lands or tenements, or in such lands, tenements, and rents taken together, in fee simple or fee tail, or for any life or lives whatsoever; or has a clear income of twenty pounds by the year in lands or tenements situate in the said county of the city of Dublin, held by lease originally made for an absolute term of not less than twenty-one years, whether the same shall or shall not be determinable on any life or lives; or in case he or the company of which he is a director or manager, or the board or body of which he is a member as herein-after mentioned, has or occupies any counting-house, office, shop, or place of business within the said county of the city of Dublin, although such man may not reside therein, provided that he resides within twelve statute miles therefrom, who is either in his own name or as a member of a firm or co-partnership rated in the last rate made for the relief of the poor in the said county of the city of Dublin in respect of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments situate in such ward of the county of the city of Dublin (of the net annual value of twenty pounds or upwards; or is a director or manager of any banking, railway, insurance, steamship, shipping, or other company incorporated by any charter or by or under the provisions of any Act of Parliament, and carrying on any such business within the said county of the city of Dublin, or who is a member of any board of harbour commissioners, or other body entrusted, under the provisions of any Act of Parliament, with the management of any harbour or docks within the said county of the city of Dublin; and you are required to prepare the said list in alphabetical order of surnames, as the same would be arranged in a dictionary, and where persons have the same surname in the alphabetical order of their Christian names, and consecutively numbered, and write the Christian name and surname of every man at full length, with his true or last known place of abode (stating the counting-house, office, shop, or place of business of any person who is deemed under section two of the Jurors Qualification (Ireland) Act, 1876, to be resident in respect thereof as the place of abode of such person), the nature of his qualification, his title, quality, calling, or business, the place and amount of his freehold or leasehold property (in case he be qualified in respect of such property), and the place and annual value of his rated property (in case he be qualified in respect of rated property) in the proper columns of the forms sent herewith, and if you have not a sufficient number of forms you must apply to me for more; and in ascertaining the said net annual value you shall not reckon or take into account the annual value of any house or tenement let to weekly or monthly tenants or in separate apartments, the owner whereof is under the statute 12 and 13 Victoria, chapter 91, section 63, rated instead of the occupier thereof; and in preparing the said list you are, in case any person returned on said list shall be under the age of twenty-one years or over the age of sixty-five years, or disqualified or exempted from serving on juries, to state the fact of such person being under or over age, or the grounds of such disqualification or exemption, opposite his name in the proper column of the said form; and you are required on or before the first day of August in the present year to deliver the said list, with the declarations at the foot or end thereof, signed respectively by you and the collector or collectors by whose assistance you may have prepared the said list, to the clerk of the peace of the said county of the city of Dublin; and you are hereby required, within twenty-one days after the delivery of the said list to the said clerk of the peace, to cause a sufficient number of copies of the said list to be printed, published, and posted within the ward for which the said list shall have been prepared; and you are further required to attend the revising barristers of the city of Dublin and produce the said rate books at any of the courts to be held for the revision of the said several lists prepared by you, of the time and place of holding which you shall be previously informed, and there to answer on oath such questions as shall be put to you by the revising barrister then present touching any of the said lists; and those several matters you are in nowise to omit upon the peril that may ensue. in the said county of the city in the year Clerk of the Peace for the said county of the city of Dublin. We, the undersigned collectors, hereby declare that, so far as relates to each of our respective districts of collection, we have made due and diligent inquiry for the purpose of assisting the Collector-General of Rates for the city of Dublin in having the above list properly prepared, and we further declare that wherever any person named in said list is under 21 or over 65 years of age, or disqualified or exempted from serving as a juror, the fact of his being under or over age, or the grounds of such disqualification or exemption are truly stated in the proper column of said list, and that the true or last known place of abode, nature of the qualification, title, quality, calling, or