Act, extend to and be in full force and effect in and throughout the whole of the United Kingdom: And that it is expedient that within the police district of Dublin Metropolis, any two or more divisional Magistrates of Police should have the same powers of granting licences to deal in game as can be exercised by Justices at special sessions under the said Acts:

It is Enacted as follows:

1. From and after the passing of this Act all the

powers vested in Justices of the Peace under the said recited Acts relating to the granting of licences to deal in game, may, within the police district of Dublin Metropolis, be exercised by any two or more divisional Magistrates of Police, and it shall be lawful for the said divisional Magistrates of Police, or any two or more of them, to grant said licences to deal in game.

2. This Act and the said recited Acts shall be construed together as one Act.

(27th March 1865.)

1. Short title.

By this Act,

After reciting that exhibitions of objects of art and industry manufactured or contributed wholly or in part by members of the industrious classes of Her Majesty's subjects have lately been held, and may be from time to time hereafter held, in divers parts of the United Kingdom; and it is expedient to encourage such exhibitions by granting to persons desirous of exhibiting at the same new inventions or new designs such protection as is hereinafter mentioned:

It is Enacted as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as the "Industrial Exhibitions Act, 1865."

2. It shall be lawful for the Lords of the Committee of Her Majesty's Privy Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations, upon the application of any persons desirous of holding any such exhibition as aforesaid in any part of the United Kingdom, to certify, if they shall think fit, that the exhibition so proposed to be held is in their judgment calculated to promote British art and industry, and to prove beneficial to the industrious classes of Her Majesty's subjects, either generally or in or near the place where such exhibition is proposed to be held; and every such certificate shall mention the place at which and the time during which such exhibition is proposed to be held; and the time mentioned in any such certificate may afterwards, if the Lords of the said committee shall so think fit, be enlarged and extended by a further certificate, but so that

the whole time allowed and certified for the holding of the same exhibition shall in no case exceed the total period of six months; and every such exhibition so certified, if and so long as the same shall be held at the place and within the time mentioned in any such certificate, shall be deemed to be an industrial exhibition entitled to the benefit of this Act.

3. The exhibition of any new invention at any industrial exhibition entitled to the benefit of this Act shall not, nor shall the publication during the period of the holding of such exhibition of any description of such invention, nor shall the user of such invention for the purposes of such exhibition, and within the place where the same may be held, or elsewhere by any person using the same during the period of such exhibition, without the privity and consent of the true and first inventor thereof, prejudice the right of any person to register provisionally such invention, or invalidate any letters patent which may be granted for such invention.

4. The exhibition at any industrial exhibition entitled to the benefit of this Act of any new design capable of being registered provisionally under the "Designs Act, 1850," or of any article to which such design is applied, shall not, nor shall the publication during the period of the holding of such exhibition of any description of such design, prejudice the right of any person to register, provisionally or otherwise, such design, or invalidate any provisional or other registration which may be granted for such design.

(27th March 1865.)

(27th March 1865.)

1. Short title.

2. "Governor."

4. Operation of this Act.

12. Proclamation of incorporation.

matters.

By this Act,

After reciting that it is expedient that the territories of British Kaffraria (hereafter in this Act called British Kaffraria) and the colony of the Cape of Good Hope (hereafter in this Act called the Cape of Good Hope) be united for all purposes of government and legislation:

It therefore is Enacted as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as The British Kaffraria Act, 1865.

2. In this Act the term "Governor" applied to the Cape of Good Hope and to British Kaffraria respectively includes any officer for the time being lawfully administering the government thereof.

3. If before such proclamation as next hereinafter mentioned is made the Parliament of the Cape of Good Hope makes provision for the incorporation of British Kaffraria with the Cape of Good Hope (which they are hereby empowered to do), and the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope as Governor of British Kaffraria assents to such provision by an instrument under his hand and under the seal of British Kaffraria, then from and

after the date of such assent British Kaffraria shall become incorporated with the Cape of Good Hope on the terms of such provision, for all purposes whatever, as if British Kaffraria had always formed part of the Cape of Good Hope.

4. The Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, if he thinks fit, may at any time before he has given such assent declare by proclamation in the Government Gazette of the colony, that the subsequent provisions of this Act shall take effect, and those provisions shall accordingly take effect from the date of such proclamation; but if such proclamation is not made, then this Act shall operate as if the subsequent provisions of this Act, or any of them, had not been inserted in this Act.

