Printed for the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales

BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS,

DUKE STREET, STAMFORD STREET; AND 14, CHARING CROSS.

PUBLISHING OFFICE, 51, CAREY STREET, LINCOLN'S INN, W.C.

1876.

FOR HEARING AND REPORTING ON APPEALS TO HER MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

1876.

Lord Cairns, Lord Chancellor.

The Duke of Richmond, Lord President.

The Marquis of Ripon, formerly Lord President.
The Duke of Marlborough, formerly Lord President.
The Duke of Buccleuch, formerly Lord President.
The Duke of Buckingham, formerly Lord President.
The Earl Granville, formerly Lord President.
The Earl Russell, formerly Lord President.
Lord Chelmsford, formerly Lord Chancellor.

Lord Hatherley, formerly Lord Chancellor.

Lord Penzance, late Judge of Her Majesty's Court of Probate and Divorce.

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Lord Selborne, late Lord Chancellor.

Lord Aberdare, late Lord President.

Lord Coleridge, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.
The Right Hon. Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, Bart.,
Lord Chief Justice of England.

The Right Hon. Sir Joseph Napier, Bart., late Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

The Right Hon. Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Knt., formerly one of the Judges of the Court of Queen's Bench.

The Right Hon. Sir William Erle, Knt., late Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.

The Right Hon. Sir James William Colvile, Knt., formerly Chief Justice of the late Supreme Court at Calcutta.

The Right Hon. Sir Fitz-Roy Edward Kelly, Knt., Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer.

The Right Hon. Sir Richard Torin Kindersley, Knt., late a ViceChancellor.

The Right Hon. Sir Robert Joseph Phillimore, Knt., D.C.L., Judge of the High Court of Justice.

The Right Hon. Sir William Milbourne James, Knt., Lord Justice of Appeal.

The Right Hon. Sir Barnes Peacock, Knt., formerly Chief Justice of the High Court at Calcutta.

The Right Hon. Sir George Mellish, Knt., Lord Justice of Appeal.

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The Right Hon. Sir John Stuart, Knt., late a Vice-Chancellor.
The Right Hon. Mountague Bernard, D.C.L.

The Right Hon. Sir Montague Edward Smith, Knt., formerly
Justice of the Common Pleas.

The Right Hon. Sir Robert Porrett Collier, Knt., formerly Justice of the Common Pleas.

The Right Hon. Sir James Hannen, Knt., Judge of the High Court of Justice.

The Right Hon. Sir John Barnard Byles, Knt., formerly Justice of the Common Pleas.

The Right Hon. Sir George Jessel, Knt., Master of the Rolls.

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LIST OF THE JUDICIAL COMMITTEE.

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The Right Hon. Sir Samuel Martin, Knt., formerly Baron of the Exchequer.

The Right Hon. Sir Henry Singer Keating, formerly Justice of the Common Pleas

By clause XIV. of the 3rd & 4th Vict. c. 86, the Act for the better enforcing Church Discipline, Archbishops and Bishops, Members of the Privy Council, are Members of the Judicial Committee in all appeals under that Act.