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PART II.-CLASS VI.
Acts for Conveyances by Infants, Lunatics, &c.
[ No. I. ] 1 W. IV. c. 65.-An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws relat-
ing to Property belonging to Infants, Femes Covert, Idiots, Lunatics, and Persons
of unsound Mind.
146
PART II.-CLASS VII.
Fraudulent Conveyances.
See the 3 & 4 W. 1V. c. 27, s. 26, Part IV. Class 8, Limitations. ]
PART. II.-CLASS VIII.
Leases.
[See Part II. Class 12, Land Revenue of the Crown; see also Part IV. Class 19,
Distress.]
PART II-CLASS IX.
Uses.
[There has been no recent statute upon this subject. ]
PART II.-CLASS X.
Fines and Recoveries.
[No. I. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 74.-An Act for the Abolition of Fines and Recoveries,
and for the Substitution of more simple Modes of Assurance
159
PART II.-CLASS XI.
Wills.
[See Part III. Class XIII. Executors.]
PART II.-CLASS XII.
Land Revenue of the Crown.
[No. 1.] 1 and 2 W IV. c. 5.-An Act to enable his Majesty to make Leases,
Copies, and Grants of Offices, Lands, and Hereditaments, Parcel of the Duchy of
Cornwall, or annexed to the same. 188
[ No. II. ] 1 & 2 W. IV. c. 12.-An Act for ascertaining the Boundaries of the
Forest of Dean, and for inquiring into the Rights and Privileges claimed by Free
Miners of the Hundred of Saint Briavel's and for other Purposes.
190
[No. III. ] 1 & 2 W. IV. c. 29.-An Act to authorize and empower the Commis-
sioners appointed by an Act of the Seventh Year of his late Majesty King George
the Fourth, for extending to Charing Cross, the Strand, and places adjacent, the
Powers of an Act for making a more convenient communication from Mary-le-bone
Park, to make and form a new Street from the Strand to Charles Street, Covent
Garden, and to widen the North End of Bow Street into Long Acre; and for
other Purposes.
195
[ No. IV. ] 2 W. 4, c. 1.-An Act for uniting the Office of the Surveyor General of
his Majesty's Works and Public Buildings with the Office of the Commissioners
of his Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues; and for other Purposes
relating to the Land Revenues.
202
[ No. V. ] 2 W. IV. c. 3.-An Act to authorize the Application of Part of the Land
Revenue of the Crown for the Completion of the Repair and Improvement of
Buckingham Palace.
210
[ No. VI. ] 2 & 3 W. IV. c 112.-An Act to authorize the Hereditary Land Reve-
nues of the Crown in Scotland being placed under the Management of the Com-
missioners of the Land Revenues.
212
[ No. VII. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 38.-An Act to extend to the Twenty-first Day of
January One thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, and to the End of the then
next Session of Parliament, the Time for carrying into execution an Act of the First
and Second Years of his present Majesty, for ascertaining the Boundaries of the
Forest of Dean, and for inquiring into the Rights and priviliges claimed by Free
Miners of the Hundred of Saint Briavel's, and for other purposes.
213
[ No. VIII. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 69.-An Act to extend and enlarge the Powers of
the Commissioners of his Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and
Buildings, in relation to the Management and Disposition of the Land Revenue of
the Crown in Scotland.
214
[ No. IX. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 81.-An Act to authorize the Application of Part of
the Land Revenue of the Crown for providing Fixtures, Furniture, Fittings, and
Decorations for Buckingham Palace.
223
[ No. X. ] 4 & 5 W. IV. c. 59.-An Act to extend the Term of an Act of the First
and Second years of his present Majesty, for ascertaining the Boundaries of the
Miners of the Hundred of Saint Briavel's, to the Twenty-first Day of January,
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, and from thence to the end of the then
next Session of Parliament.
225
[ No. XI. ] 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 58.-An Act to amend the Acts relating to the Here-
ditary Land Revenues of the Crown in Scotland. . 226
PART III.
PERSONAL PROPERTY AND CONTRACTS.
CLASS I.
Patents, Literary Property, Property in Prints, Busts, and Patents of
Manufactures.
No. I. 3 W. IV. c. 15.—An Act to amend the Laws relating to Damatic Lite-
rary Property.
228
[ No. II. ] 5 & 6 W. 4, c. 65.-An Act for preventing the publication of Lectures
without consent.
230
[ No. III. ] 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 83.--An Act to amend the Law touching Letters Pa-
tent for Inventions.
