understood, however, that this privilege shall cause themselves to be inscribed, with the approbation of the committee, at the Receiver's, as members or this Society, in the six first months of its formation. After which period it will be required to contribute during three consecutive years to have a right of

vote.

Art. 13.-Seamen shall have no right to any regular pension out of this fund, but as far as they shall have contributed du ring sixty months at least, and are incapable of navigating, whether from old age, illness, accident or wounds received in the service of the merchant shipping of this island.

The committee shall have, nevertherless, the right of granting extra or momentary relief to those who might be in extreme want.

Art. 14.-The widows and children of seamen shall have no right to a regular pension preceeding from the said fund, but inasmuch as their husbands or fathers shall have contributed thereto during sixty months, and have died in the service of the merchant shipping of this island, or from accidents which may have befallen them in the said service; and no child, having attained the age of fourteen years, shall be entitled to claim a pension from this fund, unless he be incapble of gaining his livelihood, either on account of idiocy or any other infirmity which unfits him for working.

Art. 15.-The seamen, widows or children of seamen receiv. ing pensions or allowances from a fund of the same nature,shall not be able to claim any thing of this Society.

Art. 16.-Seamen who shall have contributed to another fund similar to the present institution longer than they have contributed in this Island, and who, having become incapable of serving, should require a pension, shall be bound to make their claim on the Society to which they shall have contributed the longest. The committee being bound to help and support their claim, and take every necessary measure for the purpose.

Art. 17.-Every seaman making a claim on the present fund on account of a wound, illness or other cause, shall be bound to produce a certificate from the captain and the mate of the vessel in which he served, stating the nature of the case for which he made his claim, which certificate must be signed by the said officers and the seaman himself, and attested by them upon oath, before a Magistrate.

Art. 18.-The widows or children of seamen making claims on the present fund, shall be equally bound to produce a certi ficate from the Captain and mate of the vessel in which the

deceased served at the time of his death, which certificate shall be signed and attested by the said officers upon oath, before a Magistrate, and shall state the period and the manner in which the deceased met his death.

Art. 19.-If it be impossible to produce the certificates prescribed in the two preceding articles, the claimant shall be bound to produce such other document or proof as the Committee, according to the nature of the case, shall deem fit to require.

Art. 20.-Every person forging a certificate or other document described in this regulation, or making any alteration therein either by erasure or otherwise, or causing it to be made by others, or obtaining a certificate through fraud, in order to get relief from the present fund, shall be prosecuted before the Royal Court, and punished as a swindler, according to the gravity of the case, and shall be moreover debarred for ever from every right to a claim on the funds of the present institution.

Art. 21.-The wages and salaries due by the Armateurs or proprietors of ships and vessels of this Island to seamen dead in the service, which shall not have been claimed by their heirs within six months after the return of the ship or vessel, or after the receipt of the news of its loss, shall be placed into the hands of the Receiver of this Society. If, within ten years after the death of a seamen, his heirs should present themselves and claim his wages and salaries deposited in the hands of the Receiver, they shall be delivered to them unimpaired; if there be no claim within this period, the said wages, or salaries, shall belong to the funds of the said Society.

Art. 22.-The depositaries named by virtue of this regulation shall not be able to sell, alienate, exchange or dispose of the funds or properties belonging to this Society, placed in their name, without being authorised by an act of the General Assembly, on pain of answering personally for the injury and damage. As to the interests, dividends or produce of the said funds or properties, they shall dispose of them according to the directions of the Committee.

Art. 23. The penalties or fines laid down in this regulation shall be adjudged by the Royal Court at the instance of the Partie Publique, and the cases shall be treated briefly, as well in term as vacation.

Which shall be printed, published and posted.

FRS. GODFRAY, Greffier.

The Schedule contains, a list of the crew, men's names, place of birth, time of entry, time of discharging or

leaving the ship, where hurt or damaged, where killed ør drowned or died a natural death, wages due at time of death, what clothes or other effects any deceased man has left, amount of monthly duty, and date.

Search, right of, not allowed on shore.-The following ease is reported in Bowditch's Treatise, p.68. M'Gennis v. Cabot. The plaintiff in this case, had put his portmanteau on board the defendant's vessel, which, on his arriving at her port of desti tion (Plymouth), was found missing. The industry of the plaintiff on his return to Jersey enabled him to trace the contents of the portmanteau into the hands of the defendant who had offered them for sale, and he brought his action to recover the value. The witnesses having proved the plaintiff's case, the present King's Advocate insisted that he was entitled to the amount proved in the portmanteau, £40, and £20 damages laid in the remonstrance, with costs. The defendant's counsel thought the plaintiff must be nonsuited, as the goods were contraband by an Act Parliament registered in the Island; so that the shipping such goods rendered the vessel and the property liable to confiscation, and the action would not lie. The King's Advocate was about to reply, but the Court thought it unnecessary,and gave the plaintiff a verdict with costs. The following affidavit of the facts was made at the time: Island of Jersey.-Before one of the magistrates of the Royal Court of the said Island, hereunder subscribed, personally appeared, Jeremiah M Gennis, who, on his oath states, that in the month of October last, he agreed with the Captain of the cutter, George and Henry, of Jersey, to take charge of a quantity of India silk handkerchiefs, in pieces twenty-four, with about thirty-two pounds of tobacco;. that the same were safely packed in a portmanteau, and by his permission put on board; that the said Captain, notwithstanding his agreement with deponent, permitted the same to be taken, with its contents, from the vessel, without his permission; that after much labour and search at the two principal silk warehouses, Messrs. Le Brock and Co. and De Gruchy, about the same, he found that the owner of the said vessel by name Cabot, had offered the silks in question in barter for flour with the last-mentioned house. That on presenting a written representation of the whole transaction to His Majesty's Solicitor General of the said Island, and to Mr. Hugh Godfray, Sheriff or Denunciator thereof, the same was undertaken by them to commence an action against the above-named Cabot for the recovery thereof, for the price or sum of ten pounds, with this condition, that if they did not recover the property or value

