By this ACT,

After reciting that by an Act, 6 & 7 Will. 4. c. 71, Tithe Commissioners for England and Wales were appointed, and by the said Act, and by sundry Acts since passed for the amendment thereof, and for continuance of the said commission, the powers of the said Commissioners now stand limited, and will expire at the end of the session of Parliament next after the 31st of July in this year 1847; and that it is expedient that the same be further continued :—

It is Enacted,

1. That so much of any of the recited Acts as limits the time during which any Tithe Commissioner, assistant Commissioner, secretary, or assistant secretary, or other officer or person appointed or to be appointed under the first-recited Act, shall hold his office to the said 31st of July shall be repealed; and that the Commissioners and assistant Commissioners, secretary, assistant secretary, and other officers and persons appointed or to be appointed under the first-recited Act, may continue to hold their several offices, if not sooner removed by lawful authority, until the 1st of October in the year 1850, and until the end of the then next session of Parliament; and that all the powers of the said Commissioners, and their assistant Commissioners, secretary, assistant secretary, officers, and servants for the time being, shall continue in force, according to the provisions of the said several Acts as amended by this Act, until the 1st of October and the end of the then next session of Parliament, unless Her Majesty shall be pleased sooner to determine the said commission.

And after reciting that by the first-recited Act it was enacted, for the quieting of titles, that no confirmed agreement, award, or apportionment shall be impeached after the confirmation thereof by reason of any mistake or informality therein, or in any proceeding relating thereunto, and doubts have been entertained as to the full meaning and extent of such enactment;—

It is Enacted,

II. That, notwithstanding any exception in the said Act contained, every instrument purporting to be an instrument of apportionment, confirmed under the hands and seal of the said Tithe Commissioners, shall be hereby absolutely confirmed and made valid, both at law and in equity, in all respects, subject nevertheless to the powers given to the Tithe Commissioners in the first recited Act, or in any Act passed for the amendment thereof, for alteration of any instrument of apportionment.

111. Provided and enacted, That if it shall be shewn to the satisfaction of the said Tithe Commissioners that any lands have been improperly included or improperly charged with rent-charge in any confirmed instrument of apportionment, it shall be lawful for the said Tithe Commissioners to correct such apportionment, and the deposited copies thereof, either by excluding such lands so improperly charged from the apportionment, and re-distributing any rent-charge imposed upon such lands on lands legally liable to the payment thereof, or by sanctioning the redemption of the rent-charge so improperly charged by the persons capable of redeeming the same under the provisions of an Act, 9 & 10 Vict. c. 73, intituled An Act further to amend the Acts for the Commutation of Tithes in England and Wales;' and all costs and expenses attendant upon the correction of any confirmed instrument of apportionment shall be borne and paid by such persons and in such proportions as the said Tithe Commissioners shall direct, and shall be recoverable from the person or persons declared liable by the said Tithe Commissioners to the payment of the same in such manner as expenses attendant upon original instruments of apportionment are recoverable. IV. That for the purposes of such correction or of recording any such redemption the person or persons having the custody of any copy of any instrument of apportionment shall be bound, upon the application of the Tithe Commissioners, to deliver to the said Tithe Commissioners any copy of a confirmed instrument of apportionment which shall have been deposited with them respectively.

v. That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this session of Parliament.

CAP. CV.

AN ACT to continue until the First Day of October One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, certain Turnpike Acts.

(22nd July 1847.)

By this ACT, every Act now in force for regulating, making, amending, or repairing any turnpike road in Great Britain which will expire on or before the end of the next session of Parliament is continued until the 1st of October 1848, and to the end of the then next session of Parliament, except an Act, 6 Geo. 4. c. clx., intituled 'An Act for making and maintaining a Turnpike Road from Brompton and Earles Court in the Parish of St. Mary Abbott's, Kensington, in the County of Middlesex, to communicate with the Road called Fulham Fields Road at North End, in the same County; and for making another Turnpike Road to communicate therewith from the High Road from London to Fulham, in the said County.'

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CAP. CVI.-IRELAND.

AN ACT to provide additional Funds for Loans for Drainage and other Works of public Utility in Ireland, and to repeal an Act of the last Session, for authorizing a further Issue of Money in aid of Public Works of acknowledged Utility.

(22nd July 1847.)

ABSTRACT OF THE ENACTMENTS.

1. The Treasury may direct the Commissioners for executing the Acts 5&6 Vict. c. 9. and 9 & 10 Vict. c. 80. to transfer 120,000l. to the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland.

2. Treasury may cause to be issued a further sum of Money to Commissioners of Public Works, Ireland.

3. Powers, &c. of first-recited Act, &c., extended to this Act.

4. 9 & 10 Vict. c. 109. repealed.

