95. An Act for the more easy Recovery of Small Debts and Demands in England. Page 533 96. An Act for the more speedy Removal of certain Nuisances, and to enable the Privy Council to make Regulations for the Prevention of contagious and epidemic Diseases until the Thirtyfirst Day of August One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament. 579 97. An Act to provide for removing the Charge of the Constabulary Force in Ireland from the Counties, and for enlarging the Reserve Force; and to make further Provision for the Regulation and Disposition of the said Constabulary Force. 589 98. An Act to amend the Law for regulating the Hours of receiving and delivering Goods and Chattels as Pawns in Pawnbrokers Shops. 596 99. An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws relating to Wreck and Salvage. 597 100. An Act for the Regulation of Steam Navigation, and for requiring Sea-going Vessels to carry Boats. 621 101. An Act to authorize the Advance of Public Money to a limited Amount, to promote the Improvement of Land in Great Britain and Ireland by Works of Drainage. 631 102. An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Customs. 648 103. An Act to make further Provision for the Government of the New Zealand Islands. 654 104. An Act to amend an Act for regulating the Sale of Waste Land belonging to the Crown in the Australian Colonies, and to make further Provision for the Management thereof. 660 105. An Act for constituting Commissioners of Railways. 665 106. An Act for making preliminary Inquiries in certain Cases of Applications for Local Acts. 668 107. An Act to facilitate the Employment of the labouring Poor for a limited Period in the distressed Districts in Ireland. 671 108. An Act to provide additional Funds for Loans and Grants for Public Works in Ireland. 679 109. An Act to authorize a further Issue of Money in aid of Public Works of acknowledged Utility in poor Districts in Ireland. 682 110. An Act to amend the Law relating to the Valuation of rateable Property in Ireland. 684 111. An Act to amend the Law in Ireland as to Ejectments and Distresses, and as to the Occupation of Lands. 717 112. An Act to facilitate and encourage the granting of certain Leases for Terms of Years in Ireland. 730 113. An Act to improve the Proceedings in Prohibition and on Writs of Mandamus in Ireland. 736 114. An Act for the further Amendment of an Act of the Sixth Year of Her present Majesty, for regulating the Irish Fish eries. 739 115. An Act to amend the Laws as to District Lunatic Asylums in Ireland; to provide for the Expence of the Maintenance of certain Lunatic Poor removed from the Richmond Lunatic Asylum, Dublin, for Want of Room therein; and to provide for the Salaries and Expences incident to the Office of Inspector of Lunatics in Ireland. 742 116. An 116. An Act to apply the Sum of Eight millions three hundred fifty-six thousand one hundred and seventy-three Pounds Seventeen Shillings and Eleven-pence out of the Consolidated Fund, and Monies in the Exchequer, to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-six, and to appropriate the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament. Page 746 117. An Act to authorize the Inclosure of certain Lands pursuant to a special Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales. 752 LOCAL AND PERSONAL ACTS, DECLARED PUBLIC, AND TO BE JUDICIALLY NOTICED. i. AN Act for lighting with Gas the Town of Downpatrick in the County of Down. Page 754 ii. An Act for lighting with Gas the Town and Parish of Radcliff and the Township of Pilkington, or Parts thereof, in the County Palatine of Lancaster. Ibid. iii. An Act for better assessing and collecting the Poor Rates, Lighting and Watching and Church Rates, in the Parish of Aylesbury, and the Highway Rates in the Township of Aylesbury and Hamlet of Walton respectively, in the County of Buckingham. Ibid. iv. An Act for granting more effectual Powers for lighting with Gas the Town of Bury and the Neighbourhood thereof in the Parish of Bury in the County Palatine of Lancaster. Ibid. v. An Act to enable the United Company of Proprietors of the Ellesmere and Chester Canal to raise a further Sum of Money. Ibid. vi. An Act for building a Bridge across the River Medway at Rochester in the County of Kent, with Approaches thereto; for taking down the present Bridge; and for amending the Acts relating to the same. 755 vii. An Act for