231
PART III.-CLASS II.
Trade, Navigation, Shipowners, Mariners, and Fisheries.
234
[No. 1. ] 11 G. IV. & 1 W. IV. c. 45. An Act to subject to Duties of Customs
Goods the property of the Crown, in case of Sale after Importation.
[No. II. ] 11 G. IV. & 1 W. IV. c. 54.-An Act to revive, continue, and amend
several Acts relating to the Fisheries.
ib.
[No. III. ] 11 G. IV. & 1 W. IV. c. 72.-An Act to allow, before the Fifth day of
July one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, Sugar to be delivered out of
Warehouse to be refined. 238
[ No. IV. ] 1 W. IV. c. 24.-An Act to amend an Act of the Sixth year of his late
Majesty to regulate the Trade of the British Possessions abroad.
[ No. V. ] 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 79.-An Act to continue, until the Thirty-first day of
December One thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, an Act of the Fifth year of
his late Majesty relating to the Fisheries in Newfoundland. (5 G. IV. c. 51.) ib.
[No. VI. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 28.-An Act to repeal an Act of the Thirteenth year
of his Majesty King George the First, for the better regulation of the Woollen
Trade.
239
[ No. VII. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 9.-An Act for incorporating the Members of a So-
ciety commonly called The Seaman's Hospital Society" and their Successors, as
therein is mentioned and provided, and for the better enabling and empowering
them to carry on the charitable and useful Designs of the same Society.
[ No. VIII. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 50.-An Act to repeal the several Laws relating to
the Customs.
[ No. IX. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 51.-An Act for the management of the Customs. ib.
No. X. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 52.-An Act for the general Regulation of Customs. ib.
No. XI.] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 53. —An Act for the Prevention of Smuggling. ib.
No. XII. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 54-An Act for the Encouragement of British Ship- ping and Navigation. ib.
[ No. XIII. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 55.-An Act for the Registering of British vessels. 243
No. XIV. 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 56.—An Act for granting Duties of Customs. 260
[No. XV. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 57.-An Act for the Warehousing of Goods. ib.
[No. XVI.] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 58.-An Act to grant certain Bounties and Allow-
ances of Customs.
[ No. XVII. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 59. An Act to regulate the Trade of the British
Possessions abroad.
261
[ No. XVIII. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 60.—An Act for regulating the Trade of the Isle
of Man. ib.
[ No. XIX. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 61.-An Act to admit Sugar without Payment of
Duty to be refined for Exportation.
[ No. XX. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 38.-An Act to continue for Seven Years, and from
thence to the end of the then next Session of Parliament, an Act of the Fifty-ninth
Year of King George the Third (59 G. III. c. 58), for facilitating the Recovery of
the Wages of Seamen in the Merchants Service. ib.
[ No. XXI. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 93.-An Act to regulate the Trade to China and
India.
262
[ No. XXII. ] 4 & 5 W. IV. c. 13.—An Act to repeal so much of an Act of the
last Session of Parliament for the Prevention of Smuggling as authorizes Magistrates
to sentence Persons convicted of certain offences to serve His Majesty in his Naval
Service, and to alter and amend the said Act.
265
[ No. XXIII. ] 4 & 5 W. IV. c. 32.—An Act for reducing the Tonnage Rates
payable in the Port of London.
[ No. XXIV. ] 4 & 5 W. IV. c. 34.-An Act to repeal the Laws relating to the
Contribution out of Merchant Seamen's Wages towards the support of the Royal
Naval Hospital at Greenwich, and for supplying other Funds in lieu thereof. ib.
[ No. XXV. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 51.-An Act to amend the Laws relating to the
Collection and Management of the Revenue of Excise.
267
[ No. XXVI. ] 4 & 5 W. IV. c. 52.-An Act to amend an Act of the Twentieth
Year of His Majesty King George the Second, for the Relief and Support of sick,
maimed, and disabled Seamen, and the Widows and Children of such as shall be
killed, slain, or drowned in the Merchant Service; and for other Purposes. ib.
[ No. XXVII. ] 4 & 5 W. IV. c. 89.-An Act to amend the Laws relating to
284
[ No. XXVIII. ] 4 & 5 W. IV. c. 94.-An Act to enable His Majesty to invest
trading and other Companies with the Powers necessary for the due Conduct of their
Affairs, and for the Security of the Rights and Interests of their Creditors. ib.
[ No. XXIX. ] 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 13.-An Act to regulate the importation of Corn
into the Isle of Man.
