Hansard's Parliamentary Debates

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Page 713 - An Act to defray the Charge of the Pay, Clothing, and contingent and other Expenses of the Disembodied Militia in Great Britain and Ireland ; to grant allowances in certain Cases to Subaltern Officers, Adjutants, Paymasters, Quartermasters, Surgeons, Assistant Surgeons, Surgeons' Mates, and Serjeant Majors of the Militia; and to authorize the Employment of the Non-commissioned Officers.
Page 721 - For reducing the dues of the harbour of the borough and town of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, in the county of Dorset...
Page 723 - For making branch railways from the Great Western Railway and from Hammersmith to join the West London Railway, for widening a portion of the West London Railway, and for extending the same so as to join the London and South- Western Railway, in the parish of Saint Mary Lambeth, in the county of Surrey.
Page 709 - An act to indemnify such persons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for offices and employments, and for extending the time limited for those purposes respectively...
Page 645 - QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. WHEREAS by an Act, passed in the tenth year of the reign of Her Majesty, intituled " An Act for the more easy recovery of small " debts and demands in England...
Page 717 - An Act to enable the Liverpool Fire and Life Insurance Company to sue and be sued in the name of the Chairman, Deputy Chairman, or of any One of the Directors of the said Company ; and for other Purposes.
Page 365 - The most prominent of those defects which cripple the energies of the Established Church, and circumscribe its usefulness, is the want of churches and ministers in the large towns and populous districts of the kingdom.
Page 699 - My Lords and Gentlemen, — I think proper to inform you, that it is my intention immediately to dissolve the present Parliament. I rely with confidence on the loyalty to the throne and attachment to the free institutions of this country which animate the great body of my people. I join with them in supplications to Almighty God, that the dearth by which we have been afflicted may, by the divine blessing, be converted into cheapness and plenty.
Page 279 - ... question under the notice of the House. The subject then dropped. When the Bill for authorizing the loan to the colony came before the House of Commons, it encountered some warm opposition and several hostile divisions. On the motion for the second reading there was an animated debate. Mr. A. Mills moved that the Bill be read a second time that day three months. He said if the present war lasted till April next, it would cost British tax.payers 1,500,000/.

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