Bowness, and Colne and Marsden, the Borough of Derby, the Districts of Ebbw Vale, Gildersome, Heston and Isleworth, Hitchin, Malvern, Newport (Salop), the Runcorn Union, Sandown, and Thornhill.

clxxvii. An Act to amend the Acts relating to Chelsea Bridge.

cxciii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Districts of Leyton and Redditch, and the Borough of Totnes.

cxciv. An Act to continue certain Turnpike Acts in Great Britain, and to repeal certain other Turnpike Acts; and for other purposes connected therewith.

cxcv. An Act for regulating the Traffic in the City of Dublin, and certain other parts of the Police District of Dublin Metropolis; and for other purposes relating thereto. ccxi. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Boroughs of Abingdon and Barnsley, the District of Bradford (Wilts), the Boroughs of Colchester, Daventry, and Deal, the Evesham Union, the Borough of King's Lynn, the Districts of Kirkby Lonsdale and Leigh, the Mitford and Launditch Union, the Boroughs of Nottingham, Hastings, and Stafford, the Stockton Union, the Borough of Sudbury, and the District of Todmorden.

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CHAPTER 1.

An Act to apply the sum of eight hundred and eightytwo thousand six hundred and sixty-one pounds eight shillings and elevenpence out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the years ending the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four and one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five. [19th March 1875.]

Most Gracious Sovereign,

E, 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, as follows:

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1. The Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury for the Issue of time being may issue out of the Consolidated Fund of the 882,6617.88.11d. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and apply solidated Fund towards making good the supply granted to Her Majesty for the service for the service of the years ending on the thirty-first day of of the years March one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four and one March 1874 thousand eight hundred and seventy-five the sum of eight and 1875. hundred and eighty-two thousand six hundred and sixty-one pounds eight shillings and elevenpence.

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2. The Commissioners of the Treasury may borrow from Power to the time to time on the credit of the said sum, any sum or sums Treasury to borrow. not exceeding in the whole the sum of eight hundred and eighty-two thousand six hundred and sixty-one pounds eight shillings and elevenpence, and shall repay the moneys so bor[No. 1. Price 2d.]

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rowed with interest not exceeding five pounds per centum per annum out of the growing produce of the Consolidated Fund at any period not later than the next succeeding quarter to that in which the said sums were borrowed.

Any sums so borrowed shall be placed to the credit of the account of Her Majesty's Exchequer, and shall form part of the said Consolidated Fund, and be available in any manner in which such fund is available.

CHAPTER 2.

An Act to apply the sum of seven million pounds out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the year ending the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six. [19th March 1875.] Most Gracious Sovereign,

VE, 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, as follows:

1. The Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury for the time being may issue out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and apply towards making good the supply granted to Her Majesty for the service of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, the sum of seven million pounds.

2. The Commissioners of the Treasury may borrow from time to time on the credit of the said sum, any sum or sums not exceeding in the whole the sum of seven million pounds, and shall repay the moneys so borrowed, with interest not exceeding five pounds per centum per annum, out of the growing produce of the Consolidated Fund at any period not later than the next succeeding quarter to that in which the said sums were borrowed.

Any sums so borrowed shall be placed to the credit of the account of Her Majesty's Exchequer, and shall form part of the said Consolidated Fund, and be available in any manner in which such fund is available.

CHAPTER 3.

An Act to make further provision with respect to the Salaries of the Magistrates of the Police Courts in the Metropolitan Police District.

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[19th March 1875.]

WHEREAS by section nine of the Act of the session of the second and third years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter seventy-one, intituled "An Act for regulating the police courts in the metropolis," provision is made for payment to the police magistrates appointed to the police courts in the metropolitan police district of "such salaries as "Her Majesty shall direct, the salary to the chief magistrate "not being more than twelve hundred pounds, and to each of the other magistrates not more than twelve hundred "pounds," such salaries to be paid on the quarter days therein mentioned:

And whereas by section nineteen of the Act of the session of the eighteenth and nineteenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter one hundred and twenty-six, intituled "An Act for diminishing expense and delay in the adminis"tration of criminal justice in certain cases," it is provided that "the salary to be paid to the said chief magistrate shall "be such yearly sum not exceeding fifteen hundred pounds as "Her Majesty may direct:"

And whereas it is expedient to increase the salary of the said magistrates as herein-after mentioned:

Be it therefore 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, as follows:

1. After the first of the said quarter days which happens Salaries of after the passing of this Act there shall be payable out of the magistrates of metropolitan Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom to the chief of the police courts. police magistrates appointed to the metropolitan police courts in the metropolitan police district the yearly salary of eighteen hundred pounds, and to each of the other magistrates so appointed the yearly salary of fifteen hundred pounds.

Every such salary shall accrue due from day to day during the time of the continuance in office of the magistrate, and shall be payable at such intervals, not exceeding three months, as may be from time to time determined by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury.

2. The Acts mentioned in the schedule to this Act are Repeal of hereby repealed to the extent in the third column of that Acts. schedule mentioned, without prejudice to any right acquired or liability accrued in pursuance of such enactment; and any