xxxviii. An Act to extend the District and the limits of Water Supply of the Local Board for the District of Nelson in the County of Lancaster and to confer upon them further powers with respect to the acquisition and management of a Recreation Ground and the improvement and government of their District and the raising of money; and for other purposes. xxxix. An Act to empower the North London Tramways Company to raise new Capital; and for other purposes. xl. An Act to extend the powers of the Rotherham and Bawtry Railway Company for the acquisition of Lands for and the completion of their authorised Railways; and for other purposes. xli. An Act to provide for the acquisition of Parliament Hill and other Lands and their addition to Hampstead Heath. xlii. An Act to extend the Powers of Section 37 of the Metropolitan Railway Act 1885 for the Purchase and Extinction of the Divided Ordinary Stock of the Metropolitan Railway Company; and for other purposes. xliii. An Act to authorise the Seacombe Hoylake and Deeside Railway Company to construct Extension Railways; and for other purposes. xliv. An Act for conferring further powers on the Halifax High Level and North and South Junction Railway Company in relation to their undertaking and for other purposes. xlv. An Act to authorise the Mersey Railway Company to extend their Railway in Birkenhead and for other purposes. xlvi. An Act to confer further powers on the Midland and South-western Junction Railway Company and for other purposes. xlvii. An Act to authorise the construction of a railway between Portsmouth and Hayling Island with a Bridge available for road traffic over the southern entrance to Langstone Harbour and other works and for other purposes. xlviii. An Act to enable the Sutton and Willoughby Railway Company to extend their Railway to Mablethorpe in the Parts of Lindsey in the county of Lincoln and to confer upon them further powers in relation to their Undertaking; and for other pur poses. xlix. An Act to authorise the Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company the Sheffield and Midland Railway Companies Committee and the Cheshire Lines Committee respectively to construct new Railways and other works and to confer further powers npon that Company and those Committees in connexion with their respective Undertakings and for other purposes. 1. An Act to explain and amend the Bank of South Australia Act, 1884; and for other purposes. li. An Act for the Abandonment of the Midland and Central Wales Junction Railway. lii. An Act to incorporate the Plymouth and Devonport (Extension) Tramways Company and to authorise that Company to acquire and complete certain Tramways constructed under the Plymouth Devonport and District Tramways Act 1882 and to construct certain other Tramways in the county of Devor and for other purposes. liii. An Act to revive the powers for the construction of a portion of the Railway authorised by the Rosebush and Fishguard Railway Act 1878 to authorise the North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Railway Company to construct a deviation Railway and for other purposes. liv. An Act for conferring further powers on the Bridgewater Railway Company in relation to their Undertaking and for other purposes. lv. An Act to confer further powers upon the Neath Harbour Commissioners, to alter the Constitution of the Commissioners, and for other purposes. NOTE. The capital letters placed after the chapter have the following signification :— Scotland exclusively. Ireland exclusively. England and Ireland. Wales exclusively. Great Britain and Ireland (and Colonies, if it so extend). England and Scotland. Several Public Acts of a Local Character which have been placed among the Local Acts are Local Government Board's (b) Highways and Locomo- to confirm a Provisional 1878 Chap. (41 & 42 Vict. c. 77) relating to confirm a Provisional Tramways Orders Confirma- No. 1: to confirm certain Provi- North Staffordshire Tram- No. 2: to confirm certain similar to confirm certain similar Urray Water; to confirm a Pro- |