9 & 10 V., c. 25. Preventing malicious Injuries by Fire or Explosive Substances. Sect. 9.-Every male person under the age of eighteen years who shall be convicted of any offence under this Act, or who shall be convicted of feloniously setting fire to any building, vessel or mine, or to any stack or steer, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court before which he shall be convicted, in addition to any other sentence which may be passed upon him, to be publicly or privately whipped, in such manner and as often, not exceeding thrice, as the Court shall direct. Sect. 10. In the case of every felony punishable under this Act, every principal in the second degree, and every accessary before the fact, shall be punishable in the same manner as the principal in the first degree is by this Act punishable, and every accessary after the fact to any felony punishable under this Act shall, on conviction, be liable to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years. Sect. 11.-Whenever any person shall be convicted of any offence punishable under this Act, for which imprisonment may be awarded, it shall be lawful for the Court to sentence the offender to be imprisoned, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the common gaol or house of correction, and also to direct that the offender shall be kept to solitary confinement for any portion or portions of such imprisonment, or of such imprisonment with hard labour, not exceeding one calendar month at any one time, and not exceeding three calendar months in any one year, as to the Court in its discretion shall seem meet. Sect. 12.-Any justice of the peace of any county, riding, division, liberty, borough, or place in which any gunpowder, or other explosive, dangerous or noxious substance is suspected to be made or kept for the purpose of being used in committing an offence under this Act, upon reasonable cause assigned upon oath by any person, may issue a warrant or warrants under his hand and seal, for searching in the daytime any house, shop, cellar, yard or other place, or any vessel in which such gunpowder or other substance is suspected to be made or kept for such purpose as aforesaid; and that every person acting in the execution of any such warrant shall have, for seizing, removing to proper places, and detaining all such gunpowder, explosive, dangerous or noxious substances found upon such search, which he shall have good cause to suspect to be intended to be used in committing an offence under this Act, and the barrels, packages, and cases in which the same shall be, the same powers which are given to persons searching for unlawful quantities of gunpowder under the warrant of a justice, by an Act passed in the twelfth year of the reign of King George the Third, intituled "An Act to regulate the making, keeping, and carriage of gunpowder within Great Britain, and to repeal the laws heretofore made for any of those purposes," see Dig. Part II., tit. GUNPOWDER. Sect. 13.-It shall be lawful for any constable or peace officer to take into custody, without a warrant, any person whom he shall find lying or loitering in any highway, yard, or other place during the night, and whom he shall have good cause to suspect of having committed or being about to commit any felony under this Act, and to detain such person until he can be brought before a justice of the peace, to be dealt with according to law. Sect. 14.-Provided always, that no such person, having been so apprehended, shall be detained after noon of the following day without being brought before a justice of the peace. Sect. 15.-Neither the justices of the peace acting in and for any county, riding, division, or liberty, nor the recorder of any borough, shall, at any session of the peace, or at any adjournment thereof, try any person or persons for any offence under this Act. Sect. 16.-Nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to extend to the alteration or repeal of any of the powers, provisions, or regulations contained in an Act passed in the sixth year of his late Majesty (5 & 6 W. 4, c. 38), intituled "An Act for effecting greater uniformity in the government of prisons in Great Britain," or in an Act in the fourth year of the reign of King George the Fourth (4 G. 4, c. 64), intituled "An Act for consolidating and amending the laws relating to the building, repairing and regulating of certain gaols and houses of correction in England and Wales." Sect. 17.-Where any felony punishable under this Act shall be committed within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England or Ireland the same shall be dealt with, inquired of, tried and determined in the same manner as any other felony committed within that jurisdiction. Sect. 18.-Nothing in this Act shall extend to Scotland. 9 & 10 V., c. 26. Abolishing the Office of Superintendent of Convicts under Sentence of Transportation. Sect. 1.