THE STATUTES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, 12 & 13 VICTORIA. 1849. LONDON: Printed by Her Majesty's Printers; 1849. (Price 11.28. in Boards.) A TABLE Containing the TITLES of all THE STATUTES, Passed in the SECOND Session of the FIFTEENTH Parliament OF The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; 12° & 13° VICTORIE. PUBLIC GENERAL ACTS. 1. AN Act to consolidate the Boards of Excise and Stamps and Taxes into One Board of Commissioners of Inland Revenue, and to make Provision for the Collection of such Revenue. Page 1 2. An Act to continue, until the First Day of September One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, an Act of the last Session, for empowering the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland to apprehend and detain such Persons as he or they shall suspect of conspiring against Her Majesty's Person and Government. 9 3. 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 forty-nine. Ibid. 4. An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Appointment of Vice Guardians of Unions in Ireland. Ibid, 5. An Act to authorize an Advance of Money for the Relief of certain distressed Poor Law Unions in Ireland. 11 6. An Act to repeal an Act of the Twenty first Year of George the Second, for holding the Summer Assizes at Buckingham; and to authorize the Appointment of a more convenient Place for holding the same. 12 7. An Act to authorize the Inclosure of certain Lands in pursuance of the Fourth Annual General Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales. 13 8. An Act to remove Doubts as to the Appointment of Overseers in Cities and Boroughs. A 2 14 9. An 9. 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 until the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and fifty. Page 15 10. An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters. Ibid. 11. An Act to amend the Laws in England and Ireland relative to Larceny and other Offences connected therewith. 24 12. An Act for the Regulation of Her Majesty's Royal Marine Forces while on Shore. 25 13. An Act to provide a more effectual Regulation and Control over the Maintenance of poor Persons in Houses not being the Workhouses of any Union or Parish. 33 14. An Act to enable Overseers of the Poor and Surveyors of the Highways to recover the Costs of distraining for Rates. 36 15. An Act to amend an Act of the Fifty-fourth Year of King George the Third, for the Recovery of small Sums due for Wages in Ireland. 46 16. An Act to protect Justices of the Peace in Ireland from vexatious Actions for Acts done by them in the Execution of their Office. 4.7 17. An Act to continue for Five Years so much of an Act of the Second and Third Years of Her present Majesty, as enables Justices to grant Warrants for entering Places in which Spirits are sold without Licence in Ireland. 52 18. An Act for the holding of Petty Sessions of the Peace in Boroughs, and for providing Places for the holding of such Petty Sessions in Counties and Boroughs. 53 19. An Act to make perpetual an Act of the Tenth and Eleventh Years of Her present Majesty, for authorizing the Removal of Prisoners from the several Gaols in Ireland in Cases of Epidemic Diseases. 55 20. An Act for raising the Sum of Seventeen millions seven hundred and eighty-six thousand seven hundred Pounds by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. Ibid. Ibid. 21. An Act to confirm certain Acts of the Legislature of Newfoundland respecting the rebuilding of the Town of Saint John's Newfoundland, and to enable the said Legislature to make other Provisions respecting the rebuilding of the said Town. 22. An Act to remove Doubts concerning the Validity of certain Grants of Land in the Colony of New South Wales. 56 23. An Act to authorize further Advances of Money for the Improvement of Landed Property, and the Extension and Promotion of Drainage and other Works of public Utility, in Ireland. 58 24. An Act to make Provision, until the Thirty-first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and fifty, for a General Rate in Aid of certain distressed Unions and Electoral Divisions in Ireland. 59 25. An Act for giving effect to the Stipulations of a Treaty between Her Majesty and the Queen of Portugal for the Apprehension of certain Deserters. 61 26. An Act for granting Relief against Defects in Leases made under Powers of Leasing, in certain Cases. Page 62 27. An Act to remove Doubts concerning the Transportation of Offenders under Judgment of Death to whom Mercy may be extended in Ireland. 64 28. An Act to enable the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital to regulate and manage the Markets held at Greenwich in the County of Kent. 65 29. An Act to amend the Laws in force for the Encouragement of British Shipping and Navigation. 70 30. An Act for the better Preservation of Sheep, and more speedy Detection of Receivers of stolen Sheep, in Ireland. 78 31. An Act for requiring the Transmission of the annual Abstracts and Statements of Trustees of Turnpike Roads and Bridges in Scotland to the Secretary of State to be laid before Parliament. 79 32. An Act to continue to the End of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one certain temporary Provisions relating to the Collection of Grand Jury Cess in Ireland. 82 33. An Act for regulating the Carriage of Passengers in Merchant Vessels. 83 34. An Act to amend an Act regulating the Justice of the Peace Small Debt Courts in Scotland. 114 35. An Act for requiring annual Returns of the Expenditure on Highways in England and Wales to be transmitted to the Secretary of State, and afterwards laid before Parliament. 115 36. An Act to make Provision, during the present Year, and to the End of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, relating to the Collection of County Cess in Ireland, and to the Remuneration of the Collectors thereof. 118 37. An Act to continue to the First Day of October One thousand eight hundred and fifty, and to the End of the then next_Session of Parliament, an Act to amend the Laws relating to Loan Societies. 120 38. An Act to continue for Five Years an Act of the Second and Third Years of Her present Majesty, for the better Preven tion and Punishment of Assaults in Ireland. Ibid. 39. An Act for further continuing, until the First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and fifty, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, certain temporary Provisions concerning Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in England. 121 40. An Act to continue, until the Thirty-first Day of July One thousand eight hundred and fifty, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, certain of the Allowances of the Duty of Excise on Soap used in Manufactures. Ibid. 41. An Act to extend an Act of the Fifty-sixth Year of King George the Third, for providing for a new Silver Coinage, and for regulating the Currency of the Gold and Silver Coin of this Realm. 122 42. An Act to provide for the Execution for One Year of the Office of Sheriff in the County of Westmoreland. 123 43. An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion of Officers and Soldiers in the Service of the East India Company, and for regulating in such Service the Payment of Regimental Debts and |