ix. An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the Glasgow Corporation Waterworks to raise a further Sum of Money; and to amend "The Glasgow Corporation Waterworks x. An Act for reviving the Powers and extending the Time xi. An Act to grant further Powers to "The Banff, Macduff, and Turriff Junction Railway Company," and to change xii. An Act to enable the Formartine and Buchan Railway Ibid. xiv. An Act for transferring the Government of the new Limits of the Harbour of Whitehaven in the County of Cumberland to the Harbour Trustees; for making better Provision for the Election of Trustees; and for the Altera- tion of certain Rates and Duties payable in respect of the said Harbour and in the Town of Whitehaven. xv. An Act for regulating the Capital and Borrowing Powers xvi. An Act for making Docks and other Works in Fal- mouth Harbour in the County of Cornwall; and for other xvii. An Act to enable the Magistrates and Council of the Ibid. xix. An Act to authorize the Abandonment of the Foss Navigation from a Point about Two hundred Yards above the York Union Workhouse near the City of York; to alter, xx. An Act to authorize the Mersey Docks and Harbour Ibid. after called "The Accidental Death Insurance Company;" and for other Purposes. Page 135 xxiii. An Act for making a Railway from the Cork and Bandon Railway to the Town of Kinsale in the County of Cork, with a Branch Railway or Tramway to Kinsale Harbour; and for other Purposes. Ibid. xxiv. An Act for building and maintaining a Pier in the Harbour of Fishguard in the County of Pembroke, and making and constructing a Road and Quay in extension of the present Quay in the Town of Fishguard, and deepening and otherwise improving the said Harbour. 136 xxv. An Act for changing the Name of "The People's Provident Assurance Society" to the Name "The European Assurance Society ;" and for authorizing the taking of the Guarantee of the Society instead of other Security required from Persons in Public Offices and Employments; and for other Purposes. Ibid. 138 xxvi. An Act to enable the Scarborough Gas Company to raise a further Sum of Money; and for other Purposes. 137 xxvii. An Act for making further Provisions with respect to the Standard Life Assurance Company. xxviii. An Act to enable the East Suffolk Railway Company to extend their Railway to Aldborough in the County of Suffolk; and for other Purposes. Ibid. xxix. An Act to extend the Time for the Completion of certain Works of the Victoria (London) Dock Company; and for other Purposes. 139 xxx. An Act to grant further Powers to the Commercial Dock Company. Ibid. xxxi. An Act to enable the Ballymena, Ballymoney, Coleraine, and Portrush Junction Railway Company to make a Junction Railway at Coleraine. Ibid. xxxii. An Act for making further Provision for the better Supply of Water to the Borough of King's Lynn and adjacent Districts; for regulating the Markets and Fairs of the Borough; for the Improvement and Regulation of the Borough; and for other Purposes. 140 xxxiii. An Act for constructing Market Houses and other Buildings, and making Market Places, and for better regulating and maintaining the Markets and Fairs, in or near the Town of Tavistock; and for opening a new Street and otherwise improving the said Town; and for other Purposes. 142 xxxiv. An Act to grant further Powers to the Leominster and Kington Railway Company. 143 xxxv. An Act to facilitate the Communication between the Great Northern Railway and the North London Railway ; to improve the Station of the Great Northern Railway at King's Cross; and to enable the Great Northern Railway Company to make Arrangements with regard to certain Parts of their Capital and that of the East Lincolnshire Railway Company. Ibid. 1. PRIVATE ACT, PRINTED BY THE QUEEN'S PRINTER, AND WHEREOF THE PRINTED COPY MAY BE GIVEN IN EVIDENCE. ΑΝ N Act to authorize Charles Frederick Clifton Esquire and the Lady Edith Maud his Wife, and their Issue, to assume and bear the Surnames of "Abney Hastings" in lieu of the Surname of Clifton, and to bear the Arms of "Abney" and "Hastings," in compliance with the Condition contained in a Settlement made by Sir Charles Abney Hastings Baronet, deceased, of certain Estates in the Counties of Derby and Leicester. Page 146 PRIVATE ACT, NOT PRINTED. 2. An Act to enable Thomas Augustus Purdy Clerk to exercise his Office of Priest and to hold any Benefice or Preferment in the United Church of England and Ireland. THE STATUTES AT LARGE. Anno Regni VICTORIÆ, Britanniarum Reginæ, T the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the Twentieth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith: And from thence continued, by several Prorogations, to the Third Day of February 1859; being the Third Session of the Seventeenth Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 'Ireland.' CA P. I. An Act more effectually to prevent Danger to the Public WHEREAS by Section Twenty-three of an Act passed in W the Session holden in the Twentieth and Twenty-first 20 & 21 Vict. Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Eighty-one, "to amend the c. 81. Burial Acts," it was enacted that it should be lawful for Her Majesty, upon the Representation of One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, by and with the Advice of Her Privy Council, from Time to Time to order such Acts to be done by or under the Directions of the Churchwardens or such other Persons as might have the Care of any Vaults or Places of Burial, for preventing them from becoming or continuing dangerous or injurious to the Public Health; and such Churchwardens or other Persons should do or cause to be done all Acts ordered as aforesaid, and the Expenses incurred in and about the doing thereof should be paid out of the Poor Rates of the Parish: And whereas it is expedient to amend the said Enactment as herein-after mentioned:' Be it 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: I. Where it appears to One of Her Majesty's Principal Secre- Where Persons taries of State, on the Representation of any Person authorized by having the Care 22 VICT. B him of a Place of Burial neglect to comply with Order in Coun cil, the Churchwardens may act in their Stead. Burial Places. Anniversary Days Observance. him to inspect any Vaults or Place of Burial in relation to which an Order in Council has been or shall have been issued under the said recited Enactment, that any Acts which by such Order in Council are ordered to be done by or under the Direction of Persons other than Churchwardens having the Care of such Vaults or Place of Burial are not done or performed within a reasonable Time, and according to the Intent of such Order in Council, it shall be lawful for such Secretary of State, by Writing under his Hand, to authorize and direct the Churchwardens of the Parish in which such Vaults or Place of Burial may be situate forthwith to do or complete the Acts in such Order in Council mentioned, or such of them as remain undone, and such Order of the Secretary of State shall be obeyed by such Churchwardens, and they and all Persons acting under their Direction shall have the same Power of entering and doing all such Acts upon the Premises to which the Order in Council relates as if the said Acts had by the Order in Council been directed to be done by such Churchwardens, and such Vaults or Place of Burial had been under their Care; and any Person who shall obstruct such Churchwardens or any others acting under their Direction in relation to the Premises, or remove or interfere with the Works done by such Churchwardens, shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor. II. This Act shall be read together with the said Act of the cited Act to be Twentieth and Twenty-first Years of Her Majesty and the Burial as One. Acts therein mentioned as One Act. This and re CA P. II. Enactments for the Observance of the 30th January, 29th May, 5th No. vember, and 23d October, repealed. An Act to repeal certain Acts and Parts of Acts which I. The several Acts and Parts of Acts mentioned in the Schedule to this Act, and every other Enactment now in force which may be read or construed as requiring the Observance of the Thirtieth Day of January, the Twenty-ninth Day of May, the Fifth Day of November, and the Twenty-third Day of October respectively, as Anniversary Days, or the Use of any special Services of the Church for those Days respectively, shall be and the same are hereby repealed. SCHE |