chapter thirty-two, intituled "An Act to amend the Criminal Law relating to violence, threats, and molestation;" and

II. "The Master and Servant Act, 1867," and the

enactments specified in the First Schedule to that
Act, with the exceptions following as to the enact-
ments in such Schedule; (that is to say),
(1.) Except so much of sections one and two of
the Act passed in the thirty-third year of the
reign of King George the Third, chapter fifty-
five, intituled "An Act to authorise justices of
the peace to impose fines upon constables, over-
seers and other peace or parish officers for
neglect of duty, and on masters of apprentices
for ill-usages of such their apprentice; and also
to make provision for the execution of warrants
of distress granted by magistrates," as relates
to constables, overseers, and other peace or
parish officers; and

(2.) Except so much of sections five and six of an
Act passed in the fifty-ninth year of the reign
of King George the Third, chapter ninety-two,
intituled "An Act to enable justices of the peace in
Ireland to act as such, in certain cases, out of the
limits of the counties in which they actually are;
to make provision for the execution of warrants
of distress granted by them; and to authorise
them to impose fines upon constables and other
officers for neglect of duty, and on masters for
ill-usage of their apprentices," as relates to con-
stables and other peace or parish officers; and
(3.) Except the Act of the session of the fifth and
sixth years of the reign of Her present Majesty,

8. 17.

S. 17.

chapter seven, intituled "An Act to explain the Acts for the better regulation of certain apprentices," and

(4.) Except sub-sections one, two, three, and five of section sixteen of "The Summary Jurisdiction (Ireland) Act, 1851," relating to certain disputes between employers and the persons employed by them; and

III. Also there shall be repealed the following enact

ments making breaches of contract criminal, and relating to the recovery of wages by summary procedure; (that is to say,)

(a.) An Act passed in the fifth year of the reign

of Queen Elizabeth, chapter four, and intituled "An Act touching dyvers orders for artificers, labourers, servantes of husbandrye, and apprentices;" and

(b.) So much of section two of an Act passed in the twelfth year of King George the First, chapter thirty-four, and intituled "An Act to prevent unlawful combination of workmen employed in the woollen manufactures, and for better payment of their wages," as relates to departing from service and quitting or returning work before it is finished; and

(c.) Section twenty of an Act passed in the fifth

year of King George the Third, chapter fiftyone, the title of which begins with the words "An Act for repealing several Laws relating to the manufacture of woollen cloth in the county of York," and ends with the words "for preserving the credit of the said manufacture at the foreign market ;" and

(d.) An Act passed in the nineteenth year of King 8.17.
George the Third, chapter forty-nine, and
intituled "An Act to prevent abuses in the
payment of wages to persons employed in the
bone and thread lace manufactory;" and

(e.) Sections eighteen and twenty-three of an Act
passed in the session of the third and fourth
years of Her present Majesty, chapter ninety-
one, intituled "An Act for the more effectual
prevention of frauds and abuses committed by
weavers, sewers, and other persons employed in
the linen, hempen, union, cotton, silk, and woollen
manufactures in Ireland, and for the better pay-
ment of their wages, for one year, and from thence
to the end of the next session of Parliament; "
and

(f) Section seventeen of an Act passed in the session
of the sixth and seventh years of Her present
Majesty, chapter forty, the title of which begins
with the words "An Act to amend the Laws,"
and ends with the words "workmen engaged
therein; and

(g.) Section seven of an Act passed in the session
of the eighth and ninth years of Her present
Majesty, chapter one hundred and twenty-eight,
and intituled "An Act to make further regula-
tions respecting the tickets of work to be delivered
to silk weavers in certain cases."

Provided that,

(1.) Any order for wages or further sum of compensation in addition to wages made in pursuance of section sixteen of

"The

Ss. 17. 18.

Application to Scotland.

Definitions.

Summary Jurisdiction (Ireland) Act, 1851," may be enforced in like manner as if it were an order made by a court of summary jurisdiction in pursuance of the Employers and Workmen Act, 1875, and not otherwise ; and

(2.) The repeal enacted by this section shall not affect

(a.) Anything duly done or suffered, or any right or liability acquired or incurred under any enactment hereby repealed; or

(b.) Any penalty, forfeiture, or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against any enactment hereby repealed; or

(c.) Any investigation, legal proceeding, or remedy in respect of any such right, liability, penalty, forfeiture, or punishment as aforesaid; and any such investigation, legal proceeding, and remedy may be carried on as if this Act had not passed. Sect. 17 now runs: "Any order for wages. not otherwise"; the rest of this section being repealed by 46-7 V. 39 (S. L. R. Act, 1883).

For the Employers and Workmen Act, 1875, see p.

N.B.-In the following ss. of this Act, the words in smaller type are repealed by 56-7 V. 54 (S. L. R. Act (No. 2), 1898).

Application of Act to Scotland.

18. This Act shall extend to Scotland, with the modifications following; that is to say,

(1.) The expression municipal authority" means the town council of any royal or parlia

mentary burgh, or the commissioners of police Ss. 18, 19.
of any burgh, town, or populous place under
the provisions of the General Police and
Improvement (Scotland) Act, 1862, or any
local authority under the provisions of the
Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1867:

(2.) The expression "The Summary Jurisdiction
Act" means the Summary Procedure Act, 1864,
and any Acts amending the same:

(3.) The expression "the court of summary jurisdiction" means the sheriff of the county or any one of his substitutes.

penalties,

Scotland.

19. In Scotland the following provisions shall Recovery of have effect in regard to the prosecution of offences, &c. in recovery of penalties, and making of orders under this Act:

(1.) Every offence under this Act shall be prosecuted, every penalty recovered, and every order made at the instance of the Lord Advocate, or of the Procurator Fiscal of the sheriff court:

(2.) The proceedings may be on indictment in the Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh or circuit or in a sheriff court, or may be taken summarily in the sheriff court under the provisions of the Summary Procedure Act, 1864:

(3.) Every person found liable on conviction to

pay any penalty under this Act shall be liable,