HC Deb 06 August 1897 vol 52 c532

The Titles to which the Letter P. is prefixed are Public Acts of a Local Character.

ROYAL ASSENT, 29th March 1897.

P. i.An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made by one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State under the Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890, relating to Lands in the Parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark. (London (Borough Road, Southwark) Provisional Order Confirmation).

P. ii.An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made by one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for improving an Area situated in the Parish of St. Pancras in the County of London. (London (Church way St. Pancras) Provisional Order Confirmation).

P. iii.An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made by one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State under the Metropolitan Police Act 1886, relating to lands in the Parish of St. James Westminster. (Metropolitan Police Provisional Order Confirmation.)

ROYAL ASSENT, 8th April 1897.

P. iv.An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to Leyton and Walton-upon-Thames. (Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 1).)

v. An Act to alter the Qualification for Directors of the South Metropolitan Gas Company. (South Metropolitan Gas.)

vi. An Act for the granting of further powers to the Grays Gas Company. (Crays Gas.)

vii. An Act to enable the County Council of the County of Dunbarton to borrow money for the purpose of erecting and enlarging County Buildings, and for other purposes. (Dunbarton County Buildings.)

viii. An Act for the abandonment of parts of the Railways authorised by the South Yorkshire Junction Railway Act 1890, and for other purposes. (South Yorkshire Junction Railway.)

ix. An Act to enable the Edinburgh American Land Mortgage Company Limited to convert their present uncalled Capital into Preference Stock, and for other purposes. (Edinburgh American Land Mortgage Company, Limited.)

ROYAL ASSENT, 3rd June 1897.

x. An Act for enabling the Trustees of the Harbour of Aberbrothwick to reconstruct their finances and to create and issue stocks for compounding their existing debts, and for other purposes. (Aberbrothwick Harbour Finance.)

xi. An Act for rendering valid certain Letters Patent granted to William John Whiting for Improvements in Revolver Firearms. (Whiting's Patent.)

xii. An Act to empower the Great Western Railway Company to make new railways in the county of Cornwall, and for other purposes. (Great Western Railway (Truro and Newquay Railway).)

xiii. An Act to confer on the Provident Life Office further powers with respect to the accumulation and distribution of profits, and for other purposes. (Provident Life Office.)

xiv. An Act to extend the objects and business of the Railway Passengers Assurance Company, and for other purposes. (Railway Passengers Assurance.)

xv. An Act to make provision with reference to the winding up of the North London Commercial Permanent Building Society. (North London Commercial Permanent Building Society.)

xvi. An Act to authorise the making and laying out of a new Park in the City of Dublin to be called Saint Patrick's Park, to vest the Park in the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the City with power to maintain and regulate the same, and for other purposes. (Saint Patrick's Park (Dublin).)

xvii. An Act to provide for the distribution of surplus capital of the Assam Railways and Trading Company Limited, and for other purposes. (Assam Railways and Trading Company.)

xviii. An Act to enable certain alterations to be made in the Scheme of Arrangement of the affairs of the London Bank of Australia Limited, and for other purposes. (London Bank of Australia Limited.)

xix. An Act for rendering valid certain Leases, Sales and Conveyances made by the Trustees of Sir Josiah Mason's Almshouses and Orphanage without the consent of the Charity Commissioners. (Mason's Orphanage.)

xx. An Act for incorporating Mason University College, and for other purposes. (Mason University College.)

xxi. An Act to extend the time for the construction and completion of the Pier authorised by the Mumbles Railway and Pier Company and Pier Act 1889. (Mumbles Railway and Pier.)

xxii. An Act to extend the time for the completion of the authorised Works for enlarging and improving the Port and Harbour of Neath. (Neath Harbour.)

xxxiii. An Act to empower the Corporation of the Borough of Torquay to acquire lands for the purposes of their Water Undertaking, and for other purposes. (Torquay Corporation Water.)

xxiv. An Act for incorporating the Trustees of the Deed of Mortification by the deceased John Strachan of Craigcrook, Writer to the Signet, for enlarging the powers of the Trustees and for other purposes. (Craigcrook Mortification.)

xxv. An Act to re-constitute and to re-incorporate the Governing Body of the Crichton Royal Institution, and for other purposes. (Crichton Royal Institution.)

xxvi. An Act to enable the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the County Borough of Huddersfield to work their Tramways, to construct street and road improvements, and to make further provision for the good government of the Borough, and for other purposes. (Huddersfield Corporation.)

xxvii. An Act for granting additional powers to the Dumfries and Maxwelltown Waterworks Commissioners, and for other purposes. (Dumfries and Maxwelltown Waterworks (Additional Powers).)

xxviii. An Act to confer further powers upon the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Loughborough with respect to their Water Undertaking, and for other purposes. (Loughborough Corporation.)

xxix. An Act for granting further powers to the Taunton Gas Light and Coke Company. (Taunton Gas.)

xxx. An Act to enable the Wigan Junction Railways Company to raise further capital, and for other purposes. (Wigan Junction Railways (Capital).)

xxxi. An Act to extend the periods limited by the Clyde Navigation Act 1894 for the Compulsory Purchase of Lands and for the completion of the railway authorised by the Clyde Navigation Act 1891. (Clyde Navigation.)

xxxii. An Act to authorise the Lord Provost, Magistrates and Council of the City of Edinburgh to widen and improve Streets, to construct new Tramways, to acquire Tramways by agreement, to provide a new Fire Brigade Station, to acquire Lands, to transfer the Portobello Gasworks to the Edinburgh and Leith Corporation Gas Commissioners, to confer further powers on the said Commissioners, to amend Acts, and for other purposes. (Edinburgh Corporation.)

xxxiii. An Act to authorise the Great Eastern Railway Company to construct additional works in connection with Lowestoft Harbour, and for other purposes. (Great Eastern Railway (Lowestoft Harbour).)

xxxiv. An Act to extend the period for the completion of the railway authorised by the Bray and Enniskerry Light Railway Act 1886, and for other purposes. (Bray and Enniskerry Railway.)

xxxv. An Act for enabling the London and South Western Railway Company to construct new railways and to widen their Farnham, Alton and Winchester Railway in the county of Southampton, and for other purposes. (South Western (Meon Valley) Railway.)

xxxvii. An Act to authorise the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Company Limited to extend their Tramways and to confer further powers upon that Company. (Bristol Tramways.)

xxxvii. An Act to empower the Governors of the Richmond District Lunatic Asylum to borrow money and to create and issue Stock, and for other purposes. (Richmond District Asylum.)

xxxviii. An Act to empower the Tynemouth Gas Company to raise Additional Capital, and for other purposes. (Tynemouth Gas.)

