WHEREAS the owners of works of art have shown great willingness to lend them for public exhibition: And whereas it has been proposed to hold exhibitions of national portraits by means of loans, and to contribute works of art now in this country to the Universal Exhibition at Paris in One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven: And whereas it is expedient to facilitate the loan of such works of art to the above-named exhibition:' Be 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. The owner for the time being of any work of art may, without incurring any responsibility for any consequent loss or injury, lend such work to the lord president for the time being of Her Majesty's most honourable privy council, for any period not exceeding twelve months, to be exhibited to the public by him or by his direction at the above-mentioned exhibitions. 2. It shall be the duty of the lord president to take due precautions for the preservation of all works of art lent to him in pursuance of this Act, but he shall not be personally liable for any loss or injury any article may sustain. 3. The expression owner for the time being" shall include trustees of museums and other bodies of persons, whether corporate or unincorporate, having in their possession or under their control works of art, on trust for any public purpose, or for any artistic or scientific society, or possessed thereof on behalf of themselves and their successors, it shall also include any tenant for life or other person beneficially entitled (otherwise than as mortgagee) to the possession or enjoyment of works of art for life or any other limited period, and being of full age. 4. This Act may be cited for all purposes as "The Art Act, 1866." CAP. XVII. An Act to regulate the Inspection of Cattle Sheds, WHEREAS it is expedient that one uniform oath should be taken by members of both Houses of Parliament on taking their seats in every Parliament:' Be it therefore 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. The oath to be made and subscribed by members of both Houses of Parliament on taking their seats in every Parliament shall be in the form following: 'I. A.B. do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to her Majesty Queen Victoria; and I do faithfully promise to maintain and support the succession to the Crown, as the same stands limited and settled by virtue of the Act passed in the reign of King William the Third, intituled, " An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the rights and liberties of the subject." and of the subsequent Acts of Union with Scotland and IreSo help me GOD.' land. 2. Where in the oath hereby appointed the name of her present Majesty is expressed, the name of the sovereign of this Kingdom for the time being by virtue of the Act "for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject," shall be substituted from time to time with proper words of reference thereto. 3. The oath hereby appointed shall in every Parliament be solemnly and publicly made and subscribed by every member of the House of Peers at the table in the middle of the said House before he takes his place in the said House, and whilst a full House of Peers is there with their Speaker in his place, and by every member of the House of Commons at the table in the middle of the said house, and whilst a full House of Commons is there duly sitting, with their Speaker in his chair, at such hours and according to such regulations as each House may by its standing order direct. 4. Every person of the persuasion of the people called Quakers, and every other person for the time being by law permitted to make a solemn affirmation or declaration instead of taking an oath, may, instead of taking and subscribing the oath hereby appointed, CAP. XVIII. make and subscribe a solemn affirmation in the form An Act to make Provision for the Transfer of the of the oath hereby appointed, substituting the words Assets, Liabilities, and Management of the Bengal," solemnly, sincerely, and truly declare and affirm," Madras, and Bombay Military Funds, the Bengal Military Orphan Society, and other Funds, to the Secretary of State for India in Council. [30th April, 1866.] CAP. XIX. An Act to amend the Law relating to Parliamentary Oaths. [30th April, 1866.] Sec. 1. Oath to be taken by members of Parliament, 2. The name of the sovereign for the time being to be used in the oath. 3. Time and manner of taking the oath. 6. Repeal of Acts and parts of Acts in Schedule. for the word "swear," and omitting the words "So help me God;" and the making and subscribing such affirmation with such substitution as aforesaid by a person hereby authorized to make and subscribe the same shall have the same effect as the making and subscribing by other persons of the oath hereby appointed. 5. If any member of the House of Peers votes by himself or his proxy in the House of Peers, or sits as a peer during any debate in the said house, without having made and subscribed the oath hereby appointed, he shall for every such offence be subject to a penalty of five hundred pounds, to be recovered by action in one of her Majesty's Superior Courts at Westminster; and if any member of the House of Commons votes as such in the said house, or sits during any debate after the Speaker has been chosen, without having made and subscribed the oath hereby appointed, he shall be subject to a like penalty for every such of fence, and in addition to such penalty his seat shall be vacated in the same manner as if he were dead. 6. There shall be repealed the several Acts and parts of Acts specified in the Schedule hereto to the extent in the said Schedule in that behalf mentioned: provided always, that the repeal of these Acts, or any of them, or of any parts thereof, shall not be construed to weaken or in any manner to affect any laws or statutes now in force for preserving and upholding the supremacy of our Lady the Queen, her heirs and successors, in all matters civil and ecclesiastical within this realm and other her Majesty's dominions. 