CAP. 39. 46 & 47VICT. any debt, penalty, obligation, liability, claim, or demand, -or any indemnity, or the proof of any past act or thing: Short title. nor shall this Act affect any principle or rule of law or equity, or established jurisdictiou, form or course of pleading, practice, or procedure, or existing usage, franchise, liberty, custom, privilege, restriction, exemption, office, appointment, payment, allowance, emolument, or benefit, notwithstanding that the same respectively may have been in any manner affirmed, recognised, or derived by, in, or from any enactment hereby repealed; nor shall this Act revive or restore any jurisdiction, office, duty, drawback, fee, payment, franchise, liberty, custom, right, title, privilege, restriction, exemption, usage, practice, procedure, or other matter or thing not now existing or in force; and this Act shall not extend to repeal any enactment so far as the same may be in force in any part of Her Majesty's Dominions out of the United Kingdom, except where otherwise expressed in the said schedule. 2. This Act may be cited as the Statute Law Revision Act, 1883. SCHEDULE. A description or citation of a portion of an Act is inclusive of the words, section, or other part, first or last mentioned, or otherwise referred to as forming the beginning, or as forming the end, of the portion comprised in the description or citation. 33 & 34 Vict. c. 19. in part. 34 & 35 Vict. c. 3. in part. c. 78. in part. 36 & 37 Vict. c. 48. in part. 37 & 38 Vict. c. 40. in part. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 31. An Act to amend "The Railway 46 & 47VICT. namely, Section 2; Section 4, An Act to empower Committees on An Act to make better provision for An Act the title of which begins with Short title. Continuance of Acts in schedule. EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE ACT, 1883. 46 & 47 Vict. cap. 40. An Act to continue [25th August, 1883.] WHEREAS the several Acts mentioned in column one of the schedule to this Act are, to the extent specified in column two of that schedule, limited to expire on the thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three: And whereas it is expedient to provide for the continuance as in this Act mentioned of such Acts, and of the enactments amending the same: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as the Expiring Laws Continuance Act, 1883. 2. The Acts mentioned in column one of the schedule to the Act, in so far as they are temporary in their duration, shall, to the extent in column two of the said schedule mentioned, be continued until the thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, and any enactments amending or affecting the enactments continued by this Act shall, in so far as they are temporary in their duration, be continued in like manner. TRAMWAYS AND PUBLIC COMPANIES 46 & 47 Vict. cap. 43. An Act for promoting Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, 11. The Lord Lieutenant in Council may by Pro- Power to visional Order empower any railway company to con- railway tribute towards the cost of the construction of any to subscribe companies tramway to be made under the powers of this Act towards such sum of money by way of loan, subscription for tramways shares, or otherwise, as may be agreed upon between Act. the railway company and the promoters of the tram way. Such Order in Council shall only be made where the railway company establishes, to the satisfaction of the Lord Lieutenant in Council, that a copy of the Provisional Order as applied for by the railway company has been submitted to the proprietors of the company, at a meeting held specially for that purpose, as if such Order were a Bill promoted in Parliament by the Company, and that all matters and things have been done and have happened, and all times have elapsed, which if such Order were a Bill so promoted as aforesaid should have been done and have happened and elapsed in order to constitute compliance with the Standing Orders of Parliament applicable to Bills promoted by railway companies for the like purposes to those referred to in this section. Such Order in Council shall not take effect unless confirmed by Parliament if a petition against it is presented to the Lord Lieutenant in Council, and the petitioner appears and proceeds therewith. 46 & 47 VICT. c. 43. i. under this TRAMWAYS AND PUBLIC COMPANIES (IRE- 47 & 48 Vict. Cap. 28. An Act to amend the 1883. WHEREAS divers presentments have been passed by the grand juries of several counties in Ireland approving of the making of certain light railways and trainways and guaranteeing dividends upon the paid-up capital necessary for the said undertakings, as defined by the 46 & 47 Vict. Tramways and Public Companies (Ireland) Act, 1883: c. 43. Power to sentment. And whereas it appears from the schedules of applications, resolutions, and other records of the said grand juries what were the maximum sums upon which such dividends were intended to have been guaranteed, but such amounts have been by mistake omitted from several of such presentments, which by reason of such omission have been held to be invalid: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. It shall be lawful for the several grand juries amend pre- assembled at the summer assizes one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four to amend the presentments so passed in respect of and approving of the making of the several light railways and tramways respectively specified in the Schedule hereto by stating in such presentments respectively the respective amounts for which the same respectively were passed, and such presentments when amended shall be deemed to be presentments validly passed; and all proceedings before the Lord Lieutenant in Council or otherwise may be taken and carried on for the purpose of confirming the same and making Orders in Council founded thereon, as if the same had originally been valid presentments. Notice of 2. Notice of the intention to apply to any grand jury application. under this Act shall be given by inserting at least one advertisement in a newspaper circulating in the county to which such application shall relate, and by posting |