Title of Act.

7. An Act for continuing the term and altering the powers of three Acts
for repairing the roads leading from the Ryeway in the parish of
Yarpole in the county of Hereford, to Presteigne, in the county of
Radnor, and several other roads therein mentioned, in the said county
of Radnor, and in the counties of Hereford and Salop.
8. An Act for continuing the term and altering and enlarging the powers
of an Act of the forty-second year of the reign of His late Majesty
King George the Third for repairing and improving the road from the
city of Canterbury to the town and port of Sandwich in the county of
Kent.

9. An Act for more effectually repairing and improving the roads leading
from Bishops Castle, and from Montgomery to the road at Westbury,
and from Brockton to the road at Minsterley, and other roads therein
mentioned, in the counties of Salop, Radnor, and Montgomery; and
for amending, widening, and improving several other roads therein
mentioned, in the said county of Salop; so far as the same relates to the
Bishop's Castle or First District of Roads.

10. An Act for more effectually repairing the road from the north end of a lane called Rosemary Lane in the township of Broughton, to the town of Mold in the county of Flint, and for diverting a part of the said road, and for making a new branch of road to communicate with the said road.

11. An Act for amending and keeping in repair the road from the turn-
pike gate at the bottom of White Street Hill, in the parish of Donhead
Saint Andrew in the county of Wilts, through the towns of Shaftesbury,
Milborne Port, and Sherborne, in the counties of Dorset and Somerset,
to the half-way house in the parish of Nether, otherwise Lower Compton,
in the said county of Dorset, and several other roads communicating
therewith; so far as the same relates to the Sherborne Division of the
Roads.

12. An Act to enlarge the term and powers of several Acts for repairing
and widening the road from the market house in Tetbury, to the turn-
pike road on Minchin Hampton Common, and several other roads
therein mentioned, all in the county of Gloucester, so far as the same
Acts relate to the second district of roads therein mentioned.
13. An Act for amending and repairing the roads from Minehead in the
county of Somerset to Batham Bridge in the town of Bampton in the
county of Devon; and for making a new branch of road to communicate
therewith.

14. An Act for repairing and improving the roads from the town of Stock-
bridge to the city of Winchester, and from the said city of Winchester
to the top of Stephen's Castle Down, near the town of Bishop's Waltham
in the county of Southampton, and from the said city of Winchester
through Otterborne to Bar Gate in the town and county of the town
of Southampton, and certain roads adjoining thereto; so far as the
same relates to the Second District of the Southampton Road.
15. An Act for more effectually repairing the road from the city of
Canterbury to the Dover turnpike road, in the parish of Barham in
the county of Kent; and for lighting, watering, and watching part of
the said road leading into the said city of Canterbury.

16. An Act for amending and keeping in repair the roads from Dover
to Barham Downs, and from Dover to the town of Folkestone, and
from thence through the parish of Folkestone to Sandgate in the county
of Kent; so far as the same relates to the Dover to Sandgate, or Second
District of Road.

17. An Act for making and maintaining a turnpike road from Roundhay Bridge to Collingham in the county of York.

18. An Act for making and maintaining a turnpike road from the turnpike road leading from Bradford to Wakefield in the west riding of the county of York, near Holme Lane End in the parish of Birstal in the said riding, to the turnpike road leading from Birstal to Huddersfield in the said riding, at the township of Heckmondwike in the parish of Birstal aforesaid, with a branch road therefrom.

19. An Act for making and maintaining a turnpike road from the present turnpike road, between Maidstone and Wrotham in the county of Kent, to Strood in the said county.

20. An Act for more effectually repairing the road from Greenhill Moor to Hernstone Lane Head road near Stony Middleton and other roads therein mentioned, in the county of Derby, and in the west riding of the county of York; and for making an extension and branch of road therefrom.

21. An Act for repairing the road from the city of York to the top of Oswaldkirk Bank, in the county of York.

22. An Act for repairing several roads leading to and from the town of
Crewkerne in the county of Somerset, and other roads in the same
county.

