the same and Resident Magistrate approves Industrial Schools-Amendment shall be of any force or validity, unless such infant signify his consent thereto by becoming a party thereto, and unless the Resident or Police Magistrate of the district in which the proposed master lives, signifies his approval of the same by endorsing his name thereon. WILLIAM C. F. ROBINSON, GOVERNOR. Preamble WESTERN AUSTRALIA ANNO QUADRAGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIÆ REGINE No. 8 An Act to repeal an Act intituled 'An Act to prohibit the importation to, and use within the Colony of Western Australia, of certain Dangerous Matches.' [Assented to 6th August, 1877. Wession of the Legislative Council, intituled An Act to pro THEREAS it is expedient to repeal an Act passed in the last hibit the importation to, and use within the Colony of Western Australia, of certain Dangerous Matches'; Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Western Australia and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows: 1. From and after the passing of this Act, the said recited Act shall be and the same is hereby repealed. WILLIAM C. F. ROBINSON, GOVERNOR. Preamble WESTERN AUSTRALIA ANNO QUADRAGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ No. 10 An Act to amend The Pawnbroker's Ordinance, 1860.' [Assented to 10th August, 1877. WHEREAS, 1880, Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency WHEREAS it is expedient to amend The Pawnbroker's the Governor of Western Australia and its Dependencies, by and with Pawnbrokers-Amendment the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows: of 24th Vic., No. 7 1. The thirteenth section of the said Ordinance shall be and the Repeal of sec. 13 same is hereby repealed; provided always that the provisions of the said section shall continue to apply to the case of any article taken in pawn before the passing of this Act. 2. And in lieu of the provisions of the said thirteenth section, hereby repealed, it is hereby provided that, unless a longer time shall be expressly agreed upon, the period of redemption of any article taken in pawn after the passing of this Act shall be three months, at the expiration of which period (or the expiration of any such longer period as may have been so agreed upon) every such article shall be deemed forfeited, and may be sold; Provided always that in every case where a longer time of redemption than the said term of three months shall have been agreed upon, such time shall be specified in the entry required by the said Ordinance to be made at the time of taking any article in pawn, or at the foot thereof, and shall be mentioned in like manner in the duplicate of each entry by the said Ordinance required to be given to the party pawning; Provided also that any agreement for the forfeiture of any article in any case before the expiration of three months, shall be wholly void. WILLIAM C. F. ROBINSON, GOVERNOR. Articles pawned to be forfeited, and may be sold at the expiramonths, except in case of agreethe time tion of three ment extending WESTERN AUSTRALIA ANNO QUADRAGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIÆ REGINE No. 11 An Act to further amend The Elementary Education [Assented to 16th August, 1877. THEREAS it is expedient to amend The Elementary Educa- Preamble Won Act, 1971, Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Western Australia and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as The Elementary Education Act, Short title 1871, Amendment Act, 1877.' 2. Section twenty, and section twenty-six, sub-section three, of the said Act, as amended by sections one and two of an Act passed in the 38th year of Her present Majesty and intituled 'An Act to amend "The Elementary Education Act, 1871,"' shall be and the same arę hereby repealed. Repeal of sec. 20 and sec. 26, subNo. 14 sec. 3 of 35 Vic., 3. In lieu of the provisions of the said twentieth section, it is Government hereby provided that from and after the first day of January after the Schools, how supported Assisted Schools, how supported Elementary Education-Amendment passing of this Act there shall be appropriated, out of the Educational Grant for each year, for the support of Government Schools throughout the Colony, a sum not exceeding the sum of Three pounds ten shillings per head per annum, calculated upon the total aggregate average daily attendance of all children, above the age of four years and under the age of sixteen years, who shall have attended the said schools for not less than four hours per diem. Provided always that a continuous attendance for two hours for secular instruction by any such child in any one day shall count as half a day's attendance, for the purpose of the said calculation. And the said sum, or any part thereof, shall be payable to the teachers of the said schools, according to such rules and scales as may from time to time be made in that behalf by the Central Board of Education. 