5. Four members shall be added to the number of the members of the House of Assembly of the Cape of Good Hope (to which members so added the term "additional members of the House of Assembly" when hereafter used in this Act refers).

6. British Kaffraria shall be divided into two parts, which shall be electoral divisions within the meaning and for the purposes of the ordinance

constituting a Parliament for the Cape of Good Hope (hereafter in this Act called the Constitution Ordinance), in like manner and with the like effect in all respects) subject to the other provisions of this Act) as if those electoral divisions had been expressly constituted and named as such in that ordinance.

7. Two of the additional members of the House of Assembly shall be elected for each electoral division of British Kaffraria, and the additional members shall hold their seats in the House of Assembly for the same period and subject to the same conditions as if they had been elected under the provisions of the Constitution Ordi

nance.

8. In relation to the first election of additional members of the House of Assembly the Governor of British Kaffraria shall have all such powers and authorities as the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope has in relation to the election of members of the House of Assembly under the Constitution Ordinance.

9. With respect to the election of members of the Legislative Council of the Cape of Good Hope, the two electoral divisions of British Kaffraria shall be comprised in and form part of the eastern districts, within the meaning and for the purposes of the Constitution Ordinance, in like manner and with the like effect in all respects (subject to the other provisions of this Act) as if those electoral divisions had been expressly constituted part of the eastern districts in that Ordinance.

10. For the purposes of voting in British Kaffraria for members of the Legislative Council, and of the electing of the additional members of the House of Assembly, the Governor of British Kaffraria shall make such ordinances and issue such proclamations as seem to him necessary or proper for defining and naming the two electoral divisions of British Kaffraria, and for regulating the registration of voters therein, and for appointing returning officers, and fixing the times and places of voting and election, and generally for regulating the conduct of such voting and electing; but no such ordinance or proclamation shall alter the qualification of the electors or elected as declared by the Constitution Ordinance; and, subject to such ordinances and proclamations, the voting in British Kaffraria for members of the Legislative Council, and the electing of the additional members of the House of Assembly, shall be conducted in like manner as if they were voted for and elected under the provisions of the Constitution Ordinance.

11. Nothing in this Act shall prevent the Parliament of the Cape of Good Hope from altering in any respect the Constitution Ordinance, or from making such provision as to them from time to

time seems fit respecting any matter regulated by any of the foregoing provisions of this Act.

12. On the first election of the additional members of the House of Assembly being completed, the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope shall, by proclamation in the Government Gazette of the colony, declare their names and the fact of their election, and from and after the date of such proclamation British Kaffraria shall become incorporated with the Cape of Good Hope on the terms of this Act, for all purposes whatever, as if British Kaffraria had always formed part of the Cape of Good Hope.

13. Until the incorporation of British Kaffraria with the Cape of Good Hope in consequence of such proclamation (hereafter in this Act called the Incorporation) takes effect, all powers and authorities vested in or exercised by the Governor of British Kaffraria shall remain as if this Act had not been passed, and on the incorporation of those powers and authorities shall absolutely cease.

14. Until the Parliament of the Cape of Good Hope otherwise provides, all laws and customs which at the time of the incorporation are in force in British Kaffraria shall continue in force there after the incorporation.

15. Until the Parliament of the Cape of Good Hope otherwise provides, the jurisdiction and authority of the Supreme Court of the Cape of Good Hope and of the Court of the eastern districts thereof shall from and after the incorporation extend to British Kaffraria, as if British Kaffraria had always formed part of the Cape of Good Hope, and were comprised in the eastern districts thereof; and nothing in this Act shall discontinue or otherwise interfere with any suit or proceeding, civil or criminal, pending at the time of the incorporation in the Supreme Court of British Kaffraria, save only that on the incorporation all such suits and proceedings shall, by virtue of this Act, stand transferred to the Court of the eastern districts of the Cape of Good Hope, and the same may be carried on, tried, heard, and determined in and by that Court, and an appeal shall lie therein from that Court, in like manner as nearly as may be in all respects as if they had been instituted or taken in that Court after the incorporation; nor shall anything in this Act discontinue or otherwise interfere with any appeal from the Supreme Court of British Kaffraria pending at the time of the incorporation, and the same may be prosecuted, heard, and determined, and any judgment, decree, or order therein may be made, executed, and enforced, in like manner as nearly as may be in all respects as if this Act had not been passed, save only that in relation to any such appeal, judgment, decree, or order, the Court of the eastern districts of the Cape of Good Hope shall be substituted for the Supreme Court of British Kaffraria.