xxxix. An Act to revive and extend the powers of the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway Company, and for other purposes. (Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway.)

xl. An Act to confer further powers upon the Great Northern Railway Company with respect to their own and other undertakings, to provide for the incorporation of a Joint Committee of the Great Northern Railway Company and the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company, the vesting

in that Committee of an authorised Passenger Station at Nottingham, and for other purposes. (Great Northern Railway.)

xli. An Act for conferring further powers upon the London and North Western Railway Company in relation to their Chester and Holyhead Railway, and for other purposes. (London and North Western Railway (Wales).)

xlii. An Act for conferring further powers on the Epsom Downs Extension Railway Company for the construction of works and otherwise in relation to their undertaking, and for other purposes. (Epsom Downs Extension Railway.)

xliii. An Act for extending the limits of supply of the Weymouth Consumers Gas Company and for conferring further powers on the Company for the raising of money and otherwise in relation to their undertaking, and for other purposes. (Weymouth Consumers Gas.)

xliv. An Act for repealing certain provisions of the Devonport Waterworks Act 1893 and for conferring further powers on the Devonport Water Company for the construction of works and otherwise in relation to their undertaking, and for other purposes. (Devonport Waterworks.)

xlv. An Act to authorise the Glasgow Harbour Tunnel Company to raise additional capital to confer on them further powers with reference to their surplus lands and properties, and for other purposes. (Glasgow Harbour Tunnel (Further Powers).)

xlvi. An Act to authorise the Birmingham Tame and Rea District Drainage Board, to acquire lands and construct works for sewage and and drainage purposes, to borrow moneys, and for other purposes. (Birmingham Tame and Rea District Drainage Board.)

xlvii. An Act to authorise the Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of the city of Chichester to purchase the undertaking of the Chichester Waterworks Company and to supply water throughout the city and adjoining places. (Chichester Corporation Water.)

xlviii. An Act for enabling the Great Eastern Railway Company to construct new Railways in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, and for other purposes. (Great Eastern Railway (New Lines in Norfolk and Suffolk).)

xlix. An Act to authorise the construction of a Quay at the Harbour of Perth and a Bridge over the River Tay and other Works and also new Gasworks, to make provision for the regulation of the office of Town Clerk, and for other purposes. (Perth Harbour City Improvements and Gas.)

l. An Act to empower the Corporation of Plymouth to acquire Lary Bridge, to extend the Boundary of the Borough, and for other purposes. (Plymouth Corporation.)

li. An Act to provide for the transfer of the undertaking of the Cowes Gas Company to the Cowes Urban District Council and to authorise the Council to supply Gas, and for other purposes. (Cowes Urban District Council Gas.)

lii. An Act to authorise the Ashford Urban District Council to supply Gas and to provide for the transfer of the undertaking of the Ashford Gas and Coke Company Limited to the said Council, and for other purposes. (Ashford Urban District Gas,)

liii. An Act for conferring further powers upon the London and North Western Railway Company in relation to their own undertaking and other undertakings in which they are interested jointly with other Companies, and for other purposes. (London and North Western Railway.)

liv. An Act to enable the Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company to make new Railways, to confer further powers upon that Company, the Cheshire Lines Committee, and the North Wales and Liverpool Railway Committee, to make further provision with reference to a Joint Station at Nottingham with the Great Northern Railway Company, to alter the name of the Company, to provide for the conversion of the Company's Ordinary Stock, and for other purposes. (Great Central Railway.)

lv. An Act to empower the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Neath in the County of Glamorgan to purchase the Tramway Undertaking authorised by the Neath and District Tramways, Order 1873, to construct additional Tramways, and for other purposes. (Neath Corporation Tramways.)

lvi. An Act to authorise the Lancashire Derbyshire and East Coast Railway Company to construct Branch Railways, acquire additional Lands and raise additional Capital in connection with their Chesterfield and Lincoln Separate Undertaking, and for other purposes. (Lancashire Derbyshire and East Coast Railway.)

P. lvii.An Act to confirm Provisional Orders made by the Local Government Board for Ireland under the Public Health (Ireland) Act 1878, relating to the Urban Sanitary District of Kilkenny and the Rural Sanitary District of Scariff. (Local Government Board (Ireland) Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 1).)

P. lviii.An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under the Burgh Police (Scotland) Act 1892, relating to Paisley Waterworks. (Paisley Waterworks Provisional Order Confirmation.)

P. lix.An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made by one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for improving an Area situated in the Parishes of St. Mary-le-Strand, St. Clement Danes, St. Giles-in-the-Fields, and St. Martin-in-the-Fields in the County of London. (London (Clare Market, Strand) Provisional Order Confirmation.)

P. lx.An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under the Public Health (Scotland) Act 1867, and the Acts amending the same relating to Clackmannan (Alloa and Tillicoultry) Water Supply. (Clackmannan (Alloa and Tillicoultry) Water Order Confirmation.)

ROYAL ASSENT, 15th July 1897.

P.An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 and 1888, relating to Garston, Hoylake and West Kirby, Ipswich, Morley, Wilmslow and Wrexham. (Electric Lighting Orders Confirmation (No. 1).)

P. lxii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 and 1888 relating to Darwen, Dundalk, Lincoln, Tonbridge, Ventnor and Wimbledon, (Electric Lighting Orders Confirmation (No. 2).)

P. lxiii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 and 1888 relating to Brighouse, Bury St. Edmunds, Dudley, Farnworth, Kearsley, Southampton and Watford. (Electric Lighting Orders Confirmation (No. 3).)

P. lxiv. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 to 1890, relating to Leith. (Electric Lighting Order Confirmation (No 4))

P. lxv. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 and 1888, relating to Ambleside, Ballymena, Dorking, Llandrindod Wells, Redditch and Reigate. (Electric Lighting Orders Confirmation (No. 5).)

P. lxvi. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 and 1888, relating to Barking Town, Morecambe, Ramsbottom, Swadlincote and Wallasey. (Electric Lighting Orders Confirmation (No. 6).)

P. lxvii. An Act to annul an Order in Council confirming a Scheme relating to the Foundation known as the Berriew School. (Berriew School.)

P. lxviii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to Buxton, Kingston - upon - Hull, Plymouth, Ramsgate (two), Southampton, Southend-on-Sea, Wallasey and West Ham. (Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 2).)

P. lxix. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Auckland-Shildon-and-Wellington, Bucklow, Honley-and-South-Crosland, and Wath - Swinton - Greasbrough - and - North - Rotherham United Districts. (Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 4).)

P. lxx. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to Bacup, Burnley, Middleton, Rhyl and Tiverton. (Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 5).)

