A TABLE OF The PUBLIC GENERAL STATUTES passed in the SECOND Session of the FIFTEENTH Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 12 & 13 VICTORIA. PUBLIC GENERAL ACTS. I. AN Act to consolidate the Boards of Excise and Stamps and Taxes into One Board of Commissioners of Inland Revenue, and to make Provision for the Collection of such Revenue. page 3 II. An Act to continue, until the First Day of September One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, an Act of the last Session, for empowering the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland to apprehend and detain such Persons as he or they shall suspect of conspiring against Her Majesty's Person and Government. 11 III. 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 forty-nine. 13 15 IV. An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Appointment of Vice Guardians of Unions in Ireland. V. An Act to authorize an Advance of Money for the Relief of certain distressed Poor Law Unions in Ireland. 17 VI. An Act to repeal an Act of the Twenty-first Year of George the Second, for holding the Summer Assizes at Buckingham; and to authorize the Appointment of a more convenient Place for holding the same. 18 VII. An Act to authorize the Inclosure of certain Lands in pursuance of the Fourth Annual General Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales. a 2 19 VIII. An VIII. An Act to remove Doubts as to the Appointment of Overseers in Cities and Boroughs. page 20 IX. An Act to indemnify such Persons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments, and to extend the Time limited for those Purposes respectively until the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and fifty. 21 26 X. An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters. XI. An Act to amend the Laws in England and Ireland relative to Larceny and other Offences connected therewith. XII. An Act for the Regulation of Her Majesty's Royal Marine Forces while on shore. 84 85 XIII. An Act to provide a more effectual Regulation and Control over the Maintenance of poor Persons in Houses not being the Workhouses of any Union or Parish. 137 XIV. An Act to enable Overseers of the Poor and Surveyors of the Highways to recover the Costs of distraining for Rates. 140 XV. An Act to amend an Act of the Fifty-fourth Year of King George the Third, for the Recovery of small Sums due for Wages in Ireland. 150 XVI. An Act to protect Justices of the Peace in Ireland from vexatious Actions for Acts done by them in the Execution of their Office. 151 XVII. An Act to continue for Five Years so much of an Act of the Second and Third Years of Her present Majesty as enables Justices to grant Warrants for entering Places in which Spirits are sold without Licence in Ireland. 156 XVIII. An Act for the holding of Petty Sessions of the Peace in Boroughs, and for providing Places for the holding of such Petty Sessions in Counties and Boroughs. XIX. An Act to make perpetual an Act of the Tenth and Eleventh Years of Her present Majesty, for authorizing the Removal of Prisoners from the several Gaols in Ireland in Cases of Epidemic Diseases. 158 160 XX. An Act for raising the Sum of Seventeen millions seven hundred and eighty-six thousand seven hundred Pounds by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. 160 XXI. An Act to confirm certain Acts of the Legislature of Newfoundland respecting the rebuilding of the Town of Saint John's Newfoundland, and to enable the said Legislature to make other Provisions respecting the rebuilding of the said Town. XXII. An Act to remove Doubts concerning the Validity of certain Grants of Land in the Colony of New South Wales. 162 page 163 XXIII. An XXIII. An Act to authorize further Advances of Money for the Improvement of Landed Property, and the Extension and Promotion of Drainage and other Works of public Utility, in Ireland. page 165 166 XXIV. An Act to make Provision, until the Thirty-first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and fifty, for a General Rate in Aid of certain distressed Unions and Electoral Divisions in Ireland. XXV. An Act for giving effect to the Stipulations of a Treaty between Her Majesty and the Queen of Portugal for the Apprehension of certain Deserters. 169 171 XXVI. An Act for granting Relief against Defects in Leases made under Powers of Leasing in certain Cases. XXVII. An Act to remove Doubts concerning the Transportation of Offenders under Judgment of Death to whom Mercy may be extended in Ireland. 173 XXVIII. An Act to enable the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital to regulate and manage the Markets held at Greenwich in the County of Kent. 174 XXIX. An Act to amend the Laws in force for the Encouragement of British Shipping and Navigation. 179 XXX. An Act for the better Preservation of Sheep, and more speedy Detection of Receivers of stolen Sheep, in Ireland. 188 XXXI. An Act for requiring the Transmission of the annual Abstracts and Statements of Trustees of Turnpike Roads and Bridges in Scotland to the Secretary of State to be laid before Parliament. 190 XXXII. An Act to continue to the End of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one certain temporary Provisions relating to the Collection of Grand Jury Cess in Ireland. 193 194 XXXIII. An Act for regulating the Carriage of Passengers in Merchant Vessels. XXXIV. An Act to amend an Act regulating the Justice of the Peace Small Debt Courts in Scotland. 227 XXXV. An Act for requiring annual Returns of the Expenditure on Highways in England and Wales to be transmitted to the Secretary of State, and afterwards laid before Parlia ment. 228 XXXVI. An Act to make Provision, during the present Year, and to the End of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, relating to the Collection of County Cess in Ireland, and to the Remuneration of the Collectors thereof. 231 XXXVII. An Act to continue to the First Day of October One thousand eight hundred and fifty, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, an Act to amend the Laws relating to Loan Societies. 234 XXXVIII. An page 235 235 XXXVIII. An Act to continue for Five Years an Act of the Second and Third Years of Her present Majesty, for the better Prevention and Punishment of Assaults in Ireland. XXXIX. An Act for further continuing, until the First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and fifty, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, certain temporary Provisions concerning Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in England. XL. An Act to continue, until the Thirty-first Day of July One thousand eight hundred and fifty, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, certain of the Allowances of the Duty of Excise on Soap used in Manufactures. XLI. An Act to extend an Act of the Fifty-sixth Year of King George the Third, for providing for a new Silver Coinage, and for regulating the Currency of the Gold and Silver Coin of this Realm. XLII. An Act to provide for the Execution for One Year of the Office of Sheriff in the County of Westmoreland. 238 XLIII. An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion of Officers and Soldiers in the Service of the East India Company, and for regulating in such Service the Payment of Regimental Debts and the Distribution of the Effects of Officers and Soldiers dying in the Service. 239 236 236 XLIV. An Act to apply the Sum of Three Millions out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. 271 XLV. An Act to amend the Procedure in Courts of General and Quarter Sessions of the Peace in England and Wales, and for the better Advancement of Justice in Cases within the Jurisdiction of those Courts. 273 XLVI. An Act to facilitate the Union of Turnpike Trusts. 279 XLVII. An Act to continue certain Acts for regulating Turnpike Roads in Ireland. XLVIII. An Act to provide for the Administration of Justice in Vancouver's Island. 281 282 XLIX. An Act to extend and explain the Provisions of the Acts for the granting of Sites for Schools. 285 L. An Act for further amending the Laws relating to Sewers. 287 LI. An Act for the better Protection of the Property of Pupils, absent Persons, and Persons under Mental Incapacity in Scotland. 291 LII. An Act to suspend, until the First Day of October One thousand eight hundred and fifty, the making of Lists and the Ballots and Enrolments for the Militia of the United Kingdom. 304 LIII. An |