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67. An Act for abolishing Capital Punishment in case of returning from Transportation. Page 262 68. An Act to authorize an Advance out of the General Fund of Monies belonging to the Suitors of the Courts of Chancery and Exchequer in Ireland, towards the purchasing of Ground, and building thereon Offices necessary to the Courts of Justice in Dublin. 263

69. An Act for placing the Mumbles Head Lighthouse in the County of Glamorgan under the Management of the Corporation of the Trinity House of Deptford Strond.

266 70. An Act to regulate the Salaries of the Officers of the House of Commons, and to abolish the Sinecure Offices of Principal Committee Clerks and Clerks of Ingrossments. 269 71. An Act to repeal certain Provisions of Two Acts of His Majesty King George the Third, affecting the Printers, Publishers, and Proprietors of Newspapers in Ireland.

271 72. An Act to amend several Acts for authorizing the Issue of Exchequer Bills for carrying on Public Works and Fisheries and Employment of the Poor; and to authorize a further Issue of Exchequer Bills for the Purposes of the said Acts.

272 73. An Act to grant Relief from the Duties of Assessed Taxes in certain Cases. 277 74. An Act to continue until the Fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, 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.

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75. An Act to repeal the Duties on Spirits made in Ireland, and to impose other Duties in lieu thereof; and to impose additional Duties on Licences to Retailers of Spirits in the United Kingdom.

Ibid. 76. An Act for the Amendment and better Administration of the Laws relating to the Poor in England and Wales. 285 77. An Act for repealing the Duties on Starch, Stone Bottles, Sweets or Made Wines, Mead or Metheglin, and on Scaleboard made from Wood.

332 78. An Act for the Amendment of the Proceedings and Practice of the High Court of Chancery in Ireland. 338 79. An Act to amend the Law relating to Insolvent Debtors in India.

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80. An Act to provide for the Repayment to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England of One Fourth Part of the Debt due from the Public to the said Company, in pursuance of an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament.

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81. An Act to amend an Act of the Third Year of King George the Fourth, for regulating Turnpike Roads in England, so far as the same relates to the Weights to be carried upon Waggons with Springs.

356 82. An Act to amend and extend an Act of the Second Year of His present Majesty, to effectuate the Service of Process issuing

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issuing from the Courts of Chancery and Exchequer in England and Ireland.

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83. An Act to amend an Act passed in the Third Year of His present Majesty, intituled An Act for shortening the Time required in Claims of Modus Decimandi, or Exemption from or Discharge of Tithes.

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84. An Act to apply a Sum of Money out of the Consolidated Fund and the Surplus of Grants to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, and to appropriate the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament.

360 85. An Act to amend an Act passed in the First Year of His present Majesty, to permit the general Sale of Beer and Cider by Retail in England.

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86. An Act to explain certain Provisions in an Act of the Third and Fourth Years of His present Majesty, to provide for the Election of Magistrates and Councillors for the several Burghs and Towns of Scotland which now return or contribute to return Members to Parliament, and are not Royal Burghs. 376 87. An Act to explain certain Provisions of an Act of the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of His present Majesty, to alter and amend the Laws for the Election of the Magistrates and Councils of the Royal Burghs in Scotland. 377 88. An Act for the more effectual Registration of Persons entitled to vote in the Election of Members to serve in Parliament in Scotland.

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89. An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Customs. 90. An Act to amend an Act made in the Third and Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act to alter and amend the Laws relating to the Temporalities of the Church of Ireland.

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91. An Act to continue for One Year, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the several Acts for regulating the Turnpike Roads which will expire during the present or before the End of the next Session of Parliament, and to amend the several Acts regulating the Post Roads, in Ireland.

414 92. An Act for the Abolition of Fines and Recoveries, and for the Substitution of more simple Modes of Assurance, in Ireland. 417 93. An Act to amend the Laws relating to Appeals against summary Convictions before Justices of the Peace in Ireland. 443 94. An Act to enable His Majesty to invest trading and other Companies with the Powers necessary for the due Conduct of their Affairs, and for the Security of the Rights and Interests of their Creditors.

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95. An Act to empower His Majesty to erect South Australia into a British Province or Provinces, and to provide for the Colonization and Government thereof. 447 96. An Act to enable the Commissioners of Sewers for the City and Liberty of Westminster and Part of the County of Middlesex to make a new Sewer at Bayswater in the County of Middlesex.

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LOCAL AND PERSONAL ACTS,

DECLARED PUBLIC,

AND TO BE JUDICIALLY NOTICED.

i.AN Act to empower the Liverpool Oil Gas Light Company to produce Gas from Coal and other Materials, and to amend

the Act relating to the said Company. Page 458 ii. An Act to alter, amend, and enlarge the Powers of an Act passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for making and maintaining a Railway or Tramroad from or near the City of Bristol to Coalpit Heath in the Parish of Westerleigh in the County of Gloucester.

Ibid. iii. An Act to enlarge and amend the Powers and Provisions of an Act relating to the Saint Helen's and Runcorn Gap Railway Company.

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iv. An Act for building a Bridge over Stoke otherwise Haslar Lake, which separates Gosport from Haslar, both in the Parish of Alverstoke in the County of Southampton, and for making Approaches thereto.

Ibid. v. An Act for better assessing the Poor and other Rates on small Tenements within the Parish of Sculcoates in the East Riding of the County of York.

Ibid. vi. An Act to repeal an Act passed for better assessing and recovering the Poor and other Rates upon small Tenements within the Parish of Liverpool in the County Palatine of Lan

caster.