P. lxxi. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Biggleswade (Rural), Bredbury - and - Romiley, Carlisle (Rural), Cheadle-and-Gatley, Cricklade-and-Wootton-Basset (Rural), Exmouth, Heston-and-Isleworth, Liverpool, Mailing (Rural), and Settle (Rural). (Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 6).)

P. lxxii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Boroughs of Chelmsford, Nelson, Southend-on-Sea and West Bromwich. (Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 7).)

P. lxxiii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Counties of Buckingham and Stafford. (Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 8).)

P. lxxiv. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to Bath (two), Leatherhead, Luddenden-Foot, New-Windsor, Ogmore-and-Garw, and West Ham. (Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 9).)

P. xxv. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Counties of Bedford, Denbigh, Flint, Hereford, Hertford and Worcester. (Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 10).)

P. lxxvi. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of the Local Government Board under the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act 1870 and the Public Health Act 1875, relating to Droitwich. (Local Government Board's Provisional Order Confirmation (Gas).)

P. lxxvii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Parishes of St. George the Martyr, Southwark, and St. James, Westminster. (Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (Poor Law).)

P. lxxviii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the General Pier and Harbour Act 1861, relating to Anstruther, Deal, Hunstanton and St. Andrews. (Pier and Harbour Orders Confirmation (No. 1).)

P. lxxix. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made by the Board of Trade under the General Pier and Harbour Act 1861, relating to Killala. (Pier and Harbour Order Confirmation (No. 2).)

P. lxxx. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the General Pier and Harbour Act 1861, relating to Ilfracombe, Llandudno and Scrabster. (Pier and Harbour Orders Confirmation (No. 5).)

P. lxxxi. An Act to confirm Provisional Orders made by the Local Government Board for Ireland under the Public Health (Ireland) Act 1878, relating to the Sanitary Districts of Limavady and Carrickmacross, (Local Government Board (Ireland) Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 2).)

P. lxxxii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board for Ireland, relating to Lurgan, Clonmel and Thurles. Local Government Board (Ireland) Provisional Order Confirmation (No. 3).)

P. lxxxiii. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of the Local Government Board for Ireland relating to the Borough of Waterford. (Local Government Board (Ireland) Provisional Order Confirmation (No. 4).)

P. lxxxiv. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board for Ireland relating to Limerick and Navan and the Unions of Roscommon and Midleton. (Local Government Board (Ireland) Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 5).)

P. lxxxv. An Act to confirm, a Provisional Order of the Local Government Board for Ireland relating to the Ballyshannon Union. (Local Government Board (Ireland) Provisional Order Confirmation (No.6).)

P. lxxxvi. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of the Local Government Board for Ireland relating to Belfast. (Local Government Board (Ireland) Provisional Order Confirmation (No. 7).)

P lxxxvii. An Act to amend the Liverpool Corporation Loans Act 1894 to confer further Powers on the Corporation of the City of Liverpool with respect to the Northern Hospital, and for other purposes. (Liverpool Corporation Loans.)

lxxxviii. An Act for incorporating and conferring powers on the Arundel Gas Company. (Arundel Gas.)

lxxxix. An Act for conferring further powers on the Vale of Glamorgan Railway Company for the construction of works, the raising of money and otherwise in relation of their undertaking, and for other purposes. (Vale of Glamorgan Railway.)

xc. An Act to increase the Share Capital of the Cordoba Central Railway Company Limited and to vary its regulations with regard to division of profits, and for other purposes. (Cordoba Central Railway Company (Ltd).)

xci. An Act to remove doubts as to the power of the National Provident Institution to alter and add to its rules in certain respects. (National Provident Institution.)

xcii. An Act to authorise the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Bournemouth to acquire certain lands as a site for municipal and other buildings and to take a lease of certain adjacent lands and to confirm an agreement relating thereto, and for other purposes. (Bournemouth Corporation.)

xciii. An Act to provide for the winding up and dissolution of the Guild of Literature and Art, and for other purposes. (Guild of Literature and Art (dissolution).)

xciv. An Act to empower the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Halifax to construct Tramways in the Borough, and for other purposes. (Halifax Corporation Tramways.)

xcv. An Act to confer further powers upon the Great Eastern Railway Company to authorise them to acquire the undertakings of the Downham and Stoke Perry, Thetford and Watton, and Watton and Swaffham Railway Companies and for other purposes. (Great Eastern Railway (General Powers).)

xcvi. An Act to authorise the Luton Water Company to raise Additional Capital, and for other purposes. (Luton Water.)

xcvii. An Act to enable the Tower Subway Company to sell their Subway under the Thames from Tower Hill to the opposite side of the River, and to dissolve the Company. (Tower Subway.)

xcviii. An Act to empower the Commissioners of the Burgh of Borrowstounness to form and lay out a new road or street within the Burgh, to confer powers on the Caledonian Railway Company with respect to parts of the North British Railway, and for other purposes. (Borrowstounness Town Improvement and Harbour.)

xcix. An Act to consolidate the Townships within the County Borough of Birkenhead and to transfer the Township of Rock Ferry from the Wirral Union to the Birkenhead Union, to confer further powers on the Corporation of the Borough in relation to Ferries and Tramways and other matters, to authorise the Corporation to amend some of the Provisions of the Local Acts in force within the Borough, and for other purposes. (Birkenhead Corporation.)

c. An Act to authorise the Corporation of Birkenhead to purchase the Ferries across the River Mersey known as Rock Ferry and New Ferry, and for other purposes. (Birkenhead Corporation (Ferries).)

ci. An Act to confer powers upon the Urban District Council of Hoylake and West Kirby, for the construction of Parades and a Marine Lake and for the Improvement of the Hoyle Lake, and to make better provision for the local government, health and improvement of the district, and for other purposes. (Hoylake and West Kirby Improvement.)

cii. An Act to enable the Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of the City of Sheffield to construct Street and Road Improvements and additional Tramways and, for other purposes. (Sheffield Corporation (Streets and Tramways).)

ciii. An Act to enable the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the City of Bristol to construct for the purposes of their Dock Undertaking Railways and other Works in connection with the Harbour Railway of the Great Western Railway Company, and to confer powers on that Company with reference to the construction, maintenance, and use of certain of the said Railways, and for the conveyance of Traffic to and from their Harbour Railway, and for other purposes. (Bristol Dock.)

civ. An Act to authorise the Corporation of the City of Liverpool to acquire the Undertaking of the Liverpool United Tramways and Omnibus Company to confer powers on the Corporation for improving and working the undertaking and for borrowing money, and for other purposes. (Liverpool Corporation Tramways.)

cv. An Act to confer further powers upon and amend the Acts relating to the Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway Company, and for other purposes. (Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway.)

