PRIVATE ACTS, PRINTED BY THE KING'S PRINTER, AND WHEREOF THE PRINTED COPIES MAY BE GIVEN 1. AN Act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing Lands within the Parish of Piddlehinton in the County of Dorset. Page 151 2. An Act for inclosing Lands in the Parish of Compton Bassett in the County of Wilts. 3. An Act for assisting the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Ibid. and Metropolitical Church of Christ, Canterbury, to take down and rebuild the North-western Tower of the same Church. 152 4. An Act to enable the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Worcester, and his Successors, to grant Leases of certain Hereditaments belonging to the Episcopal See of Worcester, situate, arising, or growing within the Parish of Ripple in the County of Worcester. 5. An Act to effect an Exchange between the Chancellor, Ibid. Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge, and the Master, Fellows, and Scholars of the College or Hall of the Holy Trinity commonly called Trinity Hall, in the same University, of Lands situate in the Parish of Saint Andrew the Less in the Town of Cambridge in the County of Cambridge; and for authorizing the Removal of the present Botanic Garden of the said University to a new and more eligible Site; and for other Purposes. 6. An Act for rendering valid the Supplementary Award of the Ibid. Commissioners under an Act of the Fifty-ninth Year of King George the Third, intituled An Act for inclosing Lands in the Parish of Alvingham in the County of Lincoln. Ibid. 7. An Act for inclosing Lands in the Parish of Milverton in the County of Somerset. Ibid. PRIVATE ACTS, NOT PRINTED. 8. An Act to relieve the Right Honourable Robert Grosvenor from certain Penalties incurred by sitting and voting in the House of Commons without having conformed to the Laws in such Case made and provided. 9. An Act for inclosing Lands within the Parish of Maiden Newton in the County of Dorset. 10. An Act for naturalizing John Thomas Peniche. I. THE STATUTES AT LARGE, TO THE UNION OF THE KINGDOMS OF Edited to the End of Henry VIII. by T. E. TOMLINS, Esq. Barrister at Law: ALSO, ANOTHER EDITION OF THE SAME WORK, II. THE STATUTES AT LARGE, The Quarto Edition, 11 Volumes and 2 Parts (including 1 WILL. IV.), The Octavo Edition, in 28 Volumes (including 11 GEO. IV. and 1 WILL. IV.), These Editions are continued Annually; and any Volume or Session may YET be had separately. III. AN INDEX TO THE STATUTES AT LARGE, From Magna Carta to the Forty-ninth Year of GEO. III. inclusive; By JOHN RAITHBY, Esq. Of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister at Law. In Three Volumes Octavo. Price 31. 6s. in Boards. THE STATUTES AT LARGE. Anno Regni GULIELMI IV. Britanniarum Regis, Primo. T the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the A Twenty-sixth Day of October, Anno Domini 1550, in the First Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord WILLIAM the Fourth, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of "Great Britain and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith: being the First Session of the Ninth Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.' 6 CAP. I. An Act to apply the Sum of Three Millions out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty. [10th December 1830.] CA P. II. An Act to provide for the Administration of the Government in case the Crown should descend to Her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandrina Victoria, Daughter of His late Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, being under the Age of Eighteen Years, and for the Care and Guardianship of Her Person. [23d December 1830.] • Most Gracious Sovereign, THEREAS Your Majesty, impelled by the deep Solicitude People, was graciously pleased to recommend from the Throne to both Houses of Parliament that they should take into their 'immediate Consideration the Provisions which it might be ad'visable to make for the Exercise of the Royal Authority in case it should please Almighty God to terminate Your Majesty's Life (for the long Continuance of which we offer up our most fervent Prayers to Heaven) before Your Majesty's Successor should have arrived at Years of Maturity, and that Your Majesty would be prepared to concur with Your Two Houses of Parliament in the Adoption of those Measures which might appear best calculated to maintain unimpaired the Stability and Dignity of Your Crown, and thereby to strengthen the Securities by which the Civil and Religious Liberties of Your Majesty's People are guarded: And whereas in return for this paternal Goodness, with the most cordial Sense of Duty and Gratitude to Your 1 GUL. 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B • Majesty The Duchess of Kent to be the Guardian of the Princess Alexandrina Victoria until of Age, if at the Demise of His Majesty there shall be Majesty for the tender Concern and Regard so uniformly and now more especially demonstrated for the Happiness of Your People, and for the Security of their Civil and Religious Liberties, we have taken this important Business into our Consideration, and, being thoroughly convinced of the Wisdom and Expediency of what Your Majesty has thought fit to recommend, are firmly and zealously determined to contribute every thing in our Power upon this Occasion to maintain unimpaired the Stability and Dignity of Your Majesty's Crown, and to confirm 'the Securities which guard our Civil and Religious Liberties :' We therefore, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in Parliament assembled, do most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King'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, That if at the Demise of His present Majesty (whom God long preserve) there shall be no Issue of His said Majesty then living born of Her present Majesty, and Her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandrina Victoria shall be then living, and under the Age of Eighteen Years, Her Royal Highness