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and hold within the borough aforesaid, a Court of Record for the trial of civil actions before the mayor of the said borough for the time being, in any convenient place within the said borough, on the third day in every week, which Court should have authority to try actions of assumpsit, covenant, and debt, whether the debt were by specialty or simple contract; and all actions of trespass or trover for taking goods and chattels, provided the sum or damages sought to be recovered should not exceed twenty pounds; and all actions of ejectment between landlord and tenant, wherein the annual rent of the premises, of which possession was sought to be recovered, should not exceed twenty pounds, and upon which no fine should have been reserved or made payable; and it was by the said charter provided that every presiding judge of such Court respectively, from time to time might make rules for regulating the practice of such Court, but so that no such rules should be of force until they should have been allowed and confirmed by three or more Judges of the Superior Courts of Common Law at Westminster; and that no action should be tried in such Court wherein the title to land, whether freehold, copyhold, or leasehold, or other tenure whatsoever, or to any tithe, toll, market, fair, or other franchise should be in question in any action; and it was by the said charter also provided, that if a recorder should be thereafter appointed for the said borough, no issue either in law or in fact, should be tried and determined in the said Court, in the absence of such Recorder: that the said Borough Court still continues to be holden: that by virtue of the statute made and passed in the session of Parliament, holden in the ninth and tenth years of your Majesty's reign, cap. ninetyfive, it is declared that it is expedient that one rule and manner of proceeding for the recovery of

small debts and demands, should prevail throughout England; and by the said Act, a County Court for Warwickshire was established and is holden in the said borough, and has jurisdiction throughout the whole of the said borough: that the said County Court has cognizance of all causes whereof the Borough Court hath jurisdiction, with the exception of certain actions of ejectment and assumpsit, for the prosecution of which the said Borough Court hath not heretofore been used: that the officers of the said Borough Court are, Isaac Spooner, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, the Judge (appointed by the Recorder of the borough, pursuant to an Act passed in the session of Parliament, holden in the sixth and seventh years of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, cap. one hundred and five, intituled "An Act for the better administration of justice in certain boroughs"); Robert Kellie Douglas the Registrar, and Joseph Holl and Francis Osler Badham, the Serjeants at Mace: that the said Judge was appointed on the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, but no salary is paid to him by the petitioners, and the other officers of the said Court derive their emoluments exclusively from fees received from suitors : that the proceedings of the said Borough Court are dilatory, complicated, and expensive, the powers for enforcing its judgments and orders are in many instances ineffective, and no summary means are provided to remedy abuses in the conduct of the officers and practitioners of the Court: that the proceedings of the County Court are prompt, simple, inexpensive, and effective: that the County Court is amply sufficient to transact, in addition to its present business, the whole of the business which is now transacted in the

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Borough Court: that the said Borough Court has therefore become unnecessary, and its continuance is not conducive to the due administration of justice in this borough, and humbly praying that it may please your Majesty, by and with the advice of your Majesty's Privy Council, by an Order in Council, to declare that the jurisdiction of the said Court established by the said charter shall, from the date of such Order be excluded in all causes whereof the County Court hath cognizance, or that by and with the advice aforesaid, your Majesty may make such other Order in the premises as to your Majesty shall seem meet and likewise a counter petition of certain ratepayers and others of the said borough of Birmingham, in pursuance of the provisions of an Act, passed in the sixteenth year of your Majesty's reign, cap. fifty-four, entitled "An Act further to facilitate and arrange proceedings in the County Courts," the Lords of the Committee, in obedience to your Majesty's said Order of Reference, have taken the said petition and counter petition into consideration, and having heard the parties by their counsel and witnesses on both sides, their Lordships do agree humbly to report to your Majesty, as their opinion, that the jurisdiction of the said Borough Court, for the borough of Birmingham, ought to be excluded in all causes whereof the County Court hath cognizance."

Her Majesty having taken the said Report into consideration, was pleased by and with the advice of her Privy Council, to approve thereof, and to order, as it is hereby ordered, that the jurisdiction of the said Borough Court for the borough of Birmingham be and the same s hereby excluded in all causes whereof the County Court hath cognizance. Whereof the Mayor, Aldermen, and Bur

gesses of the borough of Birmingham for the time being and all other persons whom it may concern, are to take notice and govern themselves accordingly. W. L. Bathurst.

At the Court at Windsor, the 29th day of December, 1853,

The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council was pleased to approve the representations duly made (as set forth in this Gazette) by Her Majesty's Commissioners for building new churches —

To unite and consolidate certain contiguous portions of the parishes of Caversham and Shiplake, in the county of Oxford, and of the parish of Sonning, in the county of Berks, and all in the diocese of Oxford, and to form the same into one consolidated chapelry for all ecclesiastical purposes for the consecrated church of Saint John the Baptist, situate at Kidmore End, in the said parish of Caversham, to be called "The Consolidated Chapelry of Kidmore End," and vesting the right of presentation and appointment of an incumbent or perpetual curate to serve the said church at Kidmore End, whenever occasion may require, in the Bishop of Oxford for the time being.

To unite and consolidate the whole of the extraparochial place of Llanerchymedd (forming for Ecclesiastical purposes, part of the parish of Llanbeulan) with part of the parochial chapelry of Gwredog, together with contiguous parts of the parish of Amlwch, and also of the parochial chapelries of Llechcynfarwydd and Rhodygeidio otherwise Ceidio, being severally locally situate within or forming part of (for ecclesiastical purposes) the parish of Llantrisaint, and all being in

the county of Anglesey and diocese of Bangor, and to form the same into one consolidated chapelry for all ecclesiastical purposes for the consecrated church of Saint Mary, situate at Llanerchymedd aforesaid, to be called "The Consolidated Chapelry of Llanerchymedd," and vesting the right of presentation and nomination of an incumbent or perpetual curate to serve the said church at Llanerchymedd aforesaid, whenever occasion may require, by the Bishop of Bangor for the time being.

At the Court at Windsor, the 29th day of December, 1853,

The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council was pleased to order, with reference to the representation made by the Right Honourable Viscount Palmerston, one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, that the time when burials shall be discontinued in the Lambeth burial-ground, in High-street, and in the churchyard of Saint John Waterloo-road, in the parish of Lambeth, be extended to the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.

At the Court at Windsor, the 29th day of December, 1853.

The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council was pleased to order with reference to the representations made by the Right Honourable Viscount Palmerston, one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State (as set forth in this Gazette), that burials be discontinued as follows in the undermentioned parishes and places from

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