cvi. An Act to make provision for the establishment, management, and maintenance of the Dublin Eye and Ear Hospital, being the amalgamation of St. Mark's Ophthalmic Hospital and Dispensary and the National Eye and Ear Infirmary, Ireland, all in the City of Dublin, and for other purposes. (Dublin Eye and Ear Hospital.)

cvii. An Act for making a Railway from the Tunbridge Wells and Hastings Branch of the South Eastern Railway at Crowhurst to Bexhill, and for other purposes. (Crowhurst, Sidley and Bexhill Railway.)

cviii. An Act to confer further powers on the Manchester Ship Canal Company with respect to their Surplus Lands, and for other purposes. (Manchester Ship Canal.)

cix. An Act to confer powers upon the Corporation of Carnarvon in relation to the Ferry between Carnarvon and Anglesea, the construction of a Pier and other Works for the purposes thereof, and for the construction of a Swing Bridge over the River Seiont, and for other purposes. (Carnarvon Corporation.)

cx. An Act to confer further powers on the Lowestoft Water, Gas, and Market Company, to change the name of the Company, and for other purposes. (Lowestoft Water and Gas.)

cxi. An Act to confer further powers upon the Liverpool, St. Helens and South Lancashire Railway Company, and for other purposes. (Liverpool, St. Helens and South Lancashire Railway.)

cxii. An Act to revive, extend and vary some of the powers of the Hastings Harbour Commissioners, to confer further borrowing and other powers upon them, and for other purposes. (Hastings Harbour.)

cxiii. An Act for the commutation of the annual and other sums payable by the Corporation of the City of Liverpool and by the Churchwardens of the Parish of Liverpool in respect of certain Churches in the City, for the investment and application of the Commutation Moneys, for the removal of the Churches of Saint George and Saint John and re-uniting their respective Districts to the Parish of Liverpool, and for making other provisions consequential on and relative to the above matters. (Liverpool City Churches.)

cxiv. An Act to empower the Rathmines and Rathgar Improvement Commissioners to purchase and work certain Tramways of the Dublin United Tramways Company and to confer further powers on the Commissioners with respect to street widenings the acquisition of lands, the borrowing of moneys, and for other purposes. (Rathmines and Rathgar Township Tramways and Improvement.)

cxv. An Act to dissolve the Hunstanton Water Company Limited and the Hunstanton Gas Company Limited and to re-incorporate the proprietors therein as a new Company for the supply of Water and Gas to Hunstanton and adjoiniug places in the county of Norfolk. (Hunstanton Water and Gas.)

cxvi. An Act to incorporate the Committee of Railway Companies associated under the Railway Clearing System and to enlarge the powers vested in that Committee, and for other purposes. (Railway Clearing Committee Incorporation.)

cxvii. An Act for incorporating the Crowborough District Water Company and empowering them to construct works and supply water, and for other purposes. (Crowborough District Water.)

cxviii. An Act to enable the Caledonian Railway Company to construct new Dock Works at Grangemouth and new Railways in the Counties of Lanark and Stirling, to confer further powers on them in respect to the acquisition of lands and other matters connected with their undertaking, and for other purposes. (Caledonian Railway.)

cxix. An Act to authorise the Easton and Church Hope Railway to issue New Preference Stock in substitution for existing First and Second Preference Shares, and for other purposes. (Easton and Church Hope Railway.)

cxx.An Act to incorporate the Railway Clearing System Superannuation Fund Association and to extend the objects of that Association, and for other purposes. (Railway Clearing System Superannuation Fund Incorporation.)

cxxi. An Act to make further Provision with respect to the Supply of Water by the Corporation of the City of Dublin, and for other purposes. (Dublin Corporation.)

cxxii.An Act to enable the Barry Railway Company to construct new Railways, and for other purposes. (Barry Railway.)

cxxiii. An Act to enable tbe Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway Company to construct New Railways, Widenings and other Works, to confer further Powers with reference to the General Undertaking of the Company and with reference to the Separate Undertaking of the City of Dublin Junction Railways and for other purposes. (Dublin, Wieklow and Wexford Railway (Shillelagh Extension &c.).)

cxxiv. An Act for conferring further powers on the Eastbourne Waterworks Company for the construction of works and otherwise in relation to their undertaking, and for other purposes. (Eastbourne Waterworks.)

cxxv. An Act to authorise the New Hunstanton Urban District Council to supply Water and Gas and to acquire the undertakings of the Hunstanton Water Company Limited and the Hunstanton Gas Company Limited. (New Hunstanton Water and Gas.)

cxxvi. An Act to authorise the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Comity Borough of Southampton to acquire the undertaking of the Southampton Tramways Company, and for other purposes. (Southampton Corporation Tramways.)

cxxvii. An Act to confer further powers upon the North British Railway Combany in connexion with their undertaking to amalgamate the Glasgow Yorker and Clydebank Railway Company and the Anstruther and St. Andrews Railway Company with the Company, and for other purposes. (North British Railway (General Powers).)

cxxviii. An Act to empower the Midland and South Western Junction Railway Company to convert and consolidate their Debenture Stocks, and for other purposes. (Midland and South Western Junction Railway.)

cxxix. An Act to empower the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway Company to construct new Railways, and for other purposes. (Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway.)

cxxx. An Act for conferring further powers on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company to provide for the transfer to that Company of the undertakings of the West Lancashire Railway Company and the Liverpool Southport and Preston Junction Railway Company, to repeal certain powers granted to the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company over those undertakings and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, and for other purposes. (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.)

cxxxi. An Act for the incorporation of Commissioners for Stromness Harbour Commissioners, for empowering them to construct new works, and for other purposes. (Stromness Harbour.)

cxxii. An Act to authorise the Sheffield District Railway Company to construct Branch Railways in Sheffield connecting with the Midland Railway, and for other purposes. (Sheffield District Railway.)

cxxxiii. An Act for the dissolution of the Commission of Sewers of the City of London and to provide for the execution of the powers, authorities and duties of the Commissioners by the Common Council of the City, and for other purposes. (City of London Sewers.)

cxxxiv. An Act to enable the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Bolton to construct additional Tramways in and adjacent to the Borough, to construct Highway and other works, to borrow Additional Moneys, and for other purposes. (Bolton Tramways and Improvement.)

cxxxv. An Act to confer further powers on the Great North of Scotland Railway Company as to the classification of their Ordinary Stocks and the provision of a Hotel. (Great North of Scotland Railway.)

cxxxvi. An Act to authorise the Urban District Council of Malvern Link to supply Gas and to provide for the transfer of the undertaking of the Malvern Link Gas Company Limited to the Council. (Malvern Link Gas.)