286
[ No. XXX. ] 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 19.-An Act to amend and consolidate the Laws
relating to the Merchant Seamen of the United Kingdom and for forming and
maintaining a Register of all the Men engaged in that Service.
[ No. XXXI. ] 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 24.-An Act for the Voluntary Enlistment of
Seamen, and to make Regulations for more effectually Manning His Majesty's
Navy. 306
[ No. XXXII. ] 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 53.-An Act to repeal an Act of the Ninth Year
of his late Majesty for regulating the Carriage of Passengers in Merchant Vessels
from the United Kingdom to the British Possessions on the Continent and Islands
of North America: and to make further Provision for regulating the Carriage of
Passengers from the United Kingdom. ib.
[ No. XXXIII. ] 5 & 6 W. c. 56.--An Act to regulate the Admeasurement of the
Tonnage and Burthen of the Merchant Shipping of the United Kingdom 311
[ No. XXXIV. ] 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 66.-An Act to amend the Law relating to the
Customs.
313
[ No. XXXV. ] 5 & 6. W. IV. c. 67.—Ân Act for the improvement of the Navi-
gation of the River Shannon
PART III-CLASS III.
Insurance.
[ 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 53, s. 46. ]
PART III-CLASS IV.
Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes.
[No. I. ] 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 98.-An Act for regulating the protesting for Nonpay-
ment of Bills of Exchange drawn payable at a Place not being the Place of the
Residence of the Drawee or Drawees of the same.
314
[No. II. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 83.-An Act to compel Banks issuing Promissory
Notes payable to Bearer on Demand to make Returns of their Notes in Circula-
tion, and to authorize Banks to issue Notes payable in London for less than Fifty Pounds. ib.
[No. III. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 98.-An Act for giving to the Corporation of the
Governor and Company of the Bank of England certain privileges for a limited
Period, under certain Conditions.
315
PART III.-CLASS V.
Usury.
[ No. I. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 98, s. 7. (Act renewing the Bank Charter.). 321
[No. II.] 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 41.-An Act to amend the Law relating to Securities
given for Considerations arising out of gaming, usurious, and certain other illegal
Transactions.
PART III.-CLASS VI.
Annuities.
[No. I. ] 10 G. IV. c. 24.-An Act to enable the Commissioners for the Reduc-
tion of the National Debt to grant Life Annuities and Annuities for Terms of
Years. 325
[ No. II. ] 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 59.-An Act to transfer the Management of certain
Annuities on Lives from the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer to the Manage-
ment of the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt; and to amend
an Act for enabling the said Commissioners to grant Life Annuities and Annuities
for Terms of Years.
341
:
[There has been no statute on this subject since 7 G. 2, c. 8, made perpetual by the
10 Geo. II. c. 8.
PART III.-CLASS IX.
Sales of Offices.
[No. I. ] 6 G. IV. c. 82.-An Act to abolish the Sale of Offices in the Court of
King's Bench in England, to make Provision for the Lord Chief Justice of the said
Court, and to grant an additional Annuity to the said Lord Chief Justice on Resig-
nation of his Office.
349
[ No. II. ] 6 G. IV. c. 83.—An Act to abolish the Sale of Offices in the Court of
Common Pleas in England, to make Provision for the Lord Chief Justice of the
said Court, and to grant an additional Annuity to the said Lord Chief Justice on
Resignation of his Office. 350
PART III.-CLASS XI
Transfer of Stock.
[ No. I. ] 11 G. IV. c. 13.-An Act for transferring certain Annuities of Four
Pounds per centum per annum, into Annuities of Three Pounds and Ten Shil-
lings or Five Pounds per centum per annum.
353
[ No. II. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 31.-An Act for transferring certain Annuities of Four
lings per centum per annum; and for providing for paying off the Persons who
may dissent to such Transfer. ib.
[No. III. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 24.-An Act to amend an Act of the Tenth Year of
his late Majesty, for regulating the Reduction of the National Debt.
PART III.-CLASS XII
Restitution of Stolen Property.
[The 7 & 8 G. IV. c. 59, s. 57, is the last provision on this subject. ]
PART III-CLASS XIII.
Executors and Administrators.
356
[ No. I. ] 1 W. IV. c. 40.-An Act for making better Provision for the Disposal of
the undisposed of Residues of the Effects of Testators.
[ No. 11. ] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 42.-An Act for the further amendment of the Law,
and the better advancement of Justice.