5. Act may be amended, &c.

By this ACT,

After reciting the passing of 9 & 10 Vict. c. 85. and 9 & 10 Vict. c. 108, and that sundry advances or loans have been made by the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland under the said recited Acts, and the monies now at the disposal of the said Commissioners to be advanced by way of loan are insufficient for the purpose of making the advances which it may be advisable that the said Commissioners in the present distressed state of Ireland should make under the provisions of the several Acts now in force authorizing loans for the promotion of drainage and other works of public utility in Ireland :—

It is Enacted,

1. That out of the sum, not exceeding 360,000l. per annum, which by an Act, 5 & 6 Vict. c. 9, intituled 'An Act to autho rize the Advance of Money out of the Consolidated Fund to a limited Amount for carrying on Public Works and Fisheries, and Employment of the Poor, and to amend the Acts authorizing the Issue of Exchequer Bills for the like Purposes,' the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury were authorized to charge on the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and which they were authorized to direct to be paid to the account of the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, during the term of five years next ensuing the 5th of April 1842, and which by another Act, 9 & 10 Vict. c. 80, intituled An Act to authorize the Advance of Money out of the Consolidated Fund for carrying on Public Works and Fisheries, and Employment of the Poor,' the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury are authorized to charge on the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and which they are authorized to direct to be paid to the account of the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, during the term of five years next ensuing the 4th of April 1847, it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to direct the Commissioners for carrying into execution the said two last-recited Acts to transfer out of the sums paid to their account, before the 4th of April next ensuing, from their account with the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt to the account kept by the last-mentioned Commissioners with the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, a sum not exceeding 120,000l., to be placed at the disposal of the said Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland for the purposes of the loans which the said last-mentioned Commissioners may be called upon to make under the provisions of the Acts now in force authorizing loans to be made for the extension and promotion of drainage and other works of public utility in Ireland.

II. That it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to cause to be issued from time to time, as they may find necessary, out of the growing produce of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, any further sum or sums of money, not exceeding 250,000l., to be placed at the disposal of the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland for the purposes of the loans which the said Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland may be called upon to make under the provisions of the Acts now in force authorizing loans to be made for the extension and promotion of drainage and other works of public utility in Ireland.

III. That all the powers, authorities, provisions, matters, and things, of what nature or kind soever, contained in or referred to by the first herein recited Act, and in any Act authorizing loans to be made for the extension and promotion of drainage and other works of public utility in Ireland, shall extend to this Act, and to the loans hereby authorized to be made.

And after reciting that an Act, 9 & 10 Vict. c. 109, intituled An Act to authorize a further Issue of Money in aid of Public Works of acknowledged Utility in poor Districts in Ireland; and that other provisions have been made by Parliament in relation to the sum of 50,000l. authorized to be issued by the said Act, and that it is therefore expedient to repeal the same;It is Enacted,

IV. That the said Act shall be repealed.

v. That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed during the present session of Parliament.

CAP. CVII.

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 forty-seven; and to appropriate the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament.

This ACT contains the following clauses :

(23rd July 1847.)

1. There shall be applied, for the service of the year 1847, 15,342,0901. 18s. 8d. out of the Consolidated Fund.

11. The Treasury may cause 15,342,0907. 18s. 8d. of Exchequer bills to be made out in manner prescribed by 48 Geo. 3. c. 1, 4 & 5 Will. 4. c. 15, and 5 & 6 Vict. c. 66.

III. The clauses, &c. in recited Acts extended to this Act.

IV. Interest on Exchequer bills.

v. Bank of England may advance 15,342,0904. 18s. 8d. on the credit of this Act, notwithstanding 5 & 6 Will. & M. c. 20.

VI. Bills prepared by virtue of this Act to be delivered to the Bank as security for such advances.

VII. Monies raised by Exchequer bills to be applied to services voted by the Commons.

VIII. Exchequer bills made chargeable upon the growing produce of the Consolidated Fund.

IX. The Treasury to issue 80,6187. 8s. 1d., surplus of Ways and Means, and 500,000l. now in the Exchequer, to complete the Aids granted for 1845 and 1846.

x. Monies coming into the Exchequer by 10 & 11 Vict. c. 8, and 10 & 11 Vict. c. 9.-18,310,7001. by Exchequer bills, 10 & 11 Vict. c. 19; and 15,342,8901. 18s. 8d., 80,6181. 8s. 1d., and 500,0001. by this Act, applied as hereafter expressed.

