comptroller a certificate under the hand of the proper officer of the place where such goods were taken on board of the due clearance of such ship from thence, containing an account of such goods ;" and by "The Customs Tariff Act, 1855,"* certain goods of and from a British possession are entitled to entry upon importation into the United Kingdom at a lower rate of duty than when imported from a foreign country, but are, under the provisions of section 43 of "The Customs Consolidation Act, 1853," required to be imported direct from the place of growth or produce: And whereas it is expedient to relax the provisions of the said Act in regard to butter and deals the produce of Canada imported from thence into the United Kingdom ria Portland in the United States of America: Be it therefore enacted, That, notwithstanding anything in the said Acts contained to the contrary, it shall and may be lawful to import butter and deals into the United Kingdom from Canada via Portland, under such rules and regulations as the Commissioners of the Treasury or the Commissioners of Customs may from time to time direct and appoint; and that such goods so imported shall be entitled to the same privileges, and admissible at the same rate of duty, as if imported direct from Canada.

ACT of the British Parliament, "to provide for the establishment of a Reserve Force of Men who have been in Her Majesty's Service."

[22 & 23 Vict., cap. 42.]

[August 13, 1859.] I. IT shall be lawful for Her Majesty, from time to time, to cause to be enrolled and kept up as a Reserve Force in the United Kingdom any number of men not exceeding in the whole 20,000, See Vol. 10, Page 343.

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the men so enrolled to be persons who shall have previously served in Her Majesty's other Forces or in the Forces of the East India Company, and who may voluntarily engage to serve under this Act; and such Reserve Force shall be formed into or attached to such battalions, corps, or companies as Her Majesty may think fit.

III. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty to appoint to the Force under this Act such officers and non-commissioned officers of Her Majesty's other Forces, or of the Forces of the East India Company, whether from full or half-pay or from the Pension List, as may be deemed expedient, and to put the whole or any part of the Force under the command of such general or other superior officers of the same forces as Her Majesty shall please to appoint.

VI. In case of actual invasion or imminent danger thereof, or in case a state of war exists between Her Majesty and any Foreign Power, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by Proclamation, to direct that the said Reserve Force, or such part thereof as Her Majesty shall think fit, shall be called out on permanent service in aid of the defence of the realm, in any part of the United Kingdom where their services may be required, and the said Forces, or such of them as shall be so called out, shall serve in pursuance of such Proclamation until it shall be signified to them by Her Majesty's command that their services are no longer required.

ACT of the British Parliament, to afford Facilities for the more certain ascertainment of the Law administered in one Part of Her Majesty's Dominions when pleaded in the Courts of another part thereof."

[22 and 23 Vict. cap. 63.]

[August 13, 1859.] WHEREAS great improvement in the administration of the law would ensue if facilities were afforded for more certainly ascertaining the law administered in one part of Her Majesty's dominions when pleaded in the Courts of another part thereof : 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. If in any action depending in any Court within Her Majesty's dominions, it shall be the opinion of such Court, that it is necessary or expedient for the proper disposal of such action to ascertain the law applicable to the facts of the case as administered in any other part of Her Majesty's dominions on any point on which the law of such other part of Her Majesty's dominions is different from that in which the Court is situate, it shall be competent to the Court in which such action may depend to direct

a case to be prepared setting forth the facts, as these may be ascertained by verdict of a jury or other mode competent, or may be agreed upon by the parties, or settled by such person or persons as may have been appointed by the Court for that purpose in the event of the parties not agreeing, and upon such case being approved of by such Court or a judge thereof, they shall settle the questions of law arising out of the same on which they desire to have the opinion of another Court, and shall pronounce an order remitting the same, together with the case, to the Court in such other part of Her Majesty's dominions, being one of the Superior Courts thereof, whose opinion is desired upon the law administered by them as applicable to the facts set forth in such case, and desiring them to pronounce their opinion on the questions submitted to them in the terms of the Act; and it shall be competent of the parties to the action to present a petition to the Court whose opinion is to be obtained, praying such last-mentioned Court to hear parties or their counsel, and to pronounce their opinion thereon in terms of this Act, or to pronounce their opinion without hearing parties or counsel; and the Court to which such petition shall be presented shall, if they think fit, appoint an early day for hearing parties or their counsel on such case, and shall thereafter pronounce their opinion upon the questions of law as administered by them, which are submitted to them by the Court: and in order to their pronouncing such opinion they shall be entitled to take such further procedure thereupon as to them shall seem proper.

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II. Upon such opinion being pronounced, a copy thereof, certified by an officer of such Court, shall be given to each of the parties to the action by whom the same shall be required, and shall be deemed and held to contain a correct record of such opinion.