ROYAL ASSENT, 6th August 1897.

P. cxxxvii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Governmemt Board relating to Brigg, Harrogate, Newport (Salop), Oswestry, Plymouth, Winslow and Worcester. (Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 3).)

P. cxxxviii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Boroughs of Hartlepool, Totnes and West Hartlepool. (Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 11).)

P. cxxxix. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the counties of Derby, Parts of Holland, Leicester and Norfolk, and to the Borough of Margate. (Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 12).)

P. cxl. An Aet to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Clare-and-Bumpstead, the Luddenden-Foot and the Penybont United Districts, and to the Ports of Harwich, Milford and Wisbech. (Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 13).)

P. cxli. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to Chorley, Dover, East Stonehouse, Harrogate, St. Helens, Scarborough, and Tunbridge Wells. (Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 14).)

P. cxlii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to Bradford (Yorks), Heywood, Liverpool, Nelson and Wigan (two). (Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 15).)

P. cxliii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to Aberystwyth, Barrow-in-Furness, Birmingham Bootle and Swansea. (Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 16).)

P. cxliv. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of the Local Government Board relating to the Borough of Hastings (Local Government Board's Provisional Order Confirmation (No. 17).)

P. cxlv. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of the Local Government Board relating to the Borough of Blackburn. (Local Government Board's Provisional Order Confirmation (No. 18).)

P. cxlvi. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Education Department under the Elementary Education Acts 1870 to 1893, to enable the School Boards for East Barnet, Linthwaite, Pembroke, Swansea, United District and Willesden to put in force the the Lands Clauses Acts. (Education Department Provisional Orders Confirmation (East Barnet, &c.).)

P. cxlvii. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made by the Education Department under the Elementary Education Act 1870, to enable the School Board for London to put in force the Lands Clauses Acts. (Education Department Provisional Order Confirmation (London).)

P. cxlviii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the General Pier and Harbour Act 1861, relating to Bangor, Clacton, Poole, Tenby and Walton-on-the-Naze. (Pier and Harbour Orders Confirmation (No. 3).)

P. cxlix. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the General Pier and Harbour Act 1861 relating to Annan, Clacton and Whiting Bay. (Pier and Harbour Orders Confirmation No. 4.)

P. cl. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made by the Board of Trade under the General Pier and Harbour Act 1861, relating to Donegal. (Pier and Harbour Order Confirmation (No. 6)

P. cli. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Tramways Act 1870, relating to Blackpool Corporation Tramways, Manchester, Carriage and Tramways Company's Tramways, Manchester Corporation Tramways, Moss Side Tramways and Withington District Tramways. (Tramways Orders Confirmation (No. 1).)

P. clii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Tramways Act 1870, relating to Great Grimsby Street Tramways Extension, Huddersfield Corporation Tramways, Morecambe Urban District Council Tramways, Perth and District Tramways (Extensions), and Stirling and Bridge of Allan Tramways Extension. (Tramways Orders Confirmation (No. 2).)

P. cliii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Tramways Act 1870, relating to Middlesbrough, Stockton-on-Tees and Thornaby Tramways, Yarmouth and Gorleston Tramways Extension, and York Tramways. (Tramways Orders Confirmation (No. 3).)

P. cliv. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act 1870, relating to Hoylake and West Kirby Gas, Killamarsh Gas, Sedberg and Westbury Gas. (Gas Orders Confirmation (No. 1).)

P. clv. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the under the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act 1870, relating to Cradley Heath Gas, and Wimborne Minster Gas. (Gas Orders Confirmation (No. 2).)

P. clvi. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act 1870, relating to Barton-upon-Humber Water, Bridge of Allan Water, Frith Hill, Godalming and Farncombe Water, Gosport Water, New-market Water, Royston Water and Steyning and District Water. (Waters Orders Confirmation.)

P. clvii. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made by the Board of Trade under the Merchant Shipping Act 1894, relating to Rosslare (Pilotage District of Wexford). (Pilotage Order Confirmation.)

P. clviii. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under the Public Health (Scotland) Act 1867, and the Acts amending the same relating to Borrowstounness Water Supply. (Borrowstounness Water Order Confirmation.)

P. clix. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under the Public Health (Scotland) Act 1867, and the Acts amending the same relating to Duntocher and Dalmuir Water Supply. (Duntocher and Dalmuir Water Order Confirmation.)

P. clx. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 and 1888, relating to Denton, Droylsden, Levenshulme, Moss Side, Stretford and Withington. (Electric Lighting Orders Confirmation (No. 7).)

P. clxi. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 and 1888, relating to Bangor, Bexhill, Epsom, Galway and Northwich. (Electric Lighting Orders Confirmation (No. 8).)

P. clxii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 and 1888, relating (1) St. George's-in-the-East, Mile End Old Town, and Limehouse (2) Holborn, Liberty of Charterhouse and Shoreditch (3) Fulham and (4) Westminster. (Electric Lighting Orders Confirmation (No. 9).)

P. clxiii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 and 1888, relating to Newmarket and Poole and Branksome. (Electric Lighting Orders Confirmation (No. 10).)

P. clxiv. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 and 1888, relating to Blackheath and Greenwich District and Newington. (Electric Lighting Orders Confirmation (No. 11).)

P. clxv. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made by one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State under the the Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890, relating to Lands in Green Street in the Parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark. (London (Green Street, Southwark) Provisional Order Confirmation.)

P. clxvi. An Act to enable Her Majesty's Postmaster-General to acquire Lands in London, Brighton, Norwich, Plymouth, Southampton, Oban and Cork for the Public Service, and for other purposes. (Post Office (Sites).)

clxvii. An Act to confer further powers upon the London and South Western Railway Company with respect to their own undertaking and to confirm an Agreement for the working by the Company of the Torrington and Okehampton Railway and to confer upon the Company and the Waterloo and City and the London Brighton and South Coast Railway Companies further powers with respect to undertakings in which they are jointly interested, and for other purposes. (South Western Railway (Various Powers).)

clxviii. An Act to confer further powers upon the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Newport with respect to Waterworks, and for other purposes. (Newport Corporation.)

clxix. An Act to authorise the abandonment of the Llandilo Loop and the Construction of new Railways in the counties of Pembroke and Carmarthen, and for other purposes. (North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Railway.)

clxx. An Act to confer further powers upon the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, and for other purposes. (Mersey Docks.)

clxxi. An Act for incorporating the Glasgow and South Western Company and authorising the construction of Railways in the Counties of Renfrew, and Lanark, and for other purposes. (Glasgow and Renfrew District Railway.)

