THE STATUTES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, 17 & 18 VICTORIA. 1854. LONDON: Printed by Her Majesty's Printers; 1854. (Price 11. 6s. in Boards.) The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; 17° & 18° VICTORIÆ. 1. PUBLIC GENERAL ACTS. AN N Act to explain and amend an Act of the last Session relating to the Duties of Assessed Taxes, and to authorize Justices of the Peace in Ireland to administer Oaths required in Matters relating to Income Tax. Page 1 2. An Act to apply the Sum of Eight Millions out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. 3 3. An Act for raising the Sum of One million seven hundred and fifty thousand Pounds by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. Ibid. 4. An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters. Ibid. 5. An Act to admit Foreign Ships to the Coasting Trade. 21 6. An Act for the Regulation of Her Majesty's Royal Marine Forces while on shore. 22 7. An Act for extending the Time limited for putting into execution the Act of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Years of Her present Majesty, for the better Management and Control of Highways in South Wales. 36 8. An Act further to amend an Act relating to the Valuation of rateable Property in Ireland. 37 9. An Act to authorize the Inclosure of certain Lands in pursuance of a Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales. 39 10. An Act for granting to Her Majesty additional Duties on Profits arising from Property, Professions, Trades, and Offices. 40 11. An Act to amend the Laws relating to Ministers Money, and the Church Temporalities (Ireland) Act. 41 12. An Act for raising the Sum of Sixteen millions twenty-four thousand one hundred Pounds by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fiftyfour. Page 46 13. An Act to amend the Acts relating to the Militia of the United Kingdom. Ibid. 14. An Act to continue Her Majesty's Commission for building new Churches. 47 15. An Act to empower the Commissioners of the Admiralty to construct a Tunnel between Her Majesty's Dockyard at Devonport and Her Majesty's Steam Factory Yard at Keyham, and to acquire certain Property for Her Majesty's Service. 16. An Act to amend the Act of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Victoria, Chapter Sixty-one, and the Act of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Victoria, Chapter Fifty-four. 49 57 17. An Act to make further Provision for defining the Boundaries of Counties, Baronies, Half Baronies, Parishes, Town Lands, and other Divisions and Denominations of Land in Ireland for Public Purposes. 58 18. An Act for the Encouragement of Seamen and the more effectual Manning of Her Majesty's Navy during the present War. 64 19. An Act for facilitating the Payment of Her Majesty's Navy, and the Payment and Distribution of Prize, Bounty, Salvage, and other Monies to and amongst the Officers and Crews of Her Majesty's Ships and Vessels of War; and for the better Regulation of the Accounts relating thereto. 79 20. An Act to repeal an Act of the Fifty-third Year of King George the Third, Chapter Seventy-two, and an Act of the Eighth Year of Her present Majesty, Chapter Twenty-one; and for making Provision for the Appointment and for Remuneration of a Stipendiary Justice for the Division of Manchester in the County of Lancaster, and of Clerks to such Justice and the Justices for the Borough of Salford; and for other Purposes. 83 21. An Act to apply the Sum of Eight Millions out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. 98 22. An Act to enable the Collector General of Dublin to levy Money to repay a certain Outlay by the Corporation for preserving and improving the Port of Dublin in and about repairing the Quay Wall of the River Liffey, and for future Repairs thereof, and for repairing and rebuilding Bridges over the said River. Ibid. 23. An Act for raising the Sum of Six Millions by Exchequer Bonds and Exchequer Bills. 103 24. An Act for granting to Her Majesty an increased Rate of Duty on Profits arising from Property, Professions, Trades, and Offices. 104 25. An Act to amend the Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1852. 106 26. An Act to assimilate the Law and Practice existing in Cases of High Treason in Ireland to the Law and Practice existing in Cases of High Treason in England. 109 27. An Act for granting certain additional Rates and Duties of Excise. Page 110 28. An Act to alter and amend certain Duties of Customs. 122 29. An Act to alter the Duties of Customs on Sugar, Molasses, and Spirits. 124 30. An Act for granting certain Duties of Excise on Sugar made in the United Kingdom. 127 31. An Act for the better Regulation of the Traffic on Railways and Canals. 130 32. An Act to facilitate the Apportionment of the Rent when Parts of Lands in Lease are taken for the Purposes of the Church Building Acts. 134 33. An Act to place Public Statues within the Metropolitan Police District under the Control of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings. 135 34. An Act to enable the Courts of Law in England, Ireland, and Scotland to issue Process to compel the Attendance of Witnesses out of their Jurisdiction, and to give Effect to the Service of such Process in any Part of the United Kingdom. 137 35. An Act to repeal certain Provisions of an Act of the Fifth and Sixth Years of Her present Majesty, concerning the holding of Assizes for the County of Warwick. 139 36. An Act for preventing Frauds upon Creditors by secret Bills of Sale of Personal Chattels. 140 37. An Act for establishing the Validity of certain Proceedings in Her Majesty's Court of Vice-Admiralty in Mauritius. 144 38. An Act for the Suppression of Gaming Houses. Ibid. 39. An Act to indemnify such Persons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments, and to extend the Time limited for those Purposes respectively. 149 153 40. An Act to continue an Act of the last Session of Parliament, for extending for a limited Time the Provision for Abatement of Income Tax in respect of Insurance on Lives. 41. An Act to continue the Poor Law Board. 42. An Act to continue certain Acts for regulating Turnpike Roads in Ireland. 154 Ibid. 43. An Act to continue an Act of the Seventeenth Year of Her present Majesty, for charging the Maintenance of certain poor Persons in Unions in England and Wales upon the Common Fund. 155 44. An Act for regulating and maintaining the Harbours of Holyhead, and for vesting them in the Admiralty. 156 45. An Act to amend the Dublin Carriage Act, 1853. 162 46. An Act to continue certain Acts relating to Linen, Hempen, and other Manufactures in Ireland. 173 47. An Act to alter and improve the Mode of taking Evidence in the Ecclesiastical Courts of England and Wales. 48. An Act to authorize the Inclosure of certain Lands in pursuance of a Special Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales. Ibid. 49. An Act for the Settlement of Claims upon and over the New Forest. 174 175 |