A Collection of Statutes Connected with the General Administration of the Law

[No. IX. ] 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 55.-An Act for facilitating the Appointment of Sheriff's
in Ireland, and the more effectual Audit and passing of the'r Accounts, and for

the more speedy Return and Recovery of Fines, Fees, Forfeitures, Recognizances,

Penalties, and Deodands; and to abolish certain Offices in the Court of Exchequer

in Ireland; and to amend the Laws relating to Grants in Custodiam and Recovery

of Debts in Ireland; and to amend an Act of the Second and Third Years of His

present Majesty, for transferring the Powers and Duties of the Commissioners of

Public Accounts in Ireland to the Commissioners for Auditing the Public Accounts

of Great Britain.

602

PART IV.-CLASS XXIV.

Ecclesiastical and Maritime Courts.

[ No. I. ] 2 W. IV. c. 51.-An Act to regulate the Practice and the Fees in the

Vice-Admiralty Courts abroad, and to obviate Doubts as to their Jurisdiction. 603

[No. II. ] 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 92.-An Act for transferring the Powers of the High

Court of Delegates, both in Ecclesiastical and Maritime Causes, to His Majesty in

Council.

694

[ No. III. ] 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 93.-An Act for enforcing

tempts in the Courts Ecclesiastical of England and Ireland.

PART IV.-CLASS XXIV.-A.

Privy Council.

[No. I. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 41.-An Act for the better Administration of Justice in

His Majesty's Privy Council.

611

PART IV.-CLASS XXV.

Courts of Equity.

[ No. I. ] 1 W. IV. c. 36.-An Act for altering and amending the Law regarding

Commitments by Courts of Equity for Contempts, and the taking Bills pro

Confesso.

618

[ No. II. ]
11 G. IV. & 1 W. IV. c. 60.-An Act for amending the Laws

respecting Conveyances and Transfers of Estates and Funds vested in Trustees

and Mortgagees; and for enabling Courts of Equity to give effect to their Decrces

and Orders in certain cases.

629

[ No. III. ] 2 W. IV. c. 33.—An Act to effectuate the Service of Process issuing

from the Courts of Chancery and Exchequer in England and Ireland respec-

tively.

[ No. IV. ] 2 w. iv. c. 58.-An Act to extend the Provisions of an Act of the

First Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for altering and amending the

Law regarding Commitments by Courts of Equity for Contempts, and the taking

Bills pro confesso; and to explain certain parts thereof.

630

[No. V. ] 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 111.-An Act to abolish certain Sinecure Offices con-

nected with the Court of Chancery, and to make Provision for the Lord High

Chancellor on his Retirement from Office.

631

[ No. VI. ] 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 122.-An Act for making Provision for the Lord

High Chancellor of England in lieu of Fees heretofore received by him.

632

[ No. VII. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 84.-An Act to provide for the Performance of the

Duties of certain Offices connected with the Court of Chancery which have been

abolished.
638

[ No. VIII. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 94.-An Act for the Regulation of the Prooceed-

ings and Practice of certain Offices of the High Court of Chancery in England. 641

[ No. IX. ] 4 & 5 W. IV. c. 68.-An Act to authorize an advance out of the ge-

neral 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.

653

[ No. X. ] 4 & 5 W. IV. c. 78.-An Act for the Amendment of the Proceedings

and Practice of the High Court of Chancery in Ireland.

654

[ No. XI. ] 4 & 5 W. ÏV. c. 82. —An Act to amend and extend an Act of the

Second Year of His present Majesty, to effectuate the Service of Process issuing

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

662

[ No. XII. ] 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 16.-An Act for altering and amending the Law

regarding Commitments by Courts of Equity for Contemps, and the taking Bills

pro Confesso in Ireland.

663

[ No. XIII. ] 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 47.-An Act to repeal so much of an Act passed in

the Third and Fourth Years of His present Majesty, as relates to the Amount of

the Salary granted to the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery; and to make other

Provisions in relation to the said Office.

672

[No. XIV. ] 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 82.-An Act to abolish certain Offices connected

with Fines and Recoveries, and the Cursitors in the Court of Chancery, and to

make Provision for the Abolition of certain Offices in the Superior Courts of Com.

[It has been for some time in contemplation to revise the laws relating to coroners

but such revision had not as yet been effected.]

PART IV.-CLASS XXVII.

Warden.

[There has been no recent statute relating to this class.]

PART IV.-CLASS XXVIII.

Bankrupts.

