STATUTES

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PUBLIC GENERAL ACTS.

N Act to consolidate the Boards of Excise and Stamps and Taxes into One Board of Commissioners of Inland Revenue, and to make Provision for the Collection of such Revenue.

II. An Act to continue, until the First Day of September One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, an Act of the last Session, for empowering the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland to apprehend and detain such Persons as he or they shall suspect of conspiring against Her Majesty's Person and Government. III. An Act to apply the Sum of Eight Millions out of the consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. IV. An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Appointment of Vice Guardians of Unions in Ireland.

V. An Act to authorize an Advance of Money for the Relief of certain distressed Poor Law Unions in Ireland.

VI. An Act to repeal an Act of the Twenty-first Year of George the Second, for holding the Summer Assizes at Buckingham; and to authorize the Appointment of a more convenient Place for holding the same.

VII. An Act to authorize the Inclosure of certain Lands in pursuance of the Fourth Annual General Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales. VIII. An Act to remove Doubts as to the Appointment of Overseers in Cities and Boroughs.

IX. An Act to indemnify such Persons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments, and to extend the Time limited for those Purposes respectively until the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and fifty.

X. An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better Payment of the Army, and their Quarters. XI. An Act to amend the Laws in England and Ireland relative to Larceny and other Offences connected therewith.

XII. An Act for the Regulation of Her Majesty's Royal Marine Forces while on shore.

XIII. An Act to provide a more effectual Regulation and Control over the Maintenance of poor Persons in Houses not being the Workhouses of any Union or Parish.

XIV. An Act to enable Overseers of the Poor and Surveyors of the Highways to recover the Costs of distraining for Rates.

XV. An Act to amend an Act of the Fiftyfourth Year of King George the Third,

for the Recovery of small Sums due for Wages in Ireland.

XVI. An Act to protect Justices of the

Peace in Ireland from vexatious Actions for Acts done by them in the Execution of their Office.

XVII. An Act to continue for Five Years so much of an Act of the Second and Third Years of Her present Majesty, as enables Justices to grant Warrants for entering Places in which Spirits are sold without Licence in Ireland. XVIII. An Act for the holding of Petty Sessions of the Peace in Boroughs, and for providing Places for the holding of such Petty Sessions in Counties and Boroughs.

XIX. An Act to make perpetual an Act of the Tenth and Eleventh Years of Her present Majesty, for authorizing the Removal of Prisoners from the several Gaols in Ireland in Cases of Epidemic Diseases.

XX. An Act for raising the Sum of Seven

teen millions seven hundred and eighty

six thousand seven hundred Pounds by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.

XXI. An Act to confirm certain Acts of the Legislature of Newfoundland respecting the rebuilding of the Town of Saint John's, Newfoundland, and to enable the said Legislature to make other Provisions respecting the rebuilding of the said Town.

XXII. An Act to remove Doubts concerning the Validity of certain Grants of Land in the Colony of New South Wales.

XXIII. An Act to authorize further Advances of Money for the Improvement of Landed Property, and the Extension and Promotion of Drainage and other Works of public Utility in Ireland. XXIV. An Act to make Provision, until the Thirty-first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and fifty, for a General Rate in Aid of certain distressed Unions and Electoral Divisions in Ireland.

XXV. An Act for giving effect to the
Stipulations of a Treaty between Her
Majesty and the Queen of Portugal for
the Apprehension of certain Deserters.
XXVI. An Act for granting Relief against

Defects in Leases made under Powers of
Leasing, in certain Cases.

XXVII. An Act to remove Doubts concerning the Transportation of Offenders under Judgment of Death to whom Mercy may be extended in Ireland. XXVIII. An Act to enable the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital to regulate and manage the Markets held at Greenwich in the County of Kent. XXIX. An Act to amend the Laws in force for the Encouragement of British Shipping and Navigation.

XXX. An Act for the better Preservation

of Sheep, and more speedy Detection of Receivers of stolen Sheep, in Ireland. XXXI. An Act for requiring the Transmission of the annual Abstracts and Statements of Trustees of Turnpike Roads and Bridges in Scotland to the Secretary of State to be laid before Parliament.