XI. There shall be issued 185,2801. 6s. 9d. for excess of naval expenditure over grants of 1845.

XII. There shall be issued 7,561,8761. for naval services; viz. 1,325,8201. for wages to 41,500 seamen and marines, &c.; 635,4521. for victuals, &c. in the navy; 137,0541. for salaries, &c. of the Admiralty Office; 9,2291. for Registry Office of Seamen, &c.; 44,2771. for the navy scientific departments; 137,2231. for naval establishments at home; 25,5571. for naval establishments abroad; 811,3047. for wages of artificers, &c. at home; 42,2701. for wages of artificers, &c. abroad; 1,556,4981. for naval stores, &c.; 559,6007. for new works in naval establishments; 22,8397. for medicines, &c.; 59,8471. for naval miscellaneous services; 725,7881. for naval half-pay; 486,4471. for military pensions; 153,4581. for civil pensions; 243,2021. to defray the charge of transports, &c. ; 21,6741. to defray the charge of convicts, home department; 564,3371. for mail packet service. XIII. There shall be issued 6,913,8161. for army services; viz. 3,728,7371. for forces in United Kingdom and stations abroad (except the East Indies); 177,7781. for general staff officers, &c.; 96,5321. for allowances to officers, &c. of public military departments; 17,6331. for Royal Military Asylum, &c.; 86,3041. for volunteer corps; 15,7407. for rewards for distinguished military services; 82,0001. for certain general officers; 59,0001. for full pay for retired officers; 420,0001. for half-pay for retired officers; 49,1361. for half-pay, &c. to officers of disbanded foreign corps, &c.; 131,8591. for pensions to widows; 98,000l. for compassionate list, &c.; 36,6237. for Chelsea and Kilmainham Hospitals; 1,236,7321. for out-pensioners of Chelsea Hospital, &c.; 39,000l. for superannuations in military public departments; 453,7861. for commissariat department; 40,6461. for half-pay of commissariat department; 144,3107. for disembodied militia.

XIV. There shall be issued 2,679,1247. for Ordnance services; viz. 617,2391. for Ordnance military corps; 370,4641. for commissariat and barrack supplies, &c.; 96,4441. for Ordnance offices at the Tower and Pall Mall; 228,1301. for Ordnance and barrack establishments; 137,8521. for wages of artificers, &c. in the Ordnance department; 368,7121. for Ordnance stores for land and sea service; 632,7651. for Ordnance and barrack works; 58,9861. for scientific branch of Ordnance department; 168,5321. for non-effective Ordnance services.

XV. There shall be issued 18,310,7001. to pay off Exchequer bills of 1847; 500,000l. to discharge supplies granted for 1846, &c.

XVI. There shall be issued 500,000l. for relief of distress, Ireland, to 31st March 1847; 600,000l. for ditto, to 31st March 1848; 600,000l. for ditto, to 31st of March 1848.

XVII. There shall be issued 100,000l. for civil contingencies; 150,0001. for New Houses of Parliament; 117,9891. for repairs of public buildings, furniture of public offices, &c.; 50,0001. for enlarging Buckingham Palace; 5,500l. for a palm house in the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew; 17,7091. for temporary accommodation for Houses of Parliament, &c.; 11,435l. for rebuilding the Home Office, &c.; 4,4291. for Holyhead Harbour, &c.; 140,000l. for harbours of refuge; 50,0001. for Caledonian Canal; 20,4761. for public buildings, &c. Ireland; 8,2001. for Kingstown Harbour; 3,515. for temporary accommodation for Houses of Parliament; 10,000l. for Port Patrick Harbour.

XVIII. There shall be issued 25,000l. for salaries, &c. for both Houses of Parliament; 56,9001. for the Treasury; 16,400. for the Home Department; 71,000l. for the Foreign Department, &c.; 18,000l. for the Colonial Department; 37,7001. for the Privy Council and Board of Trade; 2,000l. for Lord Privy Seal; 26,7221. for office of Paymaster General; 15,8231. for Comptroller General of Exchequer, &c.; 2,6501. for State Paper Office; 3,4401. for Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England; 77,8061. for the Mint; 17,000l. for Commissioners of Railways; 12,8127. for Public Records, &c.; 13,0341. for salaries, &c. of

inspectors of factories, &c.; 1,7551. salaries of officers, Scotland, &c.; 6,4641. household of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; 22,7881. for offices of Chief Secretary, &c., Ireland; 5,1351. for Paymaster of Civil Services, Ireland; 27,0284. for Board of Public Works, Ireland; 39,000l. for foreign and secret services; 295,5131. for stationery, &c. for Government departments; 182,2001. for the Poor Law Commissioners.

