will admit, take it to his District Inspector, as directed by 6 and 7 Wm. IV., c. 13, s. 16, who will indorse thereon the name or names of the Head or other Constables who are to execute it. Every warrant is to be sent to the station (within the county to which it belongs) nearest to the place of residence, or suspected place of abode, of the person charged therein : and if the parties reside in different districts or sub-districts, it will be advisible for the District Inspector, Head or other Constable to whom the warrant has been delivered to procure and forward separate warrants to such districts: in case of offences punishable either by indictment or summary conviction, the warrants should be addressed to the District Inspector or Head Constable (14 and 15 Vic., c. 93, s. 25, sub-s. 2). Other warrants may be addressed to the District Inspector, or Head Constable, or to such other person as the justices shall see fit. Receipts should, in all cases, be required from plaintiffs or other persons to whom payments are made of moneys levied under warrants, and such receipts should be written on the warrants, and signed by the plaintiff or other person entitled to same. In the case of marksmen, the money should be paid in the presence of a witness who can write and attest by his signature such mark. Previously to executing a warrant it should be ascertained that it is correctly filled. Any informality in a warrant should be pointed out to the magistrate by whom it was issued. The Constable is bound to follow the directions contained in a warrant, and to execute it with secrecy and despatch. The dates of the receipt and execution of all warrants, and by whom executed, must be indorsed thereon, and the warrants are to be carefully preserved by the District Inspector, Head Constable, or Constable who executes them, as they may be wanted afterwards for his own justification. The Constabulary should execute all warrants addressed to them. They are required to execute " game warrants." They should not upon any consideration give a copy or extract from any warrant or order with which they may be intrusted, or suffer it to be read, or read it to any person except the individual upon or against

whom it is to be executed or a magistrate, or other authorized person, and that on demand. If required by the magistrates it is their duty to execute warrants obtained by a registered loan fund society. By the 41 and 42 Vic., c. 69, they are required to execute warrants for the levying of fines imposed on jurors.

Indorsement of warrants.-For backing of warrants, see sections 25 to 32 of 14 and 15 Vic., c. 93. The law requires that every warrant should be submitted to the Inspector-General for indorsement-where the person to be arrested or his goods are to be found in another county, in the Police District of Dublin Metropolis, or in any other part of the United Kingdom. By section 77 of 40 and 41 Vic., c. 56, warrants issued by magistrates appointed under the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854, may be indorsed by the Inspector-. General for execution outside the limits of the town.

The certificate G a, on back of warrant, is only necessary when returning an unexecuted warrant to the justices who issued it, in cases where the person to whom the warrant has been addressed, &c., shall have been unable to find the party charged or his goods, or to discover where such person or his goods are to be found, 14 and 15 Vic., c. 93, s. 33. The certificate G b. on back of warrant, must be signed by a District Inspector or Head Constable [ss. 26 and 27].

Mode of submitting warrants for indorsement.— Each warrant transmitted to head quarters for the purpose of being backed must be submitted with a half sheet in front, and it must be stated thereon (1) in what police district or sub-district the offender or his goods may be found; (2) also the name of the defendant and the offence with which he is charged. The warrant should contain in the recital of complaint the name of the county, as well as that of the place, so as to show jurisdiction. And whenever it is necessary to make alterations or corrections in a warrant, the initials of the magistrate who signs it should be written opposite, or close to the place where the alterations or corrections appear. In submitting warrants for the arrest of persons charged with desertion of wives and children, it must be stated that the guardians have

expressed their willingness to defray all reasonable and necessary expenses attending the arrest. So also in the case of a warrant for a runaway apprentice, it should be stated in the report that the master guarantees the expense attending arrest, or that a magistrate's authority has been obtained for it. In like manner in case of embezzlement, it should be stated that the owner of the property guarantees or that a magistrate authorizes the expense attending the arrest.

Loan Fund.-Loan fund warrants being altogether of a civil nature, it is desirable that the Constabulary should only be called on to execute them when there is a reasonable apprehension of resistance being offered to the enforcement of such warrants. The Constabulary may, however, execute loan fund warrants whenever required by the magistrates to do so, provided only that indispensable duty is not thereby neglected. But in no case are the Constabulary to be employed in the execution of warrants obtained by any society not duly registered according to law (6 and 7 Vic., c. 91), nor of any closed loan-fund society; nor are they to execute any loan-fund warrants whatever which are addressed to special bailiffs, or in which special bailiffs are named.

