the service of the East India company. LXII. An Act to amend an Act of the Scottish parliament, relative to the aliment of poor prisoners. LXIII. An Act to make further provisions for the regulation of cotton mills and factories, and for the better preservation of the health of young persons employed therein. LXIV. An Act to alter for one year,

and until the end of the then next session of parliament, the duty on wheat the produce of the British possessions in North America. LXV. An Act to allow, until the fifteenth day of August 1825, the entry of warehoused corn, grain, and wheaten flour for home consumption, on payment of duty. LXVI. An Act for explaining and amending an Act of the sixth year of the reign of her majesty Queen Anne, intituled "An Act to make further provision for electing and summoning sixteen peers of Scotland to sit in the house of peers in the parliament of Great Britain, and for trying peers for offences committed in Scotland, and for the further regulating of voters in elections of members to serve in parliament, so far as relates to the trial of peers for offences committed in Scotland. LXVII. An Act to alter and amend an Act passed in the seventh year of the reign of his majesty King James the First, intituled "An Act that all such as are to be naturalized or restored in blood shall first receive the sacrament of the Lord's supper, and the oath of allegiance and the oath of supremacy." LXVIII. An Act to regulate the conveyance of printed votes and proceedings in parliament, and printed newspapers, by packet boats between Great Britain and Ireland, and the British colonies, and also in the United Kingdom. LXIX. An Act for punishing offences committed by transports kept to labour in the colonies; and better regulating the powers of justices of the peace in New South Wales. LXX. An Act for raising the sum of ten millions five hundred thousand pounds by Exchequer bills, for the service of the year 1825. LXXI. An Act to enable his majesty

to grant an annual sum to his royal

highness Ernest Augustus duke of Cumberland, for the purpose of enabling his said royal highness, to provide for the support and education of his highness prince George Frederick Alexander Charles Ernest Augustus of Cumberland. LXXII. Än Act to enable his majesty to grant an annual sum to her royal highness Mary Louisa, Victoria duchess of Kent, for the purpose of enabling her said royal highness to provide for the support and education of her highness the princess Alexandrina Victoria of Kent.

LXXIII. An Act for further regu lating the trade of his majesty's possessions in America and the West Indies, and for the warehousing of goods therein.

LXXIV. An Act for consolidating and amending the laws relating to conveyances and transfers of estates and funds vested in trustees, who are infants, idiots, lunatics, or trustees of unsound mind, or who cannot be compelled or refuse to act; and also the laws relating to stocks and securities belonging to infants, idiots, lunatics, and persons of unsound mind. LXXV. An Act to enable his majesty to grant to a company, to be incorporated by charter, to be called

The Canada Company," certain lands in the province of Upper Canada, and to invest the said company with certain powers and privileges, and for other purposes relating thereto.

LXXVI. An Act to extend to the island of Mauritius the duties and regulations which relate to the British islands in the West Indies. LXXVII. An Act to authorize the application of part of the land revenue of the Crown for the repair and improvement of Buckingham house.

LXXVIII, An Act to repeal the

several laws relating to the performance of quarantine, and to makeother provisions in lieu thereof. LXXIX. An Act to provide for the assimilation of the currency and monies of account throughout the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

LXXX. An Act to repeal the duties payable in respect of spirits distilled

in England, and of licences for distilling, rectifying, or compounding such spirits, and for the sale of spi. rits, and to impose other duties in lieu thereof; and to provide other regulations for the collection of the said duties, and for the sale of spirits, and for the warehousing of such spirits, without payment of duty, for exportation. LXXXI. An Act to repeal several duties payable on excise licences in Great Britain and Ireland, and to impose other duties in lieu thereof; and to amend the laws for granting excise licences.

LXXXII. An Act to abolish the sale of offices in the court of King's bench in England, to make provision for the lord chief justice of the said court, and to grant an additional annuity to the said lord chief justice on resignation of his office. LXXXIII. An Act to abolish the

sale of offices in the court of Common Pleas in England, to make provision for the lord chief justice of the said court, and to grant an additional annuity to the said lord chief justice on resignation of his office.

