tofore solemnised in the Chapel of

Ease of Saint James in the parish of Buxton in the county of Derby.

P. ii. An Act to confirm two Provisional Orders made under "The Drainage and Improvement of Lands (Ireland) Act, 1863," and the Acts amending the same.

Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Borough of Arundel, the District of Bacup, the Rural Sanitary District of the Caistor Union, the City of Carlisle, the District of Milton-next-Sittingborne, the Borough of Northampton, and the District of Toxteth Park.

P. iv. An Act to amend the Act for making regulations as to the Office of Clerk of the Peace for the County Palatine of Lancaster. v. An Act to confirm the holding of certain Lands by the Derby Gaslight and Coke Company, to enable that Company to raise additional Capital, and for other purposes. vi. An Act to authorise the Ely, Haddenham, and Sutton Railway Company to extend their authorised Railway to the Saint Ives and March Railway of the Great Eastern Railway; to change their name; and for other purposes.

vii. An Act to authorise the Scotswood, Newburn, and Wylam Railway and Dock Company to abandon the Construction of the Dock and Branch Railway near Scotswood Bridge in the county of Northumberland, to change their name; and for other purposes.

P. viii. An Act to confirm two Provisional Orders made under "The Drainage and Improvement of Lands (Ireland) Act, 1863," and the Acts amending the same.

ix. An Act to authorise an Extension of Time

for purchasing Land and completing the Railway authorised by the Manchester and Milford Railway (Devils Bridge Branch) Act,

1873.

x. An Act to authorise the Folkestone Gas and Coke Company to acquire further Lands; to extend their Works; to raise additional Capital; and for other purposes.

xi. An Act to authorise the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company to make further Arrangements for the Investment of their Reserve Fund; and for other purposes. xii. An Act to enable the Shepton Mallet Waterworks Company to construct additional Works and to raise further Capital; and for other purposes.

Orders made by the Local Government Board under the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1867, with reference to the townships of Cumberworth and Cumberworth-Half, in the West Riding of the county of York, and the borough of King's Lynn, in the county of Norfolk. P. xv. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the borough of Blackburn, and to the Districts of Downham Market, Melksham, Milnrow, and Saint Hellen's.

P. xvi. An Act to confirm certain Provisional

Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Districts of Briton Ferry and Clayton, the Rural Sanitary District of the Coventry Union, the Borough of Nottingham (two), and the Districts of Oystermouth and Ripley.

P. xvii. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order

of the Local Government Board under the provisions of the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act, 1870, and the Public Health Act, 1875, relating to the District of Skelmersdale, in the county of Lancaster.

P. xviii. An Act for vesting Poolbeg Lighthouse in the Dublin Port and Docks Board; and for other purposes relating thereto. xix. An Act to enlarge the Powers of the South

Alloa Dock Company.

XX. An Act for the Reduction of the Nominal Capital of The Assam Company.

xxi. An Act for rendering valid certain Letters Patent granted to George Tomlinson Bousfield for improvements in Lacing Devices and in the Mode of Lacing and Fastening Wearing Apparel and other Articles with the

xxiv. An Act for empowering the British Gaslight Company, Limited, to enlarge their Works, to extend their Limits, and to expend further Capital at Kingston-upon-Hull; and for other purposes.

XXV. An Act for empowering the Local Board for the District of Padiham and Hapton, in the county of Lancaster, to acquire the Undertaking of the Padiham Gaslight and Coke Company; and for other purposes. xxvi. An Act to enable the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of Leicester to construct additional Works for the Prevention of Floods in the Borough; and for other purposes.

xxvii. An Act for extending the time for the completion of the Works authorised by "The Drainage and Improvement of Lands Supplemental Act (Ireland), 1868."

xxviii. An Act for extending the time limited by The Pegwell Bay Reclamation and Sandwich Haven Improvement Act, 1873, for the Purchase of Land and the Completion of Works; and for other purposes. xxix. An Act for rendering valid certain Letters Patent granted to William Cameron Sillar, Robert George Sillar, and George William Wigner, for Improvements in deodorising and purifying Sewage and making Manure therefrom.

xxx. An Act to provide for the closing of the Coombe Hill Canal Navigation, and the Sale of the Site thereof; and for other purposes. xxxi. An Act for extending the Boundary of the Borough of Romsey, in the county of Southampton; and for other purposes. xxxii. An Act for incorporating the Maidenhead Gas Company, and for conferring upon them powers for the supply of Gas to the borough of Maidenhead and certain neighbouring places in the counties of Berks and Buckingham; and for other purposes.