XIX. There shall be issued 9,6001. for prosecutions under laws relating to coin; 16,1007. for expenses of sheriffs, salaries of officers of the Exchequer, &c.; 13,3681. for Insolvent Debtors Court; 61,0601. for law expenses, Scotland; 71,2591. for law expenses, Ireland; 388,000l. for charges formerly paid out of county rates; 14,3497. Parkhurst Prison; 18,3071. for Pentonville Prison; 33,9851. for Millbank Prison; 8,8127. for Perth Prison; 3,2231. for convict depôts in Dublin, &c.; 10,0001. for a general prison for convicts, Ireland; 4,2021. for criminal lunatics; 6,2931. for a prison for criminal lunatics, Dublin; 11,100% inspectors of prisons, &c.; 35,9001. for the police of Dublin; 118,7801. for convicts at home, &c.; 200,000l. for convicts at New South Wales, &c.; 12,000l. for maintenance of convicts, Ireland.

xx. There shall be issued 48,5181. for British Museum; 100,000l. for public education; 100,0001. for education, Ireland; 6,500l. School of Design, &c.; 2,0061. for certain professors at Oxford and Cambridge; 4,5361. for London University; 7,4804 for grants to Scottish universities; 300l. for Royal Irish Academy; 300l. for Royal Hibernian Academy; 6,0001. for Royal Dublin Society; 3,9001. Belfast Academical Institution; 47,9591. for buildings at British Museum; 3,1527. for antiquities for ditto; 5,5371. for National Gallery; 8,9617. for geological survey, &c.; 4,0947. for observatories at Toronto, &c. ; 2,0001. for completing monument to Lord Nelson.

XXI. There shall be issued 3,410l. for civil establishment of the Bahama Islands; 4,0491. for ditto of the Bermudas; 3,070. for ditto of Prince Edward's Island; 4001. for Sable Island, &c. ; 13,6801. for civil establishments on the western coast of Africa; 11,500l. for St. Helena; 7,2197. for Western Australia; 1,2407. for Port Essington; 5,500l. for the Falkland Islands; 36,000 for New Zealand; 1,0231. for Heligoland; 18,3941. for West India colonies; 11,5781. for ecclesiastical establishment of British North American provinces; 15,000l. for Indian department in Canada; 23,8151. for Colonial Land and Emigration Board, &c; 41,6007. for Justices in West Indies, &c.; 10,000l. for support of captured negroes, &c.; 23,000l. for commissions for suppressing the slave trade; 118,9701. for consular establishment; 50,000l. for British settlement at Hong Kong, &c.; 20,0001. for missions abroad.

XXII. There shall be issued 87,2001. for retired allowances to public officers; 5,000l. for Toulonese and Corsican emigrants, &c.; 2,2951. for National Vaccine Institution; 3,000l. for Refuge for Destitute; 11,000l. for Polish Refugees, &c.; 6,7721. to pay allowances formerly paid from Civil List, &c. ; 4,2861. for Foundling Hospital, Dublin; 14,0261. for House of Industry, Dublin; 1,000l. for Female Orphan House, Dublin; 2,5001. for Westmoreland Lock Hospital; 1,000l. for Lying-in Hospital, Dublin; 1,5001. for Dr. Stevens' Hospital; 3,8001. for Fever Hospital, &c., Dublin; 5001. for Hospital for Incurables; 26,214 for Protestant dissenting ministers, Ireland; 7,2561. for charitable allowances, Ireland.

XXIII. There shall be issued 3,4001. for Criminal Law Commission; 1,5001. for criminal laws in the Channel Islands Commission; 33,0001. for certain navigation works, Ireland; 1,6627. for British ambassador's house at Paris; 50,000l. for steam to India; 16,000l. for militia, Canada; 4,000l. for lighthouses at Newfoundland, &c.; 7,750%. for services in the suppression of the Slave Trade; 5,500l. for further navigation works, Ireland.

XXIV. Supplies to be applied only for the purposes aforesaid.

XXV. Expenditure for navy, army and ordnance services respectively to be confined to the separate services for which granted. -Treasury may, on application, alter the proportionate amounts for such separate services, provided the total grant to each department be not exceeded.

XXVI. Rules to be observed in the application of the sum appropriated to half-pay.-Not to prevent the receiving of half-pay under any Act relating to the general or local militia, &c.-Paymaster-General, by permission of the Treasury, may issue halfpay to officers appointed to civil offices since July 1828.-An account of the number of officers so receiving half-pay to be laid before Parliament.

XXVII. Treasury may authorize military officers in civil employments to receive half-pay in certain cases.

XXVIII. Persons concerned in issuing, paying, and receiving money for the payment of half-pay, without the oaths having been taken as required, indemnified.