LXXXIV. An Act to provide for the augmenting the salaries of the master of the Rolls and the vice chancellor of England, the chief baron of the court of Exchequer, and the puisne judges and barons of the courts in Westminster-hall; and to enable his majesty to grant an annuity to such vice chancellor, and additional annuities to such master of the Rolls, chief baron, and puisne judges and barons, on their resignation of their respective offices LXXXV. An Act for further regula ting the payment of the salaries and pensions to the judges of his majesty's courts in India, and the bishop of Calcutta; for authorizing the transportation of offenders from the island of St. Helena; and for more effectually providing for the administration of justice in Singapore and Mallacca, and certain colonies on the coast of Coromandel. LXXXVI. An Act to provide for the erection of certain courts and offices of justice in Scotland. LXXXVII. An Act to regulate the payment of salaries and allowances to British consuls at foreign ports,

and the disbursements at such ports for certain public purposes, LXXXVIII. An Act to make provision for the salaries of certain bishops, and other ecclesiastical dignitaries and ministers, in the diocese of Jamaica, and in the diocese of Barbadoes and the Leeward islands; and to enable his majesty to grant annuities to such bishops upon the resignation of their offices. LXXXIX. An Act to authorize the purchase of the office of receiver and comptroller of the seal of the court of King's-bench and Common Pleas, and of custos-brevium of the court of Common Pleas.

XC. An Act to amend an Act of the fifty-seventh year of his late majesty for enabling his majesty to recom pense the services of persons holding or who have held certain high and efficient civil offices.

XCI. An Act to repeal so much of an Act passed in the sixth year of his late majesty King George the First, as relates to the restraining several extravagant and unwarrantable practices in the said Act mentioned; and for conferring additional powers upon his majesty, with respect to the granting of charters of incorporation to trading and other companies.

XCII. An Act to render valid marriages solemnized in certain churches and public chapels in which banns have not usually been published, XCIII. An Act to render valid certain decrees and orders at the Rolls court.

XCIV. An Act to alter and amend an Act for the better protection of the property of merchants and others, who may hereafter enter into contracts or agreements in relation to goods, wares, or merchandize intrusted to factors or agents. XCV. An Act to enable such persons as his majesty may be pleased to call to the degree of a sergeant at law, to take upon themselves that office in vacation.

XCVI. An Act for preventing frivo. lous writs of error.

XCVII. An Act for the better pre

servation of the peace and good order in the universities of England.

XCVIII. An Act to prevent the fur ther circulation of tokens issued by

the governor and company of the Bank of Ireland, for the convenience of the public, and for defraying the expence of exchanging such tokens. XCIX. An Act to repeal an Act of the last session of parliament relative to the forming tables of manors, parishes, and townlands in Ireland, and to make provision for ascertaining the boundaries of the same. C. An Act to extend the powers of an Act for vesting in commissioners the bridges building over the Menia Straits and the river Conway, and the harbours of Howth and Holyhead, and the road from Dublin to Howth; and for the further improvement of the road from London to Holyhead.

CI. An Act to provide for the repairing, maintaining, and keeping in repair certain roads and bridges in Ireland.

CII. An Act to amend the laws respecting deserted children in Ireland.

CIII. An Act to enable the principal officers and commissioners of his majesty's Navy to acquire certain portions of the docks and shore ground at Leith for a naval yard, and to enable the commissioners of the treasury to advance a certain sum of money on the security of the docks and of the harbour of Leith. CIV. An Act to repeal certain duties of customs, and to grant other duties in lieu thereof; to continue until the fifth day of July 1826, the bounties on refined sugar; and to alter the bounty on cordage. CV. An Act to repeal the several laws relating to the customs. CVI. An Act for the management of the customs.

CVII. An Act for the general regulation of the customs.

CVIII. An Act for the prevention of smuggling.

CIX. An Act for the encouragement

of British shipping and Navigation. CX. An Act for the registering of British vessels.

CXI. An Act for granting duties of

customs.

CXII. An Act for the warehousing of goods. CXIII. An Act to grant certain boun

ties and allowances of customs. CXIV. An Act to regulate the trade of the British possessions abroad.

