III. All local authorities and persons whatsoever to exert all the powers vested in them by law for the removal of nuisances. IV. All relations of, or others in charge of the bodies of, persons who have died of cholera or other epidemic disease, to obey the directions of the Medical Officers of the Guardians, as to the speedy interment of the dead. In these Directions and Regulations, the word "Guardians" means the Guardians, Directors, Wardens, Governors, Parochial Board, or other like Officers having the management of the poor of any union, parish, combination, or place, where the matter requiring the cognizance of any such Officers arises, and the expression "Local Authority" means the Town Council, Local Board of Health, or any Trustees or Commissioners for the draining, paving, lighting, cleansing, managing, or directing the police of any town, borough, or place, Highway Board, or any other body of a like nature, or any Commissioners of Sewers, or any body, excepting Boards of Guardians and Overseers, having by law powers for the removal of nuisances. Given under my hand and under the seal of the General Board of Health, this fourteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. L. S. (Signed) B. Hall. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of SEPTEMBER 19, 1854. AT the Court at Buckingham-Palace, the 11th day of August, 1854. The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council was pleased to approve and ratify the scheme duly prepared (as set forth in this Gazette) by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England For effecting an exchange of the patronage of certain livings belonging to the Crown for certain other livings belonging to the see of Oxford. At the Court at Buckingham-Palace, the 13th day of September, 1854. PRESENT, The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. Whereas by an Act, passed in the session of Parliament held in the sixth and seventh years of the reign of His Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled "An Act for rendering more easy the taking the poll at county elec"tions," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy 66 Council, from time to time, on petition from the justices of any county, riding, parts, or division in England or Wales, in quarter sessions assembled, representing that the number of polling places for such county, riding, parts, or division, is insufficient, and praying that the place or places mentioned in the said petition may be a polling place or polling places for the county, riding, parts, or division, of the county within which such place or places is or are situate, to declare that any place or places mentioned in the said petition shall be a polling place or polling places for that county, riding, parts, or division, and that the justices of the peace for such county riding, parts, or division, in quarter sessions, or some special sessions assembled, as mentioned in the Act passed in the third year of the reign of His said late Majesty, intituled "An Act to settle "and determine the divisions of counties and the "limits of cities and boroughs in England and "Wales, in so far as respects the election of "Members to serve in Parliament," shall, conformably to the said last-mentioned Act, divide such county, riding, parts, or division into convenient polling districts, and assign one of such districts to each polling place: And whereas the justices of the peace for the county of Stafford, in quarter sessions assembled, on the twenty-sixth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, have presented their petition to Her Majesty, representing that the number of polling places, for taking the poll at the election of knights of the shire for the northern division of the said county of Stafford, is insufficient, and praying that the town of Stoke-uponTrent, in the said northern division, may be a polling place for the said division, pursuant to the provisions and authorities of the said Acts of Par liament. Now, therefore, Her Majesty having taken the said petition into consideration, doth hereby, with the advice of Her Privy Council, declare, order, and direct that the town of Stoke-upon-Trent, in the said northern division of the county of Stafford, shall be a polling place for the said northern division of the said county; and further, that the justices of the peace for the said county, assembled in quarter sessions, or some special sessions, as mentioned in the said Act, of the third year of His said late Majesty's reign, shall, conformably to the said last-mentioned Act, divide the said northern division of the said county into convenient polling districts, and assign one of such districts to each polling place. C. C. Greville. At the Court at Buckingham-Palace, the 13th day of September, 1854. PRESENT, The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. Whereas by "The Common Law Procedure Act, 1852," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, from time to time, by an Order in Council, to direct that all or any part of the provisions of the said Act, or of the rules to be made in pursuance thereof, shall apply to all or any Court or Courts of Record in England or Wales, and that within one month after such Order shall have been made and published in the London Gazette, such provisions and rules respectively shall extend to and apply in manner directed by such Order; and that any such Order may be in like manner, from time to time, altered or annulled: And, whereas, it has seemed fit to Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, that the provisions of the said Act, and the rules made and to be made in pursuance thereof, with the exceptions hereinafter mentioned, should apply to the Court of Record of the borough of Preston, in the county of Lancaster, called the Court of Pleas: Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her said Council, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, that, within one month after this Order shall have been published in the London Gazette, the provisions of the said "Common Law Procedure Act, 1852," and the rules made and to be made in pursuance thereof (except sections 97, 98, and 120 of the said Act, rules, 57, 81 to 111, both inclusive, 115 to 117, both inclusive, 123 to 134, both inclusive, 173 and 175; and except such parts of the said Act and rules as relate to special juries, terms, and pleadings, between the tenth day of August and the twentyfourth day of October in any year), shall apply to the said Court of Record of the borough of Preston, called the Court of Pleas. C. C. Greville. At the Court at Buckingham-Palace, the 13th day of September, 1854. PRESENT, The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. Whereas by "The Common Law Procedure Act, 1852," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, from time to time, by an Order in Council, to direct that all or any part |