Commons Sitting of 15 August 1850

MINUTES.
PUBLIC BILL.—laa Securities (Ireland) Act Amendment.

POST OFFICE REGULATIONS.
In answer to Mr. PINNEY,
MR. LABOUCHEREsaid, all that bad taken place on this subject was, that the Commissioners appointed to consider the question, in conformity with the Address of the House, had presented their report, which was now on the table of the House. He could not enter into the details of that report further than that its general tenour was, that the regulation for the entire suspension of the delivery and transmission of mails on Sundays should be repealed, and that they should revert to the transmission and delivery of letters on Sundays, accom-
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panied with such regulations as they hoped would afford to the persons employed in the Post Office such rest on the Sunday as was consistent with a due regard to the paramount interests of society at large. That was the general purport of the report. The Treasury had not yet had time to consider it. At the same time, he believed that the Treasury would be satisfied with the report, and carry the recommendations of the Committee into effect.

PROROGATION OF THE PARLIAMENT.
Message to attend Her Majesty: the House went, and the Royal Assent was given to several Bills.
After which Her Majesty was pleased to make a most gracious Speech from the Throne to both Houses of Parliament.
The House then separated at twenty minutes to Three o'clock.

A TABLE OF ALL THE STATUTES
Passed in the THIRD Session of the FIFTEENTH Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
13° & 14° VICT.

A TABLE OF ALL THE STATUTES

  PUBLIC GENERAL ACTS.
  I. AN Act to amend an Act of the last Session, for making Provision for the Collection of County Cess in Ireland, and for the Remuneration of the Collectors thereof.
  II. An Act to restrain Party Processions in Ireland.
  III. 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 fifty.
  IV. An Act for requiring the Transmission of annual Abstracts of Accounts and Statements of Trustees or Commissioners of Turnpike Roads and Bridges in Ireland to the Lord Lieutenant to be laid before Parliament.
  V. An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters.
  VI. An Act for the Regulation of Her Majesty's Royal Marine Forces while on shore.
  VII. An Act for consolidating the Office of the Registrar of Metropolitan Public Carriages with the Office of Commissioners of Police of the Metropolis, and making other Provisions in regard to the Consolidated Offices.
  VIII. An Act to authorize the Inclosure of certain Lands in pursuance of the Fifth Annual General Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales, and to confirm the Proceedings in the Matter of the Common Wood Inclosure.
  IX. An Act to repeal the Duties and Drawbacks of Excise on Bricks.
  X. An Act for raising the Sum of Nine millions two hundred thousand Pounds by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year One thou sand eight hundred and fifty,
  XI. An Act to make better Provision for the Contributions of Unions and Parishes in School Districts to the common Funds of the respective Districts.
  XII. 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.
  XIII. An Act to render more simple and effectual the Titles by which Congregations or Societies associated for Purposes of Religious Worship or Education in Scotland hold Real Property required for such Purposes.
  XIV. An Act to authorize a further Advance of Money to certain distressed Poor Law Unions, and to make Provision for the Repayment of Advances made and authorized to be made to Poor Law Unions and other Districts in Ireland.
  XV. An Act to authorize the Establishment of Courts of Appeal for certain of Her Majesty's West India Colonies.
  XVI. An Act to enable the Judges of the Courts of Common Law at Westminster to alter the Forms of Pleading.
  XVII. An Act to amend an Act of the last Session of Parliament for granting Relief against Defects in Leases made under Powers of Leasing.
  XVIII. An Act for the Regulation of Process and Practice in the Superior Courts of Common Law in Ireland.
  XIX. An Act to explain and amend an Act for the Regulation of Process and Practice in the Superior Courts of Common Law in Ireland.
  XX. An Act to amend an Act of the Fifth and Sixth Years of Her present Majesty, for the Appointment and Payment of Parish Con stables.
  XXI. An Act for shortening the Language used in Acts of Parliament.
  XXII. An Act for raising the Sum of Eight mil lions five hundred fifty-eight thousand seven hundred Pounds by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty.
  XXIII. An Act to repeal an Exception in an Act of the Twenty-seventh Year of King Henry the Sixth concerning the Days whereon Fairs and Markets ought not to be kept.
  XXIV. An Act to enable the Commissioners of; Greenwich Hospital to improve the said Hospital, and also to enlarge and improve the Billingsgate Dock, and widen Billingsgate Street, in Greenwich; and for other Purposes.
  XXV. An Act to enable Queen's Counsel and others, not being of the Degree of the Coif, to act as Judges of Assize.
  XXVI. An Act to repeal an Act of the Sixth Year of King George the Fourth, for encouraging the Capture or Destruction of Piratical Ships and Vessels; and to make other Provisions in lieu thereof.
