Stokers and pokers : $b or, The London and North-Western Railway, the electric telegraph, and the railway clearing-houseHead, Francis Bond, Sir
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Stokers and pokers : $b or, The London and North-Western Railway, the electric telegraph, and the railway clearing-house
Head, Francis Bond, Sir
London and North-Western Railway; Railway Clearing House (London, England); Telegraph -- Great Britain
SECTION 13.]--That it shall be lawful for any officer or agent of
any Railway Company, or for any special constable duly appointed,
and all such persons as they may call to their assistance, to seize
and detain any Engine-driver, Guard, Porter, or other servant
in the employ of such Company, who shall be found drunk while
employed upon the Railway, or commit any offence against any of the
Bye-laws, Rules, or Regulations of such Company, or shall wilfully,
maliciously, or negligently do, or omit to do, any act whereby the
life or limb of any person passing along or being upon the Railway
belonging to such Company, or the works thereof respectively, shall
be or might be injured or endangered, or whereby the passage of any
of the Engines, Carriages, or Trains shall be or might be obstructed
or impeded; and to convey such Engine-driver, Guard, Porter, or
other servant so offending, or any person counselling, aiding, or
assisting in such offence, with all convenient despatch, before some
Justice of the Peace for the place within which such offence shall be
committed, without any other warrant or authority than this Act; and
every such person so offending, and every person counselling, aiding,
or assisting therein as aforesaid, shall, when convicted before such
Justice as aforesaid (who is hereby authorised and required, upon
complaint to him made upon oath, without information in writing, to
take cognizance thereof, and to act summarily in the premises), in
the discretion of such Justice be imprisoned, with or without hard
labour, for any term not exceeding two Calendar months, or, in the
like discretion of such Justice, shall, for every such offence,
forfeit to Her Majesty any sum not exceeding 10_l._, and in default
of payment thereof shall be imprisoned, with or without hard labour
as aforesaid, for such period, not exceeding two Calendar months,
as such Justice shall appoint; such commitment to be determined on
payment of the amount of the penalty; and every such penalty shall be
returned to the next ensuing Court of Quarter Sessions in the usual
manner.
_Justices of the Peace empowered to send any case to be tried by the
Quarter Sessions._
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