XXXII. An Act to continue to the End of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one certain temporary Provisions relating to the Collection of Grand Jury Cess in Ireland.

XXXIII. An Act for regulating the Car

riage of Passengers in Merchant Vessels. XXXIV. An Act to amend an Act regu

lating the Justice of the Peace Small Debt Courts in Scotland. XXXV. An Act for requiring annual Returns of the Expenditure on Highways in England and Wales to be transmitted to the Secretary of State, and afterwards laid before Parliament. XXXVI. An Act to make Provision, during the present Year, and to the End of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, relating to the Collection of County Cess in Ireland, and to the Remuneration of the Collectors thereof.

XXXVII. An Act to continue to the First Day of October One thousand eight hundred and fifty, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, an Act to amend the Laws relating to Loan Societies.

XXXVIII. An Act to continue for Five

Years an Act of the Second and Third
Years of Her present Majesty, for the
better Prevention and Punishment of
Assaults in Ireland.

XXXIX. An Act for further continuing, until the First Day of August One thou sand eight hundred and fifty, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, certain temporary Provisions concerning Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in England.

XL. An Act to continue, until the Thirtyfirst Day of July One thousand eight hundred and fifty, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, certain of the Allowances of the Duty of Excise on soap used in Manufactures.

XLI. An Act to extend an Act of the Fifty-sixth Year of King George the Third, for providing for a new Silver Coinage, and for regulating the Currency of the Gold and Silver Coin of this Realm.

XLII. An Act to provide for the Execu

tion for One Year of the Office of Sheriff in the County of Westmoreland. XLIII. An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion of Officers and Soldiers in the Service of the East India Company, and for regulating in such Service the Payment of Regimental Debts and the Distribution of the Effects of Officers and Soldiers dying in the Service. XLIV. An Act to apply the Sum of Three

Millions out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty nine. XLV. An Act to amend the Procedure in

Courts of General and Quarter Sessions of the Peace in England and Wales,

and for the better Advancement of Justice in Cases within the Jurisdiction of those Courts.

XLVI. An Act to facilitate the Union of

Turnpike Trusts.

XLVII. An Act to continue certain Acts for regulating Turnpike Roads in Ireland.

XLVIII. An Act to provide for the Administration of Justice in Vancouver's Island.

XLIX. An Act to extend and explain the Provisions of the Acts for the granting of Sites for Schools.

L. An Act for further amending the Laws relating to Sewers.

LI. An Act for the better Protection of the Property of Pupils, absent Persons, and Persons under Mental Incapacity in Scotland.

LII. An Act to suspend, until the First Day of October One thousand eight hundred and fifty, the making of Lists and the Ballots and Enrolments for the Militia of the United Kingdom. LIII. An Act for consolidating and amending several of the Laws relating to Attornies and Solicitors in Ireland. LIV. An Act to continue until the First Day of October One thousand eight hundred and fifty, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, an Act for authorizing the Application of Highway Rates to Turnpike Roads. LV. An Act to abolish the Gaol of Newgate in the County of the City of Dublin, and provide Compensation for the Officers thereof, and to enable the Grand Jury of the County of the said City to increase the Salaries of the Chaplains of certain other Gaols thereof, and to re-assess on the County of the said City certain Arrears of Grand Jury Cess. LVI. An Act to continue, until the Thirtyfirst Day of July One thousand eight hundred and fifty, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, an Act of the Fifth and Sixth Years of Her present Majesty for amending the Law relative to Private Lunatic Asylums in Ireland.

LVII. An Act to authorize the Inclosure of certain Lands in pursuance of a Special Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales.

LVIII. An Act to extend to the Officers

of Inland Revenue the Privilege of becoming Members of the Excise Benevolent Fund Society.

LIX. An Act to amend an Act of the Tenth Year of Her present Majesty, for

facilitating the Improvement of Landed Property in Ireland.

LX. An Act furthur to amend an Act of the Tenth Year of Her present Majesty, for rendering valid certain Proceedings for the Relief of Distress in Ireland, by Employment of the Labouring Poor, and to indemnify those who have acted in such Proceedings.

LXI. An Act to continue, until the First Day of October One thousand eight hundred and fifty, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Exemption of Inhabitants from Liability to be rated as such in respect of Stock in Trade or other Property to the Relief of the Poor.

