A

LIST

OF

All the STATUTES passed in the FIRST Session of the NINTH Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

1o GUL. IV.

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PUBLIC GENERAL ACTS.

N 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.

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.

III. AN ACT to amend an Act of the last Session, for the better Administration of Justice, so far as relates to the Essoign and General Return Days of each Term, and to substitute other Provisions in lieu thereof; and to declare the Law with regard to the Duration of the Terms in certain Cases.

IV. AN ACT to render valid Acts done by the Governor of any of His Majesty's Plantations after the Expiration of his Commission by the Demise of His late Majesty, and to extend the Period within which the Patents of Governors of Colonies shall on any future Demise of the Crown become vacant, and to provide for the longer Duration of the Patents of Governors after the Demise of the Crown.

V. AN ACT to apply the Sum of One million eight hundred and fifty thousand Pounds out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty; and to appropriate the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament.

VI. AN ACT to continue for the Term of Six Calendar Months all such Commissions, Appointments, Grants, or Patents of Offices or Employments, Civil or Military, as were in force at the Time of the Demise of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, and as have not been superseded, determined, or made void during the Reign of His present Majesty. VII. AN ACT for the more speedy Judgment and Execution in Actions brought in His Majesty's Courts of Law at Westminster, and in the Court of Common Pleas of the County Palatine of Lancaster; and for amending the Law as to Judgment on a Cognovit actionem in Cases of Bankruptcy.

VIII. AN ACT for enabling His Majesty to appoint a Postmaster General for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

IX. AN ACT to apply the Sum of Five Millions out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.

X. AN ACT for appropriating certain Sums to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.

XI. AN ACT for raising the Sum of Twelve Millions by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.

XII. AN ACT for continuing to His Majesty for One Year certain Duties on Personal Estates, Offices, and Pensions in England, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.

XIII. AN ACT to amend an Act passed in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for appropriating the Richmond Lunatic Asylum in Dublin to the Purposes of a District Lunatic Asylum.

XIV. AN ACT for the Regulation of His Majesty's Royal Marine Forces while on Shore. XV. AN ACT for punishing Mutiny and Desertion; and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters.

XVI. AN ACT to continue until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and thirty-two an Act of the Fifty-fourth Year of His Majesty King George the Third, for rendering the Payment of Creditors more equal and expeditious in Scotland.

XVII. AN ACT to repeal the Duties and Drawbacks on Printed Calicoes, Linens, and Stuffs. XVIII. AN ACT to explain and amend an Act of the Sixth Year of His late Majesty King George the Fourth as far as regards the Settlement of the Poor by the renting and Occupation of Tenements.

XIX. AN ACT to extend the Provisions of an Act of the Fifty-fifth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, to provide for the taking an Account of the Population of Ireland, and for ascertaining the Increase or Diminution thereof.

XX. AN ACT to explain and amend the Laws relating to Lands holden in Free and Common Soccage in the Province of Lower Canada.

XXI. AN ACT to improve the Proceedings in Prohibition and on Writs of Mandamus.

XXII. AN ACT to enable Courts of Law to order the Examination of Witnesses upon Interrogatories and otherwise.

XXIII. AN ACT for granting to His Majesty, until the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, certain Duties on Sugar imported into the United Kingdom, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty.

XXIV. AN ACT to amend an Act of the Sixth Year of His late Majesty, to regulate the Trade of the British Possessions Abroad.

XXV. AN ACT for the Support of His Majesty's Household, and of the Honour and Dignity of the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

XXVI. AN ACT to indemnify such Persons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments, and for extending the Time limited for those Purposes respectively until the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and thirty-two; to permit such Persons in Great Britain as have omitted to make and file Affidavits of the Execution of Indentures of Clerks to Attornies and Solicitors to make and file the same on or before the First Day of Hilary Term One thousand eight hundred and thirty-two; and to allow Persons to make and file such Affidavits, although the Persons whom they served shall have neglected to take out their annual Certificates.

XXVII. AN ACT for enabling His Majesty's Postmaster General to sell the Premises lately used as the Post Office in Lombard Street, Abchurch Lane, and Sherborne Lane, in the City of London,

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LOCAL AND PERSONAL ACTS

DECLARED PUBLIC,

AND TO BE JUDICIALLY NOTICED.

