SCHOOL ACT. Promulgation. most Honorable Privy Council, dated the 12th Instant, in the Words following, vizt. : Your Majesty having been pleased, by your Order in Council of the 30th of July, 1849, to refer unto this Committee, an Act of Tynwald passed in the Isle of Man, on the 5th of July, 1849, intituled "An Act for making better Provision for Parochial and other Schoolmasters, and for making further Regulations for the better Government of the Parochial and other Schools, in the Isle of Man :" The Lords of the Committee, in obedience to Your Majesty's said Order of Reference, have this Day taken the said Act into Consideration, and do agree humbly to report as their Opinion, to Your Majesty, that it may be adviseable for Your Majesty to approve of, and ratify the said Act. Her Majesty having taken the said Act into Consideration, was pleased, by and with the Advice of her Privy Council, to approve thereof, and to order, as it is hereby ordered, that the said Act (which is hereunto annexed) be, and the same is hereby confirmed, finally enacted, and ratified accordingly: and the Right Honorable Sir George Grey, Bart., One of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries, is to take the necessary Measures herein accordingly. C. C. Greville. At a Tynwald Court holden at St. John's The before-written Act of Tynwald, intituled, "An Palace, the 14th August, 1850, present, the Queen's SCHOOL ACT. most Excellent Majesty in Council, the said Act was this Day promulgated and published on the Tynwald Hill, according to the ancient Form and Custom within this Isle. As Witness our Subscrip Аст. Ar a Tynwald Court holden at Castle Rushen, the 14° VICT. 1851, Sixteenth Day of July, in the Fourteenth Year of LAND DRAINAGE the Reign of our Sovereign Lady VICTORIA, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, and in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight LAND DRAINAGE Highway Com mittee to be "Commissioners this Act. hundred and fifty, Before His Excellency the Honorable Charles Hope, Lieutenant-Governor, the Council, Deemsters, and Keys. An Act to provide for the more effectual Draining of WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the more effectual Draining of Fens, Marshy Grounds, and other Lands in this Island. We, therefore, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Lieutenant-Governor, Council, Deemsters, and Keys of the Isle of Man, do humbly beseech your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lieutenant-Governor, Council, Deemsters, and Keys of the said Isle, in Tynwald assembled, and by the Authority of the Same, That from and after the Promulgation of this Act, the Committee of Highways for the Time being, of Drains" under and every succeeding Committee of Highways, shall be, and they are hereby constituted "Commissioners of Drains," for the Purposes of this Act; which Majority of Com- Commissioners, or a Majority of them, shall have at view marshy all Times thereafter full Power and Authority, at the tition of the Pro- Expense of One Guinea to each Commissioner, for the Parties con- every Day on which such Commissioners, or either of have Three Days them, may be necessarily engaged in and about the same, to be prepaid, (Provided always, That such Commissioner. Expense shall not exceed in any Case Three Guineas per Day,) by the Party applying therefor, by Petition in Writing, (of which Three Days' previous Notice shall have been given by the Party applying, to all Parties likely to be affected thereby,) to view any Fens, Marsh, or other Ground overflowed with stagnant Waters, or any Ground whatsoever which may be represented by the Proprietor thereof to require Draining; and thereupon, if they shall see fit, by their missioners, may Lands on the Pe prietor, of which cerned are to notice, One Guinea to be paid to each LAND DRAINAGE Аст. may direct and mark a sufficient Drain for such to be recorded in certified Copy of served by the on all Persons to be affected there. by. aggrieved by apply to Gover Days after Ser vice of the same. Order in Writing, direct and mark out from a proper Level a sufficient and effectual Channel, Cut, Drain, commissioners or Outlet, according to the Nature and Situation of the Ground, for the effectually Draining of such Fens, Lands, and their Marshes, and other Lands; and such Order, when Order in writing made, shall be forthwith recorded by the Commis- the Rolls Office; sioners in the Rolls' Office; and