XXIX.-POLICE FOR RAILWAY WORKS, IRELAND.

11 & 12 VICT., CAP. 72.

An Act to amend the Acts relating to the Constabulary Force in Ireland, and to amend the Provisions for the Payment of Special Constables.

[31st August, 1848.]

EXTRACTS.

"§ 4. And whereas it is expedient to fix and determine the Rate of Sum to be charged upon each County, or any Part or District Charge for Constabulary thereof, or any County of a City or County of a Town in Ire- in Ireland. land, in all Cases where, by the Laws now in force, One Moiety of the Costs and Expenses of any Constabulary Force is chargeable thereupon respectively, and also the Sum to be charged upon any Borough for which a Constabulary Force shall be appointed in compliance with a Memorial from the Town Council of such Borough, in pursuance of an Act of the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in Ireland; be it enacted, That from and after the Thirtyfirst Day of March One thousand eight hundred and fortyeight, in all such Cases as aforesaid there shall be chargeable to each such County, County of a City, County of a Town, or Borough, per Annum, for each Sub-Inspector One Moiety of the Sum of One hundred and sixty Pounds, for each Head Constable One Moiety of the Sum of Seventy Pounds, and for each Constable or Sub-Constable One Moiety of the Sum of Thirty-five Pounds Two Shillings and Sixpence; and so in proportion for every fractional Part of a Year."

Charge where

"§ 7. And whereas by an Act of the Eighth and Ninth Scale of Years of Her present Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act for Constables the Appointment of additional Const bles for keeping the Peace are charge

able to Railway Company, c.

near Public Works in Ireland', Provision is made for the Appointment and Payment of additional Head and other Constables for keeping the Peace in certain Cases in the Neighbourhood of Railway Works or other public Works in Ireland; be it enacted, That whenever such additional Head or other Constables shall have been or shall be appointed and employed for the Purposes and under the Provisions of the said last-recited Act, the Company or other Parties carrying on such Railway or other public Works shall be chargeable for the Expense of such Head and other Constables as in the said Act provided, but according to the Proportion of Head and other Constables herein before provided', and also according to the Scale of Charge herein-before provided for Head and other Constables, save that such Company or Parties shall be chargeable for the whole and not for the Moiety only of such respective Rates of Charge."

XXX. -COMPENSATION FOR ACCIDENTS.

9 & 10 VICT., CAP. 93.

An Act for compensating the Families of Persons killed by
Accidents.

[26th August, 1846.]

Action for damages maintainable against Party causing Death

through Neglect, &c., although

amounting

to Felony.

WHEREAS no Action at Law is now maintainable against a Person who by his wrongful Act, Neglect, or Default may have caused the Death of another Person, and it is oftentimes right and expedient that the Wrongdoer in such Case should be answerable in Damages for the Injury so caused by him: Be it therefore enacted...That whensoever the Death of a Person shall be caused by wrongful Act, Neglect, or Default,

a 8 & 9 Vic. c. 46, § 1, 2 (XXVIII. 1, 2, p. 335-6.) b Namely, "One Sub-Inspector for every Fifty Constables and Sub-Constables, and One Head Constable for every Twenty-five Constables and SubConstables," (§ 5); being the proportion authorized to be appointed by the Lord Lieutenant in such cases.

and the Act, Neglect, or Default is such as would (if Death had not ensued) have entitled the Party injured to maintain an Action and recover Damages in respect thereof, then and in every such Case the Person who would have been liable if Death had not ensued shall be liable to an Action for Damages, notwithstanding the Death of the Person injured, and although the Death shall have been caused under such Circumstances as amount in Law to Felony.

of such

2...Every such Action shall be for the Benefit of the Wife, Regulation Husband, Parent, and Child of the Person whose Death shall Actions, and have been so caused, and shall be brought by and in the Name of Damages; of the Executor or Administrator of the Person deceased; and in every such Action, the Jury may give such Damages as they may think proportioned to the Injury resulting from such Death to the Parties respectively for whom and for whose Benefit such Action shall be brought; and the Amount so re- and partition covered, after deducting the Costs not recovered from the De. of Damages fendant, shall be divided amongst the before-mentioned Parties in such Shares as the Jury by their Verdict shall find and direct.

by Jury.

lie, and

3. Provided always, and be it enacted, That not more than Only One One Action shall lie for and in respect of the same Subject Action shall Matter of Complaint; and that every such Action shall be within 12 commenced within Twelve Calendar Months after the Death of such deceased Person.

