16. An Act to grant and alter certain Duties of Customs and Inland Revenue and to amend the Laws relating to Customs and Inland Revenue. 18. An Act to incorporate the Solicitor for the affairs of Her Majesty's Treasury, and make further provision respecting the grant of the administration of 20. An Act to facilitate the Revision of the Statute Law by substituting in certain Acts, incorporating Enactments which have been otherwise repealed, 27. An Act to authorise the Reduction of Local Light Dues. 28. An Act to amend the Court of Admiralty (Ireland) Act, 1867, and confer a more extended Admiralty Jurisdiction on the Recorders of Cork and 31. An Act to grant Money for the purpose of Loans by the Public Works Loan Commissioners, and to amend the Public Works Loans Act, 1875. 33. An Act for the Amendment of the Trade Marks Registration Act, 1875. 165 34. An Act to amend the Law relating to Elver Fishing. 38. An Act to extend the Limits of Age up to which, with the assent of Boards of Guardians, orphan and deserted pauper Children may be supported 39. An Act to continue certain Turnpike Acts in Great Britain, and to repeal certain other Turnpike Acts; and for other purposes connected therewith. 262 40. An Act for enabling legally qualified Medical Practitioners to hold certain public Medical Appointments, and for amending the Medical Act. 41. An Act to remove Restrictions on the granting of Qualifications for Registra- 43. An Act to make provision respecting the Superannuation Allowances or Pensions of Persons employed in the Service of Her Majesty in the Government 46. An Act for more effectually punishing Offences against the Laws relating to the Slave Trade. 314 47. An Act to make provision for the Government of the Islands of Saint Vincent, Tobago, and Grenada, and their Dependencies. 317 320 322 48. An Act to amend the Law with reference to Bankers' Books Evidence. 49. An Act to make provision for lighting Burghs in Scotland with Gas. 50. An Act to amend the Law for the Relief of the Poor in Ireland in respect to rating and chargeability on Poor Law Unions. 340 342 51. An Act to amend the Acts relating to Cattle Disease in Ireland. 52. An Act to amend the Law respecting the Powers and Duties vested in the Barrister appointed to certify the Rules of Savings Banks. 53. An Act to make further provision respecting the Superannuation Allowance to be granted to Civil Servants serving in unhealthy Climates. 54. An Act to provide for the Foundation of a new Bishopric out of a part of the diocese of Exeter. 349 347 348 55. An Act for further amending the Acts relating to the raising of Money by the Metropolitan Board of Works; and for other purposes relating thereto. 353 56. An Act for facilitating the regulation and improvement of Commons, and for amending the Acts relating to the Inclosure of Commons. 357 57. An Act to amend the Law respecting the holding of Winter Assizes. 376 58. An Act to amend the Law relating to Parochial Records. 378 59. An Act for amending the Law in respect of the Appellate Jurisdiction of the House of Lords; and for other purposes. 380 60. An Act to apply a sum out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the year ending the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, and to appropriate the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament. 389 61. An Act to provide for the better arrangement of divided Parishes and other local areas, and to make sundry amendments in the Law relating to the Relief of the Poor in England. 401 62. An Act to make provision for the Disposal of certain Lands appropriated for the supply of materials for the repair of public and private roads. 411 63. An Act to render necessary in Ireland a Year's Notice to Quit to determine a Tenancy from Year to Year, and otherwise to amend the Law as to Notices to Quit. 412 415 64. An Act to continue for one year the Police (Expenses) Act, 1875. 65. An Act to amend the Tramways (Ireland) Act, 1860, and the Tramways (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1861, as regards the application of the same to the county and the county of the city of Dublin. 415 418 66. An Act to amend the Law relating to Legal Practitioners. 67. An Act for making provision respecting Shares in the Capital of the Universal Company of the Maritime Canal of Suez, acquired on behalf of the Crown. 418 68. An Act to amend the Law for the payment of Remuneration and the Grant of Superannuation Allowances and Gratuities to certain persons employed under Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the War Department and Her Majesty's Postmaster General. 69. An Act to continue various expiring Laws. 420 423 70. An Act to alter and amend the Law relating to the Administration of Justice in Civil Causes in the ordinary Sheriff Courts in Scotland, and for other purposes relating thereto. 425 71. An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Jurisdiction of Chairmen of Quarter Sessions in Ireland. 