repairing, improving, and maintaining certain Roads leading from the Borough of New Woodstock to Rollright Lane, and other Roads connected therewith, in the County of Oxford. Ibid. viii. An Act for lighting with Gas the Town of Middleton and its Vicinity in the County of Lancaster. Ibid. ix. An Act for inclosing Lands in the Parish of Willingham in the County of Cambridge, and for draining and embanking certain Fen Lands and Low Grounds in the said Parish. Ibid. x. An Act to enable the Company of Proprietors of the Manchester and Salford Waterworks to raise a further Sum of Money. Ibid. xi. An Act for altering, amending, and enlarging the Powers and Provisions of the several Acts passed in relation to the Monkland Navigation. Page 755 xii. An Act for enabling the Trustees of the Enfield Chase Road to make a Deviation or Alteration of the said Road from a Point near the Sixteenth Milestone in the Parish of North Mims to the Town of Hatfield in the County of Hertford. Ibid. xiii. An Act for constructing a Wet Dock and other Works on the South Side of the River Wear at Sunderland-nearthe-Sea in the County Palatine of Durham. Ibid. xiv. An Act to amend and enlarge some of the Provisions of the Acts relating to the Great Western Railway Company, and to confirm the Purchase of certain Railways by the said Company. 756 xv. An Act for enabling the Taunton Gas Light and Coke Company, incorporated by the Taunton Gas Act, 1845, to borrow additional Money for the Purposes of the Company, and for confirming a Purchase made by them; and for other Pur poses. Ibid. xvi. An Act for improving and maintaining the Port and Harbour of Helensburgh in the County of Dumbarton. Ibid. xvii. An Act for better supplying with Water the City and Neighbourhood of York. Ibid. xviii. An Act to incorporate the Members of the Most Honourable and Loyal Society of Ancient Britons, commonly called The Welsh Charity School, and to enable them the better to carry on their charitable Designs. Ibid. xix. An Act for better supplying with Water the Town and Environs of Boston in the County of Lincoln. Ibid. xx. An Act for establishing a Cemetery at Birmingham in the County of Warwick. Ibid. xxi. An Act to enable the Company of Proprietors of the Glasgow Waterworks to introduce an additional Supply of Water to the City and Suburbs of Glasgow. Ibid. xxii. An Act for providing an enlarged Site for rebuilding the Coal Market in the City of London, and for widening the Avenues in the Vicinity thereof, and for effecting other Improvements in the said City. Ibid. xxiii. An Act for enabling the Parliamentary Trustees on the River Clyde and Harbour of Glasgow to acquire a Portion of the Lands of Stobcross and adjacent Grounds, and to construct thereon a Wet Dock or Tidal Basin, with certain additional Wharfs and other Works. 757 xxiv. An Act for improving and maintaining the Harbour or Port of Sligo in the County of Sligo. Ibid. xxv. An Act for constructing a Pier, and forming necessary Approaches thereto, in the Parish of Weston-super-Mare in the County of Somerset. Ibid. xxvi. An Act for amending certain Acts of the Forty-third and Fiftieth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, relating to the Port and Harbour of the Town and County of the Town of Southampton. Ibid. xxvii. An t xxvii. An Act for establishing a general Cemetery for the Interment of the Dead in the Neighbourhood of the Towns of Plymouth, Devonport, and Stonehouse, in the County of Devon. Page 757 xxviii. An Act for altering, amending, and enlarging the several Acts relating to the Improvement of Birkenhead, Claughtoncum-Grange, and Part of Oxton, in the County of Chester. Ibid. xxix. An Act for improving the Borough of Leicester. Ibid. xxx. An Act for paving, lighting, watching, watering, cleansing, regulating, and otherwise improving the Town of Southport in the County Palatine of Lancaster, and for establishing and regulating a Market and Market Places therein. Ibid. xxxi. An Act for extending the Limits of the Burgh of Helensburgh in the County of Dumbarton, for lighting and cleansing the same, for establishing a Police therein, and for other Purposes relating thereto. Ibid. xxxii. An Act to erect and constitute the Parishes of Old and New Monkland, and Parts of the Parishes of Bothwell and Shotts, in the County of Lanark, into One Police District, for the Establishment of an efficient Police Force therein, and for other Purposes relating thereto. 