12. An Act to amend an Act of the Ninth Year of King George the Fourth, Chapter Eighty-two, intituled An Act to make Provision for the lighting, cleansing, and watching of Cities, Towns Corporate, and Market Towns in Ireland, in certain Cases. Page 34 13. An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters. 35 14 An Act for the Regulation of Her Majesty's Royal Marine Forces while on shore. 79 15. An Act for granting certain Duties of Customs on Tea, Sugar, and other Articles. 111 16. An Act to amend an Act of the last Session of Parliament, for repealing, and re-imposing under new Regulations, the Duty on Race Horses. 113 17. An Act for raising the Sum of Twenty-one million forty-nine thousand seven hundred Pounds by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year One Thousand eight hundred and fifty seven. 115 18. An Act to continue the Act for charging the Maintenance of certain Paupers upon the Union Funds. Ibid. 19. An Act to provide for the Relief of the Poor in Extra-parochial Places. 116 20. An Act to apply a Sum out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, and to appropriate the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament. 118 LOCAL ACTS. i. AN N Act for enabling the Great Western, Bristol and Exeter, and South Devon Railway Companies to afford further Assistance towards the Completion of the Cornwall Railway between Plymouth, and Truro; for extending the Time for the Completion thereof; and for other Purposes. Page 127 ii. An Act to re-incorporate Price's Patent Candle Company, Limited, and for other Purposes. Ibid. iii. An Act to enable the Whitehaven, Cleator, and Egremont Railway Company to raise additional Capital; and for other Purposes. 128 THE STATUTES AT LARGE. 6 4 Anno Regni VICTORIÆ, Britanniarum Reginæ, A T the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the Fourth Day of November, Anno Domini 1852, in the Sixteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great 'Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith: And from 'thence continued, by several Prorogations, to the Third Day of February 1857; being the Fifth Session of the Sixteenth 'Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 'Ireland.' 6 CAP. I. An Act to amend the Act for limiting the Time of Service in the Royal Marine Forces. [9th March 1857.] HEREAS by an Act passed in the Session holden in the 10 & 11 Vict. Chapter Sixty-three, for limiting the Time of Service in the B 'Service Power to the Admiralty to prescribe Terms for Enlistment and Re-engagement of Marines. Recited Act and this Act to be read as One. Chief Constables. 'Service of Twenty-four Years: And whereas it is expedient that 'the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Ad'miral should be enabled to permit Enlistment for such less Terms as they may at any Time or Times deem expedient, and to ' authorize Marines to re-engage for any Terms within the Limit ' of Service prescribed by the said Act:' 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: I. Any Person may be enlisted to serve in the Royal Marine Forces as a Marine for any Term not exceeding Twelve Years, to be reckoned as provided by the herein-before recited Act, as may be authorized by any Order or Orders of the said Commissioners in such Behalf; and any Marine may, subject to such Approbation as in the said Act mentioned, re-engage for such Term as may by any Order or Orders of the said Commissioners be authorized, provided the Term for which he is so engaged, with the Term of his Service under his First Enlistment, do not exceed the Period of Twenty-one Years; and the Forms of Questions on Enlistment in Schedule A. to the herein-before recited Act, and the Form of Declaration in Schedule B. to such Act, and the Questions on Enlistment and Declaration to be made by a Marine renewing his Service in the Schedule to the Marine Mutiny Act in force for the Time being, may, when the Occasion requires, be filled up with such Term or Number of Years as may for the Time being be authorized by such Order or Orders, instead of the Term or Number of Years mentioned in the Directions contained in such Schedules. II. The herein-before recited Act and this Act shall be read and construed together as One Act. Recital of Part of s. 4. of 2 & 3 Vict. c. 93. Provision above recited An Act to facilitate the Appointment of Chief Constables for W HEREAS by the Act of the Second and Third Years of "Her Majesty, Chapter Ninety-three, for the Establish"ment of County and District Constables by the Authority of ""Justices of the Peace," it is provided, "that it shall be lawful "to appoint the same Chief Constable for Two or more adjoining "Counties or Parts of Counties, if the Justices of such Coun"ties, in General or Quarter Session assembled, shall mutually "agree to join in such Appointment:" And whereas Difficulties "have arisen in certain Cases in giving effect to the said Enact"ment: Be it 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: I. So much of the Fourth Section of the said Act of the Second and Public Health Supplemental Act. and Third Years of Her Majesty as is herein-before recited shall be repealed. II. It shall be lawful for the Justices of the Peace of any Justices apCounty, in General or Quarter Session assembled, subject to the point as Chief Constable a Provisions of the said Act, to appoint a Person to be Chief Person holding Constable of their County or