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the governor and company of the Bank of Ireland, for the convenience of the public, and for defraying the expence of exchanging such tokens. XCIX. An Act to repeal an Act of the last session of parliament relative to the forming tables of manors, parishes, and townlands in Ireland, and to make provision for ascertaining the boundaries of the same. C. An Act to extend the powers of an Act for vesting in commissioners the bridges building over the Menia Straits and the river Conway, and the harbours of Howth and Holyhead, and the road from Dublin to Howth; and for the further improvement of the road from London to Holyhead.

CI. An Act to provide for the repairing, maintaining, and keeping in repair certain roads and bridges in Ireland.

CII. An Act to amend the laws respecting deserted children in Ireland.

CIII. An Act to enable the principal officers and commissioners of his majesty's Navy to acquire certain portions of the docks and shore ground at Leith for a naval yard, and to enable the commissioners of the treasury to advance a certain sum of money on the security of the docks and of the harbour of Leith. CIV. An Act to repeal certain duties of customs, and to grant other duties in lieu thereof; to continue until the fifth day of July 1826, the bounties on refined sugar; and to alter the bounty on cordage. CV. An Act to repeal the several laws relating to the customs. CVI. An Act for the management of the customs.

CVII. An Act for the general regulation of the customs.

CVIII. An Act for the prevention of smuggling.

CIX. An Act for the encouragement

of British shipping and Navigation. CX. An Act for the registering of British vessels.

CXI. An Act for granting duties of

customs.

CXII. An Act for the warehousing of goods.

CXIII. An Act to grant certain bounties and allowances of customs. CXIV. An Act to regulate the trade of the British possessions abroad.

CXV. An Act for regulating the trade of the isle of Man. CXVI. An Act for regulating vessels carrying passengers to foreign parts. CXVII. An Act to repeal the excise duties and drawbacks on flint glass in Great Britain, and to impose other duties and another drawback in lieu thereof, throughout the United Kingdom; and to continue the jurisdiction and powers for recover ing penalties under customs and excise laws in Ireland, until further provisions can be made. CXVIII. An Act to transfer the collection and management of the du ties on gold and silver plate in Ireland, and also on certain licences in Great Britain and Ireland respectively, from the commissioners of excise to the commissioners of stamps in Great Britain and Ireland respectively; and to repeal so much of an Act as requires excise stamps to be affixed on papers and pots containing cocoa paste. CXIX. An Act to allow newspapers to be printed upon paper of a larger size than is now allowed; and to reduce the stamp duties now payable upon supplements to newspapers and other papers in Great Britain. CXX. An Act for the better regu. lating of the forms of process in the courts of law in Scotland. CXXI. An Act to enable the insolvent debtors court to dispense, until the end of the next session of parliament, with the necessity of prisoners residing within the walls in certain cases.

CXXII. An Act for the better regulation of the linen and hempen manufactures of Ireland.

CXXIII. An Act to establish a taxation of costs on private bills in the House of Commons; and to prohibit the sale of certain offices under the serjeant at arms attending the House of Commons.

CXXIV. An Act for making the four districts in the parish of St. Maryle-bone, in the county of Middlesex, district rectories for certain purposes.

CXXV. An Act for the amendment of the law respecting pilots and pilotage; and also for the better preservation of floating lights, buoys,

and beacons.

CXXVI. An Act to make provision

Scotland for the further prevention of malicious shooting, and attempt ing to discharge loaded fire arms, stabbing, cutting, wounding, poison ing, maiming, disfiguring, and disabling his majesty's subjects. CXXVII. An Act for making further provision by law for the protection of property in orchards, gardens, and nursery grounds. CXXVIII. An Act to enable the commissioners of his majesty's treasury to advance out of the consolidated fund certain sums for the payment of debts due from the commissioners of Wide streets, and for the erecting a corn exchange in the city of Dublin; and to repeal certain duties on licences relating to cards and clubs in the city of Dublin. CXXIX. ́An Act to repeal the laws relating to the combination of workmen, and to make other provisions in lieu thereof.

CXXX. An Act to alter and amend

the law as to church rates in Ireland, and to regulate the same. CXXXI. An Act to regulate the mode in which certain societies or copartnerships in Scotland may sue and be sued.

