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to the fencing of machinery and wheels so that the men’s clothes 
might not catch in them. Provision indeed was made for the 
protection of human life in every way. All these clauses had 
been specially considered by the county, and by the Committee 
acting on behalf of the county; and he believed that, with a few 
trifling amendments which were entered in his name, they would 
be found to be. unobjectionable, that they would add materially 
to the safety of the miner, and be the means of preventing many 
accidents. There were other clauses, relating to plans and maps 
of mines. 
Mr. St. Aubyn next proceeded to speak of the Bill prepared 
by Sir John Lubbock for the better preservation of historical 
monuments and objects of antiquity in Great Britain and Ireland. 
The Bill had not yet been brought before the House of Commons, 
but a Draft Copy had been forwarded to the various scientific 
institutions in the country, in order that public feeling in relation 
to its provisions might be elicited. It contained 22 Clauses, and 
its object was fully indicated in the preamble: ‘“ Whereas many 
monuments, and other remains of antiquity, relating to the former con- 
dition and early history of Great Britain and Ireland have of late 
years been removed, injured, or destroyed, and it is expedient that those 
monuments and antiquities which stili remain should be protected from 
further injuries, be it therefore enacted as follows.” The Bill pro- 
posed, in the first place, to appoint a Commission, to consist of 
the First Commissioner of Works, the Presidents of the Societies 
_of Antiquaries of England and Scotland, the President of the 
Royal Irish Academy, the Keeper of British Antiquities in the 
British Museum, and two or three other persons named in the 
bill—to be called the “National Monuments Preservation Com- 
mission.” Annexed to the Act would be a Schedule, to con- 
tain the names of all monuments of antiquity which any county 
or local society might think ought to be inserted; and all monu- 
ments so scheduled would be subject to supervision by the 
Commission. It was also provided that the Commissioners should 
be able to take any other monument under their care, on giving 
notice to the Clerk of the Peace for the County, and to the 
owner or reputed owner and to the occupier of the land whereon 
the monument stood ; and on their causing proper notice to be 
placed on the parish church. What was meant by being under 
control of the Commissioners was, that they would have power 
to put railings or fences round all the scheduled monuments ; and 
any person removing or injuring the monuments or fences would 
be liable to fine, or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three 
months. If the owner or occupier of the land should wish to 
remove, alter, or destroy any such monument, he would have to 
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