Power as to proclamation in respect to arms and ammunition. Power as to tion of arms Supplemental provisions. shall be deemed to be in the possession of Her Majesty, and provision 2. The Lord Lieutenant, by and with the advice of the Privy Council in Ireland, may from time to time by proclamation declare this Act to be in force within any specified part of Ireland, and this Act shall thereupon after the date specified in the proclamation be in force within such specified part, and any such specified part of Ireland is in this Act referred to as a "proclaimed district;" and any such proclamation may set forth the conditions and regulations under which the carrying or having of arms or ammunition is authorised, and make provision for the appointment of persons to give effect to the same and the manner of the promulgation thereof. 3. The Lord Lieutenant, by and with the advice of the Privy Council in Ireland, may from time to time make orders for prohibiting or regulating in Ireland the sale or importation of arms and ammunition, and for the appointment of persons for the purpose of giving effect to such orders and providing for the manner of the promulgation thereof. If any person sell or import, or attempt to sell or import, any arms or ammunition in contravention of any such order, such arms and ammunition shall be liable to be forfeited to Her Majesty, and the person so acting wilfully shall be guilty of an offence against this Act. 4. (1.) The Lord Lieutenant, by and with the advice of the Privy Council, may, by a further proclamation or order, from time to time alter or revoke any proclamation or order made by him under this Act. A copy of every proclamation and order under this Act shall be laid before each House of Parliament within fourteen days after the making thereof, if Parliament is then sitting, and if not, then within fourteen days after the next meeting of Parliament. (2.) The Lord Lieutenant may from time to time by order prescribe forms for the purposes of this Act, and any form so prescribed shall be valid in law. (3.) Any warrant or order of the Lord Lieutenant under this Act may be signified under his hand or under the hand of the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant. (4.) Any person who may be appointed under any proclamation issued pursuant to this Act to grant licences to have or carry arms, in any district, shall be bound to grant to any occupier of one or more agricultural holdings a licence to have arms, or to have and carry arms upon any specified lands, or a licence to have and carry arms generally, who shall produce to him a certificate signed by two justices of the peace for the county, residing within the same petty sessions district as the person producing such certificate, that he is, to their own personal knowledge, a fit and proper person to have such licence respectively. (5.) Every proclamation and order under this Act, and a notice of the promulgation thereof in the manner provided, shall be published in the Dublin Gazette, and the production of a printed copy of the Dublin Gazette purporting to be printed and published by the Queen's authority, and containing the publication of any proclamation, order, or notice under this Act, shall be conclusive evidence of the contents of such proclamation, order, or notice, and of the date thereof, and that the district specified in such proclamation is a proclaimed district within the meaning of this Act, and that the said proclamation or order has been duly promulgated. 5. Any person acting in contravention of this Act shall be liable Penalties. if convicted before a court of summary jurisdiction to be imprisoned for a term not exceeding three months, or, at the discretion of the court, to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds; but, if, upon the hearing of the charge, the court shall be of opinion that there are circumstances in the case which render it inexpedient to inflict any punishment, it shall have power to dismiss the person charged without proceeding to a conviction. For the purposes of this Act, the court of summary jurisdiction shall, in the police district of Dublin metropolis, be constituted of a divisional justice acting for the said district, and elsewhere in Ireland shall be constituted of two or more justices of the peace sitting in petty sessions, of whom one shall be a resident magistrate, or of one resident magistrate sitting alone in petty sessions. 6. In this Act the expression "Lord Lieutenant " "Lord Lieutenant" means the Definitions. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the time being. The expression " arms," includes any cannon, gun, revolver, pistol, and any description of firearms, also any sword, cutlass, pike, and bayonet, also any part of any arms as so defined. The expression "ammunition "includes bullets, gunpowder, nitroglycerine, dynamite, gun-cotton, and every other explosive substance whether fitted for use with any arms or otherwise. 7. This Act may be cited as the Peace Preservation (Ireland) Short title. Act, 1881. 8. This Act shall continue in force until the first day of June Continuance of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six. Act. CHAPTER 6. An Act to provide for an Annual Return of Rates, Taxes, HEREAS rates, taxes, tolls, and dues to a large amount are Scotland, and it is proper that Parliament should be informed And whereas by the authority of Parliament returns of such 23 & 24 Vict. receipts and expenditure are prepared annually for England and c. 51. 40 & 41 Vict. Ireland, but no provision has been made for the preparation of returns applicable to Scotland: e. 66. Short title, and application. Clerks of local bodies to make annual returns of local taxation. Penalty. Returns not to required. 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. This Act may be cited as the Local Taxation Returns (Scotland) Act, 1881, and shall apply to Scotland only. 2. The clerk (or if there be no clerk the treasurer or other officer or person keeping the accounts of the receipts and expenditure) of any corporation, commission, board, trustees, or other body or persons authorised to levy or to order to be levied any compulsory rates, taxes, tolls, or dues in Scotland (other than such as are levied. for the public revenue of the United Kingdom), shall once a year make a return of their receipts and expenditure of such rates, taxes, tolls, or dues to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department at such time and in such form as he may from time to time direct, and unless some other time be prescribed such returns shall be made in the month of July in each year for the annual period ending at Whitsunday immediately preceding, where the accounts are made up from Whitsunday to Whitsunday, if otherwise, then for the latest period of twelve months preceding the date of the return for which the accounts are in use to be made up. The first returns shall be made in July of the present year. The Secretary of State shall cause such returns to be abstracted, and the abstract thereof, with such further particulars as he may think proper, to be laid before Parliament. 