entering the carriage or compartment, is hereby subjected to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings. carriages. 14. Dogs and other animals will not be suffered to accompany Conveyance passengers in the carriages, but will be conveyed separately and of dogs in charged for, and any person taking a dog or other animal with him into any passenger carriage used on the railway is hereby subjected to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings. 15. Loaded fire-arms are on no account to be taken into or Taking arms. placed upon any carriage, waggon, truck, or other vehicle forming loaded fireor intended to form a train or any portion of a train on the railway, or to be brought to the station, or on to the premises of the company, and every person so offending is hereby subjected to a penalty not exceeding five pounds. tious disorder. 16. The company may refuse to carry any person who has any Travelling infectious disorder. If any person who has any such disorder is with infecfound upon the premises of the company, or travels or attempts to travel on the railway of the company, without the special permission of the company, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings, in addition to the forfeiture of any fare which he may have paid, and may be removed at the first opportunity from the company's premises. Any person who has charge of any person suffering from an infectious disorder while upon the premises of the company, or travelling or attempting to travel on the railway, or who aids or assists any person suffering from such disorder, in being upon the premises of the company, or travelling or attempting to travel on the railway, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings, unless the person suffering from such disorder be travelling with the special permission of the company. obeying 17. Every driver or conductor of an omnibus, cab, carriage, or Omnibuses, other vehicle shall, while in or upon any station yard or other &c. drivers premises of the company, obey the reasonable directions of the servants of company's officers and servants duly authorised in that behalf; company. and every person offending against this regulation is hereby subjected to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings. The Board of Trade hereby signify their allowance and approval of the above byelaws and regulations. Signed by order of the Board of Trade the day of 18 . Assistant-Secretary to the Board of Trade. NOTICES. Penalty for Fraud. 1. Under the 103rd and 104th sections of the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, it is provided that if any person travel or attempt to travel in any carriage of the company, or of any other company or party using the railway, without having previously paid his fare, and with intent to avoid payment thereof, or if any person having paid his fare for a certain distance, knowingly and wilfully proceed in any such carriage beyond such distance without previously paying the additional fare for the additional distance, and with intent to avoid payment thereof, or if any person knowingly and wilfully refuse or neglect, on arriving at the point to which he has paid his fare, to quit such carriage, every such person shall for every such offence forfeit to the company a sum not exceeding forty shillings; and if any person commit any such offence, all officers and servants and other persons on behalf of the company may lawfully apprehend and detain such person until he can conveniently be taken before some justice, or until he be otherwise discharged by due course of law. Obstructing Officers of the Company. 2. Under the 109th section of "The Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," it is provided that if the infraction or nonobservance of the company's byelaws or regulations be attended with danger or annoyance to the public, or hindrance to the company in the lawful use of the railway, it shall be lawful for the company summarily to interfere to obviate or remove such danger, annoyance, or hindrance, and that without prejudice to any penalty incurred by the infraction of any such byelaw; and under the 16th section of the Act 3 & 4 Vict. c. 97, it is provided that if any person shall wilfully obstruct or impede any officer or agent of the company in the execution of his duty upon the railway, or upon or in any of the stations or other works or premises connected therewith, every such person so offending, and all others aiding or assisting therein, may be seized and detained until he can conveniently be taken before a justice, and shall in the discretion of such justice forfeit any sum not exceeding five pounds, and in default of payment thereof be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two calendar months. Injuring Notice Boards, &c. 3. Under the 144th section of "The Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," it is provided that if any person pull down or injure any board put up or affixed for the purpose of publishing any byelaw or penalty, or shall obliterate any of the letters or figures thereon, he shall forfeit for every such offence a sum not exceeding five pounds, and shall defray the expenses attending the restoration of such board. Sending Dangerous Goods. 4. Under the 105th section of "The Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," it is provided that no person shall be entitled to carry, or to require the company to carry, upon the railway any aquafortis, oil of vitriol, gunpowder, lucifer matches, or any other goods which in the judgment of the company may be of a dangerous nature, and if any person send by the railway any such goods without distinctly marking their nature on the outside of the package containing the same, or otherwise giving notice in writing to the book-keeper or other servant of the company with whom the same are left at the time of so sending, he shall forfeit to the company twenty pounds for every such offence, and it shall be lawful for the company to refuse to take any parcel that they may suspect to contain goods of a dangerous nature, or require the same to be opened to ascertain the fact. Using Communication between Passengers and Servants of the Company. 5. Under the 22nd section of "The Regulation of Railways Act, 1868," it is provided that any passenger who makes use of the means of communication between the passengers and the servants of the company in charge of a train without reasonable and sufficient cause, shall be liable for each offence to a penalty not exceeding five pounds. Trespassing on Railway. 6. Under the 23rd section of "The Regulation of Railways Act, 1868," as amended by section 14 of "The Regulation of Railways Act, 1871," it is provided that if any person shall be or pass upon the railway, except for the purpose of crossing the same at any authorised crossing, after having once received warning by the company which works such railway, or by any of their agents or servants, not to go or pass thereon, every person so offending shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding forty shillings for every such offence. INDEX. ABANDONMENT OF RAILWAY, repayment of deposit on A. of part of proposed railway, 338, 339, 640. application for, by railway company how made, 375. by judgment creditor, 641. general meeting for purpose of application, 375-378. vote of shareholders, how computed, 377. certificate of chairman evidence of meeting, 378. appeal by shareholders to Board of Trade, 378, 379. necessary advertisements on application for, 379, Board of Trade may inspect books and railway, 379, 380. may authorise, 380. duties of, in considering objections of shareholders, 380, 381. necessary advertisements requiring claims for compensation, 381. release of railway company from liability, when effected, 381, 382, 384. where bridges built, 382, 383. to be settled by arbitration, 383. claim to be made within six months, 384. railway companies not relieved from, for damage by entry on lands, claims for, where to be sent if company has no office or secretary, 641. incorporation of "LANDS CLAUSES ACT, 1845," ib. where part abandoned, reduction of capital and borrowing powers, 384, 385. in winding up of railway company, landowners are creditors, ib. actions against railway company before warrant of Board of Trade, when after agreement by company to construct railway, consent of contractee report by Board of Trade, ib. after A., when Board of Trade may remove railway works, 464. liability of provisional committee, 536, 537. on A. of railway, payment out of deposit, 539, 589, 590. Board of Trade may refuse, 588, 589. effect of authorisation of, 589, 590. where three-fifths of capital not subscribed, 589. petition for winding up railway company, after A. authorised, 589, 639. "ABANDONMENT OF RAILWAYS ACT, 1850," 375. extended, 588, 641. 1869, 638, |