  XXVII. An Act to provide for the Commencement of an Act of the present Session, intituled An Act to repeal an Act of the Sixth Year of King George the Fourth, for encouraging the Capture or Destruction of Piratical Ships and Vessels, and to make other Provisions in lieu thereof.
  XXVIII. An Act to render more simple and effectual the Titles by which Congregations or Societies for Purposes of Religious Worship or Education in England and Ireland hold Property for such Purposes.
  XXIX. An Act to amend the Laws concerning Judgments in Ireland.
  XXX. An Act to provide for the Appointment of Sheriff of the County of Westmoreland.
  XXXI. An Act to authorize further Advances of Money for Drainage and the Improvement o Landed Property in the United Kingdom, and to amend the Acts relating to such Advances.
  XXXII. An Act for confirming certain Provisional Orders of the General Board of Health.
  XXXIII. An Act to make more effectual Provision for regulating the Police of Towns and populous Places in Scotland, and for paving, draining, cleansing, lighting, and improving the same.
  XXXIV. An Act to continue certain Acts for regulating Turnpike Roads in Ireland.
  XXXV. An Act to diminish the Delay and Expense of Proceedings in the High Court of Chancery in England.
  XXXVI. An Act to facilitate Procedure in the Court of Session in Scotland.
  XXXVII. An Act for the further Extension of Summary Jurisdiction in Cases of Larceny.
  XXXVIII. An Act to render valid certain Marriages solemnized in the new Church at Upton cum Chalvey in the County of Buckingham and Diocese of Oxford.
  XXXIX. An Act for the better Government of Convict Prisons.
  XL. An Act to regulate the Disposition of the Naval Prize Balance.
  XLI. An Act to authorize the Division of the Parish of Manchester into several Parishes, and for the Application of the Revenues of the Collegiate and Parish Church, and for other Purposes.
  XLII. An Act to confirm the Incorporation of certain Boroughs, and to provide for the Payment of the Expenses of the Incorporation of 'new Boroughs.
  XLIII. An Act to Amend the Practice and Proceedings of the Court of Chancery of the County Palatine of Lancaster.
  XLIV. An Act for taking an Account of the Population of Ireland.
  XLV. An Act to continue an Act to amend the Laws relating to Loan Societies.
  XLVI. An Act to suspend the making of Lists and the Ballots and Enrolments for the Militia of the United Kingdom.
  XLVII. An Act for further continuing certain temporary Provisions concerning Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in England.
  XLVIII. An Act to continue certain Acts relating to Linen, Hempen, and other Manufactures in Ireland.
  XLIX. 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.
  L. An Act to continue the Exemption of Inhabitants from Liability to be rated as such in respect of Stock in Trade or other Property to the Relief of the Poor.
  LI. An Act for the Transfer of the Equitable Jurisdiction of the Court of Exchequer to the Court of Chancery in Ireland.
  LII. An Act to make better Provision for the Interment of the Dead in and near the Metropolis.
  LIII. An Act for taking Account of the Population of Great Britain.
  LIV. An Act to amend the Acts relating to Labour in Factories.
  LV. 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.
  LVI. An Act to continue the Act for exempting certain Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes from the Operation of the Usury Laws.
  LVII. An Act to prevent the holding of Vestry or other Meetings in Churches, and for regulating the Appointment of Vestry Clerks.
  LVIII. An Act to continue an Act for authorizing the Application of Highway Rates to Turnpike Roads.
  LIX. An Act for the better Government of Her Majesty's Australian Colonies.
  LX. Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to the Conveyance and Transfer of Real and Personal Property vested in Mortgagees and Trustees.
  LXI. An Act to extend the Act for the more easy Recovery of Small Debts and Demands in England, and to amend the same.
  LXII. 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.
  LXIII. An Act to provide for the Redemption of an Annuity of Ten thousand Pounds payable to the "Equivalent Company."
  LXIV. An Act to provide for more effectually maintaining, repairing, improving, and rebuilding Bridges in Cities and Boroughs.
  LXV. An Act for enabling Town Councils to establish Public Libraries and Museums.
  LXVI. An Act to authorize the Inclosure of certain Lands in pursuance of a Special Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales.
  LXVII. An Act to reduce the Duty of Excise on Sugar manufactured in the United Kingdom, and to impose a countervailing Duty on Sugar used in the brewing of Beer for Sale; and also to amend the Laws relating to the Licences granted to Brewers and Distillers.
  LXVIII. An Act to shorten the Duration of Elections in Ireland, and for establishing additional Places for taking the Poll thereat.
