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8. An Act to make further Provisions as to unclaimed Stock and Dividends of the South Sea Company.

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9. An Act for amending the Act for rendering effective the Services of the Chelsea Out-Pensioners, and extending it to the Out-Pensioners of Greenwich Hospital.

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10. An Act for regulating the Payment of the Out-Pensioners of Greenwich and Chelsea Hospitals.

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11. An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters. 104 12. An Act for the Regulation of Her Majesty's Royal Marine Forces while on shore. 116 13. 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 forty-seven.

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14. An Act to continue until the First Day of March One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the several Acts relating to Insolvent Debtors in India.

Ibid. 15. An Act for raising the Sum of Eighteen millions three hundred and eighty thousand two hundred Pounds by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-six.

Ibid. 16. An Act to authorize the Inclosure of certain Lands in pursuance of the Recommendation of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales.

Ibid. 17. An Act for the Abolition of the exclusive Privilege of Trading in Burghs in Scotland.

125 18. An Act to amend Two clerical Errors in an Act of the last Session, for regulating the Labour of Children, young Persons, and Women in Print Works.

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19. An Act to amend an Act of the Second and Third Years of His late Majesty, by providing additional Booths or Polling Places at Elections in Ireland where the Number of Electors whose Names shall begin with the same Letter of the Alphabet shall exceed a certain Number.

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20. An Act to amend an Act of the Second Year of Her present Majesty, for providing for the Custody of certain Monies paid, in pursuance of the Standing Orders of either House of Parliament, by Subscribers to Works or Undertakings to be effected under the Authority of Parliament. 21. An Act to enable the Right Honourable Henry Viscount Hardinge to receive the full Benefit of an Annuity of Five thousand Pounds granted to him by the East India Company.

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22. An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Importation of Corn.

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23. An Act to alter certain Duties of Customs. 24. An Act for removing some Defects in the Administration of Criminal Justice.

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25. An Act for preventing malicious Injuries to Persons and Property by Fire, or by explosive or destructive Substances. 148

26. An Act for abolishing the Office of Superintendent of Convicts under Sentence of Transportation.

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27. An Act to amend the Laws relating to Friendly Societies. 153 28. An Act to facilitate the Dissolution of certain Railway Companies. 161

29. An Act for granting to Her Majesty, until the Fifth Day of August One thousand eight hundred and forty-six, certain Duties on Sugar imported into the United Kingdom. 170 30. An Act to define the Notice of Elections of Members to serve in Parliament for Cities, Towns, or Boroughs in Ireland. 171 31. An Act to settle an Annuity on Viscount Hardinge, and the Two next surviving Heirs Male of the Body of the said Viscount Hardinge to whom the Title of Viscount Hardinge shall descend, in consideration of his great and brilliant Services. Ibid. 32. An Act to settle an Annuity on Lord Gough and the Two next surviving Heirs Male of the Body of the said Lord Gough to whom the Title of Lord Gough shall descend, in consideration of his important Services.

Ibid. 33. An Act to amend the Laws relating to corresponding Societies and the licensing of Lecture Rooms.

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34. An Act to enable the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods to construct a new Street from Spitalfields to Shoreditch. Ibid. 35. An Act to continue until the Thirty-first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, an Act of the Tenth Year of King George the Fourth, for providing for the Government of His Majesty's Settlements in Western Australia on the Western Coast of New Holland.

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36. An Act to continue until the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, and to amend, an Act for establishing an Office for the Benefit of Coalwhippers of the Port of London.

Ibid. 37. An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Office of Coroner and the Expences of Inquests in Ireland. 209

38. An Act to empower the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods to form a Royal Park in Battersea Fields in the County of Surrey.

228

39. An Act to enable the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods to construct an Embankment and Roadway on the North Shore of the River Thames from Battersea Bridge to Vauxhall Bridge, and to build a Suspension Bridge over the said River at or near Chelsea Hospital, with suitable Approaches thereto, including a Street from Lower Sloan Street to the Northern Extremity of the Bridge.

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40. An Act to declare certain Ropeworks not within the Operation of the Factory Acts. 333

Ibid.

41. An Act for granting to Her Majesty, until the Fifth Day of
September One thousand eight hundred and forty-six, certain
Duties on Sugar imported into the United Kingdom.
42. An Act to authorize a Loan from the Consolidated Fund
to the New Zealand Company.

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43. An Act to suspend until the First Day of October One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven the making of Lists and the Ballots and Enrolments for the Militia of the United Kingdom.

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44. An Act to remove Doubts as to the Election of Members to serve in Parliament for the County of Chester, the Boroughs situate therein, and for the County of the City of Chester. Ibid. 45. An Act to continue until the First Day of September One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, certain of the Provisions of an Act of the Fifth and Sixth Years of Her present Majesty, for amending the Constitution of the Government of Newfoundland.

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46. An Act to continue until the Thirty-first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one an Act of the Fourth and Fifth Years of Her present Majesty for authorizing and facilitating the Completion of a Survey of Great Britain, Berwick-upon-Tweed, and the Isle of Man. Ibid. 47. An Act to apply the Sum of Four Millions out of the Consolidated Fund, and the Surplus of Ways and Means, to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-six. Ibid. 48. An Act for legalizing Art Unions.

Ibid. 49. An Act to continue until the First Day of October One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, an Act for authorizing the Application of Highway Rates to Turnpike Roads.

340 50. An Act to continue until the First Day of October One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, and to the End of the then Session of Parliament, the Exemption of Inhabitants of Parishes, Townships, and Villages from Liability to be rated as such, in respect of Stock in Trade or other Property, to the Relief of the Poor.

