A

COLLECTION

OF THE

PUBLIC GENERAL STATUTES,

PASSED IN

THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH YEARS

OF THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY

QUEEN VICTORIA,

1854-55.

DROIT

LONDON:

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1855.

A

TAB L E

OF

The Public GENERAL STATUTES passed in the

Third Session of the SIXTEENTH Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

18 & 19 VICTORIA.

PUBLIC GENERAL ACTS.
N Act to enable Her Majesty to accept the Services of

the Militia out of the United Kingdom, for the vigorous Prosecution of the War.

3 II. An Act to permit Foreigners to be enlisted and to serve as Officers and Soldiers in Her Majesty's Forces.

7 III. An Act to carry into effect a Treaty between Her Majesty and the United States of America.

9 IV. An Act to amend the Act for limiting the Time of Service in the Army.

14 V. An Act to apply the Sum of Three millions three hundred

thousand Pounds out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year ending the Thirty-first Day of March One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.

16 VI. An Act to apply the Sum of Twenty Millions out of the

Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.

18 VII. An Act to extend to Ireland the Provisions of the

Eighteenth Section of the Common Law Procedure Act, 1854.

20 VIII. An Act for raising the Sum of Seventeen millions one

hundred and eighty-three thousand Pounds by Exchequer Bills for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.

IX. An Act to suspend the Decline of the Customs Duties on Tea from and after the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.

22

X. An Act to enable a Third Principal Secretary and a Third Under Secretary of State to sit in the House of Commons.

23

24

XI. An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the
better Payment of the Army and their Quarters.
XII. An Act for the Regulation of Her Majesty's Royal
Marine Forces while on shore.

88

XIII. An Act to explain and amend the Lunacy Regulation Act, 1853.

145

XIV. An Act to authorize the Inclosure of certain Lands in pursuance of a Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales.

146

XV. An Act for the better Protection of Purchasers against Judgments, Crown Debts, Cases of Lis pendens, and Life Annuities or Rentcharges.

147

153

XVI. An Act to authorize the letting Parts of the Royal
Forests of Dean and Woolmer, and certain other Parts of the
Hereditary Possessions of the Crown.
XVII. An Act to carry into effect a Convention between
Her Majesty and the King of Sardinia.
XVIII. An Act for raising the Sum of Sixteen Millions by
way of Annuities.

154

156 XIX. An Act to remove Doubts as to the Commissions of Officers of Militia in Ireland who have omitted to deliver unto the Clerk of the Peace Descriptions of their Qualifications, and to indemnify them against the Consequences of such Omission, and to amend the Law relating to the Militia in Ireland.

165

XX. An Act for granting to Her Majesty an increased Rate of Duty on Profits arising from Property, Professions, Trades, and Offices.

168 XXI. An Act for granting certain Duties of Customs on Tea, Coffee, Sugar, and other Articles. XXII. An Act for granting certain additional Rates and Duties of Excise.

170

174

XXIII. An Act to alter in certain respects the Law of Intestate Moveable Succession in Scotland.

182

XXIV. An Act to amend an Act of the Second and Third Years of King William the Fourth, for amending the Representation of the People in Scotland, in so far as relates to the Procedure in County Elections in that Country. 184 XXV. An Act to allow Affirmations or Declarations to be made instead of Oaths in certain Cases in Scotland. 185

XXVI. An

XXVI. An Act to continue an Act of the Thirteenth and

Fourteenth Years of Her present Majesty, for enabling the Judges of the Courts of Common Law at Westminster to alter the Forms of Pleading.

186 XXVII. An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Stamp

Duties on Newspapers, and to provide for the Transmission by Post of printed periodical Publications.

187 XXVIII. An Act to provide that the Property or Income

Tax payable in respect of the Income from Ecclesiastical Property in Ireland shall be a Deduction in estimating the Value of such Property for the Purpose of Taxation by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.

190 XXIX. An Act to make further Provision for the Regis

tration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in Scotland. 191 XXX. An Act to empower the Commissioners of Sewers to expend on House Drainage a certain Sum out of the Monies borrowed by them on Security of the Rates, and also to give to the said Commissioners certain other Powers for the same Purpose.

194 XXXI. An Act to confirm the Incorporation of the Borough of Brighton.

195 XXXII. An Act to amend and extend the Jurisdiction of the Stannary Court.

196 XXXIII. An Act to prevent Doubts as to the Validity of certain Proceedings in the House of Commons.

216 XXXIV. An Act to provide for the Education of Children in the Receipt of Out-door Relief.

217 XXXV. An Act to continue the Act for extending for a

limited Time the Provision for Abatement of Income Tax in respect of Insurance on Lives.

218 XXXVI. An Act to repeal the Stamp Duties payable on

Matriculation and Degrees in the University of Oxford. 219 XXXVII. An Act to apply the Sum of Ten Millions out of

the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifiy-five.

220 XXXVIII. An Act to allow Spirit of Wine to be used

Duty-free in the Arts and Manufactures of the United Kingdom.

222 XXXIX. An Act to facilitate Grants of Lands and Tene

ments for the Purpose of Religious Worship and other Purposes connected therewith.

227 XL. An Act for further promoting the Establishment of free Public Libraries and Museums in Ireland.

232 XLI. An Act for abolishing the Jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Courts of England and

of England and Wales in Suits for Defamation.