PRINTED BY GEORGE E. EYRE AND ANDREW SPOTTISWOODE, And published in Numbers, Price 2d. each, BY RICHARDS & Co., LAW BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS, 1840. A TABLE OF The PUBLIC GENERAL STATUTES passed in the THIRD Session of the THIRTEENTH Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 3 & 4 VICTORIA. I. AN N Act for exhibiting a Bill in this present Parliament for naturalizing His Serene Highness Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg and Gotha. page 3 II. An Act for the Naturalization of His Serene Highness Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg and Gotha. 4 III. An Act for enabling Her Majesty to grant an Annuity to His Serene Highness Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg and Gotha. 4 IV. An Act to apply the Sum of Two Millions to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty. 6 V. An Act to repeal so much of an Act passed in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Second, intituled An Act to restrain and prevent the excessive Increase of Horse Races; and for amending an Act made in the last Session of Parliament, intituled An Act for the more effectual preventing of excessive and deceitful Gaming,' as relates to the Subject of Horse Racing. 6 VI. An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters. 8 VII. 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 forty. a 2 56 VIII. An VIII. An Act for the Regulation of Her Majesty's Royal page 58 XI. An Act to settle an Annuity on Lord Seaton and the Two next surviving Heirs Male of the Body of the said Lord Seaton to whom the Title of Lord Seaton shall descend, in consideration of his important Services. XII. An Act for raising the Sum of Eleven Millions by XIII. An Act to amend an Act of the First and Second Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, to abolish Compositions for Tithes in Ireland, and to substitute Rent-charges in lieu XIV. An Act to continue for One Year, and to the End of XV. An Act further to explain and amend the Acts for the Commutation of Tithes in England and Wales. XVI. 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 forty-one; and for the Relief of Clerks to Attornies and Solicitors in certain XIX. An Act for granting to Her Majesty an additional Duty XX. An Act to amend an Act passed in the First Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the First, intituled An Act for rendering more effectual Her late Majesty's gracious Intentions for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the Poor Clergy; and to render valid certain Agreements which have page 161 XXIL An Act to impose upon Broad or Spread Glass the same Duties of Excise that are payable upon German Sheet Glass. XXIII. An Act for granting to Her Majesty, until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and forty-one, certain Duties on Sugar imported into the United Kingdom, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty. 164 XXIV. An Act to repeal Part of an Act of the Forty-third Year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, intituled An Act to avoid trifling and frivolous Suits in Law in Her Majesty's Courts in Westminster, and of an Act of the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, intituled An Act for laying Impositions on Proceedings at Law; and to make further Provisions in lieu thereof. 167 XXV. An Act to amend the Act for the better ordering of Prisons. 169 XXVI. An Act to remove Doubts as to the Competency of Persons, being rated Inhabtants of any Parish, to give Evidence in certain Cases. 170 171 XXVII. An Act to continue to the First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, Two Acts relating to the Removal of poor Persons born in Scotland and Ireland, and chargeable to Parishes in England. XXVIII. An Act to explain and amend an Act of the Second and Third Years of Her present Majesty, for more equally assessing and levying Watch Rates in certain Boroughs. 171 XXIX. An Act to extend the Practice of Vaccination. XXX. An Act for the more equal Assessment of Police Rates in Manchester, Birmingham, and Bolton, and to make better Provision for the Police in Birmingham, for One Year, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament. 175 XXXI. An Act to extend the Powers and Provisions of the several Acts relating to the Inclosure of Open and Arable Fields in England and Wales. 173 178 180 XXXII. An Act to continue for One Year, and from thence until the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the several Acts relating to the Importation and keeping of Arms and Gunpowder in Ireland. XXXIII. An Act to make certain Provisions and Regulations in respect to the Exercise, within England and Ireland, of their Office, by the Bishops and Clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Scotland; and also to extend such. Provisions and Regulations to the Bishops and Clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America; and also to make further Regulations in respect to Bishops and Clergy other than those of the United Church of England and Ireland. a 3 181 XXXIV. An |