Britain and Ireland; to grant Allowances in certain Cases to Subaltern Officers, Adjutants, Paymasters, Quartermasters, Sur- geons, Assistant Surgeons, Surgeons Mates, and Serjeant Majors of the Militia; and to authorize the Employment of the Non- commissioned Officers. 50. An Act to continue the Exemption of Inhabitants from Liability to be rated as such in respect of Stock in Trade or 51. An Act for the Transfer of the Equitable Jurisdiction of the Court of Exchequer to the Court of Chancery in Ireland. Ibid. 52. An Act to make better Provision for the Interment of the Dead in and near the Metropolis. 55. An Act to amend an Act of the last Session for amending an Act for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in Ireland so far as relates to the Borough of Dublin. 56. An Act to continue the Act for exempting certain Bills of 57. An Act to prevent the holding of Vestry or other Meetings in Churches, and for regulating the Appointment of Vestry Clerks. 58. An Act to continue an Act for authorizing the Application of Highway Rates to Turnpike Roads. 59. An Act for the better Government of Her Majesty's Austra- 60. An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to the Conveyance and Transfer of Real and Personal Property vested 61. An Act to extend the Act for the more easy Recovery of Small Debts and Demands in England, and to amend the same. 372 62. An Act to alter and extend an Act passed in the Eleventh Year of King George the Fourth, for amending and consolidating the Laws relating to the Pay of the Royal Navy. 63. An Act to provide for the Redemption of an Annuity of Ten thousand Pounds payable to the "Equivalent Company." 381 64. An Act to provide for more effectually maintaining, repairing, improving, and rebuilding Bridges in Cities and Boroughs. 383 65. An Act for enabling Town Councils to establish Public 66. An Act to authorize the Inclosure of certain Lands in pursuance of a Special Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England 69. An Act to amend the Laws which regulate the Qualification and Registration of Parliamentary Voters in Ireland, and to alter the Law for rating Immediate Lessors of Premises to the Poor Rate in certain Boroughs. Page 414 70. An Act empowering the Canterbury Association to dispose of certain Lands in New Zealand. 495 71. An Act to continue an Act of the Eleventh and Twelfth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to prerent, until the First Day of September One thousand eight hundred and fifty, and to the End of the then Session of Parliament, the spreading of contagious or infectious Disorders among Sheep, Cattle, and other Animals. 500 72. An Act to amend the Laws for the Registration of Assurances of Lands in Ireland. Ibid. 73. An Act to amend the Law relating to Proceedings by Process of Attachment of Goods in the Borough and other Courts of Record in Ireland. 526 74. An Act for the better Regulation of the Office of Registrar of Judgments in Ireland. 530 75. An Act to regulate the Receipt and Amount of Fees receivable by certain Officers in the Court of Common Pleas. 534 76. An Act to provide for the Division of the Deanery of Saint Burian into Three Rectories, and for abolishing the Royal Peculiar of Saint Burian. 536 77. An Act to enable Her Majesty to make a suitable Provision for His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, and also for Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary of Cambridge. 540 78. An Act to enable Her Majesty to make Provision for the Residence of His Royal Highness Albert Edward Prince of Wales in Marlborough House during the joint Lives of Her Majesty and His Royal Highness. 541 79. An Act to continue certain Turnpike Acts in Great Britain, and to make further Provisions respecting Turnpike Roads in England. 542 80. An Act to repeal Part of an Act of the Fifteenth Year of King George the Third, for the Encouragement of the Fisheries carried on from Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Dominions in Europe, and for securing the Return of the Fishermen, Sailors, and others employed in the said Fisheries to the Ports thereof at the End of the Fishing Season. 548 81. An Act to explain an Act of the last Session for amending an Act for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in Ireland so far as relates to the Borough of Dublin. 550 549 82. An Act to extend the Remedies for the Collection of Grand Jury Cess in Ireland. Ibid. 83. An Act to facilitate the Abandonment of Railways, and the Dissolution of Railway Companies, in certain Cases. 84. An Act to enable the Council of the Borough of Manchester to determine their Liability to defray the Expenses of Cus. toms in respect of Goods warehoused in the said Borough, and to authorize the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to direct the Discontinuance of the further warehousing of Goods in such Warehouses without Payment of Duty. A 4 562 85. An 85. An Act to provide for holding the Assizes of certain Counties of Cities and Towns in Ireland in the Assize Towns of the adjoining Counties at large, in certain Cases; and to make Provision as to Gaols in case of the Change of Assize Towns. Page 564 86. An Act for the Erection on the Earthen Mound in the City of Edinburgh of Buildings for a National Gallery, and other Purposes connected therewith and with the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland. 568 87. An Act for Payment of a Moiety of certain Penalties towards Police Superannuation Funds. 571 88. An Act to amend the Law relating to Engines used in the Rivers and on the Sea Coasts of Ireland for the taking of Fish. 572 89. An Act to regulate the Proceedings in the High Court of Chancery in Ireland. 595 90. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the General Board of Health, and for certain other Purposes in relation to the Public Health Act, 1848. 610 91. An Act to authorize Justices of any Borough having a separate Gaol to commit Assize Prisoners to such Gaol, and to extend the Jurisdiction of Borough Justices to all Offences and Matters arising within the Borough for which they act. 611 92. An Act for the more effectual Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Scotland. 614 93. An Act for improving the Condition of Masters, Mates, and Seamen, and maintaining Discipline, in the Merchant Service. 617 94. An Act to amend the Acts relating to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England. 652 662 95. An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Customs. 