XXIX. Half-pay allowed to the officers of the Manx Fencibles.

xxx. Half-pay allowances to chaplains of regiments not being in possession of ecclesiastical benefices derived from the Crown.

XXXI. By 9 & 10 Vict. c. 116. a sum was appropriated to be paid to half pay officers, the surplus of which is hereby authorized to be disposed of as Her Majesty shall direct.

XXXII. Widows and persons claiming pensions shall make the required declaration.

XXXIII. Declarations to be made as specified in 5 & 6 Will. 4. c. 62.

CAP. CVIII.

AN ACT for establishing the Bishoprick of Manchester, and amending certain Acts relating to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England.

(23rd July 1847.)

ABSTRACT OF THE ENACTMENTS.

1. Commissioners' first report.-Recommendations.-Repeal of repugnant enactments; and powers of former Acts extended to this Act. 2. Number of lords spiritual not to be increased.

3. Act may be amended, &c.

By this ACT,

After reciting the passing of 6 & 7 Will. 4. c. 77, 3 & 4 Vict. c. 113, 4 & 5 Vict. c. 39, and 6 & 7 Vict. c. 77: And that Her Majesty was pleased, on the 10th of February in this year 1847, to issue a commission to certain persons therein named, directing them to consider the state of the several bishopricks in England and Wales with special reference to the intention, therein graciously declared by Her Majesty, that a measure should be submitted to Parliament for continuing the bishopricks of Saint Asaph and Bangor as separate bishopricks, and for establishing forthwith a bishoprick of Manchester; and the said Commissioners have made their first report to Her Majesty, bearing date the 20th of April in this present year, and have in their said report recommended,

That the diocese of Saint Asaph consist of the whole counties of Flint and Denbigh, and such parts of the counties of Salop and Montgomery as are now in that diocese, except the deanry of Ceifeiliog in the last-mentioned county; and

That the diocese of Bangor consist of the whole counties of Anglesea, Carnarvon, and Merioneth, and the deanries of Ceifeiliog and Arwstley in the county of Montgomery; and

That the diocese of Chester consist of the county of Chester and the deanry of Warrington in the county of Lancaster, except the parish of Leigh; and

That the new bishoprick of Manchester be forthwith founded, and endowed out of the revenues at the disposal of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England applicable to episcopal purposes; and

That the diocese of Manchester consist of such parts of the deanries of Kendal and Kirkby Lonsdale as are in the county of Lancaster, and of the deanries of Amounderness, Blackburn, Manchester, and Leyland, and the parish of Leigh in the deanry of Warrington, all in the same county; and

That an archdeaconry of Liverpool be founded in the diocese of Chester; and that such archdeaconry comprise the deanry of Worrall in the county of Chester and the deanry of Warrington (except the parish of Leigh) in the county of Lancaster: And that it is expedient that the said recommendations should be carried into effect, with such modifications as may be found necessary, and that certain of the provisions of the said recited Acts should be altered and amended :-

It is Enacted,

1. That so much and such parts of the said recited Acts as provide for or apply to the union of the bishopricks, sees, or dioceses of Saint Asaph and Bangor, and also any orders of Her Majesty in council relating to the said union, or to the new see or diocese of Manchester, shall be repealed, and that all the powers and authorities vested in Her Majesty in council, and in the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, by the said first and secondly recited Act, with reference to the matters therein respectively contained, and all other the provisions of the same Acts relating to schemes and orders prepared, made, and issued for the purposes thereof, and to modifications and variations therein, shall be continued and extended and shall apply to Her Majesty in council, and to the said Commissioners, and to all schemes and orders to be prepared, made, and issued by them respectively, for the purpose of carrying into effect the foregoing recommendations, as fully and effectually as if the said powers, authorities, and other provisions were repeated herein.

II. That the number of lords spiritual now sitting and voting as lords of Parliament shall not be increased by the creation of the bishoprick of Manchester; and whenever there shall be a vacancy among the lords spiritual by the avoidance of any one of the sees of Canterbury, York, London, Durham, or Winchester, or of any other see which shall be filled by the translation thereto from any other see of a bishop at that time actually sitting as a lord of Parliament, such vacancy shall be supplied by the issue of a writ of summons to the bishop who shall be elected to the same see; but if such vacancy be caused by avoidance of any other see in England or Wales, such vacancy shall be supplied by the issue of a writ of summons to that bishop of a see in England or Wales who shall not have previously become entitled to such writ; and no bishop who shall be hereafter elected to any see in England or Wales, not being one of the five sees above named, shall be entitled to have a writ of summons, unless in the order and according to the conditions above prescribed.

111. That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this session of Parliament.