N ACT for more effectually repairing and otherwise improving the Road from Highgate in the County of Middleser, through Whetstone, to Chipping Barnet in the County of Hertford, and the Road from Chipping Barnet to the Thirteen Mile Stone near Gannick Corner in the Parish of South Mims in the said County of Middlesex.

ii. AN ACT for repairing, amending, and maintaining the Roads from Marchweil, through Bangor, Worthenbury, and Hanmer, to Whitchurch, and from Bangor to Malpas, and from Redbrook to Hampton, in the Counties of Denbigh, Flint, Chester, and Salop.

iii. AN ACT for enlarging the Powers of an Act passed in the Tenth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, for improving the Approaches to London Bridge.

iv. AN ACT to alter, amend, and enlarge the Powers of an Act passed in the Third Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, for regulating the Poor of the City of Bristol, and for other Purposes connected therewith.

v. AN ACT for more effectually repairing the Road from the Powder Mills on Hounslow Heath in the County of Middlesex, to the Twenty Mile Stone on Egham Hill in the County of Surrey.

vi. AN ACT for more effectually repairing and otherwise improving the Road from the Post Road near Faversham, by Bacon's Water, through Ashford, to Hythe, and from Bacon's Water to Castle Street in the City of Canterbury, all in the County of Kent.

vii. AN ACT for more effectually maintaining the Road from Crossford Bridge to the Town of Manchester in the County Palatine of Lancaster, and for making a Branch Road to communicate therewith.

viii. AN ACT for repairing the Road leading from Dartford to Sevenoaks in the County of Kent.

ix. AN ACT for repairing the Road from Wimborne Minster to Blandford Forum in the County of Dorset.

x. AN ACT for repairing the Road from Burton Bridge in the County of Stafford to Market Bosworth in the County of Leicester.

xi. AN ACT for repairing the Road from Birmingham to Bromsgrove.

xii. AN ACT for repairing the Road from Measham in the County of Derby to Fieldon Bridge in the County of Warwick, and other Roads communicating therewith, in the Counties of Derby, Leicester, and Warwick.

xiii. AN ACT for more effectually repairing the Road from the Rotherham and Mansfield Turnpike Road, at or near Clown in the County of Derby, to the Worksop and Kelham Turnpike Road at or near Budby in the County of Nottingham.

xiv. AN ACT for repairing the Watling Street Road, the Manchester and Wolvey Heath Road, and other Roads communicating therewith, in the Counties of Leicester and Warwick.

XV. AN ACT for repairing the Road from the Broken Cross in Macclesfield to Nether Tabley in the County of Chester.

xvi. AN ACT to authorize the raising of further Monies for supplying the Town of Manchester with Gas.

xvii. AN ACT for more effectually repairing and improving the Road from Lower Saint Cross

Mill Lane, on the Road from the City of Winchester to Southampton, to Park Gate, on the Road from Southampton to Gosport, in the County of Southampton.

xviii. AN ACT for more effectually repairing the Road from Albion Street, in the Town of Cheltenham in the County of Gloucester, to Bunch Lane in or near the Village of Bishop's Cleeve in the said County, to join the Turnpike Road leading from the Town of Evesham in the County of Worcester to the said Town of Cheltenham.

xix. AN ACT to enlarge the Powers of an Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, for establishing and well-governing the Institution called "The School for the Indigent Blind," and for incorporating the Subscribers thereto, and the better enabling them to carry on their charitable and useful Designs.

xx. AN ACT to amend an Act of the Forty-seventh Year of King George the Third, for enlarging the Churchyard belonging to the Parish of Saint Martin in the Town of Birmingham in the County of Warwick, and for providing an additional Cemetery or Burial Ground for the Use of the said Parish.

xxi. AN ACT for the better assessing and recovering of the Rates for the Relief of the Poor, and of the Ecclesiastical or Church Rates, upon small Tenements within the Parish of Liverpool in the County Palatine of Luncaster.

xxii. AN ACT for raising a further Sum of Money to defray the outstanding Claims in respect of the building the Crypt and Tower to the additional Church erected in the Parish of Saint Mary Magdalen Bermondsey in the County of Surrey, and of inclosing the Burial Ground thereof.

xxiii. AN ACT for building a Church or Chapel, with a Cemetery to the same, in the Township of Liscard in the Parish of Wallasey in the County Palatine of Chester.

xxiv. AN ACT for erecting a Chapel in the Parish of Saint Leonard's within the Liberty of the Town and Port of Hastings in the County of Sussex, for the Accommodation of the Inhabitants of the said Parish and of the Parish of Saint Mary Magdalen within the said Liberty and County.

xxv. AN ACT for making and maintaining a Pier or Jetty, and other Works, at Herne Bay in the Parish of Herne in the County of Kent.

xxvi. AN ACT for more effectually draining certain Fen Lands and Wet Grounds called the Great West Fen, in the Parish of Hilgay in the County of Norfolk.