III. It shall be competent to any of the parties to the action, after having obtained such certified copy of such opinion, to lodge the same with an officer of the Court in which the action may be depending, who may have the official charge thereof, together with a notice of motion, setting forth that the party will, on a certain day named in such notice, move the Court to apply the opinion contained in such certified copy thereof to the facts set forth in the case hereinbefore specified, and the said Court shall thereupon apply such opinion to such facts, in the same manner as if the same had been pronounced by such Court itself upon a case reserved for opinion of the Court, or upon special verdict of a jury; or the said last-mentioned Court shall, if it think fit, when the said opinion has been obtained before trial, order such opinion to be submitted to the jury, with the other facts of the case as evidence, or conclusive evidence, as the Court may think fit, of the Foreign Law therein stated, and the said opinion shall be so submitted to the jury.

IV. In the event of an appeal to Her Majesty in Council or to the House of Lords in any such action, it shall be competent to bring under the review of Her Majesty in Council or of the House of Lords the opinion pronounced as aforesaid by any Court whose judgments are reviewable by Her Majesty in Council or by the House of Lords, and Her Majesty in Council or that House may respectively adopt or reject such opinion of any Court whose judgments are respectively reviewable by them, as the same shall appear to them to be well founded or not in law.

V. In the construction of this Act, the word "Action" shall include every judicial proceeding instituted in any Court, civil, criminal, or ecclesiastical; and the words "Superior Courts" shall include, in England, the Superior Courts of Law at Westminster, the Lord Chancellor, the Lords Justices, the Master of the Rolls, or any Vice-Chancellor, the Judge of the Court of Admiralty, the Judge Ordinary of the Court of Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, and the Judge of the Court of Probate; in Scotland, the High Court of Justiciary, and the Court of Session acting by either of its divisions; in Ireland, the Superior Courts of Law at Dublin, the Master of the Rolls, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court; and in any other part of Her Majesty's dominions, the Superior Courts of Law or Equity therein.

ACT of the British Parliament, "to amend the Medical Acts;" so far as relates to the Qualification of Persons to practise Surgery under a Licence yranted by any University of Ireland.

[23 Vict., cap. 7.]

[March 23, 1860.] WHEREAS by an Act passed in the 21st and 22nd years of the reign of Her Majesty, chapter 90, intituled "The Medical Act,"* provision is made for the registration of members of the medical profession, and the said Act was amended by an Act passed in the 22nd year of the reign of Her Majesty, chapter 21; and certain disabilities are imposed by the said Acts, after a period mentioned therein, on members of that profession who are not then registered; And whereas it is expedient that the said recited Acts should be amended as 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:

I. From and after the passing of this Act the diploma or licence in surgery, granted by any university in that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland, legally authorized to grant the same, shall be considered a sufficient qualification to practise under the said

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first-recited Act and every person to whom such diploma or licence has been granted shall be entitled to be registered under the provisions of the said first-recited Act, in the like manner, and with the like effect, and subject to the like provisions as are prescribed by the first-recited Act in respect of the registration of any master in surgery of any University of the United Kingdom.

IV. No person authorized to be registered under this Act who shall be acting as medical officer under an order of the Poor Law Commissioners, or Poor Law Board, shall by reason of the said recited Acts, or either of them, be or be deemed to have been disqualified to hold such office, or any appointment mentioned in section 36 of the said first-recited Act, unless he shall have failed to be registered on or before the 1st day of January, 1861.

V. The said recited Acts and this Act shall be construed together as one Act.

ACT of the British Parliament, "for granting to Her Majesty certain Duties of Stamps ;" so far as relates to Foreign Bills of Exchange.

[23 Vict., cap. 15.]

[April 3, 1860.]

I. The Stamp Duties now payable in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for and in respect of the several instruments, matters, and things mentioned or described in the Schedule to this Act annexed, whereon other duties are by this Act granted, shall respectively cease and determine, and shall be and the same are hereby repealed; provided that the Stamp Duties now chargeable on any of the said instruments, matters, and things shall be payable in respect of such of them as shall have been or shall be made, signed, or dated at any time before the passing of this Act; save and except that the Stamp Duties on Foreign Bills of Exchange by this Act granted shall be payable on all such bills as shall, after the passing of this Act, be first negotiated, or, if not negotiated, paid in the United Kingdom.

XII. Whenever any Bill of Exchange, Draft, or Order having thereon an adhesive stamp shall be presented for payment, the person to whom the same shall be presented shall, upon paying the same, write or impress or cause to be written or impressed upon every stamp affixed to the bill the word "paid," to the end that the stamp may be more effectually cancelled, and made incapable of being used again; and in default of so doing he shall forfeit the penalty of £20.

XIII. The duties by this Act granted upon or in respect of Bills of Exchange, Drafts, or Orders, drawn out of the United Kingdom, shall be denoted by adhesive stamps, in like manner as the duties now payable on Bills of Exchange drawn out of the