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PART VI.-CLASS XXXVIII.

Vagrants.

[The 5 G. IV. c. 83, was the last statute on this subject. ]

PART VI.-CLASS XXXIX.

Weights and Measures.

[No. I.] 4 & 5 W. IV. c. 49.-An Act to amend and render effectual Two Acts
of the fifth and sixth Years of the reign of his late Majesty King George the
Fourth relating to Weights and Measures.

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[ No. II. ] 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 63.-An Act to repeal an Act of the fourth and fifth
Year of his present Majesty relating to Weights and Measures, and to make other
Provisions instead thereof.

ib.

PART VII.

MISCELLANEOUS.

[ All of the above Statutes have been regularly re-enacted every Session, with the ex-
ception of the last Billetting Act, 10 G. IV. c. 9, the provisions of which have
been incorporated with the Mutiny Act. ]

THE UNION ACTS.

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[No. H.] An Act to settle and describe the Divisions of Counties and the Limits

of Cities and Boroughs, in England and Wales, in so far as respects the Election

of Members to serve in Parliament.

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[No. III. ] 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 36.-An Act to limit the time of taking the Poll in
Boroughs at contested Elections of Members to serve in Parliament to One

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[ No. IV. ] 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 65.-An Act to amend the Representation of the
People in Scotland.
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[ No. V. ] 4 & 5 W. IV. c. 88.-An Act for the more effectual Registration of
Persons entitled to vote in the Election of Members to serve in Parliament in
Scotland.

ib.
[No. VI. ] 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 78.-An Act to explain and amend an Act passed in
the Second and Third Year of the Reign of King William the Fourth, for amend-
ing the Representation of the People in Scotland and to diminish the Expences
there.

ib.

[ No. VII. ] 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 88.-An Act to amend the Representation of the
People of Ireland.

ib.

PART X.

Supplementary Miscellaneous Statutes.

No. I. 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 75.---An Act for regulating Schools of Anatomy. 1363
No. II. 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 70.-An Act to alter and amend an Act of the Forty-
first Year of His Majesty King George the Third, for the better Regulation of
Public Notaries in England.

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[ No. III. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 90.-An Act to repeal an Act of the Eleventh Year
of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, for the lighting and watching of
Parishes in England and Wales, and to make other Provisions in lieu thereof. 1367
[No. IV. ] 5 W. IV. c. 2.-An Act to amend an Act of the Thirty-eighth Year of
King George the Third, for preventing the Mischiefs arising from the printing and
publishing Newspapers, and Papers of a like Nature, by persons not known, and
for regulating the Printing and Publication of such Papers in other respects; and
to discontinue certain Actions commenced under the Provisions of the said act. 1389
[ No. V. ] 6 W. IV. c. 4.- An Act to amend an Act of the last Session for abolish-
ing Capital Punishments in Cases of Letter Stealing and Sacrilege.

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353 For "3 & 4 W. IV, c. 31" read 4 & 5 W. c. 31."
689 For 1 & 2 W. IV. c. 114" read "2 & 3 W. IV. c. 114."
792 For 4 & 5 W. IV. c. 48" read "5 & 6 W. IV. c. 48."
1025 For " 4 & 5 W. IV. c. 50' read 5 & 6 W. 1V. c. 50."

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[There has been no statute passed on the subjects of this class since the last Alien act, 7 G. 4, c. 54.]

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PART I.

CLASS II.

STATUTES RELATING TO THE CLERGY.

[No. I.] 1 and 2 W. 4, c. 38.-An Act to amend and render more effectual an Act passed in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty, intituled An Act to amend the Acts for building and promoting the building of additional Churches in populous Parishes.

[15th October 1831.] WHEREAS, &c. [Recites the titles of the 58 G. 3, c. 45, 59 G. 3, c. 134, 3 G. 4, c. 72, 5 G. 4, c. 103, 7 & 8 G. 4 c. 72.] And whereas by the said recited act passed in the fifth year of the reign of his late Majesty it was amongst other things enacted, that with a view to afford facility to the erection of churches and chapels it should be lawful for certain persons building or purchasing the same, and endowing them with pew rents, to nominate for forty years spiritual persons to serve such churches or chapels respectively, subject to the consent of the bishop of the diocese, and to certain regulations therein provided: and whereas by the said recited act passed in the seventh and eighth years of the reign of his late Majesty further encouragement was given to the same object by authorizing his Majesty's commissioners for building new churches to declare that any person or persons building a chapel, and endowing the same to the satisfaction of the said commissioners, with some permanent provision in land or monies in the funds, should have the perpetual right of nominating the minister to serve the same: and whereas the said provisions of the said last-recited act have been found insufficient for such their purposes, and require amendment, in order to provide more effectually for the improved pastoral superintendence of his Majesty's subjects: be it therefore enacted, &c. that so much of the said recited act passed in the seventh and eighth years of the reign of his late Majesty as authorizes the said commissioners to declare, in the cases therein provided, the right of nominating the spirisioners in cer- tual persons to serve the chapels therein named respectively to be in the person or persons building and endowing the same, his, her, or their heirs and assigns or appointees, shall be and the same is hereby repealed. right of nominating, repealed. In parishes II. That in all parishes and extra-parochial places the population of where the popu- which, according to the returns then last made in pursuance of any act or acts of parliament, shall amount to two thousand persons, and in which the existing churches or chapels do not afford accommodation for more than one third of the inhabitants for the attendance upon Divine Service according to the rites of the united church of England and Ireland, and also in all parishes and extra-parochial places in which three hundred persons, whatever may be the amount of the whole population, shall be resident upwards of two miles from any such existing church or chapel and within one mile of the site upon which a new church or chapel is proposed to be erected under the provisions of this act, and where any person or persons belonging to the church of England shall declare his, her, or their intention of building a church or chapel, or of purchasing any building fit in all respects to be used as a church or chapel for the performance of Divine Service as aforesaid, or where a church or chapel has already been built on the faith of the said recited ing to the conact of the seventh and eighth years of the reign of King George the ditions herein Fourth, in such a situation within the said parish or place as shall be mentioned, the adapted to the convenience of that part of the inhabitants for whom such bishop may declare the right of nominating to be in such person or his trustees.