16. Until the Parliament of the Cape of Good Hope otherwise provides, all ordinances and proclamations made and issued by the Governor of British Kaffraria in pursuance of this Act relative to the voting in British Kaffraria for members of the Legislative Council, or to the electing of the additional members of the House of Assembly, shall continue in force after the incorporation.

17. Until the Parliament of the Cape of Good Hope otherwise provides, there shall, from and after the incorporation, be payable every year to Her Majesty, out of the revenue accruing within British Kaffraria after the incorporation, the sum

of 18,2251., for defraying the expenses of the several services described in the Schedule to this Act; and that sum shall be issued by the treasurer of the Cape of Good Hope in discharge of such warrant or warrants as may be from time to time directed to him under the hand and seal of the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope.

18. Subject to the last foregoing provision, all revenue accruing within British Kaffraria after the incorporation shall be taken to be part of the revenue of the Cape of Good Hope; and all money at that time due on account of British Kaffraria shall thenceforth be deemed to be due on account of the Cape of Good Hope.

£. 1,000

...

17,225

£18,225

(27th March 1865.)

1. Short title.

such invention, nor shall the user of such invention for the purposes of the said exhibition, prejudice the right of any person to register provisionally such invention, or invalidate any letters patent that may be granted for such invention.

3. The exhibition at the Dublin International Exhibition of any new design capable of being registered provisionally under the Designs Act, 1850, or of any article to which such design is applied, shall not, nor shall the publication during the period of the holding of such Exhibition of any description of such design, prejudice the right of any person to register, provisionally or otherwise, such design, or invalidate any provisional or other registration that may be granted for such design.

(7th April 1865.)

(7th April 1865.)

By this Act,

After reciting that it is expedient to amend 11 & 12 Vict. c. 98, "The Election Petitions Act, 1848," (hereinafter called the principal Act,) in certain particulars hereafter mentioned:

It is Enacted as follows:

1. If any select committee appointed under the principal Act have occasion to apply to or report to the House, and the House be adjourned for more than twenty-four hours, such committee shall adjourn to the day immediately following that on which the House shall be appointed to meet for the despatch of business, unless that day shall happen to be a Sunday, Christmas Day, or Good Friday, and in that case the committee shall adjourn to the next following day.

2. In case the House from any cause shall happen not to sit for the despatch of business on the day appointed for that purpose, the committee shall again, and so from time to time, adjourn till after the House shall sit for the despatch of business; but no adjournment shall be made for any longer period than to the day next after the day the House shall actually sit for the despatch of business, unless such day shall happen to be a Sunday, Christmas Day, or Good Friday, and in that case the adjournment shall be to the next following day.

3. In case it shall become necessary to adjourn the consideration of any application or report made by any committee to the House, the House may, if it shall so think fit, direct the committee to adjourn their sitting again, and from time to time, and for such reasonable time as shall be sufficient

to enable the House to decide on such application and report, and such committee shall adjourn accordingly.

4. If at any time after the appointment of a committee under the principal Act it shall appear to the House that, from any error, irregularity of proceeding, oversight, or other cause, such committee has become dissolved, or unable to continue its sittings for any cause not provided for by the principal Act, another committee shall be appointed to decide on the petition referred to such committee, unless the House shall otherwise order, within three sitting days, as hereinafter provided; and for the purpose of appointing such other committee the general committee and the members of the chairmen's panel shall meet as soon as conveniently can be after the expiration of three sitting days from the time the occasion for such new committee shall be reported to or brought under the notice of the House by any member, at a day and hour to be appointed by the general committee; and notice of such meeting shall be published with the votes, and all the proceedings of such former committee shall be of no effect.

5. In all cases where a committee shall have become dissolved by any error, irregularity of proceeding, oversight, or other cause, not involving the death or permanent illness of any of its members, the House may, if it shall so think fit, within three sitting days after such event shall have been reported to or brought under the notice of the House by any member, order such committee to stand revived, and to meet, and continue its sittings; and in such case no new committee shall be appointed, unless for any subsequent cause; and the proceedings of such new committee shall have