Victoria Maria Louisa Duchess of Kent shall be the Guardian, and have the Care, Tuition, and Education of the Person of Her said Royal Highness the Princess Alexandrina Victoria, until Her said Royal Highness the Princess Alexandrina Victoria shall attain the Age of Eighteen Years, and shall, till such Age, have the Disposition, Ordering, and Management of all Matters and Things relating thereto; and Her said Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent shall, during such Minority, but no longer, have full Power and Authority, in the Name of Her said Royal Highness the Princess Alexandrina Victoria, and in Her Stead, and under the Style and Title of Regent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to exercise and administer, according to the Laws and Constitution thereof, the Regal Power and Government of this Realm, and all the Dominions, Countries, and Territories to the Crown of the said United Kingdom belonging, and shall use, execute, and perform all Prerogatives, Authorities, and Acts of Government which belong to the King or Queen of this Realm to use, execute, or perform, according to the Laws thereof, but in such Manner, and subject to such Conditions, Restrictions, Limitations, and Regulations, as are hereinafter for that Purpose specified, mentioned, and contained: Provided always, that if, after the Demise of His said Majesty, a Child of His said Majesty should be born of Her said Majesty, Majesty should all the Power and Authority by this Act given and granted to Her said Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent shall, upon the Birth of such Child, cease and determine. no living Issue of Her present Majesty; and during such Minority to exercise the Regal Power and Govern ment. Proviso, if a be born after His Demise. If there shall not be any Child living born of Her Majesty, the Privy Council to cause Her al High II. And be it further enacted, That if at the Demise of His said Majesty, leaving Her said Majesty Him surviving, there shall not be any Child of His said Majesty then living born of Her said Majesty, and Her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandrina Victoria shall be then living, the Privy Council shall forthwith cause Her said Royal Highness the Princess Alexandrina Victoria to be openly and solemnly proclaimed as Sovereign of this Realm, in such of Issue of His Majesty. such Manner and Form as the preceding Kings and Queens re- ness to be prospectively have been usually proclaimed after the Demise of their claimed as respective Predecessors, but subject to and saving the Rights of Sovereign. any Issue of His said Majesty which may afterwards be born of Saving Rights Her said Majesty; and in every Case in which by Law an Oath or Declaration or Assurance of Allegiance to the Sovereign, or asserting the Title of the Sovereign, is required to be taken, made, or subscribed, there shall be added to such Oath, Declaration, and Assurance the Words following: "Saving the Rights of any Issue of His late Majesty King William the Fourth which may be born of His late Majesty's Consort;" which Addition shall be continued until Parliament shall otherwise order. If at the Death of His Majesty there shall not be any Child living, and a Child shall af terwards be III. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if at the Demise of His said Majesty there shall not be any Child of His said Majesty then living born of Her said Majesty, and Her said Majesty shall survive His said Majesty, and a Child of His said Majesty shall after the Death of His said Majesty be born of Her said Majesty, in such Case Her said Majesty shall be the Guardian, and have the Care, Tuition, and Education of born, Her Majesty shall be the Person of such Child, until such Child shall attain the Age of the Guardian Eighteen Years, and shall, till such Age, have the Disposition, during its Ordering, and Management of all Matters and Things relating Minority, and thereto; and Her said Majesty shall, during such Minority and exercise the no longer, have full Power and Authority, in the Name of such Regal Power. Child, and in his or her Stead, and under the Style and Title of Regent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to exercise and administer, according to the Laws and Constitution thereof, the Regal Power and Government of this Realm, and all the Dominions, Countries, and Territories to the Crown thereof belonging; and shall use, execute, and perform all Prerogatives, Authorities, and Acts of Government and Administration of Government which belong to the King or Queen of this Realm to use, execute, and perform, according to the Laws thereof, but in such Manner, and subject to such Conditions, Restrictions, Limitations, and Regulations, as are hereinafter for that Purpose specified, mentioned, and contained. IV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Privy Council shall, upon the Birth of such Child, without Delay, cause such Child, as the Successor entitled to the Crown of these Realms, to be openly and solemnly proclaimed, in such Manner and Form as the Kings and Queens have been usually proclaimed after the Demise of their respective Prede cessors. The Privy cause such proclaimed. In case of the Birth of such Houses of Par V. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That upon the Birth of such Child the Two Houses of Parliament shall forthwith assemble, and all the Laws and Regulations now in force in regard to the Meeting, the Sitting, the Continuance, the Proro- liament shall gation, and the Dissolution of Parliament, and to the Continuance meet, &c. of the Privy Council, and of Persons in their Offices, Places, and Employments, upon the Demise of the Crown and the Accession of the Successor, shall be deemed and taken to apply to the Succession of such Child, in the same Manner as if such Child had succeeded to the Crown upon the Demise of Her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandrina Victoria, and as Her Heir. |