23. An Act for making and maintaining a turnpike road from Cannock,
in the county of Stafford, to Penkridge, in the same county.
24. An Act for more effectually repairing, widening, and otherwise
improving the road from the south end of Milton Street, in the town
of Nottingham, to the west end of Blind Lane, in the town of
Mansfield, in the county of Nottingham.

25. An Act for more effectually repairing, widening, and improving the
roads from Gosport, through Fareham and Wickham, to Bishop's
Waltham, and from Wickham aforesaid to Chawton Pond in the parish
of Chawton, all in the county of Southampton.

26. An Act for more effectually repairing and otherwise improving the road from Beverley to Kexby Bridge in the county of York.

27. An Act for more effectually repairing the Dunster, Stowey, Watchet, and Crowcombe Districts of the Minehead Roads, in the counties of Somerset and Devon, and for making and repairing several other roads communicating with the same districts of roads, or some of them. 28. An Act for more effectually repairing and improving the roads leading from Tunbridge Wells, in the county of Kent, to Swiftsden, and from Frant to Possingworth Great Wood, in the county of Sussex, and a certain piece of road communicating with the said roads.

29. An Act for more effectually repairing and improving the road from Brighton to Shoreham for building a bridge over the River Adur at New Shoreham, and for making a road to Lancing and a branch road therefrom, all in the county of Sussex; so far as the same relates to the roads mentioned therein.

30. An Act for making and maintaining a new turnpike road from the town of Kingston-upon-Hull in the county of the said town to Hedon in the county of York.

31. An Act for more effectually repairing and improving the roads from Saltfleet to the town of Horncastle, and other roads therein mentioned, all in the county of Lincoln.

32. An Act for more effectually repairing the roads from Hand Cross, through Cowfold, to Corner House, and from thence to the turnpike road from Horsham to Steyning, and from Corner House aforesaid to the Maypole in the town of Henfield, and certain branches therefrom, all in the county of Sussex.

33. An Act for repairing and otherwise improving the road from Beverley, by Molescroft, to Kendell House, and the road from Molescroft to Bainton Balk, in the county of York.

34. An Act for more effectually repairing the road from Burton-uponTrent in the county of Stafford to Abbott's Bromley, otherwise Bagot's Bromley, in the said county.

35. An Act for making a turnpike road from the north side of the Quarry House, in the township of Perry Barr, in the county of Stafford, to the brook which divides the parishes of Aston juxta Birmingham and Birmingham, in the county of Warwick.

36. An Act for maintaining and improving the road from Titchfield to Cosham in the county of Southampton.

Title of Act.

37. An Act for more effectually repairing and improving the roads from
Tunbridge Wells in the county of Kent to the cross ways at or near
Maresfield Street, and from Florence Farm to Forest Row in the county
of Sussex.
38. An Act for more effectually maintaining and improving the road
from Soho Hill in the parish of Handsworth to the Walsall Road on
the northern side of Hamstead Bridge, and another road from Brown's
Green to the Friary in the county of Stafford.

39. An Act for repairing and improving certain roads in the counties
of Stafford and Salop, leading to and from the town of Wolverhampton
in the county of Stafford; so far as the same relates to the Old District
of Roads.

40. An Act for maintaining the road from Wakefield to Austerlands in the west riding of the county of York.

41. An Act for more effectually repairing and improving the road leading from the Alfreton turnpike road, near Mansfield, through Tibshelf and Morton, to the Nottingham turnpike road, near Tansley, and other roads connected therewith, in the counties of Nottingham and Derby. 42. An Act for more effectually repairing and improving the road from Conway to Pwllheli, and other roads therein mentioned, in the counties of Carnarvon and Denbigh.

43. An Act for more effectually repairing and improving certain roads
leading to and through the town of Goudhurst in the county of Kent.
44. An Act for making and maintaining a turnpike road from the town
of Doncaster to the town and port of Selby in the west riding of the
county of York.

