THE STATUTES:

SECOND REVISED EDITION.

VOL. XVI.

FROM THE SESSION OF THE

FORTY-SEVENTH AND FORTY-EIGHTÁ

TO THE SESSION OF THE

FORTY-NINE AND FIFTIETH YEARS

OF QUEEN VICTORIA,

A.D. 1884-1886,

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INTRODUCTORY NOTE.

THIS Volume brings the Revised Edition of the Statutes down to the end of the first Session of the fiftieth year of Her Majesty's reign. It is not proposed at present to carry the Edition beyond this point.

A Supplement has been added containing, with a few exceptions, the Statutes which in the Chronological Table prefixed to the first volume of this Edition were stated to be reserved for a supplemental volume. The reasons for the omission of the excepted Statutes are given in the Chronological Table which forms part of the Supplement.

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This Volume has been edited by Mr. H. S. THEOBALD.

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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

ARRANGED IN THE ORDER OF THE STATUTES OF THE REALM FOR THE PERIOD COMPRISED IN THIS VOLUME. [1]

[1. No special reference is given in the third column of this Table to Acts which merely repeal words of enactment or commencement or expressions superseded by the Interpretation Act, 1889, or the Short Titles Act, 1896, or authorise the omission of preamble or recitals.]

3088.

b