3. Any clerk, treasurer, or other officer required as aforesaid to make a return under this Act who fails to make such return at the prescribed time, shall be liable to a penalty of twenty pounds, which may be recovered summarily by proceedings in the Sheriff Court or Court of Session at the instance of the Lord Advocate. 4. Where any annual return is now by law required to be be additional to made to the Secretary of State or to any public department, this those already Act shall not render necessary any other return. Provided that the Secretary of State may by his order published in the Edinburgh Gazette direct that all or any of such returns now required as aforesaid shall in future be made under this Act. Saving for railway companies, &c. 28 & 29 Vict. c. 32. 5. This Act shall not extend to any tolls or dues taken by any railway, canal, or joint stock company as profits of their undertaking, or to any tolls or dues taken by prescription, or otherwise, as private property. CHAPTER 7. An Act to authorise the Secretary of State for India in Council to sell a piece of land in Charles Street, Westminster, to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings for the Public Service. [29th March 1881.] HEREAS in pursuance of the India Office Site and Approaches Act, 1865, the Secretary of State in Council of India purchased certain land, and such land is now vested in Her Majesty her heirs and successors, for the service of the Government of India, according to the provisions of the Act of the session of the twentyfirst and twenty-second years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter one hundred and six, intituled "An Act for the better 21 & 22 Vict. Government of India," in this Act referred to as the India Act, c. 106. 1858: And whereas that portion of the land so purchased and vested in Her Majesty as aforesaid which is described in the schedule to this Act, and delineated on the plan deposited as in the schedule mentioned, is not required for the service of the Government of India: And whereas the Secretary of State in Council of India has agreed to sell to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings (in this Act referred to as the Commissioners of Works), and the Commissioners of Works have agreed to buy the said portion of land described in the schedule to this Act for the sum of sixty-eight thousand six hundred pounds, to be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament: And whereas it is expedient to provide as herein-after appearing for carrying into effect the said sale : 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. This Act may be cited as the India Office (Sale of Superfluous Short title. Land) Act, 1881. site in Charles missioners of 2. As soon as the Commissioners of Works have paid into the Transfer of Bank of England to the account of the Secretary of State in Street from Council of India the sum of sixty-eight thousand six hundred Indian Secrepounds, the piece of land described in the schedule to this Act. tary to Comand delineated on the plan deposited as in that schedule mentioned, Works. shall be vested in the Commissioners of Works, and their successors and assigns, for all the estate and interest of Her Majesty therein, and all powers in relation to the said piece of land which, by the India Office Site and Approaches Act, 1865, are vested in Her 28 & 29 Vict. Majesty, her heirs and successors, shall vest in the Commissioners c. 32. of Works, their successors and assigns. The Commissioners of Works shall hold the said piece of land for the public service in like manner as if it had been duly purchased by them under the Act of the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter twenty-eight, intituled "An Act to amend an Act of the fourteenth and fifteenth years of Her present Majesty for the direction of Public Works and Buildings, and to vest the buildings appropriated for the accom❝modation of the Supreme Court of Justice in Edinburgh in the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings." Provided that in the event of the sale, exchange, or lease of the said piece of land, or any part thereof, it shall not be necessary for the person who purchases or takes the same in exchange or lease to ascertain that the direction of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury has been given to such purchase, exchange, or lease. Land to con land tax. The receipt of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for the above-mentioned sum shall be recorded at the Queen's Remembrancer's Office among the records of the High Court of Justice, and shall be conclusive evidence to any purchaser that the above sum was duly paid, and that the land became under this Act vested in the Commissioners of Works. 3. Such portion of the piece of land described in the schedule tinue subject to to this Act as, at the time of the passing of this Act, is subject to land tax, shall continue liable thereto until duly discharged, but shall not be assessed to the land tax at a higher value than that at which such land was assessed at the time at which it was purchased in pursuance of the India Office Site and Approaches Act, 1865. Exemption c. 122. 4. All buildings erected on the land mentioned in the schedule. from operation to this Act by or under the direction of the Commissioners of Works of 18 & 19 Vict. shall be exempt from the operation of the Metropolitan Buildings Act, 1855, and any Act amending the same, whether passed before or after the passing of this Act, except so far as any future Act expressly negatives this section. Disposition of moneys received for purchase. 21 & 22 Vict. c. 106. 5. All moneys received by the Secretary of State in Council of India in pursuance of this Act shall be applied as other moneys received from the sale of land vested in Her Majesty for the service of the Government of India under the India Act, 1858, are by law applicable. SCHEDULE. All the piece of land, containing twenty-seven thousand four hundred and forty square feet, or thereabouts, situate in the parish of St. Margaret, in the city of Westminster, and abutting on the north on Charles Street, on the west on Delahay Street, on the south on Gardener's Lane, and on the east on land belonging to the Commissioners of Works, as the same land is delineated on a plan signed by the Right Honourable George John Shaw Lefevre, First Commissioner of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings, and by the Right Honourable Spencer Compton Cavendish, commonly called the Marquis of Hartington, one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and deposited at the Queen's Remembrancer's Office among the records of Her Majesty's High Court of Justice, and coloured red on the said plan. www CHAPTER 8. An Act to apply certain Sums out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the years ending on the thirtyfirst day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighty, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, and one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two. Most Gracious Sovereign, [29th March 1881.] E, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled, towards making good the supply which |