Imágenes de página
PDF
ePub

Act passed in the third year of his present Majesty to complete the buildings of his Majesty's general register house at Edinburgh. XLVII. An Act for the further amendment and extension of the powers of the several Acts authorizing advances for carrying on public works. XLVIII. An Act to continue until the first day of June one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, and from thence to the end of the then next session of parliament, an Act of the third year of his present Majesty, for regulating the manner of licensing alehouses in England.

XLIX. An Act to exempt persons who

have procured game certificates in Great Britain from the duty on game certificates in Ireland, and to authorize persons who have paid duty on game certificates in Ireland to kill game in Great Britain, upon paying the additional duty only.

L. An Act to defray the charge of the pay, clothing, and contingent and other expenses of the disembodied militia in Great Britain and Ireland; and to grant allowances in certain cases to subaltern officers, adjutants, quarter masters, surgeons, assistant surgeons, surgeons mates, and serjeant majors of militia, until the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred and twentyeight.

LI. An Act for further amending an Act passed in the fourth year of his present majesty's reign, for the better administration of justice in the equity side of the court of Exchequer in Ireland.

LII. An Act to consolidate and amend certain laws relating to the revenue of excise on malt made in the United Kingdom; and for amending the laws relating to brewers in Ireland, and to the allowance in respect of the malt duty on spirits made in Scotland and Ireland from inalt only.

LI I. An Act to consolidate and amend the laws relating to the collection and management of the revenue of excise throughout Great Britain and Ireland.

LIV. An Act to carry into effect the treaty with Sweden relative to the slave trade.

7. An Act to consolidate the boards of stamps in Great Britain and Ire land.

LVI. An Act to amend the laws relating to the customs.

LVII. An Act to permit, until the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, certain corn, meal, and flour, to be entered for hoine consumption.

LVIII. An Act to make provision for ascertaining from time to time the average prices of British corn. LIX. An Act for further amending the laws for the recovery of small debts, and the proceedings for that purpose, in the manor courts in Ireland. LX. An Act to amend the Acts for the establishing of compositions for tithes in Ireland.

LXI. An Act to amend the laws for the regulation of the butter trade in Ireland.

LXII. An Act to authorize the sale of a part of the clergy reserves in the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada.

LXIII. An Act to explain so much of an Act of the present session of parliament, for punishing mutiny and desertion, as relates to the transportation of offenders.

LXIV. An Act to establish a taxation

of costs on private bills in the House of Lords.

LXV. An Act to explain and remove

doubts touching the Admiralty.

LXVI. An Act to extend an Act of the fifty-sixth year of his late Majesty, for enabling his Majesty to grant small portions of land as sites for public buildings, or to be used as cemeteries.

LXVII. An Act for the better adminis. tration of justice at the holding of petty sessions by justices of the peace in Ireland. LXVIII. An Act for the management and improvement of the land revenues of the crown in Ireland, and for other purposes relating thereto. LXIX. An Act to provide for the relief of persons aggrieved by unlawful or excessive distresses in Ireland. LXX. An Act for enabling his Majesty to raise the sum of five hundred thousand pounds by exchequer bills, and for appropriating the supplies granted in this session of parliainent. LXXI. An Act to prevent arrests upon mesne process where the debt or cause of action is under twenty pounds; and to regulate the practice of arrests,

LXXII. An Act to amend the Acts for building and promoting the building of additional churches in populous parishes.

LXXIII. An Act to continue, until the thirty-first day of December, one thousand, eight hundred and twentynine, an Act of the fourth year of his present Majesty, for the better administration of justice in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land. LXXIV. An Act to carry into execution

a convention between his Majesty and the emperor of Brazil, for the regulation and final abolition of the African slave trade.

LXXV. An Act to appoint commission

ers for carrying into execution several Acts, granting an aid to his Majesty by a land-tax to be raised in Great Britain, and continuing to his Majesty certain duties on personal estates, offices, and pensions, in England.