CXV. An Act for regulating the trade of the isle of Man. CXVI. An Act for regulating vessels carrying passengers to foreign parts. CXVII. An Act to repeal the excise duties and drawbacks on flint glass in Great Britain, and to impose other duties and another drawback in lieu thereof, throughout the United Kingdom; and to continue the jurisdiction and powers for recovering penalties under customs and excise laws in Ireland, until further provisions can be made.

CXVIII. An Act to transfer the collection and management of the duties on gold and silver plate in Ireland, and also on certain licences in Great Britain and Ireland respectively, from the commissioners of excise to the commissioners of stamps in Great Britain and Ireland respectively; and to repeal so much of an Act as requires excise stamps to be affixed on papers and pots containing cocoa paste. CXIX. An Act to allow newspapers to be printed upon paper of a larger size than is now allowed; and to reduce the stamp duties now payable upon supplements to newspapers and other papers in Great Britain. CXX. An Act for the better regulating of the forms of process in the courts of law in Scotland.

CXXI. An Act to enable the insolvent debtors court to dispense, until the end of the next session of parliament, with the necessity of prisoners residing within the walls in certain cases.

CXXII. An Act for the better regulation of the linen and hempen manufactures of Ireland.

CXXIII. An Act to establish a taxation of costs on private bills in the House of Commons; and to prohibit the sale of certain offices under the serjeant at arms attending the House of Commons.

CXXIV. An Act for making the four districts in the parish of St. Maryle-bone, in the county of Middlesex, district rectories for certain purposes.

CXXV. An Act for the amendment of the law respecting pilots and pilotage; and also for the better preservation of floating lights, buoys, and beacons.

CXXVI. An Act to make provision

Scotland for the further prevention of malicious shooting, and attempting to discharge loaded fire arms, stabbing, cutting, wounding, poisoning, maiming, disfiguring, and disabling his majesty's subjects. CXXVII. An Act for making further provision by law for the protection of property in orchards, gardens, and nursery grounds. CXXVIII. An Act to enable the commissioners of his majesty's treasury to advance out of the consolidated fund certain sums for the payment of debts due from the commissioners of Wide streets, and for the erecting a corn exchange in the city of Dublin; and to repeal certain duties on licences relating to cards and clubs in the city of Dublin.

CXXIX. An Act to repeal the laws relating to the combination of workmen, and to make other provisions in licu thereof.

CXXX. An Act to alter and amend the law as to church rates in Ireland, and to regulate the same. CXXXI. An Act to regulate the mode in which certain societies or copartnerships in Scotland may sue and be sued.

CXXXII. An Act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing the forest of Salcey, in the counties of Northampton and Buckingham, and of certain lands in the parish of Hartwell in the said county of Northampton. CXXXIII. An Act to amend and explain an Act of the fifty-fifth year of his late majesty, for better regulating the practice of Apothecaries throughout England and Wales. CXXXIV. An Act for applying the surplus of the grants of the year 1824 to the service of the year 1825; and for further appropriating the supplies granted in this session of parliament.

PUBLIC ACTS

Of a Local and Personal Nature, to be noticed by the Courts.

i. An Act for more effectually repairing and otherwise improving the road from the town of Derby to the town of Uttoxeter in the county of Stafford, and for making and main. VOL. LXVII.

taining a new branch of road to communicate with the said road. ii. An Act for repairing and maintaining the road from Penwortham bridge to the boundary between the townships of Wrightington and Shevington, and the road from Lydiatelane End to a bridge called Little Hanging bridge, all in the county of

Lancaster.

iii. An Act for making and maintaining a turnpike road from the turnpike road called Wellington bridge road, near the town of Leeds, in the West Riding of the county of York, to the turnpike road leading from Wakefield to Bradford, in the said Riding, near a certain place called Tonglane End, in the lordship or liberty of Tong, in the parish of Birstal, in the Riding aforesaid, with several

branch roads therefrom.

iv. An Act for building a bridge and making a causeway and turnpike road from or near Grigg's-quay, in the parish of Uny Lelant, over Hale river and Sands, in the parish of St. Erth, to Carnsew-quay, through Hayle Foundery, in the said parish of St. Erth, and Pen Poll, in the parish of Phillack, all in the county of Cornwall.

v.

