41. An Act to provide for the alteration of the Local Government (Procedure of Councils) Order, 1899. (Local Government (Ireland) (No. 2).)

91

42. An Act to amend the Reserve Forces Act, 1882. (Reserve Forces.) 92

43. An Act to amend the Law relating to Intermediate Education in Ireland. (Intermediate Education (Ireland).)

93

44. An Act to amend the Law relating to the Exportation of Arms, Ammunition, and Military and Naval Stores. (Exportation of Arms.)

94

45. An Act to amend the Poor Relief (Ireland) Acts, 1838 to 1892, with respect to relief given by the maintenance of Lunatics and Children, and with respect to the quantity of Land which may be acquired under those Acts. (Poor Relief (Ireland).)

94 46. An Act to relieve Members of County Councils and other Local Authorities from disqualification by reason of absence in certain cases. (Members of Local Authorities Relief.) 95 47. An Act to amend the Law with regard to the Investment of Money paid into a County Court. (County Courts (Investment).)

48. An Act to amend the Companies Acts. (Companies.)

95

96

49. An Act to consolidate and amend the Law relating to the Election and Proceedings of Town Councils in Scotland. (Town Councils (Scotland).)

111

50. An Act to amend the Law relating to Agricultural Holdings. (Agricultural Holdings.)

146

51. An Act to amend the Law with respect to Persons carrying on business as Money-lenders. (Money-lenders.) 155

52. An Act to make further provision for a Naval Reserve. (Naval Reserve.)

158

53. An Act to amend the Elementary Education Acts, 1870 to 1893. (Elementary Education.) 159

54. An Act to amend the Law relating to the number and salaries of the Staff of the General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland, and to provide for the remuneration of certain of the Commissioners. (Lunacy Board (Scotland) Salaries and Clerks.) 161

55. An Act to amend the Law relating to Executors in Scotland. (Executors (Scotland).) 161

56. An Act to amend the Military Lands Act, 1892. (Military Lands.)

164

57. An Act to apply a sum out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March one thousand nine hundred and one, and to appropriate the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament. (Appropriation.)

166

58. An Act to amend the Law relating to Tithe Rentcharge in Ireland. (Tithe Rentcharge (Ireland).) 185 59. An Act to amend Part III. of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890. (Housing of the Working Classes.) 189 60. An Act to amend the Tramways (Ireland) Acts, 1860 to 1896. (Tramways (Ireland).)

192

61. An Act to provide for raising a Supplemental Loan for the service of the year ending the thirty-first day of March nineteen hundred and one. (Supplemental War Loan.) 193 62. An Act to amend the Colonial Stock Acts, 1877 and 1892, and the Trustee Act, 1593. (Colonial Stock.) 194 63. An Act to amend sections forty-two, fifty-one, fifty-four, sixty-nine, one hundred and three, one hundred and fifteen, and one hundred and twenty-one of the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898, and Articles nineteen, twenty-four, and thirty-six of the Schedule to the Local Government (Application of Enactments) Order, 1898. (Local Government (Ireland).)

195

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TABLE II.

A

TABLE

OF

The TITLES of the PUBLIC ACTS of a Local Character passed during the Session which are placed amongst the LOCAL ACTS.

63 & 64 VICTORIA.-A.D. 1900.

i. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of the Secretary of State under the Military Lands Act 1892. (Military Lands Provisional Order Confirmation.)

xxi. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made by one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State under the Metropolitan Police Act 1886 and the Metropolitan Police Courts Act 1897 relating to lands in the parishes of St. Mary Stratford Bow East Molesey and Clerkenwell. (Metropolitan Police Provisional Order Confirmation.)

xxii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 and 1888 relating to Brierley Hill Cleethorpes-with-Thrunscoe Elland Exmouth Newark Penzance Prestwich Redcar Sowerby Bridge and Whitefield. (Electric Lighting Orders Confirmation No. 2).)

xlvi. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 and 1888 relating to Basingstoke Erdington Farnham Felixstowe and Walton Leek Littleborough Maryport Nantwich Ormskirk and Penrith. (Electric Lighting Orders Confirmation

(No. 1).)

