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Act, 1900.

of Works

1. Where the Commissioners of Works are of opinion that the Power to preservation of any monument is a matter of public interest by Commissioners reason of the historic, traditional, or artistic interest attaching to become thereto, they may, at the request of the owner, consent to become guardians of the guardians thereof; and thereupon the Ancient Monuments monuments. Protection Act, 1882, shall apply to such monument as if the same were an ancient monument to which that Act applies as defined in that Act.

Provided that this Act shall not authorise the Commissioners of Works to consent to become the guardians of any structure which is occupied as a dwelling-place by any person other than a person employed as a caretaker thereof, and his family.

45 & 46 Vict.

c. 73.

to purchase

2. (1.) The council of any county, if they think fit, may Power to purchase by agreement any monument situate in such county or county council in any adjacent county, and may, at the request of the owner, and preserve consent to become the guardians of any such monument, and may monuments. undertake or contribute towards the cost of preserving, maintaining, and managing any such monument, whether they have purchased the same or become the guardians thereof or not.

(2.) The powers conferred by the Ancient Monuments Protection Act, 1882, upon the owners of ancient monuments, and the incorporation by that Act of the Lands Clauses Acts for the purpose of a purchase by agreement, shall have effect in relation to a county council and to any monument as defined by this Act, and section six of the Ancient Monuments Protection Act, 1882 (which relates to penalties for injury to ancient monuments), shall apply to any monument (as so defined) of which a county council are owners or guardians.

contributions

3. The Commissioners of Works or any county council may Power to receive voluntary contributions towards the cost of maintenance receive and preservation of any monument of which they may become voluntary the guardians or purchasers under the provisions of the Ancient for mainMonuments Act 1882, or this Act, and may enter into tenance of agreement with the owner of such monument or with any other person as to such maintenance and preservation and the cost thereof.

any

monuments.

county council

4. The Commissioners of Works and the council of any county Transfer of may, in respect of any monument in the county or in any adjacent monuments county of which they are the owners or guardians, but where between they are guardians only then with the consent of the owners, and Commisenter into and carry into effect any agreements for the transfer sioners of from the Commissioners of Works to the council, or from the council to the Commissioners of Works, of such monument, or of any estate or interest therein, or of the guardianship thereof.

Works.

5. The public shall have access to any monument of which Public to the Commissioners of Works or any county council are the have access owners or guardians, but where they are guardians only with the

to monuments.

Construction

Act, 1900.

consent of the owner of the monument, at such times and under such regulations as the Commissioners or council shall prescribe.

6. (1.) In this Act the expression "monument" means any and definition. structure, erection, or monument of historic or architectural interest, or any remains thereof.

(2.) This Act shall be construed as one with the Ancient Monuments Protection Act, 1882.

(3.) In the application of this Act to Scotland a reference to the council of any county shall be construed as a reference to any 52 & 53 Vict. county council within the meaning of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889.

c. 50.

Extent of
Act.
Short title.

7. This Act shall not apply to Ireland.

8. This Act may be cited as the Ancient Monuments Protection Act, 1900, and may be cited with the Ancient Monuments Protection Acts, 1882 and 1892.

CHAPTER 35.

Limitation of quantity

of oil in tobacco.

An Act to restrict the amount of Oil in manufactured
Tobacco.
[6th August 1900.]

BE

E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1.-(1.) If any manufacturer of tobacco has in his custody or possession fit for sale or tenders for drawback, or if any dealer in or retailer of tobacco has in his custody or possession, any tobacco containing a greater proportion of oil than four per cent. he shall incur an excise penalty of fifty pounds and the tobacco shall be forfeited.

(2.) In calculating the proportion of oil for the purpose of this section any fatty or oily substance which is naturally present in the tobacco shall be included as oil.

(3.) In this section the expression "fit for sale" has the meaning 50 & 51 Vict. assigned to it by section four of the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1887.

c. 15.

Short title.

