of Inland Revenue; and for enabling such Commissioners to dispose of their present Chief Office and other Property in the City of London. page 194 XLI. An Act to provide a Burial Ground for the Township of Huddersfield in the County of York. 206 XLII. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the General Board of Health, and to amend the Public Health Act, 1848. 221 XLIII. An Act to repeal certain Disabilities under the First of George the First, Chapter Thirteen, and the Sixth of George the Third, Chapter Fifty-three. 225 224 XLIV. An Act to amend and consolidate the Laws relating to the Carriage of Passengers by Sea. XLV. An Act for making a Turnpike Road between Stone Creek and Sunk Island Church in the County of York, and between Sunk Island Church and Patrington Haven, and for consolidating with such Roads the present Turnpike Road from Sunk Island Church to Ottringham, and for constructing Quays and Wharfs at Stone Creek. 268 XLVI. An Act to amend an Act of the Eleventh Year of King George the Fourth, for amending and consolidating the Laws relating to the Pay of the Royal Navy. XLVII. An Act to enable Her Majesty to abolish otherwise than by Treaty, on Condition of Reciprocity, Differential Duties on Foreign Ships. 276 277 XLVIII. An Act for the Amendment of the Law respecting the Property of Lunatics. 279 XLIX. An Act to extend the Provisions of the several Acts passed for the Conveyance of Sites for Schools. 282 L. An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to the Militia in England. 283 LI. An Act to extend the Provisions of the Acts for the Commutation of Manorial Rights, and for the gradual Enfranchisement of Lands of Copyhold and Customary Tenure. 295 LII. An Act to enable Colonial and other Bishops to perform certain Episcopal Functions, under Commission from Bishops of England and Ireland. 314 LIII. An Act to provide for the Exercise of certain Powers vested in the Bishop of Quebec in respect of Districts severed from his Diocese. 317 LIV. An Act further to facilitate and arrange Proceedings in the County Courts. 319 LV. An Act to extend the Provisions of "The Trustee Act, 1850." 325 LVI. An Act for regulating the Qualifications of Pharmaceutical Chemists. 328 LVII. An LVII. An Act to provide for more effectual Inquiry into the Existence of corrupt Practices at Elections for Members to serve in Parliament. page 332 LVIII. An Act to continue certain Turnpike Acts in Great Britain. LIX. An Act to continue the Poor Law Board. 338 342 LX. An Act to continue an Act of the Twelfth Year of Her present Majesty, for amending the Laws relating to Savings Banks in Ireland. 343 LXI. An Act to amend the Laws relating to Summary Proceedings for Penalties and Forfeitures under the Acts relating to the Excise. 343 LXII. An Act to alter and amend certain Acts relating to the Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues of the Crown. 345 LXIII. An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Valuation of rateable Property in Ireland. 352 LXIV. An Act to continue and amend the Metropolitan Sewers Act. 373 LXV. An Act to continue and amend an Act passed in the Fourteenth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Friendly Societies. 374 LXVI. An Act to continue an Act of the Eleventh Year of Her present Majesty, for the better Prevention of Crime and Outrage in certain Parts of Ireland. 376 LXVII. An Act to continue the Powers of applying for a Sale of Lands under the Act for facilitating the Sale and Transfer of Incumbered Estates in Ireland. 376 LXVIII. An Act for the Application of certain Money accrued from Fines and Forfeitures in Ireland in aid of certain distressed Unions and Electoral Divisions in that Country. 377 LXIX. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the General Board of Health. 379 LXX. An Act for authorizing the Occupation of the House of Correction recently erected by and for the City of London at Holloway in the County of Middlesex. 382 381 LXXI. An Act to amend an Act of the Ninth and Tenth Years of Her present Majesty, for the Embankment of a Portion of the River Thames. LXXII. An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand. 385 LXXIII. An Act to make Provision for a permanent Establishment of Officers to perform the Duties at Nisi Prius, in the Superior Courts of Common Law, and for the Payment of such Officers and of the Judges Clerks by Salaries, and to abolish certain Offices in those Courts. 406 LXXIV. An LXXIV. An Act to defray the Charge of the Pay, Clothing, and contingent and other Expenses of the Disembodied Militia in Great Britain and Ireland; to grant Allowances in certain Cases to Subaltern Officers, Adjutants, Paymasters, Quartermasters, Surgeons, Assistant Surgeons, Surgeons Mates, and Serjeant Majors of the Militia; and to authorize the Employment of the Non-commissioned Officers. page 419 LXXV. An Act to suspend the making of Lists and the Ballots and Enrolments for the Militia of the United Kingdom. 442 LXXVI. An Act to amend the Process, Practice, and Mode of Pleading in the Superior Courts of Common Law at Westminster, and in the Superior Courts of the Counties Palatine of Lancaster and Durham. 444 LXXVII. An Act to abolish the Office of Lord Chancellor's Secretary of Bankrupts, and to regulate the Office of Chief Registrar of the Court of Bankruptcy. 510 LXXVIII. An Act to enable the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings to complete Improvements in Pimlico and in the Neighbourhood of Buckingham Palace. 513 LXXIX. An Act to amend and further extend the Acts for the Inclosure, Exchange, and Improvement of Land. 516 LXXX. An Act to abolish the Office of Master in Ordinary of the High Court of Chancery, and to make Provision for the more speedy and efficient Despatch of Business in the said Court. 