wood, for which no punishment is herein before provided. S. 54. To make or manufacture, or knowingly have in possession any gunpowder or other explosive, or any machine, instrument or thing for the purpose of committing any of the felonies mentioned in this Act, M. — S. 55. Any justice, where any machine or thing, gunpowder, or other explosive, &c., is suspected to be made, for being used in any of the felonies in this Act, upon reasonable cause upon oath may issue a warrant for searching in the day time any house, or other place, or any carriage, &c., in which the same is suspected to be made, kept, or carried.-S. 61. Any person found committing any offence against this Act, whether the same is punishable upon indictment or upon summary conviction, may be immediately apprehended, without a warrant, by any peace officer, or the owner of the property injured, or his servant, or any person authorized by him, and forthwith taken before some neighbouring Justice of the Peace.

[Any person applying for compensation for malicious injury to his property is required within three days after the commission of the injury, unless prevented by illness or other sufficient cause, to swear an information before a Magistrate of the county where the injury has been committed, in which information he should state whether he knows the party who did the injury, and if so the applicant should be bound by recognizance to prosecute (6 and 7 Wm. IV., c. 116, s. 135).]

Marine Stores.-The following provisions of the "Mer chant Shipping Act," (17 & 18 Vic., c. 104) are enforced by the Constabulary :

S. 480. Every person dealing in, buying and selling anchors, cables, sails, or old junk, old iron, or marine stores of any description, shall conform to the following regula tions:

(1.) He shall have his name, together with the words "Dealer in Marine Stores," painted distinctly in letters of not less than six inches in length, on every warehouse or other place of deposit, belong. ing to him. If he does not, P. not exc. £20. (2.) He shall keep a book or books, fairly written, and shall enter therein an account of all such marine stores as he may from time to time become possessed of, stating, in respect of each article, the time at which, and the person from whom he purchased or received the same, adding, in the case of every such last mentioned person, a description of his business and place of abode. If he does not, P. not exc. £20.

(3.) He shall not by himself or his agents, purchase marine stores of any description from any person apparently under the age of sixteen years. does so, P. not exc. £5.

If he

(4.) He shall not cut up any cable or any similar article, exceeding five fathoms in length, or unlay the same into twine or paper stuff, on any pretence whatever, without obtaining such permit and publishing such notice of his having so obtained the same as is hereinafter mentioned. If he does so, P. not exc. £20.

S. 481. In order to obtain such permit as aforesaid a dealer in marine stores shall make à declaration before a justice of the peace containing certain particulars (specified in section).

S. 482. Permit to be advertised in some local newspaper before dealer proceeds to cut up or unlay any cable, etc. See also sec. 13 of 34 and 35 Vic., c. 112, p. 263.

Master and Servant,* 2 Geo. I., c. 17., Ir.-S. 2. Repealed by the Master and Servant Act, 1889, 52 and 53 Vic., c. 24.-S. 3. No servant shall hire him or herself, or offer to be hired into any service, while he or she is actually in service, and before the time for which he or she did contract or hire be expired, without license from master or mistress first obtained, unless such servant do first give one month's notice thereof to his or her master or mistress, penalty imp. for not exceeding ten days with hard labour.-S. 4. Master refusing discharge and certificate of behaviour to servant, if not sufficient cause shown, one justice may give certificate. -S. 5. On discharge or leaving service master shall give a certificate in writing under his hand, that such person therein was his servant, and that he is discharged from his service, and shall in such discharge certify, if desired, or such master thinks fit, the behaviour of such servant. No master to hire servant without a discharge under the hand of the last master, and in case master refuse to give his servant a discharge, and certificate of behaviour, such

*The Constabulary have nothing to do with the enforcement of these provisions, but they are supplied for their information.

servant may apply to some justice who shall write to such master, and require the reason of refusal, and if no answer be given within five days, or if justice find by answer the cause is not sufficient, the justice shall give such certificate without fee, and such certificate shall be as good as if given by master; if servant counterfeits certificates, on conviction such servant shall be committed for three months to hard labour.-S. 6. No servant to recover wages by this Act without a discharge or certificate or proof that it was given. Any person taking a servant knowingly without discharge or certificate, P. on conviction at Quarter Sessions £5.-S. 7. No woman shall hire herself to be nurse, or continue to nurse, knowing herself to be with child, or having a foul or infectious disease which may be communicated to the child; and on complaint a justice is to appoint two surgeons or midwives to report thereon, and if case proved, such nurse shall forfeit all wages due.-S. 9. Repealed by 52 and 53 Vic., c. 24.--S. 15. For frivolous complaints justice may award 2s. 6d. costs.-S. 16. Repealed by 52 and 53 Vic., c. 24.-S. 17. Master or mistress aggrieved by this order may appeal to Quarter Sessions. -25 Geo. II., c. 8.-Ss. 2 and 9, repealed by 52 and 53 Vic., c. 24.-Ss. 3 and 4 relate to complaints of apprentices against masters, and of masters against apprentices.--The Employers and Workmen Act, 1875, 38 and 39 Vic., c. 90, provides for disputes between employers and workmen. It enlarges the powers of the County Courts, and confers a limited civil jurisdiction upon a Court consisting, in Dublin, of one or more Divisional Justices, and elsewhere in Ireland of two or more justices in Petty Sessions. By section 10-the expression "workdoes not include a domestic or menial servant, but save as aforesaid, means any person who, being a labourer, servant in husbandry, journeyman, artificer, handicraftsman, miner, or otherwise engaged in manual labour, whether under the age of twenty-one years, or above that age, has entered into or works under a contract with an employer, whether the contract he made before or after the passing of this Act, be express or implied, oral or in writing, and be a contract of service, or a contract personally to execute any work or labour.

