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ORDERS IN COUNCIL.

Ar the Court at St. James's, the 11th Day of September, 1835.

PRESENT,

The KING's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

5th and 6th Wm. 4, c. 76, s. 140.

WHEREAS by an act, passed in the fifth and sixth year of his Majesty's reign, intituled "An act to provide for the regulation of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales," it was, among other things, enacted, that it should be lawful for his Majesty, if he should think fit, by the advice of his Privy Council, to order any days and times, before the first day of February next, for doing the several matters required or authorised by the said act to be done, in lieu of the several days and times for the present year therein-before specified, or any of them; and that in such case all matters mentioned in such Order should be done on and within such days and times as should be mentioned respectively in that behalf in such Order, as if the days and times mentioned in such Order had in every instance been mentioned in the said act, instead of the days and times therein-before respectively mentioned in that behalf, and not otherwise; provided always, that nothing therein contained should authorise his Majesty to appoint any days or times other than were therein-before specified, for any matters required or au

thorised by the said act to be done, after the expiration of this present year.

His Majesty is thereupon pleased, by the advice of his most honourable Privy Council, in pursuance of the power vested in his Majesty by the said act, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows, that is to say:

Section 15.

His Majesty, by the advice aforesaid, does hereby order, that the overseers of the poor of every parish wholly or in part within any borough named in either of the schedules (A.) or (B.), to the said act annexed, shall make out, and shall deliver to the town clerk of the borough, the burgess list according to the provisions of the said act, on the seventh day of November in this year, instead of the fifth day of September, as provided in the said act; and that the said overseers shall keep a true copy of such lists, to be perused by any person, without payment of any fee, at all reasonable hours, between the said seventh day of November and the seventeenth day of November in this year, instead of the time between the fifth and fifteenth days of September; and that the town clerk shall cause a copy of all such lists to be fixed on or near the outer door of the town-hall, or in some public and conspicuous situation within the borough, on every day during the week next preceding the seventeenth day of November in this year, instead of the week next preceding the fifteenth day of September.

Section 17.

And his Majesty, by the advice aforesaid, does hereby order, that every person whose name shall have been omitted in any such burgess list, and who shall claim to have his name inserted therein, and every person authorised by the said act to object to any other person as not being entitled to have his name retained in any bur

gess list, shall give such notice thereof respectively, as by the said act is required, on or before the seventeenth day of November in this year, instead of the fifteenth day of September; and that the town clerk of every such borough shall cause copies of the lists to be made out by him of all such persons so claiming and so objected to, according to the provisions of the said act, to be fixed on or near the outer door of the town hall, or in some public and conspicuous situation within such borough, during the eight days next preceding the first day of December in this year, instead of the eight days next preceding the first day of October, and that the town clerk shall likewise keep a copy of the names of all the persons so claiming as aforesaid, and also a copy of the names of all persons so objected to as aforesaid, to be perused by any person, without payment of any fee, at all reasonable hours during the eight days (Sunday excepted) next preceding the first day of December in this year, instead of the eight days (Sunday excepted) next preceding the first day of October.

Sections 18. 20.

And his Majesty, by the advice aforesaid, does hereby order, that the barristers to be appointed to revise the lists of burgesses of the said boroughs, according to the provisions of the said act, shall hold their courts as directed by the said act, for the purpose of revising the said burgess lists, at some time between the first day of December inclusive and the fifteenth day of December inclusive in this year, instead of the time between the first day of October inclusive and the fifteenth day of October inclusive.

Section 22.

And his Majesty, by the advice aforesaid, does hereby order, that the town clerk of every such borough shall cause the burgess roll of the burgesses of such borough to be completed on or before the twenty-second day of De

cember in this year, instead of causing it to be completed on or before the twenty-second day of October.

Section 30.

And his Majesty, by the advice aforesaid, does hereby order, that the councillors of every such borough shall be elected, according to the provisions of the said act, on the twenty-sixth day of December in this year, instead of the first day of November.

Section 25.

And his Majesty, by the advice aforesaid, does hereby order, that the aldermen of every such borough shall be elected, according to the provisions of the said act, on the thirty-first day of December in this year, instead of the ninth day of November.

Sections 49. 61. 69.

And his Majesty, by the advice aforesaid, does hereby order, that the first quarterly meeting of the council of every such borough shall be holden at noon, on the first day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, instead of the ninth day of November in this year; and that the mayor of every such borough shall be elected, according to the provisions of the said act, on the said first day of January, instead of the said ninth day of November; and that the sheriff to be appointed in any such borough, according to the provisions of the said act, shall be appointed accordingly on the said first day of January, instead of the first day of November in this year.

C. C. GREVIlle.

OCTOBER 9, 1835.

Ar the Court at James's, the 30th Day of September, 1835.

PRESENT,

The KING's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

5th and 6th Wm. 4, c. 76, s. 140.

WHEREAS by an Act, passed in the fifth and sixth year of his Majesty's reign, intituled "An act to provide for the regulation of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales," it was, among other things, enacted, that it should be lawful for his Majesty, if he should think fit, by the advice of his Privy Council, to order any days and times before the first day of February next, for doing the several matters required or authorised by the said act to be done, in lieu of the several days and times for the present year therein before specified, or any of them; and that in such case all matters mentioned in such order should be done on and within such days and times as should be mentioned respectively in that behalf in such order, as if the days and times mentioned in such order had in every instance been mentioned in the said act, instead of the days and times therein before respectively mentioned in that behalf, and not otherwise; provided always, that nothing therein contained should authorise his Majesty to appoint any days or times other than were therein before specified, for any matters required or authorised by the said act to be done, after the expiration of this present year:

His Majesty is thereupon pleased, by the advice of his most honourable Privy Council, in pursuance of the power vested in his Majesty by the said act, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows, that is to say:

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