xxxiii. An Act to enable the Edinburgh and District Water Trustees to abandon their authorised Edgelaw Reservoir, and to construct the same on another Site, and also to construct a Reservoir at Rosebery, and other Works, and to make further provision for the supply of Water to their District, and otherwise; and for other purposes.

xxxiv. An Act for amending the Act (Local) of the thirteenth year of Her present Majesty, chapter five, commonly known as the Brighton Improvement (Purchase of Royal Pavilion, &c.) Act; and for other purposes. XXXV. An Act to confer further powers on the City of Glasgow Union Railway Company, the Glasgow and South-western Railway Company, and the North British Railway Company; and for other purposes. xxxvi. An Act to grant further powers to the Rossendale Union Gas Company. xxxvii. An Act to amend and extend the Thames Tunnel Act, 1866, and for other

Lands called Flookersbrook, in the Townships of Newton and Hoole and County of Chester; and for other purposes.

P. xl. An Act for confirming certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under The General Pier and Harbour Act, 1861, relating to Aldborough, Cattewater, Gardenstown, and Llandudno.

P. xli. An Act for confirming certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act, 1870, relating to Brentford Gas, North Middlesex Gas, North Ormesby Gas, Retford Gas, Risca and Pontymister Gas, Saint Anne's-on-the-Sea Gas, Tottenham and Edmonton Gas, Worksop Gas, Chiltern Hills Spring Water, Flamborough Water, Stockport District Water, Wisbech Water, and Clacton-on-Sea Gas and Water.

P. xlii. An Act for confirming a Provisional Order made by the Board of Trade under The Tramways Act, 1870, relating to Wantage Tramways.

P. xliii. An Act to facilitate the assembling and training of certain Army Corps.

P. xliv. An Act for remedying certain defects in the constitution of the District of All Saints, Moss, in the County and Diocese of York.

xlv. An Act for varying the Purposes of the Trust constituted by Allan Glen; for incorporating the Trustees of Allan Glen's Institution in the City of Glasgow; for conferring powers upon the Trustees; and for other purposes.

xlvi. An Act for the abandonment of the Railway authorised to be made by the "MidWales Railway (Western Extensions) Act, 1855."

xlvii. An Act for conferring further Powers on the Furness Railway Company, for the Construction of Works, the Acquisition of Lands, the Raising of Money, and otherwise in relation to their Undertaking; and for other purposes.

xlviii. An Act for enabling the Caledonian Railway Company to make a Wet Dock, Timber Basin, Quays, and other Works at Grangemouth, and to improve the Navigation of the River Carron; for altering the rates leviable at the Harbour of Grangemouth; for extending the period limited for the acquisition by the said Company of Lands near that Port; and for other purposes. xlix. An Act to grant further powers to the Chesterfield Waterworks and Gaslight Company.

1. An Act for empowering the York New Waterworks Company to construct additional Works; to raise additional Capital; and for other pur

poses.

li. An Act to authorise the construction of Railways in Cumberland, to be called the Cleator and Workington Junction Railway. lii. An Act to enable the East London Railway Company to make a New Junction with the Main Line of the Great Eastern Railway Company; and for other purposes.

liii. An Act for conferring further powers on the Glasgow and South-western Railway Company for the construction of Works and the acquisition of Lands; for converting and

consolidating the several classes of their Shares and Stocks; and for other purposes. liv. An Act to authorise the widening of parts of the London and Blackwall Railway and the enlargement of some of the Stations; to authorise agreements with other Companies; and for other purposes.

lv. An Act to vest in the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company the Undertaking of the Tunbridge Wells and Eastbourne Railway Company, and to make better provision for railway communication to Eastbourne.

lvi. An Act to make better Provision for the Maintenance of the Royal Albert Hall. lvii. An Act for authorising the deviation of the line of a Sewer to be constructed in pursuance of the West Kent Main Sewerage Act, 1875, and for amending that Act; and for other purposes.

lviii. An Act to authorise the Whitehaven, Cleator, and Egremont Railway Company to make new Railways in the county of Cumberland; to raise further Capital; and for other |

lx. An Act to extend the Municipal Boundaries of the Burgh of Galashiels; to provide for the maintenance by the Corporation of the Roads and Streets within the burgh, and to bring in a supply of Water thereto; and for other purposes.

lxi. An Act to define, alter, and extend the Boundaries of the Borough and Urban Sanitary District of Newport in the Isle of Wight; and for other purposes.