Ibid. 51. An Act to continue certain Turnpike Acts until the First Day of October One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament. Ibid. 52. An Act to continue to the First Day of October One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Act to amend the Laws relating to Loan Societies.

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53. An Act to continue the Copyhold Commission until the Thirty-first Day of July One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, and to the End of the then next Session of Parlia

ment.

Ibid. 54. An Act to extend to all Barristers practising in the Superior Courts at Westminster the Privileges of Serjeants at Law in the Court of Common Pleas.

Ibid.

55. An Act to defray until the First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven the Charge of the Pay, Clothing, and contingent and other Expences 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.

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56. An Act to provide Forms of Proceedings under the Acts relating to the Duties of Assessed Taxes, and the Duties on Profits arising from Property, Professions, Trades, and Offices in England.

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57. An Act for regulating the Gauge of Railways. 58. An Act to amend an Act of the Seventh and Eighth Years of Her present Majesty, for reducing, under certain Circumstances, the Duties payable upon Books and Engravings. 411 59. An Act to relieve Her Majesty's Subjects from certain Penalties and Disabilities in regard to Religious Opinions. 413 60. An Act to exempt from Stamp Duty Bonds and Warrants to confess Judgment executed by High Constables or Collectors of Grand Jury Cess, or their Sureties, in Ireland. 4.20 61. An Act to amend an Act of the Seventh Year of King George the Fourth, for consolidating and amending the Laws relating to Prisons in Ireland.

62. An Act to abolish Deodands.

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63. An Act for granting certain Duties on Sugar and Molasses. Ibid. 64. An Act to enable Courts of Law in Ireland to give Relief against adverse Claims made upon Persons having no Interest in the Subject Matter of such Claims. 428 65. An Act to provide for the more effectual Execution of the Office of a Justice of the Peace, and the better Administration of the Police, within the Borough of Wolverhampton and certain Parishes and Places in the Neighbourhood thereof, all in the County of Stafford.

430 66. An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Removal of the Poor. 440 67. An Act to remove Doubts concerning Citations, and Services and Execution of Diligence, in Scotland. 441 68. An Act for better enabling the Burial Service to be performed in One Chapel where contiguous Burial Grounds shall have been provided for Two or more Parishes or Places. 442 69. An Act to authorize until the Thirty-first Day of July One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Regulation of the Annui ties and Premiums of the Naval Medical Supplemental Fund Society. 4.4.4 70. An Act to amend the Act to facilitate the Inclosure and Improvement of Commons. 445

71. An Act to amend an Act of the present Session, intituled An Act to authorize Grand Juries in Ireland, at the Spring Assizes of the present Year, to appoint Extraordinary Presentment Sessions; to empower such Sessions to make Presentment for County Works; and to provide Funds for the Execution of such Works; and also to provide for the more prompt Payment of Contractors for Works under Grand Jury Presentments in Ireland. 451 72. An Act to amend the Act for Marriages in Ireland, and for registering such Marriages. 461 73. An Act further to amend the Acts for the Commutation of Tithes in Englund and Wales. 463

74. An Act to encourage the Establishment of public Baths and Wash-houses.

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75. An Act to regulate Joint Stock Banks in Scotland and Ireland.

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76. An Act for the Abolition of the exclusive Privilege of Trading, or of regulating Trades, in Cities, Towns, or Boroughs in Ireland.

485 77. An Act to amend the Acts relating to the Offices of the House of Commons. 489 78. An Act to authorize a further Advance of Money out of the Consolidated Fund towards defraying the Expence of County Works presented in Ireland.

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79. An Act to continue until the Thirty-first Day of July One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, and to the End of the then Session of Parliament, an Act of the Fifth and Sixth Years of Her present Majesty, for amending the Law relative to Private Lunatic Asylums in Ireland. 493 80. An Act to authorize the Advance of Money out of the Consolidated Fund, for carrying on Public Works and Fisheries, and Employment of the Poor.

Ibid. 81. An Act for regulating the Deduction at the Bank of England of Income Tax Duty in respect of certain Offices. 4.98 82. An Act to amend an Act of the present Session for authorizing a Loan from the Consolidated Fund to the New Zealand Company.

499

83. An Act to empower the Commissioners for the Issue of Loans for Public Works and Fisheries to make Loans in Money to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, in lieu of Loans heretofore authorized to be made in Exchequer Bills. 501 84. An Act to amend the Law concerning Lunatic Asylums and the Care of Pauper Lunatics in England. 503 85. An Act to authorize the Application of Money for the Purposes of Loans for carrying on Public Works in Ireland. 507 86. An Act to extend and consolidate the Powers hitherto exercised by the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, and to appoint additional Commissioners.

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87. An Act for promoting the voluntary Establishment in Boroughs and certain Cities and Towns in Ireland of public Baths and Wash-houses.

516 88. An Act to remove Doubts as to the Legality of certain Assignments of Ecclesiastical Patronage.

525 89. An Act to continue certain Acts for regulating Turnpike Roads in Ireland until the Thirty-first Day of July One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, and to the End of the then Session of Parliament.

sons.

Ibid.

90. An Act to prevent the Use of Stills by unlicensed Per526 91. An Act to continue certain Patent Commissions until the Exhibition of the Commissions revoking them. 528 92. An Act to provide for the Preparation, Audit, and Presentation to Parliament of annual Accounts of the Receipt and Expenditure of the Naval and Military Departments. 529 93. An Act for compensating the Families of Persons killed by Accidents.

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94. An Act to enable the Legislatures of certain British Possessions to reduce or repeal certain Duties of Customs.

532

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