119 LX. An Act for suspending, until the First Day of October One thousand eight hundred and forty-four, the Operation of the new Arrangement of Dioceses, so far as it affects the existing Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions . . 117 LXI. An Act to remove Doubts respecting the Admission of Ministers to Benefices in that Part of the United Kingdom called Scotland . 117 LXII. An Act to provide for the Performance of the Episcopal Functions in case of the Incapacity of any Bishop or Archbishop LXIII. An Act for granting Relief to the Islands of Antigua, Saint Kitts, Nevis, Dominica, and Montserrat. 122 LXIV. An Act for carrying into effect an Agreement between the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods and the Earl of Haddington, for the Purchase and Surrender of the Office of Hereditary Keeper of the Royal Park of Holyrood House; and for other Purposes relating thereto. 123 LXV. An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Copyright of Designs. . 123 LXVI. An Act to enlarge the Provisions of an Act for preventing Frauds upon Creditors by secret Warrants of Attorney to confess Judgment . . 125 LXVII. An Act to enable Parties to sue out and prosecute Writs of Error in certain Cases upon the Proceedings on Writs of Mandamus. 126 LXVIII. An Act for regulating Theatres 127 LXIX. An Act to continue until the First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and forty-four, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, certain Turnpike Acts 130 LXX. An Act to defray, until the First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and forty-four, 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 Noncommissioned Officers. . 130 LXXII. An Act to impose certain Stamp Duties, and to amend the Laws relating thereto . . 133 LXXIII. An Act for consolidating and amending several of the Laws relating to Attornies and Solicitors practising in England and Wales. . 161 . . . 134 LXXIV. An Act to amend, and continue for Two Years, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Laws in Ireland relative to the registering of Arms, and the Importation, Manufacture, and Sale of Arms, Gunpowder, and Ammunition. . 147 LXXV. An Act for giving effect to a Convention between Her Majesty and the King of the French for the Apprehension of certain Offenders. LXXVI. An Act for giving effect to a Treaty between Her Majesty and the United States of America for the Apprehension of certain Offenders 163 LXXVII. An Act for regulating the Cathedral Churches of Wales . 164 LXXVIII. An Act for the further Regulation of the Offices of Chief and Second Remembrancer of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland . ... 166 LXXIX. An Act to carry into effect a Convention between Her Majesty and the King of the French concerning the Fisheries in the Seas between the British Islands and France. .. 168 LXXX. An Act for the better Government of Her Majesty's Subjects resorting to China 177 LXXXI. An Act to make better Provision for the Appointment of a Deputy for the Chairman of the Sessions of the Peace in the county of Dublin, and to provide for the taking of an Oath by the said Chairman or Deputy; and to amend an Act of the First Year of Her present Majesty, to amend the Law for the Recovery of Small Debts by Civil Bill in Ireland. . . 178 LXXXII. An Act for extending to Scotland and Ireland the Power of the Lord High Chancellor to grant Commissions to enable Persons to take and receive Affidavits; and for amending the Law relating to Commissions for the Examination of Witnesses • 180 182 LXXXV. An Act for improving the Law of Evidence. . 188 LXXXVI. An Act for regulating Hackney and Stage Carriages in and near London [Erratum. In this Act, pp. 193, 195, 196, for "2 & 3 Will. 4. c. 22," read 1 & 2 Will 4. c. 22.] . . . 189 LXXXVII. An Act for raising the Sum of Eleven millions one hundred and thirty-two thousand one hundred Pounds by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-three; and for amending an Act for granting Relief to certain Islands in the West In LXXXIX. An Act to amend the Act for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales. . . 199 xc. An Act for removing Doubts as to the Service of Clerks or Apprentices to Public Notaries, and for amending the Laws regulating the Admission of Public Notaries. . 201 XCI. An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws for the Regulation of Charitable Loan Societies in Ireland . . 203 Act for in Ire.. 216 XCIII. An Act to amend an Act of the Third and Fourth Years of Her present Majesty for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in Ireland. XCII. An Act for the further Amendment of an the more effectual Relief of the destitute Poor land. . 221 XCIV. An Act to remove Doubts as to the Exercise of Power and Jurisdiction by Her Majesty within divers Countries LOCAL AND PERSONAL ACTS, DECLARED PUBLIC, AND TO BE JUDICIALLY NOTICED. 