tain cases to

declare the

lation amounts to 2,000, and the churches do not afford accommodation, or where 300' persons reside more than two miles from the church, if any person shall declare his

intention of building a church or

chapel, accord

additional accommodation is necessary, and where such person or per

No. I.

c. 38.

sons shall declare their intention of providing a sum of one thousand 1 & 2 W. 4, pounds at the least by way of endowment for such church or chapel, to be secured upon lands or money in the funds, in addition to the pew rents and profits arising from the said church or chapel, in case any such rents shall be taken, and shall also declare his, her, or their intention of providing a fund for the repairs of the said church or chapel, in manner following, (namely,) one sum, equal in amount to five pounds upon every one hundred pounds of the original cost of erecting and fitting up or of purchasing such chapel or building, to be secured upon lands or money in the funds as aforesaid, and also a further sum to be reserved annually out of the pew rents of the said church or chapel, after the rate of five pounds for every one hundred pounds of the sum so to be provided as last aforesaid, and also if such person or persons shall further declare his, her, or their intention of setting apart or appropriating one third at least of the sittings in such church or chapel to be and continue for ever as free sittings, it shall be lawful for the bishop of the diocese in which such parish or extra-parochial place is locally situate, if he shall see fit, and he is hereby authorized, to declare by writing under his hand and seal that the right of nominating a minister to such church or chapel, when so built or purchased and endowed as aforesaid, and when the conditions herein-before mentioned shall have been performed, shall for ever thereafter be in the person or persons so building or purchasing and endowing the same, his, her, or their heirs and assigns, or in such trustee or trustees, being members of the united church of England and Ireland, as he, she, or they shall appoint, and in such future trustee or trustees, being members of the united church of England and Ireland, as shall from time to time be nominated by writing under the hand or hands of the trustees or trustee for the time being of the said church or chapel, or the major part of them, or chosen in such manner as may in the first instance be agreed upon by the persons building and endowing such church or chapel, or the major part of them, and the bishop of the diocese, in writing under their hands and seals, in the place and stead of any one or more who shall from time to time die, resign, or become incapable of acting, or in such ecclesiastical person or body corporate, and his or their successors, as the persons so applying shall at the time of application to the bishop nominate and

trustees.

trust.

appoint: Provided always, that if it should happen that all the trustees of In case of the said church or chapel for the time being should die without having failure of apappointed any other trustee or trustees as their successors, then and in pointment of such case it shall be lawful for the incumbent for the time being of the said church or chapel, with consent of the bishop of the diocese, to appoint a requisite number of trustees to supply the vacancies; and pro- Limiting the vided also, that the patronage of any such church or chapel shall not at patronage in any time be vested in or held in trust by more that five persons, except in cases where such patronage shall pass by descent to coparceners, or by the custom of gavelkind to more than five, or shall be conveyed by will or deed to more than five children, grandchildren, nephews, or nieces of the grantor or devisor: Provided also, that no church or New church chapel built for the accommodation of three hundred persons resident not to be within upwards of two miles from the existing parochial church or chapel shall two miles of be placed nearer than two miles from such existing church or chapel. existing church. III. Provided also, and be it further enacted, that previous to any Previous to nobishop making such declaration of the right of nomination as aforesaid mination, a there shall be produced to him a certificate, signed by an architect or sur- certificate of veyor, and attested by two or more respectable householders in the the facts to be parish, to the effect that the existing churches or chapels do not afford, produced to the bishop. by actual admeasurement, accommodation for more than one third of the inhabitants; or a certificate, signed by three or more respectable householders in the parish, that there are in such parish or extra-parochial place three hundred persons resident upwards of two miles from any such existing church or chapel and within one mile of the site upon

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