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to be for the sale or purchase of any such shares of stocky 

 goods, wares, or merchandise ; or (b) makes or signs, or 

 authorises to be made or signed, any contract or agreement, 

 oral or written, purporting to be for the sale or purchase of 

 any such shares of stock, goods, wares, or merchandise in 

 respect of which no delivery of the thing sold or purchased 

 is made or received, and without the bond fide intention 

 to make or receive such delivery. 



2. But it is not an offence if the broker of the purchaser 

 receives delivery, on his behalf, of the articles sold, not- 

 withstanding that such broker retains or pledges the 

 same as security for the advance of the purchase-money 

 or any part thereof. 



3. Every office or place of business wherein is carried 

 on the business of making or signing, or procuring to 

 be made or signed, or negotiating or bargaining for the 

 making or signing of such contracts of sale or purchase 

 as are prohibited in this section, is a common gaming- 

 house, and everyone who, as principal or agent, occupies,, 

 uses, manages, or maintains the same is the keeper of a 

 common gaming-house. '51 Vict. c. 42, ss. 1 and 3.) 



202. Everyone is guilty of an indictable offence, and liable 

 to one year's imprisonment, who habitually frequents any 

 office or place wherein the making or signing, or procuring 

 to be made or signed, or the negotiating or bargaining for 

 the making or signing of such contracts of sale or purchase 

 as are mentioned in the section next preceding is carried on.. 

 (51 Vict. c. 42, s. 1.) 



Education Department. Code of Regulations for Day Schools, - 

 1897. [C— 8340.] Price $\d. Revised Instructions 

 issued to Her Majesty's Inspectors and applicable to the Code 

 of 1897. [C— 8341.] Price 5 d. 



The provision made by the Education Department for' 

 instruction in agricultural subjects in public elementary/ 

 schools is contained in Art. 101 of the above Code. Under 

 this article a grant may be made to day schools for older 



