POPULATION.

Return of the following Information in respect of each Parish or part of Parish in England and Wales, within the limits of any City or Parliamentary Borough, for the Year ended at Lady-day, 1856. (Mr. Villiers.) February 8th, 1861. (13.)

THIS return is here given for each city and borough, without distinguishing the parishes:

PUBLIC GENERAL

STATUTES.

24° & 25° VICTORIE, 1861.

SERIES G.-POPULATION, MUNICIPAL, &c.

UNITED KINGDOM.

CAP. CXIV.-An Act to amend the Law with respect to Wills of Personal Estate made by British Subjects. (6th August, 1861.)

Wills made out of the kingdom, as regards personal estate, to be admitted, if made according to the laws of the place where made. Wills made in the kingdom to be admitted, if made according to local usage or executed according to the forms required by the laws for the time being in force in that part of the United Kingdom where the same is made. No will to be held revoked by reason of any change of domicile of the person making the

same.

CAP. CXXI.-An Act to amend the Law in relation to the Wills and Domicile of British subjects dying whilst resident abroad, and of foreign subjects dying whilst resident within her Majesty's dominions. (6th August, 1861.)

No British subject dying in a foreign country to be deemed to have acquired a domicile, unless resident there for one year immediately preceding his or her death; and for all purposes of estate or intestate succession shall retain the domicile he or she possessed at the time of his or her going to reside in such foreign country. No foreign subject dying in Great Britain or Ireland to be deemed to have acquired a domicile, unless resident therein for one year immediately preceding his or her death. This, however, does not extend to foreigners who have obtained letters of naturalization. When subjects of foreign States shall die in her Majesty's dominions, and there be no persons to administer to their estates, the consuls of such States may administer.

GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

CAP. LXXVII.-An Act to indemnify such Persons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments, and to extend the time limited for those purposes respectively. (6th August, 1861.) CAP. CXXII.-An Act to continue the Corrupt Practices Act, 1854. (6th August, 1861.)

CAP. CXXX.-An Act for amending an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament to amend the Law concerning the making, keeping, and carriage of Gunpowder and compositions of an explosive nature, and concerning the manufacture, sale, and use of Fireworks. (6th August, 1861.)

All powers of granting licences to vest in the justices in petty sessions. assembled.

GREAT BRITAIN.

CAP. LXV.-An Act to continue the Survey of Great Britain, Berwick-uponTweed, and the Isle of Man. (1st August, 1861.)

ENGLAND.

CAP. IX.-An Act to amend the Law relating to the Conveyance of Land for Charitable Uses. (17th May, 1861.)

No future deed for charitable uses to be void by reason of its not being indented, or of specified stipulations for the donor's benefit, or as to copyhold for want of deed. No part deed for charitable uses upon valuable consideration to be void for any reason, if enrolled in Chancery. CAP. XVI.-An Act to render valid Marriages solemnized in Trinity Church, Rainow, and in other Churches and Chapels. (17th May, 1861.)

CAP. XXII.—An Act for confirming a scheme of the Charity Commissioners for certain Charities in the town and parish of Burford, in the county of Oxford. (28th June, 1861.)

CAP. XXIII.-An Act for confirming a scheme of the Charity Commissioners for certain Charities in the Borough of Reading. (28th June, 1861.) CAP. XXXIII.—An Act to enable the Commissioners of her Majesty's Works to acquire additional Land for the purposes of the Public Offices Extension Act of 1859. (11th July, 1861.)

CAP. XXXIX.-An Act to confirm certain provisional Orders under the Local Government Act (1858) relating to the Districts of Brighton, East Cowes, Preston, Morpeth, Bromsgrove, and Durham, and for other purposes in relation thereto. (22nd July, 1861.)

CAP. XL.-An Act to make further provision for the Management of her Majesty's Forest of Dean, and of the Mines and Quarries therein, and in the Hundred of Saint Briavels, in the county of Gloucester. (22nd July, 1861.)

CAP. XLII.—An Act to continue the Duties levied on Coal and Wine by the Corporation of London. (22nd July, 1861.)

Continuation of the duty of five shillings a tun on wine till 1872, and of the duty on coals until 1872. The Metropolitan police district substituted for the London district. Application of the same to the execution of improvements in the metropolis.

CAP. LV.-An Act to amend the Laws regarding the Removal of the Poor and the Contribution of Parishes to the Common Fund in Unions. (1st August, 1861.)

Three years to be subsituted for five in the 9th and 10th Vict., c. 6, s. 1, and residence in a union shall be equivalent to residence in a parish. Where a child under sixteen years residing with its surviving parent is left an orphan, and such parent at the time of death has acquired an exemption from removal by reason of a continued residence, such orphan is, if not otherwise irremovable, exempt from removal in like manner and to the same extent as if it had then acquired for itself an exemption from removal by

residence.