clxxii. An Act for couferring further powers on the Glasgow and South Western Railway Company for the construction of works and the acquisition of lands for consolidating and converting their Preference and Ordinary Stocks, and for other purposes. (Glasgow and South Western Railway.)

clxxiii. An Act for incorporating and conferring powers upon the Tuxford and District Gas Light and Coke Company. (Tuxford and District Gas.)

clxxiv. An Act for making a Light Railway between Aberystwyth and Devil's Bridge in the County of Cardigan, and for other purposes. (Vale of Rheidol (Light) Railway.)

clxxv. An Act to authorise the construction of Railways in the county of Renfrew. (Paisley and Barrhead District Railway.)

clxxvi. An Act to authorise the Newry Navigation Company to consolidate and convert their Mortgage Debt and for other purposes. (Newry Navigation.)

clxxvii. An Act to empower the Taff Vale Railway Company to construct a new Railway and other Works and acquire Lands, and for other purposes. (Taff Vale Railway.)

clxxviii. An Act to enable the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Deal and the Urban District Council of Walmer to acquire the undertaking of the Company of Proprietors of the Deal Waterworks to vest such undertaking partly in a Joint Board and partly in each of the said Local Authorities, to authorise the said Authorities respectively to supply their own districts and the neighbourhoods thereof respectively, and for other purposes. (Deal and Walmer Water.)

clxxix. An Act to empower the Callander and Oban Railway Company to construct new Railways and Works in the county of Argyle, and for other purposes. (Callander and Oban Railway.)

clxxx. An Act to authorise the Urban District Council of Cirencester to purchase the undertaking of the Cirencester Waterworks Company Limited and to supply water throughout the district and the adjoining parish of Stratton. (Cirencester Water.)

clxxxi. An Act for making further and better provision in regard to the Water Supply and the improvement, health, and good government of the Borough of Colne, and for other purposes. (Colne Corporation.)

clxxxii. An Act to empower the Midland and Great Northern Railways Joint Committee to construct a Railway at Great Yarmouth and other Works and to acquire lands and for other purposes. (Midland and Great Northern Joint Committee.)

clxxxiii. An Act to confer additional powers upon the Midland Railway Company for the construction of Works and the acquisition of Lands to empower that Company and the London Tilbury and Southend Railway Company, to guarantee the capital of the Tottenham and Forest Gate Railway Company to authorise agreements between the Midland Railway Company, the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway Company, and the Sheffield District Railway Company, and to vest in the Midland Railway Company the undertaking of the Kettering, Thrapston, and Huntingdon Railway Company, to authorise the re-arrangement and consolidation of the existing capital of the Midland Railway Company, and for other purposes. (Midland Railway.)

clxxxiv. An Act to extend the powers of the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Newark with respect to their supply of Water, and for other purposes. (Newark Corporation Waterworks.)

clxxxv. An Act to empower the Llandudno Urban District Council to acquire the undertaking of the Great Orme's Head Marine Drive Company to make further provisions for the good government of Llandudno and for other purposes. (Llandudno Urban District Council.)

clxxxvi. An Act for supplying with Water the Parishes of St. Neot's and Eynesbury in the County of Huntingdon. (Saint Neot's Water.)

clxxxvii. An Act to authorise the Swadlincote District Urban District Council to supply Gas and to provide for the transfer of the undertaking of the Swadlincote Gas and Coke Company Limited to the said Council, and for other purposes. (Swadlincote District Gas.)

clxxxviii. An Act to provide for the surrender of the lease of the Alexandra (Newport and South Wales) Docks and Railway Company's Undertaking to the Newport (Alexandra) Dock Company Limited and to authorise the transfer to the Company of the Pontypridd, Caerphilly and Newport Railway, and for other purposes. (Alexandra (Newport and South Wales) Docks and Railway.)

clxxxix. An Act to confer further powers on the Belfast City and District Water Commissioners. (Belfast Water.)

cxc. An Act to enable the North London Railway Company to improve the access to the Poplar Dock, and for other purposes. (North London Railway)

cxci. An Act to empower the Great Western Railway Company to make new Railways and Works at Bristol, and for other purposes. (Great Western Railway (Bristol Lines).)

cxcii. An Act for incorporating the Brompton and Piccadilly Circus Railway Company and for empowering them to construct an Underground Railway from Piccadilly Circus to South Kensington, and for other purposes. (Brompton and Piccadilly Circus Railway.)

cxciii. An Act to extend the powers for the purchase of land and the time for the completion of the Railway authorised by the Great Northern and City Railway Act 1892, and to amend some of the provisions of the Act. (Great Northern and City Railway.)

cxciv. An Act to extend the time for the completion of the Pier and Works authorised by the Weston-super-Mare Grand Pier 1893, and for other purposes. (Weston-super-Mare Grand Pier.)

cxcv. An Act for making a Railway from Skipton to Grassington in the West Riding of the County of York, and for other purposes. (Yorkshire Dales Railway (Skipton to Grassington).)

cxcvi. An Act to constitute a Conservancy Board for the Port and Harbour of King's Lynn to transfer to, and vest in such Board the powers of the Corporation of King's Lynn relating to the Port and Harbour, and all the Powers and Property of the Harbour Mooring, or Pilot Commissioners of the Port, and of the body known as Select Trustees, appointed under the Eau Brink Act 1831, and for other purposes. (King's Lynn Conservancy.)

cxcvii. An Act for enabling the City and Burgh of Dundee to borrow additional money for their Gas undertaking, and to extend their Electric Lighting area, and for amending and extending the improvement and other Acts applicable to the city and burgh, and for other purposes. (Dundee Corporation.)

cxcviii. An Act to authorise the East London Waterworks Company to execute further works, and to raise further money in order to enable them to fulfil their statutory obligations relating to the supply of water or otherwise, and to meet the increased demand for water within their district, to confer further powers upon and make further provision with respect to the undertaking of the Company, and for other purposes. (East London Waterworks.)

cxcix. An Act to empower the Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of the City of Leeds, to acquire Lands for the purpose of protecting their waters and waterworks from pollution, for the construction of Tramways and Street Improvements, and for other purposes. (Leeds Corporation.)

cc. An Act to empower the Corporation of Nottingham to construct additional Waterworks, and for other purposes. (Nottingham Corporation Water.)

cci. An Act to enable the Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford Railway Company to construct Railways between New Ross and Waterford in the Counties of Kilkenny and Waterford, and for other purposes. (Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford Railway. (New Ross and Waterford Extension).)

ccii. An Act for making a Railway in and near the Town of Hastings, and a Parade or Roadway and Seawall, and for other purposes. (Hastings Harbour District Railway.)