544 529 LXXXI. An Act to consolidate and amend the Statutes relating to the Assessment and Collection of County Rates in England and Wales. LXXXII. An Act to apply a Sum out of the Consolidated Fund, and certain other Sums, to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, and to appropriate the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament. LXXXIII. An Act for amending the Law for granting Patents for Inventions. LXXXIV. An Act to make better Provision respecting the Supply of Water to the Metropolis. LXXXV. An Act to amend the Laws concerning the Burial of the Dead in the Metropolis. 571 596 620 628 648 LXXXVI. An Act to amend the Practice and Course of Pro- 666 LXXXVIII. An Act to remove Doubts as to the Constitution of the Bishopric of Christchurch in New Zealand, and to enable Her Majesty to constitute such Bishopric and to subdivide the Diocese of New Zealand. 686 THE PUBLIC GENERAL STATUTES, 15 VICTORIA. CAP. I. An Act to apply the Sum of Eight Millions out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. Most Gracious Sovereign, [30th March 1852.] WE, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled, towards making good the Supply which we have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty in this Session of Parliament, have resolved to grant unto Your Majesty the Sum herein-after mentioned; and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and 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, Service of the I. That there shall and may be issued and applied, for or There shall be towards making good the Supply granted to Her Majesty for applied, for the the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty- Year 1852, the two, the Sum of Eight Millions out of the Consolidated Fund Sum of of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the 8,000,000%, out Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury of the United King- of the Consolidom of Great Britain and Ireland, or the Lord High Treasurer of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for the Time being, are or is hereby authorized and empowered to issue and apply the same accordingly. dated Fund. II. That it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of The Treasury Her Majesty's Treasury, from Time to Time, by Warrant under may cause their Hands, to cause or direct any Number of Exchequer Bills 8,000,000l. of Exchequer to be made out at the Receipt of Her Majesty's Exchequer at Bills to be Westminster for any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in made out in the whole the Sum of Eight Millions; and such Exchequer Bills manner prescribed by shall be made out in the same or like Manner, Form, and 48 G. 3. c. 1., Order, and according to the same or like Rules and Directions, 4 & 5 W. 4. as are directed and prescribed in an Act passed in the Fortyeighth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for regulating the issuing and paying off of Exchequer Bills, and in another Act passed in the Session of [No. 1. Price 2d.] A 2 Parliament & 6 Vict. c. 15., and c. 66. The Clauses, &c. in recited Acts extended to this Act. Interest on Exchequer Bills. Bank of England may advance 8,000,0007. on the Credit of this Act notwithstanding c. 20. 15 VICT. Parliament holden in the Fourth and Fifth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act to regulate the Office of the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer at Westminster, and in another Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for further regulating the Preparation and Issue of Exchequer Bills. III. That all and every the Clauses, Provisoes, Powers, Privileges, Advantages, Penalties, Forfeitures, and Disabilities contained in the said recited Acts shall be applied and extended to the Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act, as fully and effectually to all Intents and Purposes as if the said several Clauses, Provisoes, Powers, Privileges, Advantages, Penalties, Forfeitures, and Disabilities had been particularly repeated and re-enacted in the Body of this Act. IV. That the Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act shall and may bear an Interest not exceeding the Rate of Threepence Halfpenny per Centum per Diem upon or in respect of the whole of the Monies respectively contained therein. V. That it shall and may be lawful for the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, and they are hereby empowered, to take, accept, and receive the Exchequer Bills authorized to be made out in pursuance of this Act, and to advance or lend to Her Majesty, at the Receipt of the Ex5 & 6 W. & M. chequer at Westminster, upon the Credit of the Sum granted by this Act, out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Eight Millions, anything in an Act passed in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary, intituled An Act for granting to Their Majesties several Rates and Duties upon the Tonnage of Ships and Vessels, and upon Beer, Ale, and other Liquors, and for securing certain Recompences and Advantages in the said Act mentioned to such Persons as shall voluntarily advance the Sum of One million five hundred thousand Pounds towards carrying on the War against France, or in any other Act or Acts, to the contrary notwithstanding. Bills prepared by virtue of this Act to be delivered to the Bank, as Security for such Advances. Monies raised by Bills to be applied to the Services voted by the Com mons. VI. That it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, to cause such Bills as shall be prepared by virtue of this Act to be delivered from Time to Time to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, in such Proportions as the Public Service may require, as Security for any Advance or Advances which may be made to Her Majesty by the said Governor and Company of the Bank of England under the Authority of this Act. VII. That it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to issue and apply from Time to Time all such Sums of Money as shall be raised by Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act to such Services as shalt |