xlvii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 and 1888 relating to Allerton Much Woolton Little Woolton and Childwall Barnet Barnstaple Birkenhead (Extension) Bonchurch Boston Brierfield Egremont Hyde and Sudbury. (Electric Lighting Orders Confirmation (No. 3).)

xlviii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 and 1888 relating to Bredbury and Romiley Bridlington Cheadle and Gatley Hebburn Kendal Long Eaton Lytham Ormesby Sleaford and Tunstall (with Goldenhill and Chell). (Electric Lighting Orders Confirmation (No. 4).)

xlix. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 and 1888 relating to Bishop Auckland Caterham (with Warlingham) Cowpen Grantham Nuneaton and Chilvers Coton Ogmore Valley Redruth St. Helen's (Isle of Wight) South Blyth and Weybridge. (Electric Lighting Orders Confirmation (No. 5).)

1. An Act to confirm a Scheme relating to Petersham Common in the Parish of Petersham and Borough of Richmond in the County of Surrey. (Metropolitan Commons (Petersham) Supplemental.)

li. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of the Local Government Board for Ireland relating to the Town of Westport. (Local Government Board (Ireland) Provisional Order Confirmation (No. 1).)

lii. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of the Local Government Board for Ireland relating to the Town of Skibbereen. (Local Government Board (Ireland) Provisional Order Confirmation (No, 2).)

liii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to Dewsbury Llandudno Macclesfield Manchester Newton in Mackerfield and Wigan. (Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 2).)

liv. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to Aberavon Burslem the Chesterfield Gas and Water Board District Colne Fenton and Kendal. (Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 3).)

lv. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to Barnsley (Rural) Featherstone Hambledon (Rural) Lutterworth (Rural) Orsett (Rural) St. Helens Wigan and the Wirral Joint Hospital District. (Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 4).)

lvi. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to Ilkeston and Rothwell (Northampton). (Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (Gas).)

lvii. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under the Burgh Police (Scotland) Act 1892 to increase the number of Magistrates in the Burgh of Leith. (Leith Burgh Order Confirmation.)

lviii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act 1870 relating to Hoylake and West Kirby Gas and Water Manningtree and Mistley (Essex) Gas South Elmsall South Kirkby and North Elmsall Gas and Steyning and District Water. (Gas and Water Orders Confirmation.)

lix. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Education Department under the Elementary Education Acts 1870 to 1899 to enable the School Boards for Brighton and Preston United District Liverpool Plymouth Salford and Willesden to put in force the Lands Clauses Acts. (Education Board Provisional Orders Confirmation (Brighton and Preston United District, &c.).)

lx. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the General Pier and Harbour Act 1861 relating to Eastbourne Ilfracombe Lowestoft and Portessie. (Pier and Harbour Orders Confirmation (No. 1).)

clxvi. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 and 1888 relating to Barmouth Brecon Clacton Cleckheaton Hythe Liversedge Llandilo Ramsgate Romford and Sandgate. (Electric Lighting Orders Confirmation (No. 6).) clxvii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 and 1888 relating to Berwick-upon-Tweed Harrow-on-the-Hill Malton the extension of the area of supply of the Midland Electric Corporation for Power Distribution (Limited) Newhaven Seaford Thirsk Totnes Witney and Woking. (Electric Lighting Orders Confirmation (No. 7).)

clxviii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 and 1888 and the Electric Lighting (Scotland) Act 1890 relating to Broughty Ferry Dunblane and Wormit and Woodhaven. (Electric Lighting Orders Confirmation (No. 8).) clxix. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 and 1888 relating to Barnard Castle Cheltenham (Extension) Freshwater and Totland District the Extension of the area of supply under the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Electric Lighting Order 1893 to Gosforth Jarrow Llanrwst Pwllheli Royal Leamington Spa Twickenham and Wallington. (Electric Lighting Orders Confirmation (No. 9).)

clxx. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 and 1888 relating to Banbury Dartmouth Gosport and Alverstoke Heston and Isleworth Sevenoaks Sheerness Spennymoor Staines Egham and Chertsey Stamford Uxbridge and District and Wellingborough. (Electric Lighting Orders Confirmation (No. 12).)