Hansard's Parliamentary Debates

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Page 77 - House for the purpose of discussing a definite matter of urgent public importance...
Page 641 - Trade and to no other purpose whatsoever, and no other authority save the certificate of the Board of Trade shall be requisite to authorize and validate the issue of such debentures or debenture stock.
Page 309 - ... premises licensed according to law for public entertainments, or in any circus or other place of public amusement...
Page 777 - A sanitary authority may make bye-laws for promoting cleanliness in, and the habitable condition of tents, vans, sheds, and similar structures used for human habitation, and for preventing the spread of infectious disease by the persons inhabiting the same, and generally for the prevention of nuisances in connexion with the same.
Page 641 - Whenever any railway company shall be ordered by the Board of Trade to provide any appliances, or execute any works or incur any expenditure, under the provisions of this Act, which would properly be chargeable to capital account, it shall be lawful for such company to furnish to the Board of Trade an estimate of the cost of providing such appliances, executing such works, and carrying out such order generally, and thereupon the Board of Trade shall, upon the application of the company, fix and determine...
Page 237 - Where a mercantile agent is, with the consent of the owner, in possession of goods or of the documents of title to goods, any sale, pledge, or other disposition of the goods, made by him when acting in the ordinary course of business of a mercantile agent, shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, be as valid as if he were expressly authorised...
Page 25 - ... in the Committee that my objections might be removed, I would not divide the House in this stage. But I am so fully convinced that no alteration which would not seem insupportable to my honorable and learned friend, could render his measure supportable to me, that I must move, though with regret, that this bill be read a second time this day six months.
Page 147 - Dec. 23, 1837, the queen has granted to her an annual allowance of 385,000/. ' for the support of Her Majesty's household, and of the honour and dignity of the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Page 871 - Sitting of each Committee; the Number of Days on which each Committee sat; the Number of Days on which each Selected Member has served ; the Bills the Preambles of which were reported to have been Proved ; the Bills the Preambles of which were reported to have been Not Proved ; and in the case of Bills...
Page 287 - If it is proved that a person indicted under this section was interested in any sum of money accruable or payable in the event of the death of the child, and had knowledge that such sum of money was accruing or becoming payable, the court...

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