45. An Act for making a turnpike road from Minsterley in the county of
Salop to the turnpike road leading from Bishop's Castle, in the said
county of Salop, to Churchstoke in the county of Montgomery.
46. An Act for repairing and improving the Second District of the Road
from Coleshill, through the city of Lichfield and the town of Stone, to
the end of the county of Stafford in the road leading towards Chester,
and making a new branch thereto, and also to annex to and consolidate
therewith the turnpike road from Rugeley through Armitage to Alrewas,
in the county of Stafford.

47. An Act for repairing and otherwise improving the roads from Oxford,
over Botley Causeway, to Fifield in the county of Berks, and Witney
in the county of Oxford.

48. An Act to amend an Act passed in the eleventh year of the reign of King George the Fourth for repairing and improving the road from Brighton to Shoreham and Lancing in the county of Sussex, and for other purposes connected therewith; so far as the same relates to the roads mentioned therein.

49. An Act for repairing the several roads leading to and from the Market House in Stourbridge in the county of Worcester, and several other roads connected with the said roads in the counties of Worcester, Stafford, and Salop.

50. An Act for repairing and improving certain roads in the neighbourhood of Trentham and Stone, in the county of Stafford, and for making and maintaining a new road from Trentham Inn to the Newcastleunder-Lyme and Market Drayton turnpike road in the same county, and another new piece of road in the parish of Trentham aforesaid; so far as the same relates to the Stone, Lane End, and Trentham, or First District of Roads.

51. An Act for repairing, maintaining, and improving the road from Flint Lane to Holmfrith, and thence to the Huddersfield and Woodhead turnpike road, and for making and maintaining a new line of road from the said road at a place called Bents to or near Dunford Bridge, all in the west riding of the county of York.

52. An Act for repairing certain roads between Stokenchurch and the borough of New Woodstock in the county of Oxford, and several other roads communicating therewith.

14 & 15 Vict. c. lx.

18 Vict. c. lxi.
18 Vict. c. lxxi.
18 & 19 Vict. c. lxxxii.

53. An Act for managing and repairing the roads leading from Uttoxeter
to Stoke, near Stone, and from Milwich to Sandon, in the county of
Stafford.
54. An Act to repeal the Act relating to the Leominster and Ledbury
Turnpike Trust, and to make other provisions in lieu thereof.
55. An Act to repeal the Act relating to the Nottingham and Lough-
borough turnpike road, and to make other provisions in lieu thereof.
56. An Act to renew the term and continue the powers of an Act passed
in the eighth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth,
intituled An Act for repairing the road from Alford to Boston, and
from thence to Cowbridge in the township of Frithville, in the county
of Lincoln.

18 & 19 Vict. c. lxxxiii. 57. An Act to repeal so much of the Act relating to the Wigan and Preston roads as relates to the district of the said roads north of Yarrow, and to make other provisions in lieu thereof.

18 & 19 Vict. c. lxxxv.

18 & 19 Vict. c. lxxxvii.

58. An Act to renew the term and continue the powers of an Act passed in the first year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act to continue the term and alter and enlarge the powers of an Act of the fortieth year of His late Majesty's reign, for repairing the road leading from the turnpike road in Witney to the road on Swerford Heath, and the road leading from the road from Woodstock to Birmingham through Charlbury to the road from Chipping Norton to Burford, all in the county of Oxford.

59. An Act for repairing, widening, and maintaining several roads in the counties of Dorset and Devon leading to and from the borough of Lyme Regis, and from the turnpike road on Raymond's Hill to the turnpike road at the Three Ashes in the parish of Crewkerne in the county of Somerset.

18 & 19 Vict. c. xcii. 60. An Act for continuing the term of the Nottingham and Newhaven Turnpike Road and Districts Act, and for other purposes.

18 & 19 Vict. c. civ.

61. An Act to repeal certain Acts relating to the Basingstoke, Stockbridge, and Lobcomb Corner turnpike roads, and to make other provisions in lieu thereof.

18 & 19 Vict. c. cvi. 62. An Act to repeal the Acts relating to the road from Lightpill to

18 & 19 Vic. c. cviii.