443 72. An Act to suspend for a limited period the holding of an Election of a Member or Members to serve in Parliament for the City of Norwich, and to disfranchise certain voters for the said City, and also certain voters for the borough of Boston. 73. An Act to amend the Pensions Commutation Act, 1871. 445 447 74. An Act for amending so much of the Agricultural Holdings (England) Act, 1875, as relates to the Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the Poor Clergy. 447 75. An Act for making further Provision for the Prevention of the Pollution of Rivers. 448 76. An Act to extend the privileges of Municipal Corporations in Ireland. 456 77. An Act to amend the Law relating to Cruelty to Animals. 78. An Act to amend the Procedure connected with Trial by Jury in Ireland. 459 465 79. An Act to make further provision for Elementary Education. 80. An Act to amend the Merchant Shipping Acts. 472 493 81. An Act for amending the Law relating to Crossed Cheques. 510 The Acts contained in the following List, being PUBLIC ACTS of a Local Character, are placed amongst the LOCAL AND PERSONAL ACTS. i. An Act to render valid Marriages heretofore solemnised in the Chapel of Ease of Saint James in the parish of Buxton in the county of Derby. ii. An Act to confirm two Provisional Orders made under "The Drainage and Improvement of Lands (Ireland) Act, 1863," and the Acts amending the same. iii. An Act to enable Her Majesty's Postmaster General to acquire a site for the extension of the Manchester General Post Office. iv. An Act to amend the Act for making regulations as to the Office of Clerk of the Peace for the County Palatine of Lancaster. viii. An Act to confirm two Provisional Orders made under "The Drainage and Improvement of Lands (Ireland) Act, 1863," and the Acts amending the same. xiii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Borough of Arundel, the District of Bacup, the Rural Sanitary District of the Caistor Union, the City of Carlisle, the District of Milton-next-Sittingborne, the Borough of Northampton, and the District of Toxteth Park. xiv. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Local Government Board under the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1867, with reference to the Townships of Cumberworth and Cumberworth-Half, in the West Riding of the county of York, and the borough of King's Lynn, in the county of Norfolk. XV. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Borough of Blackburn, and to the Districts of Downham Market, Melksham, Milnrow, and St. Hellen's. xvi. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Districts of Briton Ferry and Clayton, the Rural Sanitary District of the Coventry Union, the Borough of Nottingham (two), and the Districts of Oystermouth and Ripley. xvii. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of the Local Government Board under the provisions of the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act, 1870, and the Public Health Act, 1875, relating to the District of Skelmersdale, in the county of Lancaster. xviii. An Act for vesting Poolbeg Lighthouse in the Dublin Port and Docks Board; and for other purposes relating thereto. xl. An Act for confirming certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under The General Pier and Harbour Act, 1861, relating to Aldborough, Cattewater, Gardenstown, and Llandudno. xli. An Act for confirming certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act, 1870, relating to Brentford Gas, North Middlesex Gas, North Ormesby Gas, Retford Gas, Risca and Pontymister Gas, Saint Anne's-on-the-Sea Gas, Tottenham and Edmonton Gas, Worksop Gas, Chiltern Hills Spring Water, Flamborough Water, Stockport District Water, Wisbeach Water, and Clacton-on-Sea Gas and Water. xlii. An Act for confirming a Provisional Order made by the Board of Trade under The Tramways Act, 1870, relating to Wantage Tramways. xliii. An Act to facilitate the assembling and training of certain Army Corps. xliv. An Act for remedying certain defects in the constitution of the District of All Saints, Moss, in the County and Diocese of York. lxxxvii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Boroughs of Aberavon, Andover, Brighton, and Burnley, of the Districts Merthyr Tydvil and Pensarn, the Rural Sanitary District of the Tadcaster Union, and the Borough of Truro. xci. An Act to confirm an Order made by the Board of Trade under The Sea Fisheries Act, 1868, relating to Truro. xcii. An Act for confirming certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act, 1870, relating to Chapel-en-le-Frith Gas, Cromer Gas, Hythe and Sandgate Gas, Poole Gas, Neath Water, Newbury Water, Wantage Water, Connah's Quay Gas and Water, and Flint Gas and Water. xciii. An Act to amend the Law relating to Coroners in the County of the City of Dublin. xciv. