67. An Act to continue various expiring Laws.

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68. An Act to authorise the Metropolitan Board of Works to defray expenses incurred in relation to the promotion of certain Bills in Parliament relating to the supply of water to the Metropolis.

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329 69. An Act for further amending the Acts relating to the raising of Money by the Metropolitan Board of Works; and for other purposes relating thereto. 331 70. An Act to amend the Acts relating to Vaccination in Ireland. 71. An Act to regulate the Practice in Registry Courts in Ireland. 72. An Act to provide for the re-hearing of Investigations into Shipping Casualties, and to amend the rules as to the mode of holding, and procedure at, such Investigations. 343 73. An Act to authorise the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods and Forests and Land Revenues to agree with the Conservators of the River Thames on the Payments for Piers or Landing-places in or upon the Bed or Shore of the River Thames. 345

74. An Act for improving the position of the Teachers of National Schools in Ireland. 346 75. An Act to amend and continue the Acts relating to Election Petitions, and to the prevention of Corrupt Practices at Parliamentary Elections. 353 76. An Act to amend the Law with respect to the Liability of Members of Banking and other Joint Stock Companies; and for other purposes. 354 77. An Act to amend the Acts relating to the Public Works Loan Commissioners and the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, and to grant Money for the purpose of Loans by the said Commissioners; and for other purposes in relation thereto.

78. An Act to amend the Supreme Court of Judicature Acts.

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The Acts contained in the following List, being PUBLIC ACTS of a Local Character, are placed amongst the LOCAL AND PERSONAL ACTS.

i. An Act to confirm an Order made by the Board of Trade under the Sea Fisheries Act, 1868, relating to Tollesbury and Mersea, in the River Blackwater ⚫ (Essex).

ii. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under the Drainage and Improvement of Lands (Ireland) Act, 1863, and the Acts amending the same.

iii. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under the General Police and Improvement (Scotland) Act, 1862, relating to the Burgh of Paisley.

iv. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under the General Police and Improvement (Scotland) Act, 1862, relating to the Burgh of Inverness.

xli. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under the Land Drainage Act, 1861, relating to Bispham, Carleton, and Thornton Improvements, situated in the parishes of Bispham and Poulton, in the county of Lancaster.

xlii. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1867, relating to the Burgh of Castle Douglas. xliii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Borough of Ashton-under-Lyne, the Local Government District of Blackrod, the Rural Sanitary District of the Burton-on-Trent Union, the Local Government District of Chelmsford, the Borough of Cheltenham, the Local Government District of Ealing, the Boroughs of Jarrow, Maidstone, Newport (Monmouthshire), and Penzance, the Local Government District of Prestwich, the Rural Sanitary Districts of the Rugby Union and Southam Union, the Local Government Districts of Swinton and Pendlebury and Torquay, and the Improvement Act District of West Hartlepool.

liv. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board for Ireland relating to the towns of Clonmel and Dundalk, and to a Burial Ground for the town of Clonmel, and to Waterworks in the town of Keady. lv. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the General Pier and Harbour Act, 1861, relating to Ramsgate, St. Anne's-on-the-Sea, Skegness, Strachur (Loch Fyne), Totland Bay, Westgate, Whitehall (Stronsay), Cromarty, Fortrose, Lybster, Penzance, and Torquay. lvi. An Act for confirming a certain Provisional Order of the Local Government Board for Ireland relating to Waterworks in the Poor Law Union of Downpatrick.

lvii. An Act for confirming certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board for Ireland relating to the towns of Cashel, Enniscorthy, Holywood, Kells, Templemore, Wicklow, and Youghal.

lviii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Education Department under the Elementary Education Act, 1870, to enable the School Boards for Brighton and Preston United District (Sussex), Gotherington (Gloucester), Loughor Borough (Glamorgan), and Membury (Devon) to put in force the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and the Acts amending the

same.

lix. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made by the Education Department under the Elementary Education Act, 1870, to enable the School Board for London to put in force the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and the Acts amending the same.

lx, An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board for Ireland relating to the Borough of Waterford and to the town of Bangor.

Ixi. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made under the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1867, relating to the Parish of Bothwell, in the County of Lanark. lxxvii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board under the provisions of the Highways and Locomotives (Amendment) Act, 1878, relating to the Counties of Buckingham, Kent, and Worcester. lxxviii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Rural Sanitary District of the Aysgarth Union, the Improvement Act District of Bethesda, the Borough of Brecknock, the Local Government District of Croydon, the Boroughs of Derby, Doncaster, and Hastings, the Local Government Districts of Hinckley, Horsham, and Houghton-le-Spring, the Borough of Middlesbrough, the Local Government Districts of Northallerton and Tunstall, the Port of Wisbech, the Local Government District of Withington, and the Borough of Yeovil.

lxxix. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for the Improvement of certain Unhealthy Areas within the Metropolis.

lxxx. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for the Modification of a Scheme confirmed by the Metropolis (Whitechapel and Limehouse) Improvement Scheme Confirmation Act, 1876.

lxxxi. An Act to confirm the Provisional Order for the regulation of certain Lands forming part of Matterdale Common, and situated in the parish of Greystoke, in the county of Cumberland, and the Provisional Order for the inclosure of certain other Lands forming the remainder of the same Common, and situated in the same parish, in pursuance of a Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales.

lxxxii. An Act to confirm the Provisional Order for the Inclosure of certain Lands known as Redmoor and Golberdon Commons, situate in the parish of South Hill, in the county of Cornwall, in pursuance of a Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales.