6 & 7 VICTORIE. i. An Act for regulating legal Proceedings by or against "The Cambrian Iron and Spelter Company," and for granting certain Powers thereto. ii. An Act for lighting the Streets and public Roads within the town and county of the town of Nottingham. iii. An Act to authorize certain Alterations in the Works of the Warwick and Leamington Union Railway, and to confirm the Purchase thereof by the London and Birmingham Railway Company, and to enable that Company to raise a further Sum of Money, and to convert their Shares into Stock. iv. An Act to amend the Acts relating to the Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway. v. An Act to enable the Company of Proprietors of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal Navigation to lend certain Sums of Money to the Commissioners for the Improvement of the Navigation of the River Severn, and to guarantee the Repayment of the Amount of any Loans which any other Persons or Bodies shall make to such Commissioners, and to guarantee the Performance of Contracts into which such Commissioners shall enter, and to borrow Money for such Purposes. vi. An Act for authorizing the Sale and Application of certain Property vested in the Commissioners for making the River Thames navigable from Bercot in the county of Oxford to the University and City of Oxford. vii. An Act to enable "the Hull and Selby Railway Company" to raise a further Sum of Money; and to amend the Act relating to the said Railway. viii. An Act to authorize certain Alterations in a Portion of the Line of the Great North of England Railway, and for vesting the same in the Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway Company. ix. An Act to increase the Capital of the Sheffield, Ashtonunder-Lyne, and Manchester Railway Company, and to alter and enlarge the Powers of the said Company. x. An Act for making a Railway from the Great Western Railway to the city of Oxford. xi. An Act for better supplying with Water the town and parish of Chepstow, and the parish of Saint Arvans adjoining thereto, all in the county of Monmouth. xii. An Act for removing the present Markets held in the county of the borough of Carmarthen, and for providing other Market Places, and regulating the Markets to be held therein. xiii. An Act for extending the Powers of the Commissioners of the Township of Birkenhead in the county of Chester, and for including the township of Claughton-cum-Grange and Part of the township of Oxton in the same county within their Jurisdiction. xiv. An Act for more effectually lighting with Gas the borough of Bolton, and certain Places adjacent thereto in the county of Lancaster. xv. An Act for providing additional Grounds to the Lunatic Asylum of the county palatine of Lancaster. xvi. An Act for more effectually repairing the Road from the town of Cockermouth to the town of Maryport, and other roads therein mentioned, and for making a Branch Road connected therewith, all in the county of Cumberland. xvii. An Act for transferring to the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the borough of Manchester certain Powers and Property now vested in the Commissioners for cleansing, lighting, watching, and regulating the Town of Manchester: xviii. An Act for enabling the Cromford and High Peak Railway Company to grant Mortgages for Part of their floating Debts; and for amending the Act relating to such Railway. xix. An Act to amend an Act relating to the building of the Hungerford and Lambeth Suspension Foot Bridge; and for granting further Powers to the Hungerford and Lambeth Suspension Foot Bridge Company. xx. An Act to enlarge the Powers of the Ipswich Dock Commissioners. xxi. An Act to amend an Act of the Second Year of Her present Majesty's Reign, for better lighting with Gas the town of Brighton, and the several Places therein mentioned, in the County of Sussex. xxii. An Act for granting further Powers to the Imperial Continental Gas Association. xxiii. An Act for better supplying with Water the town of Saint Helens and several Hamlets and Places adjacent thereto, all in the parish of Prescot in the county palatine of Lancaster. xxiv. An Act for establishing a Cemetery in Birkenhead and Claughton-cum-Grange, or One of them, in the county of Chester. xxv. An Act for better raising and securing the Fund for the Relief of Widows and Children of Burgh and Parochial Schoolmasters in Scotland. xxvi. An Act for repairing and improving certain Roads in the Neighbourhood of Trentham and Stone in the county of Stafford, and for making and maintaining a new Road from Trentham Inn to the Newcastle-under-Lyne and Market Drayton Turnpike Road in the same county, and another new Piece of Road in the parish of Trentham aforesaid. xxvii. An Act to enable the London and Brighton Railway Company to raise a further Sum of Money; and for altering and amending the Act relating to such Railway. xxviii. An Act to enable the Northern and Eastern Railway Company to make an Extension of their present Railway; and to alter and amend the Acts relating to the said Railway. xxix. An Act to extend the Powers and Provisions of an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled 'An Act for improving the Navigation of Faversham Creek in the county of Kent.' Xxx. An Act to