An Act for lighting, cleansing, watching, and improving the township of Ardwick in the county of Lancaster, and for regulating the police thereof.

vi. An Act for paving, lighting, watching cleansing, regulating, and improving the town of Stroud in the county of Gloucester.

vii. An Act for more effectually repairing the roads from the turnpike road upon Gatherley Moor in the county of York to Straindrop in the county of Durham, and from the said turnpike road near Smallways, across the river Tees, to Winston in the said county of Durham. viii. An Act for repairing the road leading from Bridgnorth to Shiffnall otherwise Idsall, in the county of Salop.

ix. An Act for enlarging the term and powers of several Acts passed for repairing the high road from Boroughbridge in the county of York to Catterick in the same county, and from thence to Piersbridge on the river Tees.

x.

An Act for repairing the road Y

from Hinckley in the county of Leicester to Nuneaton in the county of Warwick, and from thence to Bishop's-gate in the city of Coventry.

xi, An Act for making and maintaining a turnpike road from Midhurst, in the county of Sussex, to the London and Portsmouth turnpike road, between the fifty-second and fiftythird mile-stones near Sheet bridge, in the county of Southampton. xii. An Act for making and maintaina turnpike road from Kirkby Stephen, in the county of Westmoreland, into the Sedberg and Kerby Kendal turnpike road, and out of and from the same turnpike road to Hawes in the North Riding of the county of York; and a new branch from Hawes aforesaid to the village of Gayle in the township of Hawes,

xiii. An Act for repairing the road from Stockton to Barnard Castle in the county of Durham, xiv. An Act for making and maintaining a turnpike road from the city of Winchester to the town of Petersfield in the county of Southampton. xv. An Act for more effectually repairing the road from Bramcote Odd house in the county of Nottingham, to the Cross Post upon Smalley Common in the county of Derby, and from Ilkeston to Heanor in the said county of Derby, and from Trowell in the said county of Nottingham to the town of Nottingham. xvi. An Act for repairing and maintaining the road from Whiteburn, upon the turnpike road from Edinburgh to Greenlaw, passing through Thornydike and Westruther to Choicelee, upon the turnpike road from Greenlaw to Dunse, all in the county of Berwick.

xvii. An Act to enable the company of proprietors of the Calder and Hebble navigation to make a navi. gable cut or canal from Salterhebble bridge to Bailey hall, near to the town of Halifax, in the West Riding of the county of York; and to amend the Act relating to the said Navigation.

xviii. An Act for making and maintaining a railway or train road from or near the Manchester, Bolton, and Bury canal, in the parish of Bolton-le-moors, to or near the Leeds and Liverpool canal, in the

parish of Leigh, all in the county palatine of Lancaster.

xix. An Act for better lighting, cleansing, watching, paving, and otherwise improving the township of Stourbridge in the parish of Oldswinford in the county of Worcester; for regulating the market, and building a market place within and for the said township; and for removing and preventing nuisances and annoyances therein.

xx. An Act to amend and render more effectual several Acts relative to the paving, lighting, watching, and improving the town of Margate in the parish of St. John the Baptist in the county of Kent; for erecting certain defences against the sea for the protection of the said town ; and for making further improvements in and about the said town and parish.

xxi. An Act for lighting with gas the town of Stockport in the county Palatine of Chester.

xxii. An Act for amending and maintaining the road leading from Wigan and commencing at Clarington brook, and passing over Amberswood common through Hindley to a place called Chequer Bent in Westhoughton, all in the county Palatine of Lancaster.

xxiii. An Act for making and maintaining a turnpike road from Cainscross through Stroud, over Rodborough and Minchinhampton commons, to the town of Minchinhampton, with several branches therefrom, all in the county of Gloucester. xxiv. An Act for more effectually repairing the road from Grantham, in the county of Lincoln, to Nottingham Trent bridge, in the county of Nottingham.

xxv. An Act for making and maintaining a turnpike road from the present turnpike road, between Maidstone and Wrotham in the county of Kent, to Strood in the said county.

xxvi. An Act for making a turnpike

road from the Hope turnpike, in the Leominster and Hereford road, to or near Burley gate, in the Hereford and Bromyard turnpike road, and from thence to a place called the Trumpet, in the Ledbury and Hereford turnpike road, all in the county of Hereford.