Arrangements between certain Companies in England and Ireland in relation thereto; and for other Purposes. clxxiii. An Act to repeal and consolidate the several Acts relating to the Furness Railway Company; to enable the said Company to raise a further Sum of Money; to give further Powers to the said Company; and for other Purposes. clxxiv. An Act to authorize the Trustees of the Liverpool Docks to construct new Works, and to raise a further Sum of Money; and for other Purposes. clxxv. An Act for enabling the South Staffordshire Railway Company to make certain Branch Railways; for the Purchase of additional Lands at Wichnor and Dudley; and for other Purposes. clxxvi. An Act for maintaining and improving the Road from Gateshead in the County of Durham to the Hexham Turnpike Road near Dilston Bar in the County of Northumberland, and other Roads connected therewith. clxxvii. An Act to enable the Portsmouth Railway Company to make an Alteration in the Line of their Railway; and for other Purposes. clxxviii. An Act for the Improvement of the Borough of Shrewsbury in the County of Salop. clxxix. An Act to correct an Oversight in "The Hereford Improvement Act, 1854." clxxx. An Act to incorporate a Company for making a Railway from the Bishop Auckland Branch of the North-eastern Railway in the Township of Elvet to the Township of Brandon and Byshottles, all in the County of Durham, to be called "The Dearness Valley Railway;" and for other Purposes. clxxxi. An Act to enable the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Company to alter and improve certain of their Works, and to construct additional Works; and to authorize Arrangements with respect to the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal; and for other Purposes. clxxxii. An Act for enabling the Somerset Central Railway Company to construct Railways to Wells and to Burnham, and a Pier at Burnham, and to raise additional Capital; and for other Purposes. clxxxiii. An Act for the making and maintaining of the Severn Valley Railway; and for other Purposes. clxxxiv. An Act to facilitate the Erection of One or more Churches in the Parishes of Tormoham and Saint Mary Church, at or near the Town of Torquay, in the County of Devon; and for other Purposes. clxxxv. An Act to repeal the Act of the Ninth Victoria, Chapter Thirty-two, to reconstitute and extend the Police District therein mentioned under the Name of the Airdrie Rural Police District, and to erect and maintain a Hall, Court House, and Public Offices for the Airdrie District of Lanarkshire. clxxxvi. An Act to authorize the Transfer of the Undertaking of the Deptford Gaslight and Coke Company to the Surrey Consumers Gas Company, and to wind up the Affairs of the first-named Company; and for other Purposes. clxxxvii. An Act for enabling the East Kent Railway Company clxxxix. An Act for the Conservancy and Improvement of Dun- cxc. An Act for making certain Railways to connect Glasgow, exci. An Act for making a Railway from the Great Western excii. An Act for making a Railway and Pier to and at Stokes cxciii. An Act for extending the Times granted to the West- cxcv. An Act for facilitating the Completion of the Westminster cxvii. An Act to repeal, alter, and amend some of the Provisions cxcviii. An Act for making a Railway from the Manor Street PRIVATE ACTS, PRINTED BY THE QUEEN's Printer, AND WHEREOF THE PRINTED COPIES MAY BE GIVEN 1. IN EVIDENCE. AN Act for enabling Leases to be made of the Freehold Estates of the late Matthew Hill Esquire, and for other Purposes. 2. An Act to enable the Trustees under the Settlement executed 3. An Act for authorizing the granting of Mining Leases of 4. An Act for enabling Leases, Sales, Repairs, and Improvements 5. An Act to authorize Conveyances in Fee or Demises for long 6. An Act to enable George William Holmes Ross, of Cromarty, 7. An Act for authorizing Mining and other Leases and Sales 8. An Act for authorizing the granting of Building Leases of 9. An Act for enabling the Right Honourable William Nevill Earl 12. An Act to empower the Warden and Scholars of the House or College of Scholars of Merton in the University of Oxford to sell certain Lands situate in the Parish of Holywell otherwise Saint Cross in the City of Oxford, and to lay out the Monies to arise from such Sale in the Purchase of other Hereditaments. 13. An Act for giving Effect to a Compromise of certain Suits and Claims affecting the Estates of Josephine Catherine Handcock, Anne Mary Handcock, and Honoria Handcock, Spinsters, deceased, and for vesting the said Estates in John Stratford Handcock Esquire, subject to certain Charges; and for other Purposes. 14. An Act to authorize the granting of Building and other Leases of Estates in the Counties of Louth and Armagh, devised by the Will of the Right Honourable William Charles Viscount Clermont deceased, and the Sale and Exchange of certain Portions of the Estate so devised; and for other Purposes. 15. An Act for the future Government, Management, and Regulation of the Charity of John Marshall, late of Southwark in the County of Surrey, Gentleman, deceased; and for other Purposes. 16. An Act for vesting the Freehold and Leasehold Estates comprised in the residuary Gifts in the Will of Joseph Halford Esquire, deceased, in Trustees, with Powers to sell, exchange, and lease the same, and to purchase other Lands, to be resettled conformably to such residuary Gifts. PRIVATE ACTS, NOT PRINTED. 17. An Act to relieve Sir James Carnegie of Southesk, Kinnaird, and Pittarrow, Baronet, from the Effect of the Attainder of James Fifth Earl of Southesk and Baron Carnegie of Kinnaird and Leuchars in Scotland. 18. An Act to dissolve the Marriage of Henry Newsham Pedder with Emma Pedder his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes. 19. An Act to dissolve the Marriage of William Ewing the younger with Helen Mary Ewing his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes. 20. An Act to dissolve the Marriage of Arthur Wyndham Esquire with Ann Magdalene Louisa Wyndham his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes. 21. An Act to dissolve the Marriage of James Remington Hadow Merchant with Jane Menzies his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes. 22. An Act to dissolve the Marriage of Edward Jones with Elizabeth Jones his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes. 23. An Act to dissolve the Marriage of Morton Cornish Sumner Esquire with Penelope Rubina Maria his now Wife, and to enable the said Morton Cornish Sumner to marry again; and for other Purposes therein mentioned. THE STATUTES AT LARGE. Anno Regni VICTORIÆ, Britanniarum Reginæ, T the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the Atelier December, Anno Domini 1852, in the Sixteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady • VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, Queen of the United King'dom of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faith: And 'from thence continued, by several Prorogations, to the Twelfth 'Day of December 1854; being the Third Session of the Sixteenth Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 'Ireland.' CA P. I. An Act to enable Her Majesty to accept the Services of the WHEREAS it is important that effectual Measures should be adopted for the vigorous Prosecution of the War, and it is therefore expedient that Her Majesty should be empowered to accept any Offers of a Proportion of the Officers, Non-commissioned Officers, Drummers, and Private Men of the Militia of the United Kingdom for such extended Service as herein' after mentioned: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: I. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty to accept the Services, and to employ in any Parts or Places out of the United Kingdom, under the Regulations and Restrictions specified in this Act, such Part of the Militia raised or to be raised in any Part of the United Kingdom, not exceeding in any Case Three Fourths of the actual Establishment of any Regiment, Battalion, or Corps of any such Militia, as may make a voluntary Offer, duly certified by dom. their respective Commanding Officers, so to extend their Services, and as Her Majesty may think proper to permit to extend their Services in consequence of such voluntary Offers as aforesaid; and it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by any Order signed by One of Her Principal Secretaries of State, or by the Lord 18 & 19 VICT. Lieutenant B Power to Her Majesty to accept the vo luntary Offers of the Militia to serve out of the United King |