Ixii. An Act to amend, vary, and extend the powers of the Scottish Equitable Life Assurance Society; and for other purposes relating thereto.

lxiii. An Act to incorporate a Company with Powers to erect Machinery for raising and lowering Passengers, Vehicles, Animals, and Goods between the Quayside and the Castle Yard at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. lxiv. An Act for enabling the Caledonian Railway Company to make certain railways and other works, and to acquire certain lands, in the counties of Lanark, Stirling, Edinburgh, Renfrew, and Forfar; for abandoning certain authorised works in the county of Forfar; for extending the periods limited by certain former Acts; for sanctioning certain modifications of a scheme for the conversion and consolidation of certain classes of Shares and Stock in the said Company; and for other purposes.

lxv. An Act to amend "The Vale of Clyde Tramways Act, 1871."

lxvi. An Act to authorise the Duke of Cornwall and the Sutton Harbour Improvement Company to enter into and carry into effect Agreements for certain purposes.

lxvii. An Act for dissolving the Gorleston and Southtown Gaslight and Coke Company, Limited, for re-incorporating the Proprietors therein with others, and for conferring powers on the Company so to be incorporated; and

lxviii. An Act for authorising the Great Eastern Railway Company to make several Railways and other works, and for conferring on them further powers in relation to their Undertaking and the Undertakings of certain other Companies: and for other purposes. lxix. An Act to authorise the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board to improve the river entrance to the Canada Basin; and for other purposes.

lxx. An Act for enabling the Caledonian and the Glasgow and South-western Railway Companies jointly to acquire certain lands and execute certain works in the counties of Lanark and Renfrew; for authorising the diversion of a certain road, and of certain anthorised Tramways in connexion therewith and for other purposes.

lxxi. An Act for conferring further powers on the Company of Proprietors of the Plymouth Dock Waterworks for the supply of water and otherwise in relation to their undertaking; and for other purposes.

lxxii. An Act to enable the Yearly Conference of the People called Methodists to delegate or confer certain powers to or upon Conferences in Australasia and elsewhere, and to confirm past Acts in relation thereto; and for other purposes.

lxxiii. An Act to authorise the construction of a Railway from the Burry Port and Gwendreath Valley Railway to the Line of the Central Wales and Carmarthen Junction Railway Company; and for other purposes. lxxiv. An Act to amalgamate the Undertakings of the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway Companies; and for other purposes. lxxv. An Act for promoting the winding up of the Western Bank of Scotland, and providing for the disposal and discharge of the remaining assets and liabilities of the Bank; and for other purposes.

lxxvi. An Act to enable the Board of Waywardens of the Edgware Highway District to make certain Payments to the Local Board of the Willesden Urban Sanitary District, out of the Income of Trust Estates and Funds vested in them under "The Metropolis (Kilburn and Harrow) Roads Act, 1872," to vary the provisions of the said Act, to discharge the said Waywardens from the obligation to maintain portions, of certain Roads; and for other purposes.

lxxvii. An Act to extend the time for the completion of the Merionethshire Railway. lxxviii. An Act for the abandonment of the Llanfyllin and Llangynog Railway. lxxix. An Act for enabling the Metropolitan Board of Works to make a new Street from Sun Street to Worship Street; to undertake certain duties in connexion with the Chelsea Embankment; and for other purposes.

Ixxx. An Act to authorise the City of Norwich Waterworks Company to raise additional Capital, and to extend their Limits of Supply; and for other purposes.

lxxxi. An Act for making a Railway from Ruthin to Carrig-y-Druidion, in the County of Denbigh.

lxxxii. An Act for making a Railway from Great Yarmouth in the county of Norfolk to Stalham in the same county; and for other

lxxxiii. An Act to extend the time for the purchase of lands for and for the construction of the Forth Bridge Railway. lxxxiv. An Act for conferring further powers on the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company; and for other purposes. lxxxv. An Act enabling the Dublin Port and Docks Board to enlarge or rebuild Carlisle Bridge, and to construct eastward thereof an opening bridge over the Liffey; providing funds for the execution of those works; and for other purposes.

lxxxvi. An Act for transferring to the National Assurance Company of Ireland the business of the Liberal Annuity Company of Dublin; for amending the Charter of the first-named Company; and for other purposes.

P. lxxxvii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Boroughs of Aberavon, Andover, Brighton, and Burnley, the Districts of Merthyr Tydvil and Pensarn, the Rural Sanitary District of the Tadcaster Union, and the Borough of Truro.

lxxxviii. An Act for conferring further powers on the Sutton Bridge Dock Company for the Construction of Works, the raising of Money, and otherwise in relation to their Undertaking; and for other purposes.