lxxxiii. An Act to confirm the Provisional Order for the regulation of certain Lands forming part of East Stainmore Common, and situated in the township of East Stainmore, in the parish of Brough, in the county of Westmoreland, and the Provisional Order for the inclosure of certain other Lands forming the remainder of the same Common, and situated in the same parish, in pursuance of a Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales. lxxxiv. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board under the provisions of the Highways and Locomotives (Amendment) Act, 1878, relating to the Counties of Gloucester and Hereford. lxxxv. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board under the provisions of the Highways and Locomotives (Amendment) Act, 1878, relating to the Counties of Dorset, Montgomery, Northampton, Salop, Wilts, and York (East Riding).

lxxxvi. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Local Government District of Castleton-byRochdale, the District of Heywood, the Local Government Districts of Keighley and Littleborough, the Improvement Act District of Middleton and Tonge, the Local Government Districts of Milnrow and Royton, the Sittingbourne and Milton Joint Hospital District, and the Local Government Districts of Wallingfen and Wuerdle and Wardle.

lxxxvii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board for Ireland relating to the towns of Killarney and Parsonstown. ciii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Rural Sanitary District of the Abergavenny Union, the Borough of Bolton, the Local Government District of Clay Lane, the Rural Sanitary District of the Clutton Union, the Darenth Valley Main Sewerage District, the Rural Sanitary District of the Great Ouseburn Union, the Borough of Halifax, the Local Government District of Huyton-with-Roby, the Port of Lowestoft, the Improvement Act District of Lowestoft, the Boroughs of Preston and Saint Helen's, and the Local Government Districts of Stone and Widnes.

civ. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Rural Sanitary District of the Axminster Union, the Boroughs of Liverpool and Oswestry, the Local Government District of Pontypridd, the Improvement Act District of Ramsgate, and the Local Government Districts of Wellington (Somerset) and Ystradyfodwg. cv. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Local Government District of Aspull, the Boroughs of Birmingham and Burnley, the Improvement Act District of Chiswick, the Local Government District of Keighley, the Borough of Kingston-uponHull, the City of Lichfield, the Improvement Act District of Ramsgate, the Local Government District of Skelton, the Boroughs of Swansea and Southampton, the Improvement Act District of Wellington (Salop), and the Local Government Districts of Widnes and Worthing.

cvi. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Local Government Board under the provisions of the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1867, relating to the Townships of Great Barlow and Little Barlow, the Townships of Cheadle Bulkeley, and Cheadle Moseley, and the Town of Plymouth.

clviii. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of the Local Government Board under the provisions of the Artizans and Labourers Dwellings Improvement Act, 1875, relating to the Borough of Derby.

clix. An Act for confirming certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Gas and Waterworks Facilities Act, 1870, relating to Cleethorpes Gas, Dorchester Gas, Dronfield Gas, Eckington Gas, Enfield Gas, Havant Gas, Longridge Gas, Northfleet Gas, Wantage Gas, Wellingborough Gas, Dorking Water, Herts and Essex Water, Maidstone Water, Margate Water, Mexbrough and District Water, Oystermouth Water, Rhyl District Water, Saint Alban's Water, Shoreham and District Water, Stourbridge Water, Thirsk District Water, Aldershot Gas and Water, Ventnor Gas and Water, and Ystrad Gas and Water.

clx. An Act to provide for the user and regulation of certain Lands at Wormwood Scrubs.

clxi. An Act to regulate the Sittings of the Quarter Sessions Court of the Borough of Cork.

clxii. An Act to confirm the Provisional Order for the inclosure of certain Lands known as Whittington Marshes and Whittington Hurst, situate in the parish of Whittington, in the county of Stafford, in pursuance of a Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales. cxciii. An Act for confirming certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Tramways Act, 1870, relating to Bristol Tramways (Extensions), Briton Ferry and Swansea Tramways, Burnley and District Tramways, Chesterfield, Brampton, and Whittington Tramways, Crewe and District Tramways, Derby Tramways, Dewsbury, Batley, and Birstal Tramways (Extension), Ipswich Tramways, Leamington and Warwick Tramways, Liverpool Corporation Tramways, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Tramways, North London Suburban Tramways, Oxford Tramways, Staffordshire Tramways, Stoke-upon-Trent, Fenton, Longton, and District Tramways, Sunderland Corporation Tramways, Sunderland Tramways (Extension), Swansea Tramways (Extension), Tynemouth and District Tramways, Wigan Tramways, York Tramways; and for empowering the Board of Trade to grant licenses for the use for limited periods, by way of experiment, of steam or any mechanical power upon tramways in certain cases.

cxciv. An Act to amend the New Forest Act, 1877.

ccxix. An Act to authorise the sale of a strip of land adjoining the Knightsbridge Barracks to the Metropolitan Board of Works for the improvement of the Knightsbridge Road, to transfer the management of a piece of Crown land at Hampton Court from the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works, and vest the management of land left vacant on the reconstruction and improvement of Gloucester Gate Bridge, Regent's Park, in the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods. ccxx. An Act to enable the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, with the assent of Her Majesty's Treasury, to vary the Trusts of the Mungret Agricultural School and Model Farm in the county of Limerick.

ccxxi. An Act to make provision in regard to the Restoration of the Ancient Church of St. Giles, in the city of Edinburgh.

ccxxii. An Act to grant further time for proceeding with the execution of Works for Improving the Navigation of the Lough and River Erne.

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