Months.

deliver full

4...In every such Action, the Plaintiff on the Record shall Plaintiff to be required, together with the Declaration, to deliver to the Particulars Defendant or his Attorney a full Particular of the Person or of Claimant Persons for whom and on whose Behalf such Action shall be claim. brought, and of the Nature of the Claim in respect of which Damages shall be sought to be recovered.

and nature of

5... The following Words and Expressions are intended to Interpretahave the Meanings hereby assigned to them respectively, so tion: far as such Meanings are not excluded by the Context or by the Nature of the Subject Matter; that is to say, Words denoting the Singular Number are to be understood to apply Number; also to a Plurality of Persons or Things; and Words denoting

Person," includes Corporations; § 5, (p. 340.) "Parent" see interpretation, § 5, (p. 340.)

"Child;" see interpretation, §, (p. 340.)

Gender; "Person;"

"Parent;"

"Child."

Commence

ment:

Scotland ex

empted.

the Masculine Gender are to be understood to apply also to Persons of the Feminine Gender; and the Word “Person' shall apply to Bodies Politic and Corporate; and the Word "Parent" shall include Father and Mother, and Grandfather and Grandmother, and Stepfather and tepmother; and the Word "Child" shall include Son and Daughter, and Grandson and Granddaughter, and Stepson and Stepdaughter.

6...This Act shall come into operation from and immediately after the passing thereof; and nothing therein contained shall apply to that Part of the United Kingdom called Scotland.

XXXI-CLEARING HOUSE,

13 & 14 VICT., CAP. xxxiii.

An Act for regulating legal Proceedings by or against the
Committee of Railway Companies associated under the
Railway Clearing System, and for other Purposes.

[25th June, 1850.]

WHEREAS, for some Time past, Arrangements have subsisted between several Railway Companies for the Transmission without Interruption of the through Traffic in Passengers, Animals, Minerals, and Goods passing over different Lines of Railway, for the Purpose of affording, in respect to such Passengers, Animals, Minerals and Goods, the same or the like Facilities as if such Lines had belonged to Une Company; which Arrangements are commonly known as and in this Act "The Clear are designated as "the Clearing System," and which Aring System." rangements are conducted under the Superintendence of a Committee appointed by the Boards of Directors of such several Railway Companies, which Committee is in this Act de"The Com- signated "the Committee;" and the Business of such Committee has heretofore been and is now carried on at a Building appropriated for the Purpose in Seymour Street, adjoining the

mittee."

• A special or private act, classed amo gst the "Local and Personal Acts."

Euston Station of the London and North-western Railway Company: And whereas the Clearing System has been productive of great Convenience to the Public, and of a considerable Saving of Expense in the Transmission of Passengers, Animals, Minerals, and Goods over the Lines of the several Railway Companies Parties to such Association; but considerable Difficulty has been experienced in carrying into effect the Objects of the Association, in consequence of the Committee not possessing the Power of prosecuting or defending Actions or Suits, or taking other legal Proceedings: And whereas George Carr Glynn, Esquire, is the present Chairman, and Kenneth Morison is the present Secretary, of the Committee: And whereas the Purposes aforesaid cannot be effected without the Authority of Parliament: May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted"... Companies That the several Companies which at the Time of the passing Parties to of this Act are Parties to the Clearing System", and every other Company which shall in manner hereafter mentioned be subject to become Party to the same, shall be subject to the Provisions the Proviof this Act.

already

the Clearing

System, to

sions of this

Act.

join, with

Committee.

2... If any Company which may not be a Party to the Other ComClearing System shall, by Writing sealed with the Common panies may Seal of such Company, request the Committee to admit such Assent of Company to be a Party to the Clearing System, and the Committee shall assent to such Request, such Company shall from the Time of such Assent being given, or at such other Time as may be specified in the said Request, become a Party to the Clearing System.

on giving

of not less

3... If any Company shall, by Writing sealed with the Companies Common Seal of such Company, give Notice to the Commit- may retire, tee, of the Desire of such Company to cease to be a Party to Notice the Clearing System, such Company shall, at the Expiration than One of One Calendar Month from the Time when such Notice shall Month. be given, or if a more distant Time shall be stated in such Notice then at the Time so stated, cease to be a Party to the Clearing System.

⚫ See note a in p. 1.

See observations and List of Companies associated in Clearing House, in Introduction.

e

§ 2.

d Companies who are or become Parties in the Clearing System, may nevertheless cease to be so, in the ways provided in § 3 & 4.