Ixxxix. An Act to enable the Local Boards for the Districts of Leigh and Hindley, both in the county of Lancaster, to construct Waterworks and to supply Water, and for transferring to them certain rights of the South Lancashire Waterworks Company; and for other purposes.

xc. An Act for dissolving and re-incorporating the Slaithwaite Gaslight Company, Limited, and granting powers for supplying with Gas the Township of Slaithwaite and certain neighbouring Townships and Places in the the West Riding of the county of York. P. xci. An Act to confirm an Order made by the Board of Trade under The Sea Fisheries Act, 1868, relating to Truro.

P. xcii. An Act for confirming certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act, 1870, relating to Chapel-en-le-Frith Gas, Cramer Gas, Hythe and Sandgate Gas, Poole Gas, Neath Water, Newbury Water, Wantage Water, Connah's Quay Gas and Water, and Flint Gas and Water.

P. xciii. An Act to amend the Law relating to Coroners in the County of the City of Dublin. P. xciv. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made under the "Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1867," relating to the parish of Wemyss, in the county of Fife.

P. xcv. An Act further to amend the Acts relating to Kingstown Harbour.

P. xcvi. An Act to authorise the sale of Smithfield Penitentiary Convict Prison, Dublin. P. xcvii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the City of Bristol, the District of Burslem, the Borough of Huntingdon (two), the District of Newton-in-Mackerfield, and the Boroughs of Preston and Ryde. P. xcviii. An Act to enable the Great Southern and Western Railway Company and the Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford Railway Company to purchase the Waterford, New VOL. CCXXXI. [THIRD SERIES.]

Ross, and Wexford Junction Railway from the Public Works Loan Commissioners; and to raise Money for such purpose. xcix. An Act for making a Railway in the County of Surrey, to be called "The Caterham and Godstone Valley Railway."

c. An Act to enable the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of Huddersfield to abandon the enlargement of Wessenden Reservoir, and to construct a new Reservoir in lieu thereof; to make new Streets and Street Improvements; to extend the limits of Gas and Water supply; and to make further provision for the improvement and Government of the Borough; and for other purposes. ci. An Act for incorporating the Kildwick Parish Gas Company, and authorising them to supply Gas in the Parish of Kildwick, in the West Riding of the County of York; and for other purposes.

cii. An Act for enabling the North-eastern Railway Company to make new Railways and Works, and for conferring additional powers on the Company in relation to their own Undertaking and the Undertakings of other Companies; and for other purposes.

ciii. An Act for extending the time for the completion of Works authorised to be constructed by the Paisley Waterworks Commissioners; for reviving the powers of compulsory purchase of Lands for the purposes of certain of those Works; for authorising those Commissioners to construct additional Works, to supply Water by measure, and to borrow further Money; for the prevention of waste of the Water supplied by them; and for other purposes.

civ. An Act for creating a Commission for Lighting and Buoying the Upper Mersey; for authorising that Commission to levy and receive certain Rates and Dues; and for other purposes.

cv. An Act to amend the qualification of persons entitled to vote in the Election of Trustees for the Town and Harbour of Whitehaven; to extend the periods for the compulsory purchase of Lands and for the completion of certain authorised Works; to authorise and alter certain tolls, rates, duties, and charges; to grant further powers to the trustees with reference to the Harbour, and with reference to the supply of Water; and with reference to the Town of Whitehaven, and other purposes.

cvi. An Act for better supplying with Water the parish of Uppingham, in the county of Rutland; and for other purposes.

cvii. An Act to authorise the Bristol United Gaslight Company to purchase additional Lands, and erect Works for the manufacture and storage of Gas and residual products thereon, and to construct two Bridges across Avon Street. Amendment of Acts.

cviii. An Act for making a Railway from the authorised Kelvin Valley Railway to Kilsyth, in the county of Stirling; and for other purposes.

cix. An Act for authorising the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company to make a Railway from their Railway at Chichester to their Mid-Sussex and Midhurst Junction Railway at Midhurst; and for other purposes.

