PRINTED BY GEORGE EYRE AND ANDREW SPOTTISWOODE, And published in Numbers, Price 2d. eack, BY RICHARDS & Co. LAW BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS, A TABLE OF The PUBLIC GENERAL STATUTES passed in the SECOND Session of the TWELFTH Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 6 & 7 WILLIAM IV. I. AN Act to apply certain Sums to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-six-seven. 3 4 II. An Act for raising the Sum of Fifteen Millions by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-six-seven. III. An Act for vesting the Office of Constable of the Castle of Saint Briavel's in the First Commissioner of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings; and for vesting the Office of Keeper of the Forest of Dean in the County of Gloucester in the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings. 6 IV. An Act to amend an Act of the last Session for abolishing Capital Punishments in Cases of Letter Stealing and Sacrilege. 7 V. An Act for carrying into further Execution Two Acts of His present Majesty, relating to the Compensation for Slaves upon the Abolition of Slavery, and for facilitating the Distribution and Payment of such Compensation. 8 VI. An Act for carrying into effect a Treaty made between His Majesty and the Queen Regent of Spain for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. 17 VII. An Act to indemnify such Persons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments, and for extending the Time limited for those Purposes respectively until the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven; to permit such Persons in Great Britain as have omitted to make and file Affidavits of the Execution of Indentures of Clerks to Attornies and Solicitors to make and file the same on or before the First Day of Hilary Term One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven; and to allow Persons to make and file such Affidavits, although the Persons whom they served shall have neglected to take out their Annual Certificates. 42 VIII. An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters. 49 IX. An Act for the Regulation of His Majesty's Royal Marine Forces while on Shore. 94 X. An Act to indemnify Witnesses who may give Evidence before the Lords Spiritual and Temporal on a Bill to exclude the Borough of Stafford from sending Burgesses to serve in Parliament. 131 XI. An Act for the Registration of Aliens, and to repeal an Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty for that Purpose. 132 XII. An Act for amending an Act of the Ninth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for the better Regulation of Divisions in the several Counties of England and Wales. 135 XIII. An Act to consolidate the Laws relating to the Constabulary Force in Ireland. 136 XIV. An Act to amend the Laws relating to Bankrupts in Ireland. 160 XV. An Act to amend an Act of the Fourth and Fifth Years of His present Majesty, in order to enable certain Seamen belonging to Shetland or Orkney to pay certain Sums of Money, payable under that Act to the Seamen's Fund, at Lerwick in Shetland or Kirkwall in Orkney. 209 XVI. An Act to revive and continue in force, until the First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and forty, an Act of the Legislature of Jamaica to explain and amend an Act for the Abolition of Slavery in that Island, and in aid of the same. 212 XVII. An Act to make Provision for the better Administration of Justice in certain of His Majesty's West India Colonies. 214 XVIII. 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 thirty-six. 222 XIX. An Act for separating the Palatine Jurisdiction of the County Palatine of Durham from the Bishoprick of Durham. 225 XX. An Act for imposing certain Restrictions on the Renewal of Leases by Ecclesiastical Persons. 228, XXI. An XXI. An Act to provide that Persons in Scotland accused of 231 XXII. An Act to enable Bastards in Scotland to make Testa- XXIII. An Act to continue for Three Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Acts for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors in Ireland. XXIV. An Act to render valid certain Marriages solemnized in a Chapel of Ease, in the Parish of Wandsworth in the County of Surrey, called Saint Ann's Chapel. XXV. An Act for granting an additional Rate of Postage on Letters between Great Britain and Ireland by way of Milford XXVI. An Act for granting to His Majesty, until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, certain XXVII. An Act for investing in Government Securities further XXVIII. An Act to enable Persons to make Deposits of Stock or Exchequer Bills in lieu of giving Security by Bond to the XXX. An Act to repeal so much of Two Acts of the Ninth and Tenth Years of King George the Fourth as directs the Period XXXI. An Act to amend an Act of His late Majesty King XXXIII. An Act to amend and regulate the Law of Scotland as to Erasures in Instruments of Sasine and of Resignation ad XXXIV. An Act to amend an Act passed in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, for the better Administration of Justice at the holding of Petty Sessions by Justices of the Peace in Ireland. |