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PRINTED BY GEORGE EYRE AND ANDREW SPOTTISWOODE,
PRINTERS TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY;

And published in Numbers, Price 2d. each,

BY JOHN RICHARDS & Co., LAW BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS,
194, Fleet Street.

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The PUBLIC GENERAL STATUTES passed in the FIRST Session of the THIRTEENTH Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

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I. AN Act to continue for Six Calendar Months all such

Commissions of the Peace as were in force at the Time of the Decease of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, and as have not been superseded, determined, or made void during the Reign of Her present Majesty.

page 3 II. An Act 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.

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III. An Act to carry into further Execution the Provisions of an Act for completing the full Payment of Compensation to Owners of Slaves upon the Abolition of Slavery. 14 IV. An Act to remove Doubts as to summoning Juries at adjourned Quarter Sessions of the Peace. 16

V. An Act for the Relief of Quakers, Moravians, and Separatists elected to Municipal Offices.

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VI. An Act to regulate the Expences of conveying Prisoners in Ireland.

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VII. An Act to enable the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings to purchase Ground and Tenements required to complete the Site for the new Houses of Parliament.

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VIII. An Act to enable Her Majesty to grant an annual Sum to Her Royal Highness Victoria Maria Louisa Duchess of Kent.

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IX. An Act to make temporary Provision for the Government of Lower Canada.

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X. An Act to make good certain Contracts which have been or may be entered into by certain Banking and other Copartnerships.

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XI. An Act to apply the Sum of Two Millions to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.

47 XII. An Act for raising the Sum of Eleven millions four hundred and thirteen thousand seven hundred and fifty Pounds by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.

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XIII. An Act to enable the Grand Juries of the County and County of the City of Waterford to make Presentments, at the Spring Assizes for the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, for the House of Industry of the said Coun

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ties. XIV. An Act to repeal so much of an Act of the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Years of King George the Third as authorizes Magistrates to commit to Gaols or Houses of Correction Persons who are apprehended under Circumstances that denote a Derangement of Mind and a Purpose of committing a Crime; and to make other Provisions for the safe Custody of such Persons.

51 XV. An Act for the further Relief of Quakers, Moravians, and Separatists. 53

XVI. 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-nine; and for the Relief of Clerks to Attornies and Solicitors in certain Cases.

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XVII. An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for
the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters.
XVIII. An Act for the Regulation of Her Majesty's Royal
Marine Forces while on Shore.

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XIX. An Act to amend the Act for the Abolition of Slavery in the British Colonies.

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XX. An Act for the Consolidation of the Offices of First Fruits, Tenths, and Queen Anne's Bounty.

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XXI. 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-eight.

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XXII. An Act to enable the Commissioners for the Affairs of India to make Rules and Regulations for Haileybury College.

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XXIII. An Act to amend the Law for providing fit Houses for the beneficed Clergy.

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