  LXIX. 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.
  LXX. An Act empowering the Canterbury Association to dispose of certain Lands in New Zealand.
  LXXI. An Act to continue an Act of the Eleventh and Twelfth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to prevent, 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.
  LXXII. An Act to amend the Laws for the Registration of Assurances of Lands in Ireland.
  LXXIII. 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.
  LXXIV. An Act for the better Regulation of the Office of Registrar of Judgments in Ireland.
  LXXV. An Act to regulate the Receipt and Amount of Fees receivable by certain Officers in the Court of Common Pleas.
  LXXVI. 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.
  LXXVII. 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.
  LXXVIII. 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.
  LXXIX. An Act to continue certain Turnpike Acts in Great Britain, and to make further Provisions respecting Turnpike Roads in England.
  LXXX. 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.
  LXXXI. 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.
  LXXXII. An Act to extend the Remedies for the Collection of Grand Jury Cess in Ireland.
  LXXXIII. An Act to facilitate the Abandonment of Railways, and the Dissolution of Railway Companies, in certain Cases.
  LXXXIV. An Act to enable the Council of the Borough of Manchester to determine their Liability to defray the Expenses of Customs in respect of Goods warehoused in the said Borough, and to authorise the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to direct the Discontinuance of the further warehousing of Goods in such Warehouses without Payment of Duty.
  LXXXV. 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.
  LXXXVI. 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.
  LXXXVII. An Act for Payment of a Moiety of certain Penalties towards Police Superannuation Funds.
  LXXXVIII. 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.
  LXXXIX. An Act to regulate the Proceedings in the High Court of Chancery in Ireland.
  XC. 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.
  XCI. 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.
  XCII. An Act for the more effectual Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Scotland.
  XCIII. An Act for improving the Condition of Masters, Mates, and Seamen, and maintaining Discipline in the Merchant Service.
  XCIV. An Act to Amend the Acts relating to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England.
  XCV. An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Customs.
  XCVI. An Act to continue and amend the Acts for authorizing a Composition for Assessed Taxes.
  XCVII. An Act to repeal certain Stamp Duties, and to grant others in lieu thereof; and to amend the Laws relating to the Stamp Duties.
  XCVIII. An Act to amend the Law relating to the holding of Benefices in Plurality.
  XCIX. An Act for the better assessing and collecting the Poor Rates and Highway Rates in respect of Small Tenements.
  C. An Act for Inspection of Coal Mines in Great Britain.
  CI. 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.
  CII. 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.
  CIII. An Act to authorize further Charges on "The London Bridge Approaches Fund" for the Completion of certain Improvements in the I Metropolis.
  CIV. An Act to extend and amend the Acts relating to the Copyright of Designs.
  CV. An Act for facilitating the Union of Liberties with the Counties in which they are situate.
  CVI. 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.
  CVII. 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.
  CVIII. An Act for confirming certain further Provisional Orders of the General Board of Health.
  CIX. 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 Shore-ditch.
  CX. An Act to continue the Act for amending the Laws relating to Savings Banks in Ireland.
  CXI. 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.
  CXII. 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.
  CXIII. An Act to authorize the Transfer of Loans for the Improvement of Land in Ireland to other Land.
  CXIV. 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.
  CXV. An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Friendly Societies.
  CXVI. 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.

  LOCAL AND PERSONAL ACTS.
  DECLARED PUBLIC,
  AND TO BE JUDICIALLY NOTICED.
  i. AN 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 and Fire Assurance Company."
  ii. An Act to authorize the Bristol Waterworks Company to raise a further Sum of Money.
  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.
  iv. An Act for better assessing and collecting the Poor's Rates, Highway Rates, the County, Shire Hall, 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.
  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.
  vi. An Act to authorize an Alteration in the Line of the Buckinghamshire Railways at Oxford.
  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.
  viii. An Act to authorize the Wakefield Borough Market Company to purchase certain Lands for a Market Place, and to make Approaches thereto.
  ix. An Act for hotter enabling the Clerical, Medical, and General Life Assurance Society to sue and he sued; and to alter certain Provisions of their Deed of Constitution; and to give further Powers to the Society.
  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.
  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.