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Merchandise Marks Act, 1867, see page 458.

Murder and Manslaughter, 24 & 25 Vic., c. 100.S. 1. Whosoever shall be convicted of murder shall suffer death as a felon. S. 4. To conspire, confederate, and

agree to murder any person, whether he be a subject of Her Majesty or not, and whether he be within the Queen's dominions or not, and to solicit, encourage, persuade, or endeavour to persuade, or shall propose to any person to murder any other person, whether he be a subject of Her Majesty or not, and whether he be within the Queen's dominions or not, M. S. 7. No punishment or forfeiture shall be incurred by any person who shall kill another by misfortune or in his own defence, or in any other manner without felony. S. 9. Murder or manslaughter abroad may be dealt with where the offender is apprehended. S. 10. Where any person being feloniously stricken, poisoned, or otherwise hurt upon the sea or at any place out of England or Ireland, shall die of such stroke, &c., in England or Ireland, or, being feloniously stricken, poisoned, cr otherwise hurt, at any place in England or Ireland, shall die of such stroke, &c., at any place out of England or Ireland, every offence committed in respect of any such case may be inquired of and tried in the county or place in England or Ireland in which such death, stroke, poisoning, or hurt shall happen. S. 11. To administer to or cause to be administered to or to be taken by any person any poison or other destructive thing, or by any means whatsoever to wound or cause any grievous bodily harm to any person, with intent to commit murder, F. S. 12. By the explosion of gunpowder or other explosive, destroying or damaging any building, with intent, in any of such cases, to commit murder, F. S. 13. To set fire to any ship or vessel, or any part thereof, or any part of the tackle, apparel, or furniture thereof, or any goods or chattels being therein, or to cast away or destroy any ship, or vessel with intent in any of such cases to commit murder, F. S. 14. To attempt to administer to or attempt to cause to be administered to or to be taken by any person any poison or other destructive thing, or to shoot at any person, or by drawing a trigger, or in any other manner to attempt to discharge any kind of loaded arms at any person, or to attempt to drown, suffocate, or strangle any person, with intent in any of the cases aforesaid, to commit murder, whether any bodily injury may be effected or not, F. S. 15. To attempt to commit murder by any means other than those specified in the preceding sections, F.

[Homicide is the killing of a human being by a human being. A child becomes a human being within the meaning of this definition

when it has completely proceeded in a living state from the body of its mother, whether it has or has not breathed, and whether the navel string has or has not been divided, and the killing of such a child is homicide, whether it is killed by injuries inflicted before, during, or after birth. A living child in its mother's womb, or a child in the act of birth, even though such a child may have breathed, is not a human being within the meaning of this definition, and the killing of such a child is not homicide. —. (Stephen's Digest of C. L.)

There are three kinds of homicide --(1) justifiable, (2) excusable, (3) felonious. Justifiable homicide is occasioned in the due execution or for the advancement of justice, or for the prevention of any forcible or atrocious crime, in every case of which there must be an apparent necessity. Excusable homicide is of two sorts, and is occasioned either by misadventure or accident, or upon a sudden affray in self-defence. Felonious homicide is of two kinds, murder and manslaughter. Murder arises from the wickedness of the heart--manslaughter (in general) from the sudden heat of passion. Murder is where a person of sound memory and discretion unlawfully kills any human being with malice aforethought either express or implied. Express malice is where one person kills another with a sedate, deliberate mind and formed design, evidenced by external circumstances, such as lying in wait, antecedent menaces, former grudges, and concerted schemes to do the party some bodily harm. Malice is implied by law from any deliberate cruel act, committed by one person against another, however sudden. Manslaughter is the unlawful killing of another without malice, either express or implied, which may be voluntarily upon a sudden affray, or involuntarily, but in the commission of an unlawful act. The party must die within a year and a day from the time the injury was inflicted, otherwise the law presumes that the injury was not the cause of death, and the death cannot be deemed homicide. See note at page 230.

Everyone who kills another is presumed to have murdered him unless the circumstances are such as to raise a contrary presumption. The burden of proving circumstances of excuse, justification or extenuation, is upon the person who is shown to have killed another. -Stephen's Digest of C. L.

Steps which should be taken in a case of murder.--The discovery of the instruments with which the offence was ecunitted, of portions of clothing, of shot, footmarks, blood stains. or anything that would assist in tracing guilt. A careful and close examination of the scene (whether within or without doors), should be made, and a note taken of the exact state in which it was found, including any facts or circumstances that might be conceived to be of use in throwing light upon the occurrence. If a shoe-print be left, care should be taken that it does not get defaced; it should be covered up, and a