758 xxxiii. An Act for incorporating the Gravesend and Milton Waterworks Company, and for more effectually supplying the Inhabitants of the Town and Parishes of Gravesend and Milton-nextGravesend and the Parish of Northfleet in the County of Kent with Water. Ibid. xxxiv. An Act for granting more effectual Powers for supplying with Water the Town of Bury, and the several Townships of Walmersley-cum-Shuttleworth, Bury, and Elton, all in the Parish Ibid. of Bury in the County Palatine of Lancaster. xxxv. An Act to amend the Provisions of Two several Acts passed in the Third and Eighth Years of His Majesty King George the Fourth, for supplying with Water the Town of Liverpool and Harrington and Toxteth Park in the County Palatine of Lancaster. Ibid. Ibid. xxxvi. An Act for better supplying with Water the Town and Borough of Sunderland, and the Neighbourhood thereof, in the County of Durham. xxxvii. An Act for better supplying with Gas the Town and Borough of Sunderland, and the Neighbourhood thereof, in the County of Durham. Ibid. xxxviii. An Act for incorporating the Rotherham Gas Light and Coke Company, and for better supplying the Parish of Rotherham in the West Riding of the County of York with Gas. Ibid. xxxix. An Act to enable the Bilston Gas Light and Coke Company to light with Gas the Town of Bilston, and certain other Townships, Parishes, and Places, in the County of Stafford. Ibid. xl. An Act for better supplying with Gas the Townships of Bilton with Harrogate and Pannal, and certain Parts of the Townships of Knaresborough and Scriven with Tentergate, adjacent thereto or intermixed therewith, all in the West Riding of the. County of York. Ibid. xli. An Act for constructing and maintaining an Arcade between Argyle Street and Great Clyde Street in the City of Glasgow, to to be called "The Union Arcade," and for altering the Site of an intended Foot Passenger Bridge across the Clyde at Glasgow. Page 759 xlii. An Act for the better and more effectual ascertaining, assessing, collecting, and levying the Poor Rate, and all other Rates and Assessments, in the Parish of Carshalton in the County of Surrey, and for the better Management of the Business and Affairs of the said Parish; and for other Purposes relating thereto. Ibid. xliii. An Act to incorporate the Members of the Institution called "The Royal Asylum of the Saint Ann's Society," and to enable them the better to carry on their charitable Designs. Ibid. xliv. An Act for forming aud regulating "The Electric Telegraph Company," and to enable the said Company to work certain Letters Patents. Ibid. xlv. An Act for incorporating the "Caledonian Insurance Company" for enabling the said Company to sue and be sued, to take and to hold Property; for confirming the Rules and Regulations of the said Company; and for other Purposes relating thereto. Ibid. xlvi. An Act for maintaining the Road from Deanburn in the County of Haddington, through Greenlaw in the County of Berwick, to Cornhill in the County of Durham, with Branches from Carfrae Mill through Lauder, from Orange Lane to Swinton, and from Coldstream to Mount Pleasant, all in the County of Berwick; and for maintaining the Bridge over the River Tweed at Coldstream. Ibid. xlvii. An Act to enlarge the Term and Powers of an Act made in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, 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. Ibid. xlviii. An Act to alter, amend, and enlarge the Powers and Provisions of an Act passed in the Second and Third Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for maintaining and regulating the Market in the Parish of Sidmouth in the County of Devon. 760 xlix. An Act for more effectually supplying Water to the Inhabitants of the Town of Bolton, and several Townships and Places adjoining or near thereto, in the County of Lancaster. Ibid. 1. An Act for the better supplying with Gas the Royal Burgh of Dundee, Suburbs thereof, and Places adjacent, in the County of Forfar. Ibid. li. An Act to authorize certain Alterations in the Line of the Syston and Peterborough Branch of the Midland Railway, and the Formation of certain other Branch Railways in connexion therewith. Ibid. lii. An Act for making a Railway from Maldon, through Witham to Braintree, all in the County of Essex. Ibid. liii. An Act for making a Railway from the Eastern Union Railway in the Parish of Bentley to the Town of Hadleigh, all |