PUBLIC ACTS

Of a Local and Personal Nature

to be noticed by the Courts.

i. An Act for building a church or
chapel of ease within the township
of Oulton-cum-Woodlesford, in the
parish of Rothwell, in the West
Riding of the county of York.
ii. An Act to enable the company of
proprietors of the Birmingham and
Liverpool junction canal navigation
to alter the line of the said naviga-
tion, and to make certain branches
therefrom, in the counties of Stafford
and Salop.

iii. An Act for enabling the company of
proprietors of the Nantlee railway to
raise a further sum of money, for
completing the said railway and other
works.

iv. An Act for making and maintaining

a turnpike road from Temple Normanton, in the parish of Chesterfield, to the Mansfield and Tibshelf turnpike road, at or near Tibshelf sidegate, in the county of Derby. v. An Act for making and maintaining

a road from Chappel's Corner, in the parish of Ashcott, to join the Bristol turnpike road at or near Rowberrowhill, all in the county of Somerset. vi. An Act for making and maintaining

a turnpike road from Godley-lane

head, near Halifax, to Northowramgreen, in the West Riding of the county of York.

vii. An Act for more effectually repairing and improving the roads from the north-west parts of the county of Lincoln, through Nettleham-fields, Wragby-lane, and Baumber-fields, to the north-east part of the said county, and other roads therein described, in the said county and in the city of Lincoln.

viii. An Act for more effectually repaiting, widening, and improving the road from Cosham in the county of Southampton to the city of Chiches

ter.

ix. An Act for more effectually repair
ing and maintaining the road from
Hulme
across the river Irwell,
through Salford, to Eccles, in the
county palatine of Lancaster, and a
branch of road communicating there-
with.

x. An Act for enabling the justices of
the peace for the county of Essex to
raise money for defraying certain ex-
penses incurred under an Act, passed
in the first year of the reign of his
present Majesty, intituled An Act for
building an additional gaol for the
county of Essex, and for enlarging,
improving, aud altering the existing
prisons for the same county; and for
amending the said Act, and for ex-
tending the powers thereof, and for
other purposes relating thereto.
xi. An Act to authorize the company of
proprietors of the Canterbury and
Whitstable railway to vary the line of
the railway, to raise a further sum of
money for completing their works,
and to alter and enlarge the powers
of the Act passed for making and
maintaining the said railway.
xii. An Act for more effectually repair-
ing several roads in and through his
Majesty's forest of Dean, and the
waste lands thereto belonging, in the
county of Gloucester, and in the
parishes of Newland, Awre, and
Lydney, in the said county, and for
making and maintaining several new
roads in and adjoining the said forest.
xiii. An Act for more effectually re-
pairing and maintaining the road
from Foxley Hatch, in the parish of
Croydon, into the town of Reigate, in
the county of Surrey.

xiv. An Act for more effectually im-
proving and keeping in repair the

several roads leading to and from the town of Barnstaple, in the county of Devon, and for making certain new lines of road to communicate with the

same.

xv. An Act for more effectually repairing and improving the roads from the Buck's-head at Watling-street, to Beckbury and the New Inn, and from the Birches-brook to the Hand-post in the parish of Kemberton; and for making a new branch of road from a place called Ball's-hill in the parish of Dawley, adjoining or near to the said roads, to or near to a place called Lawley, in the parish of Wellington; all in the county of Salop. xvi. An Act for more effectually repairing the roads from the city of Gloucester to the top of Birdlip-hill, and from the foot of the said hill to the top of Crickley-hill, in the county of Gloucester.

xvii. An Act for repairing the road from Alford to Boston, and from thence to Cowbridge, in the township of Frithville, in the county of Lincoln. xviii. An Act for more effectually amending and widening the roads from Penryn to Redruth, in the county of Cornwall; and for building a bridge over Penryn river. xix. An Act for more effectually repairing and improving the road from Shillingford, in the county of Oxford, through Wallingford and Pangborne, to Reading, in the county of Berks; and for repairing and maintaining a bridge over the river Thames at or near Shillingford Ferry.

xx. An Act to amend and enlarge the powers and provisions of an Act relating to the Heckbridge and Wentbridge railway.

xxi. An Act for amending and enlarging the powers and provisions of an Act relating to the Liverpool and Manchester railway.

xxii. An Act to remove doubts as to

the validity of life annuities granted or purchased by the Sun fire-office company.

xxiii. An Act for providing a further maintenance for the rector of the parish of Saint John, Horslydown, within the town and borough of Southwark, in the county of Surrey. xxiv. An Act to enable the Birmingham coal company to sue and be sued in the name of their secretary, or one of the members of the said company,

xxv. An Act for more effectually repairing and maintaining the road from Chapel-en-le-Frith to or near to Enterclough-bridge in the county of Derby, and other roads therein mentioned, in the said county of Derby, and in the county palatine of Chester. xxvi. An Act for repairing the roads from Warwick to Paddle Brook, in the parish of Stretton-on-the-Fosse, and from Warwick to Stratford-uponAvon, in the counties of Warwick and Worcester.