business, place, and amount or annual value of property of each of the persons named in the above list are fully and truly stated, and that there is not omitted from the above list the name of any person whose name ought to be contained therein. in the year Dated this day of Collectors. I, the undersigned Collector-General of Rates, do hereby declare that I have made due inquiry, with the assistance of my collectors, for the purpose of preparing the above General List of Jurors," and that the same has been fully and truly prepared by me from the rate books, and that the several particulars stated in the above list regarding each person named therein are correctly stated to the best of my knowledge and information, and that there is not omitted from the above list the name of any person whose name ought to be contained therein. Dated this day of in the year (*) [Division of a barony, or in a county of a city or county of a town, "Ward."] I, the undersigned Clerk of the Peace of the county of do hereby declare that the above "List of Special Jurors" has been visions of "The Jurors Qualification Act (Ireland), 1876." Dated this day of in the year Clerk of the Peace. CHAPTER 22. An Act to amend the Trade Union Act, 1871. [30th June 1876.] WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Trade Union Act, 1871: 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. This Act and the Trade Union Act, 1871, herein-after termed Construction the principal Act, shall be construed as one Act, and may be cited and short title. together as the "Trade Union Acts, 1871 and 1876," and this Act may be cited separately as the "Trade Union Act Amendment Act, 1876." s. 28 of 2. Notwithstanding anything in section five of the principal Act Trade unions contained, a trade union, whether registered or unregistered, which to be within insures or pays money on the death of a child under ten years of Friendly age shall be deemed to be within the provisions of section twenty- Societies Act, eight of the Friendly Societies Act, 1875. 1875. 3. Whereas by section eight of the principal Act it is enacted Amendment of s. 8 of principal that "the real or personal estate of any branch of a trade union Act. "shall be vested in the trustees of such branch :" The said section shall be read and construed as if immediately after the hereinbefore recited words there were inserted the words "or of the "trustees of the trade union, if the rules of the trade union so " provide." &c. of trustee. 4. When any person, being or having been a trustee of a trade Provision in union or of any branch of a trade union, and whether appointed case of absence, before or after the legal establishment thereof, in whose name any stock belonging to such union or branch transferable at the Bank of England or Bank of Ireland is standing, either jointly with another or others, or solely, is absent from Great Britain or Ireland respectively, or becomes bankrupt, or files any petition, or executes any deed for liquidation of his affairs by assignment or arrangement, or for composition with his creditors, or becomes a lunatic, or is dead, or has been removed from his office of trustee, or if it be unknown whether such person is living or dead, the registrar, on application in writing from the secretary and three members of the union or branch, and on proof satisfactory to him, may direct the transfer of the stock into the names of any other persons as trustees for the union or branch; and such transfer shall be made by the surviving or continuing trustees, and if there be no such trustee, or if such trustees refuse or be unable to make such transfer, and the registrar so direct, then by the Accountant-General or Jurisdiction in offences. Registry of unions doing business in more than one country. Life Assurance Deputy or Assistant Accountant-General of the Bank of England or Bank of Ireland, as the case may be; and the Governors and Companies of the Bank of England and Bank of Ireland respectively are hereby indemnified for anything done by them or any of their officers in pursuance of this provision against any claim or demand of any person injuriously affected thereby. 5. The jurisdiction conferred in the case of certain offences by section twelve of the principal Act upon the court of summary jurisdiction for the place in which the registered office of a trade union is situate may be exercised either by that court or by the court of summary jurisdiction for the place where the offence has been committed. 6. Trade unions carrying or intending to carry on business in more than one country shall be registered in the country in which their registered office is situate; but copies of the rules of such unions, and of all amendments of the same, shall, when registered, be sent to the registrar of each of the other countries, to be recorded by him, and until such rules be so recorded the union shall not be entitled to any of the privileges of this Act or the principal Act, in the country in which such rules have not been recorded, and until such amendments of rules be recorded the same shall not take effect in such country. In this section "country" means England, Scotland, or Ireland. 