thereof, they would not seek any recompense from deponent for the costs of the said suit. And this deponent further saith, that he was assured by the father of the said Mr. Hugh Godfray, who also keeps a large silk and mercer's warehouse in the Island, that the property was safe and certain of being recovered, as no silks could be seized on shore. Sworn, &c. before THOS. PIPON.

JER. M.GENNIS. Seizure of goods and vessel liable to forfeiture.—The 6 Geo. 4, c. 114, registered in the rolls of the Court provides: "And be it further enacted, That the Master of every ship bourd from any of the British Possessions abroad, or the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, &c. shall, before any goods be laden therein, deliver to the Collector of His Majesty's Customs, under his hand, the destination, country, tonnage and name of such ship, the name of the owners, &c. And be it further enacted, That all vessels and boats, and all goods whatever, liable to forfeiture, under this or any other Act, relating to the revenue of Customs, shall and may be seized, in any place, either upon land or water, by any Officer of His Majesty's Army, Navy, Customs, &c." Upon the the faith of this act, Mr. Williams, Officer of Customs, at Southsea, came over to Jersey, to make a seizure, but his journey was rendered a fruitless one, the authorities of the Island having maintained, that their charters protected them from all search on shore. The following letter will explain the case :-" Southsea, 18th June, 1826. "Sir,-When I visited Jersey, it was under the sanction of the Honourable Board. I had information of the open sale of contraband goods, and that I had an Act of Parliament making such goods liable to seizure. Under such circumstances it was natural to expect that I should be very successful, particularly as when I arrived at the Island, I had certain information as to where the goods were deposited, in six different places, to the amount of many thousands; I had even gone so far as to arrange the different services, so that several persons engaged with me should act simultaneously, that the business might be effected in the different places before the alarm was given. All was well so far; but as no house could be violated without the presence and aid of the civil power, I applied to the Governor, Sir Colin Halkett, and received every attention from him. The Chief Magistrate was sent for, and the laws referred to, by which I was told that their Charters protected them against such visits, in short, nothing could be done, and my voyage was a fruitless one. On particular enquiry I found that cases had occurred wherein the Revenue Officers had actually

seen contraband goods landed on the Island, but that nothing "Sir, Your's, truly,

could be done.

"J. WILLIAMS, Comptroller.

"To J. Bowditch, Esq., 2, Strand, London."

Segars, in packages of not less than one hundred pounds weight, may be imported into or exported from the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney or Sark, or removed from any one to any other of the said islands, or coastwise from any one part to any other part of the said islands.-6 and 7 William 4., c. 61, sec. 14.

Senechals of the Inferior Courts.-The following is a translation of their oath of office :-You swear and promise by the faith and oath that you owe to God, that well and faithfully you will execute the office of Senechal of the Court of the Fief of the Lord of , that you will be faithful and true to Her Majesty and her legitimate heirs and successors, that you will administer good and speedy Justice according to the Laws and Customs of the Island and the usage of the Fief, and that without exception of persons-that will bear respect to the Royal Court and shew yourself obedient to its orders and sentences, and perform generally all other duties which appertain to the said office.

Separate maintenance in France.-A question of some importance to English persons was decided by the Tribunal de Premiere Instance at Paris, in 1834: an English lady named Palmer instituted a suit for alimony against her husband, Mr. John Palmer who had refused to allow her to return to conju gal residence. The Counsel for Mr. Palmer contended, that his client being a foreigner, the Court was incompetent to entertain the question. The counsel for Mrs. Palmer, however, endeavoured to show, that as the defendant had lived in France for 18 years, and had formed an extensive establishment there, he was to be looked upon, in the eye of the French law as coming under its jurisdiction. The Tribunal however decided that as the parties were foreigners, and as no fact had been stated to invalidate their nationality, it was incompetent to entertain the question. [Gazette des Tribunaux.]

Separation quant aux biens, (separation as to property.)— This is a contract, according to the customs of Normandy, for dividing the property of husband and wife, and may at all times be entered into in the islands of Jersey and Guernsey. It is also practised in Lower Canada, and some of the other Colonies, originally settled by the French. It is obtained in Jersey, by motion before the Inferior Court, and costs about 8s. or 10s. The parties are not required to give any notice of