of Part thereof, although he may similar Aphold or be appointed to the Office or Offices of Chief Constable pointment in of any adjoining County or Counties, or Part or Parts of Coun- an adjoining ties: Provided, that the Justices of each County, in General or County. Quarter Session assembled, shall declare their Consent that the Office in their Appointment may be held by such Person together with such other Office or Offices. III. And whereas Doubts have arisen as to the Validity of the Appointment of Chief Constables in certain Cases: Every Appointment heretofore made or expressed to be made. by the Justices of any County, in General or Quarter Session, of a Chief Constable for their County or Part thereof, and all Acts done under or with reference to every such Appointment, either by the Person appointed or by the Justices of the County, or by any other Persons whatsoever, shall be effectual and valid, notwithstanding any Defect or Informality in or in relation to such Appointment; provided such Appointment shall have been approved by One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State. Previous Ap. pointments of Chief Constables con firmed, and all Acts done by them valid. IV. The said Act of the Second and Third Years of Her 2&3 Vict. c.93. Majesty, the Acts of the Session holden in the Third and Fourth 3 & 4 Vict. c.88. Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Eighty-eight, and of the Session holden in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Sixty-nine, and this Act, shall be construed together as one Act. CAP. III. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the General WE WHEREAS the General Board of Health have, in pursuance of the Public Health Act, 1848, made, published, and de⚫posited, according to the Provisions of that Act, certain Provi'sional Orders in the Schedule to this Act contained, and it is 'expedient that the said Orders should be confirmed, and further Provisions made in relation thereto :' 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, That I. The Provisional Orders of the General Board of Health contained in the Schedule hereunto annexed shall, from and after the passing of this Act, so far as the same are authorized by the B 2 19 & 20 Vict. Act to be construed as One. c. 69. and this Certain Provi sional Orders of of Health consaid firmed. General Board First Election of Local Board of Oldbury. First Election of Local Board of Llangollen. First Election of Local Board of Dukinfield. First Selection and Election of Local Board for Main Wisbech and Proceedings of trict valid. Public Health Supplemental Act. said Public Health Act, be absolute, and be as binding, and of the like Force and Effect, as if the Provisions of the same had been expressly enacted in this Act. II. The First Election of the Local Board of Health for the District of Oldbury, for the Purposes of the said Public Health Act, shall take place on the Twenty-fifth Day of March in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven. III. The First Election of the Local Board of Health for the District of Llangollen shall take place on the Twenty-fifth Day of March in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven. IV. The First Election of the Local Board of Health for the District of Dukinfield shall take place on the Twenty-fifth Day of March in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven. V. The First Selection of the Twenty-three Members of the Local Board of Health for the Main Sewerage District of Wisbech and Walsoken to be selected by the Council of the Borough of Wisbech, and the First Election of the Six Members of the said Board to be elected for and in respect of the Parish of Walsoken, shall take place on the Twenty-fifth Day of March in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven. VI. All the Proceedings had, and Acts, Matters, and Things done and executed, by the Local Board of Health for the Main mentioned Dis- Sewerage District of Wisbech and Walsoken, as constituted by the Provisional Order of the General Board of Health, in relation to the aforesaid District, bearing Date the Fourteenth Day of May One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, shall be as valid and effectual as if the said Order had been made and the said Local Board had been constituted consistently in every respect with the Public Health Act, 1848. Rates, &c. of said Local Board to be deemed valid. Act incorporated with Public Health Act 1848. Short Title. VII. No Rate made or Expenditure incurred before the passing of this Act by the Local Board of Health for the Main Sewerage District of Wisbech and Walsoken, as constituted by the Provisional Order aforesaid, shall be deemed invalid or illegal by reason of any Defect in the Constitution of the said Local Board; and the said Local Board, and all Persons acting under their Authority, are hereby relieved and indemnified from and against all Proceedings whatsoever on account of the making, levying, and collecting of any such Rate, or the incurring of any such Expenditure. VIII. This Act shall be deemed to be incorporated with the Public Health Act, and shall be as if this Act and the Public Health Act, 1848, were One Act. IX. In citing this Act in any other Act of Parliament, or in any Proceeding, Instrument, or Document whatsoever, it shall be sufficient to use the Words and Figures "The Public Health Supplemental Act, 1857.” SCHE |