4. And in lieu of the provisions of section twenty-six, sub-section three, aforesaid, it is hereby provided that from and after the first day of January after the passing of this Act there shall be appropriated, out of the Educational Grant for each year, for a grant-in-aid to Assisted Schools throughout the Colony, a sum not exceeding the sum of One pound fifteen shillings per head per annum, calculated upon the total aggregate average daily attendance of all children, above the age of four years and under the age of sixteen years, who shall have attended the said schools for not less than four hours per diem. Provided always that a continuous attendance for two hours for secular instruction by any such child in any one day shall count as half a day's attendance, for the purpose of the said calculation. And the said sum, or any part thereof, shall be payable according to such rules and scales as may from time to time be made in that behalf by the Central Board of Education. Provided also, that no such grant-in-aid shall be given to any such school when the number of scholars in average daily attendance is less than twenty. WILLIAM C. F. ROBINSON, GOVERNOR. WESTERN AUSTRALIA ANNO QUADRAGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIÆ REGINE No. 12 An Act to amend and extend the Telegraphic Messages WH [Assented to 16th August, 1877. THEREAS it is desirable to further extend the advantages of the Electric Telegraph, and to amend the provisions of the 'Telegraphic Messages Act, 1874'; Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Western Australia and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows: Telegraph Messages—Amendment 1. It shall be lawful for any of the persons mentioned in section 4 of the said Act, in addition to the documents mentioned in the same section, to cause to be transmitted by Electric Telegraph the contents of any affidavit or statutory declaration, subject to the provisions contained in the sub-sections of the said section 4 as hereinafter amended. 2. The following words shall form part of sub-section 3 of the said fourth section of the said Act, and shall be read at the end and in continuation of the said sub-section, namely:-' and such lastmentioned person shall forthwith endorse on such copy a certificate that such copy was duly received by him under the provisions of this Act, and this certificate shall be counter-signed by the Justice of the Peace or Notary Public under whose supervision such copy may have been received. 3. Every copy so endorsed, certified, and counter-signed, shall be as valid to all intents and purposes as the original whereof it purports to be a copy would have been, and shall be admissible as evidence in any case in which the original would have been so admissible; and any person by whom such copy shall have been so received or who shall be thereby authorised, instructed, or commanded, or who shall or may be lawfully charged with any duty in respect thereof, shall have and become liable to the same rights or duties in respect thereof as if he had received such original document duly signed and sealed, or signed, or sealed, or sworn, or declared, as the case may be; and in the case of documents intended to be served, or the efficacy or use whereof depends upon service, every such copy shall for the purpose of such service be deemed to be the original document whereof it purports to be a copy. 4. Section 5 of the said Act is hereby repealed. 5. This Act may be cited as the Telegraphic Messages Amendment Act, 1877,' and shall be read with the Telegraphic Messages Act, 1874,' as one Act. WILLIAM C. F. ROBINSON, GOVERNOR. WESTERN AUSTRALIA ANNO QUADRAGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIÆ REGINE No. 14 An Act to vest in certain Officers of Customs in this Colony WH THEREAS by section seven of 'The Merchant Shipping Act, Preamble 1871,' it is provided that the costs of any survey made in 34 & 35 Vic, pursuance of the provisions of that section shall be paid in the first c.110 VOL. I. X X Principal officer of customs to pay costs of sur of 34 & 35 Vic., c. 110 Repayment of Costs of Survey of Merchant Ships instance by the Board of Trade out of the Mercantile Marine Fund, and shall be repaid to the said Board, as in the said section mentioned; and whereas the said provision is not applicable to the case of surveys made in pursuance of the said section in this Colony, and it is expedient to provide for such cases: Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Western Australia and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows: 1. The costs of any survey made in pursuance of the provisions of the said seventh section of The Merchant Shipping Act, 1871,' veys under sec. 7 which by the said section are to be paid within the United Kingdom by the Board of Trade out of the Mercantile Marine Fund, shall within this Colony be paid by the principal officer of customs at the port within or nearest to which such survey is held; and such And to be repaid principal officer, having paid any such costs, shall be entitled to have the same repaid to him, by the person or persons upon whose demand or in consequence of whose allegation the survey was made, or by the master or owner of the ship, in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as, within the United Kingdom, the Board of Trade is so entitled. the same WILLIAM C. F. ROBINSON, GOVERNOR. WESTERN AUSTRALIA ANNO QUADRAGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIÆ REGINE No. 17 6 An Act to repeal an Act intituled An Act to facilitate the arrest of Absconding Debtors,' and to make other provision in lieu thereof. W [Assented to 17th August, 1877. HEREAS the laws now in force for the arrest of debtors absconding from the Colony are insufficient for that purpose, and it is further expedient to afford facilities to prevent persons who may have engaged to pay any sum or sums of money on their leaving the Colony from leaving the Colony without paying the same: Be it therefore enacted by his Excellency the Governor of Western Australia and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows: 1. If any professing creditor shall, by affidavit of himself or any other credible person, satisfy any Justice of the Peace in the said Colony that any person is indebted to such creditor in any sum not less than Five pounds; or if any duly authorised person shall by |