A TABLE OF The PUBLIC GENERAL STATUTES passed in the FIRST Session of the FIFTEENTH Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 11 & 12 VICTORIA. I. AN Act to facilitate the Completion, in certain Cases, of Public Works in Ireland. page 3 II. An Act for the better Prevention of Crime and Outrage in certain Parts of Ireland until the First Day of December One thousand eight hunded and forty-nine, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament. 15 III. An Act to give further Time for making certain Railways. 26 IV. 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-eight. 31 V. An Act to suspend for Five Years the Operation of certain Parts of an Act of the Tenth Year of Her present Majesty, for making further Provision for the Government of the New Zealand Islands; and to make other Provision in lieu thereof. 36 33 VI. An Act to make further Provision for One Year, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, for the Carriage of Passengers by Sea to North America. VII. An Act to amend an Act for consolidating the Queen's Bench, Fleet, and Marshalsea Prison, and for regulating the Queen's Prison. 41 VIII. An Act to continue for Three Years the Duties on Profits arising from Property, Professions, Trades, and Offices. 43 IX. An Act to continue for Three Years the Stamp Duties granted by an Act of the Fifth and Sixth Years of Her present Majesty, to assimilate the Stamp Duties in Great X. An Act for empowering certain Officers of the High Court XI. An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters. XVI. An Act for raising the Sum of Seventeen millions nine hundred and forty-six thousand five hundred Pounds by Ex- chequer Bills, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight XVII. An Act to amend the Act of the present Session to facilitate the Completion of Public Works in Ireland. 168 XVIII. An Act to remove certain Doubts as to the Law for the Trial of controverted Elections. XIX. An Act to indemnify such Persons in the United King- dom 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 forty-nine. XX. An Act to authorize for One Year, and to the End of XXII. An Act for granting Relief to the Island of Tobago, and for aiding the Colonies of British Guiana and Trinidad XXIV. An Act for disfranchising the Freemen of the Borough of Great Yarmouth. page 238 XXV. An Act to extend the Powers given by former Acts for purchasing or hiring Land in connexion with or for the Use of Workhouses in Ireland; and for providing for the Burial of the Poor. 238 XXVI. An Act to remove Difficulties in the Appointment of Collectors of Grand Jury Cess in Ireland in certain Cases, and to remove Doubts as to the Jurisdiction of the Divisional Justices of the Police District of Dublin Metropolis relating to the Recovery of Poor Rates, and other Cases. 240 XXVII. An Act to authorize the Inclosure of certain Lands, in pursuance of the Third and also of a Special Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales. 246 XXVIII. An Act to amend the Law of Imprisonment for Debt in Ireland, and to improve the Remedies for the Recovery of Debts and of the Possession of Tenements situate in Cities and Towns, in certain Cases. 248 XXIX. An Act to enable Persons having a Right to kill Hares in England and Wales to do so, by themselves or Persons authorized by them, without being required to take out a Game Certificate. 260 XXX. An Act to enable all Persons having at present a Right to kill Hares in Scotland to do so themselves, or by Persons authorized by them, without being required to take out a Game Certificate. 262 XXXI. An Act to amend the Procedure in respect of Orders for the Removal of the Poor in England and Wales, and Appeals therefrom. 264 XXXII. An Act to facilitate the Collection of County Cess in Ireland. 268 XXXIII. 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-eight. 270 XXXIV. An Act to amend certain Acts in force in Ireland in relation to Appeals from Decrees and Dismisses on Civil Bills in the County of Dublin and County of the City of Dublin. 272 XXXV. An Act to empower the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland to apprehend, and detain until the First Day of March One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, such Persons as he or they shall suspect of conspiring against Her Majesty's Person and Government. 274 XXXVI. An Act for the Amendment of the Law of Entail in Scotland. a 3 275 XXXVII. An XXXVII. An Act to amend the Law relative to the Assignment of Ecclesiastical Districts. page 297 XXXVIII. An Act to authorize the West India Relief Commissioners to grant further Time for the Repayment of Monies advanced by them in certain Cases. 300 XXXIX. An Act to facilitate the raising of Money by Corporate Bodies for building or repairing Prisons. 305 XL. An Act to alter the Mode of assessing the Funds leviable in the County of Inverness, for making and maintaining certain Roads and Bridges and other Works in the Highlands of Scotland. 306 XLI. An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Ecclesiastical Unions and Divisions of Parishes in Ireland. 310 XLII. An Act to facilitate the Performance of the Duties of Justices of the Peace out of Sessions within England and Wales with respect to Persons charged with indictable Offences. 316 XLIII. An Act to facilitate the Performance of the Duties of Justices of the Peace out of Sessions, within England and Wales, with respect to summary Convictions and Orders. 356 XLIV. An Act to protect Justices of the Peace from vexatious Actions for Acts done by them in execution of their Office. 403 XLV. An Act to amend the Acts for facilitating the winding up the Affairs of Joint Stock Companies unable to meet their pecuniary Engagements; and also to facilitate the Dissolution and winding up of Joint Stock Companies and other Partnerships. 408 XLVI. An Act for the Removal of Defects in the Administration of Criminal Justice. 452 XLVII. An Act for the Protection and Relief of the destitute Poor evicted from their Dwellings in Ireland. 454 457 XLVIII. An Act to facilitate the Sale of Incumbered Estates 486 L. An Act to empower the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods to remove the Colonnade in the Regent's Quad rant. 488 498 LI. An Act to provide additional Funds for Loans for Drainage and other Works of public Utility in Ireland. LII. An Act to explain the Acts for preventing the Destruction of the Breed of Salmon and Fish of the Salmon Kind. 504 LIII. An Act to empower the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods to make certain Alterations and Improvements in the Approaches to the Castle and Town of Windsor. 504 LIV. An |