  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.
  xiii. An Act for improving the Glasgow and Shoils Turnpike Roads.
  xiv. An Act to enable the Londonderry and Ennisfdllen Railway Company to extend their Lino of Railway from Strabane to Omagh; and to amend the Acts relating to the said Company.
  xv. An Act to amend the Walsall Improvement and Market Act, 1848, and for other Purposes.
  xvi. An Act for extinguishing the Vicarial Tithes in the Parishes of Kew and Petershem 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.
  xvii. An Act for completing the Line of the Londonderry and Coleraine Railway, with Branch to Newtownlimavady, and for amending the Acts relating thereto.
  xviii. An Act to change the Name of the Licensed Victuallers and General Fire and Life Assurance Company to the Monarch Fire and Life Assurance Company, and for better enabling the said Company to sue and be sued; and to give additional Powers to the said Company.
  xix. An Act to authorize a Transfer of the Undertaking and Powers of "The Carlisle Gaslight and Coke Company" to the Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of the City of Carlisle; to enable them to light the said City and the Environs thereof, and to raise Money for such Purposes; to repeal or amend and extend the Powers of the several Acts for lighting the said City and Environs; and for other Purposes.
  xx. An Act for better regulating the Privileges of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, and amending their Charter of Incorporation.
  xxi. An Act for incorporating the Colonization Assurance Company, and conferring certain Privileges on the said Company.
  xxii. An Act to incorporate the Society of the Guildry Fund of Elgin; to enable the said Society to sue and be sued; to regulate the said Society; and for other Purposes relating thereto.
  xxiii. An Act for enabling Her Majesty to grant a now Charter to the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and for conferring further Powers on the said College.
  xxiv. An Act to enable the Exeter and Crediton Railway Company to enlarge their Cowley Bridge Station, and to raise a further Amount of Capital.
  xxv. An Act for better enabling the Guardian Fire and Life Assurance Company to sue and be sued, and to alter certain Provisions of their Deed of Settlement, and to give further Powers to the Company.
  xxvi. An Act to amend the Act relating to the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway Company.
  xxvii. An Act to extend the Time for the Sale of such Lands belonging to the Company of Proprietors of the Forth and Clyde Navigation as may not be required for the Purposes of the said Navigation, and to amend the Acts relating thereto.
  xxviii. An Act for better supplying Childwall, Thingwall, Little Woolton, Much Woolton, and Galeacre, all in the County of Lancaster, with Water.
  xxix. An Act to amend the Acts relating to the Waterford and Limerick Railway, and for other Purposes.
  xxx. An Act for granting Facilities for the Use of certain Portions of the Eastern Counties Railways by the London and Blackwall Railway Company; and for amending the Acts relating to the London and Blackwall Railway.
  xxxi. An Act to enable the South-eastern Railway Company to raise a further Sum of Money.
  xxxii. An Act to explain and amend the New North Road Act, 1849.
  xxxiii. An Act for regulating legal Proceedings by or against the Committee of Railway Companies associated under the Railway Clearing System, and for other Purposes.
  xxxiv. An Act for supplying the Burghs of Dumfries and Maxwelltown and Suburbs with Water.
  xxxv. An Act to authorize Deviations in the Line of the South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole Railway, the Extension of the Elsecar Branch of the said Railway to Tankersley, and the Amendment of the Acts relating to the said Railway.
  xxxvi. An Act to enable the East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway Company to make certain Branch Railways, and to amend the Act relating to the said Company, and to authorize the Lease of the said Undertaking, and for other Purposes.
  xxxvii. An Act for regulating the Markets and Fairs held within the Borough of Cambridge, and at Reach in the County of Cambridge, and for enlarging the Market Place, and for rebuilding or altering the Guildhall of the said Borough, and for the Improvement of the said Borough, and the better Regulation of the Police within the same.
  xxxviii. An Act to alter the Terms of Issue of the Shares in the Capital of the York and North Midland Railway Company, called the "Hull and Selby Purchase, &c. Shares;" to enable the said Company to hold Shares in the Hull and Selby Railway Company and in the Malton and Driffield Junction Railway Company; to alter, amend, and extend the Acts relating to the York and North Midland Railway Company; and for other Purposes.
  xxxix. An Act to enable the Dundee and Perth and Aberdeen Railway Junction Company to raise a further Sum of Money, and for other Purposes.
  xl. An Act for establishing Markets in and otherwise improving the Borough of Bolton in the County Palatine of Lancaster, and for extending the Provisions of the Acts relating to the Bolton Waterworks, and for other Purposes,
  xli. An Act to enable the Corporation of Swansea, with the Consent of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, to subscribe for Shares in the Swansea Dock Company, and to raise Money for that Purpose, and to purchase the Interests of certain Lessees of Property belonging to the said Corporation; and for other Purposes.
  xlii. An Act for providing, regulating, and maintaining a Cattle Market in the Borough of Reading in the County of Berks, and for constructing a convenient Market Place therein.
  xliii. An Act to amend the Act relating to the Harbour of Montrose, and to enable the Trustees to borrow a further Sum of Money.
  xliv. An Act to grant further Powers to the South Wales Railway Company with reference to the Creation of Shares and the Regulation of their Capital; and for other Purposes.