2. This Act may be cited as the Oil in Tobacco Act, 1900.

CHAPTER 36.

An Act to grant Money for the purpose of certain Local Loans out of the Local Loans Fund, and for other purposes relating to Local Loans. [6th August 1900.]

BE

E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Works Loan

1. Whereas the term of office of the persons who are, at the Appointment passing of this Act, Public Works Loans Commissioners under the of Public Public Works Loans Act, 1875, will expire at the end of a period Commisof five years from the first day of April one thousand eight hundred sioners for and ninety-six, and it is expedient to appoint Commissioners for a five years. further period of five years; therefore the following persons, that 38 & 39 Vict.

is to say:

Sir Herbert Barnard;

Sir Thomas Salt, Baronet;

Samuel Steuart Gladstone, Esquire ;

The Honourable Herbert Cokayne Gibbs;
Sir Edward Birkbeck, Baronet;

Edward Norman, Esquire;

Arthur O'Connor, Esquire, Q.C., M.P.;

The Honourable Sir Charles William Fremantle, K.C.B.;

The Honourable Evelyn Hubbard;

Basil Guy Oswald Smith, Esquire;

Francis William Buxton, Esquire ;
Edward Henry Loyd, Esquire ;

Frederick Greene, Esquire;

Horace Alfred Damer Seymour, Esquire, C.B.;

Colonel Amelius Richard Mark Lockwood, M.P.;

The Right Honourable Lord Hillingdon;

The Honourable James Henry Cecil Hozier, M.P.;
David Lloyd George, Esquire, M.P. ;

shall after the passing of this Act be the Public Works Loan
Commissioners under the Public Works Loans Act, 1875, and shall
hold office until the expiration of five years from the first day of
April one thousand nine hundred and one.

c. 89.

2.-(1.) For the purpose of local loans there may be issued by Grants for the National Debt Commissioners the following sums, namely: public works. (a.) For the purpose of loans by the Public Works Loan Commissioners any sum or sums not exceeding in the whole the sum of seven million pounds;

(b.) For the purpose of loans by the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland any sum or sums not exceeding in the whole the sum of eight hundred thousand pounds.

(2.) The sums so issued shall be issued during a period ending on the day on which a further Act granting money for the purposes

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of those loans comes into operation and in accordance with the 50 & 51 Vict. provisions of the National Debt and Local Loans Act, 1887.

c. 16.

Certain debts not to be reckoned as

assets of local

loans fund.

50 & 51 Viet.

c. 16.

Redemption by Treasury of their contribution to

guarantee to Mitchelstown and Fermoy Railway.

3. Whereas it is expedient that the principal of the several local loans specified in the schedule to this Act should, to the extent specified in the last column of that schedule, not be reckoned as assets of the local loans fund established under the National Debt and Local Loans Act, 1887; therefore, the principal of the said loans shall to that extent be written off from the assets of the local loans fund, and the provisions of section fifteen of the said Act shall, so far as applicable, apply thereto.

4. If by any Act passed in the present session of Parliament provision is made for the redemption by the Treasury of their liability in respect of their contribution to a baronial guarantee given under the Tramways and Public Companies (Ireland) Act, 1883, to the Mitchelstown and Fermoy Light Railway Company, by payment to any railway company purchasing the undertaking of the said Light Railway Company, any amount required for that purpose, not exceeding in the whole the sum of twenty-six thousand six hundred and sixty-six pounds, and bearing interest at the rate of four per centum per annum from the first day of November one thousand nine hundred until payment, may be paid to the purchasing company instead of to the council of the county 58 & 59 Vict. of Cork, and the provisions of section two of the Tramways (Ireland) Act, 1895, shall apply accordingly with the necessary

46 & 47 Vict. c. 43.

c. 20.

Short title.

modifications.

5. This Act may be cited as the Public Works Loans Act, 1900.

SCHEDULE.

PART I.

LOANS BY THE COMMISSIONERS OF PUBLIC WORKS, IRELAND.

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