LXII. An Act to authorize the Advance of Money out of the Consolidated Fund to the Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland Company.

LXIII. An Act to authorize a further Advance of Money for the Relief of certain distressed Poor Law Unions in Ireland.

LXIV. An Act to remove Doubts as to the Authority of Justices of the Peace to act in certain Matters relating to the Poor in Cities and Boroughs.

LXV. An Act to provide a more convenient Mode of levying and collecting County Rates, County Police Rates, and District Police Rates in Parishes situated partly within and partly without the Limits of Boroughs which are not liable to such Rates.

LXVI. An Act for enabling Colonial Legislatures to establish Inland Posts. LXVII. An Act to extend the Remedies of Sequestrators of Ecclesiastical Benefices. LXVIII. An Act for facilitating the Mar

riage of British Subjects resident in Foreign Countries.

LXIX. An Act to facilitate the Performance of the Duties of Justices of the Peace out of Quarter Sessions in Ireland, with respect to Persons charged with Indictable Offences.

LXX. An Act to facilitate the Performance of the Duties of Justices of the Peace out of Quarter Sessions in Ireland with respect to Summary Convictions and Orders.

LXXI. An Act to dissolve Regimental

Benefit Societies, and to provide for
the Application of the Funds of such
Societies, and of Regimental Charitable
Funds.

LXXII. An Act further to amend the Acts relating to the Offices of the House of Commons.

LXXIII. An Act to limit the Enlistment

in the Artillery and other Ordnance Corps.

LXXIV. An Act for the further Relief of Trustees.

LXXV. An Act to defray, until the First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and fifty, the Charge of the Pay, Clothing, and contingent and other expenses of the Disembodied Militia in Great Britain and Ireland; to grant Allowances in certain Cases to Subaltern Officers, Adjutants, Paymasters, Quartermasters, Surgeons, Assistant Surgeons, Surgeons' Mates, and Serjeant Majors of the Militia; and to authorize the Employment of the Non-commissioned Officers.

LXXVI. An Act to protect Women from

fraudulent Practices for procuring their Defilement.

LXXVII. An Act further to facilitate the Sale and Transfer of Incumbered Estates in Ireland.

LXXVIII. An Act for the more effectual

Taxation of Costs on Private Bills in the
House of Lords, and to facilitate the
Taxation of other Costs on Private Bills
in certain Cases.

LXXIX. An Act to facilitate the Execu-
tion of Conveyances and other Instru-
ments by or on behalf of the New Zea-
land Company in New Zealand.
LXXX. An Act to repeal the Allowances
on the Purchase of Stamps and for the
receiving and accounting for the Duties
on Gold and Silver Plate, and to grant
other Allowances in lieu thereof.
LXXXI. An Act to authorize Her Majesty
to issue a Commission to inquire into and
report upon Rights or Claims over the
New Forest in the County of Southampton
and Waltham Forest in the County of
Essex.

LXXXII. An Act to relieve Boroughs,

in certain Cases, from Contribution to certain Descriptions of County Expendi

ture.

LXXXIII. An Act further to facilitate the

Inclosure of Commons, and the Improvement of Commons and other Lands. LXXXIV. An Act for carrying into effect Engagements between Her Majesty and certain Arabian Chiefs in the Persian Gulf for the more effectual Suppression of the Slave Trade.

LXXXV. An Act to amend an Act for

the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in Ireland, so far as relates to the Borough of Dublin.

LXXXVI. An Act to Provide additional

Funds for Loans by the Public Works Loan Commissioners for building Workhouses in Ireland.

LXXXVII. An Act to continue certain Turnpike Acts in Great Britain for limited Periods, and to make certain Provisions respecting Turnpike Roads in England.

LXXXVIII. An Act to amend the Laws relating to Pilotage.

LXXXIX. An Act to reduce the Number of Signatures required to Instruments issued by the Lords of the Treasury. XC. An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Customs.

XCI. An Act to provide for the Collection of Rates in the City of Dublin. XCII. An Act for the more effectual Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

XCIII. An Act to amend the Metropolitan Sewers Act.

XCIV. An Act for confirming certain Provisional Orders of the General Board of Health, and for other Matters relative to the Public Health and the Improvement of Towns and populous Places. XCV. An Act to amend the Law concerning Judgments in Ireland.

