3 2617 A COLLECTION OF THE PUBLIC GENERAL STATUTES, PASSED IN THE Fifteenth and Sixteenth Year OF THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA: Being the FIFTH SESSION of the FIFTEENTH PARLIAMENT of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by GEORGE EDWARD EYRE and WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE, A TABLE OF All the STATUTES passed in the FIFTH Session of the FIFTEENTH Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 15° & 16° VICTORIE. I. AN PUBLIC GENERAL ACTS.. ́ N Act to apply the Sum of Eight Millions out of the Consolidated Fund to the page 1 II. An Act to authorize the Inclosure of certain Lands, in pursuance of the Seventh Annual and also of a Special Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales. 3 III. An Act to provide for the Administration of Personal Estates of Intestates and others to which Her Majesty may be entitled in right of Her Prerogative or in right of Her Duchy of Lancaster. 4 IV. An Act to indemnify such Persons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments, and to extend the Time limited for those Purposes respectively. 7 V. An Act further to explain and amend the Acts for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales, and in Ireland. 9 VI. An Act for extending the Term of the provisional Registration of Inventions under "The Protection of Inventions Act, 1851." 11 VII. An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters. 11 VIII. An Act for the Regulation of Her Majesty's Royal Marine Forces while on shore. 51 IX. An Act to disfranchise the Borough of Saint Alban. 87 X. An Act for raising the Sum of Seventeen millions seven hundred and forty-two thousand eight hundred Pounds by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. 87 XI, An Act to continue an Act of the Twelfth Year of Her present Majesty, to prevent the spreading of contagious or infectious Disorders among Sheep, Cattle, and other Animals. 89 XII. An Act to enable Her Majesty to carry into effect a Convention with France on the Subject of Copyright; to extend and explain the International Copyright Acts; and to explain the Acts relating to Copyright in Engravings. a 2 89 XIII. An XIII. An Act to amend and continue certain Acts relating to Linen, Hempen, and other 92 XIV. An Act to continue an Act of the Fifteenth Year of Her present Majesty, for charging the Maintenance of certain poor Persons in Unions in England and Wales upon XV. An Act to continue an Act to amend the Laws relating to Loan Societies. XVIII. An Act to continue the Exemption of Inhabitants from Liability to be rated as such in respect of Stock in Trade or other Property to the Relief of the Poor. XXI. An Act to continue the Stamp Duties granted by an Act of the Fifth and Sixth Years of Her present Majesty, to assimilate the Stamp Duties in Great Britain and Ireland, and to make Regulations for collecting and managing the same. XXII. An Act to continue certain Acts for regulating Turnpike Roads in Ireland. 99 XXIII. An Act to shorten the Time required for assembling Parliament after a Dissolution XXIV. An Act for the Amendment of an Act passed in the First Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled An Act for the Amendment of the Laws with respect XXVI. An Act to enable Her Majesty to carry into effect Arrangements made with Foreign Powers for the Apprehension of Seamen who desert from their Ships. XXVIII. An Act to amend an Act of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Years of Her present Majesty, for the Direction of Public Works and Buildings; and to vest the Buildings appropriated for the Accommodation of the Supreme Courts of Justice in Edinburgh in the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings. XXIX. An Act to empower the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings to inclose and lay out Kennington Common in the County of Surrey as Pleasure XXX. An Act to empower the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Customs to acquire certain Lands and Houses in the Borough of Belfast, for the Purpose of erecting a Custom House and other Offices and Buildings required for the Public Service in the said Borough. 107 XXXI. An Act to legalize the Formation of Industrial and Provident Societies. 119 XXXII. An Act to alter and amend certain Provisions in the Laws relating to the Number and Election of Magistrates and Councillors in the Burghs in Scotland. XXXIII. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made under an Act of the last Session, "to facilitate Arrangements for the Relief of Turnpike Trusts, and to make |