A COLLECTION OF THE PUBLIC GENERAL STATUTES PASSED IN THE TWENTY-THIRD & TWENTY-FOURTH YEARS OF THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA, 1860. LONDON: PRINTED BY GEORGE EDWARD EYRE AND WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE, PRINTERS TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY: And published in Numbers, Price 2d. each, AT THE QUEEN'S PRINTING OFFICE, EAST HARDING STREET, NEAR FLEET STREET. 1860. A TABLE OF The PUBLIC GENERAL STATUTES passed in the SECOND Session of the EIGHTEENTH Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 23° & 24° VICTORIA. I. AN PUBLIC GENERAL ACTS. N Act to render Valid certain Marriages in the Chapel of Saint Mary in Rydal in the County of West moreland. 1 II. An Act to apply the Sum of Four hundred and seven thousand six hundred and forty-nine Pounds out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year ending the Thirty-first Day of March One thousand eight hundred and sixty. 2 III. An Act to apply the Sum of Four million five hundred 4 thousand Pounds out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and sixty. IV. An Act to enable the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to defray One Moiety of the Expense of the annual Revision of the Valuation of Rateable Property in Ireland out of the Consolidated Fund. 6 V. An Act to regulate Probate and Administration with respect to certain Indian Government Securities; to repeal certain Stamp Duties; and to extend the Operation of the Act of the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Years of Victoria, Chapter Thirty-nine, to Indian Bonds. 11 VI. An Act to transfer to the Postmaster General Securities entered into with the Commissioners of the Admiralty in relation to the Packet Service. VII. An Act to amend the Medical Acts. 13 14 VIII. An Act to amend the Law relating to the unlawful administering of Poison. a 2 15 IX. An IX. An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters. 16 X. An Act for the Regulation of Her Majesty's Royal Marine Forces while on shore. 68 XI. An Act to amend the Law relating to Endowed Schools. 122 XII. An Act to apply the Sum of Eight hundred and fifty thousand Pounds out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year ending the Thirty-first Day of March One thousand eight hundred and sixty. 122 XIII. An Act to prevent the Members of Benefit Societies. from forfeiting their Interest therein by being enrolled in Yeomanry or Volunteer Corps. 124 XIV. An Act for granting to Her Majesty Duties on Profits arising from Property, Professions, Trades, and Offices. 125 XV. An Act for granting to Her Majesty certain Duties on Stamps. 128 XVI. An Act to make further Provision concerning Mortgages and other Dispositions of Property belonging to Municipal Corporations in England and Ireland. 137 XVII. An Act to authorize the Inclosure of certain Lands in pursuance of a Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales. 143 XVIII. An Act to amend the Acts relating to Marriages in England and Ireland, by extending certain Provisions thereof to Persons professing with the Society of Friends called Quakers. 144 145 XIX. An Act to extend the Act to facilitate the Improvement of Landed Property in Ireland, and the Acts amending the same, to the Erection of Dwellings for the Labouring Classes in Ireland. XX. An Act for raising the Sum of Thirteen million two hundred and thirty thousand Pounds by Exchequer Bills for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and sixty. 146 XXI. An Act to amend the Act for better regulating the Business of Pawnbrokers. 148 XXII. An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Cus toms. 148 XXIII. An Act to provide for the Consideration of an Ordinance which has been laid before Parliament in a Report of the Oxford University Commissioners. 174 XXIV. An Act to remove Doubt as to the Validity of certain Marriages in Extra-parochial Places. 176 XXV. An XXV. An Act to apply the Sum of Nine million five hundred thousand Pounds out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and sixty. 177 XXVI. An Act to remove Doubts as to the Application of "The Common Lodging Houses Acts" to Ireland, and to amend the Provisions of the same so far as they relate to Ireland. 179 XXVII. An Act for granting to Her Majesty certain Duties on Wine Licences and Refreshment Houses, and for regulating the licensing of Refreshment Houses and the granting of Wine Licences. 181 XXVIII. An Act to repeal the Act of the Seventh Year of King George the Second, Chapter Eight, commonly called "Sir John Barnard's Act," and the Act of the Tenth Year of King George the Second, Chapter Eight. 201 XXIX. An Act to amend an Act relative to malicious Injuries to Property. 201 XXX. An Act to enable a Majority of Two Thirds of the Ratepayers of any Parish or District, duly assembled, to rate their District in aid of Public Improvements for general Benefit within their District. 202 XXXI. An Act to repeal a certain Enactment for restraining the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland from lending Money on Mortgage. 203 XXXII. An Act to abolish the Jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Courts in Ireland in Cases of Defamation, and in England and Ireland in certain Cases of Brawling. 204 XXXIII. An Act to amend certain Provisions in the Bankrupt Law of Scotland. 206 XXXIV. An Act to amend the Law relating to Petitions. of Right, to simplify the Proceedings, and to make Provisions for the Costs thereof. 207 XXXV. An Act further to amend an Act of the Eighteenth Year of Her present Majesty, to amend the Law for the better Prevention of the Sale of Spirits by unlicensed Persons and for the Suppression of illicit Distillation in Ireland. 214 XXXVI. An Act to authorize the Appointment and Approval of Places for the warehousing of Goods for the Security of Duties of Customs. 216 XXXVII. An Act to levy an Assessment in the County of Inverness to discharge a Debt on the Castle Stewart and Nairn Road in the said County. 217 XXXVIII. An Act to further amend the Law of Pro perty. a 3 220 XXXIX. An |