7. This Act may be cited for all purposes as Parliamentary Oaths Act, 1866." SCHEDULE. "The The portions printed in Italics show the extent of repeal. 30 Car. 2, stat. 2, c. 1.-An Act for the more effectual preserving the King's Person and Government, by disabling Papists from sitting in either House of Parliament. So much as is unrepealed. 13 Will. 3, c. 6.-An Act for the further Security of his Majesty's Person, and the Succession of the Crown in the Protestant Line, and for extinguishing the Hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales and all other Pretenders, and their open and secret abettors.-Sections 10, 11. 1 Geo. 1, stat. 2, c. 13.-An Act for the further Security of his Majesty's Person and Government and the Succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants, and for extinguishing the Hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret Abettors.-Sections 16, 17. 6 Geo. 3, c. 53.—An Act for altering the oath of abjuration and the assurance, and for amending so much of an act of the seventh year of her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled An Act for the Improvement of the Union of the Two Kingdoms, as after the Time therein limited requires the delivery of certain Lists and Copies therein mentioned to Persous indicted of High Treason or Misprision of Treason.So far as relates to oaths to be taken by members of either House of Parliament. 10 Geo. 4, c. 7.-An Act for the Relief of his Majesty's Roman Catholic Subjects.-So far as relates to oaths to be taken by members of either House of Parliament. 6 & 7 Vict. c. 6.-An Act to alter the Hours within which certain Oaths and Declarations are to be made and subscribed in the House of Peers.-The whole Act. 21 & 22 Vict. c. 48.-An Act to substitute One Oath for the Oaths of Allegiance, Supremacy, and Abjuration, and for the Relief of Her Majesty's Subjects professing the Jewish Religion.-So far as relates to oaths to be taken by members of either House of Parliament. 21 & 22 Vict. c. 49.-An Act to provide for the Relief of Her Majesty's Subjects professing the Jewish Religion. So far as relates to oaths to be taken by members of either House of Parliament. 22 Vict. c. 10.-An Act to settle the Form of Affirmation to be made in certain Cases by Quakers and other Persons by Law permitted to make an Affirmation instead of taking an Oath.-So far as relates to oaths to be taken by members of both Houses of Parliament. 23 & 24 Vict. c. 63.-An Act to amend the Act of the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Years of Victoria, Chapter Forty-nine, to provide for the Relief of Her Majesty's Subjects professing the Jewish Religion.-The whole Act. Sec. 1. All public moneys advanced to be charged and chargeable as if 28 & 29 Vic. c. 88 had not been passed. 2. Orders to be registered though affecting lands recorded under 28 & 29 Vic. c. 88. 3. Sec. 62 of 21 & 22 Vic. c. 72 to apply to all charges, &c. WHEREAS under and by virtue of a certain Act of the session of the fifth and sixth years of her Majesty, chapter eighty-nine, being an Act to promote the drainage of land and improvement of navigation and water-power in connexion with such drainage in Ireland, and certain Acts amending the same, and of a certain other Act of the session held in the tenth and eleventh years of her Majesty, chapter thirty-two, being an Act to facilitate the improvement of landed property in Ireland, and of the several Acts amending and extending the provisions of the said Acts respectively; and under and by virtue of a certain Act, being the "Drainage and Improvement of Lands Act (Ireland), 1863," and certain other Acts of the session of the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth years of her Majesty, chapter seventy-two, and of the session of the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth years of her Majesty, chapter fifty-two, for amending the provisions of the said last mentioned Act; and under and by virtue of a certain Act of the session of the ninth year of her Majesty, chapter three, being an Act to encourage the sea fisheries of Ireland, by promoting and aiding with grants of public moneys the construction of piers, harbours, and other works, and the Acts amending the same, provision is made for the advance of public moneys for the drainage and improvement of lands and estates, and to aid in the construction of public works in Ireland, and for the securing all such advances by charging the same on the lands, estates, and interests of proprietors and others, and in priority to other charges and incumbrances as in the said several Acts is particularly provided; and by certain of the said Acts it is enacted that such charges should have priority from the registration in the Registry of Deeds Office of Ireland of certain orders of the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland thereby directed to be so registered:' And whereas divers sums of public moneys have been already advanced for such purposes, and on such security, and it is in tended that further sums will be hereafter advanced for the like purposes and upon the like security: cluding any estate, claim, or interest of her Majesty, her heirs and successors; provided always, that nothing therein contained should prejudice or affect any rentcharge in lieu of tithe, or any crown rent or quit rent to the crown, or any charge imposed before the day of the passing of that Act under any public Act or Acts for promoting drainage or land improvement in Ireland; and it is also thereby enacted that the provisions of