CXXXII. An Act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing the forest of Salcey, in the counties of Northampton and Buckingham, and of certain lands in the parish of Hartwell in the said county of Northampton. CXXXIII, An Act to amend and explain an Act of the fifty-fifth year of his late majesty, for better regulating the practice of Apothecaries throughout England and Wales. CXXXIV. An Act for applying the surplus of the grants of the year 1824 to the service of the year 1825; and for further appropriating the supplies granted in this session of parliament.

PUBLIC ACTS

Of a Local and Personal Nature,

to be noticed by the Courts.

i. An Act for more effectually repairing and otherwise improving the road from the town of Derby to the town of Uttoxeter in the county of Stafford, and for making and main. VOL. LXVII.

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iii. An Act for making and maintaining a turnpike road from the turnpike road called Wellington bridge road, near the town of Leeds, in the West Riding of the county of York, to the turnpike road leading from Wakefield to Bradford, in the said Riding, near a certain place called Tonglane End, in the lordship or liberty of Tong, in the parish of Birstal, in the Riding aforesaid, with several branch roads therefrom.

iv. An Act for building a bridge and making a causeway and turnpike road from or near Grigg's-quay, in the parish of Uny Lelant, over Hale river and Sands, in the parish of St. Erth, to Carnsew-quay, through Hayle Foundery, in the said parish of St. Erth, and Pen Poll, in the parish of Phillack, all in the county of Cornwall.

v.

An Act for lighting, cleansing, watching, and improving the township of Ardwick in the county of Lancaster, and for regulating the police thereof.

vi. An Act for paving, lighting, watching cleansing, regulating, and improving the town of Stroud in the county of Gloucester.

vii. An Act for more effectually repairing the roads from the turnpike road upon Gatherley Moor in the county of York to Straindrop in the county of Durham, and from the said turnpike road near Smallways, across the river Tees, to Winston in the said county of Durham. viii. An Act for repairing the road leading from Bridgnorth to Shiffnall otherwise Idsall, in the county of Salop. ix. An Act for enlarging the term and powers of several Acts passed for repairing the high road from Boroughbridge in the county of York to Catterick in the same county, and from thence to Piersbridge on the river Tees.

x.

An Act for repairing the road Y.

from Hinckley in the county of Leicester to Nuneaton in the county of Warwick, and from thence to Bishop's-gate in the city of Coventry.

xi. An Act for making and maintaining a turnpike road from Midhurst, in the county of Sussex, to the London and Portsmouth turnpike road, between the fifty-second and fiftythird mile-stones near Sheet bridge, in the county of Southampton. xii. An Act for making and maintainaturnpike road from Kirkby Stephen, in the county of Westmoreland, into the Sedberg and Kerby Kendal turnpike road, and out of and from the same turnpike road to Hawes in the North Riding of the county of York; and a new branch from Hawes aforesaid to the village of Gayle in the township of Hawes.

xiii. An Act for repairing the road from Stockton to Barnard Castle in the county of Durham. xiv. An Act for making and maintaining a turnpike road from the city of Winchester to the town of Petersfield in the county of Southampton. xv. An Act for more effectually repairing the road from Bramcote Odd house in the county of Nottingham, to the Cross Post upon Smalley Common in the county of Derby, and from Ilkeston to Heanor in the said county of Derby, and from Trowell in the said county of Nottingham to the town of Nottingham. xvi. An Act for repairing and maintaining the road from Whiteburn, upon the turnpike road from Edinburgh to Greenlaw, passing through Thornydike and Westruther to Choicelee, upon the turnpike road from Greenlaw to Dunse, all in the county of Berwick.

xvii. An Act to enable the company

of proprietors of the Calder and Hebble navigation to make a navi. gable cut or canal from Salterhebble bridge to Bailey hail, near to the town of Halifax, in the West Riding of the county of York; and to amend the Act relating to the said Navigation.

xviii. An Act for making and maintaining a railway or tram road from or near the Manchester, Bolton, and Bury canal, in the parish of Bolton-le-moors, to or near the Leeds and Liverpool canal, in the

parish of Leigh, all in the county palatine of Lancaster.