when and after the Order to be said Commissioners shall have made their Order in Party applying the Premises, the Party so applying shall duly serve the Person or Persons through whose Grounds the said Channel, Cut, Drain, or Outlet, is so directed to be made, or who shall in anywise be affected thereby, with a certified Copy from Record of the said Order. And in case any Person shall find himself aggrieved Persons feeling by the said Order, such Person shall be at liberty to said Order may bring his Complaint of the said Order in Writing to nor within 8 the Governor, within Eight Days after Notice of such Order given as aforesaid, and the Governor shall thereupon judicially and finally hear and determine the Merits of the said Order and Complaint; and in case no such Complaint shall be preferred within If no Complaint Eight Days from and after the Notice of such Order of the said Commissioners as aforesaid, the Governor, upon Certificate of such Notice being given, shall carried into and lawfully may direct and adjudge the same to be carried into Execution; and all and every the Proprietors of the Lands through which such Channel, Cut, Drain, or Outlet is so directed to be made, shall, at his proper Costs and Charges, make and complete the same, in such Manner as shall be directed in and Benefit derived, by the said Order of the said Commissioners, regard by the Commis being had by the said Commissioners in apportioning sioners. the Amount to be paid by such Proprietors, to the extent of Interest or Benefit every such Proprietor may have or derive from the making of such Channel, Cut, Drain, or Outlet. And in case any Person shall neglect or refuse to comply with the Commissioners' Order, directed to be carried into Execution, as afore lodged within 8 Days after Ser vice, the Gover nor may direct the Order to be Execution. Drain to be adjoining Lands Proprietors, at and according to made through by the respective their own cost, the Amount of to be determined On Persons neg lecting or re fusing to comply Commissioners with said Order, Аст. may appoint an Overseer, who shall complete the Drain as directed. Overseer may penses of the LAND DRAINAGE said, the said Commissioners shall, and lawfully may, by Writing under their Hands, nominate and appoint a proper Overseer, effectually to carry on and complete the said Channel, Cut, Drain, or Outlet, through the Lands of such Person as shall refuse or neglect to obey the said Order; and such Overseer or Overseers appointed as aforesaid, shall, upon producing his or per Day for over their Accounts of the Expenses of the said Work, upon Oath before a Deemster, have Judgment and Execution granted against the Person so neglecting or refusing, for the full Amount thereof, together with an Allowance of Two Shillings and Sixpence each Day, for overseeing the said Work. work with 2s. 6d. seeing, before a Deemster. Commissioners may award Com. Damage may have been sus tained, by the cutting of such II. And be it further enacted, That it shall be pensation where lawful for the Commissioners, in any case where the Land of a Party Proprietor may have sustained, or be liable to sustain Damage, in consequence of the cutting of any Channel, Cut, Drain, or Outlet, through, near, contiguous to, or bordering upon such Land, to award Compensation to such Party, to be paid by the Party or Parties Proprietors who may be benefited by such Channel, Cut, Drain, or Outlet as aforesaid. Drain, to be paid by the Parties benefited. Persons obstruct ing Commission be committed to davit made be fore Governor. III. And be it further enacted, That in case any ers or Overseer to Person or Persons whatsoever, shall wilfully obstruct Prison, on affi- the said Commissioners, Overseer, or other Person employed by them in the Discharge of their Duty under this Act, it shall and may be lawful for the Governor or Lieutenant-Governor, upon Affidavit thereof to him made by the Commissioners or Overseer, to order the Offender or Offenders to be committed to Prison, there to remain until he, she, or they give in good and sufficient Security to offer no further Obstruction or Disturbance in the Premises; and, in the meantime, the said Work shall proceed as if no such Obstruction had been made. When an old IV. And be it further enacted, That wherever sufficient, Per- there shall happen to be an insufficient Mere, Fence, having a Stone or Boundary, any Person interested in such Boundary, sous desirous of |