the several Acts of Parliament then in force relating to the registry of deeds in Ireland should cease to be applicable to any land when placed on the record under the provisions of that Act, and so long as it remains thereon: 'And whereas it is apprehended that the provisions of the said "Record of Title Act" will operate to extinguish or endanger and postpone in many instances charges created to secure the repayment of public moneys advanced under the said Acts when such moneys may have been or may be advanced after the passing of the said "Record of Title Act" and otherwise; and difficulties have arisen and may arise as to the registration of such orders as aforesaid, when such orders may have been or may be made with respect to lands, the title to which has been or may hereafter be recorded; and it is expedient fully to provide for the repayment of public money advanced for the improvement of lands and other the like objects, and for that purpose to amend the sixty-second section of the Act of the session held in the twentyfirst and twenty-second years of her Majesty, being an Act to facilitate the sale and transfer of land in Ireland: ' Be it therefore 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. That in all cases where public moneys have been or may hereafter be advanced under and by virtue of the provisions of the said Acts, or any of them, or by virtue of any Act which may be hereafter passed for the like purpose, the said moneys so advanced shall be charged and chargeable on all lands and estates, and interest in lands, and on all persons and bodies whatsoever, in the same manner and in the same priority, and shall be recoverable by the same means in all respects, as if the said "Record of Title Act (Ireland), 1865," had not been passed. 2. Every order made or to be made by the ComAnd whereas Acts of Parliament may be here-missioners of Public Works in Ireland, and by any after passed providing for the advances of public mo- of the said Acts directed to be registered in the Reneys for the like and other purposes, and on the like gistry of Deeds Office in Ireland, shall b● registered security: in said office although such order affect or purport to affect lands in Ireland the title of which may be recorded under the said "Record of Title Act;" and every such order shall be also registered in the Record of Title Office as against any lands recorded therein, and affected, or purporting to be affected, by such order. And whereas in the session of the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth years of her Majesty an Act was passed called the "Record of Title Act (Ireland), 1865," and thereby provision is made for the recording of titles to lands sold and conveyed, or the title to which may be declared by the Landed Estates Court in Ireland; and it is thereby enacted that, subject as therein mentioned, the recorded owner for the time being shall be and be deemed to be absolutely and indefeasibly possessed of and entitled to such recorded estate against all persons, and free from all rights, interests, claims and demands whatsoever, in 3. The sixty-second section of the said Act to fa cilitate the sale and transfer of land in Ireland shall apply to and include all charges made or to be made by virtue of any Act authorizing the advance of public money upon the security of lands in Ireland. [18th May, 1866.] CAP. XXXII. An Act further to amend the Procedure and Powers of the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes. [11th June 1866.] CAP. XXXIII. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under "The Land Drainage Act, 1861." [11th June, 1866.] CAP. XXXIV. ment of Societies for the Assurance of Cattle and other Animals. [11th June 1866.] An Act to amend The Harbours and Passing Tolls, An Act to give further Facilities for the Establish&c. Act, 1861. Sec. 1. Power for Board of Trade to authorise suspension of Sinking Fund, &c. under certain 24 & 25 Vict. c. 47. Harbour Acts. 2. Restriction on reborrowing. 3. Short Title. Be 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. Where under the Harbours and Passing Tolls, &c. Act, 1861, any loan has been or is about to be made by the Public Works Loan Commissioners to a harbour authority having borrowing powers under a special Act by which the extinguishment of any debt of the harbour authority by means of annual payments of a prescribed amount or within a prescribed time is required, and the Board of Trade, on the application of the harbour authority, are satisfied that by virtue of the provision made or about to be made for repayment within a certain time of any such loan or loans from the Public Works Loan Commissioners there will be extinguished an amount of debt of the harbour authority not less than that which would in the same time be extinguished under the provisions of the special Act, and the Board of Trade thereupon certify in writing to the effect that it is expedient that the operation of the provisions of the special Act relative to the extinguishment of debt, or such of them as are referred to in the certificate, should as from a time therein specified, and subject to any conditions therein expressed, be suspended during the period or periods for repayment of such loan or loans to the Public Works Loan Commissioners, then and in every such case the operations of those provisions shall be and the same is by virtue of this Act and of the certificate suspended accordingly. 2. Any money borrowed from the Public Works Loan Commissioners to which any certificate of the Board of Trade under this Act relates, when paid off shall not be reborrowed. 3. This Act may be cited as The Harbour Loans Act, 1866. Sec. 1. Power to establish Societies for the Assurance of Animals to any amount under the Friendly Societies Act. 2. Contributions to be recoverable in the County Courts. 