7. Whereas by the "Life Assurance Companies Act, 1870," it is provided that the said Act shall not apply to societies registered apply to regis under the Acts relating to Friendly Societies: The said Act (or the amending Acts) shall not apply nor be deemed to have applied to trade unions registered or to be registered under the principal Act. tered unions. Withdrawal or cancelling of certificate. 8. No certificate of registration of a trade union shall be withdrawn or cancelled otherwise than by the chief registrar of Friendly Societies, or in the case of trade unions registered and doing business exclusively in Scotland or Ireland, by the assistant registrar for Scotland or Ireland, and in the following cases: (1.) At the request of the trade union to be evidenced in such manner as such chief or assistant registrar shall from time to time direct: (2.) On proof to his satisfaction that a certificate of registration has been obtained by fraud or mistake, or that the registration of the trade union has become void under section six of the Trade Union Act, 1871, or that such trade union has wilfully and after notice from a registrar whom it may concern, violated any of the provisions of the Trade Union Acts, or has ceased to exist. Not less than two months previous notice in writing, specifying briefly the ground of any proposed withdrawal or cancelling of certificate (unless where the same is shown to have become void as aforesaid, in which case it shall be the duty of the chief or assistant registrar to cancel the same forthwith) shall be given by the chief or assistant registrar to a trade union before the certificate of registration of the same can be withdrawn or cancelled (except at its request). A trade union whose certificate of registration has been withdrawn or cancelled shall, from the time of such withdrawal or cancelling, absolutely cease to enjoy as such the privileges of a registered trade union, but without prejudice to any liability actually incurred by such trade union, which may be enforced against the same as if such withdrawal or cancelling had not taken place. 9. A person under the age of twenty-one, but above the age Membership of of sixteen, may be a member of a trade union, unless provision be minors. made in the rules thereof to the contrary, and may, subject to the rules of the trade union, enjoy all the rights of a member except as herein provided, and execute all instruments and give all acquittances necessary to be executed or given under the rules, but shall not be a member of the committee of management, trustee, or treasurer of the trade union. 10. A member of a trade union not being under the age of Nomination. sixteen years may, by writing under his hand, delivered at, or sent to, the registered office of the trade union, nominate any person not being an officer or servant of the trade union (unless such officer or servant is the husband, wife, father, mother, child, brother, sister, nephew, or niece of the nominator), to whom any moneys payable on the death of such member not exceeding fifty pounds shall be paid at his decease, and may from time to time revoke or vary such nomination by a writing under his hand similarly delivered or sent; and on receiving satisfactory proof of the death of a nominator, the trade union shall pay to the nominee the amount due to the deceased member not exceeding the sum aforesaid. 11. A trade union may, with the approval in writing of the chief Change of registrar of Friendly Societies, or in the case of trade unions regis- name. tered and doing business exclusively in Scotland or Ireland, of the assistant registrar for Scotland or Ireland respectively, change its name by the consent of not less than two thirds of the total number of members. No change of name shall affect any right or obligation of the trade union or of any member thereof, and any pending legal proceedings may be continued by or against the trustees of the trade union or any other officer who may sue or be sued on behalf of such trade union notwithstanding its new name. 12. Any two or more trade unions may, by the consent of not Amalgamation. less than two thirds of the members of each or every such trade union, become amalgamated together as one trade union, with or without any dissolution or division of the funds of such trade unions, or either or any of them; but no amalgamation shall prejudice any right of a creditor of either or any union party thereto. names and 13. Notice in writing of every change of name or amalgamation Registration of signed, in the case of a change of name, by seven members, and changes of countersigned by the secretary of the trade union changing its name, amalgamations. and accompanied by a statutory declaration by such secretary that the provisions of this Act in respect of changes of name have been complied with, and in the case of an amalgamation signed by seven members, and countersigned by the secretary of each or every union party thereto, and accompanied by a statutory declaration by each or every such secretary that the provisions of this Act in respect of amalgamations have been complied with, shall be sent to the central office established by the Friendly Societies Act, 1875, and registered |