An Act to amend the Act for the better Care and Reformation of Youthful Offenders, and the Act to render Reformatory and Industrial Schools in Scotland more available for the Benefit of Vagrant Children.
WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Act of the last Session of Parliament, Chapter Eighty-six, "for the better Care and Reformation of Youthful Offenders in Great Britain," so far as respects the Provision thereby made for charging the Parent or Step-Parent of an Offender in certain Cases with Payments towards his Maintenance or Support: 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 ...