-After reciting the 5 G. 4, c. 84, whereby it was provided that offenders under sentence of transportation should be kept to labour either at land or on board any 9 & 10 V., c. 26. Abolishing the Office of Superintendent of Convicts under Sentence of Transportation. vessel under the management of a superintendent to be appointed by H. M., and of an overseer also to be appointed by H. M., it is enacted that so much of the recited Act as gives the custody and management of any such male offenders out of England to the said superintendent shall be repealed, and the governor of every colony named in any Order in Council shall exercise all the powers and fulfil all the duties vested in and imposed on the said superintendent; and every overseer shall exercise his authority and perform the duties required of him by the said Act, under the direction of the said governor ; and every overseer shall hereafter be appointed and may be suspended or dismissed by the governor of the colony for which he is appointed, subject, in case of appointment or dismissal, to the approval of one of H. M.'s principal secretaries of state. Sect. 2.-Upon the next vacancy in the office of such superintendent of convicts, the same shall be abolished; and (Sect. 3) this shall be construed with and as part of the said Act. 9 & 10 V., c. 23. CUSTOMS. Altering certain Duties of Customs. Sect. 1.-After reciting 8 & 9 V., c. 90, the last Act imposing certain duties of customs, it is enacted, that in lieu of the duties now payable by law upon the goods, wares and merchandise mentioned in the table to this Act annexed, when imported into the U. K., there shall be raised and paid unto H. M., her heirs and successors, upon the said goods, wares and merchandise when imported into the U. K., the several duties of customs as the same are respectively set forth in the said last-mentioned table. Sect. 2.-From and after the 5th April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, the duties of customs now payable upon the foreign goods hereinafter next mentioned shall cease and determine, and that in lieu thereof there shall be charged the following duties on such foreign goods on their importation into the U.K. (that is to say,) Upon TIMBER and WOOD GOODS not otherwise charged; Timber or Wood, not being deals, battens, boards, staves, handspikes, oars, lathwood, or other timber or wood sawn, split, or otherwise dressed, except hewn, and not being timber or wood otherwise charged with duty, the load of 50 cubic feet 1 13 0 0 18 0 8 0 0 16 0 0 12 0 1 12 0 0 Knees, under 5 inches square, the 120 0 8 0 0 1 12 0 1 0 Spokes for wheels, not exceeding two feet in length, the 1000 exceeding 2 feet in length, the 1000 Wood, planed, or otherwise dressed or prepared for use, and not particularly enumerated, nor otherwise charged with duty 9 & 10 V., c. 23. Altering certain Duties of Customs. Or, in lieu of the duties imposed upon wood by the load according to the cubic content, the importer may have the option, at the time of passing the first entry, of entering battens, batten ends, boards, deals, deal ends, and plank, by tale, if of or from foreign countries, according to the following dimensions; videlicet, 9 & 10 V., c. 23. Altering certain Duties of Customs. Sect. 3.-In lieu of the duties of customs now chargeable on the articles hereinafter next mentioned, imported into the U. K., the following duties shall be charged from and after the first day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-six; (that is to say,) of and from a British possession, the cwt. All other seeds not particularly enumerated or described, or otherwise of and from a British possession, for every 1007. value Sect. 4.-No duties of customs shall be chargeable upon the goods, wares and merchandise hereinafter next mentioned; (that is to say,) Sect. 5.-Duties to be under the management of the commissioners of H. M.'s customs, and to be ascertained, raised, levied, collected, paid, and recovered, and allowed and applied or appropriated, under the provisions of any Act or Acts now in force, or here. after to be made, relating to the customs. 9 & 10 V., c. 23. Altering certain Duties of Customs. TABLE OF DUTIES TO WHICH THE FOREGOING ACT REFERS. Agates or cornelians, cut, manufactured or set, for every 1007. value Almonds, paste of, for every 1007. value Amber, manufactures of, not enumerated, for every 1007. value Arrowroot, the cwt. of and from a British possession, per cwt. Bandstring twist, for every 100/. value of and from a British possession, for every 1007. value Barley, pearled, the cwt. of and from a British possession, the cwt. Bast ropes, twines and strands, for every 100l. value of and from a British possession, for every 1007. value 0050005 Beads, viz. Arango, for every 100%. value Coral, for every 1007. value Crystal, for every 1007. value Jet, for every 1007. value Beer or mum, the barrel not otherwise enumerated or described, for every 100%. value Blacking, for every 100%. value Brass, manufactures of, for every 1007. value Powder of, for every 1007. value Brocade of gold or silver, for every 1007. value Bronze, manufactures of, not particularly enumerated, for every 100l. value Buck wheat, the quarter - Powder, for every 1007, value Tallow, the cwt. Wax, the lb. Canes, walking canes or sticks, mounted, painted, or otherwise ornamented, of and from a British possession, the cwt. China or porcelain ware, painted or plain, gilt or ornamented, for every 0 06 10 00 00 0 06 1007. value 10 0 0 Cider, the tun 5 50 5 00 Clocks, for every 1007. value 10 0 0 Copper manufactures, not otherwise enumerated or described, and copper- Cotton, articles or manufactures of cotton wholly or in part made up, not Crystal, cut or manufactured, for every 1007. value --of and from a British possession, for every 1007. value Fish, cured, not otherwise enumerated, the cwt. Gauze of thread, for every 1007. value . of and from a British possession, for every 1007, value 10 0 0 |