  xlv. An Act to grant further Powers to the Dublin and Drogheda Railway Company for raising Money by the Creation of Shares, in lieu of borrowing on Mortgage; and to amend the Acts relating to the Dublin and Drogheda Railway.
  xlvi. An Act for better assessing and collecting the Poor Rates, Highway Rates, and other Parochial Rates, the County, Shirehall, Police, and other County and local Rates, on Small Tenements, in the several Parishes, Townships, and Hamlets of Stourbridge, Upper Swinford, Wallaston, the Lye, Waltescote, Cradley, the Borough of Halesowen, Hawn, Hasbury, Illy, Lutley, the Hill, Cakemore, Ridgacre, and Lapal, in the County of Worcester, and Kingswinford and Amblccote in the County of Stafford, situate within and forming the Stourbridge Poor Law Union.
  xlvii. An Act for extending the Times limited by "The Swansea. Dock Act, 1847," for the compulsory Purchase of Lands and Execution of Works; and for other Purposes.
  xlviii. An Act for uniting the Townships of Snaith and Cowick in the Parish of Snaith in the West Riding of the County of York, and for other Parochial or Township Purposes.
  xlix. An Act for managing and repairing the Road leading from Foxley Hatch in the Parish of Croydon to the Town Reigate in the Comity of Surrey.
  l. An Act for lighting with Gas the Town of Pontypridd and the Neighbourhood thereof in the County of Glamorgan.
  li. An Act to authorize the Construction of a Dock on the North Side of the River Thames, to be called "The Victoria (London) Dock."
  lii. An Act for supplying the City of Norwich and the Neighbourhood thereof with Water.
  liii. An Act to amend "The Great North of England Railway Purchase Act, 1846," and to enable the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway Company to complete the Purchase of the said Railway.
  liv. An Act for extending the Time and continuing the Powers granted by "The Eastern Union and Harwich Railway and Pier Act, 1847," for the compulsory Purchase of Lands and Houses, and for the Completion of Works, and for enabling "The Eastern Union Railway Company" to create new Shares, with certain Privileges attached, for paying off their Mortgage Debt; and for other Purposes.
  lv. An Act to extend the Time for the Purchase of Lands required for certain Branches of the North Staffordshire Railway to Newcastle-under-Lyme, Silverdale, and the Apedale Ironworks.
  lvi. An Act for making a new Street from the West Side of Queen Street to the South Side of Saint Paul's Churchyard, in continuation of the new Street from Cannon Street to the East Side of Queen Street, and for effecting other Improvements in the City of London.
  lvii. An Act to authorize the abandoning of certain Portions of the South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole Railway, a Deviation thereof near Doncaster, and the Amendment of the Acts relating thereto.
  lviii. An Act to enable the South Staffordshire Railway Company to lease their Undertaking; and for other Purposes.
  lix. An Act to enable the Company of Proprietors of the Kent Waterworks to raise a further Sum of Money; and to alter and amend the former Acts relating thereto.
  lx. An Act for amending and extending the Powers and Provisions of the Act of the Seventh Year of the Reign of King William the Fourth, relating to the Southampton Waterworks, and for other Purposes.
  lxi. An Act to amend the Acts relating to the Great Northern Railway, to authorize a Deviation at Doncaster and Two short Curves at Peterborough, and to alter the Tolls of the Great Northern and East Lincolnshire Railways.
  lxii. An Act to enable the Waterford and Kilkenny Railway Company to raise further Capital; and for other Purposes.
  lxiii. An Act for the Improvement and Regulation of the River Tyne and the Navigation thereof, and for other Purposes.
  lxiv. An Act to amend an Act passed in the Fifty-fifth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act for more effectually repairing the Road leaing from Heronsyke to Kirkby in Kendal, and from thence through Shap to Eamont Bridge, in the County of Westmoreland, am for making a neivtiead from the said road at a Place called Far Cross Bank.near Kirkby in Kendal, to communicate with the intended Canal from Lancaster to Kirkby in Kendal, and to join the said Road at or near a Place called the Lound near Kirkby in Kendal aforesaid; and to continue the Term by the same Act granted.
  lxv. An Act to amend an Act passed in the Fifty-eighth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act for making and maintaining a Turnpike Road from the Turnpike Road leading from Ulverstone to Kendal into the Turnpike Road leading from Millthorp to Kendal, and a Continuation of the said Road from the last-mentioned Turnpike Road to join the Turnpdke Road leading from Lancaster to Kendal, and to continue the Term thereby granted.