3. Short title. WHEREAS it is expedient to give further facilities for the establishment of societies for the assurance of cattle and other animals, under the Friendly Societies Acts: " Be it therefore 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: 1. Notwithstanding anything in the Act passed in the session holden in the eighteenth and nineteenth years of her Majesty, chapter sixty-three, intituled, An Act to consolidate and amend the Law relating to Friendly Societies, a society may be established under the provisions of the said Act for the assurance to any amount against loss by death of neat cattle, sheep, lambs, swine, and horses, from disease or otherwise; and neither the provisions in section nine of the said Act, that no member shall subscribe or contract for a sum payable on death or any other contingency exceeding two hundred pounds, nor section thirty-eight of the said Act, shall apply to any such society so established or which may hereafter be so established for such purpose. 2. All contributions, premiums, and other payments payable by any member of any such society, under the rules thereof, in respect of any assurance effected by him, shall be considered as a debt due by him to the society, and shall be recoverable as such in the County Court of the district within which the usual or principal place of business of the society is situate, in Scotland in the Sheriff Court of the county, and in Ireland before the assistant barrister within his district. 3. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Cattle Assurance Act, 1866. 7. Appointment of inspector and assistant in spector of certified hospitals. 8. Power to admiralty, &c. to provide hospitals and certify them. 9. Power to certify other hospitals. 10. Inspection of certified hospitals. 11. Power to withdraw certificate. 12. Provision for moral and religious instruction. 13. Certificate and declaration of withdrawal to be gazetted. 14. Power to make regulations for certified hospitals. A printed copy of regulations to be evidence. 15. On information, justice may issue notice to woman who is a common prostitute. 18. Power to justice to order periodical medical examination. 17. Voluntary submission by woman. 18. Power to make regulations as to examinations. 19. Visiting surgeon to prescribe times, &c. 20. Certificate of visiting surgeon. 21. Placing in certified hospital for treatment. 22. Detention in hospital. 38. Forms in second schedule to be used. 40. Presumption as to signature of justices, &c. 42. Limitation of actions; &c. BE 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: Preliminary. 1. This Act may be cited as the Contagious Diseases Act, 1866. 2. In this Act The term "police" means metropolitan police or other police or constabulary authorised to act in any part of any place to which this Act applies: The term "superintendent " includes inspector: The term "chief medical officer" means the principal physician or surgeon for the time being attached to or doing duty at a hospital, or the house surgeon or resident surgeon of the hospital: The term "justice" means a justice of the peace having jurisdiction in the county, borough, or place where the matter requiring the cognizance of a justice arises, or in any part of any place to which this Act applies: The term "two justices" means two or more justices assembled and acting together, and includes any police or stipendiary magistrate or other justice having by law for any purpose the powers of two justices. 3. This Act shall commence from and immediately after the thirtieth day of September one thousand 23. Power to transfer to another certified hos-eight hundred and sixty-six, and on the commencepital. 24. Limitation of detention. 25. Power for woman detained to apply to justice for discharge. ment of this Act the Contagious Diseases Prevention Act, 1864, shall cease to operate; but the discontinuance of that Act by this Act shall not affect the validity or invalidity of anything done or suffered before the commencement of this Act; and that discontinuance or anything in this Act shall not apply to or in respect of any offence, act, or thing committed or 28. Punishment of women for refusing to be ex-done or omitted before the commencement of this 26. During conveyance to certified hospital, &c., woman deemed to be in legal custody. 27. Expenses of woman's return home. amined, &c. 29. Effect of order of imprisonment for absence &c., from examination. 30. Effect on order of imprisonment for quitting hospital, &c. 31. Penalty on roman discharged uncured con ducting herself as prostitute. 32. Order to operate whenever woman is resi- Act; and every such offence, act, or thing shall after and notwithstanding the commencement of this Act, have the same consequences and effect in all respects as if the Contagious Diseases Prevention Act, 1864, had not been discontinued. Every order of a justice under the said Act shall remain in force as if this Act had not been passed. Every hospital certified under the said Act shall continue to be a certified hospital, for the purposes of this Act, for three months after the commencement of this Act, unless before the expiration of that time the certificate is withdrawn or the hospital is certified 35. Forfeiture of recognizance by return to pros-under this Act; and every hospital certified under titution. 36. Penalties for permitting prostitute having contagious disease to resort to any house, &c. for prostitution. 37. Application of 11 & 12 Vict. c. 43, and 14 & 15 Vict. c. 93 to this Act. this Act shall be deemed a certified hospital for the purposes of the said Act, as long as the operation thereof continues for any purpose under this Act. Extent of Act, 4. The places to which this Act applies shall be |