xxvii. An Act for more effectually repairing, and otherwise improving, the road from the east end of Chapel Bar, in Nottingham, to the new china works near Derby, and from the guide post in the parish of Lenton to Sawley Ferry, all in the counties of Nottingham and Derby.

xxviii. An Act for more effectually amending, widening, and maintaining the roads from the town of Bury, through Haslingden, to Blackburn and Whalley, and also from Portfield to Padiham, and for making, repairing, and improving other roads to communicate therewith, all in the county palatine of Lancaster.

xxix. An Act to alter and amend an Act of the tenth year of queen Anne, intituled An Act for erecting a workhouse in the city and county of the city of Norwich, for the better employment and maintaining of the poor there.

xxx. An Act to amend and enlarge the

powers of an Act passed in the fourth year of the reign of his present Majesty, for the rebuilding of London Bridge, and for improving and making suitable approaches thereto.

xxxi. An Act for erecting a bridge over the river Bure, from Runham to Great Yarmouth, in the county of Norfolk.

xxxii. An Act for explaining and amending three Acts for building a bridge across the river Clyde, from the city of Glasgow to the village of Gorbals; and for repairing, widening, and enlarging the old bridge across the said river, from the said city to the said village; and for other purposes therein mentioned. xxxiii. An Act to empower the commissioners of sewers for the city and liberty of Westminster, and part of the county of Middlesex, to purchase certain premises situate at the corner

[blocks in formation]

xxxiv. An Act for more effectually en-
larging and improving the harbours
of Peterhead, in the county of Aber-
deen.

xxxv. An Act to continue and amend
four Acts for the improvement of the
port and harbour of Drogheda, in the
county of the town of Drogheda, and
the counties of Louth and Meath.
xxxvi. An Act to extend the powers of
an Act of his present Majesty, for
supplying the town of Liverpool, in
the county palatine of Lancaster,
with water, to Harrington and Tox-
teth-park, in the said county.
xxxvii. An Act for better regulating the
supply of water in the town of Leek,
in the county of Stafford.
xxxviii. An Act for enabling the com-
pany of proprietors of the Portsea
Island waterworks to raise a further
sum of money; and for other pur-
poses relating to the said under-
taking.

xxxix. An Act to explain, amend, and

enlarge the powers and provisions of an Act made in the last session of parliament, intituled An Act for lighting, watching, cleansing, and otherwise improving the Camberwell new road, the Lambeth Wyke estate, and other places in the vicinity thereof, in the parishes of Lambeth, Camberwell, and Newington, in the county of Surrey.

xl. An Act to amend an Act for enlarg ing the powers of the company of merchants of the city of Edinburgh. xli. An Act for improving and supporting the navigation of the river Brue, from the mouth thereof, at its junetion with the river Parrett, to Cripps's house, and for making and constructing a canal from thence to the town of Glastonbury, in the county of Somerset.

xlii. An Act for making and maintaining a navigable communication for ships and other vessels between the city of Norwich and the sea, at or near Lowestoft, in the county of Suffolk.

xliii. An Act for forming a carriage road or drive round the park or public green of Glasgow; and for the better regulation of the fire-places

and chimnies of steam-engines and other works in the said city and suburbs.

xliv. An Act for more effectually improving Golden-square, in the parish of Saint James, Westminster, in the county of Middlesex.

xlv. An Act for paving, gravelling, and otherwise improving certain streets and places on the east side of Kentish town, in the parish of Saint Pancras, in the county of Middlesex.

xlvi. An Act for removing the corn, hay, and cattle markets of the town of Sheffield, in the West Riding of the county of York; for erecting a corn exchange and improving the market places, and regulating the fairs and markets of the said town, and erecting a bridge there over the river Dun.

xlvii. An Act for improving the drain-
age of part of the south level of the
fens within the great level commonly
called Bedford Level, and the navi-
gation of the rivers passing through
the same, in the counties of Cam-
bridge, Suffolk, and Norfolk, and in
the Isle of Ely.

xlviii. An Act for maintaining and re-
pairing the public drains, bridges,
and highways, on certain extraparo-
chial lands formerly called Sinfin
Moor, in the county of Derby.
xlix. An Act for dividing, inclosing,
and exonerating from tithes the open
and common fields, meadows, pas-
tures, fens, ings, and waste lands in
the parish of Washingborough, in the
county of Lincoln, and township of
Heighington, in the same parish; and
also for embanking, draining, and
improving certain lauds within the
same parish and township.