96. An Act to continue and amend the Acts for authorizing a Composition for Assessed Taxes. 668 97. An Act to repeal certain Stamp Duties, and to grant others in lieu thereof; and to amend the Laws relating to the Stamp Duties. 681 98. An Act to amend the Law relating to the holding of Benefices in Plurality. 714 99. An Act for the better assessing and collecting the Poor Rates and Highway Rates in respect of small Tenements. 717 100. An Act for Inspection of Coa Mines in Great Britain. 720 101. An Act to continue Two Acts passed in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Years of the Reign of Her Majesty, for charging the Maintenance of certain poor Persons in Unions in England and Wales upon the Common Fund; and to make certain Amendments in the Laws for the Relief of the Poor. 723 102. An Act to consolidate and amend the Acts relating to certain Offences and other Matters as to which Justices of the Peace exercise a summary Jurisdiction in Ireland. 728 103. An Act to authorize further Charges on "The London Bridge Approaches Fund" for the Completion of certain Improvements in the Metropolis. 758 104. An Act to extend and amend the Acts relating to the Copyright of Designs. 769 105. An 105. An Act for facilitating the Union of Liberties with the Counties in which they are situate. Page 774 106. An Act to continue, for a Time to be limited, an Act of the Eleventh Year of Her present Majesty, for the better Prevention of Crime and Outrage in certain Parts of Ireland. 777 107. An Act to apply a Sum out of the Consolidated Fund, and certain other Sums, to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty; and to appropriate the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament. 778 108. An Act for confirming certain further Provisional Orders of the General Board of Health. 784 109. An Act to enlarge and extend the Powers of an Act of the Ninth and Tenth Years of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to enable the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods to construct a new Street from Spitalfields to Shoreditch. 786 110. An Act to continue the Act for amending the Laws relating to Savings Banks in Ireland. 793 111. An Act to relieve the Chester and Holyhead Railway Company from contributing towards the Expense of the proposed new Harbour at Holyhead, and to take away the Powers of the said Company in relation to such Harbour. Ibid. 112. An Act to vest in the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland certain Works and Rights of the Lough Corrib Improvement Company, and to compensate such Company for the same. 794 113. An Act to authorize the Transfer of Loans for the Improvement of Land in Ireland to other Land. 798 114. An Act to repeal the Stamp Duties on Proceedings in the Courts of Law in Ireland, and to grant certain other Stamp Duties in lieu thereof. 799 115. An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Friendly Societies. 802 116. An Act to amend an Act passed in the Tenth Year of Her present Majesty's Reign, for empowering the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods to purchase Land for a Harbour of Refuge and Breakwater in the Isle of Portland; and to make further Provisions for the Division and Application of the Purchase Money. 823 LOCAL AND PERSONAL ACTS, DECLARED PUBLIC, AND TO BE JUDICIALLY NOTICED. AN N Act for carrying into effect an Agreement entered into between "The Suffolk and General Country Amicable Insurance Office" and "The Alliance British and Foreign Life Page 832 ii. An Act to authorize the Bristol Waterworks Company to raise a further Sum of Money. - and Fire Assurance Company." Ibid. iii. An iii. An Act to give further Powers to the Birkenhead Improvement Commissioners for purchasing the Woodside Ferry, and for regulating their Mortgage Debt and facilitating the Sale of their Lands at Birkenhead. Page 832 iv. An Act for better assessing and collecting the Poor's Rates, Highway Rates, the County, Shirehall, Police, and other County Rates in the Parish of West Bromwich in the County of Stafford, and the Township of Oldbury in the Parish of Hales Owen in the County of Worcester, and which Parish of West Bromwich and Township of Oldbury are situate within the West Bromwich Poor Law Union. Ibid. v. An Act to enable the Commissioners acting under an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, for better regulating, paving, improving, and managing the Town of Brighthelmston in the County of Sussex, and the Poor thereof, to purchase, improve, and manage the Royal Pavilion at Brighton, and the Grounds thereof, and to enlarge, extend, and apply the Powers and Provisions of the same Act with reference thereto. Ibid. vi. An Act to authorize an Alteration in the Line of the Buckinghamshire Railways at Oxford. 833 vii. An Act to extend the Time for the Purchase of certain Lands required for the South Wales Railway, and to amend the Acts relating thereto. Ibid. viii. An Act to authorize the Wakefield Borough Market Company to purchase certain Lands for a Market Place, and to make Approaches thereto. Ibid. ix. An Act for better enabling the Clerical, Medical, and General Life Assurance Society to sue and be sued ; and to alter certain Provisions of their Deed of Constitution; and to give further Powers to the Society. Ibid. x. An Act to change the Name of "The Architects, Civil "Engineers, Builders, and General Fire and Life Insurance, "Annuity, and Reversionary Interest Company ;" and for other Purposes relating to the Company. Ibid. xi. An Act to extend the Time for the Purchase of Lands required for the Completion of the Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway, and to amend the Acts relating to such Railway. Ibid. xii. An Act for the more effectual Drainage and Improvement of certain Lands in the Parishes of Ramsey, Upwood, and Great Raveley, all in the County of Huntingdon. Ibid. xiii. An Act for improving the Glasgow and Shotts Turnpike Roads. Ibid. xiv. An Act to enable the Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway Company to extend their Line of Railway from Strabane to Omagh; and to amend the Acts relating to the said Company. Ibid. xv. An Act to amend the Walsall Improvement and Market Act, 1848, and for other Purposes. Ibid. xvi. An Act for extinguishing the Vicarial Tithes in the Parishes of Kew and Petersham in the County of Surrey; for confirming and regulating the Pew Rents of the Churches of the said Parishes; for authorizing the Division of the Vicarage of Kew and Petersham; and for other Purposes relating to such Vicarage. 834 xvii. An |