alter, amend, and enlarge the Powers and Provisions of an Act for lighting with Gas the Town and Neighbourhood of Leeds in the borough of Leeds in the West Riding of the county of York. xxxi. An Act for better lighting with Gas the town and borough of Newport in the county of Monmouth. xxxii. An Act to enable "The Company of Proprietors of the Preston Waterworks" to raise a further Sum or Sums of Money; to alter and amend the Act incorporating the said Company, and to extend and enlarge their Powers. xxxiii. An Act for the Improvement of the Norland Estate in the parish of Saint Mary Abbotts Kensington in the county of Middlesex. xxxiv. An Act for making further Provision for paving, lighting, cleansing, regulating, repairing, and improving the Streets, Highways, and other public Places in the parish of Saint Matthew Bethnal Green, and for paving such Parts of Old Cock Lane and York Street as are in the parish of Saint Leonard Shoreditch in the county of Middlesex. xxxv. An Act for paving, lighting, cleansing, watering, regulating, and otherwise improving the town of Portsea in the county of Southampton, and for removing and preventing Nuisances and Annoyances therein. xxxvi. An Act for amending the Act establishing "The London Cemetery Company." xxxvii. An Act for altering, amending, and enlarging the Powers and Provisions of an Act passed in Her present Majesty's Reign, for the better Drainage of Lands in Bourn North Fen and Dyke Fen, in the manor and parish of Bourne in the county of Lincoln, and for other Purposes concerning the Drainage of the same Lands. xxxviii. An Act for regulating legal Proceedings by or against the Anderton Carrying Company. xxxix. An Act for more effectually maintaining, improving, and repairing the Road leading from the South End of the New Bridge of Glasgow, by or near Park House, to Three Mile House in the county of Lanark. xl. An Act for amending the several Acts relating to the Harbour of Scarborough in the North Riding of the county of York, and for improving the said Harbour. VOL. XXI-STAT. xli. An Act for improving, maintaining, and regulating the Harbour of Wexford in the county of Wexford. xlii. An Act for erecting and maintaining a Pier in Pile Harbour in the parish of Dalton-in-Furness in the county palatine of Lancaster. xliii. An Act for making a Railway from Lamellion Bridge in the parish of Liskeard to Tokenbury Corner in the parish of Linkinhorne, with a Branch Railway from Crow's-nest to Cheesewring, all in the county of Cornwall. xliv. An Act to provide for the more effectual Execution of the Office of a Justice of the Peace within the parish of Merthyr Tidvil and certain adjoining parishes. xlv. An Act for further improving and maintaining the Harbour of Saltcoats in the county of Ayr. xlvi. An Act for enabling the Clarence Railway Company to make an Issue of new Shares, and for otherwise altering and amending, enlarging and extending, some of the Provisions of the Acts relating to the said Railway. xlvii. An Act for improving and regulating the Navigation of the River Forth from Alloa to Stirling, and Works connected therewith; and for other Purposes relating thereto. xlviii. An Act for repairing the Road from Dundalk in the county of Louth to Bannbridge in the county of Down, so far as relates to the Northern Division of the said Road. xlix. An Act to amend the Acts relating to The Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock Railway Company," and to grant further Powers to the said Company. 66 1. An Act to enable the Ballochney Railway Company to make and maintain certain new Works; and in some respects to alter and amend the Provisions of the Acts relating to the said Railway. li. An Act to enable the South-eastern Railway Company to extend the Line of their Railway into the town of Dover; and to confer other Powers and Privileges on the said Company. lii. An Act to enable the South-eastern Railway Company to make a Branch Railway to the town of Maidstone. liii. An Act to enable the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Company to raise a further Sum of Money; and for amending the Acts relating to the said Company. liv. An Act for amending the Acts relating to the Bristol and Gloucester Railway, and for making a Branch Railway out of the same. lv. An Act for amending the Acts for making and maintaining the Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal; and for conferring further Powers on the Company of Proprietors thereof. Ivi. An Act to amend Two several Acts, for improving the Port and Harbour of Belfast. lvii. An Act for the Regulation of Lastage and Ballastage in the River Thames. lviii. An Act for the better supplying and lighting with Gas the City and Suburbs of Glasgow and Places adjacent, and for other Purposes relating thereto. lix. An Act for amending and enlarging the Powers and Provisions of an Act for paving or flagging, lighting, cleansing, watching, regulating, and improving the town of Leamington Priors in the county of Warwick, and for establishing a Market therein. lx. An Act for better paving, lighting, and otherwise improving the hamlet of Kentish Town and its Vicinity, in the parish of Saint Pancras in the county of Middlesex. 