[No. I. ] 1 & 2 W. IV. c. 56.-An Act to establish a Court of Bankruptcy. 675

No. II. ] 1 & 2 W. IV. c. 114.-An Act to amend the Laws relating to Bank-

rupts.
689

[ No. III. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 47.-An Act to authorize His Majesty to give further

Powers to the Judges of the Court of Bankruptcy, and to direct the times of

Sitting of the Judges and Commissioners of the said Court.

693

[No. IV. ] 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 29.-An Act for investing in Government Securities a

Portion of the Cash lying unemployed in the Bank of England belonging to Bank-

rupts' Estates, and applying the Interest thereon in discharge of the Expences of

the Court of Bankruptcy, and for the Relief of the Suitors in the said Court; and

for removing Doubts as to the Extent of the Powers of the Court of Review and

of the Subdivison Courts.
695

PART V.

CRIMINAL LAW.

CLASS I.

Statutes relating to Religion and Ecclesiastical Authority.

706

[No. I. ] 1 & 2 W. IV. c. 49.-An Act to repeal so much of an Act passed in
Ireland in the Fourth Year of King George the First, for the better regulating the
Town of Galway, and for strengthening the Protestant Interest therein, as limits
the Franchise created by the said Act to Protestants only.
[No. II. ] 2 W. IV. c. 7.-An Act for the Relief of His Majesty's Subjects in
Ireland being Protestants of the Established Church, and to repeal an At passed
in the Parliament of Ireland in the Thirty-third Year of the Reign of His Majesty
King George the Third, intituled "An Act to remove some doubts respecting
Persons in Office taking the Sacramental Test."

ib.
[No. III. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 37.--An Act to alter and amend the Laws relating to
the Temporalities of the Church in Ireland.

708

770

[ No. IV. ] 4 & 5 W. IV. c. 41.-An Act to regulate the Appointment of Ministers
to Churches in Scotland erected by voluntary Contributions.
[No. V. ] 4 & 5 W. IV. c. 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 Temporalties of the Church of Ireland."

771

[ No. VI. ] 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 30.-An Act for Protecting the Revenues of vacant

Ecclesiastical Dignities, Prebends, Canonries, and Benefices, without cure of

Souls, and for Preventing the lapse thereof during the pending inquiries respecting

the state of the Established Church of England and Wales.

791

PART V.-CLASS II.

Treason and other Offences affecting the State.

[No. I. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 4.-An Act for the more effectual suppression of Local

Disturbances and Dangerous Associations in Ireland.

792

[ No. II. ]
4 & 5 W. IV. c. 38.-An Act to continue under certain Modifications

to the First day of August, 1835, an Act of the Third Year of His present Ma-

jesty, for the more effectual suppression of Local Disturbances and Dangerous

Associations in Ireland.

ib.

[No. III. ] 4 & 5 W. IV. c. 48.-An Act for the better Prevention and more

speedy Punishment of Offences endangering the Public Peace in Ireland.

ib.

PART V.-CLASS III.

Offences relating to Coin and Bullion.

2 W. IV. c. 34.-An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws against

Offences relating to the Coin.

796

PART V.-CLASS IV.

Homicide.

[There has been no recent provision on this subject. ]

PART V.-CLASS V.

Rape, Polygamy, Forcible Marriage, &c.

[There have been no recent enactments upon the subjects of this c.ass.]

PART V.-CLASS VI.

Riots and Offences attended with Malice or Violence.

[ No. I. ] 1 & 2 W. IV. c. 44.-An Act to amend an Act passed in the Parliament

of Ireland, in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Years of the Reign of His Majesty

King George the Third, intituled An Act to prevent and punish tumultuous

Risings of Persons within this Kingdom, and for other Purposes therein men-

tioned.

[ No. II. ] 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 118.—An Act to restrain for Five Years, in certain
Cases, Party Processions in Ireland.

1805

809

PART V.-CLASS VII.

Larceny, [Burglary,] Robbery, Assault, with Intent to Rob, Child Steuling,

[Sacrilege.]

[ No. I. ] 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 62.-An Act for abolishing the Punishment of Death
in certain Cases, and substituting a lesser Punishment in lieu thereof.

811

[ No. II. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 44.-An Act to repeal so much of two Acts of the

Seventh and Eighth Years and the Ninth Year of King George the Fourth as

inflicts the Punishment of Death upon Persons breaking, entering, and stealing in

a Dwelling-house; also for giving Power to the Judges to add to the Punishment

of Transportation for Life in certain Cases of Forgery, and in certain other

Cases.

812

[ No. III. ] 5 & 6 ̧W.IV. c. 34.-An Act to amend Two clerical Errors contained
in an Act passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George
the Fourth, intituled An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws in Ireland
relative to Larceny and other Offences connected therewith."