Ibid.

vii. An Act to alter, amend, enlarge, and extend the Powers and Provisions of an Act for enabling the Company of Proprietors of Lambeth Waterworks to supply the Inhabitants of the Parish of Lambeth and Parts adjacent in the County of Surrey with Water. Ibid. viii. An Act for removing the Markets held in the High and Fore Street and other Places within the City of Exeter, and for providing other Markets in lieu thereof. Ibid. ix. An Act for enabling the Ocean Assurance Company to sue and be sued in the Name of the Chairman for the Time being, or of any One of the Directors of the said Company. Ibid. x. An Act for more effectually repairing and maintaining the Road from Crouch Hill in the Parish of Henfield to Ubley's Corner in the Parish of Albourne, and from the King's Head Inn in Albourne, through the Town of Hurstperpoint, to the Cross Roads in the Town of Ditcheling; and also for making and maintaining a Branch of Road from the Town of Hurstperpoint to Poynings Common, all in the County of Sussex. xi. An Act for making a Turnpike Road from Minsterley in the County of Salop to the Turnpike Road leading from Bishop's Castle in the said County of Sulop to Churchstoke in the County of Montgomery.

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Ibid. xii. An

xii. An Act to enable the Company of Proprietors of the Calder and Hebble Navigation to improve their Navigation, and to amend the Acts relating thereto.

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xiii. An Act for extending the Approaches to London Bridge, and amending the Acts relating thereto.

Ibid.

xiv. An Act for granting certain Powers to the New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Land Company.

Ibid.

xv. An Act for granting certain Powers to "The British American Land Company."

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Ibid.

xvi. An Act for better paving, cleansing, lighting, watching, watering, and otherwise improving the Streets and other public Passages and Places within the Borough of Dorchester in the County of Dorset, and the Tithing of Colliton Row in the Town of Dorchester aforesaid. xvii. An Act to alter, amend, and enlarge the Powers of an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for supplying the City and Suburbs of Limerick in the County of the City of Limerick with Water. Ibid. xviii. An Act for better supplying with Water the Town and County of the Town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and the Neighbourhood thereof.

Ibid.

xix. An Act to alter, amend, and enlarge the Powers of an Act passed in the First Year of the Reign of His present Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act for empowering the Marquis of Bute to make and maintain a Ship Canal commencing near the Mouth of the River Taff in the County of Glamorgan, and terminating near the Town of Cardiff, with other Works to communicate therewith.

Ibid. xx. An Act for enabling the Company of Proprietors of the Western Branch of the Montgomeryshire Canal to effect an Agreement with William Pugh of Bryan Llywarch in the County of Montgomery, Esquire; and for securing certain Monies advanced and paid by the said William Pugh and others to or for the Use of the said Company. Ibid. xxi. An Act to enable the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal Navigation Company to raise a further Sum of Money.

Ibid.

xxii. An Act to continue the Term and to alter-and amend the Powers of an Act passed in the Fifty-fifth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, for taking down and rebuilding Folly Bridge otherwise Friars Bridge, across the River Isis, in or near the City of Oxford. 462 xxiii. An Act for uniting into One Parish the Parishes of Saint John the Baptist and Saint Benedict in the Town of Glastonbury in the County of Somerset.

Ibid. xxiv. An Act to incorporate a Company for better supplying with Gas the Town of Cambridge in the County of Cambridge.

Ibid.

xxv. An Act for uniting the Wigan Branch Railway Company and the Preston and Wigan Railway Company; for authorizing an Alteration to be made in the Line of the last-mentioned Railway;

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Railway; and for repealing, altering, and amending the Acts relating to the said Railways. xxvi. An Act for making and maintaining a Railway from Blaydon to Hebburn, with Six Branches thereout, all within the County Palatine of Durham.

Ibid. xxvii. An Act for enabling the Dublin and Kingstown Railway Company to make an Extension of their present Line of Railway, and for altering and amending the Act for making the said Railway. Ibid. xxviii. An Act for repairing and improving the Second District of the Road from Coleshill, through the City of Lichfield and the Town of Stone, to the End of the County of Stafford in the Road leading towards Chester, and making a new Branch thereto; and also to annex to and consolidate therewith the Turnpike Road from Rugeley, through Armitage, to Alrewas in the County of Stafford.

Ibid.

xxix. An Act for more effectually amending, widening, and repairing the Road from Yarmouth Bridge, through the Hamlet of Southtown otherwise Little Yarmouth, to Gorleston in the County of Suffolk.

463 xxx. An Act for the better Maintenance, Improvement, and Repair of the Road from Livingston, by Shotts, to the City of Glasgow, and the making and maintaining certain Roads connected therewith. Ibid. xxxi. An Act for improving and maintaining certain Roads in the Counties of Montgomery, Merioneth, Salop, and Denbigh.

Ibid. xxxii. An Act for repairing and maintaining the Road from Quebec in the Parish of Leeds in the West Riding of the County of York to Homefield Lane End in the same Parish, with a Bridge or Bridges on the Line of such Road; and for making and maintaining certain Branch Roads to communicate therewith.

Ibid.

xxxiii. An Act for lighting with Gas the Town or Borough of Bridgwater in the County of Somerset, and Suburbs of the said Town or Borough.

464 xxxiv. An Act to repeal an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for enabling the Alliance Marine Assurance Company to sue and be sued in the Name of the Chairman for the Time being, or of any other Member of the Company, and for granting certain Powers to the said Company instead thereof. Ibid. xxxv. An Act to enable the Proprietors or Shareholders in a Company or Association styled "The United Kingdom Life Assurance Company to sue and be sued in the Name of One of their Directors, or Secretary. xxxvi. An Act to enable The Suffolk and General Country Amicable Insurance Office" to sue and be sued in the Name of One of their Treasurers, or of any One of their Directors, and for other Purposes relating thereto. Ibid. xxxvii. An Act to amend an Act of the Fifty-fourth Year of King George the Third, for enabling "The West of England Fire

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