  lxvi. An Act for continuing the Term of an Act passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for Building a Bridge over the River Severn, at or near to the My the Hill within the Parish and near to the Town of Tewkesbury in the County of Gloucester, to the opposite Side of the said River in the Parish of Bushley in the County of Worcester, and for making convenient Roads and Avenues to communicate with such Bridge, within the Counties of Gloucester and Worcester, and of another Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for altering, amending, and enlarging the Powers and Provisions of an Act relating to the Tewkesbury Severn Bridge and Roads, for the Purpose of paying off the Debt now due on the said Bridge and Roads.
  lxvii. An Act for continuing and enlarging the Term and Powers of Three Acts, passed in the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, for repairing and widening several Roads leading to and from the Towns of Bala and Dotgelley in the County of Merioneth, and other Roads therein mentioned, in the Counties of Montgomery, Denbigh, and Salop, and for repairing several other Roads in the Counties of Merioneth and Denbigh.
  lxviii. An Act for the better supplying with Water the Town of Reading and the Hamlet of Whitley in the County of Berks.
  lxix. An Act for supplying with Water the Town and Port of Cardiff and the Neighbourhood thereof, in the County of Glamorgan.
  lxx. An Act to provide for the Erection of public Slaughter-houses for the City of Edinburgh, and for the Regulation of the same.
  lxxi. An Act to amend and extend the Provisions of the Act relating to the Garstang and Heiring Syke Turnpike Road.
  lxxii. An Act to extend the Powers of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Carlisle Railway Company, and to amend Acts relating to their Railway.
  lxxiii. An Act to incorporate the Members of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners Royal Benevolent Society, and to enable them better to carry into effect their charitable Designs.
  lxxiv. An Act to extend the Wolverhampton Waterworks, and to amend the Act relating thereto.
  lxxv. An Act for better supplying with Water the Borough of Salford, and for the further Improvement of the said Borough.
  lxxvi. An Act to extend the Powers of the Dundalk and Enniskillen. Railway Company for the Purchase of Lands and Completion of Works on Part of their Railway; and for other Purposes.
  lxxvii. An Act for extending and amending the Acts for regulating and improving the Borough of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
  lxxviii. An Act for enabling the Aberdeen Railway Company to raise a further Sum of Money, and to alter their Station and the Levels of their Railway at and near Aberdeen; for repealing "The Great North of Scotland Railway Act, 1847;" for altering, amending, and extending the Acts relating to the Aberdeen Railway; and for other Purposes.
  lxxix. An Act for repealing an Act relating to the Borough of Bradford in the County of York, and for better paving, lighting, watching, draining, and otherwise improving the said Borough, and for the better Regulation and Management thereof.
  lxxx. An Act to extend the Time limited by the Liverpool Corporation Waterworks Act, 1847, for purchasing Lands and constructing the Works authorized by such Act, and for other Purposes.
  lxxxi. An Act for continuing the Term of the Cromford and Newhaven Turnpike Road Act, and for other Purposes.
  lxxxii. An Act for confirming an Agreement for the Sale of the Freehold and Leasehold Hereditaments and Premises, Works, Property, Gear, and Fixtures, of the Poplar Gaslight Company, to the Commercial Gas Company, and for the Dissolution of the Poplar Gaslight Company.
  lxxxiii. An Act to enlarge the Powers of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, and to amend the Acts relating to their Undertakings.
  lxxxiv. An Act for continuing the Godstone and Highgate Turnpike Trust for a limited Period, for the Purpose of paying off the Mortgage Debt.
  lxxxv. An Act for repairing the Road leading from a certain Point in the Kennington Road in the Parish of Saint Mary Lambeth in the County of Surrey to Highgate in the County of Sussex, and thence to Witchcross in the same County, and several other Roads therein mentioned.
  lxxxvi. An Act for forming and regulating the British Electric Telegraph Company, and to enable the said Company to work certain Letters Patent.
  lxxxvii. An Act for more effectually repairing and improving the Road from Rochdale, through Bamford and Birtle, to Bury, and several other Roads therein mentioned, all in the County Palatine of Lancaster.
  lxxxviii. An Act to enable the Midland Great Western Railway Ireland Company to make certain Deviations in the Line of their Railway, and for other purposes.
  lxxxix. An Act for extending and amending the Powers of the Timber Preserving Company's Acts; and to enable the Company to buy, improve, and sell Substances to be preserved, and to work Mills and Machinery.
  xc. An Act for continuing the Term of "The Birmingham and Pershore Turnpike Road Act," and for other Purposes.
  xci. An Act for contracting a Bridge across the River Clyde, opposite to South Portland, Street, Laurieston, Glasgow.