XCVI. An Act to provide for the Prosecution and Trial in Her Majesty's Colonies of Offences committed within the Jurisdiction of the Admiralty.

XCVII. An Act for the Improvement of the City of Dublin.

XCVIII. An Act to apply a Sum out of the Consolidated Fund, and certain other Sums, to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine; and to appropriate the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament. XCIX. An Act to encourage Endowment of Chapels of Ease, and facilitate Assignment of Pastoral Districts thereto; and to amend an Act of the Eighth Year of Her present Majesty for Marriages in Ireland, and for registering such Marriages.

C. An Act to promote the Advance of private Money for Drainage of Lands in Great Britain and Ireland.

CI. An Act to amend the Act for the more easy Recovery of Small Debts and Demands in England, and to abolish certain Inferior Courts of Record. CII. An Act to authorize the Sale of the Royal Pavilion at Brighton, and the Grounds thereof; and to apply the Money arising from such Sale. CIII. An Act to continue an Act of the last Session of Parliament, for charging the Maintenance of certain poor Persons

in Unions upon the Common Fund; and to make certain Amendments in the Laws for the Relief of the Poor. CIV. An Act to amend the Acts for the more effectual Relief of the destitute Poor in Ireland.

CV. An Act for converting the renewable Leasehold Tenure of Lands in Ireland into a Tenure in Fee.

CVI. An Act to amend and consolidate the Laws relating to Bankrupts. CVII. An Act for the Amendment of the

Law of Bankruptcy in Ireland. CVIII. An Act to amend the Joint Stock Companies Winding-up Act, 1848. CIX. An Act to amend an Act to regulate certain Offices in the Petty Bag in the High Court of Chancery, the Practice of the Common-Law Side of that Court, and the Enrolment Office of the said Court.

CX. An Act for suspending, until the First Day of June One thousand eight hundred and fifty, the Operation of an Act passed this Session, intituled An Act for granting Relief against Defects in Leases made under Powers of Leasing in certain Cases.

CXI. An Act to amend the Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Act, 1848.

vi. An Act for better establishing and maintaining the Market Place and Markets at Longton, heretofore called Lane End, in the Parish of Stoke-uponTrent in the County of Stafford. vii. An Act for improving the Drainage of Feltwell Second District in the County

of Norfolk, and for amending the Acts relating to the same.

viii. An Act for lighting with Gas and supplying with Water the Town and Borough of Darlington and the Suburbs thereof in the County of Durham. ix. An Act for enabling the Nottingham Gaslight and Coke Company to raise a further Sum of Money, and for amending some of the Provisions of the Act relating to such Company.

x. An Act for more effectually assessing and collecting the Poor Rate and all other Rates and Assessments in the Parish of Epsom in the County of Surrey, and for the better Management of the Business and Affairs of the said Parish; and for other Purposes relating thereto.

xi. An Act for making and maintaining Docks near to Wareham in the County

of Dorset, with an Entrance thereto from Wareham Channel.

xii. An Act for better assessing the Poor

Rates on small Tenements in certain Parishes and Places within the Union of Kidderminster.

xiii. An Act for the Dissolution of the Argyll Canal Company, and for the Abandonment of their Undertaking. xiv. An Act to amend an Act for the better regulating and improving the Port and Harbour of New Ross in the Counties of Wexford and Kilkenny. xv. An Act to enable the Edinburgh and Northern Railway Company to raise a further Sum of Money.

xvi. An Act for the Management and Disposal of the Freemen's Pastures in the Parish of Great Grimsby in the Parts of Lindsey in the County of Lincoln; and for other Purposes.

xvii. An Act for better supplying the Town, Port, and Harbour of Whitehaven and other Places with Water. xviii. An Act for altering the mode of assessing the Drainage Rates authorized by the Act for draining and improving Marshland Smeeth and Marshland Fen in the Country of Marshland in the County of Norfolk, and to provide for the Repair of Roads within the Limits of the said Act.

xix. An Act for enabling the North-Western Railway Company to make an Extension

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