xix. An Act for better lighting, cleansing, watching, paving, and otherwise improving the township of Stourbridge in the parish of Oldswinford in the county of Worcester; for regulating the market, and building a market place within and for the said township; and for removing and preventing nuisances and annoyances therein..

xx. An Act to amend and render more effectual several Acts relative to the paving, lighting, watching, and improving the town of Margate in the parish of St. John the Baptist in the county of Kent; for erecting certain defences against the sea for the protection of the said town; and for making further improvements in and about the said town and parish.

xxi. An Act for lighting with gas the town of Stockport in the county Palatine of Chester.

xxii. An Act for amending and main taining the road leading from Wigan and commencing at Clarington brook, and passing over Amberswood common through Hindley to a place called Chequer Bent in Westhoughton, all in the county Palatine of Lancaster.

xxiii. An Act for making and maintaining a turnpike road from Cainscross through Stroud, over Rodborough and Minchinhampton commons, to the town of Minchinhampton, with several branches therefrom, all in the county of Gloucester. xxiv. An Act for more effectually repairing the road from Grantham, in the county of Lincoln, to Nottingham Trent bridge, in the county of Nottingham.

xxv. An Act for making and maintaining a turnpike road from the present turnpike road, between Maidstone and Wrotham in the county of Kent, to Strood in the said county.

xxvi. An Act for making a turnpike

road from the Hope turnpike, in the Leominster and Hereford road, to or near Burley gate, in the Hereford and Bromyard turnpike road, and from thence to a place called the Trumpet, in the Ledbury and Hereford turnpike road, all in the county of Hereford.

xvii. An Act for more effectually repairing and improving the road from Stockport in the county Palatine of Chester to near New Houses in the county of York, and other roads in the said counties, and in the county Palatine of Lancaster; and for making and maintaining several new branches to communicate therewith.

xxviii. An Act for more effectually amending, widening, improving, and keeping in repair the road from Wooler to the great North turnpike road, at or near to Adderstone. lane, in the county of Northumber

land.

xxix. An Act to repeal certain parts of and to alter and amend an Act passed in the forty-seventh year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Third, to authorize the trustees of the river Weaver navigation to open a more convenient communication between the said river near Frodsham bridge and the river Mersey near Weston Point, in the township of Weston, in the county of Chester and to amend two Acts relative to the said river. XXX. An Act for making and maintaining a railway or tram road from the Cromford canal, at or near to Cromford, in the parish of Wirksworth, in the county of Derby, to the Peak Forest canal, at or near to Whaley (otherwise Yardsley-cumWhaley), in the county Palatine of Chester.

xxxi. An Act to enable the Vauxhall bridge company to raise a further sum of money, and to alter and amend the Acts relating to the said bridge.

xxxii. An Act for lighting, watching, paving, cleansing, regulating, and otherwise improving the town of Oundle in the county of Northamp

ton.

xxxiii. An Act for erecting a chapel at Pelham Crescent, in the parish of St. Mary in the Castle, in the liberty of the town and port of Hastings in the county of Sussex. xxxiv. An Act for lighting with gas the Borough and neighbourhood of Boston in the county of Lincoln. XXXV. An Act for enabling the Glasgow gas light company to raise a further sum of money; and for other purposes relating thereto.

xxxvi. An Act to continue and render more effectual certain Acts for laying a duty of two pennies Scots, or one-sixth part of a penny sterling, on every Scots pint of ale or beer brewed for sale or vended within the town and parish of Dalkeith, for the purposes therein mentioned. xxxvii. An Act to enable the Royal Exchange assurance companies, and their successors, to advance money, or lend stock, upon the security of freehold, copyhold, or leasehold es

tates.

xxxviii. An Act for making and maintaining a turnpike road from Wakefield, to join the Shepley-lane head turnpike road in Denby Dale, in the parish of Penistone, with certain branches; all in the West Riding of the county of York.

xxxix. An Act for more effectually repairing the roads from the Gloucester hotel in the town of Brighthelmstone, through the towns of Cuckfield and Crawley, to the county oak on Lovell Heath, and certain other roads therein mentioned; and also for making and maintaining a branch of road from Austy Cross in the parish of Cuckfield to West Grinsted; all in the county of Sus

sex.