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cx. An Act to authorise the levy of a Rate in | aid of the Letterkenny Railway; to extend the time for completing that Undertaking; and to make further provisions with reference thereto.

cxi. An Act to amend various Acts relating to

Rochester Bridge, in the county of Kent, and to make further provisions for the election of Wardens and Assistants and Auditors of Rochester Bridge; and for other matters relating thereto.

cxii. An Act to authorise the Felixstowe Railway and Pier Company to construct a Tidal Basin or Dock and other works at Felixstowe in the county of Suffolk; and for other purposes. cxiii. An Act for authorising the Southampton Dock Company to construct a Graving Dock. cxiv. An Act to provide for the closing of the Ivel Navigation; the extinction of the Commission; and for other purposes.

cxv. An Act for vesting the Somerset and Dorset Railway in the London and South-western and Midland Railway Companies by way of Lease; and for other purposes.

cxvi. An Act to authorise the Purchase by the London and South-western Railway Company of the Exeter and Crediton Railway, and the removal of the Broad Gauge Rails on that and other Railways in North Devon; and for other purposes.

cxvii. An Act to make further provision with respect to the winding up of the affairs of the Sittingbourne and Sheerness Railway Company; the Payment of their remaining Debts, and the Distribution of any Surplus of Assets; the Dissolution of the Company; and for other purposes.

cxviii. An Act to empower the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees to erect Cattle and other Markets: and for other purposes.

cxix. An Act for extending the boundaries of the Municipal Borough of Walsall, in the county of Stafford, and for transferring to the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough, the powers, duties, and property of the Commissioners acting under The Walsall Improvement and Market Act, 1848, and for authorising the Purchase by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of so much of the Gas Undertaking, late of the Birmingham and Staffordshire Gas Light Company, as relates to the supply of Gas within the Borough; and for other purposes.

cxx. An Act to authorise the construction of a Pier, Carriage Road or Promenade, Tramway, and Waterworks at or near Rosstrevor, in the county of Down.

cxxi. An Act to extend the time limited by "The Bromley Direct Railway Act, 1874," for the completion of the Railway and Works connected therewith.

cxxii. An Act for empowering the Local Board for the District of Blackrod, in the county of Lancaster, to make Waterworks, and to supply their district with Water; and for other purposes.

cxxiii. An Act for dissolving the Sutton Gas Light and Coke Company (Limited), for reincorporating the Proprietors therein with others, and for conferring powers on the Company so to be incorporated; and for other

cxxiv. An Act to provide for the Amalgamation of the Deeside and Aboyne and Braemar Railway Companies with the Great North of Scotland Railway Company; and for other purposes.

cxxv. An Act to authorise the abandonment of Railway No. 1 authorised by "The North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways Act, 1872," and to enable the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways Company to raise further Capital; and for other purposes.

cxxvi. An Act for dissolving and re-incorporating the Redcar Gas Company, Limited, and granting powers for supplying with Gas the town of Redcar and certain neighbouring townships and places in the North Riding of the county of York; and for other purposes.

cxxvii. An Act to enable the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of Southport to construct New Streets and other Works: to construct a New Promenade: to purchase the Undertaking of the Southport Tramways Company, Limited; to make further provisions for the Improvement of the Borough; and for other purposes.

cxxviii. An Act for incorporating and conferring Powers on the Spennymoor and Tudhoe Gas Company.

cxxix. An Act to extend and amend the Humber Conservancy Acts, 1852, 1868, and 1871, and to confer further powers on the Humber Conservancy Commissioners; and for other

purposes.

cxxx. An Act for acquisition by the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council of the City of Edinburgh of the West Princes Street Gardens there, for the purpose of the same being laid open to the Public; and for the acquisition of lands at Inverleith for the formation of an Arboretum and Public Park and Pleasure Ground; and for other purposes.

cxxxi. An Act to confer further powers on the Halesowen and Bromsgrove Branch Railways Company; and for other purposes.

cxxxii. An Act for better supplying with Gas the parish or township of Horncastle, in the county of Lincoln.

cxxxiii. An Aet for vesting in the London and North-western Railway Company the Undertaking of the Sirhowy Railway Company. cxxxiv. An Act to authorise the North British Railway Company to make a Railway to connect their Edinburgh and Glasgow Line, and Glasgow, Dumbarton, and Helensburgh Branch, also a Sea Wall at Burntisland, and other Works, in the counties of Edinburgh and Lanark; to acquire additional Lands; to stop up certain Streets in Glasgow; to abandon parts of the Undertaking authorised by "The North British Railway Act, 1873;" to extend the Time for purchase of Land and completing other Railways, and for the sale of Superfluous Lands; to confirm an Agreement between the Leith Harbour and Dock Commissioners and the Company; to amalgamate with the Company the Peebles, Penicuick, and Berwickshire Railway Companies; to authorise the Company to subscribe to the Edinburgh, Loanhead, and Roslin Railway Company; to confer various Powers upon the Company with respect to their Capital and Borrowing Powers;