PRINTED BY GEORGE EDWARD EYRE AND WILLIAM SPOTTIS WOODE, And published in Numbers, Price 2d. each, AT THE QUEEN'S PRINTING OFFICE, EAST HARDING STREET, NEAR FLEET STREET. 1858. A TABLE OF The PUBLIC GENERAL STATUTES passed in the SECOND Session of the SEVENTEENTH Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 21° & 22° VICTORIA. 1. A PUBLIC GENERAL ACTS. N Act to indemnify the Governor and Company of the Bank of England in respect of certain Issues of their Notes, and to confirm such Issues, and to authorize further Issues for a Time to be limited. 1 II. An Act to settle Annuities on Lady Havelock and Sir Henry Marshman Havelock, in consideration of the eminent Services of the late Major-General Havelock. 3 III. An Act for enabling the East India Company to raise Money in the United Kingdom for the Service of the Government of India. 4 IV. An Act to continue an Act of the last Session to authorize the embodying of the Militia. 6 V. An Act to apply the Sum of Ten Millions out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight. 7 VI. An Act to apply the Sum of Five hundred thousand Pounds out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year ending the Thirty-first Day of March One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight. 9 VII. An Act for the Regulation of Her Majesty's Royal Marine Forces while on shore. 11 VIII. An Act to authorize the Inclosure of certain Lands in pursuance of a Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales. 71 IX. An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters. a 2 72 X. An X. An Act to confirm a certain Provisional Order of the General Board of Health, applying the Public Health Act, 1848, to the District of Skipton in the West Riding of the County of York; and to further declare the Limits of the District of Toxteth Park in the County Palatine of Lancaster, XI. An Act to repeal the Stamp Duties payable on Matri- culation and Degrees in the University of Cambridge. 145 XII. An Act for the Alteration of certain Duties of Cus- XIII. An Act for raising the Sum of Twenty million nine hundred and eleven thousand five hundred Pounds by Exche- XVII. An Act to apply the Sum of Eleven Millions out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight. XVIII. An Act to effect an Exchange between the Com- missioners of Chelsea Hospital and the Governor and Company of Chelsea Waterworks of Lands in the Parishes of Saint George Hanover Square and Saint Margaret Westminster in XIX. An Act to continue an Act of the Third and Fourth XXI. An Act to confirm a Contract for the Sale by the Com- XXII. An Act to abolish Franchise Prisons. XXIII. An Act for abolishing the Tolls now levied on the Bridge over the Shannon at Portumna in Ireland. 167 XXIV. An Act to reduce the Stamp Duty on Passports. 169 XXV. An Act to amend the Act concerning Non-parochial Registers, and the Acts for Marriages, and for registering XXVII. An Act to amend the Course of Procedure in the High Court of Chancery, the Court of Chancery in Ireland, and the Court of Chancery of the County Palatine of Lancaster. 174 XXVIII. An Act to continue the Peace Preservation (Ireland) Act, 1856. 178 XXIX. An Act for confirming a Scheme of the Charity Commissioners for Sir Eliab Harvey's Charity in the Town of Folkestone. 178 XXX. An Act for confirming a Scheme of the Charity Commissioners for certain Municipal Charities in the City of Bristol. 186 XXXI. An Act for confirming a Scheme of the Charity Commissioners for certain Charities in the Parishes of Saint Nicholas and Saint Leonard in the City of Bristol. 190 XXXII. An Act to make valid certain Acts of the late Chief Justice of Bombay. 196 XXXIII. An Act for the better Management of County Rates. 196 XXXIV. An Act to continue "The Railways Act (Ireland), 1851," 198 XXXV. An Act to remove Doubts as to the Operation of a Convention between Her Majesty and the Emperor of the French relative to Portendic and Albreda. 198 200 XXXVI. An Act for releasing the Lands of the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, upon the Repayment of Monies granted in aid of their Funds. XXXVII. An Act to provide for the Allotment of the Commonable Lands within the Boundaries of the late Forest of Hainault in the County of Essex. XXXVIII. An Act to repeal certain Provisions for the Issue out of the Consolidated Fund of fixed Amounts for the Reduction of the Funded Debt. 202 211 XXXIX. An Act to suspend the making of Lists and the Ballots for the Militia of the United Kingdom. 212 XL. An Act to confer Powers on the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings to acquire the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, and adjacent Property, for the Erection of a new General Post Office, and for other Purposes. 213 XLI. An Act to extend the Time for making Advances towards Navigations in Ireland, under the Provisions of an Act of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Victoria, Chapter Sixty-two. 224 XLII. An Act for shortening the Time of Prescription in certain Cases in Ireland. a 3 224 XLIII. An |