1. An Act for more effectually repairing
and otherwise improving the road
from the north side of Cavendish-
bridge in the county of Derby, to the
town of Derby, and from the said
town to the guide-post on Hulland
Ward in the same county.

li. An Act for amending, improving, and maintaining in repair the road between the point at which the great roads from the city of Carlisle to the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow respectively separate, and Westlintonbridge, in the county of Cumberland. lii. An Act for more effectually repairing the road from Speenhamland in the county of Berks, to Marlborough

in the county of Wilts, so far as relates, to the Marlborough district of the said road.

liii. An Act for more effectually repairing and maintaining the road from Whitby to Middleton, in the county of York.

liv. An Act for repairing the road from

Dunchurch to Hillmorton, in the county of Warwick, and from thence to Saint James's End, in the parish of Duston, in the county of Northampton. Iv. An Act for making and maintaining a road from Hollinwood to Little. borough, and other roads communicating therewith, in the county of Lancaster.

Ivi. An Act for repairing the road from the High Bridge in Spalding to Tydd Goat in the county of Lincoln, and other roads in the same county. Ivii. An Act for more effectually amending and improving the road from hawtry-bridge in the county of Nottingham, to Hainton in the county of Lincoln, and other roads therein mentioned.

lviii. An Act for amending, repairing, and maintaining the turnpike road from Rotherham to Swinton, in the West Riding of the county of York. lix. An Act for repairing the road from Blackburn in the county palatine of Lancaster, to Addingham and Cocking End, in the West Riding of the county of York; and for making and maintaining a new road from Old Accrington to the Burnley and Rochdale turnpike-road in Habergham Eaves, in the said county of Lancaster, and a branch therefrom.

1x. An Act for continuing the term and altering and enlarging the powers of several Acts for repairing the roads from the Stone Pillar on Alconburyhill to Wansford-bridge, and from Norman Cross to Peterborough-bridge, all in the county of Huntingdon. lxi. An Act for more effectually repairing the roads leading from Romsey to Stockbridge and Wallop, and other roads therein mentioned, in the county of Southampton. lxii. An Act for more effectually repairing and improving the road from Frodsham to the south end of Wilderspool Causeway, within Appleton, in the county palatine of Chester; and for making and maintaining a certain extension or new branch of road to communicate therewith,

lxiii. An Act for more effectually repairing the road from Rochdale, through Bamford and Birtle, to Bury, and several other roads therein mentioned, all in the county Palatine of Lancaster.

lxiv. An Act for more effectually repairing and improving the road from Standedge in Saddleworth in the county of York to Oldham in the county of Lancaster, and other roads in the said county of York, and for making and maintaining two new branches to communicate therewith. lxv. An Act for more effectually repairing the road leading from the town of Kilcullen in the county of Kildare to the town of Carlow. Ixvi. An Act for repairing and im

proving the road from Dublin, by Ashbourne, to Slane and Drogheda. Ixvii. An Act for repairing the road from Barton Waterside House to Riseham Hedge Corner, and other roads in the county of Lincoln connected therewith.

Ixviii. An Act for more effectually repairing and otherwise improving the road from the end of Ardwick Green, near Manchester, in the county palatine of Lancaster, to Hyde Lane Bridge in the county palatine of Chester.

Ixix. An Act for repairing the road leading from Ealand to the town of Leeds in the West Riding of the

county of York.

1xx. An Act for more effectually making, amending, and improving the road from Buck Stones to Barkisland School, at the Highway leading from Ripponden to Stainland; and for making and maintaining an extension of the said road to join the Halifax and Huddersfield turnpike road at the south end of Elland Bridge, and a branch therefrom; all in the West Riding of the county of York. xxi. An Act for making and maintaining a road from the town of Northampton in the county of Northampton to Cold Brayfield in the county of Buckingham.

lxxii. An Act to alter, amend, and

enlarge the powers and provisions of an Act relating to the road from Barnsdale through Pontefract, to Thwaite Gate, near Leeds, and also an Act relating to the road from Leeds to Wakefield, in the West Riding of the county of York,

« AnteriorContinuar »