xxvii. AN ACT to amend an Act passed in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for improving the Drainage of the Lands lying in the North Level, Part of the Great Level of the Fens called Bedford Level, and in Great Portsand in the Manor of Crowland, and for providing a Navigation between Clows Cross and the Nene Outfall Cut.

xxviii. AN ACT for more effectually amending and widening the Road from a Place near the Village of Milford in the County of Surrey, through Haslemere, to the Forty-third Mile Stone at Carpenter's Heath, and from thence to a Bridge, near the Blue Bell Inn, over Houndley's Water, at the Boundary of the said County of Surrey.

xxix. AN ACT for amending and maintaining the Turnpike Road from and out of the Road leading from Quebec in Leeds to Homefield Lane End in Wortley, to communicate with the Road leading from Huddersfield to Birstal at the Coach und Horses Public House in Birstal in the West Riding of the County of York.

xxx. AN ACT for amending and maintaining the Roads from Stafford to Sandon in the County of Stafford, and from Stafford through Bridg ford and Eccleshall to Ireland's Cross near Woore in the County of Salop, and from Bridgford aforesaid to the Stone which divides the Liberty of Ranton and Ellenhall in the Road between Bridgford and Newport, and from the Village of Knighton to the Turnpike Road leading from Stone to Woore aforesaid.

xxxi. AN ACT for amending and improving the Road from the Town of Stone to Gaol Gate in the Borough of Stafford, and from Green Gate in the said Borough, through Dunston and Penkridge, to Streetway Road in the Road leading to Wolverhampton in the County of Stafford.

xxxii. AN ACT for more effectually repairing and improving the Road from the City of Norwich to North Walsham in the County of Norfolk.

xxxiii. AN ACT for more effectually repairing the Road from Stopham Bridge in the Parish of Pulborough to the Direction Post in the Parish of Steyning on the Turnpike Road leading from Steyning to Horsham in the County of Sussex.

xxxiv. AN ACT for more effectually repairing and improving the Road from Liverpool to Preston in the County Palatine of Lancaster.

XXXV. AN ACT for repairing and maintaining the Road from Wakefield to Aberford in the County of York.

xxxvi. AN ACT for more effectually repairing and improving the Roads from Lemsford Mills in the Parish of Bishop's Hatfield, through Welwyn and Stevenage, to Hitchin, and from Welwyn, through Codocot, to Hitchin aforesaid, all in the County of Hertford.

xxxvii. AN ACT for repairing, improving, and maintaining the Roads from Bury through Haslingden to Blackburn and Whalley, and other Roads communicating therewith, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, and for making a new Piece of Road also to communicate therewith.

xxxviii. AN ACT for more effectually repairing and improving the Road from the Leicester and Welford Road, near Foston Lane, to the Road leading from Hinckley to Ashby-de-laZouch; and for repairing Hunt's Lane and Wood Lane, in the Parishes of Desford and Newbold in the County of Leicester.

xxxix. AN ACT for more effectually repairing the Road from Burton-upon-Trent in the County of Stafford to Abbott's Bromley, otherwise Bagot's Bromley, in the said County.

xl. AN ACT for making and maintaining a Turnpike Road from the City of Coventry to Stoney Stanton in the County of Leicester, to unite with the present Turnpike Road there leading through Narborough to the Borough of Leicester.

xli. AN ACT for repairing the Road from the City of Coventry to Over Whitacre in the County of Warwick.

xlii. AN ACT for more effectually repairing and maintaining the Road over Horley Common in the County of Surrey to a Place called Black Corner, and from thence to the Brighthelmston Turnpike Road at Cuckfield in the County of Sussex.

xliii. AN ACT for more effectually making and repairing the Road from the new Bridge over the Water of Almond, on the Confines of the Counties of Edinburgh and Linlithgow, to Baillieston in the County of Lanark, and certain Branch Roads connected therewith.

xliv. AN ACT for improving the Road from the Red House near Doncaster to the South Side of Wakefield Bridge, and from Wakefield to Pontefract, and from thence to Weeland, and from Pontefract to Wentbridge, all in the West Riding of the County of York.

xlv. AN ACT for repairing and maintaining the Road leading from the High Road between Bromley and Farnborough in the County of Kent to Beggars Bush in the Turnpike Road leading from Tonbridge Wells to Maresfield in the County of Sussex.

xlvi. AN ACT for improving and maintaining several Roads leading to and from the Town of Walsall in the County of Stafford.

xlvii. AN ACT for making a Turnpike Road from the North Side of the Quarry House in the Township of Perry Burr in the County of Stafford to the Brook which divides the Parishes of Aston juxta Birmingham and Birmingham in the County of Warwick.