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Page 301 - An Act to facilitate the performance of the duties of justices of the peace out of sessions within England and Wales with respect to summary convictions and orders," inclusive of any Acts amending the same.
Page 359 - Reports of the Departmental Committee appointed by the Board of Trade to consider the position of the.
Page 281 - ... silks in a manufactured or unmanufactured state, and whether wrought up or not wrought up with other materials...
Page 311 - Any civil penalty under this subsection shall be assessed and collected in the same manner, and subject to the same provisions, as in the case of civil penalties assessed and collected after notice and opportunity for hearing on the record in accordance with section 554 of title 5.
Page 283 - Provided also, and be it further enacted, that nothing in this act shall be deemed to protect any mail contractor, stage coach proprietor, or other common carrier for hire from liability to answer for loss or injury to any goods or articles whatsoever arising from. the felonious acts of any coachman, guard, book-keeper, porter, or other servant in his or their employ, nor to protect any such coachman, guard, hook-keeper or other servant from liability for any loss or injury occasioned by his or their...
Page 302 - England, any place for the time being subject to the provisions of the act of the session of the fifth and sixth years of the reign of King William the Fourth, chapter seventy-six, ' ' to provide for the regulation of municipal corporations in England and Wales.
Page 300 - ... pounds for every day during which such locomotive is used on any such turnpike road or highway. 31. Section eight of the Locomotive Act, 1865...
Page 282 - ... required, sign a receipt for the package or parcel, acknowledging the same to have been insured, which receipt shall not be liable to any stamp duty ; and if such receipt shall not be given when required, or such notice as aforesaid shall not have been affixed, the mail contractor...
Page 319 - During the period between one hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise...
Page 283 - Provided also, and be it further enacted, that where any parcel or package shall have been delivered at any such office, and the value and contents declared as aforesaid, and the increased rate of charges been paid, and such parcels or packages shall have been lost or damaged, the party entitled to recover damages in respect of such loss or damage shall also be entitled to recover back such increased charges so paid as aforesaid, in addition to the value of such parcel or package.