21 250 STATUTES, (Local and Personal) 6 & 7 VICTORIÆ. lxi. An Act for regulating Hackney Coaches and other Car- Ixii. An Act to enable the South-eastern Railway Company, to connect certain Coal Fields in the parishes of Old Monk- Ixiv. An Act for making a Branch Railway from the London and Birmingham Railway to Northampton and Peterborough. lxv. An Act to convert the Shares in the Capital authorized to be raised by the Acts for making a Dock or Docks at Southampton into Stock; to raise a further Sum of Money; and to alter and amend some of the Powers of the said Acts. lxvi. An Act for amending and rendering more effectual several Acts for draining and preserving certain Fenlands and Low Grounds in the Isle of Ely and Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, near Mildenhall River, so far as relates to the several Lands in the Second District therein described; and for extending the Limits of the said Second District. lxvii. An Act to establish a Cemetery for the Interment of the Dead near the town and within the borough of Southampton. lxviii. An Act for better cleansing, sewering, and draining the Ixix. An Act to provide for the Improvement of the Town and lxx. An Act for altering and enlarging the Powers of the Act lxxi. An Act for improving and maintaining the Port or Har- Ixxii. An Act for improving and maintaining the Harbour of lxxiii. An Act for better supplying with Water the borough Ixxiv. An Act for more effectually supplying with Water the Town of Bolton, and several Townships adjacent thereto, in the county of Lancaster. lxxv. An Act for enabling the Commissioners for paving and sewering the town of Liverpool more effectually to water the Streets of the said Town, and to provide Water for extinguishing Fires therein. lxxvi. An Act for draining, embanking, and improving the Fen Lands and Low Grounds within the Parishes, Hamlets, Townships, or Places of Bardney, Southrow, otherwise Southry, Tupholme, Buchnall, Horsington, Stixwould, Edlington, and Thimbleby, in the county of Lincoln. Ixxvii. An Act for amending several Acts relating to Londonderry Bridge. lxxviii. An Act for better paving, lighting, cleansing, and lxxx. An Act to improve, repair, and maintain the Road from lxxxi. An Act for more effectually repairing, improving, and maintaining the Roads and Bridges in the county of Sutherland, and further regulating the Statute Labour in the said county; and for repairing, improving, and maintaining a certain Portion of Road in the county of Ross. lxxxii. An Act to enable the Great North of England, Clarence, and Hartlepool Junction Railway Company to make a Branch Railway; and to explain and amend the Acts relating to the said Railway; and for other Purposes. lxxxiii. An Act for altering and amending the Dundee Harbour Acts, and for more effectually maintaining, improving, and extending the Harbour of Dundee; and for other Purposes connected therewith. lxxxiv. An Act to extend the Term and to alter and enlarge the Powers and Provisions of the Acts for erecting, improving, regulating, and maintaining the Ferries and Passages across the River Tay in the counties of Fife and Forfar, and for establishing a Floating Bridge or Bridges over the said River, with proper Landing Places and Approaches thereto. lxxxv. An Act for appointing Trustees for the Creditors of the burgh of Paisley, and other Purposes relating to the financial Affairs of the said Burgh. lxxxvi. An Act to render valid an Act for better raising and securing the Fund for the Relief of Widows and Children of Burgh and Parochial Schoolmasters in Scotland. lxxxvii. An Act to incorporate the Directors of Milne's Free School in the Town of Fochabers, and for the better Government thereof. lxxxviii. An Act to alter and amend an Act for the Improvement of the Navigation of the Rivers Burry, Loughor, and Lliedi, in the counties of Carmarthen and Glamorgan, and to improve the Harbour of Llanelly in the said county of Carmarthen. lxxxix. An Act to enable the Edinburgh Water Company to bring in an additional Supply of Water; and to alter and amend the Acts relating to the said Company. xc. An Act to incorporate the Members of the Institution called the Infant Orphan Asylum, and to enable them the better to carry on their charitable Designs. xci. An Act for more effectually repairing the Road from the new Wall on the Parade in Castleton in the parish of Rochdale, through Middleton, to the Mere Stone in Great Heaton and to the town of Manchester, all in the county palatine of Lancaster; and for making a Diversion in the Line of such Road. xcii. An Act for appointing the Royal Burgh of Dingwall to be the Head Burgh of the Shire of Ross, and for giving cumulative Jurisdiction to the Justices of the Peace of the counties of Ross and Cromarty. xciii. An Act for regulating the Police, and paving, cleansing, and lighting the Streets of the Town or Barony of Gorbals in the county of Lanark, and Grounds adjacent; and for other Purposes relating thereto. |