  xcii. An Act to amend "The Gorbals Gravitation Water Company Act, 1846," to authorize the Extension of the Works, and the Construction of new Works to supply the Town or Royal Burgh of Rutherglen and other Places with Water.
  xciii. An Act for better paving, lighting, watching, cleansing, and otherwise regulating and improving the City and Township of Peterborough in the Liberty of Peterborough in the County of Northampton, and for establishing a Cemetery therein.
  xciv. An Act to make better Provision for raising Funds to complete the Railway and Dock Undertakings of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company, and for other Purposes.
  xcv. An Act to authorize certain Alterations in the Line of the Liverpool, Crosby, and South-port Railway, and for other Purposes.
  xcvi. An Act for paving, draining, cleansing, lighting, and otherwise improving the Township of Bilston in the County of Stafford, and for establishing a Local Board of Health in that Township; and also for better supplying with Water and Gas the said Township of Bilston, and for constructing Cemeteries there, and for purchasing, improving, maintaining, and regulating the Market and Market Place therein; and for other purposes.
  xcvii. An Act for the Dissolution of the East of Fife Railway Company, and for the Abandonment of the Railway.
  xcviii. An Act to enable the West Cornwall Railway Company to make a Deviation in and a Branch Railway from their authorized Line of Railway; and for other purposes.
  xcix. An Act to enable the Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway Company to sell or lease their Railway to the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company.
  c. An Act to carry into effect, Arrangements made between the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods and the Trustees of the Birkenhead Docks; to Amend the Acts relating to the said Docks, and to extend the Time for Completion of Works; and for other Purposes.
  ci. An Act for the Extension and better Regulation and Management of the Markets and Slaughter-houses in the City of Glasgow.
  cii. An Act for amending and enlarging the Powers and Provisions of "The Westminster Improvement Act, 1815," and "The Westminster Improvement Act, 1817," to extend the Time for the compulsory Purchase of Lands, and for other purposes.
  ciii. An Act for continuing the Term of an Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for making a Turnpike Road from Saint John's Chapel in the Parish of Saint Marylebone to the North-east End of Ballard's Lane, abutting upon the North Road in the Parish of Finchley, with a Branch therefrom, in the County of Middlesex, for the Purpose of paying off the Debt now due on the said Roads, and providing for the future Management thereof.
  civ. An Act for better constituting the District Church of Saint Michael, Chester Square, in the County of Middlesex.
  cv. An Act to give Effect to certain Securities upon the Rates authorized to be levied under the Wolverhampton Improvement Act.
  cvi. An Act for incorporating "The Class A. Shareholders of the St. Andrew's and Quebec Railroad Company," and conferring on them certain Powers.
  cvii. An Act for facilitating the Erection of a Church to be called "St. Gabriel's" in the District Parish of St. Peter Pimlico in the County of Middlesex, and for other Purposes.
  cviii. An Act for better improving the Borough of Belfast.
  cix. An Act to alter and amend the Acts relating to the Navigation of the River Lee in the Counties of Hertford, Essex, and Middlesex; and to enable the Trustees further to improve the Navigation and to dispose of the surplus Water; and for other Purposes.
  cx. An Act to amend the Acts relating to the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Company, and to confer additional Powers upon the same Company and upon certain other Companies, and for other Purposes.
  cxi. An Act to enable the Hartlepool West Harbour and Dock Company to alter and improve their Harbour and construct additional Works; and for amending an Act passed in the Tenth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, called "The Hartlepool West Harbour and Dock Act, 1847."
  cxii. An Act to enable the Commissioners of Westminster Bridge to build a temporary Bridge across the River Thames from Bridge Street in the City of Westminster to the opposite Shore in the County of Surrey.

  PRIVATE ACTS,
  PRINTED BY THE QUEEN'S PRINTER,
  AND WHEREOF THE PRINTED COPIES MAY BE GIVEN IN EVIDENCE.
  1. AN Act for the Management of the Allotments made to the Freemen of Nottingham by virtue of certain Acts for inclosing Lands in the Parish of Saint Mary in the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham.
  2. An Act to authorize the granting of Building and Improvement Leases of the settled Estates of Elizabeth Lydia Brigstocke, situate in the Town of Ryde in the Isle of Wight.
  3. An Act to authorize the Purchase by the Prussian Minister of a Residence in England for the Use of the Prussian Legation, and to regulate the future holding of the same.
  4. An Act to authorize the Sale of certain Real Estates situate at Hoddesdon in the County of Hertford, and in the Parish of Saint James Westminster in the County of Middlesex, and in Tottenham Court Road in the said County of Middlesex, which belonged to the late Renè Briand deceased.