Weights and Measures Act, 1878—(41 and 42 Vic., c. 49). S. 19. Every contract, bargain, sale, or dealing for any work, goods, wares, or merchandise, or other thing sold, delivered, carried, or agreed for by weight or measure shall be deemed to be made and had according to one of the imperial weights or measures, ascertained by Act, or to some multiple or part thereof, and if not so made or had, shall be void. Person selling by any denomination of weight or measure other than one of the imperial weights or measures or some multiple or part thereof, P. 408.-S. 20. All articles sold by weight shall be sold by avoirdupois weight, except gold and silver, platinum, diamonds and other precious stones, which may be sold by troy weight; drugs may be sold in retail by apothecaries' weight, P. £5-S. 23. Printing, or making price lists or returns denoting greater or less weight or measure than the same denomination of imperial weight or measure, P. 10s.--S. 24. Using or having in possession, for use for trade, a weight or measure which is not of the denomination of some Board of Trade standard, P. £10.-S. 25. Using or having in possession for trade any

weight, measure, scale, balance, steelyard, or weighing machine which is false or unjust, P. £5, and the weight, measure, scale, balance, or steelyard, may be forfeited.--S. 26. Where any fraud is wilfully committed in the using of any weight, measure, scale, balance, steelyard, or weighing machine, P. £5.-S. 27. Wilfully or knowingly making or selling, or causing to be made or sold, any false or unjust weight, measure, scale, balance, steelyard, or weighing machine, P. £10.--S. 28. Every weight shall have the denomination of such weight stamped on the top or side thereof in legible letters. Every measure shall have denomination stamped on outside in legible figures and letters. A weight or measure not in conformity with this section shall not be stamped with stamp of verification under Act.--S. 29. Every measure and weight used for trade shall be verified and stamped by an Inspector with stamp of verification under Act. Using or having in possession, for use for trade, any measure or weight not stamped as required by Act, P. £5.-S. 30. Weight made of lead or pewter, or of any mixture thereof, not to be stamped unless cased with brass, copper, or iron, and marked "cased," P. £5.-S. 31. Every corn weight shall be verified and stamped by Board of Trade, and otherwise shall not be deemed a just weight. Using such unjust weights, P. £50.-S. 32. Forging or counterfeiting any stamp used for stamping under Act of any measure or weight, P. £50. Using, selling, &c., such measure or weight, P. £10. All measures or weights with fforged stamp to be forfeited S. 59. Where any weight, measure, scale, balance, steelyard, or weighing machine is found in the possession of any person carrying on trade or on his premises used for trade, such person shall be deemed, until the contrary is proved, to have such weight, measure, &c., in his possession for use for trade.

Ex-officio Inspectors of weights and measures.-Section 81 of the Act empowers the Inspector-General to select, with the approval of the Lord Lieutenant, certain Head or other Constables in each petty sessions district to be ex-officio Inspectors of weights and measures within such district. If within one month of such selection (which is to be duly notified to the clerk of petty sessions) the justices signify disapproval of the Head or other Constable selected, another selection is to be made and notified to the justices. The several ex-officio Inspectors sɔ appointed will have

the custody of the local sub-standards of weights and

measures.

Duties. The ex-officio Inspectors of weights and measures are required to give their best attention to the detection and punishment of fraud in the use of false weights and measures. They are to stamp all weights and measures of traders where they are correctly adjusted by the traders. For this purpose notices should be periodically posted, informing the public that on a day and at a place named the ex-officio. Inspector will attend for the purpose of stamping such weights and measures as shall be brought to him for verification. And the ex-officio Inspector should attend, with the local standards in his custody, at the time and place fixed, and should examine every measure and weight which is of the same denomination as one of such standards, and is brought to him for the purpose of verification, and if he find the same correct should stamp it with a stamp of verification in such manner as best to prevent fraud; and in the case of a measure or of a weight of a quarter of a pound or upwards should further stamp thereon a name, number, or mark distinguishing the district for which he acts. The ex-officio Inspector should also enter in a book kept by him minutes of every such verification, and give, if required, a certificate under his hand of every such stamping. (Sec. 44 of Act.)

Power to inspect weights, measures, scales, &c., and to enter shops, &c., for that purpose.-By sections 48 and 81 of the Act, every ex-officio Inspector may without authority from a justice at all reasonable times inspect all weights, measures, scales, balances, steelyards, and weighing machines within his jurisdiction which are used or in the possession of any person or on any premises for use for trade, and may compare every such weight and measure with the local substandards; and may seize and detain any weight, measure, scale, balance, or steelyard which is liable to be forfeited in pursuance of this Act; and may for the purpose of such inspection enter any place whether a building or in the open air, whether open