xl. An Act for more effectually repairing and improving the road leading from Haleworthy, in the parish of Davidstow in the county of Cornwall, to the East end of Wadebridge; and from the West end of Wadebridge, into and through the Borough of Mitchell, in the said county,

xli. An Act for maintaining and im. proving the road from Deanburn in the county of Haddington, through Greenlaw in the county of Berwick, to Cornhill in the county of Durham; with branches from Carfrae Mill through Lauder, from Orangelane to Swinton Mill, and from Coldstream to Mount Pleasant, all in the county of Berwick; and for maintaining the bridge over the river Tweed at Coldstream. xlii. An Act for making and maintain

ing a turnpike road from Eccleshill to Bradford in the county of York. xliii. An Act for more effectually repairing and widening the road from Flinwell Vent in the county of Sussex, through Highgate in the coun

ty of Kent, and the parishes of Sandhurst, Newenden, and Northiam, to Taylor's Corner in the parish of Rye in the county of Sussex, and from Highgate aforesaid to Cooper's Corner in the county of Sussex; and also a piece of road communicating with the said road, called Whitebread-lane, in the said county. xliv. An Act for making and maintaining a turnpike road from Brighouse in the parish of Halifax, to Denholm-gate in the parish of Bradford, in the West Riding of the county of York.

xlv. An Act for more effectually repairing and improving certain roads passing through Prince's Risborough in the county of Buckingham, and communicating with Aylesbury and Great Marlow in the said county, and Thame in the county of Oxford.

xlvi. An Act for repairing the road

from Kingston-upon-Thames to Leatherhead in the county of Surrey. xlvii. An Act for more effectually amending, widening, and maintaining the road from Barton-bridge in the parish of Eccles, through the township of Worsley, to Moses gate in the township of Farnworth, and for making, repairing, and improving other roads to communicate therewith, all in the county Palatine of Lancaster.

xlviii. An Act for making and maintaining a turnpike road from the town of Barnsley, by way of Beaver Hole, to Cudworth Bridge, on the present highway leading to the town of Pontefract in the West Riding of the county of York.

xlix. An Act for amending, maintaining, and improving the roads from Bridgnorth to Cleobury North, and also through Ditton Priors to the Brown Clee Hill, and from Cleobury Mortimer to several places therein mentioned, and other roads branching therefrom, in the counties of Salop and Worcester.

1. An Act for making and maintaining a turnpike road from the town of Gravesend to Wrotham in the county of Kent, and from thence to Borough Green on the turnpike road leading from Wrotham Heath to Ightham, in the said county. li. An Act for making and maintaining

a road from Great Ancoats-street in

the town of Manchester in the county of Lancaster, to join a diversion of the Manchester and Saltersbrook road in Andershaw in the parish of Ashton-under-Line in the said county, and two branches of road communicating therewith. lii. An Act for amending and repairing the turnpike road leading from the North-end of the town of Rotherham to the east side of Tankersley-park in the county of York.

liii. An Act for repairing the road branching out of the Great North road by the Guide-post at the south end of Spittlegate in the parish of Grantham in the county of Lincoln, and leading from thence to the turnpike road at or near Bridge-end in the same county.

liv. An Act for improving and main. taining the harbour of the burgh of barony of Stonehaven in the county of Kincardine, and the entrance thereto; and rendering more convenient and commodious the streets and avenues leading to the same. lv. An Act for making more effectual provision for paying off and discharging the debts and expenses incurred in taking down and rebuilding the parish church of St. James in the town and county of Poole, and the tower of the same Church.

lvi. An Act for altering and amending an Act of the fifty-ninth year of his late majesty, for building a new church in the parish of St. Luke Chelsea in the county of Middlesex. Ivii. An Act for providing additional burying ground for the parish of St. Mary Stratford Bow in the county of Middlesex.

lviii. An Act to provide for the perpetual maintenance and support of the chapel of the Holy and Undivided Trinity in the town of Gosport, within the parish of Alverstoke, in the county of Southampton. lix. An Act for building a bridge over the river Don, near the village of Balgownie or Polgownie, in the parish of Old Machar and county of Aberdeen.

lx. An Act for building a bridge over the river Wye, at a place called the Kerne, in the county of Here ford, and for making convenient roads, avenues, and approaches thereto.

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