cciii. An Act to extend the time for the compulsory purchase of Lands for and for the Completion of the Birmingham, North Warwickshire, and Stratford-upon-Avon Railway, and for other purposes. (Birmingham, North Warwickshire, and Stratford-upon-Avon Railway.)

cciv. An Act to make provision with respect to the construction and purchase of Piers by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of Great Yarmouth, and in regard to the health, local government, and improvement of the said borough, and for other purposes. (Great Yarmouth Corporation.)

ccv. An Act to confer upon the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of Pwllheli powers in regard to the Harbour, Markets and Water Supply of the said borough, and for other purposes. (Pwllheli Corporation.)

ccvi. An Act for extending the limits of supply of the Company of Proprietors of the Weymouth Waterworks, and for conferring further powers on that Company, for the construction of Works, and the raising of Capital, and for other purposes. (Weymouth Waterworks.)

ccvii. An Act for empowering the Bute Docks Company to construct certain Railways, for conferring upon that Company certain running powers, for empowering them to construct a Low Water Pier, for changing the name of the Company, and for authorising the Company to raise additional Capital, and for other purposes. (Cardiff Railway.)

ccviii. An Act to authorise the Great Northern Railway Company (Ireland) to construct Tramways and Tramroads from Sutton to Howth, to acquire and maintain Hotels and Refreshment rooms, and for other purposes. (Great Northern Railway (Ireland).)

ccix. An Act for empowering the Tyne Improvement Commissioners to create and issue Stock and for the completion of works, and for amending certain of the provisions of the Tyne Improvement Acts 1850 to 1890, and for other purposes. (Tyne Improvement.)

ccx. An Act to empower the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of Tynemouth in the County of Northumberland to supply water to the Borough of Tynemouth and adjacent places, to acquire the undertaking of the Company of Proprietors of the North Shields Waterworks, and for other purposes. (Tynemouth Corporation (Water).)

ccxi. An Act to authorise the sale of the Church of Christchurch, and the sale of the Church of St. Peter with the school thereof, (all in the city of Birmingham) and the application of the proceeds of sale to the provision of new Churches and schools in the suburbs of Birmingham, to merge the Ecclesiastical Parishes or Districts of Christchurch and St. Peter in the Ecclesiastical Parish of St. Philip, to amend the St Martin's Rectory, Birmingham Act 1893, and for other purposes. (Birmingham Churches.)

ccxii. An Act to enable the Gravesend and Milton Waterworks Company to raise additional Capital, and for other purposes. (Gravesend and Milton Waterworks.)

ccxiii. An Act to confer further powers on the Didcot, Newbury, and Southampton Railway Company. (Didcot, Newbury, and Southampton Railway.)

ccxiv. An Act to confirm an Agreement for the transfer of the Undertaking of the East Warwickshire Waterworks Company to the Urban District Council of Nuneaton and Chilvers Coton, and to enable the Council to construct additional Waterworks, and for other purposes. (East Warwickshire Waterworks).

ccxv. An Act to enable the Corporation of Glasgow to effect further improvements within the city, to lease and work the Vale of Clyde or Govan Tramways and the Glasgow and Ibrox Tramway, to construct now Tramways and for other purposes. (Glasgow Corporation (Improvements and General Powers.).)

ccxvi. An Act to authorise the Highland Railway Company to construct Railways being partly doubling or widening of their existing Railway, to acquire additional lands, to revive the powers and extend the time limited by certain Acts for the completion of Works, to raise further capital, and for other purposes. (Highland Railway (Additional Powers).)

ccxvii. An Act to confer further powers upon the Invergarry and Fort Augustus Railway Company. (Invergarry and Fort Angustus Railway.)

ccxviii. An Act to extend the limits for the Supply of Gas and Water by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the County Borough of Leicester, and to make further and better provision in relation to the local government of the said borough and for other purposes. (Leicester Corporation.)

ccxix. An Act for incorporating the Lochearnhead, St. Fillans, and Comrie Railway Company and authorising the construction of a Railway from Lochearnhead to Comrie in the County of Perth, and for other purposes. (Lochearnhead, St Fillans, and Comrie Railway.)

ccxx. An Act to regulate the expenditure of Money by the London County Council on Capital Account during the current financial period and the raising of Money to meet such expenditure. (London County Council (Money).)

ccxxi. An Act for making a Railway in the County of Fife to be called the Newburgh and North Fife Railway, and for other purposes. (Newburgh and North Fife Railway.)

ccxxii. An Act to confer further powers upon the Governor and Company of the New River brought from Chadwell and Amwell to London commonly called the New River Company, for the execution of New Works and the raising of further Money, and for other purposes.

ccxxiii. An Act to confer additional powers upon the North Eastern Railway Company, for the construction of Dock Works at Middlesborough, new Railways and other Works and the acquisition of additional lands, and for other purposes. (North Eastern Railway.)

ccxxiv. An Act to empower the London County Council to make a Subway under the River Thames between Greenwich and Milwall, and for other purposes. (Thames Tunnel (Greenwich to Milwall.).)

ccxxv. An Act for the making and maintaining of the Woodhouse and Conisbrough Railway, and for other purposes. (Woodhouse and Conisbrough Railway.)

ccxxvi. An Act for conferring further powers upon the Swansea Improvements and Tramways Company, with respect to their Tramways undertaking, and for other purposes. (Swansea Improvements and Tramways.)

ccxxvii. An Act for conferring further powers on the South Eastern Railway Company, and for other purposes. (South Eastern Railway.)

ccxxviii. An Act to enable the Benefices of Baldock and Bygrave in the diocese of St. Albans to be united. (Baldock and Bygrave Benifices Union.)

ccxxix. An Act to extend the Period for the completion of the Waterworks authorised by the Rhymney Valley Gas and Water Act 1892. (Rhymney Valley Gas and Water.)

ccxxx. An Act to extend the City and County of Bristol, and for other purposes. (Bristol Corporation.)

ccxxxi. An Act to constitute and incorporate a Joint Water Board consisting of representatives from the Councils of the Borough of Blackpool and the Urban Districts of Fleetwood, Lytham, and St. Anne's-on-the-Sea, all in the County Palatine of Lancaster, and to transfer to and vest in such Board the undertaking of the Fylde Waterworks Company, and for other purposes. (Fylde Waterworks Transfer.)

ccxxxii.An Act for conferring further powers on the Harrogate Waterworks Company for the construction of works and the raising of capital, and for other purposes. (Harrogate Waterworks.)

ccxxxiii. An Act to confirm an agreement made between Albemarle Cator and others and the South Eastern Railway Company. (South Eastern Railway (Confirmation of Cator Agreement).)