  5. An Act for authorizing certain Agreements between the Chancellor and Council of Her Majesty's Duehy of Lancaster and Sir Peter Hesketh Fleetwood Baronet to be carried into effect; and for other Purposes.
  6. An Act for confirming and carrying into effect an Exchange heretofore made or attempted to be made between the Right Honourable George late Earl of Shrewsbury and John Grace of Whitby in the County of Chester, deceased.
  7. An Act for confirming certain Leases granted by the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London, Governors of the Possessions, Revenues, and Goods of the Hospital of Edward late King of England the Sixth, of St. Thomas the Apostle, commonly called St. Thomas's Hospital, and for enabling them to grant Building and other Leases of their Estates.
  8. An Act for carrying into effect a Contract for the Sale of Messuages and Lands situate in the Parish of Barford in the County of Warwick belonging to the Rectory of the same Parish, and for vesting in Trustees certain Cottages and Lands situate in the Parish of Barford aforesaid, being part of the Real Estate devised by the Will of Jane Mills, Widow, deceased, upon trust to complete a Contract for the Sale thereof.
  9. An Act for creating Powers of Sale in the Freehold and Copyhold Estates comprised in the Marriage Settlement of William Bernard Harcourt, deceased, with Elizabeth Georgiana Harriet his Wife.
  10. An Act for establishing a School for Orphans of Freemen of the City of London.
  11. An Act to authorize the Trustees of certain Estates called the Chandos Estates, settled by a Deed dated the Third Day of May One thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight on the Most Noble Richard Plantagenet Duke of Buckingham and Chandos and his Issue, to lay out the Monies produced by Sales of Parts of the same Estates in the Purchase of the Family Estates of the said Duke of Buckingham and Chandos called the Buekinqham Estates, notwithstanding certain Family Charges thereon, either with an Indemnity against such Charges, to be approved by the Court of Chancery, or with a proportionate Deduction from the Purchase Money; to extend the Powers of re-investing a Part of the same Monies; and to authorize the granting of Building Leases of Parts of the first-mentioned Estates; and for other Purposes.
  12. An Act to enable the Trustees of the Will of the late Sir John Lowther Johnstone Baronet, deceased, to grant Building and Repairing Leases for Ninety-nine Years of the Estate devised by the said Will situate in the Boroughs of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis and in the Parish of Radipole in the County of Dorset, and for other Purposes.
  13. An Act for giving Effect to a Compromise relating to the Estate of the Right Honourable George Alan Viscount Middleton, deceased, and, with a view thereto, for vesting the Estates in England and Ireland late of the said Viscount Middleton in Trustees; and for other Purposes.
  14. An Act to enable the Trustees of the Will of the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Thanet deceased to raise Money upon the Security of his Estates, for the Repair and Improvement of the Buildings thereon.
  15. An Act to enable the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Effingham and others to grant
  Building, Mining, and other Leases of certain Freehold Estates in the Townships of Rotherham and Kimberworth in the County of York, devised by the Will of the Right Honourable Richard late Earl of Effingham; and for other Purposes.
  16. An Act for authorizing the Sale of Estates in the County of York devised by the Will of Sir Henry Maghul Mervin Vavasour Baronet, deceased; and for other Purposes.
  17. An Act to authorize the Trustees of the Will of William Mellish Esquire, deceased, to invest a Portion of the Funds subject to the Trusts of the said William Mellish in the Purchase of the Family Estates in Ireland of the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Glengall.
  18. An Act to enlarge and consolidate the Provivisions of Two Acts of Parliament relating to the Estates of John Bowes late Earl of Strathmore.

PRIVATE ACTS,

  NOT PRINTED.
  19. An Act to dissolve the Marriage of John Bernard Hartley Esquire with Harriet Say Hartley his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes.
  20. An Act to dissolve the Marriage of Thomas Cobbe Esquire with Azelie Anne Cobbe his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes.
  21. An Act to dissolve the marriage of Lieutenant-Colonel Proby Thomas Coutley and Frances (his now Wife), and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes.
  22. An Act to dissolve the Marriage of William Chippindall with Mary Anne Chippindall his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes.
  23. An Act to dissolve the Marriage of the Reverend Edward Quenby Ashby with Elizabeth Sophia his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes.
  24. An Act to dissolve the Marriage of the Right Honourable Henry Pelham Pelham Clinton commonly called Earl of Lincoln with the Honourable Lady Susan Harriet Catherine Pelliam Clinton commonly called Countess of Lincoln his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes therein mentioned.
  25. An Act to dissolve the Marriage of Georgina Hall with Henry Foley Hall her now Husband, and to enable the said Georgina Hall to marry again; and for other Purposes therein mentioned.