18 & 19 Vict. c. cix.

Birdlip, and make other provisions in lieu thereof.

63. An Act to repeal the Act for making and maintaining a turnpike road from Cainscross, through Stroud over Rodborough and Minchinhampton Commons to the town of Minchinhampton, with some branches therefrom, all in the county of Gloucester, and to make other provisions in lieu thereof.

64. An Act to repeal an Act for making and maintaining certain roads from the town of Stroud and several other places therein mentioned, all in the county of Gloucester, and to make other provisions in lieu thereof.

18 & 19 Vict. c. cxi. 65. An Act for continuing the term and amending and extending the provisions of the Act relating to the first district of the Bridport turnpike roads, in the county of Dorset.

18 & 19 Vict. c.cxxxvi.

66. An Act to repeal the Acts passed for repairing the road from Hedon through Preston and Bilton to Hull, and other roads in the county of York, and to make other provisions in lieu thereof, so far as the same relates to the Hedon and Hull, or “ First District" of Roads.

18 & 19 Vict. c. cliv.- 67. An Act for maintaining the Yorkshire district of the road from Keighley in the west riding of the county of York to Kirkby-in-Kendal in the county of Westmoreland.

18 & 19 Vict. c. clvi. 68. An Act to renew the term and continue the powers of an Act passed

in the ninth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for more effectually repairing and improving the road from Wadhurst to the turnpike road on Lamberhurst Down, both in the county of Sussex, and from the turnpike road on Pullen's Hill to West Farleigh Street, both in the county of Kent.

18 & 19 Vict. c. clxi. 69. An Act to repeal the Act relating to the Bolton and Nightingale's turnpike road, and to make other provisions in lieu thereof.

18 & 19 Vict. c. clxiv. 70. An Act to repeal an Act for making, widening, repairing, and maintaining certain roads leading to and from the town of Honiton in the county of Devon, and to make other provisions in lieu thereof.

18 & 19 Vict. c. clxviii. 71. An Act for more effectually repairing the Cavendish Bridge and Brassington Road, and for making a branch line of road in connexion with the same, all in the county of Derby.

28 Vict. c. x.

72. An Act to repeal an Act for making, repairing, and improving certain roads leading to and from Helston in the county of Cornwall, and to make other provisions in lieu thereof, and for other purposes.

CHAPTER 40.

An Act for enabling legally qualified Medical Practitioners to hold certain public Medical Appointments, and for amending the Medical Act. [11th August 1876.]

W HEREAS under the provisions of the statute of the thirtysixth year of the reign of King George the Third, chapter nine, of the Parliament of Ireland, no person is capable of being elected surgeon to a county infirmary or hospital in Ireland who shall not previously have obtained letters testimonial of his qualification under the seal of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland:

And whereas it is desirable that all legally qualified medical practitioners, with qualifications in medicine and surgery registered 21 & 22 Vict. under "The Medical Act," should be capable of being elected surgeons to county infirmaries or hospitals in Ireland, anything in the said Act or any other Acts to the contrary notwithstanding:

c. 90.

Short title.

Legally qualified medical practitioners to be capable of election as surgeons to county in

firmaries, &c.

in Ireland.

And whereas it is desirable that persons who have obtained the degree of Bachelor in Surgery of any university in Great Britain and Ireland, legally authorised to confer such degree, should be empowered to register the same as a qualification under "The Medical Act:"

And whereas the said objects cannot be effected without the authority of Parliament :

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as The Medical Practitioners Act, 1876.

2. Notwithstanding anything contained in the said Act of the thirty-sixth year of the reign of King George the Third, chapter nine (Ireland), or any other Act of Parliament, all legally qualified medical practitioners, with qualifications in medicine and surgery registered under "The Medical Act," shall be capable of being elected surgeons to county infirmaries or hospitals in Ireland, and when so elected shall for all purposes be deemed to be duly appointed, and be entitled to all the emoluments and advantages, and liable to discharge all the duties of the said offices.