ccxxxiv. An Act for incorporating the Lincoln and East Coast Railway and Dock Company, to transfer to the Company some of the powers of the Lancashire, Derbyshire, and East Coast Railway Company, to construct and maintain Railways and works, and to transfer to the Company certain portions of the undertakings of the said company, including the North Sea Fisheries (East Lincolnshire) Harbour and Dock, together with the powers of the Lancashire, Derbyshire, and East Coast Company in relation thereto, to confer additional powers upon the Company with reference to the portions of the undertaking transferred to them, and for other purposes. (Lincoln and East Coast Railway and Dock.)

ccxxxv. An Act to empower the Dublin United Tramways Company to construct new Tramways, and for other purposes. (Dublin United Tramways (New Lines).)

ccxxxvi. An Act to authorise the use of Electrical Power on the Tramways of the Dublin United Tramways Company, and for other purposes. (Dublin United Tramways (Electrical Power).)

ccxxxvii. An Act to authorise the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of Harrogate to purchase the undertaking of the Harrogate Waterworks Company, and for other purposes. (Harrogate Corporation (Waterworks Transfer).)

ccxxxviii. An Act to confer further powers upon the Corporation of Nottingham with respect to Street Improvements, Tramways and various matters of local government, and for other purposes. (Nottingham Improvement.)

ccxxxix. An Act for empowering the North Metropolitan Tramways Company to construct New Tramways in the Counties of London, Essex, and Middlesex, for confirming certain Agreements between that Company and the London Street Tramways Company, and the London County Council with respect to the sale and purchase and leasing, working and using of Tramways, and for other purposes. (North Metropolitan Tramways.)

ccxl. An Act for incorporating the Weston super-Mare Tramways Company and authorising them to make and maintain Tramways and other Works at Weston-super-Mare, and for other purposes. (Weston-super-Mare Tramways.)

ccxli. An Act to confer further powers upon the Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of the City of Manchester in the County of Lancaster for the construction of Works and the Acquisition of Lands to enable them to work and use their Tramways by means of electrical or other mechanical power, to enlarge their powers as to the supply of electricity, to alter their corporate title, and for other purposes. (Manchester Corporation.)

ccxlii. An Act to empower the London County Council to make a new Street and Street Improvements in the Administrative County of London. (London County Council (Improvements).)

ccxliii. An Act for incorporating the Dearne Valley Railway Company and for other purposes. (Dearne Valley Railway.)

ccxliv. An Act to confer certain powers upon the Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company. (Southwark and Vauxhall Water.)

ccxlv. An Act for incorporating the Hull and South Yorkshire Extension Railway Company, and for other purposes. (Hull and South Yorkshire Extension Railway.)

ccxlvi. An Act to incorporate the Coventry Electric Tramways Company and to empower that Company to make and maintain Tramways and for other purposes. (Coventry Electric Tramways.)

ccxlvii. An Act for empowering the Metropolitan District Railway Company to construct an Underground Railway from near Earls Court Station to the Mansion House Station, City, to authorise them to work that Railway and their existing railway by electricity, to extend the time limited for the completion of the Acton Junction Railway of the Company and for the compulsory purchase of lands for and for the completion of the Ealing and South Harrow Rail way, and for other purposes. (Metropolitan District Railway).

ccxlviii. An Act for conferring further powers upon the Great Western Railway Company in respect of their own undertaking and upon that Company and the London and North Western Railway Company in respect of undertakings in which they are jointly interested, and upon the Lambourn Valley Railway Company in respect of their undertaking for amalgamating the Buckfastleigh, Totnes, and South Devon, Kington and Eardisley, Woodstock, Banbury and Cheltenham, Direct Pembroke and Tenby, Nantwich and Market Drayton, Minehead and Great Marlow Railway Companies with the Great

Western Railway Company and for other purposes. (Great Western Railway (Additional Powers).)

ccxlix. An Act for extending the Boundaries of the City and County of Kingston-upon-Hull, for conferring on the Corporation power to construct a new Bridge over the river Hull and power to make new Streets, and further powers with respect to a Crematory, Rating, the supply of Gas and other matters, for consolidating the provision of the Water Acts and Orders now in force in the City and County and for other purposes. (Kingston-upon-Hull Corporation.)

ccl. An Act to authorise the acquisition of Lands known as Churchyard Bottom Wood, Highgate, for the purposes of a public open space. (Highgate Woods Preservation.)

ccli. An Act for incorporating the Watford, Edgware, and London Railway Company and for empowering them to construct Railways from Watford in the County of Hertford to Edgware in the County of Middlesex, and for other purposes. (Watford, Edgware, and London Railway.)

cclii. An Act to empower the London County Council to make certain Street Improvements and to purchase Lands for various purposes, to make provision for contributions in certain cases by Local Authorities and as to the admission of Sewage into the Metropolitan Main Drainage System from a portion of East Ham in the County of Essex, and for other purposes. London County Council (General Powers).)

ccliii. An Act for authorising the City of Birmingham Tramways Company Limited, to construct additional Tramways, and for other purposes. (City of Birmingham Tramways.)

ccliv. An Act to Incorporate the Norwich Electric Tramways Company and to empower that Company to make and maintain Tramways, and for other purposes. (Norwich Electric Tramways.)

cclv. An Act to enable the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the County Borough of Salford to construct additional Tramways, to make a Street Improvement, and to raise additional Moneys by mortgage, and by the creation and issue of Stock, and to make further provisions with respect to Booth's Charities and for the good government of the Borough. (Salford Corporation.)

cclvi. An Act for incorporating the Harrow and Uxbridge Railway Company, and authorising them to construct a Railway in the County of Middlesex, and for other purposes. (Harrow and Uxbridge Railway.)

cclvii. An Act for making a Railway to be called the Whitechapel and Bow Railway, and for other purposes. (Whitechapel and Bow Railway.)

cclviii. An Act to incorporate Harbour Commissioners for the Harbour and Roads of Cowes in the Isle of Wight, to define the limits of the Harbour and Roads, to vest the Harbour in the Commissioners, and to confer upon them powers for the improvement, maintenance, and regulation of the Harbour and Roads, and for other purposes. (Cowes Harbour.)

cclix. An Act for conferring further powers on the Urban District Council of Colwyn Bay and Colwyn, and for making further and better provisions for the improvement, health, and local government of the Urban District of Colwyn Bay and Colwyn, and for other purposes. (Colwyn Bay and Colwyn Urban District Council.)

cclx. An Act to authorise the Mayor, Aldermen and Citizens of the City of Bradford in the County of York, to construct additional Tramways, to consolidate the Townships in the City, to extend the Bradford Union, to make better provision for the health, local government, and improvement of the city, and for other purposes. (Bradford Tramways and Improvement.)