THE STATUTES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, 7 WILL. IV. & 1 VICT. 1837. LONDON: Printed by Her Majesty's Printers; 1837. (Price 11s. in Boards.) A TABLE Containing the TITLES of all THE STATUTES, Passed in the THIRD Session of the TWELFTH Parliament OF The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; 7° GUL. IV. & 1° VICT. PUBLIC GENERAL ACTS. 7° GUL. IV. 1. AN Act to suspend for a limited Time the Operation of Two Acts passed in the last Session of Parliament for registering Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England, and for Marriages in England. Page 1 2. An Act to amend an Act passed in the Seventh Year of His present Majesty, for consolidating and amending the Laws relating to the Presentment of Public Money by Grand Juries in Ireland. 8 2 3. An Act for transferring to the Commissioners of the Admiralty all Contracts, Bonds, and other Securities entered into with the Postmaster General in relation to the Packet Service. 4. An Act to continue, until the First Day of July One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, the Powers of the Commissioners for inquiring concerning Charities in England and Wales. 9 5. An Act for amending an Act of His late Majesty, for restricting the Punishment of Leasing-making, Sedition, and Blasphemy, in Scotland. Ibid. 6. An Act to apply the Sum of Two Millions to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven. 10 7. An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters. Ibid. 8. An Act for the Regulation of His Majesty's Royal Marine Forces while on Shore. 20 9. An Act to amend several Acts relating to the Royal Mint. 26 10. An Act to alter, amend, and continue for a certain Period, an Act for repealing certain Acts relating to the Removal of poor Persons born in Scotland and Ireland, and chargeable to Parishes in England, and to make other Provisions in lieu thereof. A 2 28 11. An 11. 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 thirty-seven. Page 28 12. An Act to indemnify such Persons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments, and for extending the Time limited for those Purposes respectively until the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight; and for the Relief of Clerks to Attornies and Solicitors in certain Cases. 29 13. An Act to amend the Acts for regulating the General Penitentiary at Millbank. 35 14. An Act to explain and amend Two Acts relating to Trial by Jury in Scotland. 37 15. An Act to discharge His Majesty's Manor and Demesne Lands at Newark in the County of Nottingham from any Costs of rebuilding or repairing Trent and Markham Bridges, and to charge the same on the other Hereditary Revenues of the Crown. 39 16. An Act for raising the Sum of Eleven Millions by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven. 41 17. An Act for carrying to the Consolidated Fund certain Monies paid into the Exchequer, and usually applied as a Part of the annual Aids and Supplies; and for cancelling Stock transferred to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt on account of the Redemption of Land Tax. Ibid. 1° VICT. 18. An Act for continuing until the First Day of June One thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, and to the End of the then Session of Parliament, the several Acts for regulating the Turnpike Roads in Great Britain which will expire with the present or with the next Session of Parliament. 47 19. An Act to empower the Recorder or other Person presiding in Quarter Sessions in Corporate Cities and Towns, and Justices of the Peace for Counties, Ridings, or Divisions to divide their respective Courts, in certain Cases. Ibid. 20. An Act for transferring and vesting the Royal Military Canal, Roads, Towing Paths, and the Ramparts and other Works belonging thereto, and all Estates and Property taken and occupied for the same, in the Counties of Kent and Sussex, and also the Rates and Tolls arising therefrom, in the principal Officers of His Majesty's Ordnance. 49 21. An Act to amend the Acts for the Extension and Promotion of Public Works in Ireland. 51 22. An Act to explain and amend Two Acts passed in the last Session of Parliament, for Marriages, and for registering Births, Deaths, and Marriages, in England. 55 64 23. An Act to abolish the Punishment of the Pillory. 24. An Act to explain and amend an Act of the Seventh Year of His Majesty King George the Fourth, to provide for improving and rebuilding Shire Halls, County Halls, and other Buildings for holding the Assizes and Grand Sessions, and also Judges Lodgings, throughout England and Wales. 65 25. An Act to make more effectual Provisions relating to the Police in the District of Dublin Metropolis. Page 68 26. An Act for the Amendment of the Laws with respect to Wills. 80 27. An Act for granting to Her Majesty, until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, certain Duties on Sugar imported into the United Kingdom, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty88 28. An Act to amend an Act of the Third and Fourth Years of His late Majesty, for the Limitation of Actions and Suits relating to Real Property, and for simplifying the Remedies for trying the Rights thereto. seven. 89 29. An Act for enabling Her Majesty to grant the Rank of General Officers to Foreigners now bearing Her Majesty's Commission, and to permit the Enlistment of Foreigners under certain Restrictions. Ibid. 30. An Act to abolish certain Offices in the Superior Courts of Common Law, and to make Provision for a more effective and uniform Establishment of Officers in those Courts. 91 31. An Act for continuing Military Commissions and Commissions in the Royal Marines in force notwithstanding the Demise of the Crown. 107 32. An Act to repeal the several Laws relating to the Post Office. 108 134 140 33. An Act for the Management of the Post Office. 34. An Act for the Regulation of the Duties of Postage. 35. An Act for regulating the sending and receiving of Letters and Packets by the Post free from the Duty of Postage. 158 36. An Act for consolidating the Laws relative to Offences against the Post Office of the United Kingdom, and for regulating the judicial Administration of the Post Office Laws, and for explaining certain Terms and Expressions employed in those Laws. 173 37. An Act to continue until the First Day of July in the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, an Act for the more effectual Administration of the Office of a Justice of the Peace in and near the Metropolis. 196 38. An Act for raising the Sum of Thirteen millions six hundred and twenty-three thousand three hundred Pounds by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven. Ibid. 39. An Act to interpret the Words "Sheriff," "Sheriff Clerk," "Shire," "Sheriffdom," and " County," occurring in Acts of Parliament relating to Scotland. Ibid. 40. An Act to continue an Act of the Fifty-fourth Year of His Majesty King George the Third, for rendering the Payment of Creditors more equal and expeditious in Scotland, until the First Day of May One thousand eight hundred and thirtyeight, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament. 197 41. An Act for the more effectual Recovery of Small Debts in the Sheriff Courts, and for regulating the Establishment of Circuit A 3 |