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made under the "Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1867,” relating to the parish of Wemyss, in the county of Fife. xcv. An Act further to amend the Acts relating to Kingstown Harbour. xcvi. An Act to authorise the sale of Smithfield Penitentiary Convict Prison, Dublin. xcvii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the City of Bristol, the District of Burslem, the Borough of Huntingdon (two), the District of Newton-in-Mackerfield, and the Boroughs of Preston and Ryde. xcviii. An Act to enable the Great Southern and Western Railway Company and the Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford Railway Company to purchase the Waterford, New Ross, and Wexford Junction Railway from the Public Works Loan Commissioners; and to raise Money for such purpose. cl. An Act for confirming certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under The Tramways Act, 1870, relating to Bristol Tramways, Corsham Tramways, Landport, Southsea, and Portsea Tramways, Shepherd's Bush and Priory Road Acton Tramway, and Southport Tramways. cli. An Act to preserve the Crab and Lobster Fisheries on the Coast of Norfolk. clii. An Act to alter the Justiciary District of the County of Peebles. cliii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Education Department under "The Elementary Education Act, 1870," to enable the School Boards for Hailsham, Ilchester, Ingham, Slaugham, Swansea (United District), and Swansea Parish, Higher and Lower, to put in force "The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," and the Acts amending the same. cliv. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made by the Education Department under "The Elementary Education Act, 1870," to enable the School Board for Hornsey to put in force "The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," and the Acts amending the same. clv. An Act for confirming certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board for Ireland relating to the Township of Dalkey, the Galway Union, the City of Londonderry, the Newtownards United Burial Grounds District, the Omagh Waterworks, and to the Wexford Waterworks. clvi. An Act to confirm a Scheme under the Metropolitan Commons Act, 1866, and the Metropolitan Commons Amendment Act, 1869, relating to Barnes Common. clvii. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under "The General Police and Improvement (Scotland) Act, 1862," relating to the Burgh of Paisley. clviii. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under "The General Police and Improvement (Scotland) Act, 1862," relating to the Burgh of Perth. clix. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made under the "Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1867," relating to the burgh of Irvine and parish of Dundonald, in the county of Ayr. clx. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made by the Education Department under "The Elementary Education Act, 1870," to enable the School Board for Tolleshunt Major, in the county of Essex, to put in force "The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," and the Acts amending the same. clxi. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Borough of Carnarvon, and the Districts of Long Eaton, Saint Neots, Shepton Mallet, Tenbury Wells, Tunbridge Wells, Walton-on-theNaze, Withington, and Whitwood. clxii. An Act for confirming certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board for Ireland relating to Waterworks in the Towns of Coleraine, Dungannon, Keady, Portrush, and Waterford. clxiii. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under "The General Police and Improvement (Scotland) Act, 1862," relating to the Burgh of Lerwick. cxcvii. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made by the Education Department under "The Elementary Education Act, 1870," to enable the School Board for Cardiff to put in force "The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," and the Acts amending the same. cxcviii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Improvement Act District of Bingley (two), the Borough of Brighton, the Districts of Chatham and Gillingham, the Special Drainage District of Norton, the District of North Bierley, the Borough of Nottingham, the Improvement Act District of Ramsgate, the Borough of Stoke-upon-Trent (two), and the Rural Sanitary District of the Ulverstone Union. cxcix. An Act, to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Districts of Chelmsford and Merthyr Tydvil, and the Borough of Peterborough (two). cc. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for the improvement of an unhealthy area in the Whitechapel District, and an unhealthy area in the Limehouse District, within the Metropolis. cci. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Boroughs of Bath and Birmingham, the District or Brentford, the Special Drainage District of Burgess Hill, the Rural Sanitary District of the Caistor Union, the District of Castleford, the Boroughs of Guildford, Hanley, Liverpool, Rochester, and Warwick, and the District of Worthing |